No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep"
Vol. XVII.
GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1. 1900.
NO 135
This Akgus o'er the people's rights..
Doth an eternal vigil keep
DEATH OF COL. EL Ail.
Brilliant Virginia Editor Fas&es
Away. Was A Native Ol
Tills Stft'.e and a Bray a
Soldier.
Norfolk, Foo. Colonel
William C. EUvn, editor-in-chief
of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot,
died at his home in Louisa cjua
ty, today. For some time Colonel
Elam had beu unwell, but the
end came shortly past 1 o'clock
this afternoon.
Colonel Elam was sixty-tour
years of age. He is survived by y
widow atd a farruly. He was
born in F.iyeciaville, N. C, but
was of Virginia parentage, and
shortly after the war became a
resident of this Slate.
Cocne! William C. Elam was
a native of North Carolina. At
an early ago the support of his
widowed mother and i'ataily de
volved upon bira. Ho eat red the
Confederate service when bud a
youtb and served throughout the
war, winning promotion in the
line of his duty by deeds of he
roism and gallantry. He ws ser
iously wourdcd at Trevilii&r, in
Louisa county, and was Ihoro
cared for by the family of the
present Mrs. E'am. It was then
as the result of the tender miu- j
istrations of the youg lady who
later cacime his wifo that Le
subsequent iy cast his lot wit.fc
the pe jp'o of this State and cr ad a
it his hum?. Ha incited in Vir
ginia sbc-nly after tbe war aud
was identified with various Rich
mond paper-, particularly
Richmond Whig.
Croaj 's Haroic Detecss.
Crcojfs defense at Paardeberg
Drift wiii take its place among the
heroic actions of history. The
admiration which it excites is
based upon the reasonable sup-j
posion that Crorj and bis devot
ed army are noiding out with a
definite purpose in view. It is
iio. credit to a commander to ex
pose his men to death in a hope-,
less position merely to avoid the
shame or surrender. That is des.
peration not, heroism. But i, by
holding out, to the dealb, he can
keep the enemy in check until re
inforcements come or a co-opar-
ting force can get into position to
attack, then he may be perform
ing the most splendid military
service.
That this has been the purpose
of Cronj 's defense our best in
formation indicates. Wuen he
started up the Modder in was
evidently with the intention of
establishing himself somewhere
near Bloemfontein, where he
could be joined by other divi
sions of the Boer army. Roberts
and Kitchener, however, moved
more rapidly than the British
had been in the Jhabit of moving
before their arrival, and Cronje
was caught at a disadvantage.
The best he could do was to en
trench himself and keep the
British employed while the for
ces he had meant to join were
making ready for a vigorous de
fense! Then, when the moment
arrived, he could either cut his
way out or surrender at discre
tion conscious of having done all
that man could do.
This is the true spirit of the
soldier, audit is this that wins the
world's admiration for the des
perate defense of the Boers at
Paardeberg Drift.
There is a fair prospect that Lady
smith's inhabitants will soon be per
mitted to abandon their horse sand
wiches.
GRONJE FIGHTS ON.
BOERS BURROW IN THE
RIVER BANK LIKE
RABBITS,
Food St II Plentiful. A m muni -li
n. li wVcr, is Said to Be
Short acdSome AreCoun
cpling Surrender Bul
ler's Advancicu Lady
smi'h is Marked by
Heavy Fighting.
London, Feb. 26. Dispatches
from Paurcleborg show that Gen
eral Cronje's forces have far more
protection from Field Marshal
Lord Egberts' heavy fire than at
first indicated. A special dispatch
from Paardeberg, published in the
fcecoad edition of the Daily Chron
icle and dated February 24th,
snys:
"A baloon has discovered the
enemy well covered by a system
of borrowing in the river bank,
which resembles a rabbit warren
and affords shell proof positions."
Jt will not be much of a sur
prise if to-day and to-morow which
is the anniversary of Mjuba Hill,
pass without being marked by
the surrender or annihilation of
the gallant band so overwhelm-
inly hemmed iD, though the
closeness of the investment appears
on?n to criticism. Small bokies
i r-f Anru nnnQTonfli; oro nhln tn
purison here between the Ber
methods of investment, with their
quickly dug, surrounding trenches
impassable barbed wire, etc., and
those of the British:
Lord Roberts holds a position
almost ana!as;ou8 with that held
so long by the Boers at Lady
smith. As General Cronje is re
ported to have plenty of food, the
plan of starving him out can
scarcely avail as Lord Roberts
must either wait hia ammunition,
which is said to be short, runs
cut, or those of General Cronje's
forces who are counselling sur
render prevail. So indefinite is the
information that either of these
alternatives may occur at any mo
ment.
Meanwhile, Lord Roberts' en
gineers are sapping steadily to
wards the Boer laager, and ac
cording to a special from Paarde
berg, dated Sunday, February
25th, the cordon is gradually
drawing closer.
General Buller's march onLady-
smith is being marked by sharp
fighting. A Pietermaritzburg dis
patch of to-day's date says he is
still heavily engaged in fighting.
In Grobler's Kloof General Buller
seems to have discovered a born
et's nest.
The Pretoria Government pro.
claimed February 25th and Feb
ruary 27th, days of thanksgiving
and prayer, presumably in memory
of the battle of Majuba Hill.
A dispatch from Kimberley
says its inhabitants have planned
to erect a statue to Cecil Rhodes
in recognition of his services dur
ing the siege.
Decisions by courts is sup
planting decisions by Winches
ters even in Kentucky.
Cecil Rhodes should give his
baloon a trial trip anyway.
PERILOUS EXPERIENCE
Of the Transport McPherson
Four Hundred Miles Out At
the Mercy of Wind And
Waves
Fort Monroe, Va , Feb. 24.
The transport McPhersortpwed
by the steamer Admiral Slmp
sou, passed in the capes at days
break and anchored eff Fort Mon
roe quarantine statiou. She
brings troops from Cubs.
The transport had a thrilling
experience. During the heavy
storm Monday, wniie 440 miles
at S3B, she broke her propeller
shaft and drifted helplessly for
many hours almost to the coast
of Bermuda. Assistance was ask
ed of a little Italian steamer, but
her captian was afraid the big
transport would swamp him.
Excellent discipline prevailed.
Contemplating an ; emergency,
rations were immediate'y cut
down to all of the 168 people
Much personal bravery was
shown. Wnen it appeared that
the broken shaft must snap the
rudder unless secured, the en
tire crew volunteerdd for the
dangerous duty. The four men
selected performed the task sues
cessfuliy, and the ship, then
manageable, was put under sail
power. Wednesday a severe
storm arose, which drove her
further out of her course. Thurs
day night a Ward Liner stocd by
for three hours, but the trans
port was making headway 'under
sail. Yesterday morning, how
ever, she accepted the Admiral
Sampson's assistance. The diffi
cult work of securing the tow-
line was accomplished by throw
ing it overboard attached to a
life bnov.
In the midst of the storm Mi-
jor Hutchins, in charge of the
ship, was thrown violently
against the superstructure and
severely injured.
Impossible For Cronje to Ecp .
London, Feb. 25.-4 P. M.
Sinco 2;15 o'clock ye-sterdav af
ternoon nothing has been received
from the scene of what the London
papers call General Cronje's death
struggle, the war officials announ
cing at midnight that they had
nothing to give out. They stated
that they believed it impossible
for Cronje to escape from the grip
of Lord Roberts.
The report circulated in Berlin
that Cronje had succeeded m mak
ing his escape came from the Boer
headquarters in Brussels, where
it is stated that details were still'
lacking.
The only news from other parts
of the seat of war received during
the night, is a special dispatch
from Colenso, under date of Feb
ruary 24th, stating that the Brit
ish, in spite of strongopposition,
was advancing slowly but surely,
and driving the Boers from the
kopjes between Groblos Klop and
Hangwane.
Ladysmith reported by helio
graph on Friday that the Boers
were retiring northward in large
numbers. Meanwhile, the certainty
of relief is so strong at Durban
that the authorities are actively
preparing trainloads of provisions,
luxuries and medical comforts for
dispatch to beleaguered towns as
soon as communications are re
opened. The house in which John Brown
was born in Torrmgton, Conn., and
which has been in a dilapidated con
dition aad occupied for some years
by a poor negro family, is to be pur
chased and preserved by a society
Organized for the purpose.
CRONJE HAS SURRENDERED
Now a Prisoner With His
Army in The British
Camp.
Capitulation Unconditional -Intense
Excitement in London
The Grim O d Airiran
L!on MadoaM?g-:iii-cent
Resis esce.
London, Feb. 26. The fol
lowing dispatch has been receiv
ed from General Robert?, dated
at Paardeburg:
"Cronje and all his forces cap
itulated unconditionally at day
light and are now prisoners in
my camp. The strength cf his
force will be communicated la
ter. I hope her Ma jostv' govern
ment will considsr this event as
satisfactory, occurring on the
anniversary of Mejaba Hill."
(Signed) Roberts
Pardeburgj Feb. 27 General
Oronjasent an officer through
the British lines at dawn this
morning with a Hxg of truce. The
officer said he had a message to
the British General in command
and was taken to Kitchener to
whom he said General Cronja is
willing to surrender having
found his position untenable,nnd
only defeat aud capture was in
prospect if he continued the
fight. He wished to save unnec
essary shedding of blood and
save the women and children. He
requested tnat they be given
safe conduct. Kitchener granted
the rf quest so far as ha women
are concerned, but, insisted that
the surrender in all other re
spects be unconditional and ab
solute.
General Cror je agreed to this
The Boer commander as once
left his laager, aud, escorted by
half ad ziQtfflierf, entered the
British lines. He was met by
General Kitchener, who immedi
ately brought him to General
Roberts' headquarters. The
greeting of the rival generals
was kindly and extromely sym
paihetic on the part of Roberts.
New York, Feb. 27-Tho first
news that was allowed to dribble
the censor's hands of the splen
did stand made by CroDj's men
at Paardeburg drift reached Am
erica on Tuesday of last week. It
showed that Cronje and Roberts
had been fighting hard since
Sunday, February 18, just south
of Koodoe's Rand, which the
Boers had been unable to reach,
but which position was com
manded by their fire, the British
making unsuccessful attempts to
reach the rand themselves.
Throughout that week and un
til this morning the grim old
African lion, with his 8, 000 men.
held out against the persistent
assaults of Roberts' 45,000 men.
LondoD, Feb. 27 The Queen,
who is at Windsor Castle, has
cabled her congratulations to
Lord Roberts on the surrender
of General Cronja and his army.
General Roberts' dispatch was
posted in the War Office just as
the press lobby was opened, and
a few people besides the newspa
per men were present. The news
spread quickly and crowds hur
ried toward the War Office, where
there was a scene that has been
without paralled during the war.
The comment on all lips .was
that this first real victory was
doubly welcome, coming as it
did on the anniversary of Majuba
Day.
APPEAL TO AGU1NALDO.
Invitation to Become "A Good
Citizen of This Glorious
Country.
The editor of the Pocahontas
Sun, published somewhere inKan
sas, molds a whole lot of truth in
a small wad when he indicts the
following open letter to the leader
of the Philippine patriots: "Agui,
you do not know what a good
ng you are missing by net
wanting to become a citizen of this
grand country of ours. There is
nothing else like it under the sun.
You ought to send a delegation
over here to see us rthis land of
the free; this land of churches and
470,000 licensed saloons. Bibles,
forts, guns and houses of prayer,
the millionaires &nd paupere, the
ologians and thievfc3, libertines
and liars, Christians and chuia
gangs. politicians and poverty,
schools and prisons, scalawaey,
trusts and tramps, virtue and vice.
"A land where we make bol
ogna of dogs and canned beef of
sick cojvb and old mules and
horses, and corpses of people who
eat it; where we put men in jail
for not having means of bupport
and on a reck pile if he has no
job; where we have a Congress of
400 men to make laws and a Su
preme Court of 9 mm to set them
aside; where good whiskey makes
bad men and bad men make good
whiskey; where newspapers are
paid for suppressing the truth
and made rich for tc-llmg a lie;
where professors draw their con
victions and salaries from the same
source; where preachers are paid
from $1,000 to $25,000 a year to
dodge Satan and tickle the ears of
the wealthy,
"Where business consists in
getting propertv many way that
will not land you in the peniten
tiary ; where trusts hold you up
and poverty holds you dowr;
where men vote for what th9y
do not want for fear thev will
get what, they want by voting
for it ; where women wear fase
hair and men dock their horse'd
tails; where men vote tor a thing
one day and swear about it the
other 264 days in the year; where
we have prayers oa the floor of
the National Capitol and whiskey
in the basement; where we spend
SBSjOOO to bury a Congressman
and $10 to put a man away when
he is poor: wher9 the Govern
ment; pays the army officer's
widow $5,000 and the poor pri
vate who faced the shell 144,
with the insinuation that he is
a Government pauper and a bur
den because he lives.
"Where to be virtuous is to be
lonesome and to be honest is to
be a crank; where we sit on the
safety valve of conscience and
pull wide open the throttle of
energy; where gold is worshiped
and God is used as a wastebasket
for our better thoughts and good
resolutions; where we pay $15
for a dog and 15 cents a dczan
to a poor woman for making
shirts; where we teach the untu
tored Indian the way to eternal
life and kill him with bad booze;
where we put a man in prison for
stealing a loaf of bread and in
Congress for stealing a bank or
a railroad; where check-books
and sins walk in broad daylight,
justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates
our social fabric and Satan laugh
at every corner. Come to us,
Agui! We have the grandest ag-
s.TFgr,non of srood thi )gs, soft
tHns ar-d hard things of all
?"'z35. varieties and colors ever,
exhibited undsr cne big tent.
Seed j-oar delegation and we
will prove all these assertions
for truths."
Eastern anl Western Con Vtntions
Philadelphia Times.
Toe selection of Kansas City aa
the place for holding the Demo
cratic Natioiial Convention furn
ishts a new illustration cf the re
mirk that westward the star of
empire takes its way . Up to this
time no national convention of
either of the principal political
pai ti e.j h as j o a l ney ed bey on 1 the
western shore of the Mississippi.
The Democratic convention of
1876 v? i3 held in Si. Louis, as was
the Republican convention of
1896. The Republican convention
of 1892 was htjld in Minneapolis,
but with these three exceptions
no national convention has gone
we&t of Chicago.
Wuilw it is probahlf true that
the friends of Bryan Wc-ro influen
tial in the selection of Kansas City
as the loc:tior of the cording Dem
ocratic coavertiioD, the choice is an
eut'ely logical ore on other
grounds. The western border of
Missouri is not beyond the geogra
phical centre of the coun
try and Kansas City is a
town possessing all the nec
e siry qualifijat'.ous of a con
vention eifcv. In ramva.? and tele
graph facilities-", hot-il accommoc
diitiocs atd otatr ?eeesry re
qairdmeni?, if. is q-jtre equal to
ail the demands, -tai tber-i will
be few and vreli in; rmed people
in aay part ot luu country to
criticise the selection.
In no former Presidential year
havy the two convention cities
represented geographical exa
tremes to the same extent as
this year. A great Presidential
convention hs seldom been held
farther east, than Philadelphia
and never bsfore h.as one jour
neyed so far whs-, as the western
line of Missour". Bu'; it cannot be
said in any uus -use that the
rival conventions ibis ysar will,
represent Tt.e s ytiocs in which
they are held. Th re will be Re-,
publican IS'ares ts -r west as
the Pacific and Damoeratic
States that. bord-r e n the At
lantic. The Dem :crats will simply
cross one Stats farther to the
wast than ever before and the
Republicans, in selecting Phila
delphia, have'ebosen a.u old con
vention City.
ERYSIPELAS,
Albemarle, N: C, May 18, 1899.
The Editor of the Stanley Enterprise
saye:
Dear Mrs Person : I am a complete
convert to faith in 3 our Remedy. I
wrote your about my mother, of her
havin? been attacked at regular enter
vals with erysiplas, she having an ul
cer on her ancle, swollen leg, etc., and
further, after taking two bottles of
your Remedy, as prescribed, how she
broke out with a terrible itching hu
mor. Well, after resting on the strength
of what she had taken for a Jew days,
she commenced it again, and I am
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what 17 years treatment from doctors
and other remedies failed to accom
plish. In less than two months your
Remedy has driven the erysipelas from
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g'e attack since commencing your
Remedy) the swollen leg has been re
duced to normal proportions, and that
ulcer on her leg, which had been there
in an inflamed and running condition
for 17 years, has entirely healed, and,
praise God, your Remedy has done for
my mother what doctors could not do,
and what we had lost all hope of ever
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