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the school at Cainhoy. Rev. R. F. Clute, the rector, has now twelve 

 pupils in the school. He has been requested by the vestry to endeavor 

 to supply the missing records. The fund is in careful hands, and is 

 increasing. 



The Beresford Bounty is specially noteworthy, first, from its great an- 

 tiquity, and second, from its being the only colonial endowment still in 

 healthy existence. 



THE COKESBURY SCHOOL. 



The first school of high grade in that section of the country was es- 

 tablished at " Old Tabernacle Church," about two miles from Cokesbury. 

 The first teacher, 1821-1824, was Mr. Stephen Olin, of Vermont, who 

 subsequently entered the Methodist ministry, and became professor in 

 the University of Georgia, President of Randolph Macon College, and 

 President of the Wesleyan University at Middletown. His school was 

 moved to " Mt. Ariel," its present site, for hygienic reasons, and was pre- 

 sided over by the Rev. Joseph Travis. In 1836, it was turned over to 

 the Conference, which converted it into a 



MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL, 



the students working five hours a day, and receiving a discount on board 

 and tuition. This feature was soon abandoned. About the year 1844, 

 Mr. Holloway, then living near old Cambridge, endowed the school with 

 $20,000, the interest being applied to the board and tuition of the 

 sons of Methodist ministers in the Conference. Only $2,000 remained 

 after the war, the interest of which is still used in the same way. 

 The school is a three-story building, fifty by sixty feet. It is now in 

 charge of Mr. Reid, a competent teacher. The attendance numbers 

 about fifty, and is mostly local. 



THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY, 



of Charleston, was the oldest and richest of these associations. It existed 

 as a semi-educational corporation for nearly a hundred years. In 1846, 

 its capital amounted to $116,455.17, notwithstanding a loss of $17,000 

 through the United States Bank. About that time it supported fifty 

 widows or families, and was educating twelve children. A little later it 

 gave instruction to seventy-two pupils. Upon the rise of public schools 

 in Charleston, the Society put an end to the educational feature, and de- 



