Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-15
SHOUT OR No SHOUT
A Question That is A9itating
Seventh Street Church.
THE SHOUTERS HOLD THE FORT
Martin Farrell Bags The Democratic
Associatior--T Veteran Lead
ers Pushed Aside for the
Ninth Ward Dema-
gogue.
THE PENINSULAR CENSUS RETURNS
JEALOUS @ GssTICULATORs.
A Little Jar Which Drew Large
AsseInblage of Spectators.

A Little Jar Which Drew n Large
AssernbIage OF Spectators.
At o'clock p. m. Wednesday week thsie
was u large sidewalk gathering at Fourth
and Poplar stres ats. A vOarding house
stands on one corner, and upon the pave
ment and curbstones alongside the same
at least hundred people wero collected.
All ages, colors and sexes were repre-
sented; little boys and girls chung to the
window stills of the building and poked
their straw hats and sunhonnets half way
into the open windows, while larger chill
dren stood on tip-toe, and grown men and
women looked eagerly in the same direc-
ton New comers arrived every moment
breathiess with running, and edged into
the crowd to ask the familiar question,
whats up 2"
Inside the building there was evidently
quarrel going on aud the aninus thereof
seemed to be jealousy. The proprietor OF
the house has II young aud comely
daughter to whom two of the boarders
have beeu paying their addresses. Their
admiration for the young lady somehow
generated a coolnets toward each other
which had culrlinated in open hostilities
two or three days before, when the rival
lovers clenchtd and rolled into the gutter
together.
Wednesday week they came together in
the dining room aud the father of the lady
| ia question manifested laudable DISPOSE
| tion to shut them into the room together
and let them fight it out. Before he sue
ceeded in closing the door, however, his
wife and the girls got into the room, and
| the latter commenced to scream. This was
the first notice to outsiders that their
presence was wanted on the pavement, and
| a larger meeting has seldom been con-
vened on so short a notice. The young
men tustled around tho room at a lively
rate, upsetting chairs and tables. The
girls screamed and rushed between the
combatants, seriously Impeding their pugi-
listic efforts, while their mother was kept
busy picking up the falling furniture.
In front of one Of the windows hung a
little cage containing canary. The bird
ceased singing to become au interested
spectator, but it was not long before the
cage followed the course of the rest Of the
furniture. AS 1t fell the door flew open
and the canary, reasoning no doubt that II
was time to be moving disappeared out
of the open window.
A third boarder tried his hard at re
storing peace and, in doing SO, struck on,
of the combatants, scratching his forehead
and drawing the only blood which wa
shed in the skirmish The father alst
tried his hand at quelling the nostilities
displaying such muscle that an ndmirinl
spectator calculated Bully the oil,
, man could lick them both il he TOOK
notion"
. Finally, after tho young men had pulle,
each other around the room and into tn
adjoining cigar store, the noise of oontlic
gradually ceased. The windows and doc
were then closed, the curtains lowered an
the spectators dispersed. ...