The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-17
BELIEVED THAT THE FIRST REGL
MENT WILL BE ORDERED THERE.
Dismemberment of Second Regiment Means They will not
See Service at the Front--They Have Nice Camp
--Ordnance Stores for Recruits Cant Keep
the Men in Camp--SIept With
Big Tarantua.
Big Tarantula.

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| ORDNANCE STORES FOR THE
| RECRUITS.
| Lieutenant Hirshingcr. regimcntal ord
nance officer, has received IN invoice
for ordnance stores shipped from the
| Springfield Armory and Rock Island Ar
senaI: 345 Springfield rifles, with the
| following appendages and spare parts
F., 3I5 gun sings; 345 bayonet scabbards;
312 cantecns and straps; 312 haversacks
| and straps; 372 meat cans: 3T2 knives,
| forks and spoons; 372 tin cups; $40
blanket bags, with shoulder straps and
coat straps; II boxes of cleaning ma
terial.
These stores were shipped July 9TH,
and should arrive here this week
This by no means completes the ord
nance equipment of the regiment,
though. The above articles are suffi-
cient only for the recruits. Though
requisition were long ago, sent in the
original members of the regiment as yet
have no gun straps. cantecns, meat cans,
haversacks and the like. They have
plenty of secondhand guns, though.
CAN'T KEEP THE MEN IN CAMP.
The rifle range has been completed,
and target practice will begin Monday.
There are 40 targets at 200 yards, and
the same number at 100 yards This
will enable so men to fire ut once Lieu
tenant Colonel Curry, of the Second New
Jersey regiments is the instructor
Experience of the past two days proves
that it is absolutely impossible to keep
the soldiers in camp after payday.
Officers are strict, sentinels surround the
camp. and there is Il provost guard on
every corner. Despite all these the men
get out, spend half the night in the city,
and many 81 them get back without ever
being arrested The larger number.
though, get caught sooner or later during
the evening, and pay for their fun by
n term of service on the "stump brigade
All other resources failing, the men
i'll some of the regiments have been
known to resort TO what is called fake"
passes passes written by themselves,
and the names of the commanding Off
GERS forged to them. Woe to the man
who is caught doing this. a
ANOTHER PISTOL THAT WASN'T
LOADED.
The pistol that wasn't loaded" was
in evidence again yesterday morning,
and came near causing an accident in
the Queen City Guards. Captain Chad
wick's clerk, Private Hills, was clean
ing a pistol that had Il cartridge in it'll
He snapped the pistol, not dreaming
that it WAS loaded. But it was and the
bullet went into the ground right at the
heel of Corporal Torrance. The report
of the gun caused quite Il crowd to col
lcct, and there was much relief when it
was found that no one was really shot.
! Lieutenant Van Ness, Of the Queen
, City Guards, has been appointed Il
member of special court martial con
yened to try New Jersey soldier for
Sinking his duty.
The field court martial which meets
at the North Carolina headquarters, and
recently tried the Wigs brothers for de
$ertion, is now trying Private Hall, of
the Concord company for sleeping at his
post while on guard the night of July ,.
A basket filled with good things was
received yesterday by Dr. l.. Nj. Archey,
assistant surgeon. 1t was sent by Miss
Nettie Allen, of Winston.
THEY SLEPT WITH A BIG TAR
ANTULA.
Privates Octavius Coke and Joe Bar
bee, of the Raleigh company, yesterday
morning found an unwelcome bed-fellow
between their blankets when they woke
up 1t was tarantula, or large spider.
Evidently it had come to spend some
time, as it brought its bag along-a ball
the size of hickory nut, filed with
young tarantulas. Barbee put the war.
mint" i'll Il bottle and sent it home.
Nearly every company i'll camp now
has Il mess tent and table sufficient to
accommodate all the men. Also profit
ing by the lesson taught them by the
recent rains many of the privatcs are
having floors put in their tents.
1T is officially denied that the camp
here has been condemned, but it is ac-
knowedged that such a step was scri-
ously discussed and would probably have
been taken had the heavy showers con-
tinued much longer.
FRED l.. MERRITT.