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▲ party of about thirty ladies and gentlemen celebrated Hallow’een in approved style at the residence of Mrs Laura D- Cunningham on Vine street They went for fun and they I! had it Miss Cunningham assisted by her mother gracefully received the guests and Miss Mattie Brooks was Dame Fortune for the occasion and conjured up many games from the past which were entered into with sest Apple seeds were roasted, lead melted, fortune invoked in various ways, refreshments were eaten and “midnights witching hour passed with a lively game of “Blind Man’s Buff, which was heartily enjoyed by alL The party broke up about 1 a. m., all dcciaringtbat they jJ bad never, yea, ‘never,’ spent a more pleasant Hallowe’en.HALLOW E’ER D0M6S.Hew the Beys Meat Fart* to Gather Waal nl Cana Heat Ohara.iThe Way the Oraadway People Sat Up a Jah aa the Hallow E’aaHawtora.— iiLast night wss Hallow E’en, as everybody knows, and, while the occasion brought joy to such of the unregenerated as expected to mark the event by the promiscuous ringing of door-bells and impartial distribution of cabbage stalks, it also brought dismay to such householders as hold clean door-steps in veneration. To this class belongs a family on Broadway, who have suffered sorely for lo I these many years, and who resolved, in the apparent absence of all other law, to te9t the virtues, or, at least, the working capacity of the law of retaliation. In accordance with this determination the united skill of the family was exerted in the manufacture of a “dummy,” which was fearfully and wonderfully constructed with a broom, a door-mat, a red flannel jacket, a calico waist and shirt for the body, while a whisk-broom surmounted by a hat made an excellent bead. The figure was placed beside a chair near the open door, where it stood waving its empty sleeves in the moonlight, start-lingly suggestive of the ghost of Sara Bernhardt, while the naughty constructionists retired to the room above with an unlimited supply of water to await coming events. 43oon a party of young Arabs, with their tents folded and war paint on, came around the corner, silently stealing, not away, but toward the door, which they intended to attack^wben one of them spied the silent sentinel and called a sudden halt They pointed, and whispered, and peeped—at ■aft distance—until one suggested that “some feller” should investigate. After the complimentary title of coward with a big C had been gen-oualy and impartially passed around .the biggest “feller” crept nearer and nearer, then suddenly turning, he struck an attitudeand proclaims to his tribe that it was a g-h-o-e-t. Ip fen seconds the last pair of flying heels, had disappeared and the fearful tale was being circulated among the fraternity, who, relying upon numbers for safety, presently rallied around the place, forty or fifty strong. It was not a noisy crowd—quite the contrary. It is doubtful if one of the little vagabonds was ever half so quiet at the funeral of a relative. They stood around in groups, whispering and reaolpiap forward their
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Madison Dollar Weekly Star
Madison, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 05, 1879
Page 4
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