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A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
THE GATHERING AT DUNCANVILLE.
SONS
MAIDS AND MATRONS,
AND SIRES.
A Lund Flowing With Plenty.
Old Tlmo Southern Hospitality.
' Reader, did you ever attend n gen
uine, old fashioned neighborhood pic
nic nt Duncanville? If you have not,
there is a great big blank in your life,
an unwritten page in your history
which should be filled out at the first
opportunity. There is a peculiar
flavor about a picnic at Duncanville.
The sweetest and most motherly of old
ladies; the brightest and prettiest of
young ladies; the sturdiest oi substan
tial farmers; the manliest of manly
youths, and the dearest little toddlers
imaginable, arc all to be seen at a
Duncanville picnic. We have been
there and seen them.
Bright nnd early, on Thursday
morning, while the green blades of
grass were yet tipped with diamond
like dew drops, glinting and glistening
in the early sunlight; oven while the
birds were singing their early songs,
straining their little throats, as they
called to mates in brake or bower, the
writer, in company with a gentlcnmn
of the medical profession, hut who
having amassed a fortune (all doctors
grow rich at an early age) has retired
from the practtfcc, went whirling down
the Duncanville road,’ leaving the
town with its heated brick blocks and
walks behind. One seems to take on
a new lease of life, after being con
fined between four brick walls, when
going spinning along through the
country. How beautiful He great*
green woods looked; how captivating
the sight of hill nnd dale; how quiet,
restful nnd peaceful the farm houses;
how interesting the growing crops, as
ripening corn fields, the tall, well
laden stnlks bending their proud heads
to the morning breezes; how kingly
looked the broad acres of cotton, with
its blooms, squares, forms and bolls,
and deep green tinted foliage; how
graccfid looked the long rows of sym
metrical LeCoutc pear trees, bowing
and bending beneath their load of
maturing fruit, and how sweetly
bloomed the fresh wild flowers, ns
they were kissed by the early morn
ing zephyrs! How aptly, nnd forci
bly, all these illustrated nnd empha
sized the old adage that “man made
the town, but God made the country.”
Arriving at Duncanville, the picnic
g.ounds were found filled with sturdy
farmers and (heir families. And
a more thrifty looking, contented
people’ we have never seen
A beneficent Providence gives
bright promise of a good yield from
mother earth, and this fact was seen
in the bright, kindling eye of the
men, and the sweet, cheerful smiles of
the ladies.
The first object to attract attention
was a tasteful brush arbor, where some
of the most bewitching of Mother
Eve’s fairest {daughters were dispens
ing ice-cold lemonade, ice cream, etc.
And around this enchanting spot lin
gered many swains during the day,
patronizing the young ladies with a
liberality worthy of all commendation.
Many a youth willingly planked down
his last nickle; some of them, evident
ly, just to get waited on by the win
some girls in charge of the booth. By
the way, the proceeds are to go to
ward paying for plastering New Och-
lockonee church, which stood nearby.
This church (Baptist) was built in
1S02, but has never been plastered.
As St. Peter’s church, in Rome, was
something like 600 years in being
completed, our Baptist friends of New
Ochlockoncc church, may be par
doned for taking 27 years to finish
their church.
But the dinner! Just here we
pause, while a sense of inability to 8c-
scribc a .picnic dinner at Duncanville,
overcomes us. But there was no
pausing on our part, at the dinner.
The long tables which had been pre
pared for the occasion, fairly and
literally groaned beneath the weight
of good things. This mode of de
scribing an occasion of the kind has,
we frankly confess, an ancient flavor
about it. “Groaning under a load of
luxuries” in hieroglyphic form, has
been translated from the most ancient
records known. It is proper to add,
in this connection, while thus apolo
gizing for the seeming plagarism, that
all this groaning was not done by the
tables. Those who helped to relieve
the tables of their load, monopolized
the groaning business later in the day.
We speak advisedly, in this respect,
as to the Thqmasvillc party.
But the tables didn’t groan long:
The Thomasvillc party relieved the
situation. They helped, with one ac
cord, and a common*! impulse, to
unload those groaning tnbles. But
after all their efforts, nnd that of
hundreds of others, piles of substan
tial and delicacies were left. Young
man, if you want a wife, a wife who
knows exactly bow to prepare a good
dinner, go down in the Duncau-
villc neighborhood; she lives in
that section; in fact she lives
all around there. And to one of
these same young ladies is the writer
indebted for a piled up plate of edi
bles which would have tempted the
veriest epicure. But we cannot lin
ger over a description of the feast, as
longus we did over the feast itself.
In the afternoon the crowd gather
ed in the church nnd listened to some
delightful music, Mias Fnnuie
Blackshear made the organ peal
forth volumes of music, while a
score of voices filled the church
with the rich, full 'notes of song. Out
iuto the surrounding grove,- naHlfV
grand,cathedral, floated >hu rich mel
ody. At the conclusion of (he sing
ing, Capt. Doss made a short, practi
cal Sunday School talk.
The sinking of the sun in the west,
was n warning to turn homeward.
Regretfully this was done at a laic
hour. Dear old Duncanville, many
pleasing memories will always cluster
about it. May prosperity crown the
boards of the good people of that
neighborhood, and may the shadows
which shall bring on the evening of
life fall, very gently about them.
NOTKS.
Thomasvillc was largely represent
ed.
among the old graves around, we cop
ied the following inscription, as it ap
pears on the west end of the big tomb:
Tuts toomU Was Erected
In Memory or
ZilpIIa Inman, Borneo Feuery
Tiie seventeenth
Seventeen Hundred & Eighty Seven
And WaS Married
Jn.v The 25TH, 1805
Died
the Wipe ok Kindred Braswell
The 17TH oe June 1837.
A number of unnecessary or wrong
letters appear to have been cut in the
stone, in making the above inscrip
tion. These places were filled in with
what appears to he putty. The filling
still occupies the false places in the
lettering, and apparently will remain
there for many long years to come.
There is not a tomb like this, perhaps,
in tl:e state. The design is original
and the artist appears to have execut
ed it well, though lie was a little off in
punctuation, and the use of capital
letters in some instances. But the
artist, like the dead whom this tomb
covers and commemorates, has doubt
less found a sleeping place, maybe,
without even a stone to mark the
place.
“.Sic tfnmit ijloria mumli.”
The prettiest girl in the county was
there.
Mr. , of Thomnsville, was very
much smitten with a young lady
whom be met on the occasion.
Mayor Hopkins, alderman W isc
and Clerk McLean, represented the
Thomasvillc City Council. And
they represented it well—at dinner.
Of course Jim Blackshear was
there. It would hardly have
been a picnic without him. By the
‘way, Mr. Blackshear says he will
ship 1,500 bushels of pears this sea
son. It will thus be seen that he will
Ik pretty well heeled for the first cir
cus which comes along. •
Duncanville is the old home of the
late Major Mash. Here, in his capa
cious mansion, which was destroyed by
fire some years ago, he dispensed that
princely hospitality which is yet a
characteristic of those people. The
glory of the old place has faded some
what. But its glory will return. And
the glory of these latter days shall be
greater than of the first.
Our party, in returning, stopped and
examined a quaiut and curious old tomb
or mausoleum, standing in a grove not
far from the residence o( Mr. J. M.
Blackshear. It is built of hewn blocks
of granite, gotten out on the place, it
is said. The mausoleum stands about
eleven feet high, is eight feet long by
four feet wide. It is surmounted in
the center and at each of the four cor
ners with blocks of granite, curiously
carved into the shape of covered urns.
With the aid of the setting, sunlight,
which penetrated the grove, making
deeper the shadows which played
Another Pointer.
Yeterday morning a gentleman
called at the Times-Entem’Risk of
fice to obtain the address of a canning
establishment. He was referred to
Quitman.
Hundreds ot bushels of fruit will
he wasted here this season,for want of
canning facilities. Quitman lias
shown Iter good judgement by supply
ing her people with this means of
disposing of her surplus fruits and
STS?. When” "wilt TTibrnasvTllc
take up this good exomplc?
No Rates-
Thc transportation companies have
not yet made a rate on pears by car
load lots to Chicago and other points
beyond the Ohio river. The express
charges are so high ns to amount to
prohibition and with rates by rail,
shippers arc cut otr from many good
markets in the west. Will not the
transportation companies look into
this matter?
Another year Thomasvillc will
conic to the front as an important
melon shipping point. The land in
Brooks and Lowndes counties, hither
to the center’of the melon belt, lias
been planted in melons so long, that
it is hard to find any within conve
nient distance of the railroad that will
raise good crops. ft has been sup
posed that the lands around Thomas-
ville had too much clay in them to
make good melons, but this tiling has
been exploded by the experience of
those that have planted this season.
Alfred Plummer, colored, who has
been one of Mr. AY. W. Linton’s
hands for a number of years, has been
arrested on a charge of lunacy, and is
confined in jail, lie lost his reason
through religious frenzy. lie is ex
ceedingly loud-mouthed, and his ut
terances are not suited to cars polite.
As the asylum is full to overflowing,
he cannot he Accommodated there.
He will likely he taken to the poor
house and guarded to prevent violence
to others.
The big pump runs five hours per
day and keeps the stand pipe full to
overflowing. The machinery works
like a charm.
The Board of Health ought to con
demn several dilapidated wooden
buildings in town as nuisances. They
will % be prolific sources of disease if
they are not torn down.
The pond that gathers after every
rain 011 the railroad right of way, in
Paradise Park, ought to be drained.
A very little work would do it most
effectually.
Mr. John Dohlberg is again Watch
man at the Mitchell House. John is
a faithful guardian of the hotel.
To Close Out.
We arc offering our
entire stock of Shoes
and Hats at and below
cost. Those goods
must be sold by Sept.
1st, and wo are offer
ing unheard of bar
gains in our line. All
goods sold for the
cash. Positively no
more goods charged
We also offer our
store fixtures for sale
and store house for
rent.
All parties indebt
ed to us will please
come forward and
settle at once, as we
want the money.
T iEYY’S
Has Made a
BIG GOT
IN ALL LINES OF
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108 Broad St.
To continue until
closed out.
Our remnant table
is ful of choice BAR-
gains, and will be all
Summer.
B^hStill left, a few
of our fi 3-1 cts. Ging
hams, worth 10 cts.
Le vys
Mods Ira