News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

and carriages. wild beasts, and tame.
caped and uncaGed animals, nothing was
was omitted of which the brain could
conceive, brought from every part of the
town, to add to the features of the Occa-
sion. A band of music. i%mproyised for
the day, with music in keeping with the
surroundings, drawn by a most unique
team-a stag and horse-which had been
properly fitted up. led the van. Among
the more remarkable features of the show
was the "White House and the nursery"
wherein Grover Cleveland as a Benedict,
with his bride. were represented before
the scenes, and the nurse, supposed to be
Maria" with the baby. behind the scene.
When in front of the hotel the marriage
ceremony was performed in a mastery
manner, followed by songs from Grover
to the nurse to take care of the baby.
The scene drew forth shouts of laughter
from the crowd. This part of the dis
play was the conception of Messrs.
Chauncy and Irenus Newhali, the latter
performing the marriage ceremony and
singing the songs of Grover to the nurse,
and the lullaby. The man eater" orig
mated in the brain of the Moscow boys,
created much wondering admiration. 1t
represented a huge lion, natural in fea-
ture, with jaws worked by some inter-
nal arrangement. During Its brief pres
ence on the street it actually devoured
several lads, boots, crackers and all,
without apparently doing its digestive or
gans any injury. 1t seemed to be a
great lover of young America" as Il
palatable and convenient food. There
was the Gypsy family natural to life,
a complete representation of the nomad-
&c race, and was so close an imitation
that it was awarded the prize. 1t re-
CURED much ingenuity to devise anything
so natural, for which the credit is entire
ly due to the Brownsville boys, and was
accounted 1.-THE best thing out" The
Forks furnished its Shaker pill cart, an
exact imitation of a Yender of some
quack medicines which we often see,
throwing pill and advertisements to the
people, and the vender making his voice
heard far above the surrounding din and
confusion. We only speak of these as
being the more noticeable. Others were
equally good, representing vampires or
bats. wild beasts, and almost everything
conceivable, but too numerous to men,
ton. The Waterbury cOrnet band was
present and entertained the people with
some of its best music. 1t was accom-
panied by the juvenile drum corps, COM
posed of very small boys, which played
to the admiration and wOnderment of all.
These two bands, with the n impro-
vised by the 'Ehorribles, :" made music,
much and splendid, while the booming
of canon, the firing of crackers and tor
pedoes, all combined, made a pandemo-
mum many times beyond human concep-
ton. The grand picnic dinner, which
was announced to take place, and to
which all were cordially invited, was EN-
tirely eaten by the great food consum-
En-" who gorged himself with it as he
and his spouse rode through the streets
on their return In the afternoon came
other and hardly less entertaining exer-
cises at the hotel park and pond. The
first was a w~heelbarrow race, entered
into by five athletic youths. and won by
Ed Muzzy a running race, competed for
by several, Whit. Harris winning; d sack
race, won by George HOisington; a tub
race. won by Walter Slayton; a potato
race, won by Walter Slayton, 30 potatoes
were placed 4 feet apart, and each one
was to be picked up and placed in a box
singly. The distance run was nearly a
mile. Each winner in these several
races received 81. Then followed the
grand pig race, which the pig was reluc-
tant to enter, and being apparently con-
founded by the crowd and excitement
surrounding him. became an easy prey
to two, Frank Tatro and Fred Ploof, who
appeared to seize him about the SAM
( time, and to whom the award. the pig
! was Jointly made. The exercises of the
evening consisted of the temperance OF
the 'horribles," being fully costumed
and preceded by the Waterbury drum
corps and the G.. A. r. Post in full dress,
and all bearing torches, making the spec
tacle, amid the surrounding darkness
l. n--1 e c. g.
quently in entire punches, and the dis
charge of rockets lighting the foliage
and making things above brilliant will
their display, one which pen cannot de
scribe. To stand at a proper distance
and look at the continuously flashing anC
changing scene. with the costumes gilt.
tering in the constantly recurring light
was one of the grandest, yet, if the eX-
preston is permissible, n of the mos
weird sights ever beheld, and many from
abroad, stopping at the hotel, who have
seen much of this and other lands, were
often heard to remark that they neVe
before witnessed its equal. People from
Morristown and Waterbury, and other
dwelling among the mountains sever
miles away, sought their homes, did tn,
evenings necessary work and returned
feeling themselves well paid. With al
the elements of confusion turned loos
through the day and evening, the hour o
midnight found all things hushed in quie
repose. We would not particularize any
one above others as worthy of specia
praise, for all who had a hand in the get
up of this "4th" hear nothing but word
of praise for their effort. We are mind
full, however, that mention should b,
made of the liberal contribution of Mr.
John Stafford, who generously furnished
the boys with all the powder they wished
to burn and all the oil consumed III tn
100 torches, and of the donation of Mr.
G. E. Burt, who most literally contrib
uted the use of his numerous men ant
teams to aid in carrying out the pro
gramme. There was union of effort Of
the part of all, and we believe that tn
exercises, oil the whole, eXcelled any
thing of its kind that ever took place il
Vermont. No accidents of a serious ma
ture occurred, though it is remarka BIZ
how it so happened, nor was there an.
apparent disturbance from drunkenn ess
as is often the case on the celebratio II o
independence Day.