The daily gazette., 1875-04-16
[RST EDITION
THE SPELLING BEE.

oRTHoGRAPnIC CONTEsT--A sLAUGH-
1ER OF THE INNOCENT sPELLERs-
RREsTLlNG WITH wEDSTER'T UNA
bRIDGED-THE BIG WORDS TOO MUCH
BoR THE BIG sPELLBRs-A CoA1Es-
lille LADY CARRIES OFF FIRST HON.
0Rs-AwARDING THE PRIzEs-''THE
/ 11RsT MAN OUT" FAILS TO COME
DIP FOR HIS REwARD--A HIGHLY sue.
DEssFUL AFFAIR.
rheSpelling Bee last evening was a
md success. The Opera House was |
ed with an audience composed of |
8 wealth and intelligence of our city. |
t0ut fifty candidates Tor orthographi-
III honors were seated on tho stage, 1
inning two rows, the first row being
imposed of ladies. To the left eff the |
.|ge, was seated the President, Rev.
IN Wilson and the Vice President,
Dk E. G. Shortlidge.
10 the right were Prof. W. A. Rey-
Holds, Prof Sam'l w. Murphy, and
|Pfof. J. X. Taylor. the Umpires who
|xere armed with Webster's and Wor-
|cester's Dictionaries. Prof. 8. j.
Wiley acted as "5chool-master."
The names of the spoilers appearing
|oo the list are as follows:
Mrs. G. Frazer, Mrs. Jesse X. Baylis
rs. Geo. A, LeMaistre, Miss Agnes
~ Collins. Miss S. A. L. Francis, Miss
Lizzie Grubb, Miss Sallio Palmer, Miss
NINA Speakman, Miss Ella E. Todd,
Iss Houston, Miss Z. Janvier, Miss
Ua M. Perkins, Miss Sallie g. Bye,
Miss Marian W. Carswell, Messrs.
DIN B. Downing, Chas, Gamewell,
ancis W. Reeve, Chas. A. Colby,
VI Moore, G. J. Mccullough, Thos.
n King, Geo. W. Duffield, Robt. D.
Norrow, b. L. Vandever, Henry p.
Qrubb, Thos. G. Appleby. ]. Barkley,
a. G. M. Ely, VIM. J. Fisher, Jas.
Money, ]. IL. Appleby, Sam'l Darling.
Ferris, G. Stinson. Henry G. Down.
ward, Chas. 3. Woodward, Jos. IT.
Sullivan, Bayard @. Saville, Wash.
lJanvier, j. w. Lindsay, J. Frank Hol.
ton, John Cameron, Jno. X. Martin,
Del. College, VIM. j. Ferris, do, j.
T. Hutchinson, Lewis W. Lenderman,
Ffank Z. Haring, Jas. l.. Stanton,
Fyank ii. Brinton and s. J. Stevenson.
Some of these did not appear and 9th.
efs joined the class as they went on
TIC stage, whose names could not be
HScertained3
President Wilson expressed his gra-
ufoation at seeing such fine audience
Ifesent, and said that in order to give
b. spoilers an opportunity to compose
themselves the Bee would beprecede6
IL some musical exercises.
Misses Ormsby and Pickles gave al
strumental Duet, which was follow
"a by the Vocal Duett, "Listen, til
be Wood Birds Song" by Misse
collins and Clark, Miss Ormond pre-
Siding at the Piano. Miss Ormant
Sang, II am sprite of the foam, ant
being encOred, sang The lady of th
ca" Miss Pickles, accompanist
Prof, Wiley, now proceeded to Civ
but the words, and the spelling wen
bround, with easy words, such as ci
har, polar, fossil, bobbin, stupid, &C.
Pne young man, saying, "Give us
hard one."
In the next round, G. Stinson, retire
ed on 'percieve," and another youn
man stepped down and out on "at
acknowledgement" "Alapathic" wa
'the way Mr.. Ely spelled it, and anotl
Ter chair was emptied. Analogous
\ .and "Accordeon," the last by q youn
FS"typo" in the GAZETTE office, still fu
( lther reduced the ranks; and the fir
[ lady out, retired to the rear on "All
E yation." "Abscission" with but OF
rs. cut off another one, and "Austere
+ was spelled "Austeer" amid applaus
'Abeiance," Advantageous" an
"Admissable" entitled those who spel
ed them to tickets of leave.
A young lady, dressed in black, 10
further interest in the Bee by spellir
Y "Asmah," and q young man gave u
Bouquet" and went out. "Brittanis
"Basilar," "Bestule" instead of "Be
; tial' were the next words, ,,,and a "typt
\ wrestled unsuccessfully with "Uat
chetical." "Chroniclo" settled Il
next mans hash, and an old gentlemi
retired on "Cronch." "Chaldron" j
stead of "Caldron," and "Chiroogr
ply" followed, and the young ma
who had asked for harder words, ma
brilliant orthographical coruscati
by retiring on "Corruscation. "Crui
instead of "Crewel," and "Casimer
sent two Delaware College men to t
rear. "Cold slaw" instead of "Ce
sidW Cdubcu u yOullB ldNy, Ill UTOW
to retire, and "Diapharm" and "Chi
copin" caused two more to lose furtl
intereet in the proceedings. The q
ial Dactor, of the Eoery EUening Off
spelled "Disenthral" and was releas.
1t was now $50 o'clock, and I
number of spoilers was reduced
twelve ladies and four gentlem,
dropped" was the next word, and
was spelled "Drooped" by an eide
lady, she pleaded misunderstandi
of tho word, but was ruled out by [
umpires. She afterwards seized fay
able opportunities to press her clair
and was seen at the close, engaged
an argumentative conversation W
the umpires. "Extractable" "Ent
prize, ""Exorcise," "Equ.ble," "a
rol" and "Islet," instead of "Eyele
was the cause of more emigraSi'
from the ranks.
"Fensible" was spelled by yor
lady and "fencible" was the word
the list. The umpires found author
for both ways, and she kept her 9.
amidst annlause UEro1jcipu,, ,x,no