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BOERS SUFFEfc DEFEAT. They Fought the Flower of tfc Brit 's isb, Army at Belmont Last Thursday Gen. Lord Me thuen achieved a victory over the Boers at Belmont,' fifty-six 'miles south of Kimberley. This victory and later developments respecting it form the foremost war topic in London. " ai.mi The British lost at least 220 kill. ed and wounded in the battle. Ac cording to late reports, these figures do not include the missing.. The Boer loss, as usual, is said tobe "heavy" but its exact extent is un known. r . ' In this battle the flower of the British army was engaged, i The fact that such crack regiments as the Coldstream, Grenadier and Scots Guards were made to suffer severely by Boer farmers, called from their homes to engage in war, shows that the British may reason ably expect a protracted struggle. The British had about 7,000 men engaged and the Boers 4,000. General Methuen will have to fight again before he is able to re lieve Kimberley, as a large force of Boers islready to block his path a short distance south of that town. Cecil Bhodes, it is said, keeps a big balloon ready at Kimberley to escape by that means should it be come necessary. A dispatch to the London Times says the British lost 47 men in a fight at Willow Grange, five miles south of Estcourt, on Thursday. An official message from General White at Ladysmith says the situ ation arthat place is unchanged. ; At last accounts the British gar rison at Makefing was hard pressed" and was being constantly harassed by the Boers. President Kruger and other offi cials at Pretoria are actively pre paring for a possible seize of their capital. The total Boer army is estimated at 43,000 men, against which the British expect to hurl 95,000 men. It is reported from Pretoria that Commandant AlbrecHt and Lieu tenant El off have started, with a thousand followers, to capture Buluwayo, Rhodesia. United States Consul Macrum, at Pretoria, has been instructed from Washington to insist upon the right to look after the interests of the British prisoners. The Boers Have the British in an awkward position in the Natal see-1 tion. Although a division and a half: have now reaohed Durban, that place is practically powerless until supplied with cavalry and artillery, and until these, arrive the situation will undobtedly remain grave. Another battle has been .fought by Gen. Lord Paul Methuen's col umn, which is advancing to the re lief of Kimberley. The battle oc curred Saturday morning. The scene of the. fight was near Gras Pan, in Western :Cape Colony. Gras Pan is ten miles north of Bel mont, and 46 miles south of Kim berley. It is on the railroad line along which General Methuen is advancing. The official report of ibe British commander states the Boers re treated, but he does not give many details, leaving it an open question whether the result was on the whole favorable to the British. He says the Boer force engaged numbered 2,500. These were doubtless Free Staters, who have been operating in that vicinity. The British force was aboutJ7,000 men. It is known, telegraphs General Methuen, thi the Boers lost at least 31 killed and 48 wounded. The British loss Is not stated, bu t is presumably heavy, as the British commander says: "The enemy showed the greatest 8tubborne88J." G en. Methuen's force will halt one day at Gras Pan to rest and -replenish ammunition. General Joubert, it is reported, is retiring from Mool river, Natal, to Ladysmith, and signs-point to a Strong Boer expectation for the capture of White's army. A dis patch from Pretoria, dated last Fri day, says the Boers expected to capture Ladysmith "at the end of this week." The British had al most ceased to reply to the Boer artillery fire, indicating, perhaps, that their ammunition was ex hausted. Following the supposed retirement of the Boers, the British have restored telegraphic commun ication with Estcourt. On the other hand, the retire ment of the Boers may be a sign of weakness. An Estcourt dispatch indicates that it is because thev lack food. General Hildyard, who commanded the British troops at Ladysmith, has advanced north ward to Frere. . A locomotive on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road re cently made a run, of five miles in three minutes. At the time it was drawing eight passenger cars. Bean the The Kind Yea Hats Always Bsctt 7 Education of ITerocs in tho South. The generosity of the Southern white people in providing educa tional facilities for the negroes is worthy of the highest commenda tion. It is not sufficient to say that it was their duty to do what they have done. If they had pur sued a different course under the conditions which prevailed after the Civil war, they could hot have been censured very severely, for their property had beea destroyed and many of them were almost penniless and unable to prsvide properly for the educational needs of their own children, much less the needs of the children of their former slates. It is greatly to their credit that, under such try ing circumstances, they did not discriminate against the negro, but allowed his children to nave a share of school funds which were derived almost entirely from taxes paid by the whites. In several Southern States move ments have been inaugurated from time to time to devote toe taxes Daid bv whites exclusively to the education of white children and to give to the negroes for the educa tion of their children such sums as they might pay into the state treasury in the form of taxes. It such a plan had been adopted, the Southern negroes would have bad very few schools, while trie educa tional facilities provided for the whites would have been materially increased and improved. Although there might have been justification for such a division of the school funds, the suggestion was never favored by a majority of the white taxpayers in any Southern state, regardless of theecality of such a division. They have continued to educate the negroes at their own expense and at the expense of white children, never stopping to inquire whether the -results justi fied the. expenditure, although at times they may have had serious doubts on the subject. If they had. divided the school funds in proportion to the taxes paid by the representatives of each race, they would have had more and better schools for white children. If they had objected to taxation the object of which is the support of colored schools, the negro would be in a very bad way as far as his oppor tunities for getting an education are concerned. Tablet for Confederate Museum. The Ladies' Confederate Memo rial Association has prepared for the North Carolina room in the Confederate Museum in Rich mond a tablet framed in gilt, bearing the following inscription : "North Car olina's record, 1861-1865. First at Bethel. Farthest' at Gettysburg. Last at Appomattox. With a vot ing population of 115,000 North Carolina sent 125,000 volunteers to the Confederate service, or one fifth of the entire Confederate army. At Big Bethel, June 10, 1861, Henry Lawfon Wyatt fell, the first Confederate soldier killed in a pitched battle. Company H, First North Carolina Infantry. At Balaclava, in the charge of the Light Brigade, England's loss was 37J per cent, of her men.4 -The Twenty-sixth North Carolina Reg iment, at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, lost 80 per cent, of its men. North Carolina troops made the last charge at Appomattox. One half the muskets laid down at Ap pomattox were in the 'bands of North Carolina soldiers." Prospects for Trouble Good. .The Court of Appeals of Ken tucky has decided that Taylor. Be. publican candidate for governor, is entitled to the vote of Nelson county, which gave him a plural ity of 1,197.' Goebel's attorneys asked that the vote of this county be thrown out. Governor Bradley still maintains a guard at the state arsenal, and it is said that the state war de partment was never so fully equipped with shooting mat-riai. The Governor himself absolute!? refuses to , disclose his position. but the movements of Adjutant general Collier, which are up posed to be under his direction, indicate that he is preparing i take some kind of vigorous action, and the prospects for trouble p-m to be growing as the day of nal settlement approaches. ... r Study It Out. Here is a highly interesting par adox, which may amuse or bewild er, as the case maybe. It is sup posed to have been invented by Socrates: A. says that ali Athen ians are liars. A. is an Athenian and therefore a liar. Therefore his statement that all Athenians are liars is not true, and conse quently all Athenians tell the truth. A. is an Athenian, and hence tells the truth. . Wherefore his statement that all Athenians are liars is true. Therefore he' is a liar and his statement false, and so on. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATRIOT. S: T GEHERAIi IJET78. - ; Opposition Is developing In Cuba to the establishment of a civil gov ernment there by the Americans. Trouble has again occuied in Samoa, and some of the native chiefs and their followers have been fighting. . The Georgia legislature has pass ed a resolution favoring the aboli tion of the 10 per cent, tax on state banks of Issue. The Georgia House of Delegates has passed a bill to tax dogs, the proceeds to go to the school fund in each county. Kansas City has subscribed a fund of $57,000 to induce the next national Democratic convention to meet in that city. Charles Gilinore, aged 24, a brakeman in the employ of the Norfolk fc Western Railroad, was killed at Radford, Va., Monday. It is said that the Republicans of Indiana will push Governor Mount for the Republican nomina tion for vice-president next year. In his message to the legislature of Virginia it is said that Govern or Tyler will urge the enactment of laws to prevent the use of money in elections. . .William Anthonys who, as a pri vate In the Marine Corps, distin guished himself in the Maine . dis aster, committed suicide in New York last Friday. Postmaster-General Smith issued an important order establishing do mestic orders of postage between the United States and Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The McKinley Club, a colored political organization in Washing ton city, was raided by the police Sunday and twenty-four of the members arrested for gambling. One hundred -and twenty-nine employees of a Cincinnati trunk factory went out on a strike on Wednesday last because four girls were employed in the lining de partment.: - Joseph Richards, a young white man of Macon, Ga., committed suicide last Friday as a result of religious mania. Richards had be come interested in some new and wild religious doctrine. The Rev. Henry Cunningham, of Cumberland, Md., has been sen tenced to five years in the peniten tiary for robbing Joshua Day of $1,525 on October 28th. Cunning ham; has been preaching for forty years. . : The President will ask the in coming congress to pass an act retiring Gen. W. R. Shafter, with the rank of major-general t In the regular army. He has already been; retired with the rank of brigadier-general. . The bill to protect child labor has (passed the Georgia Senate. The bill seeks to prevent children under the age of twelve years from working " in the factories unless widowed mothers or invalid fathers need their j labor. The United States, it is declared, is not likely to become a party to the proposed treaty between Euro pean powers providing for a delim itation of spheres of political in fluence in China and the policy of the f4open door." The body of John T. Alvey, the Richmond merchant who disap peared on the evening of the 8th instl, was found early Saturday in the old James River & Kanawha Canal, at a point between Sixth and Seventh streets. Out of respect to the memory of the late Vice President Hobart, the President has cancelled all his social encasements for the pres ent. i The. members of the cabinet- have done likewise and the .admin istration will observe a period of mourning. A) Newport News, Va., dispatch says that on the run down the coast from Boston to Hampton Roads, the new battleship Kentucky,' which came into the Roads Sunday night, broke the record for ships of her class. - Her average speed for the tripj was 15 knots per hour. When congress assembles a num ber of persons will present them selves as claimants to seats in the senate whose right is questionable. The title of these persons will be passed upon by the senate com mittee, whose duty it is to attend to euch matters. It is said that many of the regi ments in the Phillippines have no chaplains. The following is an extract from a soldier's letter : "You ask me what kind of a chap lain we have out here. Well, I must tell you I have not heard the Word of God spoken since I have been on the island, for we have no chaplain with us. If we had one he would have to talk to us on the firing line, and I don't think it would be well for him. Let him wait until after this is all over and then he can tell us all about the love of God." - Single Barrel Guns, $5 to $10. Dou ble Barrel, $8 iPrJClffet ILfPLEMENT Am Op GENiTLEMEN: Allow us to call your attention to the fact thaf have one of the comoletest stocks of "Snorting Goods" evpr cui,.at we in Greensboro,' and we want, if you will let us, to supply your neeric in that direction. Wighness of Quality and Lowness of Price aretv?ft strong recommendations for our goods. Your especial attention k directed to our line of j Guns and Loaded Shells. These are makes on which you can depend, and no disappointment comes from usim! them. We hope to have th pleasure of seeing you in our store. El Execntor's Notice. . Having qualified as executor of the last -will and testdiuent of Cornelia A. Steele, deceased. All rtAfflmiA havinc r.laima airainst said deceased are hereby notified to present tbem to the nn- aersignea on or ueiure iuv. xi ivw, ur vuio uu tice wiir be plead in bar of their recovery. This 16th day of October, 1899. II. W. 8TEELE, 44-6w . Execntor Cornelia A. Steele, Administrator's Notice. - i , ' : . i Ilavinff qualified as administrator on the es tate of James M. (4ant, deceased, I hereby no tify all , perrons having claims against said es tate to present them to me on or before the 1st day of December, 1900, or this notice will be nlead in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please come forward and make immediate payment. ' -This November 27th, 1899. JAMES D. DONNELL, 4S-6w Administrator of James M. Gant. mortgage Sale. ; Bv virtue of a morffrasre deed executed on the 26th day of April. 193. by Z. F. Croker and wife, Mary A. Croker, to J. C. Welch and as signed to Mc Daniel Gordy, the same being duly recorded in Regis:erof Deeds office in Gmlloi d county, book 98, page 261, etc.,. I win sell at the court house door in Greensboro, N. ;., on SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1899, at one o'clo k, P. W., the following tract of land in High Point: Beginning at a stone, Francis Oliver's corner, on Willowbrook street and running north 11 degrees west 75 feet to a stone in the line of said street, thence south 79 degrees west 270 feet to a stake, thence south 11 degrees east 75 feet to a stake, the northeast corner of F Oliver's lot, thence north 79 degrees east with said Oliver's line 270 feet to the be ginning, containing acre more or less. Terms of sale cash. This Nov. 22nd, 1899. McDANIEL GORDY, ; , , Assignee of J. C. Welch. Notice to Contractors. Sealed bids will be received by tbe Board 'of County Commissioners of Guilford county, N. C, until 2 p. m. on Wednesday, the 6th day of Decem ber, 1899, for the erection of a new jajl for said county. - j :Plans of the building will be found on file at tbe office of the Register of Deeds of Guilford county, N. U.,and at the office of , Hayderj, Wheeler & Scbweod, Architects, -Charlotte. N. C., at anv time after the 25th of Novem ber, 1899. The Board reserves the right to re ject-any or all bids. W. C. BOREN, Ch'm'n. County Com. Small Pox Notice, North Carolina, V Guilford County. ) WHEREAS, It has come to the knowledge of the authorities of Gail ford County that there is an epidemic of small pox at Terra Cotta Works in said county, and j. WHERE A8, It is made tbe dniy of said authorities to warn all citizens of the county and persons generally of the existence of said epidemic and to urge upon all persons the importance of immediate vaccination in order that a scourge of tbe disease may be avert ed, : NOW, THEREFORE, We, the Board of Qounty Commissioners and County Superintendent of Health of said county, most earnestly urge upon all persons the wisdom and duty of be ing vaccinated at once. Should the disease spread and the people neglect this warning and request, It may be come necessary for us, In compliance with law, and in order to prevent a de vastating epidemic of this terrible dis ease, to order compulrory vaccination. All pereODS who are unable to pay the expenses of vaccination will be vaccinated free by tbe county. B. W. BEST, Superintendent Public Health. W. C. BOREN, , W. H RAG AN, W.C.MICHAEL, Board County Commissioners. Dr.Mllea'JVii JPttT are guaranteed tof m Ileaduchm in 20 minutes. 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