The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
How a Tenant Was Eject
ed by Trickery.
BLACK MANS TERROR
Things Which Will Straighten Out the
Kinks of a Negro's Wool and Make
it Stand On End. Cocks Head,
Scorpions, Snake's-Teeth,
Graveyard Rabbits, Etc.
BY b. c. MALEBISSE.

BY Il. c. MALEBISSE.
Seeing i'm the public press of the city
references to an allegation, in a caveat
of n will. of conjuration and trick
ing" an old woman into making her
will, disposing of her property to GER
tain of her kin to the exclusion of
her brother and next of kin, recently
filed i'm the office of the Superior Court
Clerk, calls to mind a bit of fine extra
legal work done, some years ago, by
a then well-known attorney of the
Raleigh bar who now sits on the
bench of one of the great courts OF
the country. AT that time, some fiji
teen or eighteen years ago, this attor-
ney was not over-burdened with lucra-
tive business. Git being in the spring
of the year, when all business was dull.
the farmers being hard at work.,
and an offer of fifty dollar fee was
not to be lightly turned aside. But
To the Doint: A certain land owner,
whom Wen call Jones' that being
name, upon which there are no fly
specks i'm this community, had farm
near this city which needed a tenant.
An old negro, noted for his worthless
ness generally, and chronic aversion
to any sort of exercise that SaVored
of work, but recognized as being no
foot for a lack of sense, got the wind
of Mr.. Jones's desire to rent his farm.
This negro. like most of his kind, was
fair-spoken and powerful handy in
finding out the weak points in white
mans makeup, when he wished to
score a pint and, in this instance,
he wanted a home, rent-free for the
balance of that year, for himself and
family of six. SO one May morning,
hat i'm hand. he approached Mr.. Jones
with the well known negro salutation
of Mornin'. Boss; you's lookin' fine,
you sho' is; hits mighty purity wealth
er we's havin' desc days; pears lax
list boun' to cit in tween de ploW-
handles agin, hind good, stout mule.
i jist loves to turn up de groun' an
smell hits freshness ia de spring, Is
a worker. l is. l knows all bout
farmin' Is been fotch up at it. You
knowed my old master? He was q
good 'un. too--knowed how to git
work out Of a niger. His niggers
was all smart Boss, is you got any
Ian you wants tinded? / wants to
make FER crap. rs got de foce to do
hit Widen three bows o mine an
dat gal kin chop cotton wild any of
de han s-not countin me an dat oil
oman o mine, l wants TO make one
boss crap"
The bargain was soon struck, that
the negro was to have the farm the
balance of the year for one-fourth of
the crop to be raised thereon, and al
once moved in. week or SO there
after, the landlord concluded he'd go
out and see how his tenant was pro
crossing. He found the old negro and
his family sitting back on the shady
side of the log house doing nothing
but "chawin' the rag" over some little
family misunderstanding, the old
'oman declaring, about de short
CHI what dat 'cOHnt--nlg26G
fotch here for me an his chilluns.
The up-ShOt of it was Mr.. Jones
found that not lick of work had been
struck, and that, if he didn't do some
thing without delay. there want goin'
TO be no fourth raised on that farm
that year So he told the negro to
get out. But, no, STREE. Not SO easy
as that That niger was too old
coon for such an order to move MIN.
He'd been in court too often, for noe
ternal visiting at hen-roosts, not to
have caught on to the law that ten
ant i'm possession could not be put out
of his lease-hold until the end of his
term. unless ii was made to appear
that he had contracted to go on short
notice provided he failed to do certain
things specified in the contract, and,
i'm this case, there was straight
renting for the rest of the year for one
fourth of the crop.
against it hard in the expressive
slang of the day, and did what all
sensible men like the JoneS's do who
are hard hit" consulted a lawyer.
He was advised that legally he could
not get rid of his worthless tenant till
the following January. But the nfty
dollars fee, offered by his client, set
the LAWYER to thinking of ways and
means There are more thoughts IN
the Uranium of a hungry lawyer, IN
the dull season, than appear OF record
i'm court proceedings The law
sheriffs and constables might not De
able to rid the "tricked landlord Oh
his coon. and to aid him IN gelllhs
into immediate possession OF MS Iefle-
ments and hereditaments, but, as al
ways occurs to the resourceful lawyer
there are influences more potent lar
in niggerdom than statutes, DEGREES OF
courts, sheriffs and constables-the
"conjure DOCTOR" with his white cock s
head, Lizards, scorpions snakes teeth,
balls of wool. crooked pins, grave
yard rabbits foot, and divining-rod of
witchhaZel wood.
There was then living in Raleigh a
CONFER doctor" Moore, by name, a
coal black niger, of the equatorial
Africa type, who. in Reconstruction
days. and the years following in which
the Russian, TourgeeS at omnia genus,
miscontrolled the affairs of this State
To it's great hurt and to their eternal
shame, if they had any, misrepresent-
ed the great county of New Hanover,
and the cultured and wealthy city of
Wilmington. in the General Assembly.
This eX-legiSlator, one degree only re-
moved from African savagery, who
was smart enough to defeat one Nab
son. yallow, educated niger of the
OHara type. for the Republican nomi-
nation i'm that county, by appealing
to the black negroes against the
white ristocrat niggers," as he call
ed them. was at that time making a
fine living conJere Dring.' by
working roots" among his color The
chief articles i'm his pharmacology
were, a sure knowledge of his race
traits and characteristics. their super
stitious dread of witchcraft. and be-
lief in charms and magic and his in
struments were the white cocks head