Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
ALABAMA.
GUNTERSVITI.E.

The Town Forging to tho Front ricnic
 Ground-Personal and General.
 Guntersville. June 6.-(Special Corre- spondence.) ce.)--Guntersvillc is getting reputation as picnic resort. Last year a number of excursions were brought to this place. The fame of the beautiful scenery through which one must pass in order to reach the place from any point, and the shady groves, the cool and crystal springs was soon noised abroad and bids fair this year to fill our town with excurslonists and picnic par ties. The season has opened in good shape. From now on our steamboats and ,cars will continue to carry crowds or pleasure seekers-by cars from Gads- den over the picturesque Tennessee and Coosa branch of the Nashville and Chat tanooga railroad and from the Flora branch of the same railroad via Hunts vile and the long transfer by water of the same railroad.
 The wild and weird gorges seen from the cars in ascending and descending Sand mountain never fail to enchant the traveller, no matter how frequently they are seen. The novelty of the transfer or the railroad floating twenty four miles on the bosom of the beautiful Tennessee river is ono of the attractive features and adds never to be forgotten pleasure to the trip. This is said to be the longest transfer of railroad trains by water in the world. The adjustments connecting the boats to the tracks at each end of the transfer are so complete and fitted to all stages Of water that daily through mails, passenger and freight trains make schedule ,ime here equal to any other part of the road.
 The Huntsville Tribune, giving an ac- count of the Cumberland Presbyterian Sunday school picnic of this week, speaks of the Tennessee river thus: ITO see na- ture in her calmer and gentler moods there is no more beautiful trip than up the Tennessee river from Whitesburg to the Guntersville landing. On one side the banks were gently shelving to the waters edge, while on the other there are rugged cliffs towering several hundred feet at times, weirdly painted with red, blue and yellowish strealSs and honey combed with numerous caverns and tiny e-rottoes, peopled in days gone by, doubt less by the gnomeS and elves of the river. The lower side is fringed with dropping willows, elms, sycamores and water oaks. while the cliffs on the oppo- site side are covered with cedar, hickory and like hardwood. The managers of the Cumberland picnic yesterday dis played excellent taste in the selection of the route for their excursion
 Our merchants all report business good with them for the time Of the year. With a much improved class of trade. In the last two years our trade has undergone a radical change, leaving the credit sys- tenn and trading principally for cash and barter our farmers planting their crops with the view of always having some thing to sell We have but two credit houses in town this year. while five years ago nearly every store in town did a credit business. If our people will continue this course they will have the key to the situation in their own hands and will solve the question of hard times. In place of mortgages they will be car rying the best of money-gold-in their pockets.
 The many friends of Miss Mary Thom- ason arc glad to have her at home again. She has Just returned from East Lake Athcncum.
 Mrs. Ed Dalton is hack from a visit to Stevenson, Kingston and other points.
 Dr. Willard Patterson, from Town Creek. was in town two days this week.
 Rev D. r. Bedinger is spending the at Birmingham.
 Marcus Foster of Gadsden is visiting Oliver Afford.
 Thomas w. Boyles is quite sick at his home in Browns valley.
 Rev r. A. Rogers family have re- turned from a three weeks visit In west Alabama
 Mrs Dr. c. II. Jones returned home last evening on the steamer Gunter, bringing her two pretty nieces, the Misses Brown of Decatur.
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