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DISPATCHES DOCTORED
DV FIELD MARSHAL.
> Affair Near Latlysmith Was Quite
Serious Figlit.
DECISIVE BATTLE HOURLY
EXPECTED.
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Jonhert Believed to Be Pressing
on Ladysmith.
* London, Oet. 2G.?With unconA
scions humor, a Cape Town correspondent
telegraphed yesterday:
"The censorship, which is
t<alwaj s a delicate matter, is work?>
ing smoothly and without a
hitch."
This exactly hits off the state of
affairs today. An ominous veil
is still drawn over the movements
ft.. of Gen. Sir George Stewsrt White
and Gen. Yule. Beyond belated
Ladysmith dispatches concerning
the Elandalaagte fight which are
still filtering in, the British public
is left in complete darkness
and to conjecture over "cooked"
war office dispatches. The officials
of the war office last evening
said that very few dispatches have
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rriTcu una mai Doming iurtner
was to be expected until morning.
Since it is practically certain
4 that Gen. Yule has now effected
a junction with Gen. White?
although this was not brought
about Tuesday night, as announced
by The Daily Mail, but sometime
Wednesday?and as both
are now in a position of safety,
* conjecture concerns itself chiefly
with the manner of Gen. Yule's
retreat. That it was hasty is
evident. Was it orderly ? Was
* any considerable camp equipment
/ abandoned? Was there any fighting
on the way? Such questions
and others like them the public
are anxiously asking. Since the
receipt of Gen. White's curious
first description of the Ladysmith
light, in which the British lost 100
men, little reliance can he placed j
on the ollicial dispatches. While;
the concealment of the facts regarding
Gen. Yule's retreat can
be amply justified on the ground
of keeping the intelligence from
the Boers, the hiding of thh news
f .respecting the Hussars and Fusiliers,
who were apparently captured
in the battle of Clencoe, is
severely criticised, no intimation j
a. .
having been given thait the ulli
cers were missing.
The heavy losses of the British
troops in facing only some 8,000
Boers are commented upon as
showing what ritie fire means today
in the hands of oven undisciplined
men who can shoot fairly
straight and stand their ground.
Gen. Sir Kedvers Buller is ex ;
BRAVE /WEN FALL
<Victims
to stomach, liver and
? kidney troubles as well as women
and all f^el the results in loss of
appetite, poisons in the blood,
backache, nervousness, headache
V and tired, liRtless, run-down feeling.
But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen to .J. W. Gardner.
fdaville. Ind. Ilesavs: "Eloc
trie Bitters are just the thing for
a man when he is all run down,
jp and don't care whether he lives or
dies. It did more to give n\e new
strength and good appetite than
anything I could take. I can now
V eat anything have a new lease on
life." Only 50c. at Crawford
Bros. Drug St'"e. Kvery bottle
guaranteed. 3.
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pected to arrive earlv iiext week
and the indications are that some
troops have already arrived at
the front and been in the fighting,
wnose arrival has not .vet
been announced. There is every
possibilty, therefore, that reen
forcements are moving up. Tins
is calculated to hasten Command
ant Gen. Joubert's attack on La
dysmith, and news of a big battle
is daily expected.
Amount half a complete army
corps is now afloat, and a lull has
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uluuiiou itl UlspaiClllUg 'llrt r?
mainder of Gen. Buller's forces
owing to some difficulty in obtaining
transports.
Although news has arrived that
Gen. Sir William Penn Symons
is doing well, there is no indication
of his whereabouts. It is pre
sumed that he is at Dundee in
the hands of the Boers.
The commander-in chief, Field
Marshal Lord Wolseley, has ap
parently heeu convicted of "doc
toring" official reports from the
front, and there is a strenuous
demand on all sides for a reversion
to the earlier practice, when
the reports of Gen. Sir George
Stewart White, the British com
mander in Natal, were given out
fextually as soon as received.
The commander-in-chief's sum
mary read in the house of commons
yesterday spoke of Qen.
White having fought a successful
action, whereas Gen. White's own
account puts an entirely different
complexion on the situation and
reduces the movement to its
proper proportions and shows
that further exciting intelligence
may be expected from the same
quarter at any moment.
It is quite evident that the war
in Natal has only commenced,
and that the Boers are by no
meanB discouraged at losing the
first two battles, and manv experts
are satisfied Gen. Jopberts
in t)?pu iiuvv chiho co cue neois 01
I the British and that a decisive action
may be fought today or toj
morrow.
Liter estimates of the Boer
losses at Klandslaagte give 300
killed. Their coolness, bruvery
and good aim can bo judged from
the fact that out of the 17 or 18
[ officers with the half battallion
of Gordon Highlanders, four
| were killed and 13 waunded,
while the casualties among the
rank and file were 27 per eent.
I during less than three hours
lighting. Lieut. Campbell, of the
; Gordon Highlanders, has since
died from his wounds.
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A dispatch from Capetown toIday
says that (-Jen. White has enS
gaged the < >range free State Hoera
who were advancing on Ladysmith,
about seven miles northj
ward ami that it was believed the
advance had been repelled. 'Ibis
| is probably another version of
| yesterday's lighting already
known.
j (ion. White this morning officially
notified the war office that
I the bullet had been extracted
i from Gen. Symons' wound and
that he was doing well.
Other dispatches from Capetown
say that advices from Mafeking
confirm the statement that
The "Plow Boy Preacher," Kev. J
Kirkman, Bells Kiver, III., says: "AfI
ter suffering from Bronchial or lung
[ trouble for ten years, I was cured by
One Minute Cough Cure. It is all that
is olaimed for it and more." It cures
coughs, colds, grippe and all throat
and lung troubles. Crawford Bros.
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50 Boers were killed by the explosion
of two trucks of dynamite
purposely sent out b? (Jol. BadenI
Powell to draw the Boer tire.
The offer of Geh. Cronje, the;
Boer cotnander in the. vicinity of
Mafeking, of Ool. Baden-Powell 1
to exchange prisot?wa referred to
I Capt. Neshitt and others of the j
I armored train wrecked at Kraal-I
I pan.
I Some significance id attached al
<-apetown to the proclamation issued i
' at Pretoria by the Transvaal govern.
merit with the view to safe-guard i
j British property.
The situation in the west is becoming
complicated. The Boer proclainaI
tions of annexing and the claims of a
victory at Glencoe are likely to induce
the Dutch to side with their
countrymen already in the Held. It is
said, for instance, t hat the Boer forces (
have evacuated Vryburg, which it is
added, will be garrisoned by the local 1
Dutch, among whom are prominent
Bundites and government employes. (
It is also believed that th Dutch beyond
Qriquatown are only awaiting (
encouragement to declare for the
Transvaal.
Advices from Phillipstown yester
day say that the searchlights of the
Kimberley defenses were visible the
previous night and that therefore
Kimberley is still intact.
The latest dispatch from Kimberley
gives details of the arrangement made
by the British commander. Col. Kekewiche,
for the defense of the town.
The meat consumption is limited to a
pound daily.
A dispatch from Maseru, dated Oct.
24th, says Commissioner lagden was
then starting to meet. I.erothodi and
other Basuto chiefs at Putiatsur. river,
where the chiefs have assembled at
the request of Lerothodi to pledge
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vtivia ivj i*ivj bV wlic l|UCCUi
A dispatch from Durban dated Oct.
23d, says authentic information has
reached there from Molmoth, Zululand,
that on Hunday a large Boer
force was approaching. The inhabitants
forthwith entered Fort Maxwell,
anticipating an attack at (lawn Monday.
According to a Brussels dispatch,
Df. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of tiie
Transvaal in Europe, has issued a
statement that the Boers have now
nearly 100,00(1 men in the Held, made
upas follows: Boer regulars, 33,000;
artillery, 1,230: police, 1,730; Orange
Free State Boers, including Outlanders,
30,000; Natal Boers, 3,000: Bechuanaland
and Khodesian Boers, 8,000; |
foreign legion, (500; American 4,000;
(Jerinans, (MOO; Dutch-Belgians, 2,000;
Irish, I,(Hm?; the Scainlinavians, (500 :
French, Swiss and Italians, 200.
The dews, it appears, are doing po- i
lire work.
\ special dispatch from Pretoria,
via Lorenzo Manpiez, dated Oct. 21th, i
I purports to give an interview with one
I III' I lie lllirlliivl 'IVlllKful nvu..iili?..u
I who is quoted a* having urged that
while tin* liner successes were yet unimportant,
there was yet still time for
an amieahle set t lenient, as he believed
the liners had been misled as to the
real issue.
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I i.kis. All druggists refund the money |
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nature on every box. 2.r? cents. "J.'
SOM K INTKNSIVF FA HM1 N(*.
What Alfred Taylor Accomplish
ed on llis Twenty-Five Acres.
The following letter from Alfred!
Taylor, of Taylor's station, received,
by Hon. M. I?. Donaldson in reference
to bis yield of corn on twenty-tlve or
thirty acres, shows what intensive farming
can accomplish :
"I thought you would he interested j
I to know how my corn turned out, in I
j fact I think I promised to l/t you hear
I from me. 144 square yards of the best |
j made 202 pounds, about 125 bushels
j per ar.ie; taking the whole on an average
25 or 510 acres it made 505 pounds
per acre, about 71 bushels per acre.
We weighed it after shucking it. It
would not weigh as much after it got
thoroughly dry. It is certainly as fine
and as well developed corn as I eyer
saw.?The Daily Times.
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COM MISSIONKltS MKKT. I
Convention Was Called to Order
by Commissioner Stevens.
Atlanta, Oct. 21.? \V lien the convention
of commissioners of agriculture
of the southern states was called to
order this morning Louisiana, North
Carolina. Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia and Texas responded.
Commissioners Atkinson,of West Virginia,
and Koina, of Virginia, are expected
during the day.
The gathering was presided over
temporarily by Commissioner Stevens,
of Georgia, who called the convention
to meet here. Its objects are to dismiss
the cotton situation and to attempt
to bring about legislation which
will be beneficial to farmers and to
effect a plan for a more uniform classification.
Governor Chandler, of Georgia, was
introduced and welcomed the delegates
on behalf of the State. He spoke
of the condition of the farmers of the
south and said that Georgia farmers
will welcome a movement along the
line that the convention proposes to
act. Governor Chandler said it was a
fact that there had been no prosperity
among the farmers since 1893. Whether
this, he said, was due to federal legislation
or thefailureof crops the fact
pnnioina f b o t t lw. /AM a?? * - -? ? ~
vuimim nial l lie lailllCIII nave IIOl
prospered.
Mayor Woodward, of Atlanta, welcomed
the commissioners on behalf of
the city. The addresses of welcome
were responded to by Commissioner
Leon Jastrenski, of Louisiana, who
represented Governor Foster and the
agricultural department of the State.
He said that the convention should
pass resolutions looking toward the
preventing of business disturbances
which arise every year over the wild
and unreliable estimates published
from time to time regarding the cotton
crop.
A temporary organization was effected
by the election of Commissioner
Jastrenski as chairman ami Royal
Daniel, of Georgia, as secretary. The
convent ion adjourned until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Hat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia (Jure
wiiiuik'*m wnai you car. n euros all
forms of dysoepsia and stomach t roubles.
10. It. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., says :
"It relieved me from the start and
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Heavy Casual!it's.
London. < )<?t. -Jo.?The war of
lice returns show that tho total
Hrilish ea-iialtios since the 1k?-I
ginning of hostilities reach 57'J. |
Kighfeeu ollicers ha\e been killed
and 55 wounded ;?n<l 7<? men
killed and 4M5 wounded. There!
are l-> unacconiiled for.
This total, however, does not
include the equadron of the High
teenth Hussars which went astray
near Dundee, and the ollicers of!
the Dublin Fusiliers.
The report of heavy losses sent
from Koitfontein came as an unpleasant
surprise, as Den. White's
telegram to the war ofliee yesterday
gave the impression that
there was merely a brush.
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WILL I> VEST I (I ATE. FEVER.
Governor Instructs the lionrd of
Health to Act.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 2-1.?The
Governor has asked the state board
of health to take up the yellow
lever report at Yeniassee ami see
what is in it and take any necessary
action.
MILLIONS (ftVEN AWAY.
It is certainly gratiiyfng to the
public to know of one concern in ,
the land who are not afraid to be
generous to the needy and suffering.
The proprietors of Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, have given
away over ten million trial bottles
of this great medicine; and have
the satisfaction of knowing it has
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MAN OF MANY WIVES, WAS
WOOD TO ALL OF THEM.
Walter L. Farnswnrth Huloa
Startling Confession.
Chicago, Oct. 24.?Forty two
wives scattered all over the world,
four of whom are in Chicago, was
l lie confession made today by
Walter I,. Farnsworth, a Chicago
candy commission man, who was
arrested yesterday on the charge
of bigamy.
"1 cannot tell exactly how
many women 1 have married,"
said he, kkl know of eleven in Europe,
lour in Chicago, tluee in
rem, one in Hn&iaml and over
twenty others indifferent parts
of the world.
I married thorn for different
reasons even though I did not live
more than a day or so at a time
with them.
Thev will tell you that 1 was
good to them all."
Jos?ps Stoekford, llodgdnn, Me.,
heated a ore running for seventeen
years and cured his piles of long
standing by using DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. It cures all skin diseases
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The Governor's Guards, of Columbia,
one of the oldest, com
panics in the State, will bo reorganized
tomorrow night.
"When our boys were almost dead
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