Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-02-01
SOUTH G C.ROLlNA's GROWTH.
Marvellous Evidences Of Thrift
and Prosperity.
Eronn the Annn8tn csronicle.

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To those of our readers who had no
kept up with the material progress o
South Carolina the figures Of our Co
lumbia correspondent Sunday morn
ing amounted to revelation NJ
State in this Union can present {
more satisfactory record, notwith
st.pding misrule and corruption du
ring portion Of the time-for tht
past ten years-and no State Cal
claim with confidence q future more
assuring. The first notification K
the country that South Carolina hat
taken up with vigor her march ii
material things was the publication
of the Tenth census H4r increase
Of population was found 60 be sstound
ing, and her growth IN agricultural
and manufacturing industries wes al
most correspondingly large: Durina
the past three years, however, the
Estate has made giant strides How
better can such statements be EN-
phssizsd than by reproducing the
figures of our Columbia correspon
dent.
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Verify do these statistics speak
volumes for the prosperity and for
the prospects ofSouth Carolina. With
such Improvement, secured too du
ring time when most disastrous
financial panic had crippled the beat
growth of the whole country, the
impr.' sment Of South Carolina at
al period was as E.arked and as
wonderful as her recupera'ion from
the blight of civil war. What more
assuring argument can Kansas or
iowa or Wisconsin make for the set
tlement OF the immigrants, for the
employment Of labor or for the in
vestment of capital than South Caro-
lima has iorclbly set forth in these
figures :? Nor ia it alone to the for
eigd laborer that she appeals. There
is a lesson to every Southern farmer
in the fact that in last years cultivs
ton there were half million more
acres planted il grain han in cotton
The State, too, is taking prominent
position in spinning the staple which
grows abundsntly IN her fields. The
productiveness OF some Of the cotton
mills OF Carolina has grown to be
part Of the history Of Augusta, still
the following figures, taken from our
Columbie- latisr intaresstt;---
m snis connection:
IN 1870 there were 745 looms and
54.6S5 spindles in the cotton milla N
the State, and the capital invested
vas 81, $4,000 The mills paid in
wages that year S257.6So. and EN-.
ployed l23 hands. They consumed
i 750 623 pounds Of cotton, and the
value of all the products of the mills
war 81. .52e,957. In 1880 there were
l.776 looms, % 7s6 spindles; capital
invested. So 768 500; wages paid
S34O l66; hands employed, 2 1875;
pounds of cotton consu med. 1859,
500, and the value of ell the products
was So 75o,77o
With such q record no fears need
be felt of the future Of great State
or Of the rosperty OF a noble leo
pie. They have secured govern
ment as /. nest and as conservative
as any in the Uuion, and they b We
gone to work til, mselves to prove
that theirs is State to be sought by
others coming into this country. South
Csrolina during the recent war suffer-
ed heavi =, but in her ,ecuperation
from these wrongs she has shown
more heroism than the couQuerer OF
hundred battles. Fer best people
are in the fields at work her most
skilltui hands are at the loom, and
her readiest wits are ct the wheels Of
government or are devising means
tor the more complete develop ment
of her resources. Many oijecticna-
Bile features OF the old regime have
passed away and have been replaced
BY a newer, stronger and healthier
CT ,ilization, upheld by the dignity OF
labor and frightened by the hope OF
her people In ante-bellum days 1t
use | to be the belief OF many polli:-
clans that South Carolina longed to
be the head and centre Of new Re
public of this section. Time hes
changed all that, but it would oe no
lowering Of her destiny were her peo'
pie to resolve to make her one OF thu
New South in the restored Union
10 rank with Georgia as an Empire
State.
oscar Wilde, Jumbo, Tug WILSON
and Mrs Langtry.