The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-02

All the while the boy was getting weaker.
Finally Monday all the discharges except
Hardy came. Investigation showed
that his had been lost ut the Division
Hospital and had never gone to Washing
ton at all. Then came the attempt 10
get the boy II furlough. and even this
took three days Of hard red tape work.
| know the fact that Hardy's disability
was incurred in line of duty. emitting
him TO a pension had something TO do
with the delay, but that Is no excuse
for p~igeon-holing his discharge papers ana
keeping hnn in a hot. unhealthy camp
until his health is seriously impaired.
Somebody has Numbered. and it was not
the reglmental surgeons. either.
Major {. w. Robertson. chief surgeon
Of the flftieth Iowa regiment. has been
promoted to the office of Division Sur
geon. lie Will leave this week for the
hospital ut Fort Mcpherson. Atlanta.
Ga. where he has been assigned to duty.
Captain Chadwick is having n store
house built for the commissary stores
belonging to his company.
Members Of the Raleigh company were
busy yesterday improving their quar-
tiers. Sand was hauled in to ill up low
places ana floors were put in the tents.
Mrs. \. ]. Crawford. wife of Captain
1t ~ MS tltI lltb ~ iltG NOME III
Raleigh. She has been here for 4 month.
Lieut.. Alphonso Avery. Of the Second
North Carolina regiment, is in the city.
Sergeant w. \. Webb. of the .Asheville
company, has gone home on Il ten DAYS
furlough.
Walter L. Hess. Of the Concord com
pany. has been granted q furlough for
seven days. He went home Tuesday
night.
Colonel Eugene Harrell has been ap-
pointed acting commiSSary during the alb
Sence of Lieut.. Smith. Fourteen tents
for this department arrived yesterday
and will he pitched along the road way
near the canteen. Thirteen of them will
be used for storage Of the food sup
ply. \ larger one viii be used as office
and quarters for the commisSary.
The government has discontinued the
issue Of ice in camp for the preservation
Of fresh meats. Up to yesterday $50
pounds of ice We're daily given TO each
regiment.
TIL order requiring all soldiers visit
ing the city to have passes has been
revoked and hereafter "thc boys will be
allowed to stay in town until s o'clock.
After that hour, though, they must be
able to flash" 4 pass on the provost.
Nearly all the recruits have graduated
from the awkward squad and are now
drilling with the companies to which
they have been assigned.
With the wet weather comes the fcs-
tive mosquito. For the first time sine,
the establishment of the camp here they
are beginning TO make it interesting for
the soldiers. Taps is their signal to
unsheathe their swords and make 4
charge upon the camp. They keep up
the attack until reveille next morning.
| The price Of ice in Jacksonville was
yesterday advanced from 60 to 80 cents
| 4 hundred. and even at that price many
people had to go without. The daily con
| sumption Of ice here is 12O tons.
The Second division will be reviewed by
| General Arnold this week at the Wind
Sor Hotel. in honor of General Lee.
1t is reported that the Fiftieth Iowa
and Fourth Illinois regiments will i'll q
/ few days move their camps to the Fair
Grounds. The change is rendered neces-
Sary by the swampy condition Of their
| present camp grounds.
FRED. l.. MERRITT.