Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1882, Page 2

At . T - rabee and Chr. Schiotfeldt, assistant marshals, Lyon post, G. A. R, about 75 strong, under Post Com: wder Wil se and accompanied by " Al band, headed the division A float containing tho goddees ol liberty and a number of little uirls followed, the part of goddess buing borne by Miss Emma Howard. Toe next flat was The Grand Island Iudependent, and following that came a delegation of the settlers of Dannebrog, the Danish settle ment on the South Loup, in Howard county. Next were the Wood River peopl headed by pieture of a float containing a lar the “Firat hou Wood River settlement by Patand Dick Moore 1850.” Ina W martial band. THE TIIRD DIVISTON marshals were J. D. Moor 1] P. Makeloy The G orman band, 13 pieces, Prof. Berth leader, was at i head, follo i ing Gan, ( 1Land D Miller, ¢ John L Moans re departn 0. P. Hondorson, chiof, and Nabel, assistant. The department consisted of Pacific hoss company, Al O Lederman, foreman; Always Roady hook and ladder company, Auz. Neiss, foreman; and the chemical engine and the truck, Liederkranz float, representing the Fatherland, followed, Mrs. Loger taking the partof Germania, aud foar young ladies representing the soasons Next followed the Liederkranz society, about 40 strong, under Presi dent John Riss. Following them was the society's float of *‘Ceres,” bedecked with grain What T suppose would be called ‘‘the young settlers” followed-—a number of the rising generation, all worthy sons of pioneer sires. Th floats following were representations of the gentlemen named J 0. Pederson, groceri Hann's park. Wolbach Bros., dry goods. H. H. Glover & Co., dry goods. Goo. Bashm, brawery. Thomas & Co., groceries, L. M. Bryan, books and stat The Platte Valloy mills, Then camethe burlosqnes, aud the first was of the Saud Krog band, an accordeon industr ously played. The next float was gloriously decor ated with national colors and con- tained a decorated stick about six fect long, humorcusly placarded *‘a liberty pole.” Then came a couple of floats linked together and drawn by one team; the first representing ‘“‘Woman Suffeage,” and the other “‘Prohibition in Towa.” The next gave a perfect picture of o) bachelorhood, «nhe Execution of Guiteau” fol- lowed, and tho next was an advertise- ment of a bakery—a huge pretzol, Tho display of tho imploment deal- era followed —Messrs. Lykke, Hedde and Hurford turning out a number of the kind of machies sold by them. The last was Hellman & Co.'s adveriisement, a very small wagon— undoubtedly a small boy's express cart strongly braced and drawn by a diminutive donkey. THE LINE OF MARCH, The procession started on Locust streel, and filed slowly up Third to near tho west end, turning and pass- ing the court house on its march down Second to Locust again, and thonce east on Third to the eastern limits; thence west on First to the paviliion. es, onery. At the Pavillion The procession resched the mam- moth tent, which was pitched ina vacant block south of the court house at noon and filing in and dwbanded, the peopls filling it. De BLJ, Gahan, president of the day, mount- ed the platform where he was follow- cd by the cily's gueste, General Cowin, Mayor Boyd and Dr. Miller. Others seated on the stage were the chaplain, Rov. J. N. Webb, of the Baptis church; Hon, Chauncey Willse, com- mander of Lyon post, G. A R., Hon. John Wallichs, state auditor; Rev. R Phelan, pastor of the Catholie church; Hon, Fred, Hedde, tho “father” of the settlement; Hon, Wm. Anyan, Judge W, H. Platf, Bditor Mobley J. L. Means, T. J. Hurford, J. D Moore and others. While the large audience was being seated the Grand Island Cornet band rendered one of the pieces of music that it does 8o well. Lyon post, G. A, R, occupied seats at the right of the stage, tho rest of the tent being filled by men, women end children from all over the count REV, J, N, WEDB, the cheplain, then addrossed the throne of divine graco. He thanked the Almiglity for this glorious Usion, that gave us » Weshington, a Lincolo, and wyumersblo others who fou its battle, framed its laws, and s tained its iostitutions through the storm of war aud the gaiet o puace, Wa reeognize Thy hund 1 oall things, in our sucoesses and triumphs, and ask'a continuation of favors in the future. Our d pendenco is on ‘Lhe We do not turn to legislatures and armies, but to Thee for the existence and prosperity of this union. We blesa Thee as we look back in our history and make Thee ovr trustin the fulure. Weo ark God to sustain nution in tino to come, Bless us this day. Bl this nation, Dloss its progress, and uuite ailin one grand desire and glorions «fiort to parpetus ate this country thet 16 moy bs en joyed by all who shall come uiter us. Amen, A pie music by the German buud followed and Hon. Ubancoy Wiltss read the declaration of indes pendence in his clear, firm voice, GEN, J, introduced by President Gahan the flow orator. This tho general pleasautly denied, and. began his oration by solemuly sffirmiug ke knew his listeners were all tired by the pleasures already enjoyed an wanted 0 go to diuner. He wou therefore detain them but a few wmio- utes, He eaid: The nation agsin appears upon the stage in the grand ama of i L colebrate another birthday. Her audience chawber extends from the COWIN wmountains, from the hills and {from the vallegs, from the rivers, Jakes and sear, to do her homage, aud yeneath her flig - by the memory of her silent dead, their trials and pa | tric cir suff.ring and anguish, und their glorious death——to 170 freedom redeemed forever. After the clouds of war are lified and swept away beyond the horizon; rosr of srtillery has ceased after the to echo through the land, and the roan of the wounded and dying 18 hushed; when the camp-ground is | M‘H‘r,n_‘ | reaper; when ature’s n 10 ore over the n 1l nd th all | “ta blessings has rerurncd to a victori 18 Pooj th reat ies of the | sirugele, of the i \ ve pa m oo the onoside and t 1 on th r a to lose ) Proason i d only to bo reward y of t 1at lorions « Bolan « liberty, are doot 1o the orual campi 8, a8 others have them, amid cruel slanders and uyjust contumely, Aye, mor Even the grave reems no protection for over that sasced whi emnity should not come and over spot the tomgue b silens but in praise, are planted the venom and abuse of the living warring with the poor wounded body tnat lies moldering beneath The gr and Jamented Lincoln, standing on the blood-stained field of Jottysburg, communing, as it were, with the souls of the patriot dead that went up from that conscerated epot, in the outpourmg of his heart, ex: climed: “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it will never forget what they did here.” Toforget these events in our history or cease to study theuw, is to reject and cast aside the groat lessons of exporicnce, It 1s well thon that we meet to apeak with the past, to revive its MEMmories —memories pregi with grent eveats, great deeds, grand les- sousandsublime oxamples memories, too, bringing in theic train all the vicissitudes of o soldier’s lifo, his troubles and trinmphe, his defeats and his victories, all makiog up the history of gigantic baitles fought by grand armivs of patiiots for vational liteand national preservation, We cannot too often recur to the hardships and struggles and imperishable fire of patriotism that gave us life. To those dark days of the revolution that an orator has so graphiculy duseribed, “when darkuness curcained the hills aud the tewmpest was abroad in its angor; when the plow stood still in the fisld of promise aud briars cum- bered tho gardens of beauty; when fathors wero dying and mothers were weoping over them; when the wife was lying upon the washed bosom of her husbund, aond the mailen was wiping the death damp from the brow of her lover; when the brave began to fear the power of man and the pious to doudt the favor of God.” Dropping for timo the busy cares ot life, and leaving bebind you those questions of politics and religion about which differences of opinion must nec- essurily oxist, you meeb as citizons simply to enjoy for a brief epell the plensures of sccial intercourse, and with the old soldiers to renew friend- ships formed amid the hard realities of war, and to ronder grateful tribute to thoee who have been detached from your ranke. Aud it is the feelinus aroused by theso contacts, by there gatherings, and tho good fellowship, brotherly tendencics and patri sgondercd aad not what Bprike wy say, th ko celebrations of lasting importance, No one here can contewplate the splondid majesty with whish our great ship of stite, freighted with its mil- lions of souls and lewving the emblem of liope o promise to humanily moves on over the sea of time toward the harbor of eternity withous bein forcibly reminded of the momcntous events that caused and the labors th offceted its earthly coustruction A gain WO hear reverberating wlong the hills and valleys near Loxington the fiving of sho whoge voice went on its way the world, Wo liston to the o of dering patriotism and carsest ap- pesl to God in Independence hall; to the voico of tho great bell making choras with the hosaouahs of the mulutude, and hear from its stops the proclamation of a new nation, We see the people marc iing forth with their lives and their fortuucs into the arena of deadly couflict and unrelent ing war—-struggliog weaknees oon touding with gant power. With whut roepoueo do we follow thom in the uncqual contest! With what ad | miration do we witness that exhibi tion of faith in the righteonsness of i subline causy that el ¢ A\ nd Jor man's hovor and integ aroun Again wo can sco despondency, and tl of the clouds by Butgoyne, the vietor and Prenton; the gloomy, digconsol winter at Valley Forge of the nation aseending outt lield of Yorktown, showing a new o rnmont upon the independent gov wap of nations, Tt was the old conflict bobwoen truth and error, hberty and despotism, in herited power by tho grace of God wd the ever existing principies of true demacracy—a prineiplo - w bad stuggled for the ma v without p rumauent succoss, ab diffor eut periods of human history ) recognition of the possession of right 1 by and_ inherent in the peo It iaspired the sturdy barons when they bore down upon the royal preroga- ives, aud wrung the charter of rights from u reluctant kg, It fired the hearts of the cavalicrs when they sharged agginst the royal ranks with the psalm book aud sword, and re sounded hallelujab rising over the clangor of arms at Marstonemoor and Vascby. It was the controllis g influ- enco with the austere men who traveled seas w vindicate eouscience, wd, Iauding upon s wild uud forbid- Lo Atlantic to the golden shores of the Pacific, from the vine-clad hills riciug from the gulf to the mountain ice bergs of the north, Ler pudience nuw beriug filty millions of free souls, Amid the chime of bel's and roar of artillery, which ushered in the day. Jus come forth frow the prairies and | Phe women of that day believed their | nerve s courage but his individual Worthy of his hire, ding coast, 1n the pitiless storm and freczing cold, raised their voice of praise to the Most High and wmade ‘the wild woods ring with the an thems of the free.” ‘The men of the day of the revolu- tion were men of 1deas, of thought, of philospphical research and of action. the pablic | plains of Sadow THE DAILY BER: '"HURSDAY, is. Thoir | batile, his guiding star the flag of his | reepect thereto demand an early se minds were given them for :nw-m:um Enlisting to preserve 3 |a ol ds wore given them for |government, he had no hopes of re d constituted a class that | ward but the salvation of his country, | 1ed it honorsble, and duty to as- [and no ambition but to perform hi sistia the strugglo of life with the [daty; his position the front of the neat labor of their har carnest, willing labors gave support to | regiment, his inspiration divine, the the mnation, their startliog virtuss [ pedestal of others’ fame, the master purified it, and their integrity gave it | piece of the great arm of the union honor and renown, I the volunteer private soldier. | The momenteus diffi o8 suc-| Few probably have thought, rounding tl e creation of government|and few contemplate the effec [ pon & new basis, and the cxis of the success of self government in | antagonistic eleracnts may w our land upon other | na count for any imperfections in the |tons. Yeu it has plair its work of our fathers, Their er | felt and recorded its re ) in tha vain effort to harmoniz (in the history of the . Slo | fact slavery, with the co of [but surely and i tly i liherty. The latt an never dwell | pushed back the ) 1 inded in unich with the former -truth can |the eirc f hu 1 | never afliliate with error—ju | spread through South American | eated would destroy n. It |and blood ppy, It s the eume with the indivifual man | was drenc @, it by 1 ror end wrong, and falsehood the iron bar s of Italian | silently it wers, cre » his con %0, and instil A thirst of ¢ ; itu and inéa his | thu sin in th ra 1 commu- | disposition with man, & th "wh'l"\ix 1 Franc ) Adriat with our geowth Uil Rome was decl 1 d with our strength, | lighred the torch of liborty e an overahadowing cloud Lafayotte toc W im the spint But the lesson of his. | of our ine‘itations 15 destined ¢ *to - deony, aud]and give to Feat republic. however hard may be the| I bas given 1 pr ¢ struggle, ulwags proves resisless, the down trodden ¢ vities of hi Av last the political cy pro- | torical, evenful and nnfortunate pelled by serivus dark clouds burst |land, in her struggle to froo herself forth upon the Away in | from the oppressions of a gnvernment, no southern sky could be discovered the redding hus of blood. State after ato passed ordinances declaring their relations and connectiony with the union forever seve . A man prominent in the senate of that union 1o day, on the 10th of Apal, 1861, in thecity of Charleston, South arolina, declared to an immense gathering of citizous of the United States, and awid theic loud applause: I thank you especially that you have annihi- lated this accursed union; not only is it gone, but gone forever.” Comrades to day envy loyal person liroughous the length aad breadth of this broad laud, especially thanks you and your comrades silent in death, that by your sacrifices, your patriotism and dovotion, that “accursed’’ uuion atill lives, rausomed by the life blood of your comrades, most britliant with the light of iiberty in the galaxy of na- tions. At length tho roar of traitrons cin- non ushered m the morning of active | rebellion, The nation was wounded in the citadel of its friends, stricken by the hands of those it had nourished upon its bosom. Tae hour had struck which was to ring out the triumph of hathan fretdoms; or to) sound itho denth knell of its doom, for if 16 farled in this land its sun had gone down and its night set in, The buld detiant attack upon the thag and the exultant joy which filied the South at its fall, eloctriiied the North and the loyal nation stepped to the front, Toe hour of sacuifice had cumv, none 8o sublime since the sub- lunity of sacrifices -as illustrated in the offering of Divinity itself that the race wight nov perish. Lc sent forch (roat armics which made the earth tremble beneath their feet. Battles took place and were repeated again and again, the like of whici in other lands and botween other countries would have decided the fute of em- pires. Tho power of Austria suc- cumbed betore the legious of Frauce the war ended, The Muscovite 'aud Cossack yielded to the combined power of Bugtand and Franco oa the field of Urinea and the couflict torminated The Euwpite of Ausiria was swain shaken to its very centro by the trained soldiery of Prussia on the nd the war ceased. s tricoloe of France wens down in Sedan and wilitary power of made the fivst Jom at h that possible 18 0f Ger- ud tho sounds of war soon died The d ate couraso and re enthusinsm of the turbaned l'ark were overcomeo by the mussive wir of the czar at Plevua and peac, was declaved, Yot conflicts liko thesc lin the lato robeliion were repested half the conti nation 1poleon a wreek atehe feet of th many {again aud sgain over {nent, and the war still went on, The conflict was drawn out through weary wxious years, and in the south, the cust and the west, the very heavens secm to huve opened a perpetual thuuder, The land became a land of soirow, the nation a nation of mourn- ois, for death left a vacant plice around almost every hearthstone. Creason black aud unrelenting was fo- deed doiug its terrible work, and pat- riotie blood flowed like nivers to stay the terrible hand whose grasp of trea- son sought to strangle a nation. Bu in the patiiot heart there was an abid- wg faih of a triumphaut issue, fheoughout the darkuess and the gloom tuere;was u coufi lence which no Uiscouragoment could shake and no disaster could qasneh, At laat the broak and th peaco 13 scen boyond. wrough Georgi into the COaro wh wian hay warched w00 | i v She \ | i , joined by Sherid {his swibpt the Shenandoah va | has pursucd Loo from Richmond a received his sword @b Appomatic unshaken faith of the peopls ug victory rebellion went down before the rosiatloes chargs y. Thon ocam ) the rea, diers of libe {the boom f a sohtary | N oo ¢ throush thi | ¢ It is th un th nore [ than four yeurn befora ohimed in the k1 ih ) [) A en 1l the benolits of eighty-five 8 of dependent nationality —all tho recollections of the glorious deed of the revolutionary era, were concen- trated in one determined respor which said, **This nation was born of the eacrifices of the revolution; it was hallowed by the blood of its herocs. It shall be kopt sacred now and for- ever and forever,” 1t is the common province of praise and eulogy to caress itself around the officers of the war, but never was there an army orgawzod that so little unoeded officers, and, taken generally whose officcrs did 80 wuch eommand ing and so listle fighting one entitled to much grea Ihere is r prais depended upon, Seif-ssorificing, he has left home and all taguisly warch in bis huwble sphere to the cannon’ wouth; he has no responaibility to and Ttaly on the field of Solferim fn anyto one always on duty and ever to be| whose acts of violen acbarism and bratality exceed the atrocities of the middle ages, Thus while the princi ples of hereditary ri ht, by the grace of God, presents the spectacle of a stationary and pedantic government through long centuzies, our owr land upon inherent rights by and in the people, having the creeds of the world's prayers implanted in it, has worked for itself a splendid carcer on an ever thirfty theatre. In no part of the union has that progress been more marked and con- ¢picuous than in the west, and in no part of the west more than in Ne braska, and in no part of Nebraska more than in Hall county. While the permanency of the union was in extreme jeopardy, resulting from the repeal of the Missouri compromise, while Preston®Brooks in tho name of slavery was assauliing in the senato of the United Siates Charles Sumne the champion of frecdom, and the people of the south were applauding the brutal, murderous and coward y agsault, while the supreme court of the United States, the highest tribu- nal in the land for the interprotatic of its laws, supposed to be a charter of freedom, d the right of property in m and that such human chattel could assert and pos- seas no rights against the will of his waster——while Missourt was invading Kansas to muke men s John Brown wae invading Virginia to mako men free—while the black clouds of slavery iwere driving the passions and prejudiees of the ple int> madness—there could be 10 the far land of men and women, that had come from Prussia, Mecklenburg, Schleswig and Holstein, who amid the trials, privations and hardships of frontier Iife were planting the seeds of liberty within the political subdi- vision where we now are gathered--a party destined to be the pioncers of a great and prosperous commurity, and enact an imporiant port in placing the terricory of No- braska on the soil of freedom and the union, and fivally in making her a free state of a free, united country. For well and nobly did Ne br: swer back the atsaults of imperious rebellion. Others better intormed will talk o you of the early times here, I have read wih much interest that history trom the pen of Win. Stoliey, Hsq., your worthy fel low citizen, and cougratulate him and his assceintos of twonty-live now lving, on their full rcal whot must have been then but the shadow of a dream--a transcontinei through, and a large city 1 the boundaries of Hall county a ity and county which fellow-citiz throvgh your encrgy, vigilance and in dustry, have worked out for them selves unbounded prosperity. Wo were long since told th ial price of liberty, and night, if we s vor, 1 con west @ smallsbut sturdy vigilance was th ag watchmen of the The signs about seen to presage a couflict as momentous asany by which wo have been tested, and the social \d political condition of the country is alarming enough to attrace the at- tention of every wan who pretends to \ concern in the publie weltare. The Uiited States and state grand juries throughout the c.untry are occupiedin investigating charges of embezz ut, pilteriug, iraud and other orime tes and national government employ. The poor men's wioney is swept away from him by de. wito hold positio contidence in the st been conducted and man 1 under the guise of charity and religion, wiile the taxes of all forced frc the 0 's ohare of the del ple as each m ¢ his government, for tha purposes of gove nt, huve bean diverted from mate objects to pour by thoir | j willions into the hauds of s lation and fraud. Disregard for the value of the inheront right to cast a ballot untramneled aid uncoesra spect to tho exceution of tho duty has wyen to bribery and cor \ w on with which the & " tioual decay hase been implanted Tho labor and capital question has boen an all absorbi consder \ in the social, economical and political sftuirs of the land, The combination of capital has effected the organiz of labor, and that organization has become o extensive and effectual that the conutost begins to assume some ling near cqual proportions, and :h have learned ihat oune depends upon the success ot l'o-day over one hundred d workingmen presont the | speotacle of » complete orgacization | standing within the portsls of the the success of win one unbroken voice e | manding what they deem a just com pencation for the productions of their Let us hope that reason on ¢ sido will orect a tribunal of just | arbitration inspized by a priuciple ot | fair denliog, that recognizea the right | to live and lot live~— that the laborer is 1 and that capital stion of | flames threstening and endangoring | the building we must not cry out, “ive ¢ and all is well.” A zainst thoso in high and low places | MM AR ASEaWTE 24 Yoo ma JOLY 6 1 vhick ne can give it him, is entit- [¢poke for Lialf an hovr or mora on the [the Cherry creek gold discovery. | l to protection. | history of the Hall connty settlement | My intention was to erect a The question of transportation is|from 1857 to the present time. ilo[rtore two miles wost of Fort [ still tossing about upon an unsettled d uncertain sea. ome things with ment; some cectainly wi h respect to rates, 5o that the shipper may know | were all alone in the region at the commencement of his enterprise | nearest settlement was the {and i whether he be gathering -from fruita of the #0il or other afl1irs somo- thing near his e: ses in that de partment. These and other 1ssucs are 1 important problems siaring y u in | | the face; in their intelligent solution | | depends the daily welfare of the ci sn and to assist in the solution is | yery citizen's duty Sufficient time | | tics go that every voter can and will | intelligently cast a vote. It is no ex cuse to say ou will not descenc o the fil ruption of polities. | Political filth and corruption poisons | ¢ government, aud i% is your duty | C Wi € crity | | with which you laud | sy of robelliox hallenged t admiration of maukind |and ¢ disporition to and apprecia | beyond troversy. Iv is v ir | | o v and | | 1 urviy ¢a is well eatablished. As | if but yosterday the people pai glad to reat from its arduous dutics anc excitement ali were rejoiced to seo | he people’s choics installed as the head of the nation, when suddeuly as | the lightning flashes in ) suinmer ky ho was stricken to doath at the hands of an assassin. Iu the dreary dwelling by the seaside the nation beside the weeping wifo b the dying form of the beloved presi- dent and husband, and watching his great soul depart to regions of eter- nal love and peacs, bowed its head in sorrow. But the potency of govern- ment was again realized 1n the words of the martyred hero uttered on a similar occassion years before: ‘‘God reigns, and the government at Wash- ington still liveth,” and the vilo as- sasgin has met his just deserts at the end of a havgman’s rope, I have no patience with that perverted senti- mental sympathy with the murdere It 18 a disgrace und humiliation which should burn and scethe into tho very heart and conscivuce of his sympa- thizers, and draw a line of darkness across their records as American citi- zens, But gathering inspiration from the noble deeds of the past, we look with hope to the future, The places made waato by the desolation of warabound with plenty, and the wounds of war are healed by t} nign inflaence of peace. As the rain, the dew and the sunlight fall npon all alike, gladden ing the hearis of the faithful workers aud bringing for them sbandant iu- crease, bearing testimony to the equality of God’s jastice and law, so m st the blessings and benificent in- fluence of an enlightened and jus, gov- ernment rest upon all she people, upon Jow and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, white aua bluack, native and foreign, upon each and all alike, as well upon the oceupant of the hum- ble cabin as the dweller in the stately mansion. Such is the perfection of law whose voice is the harmony of the world; such is the perfection of self- government whoss edict is universal justice. Kor this gled consummation all should strive v bated zeal, and thus all will be united with fra- ternal bonds that cannot be severed, To insure permanent pesce |ical horesies which well nigh proved nding over h un, | disastrous to the government must b | buried with the delusions of the past, |ard that lesson of the conflict which | rises above all othera in 1ts momen tousness mnst be anchored fust in the | | heads of all the people; that this is not 4 leagas but a naiic | dependent and supreme ove in allegiancs to the ono King of Kigs | 1 Lord of Lords | | Tha different elements composing | vation w n move on in their re- | epectivo fiolds, w order, sym- ry and regularity which provide the lawa of the natural world, As the heavenly bodies fill their places revolve around one common cen- ter, not one can leave its place with | out eansing each to jostle againat the other. Tho states fill their spheres around one common center in com- plete subordination to and in perfect harmony with one national govern- ment, Not a star can leavo its place on that flag without the consent of all the people of all the union. T thank you most sincerely for the kind invitation with which you hc which you have listened to me, Lifo | | bas 1£s lights and its shadows, May | cach of you carry forth from this| T which shadows a d oting ~pleasant’ mon way tend to_dispel t | try, way there be added” the con-| | sciousness of duty faithfully dis- | aud fbeneticant and the trae is never fail v. The iofluence of rood decds are belicved; it sofiens tl: heart and smoothes the r h places As the night disrobes into the light of the coming wo s the clouds molt away the twilizht of even | ing, the y of good deeds, mel | ture, blend y ir t ‘ W Thus 1 t f hfe i sessfully ht and 't ey o Th i ble 1s becom slory amid the solitudes | | | pyramids of | of time, And now a word to my e ades of the war on the right, Before parting | let us place a flower upon the graves of | our gacred dead whose lives sacrificed gave us the right to celobrate this day, | Let their memories shine resplendent I with the glories of a nation savea, and | growing brighter and brighter, as ago | to revere the sacrifices by which liberty | vas saved to America and maukind | Lot the patriotism be poured I land that it may influence des ivies of the nation, It will make us better and braver men and give us | ore faith w the future glory and | | HON. FRED HEDDE. | The Grand Island (Giles Olub fol- | lowed |Gen, Gowin; and ‘the p ""1"“‘1 lintroduced Hon., Fred, Hedde, who | alowly | of the Omaha Herald, on [ told about the coming of the colony, anticipating the Union Pacific, of the le- | hardships they endured, and the short rations they had to live vpon. They The at Columbus, then took about the same num ber of days to go to Omaha that i now does hours, Iinmigration came ill the adveut of the railroad After somo years came ‘‘Pap” 1 amb ach once a week; then thetelegraph Then stages came oftener, finally twico a day. In 1858, Mr Boyd came and built the first house on Wood river, And so Mr Hedde ¢ tinued, reciting the coming of each | family. The houses were sometimes ir miles apar part and_every house had a to1 Now all the houses of the original settlers on the river are rone but two, the mettlement G 11 land Wood River remain They used to go to Kearaey to trad and chore made the acijaaintanc of De. Miller, who was then in the rover it sorvice as eutler. M Id settlers, who appeared to . more nteres trials than The Grs gontler Wander| han then introd DR GEO, L. MILLER The Pro- d Scttlement of the Platte Vailey.” The doctorreturned thanks to the committeo of arrangements for the§invitation \\}nch gave him th pleasure of mingling with the people. The theme given him w B to en- gross the mind and claim the atten tion of all, but you havealready heard the eloquent orator and the gray haired pioneer toll of the day and what we are celebrating. The progrees of the Platte valley is the progress of the state, and made our history more than anything else, The doctor alluded to the advent of the Pacific road and then saying there was on the platform wirh him one of the original citizena of the valley, who stands at the head of the first govern- ment under the state, he proceeded to apeak of Mr. Boyd m n eulogistic manner, alluding to his life while a citizen of the region to the west of ue, Th n returning to his subjsct, he said it might be well fora moment to recur to the fact that he firat saw the Platte valley twenty-cight years ago. It was in October of that year, when thera was not a white settler in the yalley. As he rodoe up the east bank of the Elkhorn he saw not to the w asingle sign of civilization. There was not one white man heve. Tt was a wild and peculiar scene. He saw naught but the wigwam of the savage, whom you have supplanted. He could now gee none of them, but in their place rose a mirage, such as you frequently see. Hero is a civil- 1zation that is utterly irresistible as it rises and one, hke nature, that is never to disaj pear and will never cease 80 long as tho nation occupies the soil. The docror was here t) celebrate what in matrimony is called a silver wedding. This is the silver wedding of Grand Island and Hall county. Thank God you have lived to see such aday. Ivis a glorious result. He had the wish—that the time may come that he may be here to celebrate the golden wedding, and he believed the ladies will think he is now a young enough men to be here then, but his modesty ccmpelfed him to state thay he would not then be a marriageable aro! 8 young man, Wailo we honorad the gray-haired men who f.ushe the batiles of the pioncer, we will wever forget the panicd thew here ) sacrifice their hus 7 cause, To them ir iomage. He could ney allud ut thinking of 1 own wife, who endured similar suffe ings at Omaha. No, indeed, he d not forger that the wome o entitled to enduring fame and homage. women W HON, JAS, E. BOYD was introduced by D¢, Gahan, and bis pleazant address won th ution of 113 hearers as much as the I8 that he had been here as soon as aiy of them, d a great deal sooner than Last Sund the Rey +y morning he noticed in can that General Cow 1 to speak on the progress of the valle and he was to talk aboutreminiscences of eatly sconcs, Ho was well aware of what wuas expected of them, bug that he, who had never till lately ven- tured to make a specch, was expected, was news to him. But he woald trespaes on the time of his hearers for & moment. He did not come here to speak or to celebrate the Fourch of T Ho was here simply to pay a riendly visit and to join with tho old cttlers in reealling their younger lnys. Words could not express his tion of the cord welcome or meeting frionds of duys eone hy, was his first visit since 1875, T town has improved wonderfully, It y seat of Hall county, th of a division of the Union P road and the termini of the 8 8 oo branches. There 15 no y Grand Island should not largeat townus in the appree ) The is the cou ber, continued Mr, twenty-foar years old, venturcd hen but a doz 1d, one (i er's) at t Waood river, an f Col s, Dr. Heury, John ud tyeclt loaded teams wiih ns, lumber, ete., and after seeing them safely over the Loup, Dr Henry and 1 loft in a buggy for Lone Tree. The thermometer was then 0" below zero, and there was noth ing there but a tent, Jeff Griffich aud & man who helped him occupic that, snd they got up and put up our team, The hiest thing 2 man did in Kearney, but Jack Morrow very con- siderately informed us there was room in Dobey town for but one, and that was him. So I sottled at a spot about one and a quarter miles west of Gibbon, on Wood river. Here Tbuilt a housoe, doing most of the work my- soon as the frost was out of ground I farmed it and did #o for nine years, farming aad stock grow- ing. ‘1 never considered myaself 8 ranchman, but the (isrmans when | they came to my houso were mado walcom» Theso were happy daye We were oll yoonr Youth and dvys ¥ I f | K he w bo o large t ! « ever hovgh! she {tir frowned upon us, but some | times ghe smiled, and whenshe did we leujoyed it |1 would not undertake to tell of the yur lives were imperilled by Indiavs, » t . 1 will, how- | eve of August 8, 1804, Indiata by a precon- certed movement swept every ranch rom y-two miles east of Fort Kearney to Denver. I remember I w o bottom making hay, when Frank North and his pawuea scouts come up, We didn't kuow what they re after, but it wae to fight the Sioux. My men got alarmed and attered to all parts of the country, and some of them didu't get back for twenty-four hours, And now about Dr Miller, He s dono much for the Piatte valley as edior of the leading paper of the atate and he has it in his power to do more, Ho has slways had a good word for yon. Ho has considered it his duty and nobly has ho done it. And now I thauk you all heartily. T hope hereafter to meet you often. At the conclusion of Mr. Boyd's re- marks the glee ciub gave another selection and the audience dispersed to music by the martial band. The Races. The celebration would not ] been complete without a horse rice, and to Messrs, Thod. Bush and I Rawlins way ated tho task of of the festivities. arranging th Theraces aeld at the fair grounds, about a mule from the city, and the atte ) was very good. Lo ticst was & gontlemen’s driving race, half milo heats, 2in3 There wore four scarters Hy Palmer’s “Sorrel Dan” took first money, Jack Auderson’s “Jim” second, Pac Dun- phy’s ‘‘Irish Gicl” thi and Ed. Kerr's gray came in lass aud got noth- ing. Buos: time was in the neighbor- hood of three miutes, The record was & running race, half mile heat. Wm, Francis' “Gold- dust” won in 1:01, buating Z H. Denman's “Farmer Boy.” The last was a paciug race, one-half mile, which was won by Capt. Jor- dan’s ““Texas” in 1:25 boating Heary Palmer’s “Silver Lail.” The Fireworks. The pyrotechnic display took place near the pavillion and was engineered by Messrs, Will Campbell and Joe Mullin. Tt was maguticent, and the amount of money expunded by the committeo was invested judiciously. The features of the affic were four pisces: ““The Templo Pivcs,” “Glory )t Night,” “Gailopede of Serpents” and “George Washington,” The first conzisted of three pillars of fire, the center one bearing in illuminated e ters, the inseription, 1776, July 4 On th or pillar were pictured Ro- AN CAL d wheels which charged fire in endless quantities, s ry of Night” was a ma terpieco of starry firs ing through the h confusion “Cizurge Washington” was the il father of arpents” was a 1tins cours- ens in 1llimitive lusinated jortrair of “the s country,” sucrcunded by starry sides these, rockets and cand’ s tuse quantities were set ¢ play on the wholo far exc wd was o fit oud of th. day of bration, Notes of the Day. 01d Georgo Wilson—everybody who knows the old Grand Island knows him—now agent at Denver Junction, where the Denver hue switehes off, camo down on No. 4, accompnied by Mr ilson, Guorge was agent here n dozou years, and 1t did his nds good to look at his old head He progrossed hrough the streets up town at the i 1l-g o day, shuk- aid hear him shout, hands with about two men to the ar foot. After the ion in the vas over, John Meana got hgld of George's hand and Capt. Lamber he other; they led him to the front his escorts 1 to every pump. But just as he got Lo the ec- iting part, Gen. Cowin gave the buse drum wan half & dollsr to pound pumping his arms, u w it, and Guorge had to subsido, Tho day was & reunion for Mayor Boyd, tenry Koeneg, Fred Hedde and swher pioneers, aud they en q it hugely. Ihe sou h side of the Platte came among the celenrants be- J up gran The pat northwest corner oy ATLC o ioeal ¢ being Hade Grand Army folks danced all it in the big tent and the firemen had possession of Liederkranz hall. Winding up these notes after an ex- citing day full of royal pleasure, I r member one sentiment that prevailed universally after Dr. Miller suggested it—every one present at what the t dave e ks & drink. Geif- | Dootor termed the silver wedding of fith asked Dr, Henry if he had suy|the city and gounty to-day wants to od whisky, The doctor produced | Attend the golden auuiversary, July 4, e e T wouldn't take 1907, and may they have tho wish ful- an asked Henry what kind | filled. " Conov, i was, and prophesied I/ Pty S W in the country (n‘.E All person: Y by e wocks, Tu the summer of 1858 T had v t my trade, ¢ enterin littlo to do in Omaha pentering. 1 worked at cary . for a living, and am not ashamed of it, for that is my business. Hence I In the fall of ‘D9 cam came wes | AStawa, Bronchitis, Loss of V- ice, | affection of the Throat and Lungs | quested to call at O. F. Goodman's drug re and get 4 Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery fo n uwption, free of caar.e, which will convince them of its lorful merits and show what a regular | ollar-size bottls will do, ~ Call enl