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BRITISH SUFFER A DtFcAT.
Six II«Bdr»d of GatuCr*-** M I» In ill-
H 11 nrla of the
LiONPox, Dee. 11.—The war offloa la
informed that General Gatacre ha* met
with a eeriona reverse at Stortuberit It
la expected to prove the most sertons de¬
feat British arms have yet sustained in
the whole campaign.
Already the official advicea sh^w that
two men were killed, nine officer* and
17 men were wounded and nine officers
and , 696 , ria men *re musing. . Bat it ,, .m -
dent that the worst is not yet known.
The proportion of wounded and killed
is eo small when compared with the
missing—who are undoubtedly prison
ers in the hands of the Boers—that the
supplementary list of casualties is
awaited with serious misgivings.
From the udvices at hand it appears
that General Gatacre left Putters Kraal
by train for Moltono and then proceeded
by forced march 12 miles toward Storm
berg. He had 2,000 men, including the
Northumberland fusiliers, the Royal
Irish rifles and two batteries of field ar
until ... u t’r°B™’r position , , . . „ tVlQ
Bo.™ »M
;rX : P b e 8 u" d* = h P o‘u Th.T,.;r,
column. The engagement begun at 4:15
a m. At 7 a. in., after a sharp artillery
duel, the British retreated.
General Gatacre found the enemy’s
position impregnable. It was impossi
ble for the British infantry to got at the
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LARGE BLAZE IN AUGUSTA.
Million Dollars Worili of Properly
It'(luc<-d to A-ulies.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 11 .—This city was
yesterday viKited by the most disastrous
fire in its history. The loss is estimated
at 11,000,000.
How tbe blaze originated no one
know’s. It was discovered in the heart I
of J. B. White’s big drygoods house aud
spread rapidly to adjoining buildings.
The Central hotel property was razed
to the ground. Nothing remains but
tbe front wall on Broad street with its
empty and senokebegrimed windows.
The Masonic hall nas only the front
wall standing to mark its sire and but
a fragment of the outside walls of the
Arlington hotel ou tbe from and on
izzz-: r:is. !,ta ’ tan
Schneider’s corner is smoked and
scarro i, but not destroyed, though it is
probable the gutting of the rear of the
building will mean ihat it will give
wav to one iLr handsomer in its place, j
At the other end of the burnt djstrict;
badlylLmg^irtU^emf bm'is nn!c- I
..caiiy iuiacc in ..out,
MINERS ARE IN SESSION.
Officers Declare For Open War on the
Knights of Labor.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 11 .— The
state convention of the United Mine
Workers of America convened here
today with about 100 delegates present.
q’jjQ feature of the morning --ession
p. Mi j on . n xkt :
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Young ana Rational . Executive Com
initteeman William Fairley, both of
whom condemned the imurisonment oi'
National Committeeman Reese in Kan
declared for '
sas and an open war on the
Knights of Labor iu Alabama.
The grievance against the Knights of
Labor is that members of that order
tooxthe places Dt striking members of ,
the United Mine workers in Walker
countV ravenrlv
The convention is exoected to adou*
resolutions condemning the Knights of
Labor ami a long drawn out fight be
tween tue i wo oruers is expected.
Master Workmen O’Koeie of the >-!
K„. k >u B of L:ibor w . ,b« 11
United Mine workers in Alabama inau¬
gurate war on his organization he will
rnaire it a national conflict.
Seaboard Unification Plans.
Raleigh, Doc. 11 .—The initial step a
providing for the unification of the Sea¬
board Air Line system were taken at a
general meeting of the stockholders of
the Raleigh aud Gaston Railroad com¬
pany in this city. Resolutions were
passed looking to the early absorption
by tbe Raleigh and Gaston of the fol¬
lowing roads: The Raleigh and Au¬
gusta Air Line, the Durham aud North¬
ern, Roanoke and Tar River, Louisville,
Pittsboro, Carolina Central, Palmetto,
Chesterfield aud Kershaw, Georgia,
Carolina and Northern, Logansville and
Lawrenceville, Seaboard Air Belt aud
other allied lines.
Warren is Held For Trial.
Orangeburg, S. C, Deo. 11.—The
preliminary hearing in the case of J.
Bartow Warren, charged with robbing '• ■
the Southern express ear near Branch- j
vide the night of Dec. 1 held '
on , was
here before Magistrate C. P. Brunson,
Much interest was taken in the proceed
ings, owing to the unusual character of
the crime. Judge Brunson, after re
viowing the evidence ami hearing argu
ments of counsel, deciaed to bind the
defendant over for trial at the January
term of court iu the sum of $ 8 d 0 .
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Baptists Against Roberts.
Asheville, N. C., Dec. ^9.—The Bap
tist state convention, in session here to
day, passed resolutions protesting against
the seating of Bripham H. Roberts, con
pressman Iron, Utah.
Southern Breaks a Record.
Savannah, Dec. 9.—The Southern
railway smashed tbe world’s record by
running a special train 74 miles an hour
over its new roadbed between Columbia
end this city.
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A bank a Co
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Mra B T. Luo; 1 <n
chnd were fataile bn
lev, Ga , the motn-' - eriaai i
tempt to save the chad,
Tne comptroller or the cnr i
issued a call on national inn.. ,
statement of their condition* at tue nee B
^ 8atufd Dt)C j
Governor Brad.ey appear- l be th,
Kentucky election board ami denoun ed
as a malicious lie the statement u ir ue
had ordered soldier in citizens’ ounhe*
to report at Frankrort
Tne suit of H Larrousim veri-n*
Philip Werlein, the large New OiDaus
piano dealer, for fo.OOO on an nilev-d
lease, has been finally decided in me
supreme court in favor of Wer
lein, the defendant.
Members of the Shamrock’s crew de
c j lire the Columbia is a tar batter de
smned boat, but they claim her sails set
"ilig ^h.’’ Ammwau
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Orders have been issued by the war
department reducing ihe force of United
States troons in Cuba.
Representative ^ Elliott of S nth Caro
Hna , ntrodl30ed a bi]I in , he house
for an investigation of the cause of yel
^ fever.
Mr Mason, Republican of Illinois, has
offered a resolution extending the ‘‘best
hopes of the senate to the Boers iu their
lest for liberty. ”
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Admiral Watson cables the n.vy da
parrment tha r . the court of inquiry to
investigate the loss of the cruiser
Charleston has convened at Cavite.
The national council of the Grand
Army of the Republic has derided that
tbe noX t, reunion will he held during the
]a8t wee i i of August, 1900. in Cnicago.
A large party of Now York capitalists
are inspecting the cotton mills in Ala
bama, Georgia and lennessee wiih a
view to establishing several additional
large ones.
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John S. Balt, an ex-confederate sol
^ . . , lard . Dewey, T , first „ . of . the .
i a cousin
adinir.i , is < e i a r ani °* * ia -> a S 6(
’ >' ars
The postmaster general nas issued an
order providing for the registration of
^rTitv G „up»rmt’e„d-„. Hester for ‘-9 years secre
» u d of .he New
elected by the board ot directors.
The grand lodge of Masons of Ala¬
bama has passed a resolution withdraw¬
ing from fellowship with the grand
lodge of the state of Washington be
cause the latter recognized tho negro as
a Mason.
George Washington‘Memorial associ
fttiou has made public a request that on
Dec. J4. the centennial anniversary of
Washington’s death, all schools of the
laml gusneud the regular order at 11 a.
m .. and devote 20 minutes to a memo
na i nrogram
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State Treasurer ^ Craig o _ Tonnoosoo
has resigned.
The Southern Railway company has
forbidden its employes to smoke cig
aretteu when on duty.
D. „ P. __ Huntington ^ has given v-0.000 „
kegJe Norm^ and Vdusmal
sc ' r 00 r
W. E. Matkins station agent, post
was ” M, S^”SaS4wo„S 1! b^;
Banks as a result of business differences.
It is reported that serious dissensions
have broken out in the Boer camp at
Modder River because General Cronje
insists upon putting Transvaal officers
in command of the Free State forceB
and says that the latter will not fight.
T. II. Austin, an Atlanta furniture
dealer, wrote a card in which he ac¬
cused Lawyer S. C. Tapp of trying to
force his firm into receivership aud a
stroet fight between the two men re
suited in which Lotn were badly bruised.
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McKinley is said to have expressed
himself as favoring Reed for a running
mate.
The Texas legislature will convene in
special session next month for the con¬
sideration of a bill that will revolution
ize the taxation system of that state.
Commander Charles P. Howell, chief
engineer of the battleship Maine when
vessel was blown up in Havana
harbor, is dead at his NewYork home.
The first failure on account of the
hurricane in . Porto Rico is . that of Felici
Costa & Co., who have been declared
bankrupt in the l nited States provis
ional court at Ponce.
The Manufacturers’association, which
includes the cotton mills at Auguta,
> au d Bath and Langley, S. C., has
determined to make a substantial in
crease in wages on Jan. 1.
Officers have arreste i on Ivon moun¬
tain, Tenn.. the notorious moonshiner,
William Hunnicutt, who recently mur
dered Deputy United States Marshal
Green in Mitchell county, N. C.
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Tolstoi, the eminent Russian
novelist. U critically ill.
The state department authorizes a
contradiction of the report that Den¬
mark has offered the Danish West Iu
fiia islands for sale.
The governor of New Mexico, in his
| annual report, esti mates the ronulation
of rh.- tern ory at -69,500 and rauiws
the p ea for statehood.
Hentcuei V. Johnson, postmaster at
Chaxion, Ga.. has been arrested on a
ch.ir^e os embezzling postal money or
d'-r idoui of his office.
It i- announced by tne committee hav
ll, g 1 ue ui twr in ouar.e that tne uex«
annual reunion 01 the United Con ad
era n- Veterans' association will be held
from May 30 to June 8 at Lontavi le.
The United State* supreme court has
affimied the opinion of tbe court of
chums in the case of the claim of Los
Abra Silver Mining oompan against
the republic or Mexico, holding that
c.airn to be fraudulent and unfounded.
b-JLlY FOUND IN ... Tur THt d RIVhK. ,w P d
MmChii W, id hi Killed and Thrown
Into the Ocmulgee.
Macon, Dec. 8 .—The body of Mrg.
Eugenia Pottle, a white woman who
. has been mining for f nr the the nast past two two weeks weexs,
found in the Ocmu.gee river at tee
mouth of Foster's branch yesterday.
The body was lodged against a willow
tree near the bank of the river, the
heaJ “ n<1 ebonlder. being above tb. :
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sensuionin the city and it was soon
spread abroad.
Physicians examined the remains so
as to determine whether or not Mrs.
Potrle was murdered whether « he
“kSI'o" » fludSnr signs of wounds,
^“7h d .: h ^r d
struck. Five gashes were found on her
head, and just over the left temple the
skull was crushed in, presumably with
some blunt instrument, in the opinion
oio c I p„ i ui': e wr;°:i;to , wu or ar„v.r
the state, and was related to promineni
people.
SORGHUM OR CANE STALKS.
One Man's Sletlioil of Utilizing; Them
For Fertilizer.
To utilize sorghum or cane stalks a
correspondent of The Farm, Field and
Rireside would proceed as follows:
They should be buried soon after they
are crushed. Deep trenches should be
f , th zrz: „ DroDer dis % i
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sweet potatoes. 1 lace tlieiein a pioper
quantity 0 f t p e crushed caue, but uot a
sufficiency to cause heating. Then cov- j
er, preferably not very deep. While
c . lue j s fottiu" ’ large quantities of
carbonic aci(1 ga « will be generated.
ThiS * aS iS a po War fuI S0 lvcUt aP<1
ZZSuZLm . . . YaTtoo” .
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1Ius fpature of Die gas adds immense
ly to the productiveness of the soil, but |
for lack of knowledge of its proper
ties th e most of that produced on the
farm appears to be lost. It is heavier
than common air. Hence, in ■ tilling
the trenches with the stalks, spaces
in which there is no cane should be
occasionally’ left. Dams will thus be
formed at said vacant places. Al
though the gas cannot be seen, it is
necessary V to construct ! !!, dams to hold
^ as „ ** ,s ^ or vxatei - au( i especially „ will „
tLese dams needed if the ground is
rolling. ■
Before setting out the potato sprouts j
pulverize the tops of the ridges with
ft cultivator or small harrow, throw
more dlrt thereon and set out in the j
usual , way.
if uot convenient to bury the stalks
s o° n aftor they are crushed they
should be spread sufficiently thm 10 ,
prevent heating aud then placed in j
the trenches and covered at the earliest
M 1 th the stalks burned, as aforesaid,
and some suitable fertilizer added, the
yield can easily be trebled over ordi
nary yields. There are no crops upon
which fertilizers will pay better than
root crops and truck patches generally.
A fertilizer composed of the follow¬
ing ingredients may be employed:
Phosphoric acid, 7 per cent; potash. 9
per cent; nitrogen, 4 per cent.
Apply on top of ridges before the cnl
tivator or harrow is run. at the rate of
550 pounds per acre, and mix thor¬
oughly with the soil. The stalks may
also be cured as hay, cut, mixed with
other feed and fed to stock.
Irrigation In Louisiana.
“Louisiana is the,best watered state
in the Union, and from its streams the
crops in vast areas of its territory can
be made secure each year and often
doubled. In lands which cannot draw
the water supply from the streams the
water for irrigation purposes could be j
obtained from wells or reservoirs made
by erecting dikes across low places.
By these means it seems possible to ir
r pr a te every acre of cultivated land in
the state. The countries where irriga
t ion is resorted to are noted for abun
dant and regular yields, and the fact
that we have rains in Louisiana suffi¬
cient in certain seasons to give like
results should not deter our agricul¬
turists from being prepared to apply
irrigation whenever it becomes neees
sar J’ to accelerate the growth of crops
and insure the fullest yields. The ex
porinicnts eo far made in irrigation
fU fert,inters ” Mn over most 100 .ZTZZ, bushels of eorn per
acre were obtained by irrigation and i
over 40 tons of cane by the same means
as against 31 tons from rain moisture j
In a wet season.” says State Commis¬
sioner Leon Jastreruski.
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