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Gen Lord Roberts Supp?ants Buller. England's Best Organizer and All-Round Soldier, Once Again in Active Ser? vice. London, Dec 18.-Shortly before midnight the following notice was posted at the war office : "As the campaign in Natal, in the opinion of her magesty's government, is likely to require the presence aod undivided attention of Gen Sir Red vers Buller, it has been decided io send Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Water ford as commander??"n chief in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener as chief of staff <}UEEN WILL NOT LEAVE THE VINCINITY OF LONDON. London, Dec 18 -The court news men have issued the following an nouncement : "The arrangements for the queen's departure from Windsor have been postponed until after Christmas, gas owing to the present state of affairs in South Africa, the queen, is un willing to be at a great distance from London " Not for years* before has the queen decided to spend Christmas away from Osborne Her decision to re main at Winsor, in touch with the cabinet, is a measure of the gravity of the crisis and of the anxiety ehe feels for the welfare of the country. She is, nevertheless, in fair health. Saturday morning she took her usual . drive/ and jost before dinner that evening she received Lord Worsley, who, with Maj Gen Sir Henry Peter Ewa't, crown equerry to the queen, dined at Windsor. Toe queen's graceful act in pre senting a flag to the American hospi? tal ship Maine is highly apareciated by her own people, as weil as by the Americans in London, and the morn ing papers express the hope that the incident means something more than a pretty ceremony. "Black week." as last week is now universally called, has evidently aroused the government and the war office to 8 foll sense of their respon sibility and of the magnitude of the task before them. The papers una? imously applaud this awakening, despite the fact that they recognize that the heroic measures now decided upon savor rather of weakness than of strength. jRumor has it that the question of expense has really been at the bottom of the half hearted measures hitherto adopted, and it is not unlikely that Sir Michael Hicks Beach, cbmcelior of the exchequer, and other members of the cabinet will resign. It was high time that something verv energetic was do:;e. The Brit isb losses in kilied, wounded, pris? oners and missing throughout the campaign now reach the enormous total of 7,630. The tragic circumstances of the appointment of Lord Roberts aime?: simultaneously with the announce ment of the death of bis promising son excite the deepest public sym pathy Lieut Roberts was an only son, and had been his father's aide de camp since 1895 He served in Waziristan and in the Chitral and Nile expeditions Such was his dis play of gallantry on Friday in an attempt to rescue the guns that he wae recommended for the Victoria cross GEN BULLER SUSTAINED THE HEAVIEST LOSSES London. D?c 16 -Gen Butler re port* to the war office that his losses in yesterdays engagement were, kili? ed 82 ; wounded 667 ; missing 349 a total of 1,097 The revised iist of the British casualties at the battle of Magers fontein shows the total to be 963, of which number 70 were officers. The war office late tonight issued the following iist of Gen Baller's casualties : Killed-Field artillery, Capt A II Goldie and Lieut C B Schneber ; Dublin Fusiliers, Capt A H Bacon and Lieut R C B Henry ; Inniskil lin? Fusiliers, Maj J F VV* Charley and Capt Frank 0 Loftus ; medical corps. Capt M I Hughes ; Thorney craft's mounted infantry, Lieut C M Jenkins Officers Wounded - Devonshire regiment, 5 ; Riffe brigade (the Prince Consort's own) one ; Fifth brigade, staff, I ; Inniskilling Fusil iers, 8 ; Border regiment, 3 ; Con naught Rangers, 2 ; Dublin Fusiliers, 3: Irish Fusiliers, 1; Horse arti! lery, 5 ; medical corp-*, 1 ; mounted infantry. 3 ; Natai Carbineers, 2 ; South African L^ght Horse, 2 Officers tak^n prisoners or missing -F'eld artillery, 5 ; Devonshire rog iment, 3 ; Essex regiment, I ; Royal ?cots Fusiliers, 6 ; Royal artillery, :> NOTHING FURTHER FROM GEN BULLER. London, Dec 18, 4 45 a m -Lieut Gen Sir Charles Warren, command ing the Fifth division of the Fir&t army corps, b38 arrived at Cape Town It is understood that h( proceed to Port Elizabeth. No further news has been rec< regarding the battle at the Ti river The latest accounts regal the battle at Magersfontein show the retirement of the British ti was executed with the greatest ness and order under a heavy artillery fire on Tuesday. Mafeking was safe on Dec 6th, Col Baden-Powell, the British ? mander there, is still actively p ing out his defenses At that the Boers had offered to exch ! Lady Sarah Wilson, who was tured while acting as a correspoc for the London Daily Mail, for I Ben Viljoen, who was capture ! Eiandslaagte, but the offer bad 1 j declined i The other beleaguered garri ! and positions are still holding oui i It is said that if the Victoria c were to be granted for every ac ! conspicuous gallantry on the par British troops it would be necesi to distribute the decoration to I dreds. Four Regiments anet Brig? of Artillery to Reinfore Gen Buller. Volunteers Responding With most Alacrity-Many Office] Willing to Go as Troopers. London, Dec 19, 4 30 a. m -f war office has been in communicat with Gen Sir Wm Lockhart, ct mander in chief of India, with view of ascertaining what troops < be spared from his forces, aud it understood that, as a result of tb inquiries, a force will almost imt di3tely leave Bombay for Dorb including four regiments of seasor troops, with an ammunition colu and a brigade of artillery, includi horse and field batteries It is hoc that this force will reinforce G Buller within a month The Duke of Connaught visit the war office yesterday. Since t appointment of Lord Roberts aa co mander in chief in South Africa t question of rank no longer bars t duke from going to the front, and -he has a strong desire to go, it believed that only the qneen's reit tance stands io the way It is n unlikely that this will be overcome. Lord Chesham, commanding offic of the Royal Buckinghamshire Ye manry, has been authorized to orga iz9 a force of 3,000 yeomanry, wi will proceed to the Cape. The ye manry forces sent out will be draftc so as to work together with tl mounted infantry aird mounted mil tia from Canada and Australia It is understood that the volunteei selected wili not form a s?parai corp3, but will join their linked ba talions of the regular forces io Sout Africa Throughout the country voiunteei are responding with utmost alacrit to the official note. Lord Lonsdai says he believes the government wi only accept from '20 to 50 men fror each yeomanry regiment It is ag serted that many officers of th volunteer regiments are offering t go as troopers, if not accepted a officers. The Tim^s says editorially : "Lon Roberts will have absolutely a frei band and may be expected to resum? the original plan of campaign aban doned by Gen Buller under the ne ces8ity of relieving Ladysmith " According to a dispatch from Cap? Town, Gen Sir Charles Warren snc his staff have started for De Aar This seems to indicate that the Fi ft! divi&ion will be sent to reinforc? Lord Methuen, a decision which wil meet with general approval, as the opinion is almost everywhere held that it would be useless to waste anj more time by frittering away mei between the various columns The Morning Post in a rathei alarmist article remarks upon the difficulty of deciding such a crucial matter, and says : "Besides three generals in the field, ail of whom need to be reinforced, there is the rebeilion in Cape Colony to be con? sidered This makes four pressing calls on the Fifth division The trouble is, who is to decide and on what principle ?" The morning Post, reviewing the various positions of the beleaguered commanders and garrisons, asserts that the relief of Ladysmith is the most important emergencj', and that a victory in Natal would change the whole face of affairs. It also points out the urgent need of having the navy in readiness to move at any moment to protect the line of com muriication with South Africa sug gesting that a quarrel with some foreign power might come any day without any Britioh intention to have one " J. B. Robinson, the South African millionaire, writes to The Daily j Chronicle reasserting that the Boers ! have unlimited supplies of amrnuni ; tion and ample stores of food, and I declaring that all statements to the contrary should be ignored No further news bas been receiv? ed from CaDe Town but The Cape, Argus has a dispatch from a corres pondent, describing the battle at the Tug":;> river.' who says : "Gen Barton carried the village of : Colenso at the point o! the bayonet and under a raking tire ! "The few accounts of the battle that are yet to hand fail to give an ? accurate idea, but the statement that Gen Olery commanded destroys the current idea that he was engaged in some turning movement and that the Tugela river battle was only part of a larger scheme of operations " GEN FRENCH FALLS BACK. London, Dec 19 -A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Nauuwpoort, Cape Colony dated Dec 16, says : "The Boers brought a big gun to bear on the British near Vaar Kop. The British pieces were too 6mall to reach the enemy, and, after an intermittent artillery duel. Gen French withdrew uuder shell fire, but without losses, to Arundel.7' England's Great Fight. "The Empire is in peril " That is the meaning of the announcements made yesterday by the British war office England at last realizes that she has the hardest struggle of the century before her ; that her domin? ion, her world-prestige, her future as a great power are at stake, and that the occasion calls for the supremest effort, the most unmeasured expendi? ture of men and money. So her greatest soldier. Gen Lord Roberts, the victor of Kandahar, is given supreme command in South Africa, and her ablest fighter of more recent years, Gen Lord Kitchener, the victor of Khartoum, is made the chief of staff ; all the remainder of the reserve is called out and ordered to Africa ; eleven battalions of mili? tia are visually asked to volunteer ; a "strong force of volunteers to be selected from the yeomanry regi? ments" will be formed for South African service ; and notice is given that the aid of the colonial forces will be appreciated and accepted The forces already in South Africa number about lOl'.OOO ; the reserves recently and now ordered over wiil aggregate probably 50,000 more and the volunteers and colonial con; tingents may augment the grand total to 200,000 men Ail these are none too many for the task in hand "The Empire is in peril 99 Us fate will be decided in South Africa, and in the next few months. It will take over a month to place in South Africa Gen Lord Roberts and bi3 reinforcing army. AU this time the revolt in Cape Colony will be spreading and strengthening un less the advances on Kimberley and Ladysmith shall be abandoned and the British forces reconcentrated in the colony. Gen Gatacre may be attacked at any time and Gen Methu en's rear assailed and his communi cations broken. British victories on the Modder and Tugela rivers and the relief of the beleaguered cities would have some moral effect in neutralizing Cape Colony, so the aggressive wiil probably be resumed on both lines as soon as possible and the chances taken as to the colonial revolt. But delay favors the Boers They can accomplish a great deal in a month-State ^jjS CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, i$2 Burns, Bruises, Rheuma? tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. So'A b? Hughsoo-LiiZOD Go. "Pursuit" Race in Philippines Washington, Dec 15-The war department received a message to day giving the latest development in the situation in the Phiiippiues. The cablegram was a follows : Manila, Dec 15 Batchelor, Twenty-fourth infantry battalion, reports on 7th inst, had an engagement at the Junction of Magat and Rio Grande rivers, Isa? bella province, enemy leaving four dead and five mortally wounded in trenches. Our loss was one drown? ed, and four wounded. Says he is in need of clothing, provisions and money. ' Will reach Maguegaro, Cagayan province, shortly Doubt? less the navy relieved him yesterday. Four hundred and seventy five Spanish prisoners arrived this morn ing. among them the sick at Vigan, numbering 120 Young at Banqui, northwestern Luzon, reports that his troops are still pursuing the remnant of the insurgents who have 23 American prisoners in their possession Coun try exceedingly rough Our men without shoes, still persistently pur? suing Few Spanish prisoners now in hands of insurgents, probably 1,000, mostly in south Expect to effect their relief io a few days Negros reports Sergt Alfred Rooder, Sixth infantry. 20 soldiers and 18 native police attacked 400 insurgents at Madrigal, Negros, this morning No casualties. Enemy's loss 28 killed and many wounded. Otis The Home of Smallpox. The present sm a! i pox epidemic in thin section began in Alabama and I From :horo spread ft? Georgia, th?nce to ' S'.ur h Carolina Hore tho health | auiboritips bat?e b-i<i if s<? cheek pretty weil, ii!j; ir: A:abain;i and (? or??"a shore > ? !Ut ? io be r,<) machinery : T combatting it, aod thc reports from Alabama now arti ii1:.-* !{.?> pfoj.s.i io * .rn-: cf th- io foetid d strict? ;M<- fi ? I- a to escape thc pcstibncc -Florence Times. Ti> mettle the stotimdi Kr.d ov^rcomr tb? oause?of prosiuc?ive mother-", take Simmjus' Sq.iaw Vine Wine or Tablets. FIRE IN FLORENCE. Most Disastrous in History of That Flourishing City. Special to The Stare Florence, Dec 19 2 a. ra -A disas? trous conflagration is raging in Florence Tb9 City Hotel, city hall, Bank of Florence, and five two-story stores are buror ; otber buildings burning The entire busioess portion is in danger. Darlington is aiding. Losses way up in thousands and fire Dot yet checked. The fire started io the City Hotel on Evans street Superhuman efforts to check it were ucvailing. Water gave oat several times and is now unobtain? able. No casualties as yet. Merchants are saving stock of adjacent bat ld i a gs. The entire population is at work. It is the greatest fire in the history of tho town. mern mm < Dickens on the Dewey Case Dickens was. roundly denounced when be went back borne after bis tour of his country and wrote his "Ameri? can Notes," io which he said some very disagreeable things about the people who bad paid their money to hear bim read But some of his observations were true. For instance, he anticipated the Dewey case pretty thoroughly when he wrote : "You carry, says the straoger, this jealously and distrust into every trans? action of public life. By repelling worthy men from your legislative assem? blies, it has bred up a class of candidates for the suffrage who io their every act disgrace your institutions and your peoDle's choice. It has rendered you so fickle and so given to change tbac your inconstancy has past into a proverb ; for you no sooner set up ao idol, firmiy, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it. toto frag? ments ; aod trais because directly you reward a beoefactor, or a public servant you distrust him merely because he is rewarded ; and immediately apply yourself to fiod out either that you have 'been too bountiful io your ac koowledgments or be remiss in his deserts. Aoy man who obtains a high place among you from the president downwards may date his downfall from that moment.'''-Augusta Herald. Mighty Fort For Cape Henry. Richmond, Va, Deo 18-It is un? derstood here that the government intends appropriating a reservation one m?e square at Cape Henry and erecting thereon one of the mos: powerful forts io the world. A corps of engineers ha3 already made the preliminary surveys. The channel runs close to Cape Henry, and powerful guns wiil protect the harbors of Norfolk, Newport News, Washington. Baltimore and Richmond lt. is claimed that the navy yard at Norfolk and the shipbuilding interests of Newport News and Richmond are in need ot such protection. Begs Permission to Return. D One of the Negroes Driven from Wilmington Has Pro? perty to Look After. Raleigh, N C, Dec 18.-T C. Miller, one of the negroes who last November was driven from Wilming ton, writes a letter to persons there, asking that he be allowed to return to wind up his business affairs. He says he is summoned in a civil suit in the superior court, and would like to return : that he was sent away November 10 for things he was sup? posed to have done or said, and for which he is now sorry ; that he owns $6,000 worth of property in Wil? mington, and has lost over ?1,000 since his absence ; that he does not want to return to ta?k politics or of or of things of the past, but to re main a short while to attend strictly to his own business, and begs the the people to grant this privilege C P. Lockney, a Republican law? yer and local politician there, who also left last November, has returned. He is the only one who has done so, with one exception, and the latter was given a solemn warning by a large party to depart forever There is a law on the statute books of South Carolina wnicb is very much a dead letter. This iaw was approved bv the governor on the 3rd day of M'arcb, 1899- It is entitled: "An Aol tc Prevent Drunkenness and Shooting Upon the Highway." The provisions of the "law are very piaiu, simple and easily understood : "That I any porson who shall indulge in bois- j tercos conduct wh:!e under the ! influence cf intoxicating liquor:? or feigning i<> be uudrr the rr-fiueiice ? I of r-u<;ii liquor?, >>~ wirbou-; just ? cans.? or < xeus.-? shall discharge j any Ere arms ? une upo-n or \*?i-'hiri fifty yards of ai.y poblic toad, rxcept up.tu l.]* own premises, shall be j guilty ol a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not tn.irc than one hundred dollars, or bs imprisoned for more than thirty days" /\ Money Panic in New York. ALL CLASSES OF STOCK! i SLAUGHTERED BY DE? MENTED HOLDERS. New York, Dec 18.-Panic condi tioo8 developed on the stock excbaoge thia afternoon with the imperative need of money developed by the violeot contraction in values. Stocks were being thrown over without the slightest regard to the price they would bring and at distressing sacrifice of values. No end to the helplessness of the situa? tion seemed in sight, when, io the last half hour ot the market some $10, 000,000 was offered on the stock exobange by the concerted action of the cleariog house banks to force the rate arbitrarily down to 6 per cent without regard to the distracted bid? ding at higher rates which was beiog done by ocher brokers for distressed operators. The collapse in the money rate checked the deoiine and drove the bears to cover. The recoveries pro? duced by their urgent bidding were almost as violent as the deoiine bad been, but the tossed were by no means entirely retrieved. Large offerings of stocks cootinued at the rally and at some points of the liai prices broke anew before the close, making the closing exceeding irregular and uotet tied. The excrement oontinued to the end. with sentiment looking forward anxiously for the developments of another day. --tmmmw- -??--cg BOOKS 1 BOOKS ! BOOKS ! A large Assortment at H. G. 03teen & Co's Liberty street. Albums ! Photograph, Autograph and Scrap. H. G. Osteen & Co. Dissected maps, to piesse the young f.iiks. Authors. O d Maid and other gantes, at H. G. ?stren & Co. Xxas number of Figaro Eaelisb edition, at K. G. Os-een & Ce. Gea Gataere's Report. London. Die 12 -Tbe war cfSce has received the following from Geo For? estier-Walker : Cape Town, Monday, Dec ll. Gatacre reports as follows : Tbe idea to attack Stromberg seemed to promise certain success, but the distance was underestimated by myself and the local guides A policeman took us rouod some miles, and consequently we were marching from 9 30 p. m, till 4 a. m.. and were landed io an impossible position. I do not consider the error intentional. The Boers commenced Dring from the top of an uo&calable hill, and wounded a good macy of our men while in the open plain* Second Northumberlaods tried to turn tee flank of the enemy but failed The Second irish Fusiliers sie-sed a Kopje near and heid on, supported by trie mounted infantry and Cape police The guns, under Jeffreys, could not have been better banriied. But I regret to say that ooo gun was overturned in a deep nullah and another 6aok in quicksand. Neither could be extricated in the time availabie. Seeing the situation, I sent a dis? patch rider to Moitenc with tbe news. I collected uod withdrew cur forces from ridoc to ridge for about nice mi-es The Boer guns were remarka? bly well served. They carried accu? rately 5 000 yards I am boldiog Bushman's Hoek aod Cypbergat. Am sending the Irish Rifles and Nortbum berlands to Sterksstroom, to recuperate The wounded proceed to Queenstown. Tbe'missing Northumbarlands number 366, not 306. as previously reported PRESIDENT STEYN'3 CONFIR MATION. Pretoria, Sunday, Deo 10.-Presi? dent Steyn has sent the following details of the fight at Stromberg Junction : "The British, with six oacnon, attacked the Boers, undtrr Swanepoel and Oliver, and stormed the Biers' entrenched position on the kopjes. After a severe fight they were compell? ed to surreoder. The prisoners are Maj Stokes, six officers and 230 non? commissioned officers aod men of the Nortbumberlacds aod two office ts and about 250 noo-commissiooed officers and men of the Irish Fusiliers. It is impossible to state tbe number of dead or wounded British The Boers cap? tured three cannon and two ammuni? tion wagons." Gen Gatacre'e last report brings the Dumber of ?osees by capture at Stormberg up to 665. He notes no additions to the killed and wounded, who by his first report numbered 2 and 25 respectively. The Boers say they hold 672 prisoners. This makes the reported British losses foot up j nearly 700 Pictures Tho most popular pictures j tins season are thc artistic aud beautiful Piatina prto te and Arto \ types. We have recently added ?his line of pictures to our stock and ; we ii:vit? an inspection of cur pictures. Many sizes, various j styles of frames, and prices to suit. H. G. Osteen & Co. LIEUT BRUMBY DIES OF TYPHOID FEVER. Gallant Georgian Who Was Dewey's Flag Lieutenant. Washington, Dec 17 -Lieut Thomas M. Brumby, flag lieoteiiaot to Admirai Dewey during the Manila campaigo, who has been iii with typhoid fever for several weeks, died.at Garfield hospital shortly after 6 o'oiock this eveniog The death of Lieut Brumby while not unexpected was a great shock to Admiral Dewey. The relations of the two men for several years past have been very intimate and a strong friend-, ship bad growu up between them. Lieut Brumby went out to the Asiatic station with the admiral and bad been there with bim until they both return? ed to the United States several months ago. In bis capacity as flag lieutenant; to the admiral. Lieut Brumby was thrown with bis chief practically all the time and acted as his personal repre sentatative io many matters of detail delegated to him by the commanding cfuoer. He was regarded by Admiral Dewey as a bright, energetic aDd oapable assistant, while the devotion of tbe latter to the admiral was something marvelous. Tbe burden of bis thoughts daring tbe latter days of bis illness wheo bis mind was racked with delirium seemed to be regarding bis work for tbe admiral. The lieutenant's present illness dated from about the 27th of November, tbe first symptom being nothiog more than a cold which, however, failed to yield to treatment, and soon afterwards be went to tbe Garfield hospital where he died. Admirai Dewey was unremitting in his attentions to him until bis condi? tion became precarious and visitors were not allowed to see bim. Some days ago Mrs W. 1. Hayward, of Marietta, Ga, a sister, was summoned, and Thursday she was joined by her husband, beth remaining with the Iieuteoant until he died. The lieuten? ant's aged mother is still living in Marietta, Ga. The father, who is dead, was a coiooei of the Fourteenth Georgia regiment in the Confederate army. Lieut Brumby was 44 years of age aod unmarried. Nothiog definite has been decided concerning the facera! except that the body will be taken to Georgia for interment leaving here tomorrow night for Atlanta. It is entirely improbable that Admiral Dewey will accompany tbe remains but wiil designate bis secretary, Lient H. H. Caldwell, to perform that duty. Lieut Brumby was appointed a naval cadet from Georgia, entering the service on the 29th of November, 1873r and bis present commission dates from the24:b of August, 1892 Practically al! the time during the last two years be bas been with Admirai Dewey. In bis report cf tbe battle of Manila Admiral Dewey spoke in very ccmpli meotary terms of the services and. gallantry of bis flag lieutenant and recommended that be be advanced some numbers on the Jist of lieutenants. His recommendation was adopted by the oavy department and the name sen* to the senate but togetner with a num? ber of other proooi?ors made by the department failed to be acted upon. Tho promotion recommended placed bim about 13 on the list of lieutenants and had it been confirmed be would in less than a year from now have reached tbe grade of iieuteoant commander. The lieutenant's death is the third of those who were closely associated with Dewey at the battle of Manila who have died since that time, namely : Capt Gridley, Commander Wood and Lient Brumby Lieut Bramby was presented a sword by the legislature of Georgia on tbe 26ih of October. He remained in Georgia some days after that and returned to Washington about the mid? dle of November ? HIS AGED MOTHER HEARS THE SAD NEWS. Marietta, Ga, Dec 17.-Mre Ann Eliza Brumby, the aged mother of Lieut Brumby, received the news of her son'ei death very calmly. Tbe ioDg illness of tbe lieutenant ?ad prepared Mrs Bramby for the shock aod she displayed little emotion. She admitted that eoe had given up hope of bia reoovery several days ago. The Bram? by burying ground is io Atlanta and, while Mrs Bramby woaid like to bave tbe remains of her son brought home, she /said tonight that she wouid offer no objection should the Washington officials desire to inter the lieutenant's remains there Bibles, Testaments, Prayer Books and Hymnals, suitable tor Xaias presents, fi. G. Osteen & Co. CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, Neuralgia and Toothache in e minutes. Sour Stomach and Summer Complaints. Price, 25c. Sold by Hogbcon-Ligon Co. Seif pronouncing Teachers' Bibles, ful! coo cor-lance, maps nr.d hcips, for sale Oy H G. Osteeo & Co Cheaper thin ever before in ?or.sfqaeoce cf '.befiehl tetwpen ?iole nab li?bers. --~^mmmt>- II - n :I) >;nil ?;..<..! four while ?ood y.?U A?W?L BRAND SODA is a iroi?il soda. Not like the ordinary ki::>i>. some? times good and the next time poor, but GOOD EVERY TIME.