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Fourth Passed Off In Our City

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Day
8
Month
July
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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:is l-'ourths usuRlly do. The bells =_.i't midiiiglit, the Zouaves BredasaJuU inrtse, and the boys. kept up a cmi♦■al explosión o: ñre-crackers, torpedoes, ' uiiniature camión Ircnn early mom tlll vi-y evo, and tlicfo was a "grand dis1 y of üre-worfcsln theevenlng. Somacb lfr the "noise and confu.sion." At the apIfrintcd liotir tiji1 ;■!■■.- rssiou yrma forrncd throii.!;ii the priuctpal streets ■ o the sijiiarc, headed by the 2 niave Bami. l;iic procession ,was jo'ncd In by tbe Kjaavp, the PHre Department, the Germaa WorkiUL'M on's Assoclatlffn, the Turners, gsd theCoianion Couneil - in au omnibus. 'he Masons, O'.ld Fellows, ttc.,%idi!i coiné :■ the rii'.-üs geuerally." In the square Uov. FttiCp preaided, and ed ou Uk; platform by the anal arrajr (ft dlgnltarlcs. The Dqclara lBréadWyJoHN . Rojubon, Esq , ar.'1, soundedalte familiar. The O rat Ion, by Jullie I.ANVKKNCE, was not of the spread jprt, In fiict.-ouu.lt U rather scrmoulsde test belug "The I'ursuit of Hap piucas," the ''Life and Liberty proclalmed Ja the Declaratlon Uavlng been alrcady ;;'. iained. Tlie clergy havlng taken to talkolltlcs from the pulpit v.'hy shouktu'i tlieJudge preach froni the platform. We hearitprOBonnced "all iliat could lmve beca expected." WhaL moro nced we say ? lïcv. L. K Fisk offleiated ns Chaplaln. In the aftornoon nnd evci.iu there was a picnic at Firomcus' Park. Bro. Pattisox, of tfae Ypsilanti Com mereial, feels a Itette wormy over oue of the omisalons at the Dalverslty dinner. "The Presb" wasu't toftsCed, he "didn't get to" tl, and a first-rate speech-In lus estimatlon- spoiled on kis stomach. Bul then lic forgets the sliabby tVsatmest, couto Beeing evldences of prospwlty, and -iiis review with thls i .i.i.-y apli: "Twenty years ihaa ru-.de its -. Two of ihe class of 1850 sleep n their gravcspoor Fowi rs and Wood. As fur ;is w eau ltaiu of the reinaiuder, ntne úi uamber, m pecaniarji muiters !we have doiie aboot as well ajs au.y of theBi, and in domestic mitters we a'e ahead, having tbe liandsonicst wiie aiul the biggost ïiumber and the flocst lotol chlldrcn Ini4epfljrd- jthree sona and lour daagbtera.u Cuinincit s uainectssary. ■■■ - m ' ëalioe had a big time 00 M'.'ncfey eelebrating at once the "glorious Fouith" nd the opening to ,tiiat thrlvlog yillage flithe Detroit, Hillsdalu and Indiana KailTOiid. 1 the iorenoou the Ypsilantians carne down ü;xin Ballue like the Assyrians ui old ; the farmers in all the reglón round abuut "luid down the shovel and the hoe'' md came prayislouttl for a good time: ihcre was musie and speaklng and eatlng - '.lic tables being abuudantly spplled and eople le&frse, and a general jubilee. Ju the afternoon, tbe Balineltes r.versed the guneand weni to Ypsilantl In large num i8M. We eengratahate or Salinu Irienja on the cqmpletlon oí the road to their doors; laey have waited long, ivcrkcil hard, paid iibcrally, and deserve thek succes. A serious and fata! aceidetit ocourred st Chelsea on the evetiing of tho Fourtli. Aa ajivil which was being flred iu the street bant, and onc pieee, weigliing about Sis., struck a young man staudiug In a Btore door, uamed David Claux - a nephew of Hou. O. Clauk, of Lyndou- in the head, tilling him instautly. Jou MoiiAN.stand'nS by a pump some distanee off, was hit on tlie fuot by auother pietc, and had to have 'WO toes amputated. A third man, Geo. Woodrukf, was hit byanother piece.injurtog big leg and foot severely. - Iu the forenoon a young boy named Prudix was seyerely burned by a thoughttess couirade putting a lighted üre-cracker in hls pocket, setting a bunch on flre.

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