The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-08-16
THE LAWYERS aEvE1s.
Elkmont Overwhelmed with Scenes
Of Revelry.
Blackstone's Imps out in Numbers,
and the People Gather from
all Sections.
Beauty, Learning, Wealth, chivalry,
Mingle in the Jolly Rigadoon
and Sportive Saraband.

Sunday and Monday OF last week
Elkmont mountain was wreathed in
clouds of dust as the visitors poured
in from every road, and Tuesday
morning the gathering eliminated
almost in jam, until by noon the
proprietors had to use a ramrod to
get them all inside the front gate.
Each visitor came with a broad
smile upon his face and a cork
screw in his vest pocket, and it was
evident from our position up a tree
that Elkmont had never before wit
messed such perturbations of delight
and such throbbing, red letter hi
larity as was just about to transpire.
1t is impossible to say how many
were there, as the register gave out
early in the day. We give, how
ever, most of the notables-and
they were all notables:
Geo. Childress and wife, Mrs. DR..
j. NJ. fowler, Miss Lizzie Prestidge,
w. II. Williams and family, A.
Parker, Columbia, Tenn; H. Rose
nau and family, j. H. Ballentine,
NJ. Childress and son, Miss Bena
Childress, Giles Reynolds, S. E. f.
Rose, Scion E. Rose, Mrs. DR.. j. F.
Grant, Mrs. Jno. G. Brown, Dr.
Sumpter and family, Guy Sumpter.
w. E. Lacey, F. Smithson, Jno. d.
Reynolds and family, Lee Reynolds
and family, Mrs. Oscar Alternately
and family, E. I. Taliaferro, A. C..
Irvine, j. p. Alternately and wife,
w. S. Newbill, I. NJ. N. Jones, Jas.
r. Grove, r r. Reed, H. Arrow
smith, j. D. Baugh, Jno. G. Lester,
Root D. Alternately, A. r. Richard
son, A. A. Reynolds, j. S. Reynolds,
Thos. w. Pitman, F. Regenald, Jno.
w. Riddle, John Rose, j. B. Ali
son, N. S. Allison, Julius Rose,
Thos. Bearden, j. NJ. Mcdonald,
VIM. Pinkerton, Thad. Bumpass,
A. A. Ezell, John McGrew, John R.
Jones, w. H. McCallum, L. ID. Nc
Cord, c. P. Jones, j B. Stacy, Jr.,
G. 2. Reed, L. E. Alternately, John
D. Miller, Miss Ada E. Alternately,
+. p. Loveman, Theo. Richardson,
j. H. Pullen, Miss Adelaide Ballen-
tine, Miss Sallie Ballentine, Albert
Stevenson, Pulaski.
Jno. NJ. Bright, A. i. Bright, Mat.
Bright, L B. Kercheval, H. Kerche-
val, A. O. Battle, NJ. w. Woodland
and family, r. l.. Bright and family,
d. w. Clark and family, Jas. H.
Holman, D. W. Holman, James d.
Tillman and wife, w. B. Lamb, Jas.
B. Lamb and wife, S. T. Farrar, N.
j. George, T. J. Bruce, Fritz War
rem, NJ. A. March, Fayetteville; DR..
j. NJ. Beasly, VIM. Richardson, L.
Cooper, r. H. Wilson, Ernest Rob
inson, Ex-Gov. d. p. Lewis, f. p.
Ward, Huntsville, Ala; Elk Brittle,
r. n. Townsend, Miss Ada Towns
end, A A. Russell, W. N. Malone,
T. B. Leslie, R. A. McCallum, Miss
Mary Pryor, Athens, Ala; d. c.
Sherrell, Merryville. Tenn; I. B.
Hopkins and family, Madison, Ala;
j. j. Patterson, Miss Mamie Will
son, j. W. Young, j. Y. Hobson,
G. S. Clark, John King, A. j. King,
Bethany, Tenn; w. G. Miller, Gal
weston, Texas; Miss Nettie Hall,
Suffolk, Va; c. Edmundson, Sher-
man, Texas; Miss Susie Mariner,
Olathe, Kansas; Miss Maggie Ma
son, Miss Booker Mason, Prospect,
Tenn; L. d. Griffis and wife, M. J.
Rawls, Blanche, TEN; w. B. Chill
ders, St Louis. And a hundred
others, more or less.
The Pulaski Bar sent down on
Monday night wagon load of
spoons and cork-screws packed in
500 pounds of ice, and these served
to exhilerate the hosts of visitors
during the tedious intervals between
the remarks of the Governors of
North and South Carolina. 1t was
impossible on account of the i'm
mense throng and the neglect to lay
out a program in advance to have
any formal ceremonies. The law
yers of the different bars met before
dinner and tried to effectuate some
thing of the kind, butt was deemed
best that the meeting should be de
void of red tape and stiff conven-
tionalities. Another meeting in
the afternoon was devoid of interest
to the general public, as the entire
time was taken up with a trial of
Judge Jones, which will appear in
the Legal Reporter and be of value
to the profession.
After sumptuous supper served
about o'clock, Anthonv's Band
commenced to play in the spacious
ball room, and it was soon thronged
with gay dancers, who beguiled the
hours away in delicious festivities
until the dreary dawn. Many and
varied were the scenes and Incl
dents, the futtering pleasures and
impassioned heart delights, that
were visible that night, but they
battle description. The chastened
raptures that filled each soul awak-
ened a response from all the sur
roundings, and the atmosphere blew
gentler and emitted sweeter odors,
the walls echoed sweeter strains,
and the whole mountsin seemed i'm
pregnated with a grand Elysian
jubilation that found vent at every
pore.
On Wednesday morning the
crowd commenced to dispense, until
by night there were just enough left
to be well entertained and to fill the
ball room again, where the same
deeds of merriment were re enacted
that evening, but not to so late an
hour. We take occasion to remark
Just here that the proprietors of the
Springs did themselves much credit
by their persistent attentions and
strenuous efforts to render every