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The Georgia Record. VOL I. BURGHERS QUIT ENGLISH SOIL They Go Now to Defend Their Own Homes. THE QUEEN ISSUES A CALL Asks All Her Old Soldiers to Re-Enlist and Form Royal Reserve Battal ion For Home Protection. A London dispatch says: The Boera are leaving all the positions held by them on British territory and are con centrating for the defense of their own —the Transvaal. Sir Bedvers Buller thinks he is able to raise the siege of Ladysmith, and this was the large news of the day Tuesday. General Clements reports that the force confronting him has been greatly diminished. Ten thousand men are estimated to have gone from the Cole burg district alone. The Boers are also retracing their steps from Zulu land. Thus they are relaxing their holds on all sides in order to assemble to oppose Lord Roberts. He is pressing steadily toward Bloemfontein. This is shown by his inconsequential tele gram from Paardeberg, fifty or sixty miles away. Doubtless he is miles be hind the column that is pursuing the Boers and the next important news -may be the occupation of Bloemfon tein. Nothing has been heard from the chase of Cronje for two days. Although the last words of the war office Tues day night were that there was no news for publication, there is a strong dis position to believe that favorable in formation has been received but is be ing withheld until the operations cul minate in something more conclusive. There is an equally strong disposition to think that Cronje has got away. Owing to lack of transport, the British are not likely to invade terri tory except where Lord Roberts is operating. General Buller will have to stop at the Drakensberg mountains. Probably part of the 40,000 men will ultimately join the legions of Lord Roberts. If, as General Buller avers, the Boers are retreating from him, then the news on every side is favorable to the British. Nevertheless troops con tinue to go up. The war office thinks that the call to veterans to rejoin the colors, to gether with the bounty, will bring 45,000 men to the home defense. The urgency with which home defense is pressed excites some wonder. With the casualties just reported, the British losses in killed, wounded and captured now aggregate 11,102. FOR HOME DEFENSE. The queen, prior to leaving Osborne house Tuesday morning, on her re turn to Windsor, inspected the Fourth battalion of the Lincolnshire militia. Her majesty announced with a grati fied smile that good news had just been received from the seat of war. Another account says the queen spec ified the good news from Ladysmith. The queen, through her private sec retary, Sir Arthur John Biggs, sent the following letter to the commander in-chief of the forces, Field Marshal Lord Wolseley: Osborne, Feb. 17.—Mr. Dear Lord Wolseley: As so large a proportion of the army is now in South Africa the queen fully realizes that necessary measures must be adopted for home defense. Her majesty is advised that it would be possible to raise for a year an efficient force from her old soldiers who have already served as officers, non-commissioned officers or privates, and confident in their devotion to the country and loyalty to the throne, the queen appeals to them to serve her once more in the place of those who, for a time, side by side with the poe ple of her colonies, are nobly resisting the invasion of her South African pos sessions. Her majesty has signified her pleasure that these battalions shall be designated the Royal Reserve bat taliionß of her army. ATLANTA, GA.. SATUI TWO LEGISLATURES NOW AT FRANKFORT Democrats and Republicans Hold Sep alous Under One Roof. THE OLD CLASH IS STILL ON Neither Side Will Recognize the Other as Legal Body. A Frankfort special says: The Democrats had a sossion of the senate at 9 o’clock Monday morning. Presi dent Pro Tern. Carter presiding, and adjourned to meet again at 10:30 o’clock. The Republicans adjourned Satur day to meet at 11 o’clock and the Democrats adopted this move to get possession of the chamber first. The senate convened at 10 o’clock, both Carter and Marshall presiding. The Republicans, recognizing Mar shall, adjourned after prayer, and led by Lieutenant Governor Marshall, the Republican senators left the hall. The Democratic senators, recogniz ing President Pro Tern. Carter, paid no attention to the Republican pro ceedings and continued in session. The Democratic senate then adopted a motion by Senator Allen, of Lexing ton, to ratify and re affirm the former action of the senate by which Goebel was declared governor. This prevailed on a viva voce vote, nobody making a demand for the yeas and noes. Senator Triplett, anti-Goebel Dem ocrat, voted with the Democrats for the purpose of making a quorum. The Democratic senators adjourned after adopting the Allen resolution. The house convened at noon. Speak er Trimble presiding. Mr. Hickman, Democrat, demanded a roll call to as certain the presence of a quorum. The Republicans did not answer to their names and only fifty-three of the sixty Democrats were present. The contest matter was not taken up. SET'-' .ESIENT NOT IN SIGHT. The impression that the contest over the governorship will not be end ed till it is fought to a finish in the courts is not lessened by the action taken by the Democratic senators in their session Monday ratifying their former action by which Senator Goebel was declared governor. The Republicans who spoke for Governor Taylor said that he would not recognize as legal the proceedings taken and which, it is anticipated, will be duplicated in the house, but has told them that he looks upon these proceedings as illegal and will not quit the fight until the whole matter is passed upon in the courts of last re sort. His position is that the former pro ceedings being void, the ratification gives them no legal vitality; that the legal presiding officer, Lieu tenant Governor Marshall, had de clared the session adjourned when the vota in question was taken, and that the vote should have been taken by yeas and nays, as in the case of a bill or joint resolution. Negotiations to settle the conflict between Lieutenant Governor Mar shall and Senator Carter over the chair in the senate went on again Mon day afternoon, but no agreement has been reached so far. There was talk among the Democratic senators Mon day night of voting on the ratification resolutions Tuesday in the senate by yeas and nays. Those resolutions Monday received the support of twenty-one senators, two more than a quorum. HIS MIND A ‘•BLANK.” Hissing Bank Cashier Returns and Tells Remarkable Story. Walter L. Warnell, cashier of the Bank of Adel, Ga., who mysteriously disappeared from that place January 11th under circumstances which led to the belief that he had wandered off in a spell of temporary mental aberra tion, arrived in Atlanta Sunday morn ing. The story he tells is altogether a re markable one. He says that from the time he stepped on board the train which carried him fiom Adel on the morning of January 11th until two weeks ago, when he woke up sick in a boarding house in Louisville, his mind was a blank, and he remembers absolutely nothing of what he did dur ing that interval of time. BOERS DESERT BRITISH LAND They Are New Bent On Defense of Transvaal. THE QUEEN MAKINS AN APPEAL Calls For Retired S IdiersToForm Royal For Home Defence. A London dispatclJsays: The Boers are leaving all the positions held by them on British territory and are con centrating for the dense of their own —the Transvaal. SI Redvers Buller thinks he is able to ikise the siege of Ladysmith, and thi was the large news of the day TuasJ »y. General Clements iports that the force confronting hint ias been greatly diminished. Ten thousand mgn are estimated to have goat; from the Cole burg district alone. The Boers are also retracing their steps from Zulu land. Thus they are relaxing their holds on all sides in order to assemble to oppose Lord Roberts. He is pressing steadily toward Bloemfontein. This is shown by his inconsequential tele gram from Paardeberg, fifty or sixty miles away. Doubtless he is miles be hind the column that ( s pursuing the Boers and the next important news may be iue occupation of Bloemfon tein. Nothing has been heard from the chase of Cronje for two days. Although the last words of the war office Tues day night were that thera was no news for publication, there is a strong dis position to believe that favorable in formation has been received but is be ing withheld until the operations cul minate in something more conclusive. There is an equally strong disposition to think that Cronje has got away. Owing to lack of transport, the British are not likely to invade terri tory except where Lord Roberts is operating. General Buller will have to stop at the Drakensberg mountains. Probably part of the 40,000 men will ultimately join the le'ions of Lord Roberts. If, as General Bui or avers, the Boers are retreating om 1 im, then the news on every side < favorable to the British. Nevertb -s troops con tinue to go up. The war office think that the call to veterans to rejoin e colors, to gether with the bount will bring 45,000 men to the home efense. The urgency with which h ne defense is pressed excites some wc der. With the casualtie.' ist reported, the British losses in k ed, wounded and captured now aggrt te 11,102. FOR HOME DE ENSE. The queen, prior to le ing Osborne house Tuesday morninj: on her re turn to Windsor, inapt . 1 the Fourth battalion of the Lincoli lire militia. Her majesty announced ith a grati fied smile that good mws had just been received from the seat of war. Another account says th queen spec ified the good news fror. Ladysmith. The queen, through he private sec retary, Sir Arthur John Biggs, sent the following letter to tin commander in-chief of the forces, I ield Marshal Lord Wolseley: Osborne, Feb. 17.—Mr. Dear Lord Wolseley: As so large a proportion of the army is now in South Africa the queen fully realizes that necessary measures must be adopt, d for home defense. Her majesty is • dvised that it would be possible to raise for a year an efficient force from her old soldiers who have already served as officers, non-commissioned officers or privates, and confident in their devotion to the country and loyalty to the throne, lhe queen appeals to them to serve her jnce more in the place of those who, Uor a time, side by side with the poe ple of her colonies, are nobly resisting the invasion of her South African pos sessions. Her majesty has signified her pleasure that these battalions shall be designated the Royal Reserve bat tallions of her army. AY, FEBRUARY 24, 1900. BRYAN IN TAMPA. Holds Informal Receptions and Entertains Citizens With In teresting Address. W. J. Bryan arrived in Tampa., Fla., Monday night, and was greeted at the depot by a largge crowd. At 10 o’clock Tuesday morning he was escorted to the courthouse, from which point he was taken for a drive through the city. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon he held an informal reception in the ro tunda of the Tampa Bay hotel, and thousands of people who had poured in by every train passed through and greeted him. At 5 o’clock Mr. Bryan held a re ception for ladies only and made them a short address. Following this six teen Cuban boys, dressed in native costume, appeared, each bearing a I large cigar wrapped in gold and silver Jin the proportion of 16 to 1. The ci ' gars were presented to Mr. Bryan amid the plaudits of the crowd. At 7:30 o’clock Mr. Bryan was es corted to the courthouse plaza. i Benches were provided to cover every I inch of the ground surrounding ths 1 stand, and the scene was lighted by ; hundreds of red, white' and blue elec tric lights. Congressman S. M. Sparkman in troduced Colonel Bryan to the im mense throng as the Moses who had arisen to lead the common people out of the wilderness and place American institutions on the foundations laid for them by the fathers of the repub i lie. I Mr. Bryan elicited hearty applause ■by anti-British remarks concerning , the South African war; said that trusts meant simply the centralization of all ; power in the end and the subjugation I of all not interested; while the Repub i lican monetary policy would result in j one central bank controlling all the . money in the coutry and all business .in consequence. The only safeguard against this was the silver policy of the Democratic party. He predicted a popular uprising resulting in Demo- , cratic victory in the next election. KIMBERLEYITES JOYFUL. Their Relief By General French Knew No Bounds. Advices from Modder River state that although the rapid march of General French’s division was marked I by a number of conflicts, the actual entry into Kimberley was unopposed. When the British , were still eight ' miles off the signaling corps intercept ed a heliograph message from the be leaguered garrison to Modder river saying: “The Boers are shelling the , town.” The advancing column replied: > “This is General French coming to 1 the relief of Kimberly.” j The garrison was incredulous and thought that the message was a Boer ruse and flashed the query: “What i regiment are you?” ; The reply satisfied the defenders of Kimberley that the anxiously awaited I succor was at hand and a few hours later General French at the head of a i column made a triumphant entry into ' the place, the people surrounding the troops and intermingling with them, cheering wildly, grasping the soldiers’ hands, waving flags, hats and hand kerchiefs and exhibiting in a hundred ways the intensity of their joy. The inhabitants had been on short rations for some time, eating horse flesh and living in burrows undei; ; heaps of mine refuse. HELD JOINT SESSION. Both Houses of Kentucky Legislature Reaffirm Goebel’s Title. The Democratic members of the two houses of the Kentucky legisla ture met in joint session at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and by a vote of 74 to 2 ratified the former proceedings by which William Goebel was declared governor and J. C. W. Beckham lieu tenant governor, and through which Beckham, since the death of Goebel, claims title to the office of governor. The Republican members of the legislature remained away from the ■joint session, having decided in caucus not to attend. Tho senate had adopted the resolu tions Monday and the house Tuesday, and the adoption of them by the joint assembly, from the Democratic stand point, puts the-finishing touches as to its action on the contests. Senator Triplett and Representative Grider voted against the resolutions. NO. 35. The Real Test for Swearing. Wrangler—You say that Job’s pa tience never was really tested? Quibbler —I do. Why, he never put the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth just as he wanted to make his argument most impressive.—Life. Barnacles on Ocean Cables. The recent Investigation for cable laying in the Pacific Ocean have reveale i the interest ing fact, that If not upon rock botton, they gradually become encrusted w2th barnacles and seaweeds, heavy enough to break them. This is like dyspepsia, which If it is not check ed. grows until it breaks down the health Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will prevent as well as cure Indigestion, dyspepsia, bilious ness, liver and kidney troubles. It makes weak stomachs strong. All druggists sell it. Ever Meet Jimaon? Jack—“Ha! ha! That’s a good story. Here comes Jirason; tell it to him.” Tom—“ No. I never tell a new funny story toJimson. 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