The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-09-21


Three Thoushnd Yoices-Domi-
.lIat ME Evans Fish Horn and His s7;s
Repeated Collections q,
.hiaat:-: =. New York SUM- -
On Sunday night, the coiored camp
meeting at Morford's Woods, in Red
Bank, ended after two! weeks of re-
mArkable success A shade of gloom
rested on the faces of, the elders and
deacons after 1t was found that the jubi-
lee singers from Thompson street had
taken French leave, for they were in
Guided in the program me of the con-
was better satisfied, the colored people
because they were certain to know the
songs they sang themselves, and the
white folks because to them the chief
charm of a colored camp meeting lies
In. the variety and number of rude but
melodious hymns that country negroes
know. Every one connected with the
camp was prepared for the crush Of
Sunday night. Sister Susan Barber's
Immense person was almost hidden
behind the store OF melons, peaches,
pies. and peanuts that bent her slender
counter. Cornelius & Virgins laid in
a heavy store of cigars and tobacco, land
kept etfectually concealed the stmore
stronger stuff that rumor said they
sold. Deacon Silas Holmes conqu ered
his pious fervor sufficiently to remain
behind his counter away frOtn the tab
ernacle.a o. Nothing ever brought so
many people to Red Bank before. The
colored people laziiy entered town in
the morning, on foot or in decrepit, tat
tered wagons, from Riceville, Sandy
Moo, Nut Swamp, Chapel Hill, and
nearly all the larger towns. The coun-
try beaux, in glossy carriages, with
their rosy-cheeked sweethear,s, uecked
in the gayest colors, began to arrive in
the afternoon, and did not cease to
come until after church was out ut
night. After all had come, there were
nearly as many teams AS there were
trees to hitch to in the grove between
the tabernacle ana the town. All the
conspicuous church members, Baptists,
Metl,odists and Episcopalians, with
their wives and children, came to the
camp after Sunday school and after
church in the evening. ~.a ~ a...D
The last thing Dominic Evans, the
presiding minister, said in the after
noon was, 'Now, go home and git
down into your closets or your chests,
or whatever you call de place wh;lr you
stow your savings, and be prepared TOR
to help us along tonight. We want
himself to look after the money and he
did it with a will. When he took from
its nail the tin fish horn with which
the worshippers were summoned to
the rude seats in tho hollow of the
grove, the three harsh blasts he blew
were heard by three thousand persons.
These were divided in tho proportion
that the wicked and the ,penitent are
widely believed to be--lOO stprofessors"
within the singers railing, and $500
''seekers" at large in the grove. Those
who had seats Jared worst, for the
others stood up in front of them. The
first thing Dominic Evans said was that
he hoped everybody had brought plcn-
dose tive-dollar fellers," said he, s.lil<e
dere was las Sunday night !"
Dominie Charles Green Of Neversink,
a noble-lookihg old man of the genuine
Southern type, preached. His perora-
ton will serve to indicate his manner
of exborting: "Wall, .bredren, have
cl'ared my skirts, L have warned you,
1 have done-ah my july. By'n'by,
when you least expect, de Lord will
put de big foot of his powah upon de
sands of time and command eternity
to begin. He will put de big ham OF
his powah upon dc tree oh creation-ah,
and shake it SO dat de stars shall fall
like rain. Dis earth will melt and de
hebbens will be unrolled, and dem dat
hab fought de good fight will git DER
and dem dat hab been negii-
gent will also git DER reward. 1 pray
God to bless you ALP . ts
Dominic Evans mustered the force
that was to go through the throng with
collection baskets. The singers cleared
heir throats. Every body :, present
pushed toward the singers BOX. Even !
he booths were for time deserted.
The deminies on the platform were
of Macedonia, who is to pre- |
ide over a camp meeting in that place
lext week, and Green of Riceville,
whose camp meeting closed last week.
Dominic Evans took basket and fol-
owed the deacons, ssto gadderiup de
as he expressed it. EX-
dominic Robinson Of iFairhaven wan