Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — A Centennial Celebration. [ARTICLE]

A Centennial Celebration.

About the only centennial celebration this year is the one to take place along the Susquehanna river. On the 3d of July, 1778, the celebrated Wyoming massacre took place and added a tragic historical interest to the beautiful Wyoming valley. Three hundred men, women and children met a sudden and terrible death. Their fate has given to literature poetical tributes from Campbell, Halleck, and Mrs. Sigourney which have rendered, the fame of Wyoming world-wide. The celebration of the events of 1778 will take place on the 31 and 4th of July next. A classic ode has been written for the opening song, and will be rendered by 100 choirs, and addresses, orations, and poems commemorative of the event will be delivered by some of the leading literary men of the land. The Committee of Arrangements are actively engaged rebuilding the old forts and huts along the Susquehanna, so as to appear precise ly as they did 100 years ago, and neither time nor ixoense Will be spared in making the celebration a crowning success. So as to render the scene as realistic as possible, the services of a tribe of Indians—proffered by their chief—have been accepted, and they will appear upon the ground in their wild and picturesque costumes. The proceedings of the 3d of July will partake . principally of a solemn character, consisting of commemorative hymns and orations, and ©n the Fourth there will be a grand procession, followed in the evening by a display of fireworks, illuminating the Susquehanna river from Camp- ' bell’s Ledge to Nanticoke, a distance of | twenty miles, by a line of boats burning ! tar barrels.