The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-02

for everything that's missin' round
here. I wants to file er affidavit dat
never took de coffee, dat | never
vas nowhere bout de Ole Dominion
Steamboat company's What, dat l
don't drink coffee nohow, dat I don't
like it, I likes tea do very we'll"
why didn't you steal some tea
them"
Mr.. Brown, I never seen no tea
round dere nowhere"
Thirty days. Lock him up, Dan,
and call the next case"
The next case is Henry Harper. Is
that nigger here again, Dan? Well,
Henry, see you have been drinking
again"
mo, sir, Mr.. Brown, I been very i'll
these lass three days. Seems like
everything go right to my head"
What were you doing with that
bottle of whiskey when you were ar
rested?"
Il was not gowine to drink it. 7
just got it to steep my breath in"
where have you been these last
ten days that you have not been up
before me?"
''Dogged if 7 know, Mr.. BroVa, !;
think l must have been in heaven"
"How did you get down again."
Il think ] must er slid down on
rainbow, Mr.. Brown"
Better take 10 days to remove the
splinters. Lock him up, Dan. :.
what is your name and what do
you want?"
My name is Parthenia Harris, and
I wants to get my husband rested"
What has he been doing?"
II don't know, Mr.. Brown: Seems
like he goin' crazy. He done loss all
his disposition"
''What is all the trouble about"
I'VE been gettin' up church socia-
bic for the benefit of the African mis-
sionary society and when We come
home he wanted me to do the Salomey
dance fur him, and 1 told him I
wasn't goin' to take off my fannels
and ketch my death in a draft for no
body. Then he tried to foce me and I
say, Niger you better have your
head examined and if you lay you han
on me l can hear you sayin' Good
rlornin' judge Then I got right up
from my vittles and as I walk away
from him he bust me right over the
head with a plate"
"Then what did you do?"
81 just traded him fiat iron for.
it."
"And now you want him arrested"
eyes, Mr.. Brown, I wants you to
have him arrested this comm Thurs
day and when you lock him up throw
away the key"
why do you want to have him ar
rested on Thursday"
doctor Crecy say he don't think
he can git him out of the hospital
before then"
''You get out of here"
Mr.. Brown, may the peace and
blessings of the Lord be upon my soul
and if that niger ever fools with me
again I am comm back in here wild
his year in my teeth"
"The next case Oh the docket is JEFF
Wilson and Henry Davis, charged by
Officer Lee with disorderly conduct,
fighting on the public highway, and
disturbing the peace and dignity Of
the Commonwealth of Virginia. What
about it JEFF? I don't want no long
winded speeches because I am going
fishing"
'Mr. Brown, I'm very sorry bout
gittin' in dis mess. I been out o. work
and I thought just walk over to lie
old Turner place and as I go long I
hear de ole bell strike IL o'clock an
I say, 'Dere she goes. Its dinner time
for some folks but just II o'clock for
me- Den I See Henry come by an
I say, 'Ho, Henry whar you gowinr.
He say, I gowine whar l gwine. Oar
Thar I gowine. I say, Den it ain t
very far He say, But don't you be
standin' round here nowhere when I
gifts back I say, If 7 wants TO I
stan right here til my feet sprout.
He say, If you is gwine to stan dar
you better watch an pray I say. I
amt gwine do no prayin', but I sholy
gwine do some watchin'. Fuss thing
know here come Henry back, an be
had a knife in his han long enough