Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-29
.yIcGyN>, ZIG DAY.
The Cciored People Prepared for
:l,a Great Uphcaval.

:laa Great Uphcaval.
To-day is the day settled upon by Wig
gins for general upheavsl OF terrestr al
AFFAIRS. The coIored people, who are
about the only ones who take any stock
in the Canadians predictions, have made
extensive preparations for their taking
| off. The coiored churches were crowded
last night. At the Second Baptist
the services wero held with
closed doors and down blinds. The earth
quakes and Virgins have been doing CT
iective work for the past week. IL any
| body toots" fog horn tonight there Will
| be considerable commOtion among the
! brethren and sisters, as the general opin-
| ION is that Gabriel is very near at hand.
| The Liberty county woman's prediction
| for the millennium has not been forgotten,
and there were quite number who put
on their ascension robes when they went
TO red last night.
The negroes we're talking all day about
Virgins ana his quake. While many OF
them take stock in bis predictions the ma
lority are not Inclined to believe in them,
and are not alarmed. The women are,
perhaps, more alarmed than the men.
"Go 'long. chile" SAID an old Jefferson
street woman to her daughter, who
WIS telling her about the earth
quake: .'gu hong wild yer nonsense! God
a-mity dom 20 and tell anybody what He's
gwiue ter Go; II e ies' GO long and do IL.
Sho as yo's standin' heab, Ral, dey Amt
gwine to he no erfquake in his beclnity.
l knows it, case feels it in my bones"
"Say, Jake, you kno' it's my 'pinion DIS
Perfessor Virgins don't mount to much
no how; and tween you and me his
quake's gwine to be p0w'tul sight hitler
in de en'.' "WigginZs, Wiggings-Le's
see: dat's somefn like what old Mr..
scott's bein' awosrin' on his hade fo' de
pas fo'ty yeas" said a Craw negro
when asked about Virgins quake.
An old negro who lives out on Mont
gOmery street, and who used to preach
up the country, has been much exercised
about the promised quake.
Thomas" asked NEWS reporter, yes
terday, ''are you prepared tor to-mor-
rowr'
IL dunno 70 sho, boss. but Ise mitely
'fratd de time am come. Dem tIngs what
10 writ In Dutonemy and Revelations,
power Of dem has come ter pass, an I'se
swatin 70 de trump of Gabriel 70 TO blo."
YOU'RE prepared, of courseP"
tWen, dats Just 1t. l feels like orter
be sure enuf ready, but den mans con-
science. ei he's 'lig!ous russon, amt al
ways In grace. Pm powfui believer IN
prar, aud Fse a gWine TO work dis Ginning
wild few friends to secure de Wilderness
Of de Lam. l has no flook, 20 kno, down
hyGr, but die am time when we alls
long to de same church.
Halt a dozen negroes and boys were
standing on corner near the market last
night when a reporter walked up and
asked one of them If he didn't feel sort of
unsettled about the quake.
No. ssrree; die Niger amt one oh
dose fool niggers what's scared by any
such nonsense. De Lord has tole no man
when He's gwino 10 end dar days. All
de Wigginses can't come dot ober dis ig-
ger. Why, et dey wud stop an think.
dey wud see dat de Lord is a-prosperIn'
de Soul jes now, an He amt agwine to
stop de good work by de earthquakes.
Nary time. Dem little shakes what has
been sgwine on in Charleston 10 jus TO
mind foxes dat dey mussent git too proud
in dare 'sperity. De Souf is all right, am
is sgwine to be all de time. Dat Virgins
is jelus ob us up dar in Canaja-dat's all.
PIE bet him my two mules we don't git
eben rattle oh de glasses on de side
board on de 18th. lse 'ligious, but l amt
no fool. Don't talk to me bout Virgins,
white man. lse bizness, is, froo and
troo."
A good old Baptist exhorter became
weak in the knees when approached about
Virgins. a
"Pse been q exhauster," he said, ''for
more'n forty years. an Pse never befo'
heer'n OF any SIGN eternal commissions as
them which is just come to my acknowl-
edgement. Jes think of i'll DE idear oh
de Lo'd litten de ole debble come right up
beah on his possessions and carry his
beautiful chilluns down to de land OF fire.
Oh, it's TOO much, so it are"
A wharf hand at the steamship wharves
was lying on his back on a bale of cotton
when the reporter walked up and asked
him what be thought about Virgins.
"Idon't kno dis brudder Virgins; least
wise don't tink does. He's big later
hill 'moDgst de astronomers, tho, dat dey
do say. but he can't fool dis niger. White
folks better take Virgins outen hitch i'm
to tree, and II er quake dom cum along
ies pull him up jes like white folks some
times do wild niger what been KILN
somebody"