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“Lee has surrendered!” was announced by telegraph to our citizens on Monday morning last. Soon the good news was known throughout the village, and our citizens met in groups to exchange congratulations. Although the news was expected, still it seemed, as many expressed themselves, “almost too good to be true. A supply of powder having arrived in town a few days before, a salute was immediately resolved on, and the “big gun” was brought out, and not a few smaller ones; the bells were rung; and all rejoiced over the prospect of an early termination of the war. A national salute was fired in front of the Journal office, by as lively a company of volunteer artillerists as could be got together on short notice.
April 14, 1865
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