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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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our and grist mills, 1,313;saw mills, 776 ; latest reported value oyster fisheries, $60,000;number boats engaged in general fisheries, about 3,000; coppermined, 1,640,000 lbs. State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after firstMonday in November; number Senators, 50; Representatires, 120;sessions biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting Wednesday afterfirst Monday in January; limit of session, 60 days; terms of Senatorsand Representatives, two years each. Number electoral votes, 11;number voters, 294.750; native white, 187,637; foreign white, 2,095;colored, 105,018. Convicts are excluded from voting. Pomilation, 1,399,750: male, 687,908; female, 711,842; native,1,3G6!0C8; foreign, 3,742; white, 867,242; colored, 531,278; Indians,l,i30. Slaves, i860, 331,059. Public school system adopted 1840; at present over 2,000 pubVpschools in operation; school age, 6-21. Legal interest rate, 6; by contract, 8; usury forfeits interest. ATLAS OF THE WOULD.S^AP OF NORTH CAROLINA. 107
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108 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?■ South Kar-o-llua.Palmetto State. Named in honor of Charles II. of England, by whom the provincewas created in 1663. One of the thirteen original States. Firstpermanent settlement made by English at Port Royal, 1670,Famous nullification troubles occurred 1832-33; led by J. C. Cal-houn, and oppoeed vigorously by Pres. Jackson, during which hisfamous expression by the Eternal was first used. SecededNovember, 18()0; re-admitted June, 1868. Area, 30,170 square miles; extreme length, 275 miles; greatestbreadth, 210 miles; coast liue, 200 miles. Largest rivers, Savannah,Great Pee Dee, Santee and Edisto. Number counties, 84. Temperature at Charleston: summer, 79° to 83°; winter, 50°to 54°:rainfall, 43 inches; frosts scldcm occur. Aiken, noted winter resortfor consumptives. Deaths, consumption, 1.5 per 1,000 population. Charleston, largest city; laid out 1C80; population, 49,984; port ofentry; seat of a Catholic bishop. United States customs dis

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