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THE MORNING CALL.
Vol. X. No. 132.
2.000 FILIPINOS KILLED.
FIELD STREWN WITH DEAD AND
DYING
Details of the Battle in Which the
Natives were Completely Repuls
e<l by American Soldiers.
Manila, Feb. 7.—lhe scene pre*
eented in the environs of the city as
lhe sun went down Sunday evening
was one of terrible desolation. In the
fighting the Filipinos bad been utter
ly routed, with fearful slaughter. From
the best information their losses are
estimated at 2,000, which estimate is
not believed to be excessive. The
natives were wholly unprepared for
the terrible punishment inflicted at
every out post They had evidently
been getting ready for the attack for
some time, but the vigorous work of
our troops has completely demoralized
them.
Our troops suffered more than at
first reported, upwards of forty having
been killed and 150 wounded. Thir
teen thousand Americans were en«
gaged ; while the Filipinos numbered
20,000.
The fourteeth infantry suffered the
most fatalities, owing to the close ap*
proacb of the enemy under cover of
the dense shrubb ry, and Qring at
short range from ambuscades. The
First Washington and Third artillery
also suffered heavily. The Utah ar
tillery and Sixth artillery were splen
didly effective in shelling the insur
gent trenches Sunday morning.
One hundred insurgents concealed
in a church, were firing upon the first
California and ambulances bearing lhe
wounded to the rear when the Sixth
artillery turned its guns upon the
church and in twenty minutes lhe
structure was completely ruined, and
lhe occupants killed, wounded, or dis
persed. The First California was also
subjected to a fierce fire from the huts,
about which the Filipinos were swarm
ing, so the Californians burned the
village. The slaughter of insurgents
north of the city by lhe guns of the
C illoa, Charleston and Concord was
particularly heavy The Filipinos had
massed along the beach, where they
had been driven, and hundreds were
torn to pieces by the terrible rain of
shells
The Charleston joined the Munan
dock off Malete Sunday afternoon and
poured shell after shell with awful
effect upon the insurgents, who were
falling back before the steady advance
of the Fourteenth infantry. The rice
fields along the bank of the river were
swept with shells from the gunboats,
and the village of Santa Ana was fairly
riddled with Gattling guns The good
results of the firing was seen the next
morning. Nearly all the native huts
on the outskirts were flying the white
flag
How to Look Good.
Good looks are really more than
skin deep, depending entirely on a
healthy condition cf ail the vital or
gans If the liver is inactive, you have
a bilious look ; ; f your stomach is dis
ordered, you have a dyspeptic look ; if
your kidneys are affected, you have a
pinched look. Secure good heilth,
and you will surely have geo 1 looks.
“Electric Bitter.,” is a good alterative
and tonic. Acts directly on the stom
ach, liver and kidneys, purifies the
blood, cores pimples, blotches and
boils, and gives a good complexion.
Every bottle guaranteed Sold at J.
N. Harris & Son, and Carlisle & Ward
Drug Store, 50 cents per bottle.
LETTER LIST.
List of letters remaining in the Griffin,
Ga., postoffice, week ending Feb. 6,1899.
Persons calling will pleae say “advertised”
and give date. One cent must be paid on
each advertised letter.
MALE LIST.
F-C. W. Fussell.
FEMALE LIST.
A—Miss Joe Andriers, H—Maud Hal
com, M—Miss Annie L. Mathews, S
Mrs. Cauder Saucer.
R. L. Williams, P. M.
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Signature of
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CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT.
THE ANDREWS OPERA COMPANY
An Attraction That Will Probably be
Here Next Monday.
The Griffin Rifl-g would call your
attention to the following from the
the Spantanburg (SC) Daily Herald,
bo that our people may know the
class of attraction the Andrews Opera
Company is:
“With every seat and all the stand
ing room in the opera house filled last
night by as cultured, as critical and as
representative an audience as could
be assembled in any community, the
Andrews Opera Company sang Flo
low’s‘Martha’ in a manner that left
nothing to be desired by the most
critical music lover present and easily
took its place, by the verdict of all, a,
pre-eminently the star attraction of
quite a number of seasons
“The music of ‘Martha’ is tuneful,
pleasing, grand. It occupies a plane
somewhat above that of comic opera
and will ever remain popular with all
lovers of opera. And last night, the
rapt attention and the tremendous
applause showing that the music and
the manner in which it was rendered
was being heartily enjoyed.
“While the company had come
highly endorsed and with much praise
showered upon it, the work and its
reception proved that the critics had
been none 100 lavish iu their praise.”
This company will appear at the
Olympic next Monday night under the
auspices of the Griffin Rifles, if they
sell enough tickets to warrant their
coming here.
Nearly one hundred citizens sub
scribed for tickets yesterday, and if
you have not done so, call at Reeves
Pharmacy and sign the list.
The Army Bill.
It is expected that the army bill
will be passed by the Senate in about
the same shape that it passed the
House. No doubt there will be some
minor changes made in it. An im
pression seems to have gone abroad
that it provides for an army of only
50,000 men, and gives the President
power to increase it to 100,000 men.
As a matter of fact it provides for an
army of 100,500 men, and authorizes
the President to reduce it to 50,000
men if, io bis opinion, it should ap
pear that the reduction could be made
with safety to the country.
If the bill becomes a law it is certain
that our army will consist of 100,000
men in time of peace Having once
increased the regular army to 100,000
men, it will be about impossible to re
duce it one half, or to reduce it at all.
The army officers and their friends
will 1 ave sufficient influence to keep
themsi Ives in the service. On account
of our war in behalf of Cuba we shall
saddle ourselves with an army
three limes as large as we had be
fore wh undertook that war. After
the army bill becomes a law the
cost of maintaining the army in
time of peace will not be far from
$100,000,000 a year That is more
than three times as much as our regu
lar army has been costing us. and yet
our army was large enough for our
needs befoie the trouble with Spain.
And the increase in the army is not
the only burden which the Spanish
war is going to impose upon us. We
are to have a great navy. We have
already contracted for a number of
battleships and torpedo boats, and we
shall continue building warships until
we have the greatest navy in the
world. The cost of building the navy
will be small ip comparison with the
cost of maintaining it.
And then when we get a great army
and a mighty nsvy we shall become
aggressive in our attitude towards
other countries, and will not be satis
fied until we have a war with one or
more of them. With the passage of
the army bill we shall have taken a
long step towards militarism, and for
the first lime in our history we shall
begiu to feel seriously the burden im
posed by a standing army.—Savannah
News.
The Modern Way
Commends itself to the well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys
tem and break up colds, headaches, and
fevers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Made by California Fig
Syrup Co.
i A.:u. lor
Qua AUvCwd Lobuctu habit cure, make.s wea'a
reo itio'ig, = pu r e. Sue. *1 All druggist*
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1899.
SPAIN NOTIFIED
The Formalities by which Peace Will
be Established
Washington, Feb 7.—The final ac
tion of the government in referenee
to the ratification of the peace treaty
was to notify the French embiasy
which is the official represeJtalive of
Spain in lhe United States. The state
department will have no further com
munication with Spain on the subject
until the Spanish cortes ratifies the
treaty. Notice of the senate’s action
was eent Dewey and Otis. Alger’s
dispatch to General Otis merely said
“Treaty ratified,” and contained no
advice, nor has any been sent Otis. He
will now proceed to compel the na
tives to lay down their arms.
The status of the United States and
Spain has not been changed by the
ratification, and peace won’t formally
be proclaimed until ratification iv ex*
changed.
Senor Lopez and other members of
the Filipinos’ junta in Washington,
have followed Agoncillo in hurriedly
leaving the town. It is presumed
that they have gone to Canada.
Gen Brooke leports the death at
Puerto Principe of Private Granade,
Company F, Third Georgia, of pneu
monia.
An Enterprising Druggist-
There are few men more wide awake
and enterprising than J. N. Harris &
Son, and Carlisle & 'Ward, who epare
no pains to secure the best of every
thing in their line for their many
customers. They now have the valua
ble agency for Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. This is the wonderful remedy
that is producting such a furor all
over the country by its many startling
cures. It absolutely cures Asthma,
Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affec
tions of the Throat, Chest and Lungs.
Call at above drug store and get a trial
bottle free or a regular sixe for 50
cents and $1 00. Guaranteed to cure
or price refunded.
Stories of Garland.
Mr. Garland’s death has recalled to
many minds incidents of his long
career in Washington, some of them
humorous and some pathetic, says the
New York Post. The story of the
trick played on him in lhe senate by a
group of colleagues, who offered him
cubes of brown Windsor soap under
the pretense that they were caramels,
and were dismayed to see him eat
them with apparent relish has been
told too many times to bear repealing.
But there is a less hackneyed re
miniscence of his return to Washing
ton after the campaign of 1880, a
convert, at Last temporarily, to
teetotalism. He bad always been up
to that time a free liver, and had
touched glasses with his brother sena
tors with no restraint beyond his own
distaste for excesses.
When he suddenly declined the
proferred hospitality of their side
boards, they were astonished, and
asked him a thousand questions to
draw out the reason. He consented at
last to explain.
“Gentiemen,” he said, “I have
simply stopped. We had a pretty hot
canvass in Arkansas this summer, and
I stumped most of the slate. I saw
everywhere lhe graves of good fellows
who used to share my convivialities,
while others, reduced to sorry wrecks,
were still moving about the streets.
Figuring the thing up roughly, and
dividing the total of the whiskey con
sumed in Arkansas by the number of
habitual consumers, so as to get an
average, I found that I had already
drunk about a barrel and a half of
whiskey more than I was entitled to.
This set me to thinking ‘lt I drink any
more,’ said I to myself, 'I shall be
drinking some other fellow’s whiskey.
Os course, I didn’t waut to do that, so
I just stopped.”
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
THE BEST SALVE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by J. N.
Harris & Son and Carlisle & Ward.
For Croup use CHENEY'S
EXPECTORANT
CTkSTOTiIA.
Bears ths 1)3,6 W * a ? s BW*'
RoYal
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
How We Won the Day.
A small Cleveland boy bad a
dreadful stock of slang at bis tongue’s
end, to the great grief ar.d humiliation
of his mother, says lhe Cleveland
Plain Dealer. A good deal of this
slang he learns in the streets, and
some of it he gets from a wicked un
cle.
The other day while out with his
sled be Lad a bad tumble on lhe ice,
and bruised his side quite severely.
He isn’t too big a boy to be petted by
mamma and be came into the house
to get her help and comfort.
He bounced into the parlor, and
there sat a kindly faced gentleman
with big dark eyes and a curling beard,
This is the way the boy described
what followed :
“I knew who it was right away,
mamma, and I said to him : ‘‘Ain’t
you th’ new gospekscout to our chuch?
An’ he kind o’ smiled an, said:
‘You’ve guessed it, my boy. I’m the
new sermon shaik at the brimstone
shack around the corner,’ Say, mam
ma, he beats uncle George clean out
o’ sight. Uncle George don’t know no
slang as good as that. Then he saw me
boldin’ my side an’ ho says : ‘What’s
th’ matter? Cracked a s’at?’ Au’,
say, mamma, he just unbuttoned my
jacket and rubbed the pain right
away, mos’ as quick as you could, an’
I think he’s the nicest n.an I ever
saw, except papa, of course, an’ I told
him I’d be sure to come to hear him
preach uext Sunday.”
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
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 Fio Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is 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 acts 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 FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE. Kr. NEW YORK. N. V.
Mardi Gras Carnival.
Account of above occasion the
Southern Railway will sell tickets to
New Or’eans, Mobile and Birming
ham, All .atone fare for the round
trip Tickets on sale Feb. 7th to 13th
inclusive. Good returning on or b -
fore Feb. 28th. Il J. Williams,
H F. Cary, Ticket Agt.
T P. A , Macon, Ga.
Karli Gras Carnival.
O.i account of above occasion the
Central of.Ga. Railway will sell tickets
to New Orleans, La . Mobile and Birm
ingham, Ala , at one fare for the round
trip. Tickets on sale Feb 7th to 13 b
inclusive Good returning on or
b fore Feb. 28th.
R J Williams, Agt.
J.C. Haile, G P. A.
Savannah Ga.
R.F. Strickland & Go.
Early Spring Arrivals.,
This store is always first in showing newest
things in Dry Goods and Notions!
Monday we show the handsomest line of Embroideries and Laces yet
shown in Griffin.
50 pieces new Hamberg Embroideries for shirts, sc. to 35c.
125 pieces new Nainsook and Mull edges and ens’rtions, dainty patterns
for childrens dresses, sc. to 40c. yard.
40 pieces Nainsook and Mull ensertions, used for yokes, all exquisite
patterns and cheap. New line of Valencene Laces and Beading*, plain and
Point D'Esprit footing. New line Torchon Laces very cheap.
White Lawns and Dimities Bc., 10c. and 124 c.
FOR MONDAY SALE.
SI.OO White Quilts at 75c.
$1.25 White Quilts at SI.OO.
$2.00 White Quilts at $1.50.
Special values in cotton and linen towels.
10 pieces of Duck Suiting at 11c. worth 12ic.
10 pieces of plain Duck in dark and light colors at 10’.
All newest colors in Taffeta Silk at 85c.
New Waist Silks in stripes, latest novelties.
R. F. STRICKLAND Be CO.
Bargains in Groceries.
WITH A VIEW TO MAKING SOME CHANGES IN OUR LINE OF BUSI
NESS, WE WILL OFFER OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF FANCY GROCERIES AT
VERY LOW PRICES FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
WILL SELL THIS WEEK STABLE GROCERIES AT THE FOLLOWING
VERY LOW PRICES:
18 pounds Standard Granulated Sugar - * - SI.OO
14 pounds best Lard - - - - SI.OO
14 pound best Rice ..... s|.oo
3 pound can Tomatoes, per case - - - $1.65
2 pound can Tomatoes, [per case a-- $1.50
45 bars Good Laundry Soap .... SI.OO
Will selCour Crockery and Tin Ware at Actual cost
Mocho and Java Coffee, per pound - - - 25cts.
GIVE US A TRIAL.
JF’TYYISrT CO-
BARGAINSIN BICYCLES.
Now is the time to get a wheel at youi own price, either new or second hand.
We are doing all repair work on BICYCLES AT ONE-FOURTH OFF the regu
bir price. Take advantage of this opportunity and have your wheel made to LOOK
LIKE NEW, for the coming season.
WE ARE REPRESENTATIVES OF
John A. Lambert, Flciist,
OF ATLANTA, and arc prepared to furbish CUT FLOWERS and DECORA
TIVE PLANTS, for entertainments, weddjngs, funerals, etc.
Call ’Phone 4 Two Calls
When you want to send a parcel or message anywhere. We will send a Bicycle
Messenger AT ONC E.
KILLIAN & LAMBERT.
-i.-> hill street.
RICHES
COME BY SMALL SAVINGS.
One Penny Saved is equal to Two
Made
For Spot Cash
We will sell
David Landreth & Son,
Robt. Buiat, Jr. A Co.,
L. L. May & Co.’s
Garden Seed at
2jcts. per paper.
Peas and Onion Sets
Correspondingly Low.
THE BEST IS ALWAYS THE
CHEAPEST.
N. B. DREWRY & SON.
Parlor Car and Sleeping Car Service Be
tween Alanta and Albany, Ga.
The Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany has inaugurated parlor car and
sleeping car service between Atlanta and
Albany, Ga., on train leaving Albany 4:15
a. m , arriving Macon 7:40 a. m., Atlanta
'■ 11:20 a. m., and on train leaving Atlanta
4:05 p. m., arriving Macon 7:20 p. m , Al
bany 11:05 p. m. Passengers trom Alba
ny, Ga., holding berth tickets, can take
sleeper at Bp. m., thus allowing them to
remain in sleeper over night. Passengers
arriving Albany at 11:05 p.' m., may re
main in sleeper until 7:00 a. m. Rate for
double berth in sleeper, 150 miles and un
der, $ 1.50; over 150 miles, $2.00.
Charges for seats, as follows: 50 miles
and under, 25 cents; 51 miles to 125 miles,
50 cents; 126 miles to 200 miles, 75 cents;
201 miles to 300 miles, SI.OO
Ten Cents per Week
Salary Ordinance For 1899.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Conn
cil of the City of Griffin, that the following
salaries be paid the different officers of the
city during their term of office:
Mayor, S4OO 00 per annum, payable
monthly,
I Clerk and Treasurer, $300.00 per annum
payable monthly and fees,
Chief Police, 45.00 per month payable
monthly.
Po’icemen each, $40.00 per month pay
able monthly.
City Physician, 150 00 per annum pay
able monthly.
Janitor $20.00 per month payable
monthly.
PARSNIP COMPLEXION.
It does not require an expert to detect
the sufferer from kidney trouble. The
hollow checks, the sunken eyes, the dark,
, puffy circles under the eyes, the sallow,
< parsnip-colored complexion indicates it.
A physician would ask if you had rheu
matism, a dull pain or ache in the back or
over the hips, stomach trouble, desire to
urinate often, or a burning or scalding in
passing it; if after passing there is an un
. satisfied feeling as if it must be at once re
peated, or if the urine has a brick dust de
posit or strong odor.
When these symptoms are present, no
time should be lost in removing the cause.
Delay may lead to gravel, catarrh of the
1 bladder, inflammation, causing stoppage,
I and sometimes requiring the drawing of
» the urine with instruments, or may rue
i into Bright’s Disease, the most dangerous
i stage ot kidney trouble.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
discovery of the eminent kidney and blad
: der specialist, is a positive remedy for
i such diseases. Its reputation is world
: wide and it is so-easy to get at any drug
store that no one need suffer any length
of time for want of it.
However, if you prefer to first test its
wonderful merits, mention The Middle
Georgia Farmer, and write to Dr. Kil
mer & Co,, Binghamton, N. Y.. f.r
sample bottle and book telling all about it,
both sent absolutely free by mail. 1