Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — OBSTINATE NEGROES. [ARTICLE]

OBSTINATE NEGROES.

The Supreme court of Nort{i Carolina, haying decided that the land on which James City, In Craven county, is situated, belongs to James A. Bryan and wife, a mandate was issued to the sheriff to dispossess the 5,000 negroes living thereon. Thursday the sheriff with a posse of fifteen men made the third attempt to eiecute the order,of the court. On their approach the town bell was rung, and the sheriff found all the doors locked and, the people assembled out of doors. No violence was attempted, but the sheriff found it impossible to execute the writ. The negroes were put on the land by the Federal army immediately after the war, and they cannot be made to understand wbv they should be ejected. Mr. Bryan has offered very liberal terms so that the settlers will be reimbursed for everything they have put on the land in the way of improvements, but the negroes cannot be persuaded to leave peaceably and bloodshed is feared > hen forcible attempts to gain possession are made.