The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-07-10
From Tiller's Ferry.

picnic at Boards Landing on the 18th
uIr, but owing to circumstances or
something else, probably the latter, We
dill not get there till the afternoon.
From what we could hear and see, in
vcstigato and find out, it was a success.
As to the dinner. it IS only necessary
for US to say that "Granny" was there
with her basket, and everybody will
know that there was a superabundancc.
When VIC arrived we found the picnic
ers engaged in variety of amusements
One squad was going round in circle,
and fellow was standing on stump
near by, his eyes nearly popped out, his
neck veins standing out like whip cords,
aud in voice which for harmony and
the sweetness of its hrodulations re-
minded US of the jaug Of the castings
in mill, was singing something about
King W-i-l-l-i-a>m, the dusty. Others
were excurting on the creek, using
therefore the crafts belonging to the j..
G. N. G., late of this county, deceased.
Dinner being over when we arrived, u
good lady friend insisted that we should
pic. some while the others were uic-ing,
and she proceeded to resurrscs. from
the cavernous and capacious depths of
her basket, quarter of goat, a chick
en- pic and piles of gunger bread. cakes,
&C., and we began to pic, and kept on
pic>ipg, until, like the boy who "stood
on the burning deck" all else but us
had fled. FiniS.
The ga-lorious 103d anniversary of
these ERE righted States has come 4th
and gone, and still it haint rained. Dry,
more drier, most driest, is our condi-
tion, externally, internally and every
other ernally, at this time.
Commodore Beard has blowed out
and quit, and thus has the L. G. N. G.
sunk 1uietly to rest, with the full as.
surance of long repose. A gloom
hangs DER our community like . pail.
Alas that the i. C. N. G. should have
been snatched away in its youthful
bloom. We weep hot qnd briry tears
as we contemplate its gone!iHessr
Sill beautiful in death. Verify we
know that the mosquitoes and yellow
flies will chant a wild, weird requiem,
and the catfish and mud turtles will re
joice.
As the woman said when she found
the mouse in her fat stand, "uy lard !"
if that Eastern Kershaw hasn't Bruced
US again, but it "Willeford" US some
pleasure to reply. We will pass over
his saying that he did not say 'snat we
said there was denomination of that
kind," by referring your readers to his
asticle. where ne distinctly asks us to
'tell something more about that fishing
nomination, Of achich ,ee spoke"
We wont say that he is a IyTe. 1t
might be SANDER on that instruments
but will stretch out what little We have
of that substance that suffers l5S Sand
is kind .hinssh no evil, &S
ss-ta attribute 4 &IRoE Eas ~tH3e Is
part. He says that be has been in
formed that at some mill near Tilltr's
Ferry it is common for young men to
gather on the Sabbath for the purpose
Of playing cards, or rather he limits it
to hot more than { hundred miles dis
tant. 1t is very possible that within
that distance such a practice may be
carried on. In fact, that mill where
he said all those religious folks went
G,hing cn Sunday is within that dis
tance. but we don't know anything
about it. Tell some more about it, f.
X. He asks US Which is the worst,
card playing or fishing on Sunday. We
have never tried either, or saw it triad,
therefore can't say. Probably he who
seems to ba aopievhat familiar with both
could give US a learned and exhaustive
dissertation on the subject, which would
no doubt prove at once very instructive
aud entertaining. We say familiar
with both. We have heard it said that
"it takes rogue 10 catch rogue" and
by parity of reasoning, suppose that
the same principle would be applicable
to other things; and from his dexterity
at catching others, we suppose he, &cY,
erc. In our references to Eastern Ker-
shaw, re have used the proaoups "he,"
"him." &C., not because we knew the
gender of L. K, but merely for conve~
nience. We have tried hard TO find out
who ard what Eastern Hershaw is, but
it seems as if we cannot be satisfactorily
informed. One says that he is a maiden
lady with two children, another that
she is very nice young man, who was
at one time apprenticed to preacher,
to learn the trade, and that the preach
er took him round to make demonstra-
tions and shout "glory!" wien he got
in the "snort rows" Of his sertuons
and to watch while he Che preacher)
prayed, and to note and report any mis-
behaviour on the part of the congrega-
ton and from the amazng, marvel
Gus and truly astounding proficiency
which he has developed in Seeing" and
being Uniformed of" dissertations of
the Sabbath, it would seem as if this
statement vas reasonable. But while
one says be is a woman, another says
she is man, and so we are kept at a
loss how to range our Gatlin gun. We
will therefore close By saying to L K.
him or her, as the case may be, that in