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SOUTH CAROLINA. South Kar-o-l[=i]'na.
"PALMETTO STATE."
Named in honor of Charles II. of England, by whom the province was created
in 1663. One of the thirteen original States. First permanent settlement
made by English at Port Royal, 1670. Famous nullification troubles occurred
1832-33; led by J. C. Calhoun, and opposed vigorously by Pres. Jackson,
during which his famous expression "by the Eternal" was first used. Seceded
November, 1860; re-admitted June, 1868.
Area, 30,170 square miles; extreme length, 275 miles; greatest breadth, 210
miles; coast line, 200 miles. Largest rivers, Savannah, Great Pee Dee,
Santee and Edisto. Number counties, 84.
Temperature at Charleston: summer, 79deg to 83deg; winter, 50deg to 54deg;
rainfall, 43 inches; frosts seldom occur. Aiken, noted winter resort for
consumptives. Deaths, consumption, 1.5 per 1,000 population.
Charleston, largest city; laid out 1680; population, 49,984; port of entry;
seat of a Catholic bishop. United States customs districts at Beaufort,
Charleston and Georgetown.
First railroad to use American locomotives, the South Carolina, built
1830-33; number miles railroad January 1, 1886, 1,693.
Number farms, 1860, 33,171; 1870, 51,889; 1880, 93,864. Average value per
acre, cleared land, $6.24; woodland, $8.64.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $3,500
Lieut. Gov. 1,000
Sec'y of State. 2,100
Treasurer 2,100
Compt'ller Gen. 2,100
Attorney Gen. 2,100
Supt. Pub. Inst. 2,100
Com'r Agricult. 2,100
Adj & Insp. Gen. 1,500
Chief Justice 4,000
Asso. Justices 3,500
Clerk of Supreme Court 1,000
Senators, } $5 pr. day
Representatives } mileage 10 cents.
District Judge 3,500
Col. Int. Rev. 3,250
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Aiken $1,600
Anderson C.H. 1,400
Beaufort 1,400
Camden 1,300
Charleston 3,200
Chester C.H. 1,400
Columbia 2,500
Florence 1,200
Georgetown 1,100
Greenville C.H. 2,000
Marion 1,100
Newberry C.H. 1,500
Orangeb'h C.H. 1,300
Rock Hill 1,000
Spart'nb'h C.H. 1,800
Sumter C.H. 1,600
Union 1,000
Winnsborough 1,200
Yorkville 1,000
Number of flour and grist mills, 720; value of lumber products, $2,031,507;
tar and turpentine, $1,893,206; oyster fishery, $20,000; sea, river and
lake fisheries, $192,482. Ranks first in phosphates; production, 332,077
tons; value, $1,992,462.
Gold mines in Abbeville, Edgefield and Union counties; first mint deposits,
$3,500 in 1827; aggregate to June 30, 1883, $1,468,854. White and
variegated marbles found in Spartanburgh and Laurens counties.
Population 995,577: male, 490,408; female, 505,169; native, 987,891;
foreign, 7,686; white, 391,105; colored, 604,332; Chinese, 9; Indians, 131.
Number persons per square mile, 33. Slaves, 1860, 402,406.
State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday
in November; State Senators, 35; Representatives, 124; sessions annual,
meeting fourth Tuesday in November; limit of session, none; term of
Senators, 4 years; of Representatives, 2 years.
Number electoral votes, 9; number voters, 205,789; colored, 118,889; native
white, 82,910; foreign white, 3,990. Insane, inmates of asylums,
alms-houses and prisons, U. S. army and duelists excluded from voting.
Number colleges, 9; school population, 262,279; school age, 6-16.