The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-30
MT. DE CHANTAL.
DISTRIBUTION OF PREMIUMS

the pupils, forming as fine an audience
as the eye ever rested on.
The programme had been prepared
with especial care, and was a source of
great delight to the audience. The
opening overture, ''Idomeneo," by Mo
Fart, one ofthe most beautiful creations
of that great master, magnificentlI
played by Misses Nora Houston, Beetle
McHenry, Mary Kean and Mary Trow-
bridge, on pianos, and Misses Ella Fra
sier, Libbie Keyser, E. Virginia Fink
and Fannie Burns on harps, served to
introduce the pupils who marched into
the music room. where the exercises
are usually held, and filed to the seats
provided for them. The Chorus Of
the Angels was then sung most ef-
fectivelyby the class,
Among the many beautiful selections
presented we must speak particularly
of Miss Ella Gordon's rendering Of Ros-
sini's Cavatina 20 Patria,' and the
ever popular ballad Home, Sweet
Home" She has a rich contralto voice,
of good compass, fiexibility and power,
and which she handles with great APP
parent ease; the Harp and Piano Duet,
from Oberon, played by Misses Ella
Frasier and Bette McHenry: aromance
from Wallace's "Lurtine, by Miss
McAfee; a solo in B. fiat minor, played
by Miss Ella Frasier, and vocal quar-
tette from Rosini's Stabat Mater, in
which the wonderful voice of Sister
Mary Agnes was heard ringing, rich as
the melody one hears in dreams, through
the hall. We are satisfied that there
is not such another voice as hers in the
world 1t is wonder in its power and
compass, as well as the control she eX-
ercises of it, making it now as soft as
the mothers lullaby to her first born,
and now ringing like the trumpet.
The honors of the day, however,
were won from the audience by Miss
Mary G. Smith, of Louisville, Ky, who
read composition entitled Into each
life some rain must fall We settled
ourself back comfortably expecting to
hear a few fowery sentences standing
in a wilderness of dreary platitudes.
We soon found ourself mistaken. The
young lady had prepared Il short adj
dress Of great power Of expression, that
spoke right home to the hearts Of all
who heard and, Invested OF few Of its
ornaments, one that would be creditable
to anv of our acknowledged orators 1t
was read with vigor and feeling, too,
and when she alluded to the hour of
parting with the members of the class
and their instructors, many a tear-be-
dewed eye told that she had plumbed
the depths of sympathetic hearts. We
congratulate the Young lady on her
great success.
We did not obtain the names OF those
who received second premiums or hon
orablc mention.
The Academic Honors were awarded
as follows: First Honor, a crown and
medal, to Miss Jennie George, OF Con-
cord, \. II. This is the second time
this young lady has won this distim-
guished honor.
First Uonors OF the second class-a
wreath and badge-wcre awarded to
Mary Keene, Of Cumberland, Md;
Jennie Mccall, Bcnnettville, S. c., and
Anna Gallagher, Clarksburg w Va.
First IIonors of the Third class-a
wreath-was awarded to Bessie Lynch,
Cincinnati, and the second honors 10
Emma Shreve, Montgomery, Md
THE following are the names Of the
Young ladies to whom first premiums
were awarded in the Department of
English
.Ssrth Class--Bcssie Godbce, of Law
tonville, Ga, first premium in orthogra-
ply and reading
FyfM Gass-Lillia Godbee of Law
tonville, Ga, first premium in Bible
history and penmanship. Clara North
rop of Charlottesville, Va, first pre-
MUM in United States history and
Christian Doctrine and Bible history.
Caroline Trowbridge, of. Wheeling, first
premium in Christian Doctrine and
Bible history. Rosa Postclle, of Sa
vannah, Ga, first premium in orthog-
raphy and composition, in Christian
Doctrine and Bible history, and in pen
manship. Violet Semmes, of New Or
leans, La, first premium in grammar,
photography and reading. Anna Lynch,
Cincinnati, first premium in arithmetic
Fourth C2CtSs-Cora McAfee. OF
Wheeling, first premium in arithmetic,
penmanship, and uniform amiability
and polite department Minnie Hall,
Philadelphia, first premium in gram
mar, photography, reading, United
States History, Christian Doctrine and
penmanship. Emily Gegan, Baltimore,
first premium in grammar, arithmetic
and United States History. Kate
Uamill. Frostsbnrg, Md, first premium
in composition Bessie Postelle, of IA.
varah, Ga, first premium in Christian
Doctrine. Susie Palmer, of Omaha,
Neb., first premium in photography and
in reading. Lille Knight, West Co.
lumbia, W. Va, first premium in gram
mar, photography, modern geography,
arithmetic aud United State History
Diaoon Of Tlid Gass-Kittc Pal
mer. Omaha, first premium in gram.
mar and photography composition and
reading, arithmetic. sacred history