Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-31
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deliver an address on the occasion, but
on accountof an attack of incipient bron-
chitis,,, he was compelled to forego the
honor, and had already hurried off to
the healing waters of-Nirginia.
The speaking was. concluded by Col. !
IT. G. Bacon making stirring appetite |
the peopleof Johnston's to press forward
in that cause for which they have already
shown themselves so solicitous and so
generous-the great cause of education.
And then the. Band played delightfully."-,
and the people promenaded, and lemon
AIDED, Sand ice-creamed, and spectated,
and chatted, and flirted, until dinner.
The tables, devised in their admirable
arrangement by Mr. Charles. Kenney,
were erected under the grove in front Of
the residence of Mr.. L. A. Minis. And
here the vast multitude ate and drank
until they were actually torpid with
peace and plenty. The dinner was all
that money, energy and hospitality
could make it. And here might be
seen, par excellence, the gentlemen
and ladies of this particular section-the
heads of tribes-the Colemans, the Lofts,
the Wards, the Blands, the Kenneys, the
Joneses, the Mobleys, the Mimses, the
Readys and the Bartleys. We do not
mean they could be seen here as eaters.
No. On the contrary, as generous ana
thoughtful hosts, watching the wants OF
their guests, and fastening to fill them.
And happy were the men and women
who-as VIC did-anchored on to Capt.
Clinton Ward and his lady. Yes, happy
were they; for they saw unstinted gem
erosity, and gentlest courtesy, and the
best bread that Mas ever baked by Garth
ly fire, and grapes, and figs, and melons,
and everything that could make one.
happy.
And now we hurry to the dance-hai
1t is the barely finished and still unoc-
cupied store house of Mr.. J. w. Huiet.
A splendid place-and plenty of room
kbut for the unwieldly crowd of pressing
spectators. And here again, Youth, is
on the prov and Pleasure at the helm.
A galop is playing and dozens of young
people are flying, bounding, and iioun-
dering around, as Nature and their dan
cling master have taught them. 1t is de-
lightful. And now it changes to the
Lancers, and although we cannot see
through horrid tall man who stands in
our mouth, the little pauses in the music
tell us, without seeing, that the girls are
all courtesying, and the men, with arms
linked together, are galloping madly
round, like savages before wooden god
The Lancers--is it not beautiful. And
now an old fashioned cotillion, with
"swing corners" and "lady's. chain4,"
and every variety of the human animal
rushing violently about, doing their best
to make themselves giddy and tear their
clothes. And still itisdelightful End
in watching dance, did you ever notice
how small arc mans highest adornments
compared to. woman's? at his best, in
his dress of greatest ceremony, the man
is but scrimping, pitiful, ,5black-forked
biped, compared to the indefinite volume,
the many-colored majesty, of behounced,
belaced, betiowered, beringleted woman!
But it is six o'clock P. NJ, and the sun
is low, and the Lanciers are weary, and
vehicles are flying to the four points Of
the:compass, and Johnston's-which has
behaved so beautifully, so Hospitality, so
peacefully-sighS fop rest. Johnston's
has talked, and walked, and danced,
until it has no legs left. In fact we ali
sigh for rest. So we depart homewards :
some thinking of the dinner; some, of
the dance; some, of our sweethearts; and
.some-a few-of our latter end.