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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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In Columbia, S.C., August 7: Heavy rains damaged spring and summer crops, especially lowlands, yielding about half normal corn and cotton but sufficient supply; bread stuffs remain high, with corn at $1/bushel and flour at $12/barrel.
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Bread stuffs continue to be high in and near this place; and there appears to be but little prospect of speedy depression in price; for the present crop has suffered so much by the incessant rains that have fallen during the Spring and Summer, that the general impression seems to be that there will not be much more than half a crop made of either Corn or Cotton. The lowland generally has suffered most, and in many instances there has been a total loss; but in many places, particularly in the high land, the crop is good so that upon the whole it is probable there will be a sufficiency made to supply every want.
Corn has been sold during the present summer in this place as high as $1 a bush. and is at present selling at a dollar; and flour was sold within a few days past at the high price of $12 dollars a barrel.
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Columbia, (S. C.)
Event Date
August 7.
Outcome
corn sold at $1 a bush., flour at $12 a barrel; general impression of half crop of corn and cotton, with sufficiency to supply wants.
Event Details
Bread stuffs high in and near Columbia; present crop suffered from incessant rains in Spring and Summer, lowland total loss in many instances, high land good; corn sold as high as $1 a bush. this summer, now at $1; flour sold at $12 a barrel recently.