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Ecr.r.cln Carr. ron ILEBB SIIAIXTILE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAIXTAIX, CXATTD BY CtFLCMCE AD UnRIITD I1T GAIN. NEW SERIES, VOL. V. NO. 2. LINCOLNTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24-, 1891). FIFTY CENTS A YEAR. J 0 RM A'L, .1 JnllGd .4 ? f 4 i 01 HERO'S HAL Lieutenant Shipp At Rest Be side His Mother. THOUSANDS PAT HIM HONOR. The Arrival 'off Hi Remain, Thound ' Attend the Obseqtil-s. All Business Sus pended. The Remains Lie In State In the '' Court Honso. Burled With, Military Honoris. The Funeral Procession. Thousands of the people of Lincoln county and the counties around turned .out Friday to attend the fjinral of the lamented Lieutenant William E. Shipp, Tenth XT. S Cavalry, who was killed while lead ing his men m the charge on San Juan Hill, near Santiago. Uuoa on the first day of July of last year. The remains reached New York. on the ' transport McClelland on the 14th. 1 They arrived here on the S. A. L. Friday morning. The follow ing account of the obsequies is from the pen of Mr. Fred L. Merritt, the rejiresentative of the Raleigh News ian(l Observe. : Tfte ashes of Lieut. William E Shipp were laid to. rest here today in St. Luke's church yard. The church at whose altar he Was taught those lessons of faith jand endurance r and devotion to duty that made noble his , life and heroic his death In the presence of those who knew and loved him some three thous and sad eyed men and weeping wo men we placed him iby the side of I his mother; . It was a funeral worthy of a hero and vet all the sadder for its sim plicity and quiet unosientatiousness TtfV'- aaTjre& oTn'wulvT1; fully impressive andi - appreciative, tram, woica amvcu iu xvat6u ct 2.30 this morning; at Monroe at 4 o'clock, at Charlotte at 8.30 o'clock, and reached Lincolnton at 10.30. Crowds 'met the train at Monroe and at Charlotte to pay their re spects to the dead. As the tram drew into the station at Charlotte the Lee Rifles (Company E. Second Regiment, N. C S. G.) fired a salute of three guns. They acted as mili tary escort to Lincolnton. . The pall Carers were Col. A. L Smith. Charlotte: Mr. S. G. Finley, Lincolnton ; Dr. R. L Gibbon. Cnar- otte; Col. Jno. C. Tipton, Lincoln- ton ; Capt. W. H Day. Raleigh ; Mr. Lacian Walker, f'barlotte; Mr. W. E. Grigg. Lincolnton;4 Mr. Heriot Clarkson.: Charlotte:' Mr. W. W. Motz. Lincolnton.; Mr. J. M. Scott. Cbarlott(;: Mr. L. M Richardson. Lincolnton; Mr. C. L. Hunter, Char lotte; Mr. R.' M. Roseman, Lincoln ton; Mr. H. A. Banks, Charlotte; Capt. Pride Jones i Wiiistou; Dr. T. F. Costner. Lincolnton: Judge Bur- well, Charlotte; Juge V. A. Hoke, Liucolnton. The military escort from the Lee Rifles (Companv E. Second tegi merit,) consisted of: First Lieuteu- T ant G. L. Clifton, comtn'andioir: Second Lieutenant P. R, Schilling er,- Jbirst Sergeant W. A: Pntchett; Sergeants R. L. Skinner, R. O Cochran, R. A. Page, and F. A. Earnie.; Corporals C. M. Hunter. W T. Campbell fand'M. Alexander; Pri vates H. C. Alexander,, W. R Free man, W. M Stacker, A. M. Gurley. W. P.Lprtpn, J. cj Morris. C. V. Thomas; Si W, Harkey, J. M. Har ger, E p. Carter, A. L. Grier, W. L. Gregory, . B. L. Redfern. J. W. Weddmgtfon, W. G. Skinner, A. W Briggs arid J. F. Watts; Trumpeter L N. Baker. Those who attended tu funera from' Raleigh beside Mrs. Wm. E. Shipp ;Und her father, Mr. F. H. Busbeejwere Capt. W. H. Day, Col. Bejifihaa-Cam.erpn v j Mrs. Gertrnd e Tuckerii Miss Altie Gales. Mr. T. T. purple and pcarlct are falling about I rest in their native toiL the battlefield. They light up the face oi two young bflicem cold and From th? rrjort o Mr. Howanl ttill iu death. A. Banks, of the Charlotte OUerv- Pimxl as by the Mme bullet, in a t xo quote the following: few pace of one another, they lie While the golden cutis of the then; Lieut. Shipp and Lieut, crocus blossom exquisite flowcr Smitb. the Jonathan and David of cinder in Nature temple service the army. wen? breathing up to God their in- It ia night now. The td;y U tud- cene-fragraiicx and heralding to ded with h tars. Comrade come and nien the approach of cirllet Eaater- give them Christian bari.il. Rever ently tenderly they are laid to rtt on a irmRsv knoll orcrlooinns: the blue sea. Here they rested until a week ago, wheu they wero taken up and pent to the United States for final inter ment by their friends. tide, the mortal remain of William E. Shipp were lid to rest in tho quiet churchyard, under the shadow oi me mue cuurcti wncre he wor shipped as a boy. Killed in battle, hediol the death that the Koldier ioekj, if fall ho must; the death of honor to himself v r :; . i 1:1 J The gTave .of LieuL Shipp was and a heritage to hichildren. And marked by Col. Wood himself. He bipp fell on the hom of San Juan found a heavy piece of plank, and Hill, while bringing up the firing nailed on this a piece of zinc sheeting line! Hi, indeed, wa the beroV and then with a nail, punched Lieut, death, and hi n funeral worthy of Shipp'H full name on tho zinc. "The gravo," he wroto Mr. Busbw, w near hero (Santiago.)'and I will w to itpejsonajly that it hi markel in such manner as to render it imposi the bravwt dead. The day was a bright and beauti- lui one, alter the recent winter utonnt the un shining down through the blue of a cloudlc ky. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM EWEX SHIPP. from Rev. Dr. Marshall, of Raleigh, who married him; a prayer and a short service by ReTj;. C. C. Smith and Rev. C. L. Hoffman, of Char lotte ; a tender" farewell utterance at the grave from his beloved pastor. Rev. Dr. W. R. Wetmore, and then, in sight of his boyhood's home and under the cloudless sky of as pure a spring day as ejver was born, all that was mortal of William E. Shipp passed from human view. .. In the gathering which assembled to honor this Voung soldier, whose bright career was checked so early, were men eminent in trade, politics and professional lif e-4-soldiers, . min isters and scholars. Then therj were those who had known ant loved him from his youth up. Vp lage folk,- people from the country for miles and miles around- had To the Memory of Lieutenant W. E. Shipp. BY W. G. TERRY.. OF GEORGIA. Is there one heart but beats vith nobler micrht For each strong blow thy hand has struck for right? Is there one soul but nearer walks to God, Who watched the steep, brave path thy feet have trod? Thy Hie was large; thy purpose wide and high; Thou, in. thy death, 1 hast taught men how to die. For every flower that blows above thy grave. God send our land another life as brave. " bio to confuso it with any otlicr, and I A typo might we not believe! of when a suitable Fcaon arrives. 1 1 the young Christian oldicr'a ieaco will do what I can to nbist you in and rWt after the carnage of the having the body properly prepared battle. The new-made flower-cover- and sent to tho United States. V led grave in the pilent city of the It was in fulfilment of thb prom- dead," just a pace or two from tho isothat tho body was last week start- portals of St. Lake' Episcopal ed on its homeward journey from church in within bight of the cot- Cuba, and that tho f uncral of today I Lige-homo of kinpwple, where the was held. I deceased had doubtless pcut many With it camo that of Lieut. Smith, a happy hour; and in ight of the and whilo the last funeral riteoul cuooi-nouH?t wnero he vtudieU wero beinir conducted in Lincolnton I a hi? name, carved in homo today, over tho remains of the gal- chiidbh fancy, being yet viable in lant Shinn. id tho citv of Washing ihQ woovl work of the old building. ton, the funeral of bis comrade. Lieutenant Smith, was being held. Tho funeral services wero con: ducted with military honor. The interment was at .Arlington. The among thoe of hia playfellow; wrae of whom helped today to lay his remains to reL But far more permanent memorial his name in engraven in tho hearts of bis fellow Hay and Rev. Dr. M. M., Marshall. From Charlotte: Mr. Heriot Clark son. Gen. A. L. Smith. Dr. R. L. Gibbon.' Mr. C. L.lunter, Rev. C L. IHoiftnau, Mr. John M. Scoft. Judge A. Burwell. Mr. J. W. Mul len, Mrs. L. H. Waljker. Mrs. Dan F.feumnev; Miss Eva Sumner. Rev C. 'Smith, Miss Bessie Ramaur, MrJ tJ L. Ross, Mr. H.i A. Banks and Mr. John Wilbcr Jenkins. 1 From Winston ; Mr. and Mrs. J. , Buxton arid Capt. land Mrs. Pride ones. . The train was also boarded there by an escort from Iineolnton, con sisting of Messrs J. F., R. S. and J, E. Reinnardt, kinsmen of the la mented dead; Col. Jno. C. Tipton and Messrs S. G. Finley, W. E. Grigg, R. M. Roseman, W. W. Motz and Leonard .Richardson;, by catafalque and lay in state until 3 o'clock Pit., when it will be taken to St. Luke's Episcopal, church where the funeral services were conduct ed. Before the casket was taken from the Shipp home a short funeral ser vice was held by Dr. Marshall. This was at the request of Mrs. Shipp, f6r it was he who but a few years ago united them in wedlock. Tho casket was viewed by the peo ple during the two hours that it lay in state in the court house. It was guarded by a detail from tho Leo Rifles. On it lay a picture of Lieut. Shipp, taken a short while before ho was killed ; also two royal palms from Cuba, bound together by a white satin ribbon, and two sabres, cross ed. One was . a very handsome bat his most enduring monument is pall-bearors were: Col. S. T. Nor- ville, U. S. A., retired; Major Ken dall, U. S. A., retired ; Major J. J. Pershing, U. S. V.; Col. W. H. Carter. A.A. G.; First Lieut MV"H. Barn urn and First Lieut. Anderson, tho bust two of the 10th United States cavalry. A detachment from the United States barracks served as escort und tiring party. Lieub. Shipp and Smith were entered Wot countrymen of North Carolina and will go down, with honor, in tho history of bU native State, 1 ho funeral honors accorded to Lieut, Shipp wero iuuex-d worthy of a soldier. Early in tho day people from the country began to file into Lincolnton, and the trains brought friend? and relatives from neightor lng towns. All tho hou;?i of bui neii wero cloxl and the schools gave a holiday. Tho number of come well-. to pay him a last sad fare- i the pall' bearers and other friends weapon of German make, a present from Charlotte. J When the train arrived at: Lin- rnlnton everv bell in the town was tolling and all the inhabitants, to- from Lieut. Powhatan Clarke, who purchased it while attached to the German army, at Disseldorf. Lieut. Shipp always prized it very highly and had it the day he was killed. Aether with the great crowd from the surrounding country were at the The otber Babre was tbe one usetl It . , -w ijieut. canippin nis inuian campaigns in the west . At 3 o'clock the body was taken to St Luke's Episcopal church where the last sad rites wero performed The service could not havo been There was the old Shipp home stead, there the school house .with his name carved upon the wall. There- the little green blinded cpt- luytJ xiui-ue iu wuwu no uau. jj.uuvaxj J depot brougnt ms sweet-iacea, iowfvoiceu There in the yeUow sunlight stool bride. All these things wre re- &u cljisse3 anrT conditions to honor counted and stories told of him as a the home coming of the young hero bright-eyed boy, with his1 merry who haa so 'bravely met death on romp and happy laughter. sW Juan Hill a v ear ago. Trade . The old love of the boy and man paid ner homage by the voluntary more beautifully impressive aches yet and throbbing afresh to-lciosingr Qf stores and the absolute At the grave a last prayer day in their hearts. suspension of business. Industry sjwken and dirges were sung. Dust 4'ke had a beautiful soul," said manifested herjove by the stilling to dust, ashes to ashes," said the one who had known him from his of the loom and stopping of the preacner as me mumeu cioas leu shuttle. Agriculture left the plow into the new made grave. Then the in the furrow and brought garlands Lieutenant's salute was fired by the fragrant as his fame. . military, taps were sounded by the It was as sweet, as sad a holiday ougier ana the neroic aeaa was lert alone, resting beneath a bank of flowers. his pure life, his historic death, tho love of his people. These stand out like sentinels above his grave, point ing unborn generations to the satno virtues, the same rioblo self sacrifice. I school tnatej- Thev AU. kll'UUISU H Uk A-i UkUUUUV yv- 1 ' " , . f fore the world many hcroes-but Point together and era apinuM IP10 prCSVnl "M lmatal nt not one did a braver deel or died a nt the same time to tho 10th cavalry. more heroic death than did tho la- They served together for a number mentel Shipp. His lifo was spot- of years on tho frontier and were !ess, his courage was grand, his killed in a few minutes of each oth death was heroic. What praise is er at Santiago, too high for him; what tributo has Somehow their lives seem to have lenot earned; what wreath is ho been linked together with strange Vot worthy to wear! land unusual happenings in army In the haversack of tho dead man I life. As young men tho two were at was found a half written postal card I college together. They chummed to his wife, penned during the bat- together throughout their course in tie. Its words bear evidence that (the prep school and left college at the Dread Reaper did not come to I tho same time. him unexpected. Duty called him They entered West Point together, and ho went even though ho knew land on tho class roll sido by side death was lurking along tho path. I were tho two names. It is such courage as this that has William E. Shipp. of North Caro- mahe the American soldier and sail- Una. or invincible. . William II. Smith, of MisMjuri. When tho two men graduated they were at first assigned together, and only for a short time, while Tho story of his death has often been told. How on that fatal first day of July the morning sun rose 3,000. Tho lox containing the cakct was taken from tho baggage car to tho depot, where the caket was taken out and transferred to the heano in waiting. A very largo crowd of people had assembled at the tdation. Led by the Lee Rifles, tho Confederate Veterans and the tons of Veterans, tho funeral pro cession moved through the town to the home of Mrs. Sumner McBee, where the ca-ket, draped in tho national colors, was left for a season in the sacred presence of tho home. whero tho loved ones of the deceas ed had gathered. All the bells of the town were tolled as tho pro cession pawed flowly through tho BtrveU. At 1 o'clock tho precision was youth up and more eloquent trib ute was never laid on mortal bier. They brought flowers these peo . -" pie and' banked, them about his , . ... coffin or upon his grave. Simple as ever dawnea on town or village. iATft-a hand-1 Meantime the bells are tolling all ful of buttercups or ' hyacinths or the while. . ' maybe wild violets, but they spoke At the station the casket was tak as truly the sentiment of hearts en from the box in which it had been that will ever Jove and cherish bis shipped from Cuba. Then at 11:30 memory as did the wreaths of im- o'clock, escorted by the military; by mortelles and costly floral designs a delegation of a hundred, citizens, sent from all Tovfa f the country, veterans ana sons oi veierans, wuu, and from every city of the State. who, acted as a guard of honor; by The body, it will be remembered, the mayor and board of aldermen, was brought to New York March and by the citizens and visitors, the 14th, on the transport McClellan, body was taken to the home of the was met there by Mr. F. H. Busbee deceased's sisters Mrs. A C. McBeo and escorted to Portsmouth, where and Miss Kate Shipp where Mrs. it arrived by the Cape Charles route Shipp is. After an hour's stay there, yesterday morning at 8 o'clock. It it way removed to the court house, remWed in TSTorfolk until last night which had been draped in mourning, atR iKL.ij v,Wiiwfls trans- atid decorated with Cuban and No not alone. A people's love lies buried with him. No more fitting place could have been chosen than that high einin "i : ence looking across quiet fields where mild-eyed Peace smiles to the blue mountains in the mazy dis distance. "Her here s his place, where meteors shoot, clouds iovxn. Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy brvak with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs mast close in like effects: Lofty lying, Leave him still loftier than the world suspects, ' ... Living and dying." Loving hands and hearts will erect ferredo ttfe Atlanta Special" TAmerican flags. It was jplaced-on a1 and chip-' jto his mem-' Nhe granite shaft, cut airain formed in front of tho ni- dripping from sea and slowly climb- Shipp was in tho South, were they dence. Rev. Dr. M. M. Marshall ed toward the tropical zenith, where separated, conducted n brief servico in the thosky.to serenely blue melted into smith married tho Kime year bono, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Surnmcy infiniteness. that'Shipp did, and each left a beau- singing "Abide With Me," as tho Then all at once, like tho far away tiful wifo and two children to mourn body was borne out. The corteire was ; boom of waters, camo tho roar ofltheir loss. Tne two men fell clox?! thiti mnvnl tn tho mnntv mtTrt cannon and musketry around Santi-1 to each other and there was always I houm?, where, in the hallway on tho ago. Great clouds of smoke were la brotherly affection manifested by I tirst floor a catafabiue. draped in belching forth and rising, hung low each in the other. black, and covered with ctocumw. to tho battlefield on San Juan HilL L whon war wm deolartnl lti 1 hvaeintha and other snrinir flow em- Deeper and moro sullen grew tho Lieut, Shipp and Lieut. Smith were bail been prepared. Upon this tho Strife. ThO minutes dragged by. I with tho Tnnth mmlrr T.totit I flarr-mvprvd rnslcpt wan Tdnr..! On the sun was showing lurid through I Shipp was regimental quartermaster I it wero branches of the palm and the awful density. Men rushed to amj Lieut. Smith was second injabo two Kibres of Lieut, Shipp's, death fearlessly. I command of a company of the beat I one very hand-some and a precnt to Some dropping, called out in fighters in the brigade. Lieuts. him from his close friend, Lieut. agopy and lay quite still. Others Shipp and Smith left Tampa on the Powhatan Clark, once our military wildly bore onward tho flag of glory, same transport and ounked tide by attache in Berlin, and who was Eves gleamed like firo and blood lik'e side on tho voyage. They retained drowned out west during tho Indian water flowed. the same affection for each other and campaigns in the Little Big Horn. Swifter than tho dart of meteor after tho regiment was landed at The court bouso walls inside, and was tbe work of slaughter. Men's Santiago each had tho moro reason tho columns outride, were draped in hearts were pierced by bayonet as for the other's confidence and com- black and white, with the Stars and whose only balm was death. They wero both shot at tho samo besides profuso floral and evergreen I Now the "hillside is cleared. Tho time upon tho battlefield. Both decorations. . tide of battle has shifted. The val- wero fearless, both wero mnly and Hero tho casket remained until ley is bathed in blood and victory somehow all through life, until they the hour of 3 o'clock, being viewed perches, above our banner. Men rested side by. side in Cuban soil, by hundreds of the people gathered and horso and gun lay in heaps. their fates seem to havo been Their work is done. strangely mixed and interwoven. V The sun is going down behind the And yesterday, at ths samo time. ith words of eulogy, (Wooded heights. His long shafts of 1 their friends wero laying tkem1 to1 in tho town. To tho tolling of the bells again, tho sorrowful process: on finally moved forward to tho little hillsido - i -X - s ;
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