The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-08
BAD DAY FOR SUNDAY DRINKS
Four Sent to the Roads for Thirty Days
Love and Jealousy Cause Trouble.

| Four Sent TO the Roads for Thirty Days
| Love and Jealousy Cause Trouble.
They were a motley crowd-those six
offenders that sat in row in the mayors
court yesterday morning. Two of them
were white men and four of them me-
| groes-all of them old offenders. -Four of
them had been drunk and down. They
| had been there often before, the Mayor
| had warned, lectured and pleaded with
| them and then let them go on a solemn
promise to do better. But they did no
better, and back they came, to have the
same performance repeated. But they
| came once too often, and out to the road
| the whole batch went, and with little
ceremony about it.
Samuel Keith, "a white man was the first
unfortunate to be arraigned. He was
found at 1 o'clock Saturday night drunk
| and asleep on the streets on the Bowery.
The policeman tried to get him to go
home, but he refused and fought the cop,
tearing off one sleeve of his uniform. He
| got thirty days on the roads.
Will Finnell, a one-legged inmate Of
the County Home, was the next. He
| comes to the city every chance he gets.
| begs, buys whiskey with the money and
gets drunk. He, too, got thirty days on
| the roads.
Amos Farmer is a black negro, of about
| 40 He was found drunk and down on the
streets Sunday morning.
| Thirty days." said the Mayor.
| 'But, Mr.. Mare" explained the cul-
| prit Use been working in the swamp
and took drap to keep off the chills."
| 'Drink root tea and chew herbs" re-
| pied His Homer.
But Mr.. Mare" persisted Amos, 81
| didn't get drunk on week day. 1t was
| Sunday"
$50 much the worse" replied the
| Mayor. 'You ought to have been at
church. Thirty days, Mr.. Officer"
| Stokes Crump, we'll known character
| of color. was the next. He finished
term at the Work House Saturday and
| got drunk again Sunday and fought the
| policeman. Yesterday he went back for
another thirty days. AS to fighting the
| officer, Stokes mind was a blank. AS
| to getting drunk, he remembered that
perfectly. His friends were so glad to see
him back that they kept insisting on his
| taking zone" with them For a long time
he resisted. Then he took a drink of lem
| onade, then one little "teeny" drink of
whiskey and it flew to his head.
| The Mayor thought Stokes action in
this matter showed that he was fond of
| tine roads. and so he sent him back for
| thirty days.
| Next came a love affair, in which n
| jealous lover and a hayward mistress,
mans fist and a woman's tongue figured
/ quite prominently. Nathan Dixon works
on the railroad and he keeps company
| with Ida Hunt, who came here from
| Norfolk about three months ago. Nathan
| is away from home much of his time, and
during that time Dan Num- seems to be
a welcome visitor. He found it out Satur-
| day, and that night and Sunday things
were not pleasant around Ida's Bowery
| home. Sunday evening the quarrel
waxed warm. Ida gave Nathan some OF
| her Sass 'and Nathan administered a.
beating with his first. Ida says he also
| threatened to cut her with his knife. This
| he denied She also alleged that Nathan
brought her here under a promise of
| marriage, and that now he will neither
marry her nor let her go to her home in
| Norfolk. This not being denied the
Mayor agreed to let Nathan off on a fine
| of S. on condition that he would get the
| woman back to her home.
The next case was somewhat of the
same character Jack Thornton and
Charles Ohavis, colored sports, happened