The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-07-03
Sous OF TEMPERANcE.
BETHANY.
Concert and Supper.

1t was our good fortune to be present at
the brilliant concert aud sumptuous supper
given. the one by the young ladies of Beth
any High School, the other by the ladies
of the whole community, on last Friday
night. We regret exceedingly that we
could not be present at the closing sxer-
cises of the school on Thursday and Friday.
for all who attended expressed themselves
ighly entertained and pleased, and from
personal knowledge Of Prof. DIcKrNsON
and his assistants, as we'll as from their ex-
alted reputation as instructors, We know
that the exercises were brilliant and emf
nently satisfactory. Bethany High School
now ranks with the FIRST seminaries eff the
country. and with its present efficient corps
ofinstruotors, its healthy location and re-
fued society, is worthy to be sought after
by the youths of distant localities.
The concert opened at sbOut 8 o'clock,
the young ladies being assisted by several
young gentlemen with stringed instru-
ments, from Pulaski. The large hall was
crowded with an appreciative audience, who
were highly entertsined until about 10
O'Clock, when the assembly repaired to the
the supper room. An attempt to do justice
to the magnificent display of good things
that greeted our eyes and appetites on en-
tering the supper room, would be futile
Suffice it to say, that enough Of everything
that the most fastidious epicurs or raven
GUS gornandizer could wish for, was served
in the very best style known to the eulina-
~ art, and none were suffered to go away
from the tables without being satisfied with
good things.
After supper the audience re-assembled
at the music hall, and wers treated to a
splendid musical feast by the Misses BRAD
SHAW and pupils, assisted by those accom-
plished musicians, Miss Lou Nc. and Mrs.
DR.. B. Here again our powers Of deserip-
ton are at fault. The fine selections and
mastery execution of both teachers and pu-
pills showed that Bethany, in the musical as
we'll as the literary Department, is blessed
with the finest Instructors. To say that
the audience were pleased would fall far
short of the truth. They were perfectly
enraptured.
At the close of the concert. a superb
brick (eske) house. the architect and build
or Of which was Miss Lou Nc, was sold to
the audience, brick by brick. It was an
nouuced that in one of these bricks was a
magnificent gold ring, in another ten cent
piece, and in another a darning needle
Each brick was numbered, and tickets, with
corresponding numbers, were sold at 25
cents apiece. After about one hundred
tickets were disposed OF. tie drawing COM
meueed, which was superintended by our
friend Capt. ABE FRIzzELL. Our young
friend JIA Wilson held the fortunate tick
ct, and drew the ring. We did not hear
Who the other lucky ticket holders were.
The sum of about twenty dollars was
realized from this lottery.
Something over two hundred dollars was
taken in for the benefit Of the school, which
win be appropriated to the purchase of an
apparatus for the institution.
At very late hour, in company with
most of the visitor from Pulaski, we re-
paired to the hospitabls mansion of NEIL
MCCALLUN, Esq. and spsnt the remainder
Of the night. and leaving there at an early
hour next morning for home, where We ar
rived about noon, having had an exceeding
ly pleasant trip.
Our thanks are hereby t,piersd the eiti-
zsus Of the vicinity Of Bethany for their
kindness and hospitality on that occasion.