The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-08
Picnic.

new terror is added to dreams as the PIC
mic season approaches. What awful Vlslops
of piles of ham sandwiches to be made, pies,
cakes and chicken fixings to be arranged, ana
legions of lost spoons, knives and forks, haunt
the slumbers of women. The young toIks IN
the vicinity of Hunters Chapel, three miles
east of Mt. Pleasant, gave bran dance anu
picnic on Thursday of last week, Wnlch was
largely attended, people being there from eV-
ery portion of the county and some from Ulies'
Sawdust having been brought from all the
mills in the neighbOrhOod, was placed III
ring that looked very much like 1t was intend
ed for a pugilistic encounter, with ropes
stretched al ound. The champion OF the dance
and Grand Mogul of the occasion, oonk'
entered the ring and announced that dancing
would commence with a grand prelude, the
lancet quadrille. As we have always hao
great fancy for country dancing, and hearing
great praises of some who have been Studying
| the graces in that neighborhood, we coneiud'
ed to 90 out to see country dance, or at most
cotilIiOus, reels, and all the old PAGES to the
newest tunes, Music was made by Jack Por-
| ter, the colored Vieuxtemps OF this county,
and Rute Williams the modern "Joe SWeeny,
who have become like the Hiawatha string ana
| bow useless each without the other we re
diffident Of our ability to do justice to TINS
| affair. and feel very much like the Engllsh
| bard when he wrote,
Oh! for the flow of BuSby or OF Fltz,
The latter's loyalty, the formers wits
| To eulogize the object pursue,
And give both, "SOnk'' and his dance their
The dance was opened by DR.. W. leading
\ the beautiful and accomplished Mrs. n. L. to
| the first ouadrille, followed by Mr.. IL. k, who
| never laughs but smiles pleasantly, with the
| modest and charming Miss L. b. Then came
| our gallant and most attable young Irlend,
| G. with the bewitching little blonde, MISS a.
| Fl, of Enterprise our graceful model dancer,
| Mr.. d. NJ H., with the lovely and fascinating
| brunette, Miss P, not the lady OF his love
| Young dream, however, were also IN the quaa
| rilIe. Now we have Mr.. /. W alias old
| Tom Slow" escOrting lady, whose name we
| failed to get, with his mutual friend, Mr.. Jun
| Y. of Columbia, who would have been his
| vis-a-yiS had it not been that he lost MS
partner before he could get his position. AS
| she has not been found yet, we would ADVISE
| him to advertise her in the HERALD undef the
| head of straYed or stolen. The set Delng ar
ranged, dancing began, and we must say, we
have been to a great many balls and plcnlcs,
but we never saw such elegance IN movement
| and grace in action as was displayed on luis
occasion, except by old "Iom SLOW wen, nc
might have danced well once, but it was like
the casting of old Robinson Crusoe upon
the island it was a long time ago. There was
a stiffness in his motion that was really pam
full After the quadrille, waltz was lntro-
duced by the lovely Miss A. M, OF this
county, and the blooming Miss G., Of Nilsson,
ri. which was executed with a great deal OF
elegance and grace.
Endearing waltz to thy more melting tune,
Bow Irish jig and ancient rigadoon,
Scotch reels, avauut! and country dance torego
| Your future claims to each fantastic toe.
And thus it was kept up until late in the
evening, gay, festive and happy. We suppose
they had the incest of dinners and IN the gu eat
, est abundance, but as We did not get any, VIZ
| can't saw But such. alas ! for human hope
like flowers, are doomed to fade away: W.
do not attribute 1t to any want of attention o.
neglect on the part of the managers, but GU
Z very great modesty, which, like our Trend, h
K, P.s, has often caused us to go home hungry
) We didn't get any dinner, but were the recipl
! | emit of one of the most beautiful boquets w
: ever saw, for which we return many thanks
, and hereafter, when we take our rosary AM
! tell our beads, we will pause with CRATE
fuI benson over one who is sweet with tn
fragrance of southern roses. w. I.