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VOL. XXVII.
OLD-FASHIONED POSIES.
Oh. those street <'*Kl-f is'uog***! posing tint were mother’s pride and joy,
In the sflnny little woe o I wondered when u boy!
Oh. the morainis sjlorie? twiuin? ’moaijst the shining aunflowors tail,
And tbo eUmatis -tangle la the angle of the wail!
How the mignonette’* sweet blooming was perfuming nil the walks.
Where tite hollyhocks *too l proudly with their blossom-dotted stalk*.
While the oi l-maids' pinks were nodding group-* of gossips, here and there,
Anil ihe bluebells swung so lightly in the lusty, hazy air!
Then tbo sleepy poppies stooping low their drooping, drowsy heads,
And the modest young sweet-williams hiding in their shady beds!
• By the edges of the hedges, where the spider*’ webs were spuu,
How the marigolds lay. yellow its the mellow summer sun
That made all the gr is* a-dappl ’aeath the leaty apple tree.
Whence you heard the 1 ' ut dramming and the humming of the bee,
While the soft breeze in the trellis where th * roses used to grow
Sen*, the silken petals flying like a scented shower of snow!
0! t the quaint ol l fashioneg garden, and tbo pathways cool and sweet,
YTiili the dewy branches splashing flushing jewels o’3r my feet!
And the dear old-fashioned blossoms, and the old homo where they grew,
A i l the rnotner-hands that plucked them, and the mother lovo I knew!
Ah! of nil earth’* fr igcHut fl >wer* in the bowers ou Her br.rn.st,
t'U.re the b'oooaj whlo'i memory brings us are the brightest and the besl;
And the fairest, rarest blossom* uo'er could wiu my love, I know,
Li .-: tiie sweet old-fashtone l posies motber tended long ago.
—Joe Lincoln, in Philadelphia Saturday Evening Tost.
1 Ashby Grantham’s Bank Robbers, I
■it’ r~i M
Lt By Hollis W. Field. ®
Y7 T was nu eventful
day in the life of
Ashby Grauibatn |
when ho entered
the Macon County
Farci r s’ an 1
Traders* Bank as
an assistant to the
flashier,-Mr. (Laves. At first ho had
rather more to do with the corpulent
stove that ato up so much soft coal
than with the books, but before the
winter passed ho gaiui'd some insight
into thu beautiful system of double
entry, and the romance of business
began to unfold to him.
His proudest moment, perhaps, was
when the cashier gave him the com
bination to the fire proof vault, aud
thou to the burglar-proof safe that
stood far hack ou its mosaic floor.
And when the black-aml-gold door to
the safo swung wide, what an ecstasy
of responsibility to reach far in and
turn the dial that released the door of
the strong bos. with its sack* of gold
aud silver coin aud its paeknges of
bills neatly tied, live hundred dollars
in a bunchl
Behind this steel door was the
wonderful time lock, with its two
watches ticking incessantly, and
against which even the cashier was
helpless until after eight o’clock in
the morning. Such precautions had
been found necessary in that Western
country in which the Fanners’ A
Traders’ Bank did business.
For fifty miles arotrml lay a rich
cattle country, and stock-shipping
days were red-letter days for the
Farmers’ A- Traders’ Bank. Twenty
five thousand dollars had been paid
out through the ouo window of the
bank in one day on the checks of
cattle-buyers; and the knowledge that
such sums lay in banks of that section
had tempted bandits on more than one
occasion.
The safe in the Jamesport Barings
Bank, twenty-seven miles awnv, had
been blown open and robbed of fifteen
thousand dollars. Twelve miles sonth
of Macon, the cashier of the Gallatin
National Bank had been shot dead
for resisting a bold daylight raid, but
he had saved the bank. To the east,
and at the next station down the rail
road, tlu Breck an ridge Exchange
Bank had been held up by two masked
m< n, late one afternoon, and fifteen
hundred dollars in bills were sur
rendered by the terror-stricken
cashier.
Not one of these robbers had been
brought, to justice. To the north of
this stretch of fertile prairie country
was a wild, broken, river section, to
which they escaped, aud where pur
suit was almost useless.
Behiud the ground-glass partition
that walled in the secrets of the
Farmers’ & Traders’ Bank from the
open space by the big stove were two
impressive objects. One was just
under the counter opposite the
teller’s window, the other was farther
along to the left in similar position—
two long, black, self-cocking re
volvers, thrust into holsters nailed
fast to the woodwork. They were
grim, vicious tilings, but of their
necessity an item in the general
ledger account of “furniture and
fixtures” was proof:
“Two Colt s revolvers, s2#.”
“They’ve never been fired since we
got them,” said Mr. Grave?, when
Ashby had remarked them: “but we
keep them in readiness. It’s the un
expected that happens, you know.”
To an imaginative boy, who felt his
responsibilities keenly, these weapons
of defence loomed importantly. Ashby
could hardly imagine bank robbers
venturing into the wide, quiet main
street of Macon at any hour, day or
night. But they had come to Breck
enridge, Gallatin and Jamesport.
Ashby meant to be ready for them at
all times. Mr. Graves, the cashier,
had laughed jit the boy’s earnest plan
nings for resistance in case tlie Farm
ers’ k Traders’ Bank should be at
tacked.
“Suppose I were at the window,
looking into the muzzle of a revolver?
You couldn’t see to shoot through the
ground glass, and you couldn’t shoot
through the window without being
Been by the robber. What then?” and
the cashier smiled indulgently at the
boy’s troubled face.
Ashby thought so often about rob
bers and how to save the bank’s funds
from them that, at last he devised a
scheme. One morning in midwinter,
when the snow lay fence deep in coun
try lanes, and wheu business in Macon,
because of interrupted communication
with the eonutry, was almost at a
standstill, Mr. Graves came down
lata, to find the boy at work tvith pen
cil and ruler ou some sort of mechani
cal drawing. His eyes were dancing
with interest, and his breath came
with uncertain little catches, as he
began to explain his work.
Mr. Graves was indulgently inter
ested in the beginning; theu ho was
curious and questioning. Half an hour
later ho was bending over the draw
ing, as much absorbed as was the boy.
All day long, in iho slack of business,
they planned. At night the parting
injunction of the cashier was:
“Remember, Ashby, if we do this,
it must be our secret. It will bo no
good if it gets out.”
That was a famous cold snap in the
history of Macon County. There were
I days when nor a farmer’s wagon came
to town, and days in which pages of
the hank’s journal had not- twenty eu-
I tries all told. But every niglil for a
week the hank shades were closely
drawn, aud the cashier aud his assis-
I taut worked behiud them, carpeuter
| iug.
On Saturday afternoon, after early
: closing, deaf old Mrs. Maxiu scrubbed
| out the bank, and ou Monday morn
ing new hempen mats were laid at the
I entrance doors and just, in front of the
! teller’s window. On Thursday the
Macon Weekly Telegraph had a news
| paragraph commenting upon the neat
i quarters of tlie Macon County Farm
! ers* k Traders’ Bank. On the gen*
1 oral ledger were some rather odd
entries under the account of “ex
| pens©,’’but the business of the Farm
ers’ k Traders' Bank went on to the
! satisfaction of its stockholders.
In January a semi-annual dividend
of seven per cent, was paid, and in
| the April following Ashlrt Grantham’s
! services were recognized as worth
■ something more than bis schooling,
j for ho was put ou a salary of tweuty
| five dollars a month as bookkeeper.
For weeks Ashby had been taking
turns at the teller’s window, paying
! checks and receiving deposits. He
| had learned the dexterous, sliding
! movement of the left thumb which
with uncertain little catches, as he
began to explain his work.
Mr. Graves was indulgently inter
ested in the beginning; theu ho was
carious and questioning. Half an hour
later lio was bending over the draw
ing, as much absorbed as was the boy.
All day long, in tho slack of business,
they planned. At night the parting
injunction of the cashier was:
“Remember, Ashby, if we do this,
it must be our secret. It will be no
good if it gets out.”
That was a famous cold snap in the
history of Macon County. There were
days when nor a farmer’s wagon came
to town, and days in which pages of
the batik’s journal had not twenty en
tries all told. But every night for a
week the bank shades were closely
drawn, aud tbo cashier aud his assis
tant worked behiud them, carpenter
ing.
On Saturday afternoon, after early
closing, deaf old Mrs. Maxiu scrubbed
out the bank, and ou Monday morn
ing new hempen mats were laid at the
entrance doors aud just, in front of the
teller’s window. On Thursday the
Macon Weekly Telegraph had a news
paragraph commenting upon the neat
quarters of the Macon County Fann
ers* k Traders’ Bank. Ou the gen
eral ledger were some rather odd
entries under the account of “ex
pense, ’’but the business of tlie Farm
ers’ k Traders' Bank went on to the
satisfaction of its stockholders.
In January a semi-annual dividend
of seven per cent, was paid, and in
the April following Ash In Grantham’s
services were recognized as worth
something more than bis schooling,
for lie was put ou a salary of twcuty
fivo dollars a month as bookkeeper.
For weeks Ashby had beeu taking
turns at the teller’s window, paying
checks and receiving deposits. He
had learned the dexterous, sliding
movement of the left thumb which
could slip only one bill at a time over
the sensitive points of Ins fingers,
aud when he had counted out the sum
called for by a check he had no ner
vousness as to whether he had paid
too much. Ho had reached that state
of proficiency when to him money had
no value; it presented numerical units
and was as abstract us were the long
columns of figures in the journal, de
posit ledger or general ledger.
One Thursday in Juno notice was
given that Wallace, Hunt k Cos. and
Joseph Bander. ton, the big cattle buy
ers at Macon, would draw heavily on
the Farmers’ k Traders’ Bank ou
the Saturday following. So, at about
11 o'clock on Thursday, Ashby Grant
ham filed a telegram with the depot
operator, ordering fifteen thousand
dollars in currency shipped from the
bank’s balance in Chicago, to come by
the three o’clock express the next day.
Friday morning gave promise of
rain. The air was close, and a fine
haze overspread tlie early sun. Grad
ually the atmosphere thickened and
thickened, its oppressiveness scarce
ly relieved by the gentle breeze that
fanned from the southeast. At noon a
storm was plainly impending.
The few scattered wagons from the
country began to rattle and bump
homeward along the macadamized
streets. Awnings were pulled in;
windows were made in readiness to
close; wagons here and there rattled
briskly along that packages might be
delievered before the rain; and ou all
sides were the preparations that al
ways precede a storm in the country,
where each man must be his own
weather-observer.
The southeast wind had softened to
a mere zephyr. To the westward,
from north to south, a sullen black arc
of cloud stretched ominously. A
ragged border of rolling brown fringed
it, setting off the smooth, blue-black
rain-cloud behind. The dusk and the
silence deepened together.
Business had been slack in the
Farmers’ k Traders’ Bank. As the
clock ticked on toward three, when the
express train from the East should
thunder in only two blocks from the
bank, both the cashier and his assis
tant sat idly at the counter,waiting.
“I hope it will be on time,” the
cashier said. “When that currency
gets in I’ll leave yon to balance the
books aud lock up. I want to get
home early this afternoon.”
“The train ought to be in in five
minutes. What’s that now?”
“Thunder, wasn’t it?” queried the
cashier; and they sat listening till the
muttering of the storm aud the
rumble of the train sounded in one
deep diapason.
Five minutes later Yates, the ex
pressman, came in with his express
pouch tightly strapped, and as be
stood at th© window, opening it to
take out the p*£eiop/* pacjfcage, the
first lightning Hash told that the storm
would break in a moment. Grabbing
his receipt book from under the very
i pen of the cashier, Yates dashed out
with the cry, “It’s coming!”
The wind had whipped fiercely intu
the northwest, and a simoom of dust
was sweeping up Main street. At the
teller’s window inside, Cashier Graves
and his assistant were cutting the
sealed and sewed package which hold
a small fortuuo in paper currency,
wheu suddenly the front door opened,
with a rush of wind and swirling dust.
It closed again, and before cither
the cashier or his assistant had time tc
recover a breath, two heavy, muffled
figures stood in the dusk, close to the
brass bars of the window.
“Good!” exclaimed a guttural voice.
“We’ll take that!” aud u heavy re
volver was pointed directly at the head
of Mr. Graves.
At the very instant that the little
i guarded window darkened with the
two figures, Ashby Grautlmm had
dropped to the floor uuder the coun
ter. Instinct had guided him. His
heart was leaping against his side,
choking him, almost. The supreme
moment had come!
“Here,” with au awful oath from
outside, “get a move ou you!” to the
cashier. “We’re onto you and tlie
stuff! Hand it over, or by ”
A grating creak broke into the
threat; two despairing yells went up
from the throats of the robbers; a re
volver shot crashed and echoed, aud
down tumbled two dark forms where
the floor had given way beneath their
feet.
“Quick, Ashby!” and the boy felt
the butt of a revolver thrust into his
hand; “ruu to the basement door and
tire this into the air as you ruu!”
With a sweep Mr. Graves threw the
express package and the money al
ready on the counter into the vault,
aud shut the doors. The next instant
the cashier was outside the railing,
stauding hack from i yawning black
holo just, under the teller’s window,
and calling down to the basement.
“Don’t stir, you scoundrels! I’ll
shoot the first man who sticks his
head up!”
At that moment, the spiteful crack
of Ashby’s revolver was arousing Main
street, and a dozen citizens, including
the town marshal, came running
through the pouring rain.
“Robbers!” the boy shrieked. “Rui
to the basement door. Hooray!”
The marshal whipped round the
corner without a word of questioning.
Five seconds later tho Farmers’ A
Traders’ Bank was full of men, most
of whom had some idea of the situa
tion.
Standing back from the dark yawn
ing hole in the floor, Mr. Graves
shouted to the two silent men in the
basement.
“Hold your revolvers up, butts fore
most,” he called. “The basement
door is guarded and padlocked on the
outside. Give in, or wo will smoke
you out!”
Ten minutes later two sullen pris
oners were being led away to jail in
tbo rain. Botli wore strangers, and
both had come in mi tho passenger
train that brought the currency ship
ment. Incidentally, the telegraph
operator at. tho depot was gone—he
was anew man who had been “picked
up.” It was observed that ho had
stood for five minutes at the corner of
Main street, in the rain, aud that when
Ashby Grantham's revolver shots were
heard, he bad run diagonally across
the street to where three horses were
hitched. Mounting one of them, he
had ridden away into the storm to tho
north.
But ho was promptly followed, cap
tured and his complicity duly proved.
Eventually the three criminals re
ceived intermediate sentences to the
penitentiary, where they are at this
hour.
Ashby Grantham’s famous trap door
under tho teller’s window has never
been patented. But it is there still,
with triggers set. And Ashby is now
assistant cashier, owning ten shares
of stock as a present from the bank
directory.—Youth’s Companion.
Qnalnt U*#> of Salt.
Salt was declared by Pythagoras to
bo the emblem of justice; for as it pre
serves all tilings and prevents corrup
tion, so justice preserves whatever it
animates, and without it all is cor
rupted. He, therefore, directed that
a salt-cellar should be placed upon the
table at every meal, in order to re
mind men of this emblematic virtue ol
salt.
Cosmas, the Egyptian geographer,
stated that salt currency was in use in
Africa in tho sixth century; and Marco
Polo wrote that salt was a common
medium of exchange among certain
Asiatic people in the thirteenth cen
tuiy. In Thibet pieces of salt shaped
in a mold and weighing about half a
pound each served as small exchange,
eighty such pieces having a value
equal to about $3.
There is an old proverb that “many
packs of salt must be eaten together
to bring friendship to perfection.”
Britain'* Roman Road*.
Up to the year 1824 the modern
roads of Great Britain were inferior
to those the Romans built prior to the
fifth centnry. The complete system
included six main roads from London,
with their branches, and a perfect
network of cross roads, measuring all
tcld some 6000 miles, and connecting
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bath, Bristol,'
Newcastle, Dover and other points
still unoccupied by thriving towns.
The Roman roads were narrow, but
built to last for all time. The usual
width was about fifteen feet, the
depth 'three feet. The bottom was
dug out and well rammed, a founda
tion of larger stones was laid in ce
ment and layers of smaller stones tap
ered off toward the top, whioh was
laid crowning in the middle to shed
rain. Hueh cement as Romans used
made . these roads practically sofit
blocks of stone.
THOMSON. GA.i TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7. 189!).
THESIiLU AGREEMENT
Explained By Presid-ut of Philip
pine Commission.
ANY INTERFERENCE IS UNNECESSARY
Mr. Sclim-iintn Thinks That Arrunffineitta
Which Ilnvp lieen Miult* .Aroll*t
For All ( oiirwriio.l.
A Washington dispatch says: Hfl
view of the current dismission of
military agreement between
Bates and the sultan of Sii’h tlie
of President Schimuau, of Hie
pine commission, <<u the mihjeei
interesting. JflH
Mr. Hchurman was one of the mjsM
Americans to visit Join, the
Spanish government ,n the Suln
pelago, and bad mi extended inter
with the sultan before the
General lhit s. !he Mrr.m-ciiK'nt
tried into bctwe-ni General IGt< s
the sultan was considerably
by this meeting.
Although the full agreement
the Sultan has net been nut !•
by the Washington :nt Inn qj, s
be state.l t hut it pi ne! ’ -.illy .-onf.^BH
tv> the previous com out uni exis^^H
bet ween the Sultan and Hie Spu^HS
government. In this agreement ''
never claimed anything mure thun^BS
external protectorate over tin*
group, the right to suppress piraej^pl
its waters and to prevent tho perioHH
migrations of iho oathbound Moham
medans who went to tho northern
islands under a vow to kill Christians
and thus secure au entrance into Par
adise.
Professor Boh unit ah said wheu ques
tioned about the probable continuance
of polygamy and slave!y in the islands
after they came under the American
dominion that this was a subject
which would have tq be dealt with in
the most careful fashion to bring an
ultimately satisfactory solution. Ho
raid:
“It seems to me that were it not
for the ignorance displayed, the pres
ent hue and cry about polygamy and
slavery in these islands would be ab
solutely criminal. In taking over the
Snlu group we have acquired no rights
of any sort there except those be
queathed us by Spain. She was bound
by her agreement with tho sultan not
to interfere with the religion or cus
toms of the islands and tt would bo*
most unwise for us to attempt this by
force when it can be ultimately ac
complished by the slower method of
civilization and edi. -ation.
“Tho Bulu group proper contains
about 100,000 inhabitants. They are
all Mohammedans, an are about 150,-
000 of the resident** of Mind&non,
directly east. To fiH<■ *pt to interfere
with the relipi ■ f these people
would precipitat* ; the bloodiest
wars in which I - '.is country has ever
been engaged. They a>v a different race
physically ami mentally from the resi
dents of tho Visefiy-hi .sirs ~powerful
men and religious faf -• ti.* <<f the most
pronounced type. .< nothing for
death and believe v .. o to heaven
can bo attained by killing Christians.
Polygamy is pa.. their religion,
and slavery, about which so much is
being said just now, in . mild typo of
feudal bondage.
“The sultan believes from what ho
has seen of Americans that they are
ready to be friendly an ’ -leal honestly
by him. Our soldiors and officers al
ready travel into the interior of Jolo
with perfect impunity where Span
iards never dared to se.t foot. It has
been suggested indire- liy to the sul
tan that lie should maintain an Ameri
can of good standing r- a confidential
adviser at lii.s coiod. t< .1 him in the
work of material development for
which tlie beautiful [. ■ q> of islands
is ready, and which is bound to come
wheu they are thrown in touch with
the civilized. I believe that lie will
take kindly to this suggestion.”
STRANGLEItS RETURNING.
lleinherH of 111-Kut-l Rugimerit and I’art
Of ItHttwry Return.
A special dispatch reoieved in Lon
don from Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
dated Tuesday morning says:
“Stragglers from the Gloucestershire
regiment are arriving at Ladysmith.
A number of mules with a portion of
the mountain battery are also coming
in.”
TEXAS IS OBDURATE.
blit* WIU Not lUIio Quarantine Until
Weather la Favorable.
The Louisiana state board of health
is making an earnest effort to have
Alabama and Texas raise their quar
antines against New Orleans now that
Mississippi has done so, and earnest
telegrams have been sent to the offi
cials of both states.
Or. Blunt, of Texas, however, wired
the Louisiana state board that he
could not consent to the raising of the
quarantine until the weather condi
tions justified it. Soveral towns in
Louisiana have also refused to lift the
embargo.
COLLAPSE OF BIG BUILDIXU
Cfittfttti Him J>*atlt of Threw Men. While
Three Other* Are .Winning.
Three men are known to have per
ished and three otbera are reported
misHiug aa the result of the collapse
of a six-story building iu Chicago
Wednesday.
Considerable' damage was done to
adjoining property and during tbo ex
citement it was reported that as many
as forty lives bad been lost. About
$200,000 damage was done.
A FERRY BOAT
CUT IN TWAIN
: Sleamer City of Augusta, of tk
Savannah Line, Has Collision.
FORTY PEOPLE WERE ABOARD
her
in getting ashore. One or two were
without life preservers, but they all
assisted each other ami succeeded in
getting to tho pier safely.
'l l.ere was considerable shouting for
help, the people on the boat calling
for small boats to come to their assist
ance. No small boats were launched,
however, probably owing to the brief
period of time which elapsed between
the cutting in two and tbo sinking.
The Bftvannah liner was evidently
coming up the river at the time of the
accident, while the ferry boat Chicago
was headed straight across from the
New Jersey shore for tho New York
slip.
The City of Augusta stopped after
tlie accident, but apparently no boats
were launched, and in tho brief space
of time which elapsed nothing was
done to assist the persons in the wa
ter. Estimates made by persons who
succeeded in escaping vary widely.
Borne thought that no loss of life
resulted, while others believed that at
least a score of persons wore drawn
into the whirling stream as tho ferry
boat sank.
Captain Durham, who commanded
! the ferry boat Chicago, succeeded in
1 making his escape. He says that he
1 lias accounted for all tho members of
his crew except Fireman Fiomme. He
thinks that Fromme was either
drowned or crushed to death in the
stoke hold.
HOBART DESPERATELY ILL.
Vice President Suffers a Relapse
And His Condition Reported
As Very Alarming.
A New York special says: Vice
President Hobart, who has been ill
for weeks at his home in Paterson, N.
J., suffered a relapse Monday morning
He had u sitccession of choking spells,
resulting from an imperfect action of
the heart, an i >ifiliation complicated
with inflainr.sutl ii of tlie stomach.
Mr. Hobart has not been able to at
tend to lii ] rivnte affairs for some
days, and an intimate friend bus been
given power of attorney to sign checks
and attend to other matters of that
character.
One of the physicians iu attendance
said at C o’clock Monday night that
while the condition of Mr. Hobart was
1 serious, be was some better.
A Washington special says: The
news that Vice President Hobart, has
suffered a severe relapse, and might
not he able to survive tho latest attack,
shocked Washington, where he is de
cidedly popular and highly respected.
It had been known for some time that
a sudden attack might completely pros
trate him at any moment, and it was
realized that his days of activity were
over, but nevertheless his friends at
the capital were not prepared for Mon-
day's nows.
The vice president'# case was alarm
ing a large part of last winter, and at
Thomasville, Ga., his condition be
came so grave during a visit with the
president to the home of Senator
Hanna that it could not longer be con
cealed from Mrs. Hobart, though kept
fro n the sick man himself. Vice
President Hobart returned north ear
lier than expected, because the south
ern climate did not give him the reliof
hoped for. He failed to improve much
and has been almost an invalid ever
since.
Hank Dividend Heady.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a 2$ per cent, dividend in fa
vor of the creditors of tho Oglethorpe
National bank, of Brunswick, Ga.
ASK NF.DHOES TO REVOLT.
SpnnlKrtU In VlilltppSnes After Colored
Troop. Tu .loin Aaolnaldo.
Advices from Manila ray that Colo
nel Smith, at Angeles, has sent to
General MocArthur a placard in Span
ish which was found nailed to a tree
outside tho line. It was an appeal to
the colored troops to join the insur
gents in the light for freedom aud re
ferred to “your brothers, Sam Hose
aiul Gray, whose blood cails aloud for
vengeance.”
ENfiLISfl ARMY SURRENDERS
White’s Forces Were Totally Knocked Out
In the Fight at Ladysmith.
BOERS CAPTURE 2,000 MEN
All England Was Greatly As
tounded On Receipt of
the Bad News.
All Euglaud was astounded Tuesday
by the announcement from the war
office of a crushing British defeat and
tho capture of tho Royal Irish Fusi
liers aud the Gloucestershire regiment,
the cream of tbo English troops in
South Africa.
Tho news was received early in the
morning and came in tho shape of a
dispatch from General White, who
takes the entire blame for the disaster.
Defeat would have been sufficient to
cause displeasure, but the announce
ment. of the capture of more than 2,000
men, together with almost fifty offi
cers, had added to the seriousness of
the situation.
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Siibsequoiit dispatcher show that,
the capture of the troops now at
Ladysmith is serious, and news of a
further retreat would not bo surpris
ing. The Boers occupy a strong po
sition and an attack on tho remaining
troops was impending.
White'* Dlspntfli.
The dispatch from General White,
commanding the British forces at
Ladysmith, reporting that the Royal
Irish Fusiliers, No. 10 mounted bat
tery aud tho Gloucestershire legiment
were surrounded in tlm hills by tho
Boors, and after losing heavily were
obliged to capitulate, says that tho
casualties have not yet been ascer
tained.
The following is the text of Geuoral
White’s dispatch to the war office:
Ladysmith, Got. 80. (10:30
p. in.) I have to report a disas
ter to the column sent, by me to
take a position ou a hill to guard
tho left flank of the troops. In
those operations today the Royal
Irish Fusiliers, No. 10 mountain
battery aud tho Gloucestershire
regiment were surrounded in tho
hills and after losing heavily had
to capitulate. The casualties
have not yet been ascertained.
A man of the Fusiliers, employ
ed as a hospital orderly, came in
under a flag of truce with a letter
from the survivors of the column,
who asked for assistance to bury
the dead. I fear there is no doubt
of the truth of the report..
I formed a plan i* trie carrying
out of which the di a-L r occurred
and I am alone r ■ <• ude for tho
plan. There me what
ever to lit** troops, r positiou „ !
was uutenable.
General White, in a subsequent dis- f
patch gives names of officer# taken pi is- !
oners. They number forty-two,of whom!
live were wounded.
At the government office no effort
was made to conceal the feeling of
dismay caused by tho receipt of the
news from General White. One offi
cial said to a representative of the As
sociated Press:
It is inexplicable, and lam ■
sorry to say that its moral effect
is inestimable. We have lost I
heavily in many wars and have
had regiments almost wiped ont,
but to have regiments captured,
and by the Boers—it is terrible.
An official of the war office said to j
tho representative of the Associated j
Press;
“i his disaster is more likely duo to ;
the craze of our younger officers to
distinguish themselves, obtain men
tion in the dispatches and earn the
Victoria cross, than to the fault of that
splendid veteran, General White, in
spito of his avowal.”
The war office has sent the following ]
dispatch to Buller:
“Throe extra battalions of foot and
one mountain battei y, with reserves,
will leave England during the course
of ten days to make good tho casual
ties.”
TIo Now* In I<on<lon.
A London cable dispatch says:
There was a continuous stream of
oallers at the war office until a late
HURRICANE STRIKES NEW BERN.
Hixll.ltTld. Knnnn Do.. Thon.snd. of
Dollars D.ias,..
A special from Newbern, N. C.,
sayß: ‘'A hurricane passed through
this section Monday night. In the
city thousands of dollars of damage
was done by the tide, which was two
feet higher than during any hurricane
ever known.
“Small boats were thrown into the
publio streets and at midnight the
firemen fought fire from lime barrels
catching firo standing waist deep in
water.
“Many tons of salt and sugar in
bag* melted and ran into the river.”
SAVED ills LITTLE HIRL,
Rut Ffttbtr J*o*t 111 h Own Ufe On tho
Roll rood.
News has been received in Zebulon,
Ga., of the sadden death of Mr. Oran
Jones in Florida in an effort to rescue
his little girl, who had gone on the
railroad track to get her dog out of the
danger of an approaohlng train. Mr.
Jones was run over and killed by the
oars after having saved his child.
Mr. Jones was raised in Pike county
and had many friends iu Zebulon.
NO. 41.
I hour Tuesday evening, everybody
I anxiously inquiring regarding Mon
day’s casualties, but the war office de
clared that nothing had boon received
since Sir George White’s dispatch
communicating the news of tho cap
ture of ill) Royal Irish Fusiliers and
tiie Gloucestershire regiment.
Tho delay in getting further intel
ligence was attribute 1 in part to tho
break down of tlie east coast, cable, but
it stands to reason that the war office
must ho possosse l of further nows,
which it is probably not thought ad
visable sho ild be published ns yet.
The disaster has caused a feeling
akin to eonsternatiou and in Glouces
tershire and the north of Ireland,
where the captured regiments were re
cruitod, the black aud gloom prevails,
families awaiting with boating hearts
the names of the killed and wounded,
which are fully expected to reach a
high figure. Many homos are already
in mourning in consequence of losses
sustained by these regiments in previ
ous engagements.
Public anxiety wan increased by a
special dispatch from Ladysmith, pub
lished in the late editions of the J/on
dou afternoon papers, to the eiFect
that before darkness Monday the Boors
reoccupied the old position held by
their heavy artillery, which General
''’hite had reported silenced by the
guns of the naval brigade from tho
Powerful, and had opened fire again.
The dispatch further says.
The situation is one of grave
anxiety. Beyond doubt the Boer
retirement yesterday (Monday)
was a ruso to draw General White
into tho hilly country and away
from the British camp.
This last sentence is significant and
confirms the opinion of many expert*
here that General White is allowing
himself to bo outgeneraled by Com
mandant General Joubert.
Boer Spider; British Fly.
From the scanty advices received it
seems tolerably certain that the disas
ter was simply a repetition of the bat
tle of Mnjuba hill, though on a larger
scale. The two regiments were al
lowed to march into a trap set for
them, It is simply a case of the Boer
spider and the BrifSi^h.fly
Mm B RemorM.
General Sir George White’s honest
admission of full responsibility and
the terms of his dispatch are regarded
in pome circles as virtually placing his
<aso in the bands of the home author
ities, and it is even rumored that the
war office lias already decided to su
persede him. The report, however,
is discredited in well-informed quar
ters.
About six thousand fresh troops will
arrive at Cape Town within a few days
from England and will be available to
reinforce General White. Transports
will arrive daily until by the end of a
week 28,000 troops will have been
landed in south Africa.
These men are iutended for General
Sir ltedvers ISuller’s army, but they
will undoubtedly l.e detached to Natal
if the situation should become peril
ous.
The British army will eventually
reach tl.o huge total of 89,634, of
which 69,034 will bo regulars aud the
other 20,000 miscellaneous but excel
lent colonial troops.
BISHOP TURNER ON KItUOER.
He By in pat hlzes With Kutdnml, lint. Hopes
For Hoer President.
During the Southwest Georgia an
nual conference of the African Metho
dist Episcopal church ut Columbus,
Bishop Turner in an address said:
“In my visit last year to South
Afrioa I talked with President Kruger
and with President Steyn of the Or
ange Free State.
"I liked Steyn because he recog
nized the authority of the African
Methodist Episcopal churoh. Kruger,
for a tthile, did the same because he
did not want white men to be tamper
ing with the blacks.”
The bishop exclaimed: “I sympa
; thize with England, but I fear Krnger
| because he is calling on the Lord, and
11 believe if Kruger will promisa to do
1 batter that God will hear him.”
MONTREAL HOTEL BURNS.
Three Persons Lost Their Lives In the
Flames.
The Webster house at Montreal,
Canada, was burned Tuesday morn
ing, Several persons are supposed to
have been burned or suffocated. Three
bodies have been recovered, one of
which was identified as that of a scrub
woman.
({narantlne Embargo Raised.
A Shreveport special says: The
cold weather has put an end to quar
antine and the embargo will be raised
against all quarantine points in Louis
iana.
HOBART SHOWED IMPROVEMENT.
Vice President Passed a Good Day and
Knjoys Kofreslitiiff Sleep.
A special from Patterson, N. J„
says: At 6 o’clock Tuesday evening,
it was annonneed that Vice President
Hobart had passed a very comfortable
day. He had taken an interest in af
fairs, was very cheerful and enjoyed a
natural sleep.
He himself says that the day was
one of the best he .has passed •in a
week.