Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-02

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| Jas. HALEY, DR.. Franklin,
Jas. 5. Frazier, RObt. HOlley,
II. I. McDaniels, Z. w. Caldwell, JT.,
JnO. Hudson,
r. A. Thompson.
THE FORTY VICTIMS
having been arranged on each side of the
stage III the form Of q Semi-circle, Prof
CLARK made the following explanation:
"Ladies and gentlemen: The words will
be given first to one side and then to the
other, and when person misses a word, be
will at once retire from the stage. We are
very sorry that we have to disappoint the
audience with regard to the young ladies
who were expected to take part in the ex.
erciSes, but they were all young ladies and
have been waiting for some older ladies to
chaperOne them, and"
Mr.. Joseph Allen-"Perhaps you have
forgotten what day this is; this is All
Fools Day, you know" Laughter
Prof. Clark-"The prize will be a quarto
dictionary. There will also be another
prize, which will be named later in the
evening. l have in my hand a list OF
words which was prepared by little girl
in the fourth grade Of the public schools,
-AA4 EAtAN1L LAi-Al IL DC LEAE
l sec by the list that she knew what she
was doing when she prepared it." Laugh
teri
The spelling shen began, a round Of easy
words Of two syllables being given out first,
in order 20 inspire the spoilers with con
tidence and lead them to believe they
could successfully wrestle with any com
binatiOn Of yOWels and cOnsOnants which
might be sprung upon them.
Second ROlmd-lt was on the second
round that the trouble began, Mayor How
ell losing a man in the person Of Jas. l..
FraZieT-whO was thrown into such a
tremor by the word ''apparitionn that he
spelled il "appiritiOn'-and DR.. MOTgan's
ranks losing John Hudson, in consequence
of his spelling ''cemetary," cemetery" As
these two unfOTtunates stepped aside they
were greeted with with astOrm of laughter,
inteuningled with the ear-splitting
screeches Of a couple of fish horns.
Third RO1Ild.-This hound proved a
very disastrous one indeed, James Z.
WOolWine, who had Won 4 silver cup the
night before through his skill as a speller,
falling before the word '-spinage," which he
spelled with two "n's." Ill. Q. McCTeery
passed out with "ruefUl' cOuntenance,
when he found that that word was not
spelled ''Tufle.n Trimble Berry and Chas.
Ridley whiting before "Obelisk,' which the
former thought spelled ''Obilist," and the
latter s'Obelisgue.7 Then Major Kirby Of
the Chattanooga Times and J. L. Dismu6es
found that "haraneueing' and "haranging'
didn't spell 'harTangueing." +. I. Reid put
an sc" in "pOrtmanteau' where he had no
business to and was followed out by II. Z.
Berry, who was so well pleased with Reid's
manner Of spelling the word that he spelled
it in precisely the same way.
Fourth RWu2-TOm Caldwell did not
miss the word "idiOsyncracy," because he
didn't know how to spell it, but because he
was getting tired and wanted to rest. This
fact being discovered by Il. a. Thompson,
the latter lost his interest in the proceed
ingS, trauspOsed The sic in ''sieye' and at
once got permission to retire,
EFth EOHa-Dr. Franklin spelled il
"oscilate," L. Taylor put an ''i'' in "Gen-
esee,' Chas. GaUthier went down on "fe-
licity,' and young Vogt tried to make the
audience believe that "beleiyeable"
spelled "believable."
Seth R0Uud-"QuaudOmn was too
much for sam Pritchard and II. c. Nc
Daniel; Oliver was whipped out on ',iag-
citation, because he would put two "g's"
in it, and e. D. Berry looked blue enough
when he found thai he should have dropped
the "e' in spelling "bluing."
.SeUenh ROJmd-Mr. Harvey Campbell
left out one of the eds in reddish"
Eighth ROmd-ln this round tic wOrd
crows raised a row with RObt. Ewing and
s. q. AleXander-the former spelling il
rouse and the latter s'rOus"-and these
gentlemen were followed 10 q more seclud-
ed position by Mr.. Joseph Allen, who put
one "e' too many in ''camelopard."
Ninth ROJmd-MayOr Howell and K. A.
Holly were CircumveEted By the word itu-
telage,' Capt. DrOuillard lighted himself 70
the back Of the stage with chandelier"
and Dr.. Morgan spelled "deViser'' with an
''O' in the last syllable.
Tenth ROJWd-Jas. Simmons thought
a'cicatrice' should be spelled "cycatrise,"
and so stated, while Nicholson and Lea
differed so widely with the authorities in
their method Of spelling "efiiOreScence,"
that they were both allowed to retire.
By this time, DR.. MOrgaR's squad had
been reduced to three, against seven on the
side of their opponents, when, in conse-
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second "h' in hemmOrhage, DR.. MOrgan's
party was cut down to two, viz: Messrs.
Sinclair, of the Publishing House, and
Nelson, the insurance man. A moment
later, Nelson went to grass on ''graminiv-
OrOUs, accompanied by Bradford and Wat
kins, thus leaving Sinclair to buckle agains
Griffith, White, Jas. Holley, Cartwright
and Hill. Then Cartwright missed on
''chTysalis," Hill on 'chrysolite," and Hol-
ley spelled "scintillate" with but one al
The excitement had become intense by
the time the contest became thus narrowed
down, the sympathies Of the audience being
with Sinclair, for he had been left to con
tend single-handed with five opponents,
and it is natural for one to sympathiZe with
"the under dog in the fightn Griffith laid
aside q cape which he had been wearing all
evening, and rolled up his sleeves, while
White, the classical scholar of the Lebanon
Herald, looked as though he considered
that dictionary his own. Prof. Clark
seized fresh list of words, flOOred the Rural
Sun man with "eScrOtOire," after the
latter had east pathetic glauces towards his
cOnfrerC Of the Herald, which glances were
rightly Interpreted by the audience. and
greeted with ''NO telling - "no telling -
and then followed 4 storm of nice little
words, such as "quaSsi3." ''cachiDnat.oI.'
and the like, which Messrs. Sinclair and
White ratified OF with the gre.test ease.
the contest being finally decided in favor of
the former, in consequence of the Lebanon
man spelling ''sarcophagous7 with a OK
instead Of sc, the winner being greetod
with a hearty round Of applause.
THE PRIZES
were then presented to Mir. Sinclair
and Mr.. Frazier, the last named receiving
q Primer-neat but not because Of
his having been the first to miss. The pre-
santation speeches were made by Mayor
Howell and. happily responded 10 by the re-
cipients.
ANOTHER MATCH.
After q vain effort on the part Of the