The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-09

Tux MANIA or THE SsAsoS--THR N ATcH AT
Music HALL LAST NlGHT-IUfTs COLLEGE
BEATEN BY THE IHsTlTUTs OF TECHNOLOGY,
ET AIs.-The spelling match at Music Hall
last evening between students from Tufts
College and students from the Institute Of
Technology. assisted by few ladies' and
some outsiders, proved to be one Of the
hardest.fought contests Of the season. BY
reason of the restriction limiting the first
choice OF words to an edition or the Trans
cript, the first two hours and half Of the
match was rendered very dull through the
non.effectiveress of the word fire. The last
hour was made unusually exciting by the abil.
ity of the contestants, and the whole was
made exasperating by the inarticulate pro-
runclation Of the giver.out Of the words and
the unnecessary amount Of time consumed
by him ia apologies, excuses, and personal
explanations. The spelling itself was I'm.
usually good; SO good, in fact, that the selec-
ton Of words from the Transcript hardly
served to decimate the ranks on either
side. The first word that foored more
than one was Demoniacal, which was
spelled Demonical and Demonacal be-
fore it was spelled right. BraZiletto
was spelled 'siletto and 'silletto. 4 Tufts
boy twisted the great actresses name into
Va SSuSShs SnySN W.
spelled with an on the Tufts side, and the
same side spelled Sentient, Centient. Edo
lon was given Idolen and Idolonne. Patch
ouli or : foored two, who gave it Pateuly
and Pacbouly. Nothing eventful happened
until Mr. Lincoln struck the mysteries of a
lady's wardrobe, and then they began to 60
down by ranks. Fchus was spelled Fa-
cbieu, Fichous, FachuSe, Fisshnes, Fichuze,
Fitchus, Fischuse, FicbuZ, Ficbuse, and
FiSuse. Mateiasse, the new kind of. silk, killed
of almost as many more and was apparently
in fair way to do for both armies
entire, when some one thought to protest
against the words as not English, and the
Judges ruled them all out, and the scattered
ranks gathered together again. Then one
fell before giaour, and six before Cicisbeo.
Cerlsas "flunBed" another six, aud was
then ruled out as medical term. Sechicum
proved a valiant warrior. to whom nine
surrendered. The next "bad IN" was
Ptysnagog, which was too many for four
including the last two representatives
for Tufts, who after valiant service
spelled it PhthisDagog and Ptismagog re-
spectiyely and retired. The other side had
thirteen left, but photography mortally
wounded four. Liqueur and Piel did fol
ore apiece, and then the remaining seven
81 vent down before Tael, a Chinese coin
This of course left the prizes undetermined,
SO The seven came back and tackled Pscbo.
.nachy, which slaughtered four of them
Then the struggle began in earnest
b..ween the remaining three. Niclle
AignaziI, and Bourse were al! spelled
correctly at the first try. ard then
all 'el again before Boyau. Gout, Slough
and Eyre were spelled; and Eyot was toe
much for all. Table and Wassail were con
1uered, and OnoDatopGa was not, neither
was Trghe. Ghyll, nor Noysu. Finally one
sillp;d Oh Mccrschaum, and another on
Eli, hamy, which was spelled by Mr.. 5: q
Stone, Of Charlestown, who took the firs
urize, dictionary. The next two prizes
tnyrayipgs, went respectively to c. Z. Mil
Ter, class of rs of the Institute, and Charles
y. Wait, class of 20. Cheers were Their
given for the ladies, the VictorS, and MIR. Ho'
SEA W. Lincoln, master Of the Lyman school
who gave out The words, and at II o'clocb
the hartlest.iought match OF the season was
fairly ended Boston Advertiser.