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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SPAIN. 



merly obtained ; four and a half tons per acre 

 of Bermuda-grass hay have been grown on light, 

 sandy lands, specially fertilized, near Charles- 

 ton ; while in other parts of the State, on 

 alluvial lands not fertilized, a meadow had 

 yielded for three years an average of two and 

 a half tons to the acre of the same valuable 

 hay, which is sold in the adjacent markets at 

 from $20 to $25 a ton. 



The returns of the census give the total 

 number of acres cultivated in cotton, corn, and 

 small grains, as 3,090,972, which is 80,442 

 more than all the ''improved land" in the 

 State in 1870. The product of cotton is 516,- 

 490 bales, against 224,500 in 1870, a gain of 

 about 130 per cent. In corn the increase is 

 from 7,614,207 bushels in 1870 to 11,763,729 

 bushels in 1880, or more than 50 per cent. 

 In oats the tables show 2,715,443 bushels, 

 against 613,593 bushels in 1870. In wheat 

 the increase is from 783,610 bushels in 1870 

 to 962,431 bushels in 1880, or nearly 20 per 

 cent. 



The United States Agricultural Report, for 

 1879, shows that the average yield of cotton 

 per acre for all the cotton States in that year 

 was 188 pounds. The smallest yield in any 

 county in South Carolina for 1880 is in Beau- 

 fort, where it is reported at 362, and that was 

 long-staple cotton. The average yield of corn 

 per acre is reported as only nine bushels, 

 against an average yield in the United States 

 in 1879 of twenty -nine bushels. The average 

 yield of wheat is given at 5 - 6 bushels, the crop 

 of the whole country in 1879 having averaged 

 13 '8 bushels. The average yield of oats is given 

 at 13 bushels as against 28'7 bushels average 

 per acre in the United States in 18T9. 



The greatest aggregate yield of cotton, 34,- 

 907 bales, is in Edgefield County; of corn, in 

 York, 626,305 bushels ; of oats, in Edgefield, 

 415,243 bushels ; and of wheat, 107,608 bush- 

 els in Abbeville County. The greatest yield of 

 cotton per acre is in Marlboro', where it is 857 

 pounds; of corn the largest yield is 13*3 bush- 

 els in Kershaw County ; of oats, 18'2 bushels 

 in Georgetown County ; and of wheat, 12 bush- 

 els in Charleston County, the result of experi- 

 mental farming. 



The returns of the census, showing an in- 

 crease in population of about 43 per cent, since 

 1870, were much questioned upon their first 

 publication, in the latter part of the summer, 

 and suspicions that the count had been falsi- 

 fied for political purposes were freely expressed. 

 Superintendent Walker, while confident that 

 the work had been honestly performed, ordered 

 anew enumeration in certain districts showing 

 the largest gains, in order to satisfy the public 

 mind. The investigation substantially cor- 

 roborated the first returns. The recount was 

 taken in eighteen districts in all, and the re- 

 turns were subjected to examination by United 

 States officials and by citizens, the latter being 

 persons of acknowledged reputation and stand- 

 ing, and in nearly every case members of the 



Republican party. The investigation revealed 

 no evidence of fraud, but left no doubt of the 

 defective character of the ninth census in this 

 State. 



The Republican Convention met at Colum- 

 bia, April 27th. Of the delegates attending, 

 forty were white and eighty colored. The 

 Convention instructed its delegates to the Na- 

 tional Convention to support Grant for Presi- 

 dent. 



The Democratic Convention assembled at 

 Columbia, June 1st, to choose delegates to the 

 National Convention, Presidential electors, and 

 State officers. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



The Democratic party of the State of South Carolina, 

 in convention assembled, reiterates its adhesion to the 

 doctrines of the great National Democratic party of 

 the United States, and renews the declaration of the 

 principles laid down in its platforms of 1 87 G and 1878. 

 It has redeemed its pledges to reform the abuses of the 

 State government, to reduce expenditures, and to 

 use the people's money for the benefit of the people 

 only. 



It confidently appeals to the general sense of the 

 country upon its records, and challenges the compari- 

 son of the present happy and prosperous condition of 

 the State with the bitterness, venality, and suspicion, 

 which under Republican misrule distracted our people 

 and sapped the foundations of their prosperity. 



It calls upon all good citizens who favor an honest, 

 economical, and liberal administration to rally to the 

 standard of the Democracy and to lead it to vic- 

 tory. 



The State ticket was nominated as follows : 

 For Governor, General Johnson Hagood ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, John D. Kenedy ; Secretary 

 of State, R. M. Sims; Comptroller-General, J. 

 0. Coit ; Attorney-General, Leroy F. Youmans ; 

 Superintendent of Education, Hugh S. Thomp- 

 son ; Adjutant and Inspector-General, A. M. 

 Manigault; and State Treasurer, J. P. Rich- 

 ardson. 



In the State election Hagood received 117,- 

 432 votes,'and Blair, the Republican candidate, 

 4,277. The other Democratic candidates were 

 elected also by large majorities. In the new 

 Legislature, out of 34 Senators and 124 Rep- 

 resentatives, the Democrats had a majority on 

 joint ballot of 152. 



SPAIN, a kingdom of Southern Europe. 

 King, Alfonso XII, born November 28, 1857 ; 

 proclaimed king December 30, 1874. He was 

 married on January 23, 1878, to Maria de las 

 Mercedes, who died June 26, 1878; and next 

 to Maria Christina, daughter of the Archduke 

 Charles Ferdinand of Austria, born July 21, 

 1858. Daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, Prin- 

 cess of Asturias, born September 12, 1880. 



The area of Spain, inclusive of the Balearic 

 Islands and Canaries, is 508,066-9 square kilo- 

 metres; the population, according to the cen- 

 sus of 1877, was 16,623,384. There were also 

 2,476 inhabitants of the Spanish possessions 

 in Northern Africa, making a total of 16,- 

 625,860. 



The area and population of the foreign col' 

 onies are as follows : 



