G04 TOAVXS OF SOUTH CAEOLINA. 



lancous, $oO,000. The manufacturing industries consist of a cotton mill, 

 a rice mill, and two wagon factories, employing about one hundred 

 liands, at wages of $1 to $2 a day. There is a weekly newspaper. The 

 annual shipments of cotton average 10,000 bales, to Charleston and New 

 York. 



SUMTER COUNTY 



has eighteen towns and trading settlements, with one hundred and sixt}^- 

 two stores, to wit : Sumterville, seventy-five stores ; Maysville, twenty-one 

 stores ; Bishopville, twelve stores ; Magnolia, seven stores ; Providence, 

 Wedgefield, and Lynchburg, six stores each ; Mannville and Shiloh, five 

 stores each ; Spring Hill and Statesburg, four stores each ; Sanders' and 

 Boykin's, two stores each ; Bossards, Claremont, Durant, Mechanicsville, 

 one store each. Of this number seven deal in liquor, one in hardware, 

 eight in dry goods, twenty-nine miscellaneous, and one hundred and sev- 

 enteen in general merchandise. Seven are kept by colored persons. 

 The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is $812,000. 



Sumterville, on the Columbia and Wilmington railroad, near the head- 

 waters of the Wynee river, was founded in 1800. It occupies a level site 

 on sandy soil, three-fourths of a mile in each direction from the court 

 house square as a centre. There is an intendant and four wardens, with 

 a chief of police, an assistant, and three regular policemen. There are 

 ten miles of streets, with elevated sidewalks of rammed clay. Besides a 

 fine courthouse building, there is a music hall fitted for public amuse- 

 ment ; charges per night, including rent, license and lights, $20.00. 

 There are five churches for the whites : one Episcopal, one Methodist, 

 one Baptist, one Presbyterian, one Catholic. The colored poj)ulation have 

 three churches : two Methodist and one Baptist. The educational estab- 

 lishments are the Sumter Institute, the St. Joseph's Academy (Catholic), 

 the Sumter public S'^hool for whites, cost $1,200, pupils 200 ; the Lincoln 

 public school, colored, cost $1,200, pupils, 250, and several private schools. 

 Stores rent from $12.50 to $60.00 a month ; dwelling houses from $5.00 

 to $20.00. The town taxes are four-tenths per cent, on real, and two- 

 tenths per cent, on personal property, realizing on the assessments about 

 $2,000 per annum. The indebtedness of the town is $12,000 for the 

 music hall, fire engines and floating indebtedness from 1872 to 1878, in- 

 terest, seven and eight per cent, Sumterville was only a small village 

 until the railroad was built from Columbia to Wilmington, in 1854. 

 Besides these connections, it is the present terminus of the Central rail- 

 road to Charleston, and has connection with Camden. About 12,000 bales 

 of cotton are shipped annually. The yearly sales are estimated at, pro- 

 visions, $250,000; dry goods, $200,000; hardware, $150,000; miscel- 



