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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1899)
The Banner Will Give You All The hews of Conyers a-nd Rock dale County, VOL. XXIV. mm 'I§ls 0m r^A' p s Sfl if; k|fsliNG Mm 5 J Pff CT/aSH Goods » la pa pnimi & 8i£riK£TS j 7 I 1 1 i! LIUS'/ C .A OES 6 CusTAIN s J I fiQ BIG VICTORY Balds of Bslfiiaiit Results fa a Heavy Loss. •Y 5SO OVERRUNNING NATAL Britain Is Becoming Thoroughly Alarmed Over Transvaal’s Aggressi veness. Advices from London under dale of November 24, are as follows: Before anxiety as to the situation in Natai has been relieved, there comes news of a great battle at Belmont. This happened sooner than was expected. Only the official account is yet to hand, but so far as can be gathered, the fighting appears to have been almost THE PRUDENTIAL & % 3 I INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. Home Office, Newark, N. J. John F. Dryden, President. mm ASSETS JULY 1st, 1899, as $30,876,019.39. rj£ n SURPLUS JULY 1st, 1899, ea $ 5,747,423.39. mm h WmM: tm sfe, —-------- FOR PARTICULARS AS TO GENERAL AGENCY CONTRACTS APPLY TO R. L. WHITE, Special Agent, JAMES O. WYNN, Baaager Southern Department, Conyers, Georgia. Prudential Building, Atlanta, Ga. The Rockdale Banner. 1 I 1 s 4 -. • ose Sleep Over the past money lost on purchases* but brace square to the front and hold to your money until you see what our new firm, I s L!f D iyi J *v VP • • • • The One Trice Cash Bargain House Is doing daily for those who ca!! and buy oi them““"SAVING BACH ONE SOHE MONEY, and selling NEW GOODS, and marking in plain figures prices that delight those who purchase. They extend a cordial invitation to one and ail. Come and see for yourselves. Then tell your friends the best goods and lowest prices are found at «scqg>- Gr Jh. ILE ~ 5 T ’S a repition of the battle of Elangs laagte. A dispatch of the previous day estimated that the Boers in that vicinity numbered 2,000 and that they had five guns, and judging from the absenco of any statement to the con¬ trary in the official report, it is be¬ lieved that the British were slightly superior in numbers to the enemy. The Boers had chosen a position with their customary skill and were strongly entrenched. The, British had to carry three ridges in succession, apparently the guards bore the brunt in carrying the last ridge by a bayo¬ net charge, after its defenders had been shaken with shrapnel. Nothing is said as to whether the positions so gained were held. Complete British Victory. The secretary of war lias received the following diepateh through Gen mil Forrefter-Waiker from General Methuen, dated Belmont, November 23 d: sit’ion.° Three ridge, mr. cerrifd in “S" J°hfei.n«i an'd^i,.,. Infantry helmed fro,. eplendidjy »P P or. ‘^“ aVftl ’ n&1 i ,e ar 1 Lr R “The f ^ ,, 0 " r T -I enemy o“ ffi h“hX he SCI? ou INCOME F011 1898, m $ 17 , 481 , 87 . 5.00 NEW BUSINESS 1898 ? $ 164 , 694 , 784.00 TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICY-HOLDERS TO DATE, $ 39 , 333 , 060 . 09 . CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 1899. tory was complete. Have takon forty prisoners. Am buryiug a good num¬ ber of tlie Boers, but the greater part of the enemy’s killed and wounded were removed by their oomrades. Have captured a largo number of horses aud cows and destroyed a large quantity of amunition.” The report concludes with a long list of casualties. Situation Stilt Obscure. The situation in Natal remains ob¬ scure. Fighting is reported ut both Estcourt and Ladysmith. It was at first reported that heavy firing had been heard in tho direction of Willow Grange, leading to a belief that Gen¬ eral Hildyard had made a sortie, Later dispatches announce that Gen eral White sortied from Ladysmith and inflicted a demoralizing defeat upon the Boers. It would be premature to give full credence to either report. What is quite certain is that Ladysmith, Est *«« “ K ' 1 "“l” l ° ‘‘.t! 4 »“« »“• <° P” 11 ™ l™' 1 *’ i * t,r ’ »««££*£ is the ““ fact that I'TtT.hoi. all the ad campaign tho vancing fn generals report meeting Boer, force. In review of the br»- liant success of General Joubort in partii Uy paralysing the relieving col uraus, the question is being asked, what would have happened had he at the outset of the war, instead of sit¬ ting down before Ladysmith, pushed to Pietermaritzburg? the General Galacre’s report that Dutch are rising increases public anx ioty, as ittends tocoufirm rumors that have long been current. A Bpecialdia pateh from Durban announces that more big naval guns were landed Wednesday and hurried to the front. Prince Christian Victor left Mooi River camp before it was invested, tearing dispatches to Pietermaritz¬ burg, LIEUTENANT BRUMBY ILL. In Hospital at Wuslilngton Suffering with Tropical Fever. Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumby, Admiral Dewey’s flag lieutenant at tho battle of Manila, is ill of the fever at ‘ lllw " d “” *“ hl * lo “« It ... elated at the ho.j.it.lI tot ho 331* have to run its course and Lieutenant Brumby ,„J„, will be confined to his room f„, week.- MAY BAR OUT UTAH. Robert* Csahb ProceotUiiRA Will Probably Bu A (mod ut tint State. It is reported in Washington that the procedure in the Roberts case will he against the state of Utah instead of against Roberts personally,and that the question to he decided will bo whether Utah has by the violation of her compact with the United States not to permit polygamy forfeited her right to representation through in congress. which The enabling act Utah was admitted as a state made a condition precedent that polygamy should forever be prohibited in the state. Tho intention is to have the judiciary committee make an investi¬ gation of the mutter. MILLER SKIES OUT. rolloe Fall to Locate lUe Franklin tiyndl cuto President. A Now York dispatch of Monday says: William F. Miller and his sec relnry and chief boomer, Cecil Leslie, of tho Brooklyu syndicate, the 10 per cent a week concern of Brooklyn,have not been arrested. Tho entensivo op¬ erations of tlia Franklin Syndicate mid exhauutlesH credulity of the American people are shown by the number of dividend drafts which are held by the different city banks. TIE PRUDENTIAL Offers all That is Good IN LIFE INSURANCE And Under the Best Conditions. Official Organ of Rockdale (onn ty. Has Largest Circulation in The County. “ENEMY OF LABOR.” K. of I,. A«»»inlily Vuwt B»»i>iutUn» Mooring I* re* Limit McKinley* Tho general assembly of the Knights of Labor, representing a membership of 200,000, in session at Boston, adopt¬ ed unanimously resolutions character¬ izing President McKinley as tho “bit¬ ter enemy of labor" and mging labor mon to vote against him and his asso¬ ciates. A protost from District Assembly 220, of Brooklyn, against the alleged unjust treatment of tho governor gen¬ eral of Cuba (Brooke) of lubor organi¬ zations in their attempt to introduce un eight-hour law, and ngninst the same federal treatment of affairs in Wurdner, Idaho, brought on the adop¬ tion of the McKinley resolution. MAJORITY OF ONE VOTE. UuUvlIln Courier-Journal Flitcei That Fltfuru to (jonbeFt Credit. One vote is tho plurality credited to Goebel in the whole stale by the Louisville Courier-Journal in its table of eleotion returns corrected up to »u early hour Wednesday morning. This table includes a gain of 133 votes in Harrison county, where the county commissioners threw out two Taylor preoincts. Tho Commercial's figures show no change, Taylor being given a plurality of 3,134. NO. 47. p^ site pfULfls Ru8S ™ pi is® Ml i df fflTTmi *W feffif 0 yf. D E nv/EAR. M yss gEW ' mm ANTI-ROBERTS RESOLUTION' IVu Adopted I5y tlie Presbyterian Synod of Alabama. Before the Presbyterian synod of Alabama adjourned finally at Birming¬ ham the past week the following reso¬ lution was adopted: synod emphat¬ “Resolved, That the ically condemns polygamy in all places, high and low, ami expresses sympathy with all proper and lawful efforts to prevent the sitting in our national congress of any ono who is himsell a polygamist in politics and a defender of that system, and that our state clerk place a copy of this action in the hands of our representatives from Alabama.” DECIDED FOR TAYLOR. Court of Appeal* Baftnail to Dissolve In¬ junction ns Aikod For. A Frankfort, Ky., dispatch sav»: Tho court of appeals has clinched Tay¬ lor’s right to 1,197 Nelson county votes. The court, all the judges con¬ curring, refused to dissolve tho in¬ junction as asked by Goebel’s attor¬ neys. The votes in controversy wer« certified for W. 1’. instead of W. B. Taylor.' of Nelson county, Judge .Tones, or¬ dered these votes counted for Vf. B. Taylor, and this order is sfliriped.
