The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-25
No Clio. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, !
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No Clio. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA,
June 23d-l0 o'clock, P. NJ.
have just returned from the Jefferson Hail.
where large crowd has been witnessing the most
amusing celebration ever held ia this Institution.
1t was the tirst anniversary occasion OF the Ugly
Club.
The orator of the evening informed us that their
members had suffered defeat in many q hard fought
battle on the field of Love. and were now banded
together to cultivate and develop such qualities as
would make some amends. at least for their wotul
want of personal pulchritude. The voice of the
audience was as the voice of one man IN admitting
that there great necessity for their united un
RENTING efforts in the cause. They certainly
formed the ugliest crowd OF ugly men II mas ever
been nv pleasure to see.
The anniversary Grafton was delivered by Mr.
s Peachy Latane. of Essex county, Va. His usual
amount of wit aud humor vas fully displayed
His introductory sentence presumed that the audi.
enee would be surprised to see man, good look.
ing rs himself arise to represent crowd SO hdeousy
ugly Judging from the prolonged universal shout
that then went up, would guess the audience
thought that Mr. Latane meant that sentence to be
ironical Next he remarked that his connection
ui b The order could be easily accounted for. The
conyuIsion of the crowd attending that sentence
seemed to say, I'VE think it can"-in fact, 1 heard
one lady involuntarily say 80. He then went on
To saw that he acas once quite handsome, but that
ugly associations had corrupted good looks Now
we call upon the people of Essex to say whether
or not Mr.. L. was trying 10 play off hoax upon
u.s. Really, don't believe he ever was handsome
The remainder of his speech correspondent with
this commencement. ] cannot sketch it, but for
the comfort of the ladies', let me say that he an.
nouuced the determination of the order, to admit
hereafter, to its membership many of them As
had the requisite ugliness, and of these, he said
there were not q few.
Next, His Uglness," President Topper, of
Georgia. presented to Edmund Fontaine Jr, of
your city, fine white beaver as a reward for his
being the least ugly man in all that ugly crowd.
The next thing in order was the presentation of
twelve dollar pair OF boots TO Mr.. Jas L. Tooke
| a representative of the beauty belouging to the
State Of Georgia These were given la reward
| for his being the ugest man in the whole Ugly
Club. The genius of :" His Usliness could n
longer be restrained-some of his remarks were
extremely eloquent. Mr.. Tooke frankly acknow-
ledeed that he was the ugliest man he ever saw,
and said he had always been so-that his was the
most precocious ugly he ever knew. 1t was quite
precocious, that's fact; and with its prt cocity
came quite degree Of perfection, too. Notwith-
standing this. many persons-of whom, confess,
am one-th0ught that certain gentleman from
the county If Clarke was even ugl'ee than Mr.
Tooke, and that he In fairness was entitled to
TO Europe, and show the ParisiaLs how Americans
bootlick an ugly man.
Next came the poem-Hiawatha style--by Mr.
Thomas U. Dudley. of your city. TWAS rich. rare
and raey, and ought to be published IS cu-ls il /,
puns, were too numerous to mention. Such sir,
was the first celebration of "the closing week
The fair ones-Dot all good looking, however-were
largely In attendance; the hal was crowded and
It wouId have gratifed your widest fancy to take
look at that ugly club. You can hardly conceive
of how ugly they were, and yet they were as proud
as princes of their lean, ilfavored kind To be as
terribly deficient as some Of that crowd were, even
in the very first requisites of toleraby good
locking man. and yet not to care for It. IL surely
commemorative Let the people Of Virginia accord
them their dues Long may the order last and
when they get up to celebrate again NAV you
air Editor, aud your correspondent both be there
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