Wilmington :*cwn-ui paten.
'|'h( is, and should 1)?, no ill feel
ing between Confederate ;uui Union
survivors—both were conscientious in
tip- war; but I'll say this, the south
(iii| more in four y -sum than politic*
iun.- ovei* would have done—we set
tled err. hoi forever!" an 80-yoar
«,;d Confederate warrior, survivor of
Fort Fisher’.-, hai.i raid yesterday
; i(.-i -jo.' .1) (•(. ivi' ■ at ion with a re
,p .rt r .... the ruin:, of this historic
l url.
Fifty-nine years ago this ^amc
( c) .federate veterans, then Gunner
Brake, of Company F, ",8th
icnatunt, under the command of (’apt
f'a.i Hunter, of Elgccomb'' county,
v/a:» present at the capitulation of
Fort Fisher January 15, 1X05, in
marked contrast to the serenity of
yesterday, when a United Siatss flat'
floated over the Chin federate ramparts
while a son of a Connecticult Yankee
war there making an nddiv. ns r«.m
I a rod with the narrative that was be
ing- recited by this veteran of tile Con
federacy.
“The biggest blockade rnnner of
the Confederate;--, the Condor, ran
ayrouiid about 2.00 or "00 yards oflf
slwe,” Mr. Brake stated, as he point
ed a withered hand towards the exact
- not of the grounding; and he then
recounted the story of the drowning
«f Mr,. Kp;--i O’Neal Greenhuw, a
r of dispatches to the Confeder
n •* government.
mn! i apsircs.
“Mr:-'. Grcenhaw and a minister of
Hi-’ f.'o: pel, who wm-e pboard ihe Con
dor, wer sent n. hfere it: a life boat.
I ran i:*il recall the name of the
X>i ::e: i.cr. Ti.e b >at capsired when
ryminf' through me breakers, and ilv
rvin': •• was saved, hut Mrs. Green
b ,:v was lost-, havin': boon caned.t
i.rvii'M' the ,{>vit as il turned over.
‘ The- b-xly washed ashore, it was
v-.poi-; si, and a s .Idler from Bruns
wiik '••'■jrdy. a nrnbr of Dro.ik’s
dr Swain’s company, is said to have
: i nnved ?5 «O0 in -old from the dead
woman's be -. shivinjj the body oat
to see. rir:aily the body washed a
■ her ■ rvein, 'and the mar finding it
lie s linn1, was {barged with -the theft
o' the money, which Mrs. Grcenbaw
w.i known to have possessed amord
iiiv ‘.he per.-on from the wrecked ves
S‘. 1. - - - ' .
‘‘•Oi’.e niyht, shor:!y afterward, the
r....n front Brooks’ or Swain’s com
pany told Col. William Lamb, com
maorient of Fort Fisher, ‘There 13 one
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Well and Strong
East Hardwick, Vt.—“Last winter
I was not able to do any work at all. I
had backache, head
ache, side ache, and
was sick all the time
for six months. We
read about Lydia E.
Pink ham’s Vegeta
ble Compound in the
newspapers, and my
husband said to me,
‘ Why don’t you try
it?’So I said I would,
and he went and got
me a dozen bottles.
It has done me more
tVjri_ fcv“> Xi ituua
say, \\ hat havo you done to yourself?
'I,°u look so well. I tell them it is the
Vegetable Compound that makes me bo
well and strong. There is no use to suf
ier with backache and pains. I will
ted every one what it has done for me. ”
-Mrs. Fred. Pkimo, Route No. 2,East
Hardwick, Vermont.
Housewives make a great mistake in
allowing themselves to become so ill
that it is well-nigh impossible for them
to attend to their household duties.
In a recent country-wide canvass of
purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vee
”aWe. compound, 98 out of every 100
report they were benefited by its use.
1 °r Sille by druggists everywhere.
Brand new Straw
Hats right from
Broadway. Bought
*ate and for $1.00
to $1.50 less than
regular prices.
$1.95, $2.95 and
■3.45. Sold 50 of
ttiem in less than a
week. Get yours
today.
EVANS E.
McBRAYER
Opposite Baptist
Church
of two things I will havp to <!o, I
stole that money, nod I have either
;;ot to give it up or go crazy.’ I after
wartiis asked Colonel Lamb about this
tact, and he informed me that he
had sent the money to relatives of
ivlrs. Greetihaw, in Richmond, but
that he had never heard from them
since”
Mrs. Grecnhaw, it should be noted
v a.; one of the bravest women carry
ing dispatches for the Confed ‘racy.
She is buried in Oakdale cemetery,
this city, where a monument has been
erected by the Ladies’ Memorial as
sociation.
Cap Knocked Off.
“My cap was knocked off during
'h • first bombardment, and I have
J always believed that the shrapnel
touched my nose.” Mr. Brake stated
Within thirty minutes after the first
bombardment started, all of the hous
es at the fort were in flames, he said,
and added that tlx* flames burned up
most of the clothing of the Confed
erate soldiers. The first battle of
Fort Fisher started Christmas Eve
lH'll, and it lasted through all of
Christmas day into the night. Mr.
Brake said that the first bombard
ment by the Union fleet was heavier
than that during the second and fin
al attack Butler’s powder boat, load
led v/ith ammunition, was run in close
to the fort on the night before the
attack, Mr. Brake raid, and he said
he thought “the boat was blown up
c'.o.-.e to the fort to paralyze us with
| leer, but the explosion hardly woke
j US Up.”
The second and final hombardmen'
: started Friday morning, January 13,
: 18C5, the fleet having been sighted
1 Thursday midnight, “And as spoil as
K was light, five monitors and iron
sides pulled up within 700 yards of
the fort and opened fire, he said, add
’'i-'f that “the wooden fleet went to
Masonboro sound to land troops.”
Minnesota, Brooklyn, Colorado, and
four vessels in the attacking fleet,
tne Wabash had 200 guns, and they
hot shrapnel, containing “ball as big
as Ecuppcrnong grapes,” Mr. Brake
reported.
Powder Was Scarce
‘ >Ve had twenty guns, most of them
o; the six-inch smooth bore, and one
or two eight-inch guns,” Mr. Brake
[stated; he said, “the big guns were
on the sea face.” “One reason why
we did not shoot any more than we
did, was due to the scarcity of am
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m tuition,” ho explained, saying that
luring the first fight orders had been
to “'•ire onco every ten minutes.
“I always watched my shot from
the parapet, and during the bom
bardment I noticed that a shell from
my gun had made a big black spot
on the white wheel-house of one of
the attacking boat a, so I didn’t wait
ten minutes, hut find my gun again.”
After tiie fori was captured, I met a
•nan off this boat and lie told me that
“my seeond shot blew up the boiler
on his boat.”
Mr. Brake recounted various phas
es of the final attack and told of “six
yankee soldiers approaching the pali
sades and two of our companies, arm
'd with Enfield rifles, opened fire
ivc of them dropped so quick you
ould not tell which one hit the ground
tirst.” One of the sextet escaped, this
tatter be ng Captain Evans who later
attained the rank of admiral and who
afterwards became known to the world
is “Fighting Bob Evans.”
Iletwwn Two l''ircs.
“Fifty of us got behind a magaznic
Sunday afternoon and remained there
until about dark, and the Yankees
thought it a trap,” Mr. Brake stated;
“we finally worked around to the
bombproof hospital and when we
leached this only BO of us were left.
| Everybody ran into the hospital, ex
cept Major Reilly, of Wilmington,
Captain Adams. Lieutenant Daniel,
Louis Erarr.o, two others, whose nam
es I do not retail, and myself. There
wore seven of us who walked out, be
tween a federal regiment forming on
the breastworks and another regi
ment. marching towards the sea. The
| reg’me.nts were about 30 yards apart,
•ve in between, and they did not shoot.
“Some of us started to run, but
Major Reilly said: ‘Don’t run, they’ll
shoot you if you do. (Major Reilly
wav the grandfather of James Owen
Reilly, prominent i^altor of this city.)
“So we walked down to the river,
ami a Yankee came up, in the best of
iiprr.or, saying; “Johnnie*, how do you
Jo?’ to us all, and 1 never knew how
cheap I was, that I would shake
hands, with, and be • bought by a
Yank for a piece of hard-tack which
h 1 Yankee was banding out.”
Sent For His Clothes.
“Captain Cushing, who blew up
the Albemarle at Plymouth, was in
Command of a detachment that stole
Captain Kelly from Southport one
night, and there were several hun
dred troopers nt Southport who did
not know of the kidnaping until the
next day when a flag of truce was
hoisted by one of the boats, and a
message was sent in to Southport,
saying ‘Captain Kelly did not have
time to get his clothes; so please
send them to him. It was General
Herbert the Yanks were after, but
they got Captain Kelly by mistake,"
Mr. Brake said, an h*> chuckled over
ft is mistake.
“You can see a cannon ball, as good
tr a baseball, if you know how to
look at it,” Mr. Brake informed,
stating that “once we saw one com
ing our way, and one of our men yell
ed be'ore it passed over us. ‘You
Yankees shoot too high,’ and just
when lie finished : aying this the shell
exploded a few feet behind us.”
Mr. Brake, who lives four miles
from Rocky Mount, came down to
Wilmington especially to attend the
anniversary exercises at Fort Fisher
yesterday. While in the city he was a
guest of Dr. W. C. Galloway.
“I was in the legislature with Dr.
Galloway in 1881; and we went to
Southport today,’ the old warrior said,
as lie concluded the interesting and
illuminating interview.
BAKER GIVES 35,000,000 TO
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
New York, June 2.—George Bnker,
who began working seventy years ago
as a grocery boy in Troy, N. Y., for
$2 a week, and after more than sixty
years in W all Street, has become one
of the four richest men in this coun
try, has added to his list of public
benefactions an endowment of $5,
000,000 for the famous Harvard
graduate school of business adminis
tiation. This makes a total of ap
proximately $12,000,000 which he has
given for public purposes during the
last six years. His fortune is esti
mated at more than $300,000,000. He
is grouped with John D. Rockefeller,
Henry Ford, and Andrew W. Mellon
as the four richest men in the United
States.
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rHE hardest thing to
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sense of value with a new season
of charm.
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VISITING CARDS — PROGRAMS —
WEDDING INVITATIONS.
BROTHER C. J. WOOD8ON
SFGGESTS STATE TICKET
To the Democratic Voter; of Cleveland
. County:
1 do not want to lie understood as
dicLutiiiK to you for whom you should
vote in the approaching primary, but
1 take pleasure in commending to your
favorable consideration the following
candidates for siate office*, as being
worthy of your confidence and sup.
port; and a vote for any or all of them
will, be personally appreciated by me. I
1 feel assured that you have known
mo long enough to know that 1 would
not ask you to vote for any one who j
did not posses* the qualifications)
which Thomas Jefferson, considered in j
| do pcnsihle in every one aspiring to I
official position—honesty, capability ;
and fidelity to the constitution.
For Governor, J. W. Hailey.
Lieutenant'governor, J Elmer Long,
j Attorney General, Charles Ross.
Auditor, J. 1*. Cook.
Commissioner of Agriculture, W. A.'
j Graham.
Commissioner of Labor and Print* j
ing. F. 1>. Grist.
Insurance Commissioner, Stacey W.
Wade.
Corporation Commissioner, Oscar
B. Carpenter.
(Political Advertisement.)
Truth Stranger than Fiction.
North Wilkesboro, June 2.—Federal
jcourt here received a great surprise
when J. W. Shepard, H. W. Walsh, and
IT. A. Walsh, all of the Ferguson dis
trict of this county, were called to
I warrants sworn out against them the
i previous day charging each with vio
j lation of the prohibition act. The sur
: prise came when each admitted that
he had been making whiskey and that
his conscience hud hurt him so he
appeared before District Attorney Lin
ney and swore out a warrant for him
self in an effort to ease his conscience.
Another surprise came when the
court learned that none of the three
men knew that the others were in the
j whiskey making business.
Judge E. Yates Webb, who was pre
| siding at the time, suspended sen
j tear® on the men, as there was neith
er Federal or state evidence against,
them however, he ordered all to appear
at the next term of court with two
character witnesses to testify to their
good conduct in the meantime. ‘‘Truth
is certainly stranger than fiction,” the
judge added.
The British are going to repeal
! their war tax on musical instiuments
so may lose a litle sleep over the re
suits.
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BOX 436,
SHELBY, N. C.
IKE’S TALE
Door Star Reeders:
The memory of sum things is more
pleasant than the things are them-,
Helves often. Let everybody go back
over the past and call up visions of
other days and see if you don’t agree
that it is true. One time me and E[)
Champion and Wulter Lee got us a
gallon from over in Burke, and started
out tu see if everybody wuz a con
ducting themselves in the right and
proper way.
Lawndale is a little city down near ’ '
the bunk of the river; but hit is ex
ceedingly wicked. We visited hit first
in order that we might, if possible,
list Mart Jones and Bill Williams un
der our banner, fur us five are more
than a match fur any I>0 men in the
state when we air a feeling our corn
But Mart and Bill wuz off on a little'
campaign of their own, so in sorrow
we left Lawndale and journeyed north
going in the direction of Casar. Nor
we never parted company with our
jug which we loved like a brother, Ep
requested that he be allowed the priv-t .
ilege of carrying it and as he wuz the
bent looking man in the bunch, his re
quest wuz granted. For a time all •
went well. About us wuz the sun.
shine and the green trees and all na
ture seemed tu smile on the good and
evil alike.
But alter a time Ep began tu give
us rite smart of trouble more or less,
when we’d come tu a fork of the
road or git even with a house he’d
stop and make mo and Walter sing, ,
sum old hymns .then he’d mount upon • -
a stump and preach as good a sermon
as you ever heard any man preach, m «
the condition Ep wuz in that day.
Then before he’d dismiss the con
gregation he’d git his old hat and ' ‘
take up a collection fur the heathen up
thar whar we had started tu when
we left Lawndale. Well hit wuz purty
hard on me and Walter Leet fur we .
wuz all the congregation he had, but
ns Providence had ordered hit thar
wuz a big hole in the top of his hat
and he’d lope the money out fast as
he’d collect hit in; so I don’t know
how the heathen air a getting on by
1 now.
But atter a long time, we begin tu
see Casar in the distance and hit got
nearer and nearer the closer we got
tu hit.
We stopped under a spreading oak
and held a council of war before en
tering in, . through the gates into the
city.
"We found a good place under the
weeds whar wc could conceal the jug;
but how wuz we going tu conceal
Walter Lea’s breath wuz the thing
that bothered us and caused us to
lose rite smart of sleep fur he is one
of these big fat fellers that has fgf r
git his breath purty often even when
he is sober. , ■ /
Ep had done quieted down long ago
fur* thar weren’t more than a tea-cup
full left in the jug, and Ep is one of
these fellers that don't rejoice only
when thar is cause fur rejoicing. But
they wuz bathered what tu do with
me fur f had got started up at last,
and thar hain’t nobody enn stop me
only Sal at a time like this and she
wasn’t there. We lay hid till after
dark then we got word tu pus Rich
ard and Frank Morrison whar we wuz
a lying out thar in the weeds with,
our jug.
Hit didn’t seem like but jist a little
while till they come a runing bare
footed and bareheaded jist like a fel
ler is when he first gits out.en the
bed. Gus pretended like he wuz sick
wuz the reason he run so fast. Frank
never said a word but jist grabbed the
jug and went tu soaking it, but we
made him let Gus have a little fur *
his stomach’s sake. IKE.
McLean Man Had To
Introduce Bailey
Waynesville, June 2.—Haywood
county, where A. W. McLean, candi
date for governor spoke twice last
Tuesday, at Canton and in the court- ■ >
house here, grows 100 per cent Dem
ocrats and one can always put his
finger on them. W. T. Shelton, Mc
Lean manager, declared this is one of ■ •
the mountain counties that along with
Buncombe helps to roll up a Demo
cratic majority in this congressional
district.
When Josiah William Bailey spoke
| here a few days ago to about 165 peo
ple, almost a third of whom, Demo
crats declare, were Republicans, the * *
friends of the Raleigh lawyer coufcT
not find any one to introduce him and
for a while the outlook was mighty " ”
bad. Finally Mr. Bailey's friends pre. -
vailed upon a McL&n supporter to
introduce their mnn, but it was re
marked that his introduction was ’ “
brief and was ppt by any means com
parable to a eulogy in behalf of the
Raleigh candidate. *•
Democrats told candidate McLean
here today that Haywood will give ’
him a banner vote on June 7 next ami
that this fine, old mountain count*11'
nesting in the upper valleys and ' ’
crags of the Blue Ridge will vie with 1
other counties in making it the big- ’ 1
gest vote ever cast in a primary for
any man.
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