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THE PALMETTO SHIELD.
VOL. U
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O. A. CANTRELL.
JOHNNY’S OPINION OF GRAND
MOTHERS.
Grandmothers are very nice folks;
They beat all the aunts in creatiou,
They let a chap do as he like3,
and don't worry about education.
Grandmothers speak softly to “mas '
To let a boy have a good time;
Sometimes they will whisper’‘tis true’
T’other way, when a boy wants to climb
Grandmothers have muffins for tea,
And pies, a whole row in the cellar,
And they’re(if they know it in time)
To make chicken pies for a feller.
And if he is bad now and then,
And makes a great racketing noise,
They only look over their spec’s,
And say, “Ah, those boys will be boys.”
Quite often, as twilight comes on,
Grandmothers sing hymns very low,
To themselves, as they rock by the lire,
About heaven, and when they shall go.
And then, a boy stopping to think,
will find allot tear in his eye,
To know what will come at the last—
For Grandmothers all have to die.
I wish they could stay here and pray;
For a boy needs their prayers at night;
Some boys more than othecs, I s’pose;
Such as I need a wonderful sight.
N. Y.’ S. J.
FOB THE LADIES.
The Polonaise will be worn all through
he spring’
Jewelry made of jet and cut steel i s
the proper thing for half mourning-
The two new dress materials for
spring wear are india camel’s hair aud
Vigogne,a light soft woolen fabric.
Long trains are now only worn for
occasions of great ceremony' For ordi
nary evening dress,the demi-train.
The latest revival of an old fashion
is the tight .Medicis sleeves with a
great puff at the shoulders—such as
one sees in old paintings.
Bethune’s Contest. —Hon. Henry R-
Harris went to Talbotton one day week
before last to meet Bethune who had
given notice that he would take testi
mony concerning the congressional el
ection’ on that day. Bethune did not
come up to time, however. We learn
that he has since sent word to Mr-
Harris that he has given up the
of contesting'
ORDINANCES OF PALMETTO.
Be it ordained by the Commissioners
of tlie town of Palmetto.
Sec. Ist. No person shall do, or cause
to lie done, any labor on the Sabbath
day, unless it be work of necessity,
my person violating this section, shall
pay a fine not to exceed ten dollars and
costs or imprisonment not exceeding
five days in calaboose.
Sec. 2 No person shall write, paint,
draw or cut any letter or letters, word
or words, or devices, or in any manner
mutilate or deface any public building,
or church, or any shade tree, on any
public Street under a penalty of five
dollars, or confined in calaboose not
exceeding five days and all costs.
Smc. 3. That any person who shall
fasten any horse or animal to any
shade tree, o fence, or to any thing
on or by the side walk, shall pay a fine,
of not exce -ding two dollars and costs,
and the Marshal shall in every case
seize the horse or other animal and re
tain it until the fine and costs are paid
Sec. 4 No person shall put. any ob
structions in any public street, 01 ou
any side wafk except in case of build
ing, any person who shall place any
obstructions as aforesaid, refusing or
failing to remove the same in ten
hours after being notified, by the Mar
shal, shall pay a fine, not to exceed
five dollars and costs.
Sec. 5. Any person, or persons who
shall drive a vehicle, or ride in a dis
orderly manner, through the streets,
or who shall ride on or place any ve
hide on the side walk, shall pay a
fine, not exceeding tvro dollars and
costs, or confined in calaboose, until
the fine and costs are paid
Sf.c. 6 No person or persons shall
keep a disorderly house, < r houses of
ill fame, any house or houses that is
inhabited by disorderly persons of im
moral character, shall be considered a
disorderly house, or houses of ill-fame,
and any or all inmatss of such house
or houses, shall be conside ed the
keeper or keepers of the same, and
subject to the penalties of this section.
And any person or persons who shall
rent or cause to be rented, any house
or houses, Jo be used as disorderly
house or houses of ill-fame shall be
considered a keeper or keepers of the
sump, any person vioala-t’tig this sec
tion shall pay a fine not less than ten
dollars, for each violation, or confined
in calaboose at the discretion of the
Council.
Sec. 7. Any merchant, or dealei in
any kind of Merchandise, who shall
keep open doors on the Sabbath dav
or cause the same to he done; or trade,
or trafic, shall pay a fine of riot less
than five dollars and cost, or be con
fined in Calaboose at the discretion of
the Council.
Sec. 8. Any person who shall be
guilty of any act of public indecency,
or using obscene, vulgar, or profane
language, 01 of quarreling or fighting,
or act in a disoiderly manner shall pay
a fine not excei ding ten dollars and
cost, or be confined iu the calaboose
at the discretion of the Council.
Se<v. 9. Any person who shall make
any unnecessary noise at night to the
disturbance of any of the citizens,
shall be fined five dollars and cost.
Sec. 10. Any person who may be
found drunk aud acting in a disorderly
manner, or lying down on the streets
shall be arrested by the Marshal and
confined in the calaboose until sober,
and shall pay a fine not exceeding five
dollars and cost.
Sec. 11. That no person shall dis
charge any kind of firearms, within
two hundred yards of any occupied
house, within the corporate limits of
said town, (unless good and sufficient
reason is given,) under a penalty of
not less than one dollar, nor more than
five dollars.
Sec. 12. The Commissioners may
grant license to retail ardent spirits iu
said town, on application made. All
persons to whom they grant such li
cense, shall pay to the Clerk fifty dol
lars per annum ; said amount to be
paid quarterly. All appiicauts shall
give bond with approved security, in
a sum not less than five hundred dol
lars, and take the oath required by law.
Sec. 13. If auy person shall in said
town retail or sell in quantities less
than one quart any ardent spirits,
without having obtained such licer.se,
paid the required tax, given the reccir
ed bond and taken said oath he or che,
may be fined not more than one ran
dred dollars and cost, or confined in
the calaboose at the discretion oi the
Council.
Sec. 14 No license shall be trans
ferable. No license shall protect mor
than one place and that place decide
in said license, and no ardent spirit
shall be retailed iu thestreets of sai
PALMETTO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7.1873.
town, any person violating this sic
lion, shall pay a fine not exceeding
two hundred dollars, or be confined in
the Calaboose at the discretion of the
Council.
Sec. 15. That every owner or pro
prietor of a billiard, pool or bagatelle
table on which billiards, pool or hagatel 1
is played, shall apply to the Clerk and
obtain license, for which shall be 1 aid
ten dollars per annum. Any person
violating this section shall pay a fine
of twenty-five dollars, and such bil
liard, pool or bagatelle table, shall be
subject for the payment of such fine.
Sec. 16. All persona who are en
gaged in any mercantile trade of any
kind, in said town, owners of livery
stables, artists, and all others who
trade upon the streets, without having
paid a tax as merchants, And every
proprietor r owner of a hotel, or house
ol public entertainment, shall apply to
the Clerk and abtain license for the
same. Which license shall be ten dol
lars per annum, also every black-smith
shop, wood shop, barber shop, shoe
shop, buggy shop, cabinet shop and
silver or gnu smith ; the proprietor
shall apply to the Clerk and obtain
license, therefi r, which license shall
he five dollars per annum All law
yers, doctors and dentists, shall obtain
license from the Clerk, for carrying on
tlmir profe.-gion, which license shall be
five dollars, and executions may issue
against any and all snefi pet sons who
tail, or refuse to obtain license herein,
specified.
Sec. 17.‘Every male citizen liable
to road duty, under the laws of th s
slate, and a resident of Palmetto, shall
be subject to a street tax of three dol
lars per ai.uum, to he paid into the
town Treasury by the Ist day of April
in each year, all persons subject to aid
tax, and refusing to pay by the required
time, shall he subject to double tax,
with costs of collection by execution.
Sec. 18 It shall be the duty of the
Clerk to receive from every person in
said town, a list of their real estate and
its value, he, she or they may have, or
hold in their own rights or the rights of
another person on Ist day of June in
each year, and return tho same to the
board of C'ommissUuers, by the Ist day
August thereafter; and should any per
son fail, or refuse to return their real
estajte at its vafde at ttv'tonJ- specified)
or shall return it at less than its real
value, on such information being hud
by the board of Commissioners it shall
be their duty to appointtliree free hoi
ders who shall assess the value,of such
real estate as may be neglected, or
fraudulently returned, and return the
same to the board of Commissioners.
And all properly assessed and returned
by sai I Iree holders, shall be double
taxed. The board of Commissioners
shall levy such a per cent, on the
the property, given in as they may
deem right and proper, for defraying
the necessary expenses of said town.
And the Marshal shall collect the taxes
so levied, by the fifteenth day of Octo
ber of each year.
tSEC. 19 No blacksmith shop or plank
kiln, shall be erected within 75 feet of
any dwelling house, store house, or
oilier buildings ot value, within the cor
porate limits ol said town,Nor shall any
house be occupied as such, unless made
fire proof; any person violating this
section shall be fined not less than ten
dollars, and the plank kiln, or shop
shall be subject to the payment of said
fine and cost.
&EC. 20 The Commissioners may
pass such rules a- they may deem 1 ec
essary for the government ot the
board, and such rules shall be record
ed by the clerk, in a bpok to be kept
tor that purpose, and such rules shall
be strictly adhered to at all regular
and called meetings.
Sec. 21. No peddler or tiaveler shall
offer lor sale any goods, wares or rner
ebandise, within the incorporation
limits of suid town without first ob
taining from the clerk of Council a li
cense, for which she or they shall pay
the sum of five dollars, and clerk’s fee,
for each and every day, he she or they
shall offer any goods, wares or mer
chandise for sale, any perseu violating
this section, shall be fined not exceed
ing ten dollars or be confined in cala
boose, at the discretion of the Council.
Sec. 22, All shows or exhibition of
auimals, slight of hand, legerdemain
or tricks of any kind, owners or pro
prietors of same shall pay a license,
not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for
each day’s peiformauce, any person
violating this section, shall pay a fine
of fifty dollars aud costs, or be con
fined in calaboose at the discretion ol
the Council.
Sec. 23, If any animal shall die in
said town, it shall be the duty of the
Marshal to notify the owner, of such
dead animal, to remove the same out
of the incorporate limits of said town,
and upon failure or refusal of said
owner to do the same, within ten hours,
after being notified by the Marshal
shall pay a fine 0 f g ve dollars and the
Marshal sh ill cause the same to be re
moved at the expense of the owner.
Sf.c. 24, If any person or persons
shall resist the authority of the Mar
sha! or molest him in the performance
of his Jofficial duties, he or they shall
pay a fine, of not less than ten nor
more than fifty dollars, at the discre
tion of the Council.
Sec. 25. In case of disturbance of
the peace in said town, the Marshal or
any one of the commissioners, may
summons to his aid any number of citi
zens, of said town, and any citizen fail
ing or refusing to obey said summons,
to reuder the assistance so required
shall be fined a sum of not less than
fen dollars, nor exceeding twenty-five
dollars.
Sec. 26. No person or persons, with
in the incorporate limits of said town,
shall bet at any game of cards, or
game of auy kind, any person violating
this seot'on, shall pay a fine of not less
than five nor exceeding twenty five
dollars, or be confined in calaboose at
the discretion of the Council.
Sec. 27. Any proprietor of any pool
billiard or bagatelle table, allow
ing any person or persons to bet at any
game played on same or allowing bet
ting at any game of cards or other
games of any kind in their own house
or houses occupied by them, shall pay
a fine of not less than twenty dollars,
nor exceeding fifty dollars, or confined
in calaboose at the discretion of the
Council.
Sec. 28. No person or persons, shall
within the incorporate limits of said
town, play at any game of cards, mar
bles or game of any kind, (or amuse
ment or otherwise on sabbath. Any
person violating this section, shall pay
a fine of not less than five nor more
than fifty dollars, or confined in cala
boose at the discretion of the Council.
Sec. 29 From and after the adoption
of this section, it shall be the duty ol
the Marshal to take up all horses or
mules running at large in the town of
Palmetto, and keep them at the expens
of the owner, until the owner pays
fine of fifty cents.
Sec. 30 All dealers in ardent spir
its are forbidden to sell any spirituous
liquors on the Sabbath, or keep open
doors. All who violate this section,
shall be fined a sum not exceeding ten
dollars, or imprisoned iu the calaboose
at the discretion of the Couucil.
Sec. 31. So much of section 15 of
these Ordinances, as pertains to the
amount of tax levied on Billiard
Tables is hereby repealed,aud the tax
per annum on such tables, from and
after this date, shall be twenty-five
dollars.
Sec. 32. Be it further ordered that
all witnesses summoned hy the Mar
shal to appear before the Council, to
testify, shall be fined not exceeding
twenty-five dollars, or thirty Jays con
finement in the Calaboose for contempt,
if they fail to appear.
Sec 33. Any person who shall be
guilty of using fire-works, of any dis
cioption, within the incorporate limits
of Palmetto, shall be fined five dollars
or imprisonment in Calaboose, at the
discretion of the Council.
MARSHAL’S FEES.
For serving summons each case,
25 cts.
For each additional copy, when
there are more than one defendant,
15 cts.
For serving Subpoena on witnees 25 cts
For taking bond to apppear before
the Council, $1 00.
For attending trial, 25 cts.
For serving fi fa, 50 cis.
For making deeds to real estate or
personal property when requested,
$2 00.
Ejecting occupants of houses of
ill-fame, $2 00
Pot arresting persons and confining
in the Calaboose, $1 00
For arresting aud bringing before
the Commissioners, $1 00.
For receiving prisoners in Cala
boose, 50 cts.
For dieting prisoners per day 50 cts.
For settling fi. fa. if paid before sale
$1 00.
For collecting tax on real estate, 2J
per ct.
NO 39.
CLERK'S* FEES.
i For is-uing License to retailers,
$1 00.
For taking B md, 60 cts.
For issuing License to Auctioneer*,
$2 00.
For issuing license to Si ( .vs
other performances, $2 00
Fur issuing all other License re
quired by Ordinances,sl 00.
For each case tried by Council,
50 cts.
“ issuing fi fas, 50 cts.
w“ every Subpoena ticket, 15 cts
C“ signing instruments of writiu
hen it becomes necessary f>r
link’s official signature, SI,OO.
For receiving tax returns, or real es
tate 2J per cent.
Couucil’.for 1873.
W.iW. Floyd, Chairman.
8. Zellars, Treasurer,
C. T. Smith,
Thus. II Menefee,
T. D. Longino,
T. VV. Hood, Marshal,
E. R. Thornton, Clerk.
Paving for a Runaway Slate.
Among the bills whieh passed the
House of Representativesfin Washing
ton is one which will sound strange to
the country at this day. It was the
payment for a runaway negro during
the war. While the twenty-seventh
Wisconsin Regiment, Col. W. L Utely,
was in Kentucky, a young negro
belonging to Chief Justice Robertson,
of that State, ran away and took refuge
in the Colonel’s camp. Judge Robert
son demanded his property, but Col.
Utely responded that “he didn’t enlist
to catch negroes.” Robertson thereup
on brought suit aud got Judgment
,against Utely.The statutes of Congress
step iu and officer harmless,
but only by assumption of the liability
Hence, the House on Saturday passed
a bill to pay S9OO forjudge Robert
son’s little negro.
To Mark Cows Gtrs Milk.
A writer says his cow gives all
the milk that is wanted in a family of
eight persons’ and from which was
made two bundled and sixty pounds
of butter this year, gives the, following
as his treatment. He says:
“If you desire to get a large 'yield
of rich milk give your cow every day
water slightly warm, slightly s *lted in
which brand has been stirred at the
rate of one quart to two gallons of
water. You will find if you have not
triedthisdaily practice that your cow
will give twentyfivs per cent, more
milk immediately under the effects of
it, and she will become so attached to
refuse to drink clear water unless
very thirsty: but this mess aha will
drink almost anytime and ask for
more.
The amount of this drink necessary is
an ordinary water pailful *t a time
morning, noon and night.
Pour hundred pounds of butter are
.olteujobtained from good stock, aud in
stances are mentioned where theyield
was even at a higher figure.,,
A Disgusted Lively Man.—A wealthy
German from New York was in town
a few days agojand wishing to drivo
out went to a stable to hire a team
the man of horses was loth to trust a
valuable turn out to an entire stranger
and so asked for references' The
German replied, that he could
give no references, but that he would
buy the horse and sleigh, and when he
returned from his ride the stable- keep
er might refupd the money. A price
was agreed upon, and the cash paid
when latet in the day the stranger
brought tne team l arlsli lit full*,
his money was returnd-and he started
to go. ~Hold on‘„said the man of
you have not paid your horse hire!,,
Why,my dear Bir,“said the New Yorker
coolly,“I have been driving my owu
team this morning!.,The stable keepe
looked disgusted, but did not force hi
claims —Hartford Times.