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VOL 1-NO 53. THOMASVILLB, GEORGI A, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 13, !88!) $5.00 PER ANNUM H 3 ui H H 1 CO iO td 0 g f t aq C K I- 3 3 QD © CD ► 4 HI 9! 4 H H 3 91 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 ...—- 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