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RACING AS A HELP TO CHARLESTON. The Charleston News and Courier reproduces the following dispatch under a Charleston date line from the JarfcsoaviDe Time- Union : "Despite the fact that the impression lias goat abroad that the present season will mark the close of racing In South Carolina, the management is ahead planning tor seat season, when it i- expected l hat a really tir-t da— meeting will be given. Tie- track proper will have settled by next fall ami it should then Ih e of the fastest in the country. If there i- mm stare that racing helps it certainly i- Charleston. There have probably been more houses painted since the racing season opened than in the oa-t dozen years, and some of the people lore are really beginning to get a hustle en, and if the sport is permitted to continue unmolested for a tew years snare, Charleston will in- n live city."