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THE ELBERTON FEMALE COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTE.
The undersigned Trustees of the Eiberton
Female Collegiate Institute, desire to give some
expression of their views to the public in rela
tion to the progress and present condition of
the school.
In November last, Mrs. S. E. Capers, of Ala
bama, came at our solicitation to undertake
building up a first-class institution, for the
proper education of the girls in this section of
the country. From her high reputation as a
scholar, and capacity as a teacher, and above
all, her elevated social position in Alabama
where site was born and reared, we dared to
hope that with proper effort on our part, a line
school could be started and maintained. And
we are happy to bo able to state, that we have
not thus far been disappointed.
In the face of adverse circumstances, the first
session of six months has been a grand success.
The scholars, gathered up some trom tbo sur
rounding counties, and mostly from this, em
bracing all grades, from the liitle beginners to
the grown up young ladies, and numbering
nearly seventy pupils, have been classified, and
taught and trained and organized into a first,
class Seminary. The advancement of the pupils
hnvc been truly wonderful; their learning has
been rapid, thorough, permanent; their intense
application is a marvel ; more diligent, if pos
sible, out of school and at their homes than
when under the eye of the teacher in the school
With the best incentives properly directed by
the Principal, a laudable ambition has been in
stilled into all the pupils, so that there was
scarcely a single drone or laggard among them,
but every one seemingly elated by their own
astonishing progress, and excited by the advance
ment of the others, are constantly and eagerly
rushing forward to the enjoyment of fairer fields
and richer pleasures in the paths of science.
Education here is divested ,of the dull dray
horse, ox cart get up, ge, haw, whacking system
experienced by some of us in our school boy
days, and it has assumed the life and s[rtrit of
the electric spark flashing along the wires, and
the impulses of the steam car rushing with its
might spebd, steadily and safely along its
smooth road-bed.
This attention and improvement has not been
Confined to the lessons and text hooks alone,
but the elegancies, and courtesies, and graces,
and style which go so far to make up the charm
ing girl or young lady have received their due
attention.
And we venture the assertation that there has
never been made a better, finer school presenta
tion before any audience in this county or else
where, everything considered, than was intro
duced and exhibited to thepublicin Eiberton on
Tuesday 11th instant, by the scholars of the
Elbetton Female Collegiate Inst'tute under the
direct management of Mrs. S. E. Capers as prin
cipal, aided byjher assistant, Mr. George Dillard,
in the literary, and Mrs. Alice W. Ilestcr in the
musical department; and wc say the same in
regard to tlie concert given by Mrs. Hester, and
her pupils in the evening of that day.
Two literary societies have been established
In the school, giving additional exercise to the
brtvncUee of history,
biography, the fine arts and sClcwces ond litera
ture generally.
A love for the institution and its teachings
has been implanted in the breasts of all the
pupils, giving the best evidences of its success.
The musical department has been under the
management of Mrs. Alice W. Hester, wlio has
had charge of it for many years, who has no
superior, and whose pupils will fully equal those
from any of the cities oi colleges in ourcountry.
With such advantage we may then earnestly
request all who can to patronize our excellent
institution.
Eiberton offers many advantages as a place
of learning; it is plcasantly'located and healthy,
with good society, cheap accommodations, and
removed from many of the elements that disturb
ether schools.
If the present system and improvement in
education is kept up, we predict that Elbert
county will be the prido and boast of all this
country for the grand physical, moral and intel
lectual culture of ITer daughters.
J. 11. L. w. Stephens,
J. If. Bueweu, A. C. Mathews,
E. B. Tate, Jit., W. T. VanDdzeh,
E. M. Rucker, Jas. M. Carter,
Rout. Hester, S. C. Starke,
Trustees.
Elbertok, July 14th, 1876.
THE CHAMPION SUICIDE,
The Boston Globe thinks, and justly, that the
Ingenuity of the century, seems to have culmin
ated in original and startling methods ol self
slaughter. Not long ago a misguided man of
genius, Moon by name, set up a contrivance
in bis room at a hotel in LaFayette, Ind., for
chopping off his own head. Now a youth of
equally original turn of mind has committed
suicide in a OFneago hotel in a manner that
shows a contempt for the ordinary and uncer
tain methods usually adopted, and quite charac
teristic of the “Centennial year.” And the
purpose of the young man, whose name was Jef
fery, was to celebrate the Centennial Fourth of
July in a way entirely unique and to reflect
glory on Chicago as the scene of the great
achievement. His modus operand! is thus de
scribed by himselt in a letter which lie left be
hind :
“When night comes on I shall draw n piece
of wire across the bath tub lengthwise, its use
to be soon explained The wire will be proper
ly adjusted, the pistol loaded,and with the razor
conveniently hung on strings, where I can rend
ly reach them. The persons will then be care
fully fixed and marked. The rope,
is to corae where it will suspend my body, when
attached, exactly over the middle of'the tank.
Directly over this rope, and cm the wire before
mentioned, I shall attach cotton of something
else which will burn well when a’cohol is pour
ed art H. The moose will have been made in
he cord and above my head on the rope shall
l c placed a like torch, which, when ignited, will
burn the cord and let me down. I will then
pack evcrytlnng but the clothes which I am to
wear, and then, being afl ready, I’ll 611 the tank
with as hot water as I can get. Then mount
the tab, with a foot on each side of it; careful
ly pour the liquor ever my pants legs and coat
*nl shirt; will allow a rope of some soft
material to fall from the torch above down my
back ; will then light the prepared torch on the
wire which I then will be standing over; will
raise myself upon tip toe and fix the rope about
my neck. It shall be well soaped, so that, when
my feet leave the sides of the tank and my full
weight conics upon it, it will draw up pretty
tight. One thing I had almost forgotton to
mention : I am going to put a mirror before me
just to see if 1 will be frightened. I think it is
more likely that I shall laugh, but as I want to
enjoy it all I'll put the glass up any how. Next
I reach for the tumbler of poision, conveniently
near, and swallow its contents entire, probably
shall ‘sigh for more.’ Well at this point I shall
burry up, for dead’y acids work destruction
quickly.- I next grasp my pretty little dirk and
send it With all my force into my breast as near
to a blackened spot showing where the heart is
as possible. The razor and pistol arc all ready,
and suspended by cords, it must be remembered.
So after plunging the dagger in I do not want
to withdraw it, but take the razor in my left
hand, and as firmly as I am able under the cir
cumstances to do, while I grasp and cock my
little silver mounted pistol; this I place to my
head and pull the trigger as I draw the keen
bladed razsr across my neck. My feet must
slip from their places by this time, and my legs
come into contact with the wire and the fire
upon it, which will of course immediately set
my clothing alight. I intend the flame shall run
up the rope I shall allow to hang down my back
to the place where the other torch will have
been prepared. This must sever the strands of
rope and I can but fall into the water below to
cook and drown.”
This programme wa3 not precisely carried out,
i's the dagger was found unused; but poison
ing, shooting, cutting jof the throat, ha.-ging
and drowning were found quite sufficient to ex
tinguish life, and dsubtless the young man dis
covered in the course of the experiment that it
was not practicable to combine all the methods
of previous investigators in one act of self-de
struciion. The cremation feature of theexperi
ment was also a failure, as it pt'ovedjvery difficult
to make fire and water work together. Notwith
standing these serious drawbacks the exploit
was on the whole a brilliant one. The purpose
of Mr. Jeffery to celebrate the completion of
the first century of our national existence and
cast distinction on his favorite city at the same
time, is shown in another letter in which he
says :
“In the first place Chicago is the city of the
West. St. Louis is‘good enough in many mat
ters, but Chicago suits mo better in every par
ticular than all the Western places put together.
Chicago Is lively and fond of excitement, and
always gets ahead of St. Louis when she can.
There is an emulation and generous rivalry be
tween the two cities which I like, and Chicago
being my favorite I shall help her, in my hum
ble way, and knock the spots off St. Louis in
celebrating the Centennial Fourth. St. Louis
may get up something in the same line for next
Centennial, but until then Chicago will be
ahead. She can claim originality, if nothing
more. Tam the only Frederick Addison JeffYry
who will do this act first, and the only one who
will do it on the 4th of July, 1870. I fire but
one shot, yet that one puts Chicago so far out
of St. Louis* sight that it will take a hundred
years to put her near Chicago again. Then,
too, you know that this ia a cLr.r,cc. to die wiAcb
oaiv wover come again. Think of skipping out
along with the last stroke of the midnight bell,
which proclaims the death of one hundred years
of independence and the birth of the second
Centennial of freedom. I could not let this
pass without suitable recogniiion any how.”
A demure looking ch&p hailed a char
coal peddler with the query, “Have you
got~charcoal in your wagon?” “Yes,
sir,” said the expectant driver, stopping
his horses. “That’s right,” observed
the demure chap, with ail approving
nod ; “always tell the truth, and people
will respect you !” and he hurried on,
much to the regret of the peddler, who
was getting out of the -wagon to look
for a brick.
A poor Frenchman, whoso wife
aroused him from sleep with a cry:
“Get up, Baptise, thero is a robber in
the house !” answered sensibly : “Don’t
molest him ; let him explore the house
awhile, and if he should find anything of
valuo we will take it away from him/'
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