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itr ESTABLISHED 1865. .NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1890. PRICE 81.50 A YEAR THE OLD AN! THE NEW IEAI:. What Has Been Done in Agricultural, In. duitrial and Commercial Circles. An Encouraging Outlook. From the News and (*ourier.] The prospect in South Carolina for the new year of grace which begins to day is encouraging: the retrospect shows we have overcone many diffi culties and, despite many failures and disappointments, we stand to-day on rising ground and with>.ur face to the morning. The reports which are published elsewhere practically cover the entire State and afford good cause for congrat ulation. In Kershaw, Chester, Lan caster and Williamsburg, and perhaps in several other Counties, the farmers will have to make a new start, bur dened with debt and discouraged by the results which have attended their honest labors; but there is no evidence anywhere of the spirit of despondency or the lack of faith in the future. "Kershaw County would be much worse off now than it is after the past year's trouble, it it were not for the success of the provision crops." The merchants and bankers are in excellent condition and the people "look for bet ter times." In Chester County, as our correspondent hopefully says: "Taken altogether, the year has brought far more of good than ill to Chester and the future is rich in promise." In Lan caster County the farmers have sunk money and their indebtedness has been increased, but "the people are not de spondent," and with favorable seasons this year they "will rise up again and cmtend for riches and honor." And so it goes all round the circle-wher ever the seasons have been bad and the crops have failed and debt has in creased, the people have put their hands to the plough and gone to work with unconquerable courage to repair their fortunes and to make good by honest industry the losses which they have sustained in the past. But the bad seasons and the short crops were confined to widely sepa rated parts of the State. The general results of the year's operations have been satisfactory. The supply of labor throughout the State is abundant and the laborers are under easy control. The banks have flourished, the facto ries have made money, the merchants have succeeded in making good collec tions, and even in the least favored re gions there is bread for the eaters and seed for the sower. There is a general demand for a diversification of our in dustries, and South Carolina gives fair promise of becoming the most prosper ous manufacturing State in the South. In Aiken County there has been a steady increase in the value of farming lands. In Anderson "more deeds of conveyance and fewer mortgages of real estate have been recordied in the clerk's office in the last ninety days than for the twelve months previous." The hitherto purely agrienitural Counties have turned their attention to the es tablishment of new industries, and the almost universal statemnent is that the mills and factories have made satisfac tory returns uponi the cap)ital invested in them. The doctrine of the diversi fication of industries has, howvever, found its best development in the di versification of crops. The farmers no longer put all of their eggs on the bas ket. They are nearly independent of the grain fields and the slaughter penls of the WVest-they raise their own corn, * and the long discarded smnoke-hlouse has become again one of the most imn portant buildings on every well regu lated farm. In Anderson the finest * corn crop in years was miade last sum mer. In Greenville the farmers owe ~' ,and have more. Iln Pickens "'al most every crib is full of corn." Ill Darlington "money will be scarce and hard to get, but the farmers will re qjuire less than usual this season, as they all have good supplies of corn." The Farmer's Alliance has taught the farmers of the South the lessons of independence, of self-reliatnce, of active co-operation and unyielding resistance to all forms of corporate greed and sel fishness. There is greater economy on the farm, and thereforc greater thrift: the rates of interest on agricultural ad vances have beenl decreased, and the people arc beginning to g't ou t of debht. It is estimated thI at in Yor(uk (County1 the armounit oIf mioney made over al debts conitractedl durin.r thle y-ear was fromi $7-,O00 to S100,00I; in Aniderson C'ountv it is estimated that 2' per cenlt. was miade on1 the cafpital in vested: in Greenville ('01oun t "the people of atll grades and trades~ are conItented and p rosperous." The peole thro'.ughiout the:State aire better ofi than thley were oneI vear ag~o t- lay, bult 11ot so well otl' as they will be on next New Year'"s D)ay, if the yeair is blessed with fruiful seasonls. The outlook for 1S ' is fullH of h1(114 andI the pteople of South ( 'arolina are full of' 14s9 1Nx'm'TmacL.Y ANt) s0C:ALL1Y. I From thle St. Lou is (Globea- Domoe rat . Ini few v'ear' wit hin t he mnmo ry of persons ot mi:ddle ae 01r under hais t he years which could be mentioned, sim p!y because the men at the head of these enterprises are taking the sensible precauti('n to allow the growth of the coultry in p')pulation and general bu- C siness to overtake its transportation fa- S cilities. The sales of public lands and t' the estimates of oflicials charged with I the supervision of these matters indi- ti cate that the extension of settlement r and trade inl the Territories and newer h States has never been greater or wider than it has been since the beginning P, ofJanuarv last. ti This is the exhibit which the dying ti year has to make. There has been no sl b,om in any department of activity. " Speculation despite an occasional inter- 01 val of liveliness, has been dull. Heavy ti deals in either real estate oron the com- F mercial exchanges have not been made. d But business has been conducted on a ir s'olid and conservative basis, and, on t the whole, at a fair margin of profit. i No financial kite flying has been at- f tempted in any sphere of industry or P trade, yet the aggregate of the legiti- r mate business transactions was never q so great in this country in any previous at period of equal duration as it has been to in the past twelve months. More mon ey has come here for permanent in- ti vestment from the other side of the i Atlantic than ever before in a single N year, and the money owned here has al never been more steadily and actively i emnlploye:. The area of labor disturb- rE anees has been smaller than in the P average year in the past. Not only have fewer strikes and lockouts oc- ei curred than ordinarily, but they have tc been wvaged less rigorously and have brought less suffering to the workers I inmmediately aflicted. Prosperity and it happiness greater than have come in C scarcely any year within the recollec- s tion of most persons. except possibly C 1S79 and 1SSO, have fallen to the lot of nearly every class of toilers in the year a 1889.a ti The North Carolina Exodns. d C [News and Courier.] o G REENVLr.IE,Jan.2.-Three trains of fc eighteen coaches of North Carolina n emigrants passed through here to-day r( bound for States in the Southwest. Be- It sides the coaches there were several p freight boxes attached to each train, fc which were filled with the earthly r possessions of the negroes. Fifteen ti hundred negroes were on the three trains. Towns, villages and farms in e North Carolina are becoming depopu- s lated of the negro race. n OVEr. FOUR THOUSAND PASS THROUGH n CHARLESTON. Within the past week over four thousand negroes have passed through r Charleston, on their way to Florida, Alabama and South Georgia. Many g of these people are accompainied by r families. r There is annually a pilgrimage of 2 about 500) negro laborers who are hired b in North Carolinat to work on the tur-e pentine farms in Florida. These gene rally return home in December, spend q the holidays at home, and return South in January. This year, how ever, the exodus amounts to a whole sale emigratIon, many of the laborers being accomplaniied by their famrilies. Thle emigrants are chiefly from North a Carolina and the Eastern part of South 9 Carolina. They are going South at the rate of one thousand a day. The Barnwell massacre will probablyg increase the number of emigrants. It is not improbable that at least one half of the negro population of BarnwellC will emigrate as soon as they can maked arrangemients for getting away. The Young in Cities.r It is a common h)elief that youth a reared in the cities are at a great dlisad-. o vantage, compared with those brought r up in the country, especially in the matter of morals. The reasoning is that v the city is so full of temptation and of t so seductive a sort, and that children t are so idle, that it is almost impossible ( for them to escape dlegradation. The t grood mother living in a quiet village ( or in the open couintry is thankful for r nothing so much as that her boys are ( at a safe distance from the theatres and c other places of questionable amuse-i mient, and a feeling of pity possess s L heir as she thliniks of moithers, acquinit- z anees, perhaps, of hers, whose boys are i expostd1 to the metropolitan ternpta- i 0ins. H11 r thbought is not wholly in- c corect, t biough she has an exaggerated y notion of her sister's misfortune. The s tempiltationis, it is true, are many, and I 11he vitim s of themio form lists that ~ miake sad reading. bu'lt amonig peop)le of c nyeragei' positi it is doubtful if the I ev i! is II greter than among correspond- ( ina classes ini (t her sit nations. A la rger a percentIage of voting mien is likelv to b'e foun id in thle ci ty chuireh than in the s vi'lage onie. Pa:rt of this is (due to the~ 3 iat tha t m-myi fromn the latter have t gon.e to thle city, bunt even withiout v hese the statement is a true one. As e miany nioleyouth. also,.grow tup to take' the fathers' place in hioimes of the city I as awayv from it, and thtey carry into r their mi atuare lives as keen a sense of t The Churches in 1889. [From the New York Times.] The year has beea a busy one for the hurches. The list of conferences, as "mbles, conventions, synods, is a long le, and there have been some interest lg discussions, among which that in e Presbyterian Church (Northern i on vision of t he Westminister Confession is attracted most attention.. The Presbyterian churches in Great ritain have already settled this ques on for themselves-one by thealop on of a "Declaratory Statement," towing in what sense the Vest inister doctrines are received, the her by formulating a new creed; while tetwo chief branches in Scotland, the irk and the Free Kirk, have not yet cided how they will meet the grow g demand for relief from an outgrown ieological formula. The Presbyterians this country had hardly got ready r a discussion of the subject when the resbyterian General Assembly, which et in this city last may, suddenly and iite unexpectedly resolved to submit 1 overture to the Presbyteries to ob .in their views on revision. The resbyteries were asked to say whether tey wanted revision, and if so how uch. The discussion began at once, fore the Presbyteries had time to act, id both ministers and laymen rushed to the arena in favor of and against vision. The first Presbyteries to ex -ess their views voted against revision. ew Brunswick Presbytery, which nbraces the great thologians of Prince n, declared for the Confession as it is. ater, New York Presbytery, the ,rgest in the Church and carrying on s list the Faculty of Union Theologi l Seminary, voted strongly for revi on, the Presbyteries of Brooklyn and incinnati taking similar action. So .r about forty-five out of two hundred id eleven Presbyteries have spoken Ad they are for revision three to one. 7hether this ratio will hold good in e rest of the Presbyteries may be oubted; but it looks as though the )nstitutional two-thirds might be )tained for revision. Those asking >r revision agree that the Confession eeds modification in at least two spects. They want the passage re ting to "elect infants" so revised as to reclude the idea that any dying in in Lney are doomed, and that respecting probation so changed as not to say lat God for his own good pleasure passes by" those whom He has not ected to :save. The discussion also lows that a consideruble number of tinisters and laymen would prefer a ow creed to revision. The Northern and Southern Presby !rian Assemblies, unable to agree to unite, adopted a scheme of co-opera on in home and foreign work. The reat obstacle to revision is the caste or tee question. The Southern Preshyte ans wish the colored ministers and embers to be set apart by themselves, ut the Northern Assembly refuses to )sent to the drawing of a color line. The color line has been a dominant uestion in two bodies, the Congrega onal and the Protestant Episcopal. ~hite Congregational chuinrches mn eorgia show a desire to be in a con rence by themselves. but the National ongregational Council advises them to dmit the colored churches into their ractical fellowship. The Episcopal beneral Convention~ was asked not to mnction the efforts being made in Vir inia and South Carolina to set the ne roes apart in missionary jurisdiction, ut the convention dleclared that it >uld not interfere in tihe affairs of the ioceses. It affirmed, however, the quality of all Christians. The Episcopal Convention adopted nally a number of changes in the rayer book, and passed others over to de next General Convention for final etioni. It refused to change the name f the church. and recomitted its avised hymnal for further revision. A mong the other notable con ferences ere the Lutheran General Council, ie Lutheran General Synod, the Lu eran United Synod, the Universalist sene.lal Couvention, the National Uni trian Conference, the Free Baptist eneral (onference, the United IBreth an G;eneral Conference, thle General 'hristiani Conference of the Evaingeli il Alliance, and the Catholic (Congress iBaltimore. The latter was ini cel(e ration of the centenary of thle organi ition of the R(omnan Catholic (Chiurch the Unitedl States. It was opened by nposing ceremaonie-:, two car.dinalsuh Riciatinug. and a Papal Legate be'i ng rsent. Pontifical mass was ceelIratedl, rmons were preachedl by A rehb ishiops tya.n and Irelanid, papers were re-ad byv rominent Cat holic lay men, :mnd at t he lose of the Congress tha tiheologi'al all in eon nection with the props< d1 ~athlolic University in Waishiington ras formally opened. In Canada there was a long and i trp discussion over the grant by the "ovince( of Queb ee oft $401 ,1500 Ito thei hthiolic Chuirchi in settlh-eent of claimni. risintg out of the supp~ressio n of thI c rder of .Jesu its in thle last centuiiry. 'le igranit wals st renu ously opposed 1by irotestanIts, butt the ( ;overnor (b-nei(i efused to disallow it. A strong aniti :at oli fel i ig xiss, ati isst :14 sh vail. The board closed its rleetilg it a burst of liariony, and it was loPe that the dillerenlees would le-er i,q lheard of again: but the recent action1 the p ruetlnitial commi11ti ee iln refUin;1 at present to appoint a a missionan anl applicant fron Andover Serlninary on the ground tlh:t his view-. as prob';ationl after deat ii are soiewh: too favorabie, promi1ises to rekindie It fires of strife. The churel:es have collected largi surns during the year for ilis-io)nary and other church work, they han added largely to their elielibership, a1( have on the while leen fairly' pins perous. A NEcGRO VIEW OF IT. Colonization Cr:ged as the Oiy Hopw o the Race. pecial to the t reenville News. .AIiLST)ON, .ln. .-The colore people celebrated earucipation dao here with a street parade and sleedl making, The oratio' of the day Wa: delivered by the Rev. J. S. Lee. a prorn inent colored minister. Alluding t the emancipttioi and enfraneliisemeni of the negro race the speaker said "This new order ofthings so sudldeni2 bursting upon us, found us in no wa prepared to meet the demands that a once confronted us and yet we were a once placed in the scalesof hlumtian l)ro gress and in the light of American pre judice, weighed and fournl wanting Have we made ruistakes? Have wi committed great blunders? Have wi been betrayed into paths of sin am folly and almost destroyed? Alas; tlii: is all true, sadly true. But were it no a marvel had we acted otherwise unde the circtlista!ces? Indeed we iius have been super hurnan to have actce otherwise. Clothed with the privileg and charged with the duties and respon sibilities of A merican citizens withou knowledge of or ability to dischargt these duties or to appropriate to our selves the benefit accruing therefrom we stood bewildered not knowii1 where to turn our thoughts for instrue. tion or our hands for help." Alluding to the recent race riots ii the South the speaker said: "I believi that the ultimate solution of the so called race problem will be imnigratiot from necessity if not from choice Amalgamation is neither possible no: desirable. To obtaini our rights am maintain them by force we are unable For two people so distinct from eacl other in their physical structure an. between whom there are such barrier naturally to develop in separate am distinct lives is about as reasonable a: tosuppose that two kings can reign or the same throne at one and the sam< time. Outrages, such as lynching ie groes, compelling them to ride in smiok ing cars and refusing theml hote accomniodations are evidences stron and convincing that we will neve attain full manhood here. These ar the shadows of coiming events. T ap)proach the white American fo justice, life and libert.y is simply to re' main whlere wve arc, as beggars wh< must not he1 choosers but luist tak what is given and use as long as we d, not displease the giver or his interest do not require him to withdiraw thi gift. Should either prove to be thle cas they will be withdrawn andh we hay no power to prevent their doing so, an all that wvill remain is to comie ui begging again, and so a life of beggin is the result. We nmake a great mxistak when we suppose that lie Anglo Saxo gave us our enfranchisemienit for thi love lie had for us. I deniy that lie i it for phtiianthropie reasons. Hie didi bweause he thought lie coul 11use ui: Wheinever the white imn does an thing for us, be it Nortinerzner or Soutl erner, mark my word, it is only bn cause lhe thinks lie can use us as bi tool. It is a umistakeni idea for ust kneel down to the whites. The Angle Saxon and the colored man canst work together; onei or the other wi have to leave andi I am somewhat bAliever in the tale about lie LordI fire. The fire will not burn thle peopl but it will be so warm that our peop! will have to moave on or get burne aind I rather believe that t hey wi move on,. "Ni) moi're faith cani he put inl ti' RbIpublicani than in the D)emoerai They are both Anglo-Saxonis anid di nothing for us unless it, is to the advanitage to (10 so, and will throwr overboard as did Uncle Benin Olu441 son's story as soon1 they finmd us ti heavy. WVe must show otur imndepei dince ando the soonier we do this tl: bettecr. L et sonie of'us leave. G.olt Aiirien i f neessairv. Shuow t hat we en get along without the Aniglo-Saxor and i y this spirit oif ind(epend(emi miake thlem learn iand app4jreciate ou vaiuie. Indllep4endence awld immligr'atiu are in nmy opuinion the only solut ions 1 this great queiLs)tn. The( oratlonl ereatedt a (onmsidlerab) sensatai on d ill be* the kev-inute of c lored conlvenItionl which wvill be hel] iln ('oluiaiI t4oorow to di seuss til lirnwell massacre. It is thooght thm: the recenit lynchinig in 8:arnwell w*i lead. to a general inanliigrationi of nlii NEW L:AW OF THE STATE. Acts Passed at the Late Sesion of the Leainlature. The follownin_ are among the imore inorOt:tut of the Acts passed at the last session of the (General Assemb!v. TIE Co, L.f: E OF ELE)t:s. Ali A ct to amrend Sections 153, 154. 155 anl 157, Chapter VIII. Title II. Iart I, of the General Statutes. relat in<r to the formation and proceedings of the ('ollege of Electors. Section 1. That Sections 153, 154, 155 and 157, Chapter VIII, Title iI, Part I, of the General Statutes, he, and the same are hereby, amended so that said sections, thus anended, shall read as follows: Section 153. The electorsof President and Vice-President shall convene at the Capital, in some convenient place, on the second Monday in .January next after their election; and those of them who shall be assembled at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day shall, irnmc diately after that hour, proceed to a prelimninary or,anizationr, and make such preliminary arrangeients as may be necessary for permanent organiza tion and the casting of the electoral vote of the State. Section 154. The Secretary of State shall prepare three lists of names of the electors, procure to the same the signa ture of the Governor, affix thereto the seal, of the State, and deliver them, thus signed and sealed, to the president ofthe College of Electors on the said second _Monday in January. Section 155. On the said second Mon day in January, at 12 o'clock M., the electors shall meet, at some convenient place at the Capital, and effect a per manrent organization by the election of a president and secretary from their own body, proceed to fill by ballot and by plurality of votes all vacancies in the Electoral College occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to at tend at that hour, of any elector, or occasioned Ly an equal number of votes having been given for two or more can didates for presidential electors, and then there vote by bal o for President and Vice-President, one of whom at least shall not he an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. They shall name in their ballots the persons voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the persons voted for as Vice President. Section 157. The electors shall then, by writing, under their hands, orunder the hands of a majority of them, ap point a person to take charge of the lists so sealed up and to deliver the same to the President of the Senate of the Congress of the United States, at the seat of (overnment, before the second Wednesday in February then next ensuing. In case there shall be no President of the Senate at the seat of Government on the arrival of the person intrusted with the lists of the votes of the electors, then such person is required to deliver the lists of the votes in his custodyv in to the oflice of -the Secretary of State of the United States. FAItMING oCT CONVI1CTS. An A\ct to andi the law in regard to the leasing and hiring out of convicts and to provide for the p)urchtase of a state farm or farms and for the em loymient of the convicts thereon. Section 1. That the board of directors of the State Penitentiary be, and they are hereby, authorized and1 empowered, to purchase out of the surplus earnings of the P0enitentiarv a suitable farm or tarmsii, to b'e worked and p)lan ted by coniets under the supierintendency ol s tid board of directors: Pr widd tiat the price paid therefor shall not exceed foirtv thto:-indl dollars. And the said boarutd is authorized to retain in its hands and1( apply to such p)urchase all surplus mionteys recei vedl and to be re ceived by it from the operations of sauic inistittioni during the past fiscal y'ear P 1rovidled, further, that no farm oi 1farms shatll be purchased in which said directors, or any of them, shall or mtay be directly or indirectly interested. Section 2. Tha,.t no0 contracts for the hiring or leasing of convicts to be em Splayed in phosphate mining shall here Iafter be made byv samd board ofdirectors Sect ion 3. That said farm providet for in Sect ion ! shall have sumteien Celevation to prevent the s:tne fron 111)odsl and overtlows ias near as pra~cti cable. A pproved D)ecemtber 23, 1 89 TIHE~ T \RE ON (oTTo N. oAn Act to amnitd Sect ioni 1,15 os f th GenecralI Stat:utes, relating to tare ior bales oft cotton:. C Sctioni 1. That Section 1, it5 of thi (bneralI Statuiites, relating to tare ori nbali's of cotton, be, and the smant here by is, ainendedl by striking out th whole iof said section and inusertinig th~ followinig in lieu thlereo f, so that sait sectionm, its a mendledl, shoallI read as fol 0lows: Section 1,19~>. l'Te custonm of mak in at deduOctihono fromt thle actual weight o hales oif tumt:tnutfact ured cottont, its : allowav:nce for brea':kage' oir draft thereon s aoiloi,e: andti all ontr*aots madeoI ii relat io)n ti such:l cot tiot shall tic dcmeo and,u tatken, as referring to the true an<o : ion: and' no tare shall lie dleducte< yard- of standard cotton bagging and six iron ties the actual tare, shall be, at d is hereby. fixed at sixteen pounds, and for hales of cotton covered with seven yards of stanu.ard jute bagging and six iron ties the actual tare shall bc, am is herebv, fixed at twenty-four poun-ls; and when buyer and seller agree to sell at net weight, and when bales of cotton are covered with seven yards of standard cotton bagging and six iron ties the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at sixteen pounds, and when bales of cotton are covered with seven yards of standard jute bag ging and :ix iron ties the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixtd at twenty four pounds. TIE RATE OF INTEREST. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 1,285 of the General Statutes, regulating the rate of interest upon any contract arising I in this State for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity," approved December 21, 1882. Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 1,28E of the General Statutes, regulating the rate of interest upon any contract arising in this State for the hiring, lending or use of money or other com modity," approved December 21, 18S2, be, and the same is hereby, amended l,y striking out the word "ten" wher- 1 ever it appears in said section and in serting in lieu thereof the word "eight," S) that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: "Section 1. That Section 1,288 of the General Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word commodity, on the third line of said section, the following words to wit: 'Except upon written contracts, wherein, by express agreenment, a rate of interest not ex ceeding eight per cent, may be charged.' S that said section, when thus amended, shall read as follows: 'No greater rate of interest than seven per centuin per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or allowed upon any contract arising in this State for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity, except upon written contracts wherein, by express agree ment, a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent. may be charged. No person or corporation lending or ad vancing money or other commodity 4 upon a greater rate of interest shall be I allowed to recover in any Court of this 4 State any portion of the interest so un lawfully Rhaaged; and the principal sum, amount or value so lent or ad vanced, without any interest, shall be deemed and taken by the Courts of this State to be the true legal debt or meas ure of damages to all interests and pur poses whatsoever, to be recovered with out costs.' " Provided that the pro visions of this Act shall not apply to sontracts or agreements entered into or discounts or arrangements made prior to the first of March, 1890. woRKING CONvICTS ON THE STREETS. An Act to authorize andl emipower cer-1 tan incorporated towns in the State of South Carolina to substitute hard labor on their streets for fine and im p)risonmieint in cases of misdemeanor which comec under their jurisdiction. Sect ion .1. That all incorporated townrs in the State of South Carolina of three h undred inhabitants or niore are hereby authorized arid empowered to substitute hard labor on their streets for fine and impIlrisonmuent, in cases of imisdemneanior which come under their jurisdictioni: Provided, that in no <.ase shall such sentence to hard labor ex eeed a ternm of thirty days, uniless other wise p)rovided by law. Section 2. That this Act shall take efl'ect from and irmmediateiy after the date of its ap)proval. A pproved Dccemnber 23, 1889. REGi U LAT ING wEIGHTrS AND MEASURES. An Act to provide a purnishment for making use of talse scales, weights or mneasures in buying or selling. Section 1. That anyv person or per sons who shall knowingly make use of anly scales, weights or measures wvhieb fail to conform to the standard thereof prescri bed by law, in buying or selling any goods, wares, miercharndise or orther article, shall be deemed guilty of a mis dIermean or, and upon conviction shall be finied mi a sum of niot more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceed ing thirty days. .Approved Dcembl er 2:. 18s9. TIl E I loMESTEAD LAw An Act to arnenid Sect ion I1,098 of tl.e Genieral Stat utes, relating to thet anlien Iation of homestead. Section 1. That Sect ion I1.998 lbe amienided so t hat the same sha:ll read as follows: '"Section i ,M;S. N\o waiver of the righmt of ho~mi.stead, however solemui, ruade by the head of a fim ilv at any tirme Prior to the ass;inment of the hmomnestead, shall defeat the homestead Iprovided for ini this chapter: Provided, however, that no right of homestead shall exist or be al'owed irn anypr erty, real or p)ers(onal, aliened or muort ,gaged, cit her before or after assigrmnent, by any personi or persons whiomisoever, asa aainst thle title or chniin of thle alienice or m ortgagee or Ihis heir, ' r their heirs or asignis. A pproved)Decem nber 24. 1 5S. THE BARNWELL LYNCHING. vhat some of the Northern Papers Say of It. Fr the Philadelphia North Ameri can, Rep.] Whether the lynched negroes were uilty as charged or not does not enter nto the question. They were in cu: ody of the officer designated by the aw, and as they were negroes, their onviction and execution were certain, f guilty. There was therefore not the east excuse for the lynching beyond he fact that it ministered to the blood hirsty spirit of some two hundred men vho shot the victims. Such an act vould not have happened in a civilized ommnunity. No self-respecting man ould have joined in a statement ex "using the act. We have given the ames of the apologists solely for the murpose of putting them on record as tpologists for mob rule, and hence more owardly than the mob itself. [From the New York Press, Rep.] The people of South Carolina owe it o themselves, their section, and their ountry, to hunt down the Barnwell ynchers and hang them, as Chicago lid the Anarchists, for they are as ruly Anarchists as the ignorant foreign orn bomb throwGrs. From the Indianapolis Journal, Rep.] Our people express great sympathy or the people of Ireland who are vronged by British rule, and the ut uost indignation for the harsh and un ust treatment which the political exiles f Russia receive in Siberia at the iands of the Russiau Government, but ro wrong perpetrated upon Irish )atriots or cruelty inflicted upon Rus ian suspects compares with the revolt ng brutality which the Barnwell out age presents. It has had no parallel in his country since the days when ndian fiends murdered families on the rontier or Sepoys in India massacred ?nglish women. [From the New York Star, Dem.] True to its traditions and the con tant example of its late lamented ditor, the Charleston News and ourier deplores the mob executions at 3arnwell, and calls for the punishment f those who have usurped the supreme )ower of the State. However great the xcitement or ,aggravation leading to uch acts of violence, they must cause nfinitely more harm than good to the ommunities in which they occur and pread still greater evil in the wide ircle over which example reaches. hey furnish a keen and ready weapon o enemies and embarrass the good )ffices of friends. From the i4pringffeld, Mass., Repub lican, Mug.] Governor Richardson has ordered out he militia to preserve order at Barn ;ell, and a committeeof cilizens have ssued a statement which amounts to his: The assassination of several ;hites by blacks; the arrest and in lictmient of several blacks; the lynch ug of said blacks by whites in conse uience of "a state of indignant resent nient among our people that can >etter be imagined than described." This committee should be put under Lock and key. This justification of murder almost in so many words seems beyond belief in a towvn advanced far enoughi to adopt some of the customs and ways of civilization. [From the Philadelphia Times, Dem.] True, five separate murders of whites had been lately committed in that com munity. and it is probable that the murderers were negroes, but it was imply unmixed brutality to butcher eight prisoners without even an at tempt to punish murderers in the Courts. The South can have no hope of law and order while the ruling race meets lawlessness with lawlessness. The Cigarette Law. "An act to prohibit the s,ale, or fur. nishing. or giving, or providing to cer tain minors of cigarettes, tobacco, oi cigaret te paper, or any substitute there. fr-r, and to provide penalties for tht same. Section 1. Be it enacted etc., thai from and after the passage of this act it shall not be la wful for any person os p)ersons, either by hinmself or themi seives, to sell, furnish, give or providt a nyv miinor or minors under the age 01 18 years with cigarettes, tobacco. oj eiszarette paper, or any substitute therefor. "'.~C. :2. That any person or person: violat ing the provisions of the precedini section, either in person, by agent o in any other way, shall be held an< deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, am( upon01 inidictmenCt and conviction there for shall be punished by a fine not ex eedinlg $100) nor less than $:.>, or b; imprisonment for a ternm of no)t mor than one year nor less than two months or both, in the discretion of the court one-half of tile tine imp)osed to be pail to the informer of the offence, and th other half to be paid to the treasure of tihe county in which such convictiol shall be hiad."' A Tre:nendous~ Sens'ation woul have been created one hundre. years ago by tile sight of our moderr express trains whizzing alo)ng at th rate of of sixty miles an hour. Jus think how our grandfathers woubl have stared ait such a spectacle ! I takes a good deal to astonish peopl now-marys but some of mnavelou THE COLORED STATE FAIR. Not a Very Successful Beginning-Eman c iation Celebration Draws the Crowd. The Mauagers Deterin cd. [Special to News and Courier.] COLLMBIA, January 1.-It has been recorded by some veracious historian, who had not the fear of the populace of a future "boom town" before his eye, that at the first Georgia State Fair held at Marthasville, now Atlanta, the only article offered for a prize was an ass of the masculine order, commonlyknown as a "jack." Yes, it goes into history that on the spot where the Kimball House now stands the sonorous saluta tion of this valuable animal first broke the primeval silence and sounded the praises of the future city of Atlanta. In like manner the colored people of South Carolina can regard with prophetic hope the noisy welcome of the first ex hibit entered at their first State Fair. The early novelists describe the sound as approximating in English the eQnlpound expression "cock-a-doodle doo," but in the late vernacular it might be more correctly translated as "er-er-er-er-r-r-h." In short, the first exhibit of the Colored State Fair, e tered on page 1, of Book I, of De ment i, is set down as "1 rouster." While this is a litel'al fact, it is the only joke which it is fair to make at the expense of the "Colored Agricultu ral and Mechanical Society of South Carolina." The officers have done their best. They have worked in season and out of season-for the success of their enter prise. They have invested many of their hard-earned dollars in it, and have talked cheerfully of its prospects, even when the rain sloped down from the north-east chilling their semi tropical hearts and nullifying their hopeful anticipations. The Colored State Fair opened to-day in the grounds of the State Agricul tural and Mechanical Society. There could not have been a worse time for it. The Christmas demonstration is not yet over, the weather is superla tively unsuitable, the time for prepara tion has been short, and the season is not the best for an exhibit of the crops, which must of course be in their prim est condition some months ea4ier. The colored Emancipation celebration, held elsewhere,drew away many who wou'ld have gone to the Fair, and the standard rate of .50 cents admission, which was strictly maintained, frightened off the remainder. It may suit the purposes of some to exaggerate and misstate the conditions of the Fair, but the Bureau, which tells the truth about the State Fair and other events in Columbia,. proposes to place this on the same basis of fact. The field crop department has a num ber of exhibits, most of which are very good. A few samples are as good as any which could be found in the State, but the number of exhibits is discredit ably small. The colored people are able to make ten times as good a show. The fancy work and household de partments are good, all things con sidered, but are subject to the same. criticism as the field crop department. It does not show the possibilities nor the achievemen ts of the negro in South Carolina. The miscellaneous exhibits are chiefly. from Columbia merchants. There are few displays in the machinery depart ments. A few head of fine stock are exhib ited and some poultry. Altogether there are about 600 entries, against over 6,000 at the regular State Fair. The main buildings, the machinery hall and all the enelosures look very hare indeed. Tbe numbers of entries in the various departments, as' announced .by the of ficers, are as follows: Poultry, 27, man ufactures 9, fruit and garden 20, field crop 10, mechanical department .3, stock 55, household and fancy 419. Total 543. There could not have been a worse day for a fair. Old Probs was alto gether against such an ushering in of the New Year, and the weather was as if made to order for an Arctic instead of an Africo-Amnerican celebration. There were hardly a dozen visitors be sides the officers and exhibitors, and the grounds were gloomy indeed, in sp)ite of the excellent work of the colored Wallace Band. It is hoped that the conditions will be more favorable to-morrow, and that the attendance will be remunerative. The Colored State Agricultural and Mechanical Society wa organized last fall through the ins? ru men tality of A. E. Hampton. The officers are: A. E. H-ampton, president, Columbia; J. F. Massey, vice president, Gadsden; H. H. Ely, secretary, A bbeville; E. Wes t<n, treasurer. Gadsden. The other otlicers are: James Robinson, Colum bia; Nelson Williams, Columbia; H. WV. Woodward, Eastover; B. G. Gar rick, Gadsden: W. P. Corley, Lexing ton. Of the capital stock of $2,000 in shares of $2 each, over half has been sub scribed-and about $800 paid in. The Society pays $260 for the use of the groundls, and its other expenses are considerable. Unless the colored peo pIe attendI in much larger numbers than they did to-day the managers will be badly out of pocket. The general sup)erinltendent is Daniel Goodwin, and the officers in charge