Show A BARONY FOR SALE HEAP CHEAP one of th the biot famous of car carolina oila plantations plantation put on th the market I 1 in old ola st SL stephens famous in song and story a parish of beric berkley 1 e 7 cou county t Y on the banks of the tawny santee some fifty miles in a straight line from ther shores chores of the atlantic is a great landed estate whose broad acres level river bottom and rolling highland cultivated fields tangled swamp stately pine grove groups of live oak with here and there a bit of virgin forest fort form n a domain fit for a prince on it according to the charleston news and cour courier ler have lived and died a long succession of cal carolina calolina olina planters all princes in their day to whom while slavery lasted snowy fields of cotton and waving crops of indian corn and smaller grain dyain furnished a princely revenue and the ca cattle atle it if not of a thousand hills of a thousand canebrakes cane brakes was theirs and droves of wild hogs that throve in the thickets of the swamps and blooded horses were their pride all that is ia gone by now the lordly life of the planter has passed aw away kv for efrer slavery has been abali abolished 1 I ae d an and 1 the owner of the land wearied M of t tho the struggle with demoralized freedmen would fain give up tho the R fight and offers his patrimony for aa sale ae for a song for barely enough to support him comfortably fort ably for the decade of life that may yet remain to him there are six thousand acres in that estate which is offered to any taker at very little e over two dollars an acre of that six thousand acres there is arable land capable of producing prod neing a bale of cotton to tho acre twenty to thirty bushels of corn over seventy bushels of oats to eay Y nothing of the possibilities of fruit arul t and vegetables and of horse cattle and hog |