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r.ABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, UNE 14, 74. THE AMERICAN FLAG FLOATING OVER CUBA. OFFIoIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF TIE FACT YTHE NAVY DEPAUTMENT. Uiarlsa Holding the Gronld they Wl. All Roidy ist Guinanitano for the Lqnd ing of United States Regular Troops nt Sooo nol Thety Arrive-Admiral Hamp4on Tlie the Story of the Darlsa Feat of Liot. H1ob nte aknd His Mon. Washington, June IL.--The nvy dapartment was in conmrunioation to day with Admiral Sampson off San. tiago by cable and by mail, with the result that it is now -kuown and hns been declared officially that the American flag floats over Cuba; that it was raised by United States ma rines at the mouth of Guantanamo Bay. The marines who have thus glorified themselves were 800 in number. They wore obliged to fight for their lives, and in the course of that fight to burn down the town chosen as a site for debarkation. All is ready at Guantanamo now for the landing of the United States regular troops as Boon as they arrive there, tho marines holding the ground that they won and being pro tected by the guns of the Marble head under Captain McCalla. Regarding the fleet of transports, no stateinent is obtainable at the war department, and it is believed that the situation is as it stood yes terday with respect to the starting of the expedition. A subject for an official bulletin today at the navy department was Hobson's glorious foat in bottling up the Spanish squadron with the hull of the Merrimac. With the frank ness of candor peculiar to the man, Admiral Sampson withheld no credit from Hobson for either the execution or projabt of a well worked out scheme to which the constructor was entitled, and he has cleared away at once the small cloud of dissatisfac tion that shown itself among a few of the line officers - because of the selection of a staff officer in the por son of Hobson to conduct the des porato enterprise. Reference was made in Sampson's statemont to the "inspiring letter" of Secretary Long as a basis for the request for Hobson's promotion. With the consent of Secretary Long, the particular passage in the letter to which Admiral Sampson -referred is now made public. It reads: "Each man engaged in the work .of the inshore squadron should have in him the stuff out of which to make a possible Gushing; and if the man wins, the recognition given him. *ihall be as great as that given to (Cushing, so far as the department can bring this about." (Signed) "JOHN D. LoNG, "Secrotary." H{obson has wvon, and if he escapes from his present thraldom the navy department will redeem its promise. A consultation of the records of the navy departmuont shows that the recognition accorded Gushing was his -advancement one full grade--that is, from the rank of lieutenant, which he held wvhen lhe took his little boat up to the Albermarle, to the rank of lieutenant comnmander. In adldition, lhe was given a vote of thanks by Congress. If Hobson is rewarded in the same measure lhe will, if kept in his corps, be raised to the rank of lieutenant commander at least, and made a full constructor inlstondl of t,be astistant constr-uctor which he now is." THlE 110T sPRINGs OF AIRKANsAsI. 'I he Mm,intaIn-L.ocked Miracle of the Ozasrks, The hot waters, the mountain air, eognablo climate and the pine forests make Hot Springs the most wonder fuil healkh and ple-asure resort in the world, anmmor or wvinter. It is own i'd and contr-olled by the U. S. Gov ernim(ent and hams accommodations for asli classes. Tfhe Arlington and Parink hotels and1( 00 olbhers and 200 h oarding houses are open all summer. Hlaviung an altitude of 1000' feet it is a cool, anfe and nearby refnge dluring the heated term in the south. For information coner-ning Hot *Sp)rings address C. F. Cooley, Man aiger IJusinosa; Mcmn's L4engue, Hot Springs, Ark. For reduced ex',urasion tickets and particulars of the t rip see local agent or adldress,W. A. Turk, Gen'l 1Vass. Agent, Southern -Rty., Washington, D.CO GREAT NEW SOUNDULES. Extta Train to Greenwood -and: Time to Charleston Shortened. (Greenville News, 10th.) Official notice was received bore yesterday of important changes on the Columbia & Greenville division of the Southern Railway which will be hailed ' ith delight by people along the road and especially in Greenville. The most important of these changes is the running of a now train which will allow passengers from as far down as Greenwood to leave their homes at. a reasonable time in the inornig, spend eight hours in this city and return in the evening. Business men here are particularly pleased with this ar. rangement as it gives their custom ers the oppor,unity to come here, spend the day attending to business and get home conveniently and ;they predict that it will be the most profi table train to the railway it runs. This train will be put on .next Monday and will run every week day. Coning up it will leave as follows: Greenwood ---- 7.10 a. in. Abbeville - -- -050 a. in. Donald's - --.- 7.50 a. Im. Anderson - - - - - 7.45 a. in. Bolton - - ----8.25 a. in. Polzer - - - - - - -8.45 a. m. Piedmont - - - - 0.00 a. in. It will arrive in Greenville at 0.30. Returning, the schedule will be, leaving Greenville at 5.30 p. in. Piedmont, 5.55. Pelzer, 0.15. Belton, 0.30. Anderson, 7.00. Donald's, 0. 55. Hodges, 7.15. Abbeville, 7.50. Greenwood, 7.45. Tho merchants here generally signed a petition six weeks ago ask Ing that such a train be put on. The petition was put in the hands of H. 0. Beattie who presented it so strong ly and ably that he caught the at. tention and aroused the interest of Assistant General Passenger Agent Hardwick. Mr. Hardwick became so deeply interested that he worked as diligently as if lie had been a Greenvillo man, Jesse McGee and Alexander McBee badking him man fully. Superintendent 'Wells be. came convinced that the train would be a good thing for the road 'and the city and now the ,orders have come and Greonville rejoices and thanks the oflicials cordially. Beginning on the 12th the sched ule between this city and Charleston will be shortened both wvays. Dowvn trains will leave hero at 10.15 a. in., and arrive at Columbia at 2.50 and Charleston at 0.40, an hon: earlier than at present. UJp trains will leave Charleston at 7.30 a. mn., in stead of 0 o'clock as~ now, and will reach Columbia at 11. a. in. and Greenville at 3.5(0 instead of 4.85, as at prosent. Take JOHNSON'S CHIILL & FE?VE3R TONIC.--eg - "BEFORB BABT IS BORN.* A Valuable Little Book of Interest to All Women Sent Free. Every woman looks forward with feel ings of Indescribable joy to the one mo mnentous event of her life,comnpared w~ith which all others pale Into insignifi cance. H-ow proud and happy she will be when her precious babe nestles oni her breast- -how sweet the name of "'Mother!?' And yet her happy antici pation of this event is clouded with misgivings of thme p)ain and danger of the orderl, so that it is impossible to avoidl the feeling of e'onstant dread which creeps over her. The danger and suffering attendanmt upon beinug a mother. can be entirely prevented, so that the comning of the little str-anger need not be )6kcd forward to withl fear and trainbling, as is so often thme ease. Every woman who r-eads this paper.can obtain.absolutely free a val tmnbie and attractive little book enti tIed "Before Baby 18 Born," by sending her name and address to thme Bradifleht Rteguintor Coe., Atlanta, Ga. This book co,ntains priceless information to all women, and tio one should fall to send fom. NVITU OLOVES OFF. (hatan is1elden's Red not Report to State hoard. Chairman Hasolden's general re port to the State Board of Control was made public last night. After reviewing several matters of detail, not of general public interest, the report says: "I have just received information from Inspector Edwards as to a shortage of $808.91 against dispen. ser J. K. McMillan at Toddville, S. C. "Mr Edwards writes me that this dis penser acknowledges that he has been short for three years, yet his reports at this oflica have been made to con form with accounts here against him, and the samo being approved by the County Boaid of Control. "Owing to your meeting here to night. I did not take action against him, leaving the matter in your hands." In this language Chairman Hasel den pays his respects to dispensers and county boards. "A very serious matter requires our attention in the management of the various dispensaries throughout the State as regards the duties of the county boards. Many of them give such little attention to their duties as to bo abwolutely worthless, and in many instancos are a hin dranco instead of a help in the dip pensary management. Many of them keep no account of the stock of goods charged against the dispen sers at consumers' prices, and do not know whether the county dispenser makes a correct showing or not. In nearly every instance where we have found dispenser's short to us at our invoice prices, thecounty boards have boon and are unable to find the amount of the dispensers shortage to the county. This shows that they keep r-o account against the dispen sors at consumers' prices, as they should do in order to determine the dispensers' shortage to the county, and to properly know at any time just how he stands in regard to the city and county's profits. "As an example of the slack and unbusiness.like management, . i fr to the Beaufort dispenser, who hai not even as much as a request book showing accounts of sales each day, and whom I havo ordered before this board to show cause why be should not be turned over to the Attorney General (or prosecution for violating the law. This loop-hole givru the dispensers by the county boards not doing their duty permits them to rob the county and city of their profits. "When the Stato finds them short they can pay up shortages to the State at our invoice prices, the coun ty boar-ds having nothing charged against them at consumers' prices; they profit at the expense of the county and city. This gives the business entirely to the dispenser, and not to the county; we must try to find a remedy to check this derc. liction of duty and get the county hoards to keep their dispensers straight, and thus save the county and cities their profit.. "I suggest that we require our book keeper to charge each dispenser, in addit ion to our invoice price to dis pensors, the dispensers' prices to con sumers, so when we sendl our inspec tors to check up a drsponser no arm him with the consume-s' pr-ice, and he checks the dispsnser and holds him accountable for every cent re ceived and disbursed to county, city and State. "One of the great hinderances to the successful management of the dispensary system is the incompe tency of some of the county dispeun. sers who are elected by the county boards of control. WVhile it is trut he cannot be confirmed tunt il thit boat-d approves t.ho net ion of the county board, y t we fail to inquire into his qualiiat in or compd)C ency I suggest that before a dispenser ii allowed to take charge of a dlispen sary he be reqnired to report at thi office to be exaiminodl as to his quali lication arnd competency. If this i done, good men, though incompetent may never be placedl in a positiot they cannot fill with credit to them selvci and families, and, an honor t their countios. As it is now they are placed in a position in which they cannot sustain themselves, and do great injustice not only to the State and county, but 'to thonmolves and families." The report concludes with this de served compliment to Commissioner Vance -%nd his assistants: "In conclusion, permit me to say that under the splendid business management of Commissioner Vance, assist-d .by efficient and willing clerks and superintendent, each and every one knowing his tnty, and doing it, and working in perfect har. mony, the success of the Cispensary is an assured fact. "It affords me pleasure to especial. ly mention the ease and correctness with which Messrs. Outz and black manage their respective depart. ments of which they have had c.u trol for only one month, and to also commend our inspectors for the very satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their duties. All of of which is respectfully submitted. Capt. B. C. Webb and his efficient corps of assistants are all that could be desired, and they have no superi ors in the service of the State." CampaIgn Appoinimenits. The report of the sub-committee on campaign schedulo was adopted as follows. Orangeburg,Thursday, June 10. St. George'%, Friday, June 17. Charleston, Saturday, June 18. Walterboro, Monday, June 20. Beaufort, Tuesday, (night), Juno 21. Hampton, Wednesday, June 22. Barnwell, Friday, June 24. Bamberg, Saturday, June 25. Sumter, Tuesday, June 28. Manning, Wednesday, June 29. Monk's Corner, Tuesday, June 30. Georgetown, Saturday, July 2. Kingstree, Tuesday, Juxly V5. Florence, Wednesday, July 6. Marion, Thursday, July 7. Conway, Saturday, July 9. Darlington, Tuesday, July 12. Chesterfiold, Thursday, July 14. BeDnnottville, Saturday, July 10. Bishopville, Tuesday, July 19. Camden, Thursday, July 21. Lancaster, Saturday, July 23. Chester, Monday, July 25. Winnsboro, Tuesday, July 26. Yorkville, Wednesday, July 27. Gaffney, Thursday, July 28. Spartanburg, Friday, July 29. Union, Saturday, July 80. Newberry, Monday, August 8. Laurens, Tuesday, August 9. Greenville, Thursday, August 11. Pickens, Friday, August 12. WValhalla, Monday, August 15. Anderson, Tuesday, August 10. Abbeville, Thursday, August 18. Greenwood, Friday August 10. Aiken, Monday, August 22. Edgefld, Tuesday, August 23. Saluda, Thursday. August 25. Lexington, Friday August 26. Columbia, Saturday, August 27. WHERtE TIlE OFFICERS COME FROM. How General mud sin.: Officers have been Apportioned Amn,g the states andi Regular Armuy. WVashington, June 1 1.--The war department has made the following statement, showing the appointment of general officers and officers of the general staff, United Stat~es volun teers, as apportioned among thoStates and the regular army: Alabama .3, Arkansas 8, California 11, Colorado 7, Connecticut 8, Delawvare 2, Flor ida 4, Georgia 11, Idah . ' ilinois 10, Indjana 15, Iowa" - Annas -3, Kentucky 2. Louissmna I, Maine 0, Marylangl 5, Massachusetts 1, Michi gao 12, Minnesota 12, Mississippi 8, Missouri 8, Mont ana 4, Nebraska 4, Nevada --, New Hampshire 4I, New~ Jersey 5S, New York 57, North Caro lina 2, North Dakota 8, Ohio 29 Oregon 8, Pennaylvania 21, R{hod< I4land -, Sonth Carolina 5, Soutl: Dakota I, Tennossee 10, Texas U Utah 2, Virginia 10, Vermont 4 Washington 1, West Virginia 4I Wisconsin 5, Wyoming 2, District o Columbia 12, Arizona 1, New Mexi Co 1, United States army 275; Uniito< States marine hospital 1. Tota 03. CAROLINA'S HERO EXPLOIT 4*1 1i,lUT. VICTOR 11h1111iE OF Trn" hUWANVU. Os U111,1'" (oit-1et Goitez. ,1140ntetd tho ing, Dodiged lb (itbtrit. iml CiAptired Two 8lttalh stool) Yai-ttt- itmorj of Exirelittonk. South Carolina has come to the front in the war and his a horo whose deed was evidently as daring as H 8obson's a1 Santiago although it was done in secret, on an obscure part of the Cuban coast and in the darkness of night. Naval Lieutenant Victor Blue, of Marion county, whose father was a member of tho historic Wallace Houo of the logislaturo of 1876, and who is attached to the little wor vessol Su wane, carried anl unarmed cultor with a crow of twelve mon forty fivo miles, communicated with the insur gent forces under General 0iomez and on his return not only escaped Spanish gun boats but captured two Spanish ya hts and destroyed an im portant signal station. It is possi ble that ho may have had the honor of being tho first to hoist. a United States fiag in Cuba. The newslaper correspondents have missed Liotenant. Bluo's foat but it. will inevitably figuro in the official reports. The only account that has leen received of it is from a letter writton by him to a friend inl Marion ond prinied in iho Columbia State of yesterday. It gives inter esting details of the humors and in cidents of act ul service. Lieutenant Blno in his lettor, dilt ed June 2d, says: "This part of the coast is dotted with thousands of lit tle islands called cays, and a large, doopwater bay soparates the cays from tho mainland of Cuba. It was in these very cays that the Spanish pirates of forme, timos usnd to os capo through the tortuous and niar row channels and hide their stolon troasuro in the many caves that are found in the islands. Whilo having the experience which I will shortly relato I was forcibly rominded of the piratical adventuros which I dolight. ed in reading when 1. was i boy. "It was necessary for us to com municato with the insurgont goneral in-chief, Gomez, whose army was oil the main land. Tho Spanish gun boats had free accoss to the (oop water bay between the main land and the cays and as our ship could not onter this bay on account of thQ shoal water in the cays, the Spaniards could patrol this bay and thereby prevent our having cornimunication withl Glomoz. I undertook the task of running through the Spanish linIes with an armed b)on, cr-ow in ordler to reachl G*omez's army. The boat crow, conBisting of myself in command and twelve men, loft the ship a little before sundown on the 21st instant, at Santa Maria cay, which is eight miles eastward of Fr-ances. Senor Jova, a Cuban commilissionor, and Cuban pilot woere included in my crow of twelve mcen. As we left the Suwanco on our jonoy of 30) miles the crew of the ship manned the rigging and gave us three cheers. Many men01 hadl voluntteered for this expedition, but I mado a judicious selection, b)Ocause I wanted none but thle best. After I told the muen that I wouild dispensm with oflicial (oliquetto, they spun thldir yai-ns and1( cracked their jokes with oneo anothoir to their henri's content. Wd lin onto of thorn counted noso0s and( sid t hat thore were 138 in the bout, I real1 ized for,thie first timen that this had not occuirired to me whein littm rg out th et x ped]it ion.l also realized that it was I - 31s I t of the month, another combination, but1 knowing t he sutpersition ot iailor-s, I said ntothi ng. A fter the remartk ws miado there wa s i lenice for- a minutei whenor one, t0Irn It his colors, spo(ki out that t.he-r.re 13 sItripes on oni flag, andi what. 'Ll conhl be a~ btte eombloms 01 prosrsity a nd good foi tune. "'W 1finall y r-eache-d (Gomez's out po)sts at 1.2() a. mn., atfte-r hayving s-x ch-tnged a greast maniy pr iat' recog n rit.ion signalsl (each parity wishing t< make anr i-cIhut the othier wvas not ai Ionemy) anid were receivedl withI opes arms. It was wiel sight, hmt on which caused enthusiastic applause when I stepped ashoro and plauted the American flag on the mainland of Cuba. It was an enthusiastic sight. to seo our sailors mingle with the Cuban soldiers, in waving their hate and giving hearty cheors for the stars and stripes as it. floated in thi glare of the camp fires that lighted the (lark forest. I remained at the canip only about half an hour, as I doomed it to be of the greatest im portance to got across the bay again and into the key (cays) before the break of day. When we had been sailing for about an hour one of the men sang out, "A light over the port bow, sir." Every one involuntarily grasped his rifle. It was only a mo. mont hefore my worst fears w6re con. firmed; almost in our path was a Spanish gunboat. If we were taken it would mean the cruelist kind of death to the Cuban patriots that were with us and months in Spanish dungeons for oursolves. We could not hope for success in coping with a vessel, one shot from which would shatter our frail craft into a thou. sand pieces. One Cuban remarked that there was nothing left to do but turn and run for Gornez's camp. I wavered for an instant between two opinions. To go back meant at least a day's delay in getting important information to our ships outside, without making us safe from attack. I thought of the old saying that one might as iwell be cooked for a goose as a gander, had every oar manned in addition to our sails, changed the course a few points so as not to pass too near the stranger, and our cutter went through the water like a thing of life. The moon had set. and the night was dark, otherwise escape would have been impossible. The gunboat just. happened to bo ex changing signals with s0110 signal station or we would not have seen hor and would have run right into her Irms. ."The Spaniards at Gay Frances know about our expedition and had signalled by moans of the heliograph to the gunboat to be on the outlook for us. I made them pay dearly for this the next morning. Well, to make a long story short, we escaped from the gunbuat and got into the cays. I had orders to rojoin the ship off Frances cay, which gave me about forty-five miles on the return trip. Daybreak found us thirty miles from the ship without a breath of wind to till our sails. The men had been pulling hard all night and1 were alnost exhausted. Soon the trop)ical sun came out and almost roasted us. We kept on through the cays. When within six miles of our dlestination, a'i I wvas searching every island with my glasses, I saw two white sails between the tree tops on the opposite sio of the island from us. As we kept on our course and they did not move, I concluded they had not seen us. They had no idea that wo wvould be0 so bold as to pass out so near Cay Frances. But they reckoned without their host. \Ve rounded the island and attacked and cap)tured both vessels insido of ten minutes. It was the most com p)lcto surp)rise I ever saw. The ves sels wvore anchored very niear the shore, wvhich allowed the Spaniards a chance to escape. Amidst a hail of load from our guns, they lowered their boats, pulled ashore and went helter-skelter th rough the woods. It was a sight to see them351 run. After it was all over, I laughed until I got a pain in my side ahloot a big, fast Spaniard who was left alone on one of the vessels without a boat to get ashore in. Hf jumpad overboardi and 1 am almost temtpted to say that he wass going so fast that he ran on top~ of thle water, not., having time to sink. Whlen hes got, to land, thore was noC doubt ait all ab)out. his flying. I never saw a fat marn go so fast in liy life before. We ran alongsid lie nare'st vessel and I sent a feni moen on ha'ard to cut her adrift froir her moorings andl got ber under wn)m - siand ont to sea at once; wvhile I wil -thle ot.hers went, to the other iossel which was lying within 50 yards o 1 the sh':ro hoisted her anchor an I took hser in tow until we got awa; e nome dintana fromn te and, for did not know but at any moment we might receive a volley from a whole regiment lying in the woods close by. "For us overything was favorable -th, wind and tido worf exactly in the right direction---and within a few minutes we were sailing gaily out to sea with our prizes. It was a bloodless victory for us, as the Span iards did not take time to turn and fire a shot. The officer in command even left his sword, which I now have as a trophy, Of the two swords captur,,d, I gave one to Uap tain Delhanty of our ship. We got a lotof highly prized trophios not to mention two Spanish flags. "You should have seen as wh(n we returned to the ship; compara tively speaking, a litte midget of a boat bringing in two large sloops. As we approached the ship wo could see everybody lined up at the rail and wondering what it all meant. Three hearty cheers greeted us as we caie alongside and many were the congratulations wo received when wo got on board. "I do dot kinow what. injury wo did 1 he Spainiards. Soimo of them might have hoon wounded, but I do not think any of them woro killed outright. Tihe fat. man got out all right, for the men shooting at him wore langhing so hard they could not take good aim. With tlie cap-, ture of theso vessels wo got, the wholo hoilograph signal outfit that the onomy had at Cay Frances, and I was sufliciently avenged for their having pit the gunboatt on my trail tho night beforo. As sooni as I get to Key West again I will send my sword :(the trophy) home to be kept for mo; it is a valuable souvenir to havO. "()f the vessels we captnired one was given to the Cubans and the other was sunk to provent its falling into tho hands of the onomy again. We had other work to perform and did not have time to tak the vess(s to the United States. Had the lit ter been done I would have received a largt amount of prIWZO money, but I was amply repaid in hiaviig the honor of capturing thoml 111( im l get ting a sword as a troply. If he Spanish officor had lead tho courago to sthnd and fight un('t1il he was coi polled to surrender, he w >uhd have got his sword back. It is saLid that I am the Iirt to plat the American flag on the main iwiad of Cubai, but, I will not. claim this credit as 1 am not sure of it. Other ollicors, I know, have planted it on Cuban soil, but it is said1 they p)lanited it on adjacent islands. However, I will not dispute their claims. The Cubanms give me the credit. "'On the exp)edition I gained some valuable information wvhiich I think will materially help our cause. "Yours, A supply of (Cleau iininots. (News and Courier.) Columbia, ~June (.-When~tie troops were ordered here t here were no priovisions for their reepltion. Blankets had to be hulrriedlly gath ered together for the mna. Sufli oient blankets could not be found, so coinforts, spreads, white, red, blue, gray and every other kind of cover ing was b)oughit. The Government does not like such a mixture, and to day regulation army blankets were dist ributed to all of the men in the regimient. Company b)y company was mnarc.hied up to the quartormar ter's departmen', andl each man re ceived and receiptedl for a now wvollen blanker. The mna were dohghted wvith the exchange, ai the blanketA were decidedly b)etter than they hsati, anad in addition wore fresh and clear. TIhis. supply of blanklot- cost thle Governiment ablout three t housand doll1ar. The old lhanikets and cov erings wore piled up in heaps today. Capt. Fuller will take charge of the property and dhispos, -of -it to the best advantage for the Government. The P?enitentiary or' Hospital for the fInsane maiy buy tI e entire lot and after boiling them make good use of them, as many of the blanl eta are [ very goodi.