The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-07-04
From a staff Correspondent.

here from every part Of the state, all to
Fourth at the Guilford Battle Ground,
near this place.
NiCe-President Stevenson and party
arrived this morning on the vestibule and
are at the Benbow. In the party are
the two Misses Stevenson and Miss
Scott, the vice-president's neice
Among the Durham people here are
Col. J. S. Carr, Miss Ida Carr, J. Ii.
Mailer, w. w. Fuller, H. Seeman, Win
Dowd, A. II. Yearly, DR.. L. W. Craw-
ford, f. w. Faucette and others.
The orator of the day is Prof. E. A.
Alderman, of the State University, and
his subject is THE Life of William
Hooper" one of the North Carolina
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The address has been care
fully prepared and will no doubt measure
up to the occasion.
Today the monument erected over the
remains of John Penn and William
Hooper is dedicated. Their bones rest
in the soil of the Guilford Battle
Ground.
This old battle field, sacred with the
blood of revolutionary heroes, is being
rapidly transformed into beautiful
place, and year by year the attractions
are added to by the removal Of the dust
of some revolutionary statesman or hero
from their graves to a new sleeping
place in the sod of the old battlefield
Some handsome monuments have
arisen in the field. The solid block of
granite, with handsome bronze plates, to
the memory of the Marylanders the
beautiful shaft erected to the memory of
the soldiers of Alamance by Governor
Holt the battle monument; the monu-
ment that is over all that is mortal Of
General Jethro Sumner, all add to the
interest and beauty of the place.
Old revolutionary cannon, with the
solid shot of their day, stand on the
ground. A museum filled with relics of
the revolutionary, portraits its heroes,
their guns, their swords, their knee
buckles, the buttons from their coats,
their powder horns, and all the para
phenalia Of the minute meu, the militia
and the regulars.
Usually the old battle-ground is q liet
pace with only the wind TO stir it's leafy
trees and wave its green grasses, but to
day all is changed. Thousands of happy
citizens of great land gather to pay
tribute to their country's natal day.
They are here from the vice president of
the United States down to the factory
boy in his Sunday clothes and the negro
in his rags. 1t is merry, happy crowd
and the spirit of the Fourth is here.
In the old metaphor, the Eagle
screams, and the British Lions tail is
twisted
The maIshals of the day are ten in
number and are dressed in the Cont
METAL uniform. One of them is Fuller
Reid, we'll known in Durham.
President Stevenson, the Misses
Stevenson, Miss Scott, and party of the
other guests of the day are just leav-
ing for the battle ground.
Trains run between Greensboro and
the battle ground every half hour, and
the roads are filled with every variety of
vehicle carrying the crowds to and from
the place.
OF course the Battle-Ground officers,
Judge Schenck, Col. Morehead and the
others, are busy as the proverbial bee,
looking after every incident of the cele-
bration.
The clouds that lowered and threat
ened this morning have cleared and the
day is perfect.
GREENSBORO, July +.-President Win
ston left this morning for Spartanburg,
5 G., where he goes to deliver an address
before the South Carolina teachers asso
citation. He says If Prof. Denny Is the
Moving Whirlwind" he is said to be
the state colleges will have to move
further when he gets al the head Of
Trinity college.
GREENSBORO, y. c. July Professor
f 4. Alderman's oration at Guilford
Battle Ground today was splendid. The
diction and delivery were fine; the audi
ence was charmed.
Vice President AdIai Z. Stevenson
made a good speech. There were
speeches from Judge Simonton, Of South