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Another National Anniversary Passed

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  • Title: Another National Anniversary Passed
  • Date: 7 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01267
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 7 July 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Another National Anniversary Passed." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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ANOTHER NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY PASSED.

The “Glorious Fourth” is passed and gone. As our readers will have perceived by our own paper of yesterday, and the New York journals of this morning, there was all the usual enthusiasm, orations, military parades, fireworks, excursions, &c.

The day was one of the finest of the season, neither too hot nor too cold, and the evening was fine, affording an excellent opportunity for the various pyrotechnical displays. Any quantity of gunpowder was burnt, flags floated from all the mast-heads and from the flag staffs on shore, and in every way the celebration was worthy of the occasion. We do not recollect any National Anniversary in a long time that was better kept up.

We have only one fatal accident to record in this District—that of a child aged three years, named John Heregthy, whose parents reside corner of North 1st and 7th streets, who came to his death by being burned by matches. The accident occurredoccured​ on Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock. It appears that the child had locked himself in, his father and mother being in different parts of the house, and before assistance could be rendered expired. The mother who had entered the room shortly before the child's death had her hands badly burned in attempting to extinguish the flames.

The New York papers of this morning state that a child named Mary Kline, daughter of John P. Kline, and residing on the corner of South 4th street and Union avenue, was also burned to death by a similar accident. This is not so. This little girl is still living and will probably recover. It seems that while standing in her father's store some boys threw firecrackers upon her and set fire to her clothes.

The boy named Richard Brower, who had a ramrod blown through his breast, and whose parents reside at No. 86 South 2d street, is likely to live. His physician this morning pronounced him out of danger.

With the exception of these, no other accidents have come to light beyond what have been published.

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