Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-19
souTH CAROLINA.

The Laurens county fair will be held on
Oct. 2S and 20. -13
There is surplus of $lasOOO in the
State Treasury. 5lG 4e.
The Marion county fair will not be held
until Nov. Is and 10. .ao-n-a
Since Sept. /, 1900 bales Of cotton have
been sold In Lancaster.
The Lutheran synod Of South Carolina
will meet at Lexington on Oct. %.
The municipal election in Spartanburg
will be held to-day. Two tickets are in
the field. s4Igfs
S. p. Croft, of Barnwell county, has
made this year, on a one-horse farm, hf-
teen bales of cotton, besides a hundred
bushels of corn and good crops of peas,
potatoes, cane, etc. ioT
Milledge Holston, of Edgefeld county,
has some very tine and remarkable corn
in his field near Edgetied. The stalks
have FIVE and six ears of corn, fully ma
tured ear being at each jeint.
The cotton receipts at the different
towns in Barnwell county up to Monday
night, Oct. IL, were: BlackVille, 4.250
bales; Barnwell, 1.S40; Midway, 1913;
Willlston, 200; Graham's, AGO.
At the municipal election in Blackville,
on Monday, Oct. II, J. Il. Levy was
elected Intendant, and Messrs. g. Brown,
o. C. Able, j. ID. MilhOuse, and g. NJ. De-
Witt Wardens. There was no opposition.
The Red Bank cotton mill, which was
bought in the other day for $4,000, cost,
with it's appurtenances, 500, 600. The Red
Bank mill Is thought to be good bargain
at $4,000. 1t made for several years Is
per cent. on a capital Of $4,000, and its
failure was primarily due TO the purchase
of $4,000 worth Of new machinery at the
beginning OF the depression in cotton man.
ufactures. There is plenty OF money IN 1t
at its present price, depression or no de-
preston.
There are expressed at Columbia two
theories as to the escape from the Edge
field Jail OF two Of the men charged with
the murder of Culbreath. The tirsti that
the men who escaped intend to stand trial
but made of In order that a reward might
be offered for their arrest. and that they
might then surrender to friends VINO would
amply the rewards TO their defense. Inc
otner theory is that they were willing TO
leave the State and to be made seapegoats
upon whom the crime might be placed by
their associates who remained.
II came 10 the ears Of w. n. Workman,
OF Laurens county, some time ago, that
w AIDE Copeland. colored, mad INDUCED IN
certain defamat0ry remarks concerning
him. On Tuesday, oct. 8, he, in company
with his brother Asa, Went 20 see w ade
about the reports. Wade denied them,
and this might have been the end Of the
matter, but Glenn suber and Drayton
Suber, both cOlored, learning that the
Workmans had gone to see Wade, armed
themselves with guns and went also.
Coming up TO where they were talking
with Wade, and being asked where they
ware going. they replied that they were
going 70 see what Mr.. Workman was go
ING 10 do with Wade. Two other negroes,
Warren and Turner Copeland, were IA
the background with guns also, put uil
not come up. The Workmans were SAID
to have been unarmed. That night
dozen or more men Of TIE noighborhood
got together and went in search OF the
negroes aud found ak men IN W ade Cope
lands house, on william Smiths place.
They were armed and we're evidently ex-
pecting a call. though they did not expect
90 many callers. The negroes were o..
dered 10 come out, but refused. one o.
the party thea pusded open the door, and
as he did so was fred al BY some one IN