The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-28
FOURTH OF JULY FIXINGS.
WATER WORKS AND FIRE
WORKS.
Twenty-four Hours Of Glorious
Fun---The Programme in
Detail---The Afternoon
Races.
THE SLIPPERY HOG.

THE BALLOON WEDDING AND BRIDAL TRIP
SOME NEW FEATURES ADDED-WHERE
AND HOW EVERYTHING WILL COME OFF
AS people, we Americans are not much
addicted to holidays, being generally too
close on the heels of the almighty dollar to
stop for side-shows, but for that very rea-
son we are apt TO encompass the entire
swine when we do set out to smuse or be
amused. The country which rams Niagara
FalIs, Mammoth Cave and jarrett &
Palmer trans-continental trains, wants to
have fun on proportionate scale. With
this view of our great American idiosyn-
crscy, it is diff cult to decide how the aver
age patriot will>be able to so diffuse him
self "a to absorb any considerable portion
of the enioVment that will bs lying around
loose on the coming Fourth OtJuly. The en-
terprise and Iiberality OF our indianapolis
preparations have rendered this problem
q very simple one TO all Hoosiers. They
have but to come to the capital. "See
Nsples and die" did we'll enough for the
dark ages bsfole 1876, but now see our show
and live-'o sstonish generations yet IN
born with IFS recital. Where Use on this
revolving globe of dust do they propose
to place three OF the towering giants of the
forest
ON EACH OIHEKS SHOULDERS
and crown the topmost with the flag of the
free? Trot out the Icelsndic geyser that
will compare with our Holly squirt, six
inches at the butt and three hundred feet
long. Who ever saw, or will see again, a
flock of fifteen mammoth balloons in the
air at once, or display of fireworks that
will rival the aurora boreslis in splendor?
The Sentinel has already published the
programme of the forenoon exercises and
parade closing at II NJ. At L O'Clock precisely
the games will begin at the Exposition
ground, though the gates will be opened
for admission as early as A. NJ. These
games are mostly new TO Americans,
though common in England and Ireland.
They will include sack races, wheelbarrow
races, a hog race and a race for hog, a
running horse race, foot races. climbing a
creased pole for prizes, and the celebrated
English jingling match. The latter is q
very lsughsble performance in which
some twenty-five or thirty persons are
blind-folded and are led a wild-goose
chase over sacks of straw and into each
others arms, after the person who serves
as a bell-wether. In addition to the above
attractions, on yesterday afternoon the
prelimiusries were settled for new attrsc-
ton in a race between Mike Scully and
Taylor Cam pbelI, the latter undertaking
to 90 two miles on velocipede " bile
Mike walks one. Scully goes into train.
ing at once. The country is
and lankest wood-hog possible in
will be shaved aud
Amounted WITH HAIR OIL,
and will be the property of whoever can
catch it. After the games will come the
balloon wedding, the ceremony being per-
formed one or two hundred feet above the
heads of the crowd, while the balloon is
anchored. The happy pair has been def.
pitely selected, so no others need apply.
Who they are will not be known until
July 4. The thirteen Montgolher bal
looms will then be inflated, and about half
past they will be signaled to cut loose
from things terrestrial by the firing of g
cannon. Professor Light will Immediately
follow with the Goddess OF Liberty in the
gas balloon "Iudisns," and last OF all the
wedding party will start for the sky in the
magnificent new balloon America" under
the pilotage of Prot. Shots. at s O'Clock
the second part of the programme
will be ushered in by the firing
of cannon, and the fireworks will
begin inside the race track, and just in
front OF the grand ampithesIer. The Chi
nese are said to hold all barbarian pyro-
techDy in deserved contempt as compared
with their own, but these are the
GENUINE CHINESE FIREWORKS,
manufactured by the celebrated Detwiller
Street 81 Co., at No. Dey street, New
York. They reached the city yesterday in
20 huge cases and skilled operator will
be sent from New York to touch them off
The smaller pieces will include exhibition
rockets, pearl or meteor rockets, M e.
teoric and floral bomb shells, horn.
cts nests( not the genuine sIticle)
star and vsrega' ed batteries, and the new
and beautiful silver fountains. In add
ton to these there will be twelve large ex-
hibition pieces from ten to one hundred
feet in mt, and displaying a glitterlng
galaxy of grandeur having few
superlOfs and no equals. The
subjects are mostly patriotic anC
will move around nuch larger auo ouicke 81
than life. One ofthem is entitled the stTret
of Liberty," end will suddenly grow from
nothing to sixteen feet high, and will bear
fruit OF sparkling fire embellishsd by red
white aud blue cOloped stars and globe o
vivid brightness. The concluding piece
the oulmination of glory and
The FINS OF THE FOURTH
will be the '%Grand Temple of Liberty,
consisting OF two PLIERS in diamond lane
work of Corinthian design, ornamentet
with rosettes and shields, and surmountet
by GountaiE spouting meteors ant
parti-colored stars. sand there was Cap
tain Washington upon a Shaping stall
lion" right in the center of the stage snt
two silver fountains on each fank throw
Ing up sparks like everything. The mar
wi o misses this show will regret that biz
funeral did not take pace four hun
ord years ago. During the en-
tire afternoon Miller IL Voght's full
band of twenty-five pieces will bt
present and keep time with everything
that is going 90. The band will form
part OF the citizsns' parade in the morniui
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