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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 21, 1867. 1 5|IE DRINK QUESTION R^V. DR. TALMAQE PREACHES » THE THREE TAVERNS. ON Se Discusses tbe Dissipations of the Day npd Eulogises the Groat Ueformers of t the Fast aod Proseut—Tribute to Neal [ Dow. ICopyrlght, 1837. by American Press Asso ciation.] Wakuington, Oct 17.—In a unique yray Or. Talmuge here discusst's the dis sipations of tlvp day and eulogizes the great reformers of the past and present IJis text is AC?1 sSrUl. 16. “They came to meet us as iar as Appii forum and the three taveraa ’* Seventeen miles south of Rome there X7as a Village of unfortunate name. A tyiVeru is a place of entertainment, and in our time part of the eutertaiiimeut is a provision of intoxicants. One such place you would think would have been enough for that Italiau village. No! There were three of them, with doors op«n for entortaiumout and obfuscation. The world has never lacked stimulating drink* You remember the condition of ypfth on one occasion, and of Abigail’s Vlfljfcp-iui, Kabul* and the story of Bel- fijazaar's feast, and Benhaded and the new wine in old bottles, and whole paragraphs oq prohibition enactment thousands of years before Neal Dow nuas bom, and no doubt there were Vhple Abelves of inflammatory liquid lb those hotels which gave the name to Q^e village whore Paul’s friends came 6» meet him—namely, the Three Tav ern* In vain 1 search ancient geogra phy for some satisfying account of that village Two roads came from the seu- qpafct to that place, the one from Actium and the other from Puteoli, the last sdad being the one which Paul traveled. There were no doubt in that village houses of merchandise and mechanics' shops and profestaoual offlees, but noth ing is known of them All we know of that village is that it had a profusion of inas—the three taverns. Paul did not cheese any one of these taverns as the place to meet bis friemU. He cer tainly was very abstemious, but they made the selection. He had enlarged about keeping the body under, though once be prescribed for a young theologic al student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic disorder, but ho told him to take only a small dose—“a little wine tor thy stomach’s saka ” The Three Taverns. Oue of the worst things about these fbfee taverus was that they had espe cial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had just land ed at Actium or Puteoli were soon tempted by these three hotels which were only a little way up from the beach. Those who are disordered of the sea (for it is a physical disorgauizor), instead of waiting for the gradual return of phys- S il equipoise, are apt to take nrtilieinl cans to brace up. Of the 1,000,000 ilors now on the sea, how few of them coming ashore will escape the three tav erus! After surviving hurricanes, cy clones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant that if a calculation were made of the comparative number of sailors lost at sea and lost ashore those drowned by the crimson wave of dissii«itiou would far outnumber those drowned by the salt water. r Alas, that the largo majority of those Who go down to the sea in ships should have twice to pass the three taverns— namely, before they go out and after they come in! That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the great sailor’s preacher, at the Sailors’ Bethel, Bos ton. and at a public meeting at Charles town, lie said, "All the machinery of the drunkard making, soul destroying business is in perfect running order, from the low grog holes on the docks kept open to ruin my poor sailor boys to the great establishments in Still House square, and when we ask men what is to bo done about it they say, ‘You can’t help it,' and yet tliero is Bunker Hill, and you say you can’t stop it, and up there are Lexington and Concord." Wo might answer Father Taylor’s remark by saying, ‘‘The trou ble is not that wo can’t stop it, but that we won’t stop it.” Wo must have more generations slain before the world will fully wake up to the evil. That whioh tempted tho travelers of old who came up from the seaports of Actium and Puteoli is now tho ruin of seafaring men as they come up from tho coasts of all the continents—namely, tho three tavern* In tho autumn, about this time, in the year lb37, tho steamship Home went out from Now York for Charleston. There were about 100 pas sengers, some cf them widely known. Some of them had been summering at the northern watering places, and they were on their way south, all expectant of hearty greeting by their friends on the wharfs of Charleston. But a little more than two days out tho ship struck the rocks. A lifeboat was launched, but sank with all its passengers. A mother was seen standing on the deck of tho steamer with her child in her arms. A Wove wrenched the child from tho mother’s arms and rout'd it into the sea, and the mother leaped after it. ^ The sailors rushed to tho liar of the boat and drank themselves drunk. Ninety live human beings went down never to rise or to be floated upon the beach amid the fragments of the wreck. What was the cause of the disaster? A drunken sea captain. But not until the judgment day, when tho sea shall give up its dead, and the story of earthly disasters shall be fully told, will it be known how many yachts, steamers, brigantines, men-of-war and ocean grey bounds nave been lost through captain and crew made incompetent by alcoholic dethronement. Admiral Forragnt had proper appreciation of what tho fiery stimulus was to a (non in the navy. An otflodrof the warship said to him: "Ad miral won’t you consent to give Jack a RlMsTot grog in the morning? Not enough to make him drunk, but enough to make him fight cheerfully. " The ad miral answered: “I have been to sea considerably and have seen a battle or two, but I never found that I needed rum to enable mo to do my duty. I will order two cups of coffee to each man at 2 o’clock in tho morning, and at 8 o’clock I will pipe all hands to break fast in Mobile bay.” Tho three taverns of my text were too near the Mediterranean shipping. An Overdone Hnclnesa. But notice the multiplicity. What could tliat Italian village, co small that history makes but oue mention of it, want with more than one tavern? There were not enough travelers coming through that Insignificant town to sup port more tinty oue house of lodgment That ■would have furnished enough pil lows and enough breakfast* No; the world’s appetite is diseased, and tho subsequent drafts must bo taken to slake tho thirst (Muted by tho preceding draft* HtroDff Ortuk kindles the fires of thirst faster than it puts them out There were throe tavern* That which cursed that Italian village curses all Christendom today’—too many tavern* There are street* in some of our cities where there are three or four taverns on every block—aye, where every other house is a tavern. You can take the Arabic numeral of my text, tho three, and put on the fight hand side of it one cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers, and that re-enforcement of numerals will not express tho statistics of Ameri can nuumerie* Even if it were a good, healthy business, supplying necessity, an article superbly nutritious, it is a ^business mightily overdone, and there are three taverns where there ought to be only one. Tho fact is, there are in another sense three taverns now—tho gorgeous tavern for the affluent, the medium tavern for the working classes and the tavern of the slums—and they stand in lino, and many people beginning with the first come down through the second and come out at tho third. At tho first of the throe taverns the wines are of cele brated vintage, and the whiskies are said to be pure, and they are quailed from out glass at marble side table* uuder picture* approaching master piece* The patrons pull off their kid gloves and band their silk hats to the waiter and push back their hair with a hand on one linger of which is a cameo. But those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not tho money that a man pays for drinks—for what aro a few hundred or a few thou sand dollars to a man of large income— but their brain gets touched, and that unbalances their judgment, and they can see fortunes in enterprises sur charged with disaster. In longer or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down to tavorn the second, where the pictures are not quite so scru pulous of suggestion, and the small ta ble is rougher, and the caster standing on it is of Gerr’an silver, and tho air has been kept over from the night before, and that whioh they sip from the pew ter mug has a larger percentage of benzine, ambergris, creosote, henbane, strychnine, prussic acid, cocnlus indi- ens, plaster of pari* copperas and nightshade. Tho patron may be sem almost every day, and perhaps many times tlie same day, at this tavern the second, but he fa preparing to graduate. Brain, liver, henrt, nerve* are rapidly giving way. That tavern tho second has its dismal echo in his business de stroyed and family scattered and woes that choke one’s vocabulary. Time pass es on, and ho enters tavern tho third; a red light outside, a hiccoughing and bo- sotted group Inside. Ho will be drag ged out of doors about 2 o’clock in tho morning and left on the sidewalk, be cause tho bartender wants to shut np. The poor victim has taken tho regular course in the college of degradation. He has his diploma written on his swol len, bruised and blotched physiognomy. He is a regular graduate of the three tavern* As the police take him up and put him in the ambulance the wheels seem to rumble with two rolls of thun der, one of which says, “Look not upon tho wine when it is red, when it mov- eth itself aright in the cup, for at the lust it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an odder ” The other thunder roll says, “All drunkards shall have their place in the lake that bumeth fire and with brimstone. ” Temptation. I am glad to ffad in this scene of the text that there is such a thing as de clining successfully great taverniuu temptation* 1 can see from what Paul said and did after he had traveled the following 17 miles of his journey that he had received no damage at the three tavern* How much he was tempted I know not. Do not suppose ho was su perior to temptation. Tliat particular temptation has destroyed many of tho grandest, mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apos tles of law and medicine and govern ment and religion. Paul was not phys ically well under any circumstance* It was not in mock depreciation that be said be was “in bodily presence weak. ” It seems that his eyesight was so poor that he did bis writing through an amanuensis, for he mentions it as some thing remarkable that his shortest epis tle, the oue to Philemon, was in his own penmanship, saying, "I, Paul, have written it with my own band. ” He bad been thrown from bis horse, he had been stoned, be hud been endungeoued, he had hud his nerves pulled on by preaching at Athens to the most schol arly audience of all tho earth, and at Corinth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage and been howled upon by the Ephesian worshipers of Diana, tried tor his life before Felix, charged toy Festus with being insane, had crawl ed upon tho beach, drenched in the ship wreck, and much of the time had an iron handcuff on his wrist, and if any man needed stimulus Paul needed it, but with ul) his physical exhaustion ho got past the three taverns uudamug< d and stepped into Home all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he was sub jected. Oh, how many mighty men, feeling that they must brace up after extraordinary service and prepare them- selves for othor service, have called on j the spirit of wine for inspiration, and in a few years have been sacrifiqed on the altar of a Moloch who ^its en a throne of human carcussc* It would not bo wise or kind or Christian to call their names in public, but you call them out of your own memory. Oh, how many splendid men could not get past the three taverus! Notice that a profound mystery is at tached to these Italian hostelrie* No hotel register tells the names of those who stopped at those tavern* there 1» no old account book as to how many drank there, there is no broken chalice or jug to suggest what was the style of liquid which these customers consumed. So an awful mystery hangs about the barrooms of tho modem tavern* Oh, if they would only keep a book upon the i counter or a scroll that could be unroll- j ed from the wall telling how many homesteads they have desolated and how many immortal souls they have j blasted! Yon say that would spoil their busiues* Well, I suppose it would, but a business that cannot plainly tell its effect upon its customers is a busine*s ^ that ought to be spoiled. Ah, you mys- ! terious barrooms, speak out and tell how many suicides went out from you to halter or pistol or knife or deadly leap from fourth story window; how many young men, started well in life, were halted by you and turned on the wrong road, dragging after them bleed ing parental hearts; how many people who promised at tho marriage altar fidelity until death did them part were brought by you to early and ghastly sep aration; how many mudliouses have you ! filled with maniacs; how many graves have you dug and filled in the cemoter- i ies; how many ragged imd hungry chil dren have you beggared through the fa thers whom you destroyed. If the skel etons of all those whom you have slain were piled up on top of each other, how high would the mountain be? If the tears of all the orphanage and widow hood that yon have pressed out were gathered together, how wide would be the lake or how long the river? Ah, they make no answer. On this subject the modern taverns are as silent m the 1 oriental three taverns, but ttioro are millions of hearts that throb with most vehement condemnation, and many of them would go os far as the mother in Oxford, Mass., whose son had been long absent from home and was return ing, and at the tavern on the way he was persuaded to drink, and that one drink aroused a former habit, and again andjagaiu he drank, and he was found the next morning dead in the barn of the tavern. The owner of the tavern who gave him tho rum helped carry his body homo, and his broken hearted mother, afterward telling about it, said: "It was wrong, but I cursed him. 1 did it Heaven forgive him and ma ” The Roch of Hofetjr. But what a glad time when the world oomes to its last three taverns for the sale of intoxicants! Now there are so many of them that statistics are only a more or less accurate guess as to their number. We sit with half closed eyes and undisturbed nerves and hear that in 1872 in tho United States there were 1,084 breweries, 4,240 distilleries and 171,680 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures may bo truth fully doubled. The fact is that these es tablishments are innumerable, and the discussion is always disheartening, and tho impression is abroad that tho plague Is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and tho most of sermons on this subject close with the book of Lam entations and not with the book of Revelation. Excuse me from adopting any such infidel theory. The Bible re iterates it until there is no more power in inspiration to make it plainer that the earth is to be not half or three- quarter* but wholly redeemed. On that rock 1 take my triumphant stand and join in the chorus of husauua* Oue of tho most advantageous move ments in the right direction is taking this whole subject into tho education of tho young. On the same school desk with tho grammar, the geography, the arithmetic, are books telling tho lads and lasses of 10 and 12 and 15 years of age what are the physiologieal effects of strong drink, what it does with tho tissue of the liver and the ventricles of the brain, and whereas other genera tions did not realize the evil until their own bodies were blasted we are to have a g deration taught what the viper is before it stings them, what the hyena is liefore it rends them, how deep is tho abyss before it swallows them. Oh, boards of education, teachers in schools, professors in colleges, legislatures and congresses, widen and augment that work, and yon hasten the complete over throw of this evil! It will go down. I have the word of Almighty God for that in tho assured extirpation of all sin. But shall wo have a share in tho uni versal victory? Tho liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into tho score of thonsands, and then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from the hundreds into the tens, and from tho tens to three. The first of these last three taverns will be where tho educated and philo rophic and the high np will take their dram, but that class, aware of tho pow er of the example they have been set ting, will turn their back upon tho evil custom and be satisfied with tho two natural beverages that God intended for tho stimulus of the race—the Java coffee plantations furnishing tho best of tho oils and the Chinese tcafiulds the best of the other. And some day the barroom will lie crowded with people at tho vendue and the auctioneer’s mallet will jxmud nt tho sale of nil the appur- leuance* The second of these last three taverns will take down its flaming sign and extinguish its red light and close its doors, for the working classes will have concluded to buy their own horses Bud furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely tho wardrobe of their own wives and daughters instead of providing the distillers, the brewers and lienor sellers with wardrobes and mirrors and carriages. And the next time that second tavern is opened it will be a drug store, or a bakery, or a dry goods cstablishmeut, or a school. Then there will be only oue more of the three dissipating taverns left. I don’t know in what country or city or 1 neighborhood it will lie, but look at it, ! for it jk tho very last. The last inebri- j ate will have staggered np to its ooun- i ter aud put down his pennies for his [ fram. Its last horrible adulteration will be mixed and quaffed to eat out tho vitals and inflame the brain. The last drunkard will have stumbled down its front step* The last spasm of delir ium tremens caused by it will be strug gled throngh. The old rookery will be tom down, and with its demolition will close the long and awful reign of tho mightiest of earth’s abomination* Tho last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly blotted out as were tho throe taverns of my text Cheer For Reformer*. With these thoughts I cheer Chris tian reformers in their work, and what rejoicing on earth and heaven there will be over tho consummation! With in a few days one of tho greatest of tho leaders in this cause went np to en thronement The world never had but one Neal Dow and may never have an other. He has been an illumination to the century. Tho stand he took has di rectly and indirectly saved hundreds of thousands from drunkards’ grave* See ing tho wharfs of Portland, Me., cov ered with casks of West Indian rum, i nearly an acre of it at one time, and the city smoking with seven distilleries, he began the warfare against drunken ness more than half a century ago. The good he has done, the homes he has kept inviolate, the high moral sense with which he has infused ten generations, are a story that neither earth uor heaven can afford to let die. Derided, belittled, caricatured, maligned for a quarter of a century as few men have been, he has lived on until at his decease universal newspapordom speaks his praise, and tho enlogiums of his career on this side of tho sea have been caught up by the ca thedral organ sounding his requiem on the other. His whole life haviug been for God and tho world’s betterment, when at half past 8 o’clock in the after noon of Oct. 2 he left his home on earth surrounded by loving ministries and en tered the gates of his eternal residence, I think there was a most unusual wel come and salutation given him. Multi tudes enter heaven only because of what Christ has done for them, the welcome not at all intensified because of any thing they had done for him. But all heaven loiew tho story of that good man’s life, and the beauty of his death bed, where he said, “I long to be free. ” I think all tho reformers of heaven camo out to hail him in, the departed legis lators who made laws to restrain intem perance, the consecrated platform ora- tors who thrilled the generations that aro gone, with "righteousness, temper ance and judgment to come.” Albert Barnes and John B. Gough were there to greet him, aud goldeu tougued patri arch Stephen H. Tyug was there, aud John W. Hawkins, the founder of tho much derided and gloriously useful “Washingtonian movement” was there, and John Stearns and Commodore Foote aud Dr. Marsh aud Governor Briggs aud Eliphalet Nott, and my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the Christian senator, aud hundreds of those who la bored for the overthrow of the drunken ness that yet curses the earth were there to meet him and escort him to hie throne and shout at his coronation. The Departed Neal Dow. God let him live on for near a cen tury to show what good habits and cheerfulness and faith in the final tri umph of all that is good can do for a man in this world aud to add to the number of those who would bo on the other side to attend his entrance. But he will comeback again. "Yes, ” say some of you, with Martha, about Ljizu- rua to Jesus, "1 know he will rise at the resurrection of the Inst day.” Ah, I do not mean that. Ministering spirits are all the time coming and going be tween earth and heaven—the Bible teaches it—aud do you suppose the old hero just ascended will not come down aud help us in tho battle that still goes on? He will Into tho hearts of discour- aged reformers he will come to sjx ak good cheer. When legislators are decid ing how they can best stop the rum traf fic of America by legal enactment, he will help them vote for tho right aud rise up undismayed from temporary de feat. In this buttle will Neal Dow be until the lust victory is gained aud the smoko of tho last distillery has curled on the air, aud the last tear of despoil ed homesteads shall be wiped away. O departed nonagenarian! After you have taken a good rest from your strug gle of 70 active years come down again into tho fight aud bring with you a host of tho old Christian warriors who once mingled in the fray. In this battle the visible troops are not so mighty as tho invisible. Tho gos pel campaign begun with tho super natural—the midnight chant that woke the shepherds, the hushed sea, the eye sight given where the patient had been without tho optic nerve, tho sun oblit erated from the noonday heavens, tho law of gravitation loosing its grip as Christ ascended, and as the go8]>el cam- | paign began with tho supernatural it will close with the supernatural, and the winds and the waves and tho light nings and tho earthquakes will come in on the right side and against tho wrong side, and our ascended champions will return whether tho world sees them or does not see them. I do not think that those great souls departed aro going to do nothing hereafter but sing psalm* gud play harps, and breathe frankin cense, aud walk seas of glass mingled with fire. Tho mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their posit mortem mission, with facul ties quickened and velocities multi plied, and it may have been to that our dying reformer referred whin he said. "I long to bo free. ” There may be big ger worlds than this to bo redeemed lud more gigantic AbominStloDs to be overthrown than this world ever saw, and the discipline got hero may on ly be preliminary drill for * campaign in some other world and perhaps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander achievements in greater spheres, will not forget this old world where they prayed and suffered and triumph ed. Church militant and church tri umphant, bnt two divisions of the some army—right wing and left wing. One army of the living (iod. At his command wo bow. Part of the host have crossed the Hoad And port aro crossing now. lenmatism Is a blood disease and only a blood reme dy can cure it. So many people make the mistake of taking remedies which at best are only tonics and cannot possi bly reach their trouble. Mr. Asa Smith, Greencastle, Indiana, says: “For years I have suffered with Sciatic Rheuma tism, which the best physicians were un able to relieve. I took many patent medicines but they did not seem to reach my trouble. I gradually grew worse until I was un able to take my food or handle myself in any way; I was abso lutely helpless. Three bottles of S.S.S. re lieved me so that I fwas soon able to move my right arm; before long I could walk across the room, and when I had finished one dozen bottles was cured completely and am as well as ever. I now weigh 170.” A Real Blood Remedy. S.S.S. cures Scrofula, Cancer, Eczema, and any form of blood troubles. If you have a blood disease, take a blood medi cine—S.S.S. (guaranteedpurely vegeta- tablc) is exclusively for the blood and is recommended for nothing else. It forces out the poison matter permanent ly. We will send to anyone our valuable books. Address Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. THE KEY % ■ To health In the sfci.’y sr.ison 4 U to fortify the system beforehand •* a. 1 ! PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. It strengthens and regulates the liver, stimulates the hidneys, tores up th- stomach and digestion and cleanses the bowels. PRICE SI.00 PE2 BOTTLE. Sold by all Druggists. Cherokee Drug Co., special agents. ■ £ ; w sale. For November, 1897. STATE OF SOUTH OAROLIXA. / County or Spahtanburg. Office of Probate .1 udge. I G. II. Camp in his own right, ns Hdinitm- trator of M. L. Camp, deceased, petitioner, against Annie L. Camp. Wm. A. Camp. Bessie P. Camp. Rosa B. Camp. Geo. 11 Camp. Jr., Ruth D. Camp and Stephen D. Camp, de fendants. sss By vlrture of a decree rendered in the Probate Court of Spartanburg county. South Carolina, on September :id. Is'jT. 1 will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, before the courthouse door, in Cherokee county. South Carolina, on salesday in Noveinlr-r. the following described tract of land, to-wlt: AH that tract or lot of land lying on the waters of Surratt's Creek and known as lot No. (1. drawn by M. L. Cutup in the division of the estate of A. Bonner, dec'd. Bounded on the north by the home place, on the east bv Bryant Bonner, on the south by-v Ellis, on the west by F.llis. containing ninety-six acres, more or less. Terms of sale, one-half cash, balance on a credit of one. two and three years witli in terest from tlay of sale, credit portion to be secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises sold, purchaser to pay for pa pers and recording, and to have the privi lege of paying all cash. .1. J. Gentry. Oct. 2. Probate Judge. Notice to Farmers. F ARMERS not wishing to sell cotton at present low prices can secure advances on same at The National Bank of Gaffney. Land Posted. W E. the undersigned, hereby notify all persons not to trespass on our lands for any purpose whatsoever and especially not to hunt, lish or cut timber under penalty of the law. J. E. Mostei.ler, J. S. Harris. Oct., 7.3t. D. W. Cooper. SyrUp _'hat heritage of rich and poor, has saved many a life. For Throat and Lung affections it is invaluable. It never fails to cure Cough, Cold, Croup and Whooping-Cough. DR. BULL’S COUGH SYRUP is the best. Price 25 cents. Chew LANGE'S PLUGS. The Great Tobacco Antidote,10c. Dealer*or maM.C.Meyer & Co., Balto.,McL - - - mgmm CANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION ALL DRUGGISTS w* ) LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of building, * :::: * and * agricultural * lime, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Lathes and Platser Hair. Dvmamite. Blastinp Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps. Buyer or Seller, COKSULT WITH R. 0. SAMS’ Real Estate Agency ITor Nale- Four and half acres of hind on Victoria Avenue fronting \V. 11. Richardson. ( One lot on Victoria Avenue, near S. M. Littlejohn's. ( One lot In rear of above named lot S0\2oo feet. \ One lot fronting Victoria Avenue opposite R. O. Sams*. ( * f ix2I(). Good dwelling on same. One lot fronting Victoria Avenue K.Tx210 feet; 'Dwelling , of four rooms, opposite I). A. Thomas’. Lipscomb Hotel and lot, fronting Logan street 06 feet, and Depot street 200 feet. ( House and lot fronting Logan street 132 feet and Depot st reet 200 feet. Lot Logan street Ml SvW fret. Lot on Depot street 200x132 feet, opposite .1. I. Surratt’s. 46 acres on Horton’s Ferry road. is; acres near Ninety-Nine Islands on Broad River. *>2 acres fronting Mill’s Gap road, .lust out of town. Two lots. Johnson street. 170x210 feet, fronting mountains. i One farm. 70 acres. 2(4 miles from Gaffney on Faeolet road. !• room dwelling, new. fronting 200 feet on Depot street, is acre lot at*ove Goforth's mill. Goforth’s mill and fixtures and ■*) acres of land. 44 acres below Goforth's mill. 50acres known as the Huskey tract. 44 acres near lieu lab church. } 15 residence lots fronting Falrview Avenue 4 ’’ *' ” Johnson street. S5x2i0 10 “ •• Rutledge •• HOxJOO 2 *• ’• " Race “ 105x10) Limestone “ IHOxHIO Montgomery ioor: 1 ’• 2 7-10 acres. Mills Gap road. ’’ ** 3 acres near Mills Gap road q mile from corporate limits. is>, acres near Mills Gap road '4 mile from corporate limit Two lots 2 7-10 acres, excellent for residence. Mills Gap road 10 6.VI00 acres, well watered, just lieyond town limits Three store lots fronting Limestone street, next below Brown's store 70 acres divided Into 140 lots, fronting continuation of Limestone street and less than '? mile from town limits 315 acres on Broad river, splendid water power, 7 miles from Gaffney and crossed by Kills’ Ferry road SO shares Gaffney I’lly Laud and Improvement (' >)■ •« 40 !,•!/- on Smith. MeadoM. Buford ami , ,« ui iiCk 76 s.|o acres 24, miles from Gaffney on Pacolet road. Line church. 0 mile* from Gaffney. 4 lols near Mills Gap road fronting city. 100 acres on Snead branch and Thlckciy creek. 3 tracts from NO to MO acres of the Big urvey n ..rthe Cow pens buttle ground. JD'or Kirill Cottage on Victoria Avenue. oust* and lot ) IitMtirnnci* Fire aud life—the best companies.