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VOL. XY1I--K3. 232. 5SW tlUS, N. C, VELSSDAYJuORSlK8, BECEM8ESL 27, 1899. IKTABUSBED If RALEIGH. - s I i GREETING r J1. We thank our many patrons' for their trade during: the past year and hope lor a continuance ot the same. We wish tor everybody a happy and prosperous New Year. ,We guarantee to please, and il we don't your money is refunded., CB.MCKBURN. Genera! -Hardware.::, , Santa .Clans 1 c- ofning. . Givi . lm; warm weloomiv. You tii'l davn ; 5. . t.h rial mas hi art in a chilly body. No' . " use to poke tl e fire if the stove la a rat' ' , ety wreck."' We'll aoil you a new one for , about threxaVof-Wn errer-air on the ". Old. Come and Mp,jrw ewlf t t hiit- ..nm armrh at 'Ttace on I 0 o I JU-JU" Trices. ' If ytu mcd a e'ovejta teitlnly an npproprintMilng to put a Christus . raid ou: It doesn't make anv difference whether you buy It for your wif or vice r vuriM. It's common senna "(.reposition ;4 " from all poiuts of ,View, We have a full line"' of .Christmas Gi ols.;, Lam Ja Kilives. Fork and 8i was. H Nh k I Uaso T ry 111 ig for a Olirtatma present' it -t . , i - . , ' , GASKILL firMITCl-iELL'S, HARDWARE: ' . GROCERIES: " 73 MIDDLE STREET. JPhoue 147. ,A 61 BROAD STREET. 111 TMAS Allow vs to ftiggest feiriiiitablo presents for gontlcmen. What !s more acceptable than one ot our.. Dew a:iit Ji6bby Cravats at 6O0 ? Our uccii wear hua just arriveJ and U strictly up-to-dnt , ' ' w ' . i : ' IE a litt'o tUDre eK!Uiive proserft is 'wanted biiy ft pTrir- of our Kill Gloves at $1.00 or do even Ml.i;f ami buy a $1 5Q pair tlie Laudsomest which have ever beeirtcou in the -city.. ' ' We huve numenw article which, we could eunmrtuh as Linen Iluudlici'chiers, Silk Uaitd crchiefs, UKpenilers, Uulf llosoiuall the uew tolois. ; " '! '' "' r v - ' ' v- V bite fcblrli, ( oUars aud ( tiffs in tbe-hitest sliapes. v i ' Nothing InLcs the place- of an Umbrella us a desirable 'ft aud wo have n large variety just in, at prices from 50a to $5 00. 'all iiml examine our stock and yon will find everything brail new and up to dato. v Yours Truly,"' 'j'Lvti ' ' '' j. c. ")i3riTnr & . ,co.; 67 POLLOCK 8TUEKT. ' ' NEW BKKN.'W. P.;"V. ,' ? - V-'. -- H 1-. -I ii u Is :,V v 1 f 3 y . anJU, 1 8 a 1 ard Silvi r J 'at1 JRESEHTS!:! 3 usft s 8 :-a; v. : (r I f '"I - -2il5v 1 9, To bs E;:W lyEi'lci Beta- American Ships Captured by British Cruisers. 7 Loaded Wllh Supplies for the Boers Admiral Schley Not to Go to Delagroa Bay. Ladysmith 'T Holding Out British ' . . Advance. ' Special to JonrnaL - ' Washington, Deo ; SO Humors are current here today that this government has been notified that It fs the- Intention ef the British government to seize Dela- goa bay belonging Co the Portuguese, and also the line of rsilroid from I.ofens Marques to 'Pretoria In the Transvaal. . .. Si This is to be done, according to the report, because England has became satisfied that not only food supplies but recruits and munitions of war have been and are being transported threugb Portu guese territory to the South African Republic. " It is asserted that England baa determined to . slop this aad has decided opon using drastic measures to accomplish it. . ':"'' It is also said that the original Inten tion of the Navy Department - was to send ! Admiral Schley with the cruiser Chicago, to Delagoa Bay but that the plan has been changed at the request sit the Kngllih government because sucb move might cause embarrassment to the English plan of action. The officials of the State Department in WBBiiingion reiuse 10 uiseuesiue 10 port,'-.' '. !''-'; V tV '? London, De-. 36. Another ship be lieved to be si) Ameiloan vessel loaded with stores for (he Boers has been cap lured by a Prlllih cruiser IT the coast of Africa and taken to Port Elizabeth, Cape ColbnyKTWs makes .four American vessels that lave been captured ' 1 y BrUlsl) cruisers patrolling ibe African eosst. . .1 , A Csrje Town dirpalch says that the correspondents have returned there from Moiider river.1 This Is taken to mean that another advance movement Is about to take place bv Genertk ileihuen . who has been largely reinforced, V-Vj The Cape Government boa "received reassuring accounts from all the county magistrates ; regarding the attitude to ward Ens land of the Colonial Dutch in Cape t'olonyv Lokdos, DetV5 The arrival ot the transport Tsntallbq Cattle at the Cape, which Is expected Wednesday, 'will put at the disposal of General Buller-the most valuable reinforcement to arrive on anv one vessel since the beginning of operations. - "- ,s r ', Shehaa en board three companies of siege artillery, one having an armament of four of the now well-known 4.7-lnch nuns and lbs other 8 Inch howitzers.- All these weapons tire lyddite shells ' - The notorious deficiency of the British forces in ordnance of range and power equal to that Of ibe Boers' Is thus In some degree to be modified. ; -'. - v At the I'ape", while the outlook Is held to 1 gloomy, U la not generally rcKril- ed as giving ground Tor serious litm The checks sustainrd are said to be tem- Dorarvonlv. ... . .-' ' Condoic, IJccemlier 23 -Tho acilon ji the llntii-d States Governuient eoni-err Ing d ur I but was seized Oauaei cO'i-l't- erable ditcuatlnu regarding the- conira- baud queilion as affecting Drlagos luty and Portugal. .- " - The Morning rorargucs that the B.l llvh Eovernmupt would lie luad , to treat food as contraband, an "unci) action would play lino the hands f all possible future enemies of Great Britain admits, however, that ' stent ahoutd be taken and money expended 10 search vessels and to prevent munitions of war entering the Transvaal by way of Portu gueae territory. . . The Standard s aypj . At tho cam palga dcvelopa II may become necrssnry to seliee Ihe Dclngna Hallway al K-ininll Poort." , "... The London Times mav.s llio fullow lug announcement: "We are informer that tho (Jovurnmont h ilm iiled that II Is not di'ital)le lo nnilie furllu-r iteiuamta upon the European garrlron In Inilia un less unforesooi iiiflh:tili It's ai iHc." The Iiml Imtrli (if liner prinoneri Ii t-i arrived In i'iu;lnn.l. Tono'in. Iii'i'inhrr An uiiiUlnii helliiriipli iii';;"ne from L vlyniiith, ly ; Wy Of I'lulcsl tti.-tl i!.h:li; n pn-Mllltil Ihu 'ftrriunn thne In no way cl u t ii by1 (ipniiHl Hulk'r'a nv(r.ht ( ' a il'l roiilUlent of n a - i: l i i I out in-, ilclinitely. " I 'I !m in ullti are !( arriving limn l.i' ' ; ii. AH t In: mm i- ! 1 l H CO n- j Christmas at The Penitentiary. Short V Courses In Agriculture . Ware- : -v ' house Collapsed. ' Raleigh, Dee. 26. At the renltec- tlary Christmas day there was a special song service, In which a number of Ral eigh people tcok part. There are only 2w convicts in prison, or these about 50 are women, a few of them white. One Is from Baltimore. ' f Work Is actively In progress at the granite quarries at Graysloae, on"" the Raleigh and Gaston Railway, near Hen dArann. and lfifl man ar nmnloved. Rhe special line Is the furnishing, of belglan blocks for Norfolk and' Ports mouth. ' ' ' ' The Slate Agricultural and Mechani cal College here wilt have a new. and special feature next year. In the shape of short courses la agriculture and horti culture, at which cattle feeding, grafting helbed ' and greenhouse propagation poultry raising, staple . crops, Judging oaltle, etc., will oetaugnt.. - . , The reorganization of the, planks of the gas and electric light companies' at Wilmington is to be enected next month all the arrangements having been made Wilmington's artesian well has now a depth of 1,804 feet. The last 196 feet, is In very hard stone. . Some experts- fear the well will be a failure. . There came very near being a whole sale escape of prisoners from Slatesville jail two nights ago. A - white female prisoner gsve the male prisoners part of her corset, out of which they made a saw. and cut through the bars, They intended to gel la the corridor and overpower the jailer, but at the last moment were be trayed. Saturday afternoon at Gastooia the storage warehouse of Craig & Wilton collapsed and the building and contents are an utter wreck. Ad overloaded ele vator is thought to have caused the accident:'- The elevator man, a negro, wa killed. The buildlug wss new and not i nlltely completed. Part of a wall felt on a passing railway train, demolishing a freight car and narrowly missing the engineer. The building tn the .campus at Chapel H 11 is being steadily pushed. The Oarr building, a handsome gift from General Jullau K Carr, of Durham, Is; Bearing completion,' and work .oil the - alumni building lias been Tffsiimed., . These will be beautiful .-nd useful additions to the dntvendtv nlant. iVA-i!-''' r2i' Miss Isabella Winston, the accomplish ed daughter - of President Winston,1' of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege, has been carried north for medical treatment. While here on a visit she was some days ago taken with a violent case of nervousuoss, which resulted, in a case of acute gianla. GOOD TIMES, Hf CUBA. ' General Good Feeling. Roads Repaired, ' i : School System Improved. 4 1 Havabs December 25. All the stor In .' Havana dosed at 10 o'clock, this morning and the rest of the day .was de voted to congeniality. Only two news papers appeared with the usual editions. Bauds played on the Prado. Ameri cans generally vUlled I r lends, mostly those having families here giving din tiers' and Inviting, utbers to tie the!. gUeets.'i.f x-":-t.' ' Improvements will soon belii on the highways, which are a;rea ly in uml iif repairs. This will give emplo) tueul l) laj-jje n in Ik-r of men, Tlio acb ol syainw will lo tie leorKaulf I. , Alt-x Crey, superlntciiilciit nl Cubau aoliuols, Will be relii'erccd altli two of ihrea utbercoiu-nil-rnn-v . ' ; ' .'. V ' i ' Tho J iillolary will for.u the' 'aii.lij.-ci l early aueniion, especlHlly the j til an I Ihu nystrin of keeping j.rInoueu tor months without trial. An order will be lisued ordoiiug ihala eompleto list of prisoners held for trial will be furnUh4 monthly. . . , '.., -. y:' COTTON MARKET. The fallowing quotations were receiv ed by J. E. Latbain, Novr Hern, N. O. . ".. ' "v Nw York, Deo. 28. Opeu. High. Low. Clone I.iu.eutiua .... 7 07 7.17 7 0D Hay. cotton... 7.M 7.41 . 7.84 . CUIOAOQ HAK1CKTS 7.17 r-4i WhkaT; Open. Ilinh. Low t'ioss JJ..y ..... ... GJ (i!H . Bi Chun: ' 6j Jlay ... 83 s;;i 8.1j s;i Alnrcli 8.00 0 0.1 8(0 Bo. U'y I'M ft l i li. it. T i,;j c. o fl.n.-i tii v.-1 " J 4' I 41 (! ill ml pn 't'nli. l-lptS IV. f nl Ci I 1 K!akes the food more delicious and wholesome ,:K ROVU tAKUM DEATH IN THE MINE Two More Bodies Recovered at Braznelle. Funeral of the Dead."N Special U Journal.: ', ,t ' '. ) PittsboRG, Dec 28 Two more bodies were .taken from the mine at uraznen aauore near iiatieras yesterday, is: oe-todayi.- The funeral of eighteen of the lieved will prove a total-' loss. Captain victims of the explosion was held today and was attended by every man,- woman and child not at work in the mines, ;.u . The fact that last Baturday was pay at the mine and that there were no empty wagons to load accounts for many not going into the mine that morning, dad the accident occurred any other day there would have been more than 100 la the mine, and the result would have baea, even more appalling than It la. Some of the ' families ot the dead miners are in suffering condition, and provisions are being sent out by ihe Brownsville merchants, as well. as from TJnlontown.The men who have been working since Saturday to recover toelj , Another Company Assigns, bodies are almost exhausted, yet they refuse to give up and keep at the gr m work doggedly, though more dead than alive. w, .. )V x . . Tkat Impudent, Capital "I." iL Zola,-when In England, was much Impressed with the English use of the capital "I." , "Why Is It," he saya, "tliat the Englishman, , when he writes -of himself, ahould invariably , use a capi tal letter? That tall 'V which occurs so often In a personal narrative strikes me as being xery arrogant. A French man, referring to himself, writes 'Jo with a small 'j;' n' German, though he may gratify all his sufiStantlves wjth capital letters, ervrioya a small '1 In writing McUj a Spaniard, when be uses the personal 'pronoun at all, bestows a small ' on his 'yo,' while be honors the person he addresses with a capital 'f.'-'l believe Indeed, 'though I am not sufficiently -J acquotntedV wltb ; foreign languages to speak with certainty on that point, that the Englisbmaa Is the qnly person In the world who applies a capital letter to himself." ' M. Zola might have enforced hta eon- trasts still further. by referring to the Japanese, who really have no word for "I," i In speaking of oneself tn Japa nese self depreciatory terms are used, such as "sonant,? "the awkward per son," "Junior," wlillo In speaking of or to other people complimentary terms are employed, . such as "senior," . "mas ter," "prince' (used by young men In addressing each other familiarly). Tho moat usual Japanese equivalent for "I" is "wataknshl," which means liter, ally , ' "selflsbness.' Buffalo Commetv . .' .' . ' ' . . . - ' TV- ..Jt . ' Hew York Tenemest Bowawsk " L One - of 1 tlto Indications of the . Im provement of the masses In this city la the gradual abolishment of the tene ment, as the word. Is generally under stood. : The big rookeries, with their small rooms, airless halla and rusty Ore escapes are going out of existence In the ordinary- course of eventa, by Are, tumbling down and being remov ed to "uialte room for modern struc tures, and tlio people who live In them afe seeking more airy homes in" the suburbs or In the Data cp town. : ' - While the. foreign elcmeut continue to live In tcuemeuts for the first year after reaching New. York tiuf children of foix-l-ja parentuge are not willing to exist in the noisome unrters of the cast nail west sides. They erave more light more nlr uml rleiiitlliieKS. and In many cn:'S they get It. Rfttild transit makes Ilnrlem ns uceessllilo ns Grand street, mi l there I no occasion vto live In a down- town teucuient uuiess one likes It ; -' - - . No now tenement houses ara build ing. Tho finthouse has taken Its place, and In the courne of time the foul bar racks In which scores of families are crowded will be a thing of the pnxt aud only remembered as part of a dlstom- peied dream. New York Letter In I'lttHliurg IHspatch. Africnna and tta I.oeomotlv. The chlldrvu of the desert were filled with awe when first the silence of tho primeval solitude was broken by the pulling of the steam engine. Down at tho other end of the Cape to Cairo line thr- simple Mntaliele, when first -Con fronted by a locomotive, were certain that the Htrane machine was worked by tho labor of an Inil-Unite number of oxen, which they nHHiimed wore aim up Intililn; In. nee, when tho engino Hlcl- lH-,1, ttli v L-Mthel'cil 111 eill'lolirt crnwiU. , wailing to h-o th" (lmn- oj ii ami the it, n iM tin y fur ninny iil. I t'uit tho iMvcr of colli, I t-oino from olli "li of t!i( ox. t1 c ' ; in, 111,00 llnfl 1 ! . r- ' imv In the I ., , of Hi " 1 i-t It CO., HtW VOIM. . MAY BE TOTAL LOSS. Captain Bslnes, Of Grounded Steamer , - Arlosto Pears Such a Result. ItoBFOtK, , y"a., December K The British . steamer Arlosto, ; which went Baltics- of the steamer," tonight tele- graphed Charles M. Barnett, his repre sentallve here, expresatog , fear . that fefloris , lo save the vessel will prove - unaiauing. The tug Rescue, which reached the Arlosto this morning, ; has been unable to do anything toward gosling" her be cause of the rough sea oS the coast. , A message received at the. Weather Bureau here states that the Rescue has not yet been able to even approach, the Arlosto near enough to put a line aboard herj The ateamer lies broadside on, and ap pears to be making considerable water. Special to Journal. " , ' v Boston, -December 28. The John P Lowell . Arms Company has assigned. Charles H.Cole, while President of ibe Globe National Bank advaneed the firm over a million dollars. This resulted In the wrecking of Cole and (he bank. The firms liabilities are stated to besover two million dollars. . Columbia's Jost Received. 1 have received a new anpply of Col ombia and Hartford bicycles, Columbia chaiulcss 50 to $78, also a few more Of lb Modela 45 and 40 al 940,. while they List. A big lot of Tires and Sundries al prices that will suit you. Repairing ol every description Solicited. , . Wh. T. Bill, ' South Front SlrbU Leave yourrdcra at the Oaks meat market for your Christmas . Turkey Three hundred fins ones to select from A valuable and cheap Christmas pres ent, "Spofford's New Encyclopedia,' al Enoctl's Book Store. ; . .-v; ' i kilLBook istore White Ink, S ' LATEST OO. - A . ' .... . , v . Fashionable -tJtult5nery to Match. K t ''' o- a. ,v Prayer Books and Hymnals.,.' S , v - - - v -i 1 Laht Populur B.ka a Ppreialtr. ' " - - -1- X N. Ennetta r I i iLtg 1 1 1 1 w i iuui - Uoii.-e.- and laila K.-r ai lm, ) PimmiIiIk FtKtiPis.i LVslrWe ll-oi. nri Tenements that Jl prove a .tin iiivl monl. v i " ,'.-r r ,4.llectlou uf IteaU a eiiUlij.' lll. e .it rrsidnii'ji. 17 Jobiworr lriit. II E. IIAUPI.U JVEW REEIBT GRIST - HILLS! N"W Mil In, ElcvatorN aiul . Corn i'lrun Ofthe Latest' Improved and Up-to-Date Mill Machinery, YOUR TRADE IS SOLiCITKD. I 7 PI'ECIA b FAINS taken In clean b" ami poln-hing nnn- hctnra going tiooiurh tlie iiiiUh. which insures pine monl. Corn, Hominy, OutS anil Mixed Feed, New r , (i. REFAlTSUTfAK - THAT 30 CENT-TABLE- BUTTER y HAS ARRIVED, Ai d it is nice and BweeL. " r . o o o - -V , $ Christruas good things to eat in abundance at the , T Lowest Possible Prices. Don't . right.1 forget those 5c .L. Anything you want in Staple aud Fancy Grocer : ies at right prices.-. ' ' J. t 1IlAISA fti si.. - - r,; ilcMN pfM!iifHHi!!Mif Trices Cut In Half. We are overstocked ?nn RrJ 7?Aom & h In X Suits and Friday and Saturday we -are m going w offer mem 44 4-UMS trl lfj,ll u uf, I Ul IIUUIC UUOUIC), ' f 4 If you contemplate Laying one any S - itn At - - ' ' H1 iimr xnnn it vim i nan trt rir. m VYvt m IK .- " A"V LKy w iisji as this is the-chance of a life time ,, ;A large and attractive tine to select :froml DON'T FAIL to TAKE ADVAN TAGE of this OPPORTUNITY as it means DOLL ARS in your pockei7 FRANC. H. Santa Gatis Mistake!; ''J&il' 'VHwa' Y'ffyjs Jk i ' , Alalia (i apes, ooi .ue. 87 MIWDM STREET. -t ' -v X IIS v M r ill . . . Mr. J i-' . S a. v- , . " mi f-e d S-ffc i.m'i -fur' ir;,iu -m. 'e,' . M I - : Nuts, Ruisu s aiuLFigs, in fust tTsrj thing Nice and Fresh for Xmas. ZX3-GIVE ME.A.CALL'fSZi: - Groceri.'1'- A 1WJ II 1 I ';lr?y a,"l NICE : - - 1 TRY IT, qt Cranberries, they all E Wliolesale & Retail ,Tocer. 71 Brcf"l Hi. L " "IH.l at prices unheard of ; -: f- . ' 4 v"- -..IISJI J0NES &.G0.;fc Makes No ; 7 When he chooses for the Xmas -, feas from our stoclcof Fanpy and Mspte , uiocerifs. Onr. Boynl Hour foryoor Xruas bahinp; our superior and esquleUeiy flurjied, c.iff e and Teas, Our P!nn Pud. '11,'g.R'liaheK, frytttilzu-l Fruits and iiii(:er, For. Ign and D.imes' ' tlu 'h '. so. K'DC Hlvi r Print RutL t ind Atmoi.'a Mince Mt will m-i t rh the lev r i f; (he eon. nolwnr. , '-;V; ,, ,- i" We Have lo a . Inrpn aliiniiext Beautiful Iial si :Celery and"- ia Quo. ' " Fine Apples and Bananas.- - curiisTr.iAS i l"fopcrons New Year To our many friends and cus tomers for their very liberal pat ronage for ICC?, and trusting to i -ccivo a shnro c '.' your bu.tir.; : '.. I 1CC0. I v.r. : 'tfaj m IU InnI 1 -r; ruin ) S- Iml , w Ci u . 5
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