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Camp Colombia, Near Havana, Jan. 22, 1899. For the Standard- Garrison duty in Cuba is not so humble a task as was supposed by the boys before leaving the states, and since the active service has begun, the operations give the soldiers ample…

Camp Colombia, near Havana CubaJanuary 6th, 1898. (NB: this is a printing error in the original) To the Standard: - Much has been said through the Associated Press giving details of the celebrated New Year's day in Havana, therefore I will state…

Camp Columbia, near Havana, Jan. 13 1899. Having seen an item copied from the press dispatches in the home papers, I take it upon myself to contradict the statement that there are any cases of smallpox in our regiment or among the Seventh Army Corps,…

These annual gatherings of our Church, besides their formal legislative character, are occasions for pleasant associalions and opportunities for cementing frendships and stimulating one another to love and good works. Into the texture of these…

There is yet plenty of fighting in Cuba; the Cuban cause yet engaged the attention of Congress and the administration; Spain is yet perverse and Cuba yet inflexible; we have reports of Weyler's deeds of savagery; we hear, says the New York Sun, again…

By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, Febuary 26. - A copyrighted cablegram to the Evening World from Sylvester Scovel, at Havana says:
"Divers working forward yesterday found absolute proof that the forward big magazine, which alone could…

(Special to the Messenger)
Raleigh, N.C., May 15. -- The crowd at Camp Bryan Grimes today broke the record in point of size. Excursionists from Goldsboro and Durham had a grand time. Several thousand people saw the battalion drills and dress parade.…

One of the most striking features of the present expansion movement is its sectional character - sectional in the sense that its advocates are for the most part Northern and Western men. Southern men, no doubt, contributed to the movement favoring…

With nations as with individuals, the prudent maxim of old David Crockett holds good - "Be sure you are right and then go ahead." If there was ever a time in our history when the spirit of this often quoted but less frequently observed maxim needed…