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Society in West End.
Dr. W. B.' Freeman lias moved to
Gordon street, in the house recently
occupied by Mr. Stovall.
Master Otto Stoeber is ill with
typhoid fever at the home of Major
Stoeber, on Queen street. We wish
for him ft speedy recovery.
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Nelms enter
tained delightfully at their elegant,
home on Gordon street last Tuesday
afternoon, complimentary to the mem
bers and friends of the Park Street
Methodist church.
A large and appreciative audience
assembled at the West End Christian
church oh last night, the occasion be
ing an evening of music and elocu
tion by Mr. T. Elmore Lucey, given
for the benefit of the building fund
for the new church. The “Rosebud
Mandolin and Guitar Club” furnished
music for the occasion.
Mr. Will H. Haralson received a
telegram on Wednesday from a brother
in Union county, that his father was
dying. He left here to go to his
father’s home. It is not. known here
yet as to the death, but we suppose the
old gentleman is dead. He was in
his 81st year of age. He has been a
good citizen, and a prominent man.
Some years ago he was here in the
Georgia legislature as representative
of Union county. He was father of
Mr. F. L. Haralson, attorney in this
city. Our sincere sympathy goes out
to the family of Colonel Haralson.
Marriages in City and
State Since Last Issue,
On Thursday evening, at the resi
dence of Mr. W. T. Gentry, Miss Erie
Booze to Mr. E. E. Bowsel.
The marriage of Miss Ethel King to
Mr. Theodore Parker Miller, is an
nounced for November 15th.
Miss Mamie Myers and Mr. Robert
Flowers were married on last Monday,
October 16th, by Rev. A. C. Ward, at
his residence, 175 Haynes street.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ramspeck an
nounce the marriage of theif daugh
ter, Helen, to Mr. Eugene Peeples
Thomas, on Tuesday evening, October
31st.
Miss Evelyn Kell, daughter of Ad
jutant General John Mclntosh Kell,
at Sunny Side, Ga., was married to
Mr. Avergne d’ Antignae, of Atlanta,
Ga., on October 15th.
A QUAKANI]NE_CONTEST.
Louisiana and Texas Will Hav<
Differences Settled By
Supreme Court.
A special from New Orleans states
that E. H. Farrar, special representa
tive of the state of Louisana, left that
city Sunday for Washington,where he
will file a petition and present a strong
brief before the United States supreme
court asking for an injunction, in the
name of the state of Louisiana, against
the state of Texas, to restrain the lat
ter from interfering with the commerce
at Louisiana by her quarantine restric
tions.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, and Dr.
Blunt, health officer of that state,have
already been notified of the proposed
action of Louisiana by Attorney Gen
eral Cunningham, and of the intention
of Lousiana to bring the question of
embargo by means of the quarantine
before the federal supreme court.
The suit was brought at the demand
of the me chants of New Orleans, who
claim that Texas has kept in operation
an embargo against Louisiana since
May that is unreasonable and unjust,
and has made it tighter from day to
day.
Dr. Blunt and Attorney General
Smith, of Texas, will be in Washing
ton to fight the case, as it is desired
by all parties to have an early ruling
from the supreme court as to the
questions of quarantines, and whether
the United States has any jurisdiction
when one state injures another or
shuts out its commerce altogether un
der the name of quarantine, regardless
of the fact whether there is any infec
tious disease prevailing or not.
There have been several of these
quarantine wars between the southern
states during the last three years, no
tably between Alabama and Mississip
pi, and between Louisiana and Texas,
but they have been patched up here
tofore instead of being carried into
the federal courts.
REBELS DRIVEN OUT.
But Three Americans Were Killed and
Two Wounded.
A Manila special says: Major Cheat
ham, with a scouting party, while pro
ceeding along the west shore of the
lake Thursday, encountered a force of
rebels strongly entrenched at Muutin
lupa. Major Cheatham reports that he
drove the rebels from their position
and that in the engagement three
Americans were killed and two were
wounded.
Rumors are in circulation in Manila
that Major Cheatham discovered three
American prisoners, who had been
bound, gagged and shot by the insur
gents These rumors, however, are
not confirmed. i
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a flold nf WBV,n « coro f
fj From n flower whose golden color (I /.
’tsaW outshines the glow of morn, W,ChWiSLsssra
Where the bumblebee® are work-
Ing, their rough backs all I "
LP bright with gold, J \
And we learn the wondrous secret /
“p i their busy hum has told. i /e
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With the good old-fashioned pic. /?J{
All hail, all hail King Pumpkin,
Live ye long and never die.
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The Boers are born fighters, a na
tion of sharpshooters, they never waste
a bullet; each Boer selects his man
and kills him and keeps on doing the
same thing all day and every day un
til the war is over. It is a common
boast with them which they have made
good in more than one clash with the
British, that one Boer is equal to ten
Englishmen. They do not come out
and fight in the open, but swarm all
over a mountain side, hiding behind
trees and rocks, and woe to the thin
red line or hollow square that comes
within range of their unerring Mar
tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer
victories over the British soldiers are
largely accountable for the British
feeling against them, and in the bitter
warfare against the nation the success
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FIELD -OBNET’S MESSENGER HANDING
OVER COMMANDOS TO BOER FARMERS
TO BE BEADY FOB WAR.
of the Boers has been extraordinary.
Fewer than 450 Boers resisted 12,-
000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on
December 16, 1838, and 3000 natives
were left dead cn the field, and this
with old flint locks. President Kru
ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch
men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose
litkase, then the most renowned na
tive captain in South Africa. The
bravery of the men is shown by the
attack that 135 of them made on 10,000
Zulus on the Marico River, driving
them out of the Transvaal.
These are simply better-known in
stances of the fighting abilities of the
Boers. Every man has handled a gun
from infancy. In the old days, when
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TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY.
a Boer was not fighting the fierce na
tives he was defending himself from
savage beasts. Every Boer has been
trained in warfare. They discovered
the method of laagering their wagons,
©lacing them in a hollow square, which
the British generalfl have adopted as
the most successful way of fighting
the natives. The Boers have shown
themselves masters of strategy, the
result of constant warfare with a cruel
and treacherous foe.
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INSPECTION OF A “COMMANDO” OF BOERS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN
The Government of the South Afri
can Republic is empowered to call
at any time the burghers for armed
service. The Field Cornet of each
district goes round and serves a no
tice on the conscripts, who, mounted
and fortified against hunger for ten
days by a supply of buck or beef,
cured in the sun, and called “bil
tong,” concentrate in the specified
“dorp” or village, where they invaria
bly meet in the market place—the
church, iron gated, iron steepled, in
the background. Arms are distributed
to those who are without them; and
as for forage, the velt is trusted to
supply it at need. The commandant,
who is the Dutch equivalent of the
English colonel, drills his forces as
best he may; and a certain amount
of military disciplino is eastly ac
quired, despite the rather slouchy ap
pearance, due in part to the absence
of uniforms, except in the case of the
commandants, the other officers, and
the “State Artillery.”
The Boer much resembles our Amer
ican Apache in his ability to live on
the shadow of things when in the
field. A writer of South Africa, in a
contribution to a London paper, calls
attention to the ability of the Boer to
live on rations which an ordinary
trooper would not endure and his ca
pacity to travel great distances with
horse in incredibly short time.
The Boer knows every road and
trail of the Transvaal; as a hunter he
knows the devious ways of the wastes
beyond. He is an agriculturist and a
hunter. By the law of self-preserva
tion he has" learned the wily ways of
savage whom he displaced in the
Transvaal. The secret recesses of the
mountains are nt his command. As a
horseman he much resembles our
American cowboy. He can ride on top
of the saddle, or over his horse’s
neck, or Cossask fashion, with one
foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad
dle and his head and shoulders on the
ground. His horse is part of his fam
ily life. The beasts are very hardy,
sure-footed and affectionate. Then,
too, the Boer is inured to the hard
ships of the mountains, to long horse
back journeys, scant allowances of
food, treks on which the water supply
is scarce.
In the campaign of 1881 against the
English the Boer took good care that
his forces never faced the enemy in
the open field. He never offered open
engagement. He chose his eyrie in
the mountain gorges, and from that
vantage point he picked off the foe at
his will. Even when he assaulted Ma
juba Hill he’ came up rock by rock,
squirming like a snake, twisting in
and out and not •firing until he had a
i mark to hit.
Au English correspondent who went
I through the 1881 campaign wrote at
that time of the fighting qualities ot
I the Boers:
“We never are able tc see tho
I enemy. Except before the fight at
Majuba Hill, 1 never saw but a hand
ful of them at any time. And when
they thought we noticed them they
and their horses disappeared as if
swallowed up by the earth. I think
we all feel that they can shoot. Our
losses at Hatley and Laing’s Nek
showed that. We were very much in
the open, but not a blessed Boer was
to be seen. But every once in a while
there was the crack of a rifle, and
then one of our poor boys would go
over, the line would close up and we
would begin chasing again for the
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BOERS RECEIVING AMMUNITION.
enemy we could never find. I was
taken prisoner just after General
Colley was killed, and I can say that
I could not have been treated better
by any people. They were kind to
our wounded, did not molest the dead
nor insult us of the living. I think
they are a very brave people, and, as
for fighting, they seem to know just
as much about it as we do.”
The Boer loves his country with a
passionate patriotism. He is not a
miner, or an engineer, or a railroad
constructor. He is pre-eminenly an
agriculturist. In Cape Colony nearly
the whole of the wheat growing
is Jone by the Dutch farmers of
the Western province. In the in
terior the bulk of the grain used is
supplied by the Dutch farmer of the
Transvaal. The whole of the fruit
crop is produced by Boers. Even far
up in Bechauanaland you will find
Boer wagons from, the Republic
loaded up with fruit, oat forage an’d
other products.
Tho Boers, in short, are a pastoral
folk, stolidly content to be that and
nothing else. They shun towns, shop
keeping and gold mining. They ask
only to live in a moderate degree of
comfort, in a rude plenty; to provide
for their children as they grow up and
to be let alone.
Altered a Trifle.
One small girl says to another:
“They are not saying rubberneck any
more.”
“Why not?” ask-s the other with
some joy.
“Because they are saying penin
sula,” says the one.
“And why peninsula?” says the
other, innocently.
“Because it stretches out to sea,”
says the one.—“ Worcester (Mass.)
Gazette.
Real Estate For Sale
The tracts, lots, and parcels of lands
as stated below are for sale, cheap for
cash, or will exchange for available
■lerchandise nt reasonable prices.
The land lots indicated will be sold
with special warranty of title, with
plat and grant, with tho original
“beeswax” seal:
No. Dist. Sec. Acres. County.
942 2 3 40 Paulding.
124 7 2 40 Fannin.
90 1 81 Rabun.
118 26 2 40 Gilmer.
57 11 1 40 Union.
137 19 3 40 Paulding.
308 10 1 160 Union.
650 16 2 40 Cobb.
718 16 2 40 Cobb.
719 16 2 40 Cobb.
885 16 2 40 Cobb.
887 16 2 40 Cobb.
915 16 2 40 Cobb.
958 16 2 40 Cobb.
843 16 2 40 Cobb.
646 17 2 40 Cobb.
16 17 2 40 Cobb.
17 17 2 40 Cobb.
86 17 2 40 Cobb.
1090 17 2 40 Cobb.
267 20 2 40 Cobb.
1006 16 2 40 • Cobb.
514 15 2 40 Cobb.
567 15 2 40 Cherokee.
584 15 2 40 Cherokee.
585 15 2 40 Cherokee.
638 15 2 40 Cherokee.
639 15 2 40 Cherokee.
640 15 2 40 Cherokee.
641 15 2 40 Cherokee.
612 15 2 40 Cherokee.
255 13 2 160 Cherokee.
102 21 2 40 Cherokeo.
101 1202 i Troup.
731 19 3 40 Paulding.
72 3 3 40 Paulding.
501 3 3 40 Paulding.
880 2 3 40 Paulding.
1175 18 3 40 Paulding.
13 13 1 160 Pickens.
246 6 1 160 Chattooga.
708 18 2 40 Polk.
981 21 3 40 Polk.
7 26 3 160 Murray.
1012 12 1 40 Lumpkin.
314 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
697 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
573 5 1 40 Lumpkin.
830 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
148 8 2 160 Fannin.
629 3 4 40 Floyd.
643 18 2 40 Douglass.
8 3 490 Wayne.
95 3 490 Wayne.
96 3 490 Wayne.
151 3 490 Wayne.
200 3 490 Wayne.
J 173 3 245 Wayne.
160 2 490 Wayne,
i 75 2 245 Charlton.
ix 117516 25J Upson.
ixjllll2 25} Taylor.
} 368 28 125 Early.
} 113 16 1 80 Union.
} 175 16 1 80 Union.
815 14 1 40 Forsyth.
398 5 1 40 Dawson.
157 11 202} Henry.
104 19 2 40 Cobb.
901 21 2 74 Cherokee.
Three lots, 50x150 feet each, alto
gether being Nos. 14, 15 and 16, on
Mt. Zion avenue, in the village of Mt.
Zion, Carroll county, Ga.
One lot, No, 114, in block 17, in
Montrose Park, Montrose county Col
orado.
Six acres on Satterfield Ford road,
from Greenville, in Greenville
county, S. C.
Three lots at Montreal, on G. C &
N. railroad, DeKalb county, Ga.
1,100 acres; 700 hammock, 400 up
land, in Screven county, Ga. This is
a fine place, divided by the Georgia
Central railroad, 50 miles from Savan
nah. Railroad station on the place; good
location for country store. Splendid
situation for factory for staves and
cooperage works. Enough good tim
ber on the hammock land to pay for
the place three or four times over.
Investors are invited to examine this
place.
1.149 acres on west bank of Savan
nah river, in Effingham county, Ga.,
grant of 1784, and descent of title to
present owner.
1.150 acres on Satilla river, in Cam
dem county, Ga., grant from state,
and deeds on record for 100 years
back. Good title, by descent to pres
ent owner.
1,150 acres on St. Mary's river, in
Camden county, Ga. Grant and deeds
on record 100 years back. Good title,
by descent to present owner.
430 acres on west bank of Savannah
river, in Screven county, Ga. Deeds
on record since 1827. Good title, by
descent to present owner.
I desire to sell these lands as soon
as possible, and they must go at low
prices, very low for cash, or on easy
terms and long time with 5 per cent
interest, as purchasers may desire and
prefer. Persons desirous of investing
ifioney for future profits by enhance
ments should examine these offers at
once. I have other lands, which I
will sell on good terms and low prices.
In writing for information about any
of these lands, refer to them by tha
number, district, section and county,
and enclose two stamps, 4 cents, for
reply. Robert L. Rodgers,
ts Attornev at Law. Atlanta. G»-