Smyrna times., 1875-04-21

THE SPELLING BEE for this town took
place last Thursday evening as per pro
gramlnc published in our last issuc-Rcy.
Mr. Wright as pcdagogue, Rev DIR. Phwbus .
as umpire, and MI. Henderson as buglcr. .
The string band played nicely during the (
intervals. The New York HraH defines .
these Bees" as a sudden mania that has
seized the people to show the public that
they can't spell. And the effort of Thurs
day night justified this definition. The
pcdagogur had selected over Geo words, but
Just onc-sixth of this number (lOGl served
to "clcan the platter, and leave "hut one
To tell the tale" 1t took just twenty
five minutes To put class of thirty tor
twenty y-ninr-our of the gentlemen deserted
before the first word struck himl to flight.
including eleven ladies. Eleven of the
class were ''tloorcd" on the first round, and
it only took five rounds to finish up the Job
II was part Of tn" programme for the buglcr
to give a blast on his cornct when a word
was missed. and the performer did his duty
Justify until the ladies commenced to sur
render. lie was too gallant to give them
blowing up for their short comings and
when they missed he quietly put his horn
between his lrgs instead of to his lips.
The agony commenced with "orth"gra-
ply and went on until "ndclhlc" gave
one of our delicate youths a good sprllcr it
is said an opportunity 10 sit down and rest
himself Then 'drlablr,' We spell as they
,prltl irrvtrcivalle. "i~inegla~>.' and
"hiscnr" seated four more. when the tall
youth with the tail hat gave up the gh".t
on hyplrilpo-it is hard To tell whether
he came nearer spelling hypochondriao
or hippolotamuS, hut TIA" former was the
word tn" prdagogur desired him to struggle
with Next "hy~>op" VA, given To the
king bee. OF tn" institution, but he found il
such a bitter yrrh" that he struck for a
scat in the audience without giving il even
trial. 1t thoroughly lur4,d him of TIA,
"~l,rllin. be-" flyer. Then "dandyiy
"phy,irlalr ",.yadrablr. - coallr,cc.
,aeu,lrotyl.e, and "l,.-oucu!, put si>
To flight. Tine la,t-naln,d word was no
thoroughly taken in ~ til" scholar For SOM
reason. and in her effort to Irt at it -h'
came very near spelling "r,-rIu@ before
a -hr ray"it ". Iypporotomu~e" killo'
Cock Robbin. "Appall sent one of tn
very host ~}>ilcr> Of the elias, to hcr seat
one whom the audience were Offering tn
largest odd~. perhaps. The la~r ! WA tn
Il feather that broke the camel, back.
,. "Imncut tirdgIing. "whirlIi.i@' cal
! tclopr. and ''irrsco,. drove 4 corrc~lo
l. ing number To- the wall. while "mllcniuul
t aud "rhyerki,t put two more rcputr
excellent spoilers ON the retired li~t. !
p trying 10 grt away with '',,ni"r -,i4nio
" on" Of our young Shoe men put his foot
it. and "chorollary sent another Nour
d man To h- ,cat MalrGucrnt" wa~ MOI
- than a match ror one of our lady teacher
.d ON" who can hu'iiy l." trill"d in orthosi
Id ply. A. i generally admitted. The n"
Of one 10 20 WAS one OF Our mall, teachers. vi
il struck out boldly on "lMraphrcok u
lr got lost trying to press the whole al,hah
ms into paraphrrntIia, and hasn't ~pvlt
iii yet 1t "as Just TIA" word hr could op'
It ahoy" all others: the word h" il;!d ''iio"rr
i'm the whole town on: and when he "
popped over by liz own boomerang, til,
80. was such a blast Of luI,.~ ami stamping
+, feet a, wa, never heard IN Tia, hall brf"
i. The clu.- Wa now reduced to three. "
In were. to TAX, the lnilr-. but WHO was to
~, the first one. wa the question. ''>ci~luati
,y, sent Mr VIM f. Waters t" hi- seat vi
49,, the third prize Cartoons Poems :;
NC "lIari-rci-m walked cd. Raymond
.h,. with the second. Hanging OF III" cram,
rial whiI. Nj Lizzie Reynolds vi, ackno
& edged the champion and winncror Bryan
is Library Of Poetry and Song.
Lc The contest was 20 soon over that
audience were not disposed to retire ON
small show. ,o; class Of about l. girls a
., boy. were set up to carry the ccntcrtainm
,, Il little further. They were -pccC
.a;d brought down, however, only two or tn
!, making much of a stand. Jennie dau
ter Of Mr. Jos. SluithcIs was tried
"yacmation after "a good stand. but
= failed to take" from lack of one e, and
had to retire. leaving Fletcher, son of
-. John i. Cooper. the winner. His spell
Nh. was admirably done.
,l Thrr" wa- some surprise that the or
- graphical army was 80 speedily put to I'll
. but for once we had a performance WI
no one dared to intimate that he &C
have done better than the perform
vi Such person would have been challcl
- to combat ON the spot. \ banter that
'''' pcdagoYlo and umpire be put upon
VI stage could not be made to penetrate
ear or inclination of those two worthy
= - tlcmcn. so the music struck up and
'''' spelling mania ended in hop.
''''' 1t was a subject of comment that not
'"H Of the class that was bet ON most lar
; '''' by the audience and the town made a
> '"' showing in the contest.
dyed
\ LAND SwINDLER.-Om the l1tl
December last Il man of gentleman
pcarance and good address, about fifty
of age, called at the real estate Off,
rd at Townsend Il CO., in Wilmington, and