The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-29
HELP SOLDIERS TO
TRANSMIT MONEY.
A Red Cross Flag Presented to the
Hospital Corps.
FIRST BLOOM OF THE SEASON.
The Troops in Camp Drilling in Heavy
Uniforms and the Heat is Intense.
The Brown Canvass Suits Have
Not Come To Hand.

RALEIGH N. C., June Is .-Speciai.--
The officers Of the Raleigh National bank
on yesterday went out TO camp and ten
dered checks with stamped envelopes for
the soldiers to send their money home.
In this way s2H5 was sent away.
The ladies' represented by Chaplain os-
horne. presented the Red Cross flag TO tho
Hospital CORPS at Second Regiment
camp. II was received by Colonel Bur-
gwyne.
It is said that .. A. Cook 81 Warren,
will without doubt get the appointment
Of brigadier- general.
The FIRST cotton bloom Of the season
was brought in yesterday by Mr.. J. p.
Whitley. OF Johnson county.
Rev. Mr.. Osborne. chaplain OF the sec
ond Regiment on Sunday invited Father
Prendergast 10 hold service. There are
about sixty Roman Catholics In the reg
iment The chaplain will ask other min
listers to hold service as there are many
Baptists and Methodists.
NO BROWN CANVASS.
The brown canvass that IL was said
would be issued TO the troops Tor inc
war has not materialized except one suit
OF officers clothing The weather Is not
anyway and IN these heavy uniforms II
IS terrible. on drill Il Is not unusual for
a man 10 drop I'm ranks
General Cowles Is able 70 walk across
his room on crutches. His rapid recov-
cry from his broken leg gratifies his
friends.
Paymaster-General Stanton writes To-
Senator Pritchard that the neglect TO pay
off the soldiers OF the First and Second
Regiments and the payment or negro
troops earlier. was unintenuonal.
Recruiting for tho Second Regiment Is
not rapid, by any means. and Is even
slower for the First Regiment. In spite
OF the fact that the papers asserted that
there were hundreds who were ready 10
go 20 the front, and yet when the call
comes It Is hard 20 get tho two regiments
recruited up to their required strength.
Last night the Young Womsn's Mia
slonary Society presented 10 Miss Mary
Pescerd a handsome gold watch. and
handsome Portuguese Bible. Miss Pescerd
leaves tomorrow for Brazil. where she
goes for seven years as missionary.
A USELESS ROW.
The trouble between DR.. Kilso and
Judge Clark has not yet been settled. IL
seems that II will DO neither OF them any
good though the Methodists generally
uphold DR.. Kilgo.
While the First Regiment was In camp
here the city bathing pool was rendered
them free. The same has been done the
Second Regient. Colonel Armfeld made
bathing compulsory. but Colonel Bur-
gwyne has not done so. consequently u
IS not INDUCED In so freely.
Some harsh criticism Is made that ths
last term OF Federal Court failed 70 COM
nit moonshiners and other offender.
which caused fight between two ON
cials. The trouble has by no means
Quilted and may grow bigger.
All the chief officials OF the seabosrd
Air Line, Southern and Atlantic Coast
Line were here to-day az ne meeting or
tho Railroad Commission. This is-for the
consideration OF reduction OF passenger
rates as ordered by the Governor.
A new sensation promises to come "a
the front IN \ few days.