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Farias Yield $29,600. Penitentiary Super it U mlcnt has Amount in Hank ? Plan to Itureu.-e Revenue. Special t?? Charleston Post. Columbia, Jan. 2. ? Capt. D. J. Gritlitb, superintendent of the State penitentiary, stated this morning that ho had cleared on the State farms thin year $20,GOO and has that amount in hank. Thia may tie increased before the entire crop for the year is settled up. Mr. Jesse T. (Jantt is working! on a nlau to tu inir revenue to the a p State. As secretary of the sink-* ing fund commission Mr. Gantt is pushing claims for hack tuxes against the Standard Oil Company Armours, an A others who use their own rolling stack. The Pullman company is taxed heavily on its rolling stock: why not these others? The matter is being agitated in Mississippi and that State expects to get, something like a million dollars in back taxes. Jealous suitor"? Deed. Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 2.? I Miss Mary Martin, who waa sbot at a dance last night near Mayodan, Rockingham county, died today. John liana, who was deeply enamored of her, naked for a dance. Sho declined and without warning ho pulled out n pistol and shot her, the ball passing through her chest. At the preliminary trial this eveuing Gans was sent to Wentwos th-jail. Reports from there indicate that for fear of lynching the prisoner will be brought here. VJUUUH3, CWI j IJ.~) A IN U O 1 1> PATIONFew people reulize when taking cough medicines other than Fo ley's Honey and Tar, that they contain opiates which are constipating besides being unsafe, particularly for children. Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates, is safe and sure and will not constipate. T. Kugcne Fonder bur k. Blizzard Over Ohio. Cleveland, Jan. 2. ? One of the worst blizzards experienced in years was recorded today throughout the greater portion of Ohio. Traffic on all electric and steam roads is delayed. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the y/tTsj . I Signature of Notice to Pensioners. T will be at the Court House every Saturday In January 1904. to meet new applicants for Pensions, and to fix all Pension Papers in a condition to go before the County Pension Hoard Respectfully. YV B. BRUOE, Pen. Com. I... C. Notice to Trespassers. Hunting, Shooting, riding, driving, walking, cutting timber, damaging or cutting fence?, permitting dogs, lings, stock and cattle to run at large, and trespassing in any manner, upon such lands as are owned or controlled by us in Indian Hand and Waxhaw Towiisllins. and lis'iilnr ill miv ni#n. ner in the streams belonging to these lands are foi bidden under penalty of the law on and after December the t fifteenth, lbO.'t J. Douglas Nisbet, J. M. Nisbet, E. VV. Nisbet. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of all dis-' eases. FOLEY'S eSKit or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by eminent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles.' PRICE 50c. and $1.00. An Ordinance To Raise Supplies For The Fiscal Year Commencing Jan. 1st, 1904. He it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Lancaster, rf in Council assembled, and by the authority o' the same, to provide for Mipplie* and nicessary expenses of the town. Section 1. That the following tax* es be and are hereby levied for the fiscal year 1904, that is to say: 1st. A tux of fifty cent* 011 each $100.00 of the value of all roul and per. eon-il property within the corporate limits of the Town of I ancaster, 8 C., due and payable between the firat and thirty first days of November 1004, at the ofllce of the Town Treasurer; and all tuxes due and remaining unpaid on the 1st day <>' December 11)04, shall be subject to a pe talty of fifteen per cent, for the nonpayment of taxes when due. Ami the Town Trepsurer after default in the payment of said taxes, shull issue execution directed to any policeman of the Town or Sheriff of the County for the delinquent tux es, costs and penalties followiug the mode for c dlecting delinquent taxes as now provided by Stute laws. 2nd. The following licenses shall be paid in advance on or for the fols lowing vocati mis, businesses or piivileges, and it shall be unlawful for any one to engage in or follow any of the following businesses or vocations wiU'iu the corporate limits of the Tow i without first paying the license here in after stated for sa'd calling or business; and where the liceuse is based upon income from said - business or vocation, the income derived from said lu iness or vocation for the last fPcal year ending December 31st, 1903, glial! 1?3 1 tie basis for the amount to he paid, and it shall he the duty of eacli person, firm or corporation following any business or calling where license is based upon income,to furnish the Town Treaturer, upon demand, with a statement, under oath, showing the amount derived from said business or vocatioh for the last fiscal year ending December 31st, 1903 aud in any case# where license is desired to follow any of said vocations or business s during the fiscal year 1903 that are based upon income for same by beginner-', new comers or transient practitioners, the lowest schedule shall bj tlie amount to be paid for the year or any part (hereof, when not otherwise specified: Attorneys at Law, each or tirin, with income $500. per annum, or less, per year $ 5 00 With income over $500. and not over $1,000 per annum, per year, 10 00 For each additional $100. of income over $1,000, per annum. peY year, 1 00 Practicing Physicians, eacli or firm, with income $500. per annum, or less, per year, 5 00 With income over $500. and not over $1,000. per annum, per year 10 00 For each additional $100 of income over $l/>00 per annum, per year, 1 00 Dentista or tooth extractors.resideut. each or firm, with income $500 per annum, or less, per year, 5 00 With income over $5oo and not over $l,ooo per annum, per year lo oo For each additional $!oo of income over $l,ooo per annum, per year 1 oo Dentiats or tooth extractors (transient.) per week, $!.oo; per month, 5 oo Brokeis or Commission Merchants, each or firm, with income $>oo per annum, or less, per year, 5 oo With income ovor $5oo and not over $l,ooo per annum, per year, lo oo For each additional $loo of income umi ?i,uuu por ?uuiiiii, per year l oo Telegraph Companies, or Agencies, each, for business done exclusively within the Town of Lancaster, but not including any .busintss done to or from points without tho State and not including nny business done lor tho Government of the United States, its officers or agents, 4o oo Express Companies or Agencies, each for business done exclusively within the Town of Lancaster, but not including any business dono to or from points without the State, and not including any business done for tho (fovernmont of the United States, its officers or Agents, 3o oo Keroserm Oil Companies or Agencies having stationary or portable tanks for receiving and storing of oil, each, Co oo Kerosene Oil Companies or Agencies having no stationary tanks, but selling in original packages, each, Go oo Oil creosote or fernoline companies, each, lo oo Fire Insurance I ompanies, each, per year, 5 oo Life Insurance Companies (resident agents) per year, 5 oo Life Insurance Companies, including mutual or co-operative companies transient Agents) per month. 5 oo Sewing Machine Companies or Agent (transient) per week $1 oo; per month, 5 oo Photographers (resident) iu permanent building, per year, 6 oo Photographers (transient) in temporary building, per week $2 oo; per month, 6 oo Auctiouoers, per day, $2.oo; per y?*ar, lo oo Harbor Shops*. per chair, Main Street, per year. 5 oo | Each additional chair, per year. 3 oo ' Hack Street, per year, 3 oo Each additional chair, per year 2 oo Hotels or Hoarding houses with transient rates exceeding 1 oo per day. per year, 2o oo Hotels or Hoarding houses with transient lates not exceeding loo per day per year, 5 oo ltestaurnnts, including right to soil tish indoors only.per quarter. G.oo; per year, lo oo Meat Market, including right to sell tish indoors only, on Main Street, per } enr, 25 oo On hack street, per year, 15 oo Dealers in fish or oysters indoor* per year, .6 oo J With street privileges, per quarter to oo, per year, 2o oo ' Sales, livery or feed stables, or all, per year, 25 oo All dealers, transient or otherwise, in horses or mules, not doing business in licensed stables, per week, lo oo; per year, 25 oo Public drays, one-horse, 5 oo; twohoree, per year, 7 5o Pu -horsi, 5 oo; twohorse. per year 7 5o Dealers in ice, per season, 5 oo i Itinerant traders or venders of any I goods, wares or merchandise, per i day, $1 to $3 in the discretion of the Mayor. ( Public billiard, pool, bagatelle tables , each, per year 25 oo , Bowling alleys, for each alley per , year, 5 oo Shooting gallery, per day, J.oo; per week, 3 oo; per month, 5 oo Bill posters, per day, 1 oo;per year, lo oo Circuses, equestrian shows, menagciia, per day, $lo oo to $5o oo, in the discretion of the Mayor. Circuses for procession in the street and located out of Town, per day, $lo oo to $3o oo, in the discretion of tho Mayor Merry-go-Tounds, per day lo oo ' Theatrical performances or other exhibitions, not local, per day, 2 oo to 25 oo, in the discretion of the aiay or. Bicycles, with pavement privilege 1 (except Main Street) each,(each bicycle to bear license lag) 1 OG Agents for sale of pianos, organs, clocks, stoves or ranges, per year 25 oo Dealers in patent rights, per year. 25 oo 1 Fertilizer agents, per year, 2o oo Agents or dealers in engines, gins, presses and machinery, per year, lo oo < Banks, Stute, those whose capital is < less than 5o,ooo.oo, 15 oo per year; I whose capital is Co,ooo.oo or over, per year, 25 oo Merchants, stock lo.oo to 5oo.oo, per year, 2 oo ; ( Merchants, stock 5oo oo to l.ooo.oo, per year, 3 oo ' | Merchants, stock l.oao oo to 2,ooo.oo, | per year, 4 oo Merchants stock 2,ooo.oo to 5,ooo.oo, per year, G oo Merchants,stock 5,ooo oo to lo.ooo.oo per year, 8 oo Merchants, stock lo.ooo oo to 15,ooo.oo, per year, 9 oo Merchants, stock 15,ooo.oo to 2o,ooo.oo, per \ tar, 12 oo Merchants, stock 2o.ooo.oo to 3o,ooo.oo, per year, 15 oo Merchants, stock 3o,ooo oo to 5o,ooo.oo. pei year, 2o oo \f nrolian! n oi/\/?l? fZ? ? 3 ?.v.v>4?uin, niu4.i UU,UUU,UU It 1111 UVeT, per venr, 3o oo Drug stores and jewelers licensed as merchants. Building contractors, employing one to five workmen, par year, 5.oo Building contractors, employing flye to teo workmen, per year, 10.00 Building contractors, employing more than tan workmen, pe" year, 20 00 Newspapers, euch per year, 5 00 Newspapers with job office combined, per year, 7 50 Job offices, each, par year, 6 00 Painters or Tinners, working one to ffve hands, per year, 5 00 Working Ave to ten hands, per y e ?r, 10 00 Working more than ten hands, per year, 20 00 Occulists or opticians, or special* ists on throat, ear, eye or nose, per year, 10 00 Railroad companies, each, for busimss done exclusively within the Town of Lancaster, but not including any business done to or from points without the Htate. and t ot including any business done for the government of the United Btutes, its officers or agents, per year, 25 00 TAUitlirmo n/\m no ?\ iou ^" business (lone exclusively with in the town of Lancaster, but rot including any business done to or from points without the Htate, and not including any business done for the Government of the United Hiat(8, its otllcers or agents, for each 'phone, per year. 75 liotiing Works, soda water or otherwise, per year. 5 00 Blacksmiths, per your, for 1st forge 5 00 For each additional forge, 3 00 Carriage or wagon repairers or carpenter shops, separate or combined, per year. 2 50 Brick manufacturer, per year, -6 00 Book agents, per year, 5 00 ! Lightning rod agents or dealers iter year, 26 Tq! Lam' Mirv.-yor*, pe;- yei-r, 6 0 ! Uotti.i! OiniierJ.f, ti h< gin 6 00 I each nJoiliona gin. yer.v??ir, 3 00 Lumber yards, | er year, 6 00 Lumber agents < i brokers, p r year, 6 (0 Manufacturers of doors, H^sb, blinds, e'c , per year 5 00 Mills, tl mror grist, each per year 6 Op Marine yards, each, p ryear. 2 00 Agents f ir til n bie works or quur? riea per year, 6 00 Dealers in sod t w tier, or o'h r soft drinks so'd from fo i its. (pr./Vided that the fmitain appartus and ut'achmeu's kball not le included as stock in estimating i lie license tsx to be paid by merchants), per year ? 00 Bign painters, per day 1,00 per yenr, 6 00 Agents or dealers in woo l or coal, per year, 5 00 Dyers and cleaners, per year. 5 (0 Eating or luncb houses, per year 3 00 Harness repair shops, per year 3 00 Agents or dealers in hides and tallow,^furs and w >ol, oach, per year, 5 00 Bee. 2. The charges for licenses in auv l u ine-s not enumerated in section one of litis ordinance shall be iletermiotd by the Mayor. Bee. 3. That whenever in this ordinance the term de ?'er is used, the fame shall include i.ot only (ho principal, but, in h a, her or (lie;r absence, shall include any agent, chirk or employee managing the hu.-uitsi r. speclively "referred to and generally win re a license is herein imposed for the carrying on of any business, and the same is carried on by any ugeut, clerk or employee, such a<?-nt, clerk or employee s mil lie subject to 'lie penalties herein imposed, should the said business be carrie i on without taking out sucli license in the same manner as if lie, she or they was or were the proprietors of said business i Beet ion 4. No license shall be trans- I ferred f'oiu one firm to another, except . with a sale or transfer of a stock of good", shop outfit or machinery, and then only on the endorsement of the M uynr Section 5, That it shall be unlawful to carry on any business, occupation or culling during the year 191)4 as set forth in this ordiuance, witiiout first paying u> me Town Treasurer. the li- I cense iua for said business, occupation, calling or profession, who shall issue to the person, tlrin or corporation to paying e license a receipt Lherefoi, which shall entitle the said person, tirm or corporation to carry on the said business, occupation, calling or profession witLin the corporate limits of said Town for the fiscal year ending Decembei 3lst, 1901 Hection 6. That any person or persons, firms or corporati ins, eillier by neglecting or refusing to pay the res quiied license as lierein provided, shall pay a fine of not less than five dollais nor m ire than one luindrid dollars, or be imprisoned for not less 4 than five days or more than thirty days. Hection 7 All able bodI ad male persons between the uges of eighteen and fifty years, residing within the corporate limits of the said Town, not exempt from road duty under lbs laws 1 of the Btate, shall work the streets, ' pavements, ways and bridges of the Town under the direction of and to the satisfaction of such policemen or overseers as may he appointed or may have already been appointed, for a space of lime not less than fourda.ss, nor exceeding six days in each year. 1 PrAvlil #-?<! thuf of thft ft r** o rnn?.J ??t notice to perform euch work, any person may pav into the Town treasurer ' two dollar* commutation tax which shall be received in lieu of said work; that a substitute may be furnished, provided, such substitute is a male person over eighteen 3 ears of age and provided with necessary tools, and lie shall be required to do full and satisfactor work. Any person refusing to pay said commutation tax, perform said work, or furnish the required substitute with neces-ary tools, shall be fined no less than t;n dollars nor more than thirty dollars, or l>e imprisoned not less than ten days nor mor" than thirty days in the discretion of the Mayor. Section. 8 A II ordinances or parls of ordinances inconsistent herewith, shall be and the same are hereby re pealed. Ratified by the Mayor and Aldermen fn council assembled, this 17th da of December, in the yoai of our ' ord one thousand nine hundred and three. attest. R E WYLIE. C. D.J ONE-t. Mayor. LL. 3,] Clerk and Treasurer. IlXcn't Give the Baby Dangerous Drugs. There le one safe, sure nnd absolutely lim-mless remedy for infant's Ills. It ib Baby Ease THE WOHLD'S BEST CAOY MEDICINE. Ouros every form of bowel and Rtoni'icli trouble, brings l efreshing Bleep, makes bnblcs fat. 35 CENTS EVERYWHERE. v MADE BY Baby Ease Manufacturing Co., Macon, Ga. Immmmmmmmmmmmmmtrn , V * GEEEfigS I - I ^Vegetable PreparationforAs- En similating the Food andRegula- M . ling the Stomachs and Bowels of |; Promotes Digcslion.Cheerful- ft ness and Rest .Contains neither I m Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. ts< NOTliARCOTIC. 1| /hVeafOUJk-SAMZELPmWR ft HmfJati SceiL ~ . I,ft I Alx.Smn* * 1 r.w R?MUSaUt- I :4S; i?M .W + I j V | ft VZXZLS&Lwmt ) I ft A perfect Remedy forConstipa- H f lion. Sour Stomach. Diarrhoea HI Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- M I ness and Loss of Sleep. H 1 FacSmilo Signature oP !' " NEW YORK. Jj EXACT COPT OF WRAPPER. jM ^ COFFINS. f(|l|I o o o c o o \J" I. I .Vel now hftv and will contini complete line of burial CASKETS. ( all sizes and qualities, 1 COFFIN up to Handsom CALL and see lis or send us fortunate as to have n death 1 Within the RE - Inter Hi LAC ASTER, S. C , Gro to the LANCASTER MARBLE AN1) GRANITE WORKS, ' ?or Good Work und Low Prices. A. J. McNinch, LANCASTER, S. 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(ASTORIA For Infants and Children. he Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ? % Signature AW Jf For Over Thirty Years BASTORIA HI OCffTAUR iOMMNV. NKW YORK OfTY. limn ? ? ? ? ? ? 1, CDFFIHS. o in stock, je to keep, a COFFINS and )ur stock embraces !rom the plain, cheap e METALLIC casep. your order when so unin your family. PRICES ; ACH of ALL. fMiiiilfl lit - Illlllllll UVl Oct. 15, 1902.?tf. jpir lo the Taxpayers of Lancaster County. The Tieasurer'a ollice will be open f< r the collection of taxes, without pen >lty, for the fiscal year 1903 from the 15th day of October to the 31st day of December, inclusive The levy is as follows: State Tax, 5 mills County Tax, 4 mills Special (h & C R R) 8 mills Sinking Fun ! ( & O R K) 1 mill Con titutional School Tax 3 mills SPECIAL LOCAL LEVY (8, C. & OA. EX. K. R.) Cane ( reek Township 41 mills Gills Creek Township 6 mills Pleasant Hill Township 3 mills SPECIAL LOCAL FOR BCHOOL PURPOSES Van Wyck School District 2 m;IIs Lancaster 41 mills Lancaster, Interest on Rouds A fe'k'g Fund 11 mills, 6 mills Kershaw, 4 mills Heuth Springs, 3 mills Oakhurst. * J out h X ltoads 2 mills TOTAL UVY KV DISTRICTS. Indian Land 16 mills Indian Land, Van Wyek, 18 mills Waxhaw, 16 mills Wuxiiaw, Van Wyek, 18 mills Oane Creek, 20$ mills Ca?io Creek. I aiicaster, 26$ mills Cat e Creek, J. X R. 22$ milla Gills "'reek, 21 mills Gills reek, Lancaster, 27 mills Gills ( reek J X R. 2t mills llnfurd 16 mills Flat Creek, 16 mills Flat Creek, Kershaw, 20 mills Plon-ant Hill, 19 mil's Pleasant Hill. Kershaw, 23 mills Pleasant Hill, Heath Springs 22 mills Pi asaiit Hill, Oak hurst, 28 mil^s IVas tnt Hill. J X R, 21 mills Cedar ' reek, 10 mills Cedar Creek, J X IV 18 mills " Respectfully, W. c. CAUTHEN. ;ept. 28, 1903, County Treaa.