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such conditions the policemen and the
peace officer are having holiday.
a PEACEFUL CITY.
Not n single arrest of q white person
has been made In Greensboro this week.
and yet the Elm City is crowded as 1t
was never crowded before. The crowds
were larger to-day than yesterday.
At an early hour this morning Dan
vile emptied train load of natives in
the city, a score or more enlarged the
Richmond delegation. and other nearby
Virginia points Increased the crowds.
The Danvile contingent was headed by
Judge Archibald NJ. Aiken, native OF
Rockingham county, of this State,
broad breasted, predetermined man, who
stands six feet two inches In his stock,
irgs. and as Judge of the Hastings Court
OF Danville Is terror to evil-doers
A BIT OF HISTORY.
The proceedings to-day were on the
historic battle ground where. on March
18th. 1881. the battle of Guilford Court
house was fought On the ground where
we to-day made merry, General Nathaniel
Green. at tho head OF a small army OF
American soldiers. mostly North Caro-
iinians, met Lord CORVALLIS. the Tecun1-
sch Sherman Of the Revolutionary war,
and Tarleton, the Phil Sheridan OF that
period, and great battle for American
liberty was fought.
CORVALLIS and Tar1eton conceived the
idea that the only way to subjugate the
rebels of '76 was to burn their houses,
destroy their cattle, outrage their wo-
men. and tear up their crops by tho
roots, Sherman and Sheridan adopted
the same tactics In the sixties. to the
shame OF modern civilization. so-called,
The tactics succeeded under the latter
day advocates. They did not succeed
under ConnwalliB and Tarleton. the
reason they did not succeed was because
NathanieJ Green and the rlflemen OF
surry and Wilkes counties, North caro-
lima met these two worthless at Kings
Mountain and Guilford Courthouse and
crippled them so that they were an easy
prey to Washington and Rochambeau at
YORKTOWN. In like manner General Joe
Johnston crippled Sherman at Benton
vile, but the washington OF tho Conted-
eracy had already given up at Apo
mattox. and the longed for French recoe-
milton Of the Confederacy had laliea TO
materiallze, and there was no Rochamh-
beau.
1t was 1865, but Washington and Ro-
cha,mbeau, to the contrary. notwithstand-
ing. Il Is the opinion of careful stuoents
Of revolutionary posterity that If he had
been in the battle Of Gutldford Courthouse
there would have been no surrender at
Yorktown. On the sacred ground upon
which this battle was fought the cele-
bration OF Cardinals Old Home Day were
held to-day.
A good deal Of fervid oratory had been
left over from the Opera House enter
tainment of yesterday, and was on TAP.
and when the trains that left the city
every twenty ninutse.F beginning az
O'Clock, had emptied about eight thousana
people on the battle, ground, FIVE miles
distant. The oratoica1 pyrotechnics COM
menced, General Ransom presided again:
that Is to say, he held the gavel, but the
grand old man is getting feeble, and Dr.:
McIver had to come to his assistance, and
he did the actual work OF presiding. He
did 1t gracefully and well
ia rheels love to hear good speaking.
and they heard 1t to-day. The speakers
were Hon Jos. NJ. Dixon. of Montana:
DR.. Paul Bartngter, of Virginia; Dr. a.
C. Dixon. of Boston: DR.. Waller Page.
of New York: Hon. Mural Halstead. OF
Ohio: DR.. e. A. Alderman. of louisiana,
and ex- Senator PFitfhard aSd; Judge Bo ~ !
North state, except Mr.. Halstead. and he
Is a. grandson. The great meeting was
closed withta sbenediction; by DR.. Moore.
Of Richmond.
oLD-TIMEs PICNIC.
Then came the old-tirne picnic dinner,
in fact, two of them. One was laid by
the ladies OF Greensboro and surrounding
regions. and the other by the fair Sui
dents, of Dr.. McIver's q Normal College.
Both were grand, and after they had been
Disposed of the tired, but happy, thou
sands came back to the train to get ready
for the round Of receptions tonight.
The only appointment of the great
celebration was the failure of the fire
works to materialize. and that was due 70
the shortcomings OF the railway people.
The twelve hundred dollars worth of fire
works that were to have been burned in
the Cone: Athletic Park tonight are not
here. They are hung UP somewhere be-
tween here and Philadelphia In wreck,
perhaps.
GRAND RECEPTION.
The general reception is being held to-
night in the Smith Memorial Chapel. a
mammoth Sunday-school building. recently
erected as memorial to Rev. DR.. Egbert
w. Smith. The feature of to-days cole
bration was the adoption OF the resolu-
tions urging Congress to accept and make
.'fnr1 battle ground a national
park.
Every wandering son promised to use
his influence with the Congress smG Of his
adopted State to accomnli.;h this end.
Greensboro loves a crowd, and Knows
how to take care of one. The great re-
union was not closed hefo Q the Central
Ca,o,nn Fat opened up this afte:n"cr.
>'cnl judges say 1t will aurolss the state
Fair at Raleigh in the number and quail
ty of exhibits. The poultry exhibit Is the
Growing feature, and is said to be the
largest and most varied OF any poultry
enow eve, ret up In Amsr'ca.
H.rraf1! and hurratl, aga.a. for the Old
Ncrth State.
ON HISTORIC GROUND