Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-25
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1856.
Sing Hop Cast Out by His Fellow COun-
trymen Love OvercOmes Patriotism.


FROM tie Philadelphia Hsios.
Sing Hop and Eliza jackson Price were
married on Thursday last by Rev, Henry
Basser, of the Wilcox A. NJ. E. Church.
Sing Hop Is q blue-bloused, oblique-eyed
Chinaman, formerly employed by Wah
Lee, Race street, below Ninth. Eliza
jackson Price has been one OF tho best
known colored bellies of Ninth and Lom-
bard streets for four or Ave years past
and now she is only so. Sing Hop may
be any age from 20 to 80, for there is moth
ing In MA smO0thly-shaven yellow face,
in his twinkling little eyes, or in his IN
, earthly linen breeches and heathenish
clogs TO indicate with any degree OF accu~
racy the number of summers, winters,
springs and autumns that have rolled
over his pigtailed head.
The coOred ladies and gentlemen who
move in the most select circles of Lom-
bard street ebony society are aghast and
angry at the inconsiderate action of Eliza
jackson Price in wedding a ''heathen
Chiuee," but their condition is calmness
itself when compared with the agony and
shame that fortunes the bosom ofthe whole
Philadelphia Chinese community, who
are in despair to think that Sing Hop has
virtually given up his birthright, for now
he is an Outcast.
EXPELLED FROM GEE HING.
The secret Chinese society OF Gee Hing,
a sort OF Oriental Masonic lodge, objected
very strongly to Sing Hop seeking n
daughter of Africa for his spouse, and
All Lung, one of the most influential
members, said to-day to a reporter;
''Sing Hop no glood. All Cinnamon
heap mad"
Ftor a storroy r,aa4ivc ~, Urtdov p3,bf
the offending member was ANONYMOUSLY
expelled.
A visit to a number of laundries con-
hrmed All Lungs words. Wherever the
marriage was referred to yellOw-skinned
heather almost turned white with rage,
and when the subject was pursued they
broke into an excited clatter OF Chinese
and pigeon English intermingled, which
almost fractured the drum of the report
er's ears.
In Seventh street laundry one infuri-
ated little gauZe-shirted heather shook
his talon-like fingers in the air as he
| sQueaked out: "Sing Hop need killee.
He belly bad man. Need killee." Some
Of the laundrymen Intercepted as to their
opinions of their countryman's incOnsid-
crate action were solemnly silent, but
their Struggling shoulders and ugly-work-
ing faces showed as plainly as possible
By "Melican man" to their compatriOts
disgrace.
A number of the Chinese laundrymen
seen in the vicinity of Ninth and Race
streets were found busily smoking opium
and chatting like blue Jays when the re-
porter entered their establishments; but
their chatter gave'place TO profound re-
ticence when the topic of Sing Hops mar
riage was preached by an ''outside
] hr,- nrfas old Col
lOwhill street above Tenth muttered, as
he sat cross-legged on a bench: "Sing
Hop, him gone up; gone highW
SING HOP GENERALLY CONDEMNED.
Lee Yoo, one of the leaders of the Phila-
delphia Chinese community, as well as a
gambler well known to the police, gave
the reporter his views on Sing Hops
marriage. "Sing Hop gone" observed
Lee YOo. "He here? Oh, yes. Him no
left slitty. Left Chinaman. To-mollow
he clut on pligtail, and Mo go black Chi
ma. Gee Hing thlow him out. We not
spleak. II Sing Hop Clio catchee small
poX he lie all by self: no Chinaman
watchee. He want dlink? He no gettee
dlink. He want medicine? He no get
tee?'
Other Cinnamon told the reporter the
same story. Sing Hop, according to all
their declarations, is now to everv orthO-
/ dOX Chinaman on the face OF this sublu-
nary planet a pariah. He cannot eat
with Cinnamon. He cannot sleep under
roofs which they own. If he returned TO
the Flowery Kingdom the story of his
marriage and everlasting disgrace would
be heralded before him and he would be
/ unable to hire Chinese servant to per
! form for him the most mental Office. He
I is supposed to have TenOuuced his relig-
/ iOus faith, and when he dies he will have
| to be buried in strange land by alien
| hands. No leper in the days Of the ApOs-
! ties was so completely cut off from all
| friends and kindred as is Sing Hop from
| his countrymen by his marriage with
| Eliza Jackson Price.