Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-06-20
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THE FEMALE COLLEGES.

FINAL CoMMEYoEMENTs-PREsB INSTITUTE
AND BAPTIsT-A LIVELY CRY OF THE HILLS
SCENES AT THE Observation-Disclosures From
ABRoAD-ScENEs IN THE STREETs-THE FINAL
GooDBYE-DEsERTED HALLS.
&C., &C., &C.
The past has been the last week of the session
of the female colleges here, an6 the exercise
have been of the usual interesting character
Last week the Episcopal and Lutheran and Bap.
tist closed, and this week the Presby terian and
If the exhibition rooms were crowded, they
were hardly more 80 than
TEE CITY.
BEGINNING with Monday morning, every train
that arr ived brought visitors to the commence.
ments- one from Charlottesville, having Sun.
day school and brass band on board, and a
large number of we'll dressed young fellows,
chiefly from the University. The hotels and
boarding. houses were filled instantly, and sop-
ped ever into the private houses and streets
ANY time Tuesday night, gay young fellows,
having the comfort of cigar in their mouths,
were wandering about the streets, or roosting on
eligible door steps, while the Charlottesville
band, having secured desirable places on the
curb stone in front of the Virginia, were
ironically playing "Sweet Home" The bar
keepers saw these things in their day and re
joiced They up to their eyes in business
and their lively young customers W ere soon enga-
ged in rendering the Bumgardner grand march
and Clemmer polonaise, with an amount of spirit
that put the concerts in the back grou nd. 1t
simple justice to our young visitors to say, that
no larger amount of drinking and hack riding
has been accomplished in Staun ton in the same
length of time. Every body seemed in e good
humor. Seine paper balloons went up on G urt
st, and everybody cheered. The Charlottesville
band played some airs IN front Of the Virgins,
and every body cheered. horse turned bug
gy over on New St, and young gentleman
steadied himsefagainst wall, with his hat over
his eyes and said, "Dish besh town ever wush
in " Lovely womsn sitting on the door steps
skipped into the house. till the young roisterers
passed, and then came back, with RULED fea-
thers, like birds frightened from their nests,
chirping to each other about 'these horrld
men," When the concerts took place the crush
was tremendous By 7 O'Clock, though the por-
formances did not begin till an hour later, the
crowds commenced pouring in the Methodist
church and the Augusta Seminary Hall, and
they were densely packed in short time, ieav-
imp crowds, some of whom had come one hun
drad miles, to enjoy the right Of way to the
streets.
TIE DEPARTURE.
The concerts over, til final exercises includ-
ing the delivering of the prizes and certificates
took place Wednesday night. at which there
was more good music, and good addresses, and
GOOD advice And the next day came the crown
ing scene at the depot. From early dawn, men
had been employed in piling up trunks on the
platform. until there were 800 lying checked
for all the cities in tn, union 1t is great COM
fort for us to know thai those dreadful men hang
ing around the platform, with cigars IN their
mouths, will never know what was In those
trunks that they couldn't see that little note In
he tray saying, "If you will help me on Alge-
bra, III lend you my collar soiree night" or
,that other note, "Will you go in for carriage
Saturday with Mary and me, Is or ''you must ex-
ecuse me I don't speak to the young lady," or
'tI IN going to tell Miss he amt your cou-
sin, you see if dont.'' Neither these notes nor
the collars and bustles, and other female furni-
ture that they poked among, will ever be
known to the miserable young man who is sit
ing on shsf'' trunk chewing mint, and waiting
fer the agonzing moment when the cars Will car
nv her and it OF. She is so long coming, that
he goes into Mr. Conppor, and gets another
piece of mint, and comes cat fragrant, just AS
she comes in sight with the lime of girls. And
then she kisses everybody batiEim, because she
don't know him, aud when the cars start he
kisses his hand to her, and dashes wildly into
Mr. Connor and asks him if be has any mint,
though he sees whole bucketful behind the
counter and then he gets his mint and
goes into the back porch and sits down and
eats il, and " shes he was dead. And she, when
she gets home says, "Pa what 20 yon think :?
There was drunken man kissed his hand to ne
at the depot when we started"