The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-27
AN INCIDENT THAT WILL MAKE
SOLDIERS LOVE GENERAL
candy" BURT.
Major Hayes Goes to Porto RIco--Fna Discharges and
others--Target Practice Another Fight Sunday
Between North Carolina and Wisconsin,
Military Funeral--First Death
by Sickness Among the
Tar Heels.

very ILL., | want to take him home. His
mother is very uneasy, and is expecting
him in the morning. The furlough Is
all right if you would only sign it.
know it is not the proper place to ask
such thing, but | have just time
to catch the train. The boy is very
sick and his mother -.
'"The sentence was never Finished the
General continued, telling me the story.
There were tears in the mans eyes
and | suspect there were some i'll mine.
The troops We're standing waiting to
be reviewed and people were staring,
but | reckon | would have stopped Il
battle to listen to an appeal like that,
/ directed the adjutant of the First
North Carolina regiment to return to ms
headquarters and prepare the furough
with all possible speed-and let that boy
go home-to his mother"
AS l looked up, at the conclusion of
this story l saw something very like
tears in General Burt's eyes; but they
were not tears of sadness, for there was
a tender smile upon his face. A smile
that told me he was thinking Of an
old mother that once watched over
a boy she called ANDY
Major +. Nj. Hayes left Tampa yester-
day for Porto Rico as colonel of the
Fifth United States cavalry. This is
his old regiment and Major Hayes says
he had rather be in command of it than
be brigadier general.
Final discharges were yesterday grant
ed on certificate of disability for dis
charge in case of the following privates
in the First North Carolina regiment:
Joseph III. Faulkner, of the Raleigh com
pany: Amos j. Cannady, Reidsvile COM
pany; Frederick ii. Hargett, Queen City
Guards: Cicero Lee Harris. James w.
Hamilton, Philip Franklin Hedrick, John
Floyd Sheriff.. and Cyrus w. Lowery.
Concord company: Robert Higgins and
Lonnie Davis Ingle. Statesville com
pany: Ira T.. Rhinehart and George X.
Cannady, Ashevile company; Chesley
Hamrick. Shelby company; Joshua
Chambers. Thomas T.. Brown. Claude
Il. Bennett and Jacob w. Il. Moore.
Waynesville company: Ernest v Webb
Gabriel NJ. Royal, Thomas b. Edwards,
Durham company; William l.. Pugh,
Goldsboro company: Noah l.. Alberty,
Winston company; Charles NJ Sheriff.,
Julius +. Weir. William =. Herndofl,
James E. Rhodes and Ebert l.. Bales,
Hornets Nest Rifles.
The case of Private Colclough. of the
Durham company, who was injured in
the wreck near Savannah, has been re-
ferred to the Secretary of War. Charles
NJ Sheriff., one of the men discharged
from the Hornets Nest Rifles, is q
mounted orderly at General Lees head
quarters. He will probably be succeeded
in that capacity by Harry Daub, of the
Winston company. Daub has the en-
dorsement of Colonel James Il. Boyd and
others. He has spent two years in
Cuba and can speak Spanish fuently.
1t is believed that the discharge Of
Ben Hardy, of the Raleigh company, is
held up on account of the fact that
he will, when it is granted, be entitled
,, to n pension. In such case very rigid
examination is always held. Hardy has
Major Smith, United States pay
all ready been examined three times.
master. is at the Windsor Hotel. for the
purpose of paying off the Third Nebraska
regiment, Colonel w. J. Bryan cc1n-
manding. He will also pay off one hun
drcd men, who have recently been honor
ably discharged from the several regi-
ments here. Among these are the TWEEN
ty-sixth North Carolinians above named.
Their final statements were made up
yesterday.
Target practice at the rifle range has
shown great lack Of preliminary instruc-
ton such as ignorance Of the method of
aiming. firing with their eyes shut and
the like. 1t has therefore been directed
that the commanding officers of regi-
ments have their details instructed in
these matters before they are sent out
to practice firing at n target. To this
end it is suggested that blank cartridges
be used in preliminary practice.
Lieutenant Gulick, Of the Goldsboro
company. has gone home on a furlough
to spend a few days with relatives.
Ulysses $. Grant is in jail at Savannah
as a deserter. He said he was coming
to Jacksonville when arrested Saturday.
His regiment is the Second North Caro-
lima Company Il. He is idlotic.
Private Charles r. Divine, Company
A, Fourth Illinois regiment, was taken
from his regiment yesterday ana sent
to Fort Leayenworth, Kan, prison to
serve n nine months sentence for steal
! ing $40 from a comrade in his company.
| He was also dishonorably discharged
| from the service.
| There was another fight Sunday even
/ ing between North Carolina and Wis
consin soldiers. The casualties consisted
of one man on each side cut Private
Miller Of the Statesville company. had
his right hand gashcd. In retaliation he
| Slashed n terrible cash across the scalp
OF a Wisconsin soldier whose name could
not be learned The row occurred on the
train coming from Pablo Beach.
Private William Yount, of the Hor-
nets Nest Rifles. yesterday plead guilty
before the court martial. to sleeping
at his post while on guard. Private
| Parker Of the same company has had
u similar charge preferred against
him. He was found asleep at his post
Mt l1:3O O'Clock Sunday night, it is
claimed.
Friday last, Mrs. A. NJ. Blue, of Ma
rion. :. c.. received some interestir.
souvenirs of Lieutenant Victor Blues
i .allantry around Santiago. One of these