The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-20
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T2j{|%5iiltff; C.fHf'EL..

Tho Agricultural Fnir.-So,uh Carolina mt
the EHpnsition- The rcnittnttnry- Crimes
In EiGhlnpd srhc Lien Lnw.
tc6IusEsrs%nE~sI: :fihaLH aAssS ,ANp uEnALp.I
COLUMBIA, Scptc,n5cn w. Presitlar!
C.aytom OF the State Agricultural and
..Nlcchanical Society WAS in the city
laft>;Y"rk, and in II conversation with
Your ,nerrcapsAnIent ..e4 ,en. 1fNc State
fair this fail, said that notwithslunt-
ing The short crops and tho general
depression Of the Spiri'S OF the nyricnl-
iflcaa.plass"S, we would .lsnvc iillo
,.'air, and that there wouhiJ,c u large
number OF pHGrle here. The v"rIrics
are a!rcmlyiiaiN>G.qM'i are c1Eliu, IL
dlily. or cuurSc.'a:r!icld, which has
been Il large contributor 10 the far,
!l.,scnd her usual ,,Enola. Colonel
Cryton,rit:Atl the .rair grounds in
Mrrson and gave Ni,w.:ijirs,: tipr Ml-
, ditional improvements, ,A.@;k ;vpUn
which will ut once bc begun.
The State Board OF Agriculture
met hcrc.::G"NlH,i NaS.;l"2; and apprU-
prialetl fifteen hundred ioilierss'!isG the
purpose of having South Carolina
crctlitabIy represented at lac Atlanta
Exposition. The Office of tEvn,,iiS-
Si0ncr Butler is filed with iiii.,iinlcr,-
li;ic articles, the natsirni and cultivated
NM,MctS Dr lhc State, which arc to be
ior>v..,~tu to Atlanta. lL,:s thought
that the amount appr"priatCn,Will not
be sufficient to erect abuil'limg, L;,t will
uciray ntlAT nc"Hs>Ary 'eHpHi SOS.
Perhaps if some s. tha worthless rail
road scrip which Eas h2"u paid ~ The
state inr convict labor las! ,h:cr .rc-
,I""Ech the sum might have been
:inlU'cd. Fifteen thousand dollars OF
this stun from ono railroad alone is
lying III the capilo! NOW, and there it
h Ill vcmain to the end of!imc. i can
not agree With Tie Act,+ ui,N 'Gnn,ic,'
WHEN il says upon this subject that
"Such undertakings rs these are OF
mo q consequence to the state than
.Wh;at money can be- derived from hir-
in% out c"mvi,t> to work on farms
ami ut p!oSplHIa mines. .aNl We
sh"uln thiu; ti,.,l tlc legislature will
,k2 nf U!iS opinion, il The il'rniLrnl;nry
.|Iuaru are not, or have not authority
70 30 what is tlcsirru.''
Senator bradley, Of Pirkcns, who
has recently attended Il mccliny of .hc
lW&rt ot. Directors, Of tl.cStntc .l'cnitrn-
th,rN, i;n.S >.sANan the Grccnviliu .NrW%
Il very favorable account Gr.ti,c Murk-
.irHS Of that inStitNtiall. iilc SAYS:
'Tilc new shoe factory III the pcni-
Tertiary is making good progress,
turning out about 500 pairs Of shoes
per week, with the expectation Of sDnn
largely increasing thu ;prVtluclion.
iEkis McE,i is tiAuc by .eN,itract :lnLor
for which Lln.n'r4N,iiG.AHs,nf'thr.E, factory
pay ~ cents per day for men and 37i
cents per day for women and boys.
The shoes made arc excellent goods
and nothing of tho Shotdy kind. The
prllilcntiiu,y .taim near CulUUbia,
wuHk"d ,s>y .cN,HiGt .l;shnr, Mil, p,ap-
i.NucG this year from itih to 800 bales OF!
cotton and about lU,OUU bushels OF
corn. The Board were uprliuA 10 .ru>.
rcm y Joy phosphate companies for the
hire of 500 cunyicts at $lG.GGG per
'tnNnth. The demand for labor of this
kEu is Grc:.lcr tlElu tue supply.
E'r"lu the iMcumc OF the ncnitcnli;,l.v
the l;,.scdI' lr'i," cn l.IMd III bank, cash
profits ;tAnc'Tnting to 1900, with the
List State appropriation Of $4,000
also in bank, untouched. These G:.-
urcS contrast very fuvorublv with
hose Of the days OF Radical protliyacy
when the pcnicnliarN was yearly
eNpri'oc to the State of about $50, ,,OrO
and even then tllc colrict& were poor
~ lGt ;2h.' otherwise cared for. Under
| The present ma:.a;@GiIcMt ihr coMyictS
arc well treated, and the pcni.cntiury
| - not only not an expense, but i: is III
actual profit TO tho State"
! Jesse Anderson, Il Young mulatto, ,
stabbed and Killed his Wits i;ltllrr,
Joe Hopkins, an old negro aged
eighty, ut the upper Stack plantation,
Ilcar the E&:r!icIl line, on last Thurs
day. Andef;s%A :S,ll li!n old man be-
came lnvolrcd in QHns!t-i aho:iA ~
! 3X 'lA2t hhI hrokcn into y A&iAs vs> >nu
Si E:I parties, when the old man
struck the young one with cane,
who in return stabbed him in the left
breast. The knife penetrated the
lung and the old negro died in two
hours. .A"."!Son ch:in,s that hc acted
| ih &.'f defence, and the evidence looks
very much us if he did. I.o was ar-
rested and put in Ricbland Jail to await
the action Of tbr grand Jury. .AHDthcr
negro named Jim Brazil hacked Of the
arm Of i negro man with an axe about
the same time, and very near the scene
OF the killing Of Hopkins.
~ white male inmate who cscapcd
from the asylum Duiiding on Thurs
day last was captured near the grounds
on Friday morning.
Since my last letter to The News
AND HERALD, have been interview
ing or rather rc-intcrvcwinw (ior |
had been over the ground once before
such public men us could reach, both
ut bone and those who huvc been here
ON visits Of pleasure or business.
think IL safe lo say lhat their views
upon the lien law have recently under
gone n very radical change. before il
was nscortninoll what the crops of
this year would amount to | talked
Will, many warm advocates Of the re-
peal OF he law, who to-day say it is
worse than folly to talk about repeal.
inD the law untlor The present state of
affairs. AS TIE News AND HERALD
has very property said, ''lhc question
ofrcpc!l covers broad grounls"> and
they will havcto be discussed here
after. or one thing your readers may
rest assurcd-and that is that the lien
| law win not hn ~ non In | This ,.n,u a..