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'~"~' .~J t~ I ~ ) VOL. XV. MANNING. S. C.. WEL)NESDAY. I)ECEMIER 2U~ 1899. NO. 34. ;111 1 I IEFP !m - AlTEi. Lrd Methuen Checked in His Ac'vance and Thrown Back. MANY MORE MEN NEEDED. The Boers Appear in "Astcnish ing Numbers." Gen. Bul ler's Advance on Ladysmith. A. dispateh from L don sa ed important Dattle seems to r:r a w C reverse for the Brit i? b, a 1- b1 t ap sorrowfully admit that Lrd Meibunii s check at Magerefotin is tbe mostseri ous event the war h a, x t irodu e The Morning 'ost say ''We h ve had our day of hu-rnon at-st; e for us. Let us ac:epc it 1%u a soberly and be the better and stronwr for the lesson it has taught us This last reverse will mae us a frezIi butzt of Lurope. There L-ever was a more apt occasion to prove to Europe what we are worth. The position Lord M1thuen assauht-i is thus described by a ctrrespon'ice:: Magersfontein rangte terminates on the -east with an abrupt saddie rock, somae 150 feet high. Boer entrenchnients run around the whole front. The p. %tion is some two miles long, due east and west. The we:teru ends otf the trenches Iollow the contour of the kopjes and afford a retreat. It is eti mated here that Lord Methuen's forces amounted to 11,000 men and perhaps more. No reliable estimate of his iuases has yet been received. The, are Lelieved to have been at least 450. All the-papers comment upon the ex treme gravity of the situauion and upon the momentous decision L4 d >Methuen has Dow to wake-whether to re'main at Modder river or to retire on range river. The Tiues sa) s: 'At ast 30,000 additional men must be cailed up and the militia and volunteer, turned to account. Efforts must be ade to increase the 1ceal Colonial forces, and further oth rs of troops froin Canada and other colonies muit be ought and accepted." The Standard, which comments upon he "'seemingly astoniI1iug numbers uf Boers," is driven to the conjrcturc iaat a substantial portion uf the Boer ommandoes has be-en icruited frouni the Cape Dutch. Al eyes bre tow :urning hopefully to Gen. Biller, wNto taking into account the troops with en. White at Ladiswith, has alto gether 3U,000 mcn. The Staudard sa: s: "At this monment there must be few men in her majesty's dominions have great weight of care upon thet as GCn. Buller carries on his shoulders.' A :spatch irom Boer sources says that Kimberley remained quiet during the battle at Magerbfontein. The special correspondent of the Daily Mail at Modder river, dcscribing the fighting, says: "The Boer tienches exteuded far beyond the ko-j- into the open plain. Those on the I uin were hidden by screens of leaxes. Those near the ope were guardu .iy' a double line of arbed w Evx ei tly they feared ur ste:ming and Leta et attack. I "We took the kqje and trenches various gp.ns, ine'udiag a naval guo and a Howitzer battr . bot h using Iy d ie. I believe they au-tered severe damage. The Boer jpri'-vers re port tha' one lyddite shell .Il am~a fi~ orty men, only five of whorm t caped unhunrt. Other shells burst in the e iem.Js !agr causing its complete destructin. "The Boers are in still large-i force than we found them at Modder river, outnumbers us by almost 3 to 1. Thbe Transvaalers are apparently domunirg in their military councils, although in a minority." THE OFFICIA L R EPORT. The London wvar ofiec has recei ed the following dispatch from G-en. 31e thuen, dated Tuesday, Djec. 12: "Our artillery shelled a very strong poition held by the enemy in a:org high kopje from 4 until dusk Sunday. It rained hard last nighlt. Thbe Higlh land brigade attacked at daybreak Monday the south ernd of the kopje. The attack was properly tim-rd but failed. The Guards were ordered to protect the Highland's right and rear. The cavalry and mounted infantry, with a Howitzer artille ry battery, at tacked the enemy on the left and the Guards on the right, sup ported by field artillery and Howitzer artillery. They shelled the position from day break, and at 1:15 1 sent the Gordons to support the Highland brigade. The troops held their own in front of the enemy's entrenchmeents until dusk, the position extending, including the kopie for a distance of 5ix miles toward the Moddezr iver. Today I am holding my position and entrenching myself. I had to face at least 12,00J0 men. Our lsS was great." Gen. Forestier-Walker, telegraphing from Cape Town at 3:30 p. m. today, sends the following di-pitch from Lord 3ethuen, dated M1odder river, Tuesday Dc. 12, 7:30 p. m. As the Boers oc cupied their trenches strongly this morning, I retired in perfect order here, where I am in security. I have gathered from some of the prisoners and from our men with the ambulances who talked with the Boer's, that the enmy's losses were teriie, some corps being completely wiped out. The Boers have been most kind to my wounded." sETERAL oFFICERs KILLEDL. The British easualties included the Marquess of Winehester, major of the Seond battalion Coldstreama Guards, who was killed, and Col. Downham of the First battalion Gordon Highilanders who was mortally wounded. W hen th'e Iiglanders met the murderous point blank fire of the Boers about 200 were mown down. The Black Watch regi ment on ref orming was able to muster only 160 men. The Boers lost heavily in the trenches and also in the wire en tanglements when they came into the open in an attetmp: to make a flank at tack on the Baiuih. The terriile British artillery fire prc oked to response cept from the Beer rifles uuni nearly 4 o'clock in the afternoon when the G~ordon Highland' ers formed to .enew the attack on the entrenched k opje'. They advanced with the utmost gallantry to attack the um.rU 6is to the place where lay eHIddaud b r i. Te enemy:, d V- , a l;ta 3vy !hrai'ucl fire a;s Bri i advanci a'.I it wTa; fuI.d h al ii-e to tilke the* IB r rth The B1ritih - within 201 ards*. bjut Could not get nearer. It was here that Col. OW!j) ham fell. The Bers had had free recourse to barbed wire entanzle"ens which offered gre at obstacles even after the inaj rity we re cut by arttiery tire. A.k CO>.\MLETE stRISE. Pecrres'o d1nt of The Szaudard at Mouder river, lescribinm the tight at Mazerzforteu. say'e : "Six tUiles had to be covered btforo the Hlighlander, brizade could reacwh the Boer strong hold It is Doi yet clear trough what uichane the force, which was led 'b,3 guidUe. 'an e upi the BI jer ire.ce M unexp1e4-eey an d so udien I. B ld qu .Ti. 'he B ci s were awa-e (.t the apr'ach ,f ti:e Britis-h arid had prelared to reet ive thea. AccondiIg to Orlte version t. lihidarder-z. through neivousness or cluaisines.s, diehargCd their ritl: s pretiaturely; but it is eqial ly probable that the advaree Bler scOuts couveved the intel1gi nee. 'Our uiri were totally rinprepared They nad not even fixed hayoneis. The di; aster was all (Ie uiore esa-perating be eausi- 7f the eonci ,u!tuess that. had the )rigade been extcnded azd with xed baymets, the trenehes milit have be~en successf,:lly rushed twith far less *acritiee of life.1 .-EVEN IUNDREL) (s'.ALTiEs. A retied list of the total ea-ualties S, it ; b troops of all arms at 31-4 ; :ot places the number at S32. T -e were fifteen officers killed ;i 1 .?) wounded and in addition tive . sing and one is known to have hen iade p.isou-r. The war ufice has r,-eeived a umes-4gc stating that there werc Qi0 ea-ualhies awoug the non-comiined oth. ers and men 4f the lighlat.d brizado at Magersfon tel n. The br-d- io-t 1o oflieers ki'cil. :S wounded aud 4 issiig. An Atlanta Row. Quite a lively sensation las been s'arted up auong the lawyers of At iauta. The graad Jury -<eently had a good deai to -;ay aout laiwyers at the Atlanta bar who carry on a brokerage business in litigation and are guilty of barratry and other unprofes-ional prac tices. At a meeting of the Atlanta Bar Associati.on resolutions were ad opted and a committee appointed to draft a public address. la this the law vers have strong!y de!nounoed the coitrse pursued by the grand jury, de CIariug that it was the duty of the grand jury to investigate the charges it made and to indict any members of the bar whom it believed to be guilty and not make indetfiite charges which were a r flection upon the bar generally, wit hout specifyiug the guilty ones. M] r. T. 1I Austin, a mnember of a busi ness tirm in AtL.nta, took a hand in the dispute and published a very scathing card in which he cited the names of certain lawyers whom he accused of beiug guilty of improper and unp-ofe, sional conduct in seeking to place his firm in the hands of a receiver. Two or three street fights followd the pub lication of this card, and now Mr. Aus tin has begun proceedings against At tnesS. C. Tapp and C. E Langley, wiha view of expelling them from the Atlanta bar. He is proceeding against them before the grand jur- on the charge of violating the law - inst bar ratry, before the bar association, on the charge of unprofessional conduet, and before Judge Lumipkin with regular disbarment proceedings under the law. The matter has created q'ite a stir and the Atlanta papers are full of comumuni eations first on one side and then on the other of the controversy.-Augusta Ci oniele. Don't Want to Know. The United Stated Senate Thursday by a decisive vote and practically with out discussion laid on the table the Pettigrew resolution of inquiry as to whether or not United States forces had recognized the Filipino insurgents' 'ag and had turned over Spanish sol diers to the insurgents. The vote on the resolu.n resulted 41 ayes to 20) nays as fol.ows: Yeas-A.d ia.- Abi-on, Beveridge, CX.:er, Chandkr, I ark of Wyoming, >'eboe, Dhpew, Eikirs, Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster, Frye, Gallinger, Gear. Hlanna, Hawley, Kean, Linisay, Li-, Me~ride, Mc(omas McCumber, McEnery. Mc aurin, McMillan, Nelson Perkins, Platt of Conneclicut, Platt of New York, Pritchard, R.>ss, Scott, Sewall, Shoup, Spocner. Ste-wart Tlhurston, Wellingzton, WXetairt . WNol coi'-41. Nays-Baconl Bite, BWrry, Butler, Claa. C- ekrell, Ha.rris, Heitfield, Hoar. Jones of Arkansas, Kenney, Money, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlins, Sullivan, Taliaferro, Tillmaun, Turley, Vest-20. Deserved Success. The Marray Drug Company, of Co lunmbia, furnishes one of the proofs of the proposition that well di reeted efforts, sound business methods and perfectly fair dealing will lead to success. Starting some years ago, in an unrried field, under circumstances not the most enemuraging, this comn patiy hass extended its business all over South Carolina, and finds its customers theadily iocreasing in number and in teizoftheir orders. It is one of thte established institutions of Colum bia, arid by its example has contributed no little to tile spirit of enterprise which now pervades our capital city. The company is under the management of its president. Dr. WN. J1. Murray, who was its founder, and to his energy and constancy the success of its business is very largely due. More Prisoners Released. A dispatch from Manila says infor mlationf has been re.ceived at head q uarters tilat 500) Spaish~ pri-oneors -ayve be shrd from Vigan to Ma nila and tha 3,500 others have been assemb'li in' -vian including Gen. Pe na.P loul th'.e are Spaniards released' by Gen Me-g's troocpsi in the Beuguet ditiet wher thel.y were con "I- have used your 'Life for- the Liver and Kidncy- with cre-at benefit, and for l )yspiepsia or any deranigement of the Liver or Kidneys I recard it as be ing without an equal."' James J. Os borne, Attorney at Law, Boliston, Sc'me of the Horrors of the War in the Transvaal. BOERS GIVEN NO QUARTER. Charge of the Fifth Lancers on the Disarmed and Defence less Boers Was a Horri ble Spectacle. The tiist definite clharges of Britih na-sscre of IR trs who had thrown Jo wa their arazm and azked for mercy wa-; unid?e by a correspondent of tLe Algemein Aandelhblad. the leading newspaper of Amsterdam. written from Elandilaagte, and they were printed on D,':ember 4. lie said: "Never have I thoug;ht Ensilehu.en to be such brutes. Imagine th:t about 90 men were behind a kojje when 3U0 lancers attacked them. 'The Boers had t-> surrender to such overwhldiug numbers, and threw do.%n their weapons !n token of submission. But the captaiu of the L-ineera shouted: 'Kil the - Whereupon a tremendous massacre ensued. Sousen thaler, the only prisoner among them, was spared because he had remained flat on the ground. Private Dolan, of the Ei':h Lancers, thus describes the same incident in a letter printed in London. l,'eibcr 4: As soon as they saw the lances they threw up their r~fles and amiuntiou and er:cd 'Friend,!' but it was no g) for they tired on the Red Cru-s. and we had no mercy for them." An :iir of the Fifth Laneers wrote a lettur deribog the Elandslaagte massae.e. which was publii.hed ia the London Times of December'., in which he des,;ribes the cold-blooded kiling most cheerfully and with rare humor, thus: "After the enemy were driven out one of our squadrons pursued and got right in among them in the twilight, and most excellent big-sticking ensued for about 10 minutes, the bag being about 60. "One of our meu stuck his lance through two, killing both at one thrust. Had it not been gettting dark we would have killed many more." An account told by a dragoon cor oral to a correspondent of the London Chronicle was printed in t'.at news ajer on December S. Ile said: "The Boers fell off their hortes and rolled amnug the rocks, hiding their heeds with their arms, calling for mercy, calling to be shot-auvthing to escape a stab from those terrible lances I hrough their back and boweis. But Dot many escaped. We just gave them a good dig as they lay. Next day most f the lances were bloody" Another lance trooper thus described the affair: "We got a charge at them. They throw up their arms and fell on their nees for mercy, but we were told not o give them any, and I cin assure you hey got none. We went along stick ig our lances through them. lt was a errible thing." J. H1. Fox, an uitlandcr now at L adysmith, writes: 'It was a sight to see the L-inerrs harge. When they got within 100 ards the Boers threw up their arms and begged for mercy. They juxmped ff their horses and got on their knees and prayed for mere'y. Here is a contribution from one of the Lancers: "One Boer begged me very hard to spare him, but my reply was: 'You -- here's your merey!' 1 shot him dead, and did not take the trouble to lance him." Private L. Thompson, First battalion King's Royal Rifles, thus described ihe ight at Gilencoe when General Symons was mortally wounded: "With a wild cheer, we were among them. Bayonets went to work, and heads were smashed like pumpkins They were sp'eechless with terror. When they saw the line of cold steel coming at them they threw down their arms and fled in confusion, only to be cut into travelers' samples when they reached the bottom of our cavalry." Henry Burgess, fireman on a British armored train, wrote: "Occe the bayonet charge of the Devons and Gordons began the Dutch men fled precipitately. 31eanwhile the Lancers had been eeping up behind, and as the Boers reached the bottom the Lancers charged them at full gallop. The panie-stricken Boers threw down their rifles and attempted to escape, but it was utterly useless for with shouts of '31ajuba!' the Lancers were upon hlem and the awful work commenced. Very few Boers escaped." Drummer Hearn, of Colonel Baden Powell's Light Horse, describes the first engagement of 31afeking: "We 'cleared the remainder at the point of the bay onets. It was really fine fun. You snould have seen what a fuss -the Boers made about being pricked. I touched one and he jumpedl four yards 'They don't like cold steel. We showed them no mercy." A piivate in the King's Rifles described the Elandslaagte slaughter: "In was a great but terrible sight to see those horsemen hew their way through the Boers. Three times they rode right through, cut ticig, s!ashing, hacking. ''Some of the Boiers died in a praying attitud2. 31any flung down their arins as soon as they saw~ the flash of the lances, clasping their hands abave their heads. and btgecd for mercy. But 'they had shown no mercy to us, anu: tmns was our revecnge. Shot by His Mten. The P'ittsburg Post learns that "so:ne of his friends are incline4 to accept the horrible story that M1ajor John A. Logan f ?oungston, whose death in battle was reported from 3Manilla a few days ago, was shot by one of' his own men in revenge for some real or fancied affron't." It may be difficult to prove anything in a ease of' the kind." the P'tads but the Government owes it o tsef ndthe memory of the dead officer to make every investigation nmeihb TO BE ROLLING PlaCS The Scuthern Railway's Florida Limited Trains This Season. In inceasing the service to three trains each way daily between New York and thn principal resorts of the south. the Southern railway has in eluded the fanous "Ne v York and Flor ida Linited." which -ill be put on the line Jan. 1~> next. Upou this train the company has bt ilt up much of its on viable reputation as a caterer to the traveling publie. Tihis year. the Raleigh Post s:iys the coaches of which it is composed will be sUpeior to arytling which have yet been oper-atd ovei the Southern lires. in spite of the .ih tadard nuiOtainei in previous y ears. It will inclurle ii braiy, ob-ervation arid double drawin4 ro ar (.11 s well as dining ears, aid the late. t ideas in c m partnient e, ach -s; in fact. tlic train will eonist o! all the essentiai featurcs of a first class hotel, an'*d the imon-toriy and other disagree able featares incident to the average railway trareler is alnost entirely ob viatred. The trip be twren New Y)rk and Jack-onville by the new route is made in but a little over 24 hours. although in that titme the traveler goes fromt a winter to a sum :rier land. The other trains :ovoh are s arranied that C irs are operated daily be tjeehS New YGrk ud Florida. Like the train. they are nade up of the ti;jest grade of sleeping and parlor vara buik by the Pullman company, and .Zi ar r.nem::nt have been made fhr dinin, scerviee, which will be ap;pre %eiated1 by *pa'rI.m T-S Th r. IS tvL r. indicatiojn that the tide of travel ti is year wili be much Lreater than in the pa:st. owing to vari .is r-asotas. ntd the comn ptny will d Ib'le- reeni v its shtre of the pat ronavo in return fr the euterprising and librrl po'iey which ishas adopted. -- 1hc S ates. The Cigarette Must Go. The Southern railway system has de clared war against the eigarette. A Pipe or eigir can be tolerated by tte mna~aeu-etrt of the company, but a e!,arotc provokes them to wrath-aud lik.-wise bars the smok-r thereof from further work among their great network of lines twrouehout the soith. An or der has been issued in South Carolina to this effect, applying to-the system throughout that state, and Assistant General Passenger Agent S. II. i:ard Ai-'k says it iuay soon be made appli ca!!t to all the ddlferent branches of the road. The order issued from the South Carolina department i., an iron clad rule, and applies to all depart ments of the line throughout that state. The order in substance says that all employes who smoke eigarettes nust either give up the weed or lose their poitions, and further, that no man will be cmploved in the future who is a cigarette smoker. Mr. lHardwick said that the order was having a .good effect among their employes aid that he had received many lctte rs from Charleston and other cities throughout the Ptl nmettostate, congratulating the company on the s and it has taken. The letters says that the parents of young men employed throughout the system and the young men themselves are loud in their praise of the benefit they expet to ultimately derive from the anti ciga rette order. "Many young men," said Mr. Hard viek, ''have been ruined by the detestable cigarette. Two young men, I knew well, one in Mlontgomery and one in Ashville dietd from the ef feet of their exressive smoking."' A Horrible Death. The Columbia correspondent of The New an-i Courier says early Wednes day morning Mr. C. W. Taylor, of Manchester, N. II., was killed by an accident. Mr. Taylor went to Colum bia recently to accept a positiorn as mechanical work man at the Penitentiary Hosiery Mills, operated by Mr. J. M. Graham. Hie liked his work and was acceptable to the owner of the mill, and he went to hie New England home to bring his wife and child here to live in Columbia. lie returned Tuesday with his family and Wednesday morning went to work. In some way, while working with a belt on the electric pul ley, his overalls caught in the belting and he could not extrieate himself. Finally, after being pulled over and battered several times, the clothing was torn and he fell about ten feet to the ground. Both legs and one arm were broken. Mr. Taylor survived for about forty minutes and died from the effects of his wounds. Strange to say, Mr. Taylor was talking Tuesday night with his wife about how happy he was in his flew Southern home. and how he liked to live in the South, being of' delicate constitution. and he told his wife that when lie died be wanted1 to be buricd here. __________ Murdered in Honduras. A dispatch fromi New Orleans says it is reported there from an apparently reliable soure'n, that two Americans of prominence were shot and killed last Monday in San Pedro, Spanish lion duras, the same inland city where Frank P.:ars was murdercd. As the story reached this city, Capt. .Jack Imiboden and William Gold were in their room at San Pedro, when a na tive of prominence walked up to the door and, without the least provoca tion, opened fire. Capt. tmad~en was shot once and Gold was shot three timus. Both men died within a short time after the shooting. The shooting occurred last Monday and news of it was brought to this city by tha steamer Breakwater. which tonehod at Bluetields on her way home. Capt. Imboden wvas the son of the late Gen. iloboden. of Virginia, vJho was a noted Confederate leader, and who was at one time the aericaitural commissioner of his State. Ie has been aresident of Spanish ioen duras for a runber of years, being large ly interested in miinirng there. Very little i.- knowvn of Gold. Smalipox in Eight Counties. T'he State board of health met in Columbia Tiursday. There was noth ing 5teial dine except to provide for the further eli:nination of sma!!pox in the State. which has appeared in aix teen ditierent places. Thle governor was in Charleston and the board awaited hsis return. The board wits nmoney with which to buy virus and employ physicians who have authenity to vacei nate. Somt ':ctble is had in enforc ing vaccination. The board has handled 1,300O cases this year. There is small THOUSANDS KILLED. Terrible Loss of Life on the Island of Ceram. AN EARTHQUAKE tDiSASTER. A Huge Tidal Wave. Whole Coast for Miles Transformed Into Im mense Mud Puddle. Corpse Everywhere. Thu- San Francisco Bulletin says the disaster that ovc.rtook the island of Ck'rami on the second of last month cost the people of that district immense loss in life and property. The steam ship American 1aru, which arrived Wednesday from the Orient, brought advices from Ceram and reports that live thousand people were destroyed on that island alone when the dreadful earthquakes of November shocked the Japanese and agitated the islands adja cent to the empire. ' (a the night of the second, the peiple of Ceraru were awakened by a territic shoek of earthquake that seemed to wok from north to south. Every one :ld from his house into the public -quare. A few hours later it was re ported that the water was rising in the bay of Ambonia. The sea came for ward in the shape of a huge tidal wave and forced the water into the bay en trance. It can e up 50 feet over the lowlands. At Pauholy and Samasocroa on the bay, the waves swept over the tops of trees, 30 feet high. Out of nearly 1 SOO inhabitants only 40 es "Ihe whole coast for miles was trans formed into a huge mud puddle. Corpses were everywhere. Broken trecs and portions of houses were buried in the ooze. Every few rods were greit mounds of stones and.boulders that had been washed up from the sea, changing the entire topography of the country. The exact number killed along the coast will never be known, as the corpses are-in many cases yards un der the ne w ground. At Hatoesia. out of 500 people, 100 were killed and 40 wounded. The balance escaped to the hills, where the shock of earthquake was first felt." THEB LUZON GUERILLAS. They Harass Supply Trains and Carry Off Isolated Americans. A dispatch from Manila says Col. Smith, with a detachment of theSeven teeith infantry, surrounded and cap tured in a vi!lage near Malasqui a party of g-erillas who had made their head vuarters there. The party included the band which assassinated seven offi cials at Malazqui for friendliness to the Aniericans. All are insurgents who became b: a dits when the disintegration of the Fili pino army hezan. They kept the coun try around Malasqui in a state of terror for several weeks, and committed 25 murders in less than that number of days. When they were caught they were promptly sent to Gen. MacAr thur's headquarters at Bayambang by train. It is expected that they will be speedily tried and either shot or hung as an example, if convicted. The whole country north of San Fer nando aad between San Fernando and .\anila, except within the permanent line of troops around the city and the closely patrolled stretches of railroad, swarms with similar bands. Probably they will be increased by men from Pilar's army, many of whom are mak ing their way south to join the iusur gent force in Cavite province. These people, for the most part, succeeded in dodwing Gen. Grant, Col. Bell and Col. H~ood's troops, who are scouring the country for them. They devote their energies to ambushing commissary wagons arnd to picking up soldiers who leave their commands. Every day some wagon train is fired upon or some soldier disappears. Gen. Wheeler's secretary, Mr. Gar rett, was disarmed and slashed by a by a bulomnan almost within sight of headquarters, his assailant pursuing him almost into the headquarters build ing. The policy of these ruffiians is to make the country uninhabitable for Americans and to frighten natives into refraining from giving any assistance to the Americans, as well as to compel the inhabitants to support the insurrection Frequently they raid and loot towns. The brother of the president of lImus went outside the town the other day to harvest some rice, lIe was captured by his compatriots, accused of being a spy, and executed. Only a small porti m ot the insur gets' arms have been: :rrendered, and the problem of suppres ozg this guerilla warfare is anything but easy of solution. Some of the American oflicers think it worse than fighting .Indians, owing to thec difficulties of the country and the trouble of locating the enemy, who re sort, when hard pressed, to the amigo dodge and hide their guns. Some of the Americans favor the issuance of a proclamation declaring all natives found with, arms to be bandits, punishable as crimnals, instead of being treated as prisoners of war The Tobacco l'anters. T1 be tobacco grosver- .f North ('aro lina have begun a u-.iment to raise the price of the produ -t throughout the southern States, whies planters say has decreased in ten years from 37 cents per pound to 12 cents. District con ventions are to be held in the tobacco growing States in January for the pur pose of appointing delegates to a con vention! to be held in Raleigh on Jan. 17. The purpose of the convention will be to organize at comnpany to buy the entxire crop of bright tobacco grown ini the S~ates of North C'arolina, South Catrciia. Vireinia and Tenncssee, and the faLr:m-rs are~ to enter into an agree mnent retrnirg to allow the trust, whic:h the growers claim is reducing the price, to purchase any of the pro duet for live sears. Walterboro Excited. The town council of WValterboro has nmade an appropriation for the establish ment of guarantine regulations against the towns of Ilanmpton, Varnville, Scot ia, Denmark, Bamnbcrg and against the turpentine farms of Georgia, these places being reported as infected with smnilnpax ANOTHER BRITISR REVERSE. General Buller's Army Was Defeated With Big Loss. A dispatch from London says the war office has received a dispatch an nouncing that Gen. Buller has met with a serious revcrse, losing ten guns. Gen. Buller was attempting to cross the Tugela river. Finding it impos si',le to effect his object, he ordered a retirement in order to avoid greater losres. lie lef: 11 guns behind. The following is the test of Gen. Buller's dispatch announcing his reverse: "Buller to Lansdowne: Chievely Camp, Dec. 15, 6-20 p. n.-I regret to report a serious reverse. I moved in fi.ll strength from our camp near Chievely at 4 o'clock this morning. There are two fordable placcs in the Trugela river, and it was myr inr-ution to force a passage through at one of them They are about two miles apart. "My intention was toforce one or the other with one brigade, supported by a central brigade. Gen. Hart was to at tack the left drift, Gen. Hildyard the right road and Gen. Lyttleton was to take the centre and to support either. Early in the.day I saw that Gee. Hart would not be able to force a passage, and I directed him to withdraw. le had, however. attacked with great gall..trv and his leadi-g bittalion, the Connaught Rangers, I fear, suffered a great deal. Col. I. G Brooke was se riously wounded. "I then ordered Gen. Hidyard to ad vance, which he did, and his leading regiment, the East Surrey, occupit d Colenso station and the houses near the bridge. At that moment I heard the whole artillery I had sent to sap port the attack-the Fourteenth and Sixty-sixth Field batteries and six naval 12 pounder quick-fi.es-under Col. Long, had advanced close to the rixer in L',ng's desire to be within ef fective range. It proved to ba full of the enemy, who opened a glancing fire at close range, killing all their horses, and the gunners were compelled to stand to their guns. Some of the wagon teams got shelter for troops in a donga, and desperate efforts were made to bring out the field guns. The fire, however, was too severe, and only two were saved by Capt. Schofield and Rome drivers whose names I will furnish. "inother most gallant attempt with three teams was made by an officer whose name I will obtain. Of the 18 horses 13 were killed and as several drivers were wounded I would not al low another attempt, as it seemed that they would be a shell mark, sacrificing life to a gallant attempt to force the passage unsupported by artillery. I directed the troops to withdraw, -shich they did in good order. Throughout the day a considerable force of the enemy was pressing on my right, but was kept back by mounted men under Lord Dundonald and part of Gen. Barton's brigade. The day was in tensely hot and most trying on the troops, whose conduct was excellent. We have abandoned ten guns and lost by shell fire one. The losses in Gen. Hart's brigade are, I fear, heavy, al though the proportion of severely wounded is, I hope, not large. The 14th and K~th iield batteries also. suffered seveie losses. We have retired to our camp at Chievelry." Death of Wash Shell. Capt. George Washington Shell died suddenly at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at his home three miles from Laureos. He was in Laurens Friday on his way home from Greenville, where he had been on business pertaining to his office, district census supervisor, and while there had on attack of something like cramps, but soon recovered suffi ciently to travel and immediately came home. A second attack, which proba bl.5 afected the heart, proved too much for iis then weakened condition to withu:and and he expired almos; sud denly. Capt. Shell retired from public life in 1S95 and has since devoted his time to larming on a modern and ex tensive scale. His appointment at district eensus supervisor was confirm ed only a few days ago and he was in the discharge of his new office when the summons came. Capt. Shell was 70 years old, a man of pleasing address and marked ability. "Where They Are At." Well. next summer witnesses another political campaign, and for this especial reason our representatives in Washing ton will, perhaps, be phased to receive communications from the "dear people" at home. Those who are interested in the governmental distribution of seeds, speeches and other litter and literature are indebted to the Congressional Re cord for the Washington addresses of the South Carolina delegation iH con gress. Senator 31eLaurin is at the Ox ford; Senator Tiliman at 10oG E. (Capi tol street; Representatives Jno. Stan varne Wilson and William Elliott at the Normandie; D. E. Finley and W. Jasper Talbert at the National: Asbury C. Latimer, 220 East Second street, S. E.; J. Willian Stokes, :31:3 E. Capitol street.; and James Norton at the M1e tropolitan. Guerillas will be Hung. ILolated bands of bushwackingt in surgents who are caught by our forces in the Philip'pines are likely ta be sum maily dealt with. At the cabinet m eting Frid ay tne matter was discussed at somie length, anid it was the g.eneral sentiment that the situation demanded vigorous treatmient. As long as the insurgents keep up a show of an army under a semblarnce of discipline, they will be treated1 as prisoners of war when captured, but when they degenerate into isolated bands of marauders, liar rasing our forces by cold-blooded as sasinatious, it is the judgment of the ofiers in command in the Philippines and of the president and the members of the cabinet that the situation de mauds a~ summaryv action. Killed in the Ring. Henry Neise of St. Louis, 310.. was killed by a right hand swing to the head, delivered by Fred Bierson of Utah, in the sixth round of~ a boxing bout at the St. Louis A. C. 'Thursday night. "Tim" Hurst and M1anager Chas. W. Whitney were immediately taken into custody. Blellerson escaped, but his seconds were put under arrest. The physician's verdict was to the ef fect that Neise died from concussion of COLORED CONFERENCE. List of the Appointments X ade by the Methodists in Greenville. Below is given the appointments for the ensuing year resulting from the colored South Carolina Methodist Epis copal conference's session in Green ville: Beaufort District-W M Hauna, pre sidiig elder; Aiken, V S Johnson; Al lendale, W G White; Appleton, E J Curry; Bamberg, W G Valentine; Barn well, C K Brown; Beaufort, J W Dore; Cottageville, B F Miller; Denmark, J D Chestnut; Ehrhardt, Washington Thomas; Fairfx. L W Williams; Gra hamsville, A D Brown; Green Pond, B J Boston: Hampton, (supply), W D King; Holly Hill (supply), J W Sing erhnd; Jacksonboro, J S Tyler; Mid way, J L Henderson; Reedsville, M C Cook; Ridgeville, J T Latson; Ross (supply), J S Epps; Ruffin, Henry Ba ker; St George, S & King; St Paul, J J Julv; Seiglingsville, C H Harleston; Springfield, T J Robinson; Springtown, Ellis Forest; Summerville, J B Middle ton; Ulmer's. F D Harris; Walterboro, J I Townsend; Weimer, G W Gantt; Yemassee, A B Morrisey. Charleston District-C C Jacobs, pre siding elder; Bethesda, G V Williams; Black River, G F Miller; Brook Green (supply). R H Bastiok; Camp Ridge, Benjamin Brown; Charleston, Centen ary, A G Townsend; Charleston Mis. sion, Old Bethel, J A Brown; Charles ton, Wesley, J F Pagna; Cooper River, Dickson Salter: Forreston and Manning, Alfred Lewis; Georgetown and South Santee, J D Mitchell; John's Island, A J Kennedy; Kingatree circuit, A B Franklin; Kingston, H G Frederick; Lances, Waites McIntosh; Maryville and St Andrews, H H Matthews; Mt Pleasant and McClellansville (supply), T W H Witherspoon; Pinopolis, Daniel Brown; St. John's, Stewart Simmons; St Mary's, L L Thomas; St Stephen's, Wm David; St Thomas, A H Harrison; Turkey Creek, I H Fulton; Washing ton and Ladson, W R Jervay. Florence District-J E Wilson, -pre siding elder; Bennettsville, G W Cooper; Beulah, H C Asbery; Cheraw and Mt. Zion, Jeremiah McLeod; Clio and Tatum, W h Tatum; Darling ton, E B Borroughs, Florence, F E McDonald; Hartsvillle, B M Pergues; Lamar and Saidy Grove, W S Neil; Little Rock, W H Redfield; Lynch burg, G L Davis; Marion, J W Moul trie; Mar's Bluff, J A Harral; Mays ville, F L Baxter; North Marlboro and I Bethel, M V Gray; Salem and Wesley, C H Dangerfield; Sellers, C E Robin son; Shilob, J " Burch; Smyrna, L G Gray; Spear's, James McEaddy; Syra cuse and St. John's, F W Vance. Greenville District-M M Mouzon, presiding elder; Anderson, I E Lowery; Belton, J R R!semond; Central Mis sion (supply), W F Smith; Easley, E W Adams; Greenville, B F Wither spoon; Liberty, P R Camlin; Lowndes ville, C L Lowery; Marietta, J C Mar tin; North Greenville. C B Logan; Oido, Benjamin Robinson; Rock Hill, York Goodlett; St. Mark's and St. Paul's, I L Hardy; Sentea, D M1 Minus; South Greenville, J H PIarks; Walhalla, Wes ley Littlejohn; Williamston, A. S J Brown. Orangeburg District-J L Grice, pre siding elder; Alcott, J T Latson; An tioch, J WV Brown; Ashland, J W Grove; Branchville, B 0- Frederiek; Camden, C C Scott; Camden circuit, J B3 Thomas; Chesterfield, S S B~'er; Columbia, A E Quick; Columbia Mis sion (supply), J H Johnson; Edisto Fork, N T Bowen; Jamison, D J Sand ers; Jefferson, S S Eawton; Lexington, to be supplied; Longtown, A J Robin son; Macedonia, R A Thomas; Me chanicsville, I P Robinson; Mt. Zion A R Smith; North, B S Jackson; Orange burg, J D Wittaker; Orangeburg cir cuit, J B Taylor; Pineville, Morris Stewart; Rock Spring, E M1 Pinckney; Rowesville, F D Smith; Smithville, A B Murphy; Sumter, WV R A Palmer; Sumter circuit, Thomas Sims; Tiller's Ferrry (supply), E A Rogers; Wateree, WV A Jones; L M1 Danton, Claflin uni versity. Spartanburg District-R L Hlickson, presiding elder; Aimwell, WV B Ro mans; Blacksburg, Moses Mason; Clo ver, SS Sparks; Cowpen, Scipio Greene; Gaffney, R C Campbell; Greenwood, T J Clarke; Greer, WV G Deas; Newberry, WV B Bowers; Pacolet, A M Wright; Reidville, D H Kearse; Rock Hill, S P Williams; St. James, WV H Greer: Spartanburg, C RI Brown; Spartanburg circuit (supply), M1oses Cherry; Well ford, A D) Harris; Yorkville, I B Smith; Yorkville circuit (supply), WV J Smith. A Good Change By direction of the president, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. V., was Wednesday assigned to the command of the division of Cuba, relieving M-aj. Gen. John R. Brooke, U. S. A., Maj. Gen. Wood will, in addition to his duties as division commander, exercise the authority of military governor of the islan d. On completion of the transfer of the command, Maj. G-en. Brooke is or dered to repair to this city and report to the adjutant general of the army for fur thcr orders of the secretary of war. He will be a::comnpaniied by his authorized aides. In relieving Maj. Gen. Brooke the presidlent expresses his high appre ciation of and thauks for the faithful and eliicient sirvice rendered by that offier as governor of Cuba. First Class Instruments. If you wa~nt a first class piano .or organ, be sure to visit my store or writ me for information. I handle only first class instruments-Steinway, Mlason & Hamlin, Mathushck, Ster line, Huntington and Ludden & Bates Piatos; Mason & Ilamlin and Sterling organs. Liberal terms and fair, deal ing. No uL1idddleman's commissions ales direct from factory. D. A. Preer MIi!aar Ludden & Bi~tes1 S uti & Musie Il.use, Columbia. G. 1 mo. A Poor Prophet Viltaire said nearly one hundred sears aco in a boastful tone, "before thle begiuriing of the nineteenth cen tury Christianity will have disappeared from the earth." The Boston Tran script calls attnton to the fact that since he utt.r*d those words over two hundred million have been added to the Christian church, and the same room in v.hich Toltaire uttered those words is now a depository of HE OLIVE BRANCH. Method of Minority for:Obtaining Peace With Honor. RESOLUTiON INTRODUCED Promising Independence to Fili .pinos, When Peace Is Es tablished Under Cer tain Conditions. Two joint resolutions were intro duced in the house of representatives Thursday by Representative Williams of Michigan, which are the result of consultation among a number of Demo cratic leaders in the house, and are un derstood te be expressive of their gen eral position on the Philippines. The text of the first resolution is as" follows: Whereas, the hope has been held out that the Filipinos, now waging war against the forces of the United States in the island of Luzon. would lay down their arms if authoritatively assured that it was the intention of the govern ment and the people of the United States ultimately to grant to rhe people of that island their independence and the absolute control of their domestic affairs, and Whereas, such is the intention of the government and of the American people, who do not believe in wars of conquest or criminal aggression against other peoples and have frequently de clared their horror thereof, now, there fore, be it Resolved, By the senate and house of representatives in, congress assem bled: Section 1. That it has always bsen our intent and purpose to recoguize the inalienable right of the Fi'ipinos to self government and national independ ence and that, in pursuance thereof, we shall make formal recognition of these rights and withdraw our land and sea forces upon the establishment of peace and the inauguration of a consti tutional government, or governments, by the people of the islands, or any of them, provided the said government agrees, or the said governments agree, to refund the $20,000,000 which was paid by us to the queen of Spain; to give us in fee simple, with right of sovereignty vested in us, a place suita k le for a naval station and other places fitted for coaling stations, and to grant the American people in perpetuity the right of free access to all of their ports for goods, merchandise and persons bent on peaceful or missionary pursuit. Sec. 2. We pledge our friendly as sistance and counsel in the work of in augurating such a government. See. 3. We pledge ourselves to treat as an unfriendly manifestation towards the United States any foreign interfer ence or aggression for the period of 10 years from and after the establishment of such a government provided that the government of said islands shall sur render into our keeping, during that period, the entire question of their for eign relations and shall pay the expense to which we may be put for such troops as shall, at the request of said govern ment, be kept on Philippine ternitory and such naval vessels as may be kept in the Philippines' adjacent waters for the purpose of the protection herein provided. The other resolution recited the-con stitutional provisions against slavery and involuntary servitude, asks .for ii formation relative to the conclusion of a treaty with the sultan of Jolo, and provides for an inquiry by the judiciary committee as to whether the constitu tional provisions against slavery and the statutory provisions against polyg amy apply to the Sulu people. Spanish Cruelty. Senora Carmina Lopez, who was the wife of a Cuban general, and who in 1897 escaped from Cabanas Fortress, -in the guise of a nun, and who took refuge on sn Argentine warship, which con veycd her to Buenos Ayres, was hell with her four children at the barge of fiee in New York Wednesday, having arrived here from Rio Janeiro on the steamer Wadsworth, en route for Cuba. Thefamily is returning to its old home after long exile. Gen. Juan Lopez was five years ago a wealthy planter worth $2,000,000. He was arrested and sent as a political prisoner to Ca banas Fortress, where three years ago, with one hundred and thirty-seven other prisoners, he was shot. Shortly after his widow was apprehended and cast into the prison set apart for wo men. Her four cnildren were taken in charge by the sisters of charity. After Senora Lopez had been in prison two months she effected her escape by the aid of two American sisters of charity. Senora Lopez is returning to Cuba to try to regain her estate. Will Meet in Philadelphia. The Republican national convention will be held at Philadelphia June 19 next. The place and date -were decided upon by the national commit the Friday after a friendly contest for the honor of entertaining the conven tion between the city selected, Chicago, St. Louis and New York. The meet ing of the committee was held at the Arlington hotel Washington and was presided over by Senator Hanna, the chairmnan of the committee. Forty three of the 45 States and each of the six territories were represented. Choked to Death. The Florence correspondent of The News and Courier says the ten-year old son of Mrs. Fannie Poston, of Bos tick, in that county, met with a pitia ble death last week. The little fellow was playing with some loose corn and swallowed a grain, which lodged in his windpipe. The little fellow sufered terribly for a few days and finally died from the effects of the swelling of the corn, which choked him to death. Two Men Killed. The Savannah Morning News says: "No report of it was received at Savan nah, but it was heard yesterday from a gentleman from Augusta that the first Southern traia into Savannah killed a man on the Port Royal and Augusta stretch of the route. About two weeks ago the Atlantic Coast Line ran its first train into Augusta, and that train, too klea man en route.