The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-10
sArURDAY NIGHT IN MARKET.
Odd scenes During the Closing Mar
ket Hours

I K6L hours.
The visitor In Savannah and new corners,
who have never been In the public market
during the closing hours Saturday night,
have missed one Of the sights Of the city.
From dark until 10 o'clock the immense
market house and square are filed with peo-
| ple-buVers and sellers-two-thirdso OF whom
| are colored. From 9 o'clock until the
market closes there are few white people in
| the crowds except the shopkeepers. and now
and then a belated buyer. The colored peo~
| pie have the market to themselves.
When the market has closed the hucksters
move their uusold wares out on the pave
ments. and for half an hour the bargain
| counter" 10 in full blast there
All the various grades, shades and
pecularties of the colored race are seen,
and the shrewd business tact that is
exhibited commends itself to the Sharp
est buyers.
During the early hours of the evening,
before the white buyers have goue, the
colored market woman is at her best
Here de fine taturs, misss; jis dig Urn dis
ebenin. LOCKER here, massa, whut fine
snap-bean. Here de nice plum, lady-jis
pick ter mite. and only 10 cents or quart
Cum, boss, here's yer nice fresh crab
wants sum nice cabbidge; jis feel
he he'd, lady, aud see how hard he is;
berry fine fur bile wild meat. Here's
yer nice blackbury. missis, berry cheap.
Suckey, mobe outen d wa; amt yer see de
lady dar LUX fur bury? Let der mlssis cum.
Here | am missis, dis wa, man, fur black
bury. Who dat der push mei Look or
hear, Ant Jane, yer musten shobe dis chile;
eff yer do dars gwine to be trubbil in dis
markit, shuah Amt hab fur sell mi
| taturs, same as you do sell backbury.
Hush, gal, amt got no time TO bodder wild
you now. Dis wa, gemmen, fur yer nice
green pea-only cent or quart.
Old mamua, who has potatoes, beans, etc,
as she lights her corn-cob pipe, says, In
condemnatory tone of voice, five cent er
quart, ehl Oats jist like der niger. Dey
will GO plant pea ebry yer, and fore pea git
big huff fur pick dem mischievus rabbit
cum long an eat most ebry bit ub dem pea
up; an what dey lef an gro up niger got
ter tote um wa ter town an sell UNI agin to
buckra, whut hab waoh mum, fur five cent
er quart. Bless yer SOUL chile, / nebbsr
plant pea rgIn, fur dem rabbit IL outdashus
on pea vine, eff yer amt hab somebody fur
watch UNI at mite. Yes, misses. dem
il berry nice taturs; Use dig en- dis
ebening. Only scent er quart. misses.
Dis way, misss, fur yer nice fat spring
CHICKENS; mighty fat and nice; she putty
large missis, but swar fore God he der
spring chicken, fur | raise UNI misef. Yes,
missis, only tirty cents er pair. I'm tellin
yer ders spring chicken, fur true: l raise
um rite out in de Geechee, missis. It's true,
missls, an wouldn't lie ter yer fur muffin,
dey make nice fry, shuar. Jes look at UNI,
lady, Cum back, missis. as I NOSE
sole out. and he gettin late, yer can
TUX um fur twenty-five cents. Hears
yer good fat lightud. Hears yer cherry
bark, sassyfrax and life EVERLASTING; all der
make nice tea gud fur all ailments, and keep
der chill and feber off sartin; better try sum,
lady he heap cheaper den der doctur, den
he berry nice fur ter take.
Sister Minty, is yer gwine ter meetin'
ter-morrowF
yes, chile, please God. ef feel well T'ze
gwine"
I'VE hab gud sarvice last Sunday, entyg"
YES, my darter, we hab gud preachur
now, an der church gettin' long berry we'll,
tank yer. Yer mus cum by fur nae, heary
chile. Well, l speck I'll hab to go home, as
de market is out. God bless ye, my chile"
''Gud mite, Sistur Minty, I'll be long sumo
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