The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-03-10
CENSUS CONUNDRUMS.
Fully and Satisfactorily Answered by Mem
Der Of Congress.


is with no purpose of asking you to
become a free advertising medium,
but simply pro bono pubZlco, that |
respectfully ask you to publish the
following. Members Of Congress are
in daily receipt Of letters asking about
the Census arrangements, and al
though l have not read the law since
last spring, know the following ideas
are therein contained, and if you will
publish them, and other papers
throughout the State will "folloW
suit" you will deserve the thanks of
the IN. C.'s." and confer favor up
on the public r..
The State of South Carolina is d.
vided into three census districts. In
the first are the Counties Of Abbeville,
! Anderson, Chester, Edgefeld,. Green
vile, Fairfield, Laurens, NeWberry,
Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union
and York.
In the second are Aiken, BaruWell,
Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hamp-
ton, Lexington, 0rangeburg and Rich
land. -
In the th;.4 are Chesterfield, Claren-
don, Darlington, Georgetown, Horny,
Kershaw, Lancaster, Marion, afarl-
boro', Sumter and Williamsburg:
For each of these districts the Pres
ident appoints supervisor. The Con-
gressional delegation selected Mr.. J. (.
Vance of Greenville, Mr.. Harry Ham
mond Of Barnwell, and Judge Town
send of Marlboro, and submitted their
pames to the President as suitable
persons for supervisors. He returned
the names of Mr.. G., H. Pride of
| Chester, a Mr.. Breeder of Darlington,
| and Mr.. Hammond to the Senate, and
subsequently, Withdrew the name Of
Mr.. Hammond, and to this writing has
not: that T am aware, sent in SUBJ
stitute. The result is that up to date
the Senate has confirmed no super.
visor for South Carolina. When once
confirmed (and their confirmation will
be kpown in Charleston as soon as it
will be here) each will be imme-
diately put to work upon a stated sal
ary Of five hundred dollars (s5O0)
One of their first duties viii be to
divide up their respective districts in
to areas containing not more than
1000 inhabitants each. Each super
visor will then select an enumerator
for each such sub-divison of his dis
trict, and submit the names of the ap-
pointees for the approval Of the gen.
eral superintendent Of census at Wash
ington. AS soon as approved each
enumerator will be advised and sup
piled with suitable blanks and in
structions as to his duties. On the
1st day Of June next he is to begin
work, and will be required to wind up
the job by the 3O:h of the same
month.
| The pay of each enumerator is two
cents for each inhabitant and some
thing for each farm, but his salary
cannot exceed one hundred and
twenty-five dollars (sl25) for the
months work.
So far as "taking the census" con-
Germs any of the thousand and one
letter writers, who are inqulring about
the duties &c., with view to secure
an appointment, the above are all the
points that are necessary for the IN
formation of the public.
Apart from these, however, the
superintendent Of census has already
placed in the field, (whether by the
approval of the President, or the con-
frmation of the Senate, I am unable
to say) what he calls "expert agents"
to report upon such subjects as the
following: Fisheries; mining indus
tries; power and machinery used IN
manufactures; defective, delinquent
and dependent classes social statistics
of cities statistics of special branches
of agriculture, and mortuary statistics.
To collect the agricultural statistics
Prof. Hilgard Of the University Of
California has been appointed. He
was once professor in Oxford, Miss,
and is frst-class man ; but Why the
government should have crossed the
Rocky Mountains to hunt up man to
give US special information upon a
subject about which he must be CON-
paratively ignorant, is an enigma to
me. No art or science has been more
variedly developed than the culture OF
cotton since Prof. Hilgard went to
California, and there are scores Of men
IN the cotton belt who could give the
particular information asked for IN