Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-24

| The Lime-Kiln Club now numbers q, $50
] members in good standing.
1t has about $1,000 in the general treas
| ury, counting in Confederate money and
| bills on broken banks.
| Its constitution now contains forty-seyen
| sections or chapters, each one of the most
vivid interest, and its bylaws number r.
| 400. 1t is hoped to increase the latter to
| 10000 before another year.
The club is the recognized organ of the
colored race in America and Canada, and
has been the direct means of saving 10000
colored people from the gallows.
The club has thirty-six branches in this
| country ana eight in Canada. Wherever
one of these branches has been established
all policy dealers have had TO shut up shop
and the game of craps " has died sud
den andspainful death.
Since the organization of the club twenty
two colored poets have made their debut ::
fourteen orators have been discovered and
brought 10 the front; twelve lecturers on
various subjects have been encouraged 10
scatter over The country, and four weather
prophets are n0w engaged IN keeping the
seasons creased up to run without friction.
Previous to dinner the following games
were INDUCED in and the following prizes
awarded
Throwing the (tack) hammer; prize, L
volume Of Captain Kidd's poems; won by
Old Man Jackson after breaking three sus-
pcnders.
Hopskip-and- jump; prize, one pair CT
nankeen trowsers for next summer won
by Concentdc Saunders after a mighty
effort, which uprooted two small trees and
tore up forty rods of ground.
High jump; prize, one gallon lemonade,
made by Worth, of Paris: won by Way
dawn Reho<a u no no, ~
and did not recover from the shock until
all the lemonade had gurgled down the
throata OF his compatriots.
Lifting tue pullef; prize, one gallon Of
yellow paint, with instructions how to turn
1t into an Alpine landscape worth $23 in
any sort of weather. Competitors for this
prize were required to enter a temporary
hen-cCop and remove very wild pullet off
the roost without disturbance. There were
twenty-one entries. but the prize was won
by Shindig Watkins amidst unbounded APP
plause
At y o'clock noon the horn blew for din
ner, and the assemblsge rushed to the table
and struggled with the following bill of
fare:
Soup. soup. Soup
A la bean.
Bread. Beef onions.
Mustard Chow chow. Pickles
Knives. Forks. Spoons.
sNGREIsS.
Some of the mustS I'd on some of the bread
DESSERT.
some otthe onions tangled up with the pickles
The dinner will long be remembered by
all as bright oasis in life's desert After
the fragments were removed to safe dis
lance to prevent explosion pals of lemon
ade were passed, and the following toasts
drank and responded to:
Our Country" Response by Rev. Pen
stock. who advised everybody to die rather
than become slaves of tyrants.
The Postoflice." Response by Professor
Joyful Taylor, who advised every colored
man in the land TO go to the Postoffice at
least two times per day and inquire for i'm
portant letters.
State Prison" Response by Shutdown
Hastings, who advised larger attendance
for the coming year.
The Postum" Response by Major
Lumbego White, who brought tears to all
eyes within five minutes-[D Detroit Free
Press.