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THE MORNING CALL.
VoL IX No. 256.
THE BATTLE IS ON.
ALL THE LAND AND SEA FORCES
ABB ENGAGED.
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Sampson’s Fleet Bombards the Forts
and Cervera e Fleet Shells the
American Lend Forces.
Washington, Joly I—At 7 o’clock
this morning a general assault was
made on Santiago de Cuba by tbe sea
and land forces of the United States,
and tbe Americans hive captured one*
or two of tbe suburbs of that city.
Morro castle is being bombarded by
tbe American fleet and the Vesuvius
is doing deadly work.
At 6 p. ru. the Spaniards could
stand tbe terrible fire of tbe American
army no further and beat a hasty re
treat within the walla of Santiago,
leaving hundreds of their dead and
wounded behind.
The fatalities on both sides will be
great, but how terrible cannot be told
at this hour.
The Spanish fleet in the harbor
opened fire on the Americana .as they
approached the city, and did terrible
work.
The fighting continued all through
the day, and late in the evening was
raging all along the line.
Sampson drew his entire fleet close
into harbor and poured a galling fire
upon all tbe fortifications, which re
plied vigorously.
The enemy suffered greatly on the
right, where Genetal Lawton’s division
was engaged, and they were the first
to fall back into the city, leaving the
. Americans in possession of Caney.
General Lawton had orders to seize
this position, so as to intercept rein
forcements which are believed to be
approaching tbe city. General Law
ton was supported by Major General
Wheeler’s devision. (
When the battle was raging at its
fiercest, a brave American soldier was
carried to the rear with both legs shot
Off by a shell from the Spanish fleet,,
but with bis dying breath he spoke
words of encouragement to his corn*,
rades and bid them fight like Ameri
cana and stop only when tbe stars and
stripes floated from every fortress in
Cnba.
There are over over 4,000 Cuban
soldiers operating with tbe American
army while tbe Spanish force defend
ing Sautiago is estimated at from 15,-
000 to 20,000 It is thought that after
General Lawton’s capture of Caney,
he will be able to prevent tbe 8,000
men under General Pando from reach
ing General Linares.
If he succeeds in keeping out this
reinforcement, tbe city will be taken
July 4th.
T. B. Rice, a prominent druggist of
Greensboro, Ga., writes as follows: “I
have handled Dr. Pitts’ Carminative for
eight yean, and have never known of a
single instance where it failed to give per
fect satisfaction. Parties who once use it
always make permanent customers. We
sell more of this article than all the other
Carminatives, soothing syrups and colic
drops combined.” For teething children
it has no equal.
How Carried tbe Day.
Congressman James Hamilton Lewis
arrived at Spokane during the boom. He
had Just graduated from the University
of Virginia and had been recently admit
ted to the bar. Like many another, he
reached Spokane almost penniless. He
put up at one of the cheapest boarding
houses and began to look over the field.
On the second evening after his arrival in
the city a mass meeting of the citizens was
announced to discuss some of the innu
merable schemes that booming cjtles have
for alluring capital and raisinglhe price
of corner lota. Lewis had fallen in with
another young lawyer whose condition
was similar to his own. He proposed to
his fellow barrister, as they had nothing
else to do, that they go around to the
meeting. The meeting was in progress
i when they arrived, and “leading citizens”
of the town were being called upon to
speak.
Lewis was not long in grasping the situ
ation, and he whispered to his friend.
The latter shook his head, but Lewis
whispered some more and finally carried
his point. His friend arose and announced
that “he felt sure if the chairman would
call upon our gifted fellow townsman,
James Hamilton Lewis, he would be glad
to speak.” The people began calling
“Lewis! Lewis!” and at length he went
upon the platform and gave one of his
characteristic speeches. Language flows
readily with him, and he carried the audi
ence by storm. He then reciprocated by
calling upon his friend for a speech.
From that day on Lewis was a popular
man. Times were often hard with him
and his clothing was sometimes thread
bare, but somehow be Always managed to
hage afresh buttonhole bouquet, for which
the people nicknamed him “Dude Lewis. ”
Soon after his speech he farmed a partner
ship with his friend, and the firm is now
one of the leading law partnerships on the
Pacific coaot.—Exchange.
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Guaranteed tobacco habit, cure, makes weak
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THE DOOMED CITY
I
location of the American Troop* at
Santiago-
Washington, Julj I—The Ameri
can army uoder General Shafter is
being rapidly mobilized near Argua
doreSffour miles from Santiago de
WMte the troops are beiog moved
with Aridity, it is slow work moving
the pad Haiti-, wagon*, artillery and
ambulances, as he road runs through
a tangle of uude.growth up and down
steep hillsides and over treacherous
swamps for a distance of over twelve
miles.
A large force of regular?, volunteers
end Cttbfttfs are cutting down trees
and clbsriog away the brush so the
siege guu* can be rushed toward the
doomed city.
General Shafter has left his ship
and taken up his quarters with Gen*,
era! Wheeler at the fropl Tbit was
thought to indicate that au attack
would be made upon Santiago at once,
but the officers say it will be impossi
ble to got tbe army in shape? to strike
a blow for several days.
About 2,000 troops are camped four
miles east nl tbe besieged city and tbe
remainder of the forces stretch along
the road from there to Juraguea and
Baiquiri.
Tbe advance forces are in a semi
circle, the left flank resting about two
miles from those under General Chaf
fee with the extreme right under
Colonel Miles about a mile to the
northwest. Beginning with the
Twelfth infantry at tbe extreme left,
the Seventh, Seventeenth, Fourth,
Twenty fifth and Tenth infantry ex
tend to tbe right in order named.
Beyond them, picket lines are estab
lished three quarters of a mile nearer,
Santiago city being in plain sight of
General Chaffee’s and Colonel Miles’s
troops, »
Tbe fleet lies all day long witbin a
mile and a half of Morro’a guna, si
i lenlly and grimly waiting for the
time to come when it shall finally
measure its strength with tbe harbor
battery.
The officers think the Spaniards
must be very short on ammunition, or
they could not resist the tempting
targets the big men-of-war make, as
they lay motionless within such short
range.
Intercepted dispatches from Admir
al Cervera state that food and ammu
nition are getting very short in Santi
ago, and the latter will be exhausted
very soon.
A. W Greely, chief signal officer, re
ceived a dispatch this morning from
Lieutenant Colonel Allen, stating that
a telephone and telegraph station had
been established at a point within two
miles of Santiago.
This information is of the highest
importancj to tbe officials of the war
department, as ft insures to them
practically direct communication with
General Shafter.
The information is significant, too,
“as it shows that the American trdbps
are in rifle shot of Santiago. The tel\
egraph station being, of course, within
the American lines, its location con
clusively indicates that tbe forces of
General Shafter have established
themselves in advance of the tele
graph station.
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Cheap Bate* to Washington, D- 0.
On account of National Educational
Association Convention round trip tickets
will be sold from all points via. Atlanta
and Seaboard Air Line at rate one fare
plus two dollars for membership of Asso
ciation. Rate from Griffin is $17.50—53
cheaper than via any other all rail line.
Tickets on sale July 4,5,6, and 7, good
returning until July 16, but can be extend
ed to August 81 if deposited with joint
agent, Washington on or before July 12,
and on payment of 50c fee. Above rate
applies all rail through Richmond, Va,,or
via Old Point Comfort, Va.
For information address
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Wm. B. Clements, T. P. A,
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 2, 1888.
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Lieut. Blue Got His Conge
Lieut Victor Blue, the nervy young
officer who recently performed the feat
of getting a good view of the Spanish
fleet in Santiago harbor by making *
daring detour of 75 mile* or so on Cu
ban soil, was attached to tbe Benning
ton, which was lying in Honolulu har
bor about three years ago, A»ya the
Washington Post.
He was then au ensign, and he bed
not up to that limo been a .wardroom
caterer,. So he was unanimously elect
ed as soon as he was attached to tbe
Benuington.
L’eul Blue is a giant of a young
man and exceedingly good natured.
But he made sad hash of the caterer’s
job. He got bis accounts all mixed
up before he had served a* caterer a
week, and he had to pay a lot of
seigniorage out of his own pocket.
The meals he placed before hie mess
mates were satisfactory enough, but
the caterer’s job wore on Lieut. Blue.
He figured on how to get his conge. -
When a new caterer is elected it is
tbe custom of the wardroom officers to
weigh themselves every day, in a spir
it of fun, in order to worry tbe caterer,
and to maxe it appear by their sdi
emnly averred loss of weight that they
are being half starved.
Lieut Blue went down to the en
gine room one day after be bad been
worried over the caterer’s job for a
week or so and dug out a big drop
scale. He tinkered with it for a
while. Then be rigged a bo’sun’s
chair to it, carried it aft, and sugges
ted to the officers that when they Wan
ted to weigh themselves thereafter
they use those scales of his The of
ficers didn’t suspect anything, and
alte l - dinner the same day several of
them weighed themselves. They had
all lost a pound since tbe day before.
They said the scales were wrong, and
Lieut. Blue admitted that perhaps
they were. They all weighed again
the next day. Each of them had loit
another pound, and they began to feel
of their waistbands wonderingly. All
of tbe officers of the Bennington’r
wardroom mess went on losing fl’sh,
according to Lieut. Blue’s scales/ lor
ten days or ss. Then a meeting of tbe
wardroom officers was called, and
Lieut. Blue was dropped as caterer, as
being “incompetent” and “no account,
anyhow.” Lieut. Blue didn’t have to
serve as caterer for tbe rest of that
cruise, and be wore a smile of deep
content every time he looked at a
weighing apparatus.
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Bobbed the Grave
A startling incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
“I was in a most dreadful condition,
My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunk
en, no appetite—gradually growing
weaker day by day. Three physicians
had given me up FqgHsnately, a
friend advised Bitters
and to my great joy and surprise, tbe
first bottle made a decided improve
ment. I continued their use for three
weeks, and am now a well man. I
know they saved my life, and robbed
the grave of another yjetim ” Noone
should fail to try them Only 50cts
per bottle at J. N. Harris & Son’s and
Carlisle & Ward’s tJriUg store.
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An UnwillingXioA
Rudyard Kipling told a feminine ad
mirer not long ago that London* society
was something which not only palled
but quickly disgusted him. Now that
he has given hostages to fortune by as
suming the cares of a husband and a fa
ther, of course he is not free to act as
in his bachelor days. But, so he assured
his listener, after some months’ experi
ence in London in the season before his
marriage he went into the slums and
lived on the east side for a time for no
other reason than to get as complete a
change as possible from that artificial
existence in which he was called upon
to play au unwilling lion’* part
Cooked Food*.
Cooked foods should be eaten moder
ately warm, not hot. The high temper
ature injures the mucous lining of the
whole digestive apparatus, and by in
creasing the flow of perspiration renders
the skin more susceptible to chills and
colds.
The habit of eating hot food also in
creases a desire for liquids, and thus
one bad habit leads to another.
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To Care Cou.tipation Vorever.
Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
< x a c. c. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Roy®l ttie food ,
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ROY At BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Candler as a Speaker-
The Democratic convention that
assembled in this city yesterday was a
remarkable o'oe.
It was the shortest political conven
tion that ever assembled in the capi
tal.
Its entire deliberations only exceed
ed three hours by a, few minutes.
The convention was re&arkable io
another way. It was a tower of
strength in the ability of tbe members
comporidg it.
Many of Georgia’s brainest sons
were here and took part in its delib
erations, and it was a convention that
would have attracted attention any
where.
There wa* ilo unseemly wrangle
that has characterized some of the
political conventions of tbe past, both
Democratic and Populists.
The people did the work for this
conventijn and did it well.
The impression seemed to have gone
abroad in those counties where Co).
Candler could not speak that be was
i not a good speaker.
When the old grizzled veteran was
. introduced by Chairman dußignon
yesterday and began bis speech, he
bad not proceeded far when a promi
r neut attorney, who had never heard
, him, enthusiastically said : "Why, be
■ cau apeak!’*
i Col. Candler’s straightforward man*
i ner io presenting the ieeues to the
i people had much to do with tbesweap
, iog victory that crowned hie success.
Here’s to Governor Candler and the
people that made him governor!—At
i lanta Commercial.
SiMmOk
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Has the latest fad in Paper and Envelopes—RED, WHITE
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HAMMOCKS AND CROQUET SETS ARE THE THING NOW.
THE VIVE KODAK ONLY $5.00.
ALL THE LATEST PERIODICALS ON HAND.
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