Show beatch elleian EA LEian N 0 april 12 special for some time there have been threats that the labor agent who have been carr pinE off the negroes southward in such immense numbers would be punished if they did not desist nearly all the agents left the state early in march when the crop season began and declared that aney would not return until late next autumn they were warned that the farmers would not submit to the disturbance of labor at this season of the years when contracts are made and farm work is actively in progress one agent ventured to go ahead despite the warning and made his appearance at the little town of scotland neck this morning he is a white mae and was waited upon by a party of citizens who gave him a severe beating and he was then made to leave the place |