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I I —l l>/l \ Irw I b * B | | __ ■ I Vol. IX No. 249. I JOE BEU WINS I I rflK SHBBIFF’S BACK BESULTS 1 IN NOMINATION OF MOBBIB- J PuUft l, Strickland and Champion Are the Commi«ioner».-It Was a I Hard Struggle, the SUCCESSFUL TICKET. I chief Justice Supreme Court, I tJ. SIMMONS. I iMoci&te Justice, Long Term, I WM-H.FIBH. | Short Term, ■ HAL T. LEWIS. ■ Senator Twenty-Sixth District, S, T. BLALOCK. B Representative, S J. B. BELL. U County Commissioners, I W. J- FUTRAL, BB w. W.:tHAMPION, I R. F. STRICKLAND. I Clark Superior Court, I W. M. WQMAB. I Sheriff, I M. F. MORRIS. I Treasurer, | J. C. BROOKS. I' Tax Receiver, I H. T. JOHNSON, a Tax Collector, I T. R. NUTT. I Surveyor, W. M. HOLMAN. I Coroner, I JESSE WILLIAMS. I Democratic Executive Committe, Griffin District, L. CLEVELAND, B. R. BLAKELY, T. E. DREWRY, W. D. DAVIS, W. D. CARHART, J. ELI BREWER. It was a very hard struggle yester day at the primary election for county and supreme court officials. The former took (he precedence in interest and the latter were hardly given, recognition, for the returns from ..the country districts hardly, showed up the refol’ns for them. It is a well known tart that the cau didate4orßeprAeiitative, Hou. Joseph diesis that had not ’ been allotted to him and that W. J. Futral led the ticket for county com missioners, as was predicted. W. W, Champion has R. F. Strickland to support him. It is an entirely new board, and oue that is good as gold. J. C. Brooks was re-elected as treas urer, and there is no belter attribute to his efficiency than the vote ha re ceived. Wm. Thomas, for clerk of the court, had no opposition, for it would have been useless, as he can never have suc cessful opposition. Harry Johnson, too, received a pop ular vole and will be tax receiver by a large majority. Tom Nurt, without opposition, is tsx collector, and he gets it every time he wsuts it. W. M. Holman is surveyor, and he won it over A. B. Kell. Uncle Jeiie Williams will continue to administer on the last estate of man, as he is now coroner. ~ Everything was as pleasant as could be, and the candidates who received Dominations made speeches that were applauded. y i The following in (he (otal vote as far as it could be obtained last night, though it is incomplete so far as the judges and those who had no opposi tion is concerned! Associate Justice Supreme Court. Wm. H. Fish 450 Geo. F. Gober... ’... 228 Representative. J.P. Hamm0nd........ 435 g J. B. Bell 4W County Commissioner. D, L. Patrick. 416 J-A. J. Tidwell..... 358 W. J. Futral 651 ’ W. W. Champion. ..622 R. F. Strickland 607 Sheriff. M.F. Morris 526 M. J. Patrick. 478 Treasurer. J. C. Brooks 712 W. P. Horne ; ... .280 Tax Receiver. 8- M. McCowell 303 H.T. Johnson 567 R-H. Yarbrough 158 Surveyor. A.B. Kelt 886 W. M. Holman 601 Coroner. Williams., 577 * W. Leach 857 The consolidatiob will take place to* ®*y>and then the exact returns will be liven. £< Is Car ” Coartipatian Forever. it Co Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. r C. C. fan u> cure, drezgists refund money. SHAFTERS TROOPS LAND. THEY MEET WITH NO RESIST ANCE FROM ENEMY. Bear Admiral Sampson Shells the Woods and Five Thousand Cubans Assist the Americans. Washington, June 23—General Shatter has begun landing hie troops on Cuban soil. This was stated in a brief dispatch received by Secretary Algor yesterday, which was as follows: "Landing at Daiquiri this morning successful. Very little if any resistance. Shafter.” Shortly after this dispatch was re ceived,Secretary Long received a more extended cablegram from Admiral Sampson, which translated from the navy department cipher, is as follows: "Landing of the army is programing favorably at Daiquiri. There is very little if any resistance. The New Or leans, Detroit, Castine, Wasp and Bu»> wanee shelled the vicinity before land ing. We made a demonstration at Cabanas, to engage the attention of the enemy. The Texaa engaged the west battery for some hours. She had one man killed. Ten submarine mines have been recovered from the channel of Guantanamo. Communication by telegraph has been established at Guantanamo. Sampson." Admiral Sampson’s dispatch . indh cated that he was carrying out hia in structions thoroughly to clear away for the landing of troops. The demon stration which he made with the Tex as before Cabanas, which is just east of Guantanamo, may easily have led the Spaniards to suppose (hat a gen eral landing was to be attempted in that immediate vicinity. It waa evident from the text of Ad miral Sampsonki dispatch that a con siderable landing had already been effected pear Guantanamo, as he no ted that communication by telegraph bad been re-establiebed at that point and that the channel bad been cleared of submarine mines. Io the opinion of naval tfffid«WTWg"hnidifig at Guan tanamo was the matinee rather than of land forces. A week after the United States troops left Tortngas, they began to disembark on Cuban soil, landing in formation at two points, so as to at* tack Santiago in the rear and at the aides, with the navy to help the work in front. Thus the military invasion of Cuba may be said to have begun, for though the United States marines were the first of the regular forces to land upon Cuban soil, their purpose was not, after all, invasion,but the establishment of a naval base and a base for a cable station, in which they were eminently successful. To the regular troops was left the begin ning of the formidable task of invad ing Cuba in force by land. Willi the beginning of lift military movement the navy will draw close in shore to pound away at the forte at the entrance, and draw the cordon of warships so closely around the mouth as to make it impossible for Cervera’s vessels to escape, even if they are dis posed to take the most desperate chances, NEW ORLEANS POLITENESS. Kight Men Help • Stranger to Find a House at Might. “I was given a good example of south ern politeness the other night, ” said,a gentleman from the north. “I had gcQfi to the Comas ball and had agreed to es-' cort a lady home. She was also a stran ger in the city and was stopping with some friends on Bourbon street, about three blocks the other side of the opera house. As it was only a short distance we decided to walk. I was of course totally unacquainted with the street and when we left the lights of the opera house I felt very much at sea. The houses were dark and I could not see the numbers, and it was only by the number that the lady could identify her boarding place, as she had only been there once. “Ahead of me was a small man. I asked him if he knew where the num ber was. He answered very politely that he did not, but was going that way and would help me hunt. He told an other man in front of him about it, and that man told some of his friends. In a few minntes the gentlemen had formed an advanne guard in our interest. We walked calmly behind while they went in front, on either side of the street, striking matches and looking for the number. There were eight of them, and their matches would go off one after the other. It was a regular flambeau parade. I was overcome. 'Here it is,’ shouted an advance scout “We approached the house rapidly and found the eight gentlemen standing before it. It was almost w..a emotion that I raised my hat and thanked them for their efforts. 'Nothing at all, they ■sid nolitely, and the entire eight raised their hats and walked into the dark ness.’’—New Orleans Times-Democrat. —..— . - ■ GRIFFIN, &EORHIA, FRIDAY MORNING;. JUNE 24, 1898. CEBVEBA KISSED HOBSON The Brave American Tried to Fight His Way Back to Sampson- A dispatch to The New York Press from Albany, N. Y., says, according to the story related by James Myers of the flagship New York, io a letter written to a friend in Troy, Admiral Cervera kissed Hobson and hie asso ciates of tbe Merrimac for their brav ery. Mr. Myers’ letter io part fol lows :. ‘Hobsop and his men fought brave ly to cut t'heir way back to us, killing many Spaniards; but the tide was too strong and they were carried . shores ward and taken prisoners of war. "The Spanish captain of tbe Cristo bal Colon came to this ship bearing a flag of truce and told the admiral that all our men were alive, but without clothes We sent them clothes, pro visions and money. He also said that our men fought like demons and kill ed many of their men; that the Span* ish admiral said be never saw / such bravery and kissed every xme <if them on the forehead. “Everybody is admiring the pluck of the Spaniards, as the odds are all against them. They have no food, clothes or way of being helped, yet they will not give in. However, in another woek wo will take it without the loss of blood by having them ear render or will kill every Spaniard on the island. We are in it for fair, and will hold up Old Glozy in spite of every human feeling. The Spaniards have been cruel to our boys of tbs Maine, and now we will show them what jus tice, is and give them a little of Uncle Sam’s wrath. ' ‘By tbe way, when tbe Merrimac was going into the harbor to its doom s big flag with ‘Maine’ printed on it, was on tbe foremast. The poor Span ards must have felt sore to see that we never forget!" THE INDULGENT FATHER. An AeoounS of Ono Thnt Col—<l CnUiyee Know. Xu StorkvHle C—ter, Vt. ***** “Speddwcff inrinlguntfAtherw “ Colonel Calliper, “reminds me of an old friend of mine named Silas Zirig tock, who formerly lived in Starkville Centro, Vt Once when hisClittle son Rufus wanted very much to fly a kite at a time when he was not well enough to be permitted to go out Mr. Zingtock rigged up a contrivance whereby the youngster’s desire could be gratified in the house. He set up a blower in the back parlor, belted it to an engine in the cellar below, and when everything was all ready he started the fan and produced a current of air that was ample to float a kite. "It was great fun for young Rufus to sit in the back parlor and fly his kite in the front, and for a time everything went all right, but on an unfortunate day Busy, not satisfied with the amount of wind the fan was blowing, undertook to make it blow harder, which is some thing that Mr. Zingtock had expressly forbidden. It seems that the blower and the boiler and machinery were all much larger than were needed to produce a breezq sufficient to float a kite here, but Mr. Zingtock, who, though rich, was also thrifty, had had a chance to buy this plant second hand cheaper than a new plant of smaller size would have cost, and so he took it and had it set up, and every morning he used to adjust it‘so that it would not go above a cer tain speed, and several times he had cautioned his son never to touch it. “About one minute after Rufus did touch it on this morning when he want ed it to blow harder the big facNras go-' fffg at a gait that set up a hurricane in the parlors. It blew the kite against one of the windows and broke that the first thing, and within a miaute the pictures were off the walls and their glasses smashed, tables were upset, bric-a-brac was knocked into flinders, aqd the whole parlor was a wreck, with the big blower going at top speed and churning everything there into fragments /md blowing the debris out of the windows. * * That ended the father’s indulgence. ’’ —New York Sun. - - - - -V ■ / State of Ohio, Cm ov Toledo, ) Lucas County, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County ana State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev ery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Curb. 7 FRANK J. OHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D, 1886. ( ) A. W. GLEASON, ] what- > Notary Public. HalTs”Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimo- Educate tour Howels With Oar earete. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c. 25c lfac.C.f»li,4rt«xl»tarefmidiuoaey Reysl arekee the teed pare, . .JOYAL BAKING POWDIR CO., NtW YORK. THE SIAMESE GIRL. Her Oarmenta Are Soanty, and She Is aa Inveterate Smoker. From the moment of her birth a Si amese girl is treated with less consider ation man a boy. For several years aft er quilting the realms of “babyland" she drmses vwy slightly indeed (I refer more particularly to the lower classes, though the rule applies more or less generally). Next she adopts the sarong, or waist cloth, and on top of this is placed a bright colored scarf of consid erable, length and breadth, which Is cus tomarily crossed and recrossed over the breast and under the arms. These two garments constitute the whole of a Si amese girl’s wearing apparel unless she chance to wear a scanty vest of linen. Bings and bracelets are inevitable, pro vided she be of class enough to afford them, and hi a few cases the costume is finished off with a 'flimsy pair of }Up pers, into which the stockingless feet are thrust. The avenge Siamese girl is an invet erate smoker of cigarettes from a very tender age. When quite a baby, too, she, in common with' the rest of the population, is taught to chew the leaf and nut of -the betel palm—at least shedees not require to be “taught" this unlovsiy bnt (if we may bfgleve what we we) fascinating pastime. Since, however, t she knows full well that she will be esteemed passee, not to say an cient, at the agq,of 30 she concentrates the whole of her intellect upon the seri ous business of either entering the pal ace m getting married. But it it be the latter, the marriage in Siamese middle aMUpper elans life la the mart elabo rate function that an English girl could imagine. The negotiation—what we should term the "courting"—is gener ally conducted in the first instance through an old beldame. It is this old woman’s business to discover among other things whether the “stars in their courses" are propitious toward the hap py event and whether the respective birthdays of the bride and bridegroom fall suitably to the date fixed for their union, tor in all sueh matters the Si amese would appear to be even more su perstitious than their Buddhist belief might reasonably be expected to make them.—■ Gentleman’s Magazine. TBE EXCELLENCE OF SW OF FMS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California. Fig Stsvp Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs ia manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acta on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company— CALIFORNIA HG SYRUP CO. SAM FRANCISCe, <W. LOUISVILLE. Ks. MEW YORK. M. Y. Kvsrybody Says So. 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STRICKLAND & CO, Columbia Bicycles Lead AH Others. . . $35.00 fljin i: nn #50.00 ®40.00 “ JI/JI.IIU “ 875.00 Hartford bicycles! CABH OR CREDIT. n. H. DRAKE, CRIfFIN, GA. L , 1 , 1 ..!' 1 1 I iimi I !!."!—I SSSS2SEHSSBESSSSSSHBHHSBHS9 J. H. Huffs Ne» Book mJ IlKic Sim Has the latest fad in Paper and Envelopes—RED, WHITE AND BLUE-25c box. - HAMMOCKS AND CROQUET SETS ARE THE THING NOW. THE VIVE KODAK ONLY $5.00. ALL THE LATEST PERIODICALS ON HAND. J. H. HUFF’S BOOK AMD MOSIC STORE EDWARDS BHOS. RACKET STORE. We Have Just - - - Received A new shipment of Organdies In beautiful designs and col ors. We are selling. ® These Dainty Summer Goods lat 10c and 12 l-2c, which is much below the market on this clas of goods. We have a fine quality WHITE LAWN, 40 inches wide, at 15c' AU colors !■ KOSQUITO NETS at s<l - - EDWARDS BROS. Ten Cents per Week ~ - _