Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-12-26
TWAS A QUIET CHRISTMAS
TEKsG WEATHER WAS NOT THE
CEfRHsTSxAs KIND.

some of the stores Close and
Those who Celebrated Did sO
Mostly with FirecracEers ana
SVhIsi1es.
Eighteen hundred and ninety three S
Christmas is not to be contemplated
now except as a has been" a memory
a very tangible something that yester-
day had everyb body under it's spell and
today is looked back upon and left be-
hind as the leaves OF life's calendar are
| turned with the passing of each day.
In Asheyille the day was anything but
a typical one, as the Christmas weather
goes. The greater portion OF it was
clear and sunny and the unfortunate
whose overcoat was with his friend un-
der the sign of the three balls around
tic corner was just as much Gin it" as
the man who wears the finest coat in
town.
: 1t was rather a dry Christmas. al
| though there was hrIe and there on the
streets evidence of an artificial wetness
that coaxed anon from the absor Der a
| iubilant whOop as he, perhaps, thought
with an undoubtedly mistaken COnCep
| tion of the holiday he was celebrating.
Some of the stores were closed, while
| others stayed open, but did little bust
| ness. For Christmas is not good day
! for ShOpk keCDcrs-unles it be for cigar
aud news stands aud shops where the
! red iircCraCicr can he bought.
The firecraCker was in its glory yester-
day.. The small boy and the grown boy
with the Christmas in his bones carried
| packages of the iun-and-hre producers,
and the streets were filed with tue
smoke and scraps of the burst pepper,
| keeping the street cleaners busy, while
| no ears but deaf ones escaped the terri
| bic din w hich was raised by the spit
devils, fzz siZz- -izz-banEs, and the cannon
crackers with their roar as OF the APP
proach of an earthquake,
Besides the explosives there was an eX-
| traOrdinarily large outbreak of the bird
call, tin w thistle, horn and other inStru-
mcnts of torture, which, propelled and
aided and abetted cachby a boy, rOamed
about he streets with a shrillv penetra-
| tive succession of uncarthly screams that
made one wonder i! lie were not turned
| loose in a forest full Of magpies, parrots
| and monkeys.
But it was Christmas, and everything
Was allowed to go so long asst remained
within tile confines of fun, which it gen
orally Contrived to do.
The majority of the churches departed
| from their usual custom of having
| Christ mas day exercises, and mum bers OF
persons VITO did not read THE CITIZEN
went TO church only to find that there
was to be no service. Trinity Episcopal
| church was an exception, and the con
grcgation gathered there and heard
some excellent special Christmas music.
The SUNDAY schools
| Central church's Sunday school held
| ;t.. Z crl.l,ra " fta,-
noon at $3.50 O'clock Rev. DR.. James
Atkins atic the address, there was sing
ing of anthems, the distribution of bags
Of candies, nuts and fruits to the mem
| bcrs of the school. and a generally en-
! IiOYahlc time tor all.
The children OF the College street mis-
sion Sunday school spent Il delightful
evening in the chapel of the Asheville
| Female college Saturday. After a pro-
| gram of rccitations and music Santa
Claus announced his approach by the
ringing of sleigh bells and few moments
later the merry fellow came in and dis
| tribute q gifts to the pupils, after which
| refreshments were served to all present
| The occasion was very pleasant one
| throughout.
y church full of people attended
the exercises at the First Baptist church
Sunday afternoon at o'c ock. Recita
tions and singing constituted the attract,
| i've program.
Tie Gash's creek Baptist Sunday schoo
at ! - . clock yesterday held its Christmas
celebration, and it was more largely
attende and gratifying than any simi
lar event that has occurred there. Three
trees groancd uuder their weight y
presents, and all in attendance were
happy.
The Fern Hill Baptist Sunday schoo
at Biltmore gave very pretty Christ
mas tree to the pupils last eve ming.
Members of the Sunday schools o
North Ashcyllc and Riverside NJ. E
churches, South, will have their Christ
mas trees in their respective churches
this evening, beginning at $50 O'Clock
| Christmas services were held at Trinity
Episcopal chapel, colored, at midnigh
Sunday. The chapel was decorated in I
tasteful, ,manner appropriate to the occa