The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-01
Ghe9nteIliget1ter
Tho Coming Fourth in This Re
giOn.

Next Tuesday wall DC ny all OuuS u
biggest day ever known in all the cite
town and villages Of the country. Thel
is scarcely locality where the peOpI
have not become cnthuSed. In som
cases the towns and villages adiacen
to cities will merge themselves in III
larger demonstrations, which Is the pro
per thing to do, and thus contribute lleIi
local patriotism to that Of the genera
mass, We trust that many {, .
our Ohio neighbOrs will isl
into ranks with us on that day, especially
ouF Bridgeport s., and Martins Ferry
friends, and help both us and themselves
to do fall justice to the great occasion
oor BelIaIre neighbOrs will probably no
viii, us as largely on the Fourth as ma
ny of them would like to do, owing to the
fact that they intend to have a big day OF
their own account, in their own town
which is all right. .Wejudge from thei
published programme in yesterdays In
dependent that they are going into to th'
celebration with considerable gusto. The
following is their programme.
/. The day will be uSllered in with th'
firing Of one hundred guns and ringing o
ali the bells ia the city.
9. The houses Of the city are to be dec
ted With national Gags.
3. A grand procession Of all Fire De
partments, Secret Societies, Sunday
Schools and visitors who wish to join.
In the procession, in addition TO thu
above, will be two hundred ladies ant
gentlemen, dressed in Continental cos
tunes. ,' o..
Fifty gentlemen dressed in character n
Uncle Jonathan. ,
Men and women over75 years OF age il
carriages.
The "Calathumpians," the creates
military organization in the world-thre'
hundred strong. -,
The manufacturing establishments viii
represent the condition Of their Severa
Arsin l776 in contrast with 1876. .
The ladies will represent the arts II
which they are more'immediately inter
ested in 1876 in contrast with 1776.
Rrass Bands and Martial Music.
The procession will form, promptly, a
10 o'clock A. NJ, under the control Of tn,
Marshals, and march as indicated in th'
printed programme, to the grove, where
the Star Spangled Banner and other Ma
tional Songs will be sung with chorus o
1000 voices. .,-
Reading Of the Declaration OF indie
pendence by Miss Alice Btrdsong.
Grafton by Col. G. L. Poorman, to b
followed by basket picnic, with q varie
" Of social amusemcnts calculated to adj
to the enjoyment Of the occasion.
In the evening there will be fireworks
bonfires and illumination. No horse
racing. No charge for admission. =
Come, citizens, old men and women
young men and maidens, fathers, mother'
and children, come and take part or
this grand occasion in a celebration Of oul
Nations greatness and glory that shal
ever after make you, love your country
more and serve it better.
The patriotic city Of Steubenville. i
enthused up to high pitch Of Hail Co
Iumbia, and has laid out pretty exten
sive programme for herself. The follow
ing is the order OF procession on th'
Fourth: ~ g.lr Z
ist. DivIsion Marshal and staff /.
2l. Young America Battalion.
ID. Serond Battalion o. n. q.
9TH. Fire Department lin tbs order deAignate'
6th. secrt. religious aud Benevolent Assocla
lnn, In reSalla, In the orler delegated BY Division
Marshal.
7Ih. Red KrOss Krcw and similar organization
on foot.
sth. Citizens on foot.
9th. City Council and Mayor In carriages,
10th. Board OF Education In carriages.
18th. Veterans Of the 6oth anniversary In cat
ifth. sSldlera q 1872 In carrIlges. a :,
18th, Mexican Veterans In carriages.
iIth. Merchants, manufacturers, trades aud oc
CnpltlonS represented BY vehicle.
18th. Citizens on horseback.
18th. Citizens In carriages and other yChiClcA.
In addition to the above there vii
also be delegations from the country dis
tricts of the county. These will be or
ganized in the second and third division
Of the procession, and brass bands will b
distributed at proper intervals througl
the procession. The order OF exercise
on the grounds will be as follows:
l,L Pnyor-goy, DR.. VIM. Grimes.
2nd. Music Star Splngled Banner - Phllhat
DSII ID. Realizing peslaralI,n of Ind'psndcnee-B
iii. Maic@aSil cOumbla-PhllharnOnI Sc
s stR. oatlon-By ", c. CASTOR, E.q. -
9th. MuSlc-By Band.
iii. Poem-By Rev. s. J. Stewart: ,,u,
Sth. MqsIc-ay Country IT'S Of Thoc-PhIlhAi
9TH. 0FatI5n-By W. P. Iruyu. E.g.
10th. MasIc-aed, white and Bluc-PhIlh,r
iith. OrstIou-By Rev. DR.. John Williams.
iSia. History Oi cOunty-By Rev. 7. V. Mill
18th. Flag Prcsoutatlou-Ry Rev. J. s, Bnrken
18th, Doxolosy and BencdietOn. ~
The good people OF St. ClairsyilIe
do mot intend to let the .;Foustt
20 by without adding their celebrH'
ton to the mighty volume Of pat
riotiC furOr that is rising like aoot
tide over the country. The ChrOnieI
gives the following outline as to wha
will be done on Tuesday at that town:
"ff the weather is propitious the great
est crowd will be collected onthe Fai
Grounds ever gathered together on an.
previous occasion. Word reaches u
from neighborhoods twenty miles of
that the whole country side are comm
to town. Many will start at midnigh
Of the Sd, in order to bG on the ground
early on the morning OF the 4tE
Col. Charlesworth has been very bus
for weeks experimenting the worl
on the Fair Grounds, and man.
excellent improvements have bee
made. There Is notias beautiful ground
in Eastern OHIO as those Of the Belmon
County Agricultural Society-the yelve
grass, and luxurious shade Of the larg
forest trees, dotted over the lawn, are es
pecially inviting TO picnickers. Th
fireworks at night will be the finest py
rotechnic display ever exhibited here. Ii
addition TO the usual rockets red glare
Roman candles, and whirligigS, there viii
be beautiful exhibitions Of battle scenes
and appropriate patriotic figures and EN-
blems.
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