... chapter of accidents to extricate him from a dilemma in which it is as fatal to stand still as it may be to go forward. “Independence Day” was duly celebrated on the day after the repulse of General Lee, but before the details were known. Whatever may have ...

... boys swarm in all the streets, letting off t.iuibs and crackers, for to the juvenile heart of the Amei.can ; population Independence-day answers to Guy Faux Ctj.y i in England, and is commemorated with riot and lire- works with this difference — that American ...

... boys swarm in all the streets, letting off squibs and crackers ; for to the juvenile heart of the American population Independence-day answers to Guy Faux-day in England, and is commemorated with riot and fireworks, with this difference, —American impatience ...