Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-19
COLLIERVILLE..
school COmmencements-The scholars
ami theiF Studies-W hat they De
served ami HecsiVed-nBi0T
BuuCan's Address.
rom an Occasional Correspondent

From an Occasional Correspondent
CoLLIERvILLE, Tenn, June S..-What
MdTdi Grds is 10 Memphis school exhi-
billions are TO this village. Not that they
are to be decried by the clergy and the
pi0us as evil in their tendencies; oh, no .
but simply that they draw large crowds
Of people from the surrounding country
to witness the exercises. Bellevue fe-
male college has just closed its 6rst ses-
sion for 1875, with imposing and inter
esting ceremonies. The town has been
filed with visitors, and the college hall
has been crowded most Of the time 50
that standing room could scarcely be
had for those VINO failed to get seats. The
day exhibitions have cen well attended,
and the reCitatiOns very creditable to
both teachers and pupils. Several citl-
zens Of Memphis have been present, and
! am glad to say, declare themselves
well pleased. On Wednesday night a
grand musical concert was given by the
young ladies Of the school, witnessed by
an immense crowd. The night was
pleasant, the winds were blowing gently,
and the moon was doing the very same
thing it was doing when "TToilus
mounted the trojan walls and sighed
his soul toward those Grecian tents
where Cressid lsy'-shiDing brightly,
that was all. Miss Ellen Perkins pre-
sided at the piano, and that ia all that
is necessary to be said FOR the infOrma-
ton Of those who know her. She is a
superior performer. On Thursday the
degree OF graduation was conferred up
on two young lsdies-Misses Fannie
Davis and Anna Gillilsnd. The essays
read by these young ladies were equal to
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sions. Miss Gilliland delivered the val
edictory in q very effective manner.
The stage Wss shOWered with
bouquets as these ladies retired respect
lively, and two bOuquets-One to each
as large as themselves almost, were pre-
scented them by DR.. Plummer on behalf
OF certain admirers. Miss Davis re-
ceived the gold medal with suitable in
scriptions, and Miss GiIliland received
the highest honOTs, whatever that may
be. Music and sin ging by the young
ladies at intervals made the PERFORM
aDces most delightful and pleasing. A
note was sent to DR.. Piummer, the prin-
cipsl, requesting that Miss Ellen Per-
kins favor the audience with some of her
sweet singing and with instrumental
music. The doctor announced that after
Major Duncan's address she would COM
ply. Major r. 2. Duncan, of Memphis,
was then introduced and delivered the
annual add ess, subject, "WOman and
her Mission" The loud applause he
received lid not indicate so fully the ap-
probation OF his hearers as what they
said. Everyone said to his fellow,
"That was perfectly splendid" The
chief remark of the ladies who sat near
this correspondent was, "Why, he is
such q handsome fellOW.n Miss Perkins
came forward and sang a charming song
the more charming on account Of its
difficult passages. She was vigorously
encOred, but cid not appear again.
Miss Sallie E. Mayo addressed the
dlUH11li. She is one OF the finest female
speakers that has ever appeared before q
COllierville audience. Shall | tell how
closely the auditors were packed and
how warm? Let the reader call to mind
some such occasion Ia his own expert
eDce-seSts prepared fer five hundred
and an assenblage Of eight hundred;
everybody sitting bolt upright with no
room for moving one inch to the right
or left, and most Of the air shut out by
about a hundred standing men. The
gay dresses of the ladies, red, white and
blue, and their pretty faces, made that
crowd resemble a huge bouquet; the
men sandwiched in among them repre-
sentiDg the leaves, either dark or
GREEN.