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KINSTON, N. 0., TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1000.
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AGED A STIFF FIRE.
ritish Fought All Day Sunday On
The Kopjes. The Boers Are Less
Tenacious. Engagement Was
Renewed by Them at Daybreak.
fThe Boers May be Short of Big
(Ammunition.
Spearman's Camp. Jan. 21. 10:20 D.m
After ten hours of continuous andter
pie fire yesterday Gens. Hart and
fery advanced 1,000 yards. The Boers
jaintained an Irregular fire during the
ght, but the British outposts did not
'pjy.
his morning at daybreak the Boers
ened a stiff. nre. The Untish stood to
e guns where they had slept, and the
gagement was renewed vigorously.
e field artillery poured shrapnel into
e enemy's trenches.
rumor that Ladysmith had been re-
ved enlivened the British, who sent up
nging cheer. This was taken for an
vance. The flrst kopie was taken at
e point of the bayonet, and the Boers
tired to the next kopje, which, like
ost others, was strewn with immense
wlders, surmounted by mounds on the
immit.
The British advanced steadily, and the
pers relaxed slightly. The latter did
pt show such tenacity as previously,
heir Nordenfeldts fired at long intervals
id their cannon fired but seldom. Ap
irently the Boers were short of big
nmunition. - '
All day the roar of musketry fire con
oued. , The British, took three Boer
psitions on the mountain, and found
ielter behind the bowlders.
the rough table land which constituted
the key of the Boer position.
"After a fierce cannonade had been di
rccted against the enemy's lines for some
time, the British troops assembled near
an eminence known a Three Tree Hill,
which forms a center of a semi-circle of
crests, crowned with the enemy's works,
and some six miles long. Steadily and
with great dash the British infantry
went forward in the face of a heavy fusi
lade from Mauser rifles. Our troops were
disposed as follows:
"Mai. Gen. Woodgate's division on the
right, Mai. Gen. Hart's bricrade in the
center and Maj. Gen. Hildyard's brigade
on the lert.
"Soon after midday the battle on the
hill became furious, and from 3 in the
afternoon until 6 the fire from both can
non and rifles was extremely heavy.
Pointafter pointof the enemy's positions
were seized by the British troops, and
eventually the Boer right broke, and was
forced back toward Spion Kop.
RELIEF OF LADYSMITH.
Adranoe of Warren's Forces.
Spearman's Camp, Jan. 21, 9:30 a. m.
Gen. Warren's engagement continues.
9 has forced the enemy from three tosi-
pns. TheLiancasmre and Irish brigades
f e advancing sceaany. me nre is very
vera occasionally.. r
London, JanT .Gen? Buller cables
p the war office: ,.
1 Spearman's Camp. Jan. 21,9p.m.
jen. warren has been engaged all day,
piefly on his left, which he has swung
prward about two miles. The ground
i very aimcuit, ana as the ngbting is all
he time up-hill, it is difficult to say ex-
jctlv wnat we iiava iminprl hnt.T thinV
ve are making substantial progress.
The war office has posted a dispatch
om uen. uuuer, dated Jan. 21.10 a.m;.
sating tnat ii officers and 278 non-
rammissionea omcers ana men warn
vounded yesterday. ;
Considered by British War Office a
Matter of a Short Time.
London. Jan. 23. (Tuesday) General
Buller reports from Spearman's Camp
one omcer and nve men killed; three om
cers and To men wounded and eitrht
missing as a result of Sunday's fighting,
Though there is considerable anxiety
as to the immediate result of Gen.Buller's
dash at Ladysmith, which later devel
opments indicate was undertaken inde
pendent of Field Marshal Lord Roberts
the war office has now come to the con
elusion that the relief of Ladysmitb. is
only a matter of a short time. According
to the war officials' ideas, a dash to the
release or Kimberly will quickly follow
the relief of .Lady smith, and then wil
follow a long spell of organization and
perhaps three or four months will elapse
before the column or columns will have
the transportation service in shape to
advance with the certainty of meeting
with no serious reverses. The latter con
ditions are held by the authorities to be
absolutely essential before any forward
movement towards the invasion of the
Transvaal is begun, hence there is smal
probability of the war endintr within
six months.
The widow of Gen. Wauchope, in an
open letter, denies the stories that the
general m any way critizised Gen. Me
thuen.
Lord Wolseley has issued a denial of
the report that the war office is in pos
session of a letter from Gen. Wauchope,
written the' night before the battle of
Magersfontein, saying that it would be
the last letter he would ever write, as he
had been asked .to perform an impossible
task and he had either to obey orders
or surrender his sword.
GENERAL MEWS.
Matters of Interest pondensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
f Avoiding Infantry Charges.
From the information which the censor
as allowed to pass it is as vet imnos-
British tactics. One thincr. however, is
uite clear. - The British commanders
ave profited by experience, and are now
voiding Infantry charges, giving prefer-
THE CAPTURE OF TA AT.
Majors Johnson and Mu)r Defeat
800 Filipinos.
Manila, Jan. 22. Two companies of
the - Forty-sixth infantry, under Mai
Johnson, and1 three companies of the
Thirty-eighth infantry, commanded by
Mai. Muir, defeated 800 insurarents at
nee to the more judicious use of ftrtillnrv: laal, province of Batangas, Saturday.
fheireneral ideais that Sir Bed vera BnlW. taking the town.
Jvith some 8,000 men and 18 field guns; The United States gunboat Marietta
a holding tne northern bank of the H,usu BnBI!U pitu a ne insurgents
rugela at Fotgieter's Drift, while Sir na1 Iour cannon, two or which were cap
r-rt . , I u.J rrl,M. k 1 . 1 1
anes arren, with about 12,000 men, U1 cu wu ...Americans were wounaea,
30 guns and a large force of cavalry, is
Working around the right flank of the
tsoers, eight or ten miles away.
( One account of Saturday's fighting says
)hat the British had few killed. Little
Reliance can be placed upon these reports
nd although the main position of the
3oers has not yet been attacked and
Nothing is known as to its strength, Sat-
ban hardly be described as more than
butpost affairs, evidently entailed serious :
I The Boers are following: their old tac
tics making a show of resistance and
it r a .
tnen retreating uv good order : to pre
pared positions, and as they are working
from the interior of their lines, they
may be able to bring strong forces to j
aeiend the main position.
Hard Fighting In Front of Them.
Nothing is heard regarding any coun
ter attack Dy sir Ueorge White from
Ladysmith, and Gen. Buller's "I think
we are making substantial progress"
remains the last words. This shows
that there is still Home very ' hard work
in front of the British forces.
and 10 insurgent dead were found on the
field. ..
Pritchard
Speaks on His Resolu
tion.
senator rntcnaru snoKe two and a
half hours Monday on his resolution in
the senate declaring the proposed amend
ment to the constitution of North Caro
lina to be in conflict with the 15th amend
ment to the United States constitution.
He declared that the nesrro has never
been offensive, but always as meek as a
lamb. He . alleged that the vicious Dem
ocrats have preyed upon the meek and
lowly negro. He also stated that the
Democratic party is not the white man's
Earty. He abused the white leaders in
brth Carolina, and declared that thev
wished to destroy popular government.
The barn of A. K. Weaver, near Ma
rion, was burned Sunday nieht. He lost
I four head of horses, four head of cattle
and about 5,000 bushels of grain by the
fire. - The fire is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary.
"A young man came into our store
yesterday suffering from a severe attack
of cramp colic," writes B. F. Hess, miller
'T . ana general merchant, Dickey's Moun-
The Daily Telegraph has the following tain, Fa. "He had tried various home
lispatch, dated Saturday, from Spear- remedies without relief. As I used
an'B Camp; ''Gen. Warren's forces have Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar.
ought a ds!,berfttElj planned and sue- rhoea Remedy I gave him a dose and it
xssful battle. TL'j important enrage- soon brought him out all right. I never
3ent occurr? 1 to tls wtst of Cpoin Kop, saw a fellow so rejoiced." Sold by J. E.
ind practicaljy resulted In our securing Hood.
Jnlia Morrison's proposed lecture tour
is about to prove a failure, owing to the
fact that southern managers refuse to
give her dates.
Thousands of bullet proof shields, each
weighing seven pounds, it is oaid, are
being manufactured atSheffleld. Encrland.
for the British soldiers. : These are de
signed to protect the vital parts at a
range of 400 yards.
The buildings, machinery and manufac
tured lumber of the Taylor Lumber com
pany, at LaFayette,Ind.,were destroyed
fire Sunday. Loss,': 17,000; insur
ance, f 37,000, covering the entire plant,
The lumber yard was sayed.
Secretary Boot ha issued an order ex
tending the time for the foreclosure of
mortgages on property in Puerto Rico
six months, on condition, however, that
such extension shall not apply if contrary
to legislation enacted l)y congress in the
interval.
The British steamer Sutton stranded
Saturday on Fenwick Island shoals, eight
miles off the Delaware coast. The vessel
filled with water and there is little hope
of saving it. The crew were all rescued.
The vessel was loaded with iron ore from
Car.tagena, Spain, for Philadelphia.
Representative Payne, of New York,
chairman of the : ways and means com
mittee of the house, and floor leader of the
majority, has introduced into the house a
bill to extend the customs and internal
revenue laws of the United States over
the island ol-Puerto Rico;
A dispatch from Colmia, Mexico, says
that on Friday night, at 11:45 o'clock,
an earthquake - at Tenmiata damaged
many houses and destrpyed several.
Seven people were killed ?and. 60 wound
ed. There are small damages reported
from other Mexican towns. .-! ...
One postage stamp b'njaght- Jf 1710 at
th sale of the collection: of F.W. Hunter,
of New York City. This is the largest
sum any stamp has ever brought in this
country at auction. It was' a specimen
of the first issue of British (iuiana in
1850. The stamp was purchased by a
prominent stamp and coin company of
New York, who represented an English
collector. Mr. Hunter bought this speci
men for f 1,010.
At Macon, Ga., Monday, J. H. Butler,
a negro, resisted arrest, after having
threatened to kill a colored women. The
negro ran, his pistol in his hand, shooting
at everybody in sight. He shot 15. Zelt
man, white, through the stomach, who
will probably die. John Reed, white, was
shot m the neck, and is in a precarious
condition: He shot and killed Armstead
Bryan, colored. Butler was finally shot
down, mortally wounded, with five balls
through his body. Butler is a North Car
olina negro, having left for a Georgia
turpentine farm eight years ago. It is
said that about a year ago he killed two
negroes at rinehurst, tfa.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind.,
Jan. 19th, says: Bank robbers entered
three country banks this i morning and
blew the safes to atoms with dynamite,
securing about $10,000. The banks were
the Commercial bank, of Silver Lake, a
bank atEUettsville and a bank at Akron.
After leaving the Commercial bank, the
robbers were met by a night watchman
and a citizen. A fight ensued, during
which 30 shots were exchanged. , The cit
izen was shot, and it is believed one of
the burglars was wounded. The robbers
escaped, carrying their wounded com-
anion. There is great excitement in the
ocalities where the robberies occurred
and lynching is talked of.
GIRL ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
Sensational Case of Miss Herbot
soheimer Ended. An Accidental
Shooting.
Princeton, 111., Jan. 21. Miss Kate Her-
bot8cheimer, who has been on trial here
the past week for the murder of Charles
Salzman, a young man with whom she
bad been keeping company, was acquit
ted yesterday.
The engagement between the two had
been broken off as the result of a quarrel
and, while riding in a carriage, Salzman
was shot three times and killed.
Miss Herbotscheimer claimed that the
shooting was accidental, and the jury
took that view of it.
After Salzman received the fatal wound
ne shot at Miss Herbotscheimer six times,
hone of the bullets proving effective.
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German Syrup, free of charge. Only one
bottle given to one person, and none to
children without order from parents.
No throat or lung remedy ever had
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in all parts of the civilized world. Twenty
years ago millions of bottles were given
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Mexican Victory at Macoyata
Likely to End War. Prisoners
Rescued.
xogaies, Ariz., Jan. zj.. isews comes
from the south this morning confirming
tne report that lien. .Lorenzo Torres en
gaged the Yaquis at Macoyata, Thurs
day, killing over 200 and taking 500
prisoners.
t ather Beltran and several sisters of
charity who have been held as prisoners
oiwamytne xaquis for the last six
months, were rescued by the victorious
Mexicans, and are now with Gen. Torres.
It is expected that this last important
victory of Gen. Torres will have the effect
of scattering the Yaquis and will result
in ending the wat.
Saw Too Much.
A farmer hired a man and put him
Into his field to work. After awhile the
farmer came along and accosted the
new hand:
"Did you see a carriage go down the
road awhile ago?"
"Yes, I did, One of the bosses was a
gray boss,, and the other was a roan
and lame in his off leg."
"I thought I heard some men shoot-
tog mr there on the edge of the
WOOdS."
"Yes; one of them was Colonel Jones.
He was the tall one. The second one
was Major Peters, and the third one
was Tom McSnlffer. Colonel Jones
had one of tbem newfangled breech
loadln guns what breaks in two."
"Did you see those wild pigeons fly
over Just now?'
"See 'em? Rather. There was 19 of
them. They lit in that old cornfield
down yonder."
"Well, you see too much for a man
that is hired by the day. Here's your
wages. When I want a man to keep
watch of what is going on, I'll send for
you." London Answers.
Trie Doe and Her Fawn.
Fawns when first dropped are for
some hours unable to stand. The doe
does not remain beside them, but paces
slowly around at a considerable dis
tance. Every now and then she gives
a little tremulous, bleating call, at sound
of which the fawn lifts its head and
tries to struggle to its feet. Should a
man or a dog appear meantime the doe
runs away in a straight line, but lag
glngly and halting, as though herself
hurt unto death. ' When she thinks she
has lured the enemy far enough away,
she gives three great flying leaps, which
take her at once out of sight, and goes
back to her baby upon seven league
boots. But If left undisturbed she
keeps up the pacing until she sees the
fawn standing, then paces daintily
away In -a straight, line, choosing al
ways the easiest grade. As she paces
she calls faintly and every now and
then baits, looking over her shoulder
to see if she is followed.
are
HI Very Own Jones.
There nre many Joneses In this world,
but perhaps not quite so many as peo
ple think. Not long ago two friends
met who had not seen each other for
ten years, since their school days.
"Whom did you marry. Billy?" asked
one. : -'
"A Miss Jones of Philadelphia," re
plied Billy, who was a trifle sensitive.
"You always did take to the name
'Jones. I can remember when we went
to school together you used to tag
around after a little snub nosed Jones
glrL- - - '
- "1 remember It. too," said Billy.
"She's the girl I married-Youth's
Com pnlon. .
Some of the people of Henderson
agitating in favor of a curfew law.
The Southerner says the electric plant
inTarboro is to be installed without
delay.
Smithfield Herald: Mr. M. V. Barefoot
was here one day last week and sold two
bales of coti" . vhich he raised on one
acre. He sold them to Mr. J. B. Hudson
at 7 cents per pound, the two bales,
amounting to f 69.12. The seed from
the two bales, if sold, would bring $10 to
111, making about f 80 worth raised on
one acre.
Greensboro Telegram: According to
reporte the negro magistrates who are
yet in office down east are beginning the
business which brought on the hot cam
paign of 1898. And if it is kept up there
will be another warm time during 1900,
and thereafter, nntil matters are regu
lated. That can be chewed or smoked to
suit the taste.
Greenville Reflector, 22nd: This morn
ing the firm of It. B. Jarvis & Bro., doing
a dry goods business here, made an
assignment, F. C. Harding being named
as assignee. The liabilities . of the firm
are placed at about $1,900 with assets
at about $1,700. Both members of the
firm reserve their homestead exemption
which will reduce the assets correspond
ingly. . v
The Deljrado mil), the new cotton factory
at Wilmington, began operation Monday
with a capacity of 25,000 yards of fin
ished cloth per day. The mill - now has
18,000 spindles and gives employment to
860 operatives. A prominent stock
holder said that the company would
begin work by June 1 on an addition
which would double the present capac
ity of the mill. r , . ' v
Capt. Turpin with the Protector, which
arrived at Morehead City Monday, re
ports leaving Ocracoke Sunday with
three barires in tow for . Charleston one
of which barges was completely wrwked
and left at sea five miles off Loo out.
He arrived at Morehead Monduy with
the remaining two in a, leaking c 'Edi
tion. The barires are supposed t o luive
been unseaworthy when they left port.
Charlotte News: Gastonja is taking
strides forward which will soon put her
in the lists of cities and out of the lists of
towns. Besides her industrial progress, -
in the shape of several new cotton mills,
she is to have waterworks, electric lights
and sewerage. The contract for same
was let yesterday to Moore cc Macready,
of Atlanta, who will do all of the con
structing. Henry B. . Worthington will,
supply the pumps. Mr. A. W. Jones,
representing the pump company, came
in last evening from Gastonia, having
secured the contract for bis company.
The improvements will cost $65,000. v
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The father?
Gone for the
doctor. The
mother? Alone
with her suffer-
inir rhUA Will
A tne doctor never
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ical in the long run.