Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-17
THE ADVERTISER.
Edgcfeld, S. c., Aug. II, 1871.
Editorial cortespondenee.
Greenulle as a Sunuaer Resort ~
GREENv11hE, Apg. II, :,ls71,

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GREENv111r, Ang. II, y1s7l.
We have beens herenow more that a
week, and have meanwhile eaten indus
triously of the treesof knowledge. The
summer effervescence of the low and
middle country is overfowing this re-
.centacle with steady..rush, and here
yawns or pulsates (as the case may be)
much of life that is worth looking at
AS for the people who yawn, of course
thew are inevitable in almost all summer
resorts-people whonever hadany strong
excuse for existence, and in summer
lose even the little they may have had.
But we do not intend to be sharp. We
have only fallen into little philosophi-
zing turn. And truth to say, the people
who have life, and pulses, and meaning,
seem to be decidedly in the predorii-
nance.
Haven't you been thinking for years
past that Greenville, with all her institu
tions, Churches, schools, societies, &C.,
was charged with fierce, all-pervading
religious ether? Well, it is not so. If
you imagine that awful men and women
will meet you and give you the cloud
Calls'.or "Baxter's Rest, or speak to
you of eternity or herunpleasant things,
you are very much mistaken. Nothing
of the sort will happen. Greenville on
the contrary-for the the present at all
events-is simply a hot haven OF. fashion
and conventiQnality-an animated and
delightful Vanity Fair. 90.
I AS we have already said, Greenville is
full to overfowing. The Mansion House
has, if we mistake not, some eighty
chambers. and two nights ago every one
was occupied. The private boarding
houses are well patronized, and many
families have friends and relatives as
guests. Between five and six O'Clock
every afternoon, q curious. and motley
crowd begins to swarm the streets, drives
and walks of Greenville. And beautiful
walks and drives they arc. And beauti-
full is the mountain scenery near the
city. But who would tolerate long and
technical description of all these? Or Of
COVER 81 CoXs famous Carriage and
Wagon Factory; or OF the new Bridge, OF
of the University, orthe view therefrom?
The mind shrinks from the contempla,
ton of such Il deed :
From five to, seven large lump OF
this aforesaid curious and motley crowd
steadily infests the front of the Mansion
House. They peer in at the windows
and settle about the doors of the hotel
TO sec the strangers as they go out to
walk or drive, or as they arrive:and de-
sceHd from the omnibus. Every body
especially ladies) is narrowly scanned,
and everybody's gamut is diligently run
over. We often form one of this lump
and the advertisements delightful. The
summer visitors afford Greenville, and
each other, perpetual excitement in the
way fpromcnades, riding parties, dances
and fine toilets. Beautiful girls, beauti-
fully dressed, fit in every direction, in
couples, looking furtively under their
eye-lashes to see what manner of men
they are to have for partners at Caesars
Head, or at the next hop of the City
Club. "Good looking" whispers one,
"but not 1tsttngue.", 81 like -disttngne
men," "Wait till they get the dust off,
wisely and indulgcntly says the other.
So it is presumed they wait!
But speaking of dancing, Greenville
does not seela to dance this summer
and this Notwithstanding the crowd o.
pleasure seekers. In fact at the Mansion
House, the great summer headquarters,
it is decidedly stupid. In the evening
! the lady visitors sit around the margin
of the large and airy parlor, in Quaker
meeting style, as we have seen them at
other SIMMER resorts, though conduct
ing themselves quite un-Quakerlike in
not respondingto the inward call to speak
us the inclination, or, not irreverently as
we may add, as the spirit. moves. them,
fearing no doubt to tread thereby upon
some neighbours understanding of pro-
priety. Bah! how often people lose the
fragrance of rose from fear OF doubt:
full thorn beneath! In the meantime the
gentlemen (thejeuneSse loree in particu-
lar) shtn the said parlor III the. basest
and poltrooniest manner. They santef,
and lurk, and peep, and sigh, and want
to do ii, but quiver, and shake, and fear
10 launch away. It is Il painful and a
degrading factto record, but..it is even
so. And then the piano Of the Mansion
House is beneath all criticism. We tried
it few days ago, and not only did our
legitimate nose turn itself promptly up,
but the nose of each one of our ten fin
gers did likewise. We would not how
ever seem ill-natured. Messrs. SOUTH
ERN d GREER of the Mailsion House arc
as kind, gentlemanly, cnterprising men
as live. Their HOUSE IS very ably con-
Quoted and vastly popular. And as for
Mr.. GREER, he has, beyond all doubt,
the finest horses and vehicles in South
Carolina. In fact his stables, horses,
carriages, bretts and buggies are themes
OF universal applause and admiration.
-Four out of every five of the splendid
turnouts you meet any afternoon i'll
Circenville are hired frorl the famous cs-
adjustment of GREER. And we know
that by another summer Messrs. SOUTH
ERS Il GREER will have a piano which
shall comport with the ancient fame OF
the Mansion House of G:.ecnville.
The grand sensation of yesterday an6s
to-day is the finishing OF the Telcgraph
Lino to this place. The last yard of wire
was suspended Yesterday, and great is
the lelicitst!on BY this. .Greenvillemakes
another magnificent stridetowards pro-
Srcss and enterprise. We rejoice with
her.
We have visited the Offices of the
Mounta;ncer and the Enterprise, and
been received with the friendlicst hospi-
tality. Our old and l:onored friend,
Col. TowSEs, of the Enterprise, informs
sus, to our great sorrow, that Mr.. BAILEY,
proprietor of this paper, is. an invalid.
and confined entirely tohis private house.
Mr.. ELgoRp, of the Mountaineer, isths;
soul OF geniality and brotherly kind
ness. His. co-worker, Capt GEO. WELLS,