The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-29
A SUCCESS.
Bric-a-Brac Visits Rose Hill High
School Commencement.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:

| To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
just back from Lee county, after
experiencing the commencement oil
Rose Hill High School" Query
why are the closing exercises of 8
school called a /" commencement 2"
You've been to Rose Hill know all
about the Kindness of it's people.
and shat eight miles of buggy road
the Beaver Dam Spring at Nat.
Ewing's; the peculiar cove-like for
nation of the DR.. Ewing settlement
the grove-sprinl1led knoll, crowned
with its chalky church edifce; the
fence all gone to sticks and the
blacksmith's shed in the consump-
tion! Well, if you've been there, l
needn't describe if you hdUen't,
even q Rideing's" pencil could but
give you the corpse; you must ex-
perience the boundless, yet delicate
ly administered, hospitality of the
people, who live aside that eight
miles of comforting gravel, to grasp
what is meant by g have been up
at Rose Hill -
For the subject matter of the ex-
ercises enclose the printed pro-
gramme. a 3a e=s Hel
Your correspondent did not reach
the scene Of the catastrophe until
Thursday, the 10th instant, at 2 p.
M, Greenwich time. One has heard
ofozone, hydrogen, oxygen, and sew
eral other things that enter into the
forty miles of atmosphere, which
embrace this "footstool ;" but Thurs
day a new element was discovered,
called Boating Tide" Upon the
heavens above, the earth beneath.
upon everything moveable or immov.
able under the whole canopy of
heaven was inscribed-not in letters
u hNlhS Al AiC--Ou1 III CA1aI SACbCAS Ol
pouring rain, splashing mud grin
ming lineaments and gum overcoats;
the talismanic motto Boating Tide
And had the bugler Gabriel taken a
notion to sound to sinners, boot
and saddle every mothers son of
the vast army of Chattanooga mar
tyrs would have raised their arms to
the flood gates of heaven; and with
one hand grasping a rubber-tipped
lead pencil, the other convulsively
closing on DR.. Pea:ee memoran-
dunn almanac; gone down crying
" UiCe Ia boating tjde?"
Thursday eve we had most sat-
isfactory slice Of that, which, under
ordinary circumstances, goes long
way towards soothing the savage
breast. Comparison would be "de-
ciduous :" but the opening choral to
the tune of 4" auld lang syne," and a
piece called Two horses, gray
observation-disclosures - seemed
to please the most. To DIR. DeBow
Taylor of JOnesbOrO, the audience
were indebted for being first made as
(" happy as a big sun flower, and
then put in their little beds. The
Doctor himself passed the night in
two-by-four crib, with veil over his
classic features. For this fact
have the affidavit of the Doctor him.
self. Testing aside, the Doctors
contribution added largely to the
pleasure of the evening. The en-
tertainment was brought out under
the supervision of Mr.. I'll. A. Hum
phreys; who, with an ardent love of
music, combines pains taking and
Job. like disposition. s
If your correspondent didn't sleep
well Thursday night the matter can
readily be settled by referring to
a Congress of the European powers
After a supper and breakfast. taken
Il mean enjoyed at Mr.. Tip Rich.
he gained sixty pounds; and |
it took four men, a yoke of steers
and a ton Of dynamite, to get him
from the table and after he got into
the public road, twas seriously
thought Of removing him as an OBJ
struction to travel. He don't often
eat much, but this time he rather
overdid the matter. -
The morn. the auspicious morn,
dawned dampily, showeriIy, mistily. |
and the ride to the church, matter |
Of q miles, was like Scott's " Le-
Dere." ''dash, dash. along the shore;
splash, splash, splash. although the
sea-" The average intelligence. and
more than average lineameatic beau.
ty of your beloved, readily gained |
him seat upon the platform. where
with line of battle of pretty girls
behind him, and with the audience
in front, his eyes, in about twenty
began to look like Ben
Butler's~ s62 vaa $50 Saa ss
I had thought of personaIising the
In the stage exercises
but. as many fond mother is doubt
less murmuring, sTyrant spare my
child ;" will not cut adrift the
Damocles' sword. By the way, |
didn't Damocles originally come
from Carter county? Egery one soas