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The South Carolina Gazette,' pub
lished in Charleston in 1744, by Mrs.
Elizabeth Timothy.
21. Printer John Miller,' who
published the famous letters of ''Ju-
MUS" and removed to Pendleton, S.
c., in 1885, published the first paper
in the ''Up-C Country the first to be
established so far West in the United
States.
22. The first Baptist church in
the South, was the old First
Church." of Charleston.
%. 1t is usually claimed that the
first fire insurance company in the
! United States was established in
Philadelphia in 1853. But the honor
of having introduced the practice of
insuring against fire upon the West
ern continent belongs to Charleston,
S. c.. where in 1885 was launched
THE Friendly Society for the Mutual
Insurance of Houses Against Fire. y
This society flourished until 174O,
when it fell in the great confiagra-
ton of that devastated city.
"a. South Carolina had a cotton
mandatory for making homespun
cloth, run by water power several
years before 1890. The first in the
South at least.
25. Before the Revolutionary war
the Carolinas and Florida supplied
clays for the first porcelain works in
England, and Wedgewood long con-
tinued to get material for some of
his finest productions from South
Carolina. There were porcelain pot
teries established near Camden
which caused great concern to
Wedgewood.
26. The first Bible society, in
America was organized in Charles
ton in 1910, antedating by some
years all others, including the Phila-
delphia and the American Baptist
Publication societies.
27. William Wells, of Charleston,
in 1914, was the first scientist to an
nounce the present accepted theory
of dew, and preceded Darwin in his
teaching relating to the origin of
species.
20. DR.. y Marion Sims, of Char
lesion, introduced new methods of
surgery, invented new surgical in
struments which made operations
possible which were never before at
tempted, and built, or instigated' the
first hospital in the world for women;
29. The first elaborate research
work in organic chemistry done by
an American, was performed by j.
Laurence Smith, of Charleston, in
1912.
80. DR.. Norwood, of South Caro-
lima, was the first person to call at
tention to the medicinal value of
veratum viride, now used extensive
ly in medicine.
81. Indigo was first grown in
America and used as dye, by a
young girl of Charleston, many years
before the Revolutionary war. The
girl was. Eliza Lucas, afterwards the
wife Of Chief Justice Pinckney, and
the mother of Charles Cotesworth
and Thomas Pinckney.
80. Rice was first grown in South
Carolina before 1871, years earlier
than the date usually assigned to it's
introduction by Landgrave Smith.
33. South Carolina was the first
State in the union, and until 1888,
the only one, to establish phosphate
industries from native phosphate
rock.
"a. South Carolina was the first
State in the union to plant sea island
or long staple cotton, introduced
from the Barbados in 1776.
35. Mr.. Lewis M. Aver, of old
Barnwell district, who died in 1860,
at the age of 95 years, for many
years used on his plantation cotton
seed as fertilizer.
Sc. The honey peach was frs,
grown by Mr.. Henry Lyons, of Co.
lumbia, in 1856, in 1857 they were
propagated by Berckmans, of Angus
ia, Ga.
81. L. Vanuxen, while a profess
sor in the South Carolina College,
was the first scientist to point out
the probable absorption of atmos-
pheric gases by the earth's crust,
and consequent secular changes of
the terrestrial atmosphere.
3S. The first publication in Amer
lea for very small children was THE
Rosebud edited by Mrs. Caroline
Gilman, of Charleston, in 1882, five