The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-08-30
SAN SING, CHINEEAAN.
How He Dics and Departs to tho Flow.
cry MISUNDERSTANDING Festivities
on the Happy Occasion and Un.
happy Denouncmcnt Attend.
ing, With How They
Planted Hin ae Last.

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at about right angles to the oflce OF tho |
unpretending sign Of N4am Sing, Chi
neeman, washing attended to-" and an |
inspection inside will always show at
least ten or twenty of the heathens
engaged in washing and ironing, make
ing shoes, repairing, etc.
Thus serenely have they progressed
for almost q year, engaged sometimes
in selling genuine Chinese tea made out
Of willow leaves and such acts as be-
come their nativity, until q few days
ago, when an unusual commotion was
observed, tho workers having suspend
ed operations and all appeared to been
gagged In some preparation of unusual
interest, which after q while conferred In
In q corner, which upon inspecting APP
peared to be no less q parsonage than
ssthe Chinaman" himself who had quiet
ly after eating his rico and potatoes,
laid himself down and departed to the
FloWery Kingdom, where all good
Chinamen who have victimixed tho
Mclean man are supposed to go.
Tho occasion was one evidently of
deep import. A steaming mess Of
chickens and the rice had been prepar-
ed, tho laundry had been swept, and
the invited guests in pig-tails began
slowly to arrive until about 4 O'Clock p.
NJ, when at least fifty had congregated
in the room where Sam Sing, stretched
on q board and cleanly dressed, with
his pig-tail nicely braided and his feet
tlecked in now pair of Chinese shoes.
1t was hardly one of sorrow, though,
for each guest seemed to chat lmerriiy,
wave their fans and stretch their shins
in apparent serenity and peace.
Atpromptly half.past 4, ssPung' arose
and stated in Chinese that Sing had
sung his last song, and prematurely
gone where the WOodbine tWineth In
the hOwery kingdom. In his life he
had been II very good Sing, aud had
aided the laundry establishment by his
wisdom, as we'll US being perfect in tho
art of making tea out OF willow leaves,
and sowing paper soles inside of the
leather soles of the "Melican' shoes.
(Here his audience became deeply at
fcctcd, and one OF them played a lively
tune on a gong.) "Friends, fellow-citi-
zens," he continued, "without doubt
you all deeply regret this unhappy
event, and will contribute largely to
send the deceased to his rest in peace"
A collection was then takcn up, each
contributed something, when pung adj
Vanccd with n big bunch offlrccrackers
and touched them off. Ina minute they
wcro popping lively, whom au unhappy
dcnouement occurred which, 1t appears,
was totally unexpected and uncalled
for.
A can of powder which had boon left
in a corner while pile OF gun-poppors
had fallen over, and II cracker conmu-
nicating with tho powder, there was Il
sudden sizzio and report, followed by
Il burst of flame and smoke, and tho
living guests and tho dead Sing shot
out the of the door like they werc fired
out of u cannon.
CONSERVATION for moment reigncd
suppremc; but after a while, and a con-
sultation, during which wc were inform
cd, stdat am him dovil, }" they returned,
and the ceremonies concluded by putting
Sing in n metallic coffin, and hearse
having bcen procured, no was placed
inside, with box of potatoes, n little
rico, a chicken, and about 20 conts in
silver, while his clothes vere made up
in n bundle and buried with him.
His friends, such as could, climbed on
tho heorse, but those remaining behind
wont to work rs soon as ho was gone,
and tho old order reigncd supreme
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