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DAILY jFREE P SessZ PUBLISHED EiZERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY. Vol. IT-No. 249. KINSTON, N; 0., MONDAY. JANUARY 22, 1900. Price Two Cents. BIG BATTLE BEGUN. British Fighting Their Way For ward Steadily to the Belief o: Ladysmith. London,-Jan. 21. It is evident from Gen. Buller's dispatch to the war office and the advices of the Associated Press : from Spearman's Camp, that a big battle is now being fought. As far as can be gathered from those dispatches, the result remains undecided, and unless the Boers -withdraw during the night, the engage ment, on which nangs the fate of Lady smith, and which may prove the turning point of the whole war. will be resumed this morning. Boers Leaving Colesberg. Rensburar. Cape Colony, Jan. 19.- gentleman who has escaped from Coles berg reports that the Dutch inhabitants who are svmpathizerstwith the Boers are nroceedinir to the Orange Free State, in anticipation of the evacuation of the town. Mr. Vanderwait, a memoer oi tne Cape assembly, has already gone. The Boer force there is estimated to number from 6,000 to 7,000 men, besides stronir force at Norval's Point. The British shells did. much execution eastward of the town. The Boer loss up to date is probably; 200 men. fiurfifnllT cnmniled flcilres from reliable sources, some of which have been investi gated and found to be correct, show that the Boer losses up to date are approxi mately 6,425 men, including 2,000 casualties during the siege of Ladysmith. Spearman's Camp, Natal, Jan. 20, 11:45 ' M rPhjfc Awfinn rf 4olA mina hTAd VlAd Tl early this morning from the left. Evi dently Gen. Warren has commenced the ; bombardment of the Boer trenches on the Tabanmvana mountains. There was also a brief musketry fire. Among the prisoners captured Thursday was! a Boers Bombarding Ladysmith. . " iJadysmith, Jan. 20, via 'Spearman's Camp. The enemy has "placed in position new guns throwing 8 inch shells, and have been bombarding more vigorously for the last few days, though little dam- . . i i j mi r:i.:u . ago nas ueeu uuue. xurra vi we miunu -force have been, wounded The, troops are jubilant over Gen. Buller's successful advance. His troops can be heard dis tinctly, and the burating of shells can be plainly seen. Warren's Troops in Action. London, Jan. 21. The war office shortly after midnight posted the follow ' ing dispatch from Gen. BulIer, dated Spearman's Camp, Jan, 20th. evening: "Gen. Clery, with a part of Gen. War ren's 'force, haer been in action from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. today. By a judicious use of his atillery he has 'fought his way up, capturing ridge after ridge,- for several miles. '"The troops are now bivouacing on the ground be has gained but the main posi- . tion is still in front of them. 4Th emmalitips . vra . nut heavv. 'About 100 wounded have been'brought in by 6:30 p. m. The number of. killed nas not yet been ascertained." Shelling the Boers. 'Spearman's ' Camp," Jaif; UOj'evenf ng- The Boer trenches were shelled contm uously todays Gen. Littleton's brigade advanced and occupied a kopje 2,000 yards from the Boer position atBrakfon tein. A company of rifles advanced with "a balloon into action, and was received wmu a ueaivjr ui c iiuui tut) jjvcid. v The artillery asd musketry fire con ; tinues from Gen. Warren's position. Lord Dundonald's ; force -on Thursday surprised :ov xur. i uqi roipu, wno Boers to advance leistirely before opening fire. The Boers did "not reply, and a majority of them galloped off. It is re ported that the remainder surrendered. Sncceaatre Ware. . The following waif 13 going the- rounas or, me siate press: we are row of a young lady In a neighboring Jowtj who waved her hand at a stranger, and In three days tuey were married.' Two days later the : young lady ' waved a flat Iron at ber husband.; and the next evening be came home waving a di vorce Nashville Banner. PEACHES AND BLUBBER. A Siorjr of Arthur Stringer and an Oxford Trofeaaor. Canadians are very touchy on the subject of climate, as Uudyard Kipling discovered when be somewhat thought lessly dubbed the Dominion "Our Lady of the Snows." When Arthur Stringer, the young Canadian poet and author, first went to Oxford, he carried with him letters from Professor Goldwln Smith of Toronto to Professor York Powell the distinguished historian of Chrlstchurch. The old Oxford don. like one or two other Englishmen, had very vague ideas about Canada and somewhat sur prised the youug stranger by Inquiring If he got along nicely -u English roast mutton after living so long on frozen seal meat The young poet gravely protested that he perhaps missed bin whale blubber a little, but the next day cabled home, and in less than a week the finest basket of autumn peaches ever grown In Ontario, carefully pack ed in sawdust, was on Its way to Ox ford. A short time afterward the j'oung author was again dining with the reglus professor at Oxford, and that gentleman produced at the meal a fruit dish loaded with tremendous peaches. "Most extraordinary." said the old professor, "but these peaches were sent to me today, and I'm blessed If 1 know who sent them. From the south of Prance, I suspect, so I saved a few of them for you. Stringer. They will be such a novelty, you kaow." The Canadian very quietly took a steamship company's bill of lading from his pocket and handed It to the professor. The professor gazed at the bill, then at the fruit, then at the poet. "I had some whale blubber, too, pro fessor." said that young man. "but s I simply -hn&JfoZeat thai. These other things were grown on m uncle's farm In Kent county. Ont.. you know. He has 200 bushels of. them every year, and. he sent me over n basket of little ones nlonr with the whale blubber." Saturday Evening Post. STAJE NEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. Spanish Are'Caarttable- inr Dpapisu are among me most charitable people on earth. Without a poor tax. Spanish 'communltlei of 50, tOO self Kiipi Sorters feed a pauper pop lation-' of rkflJXf or- mdre. - J Samoa' Talking; Man. Samoa's talking man. or "tolafall," Is a character. AH the affairs of state of the village 1nf which he holds office are carried upon his shoulders. In or dinary he Is the chief adviser, persuad er, convinces- and restralner of the leading chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence. ht makes the most of it. He enjoys Im munity from uiamy things. He cannot be spoken of in ordinary terms. If it should be necessary to speak of his eyes or his mouth or his limbs, special honorable words must be used, words which attach to him alone and bare never been applied to the persoual parts of ordinary men., As he stands to deliver his soft, per suaslve, mellifluous oratory, with staff of office In his hand and his fly duster thrown over his shoulder, any one can see that he Is a man of great impor tance, or If this Is not apparent from his' attitude It" may be gathered from the attention paid to his utterances by gray haired chiefs and by youths and maidens. If the talking man is a clev er fellow and understands bis bus! ness, be Is the chief ruling power in his tribe, although the nominal headship Is always vested In a chief or patri archal figurehead. ' r rx ' Tirklik Hamor.t 7 - The Turk Is proverbially sedate. His serious demeanor has led people to doubt his capacity for wit or for rel ishing a joke. To disprove this opinion Mr. Buckley, author of "Travels In .Three Continents," gives the following specimens of Turkish humor: .Said a dervish to a camel. What makes your lip so crooked?" To which the camel replied, "What la there straight abo'ut me that yon should take exception to my lip 7' A man called upon a Turk to borrow his donkey. .The owner declared that the donkey was' not at home. While the conversation was going on the don key from within brayed. Said the ap plicant: "There, he is here. Let roe hare him. c Said the Turk, I will lend no man anything who will believe a don&ey's tclc9 ag&Iast mlae." ; Ed McClure, a negro, has acknowl edged shooting; a white man named Sherron in the Smoky Hollow section of Durham. McClure was captured at Bur lington and taken bock to Durham. Lm Bennett, who is In Stokes county jail awaiting trial for the murder of James Smith during the Christmas holi days, tried to commit suicide Thursday nignt oy Dreading bottles and swallow ing a lot of the glass. His condition is serious. vv. r. ttauy burton, lor several years manageifeof the Piedmont Springs hotel, on Thursday night stabbed James Rve- son, a livery man, twice in the back at W alnut Cove. The wounded man's con anion is serious, me dimcuity ong- lnarea irom a aiecuf sion. Six prisoners broke jail at Winston Sat urday. They were released by a negro prisoner wno oroKe the lock with a pick While he was in the act of break intr the lock to another cell the. jailor's attention was attrated by the noiBe. and he cao- tured the negro who was responsible lor the release of the other five men. The Bheriff nays those who got away are bad men and werejto be tried for serious offense. Fayetteville Observer: Capt. E. C. Cox, conductor of through freight train No. 209, du here fat 10 o'clock this morning, while passing Kenly, in at tempting to get off the caboose, was struck on the head by i switch stand and seriously hurt. He was left at Kenly and will betaken' to the A. C. L. hospital, at Rocky Mount, this after noon. The train was brought here by the flagman .. The Bapttaft Univenrfty is now in debt $35,000 aod a trenuovw effort is being madetoitaisiBn,tti'pay - off the Jn debtedn88.it Rev; O.. L. Stringfleld, the financial; agent ' of fthe"i institution, is working aUtbe time to' i tbiri end. And he is being assisted by Mr; J. v W Bailey and Itev. J. Er White.i: Mr. Strinirfleld left yesterday for the eastern part of the State. On Sunday Mr.. Bailey will be at Clayton and Mr. White at Holly Springs jater tnev win cro to wt minnrton..- Uur. ham, Chapel Hill, Fraukliflton and other points, 4 The debt was made ;prineipally xor ine purcnose oi the Adams property, when the large attendance ) of etduents at the University made more room neces sary.- Congressman White, colored, of the second N. C. district, on Saturday pre sented a petition signed by,2,4ia per sons rfor'nationaU. legislation ' against lyucDing&na mob 1 vioience.v and asked that it be read atthe cleik's desk. Mr. tticiiaraBon ' iienn.j objected, saying tnat tnere was no reason Why this petition should not take the usual course. White also introduced a bill providing that whenever any citizen is murdered by mob violence all parties participating shall be guilty of treason against the government of the United States and tried in the United States courts, and upon conviction the princi- Eais, aiders, abettoi s and accessories, efore and aftr the fact, shall be pun ished as now prescribed by law for pun ishment of persons convicted of treason. COVE ITEMS. UP HEAP ON A BLUNDER. Erroneous Amircr Win Commenda tion From a Latin Tenehor. "The class In Latin will now recite," said the Latin teacher at one of the city high schools the other day. The members of the class in Latin consisting of SO or more bright look In cliia. with three or four boys, eauu forward and took their places. All moved along smoothly until the dec llnatlon of the noun "donum" was In order, and there was trouble. It was the ablative that caused the trouble Tor the benefit of those uot acqnaiutc with the mysteries of Latin It may be mentioned right here that the ablative is "dono," and the pronunciation is the same . as if one should say "don't know," slurring the two words, as Is so frequently done, to "don' know." "Miss Jones," said the teacher to the head of the class, "what Is the ablative of donum?' " Miss Jones cave ber version and was told to sit down. The question in turn went down the entire length of the class, all failing, until It reached the last, a boy who had a reputation for ba$eball and football, but none for scholarship. "Well. Percy, the ablative of 'do num?' " asked the teacher. Percy scratched his bead and despair ingly looked at his grinning class mates. "Don" know," he finally blurted out. "Right." said the teacher: "go up bead." And then the class broke out Into a laugh that cost each member ten marks, but none peached on Percy. and the teacher to this day cannot un derstand what there la so comical in the ablative of 'donum."Cbicago In ter Ocean. LIGHTS iFORrBlRDS'--NESTS, GENERAL NEWS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. V January 22, 1900. Mrs.D. P.Kennedy spent Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives in Kinston. Rev. Mr. Durant was called yesterday to attend the funeral of Mr. Ed White, near Dover. . Mrs. W. H. Rhodes: of Trenton Hieh School, stopped over in Cove Saturday night on her way home. . Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Robinson and chil A TUirt Samn fiAm riaf rmma vtAnw sTsvoa viwAUw at wua uu if uvuio u?(u yiuso yesterday to visit relatives here. ... r Mrs. Hinnant, wife of Assistant Road- master Hinnant, came up from Newbern Jesterday and spent the day with Mrs. arrat White. , The heaviest rain for a number o years fell here last Thursday night and Friday. Streams, are overflowed and bridges washed away so that it is im possible to travel. The Trenton mail has failed to reach Cove since Friday morning. , v : . , Mrs. T. G. Hyisan and little daughter came up from Newbern yesterday - and went out to be with Mrs. W. B. Lane, mother of Mrs. Hyman. - Mrs. Lane has been for some time very sick; Her ' con dition is said to be very serious, but her many friends hope for her recovery. ' ' j ' Subscribe to Tec Fker Pssss. Some Curious Hablta Practiced In the .World of SonRdam.' Many birds suspend their nests from tfie branches of trees.-one of the most curious nests of that kind being that of the baya bird of India. It Is huug from the, branch, with its. opening at the bottom, and hangs like an Inverted bottle, secure from the approach of tree snakes and other reptiles. The most curious , thing about the. baya bird Ih that it is said to light up Its aest by sticking fireflies on , its sldou with' flay or soft nnid." There seems to be IlttltMloulit of the fact , Dr. Buchanan says;,"At olght each of the habitations Is lighted . up by a firefly stuck in the top with a piece of clay. The nest consists of two rooms Sometimes there are three, or four fire flies, and their blaze In the little cells dazzles the eyes of the? bats which of ten destroy the young of these birds." , Perhaps other animals are scared off by the baya bird's electric .light, since a writer In Nature records., this curl OU3 observation "I have been Informed on safe authority that, th Indian bot tle bird ' protects his nest -at; night by sticking several of -these glow beetles around the entrance by means' of clay. and only a few days back an intimate friend of my own was watching three rats on a roof rafter of his bungalow. When a glow fly lodged very close to them, the rats Immediately scampered off." Our Dumb Animals. Broken Commandment. The brilliant young preacher, when he makes his parochial calls, endeav ors to cultivate an acquaintance with the development of the younger minds, thu after a fashion keeping tab upon his Sunday school teachers. . ' : The other afternoon, . while he was waiting In the drawing room of a beau tiful Cass avenue residence for the de layed appearance of Elsie's mamma, he was entertained by the little daugh ter herself. Taking her upon his lap, be began a review of the church les sons that had been given to the little maid of .5. "Can you tell me, Elsie, how many commandments there are?" . - "Yes, sir; seven or eight" ' "Oh, no, dear; there are ten. ' . "Yes. I know there used to be, but 1 heard papa tell mamma yesterday that you bad broken two or three or them at least, and that would leave only sjven, or eight, you know." 4 Six additional case or bubonic plague are reported at Honolulu. The cargo of the German steamer Bundesrath has been re delivered to her agents. Six persons were Hei-iounly hurt in a trolley car collision Friday at Baltimore. Two cars c !ed ut a coiner crossing. At Fort bvuet, Khm.. George Si 1 bee and Ed Meeks, half brother, who were con victed of murder early in the week, were lynched by a mob in the county jail yard Saturday night. John Ruskin, the fuimniM writer, died at his home at Brnutwood, England, on Saturday, aged 81 yt-aiH. He was much admired by the English xpeaking world for the beauty and fort e of his rhetoric. A dispatch from NokuIi', Mexico, says that a battle ban lvt n fought by tne Mexicans and Yiiqiu liidinnH, in which the Yaques were detVutt ii, witb a heavy loss. Their killed number d 200. Five hundred were taken prisoners. Exporters in Nevy York who make, a specialty of the Souih African trade, be lieve that the Boer n re remarkably well provisioned, and that nuy attempt to starve them out in Lai dilikely tosoon succeed. The United State in the source of the cereal supplier of the lighting re public. Richard Carter. ?olored vonth'10 years old, was hix.yed nt Cumberland court house, Va., Ft ; :.y. for attempting tocommitacrimiii ; H-nulton Martha Hatcher, a 6-year o id white child. "Ho made a speech from ? .he uoliowH, warning negroes in strong ba-ijs;uge todeiust from outraging, white , ..mh-h. This is the second execution in V vt kiiou for attempt ed assault. Fire at Barnura ;vnl itwiley'ii winter Quarters at Bridgeport. Coun.,' Friday, estrpyed one of the mgt eur-Jbams con taining 11 cars, and i o (be 'Quarters of the Italian laborers i t the railroad and improvements near by, i i lining a loss es timated, all toid. ut 7U XH)U. Tho wWn- ers, the Buffalo Bill lu v buffet ci jhh! Mr. Bailey's private cur.foi inerlv ie l bv the late P. T. Barnum, were dwin-yed. No insurance. Theflre Ja-lieved ft have been caused by spoutaiu-oiiH combustion. 2,700 WITNE3SES SubpoBnaea. Republicans Making Mighty Preparations in the Ken tucky Contests. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 19 The reading of the counter-claim of the lt i.nhlican in cumbents in the guben.monal contests arguments over iu aduiihsibility, and ar- guments to strike it -partmily out on its admission, comprwed the work of the contesting ioards today. The last men tioned arguments were not concluded when an adjournment w an taken until' tomorrow "' The Democratic attorne.vw made a de termined fight ogainnt th admission of the counter-claim, nayiug that it covered so much ground and so ujiiiiv different counties, that it would be impossible for them to prepare evidence toeontrovert it inside of three month. Aftr it has been admitted, they declared they would make no 'attempt to offset its alienations, be cause, of the physical inipiiHsibility of Dnngmg to i rankiort the great number of witnesses nec-eHary for the operation. JiiX-lxOv. Uradley, m af-kinar the board to grant them a much time us Dossible. announced that the Republicans bad sub poenaed 2,700 witnesses. HORTICULTURISTS MEET. The North Carolina ' Asssociation "Discusses San Jose Scale And Other Matters. ", : Raleigh, Jan. 19. The annual meetinc of the State Horticultural society was held at Southern Pines todav. Mavor Smith welcomed the delegates and Presi dent George T. Winston, of the Agricul tural and Mechanical College, responded. 15. von lien, or jNew xoi k, on whose ands the horticultural experiment farm at Southern Pines is located, delivered an address on the prospects of exter minating the San Jose scale. J. Van Indley, the president of the society, has very large peach orchards at Southern Pino. An1 I n O V n n . Anilinja A . A. um, auu loi-v- jfCCM , UUUlUg wail UJQ scale had gained a footing, cut down and burned 60,000 trees, which were rained at at least $ 1 each. Presiden t Van Iind-' ley made his annual address. Among the other speakers were WL F. Massey,- Gerald t McCarthyv George E. Boggs, A. Rhodes. P. H. Beck. Dr. Sad- dleson, Eugene Levitt, OttoKatzensteinf H. F. Bahnson and Thomas L. Brown.
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