, 1877-11-03
From the DAILY of Wednesday.


time next week. The Portland pa
pers contain lengthy and glowing
accounts of his doings in that city,
and if the half is trne Mr.. Shepard
may be ranked among the wonders
of the day. We give the following
extract from an article which appear
ed in yesterdays Oregoniaa: We
wended our way to the Unitarian
church with feeling akin to indif-
ference, for we had often before
read of great pianists. and saw and
heard them too, only to find them
the counterpart of those we had
heard before. The same old clatter
and unintelligible humping. Now
we were taken ack aud once at
least in our life we succumbed, and
our soul filled to the brim with the
sweet sounds of music. Jesse Shep-
ard is the very embodiment of the
genius of music. He might be call
ed a miracle, tor we confess his
handling of the keys was such that
had we awakened from a dream in
the midst of such sounds as here
greeted our ears, we should have re-
garded the music as beyond the ken
of human possibility. The little
church was full to overfowing. At
s O'Clock the doors were closed, and
for an hour and half we reveled in
d perfect elysium of pleasure. In
rapid succession, Mr.. Shepard i'm
personated the worlds greatest
artists. He gave us IN touch and
voice, Sontag, Malibran, Catalina.
and Cataarine Hayes. He rendered
in basso, Lablack and Baraldi, nor
did he forget Donnizetti, Verdi and
Mozart. His Interpretation of their
music was as varied in each instance
as it must have been truthful. 1t
was so unlike and yet SO far above
the ordinary renditions which we
constantly endure"
PACIFIC CoRNET BAND. - This
band was organized on the 18th OF
last May. The set of instruments
purchased by the city last year were
loaned to the organization, and the
use of room in the University was
granted for. practice. During the
five months since its organization
the band has made rapid progress,
and now plays as we'll as many old
er organizations. Below we give
the names of the memebrs, the in
strument played by each, and the
list of officers as shown by the arti-
cles of incorporation: Leader. J.
F. Curtis; Musical Director, Prof.
G.. W. Ward; Secretary, G. r. Finn;
Treasurer, B. L. Northup. First
Eb, ]. F. Curtis; I'd Eb, L. Brown;
LIST BIB, G.. R. Finn; I'd BIB, B. l..
Northup; Sd BIB. J. Hill; 1st Eb
alto, G. D'Oyley; I'd Eb alto. A. A.
Smith; solo alto, G. W. Ward; 1st
BIB tenor,'L. Stetson; I'd BIB tenor,
G. Whitman; 1t baritone, W G.
Curtis; Eb tuba, r. G. Graves; Eb
contrabass, E. Stetson; bass drum.
C. Plimpton. The practice room
has been changed from the Univer-
sity to the room in rear of l.. p.
Smith & Sons jewelry store, on
Front street. Monday and Thurs
day evenings are devoted to band
practice. The organization is now
drilling for public concert. to he
given in November.
New FERRY.-The Herald says
that q new ferry has been estab-
lished at the Van OgIe crossing
of the Puyallup by S. p. Stone.
Mr.. Stone has stretched an inch
wire rope across the river at
that point, and has everything
prepared for safe and rapid
crossing of the stream. This
will be a great convenience to
the public, and will save many
a miles travel by weary teams.
Persons going from Steilacoom
and the Prairie to Puyallup and
White river can now take the
upper road and thus save time
and teams.
IT was Mr.. Chapman, instead
of Capt. Green, who retired from
the steamer Wenat. The firm
now stands Green Il Bailey.
The Wenat left this morning for
the Skagit.
The President has issued proclama-
ton appointing Thursday, the 29th day