Evening journal., 1890-09-01

/ down into the pavement between two
bricks All day long the Festive negro
kept diving down for the ave cent piece
and hts glistening eye on the downward
motion assumed a far different look as
he came up from the pavement TO the
sccompaniamept Of the laughter Of the
young fellows who stood around 70
watch the fun. One oolored woman got
| down on her hands and knees and tried her
| best to get it, but 1t was of no use. At
last an old patriarch came up, looked all
around, made a dive for ID and missed
He backed off about half a square, saun
/ tered back, made another try at 1t and
missed again He evidently wanted that
ave cents, and was debating in his mind
how be was going to get II, when three
young bricks came up and saw It stimuli
taneously. They were Just going to
make dive in unison when the old fel
low held up his arm warningly and said
Cum away from dar, boys, an doan' be
maxim fools OBJ y'rselves At last an
enterprislng white boy got an implement
and raked In the bsodle that had caused
so much fun.
General Notes.
Nearly every other house on French
street had been changed yesterday for
the time being into an eating house and
every one seemed to be doing good bust.
ness The dealers in watermelonn resDed
a rich harvest. as piles of the juicy fruit
succumbed to the attacks Of the hungry
colored man.
One funny result Of this promiseRons
changing Of houses into restaurants was
the change of an undertaker's office with
its collins, etc, into an ice cream perlor,
All the stores In the vicinity Of the
meeting wers open and doing god
business, and no effort was made 10 stop
1t by the police. Several speak-easies,
however, were closed up by them One
Of these was in an old stable on Ninth
street bet tween French and Walnut
streets. The proprietor opened early Ia
the morning and had been doing q rush
ing business until noon, when the officers
got wind Of the little racket They
raided the place, but the owner had re-
ceived warning and had overturned a
cask of whiskey, emptied some half pint
bottles and departed
Big Quarterly is to the colored people
a great social event and here every col
orsd person meets evsry other one. This
is now one Of the principal reasons why
the old custom Is continued. Here Mrs
Jones can find out how Mrs. White does
her cooking and manages TO save enough
to buy a fiery red dress and hnvs some
pocket money for Big Quarterly" For
the last is what every eolored person haa
Let rent, clothes, food, or anything else
take care of itself but the money must be
raised for "Big Quarterly"
The groups of people singing hymns
ftf IA 4raf fttnr
Of the meeting. One group was led by a |
tall. raW-boned colored man and he was |
singing a hymn the burden OF which ap- |
peared to be bold Up Your Light, Chill |
iren-n-n Just as he came to this re- /
rain some one asked him question and |
le replied something like this Hold up /
rer Light, what Childer-n-n-n- the |
- do you want
A horse attached to a hack belonging /
10 John Thompson started to kick as II |
vas being backed up TO the curb yester-
lay afternoon. No one was injured, but |
many of the people in the hack became |
and Jumped from the wagon
The police report that they have had
Tery little trouble They say the colored
oeople were the most peaceable and /
of any who ever came here.
About ) o'clock ia the evening some Of |
he colored men procured whisky some
,lace along the coast, probably at one Of |
he speak-easiss there, aud became very |
Doisterous The police feared serious |
trouble, but the fears were groundless |
several fights started, but we're easily |
stopped before any one was hurt
The crowds began TO move 10 ward the |
tations about o'clock and one hour
afterwards the p, w, & 3 depot was so
He'd with colored people that the crowd
eemed innumerable The B & 0 depot
vas also crowded, and the w. & NJ con-
ributed its share Of patronage 70 swell
he huge number Of people which lined
Water street, the depot and Front
treet
The gorgeous dresses, queer beauties,
strange deforn tiles and other oddities
Z the colored people makes a picture
cen only In Wilmington, and that only
,nce year.
In the evening services az both tent |
md church there were nearly as many
white as colored people, and one Of the
preachers remarked this while ia the
course Of his sermon The colored people
lid not resent this intrusion OF the
whites, but rather appeared pleased with
I. The two races, however, mingled 10
harmony and no disturbances were
ausad. The colored preachers
rave excellent sermons ia the
ivening in the tent The phraseologs
4 some Of them was at times rather
Iuaint and the sentences sometimes
lngrammatisal, but the meaning was
hers and 1t was even palmer on account
4 the slight discrepancies in the speech
# the preacher The metaphors used by
me preacher in particular we're verv
triking He compared the road TO He'll
o railroad in which vice was great
black car and the people were focking in
Is quickly as colored people returning
rom Big Quarterly meeting.
As evening drew on the colored people
began to take their horses from the
stables and get ready to start tor home
All evening the crowds moved away but
% great was the number present that
the dwindling away appeared very small
About ten o'clock however, the streets
began to look deserted and az midnight
those who remained In the city had Re
tired and dreamed OF schemes 10 raise
money for next big Quarterly
Shooting and Cutting ARRAY.
Friday and Saturday the negroes took
H. q ENIa..a a.