The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-11
THE REAL ESTATE MARKET
The Lands Sold on sales-day.
AABHyILLE.
The Press and Banner SAYS:

| lie PreSS anu DdlQcT says.
In spite of the cold and disagreeable weather
there was large attendance of our fellow-citi
zcns of the district, on Monday last. The
freedmen especially mustered in strong force
Some valuable property was sold, and ut gooC
| prices Real estate of +. A. Calhoun, deceased
! 7s6 acres, sold for $500; S. S. Martin, the pur
chaser. Tract Of the same, GO acres, s400; W.
H. McCaw, purchaser; terms cash. Two
lots in Greenwood, estate of B. NJ.
s225, C. A. C. Waller purchaser; I'd lot l5l
acres. $3.50, same purchaser; terms cash. Real
estate of w. O. Pursey, III acres, $500, 7. w.
Mcmillan purchaser; terms cash. Real estate
of Jane Wilson, deceased, ll2 acres, $1,000, E.
Roche purchaser; terms twelve months credit
House and lot near Abbeville, estate Nathaniel
Cobb, acres, s5l5, Governor Nelson (colored,) J
purchaser; terms twelve months credit.
Real estate OF the same, S94 acres, $3.50,
James H. Cobb purchaser; same terms.
Real estate of the same, LOT acres,
$3.50; same purchaser, and same terms. Real
estate of the same, l0Gi acres, $3.50; same pur-
chaser, on the same terms. The valuable Mar
shall property In the village, consisting OF II
acres. with improvements ts-dwelling, vineyard.
each, and sold at public outcry to different
purchasers, and at the following rates: No. l.,
the dwelling, was purchased BY Miss Sallic
Martin, at s4O5O; No. 2, the vineyard, by Jas.
8. Cothran, Esq, ut $3.50; Nos. aud 4, near
the Female Academy, by W. J. Smith, for sGGO.
Terms one-fourth cash, balance Oh q credit of
one and two years
LAURENS.
The Herald says:
On Monday last the following sacs of real
estate were made by officers Of the court:
The sheriff sold one tract of 400 acres, at s5l75:
260 acres, $500. BY order of the Court of
of Equity, the clerk sold one tract, 90 acres, at
f.ay.
$3.50. The sheriff sold for judge Of probate,
one tract of 65 acres, for $3.50, 3 and three
quarter acres $40, SO acres for $1,000, 22l
acres STOPS, 20 acres sos and y acres for
s9O5. There was a large attendance. We
learned that the negroes in the district are
contracting very generally as laborers for
this year, on the terms of last-in some cases,
but rarely declining third Of the crop.
MARLBORO.
The Bennettsviiie Journal says:
On Monday last, sales-day, and the first
Monday in the new year, there was q very
large turnout OF the people of Marlboro and
neighboring districts, and there seemed to
have been a very large amount oil business
transacted between parties who met ut the
courthouse during the day. An unusual num-
ber ofcolored people were in the village, look
ing out for homes for the current year. con-
siderable amount of bad whiSkcy must have
been drank during the day, as there were
number of boisterous aud noisy people in town
in the afternoon. But there was no disturb
ance of any kind, and the day closed quietly.
Property that was sold on Monday brought
good prices One tract of land. the property
OF j. C. Watson, containing 100 acres, sold
for sI0S5, s. j. Townsend, ESQ.,, bein. tho
purchaser. ]. Gillcspic's land, 400 acres,
was bought by Fl. T.. Moore for $1,000. One
lot in Bennettsvie, with stables and barn
thereon, the property Of DR.. w. ID. Wallace,
was purchased by J. B. Brecden, Esq, for
$3.50. Personal property sold equally high. =
BARNWELL.
On Monday last quite crowd assembled
here, Notwithstanding the day was disagreed
BILE and cold. \ large lot of property was dis
posed of BY the sheriff, clerk and probate
Judge as follows: 22S acres, +. Holman's land,
sold for $780,; eighth shares OF 325 acres, Chcv-
a,,x's land, brought slO0; $50 acres, U. Brun-
sons land, for $500; IL tracts OF lands near
Aiken, belonging to the estate OF S. H. Weeks,
brought sG500; one other tract, also situated
near Aiken, and belonging to the estate OF David
Segler, sold for S3050. A lot in the Town OF
Bamberg, containing four acres, for s3l0:
A tract OF land near the Village of Barnwell
brought $4,000. Several tracts of land near
Midway, containing 2227 acres, sold as follows:
Tract A, 339 acres, 81 80 per acre; Tract Is, 40S
acres S3 SIS per acre Tract G. 307 acres, 81 80 per
acre; Tract ID, 655 acres, for 50 per acre; Tract
E, containing sic acres, for 81 per acre. This
land, we understood, was afterwards sold by
the buyers for 81 an acre.