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TOE. DAILY FREE PR PUBLISHED EENINGVEXCEPT SUNDRY. Vol. II-No. 182. .KINSTON, N. O., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1899. Prico Two Cents. 1 STATE HEWS. ': ., . . ....... . '-'.sK "; :(: 0' nteresting North Carolina Items . ' In Condensed Form. . Salisbury voted $100,000 improvement bonds Monday by a good majority. The University beat " the Maryland University playing football at ChapeJ mil Tuesday, o to u;;vK,;' v The office of Justice J. M. McGowan at Wilmington, w as robbed of about $7Q Monday, wane ne was absent. . ' North Carolina has 39 national, 4 sav- , ings, 23 private and 47 State banks and trust companies, a total or 1U3. ' Rev. W. J. Crowder, who for over 50 years had been a Methodist colporteurat liaieign, was found dead in bed Sunday. ; Burreli Shouse, aged nineteen, was shot in tne stomacn and mortally wounded in Salem Monday night by dames Bry ant. The latter was dri nking. He has been arrested. ? . Saturday night, in Nash county. Dep. uty Revenue Collector M. L. Wood cap tured one 70-gallon copper still and lyou gallons of beer, and captured anoth er stm and ouu gallons or beer. Judge E wart has adjudicated W. H Gilbert, of Winston, a bankrupt, on pe tition of creditors. He had sold his stock of hardware suddenly and left, leaving his creditors entirely "in the Jiole." : B. F. Uavis. a substantial ? farmer o: Bliss. Surry county, was thrown from his wagon in a runaway near his home baturday night, and sustained injuries -from which he died Sunday, at the age of bo years. ; 1 .... mi i '. - ine torpeao boat onubncK was launched at Richmond, Va.. Wednesday. with much ceremony, in the presence of a vast multitude. '; President McKinley was present and was given a warm reception. The boat was christened by Miss. Carrie o. bhubnck, of Kocky Mount. v A. C.. a iQveij mue gin o ten years. f The supreme court on Tuesday upheld Treasurer Worth in his refusal to pay debts of , the present administration of tne state pemtentiaryi out or funds" de rived from the bond issue of $110,000. which was authorized by an act of the - general assembly ; for the ; purpose of meeting the indebtedness created prior to January i, lay y - - - A new trial has been granted by the supreme court t to Thomas Smith, the negro who last Christmas, at his home near Belma, killed a white man named Cawthorn and dangerously wounded another : named Winfrey. The court grants a new trial on the ground that under tne law dividing murder into two degrees, the evidence was not sufficient to justify the Judge a charge to the jury that , the killing was with deliberation and premeditation. Judge Clark -wrote a dissenting opinion. - , . Passing of a Pauper. Orang? Va,, Observer. , . " - A poor man died suddenly in the city of New" York. . The .newspapers have been telling about it since. He had hard struggles for happiness. He was poor indeed. There was trouble in his home constantly. Death took his oldest boy ' at manhood's, threshold. Another, son was - estranged and lived": apart. A brother's home was clouded in scandal. Taralysis put its grim touch upon his own body and he walked these years nerveless and limp. Y He scoured sea and land for rest, worked overtime and spent ten minutes only for a full lunch hour. IDs home was threatened by envious ; fools. His small possessions a few mil lions, more or less, of money brought him care and vexation. - Insomnia ban ished sleep, rheumatism racked his frame, and at the board meetings he sat as' life less as a mummy in its grave' clothes. His name was Vanderbilt, and his pov erty was" great. There . are a hundred men in this good town of Orange who had larger wealth than he who held rail ways in his enfeebled grasp larger wealth in all that makes life worth liv ing. And now1 death has claimed the poor man. Yesterday, a millionaire, and worshipped by the silly fools whom gold dazzles as the candlelight the moth; today, a pauper and tomorrow; dust. A sick slave has died. And the whole world straggles madly for his empty placel j , IIa3 Ilcda a Great FIjht. James Creelman in New York Journal. r -itcrCodil is tie cleanest cut, tia r-c::t t-M-w!-?, fearless ari inconxrti r? ::-t":;l LaJc-r ia tie wlc'.s tn'.h. Hal ir - 3 a f -it czZzst or-:.--1 :rr-.'7t;:i i.i l.;.i own rrty tiat wc 1 I I.ivoiT:'".-! en I cn::ll ta cr-lz-ry : . :, r 1 1 3l.:3 wca; i X MMMf-inr of 1S14. . The Impregnable of 1814 was of 8,278 tons, a 98 gun ship by the official rat tng, though her ten carronades brought her total battery up to 108 guns. She was therefore by no means one of the largest ships ; indeed we had ten o greater size and force at - sea or in re serve. Her heaviest gun was the bid 82 pounder smooth bore, mounted on the rudest truck carriage, without sights or elevating screw. Her ' broadside was 1,018 pounds. Her total crew was, when she was fnllv manned. 748 offl cers, men and boys. - The men ' were raised by impressment or recruited vol nntarily for the ship's commission.. We had not as yet adopted our present ad mirable system of manning jthe fleet. The discipline was arbitrary and cruel ; there were merciless floggings with the cat. for - the smallest offenses, and the number of . lashes inflicted varied from a dozen or half dozen to 600 and even i.ooo: Reading the court martials of those days, one alternately wonders how the officers held down the gangs of ruffians uaey cummauuea aaq now ne men en dured the manifold brutalities of - their officers. Brave to a superlative degree as these men, were, with that fiery cour age which welcomes battle1 and death, they cannot compare in quality with the officers and men who now take our ships to sea. Everywhere except in the highest ranksJwhere our captains and admirals are I too old, the change has been' one wholly for the good. Yet it has not kept pace with the times, and today our sailors are poorly paid and not too well fed. Nineteenth Century. - , An Incautious Eplenr, . 'l suppose," said the young woman. "that when a miner makes a big discov ery ft is to bis interest to avoid spread ing the news, so as to Keep as much as possible for himself.". "Some of them try it," answered the returned gold seeker. "But as a rule it doesn't work.' ' When a man has', sud denly reached enormous wealth, he is almost certain to betray the fact in someway." . "Have yon known of such case on the Klondike?" - Only one. .Ordinarily the men don't try to deceive anybody.' One chap made a big discovery and tried to keep it quiet, but it wasn't more than a day or two before everybody knew he had struck it rich." "Something in his manner betrayed it?" - MNo."' . "He was seen spending more money than usual?" - ; . ""No. He never spent any money in public. He was a great one for keeping it to himself.!' - "Perhaps he talked in his sleep?" "Wouldn't have been anybody to hear him if he had." , "Yon surely were not mean enough to 6hTdpw him?" ' - ''Didn't have to. He practically an nounced that he had suddenly become a millionaire himself. There wasn't any possibility of mistake." , "How did he do it?" "Came around one day with the smell oi onions on his breath. "Washington The Coltua of tbe Adjective. - Everybody nowadays in prose or poetry claps on an adjective to every noun. .It degrades the adjective and en ervates tbe noun. Then, too, there is a host of vulgar overdressed people intro duced into our company, whom we, the old fashioned . adjectives, hardly recognize ""strenuous," "intense," "weird," "fiery," "sympathetic," 'splendid, "."secure," "naive," "im pressive," "poignant" mostly vat- tached, too, to the wrong nouns. There are too many adjectives, and they carry too much sail, like dahlia, "bedecked, ornate and gay." I noticed, as an in stance the other way, a criticism in a French review tbe other day of the academician sea captain who calls him self Pierre Loti, whose style is so def ecated (I believe tiat is tie tcra invent ed ty tie rcstletiwaytasciocl you re-enter rcetletiwzyts?) tiat te teliera cr csver c:ei a f.. :..r rzcra r. r- 5 t HI- ,-. , tl f c: I ; ' '. ) t' i t' . :T3 t J a r; THE BOER VICTORY. Terrible Defeat to the British. Big Guns Captured. Excitement in England, Consternation in Natal More English Troops Called Out Lady smith, Oct. 31. The battle at Ladysmith, as reported, is a terrible de feat to the British. Forty-two officers and 1,850 men from the Irish Fusiliers and Gloucester regiments were surround ed by the Boers and .captured. These two noted regiments, together with a mounted , battery,; fought - heroically against enormous odds. When they were hemmed in by more than 15,000 well armed Boers, the pick of Gen; Jou bert's forces, they fought until their ranks were terribly decimated. " Guns Also Taken. v London. Oct. 31.' -In addition to the loss of men, six 7-pound screw guns .were lost, and as the Boer artillery is already strong, the capture of these guns will be of great Help to tne uoers. Apart irom the immediate loss of effectives, it is feared that the defeat will . have a depressing effect on the remainder of tbe Ladysmith force. It is also feared that the Boer sympathizers who have not yet taken sides will publicly now join the Transvaal forces, -i v .,,',?,:'. i ; t. j - t The , war officials consider that Gen White - will be able to hold Ladysmith despite his heavy losses. They calculate that the eight transports, with 10,000 men, will reach Durban by .November 10 Gen. White has food enough, if besieged, to last two montns. .. ' Excitement1 In England. ; London, Oct. 31. The manliness-of Gen. White's avowal that the defeat was his fault has awakened the deepest sym pathy, ' An official from the war office said it was more likely due to the craze of our young officers to distmguisn themselves, and to obtain mention in the dispatches and earn the Victoria Cross than the. fault of that, splendid Indian veteran; Gen, White. depitehitfitiful avowal. Terrible excitement prevails in Gloucester and Dublin, the home of many of the soldiers captured or killed. Consternation In Natal. . Durban, Oct.-31. News Of the disaster has spread consternation 1 throughout Natal, v Every available man has set to work : raisins: entrenenments at 1'ieter- mantzburg against the lioer attack. Boers are reported near Tugela, over ten miles south of Ladysmith, in rear of the British position, and are reported feeling their way to Oolenso, evidently to de stroy railroad communication to the coast. i - Lansdowne May Resign. London. Oct.31. A fierce dissension in the British cabinet is the result of the crushing defeat at Ladysmith. Secretary of State For the War Lansdowue may re sign as a result of the accusation of Wolseley, who charcres him with the re jecting his urgent advice .to the war office authonties to sendan army corps to South Africa as far back as July. Wolseley thene warned the government that the Boers were not then prepared to iffvade Natal, and said if the British ex pedition was sent it would prevent the disaster. Lansdowne opposed Wolseley in a counsel of tne cabinet, and was ai- owed to have his way. .. i - Another Fight. London. Oct. 31. A Ladysmith dis patch says the Boers were observed this moraine: advancing toward tne town probably to begin an attack on Lady smith itself. Nothing in addition to the above has been received-since, and it is believed that another fight is imminent. Commander of the Forces Lands. Cape Town, Oct. 31. Gen. Buller. commander of British forces in South Africa, arrived this morning on board the transport Dunottar Castle. It is possible that Buller will start for Natal immediately. ; . - . , -.. England Appalled. London, Oct. 31. The disaster to the British at Ladysmith and the capture of two regiments and a battery after terrible slaughter, has appalled Lcgland and demonstrated that the Boers are rood strategists as well as f "iters. iirte times ia succession tiey have de ceive! t' j British by retrr-.tir-r, and t"irei what are tl.-- :J in 1' "i as rit; h vi:4er; s into practical reverses, ctriotic I!--iimca now rrrj for da-' .r-rr.r."- I:z:: err rcre fuca T.ctDnr. t cf t: 1-j'i trr.a to 1 i en. j. Clocra crjrt ;3 tia wLola population. There is no popular anger or demand for reprisals. Gen. White's manly assumption of all; responsibility checks it, and it is too Nearly to expect reaction against the government. Fore bodings of worse to come and anxiety for details from Ladysmith are the main features of the public mind at present. All experts agree that the situation of British forces at Ladysmith is preca rious. Its capture or annihilation is by no means impossible, tnd such a blow to British prestige might easily have grave consequences elsewhere ... . , . More Troops Called Out. London, Oct. 81. The war office wired Gen. Buller that three extra battalions and one mountain battery, with reserve men, will start for the cape within ten days. These men will fill the places of those who have been killed, wounded or captured :$. :;f'v';v'-v''V-' The war office has decided to call for permanent service first class reserve men of the Suffolk, Essex and Derbyshire regi ments and Sherwood Foresters. The first battalion of these . commands will be immediately mobilized for service in South Africa. , ' . 1 STORM AT NEWBERN. Caused a Loss of $40,000. Thrill ing Midnight Adventure in : the House at the Fowler Ferry. ; . The wind storm at Newbern Monday night caused, the tide to rise two feet higher than ever ; betQre. small boats were thrown into the public streets. At midnight the firemen fought i fire ! from lime barrels catching fire from the water. Many tons of salt and sugar in bags melted and ran into the river, Eight saw mills were shut down next day, and the river was full of floating cotton and lumber. - 1 , The Newbern Journal says: It is nretfcv hard to estimate the total loss. Perhaps f 40,000 will cover it, but there are many small losses not easily accounted for. The heaviest sufferer is E. K. Bishop, commission .merchant, losses in the dock ; warehouses amount- Ling to f 4,000. The loss of E. H. and J. A, Meadows cannot be estimated yet as their products can be worked over some, hut it cannot be much tinder $3,000. J, E. Latham probably lost $1,500. J. F.Taylor $1,500. Big Hill $800, and numerous other firms lost from .$100 to $oou eacn. ' . , . Word from Morehead City is that some damatre was done alonir the front. No communication was had with Beaufort, the wire being down and no report from there. Between tne Atlantic Hotel and the railroad sheds the waves came over the track so that the cars could not pass A thrilling midnight adventure was that of the family living in the. house at the Fowler ferry, which was completely destroyed . There were six persons in the house, J. B. (ireen and Asa uarreu, wne and three children. When the watercame into the house, they gotupon the counter in the store, but. soon found that the building was going to pieces. They got to the door, waist deep in water, and the two men attempted to step outside and immediately disapneared in the river. The woman and children crowded to the door, and as the building rocked about, they too went into the water. Their clothing seemed to float them, but how it all-happened is hard to explain, but all six people, in some way, on pieces of lumber or otherwise, drifted ashore and made - their way to friends, everything they had, however, being left in the river. 1 TOO ECONOMICAL. A Remarkable List of Casualties Caused, by a Niggardly Attempt ? to Get Something for Nothing. , Speaking of close-fisted men theOsborn Fanner asks: Did you ever hear tell of the" man who was too economical to take his home paper, but sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by nis neighbor? In his haste the boy ran over a $2 stand of bees, and in 10 secor ds he looked like a summer squash," His cries reached his father, who ran to his rescue and failing to notice a barbed-wire fence, ran into that, breaking it down, cutting a handful of fish bait out of his anatomy and ruining a $4 pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got out, ate 40 cents wortn oi alfalfa and died of bloat. Hearing the racket, the wife ran out, upset a 4-gallon churn full of cream into a basket of kit tens and drowned the whole mess. In her hurry, she dropped and broke a $7 set of false teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled through the flood of cream into tie parlor, ruining a bran new carpet. Durir tie excitement the oldest dauh tr rca away with a book efent.the dej rcia tr 11 scttirr: hers, end the calves rot or,t r- i ciewel tie tlcevrs from four l.r.3 tirt3 which hurg on the line. GENERAL 11EYS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. .-" . Secretary Long announces that there will be no change in Admiral Schley's orders, and that no more ships will be added to the South Atlantic squadron. The Philippine commission met in Wash ington Monday and roughly blocked , out the form of its report. The commis sion will meet daily until its business is completed. , A telegram from Jiboutel, French Afri ca, says that King Menelik, at the head of 40,000 men, it marching on the state of Tigree. It is believed that he intends action beyond the Abyssian f rontier, pos sibly against the British. A special from Fayette, ifo., says: Tom Hayden, a negro aged 24 years, was ; taken from the officers who had him under arrest for the4! murder of Andrew ; Woods, a young white man, and hanged to a tree eight miles west of St. Louis Sunday night. The killing took , place just previous to the lynching and was the . result of a fight over a game of craps in progress at a negro festival. , - The Pennsylvania ferryboat, plying oetween jersey uty ana mew xorx, was cut in two by the steamer City of Augus ta, of the Savanah line, Tuesday morn ing on the New York side of North river.V She went down in seven or eight minutes. ; There were between thirty and forty pas- : sengers aboard, four being women. it is supposed that several persons were drowned, though there is no ' positive " Admiral Dewey has announced that he is engaged to marry Mrs. W. B. Iiazen of Washington, D, C. She is a sister of John It. McLean, Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio. - Mrs. Iiazen has no children, and since ' her husband's death has made her home with her : mother. She is a woman of large means, about forty years of age, and popular in the best social circles of Washington. " The date for the wedding has not been ; fixed. After going through five states. James Creelman telegraphs the New York Journ- -al that the Democrats will win in Ne-' braska, Kentucky and Marvlund and ' will lose in Iowa and Ohio. He says ; McLean is very unpopular in Ohio or the ; Democrats would carry that State now. He predicts that most of the Jones' vote ' in 11)00 will go to Bryan whose chances of election are very great,- and adds:-. "But the great fact standing out clear and distinct, the fact which overwhelms, all other facts, here in Ohio, is that the present division of the voters indicates unmistakably that Mr. Bryan can carry the state next, year." Root. J. Jennings, secretary and treas urer of the Broadway cable line at St. Louis, Mo.; Monday was robbed ; of ; $1,043 in cash and, $80,000 in checks. The robbery, committed in broad day-, light, in one of the busiest corners m St. Louis, is regarded as one o the most -daring crimes in the history of local po lice annals. Mr. Jennings had just drawn the money from the bank, intending to ' take it to the railroad company's office on North Broadway to pay off the men. The robbers evidently knew this. As Mr. Jennings was getting on the car two men approached and one of them jostled him. -r This was done to attract his attention ; while the other man picked his pockets. Mr. Jennings soon discovered that he had been robbed, but tne men nad made their escape. . , , A Battle With Cannibals in the Congo State. London, Oct- 30. -Mail advices from the Congo announce that Capt. Mohun, formerly United States consul at Zanzi bar, who is commanding the , Belgian Tanganyika-Congo telegraph expedition, ? has reached the Congo Free State, and ' was engaged at the end of July in a fierce -battle at 'Sanguli, where the force con sisted of ten Europeans, with Capt. Mohun commanding. Shortly after the. attack commenced Baron Dhamis, the ' Belgian commander, dispatched three , companies oi soldiers to assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting of cannibals, ; who horribly torture their wounded, ; were finally routed. Capt. Mohun did great execution with a Winchester re peater. It is estimated that tne enemy number- ed 1,500 men and lost 300 killed and COO wounded. The Belgian force lost nine LMl. 1 ,1 k -T J - J frl- men Kii.ea unci wuunueu. Ai.3fi.ciy fled to Tar :.r vika. i r t- t i c j., i
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