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PUBLISHED E5ERY EHENI,NG EXCEPT SUNDRY,
Vol. II No. 181.
KINSTON, N. O., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1899.
Price Two Cerro.
STATE HEWS.
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Interesting. North Carolina Items
In Condensed Form.
The cotton 'platform: at Lauriuburg
caught fire Sunday night, Prompt work
prevented a destructive conflagration
About 400 bales of cotton were on the
v platform, but only about 25 bales were
, burned. - rw
Dave Justice, a colored tenant employ
,ed on Col. B. Cameron's farm, some l0 or
12 miles from Durham, 'was found dead
Sunday morning not far from pis home,
A team he had been drivinur was near by.
It is thought be fell out of the wagon and
broke his neck. v 1 ,
J. J. Thompson, of South Gaston, Hal
ifax county, was fatally injured by the
collapse Saturday of a trestle in course
of erection on the K. C 11. 14., near
Nott&way river, Va. In the' same acci
dent L. Hi Itahn, of St; Paul, Minn., was
also fatally hurt. -
Sanford Express: The large new hotel
at rinehurst will be open lor; the recep
tion of guests by November 1st.' The
' hotel will be elegantly furnished, the
carpets alone costing ; $12,000. - This
makes the seventh hotel for Finehurst,
all owned by . Air. lints, all or which
with his 76 . cottages, , will be crowded
with guests the Coming winter.
Chntoft- Democrat: While a murder
trial was in progress in Clinton, a mur
der was committed in Dismal township
lasi Friday evening. Two negroes, Tobe
Maxwell and Georee Maxwell, kinsmen,
became involved in a difficulty. Tobe
assaulted George, and it is said shot at
him,, when George returned the fire, kill
- ing his assailant instantly. '
At ree Lee, i. v., there is a negro
, preacher named Uarrett running a school,
which he calls 1 ee Dee Collegiate insti
. tute. It is learned that he has been
selling degrees of D. D. to Baptist clergy.
men in England. $ The ; Wadesboro Mes
senger and Intelligencer publishes some
of the doings of this , negro preacher
which show him to be a bad man and a
very "slick duck." ,-,', , "
At Baleigh Saturday the A. & M. and
University played a tie eame of football.
score 11 to 11, the score at end first half
was 11 to 5 in favor A, & M. - The Uni
versity had tied the score and had the
ball within a few inches of the A. & M.
goal when time was called. The Univer
sity timekeeper contended that the game
was called 17 seconds too soon, and if
correct in those 17 seconds University
would likely have made score 16 "to 11
in favor of the University. .
iNews-UDserver: There is one law in
the State that is practically a dead let
ter,'' said Capt. Bradley, of the supreme
court library. "It is section 3841' of
The Code, which provides ; that every
person using .weights, measures, balances,
steel-yards, etc., shall take them to the
standard keeper, of the county once every
two years to ; have them tested and
stamped. ; The section imposes a fine of
$ou lor laiiure to comply with the law,
$25 to go to the standard keeper -and
$25 to the county, but nobody ; seems
ever to be fined. If the law were sudden
ly rigidly unforced the standard keeper
would become a plutocrat in short order.
And it is a good law too."
Gov. Vance's First Composition.
Charlotte Observer. , . .
A lady of this city, one of the teachers
in the graded school, has received from a
first cousin of the late Senator Vance ' a
copy of his first school composition. It
has come into the possession of The Ob
server, which has every assurance of the
genuineness of the document, and is giv
en herewith as an evidence of its writer's
then budding genius:
You told me to tell what I knoyed
about Toads. Well Toads is like frogs,
but more dignity, and when you come to
think of it frogs is wetter. The warts
for which toads is noted for can't be cur
ed, for they is cronick, but if I couldn't
p?t TVf-'l I'd stayinthehouse My Grand
ij.il. t kr.w a toad that eorae laJy had
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XN THE PIHLLIPINES. ,
Two Small Fights With , Filipinos
Who Were Scattered Each Time.
Manila, Oct. 80, Three' companies
uoi. lien s regimenc nave had two en
counters with the insurgents near Lab am
and scattered them. ' The insurgents left
four officers and eight men dead on i the
field and the Americans captured - three
prisoners and several ,guns. .Qn , the
American side one man was , killed and
two officers and six men were wounded
Capt. French took areconnoiteringparty
beyond. Lab am after he had met the
enemy and was reinforced by Maior Bish
op, with two companies. The insurgents
brought np cavalry reinforcements,- and
there was a second fight during which
their jeader, Maj. Salvador, was killed
and many were ' Wounded : and carried
away., CoL Bell has been given a free
hand around Bacolor. He has sixty
mounted men, scoupmgthecountry daily,
and they are killing, many Filipinos 1 in
skirmishes.
' Frosts Finish the Cotton Crop.
Dallas. Oct 30. Frosts have fallen
over northern and central Texas, for the
last .three nights. J This disposes . com
pletely oi the last chance lor a top crop
of cottonand the crop of 1809 may as
well be reckoned as being all up now,
iXDerts declare that the croD . todav m
Indian and Oklahoma territories will
not exceed -three-quarter million bales.
,.. The Money Making Game.
The nrst or all JUngnsh games is
making money. That is an all absorb
ing game, and ; we knock each other
down oftener in playing at that than at
football or any other rougher sport, and
it is absolutely without purpose. No
one who engages heartily in; that game
ever knows why. Ask a great money
maker what he wants to . do with his
money he never knows. He doesn't
make it to do any thing with it He gets
it only that he may get it. "What will
yon make of what yon have got?" yon
ask. r.y Vvell, I'll get more" .he says.
Just as at cricket yon get more runs.
There's no use in the runs, but to get
more of them than other people is the
game. And there's no use in the money,
but to have more or it than other peo
ple is the game. So all that great foul
city of London there rattling, growl
mg, smoking, stinking a gbastly,heap
of fermenting brickwork, pouriDK out
poison at every pore yon fancy it is a
city of work?. Not a street of it! It is a
great city of play; ; very nasty, play, and
verv hard olav. bnt still rdav. It is
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only Lord's cricket ground without tho
turf a huge billiard table without the
cloth, and ith pockets as deep &a thd
bottomless pit, but mainly , a billiard
table after all. John Buskin.
1 . ' Crouivrell. -
Cromwell kept quiet during the years
in which Charles was governing -with
out a parliament. He is not heard of as
resisting the ; payment of ship money
or even as eettiug at defiance the eccle
siastical courts., Clearly he was no am
bitious firebrand, but a man under au
thority, whose aim it was to carry obe
dience to the utmost limits consistent
with his personal duty. This, too, is
characteristic of the man and displays
itself again and again in his prolonged
hesitations to break with established
authority. .
In his conservative dislike to hasty
changes, combined with religion influ
encing the conduct as well as the creed,
Cromwell was a fair representative of
the better part of England, none the
ess becacse wten once his reluctance
to step forward had vanished ha was
capable of administering heavy blows
ainst tbose who blocked tho way too
persistently even for his patience and
because when onco he had broken with
he past no going back was any longer
possible tor him. "Uromwell s i'laca
la Eitory," ty S. K. Garner.
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BIG BOER VICTORY.
Surround and Capture Two British
Resrixnents. White Accepts All
lameand to Be Removed Be
; lieved British . Can ' Get ' Hold
of Ladysmlth.
Ladysmith, Oct. 31. The lioers sur
rounded the Irish Fusiliers and Glouces
ter regiment, and after mowing down a
lanre number captured a.OOU oi them.
Gen. White accepts all the blame for
the disaster to British arms, and wil
probably be relieved from command im
mediately. , , . . -
' It is believed that the British can yet
hold Ladysmith. ; " " V1
Boers Closing Around Ladysmith.
Ladvsmith. Oct. 20. The; Boers are
gradually closing around Ladysmith.
Thev have mounted two biir iruns on'iin
ta, Ingoni, 4,500 yards from the British
camp. An attack isespected.
Situation atLadyemithDangerous.
London. Oct, 30. The position at
Ladysmith; without being alarming, is
sufficiently dansrerous to excite anxiety.
Evidently the Boers are trying to repeat
their Dundee tactics. Koughiy estimated,
they have 17,000 men as against 12,000
British.
Gen. Sir Geonre Stewart White has the
better artillery, but his is oi lesser range
The delay in the Boer attack is reported
to be due to the ndn-arnvai or uomman-
dant Gen. Joubert's column. This has
given the British a much-needed respite
alter tneir recent -exertions, veryming,
it is now : considered, hmsres upon Gen
White's resource and judgment. Noth
ing is known retrardins: the prairress of
defensive works for the protection of
Ladysmith. ' -
Capture of 1,500 British Mules.
The Standard's correspondent at Lady
smith, telefirraphina Saturday, sends e
statement that the Boers have captured
1.500 mules, a loss thatmust seriously
inconvenience British, transport. The
attempt of the Boers to cut the railway
at Tieters was frustrated by...- British
cavalry. " - ' '
ABLE STRATEGY OF THE BOERS.
The Standard voices the general
anxiety regarding Sir George White's
position by remarking the adaptability
and able strategy of the Boers, for which
they had hitherto not been given credit,
It goes on to say: "Their strategy is so
well trained that itis impossible to doubt
that it is the product of some officer
trained in the best European school of
war." ' : '
Gen. Joubert Goes to the Front.
' Pretoria; Oct. 20, via Lourenzo Mar
luea. Commandant Joubert has left
Glencoe for the front. A report has been
received here that Mafeking is burning.
British Officers are Grateful.
Durban, Oct. 27. (Delayed in trans
mission.) It is officially announced that
Major Donegan, chief medical officer at
Durban, has wired to the Transvaal state
secretary, F. W. Itoitz, at Pretoria, an
expression of thanks on behalf of all the
British officers and men in the hospital
at Glencoe for . the extreme kindness
shown them by the Boer officers and
men. The announcement adds that the
wounded are doing well and that none
of the officers are likely to die.
FIGHTING AT LADYSMITH.
BritishLosslOO. British Push Ene
my Several Miles and then Re
turn. t Boer Guns Rane Further
Than the British Guns.
'London, Oct. SO.r-The war office has
issued a dispatch from Gen. White, dated
Lndj6mith, October "0th, in which he
reports a general, but und. c i. h e. ergne
mi'Tit with l'orrs there todny. 'iLa dis
patch tells of las di -position of V.s forces
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barding the town at a range of over six
thousand yards. -
Boers Repulse Bayonet Attack.
' Lourenso Marques, Delagoa Bay, Oct.
80. A dispatch received here today from
Pretoria, under date of October .29th,
says Gen. Cronje, the 'Boer commander,
announced there that the British garri
son at Mafeking made a bayonet attack
on Com. Lou nrslaager, near Grandstand,
but were repulsed, leaving six dead on
the field, and it was believed that many
of tho attacking party were wounded.
The dispatch adds that Saturday morn
ing Col, Baden Powell asked for an ar
mistice in order to bury the dead. . Gen.
Cronje consented to this, the Boers assist
ing in placing the dead in the wagons re
turning to Mafeking. .
: GRAINGERS ITEMS.
' , Oct.' 30, 1899. .
, Mr.-W. E. Me whom, of Kinston, Avas
here today. ' ' , r
' The public school here . will open next
Monday with Mr. J. T. Barwick as prin
cipal. , ; ,
. Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Bland and children,
of Sandy Bottom section, spent Sunday
herewith Mr. F. Dupree. - ,
Mr. C. H. Barwick left today for Tren
ton to attend court as a witness.
Mr 1Un Vfl iilkner turned th water out
of his mill pond last Friday to have some
repairs done on the mm. u ney caugnt
about a hundred chubs and lots of other
nice. fish. .. ,
Mr. II. D. Stanley lost a fine drive
horse one day last week.
Mphs Ratti nniriflvFn,nlkner.telp!rranh
operators of Kinston, spent Sunday , at
HI til IUI1UCI ilULUC. .
Mrsi Sudie Iluarhes and daughter. Miss
Mable. passed through here last Satur-
urday on their way home from JNewoern,
where they had been attending court.
Mr. Leni Pope happened to a very bad
accident last Friday while baling hay.
The mule fell m the ditch and cot lettered
un and turned the cart over on him. , lie
is getting along very well.
- Miss Ruth Grubbs. of Falling Creek, js
visiting her sister, Miss Kate urubbs. ,
The field cea crop in this section is the
nnest we nave seen lor several yearn. ;
Mr. Jas". A. Eubanks left today for the
western part of the State, where he will
travel as a book agent.
She Knew Him.
Mrs. K. bad engaged a robust, middle
aged colored woman to do some house
cleaning. Duri32 ? , progress of the
work Mrs. K.- said : ,
" A colored man (fame along here one
day last week and wanted work, and I
let hint wash some windows, but he did
not do the work at all well."
"What fo' lookin man was he?" asked
the helper. '
"Well, he was a big, strong fellow,
and he had but ono eyo. He said ' that
his name was White. He did very poor
work."
"I specs he did, lady. He's de wus'
no 'count in dis town."
"Ob, then yon know him?"
"Know im? Why, lady, Fze mah'ied
to 'iml" Harper's Bazar,
African Expression.
"Africans,'! writes a missionary,
"have some very striking expressions,
Ehowing that they are full of poetical
ideas. The Moongues call thunder 'the
sky's gun,' and the morning is with
them 'the day's child.' The Zulus call
the twilight 'the eyelashes of the sun.'
An African who came to America was
Ehown some ice, which he had not seen
before, and he called . it 'water fast
asleep.' " :
. Cruel Retort. .
" have no patience with your dem
ocratic scntimentalism," eaid Miss El
derly with hauteur. "Elood tells, and
my ancestors fought in tho revolution,
liss Sprishtly."
"I Euppofe yon .were too young to re
call cuy incidents cf the Etrugsle?"
Detroit Free Press. ,
ha Frankfurter Zeiturg states tbvt
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GEIIERAL IIEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
. Extensive damage has been done in Ja
maica by several rainstorms.
Five men were killed and ten Injured
by a cave-in yesterday in the San Pablo
mine, in Mexico.
A terrific hurricane swept over Santia
go, Sunday, causing much destruction.
Twelve houses were wrecked and others
damaged.
Willis TalinVrro, a demented Atlanta
negro, Saturday night killed John New
decker and fatally wounded John W.
Brooks, both white men, with an iron
bar. (
Senator Pettigrew, 1 in an interview
Saturday at Sioux Falls, S. D., regarding
the report of his speech at Woonsocket,
denied that he disowned his country or
his flair. .
, Patrick O'Bryan told , Chamberlain,
who is responsible for the war in South
Africa, that he was as much stained with
blood as any murderer who ever mount
ed the scaffold.
; A big mass meeting of traveling sales
men at Columbus, O., Saturday night
Eassed strong ; resolutions denouncing
ark Hanua and trusts, and the liepub
lican party as the mother of trusts. J -
At Philadelphia Sunday the triangular
block bounded by Canal and ; Second
streets ; and German town avenue wn s
almost entirely destroyed by fire, entail-.'
ing a loss of almost $ 150,000, on which
there Is a partial insurance,
i The sash, door and blind factory of
John Ti Wilfcinn. nn t.ha niitulifta rf Kniv
folk, Va., was completely destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. The loss on the
machinery and stock will be heavy, as
there is no insurance whatever on the
plant.
' Salt Lake is drying up. It is predicted
by men of science that it will dry up
sometime in the next century. It is said
that the waters receded . a mile during
the last year. The recession is due to
the diversion of the waters of the rivers
which feed the lakes for irrigation pur
poses by the Mormons. ,
History is all the time engaged in the
repetition business. Before we laid for
gotten the occurrence, during the Spanish-American
brush, in which it wn re-'
ported that the only casualty after u cer-'
tain bombardment was the death of a
mule, comes the news that the Boers
bombarded Mafeking for four hours and
killed a dog. Modern warfare does won
ders sometimes. Charlotte Observer. .
A fight for 25,000 francs between Char
lemont, the French champion, and "Jer
ry " Driscoll, former champion of the Brit
ish navy, at Paris Saturday afternoon, .
resulted in a victory for the former.
There was a great crowd present and the
fighting was very hot for six rounds. In
the seventh round Driscoll was knocked
out by a smashing kick on the groin, the
Frenchman being allowed to use his feet,
in accordance with the French custom.
The umpires were both policemen and
one of them was Charlemont's father.
The umpiring was as unfair as could be
and managed to delay the fight when the
Frenchman was winded, so that a chance
kick, which was supposed to be barred.
gave the Frenchman an unfair- victory.
Gen, Fitzhuffh, Lee in an interview savs
that under the existing protectorate of
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tu uiiikeu outieu tuua is improvinsr
every hour. He says there is little fric
tion of any kind in the island and that
the people there are slowly but surely re
building their war-wasted homes and re
pairing their crippled fortunes. He thinks
that life and property are secure in Cuba
and that the Cubans generally are not
abusing their newly-acquired freedom.
Gen. Lee realizes that the United States
is pledged to grant independence" to the
island after it has been thoroughly paci
fied, and he ieels strongly that that
pledge should be fulfilled as swiftly as
Eracticable. Until life and property can
e protected by a purely Cuban govern-
menx, nowever, ne tmnKs tae lsianci
fill r.n 1 rornoin nnnn ivnTni'nTi.rf rf
the United Ktates.
Remarlratla Cure of Rheumatism
lit -ana, Jr.tkson county, W. Va.
About tkn.3 jenrs f to my vi.'e La 1 rn
attack of Lhev.:r.a tieruwhuheonE:: ! l:r
to her lei for over a month and r; : " i
her ur.l!?to v.-.-.'.k nttep without f
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