Washington's 102nd Independence Day Observed Quietly
From Washington DC on July 5 1878 a detailed report notes the city celebrated only with informal displays while far and wide excursions filled steamboats and trains. Old soldiers and locals attended an orderly program including an ode the Declaration read and the Star Spangled Banner sung amidst a breezy hot day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
Gilesboro
Capes
Hampton Roads
Petersburgh
Richmond
Harper’s Berry
Point of Rocks
Baltimore
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Cumberland
Chain Bridge
Cabin John’s Bridge
Great Falls
Washington
Daddy’’ Gabright
Nestor
Press
Greaser Potter
Anderson
Weber
Potter
Springer
South
Louisiana
Rio Grande Front
Fires and farming in Florida and Ohio notes
Floridian Cornelia contemplates cattle grazing and milking on wire grass while a west Florida fire roars eastward, blamed on cattlemen burning off land. The column then shifts to Ohio and Washington items: floods, drownings, accidents, politicians, thefts, a vanished retiree, a jail riot, and various local incidents across Meigs, Ross, and surrounding counties with brief notes on crops, murders, and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Athens Mirror and Literary Register
the Messenger
A. G. Brown
County News
General Jackson
Adams
Jackson
Cincinnati Gazette
Portsmouth
Ohio
Canal Commissioners
Cleveland
Ohio River
Golden Lake
Fla
Epirok
Cornelia
St. John's Lakes
Apollo
Florida
Bay
Wood
Lake
Aspasia
Hermione
Mamma
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Washington, D.C
Mexico
Diaz
Ord
44Th
Congress
Logan
Gaz
N. Y. Tribune
Sypher
the Cowboys OF
Mansfield
Samuel Thomas
Raccoon River
Jackson County
Allen
John Cheney
Cana
Winchester
Franklin County
Bowsher
Drs. Waddle & Scearce
Chillicothe
Chas. Thomas
Zanesville
Mary Beltz
Kenton
Toledo
Millersport
Fairfield County
Miller Eversole
Wm. Gould
Cincinnati
Alden B. Stockwell
Painsville
Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company
Geo. Mattthews
Centerbury
Steubenville
John Stewart
John McCann
McCann
Stewart
Ida LaMontaine
Vic Sayrs
Lida Hutton
Avondale
New Philadelphia
Mt. Vernon
Indianapolis Journal
Bowersville
Clinton County
Peter Eagle
Miaminsburg
Waymab
M. E. Church
Belpre
Marietta Register
Hay
T. B. Hibbard
Belpre Township
Bonnie
Scotland
Register
R. T. Sutton
Cutler
Beverly
Hiram Birch
Marietta
Devol
Ludlow
Martha Theis
Tice
Willis H. Johnson
Pittsburg
Emma Graham
Hocking
Terrel
Col
Seth Weldy
Ann Oration
Rock House
E. W. Mitchell
Circleville High School
8. D. Morgan
Webb’s
Hocking Sentinel
Logan Republican
The
Valley Gazette
Ball Baldwin
Perry Bowsher
Mackey
Ross County
Perry
McVays
MEIGS
Robt. Gi. Wells
Scipio
St. John's Church of
Pomeroy
Wm. McCumber
Grimes’s Mill
Rutland Township
Thos. Moulder
Longsville
Jane Karr
Middleport
Universalist Church
Meigs County
Valentine Duttenhoffer
Common Pleas
Supreme Court
William Williams
Madison Township
New Lexington Tribune
Somerset
New Lexington
Hamden
A. B. Monahan
Daniel Davis
Portland
Zaleski
McArthur
John Dixon
J. F. Dixon
John Gardiner
Allensville
Charles Foster
Elizabeth Baughman
Chas. Nutt
Houston
Fort Snelling
Minn
Michael Clifford
James Dunn
Hope Furnace
Clifford
Sheritt
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