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sonage, and several outbuildings for the accommodation of boarders. 

 The Rev. Willard Richardson has for a number of years labored most 

 acceptably as Principal, assisted by three white ladies. In 1880, of the 

 pupils in attendance one hundred were preparing to teach, and twenty to 

 enter the ministry. Pupils of the school have taken high stands in How- 

 ard University and other institutions of learning. 



The Schofield School, in Aiken, has been supported for a number 

 of years by funds from the North. It has handsome buildings, and is 

 well fitted up. About one hundred thousand dollars, in all, have been 

 expended in its support. 



XL PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 



According to Ramsay and others, " Newspapers were first published in 

 South Carolina, in or about 1730, by Lewis Timothy." Prof. Rivers 

 doubts this, as the Legislature, in 1731, passed an Act offering induce- 

 ments " for the encouragement of a printer to settle here." Mr. King, in 

 his sketch of the newspaper press of Charleston, shows that, in 1730, Mr. 

 King offered to print, at his own charge, the laws of the Province, and 

 argues from this that there was no newspaper in the colony. According 

 to him, the first new^spaper, " The South Carolina Gazette, appeared on 

 Saturday, January 8th, 1731-2," under the management of Thomas 

 Whitmarsh. It was published weekly, at a cost of £o, and was a quarto, 

 of eleven and a half by seven inches, containing two columns to the page. 

 A copy of the first issue is or was in the Charleston Library. It contains 

 the announcement of the passage of a charter for the establishment of 

 the Colony of Georgia ; while the number, bearing date January 20th, 

 1732, chronicles the arrival of James Oglethorpe and over a hundred 

 colonists. 



A press for printing pamphlets was established, by parties now un- 

 known, in 1731. George Webb and Eleazer Phillips, Jr., came over about 

 the same time, and the latter is believed to have established a paper, 

 called the South Carolina WeeJcly Journal, but no number of it appears 

 elsewhere than in the notice of the settlement of his estate. 



The Gazette, which was the fifth newspaper in America, flourished for 

 a long time without a rival in Carolina. Whitmarsh died in 1733, of 

 yellow fever, and was succeeded by Lewis Timothy. The Gazette was 

 conducted in turn by himself, his wife, his son, and other parties, under- 

 going several changes of name. Indeed, it appears that every paper in 



