Year: 1864

| upon Iu9 DaOkS OF q O6auClIu


river, and surrounded by towering hills
Granville reposes in all the majesty of
Carthage or Troy; and woe be unto the sorry
wight who would dare gainsay her import
ance orseek to draw unfriendly con. psrisons
In enterprise and energy she has not allow ed
herself to be outdone by other places, but in
proportion as the tim es progressed. has kept
pace with the swiftest. Tradition tells as o.
her Railroad whose Depot to this day loom
grandly up an imposing monum ent of her
ambitious --intent. And although the
road was sold to pay for the rails and the
rails were sold to pay for the Cars and the
Cars were sold to pay for the Depot and the
Depot finally was sold to pay for the ground
it stood on, it does not lesson the laudability
of the enterprise one whit, for,


'Twere better to have t led and failed,


| Than never to have tried at all.


Granville has her churches, also her Court
House, her public halls and schools, and it is
of these latter that we desire to record few
incidents. She has quite a number of
schools in fact, but there is a certain old
school and school not quite SO old, that we
wish particularly TO notice. In order that
there may be no confusion of names or mis-
taken impressions, we will style one the
Jones Seminary, and the other the Browns
Institute. The Jones Seminary was a good
school, nobody ever dared to doubt that, 1t
dourished in the superlative degree for
twenty five years or more, and yielded ample
evidence in that time of its mertorious
qualities. But as Granville enlarged and
grew in Importance and respectability, there
was room made for another school, and
forthwith there came from Gotham a lone,
lone woman, who dared, in the face of the
Jonesites and all Granville. to tissue
her card as "Miss Brown Principal of
the Granville Literary Institute" Pre-
sumptous woman All Granville were
JoGesites. then where could she expect to
get patronage? But the weeks few by
and patronage came The school was
filed with children, but from whence they
arrived We do not presume to say; it would
DE as easy to tell where all the pins go as to
tell where all the children come from But
true as preaching is it that Miss Browns
Institute was quite as full as Professor Jones
Seminary and the two school started out
like two gallant vessels-full freighted, up
on the sea Of popular opinion. The months
rolled on and June brought the close of an
other scholastic year. The time for annual
examinations arrived and the Jonesites. by
right of pre- -emption came first to lay claim
on the public attention. As usual they
came out splendidly, no: a feather had
fallen from their cap of glory. They had
been taught upon the "speak when you're
met with its promptly prepared answer
The examination closed. Every Jonesite
was selfsatsfed and expectations now stood
on tip-toe for the ensuing week, when the
Brownies would cone forward for their
share of Crabviles consideration. The
week came and found the inmates of Brown
Institute, marshalled in imposing phalanx
before the inquisitive eyes of all Granville. |
Unlike the Jonesites, they had been taught
to recite their lessons by Topic. Quite an
unheard of plan in this section of country;
plan that Miss Brown had brought away
from Gotham and introduced herself by |
way of experiment. In slang parlauce, "the !
thing took" Every body admired Miss
Browns method of teaching and congratu-
lated her. Even Professor Jones. of the |
Jones Seminary, came forward and extend
ed the hand of affiliation. iss Brown
waxed iubilant of course, aud at the close OF
her examination, favored the public with
one of those pleasant little entertainments,
styled Exhibitions. This, also, was a new
invention, and Granville stared. The design
was merely to present few instructive and |
agreeable facts in history, in a pretty and !
imposing manner, before the public; and the |
design was accomplished. Miss Brown |
closed her exercises quite as self satisfied |
as ever a Jonesite could have been. Crab |
vile was triumphant. The fame of her
schools went abroad throughout the land -
Aud at the close of Miss Browns second |
annual examination the town was literally
jammed. The people came from the east
and from the west and from every region
throughout and beyond Granville, uatl the
old Court House was full. 1t fairly teemed
it run over, it gushed out, and its contents
were knocked and squeezed and iammed
and smashed, till we wonder TO this day
how the breath Of life was ever sustained.
Such an excitement upon such an occasion
had never before been known in all Crab
Vile, and when at its close, Miss Brown
began to congratulate herself upon another
brilliant success, there fell upon her ear the
faintest breath of gossip.



But this was not all that ill-fortupe had in
store for Miss Brown. The Jouesites had
grown jealous of the glory that began to
accumulate around her name aud sought
divers ways to goad and aflct her. Con