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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
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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,.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.