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ing licenses are included among those reported 

 as holding third-grade certificates. 



The average length of session for the schools 

 during the year 1885-'86 was 3 months, the 

 same as the year before. 



South Carolina College in 1885-'86 had 213 

 students. The year 1886-'87 began with 183. 



Claflin College, at Orangeburg, was found- 

 ed in 1869, and is intended for the higher edu- 

 cation of the colored youth of both sexes. The 

 faculty is composed of ten teachers, and the 

 annual attendance exceeds 400. Special at- 

 tention is given to practical industries; schools 

 of farming, carpentry, printing, and domestic 

 economy are in successful operation. 



In the Military Academy, the scholastic year 

 1886-'87 opened with 62 beneficiary cadets and 

 50 pay cadets. 



The Institution for the Education of the Deaf 

 and Dumb and the Blind has an enrollment of 

 94 pupils, an increase of 9 over the year pre- 

 ceding. Notwithstanding this increase, there 

 remains of the appropriation for the mainte- 

 nance of the institution an unexpended balance 

 of $1,257.85. 



In the Lunatic Asylum at the beginning of 

 the year there were 605 patients, of whom 363 

 were white, 242 colored, and 12 were absent 

 on probation, 237 were admitted during the 

 year, making the whole number under treat- 

 ment 854. In the fiscal year 1875-'76 the per 

 capita cost was $203.83 ; the per capita cost 

 for the last fiscal year was $140.25. 



Penitentiary. At the beginning of the last 

 fiscal year there were 945 prisoners confined 

 in the Penitentiary, of whom 865 were colored 

 and 80 white. During the year 553 prisoners 

 Were received, of whom 516 were colored and 

 37 white. The discharges during the year, for 

 various causes, were 513, leaving in confine- 

 ment at the end of the fiscal year 878 colored 

 males and 38 colored females, and 64 white 

 males and 5 white females, aggregating 985 

 prisoners, an increase of 40 as compared with 

 the corresponding period of last year. Of 

 these there are 



On phosphate-works 102 



la shoe and hosiery factories 201 



On the different farms 227 



Within the walls and on the canal 455 



The aggregate expenses of the institution 

 for the year appear to have been $66,785.37. 

 The receipts were $60,456.69, of which $40,- 

 100.04 was received from convict-hire. The 

 institution has, however, $11,916.66 to its 

 credit, due by lessees of convicts. There were 

 39 deaths during the year. 



State-House. During the session of 1884 the 

 sum of $75,000 was appropriated for the pur- 

 pose of defraying the expenses of continuing 

 the construction of the State-House. The 

 same sum was appropriated in 1885. The 

 amount paid out during the last fiscal year was 

 $72,658.44 ; the amount paid the previous year 

 was $8,158.24 ; the amount to be paid on con- 

 tracts already made, $51,551.06, aggregating 



$132,367.74. The sum necessary to complete 

 the main building is estimated at $61,600. 



Agriculture. The following table shows the 

 yield of field-crops in 1885-'86 : 



The total area in cultivation in the principal 

 crops was reduced 75,538 acres below last 

 year. This reduction can only be accounted 

 for by the destruction of crops on bottom- 

 lands, and the failures to replant on such 

 lands. The prices of all agricultural products, 

 with the exception of oats, rye, and barley, 

 show a decline as compared with 1885. 



Phosphates. The State receives a royalty 

 from phosphate-rock removed from navigable 

 streams. During the past year there have been 

 removed from these streams 191,174 tons of 

 rock against 171,671 tons in 1885, an increase 

 of 19,503 tons. The royalty has amounted to 

 $196,089.88, against $176,754.91 in 1885, an 

 increase of $19,334.97. It is important to note 

 in this connection that a very small part of the 

 river rock is used by' home manufacturers of 

 fertilizers. During the past year the ship- 

 ments to foreign and domestic ports amounted 

 to 180,068 tons, leaving only 11,106 tons man- 

 ufactured into fertilizers in the State. The 

 Carolina fertilizer companies manipulate the 

 land phosphate- rock almost exclusively. 



Political. The Democratic State Convention 

 met in Columbia on August 4, and adjourned 

 on the following day, having nominated the 

 following ticket : For Governor, J. P. Rich- 

 ardson ; Lieu tenant- Governor, W. L. Mauldin ; 

 Secretary of State, W. Z. Leitner ; Comptroller- 

 General, W. E. Stoney; Attorney- General, 

 Joseph H. Earle ; State Treasurer, I. S. Barn- 

 berg; Adjutant and Inspector, A. M. Mani- 

 gault ; Superintendent of Education, J. H. 

 Rice. This ticket was elected, there being no 

 opposing candidates. The vote for Governor 

 was only 33,154. Seven Democratic Congress- 

 men were declared elected. The Legislature 

 is Democratic, there being only two Repub- 

 lican Senators and four Republican Represen- 

 tatives. The Senate has two colored members, 

 and in the House there are six colored men, 

 two of whom are Democrats. 



Two constitutional amendments were ap- 

 proved. The vote was as follows: 



Bond amendment. Yes, 17,462 ; no, 5,319. 



Census amendment. Yes, 16,799 ; no, 5,854. 



Farmers' Convention. A convention of farm- 

 ers was held in April for the purpose of con- 

 certing united action in behalf of the agricult- 



