Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-30
The Normal school and Island
Home.

MR.. EDITOR: A message of this
kind was received by US on Monday
last: "a carriage will be at your dis
posal, for yourself and some friends,
the first day that suits YOU" As such
golden opportunities are like angel
visits, we determined, lest it should
rain, TO employ this one Immediately,
and therefore replied, tomorrow
morning will be the time"
The morning dawned bright and
beautiful, and at 8 O'Clock sharp the
most elegant livery turnout was at our
door, in charge of an excellent driver,
whose polite, lat your service, ladies'"
was our signal for departure.
We repaired at once to the
University, which We reached in time
to hear the last half of Col. Lockett's
lecture on mathematics. He handled
this subject in his usual happy style,
and then, rs ever, made his auditors
wish, when he ceased speaking, that
he had talked longer.
After this, school economy was pre-
sented. The discussions of the differ
ent modes of punishment was very
enjoyable, much more so we imagine
than the practical application will be.
Then DR.. Joynes on grammar. He
always penetrates most clearly into
the very depths of our language and
exhibits in most graceful manner its
beauty and superiority.
Now fer the LELAND nomen
was suggested, and as one of our Dum-
Der, although "tO the manor born"
had never enjoyed nearer view of
this miniature Eden, than from this
side the river, thither we went. 1t is
almost needless to say that we were
delighted, yea, enraptured, with the
loveliness that every where greeted US.
It was too much for mere words, so we
admired silently. It was like fairy
scene that the faintest whisper might
drive away-a sweet dream that an
awakening would vanish forever. We
could not but hope that the owner
may find his spiritual home rs grand
ly beautiful when his earthly taber
nacle shall have dissolved.
1t seemed odd indeed to ascend to
the loft and far above the loft of the
| barn on nice stairway. How mech
| jollier it would have been to climb up
| some weather-beaten logs and roll
/
saw that savOred of the earth, earthly,
was the pigs. Pigs will be pigs, even
at the7"Island Home"
The drive from the "Home" to the
Island" proper is wildly beautiful.
Some one remarked that the only
thing lacking here is bridge to span
the stream flowing SO gently between
| the two, but we were not agreed on
| this point. Our childish love for &C
tual contact with ripping streamlets
not being entirely conquered by MAJ
turer years, we would prefer to lay
aside sandals, discard the carriage and
wade over, but such a proceeding be-
ing out of the question in this en-.
| iighteDed age We quietly submitted to
the usual way of crossing.
And oh, such corn! If the corn
through which the disciples passed
ages ago (Which, of course, was not
| ike our Indian corn, but smaller
grain). was half so tempting we could
never think for one moment OF CEN
surlDg them for plucking the ears,
even on the Sabbath. Bot we did MOI
intend to attempt description of the
| Island Hnme,n our vocabulary
is far too small for the
purpose. and beside many
Others have been there before Us. But
we wanted to say that We think some
one must have read. Consider the
poor" in your Sundays paper, and re-
solved to be among the first to reap
from that golden harvest, gil ing pleas
ure unto others. The only thing hat
WAS lacking on this erj yable drive,
was his presence. whose kind thoughts
| fitness contributes so much of zeal
pleasure in one brief day.
May all be bachelors, married men,
matrOns and ma!dens of our city do
likewise.
NJ, NJ L,
| Knoxville, July 20 b, 1880.