The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-24
WINCHESTER.
Tho Present and the Past In
an Old Tennessee
Town.
4 Slight Breeze Between the
School Boys and Girls.
The Dramatic Taui Murder
and Anderson's Trial.
Some Of Franklin county's
Prominent Men.
Correspondence Of the American.

WINCHESTER, Sept. 20.-'rhis old
town is in Franklin county, eighty-five
miles from Nashville. The only sign of
Improvement for several years is now
rising out of two recent respectable
fires. Not large, but respectable.
This county has more miles of railroad
than any county in the State, and
makes good living off the roads by
taxing them. The towns out on the
railroads-built up by tho roads have
drawn off the trade Of this place until
the hopes of the town are centered in
the schools. MarySharp College is per-
haps the 6rst college for young ladies
ever chartered in the United States
where the course is the same rs for
young men in the best Of colleges. If l
am not right about this I shall be glad
to he corrected by some one who can
sh,tc facts. This college was established
that is, opened for pupils-just thirty.
four years ago. The writer Was one Of
the incorporators and Chairman of a
committee, in the organization, to select
teachers, and as such invited the dstin.
guished scholar and educator, z. c.
Graves, then of GAINESVILLE, o., to come
u Tennessee and take charge of the
college as President Mr. Graves ac-
cepted the offer, and he is still the Pres
ident. It eau he said with absolute Ger.
,ainty that in this long period Mr..
Graves has thoroughly educated more
s women than any one man ever did in
the State. The high standard has been
steadily maintained; the school has al
ways been large. and now has more pu-
pills than at any time since the war.
The school, in one sense, is Baptist
school. 1t was located at Winchester
BY a board created by the Southern
Baptists The board met at Murfrees.
boro just thirty-five years ago. The
writer travelled from here to Murfrces'
mro on horseback to make speech for
Winchester, and the location was made
here over several other places whose
claims were presented in different
States. The other school is the Win
chester Normal, taking the place of the
Winchester Academy. The Normal is
under Mr.. Terrill, an educator Of rare
qualifications from Missouri, and in its
processes Of intellectual training it may
be called q lightning school. The two
gentlemen at the head Of these two in
situations, now engaged in that greatest
ofall work, making men and women
Il out of boys and girls, every day shaping
the habits. the action, the lives-moral
intellectual and physical-of four hun
dred young people (for that is the ag
( gregate Of the two schools), are among
tie most advanced educators on the con
tinent, and if any two men are onerateo
with greater responsibility than these
two labOrers, d. not know them.
Mr. TerrilI's school is II mixed school
and he is working out the problem
whether close intellectual contact, unde
9 school-house general (for that is wha
ne is) is not the best mode of training
q and. at the same time. guarding agains
social pleasantries among pupils.
l have said this much with view o
saying more, as l trust may do, as tn
friend of both schools. At this tim
There is just little friction, just a it'll