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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY 1(5, 1890.
ARMENIAN HORRORS.
AIV. Bn. TALMAGE TELL? THE STORY
e? MOHAMMEDAN CRUELTY.
Bl»qn*nt .tnd J'rrvld Appeal — Th«
eov«r<1ly Snltftn I'.tcnrlKtftd—Rm Arner-
|«« tlie RigHt to He flerird? - Clera Bar-
ten and the Rrd Cro^a.
Washinoton. Jan. 12. —It wait appro
priate that iu tho presence of the chief
men of this nation ami other nations
Dr. Talmageshould tell the story of Ar
menian massacre. What will be tho ex
tent for good of such a discourse none
can tell.* The text was II Kings xix,
87, “They escaped into the land of Ar
menia. "
In Bible geography tins is the first
time that Armenia appears, called then
by the same name as now. Armenia is
chiefly u tableland, 7,000 feet above the
level of the sea, and on one of its peaks
Noah’s ark landed, with its human
family and fauna that were to fill the
earth. That region was the birthplace
of the rivers which fertilized the garden
of Eden when Adam and Eve lived
there, their only roof tho crystal skies
and their carjAit the emerald of rich
grass. Its inhabitants, the ethnologists
tell ns, are a superior type of the Cau
casian race. Their religion is founded
on the Bible. Their Saviour is our
Christ. Their crime is that they will not
become followers of Mohammed,that Ju
piter of sensuality. To drive them from
the face of the earth is the ambition of
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this,
murder is no crime, and wholesale mas
sacre is a matter of enthusiastic appro
bation mid governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo
hammedan authority and recited every
day throughout Turkey and Egypt,
while styling all those not Mohamme
dans as infidels, is as follows: “O Lord
of all creatures! O Allah ! Destroy the
infidels and polytheists, thine enemies,
the enemies of the religion. 0 Allah,
make their children orphans and defile
their bodies, cause their feet to slip,
give them and their families, their
households and their women, their chil
dren and their relatives by marriage,
their brothers anil their friends, their
possessions and the race, their wealth
and their lauds as booty to the Mos
lems, O Lord of all creatures!” The
life of an Armenian in the presence of
those who make that prayer is of no
more value than tho life of a summer
insect.
StatiMtlc* of Slaughter.
The sultan of Turkey sits on a throue
impersonating that brigandage and as
sassination. At this time all civilized
nations are in horror at the attempts of
that Mohammedan government to de
stroy all the Christians of Armenia. I
hear somebody talking as though some
new thing were happening, and that the
Turkish government had taken a new
role of tragedy on tho stage of nations.
No, no! She is at the same old business.
Overlooking her diabolism of other cen
turies, wo come down to our century
to find that in 1822 tho Turkish gov
ernment slow 50,000 anti-Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 10,000, and in 1860
she slew 11,000 and iu 1876 she slew
10,000. Anything hhort of the slaughter
c4 thousands of human beings does not
put enough red wine into her cup of
abomination to make it worth quaffing.
Nor is this the only time she has prom
ised reform. In tho presence of tho war
ships at tho mouth of the Dardanelles
she has promised the civilized natious
of the earth that she would stop her
butcheries and tho international and
hemispherio farce has been enacted of
believing what she says, when all the
past ought to persuade us that she is
only pausing in her atrocities to put na
tions off the track and thou resume the
work of death.
In 1820 Turkey in treaty with Russia
promised to alleviate the condition of
Christians, but the promise was broken.
In 1839 the then sultan promised pro
tection of life and property without ref
erence to religion, and the promise was
broken. In 1844, at the demand of an
English minister plenipotentiary, the
sultan declared after the public execu
tion of an Armenian at Constantinople
that no such death penalty should again
be inflicted, aud tho promise was broken.
In 1850, at the demand of foreign na
tions, the Turkish government promised
protection to Protestants, bnt to this
day the Protestants at Stamboul are not
allowed to build a church, although
they have the funds ready, and the
Greek Protestants, who have a church,
are not permitted to worship in it. In
1856, after tho Crimean war, Turkey
promised that no one should be hindered
in the exercise of the religion he pro
fessed,and that promise has been broken.
In 1878, at tho memorable treaty of
Berlin, Turkey promised religions lib
erty to all her subjects in every part of
the Ottoman empire, and the promise
was broken. Not once in nil the cen
turies has the Turkish government kept
her promise of mercy. So far from any
improvement, the condition of the Ar
menians has become worse and worse
year by year, and all the promises tho
Turkish government now makes are only
a gaining of time by which she is mak
ing preparation for the complete exter
mination of Christianity from her bor
ders.
The NnHiaiice of the Ace*.
Why, after all the national and con
tinental and hemispheric lying on tho
part of the Turkish government, do not
the warships of Europe ride up as close
!j possible to the palaces of Ccnstan
Hnoplo and blow that accnrsed govern
ment to atoms? In the name of the
eternal God, let the nuisance of the
■gee be wiped off the face of the earth!
Down to the perdition from which it
araoked np sink Mohammedanism! Be
tween these onthreaks of massacre the
Armenians suffer in silei
are seldom if ever repot
taxed heavily for the
MvImo. and the
rail
tongs that
\rhey are
k lege of
|he ha
led to
tse-
to the assoHHor, list ho report the value
of their property too highly. Their evi- j
donee in cou.'t is of no worth, and if 50
Armenians aw a v.r.uig committed and
one Mohanin dan was pn sont the tes-
timouy of ih <n ?! 'aiuiuedau would
be taken and the t< nooyof tho 60
Armenian i rej < d—in other words, the
•olemn oath ' i a thousand Armenians
would not be strong i tough tooverthrow
the perjury of one Mohammedan. A pro
fessor was condemned to death for trans
lating the English “Book of Common
Prayer” into Turkish. Seventeen Arme
nians were sentenced to 15 years’ im
prisonment for rescuing a Christian
bride from tho bandits.
This is the way the Turkish govern-
meut amuses itself in time of peace.
These are tho delights of Turkish civili
zation. But when the days of massacre
come, then deeds are done which may
not be unveiled in any refined assem
blage, aud if one speaks of the horrors,
he must do so in well poised aud cau
tious vocabulary. Hundreds of villages
destroyed! Young men put in piles of
brushwood, which are then saturated
with kerosene aud set on fire! Mothers,
in the most solemn hour that ever comes
in a woman’s life, hurled out and bay
oneted ! Eyes gouged out and dead and
dying hurled into the same pit! The
slaughter of Lucknow aud Cawnpur,
India, iu 1857, eclipsed iu ghastliness!
The worst scenes of the French revolu
tion iu Paris made more tolerable iu con
trast! In many regions of Armenia the
only undertakers today arc the jackals
and hyenas. Many of the chiefs of tha
massacres were sent straight from Con
stantinople to do their work, aud having
returned were decorated by the sultan.
To four of the worst murderers the sul
tan sent silk banners, in delicate appre
ciation of their services. Five hundred
thousand Armenians put to death or dy
ing of starvation ! This moment, while
I speak, all up and down Armenia sit
many people, freezing iu the ashes of
their destroyed homes, bereft o‘f most
of their households aud awaiting the
club of assassination to put them out of
their misery.
“How Long, O Lord I”
No wonder that the physicians of
that region declared that among all the
men and women that, were down with
wounds and sickness and under their
care not one wanted to get well. Re
member that nearly all the reports that
have come to us of the Turkish outrage?
have been manipulated and modified and
softened by tho Turks themselves. The
story is not half told, or a hundredth
part told, or a thousandth part told.
None but God and our suffering broth
ers and sisters in that faroff land know
the whole story, and it will not be
known until in the coronations of heav
en Christ shall lift to a specia’ throue
of glory these heroes aud heroines, say
ing, “These are they who came out of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed aud made white in the blood of
tho lamb.” My Lord and my God, thou
didst on the cross suffer for them, but
thou, surely, O Christ, wilt not forget
how much they have suffered for thee!
I dare not deal in imprecation, but I
never so much enjoyed tho imprecatory
songs of David as since I have heard
how those Turks are treating the Ar
menians. The fact is. Turkey has got to
be divided up among other natious. Of
course tho European nations must take
the chief part, but Turkey ought to be
compelled to pay America for tho Amer
ican mission buildings and American
scboolbouses she has destroyed aud to
support tho wives aud children of the
Americans ruined by this wholesale
butchery. Whi n the English liou and
the Russian bear put their paws on that
Turkey, tho American eagle ought to put
in its bill.
Who are these American aud English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
hounded among tho mountains of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? Tho no
blest men and women this side of heav
en. Some of them men who took the
highest honors at Yale aud Princeton
and Hurvu i* and Oxford and Edin
burgh. Some of them women, gentlest
and most Christlikc, who, to save peo
ple they never saw’, turned their backs
on luxurious homes to spend their days
-in self expatriation, saying goodby to
father aud mother and afterward good-
by to their own children as circum
stances compel them to send the little
ones to England, Scotland or America.
I have seen these foreign missionaries
in their homes all around the world,
and I stamp with indignation upon the
literary blackguardism of foreign corre
spondents who have deprecated these
heroes and heroines who are willing to
live aud die for Christ’s sake. They
will have tho highest thrones in heaven,
while their detainers will not get near
enough to tho shining gates to see the
faintest glint of any one of the 12
pearls which make up the 12 gates.
The Cowardly Sultan.
This defamation of missionaries is
augmented by tho dissolute English,
American and Scotch merchants who go
to foreign cities, leaving their families
behind them. Those dissolute merchants
iu foreign cities lead a life of such gross
immorals that the pure households of
tho missionaries are a perpetual rebuke.
Buzzards never did believe iu doves, and
if there is anything that nightshade
hates it is the water lily. What the 560
American missionaries have suffered in
the Ottoman empire since 1820 I leave
the archangel to announce on the day of
judgment. You will see it reasonable
that I put so much emphasis on Ameri-
j nanism iu the Ottoman empire when I
ieii you tnat America, notwithstanding
all the disadvantages named, has now
over 27,000 students in day schools in
that empire and 85,000 children in her
Sabbath schools, and that America ban
expended iu the Turkish empire for its
betterment over #10,000,000. Has not
America a right to bo heard? Aye, it
will be heard! 1 am glad that great in
dignation meetings aie being held all
over this country. That poor, weak,
cowardly sultan, whom I saw a few
years ago ride to his mosque for worship,
guarded by 7,000 armed men, many of
them mounted on prancing chargers,
will hear of tlieBe sympathetic mMLutgji
for tho Armenians, if not through Amer
ican reporters, then through some of
his 860 wives. What to do with him?
There ought tr bo some St. Helena to
which he could bo exiled while tho na
tions nf Europe ippoint a ruler of their
own to elenn ont and take possession of
the palaces of Constantinople. Tonight
this august assemblage in tho capital of
the United States, in tho name of the
God of nations, indicts the Turkish gov
ernment for the wholesale assassination
in Armonia aud invokes the interfer
ence of Almighty God and tho protest of
eastern and western hemispheres.
A Cobweb of Spiders.
Bnt what is tho duty of the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide, tremendous, im
mediate! A religious paper, Tho Chris
tian Herald of New York, has led the
way with munificent contributions col
lected from its subscribers. But the
Turkish government is opposed to any
relief of the Armenian sufferers, as I
personally know. Last August, before I
had any idea of becoming a fellow citi
zen with you Washingtonians, #50,000
for Armenian relief was offered mo if I
would personally take that relief to
Armonia. My passage was to bo engaged
on tho City of Paris, but a telegram wai
seut to Constantinople asking if the
Turkish government would grant me
protection on such au errand of mercy.
A cablegram said the Turkish govern
ment wished to know to what; points in
Armenia I desired to go with that re
lief. In our reply four cities were nam
ed, ouo of them tho scene of what had
been the chief massacre. A cablegram
came from Constantinople saying that I
had better send the money to the Turk
ish government’s mixed commission,
and they wouid distribute it. <So a cob
web of spiders proposed a relief com
mittee for unfortunate flies. Well, a
man who would start up through the
mountains of Armenia with #50,000
and no governmental protection would
be guilty of monumental foolhardiness.
The Turkish government has iu every
possible way hindered Armenian relief.
An Ansel of Morey.
Now where is that angel of mercy,
Clara Barton, who appeared on the bat
tlefields of Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Falmouth and Cedar Mountain and uu-
der the blaze of French and German
guns at Metz and Paris and in Johns
town floods aud Charleston earthquake
aud Michigan fires and Russian famine?
It was comparatively of little impor
tance that the German emperor decorated
her with tho Iron Cross, for God hath
decorated her iu the sight of all nations
with a glory that neither time nor eter
nity can dim. Born in a Massachusetts
vill.age, she came iu her girlhood to this
city to serve our government in tho pat
ent office, but afterward went forth
from the doors of that patent office with
a divine patent signed and sealed by
God himself to heal all the wounds she
could touch aud make tho horrors of the
flood and fire aud plague aud hospital
fly her presence. God bless Clara Bar
ton! Just as I expected, she lifts the
banner of tho Red Cross. Turkey aud
all nations are pledged to respect and
defend that Red Cross, although that
color of cross does not, in tho opinion of
many, stand for Christianity. In my
opinion it does stand for Christianity,
for was not the cross under which most
of us worship red with tho blood of tho
Son of God, red with tho best blood that
was over shed, red with the blood pour
ed out for the ransom of tho world?
Then lead on, oh, Red Cross, aud lot
Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish gov
ernment is bound to protect her, and
the chariots of God are 20,000 and their
charioteers are angels of deliverance,
and they would all ride down at ouco to
roll over aud trample under the hoofs of
their white horses any of her assailants.
May the $500,000 she seeks be laid at
her feet! Then may the ships that carry
her across Atlautic and Medi<erruneau
seas bo guided safely by him who trod
into sapphire pavement bestormed Gali
lee. Upon soil incarnadined with martyr
dom let the Red Cross be planted until
every demolished village shall be re-
builded and every puug of hunger bo fed
and every wound of cruelty bo healed
and Armenia stand with as much liber
ty to serve God iu itsowuwayas in this
the best land of all tho earth, we, tho
descendants of the Puritans and Hol
landers aud Huguenots, are free to wor
ship the Christ who cumo to set ail na
tions free.
Th« Cry of Duty.
It has been said that if we go over
there to interfere on another continent
that will imply the right for other na
tions to interfere with affairs on this
continent, aud so the Monroe doctrine
be jeopardized. No, no I President
Cleveland expressed tho sentiment of
every intelligent and patriotic Ameri
can when he thundered from the White
H< use a warning to all nations that
there is not one acre or ono inch more
of ground on this continent for any
transatlantic government to occupy.
And by that doctrine we stand now and
shall forever stand. But there is a doc
trine as much higher than the Monroe
doctrine as tho heavens are higher than
the earth, and that is the doctrine of
humauitarianism and sympathy aud
Christian helpfulness which one cold
December midnight, with loud aud
multitudinous chant, awakened tho
shepherds. Wherever there is a wound it
is our duty, whether as individuals or
as natious, to balsam it. Wherever there
is a knife of ubsassinatiou lifted it is
our duty to ward off the blade. Wher
ever men are persecuted for their reli
gion it is onr dnty to break that arm of
power, whether it be thrust forth from
• Protestant church, or a Catholic ca
thedral, or a Jewish synagogue, or a
mosque of Islam. We all recognize the
right on a small scale. If, going down
the road, we find a ruffian maltreating
a child, or a human brute insulting a
woman, we take a Inmd in tho contest
if wo are not cowards, and though wo
be slight in personal presence, because
of our indignation we come to weigh
about 20 tons, and tho harder wo punish
the villain the louder our conscience ap
plauds ns. In such case we do not keep
onr hands in our pockets, arguing that
if wa intarfare with the brute tho brute
I
might think ho would have a right to
interfere with ns, and so jeopardize the
Monroe doctnne. The fact is that that
persecution of the Armenians by tho
Turks must be stopped, or God Al
mighty will curse till Christendom for
its damnable indifference and apathy.
But the trumpet of r< urrection is about
to sound for Armenia.
Aincrjr.-in Sympathy.
Did I say in opening that on one of
the peaks of Armenia, tins voiy Anne- i
uia of which wo speak, iu Noah’s time
theyark landed, according to the myth,
as some think, bnt according to God’s
“say so,” as I know, and that it was aft*
er a long storm of 40 days and 40 nights,
called the deluge, and that afterward a
dove went forth from that ark and re
turned with an olive leaf in her beak?
Even so now there is another ark being
launched, but this one goes sailing not
over a del ago of water, but a deluge of
blood—the ark of American sympathy
—and that ark, lauding on Ararat, from
its window shall fly the dove of kind
ness and peace to find the olive leaf of
returning prosperity, while all tho
mountains of Moslem prejudice, oppres
sion and cruelty shall stand 15 cubits
under. Meanwhile we would like to
gather all tho dying groans of all tho
500,000 victims of Mohammedan op
pression and intone them into ouo pray
er that would move the earth aud tho
heavens, hundreds of millions of Chris
tians’ voices, American aud European,
crying out: “O God Most High, spare
thy children! With mandate from the
throne hurl back upon their haunches
the horses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop
tho rivers of blood. With the earth
quakes of thy wrath shake tho founda
tions of tho palaces of tho sultan. Move
all the nations of Europe to command
cessation of cruelty. If need ho, let the
warships of civilized nations boom their
indignation. Let tho crescent go down
before tho cross, and the Mighty One,
who hath on his vesture aud on his
thigh a name written ‘King of Kings
and Lord of Lords,’ go forth, conquer
ing and to conquer. Thine, O Lord, is
tho kingdom ! Halleluiah! Amen!”
French FrisonerV Railway Carriages.
These railway carriages, of which
there are 40 in constant use, are the
property of tho government, who pay
one-half of the price of a third class
ticket for each prisoner conveyed. The
repairs are executed in the yards of the
different railway companies at tho ex
pense of the state. They merit a de
tails <1 description.
Each carriage contains a double row
of cells, nine on each side, separated by
a passage running lengthwise, with a
solid door on each lateral face. At ono
extremity there is a desk aud a table
that draws out. These, as well as a
number of cupboards, aro for tho uso of
tho warders. Tho latter sleep ou fold
ing bedsteads, which tho passage is just
wide enough to accommodate. The cells
are 60 centimeters (24 inches) wide, 65
centimeters (26 inches) deep and 1.75
melers (5 feet 0 inches) high. The pris
oners sit facing the door and aro attach
ed by leg irons, giving a certain amount
of play to the legs. Should a prisoner
misconduct himself it is possible to
shorten tho chains from the passage
without opening tho door of the cell.
Their creature comforts, however, aro
not altogether neglected, the carriage
being lighted by windows at cither end
and warmed by a stove. At night it is
brilliantly lighted by a special lamp.
One cell is fitted upas a convenience for
the prisoners. For intellectual recrea
tion, it must bo admitted, small provi
sion is made. The articles of tho code
relating to convicts are hung up inside
the cell door, and that is all.—Fort
nightly Review.
Rich Prizes.
On July i0, 17-15, Captain James
Talbot, in the Prince Frederick, aud
Captain John Morecock, in tho Duke,
foil in with tho Spanisn ships Notre
D amo, Lewis Erasmus and Marquis
D’Antiu. Tho Prince Frederick attack
ed tho Marquis D’Aunu, aud took her,
being at the sumo time exposed to tho
lire of tho Lewis Erasmus, which, after
a stubborn resistance, was alsocaptured,
but as each of tho ships was superior to
the English vessel, the engagement last
ed some hours. The Duke, which had
commenced the action, had iu the mean
time gone in pursuit of the Notre Dame,
which hud taken flight, but night com
ing on, tho chase was given up, and the
Duke returned to assist tho Prince Fred
erick in tho charge of the captured ships.
The two prizes contained treasure to the
amount of .€800,000, which was convey
ed to the Tower in 45 wagons ou the 1st
and 2d of October.—Mcdallic Illustra
tions.
Me
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of the Intendant, but not to exceed
the sum of ton ($10) dollars per day.
Skc. 7. That every itinerant physi
cian, surgeon chiropodist, or other
person in a profession or business of
like character, shall pay a license of
not exceeding ten ($10) dollars per
'lay. within the discretion of the
I ntendant,
Skc. 8. That each and every dealer
or company retailing fresh meats,
such as heef, mutton, pork, and the
like, shall pay a license of $10.
SPECIAL TAXES.
Skc. 9. No person, firm, or corpor-
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Hanoverian Etiquette.
One of the minute points of etiquette
upon which the king of Hanover insist
ed was that he would not receive visit
ors for a first presentation tohim except
in uniform. Sir Joseph Crowe had no
uniform, aud ho comments on “the fact
that a king who was utterly blind could
see (sic) unless the person he wished to
honor was in uniform.” An American
journalist was once refused an interview
with the same king of Hanover ou tho
same ground, but he was ultimately
more succes.-ful, for, pleading that ho
was an American republican and there
fore could not do otherwise than appear
without a uniform, ho was received,
the king commenting himself at tho be
ginning of tho interview upon tho spe
cial ground for the exception.—Athe-
nscum.
Thought Kced a Tlmoron* Speaker.
A Foxcroft man who was in the Maine
legislature iu 1869 recalls perfectly how
Tom Reed looked and acted at that time.
The budding young statesman from
Portland was 29 y^cars of age, with a
face as smooth as an apple, and, as the
Foxcroft ex-member put it. “He weigh
ed over 200 pounds and looked like a
great, green, overgrown hoy. ’’ His con
duct and bearing were much the saino
then ns now, and his appearance when
addressing the house, though aggressive,
with a humorous turn, was, over all,
timorous. — Button Htuuld.
corner of the human system. Thus all
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come under the beneficent influence of
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An Ordinance
To raise supplies for the year com
mencing t he first Tuesday in March.
189(5, and ending the first Tuesday
in March, 1897, for the town of
Gaffney City, South Carolina.
Be it ordained by the Town Council
of Gaff.icy City in council assembled
and by the authority of the same,
That a tax to cover the expenses of
said town of Gaffney City from the
ilrst Tuesday in March A. 1>. ls!l(5,
to the first Tuesday in March A. I).,
JN97. be levied and collected in man
ner and form as follows:
Section 1. Ther“ shall be paid sixty
((Jii) cents on every one hundred dol
lars of t he assessed value of all real
estate and persona! property (except
such property as is exempt from tax
ation) owned or in charge, or in pos
session of any person, or persons, of
tlumsclvcs, or as agent, guardian,
trustee, executor, administrator, or
otherwise, or in their keeping or
charge, and the said tax shall he col
lected in manner and form as the
charter of the town directs, and shall
be due aud pa;» aide during t he month
of February, In'.k;. mid until the Ilrst
Tuesday in March thereafter.
.Skc. *2. That eaeli and every male
person between the ages of 16 and 50
years of age. except such as are ex
empt from disability, and to he so
pronounced by either the Intendant
ir Town Council; and uls > those who
are specially exempted by the Act
i id the General Assembly of the State,
and the regular elected policemen of
the town, may pay during the month
of February and until the Ilrst Tues
day in March A. I).. I>‘.16. t wo ($2.00)
dollars for road or street exemption.
And any person liable to road or
street work, who may fail to pay the
said two dollars, shall he required to
work on the streets of said town not
less than six (6) days or more than
twelve (12) days, as may be ordered
by the Town Council, under the su
pervision of the Superintendent of
. Street.- or overseer; and any person
failing either to pay said amount for
exemption, or to perform said labor
after being notified to contribute
said labor, shall he prosecuted and
tried ny the Intendant, and upon
conviction shall suffer the pains and
penalties as prescribed by the laws
j of the State iu such ease provided.
Skc. J 1 hat during the month of
January. 1S'.I6. all persons liable for
the aforesaid taxes shall make a re
turn on oath to the Clerk of said
Town Coun .il, or Jo some other per
son appointed for said purpose, of all
th< ir taxable property owned, pos-
-i "cd or under their control or keep
ing, and as schedule may set forth.
Sec. l. That any person or persons , 3. -
failing to make such returns, or umk- or not exceeding $100 per day, or to
be imprisoned for not exceeding
thirty days for each day so offending,
and at the discretion of the Intend-
| ant or order of u majority of the
Town Council, and said fine to be
collected according to the laws of the
State and said town.
All ordinances or parts of ordin
ances inconsistent with or conflicting
with this ordinance are hereby de
clared repealed.
Done and ratified in Council assem
bled this third (3) day of January,
A. D. 1896.
[seal ] X. H. Littlejohn,
• Intendant.
Attest:
J. E. Webster.
Clerk of Council.
therefor as follows, to-wit:
Building and Loan Associa
tions (foreign) $10 00
Shooting gallery, per day, not
less than
Express company, for business
done within the State and
not including that done
without the State, and not
(Jovernment business 25 00
All exhibitions, shows, the
atrical or circus perform
ances, side shows, operas,
concerts, etc., shall pay a
license within the discretion
of the Intendant.
Photographer or artist, for less
than a year, within the dis
cretion of the Intendant.
Railroad agency, for business
done in this State, and not
including that done without
the State, and not including
business done for Govern
ment 50 00
Street wagon or dray, 2-horse.. 10 Oo
St reet wagon or dray, 1-horse..
Telegraph company or agency,
for business done within the
State, and not including that
done without the Strte, and
not including bus’ness done
for the Government 25
Cotton or produce exchange,
commonly known as bucket
shop ’ , "
Fire insurance company a
Life, casualty, or other insur
ance company 10 00
For each and every flying jen-
ney or business of like char
acter. such license as may
be fixed by the Intendant.
All licenses herein mentioned shall
he non-lransferable and per annum,
if not otherwise provided, and shall
be dated from the first day of the
month in which the same is issued,
but said license may be revoked at
any time by the Intendant or Town
Council for cause satisfactory to him
or them.
Sec. 10. For each and every dog,
or species of dogs, kept within the
town by its owner or for another per
son. shall pay an annual license of
$1 for each and every one of them so
kept, and shall return on oath, with
hi< other assessment, the number he
so owns or keeps on his premises,
and pay the said license when he or
she pays town taxes.
1-ex ALT IKS.
Any person or persons, company,
firm, or corporation embraced or
mentioned in any of the foregoing
sections or section of this ordinance,
and required therein to obtain a li
cense, or to pay for the performing
or carrying on their respective busi
ness, or for the transaction of the
same, who shall fail, refuse, or neg
lect to pay the license or amounts
therein specified in advance, and
each and every person, company,
firm, or corporation giving, showing,
or attempting to give or show any of
the aforesaid performances, shows,
or exhibitions without having re
ceived and paid for their license to
do so. and any person or persons,
firm, or corporation violating any
part or parts of this ordinance shall
he subject to and for and required to
pay a line of not less than $1 per day
for each and every day so offending,
ing their return below its actual cash
value, that the property or the values
thereof shall lie assessed by the
Board of Assessors* as appointed,
v.hose duty it shall be to assess said
property at its true and just valua
tion, whether the same he real estate
or personal properly, ami any person
who may he dissatisfied with their
a-'cssment may appeal therefrom to
the Council or a majority of same
(said appeal to be heard not, later
than ten days thereafter), whose de
cision on said appeal shall be final.
Il shall he the duty of the Town
Clerk to notify all persons by mail
nt any changes that may he made in
their returns by the Board of As
sessors, and also the time when
Council ill meet to hear any ap-
oeais from said Board
Sec. 5 Thai ifny person or persons
f tiling to make their returns, or to
make payment of their taxes as here-
io required, shall he subject to the
penalties as piv.-eribed by the laws
.<1 tin Stale ami county tax, and to
lie enforced by the Town Council, or
a maj irityof toe same, by execution,
and for the use of the said town (ex
cepting th“ cost of the same), except
' that in such easts the execution to
enforce the payment of such taxes
shall he i-siied under the seal of the
Town Council, and directed to the
Chief of Police, with orders to levy
1 nid collect and receive the same for
the use of the town, and with all
co-l s as in such cases made and pro-
1 ided.
ITINERANT AND OTHER TRADERS.
Sec. (5. Thai every itinerant trader
offering for sale, or attempting to
sell, wit bin t he ini’oi’porute limits of
the town, at public outcry, at auc
tion, or otherwise, any goods, wares,
m •reliaiulise, medicines, fancy arti
cles, notions, or other articles of like
character or kind, shall pay, in ad-
j vance, a license within the discretion 1 month;
Cut Prices
For Hie next thirty days I will sell you
Shoes. Hats. Dry (jixmIs and Notion* at<
Cut Prices
12‘/jC .leans for 10e. l.V .leans for
2lie .le.'ins for tii^e. 2.V .leans for Jfie, AOc
.leans for 2.V. AV .leans for 27‘ic. • • .
si .V Hits for si.g-,. sEiv Hats for 1.100
Sl.UO Hats for 7."h' and so on down. . .
Ready Hade
Pants. Shirts, Shoes and Boots in pro-
nortion to above
Best all wool Flannel F) to 22‘/i cents. .
(dvc ine a call before buying
Yours respectfully,
I. M. PEELER.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Office over.l. K. Tolleson’s new store.
In office from 1st to 24th of each