Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-12

other. The head Of their procession
ssas led by team of four horsee in .
wagon, all Of which we're appI opristely
decorated. In the wagon we're thirteen
young ladies, representing, in spproprl-
ate costume. the thirteen origitiai States,
and the Goddess of Liberty. The God
dess of Liberty was Miss Kate Hollo-
baugh, and the representatives Of the
different States were Miss Blanch Cra-
mer, Miss Ellie Castnef, Miss Ada Die
trick, Miss Alice Wright, Miss Mamie
Goshen, Miss Lizzie Dietrich, Miss
Katie Mcknight, Miss Annie Conner,
Miss Sallie Foreman, Miss Mollie Die
trick, Miss Maggie Laird, Miss Jessie
Cramer, and Miss Lizzie Mcknight.
Following the thirteen original States
and the Goddess Of Liberty, came a
two horse carriage, to represent the
equipage of George Washington, and
Lady Washington, as she was called in
aristocratic language. The carriage
contained, as the representative of
George Washington, N colonial cos
tune, Mr. Joseph Rodgers, and
Mrs. John Thompson as Lady Wash
ington, in full colonial costume, and
tonsorial Professor John Robson as
driver, in livery of the days of l7T6.
George Washington and Lady had a
bodyguard, on foot. The guard num-
bered four men, and were citizens Of
Patterson. Each man carried a torch
and marched two on side of the car
riage, one behind the other. The
names of the guard were Mr.. James
North, Mr.. Theorus Garman, Mr.. Ed.
Nangle and Mr.. Jefferson Middagh.
In the procession proper the same gen.
eral features of the Mifiiin procession
were visible. After the streets had all
been properly paraded, the professions
disbanded where they had united,
namely, at the intersection of Main and
Bridge streets, and the individual mem
bers of the same INDUCED in whatever
demonstrations fancy dictated.
Shortly after the dlsbandment of the
professions, a second procession, COM
prised entirely Of men on horseback,
paraded the streets, and near the hou.
of midnight still another procession,
composed of men on foot, in long white
robes, marched through the streets.
Their music consisted of drum tap at
the head of, and footing horn at the
rear end OF the procession. Several
men on horseback marshaled it, and
the front man carried an illuminated
pumpkin on his head.
The grand illuminations died under
the extinguishing hands of the people
who had given them light, and the night
sped on rapidly to midnight. On the
long chapter might be
written, but in writing so, the locations
of buildings, the names of the owners,
the different tastes of the occupants,
and the circumstances of the same,
would compel an amount of individual
description that would be entirely out
of place in SO general demonstration.
There was no individuality in it; it
was spontaneous uprising, and is an
index to what took place all over the
country.
The town-clock had scarcely ceased
to announce the hour Of midnight before
the bells began to ring, and rang one
hour. The festivities, to a greater or
less degree, we're kept up till morning.
The demonstration of the night just
passed was deemed sufficient recogni-
tion of the Centennial 4th. Indeed a
more thorough and hearty demonstra-
ton would have been difficult to con-
ceive, so when daylight of the 4th came
all that was necessary to do was to
fill the programme by singing appro-
pirate Nationa, songs at sunrise in front
of the Court House, which was done
by number of citizens. The songs,
sung, were " Red, White and Blue"
s. The Star-Spsngled Banner" and
''Ameraca."
At 9 o'clock, oy programme, about
500 Sabbath School scholars were
formed in procession, under the Mar
of Captain Cornelius McClel-
Ian, on Main and Bridge streets, and
thence marched, headed by the Juniat,
Corne: Band, to Riverside Park, where
the programmed ceremonies, as follows,
we're happily rendered, in the Grand
Stand
CEREMONIES