The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-23
THEPEOPLE IN JACKSONVILLE ARE
SIMPLY PARBOILED DURING
THE DAY.
Improper Enstmens- Engineer Service Captain Niche
Promoted-The Sick--0ne Raleigh Soldier Sends
All his Money Home Except So Month.

reported for duty. He has been at Raj
eigh and other points in North Caro-
lima for the past month getting recruits.
| William Yount is the member of the
| sleeping on his post. and not Thomas
| Yount as printed. There are four men
| in this company named Yount.
| Lieut.. JAS. a. Goodman and the detail
of three men who took the Wigs broth
ers to Governors Island to serve their
sentence for desertion. returned to camp
Sergeant w. c. Wood, of the States
vile company; Private w. III. Chick, of
the Winston company. and Private Elgin
e. Williamson, of the Queen ty
Guards. They went to New York v
boat, but returned by rail, stopping over
for two days ut their respective homes
in North Carolina.
Quartermaster Harrell has had 125 of
the tents now in use by the First North
Carolina regiment condemned. New
wall tents were to-day issued in their
stead.
BY order of General Arnold garrison
court martial has been established for
the First brigade, with Captain Thomas
II. Robertson. president. The other
members of the court are Lieutenant
John Il. Wells. of the Shelby company:
Lieutenant John Brinkerhoff. of the
Second New Jersey regiment, and Lieu
tenant John f. Nanatta, of the Second
n. q 81 -
trivial cases, in which the punishment
is less than 80 days imprisonment or n
fine of not more than one months pay.
Private Leo ID. Belvin, of the Durham
company, has gone home on Il furlough.
He is just recovering from an attack of
typhoid fever.
Captain Niche, of the Durham COM
pany. has been appointed brigade en-
gineer, and has been temporarily detach-
ed from his company, leaving First Lieu
tenant b. G.. Woodall in hammond of it.
On account of the crowded condition
of the hospital here, and the large mum
Der of deaths from typhoid fever so ear
ly in the summer the government has or
dered Il rigid examination of this and
other camps i'm Florida. 1t may result
in all the troops now in this State being
moved further north. The mountainous
sections of Georgia and North Carolina
have been suggested.
Since the arrival of the three new mu-
sicians from Kansas a great improve
ment in the North Carolina band has
been noticed 1t furnished excellent
music for an entertainment in the city
last night. They are not only good mu
sicians, but well educated. refined young
men.
The volunteer camp at Tampa having
been condemned on account of its UNI
healthfulness. the troops there are being
transferred to the new camp at Fernan-
dina. The thirty second Michigan reg-
ment was the first to move. 1t came
through here Wednesday night. Yester-
day the Sixty-ninth New York and First
Florida came through. Others regiments
will follow. There was much sickness
| at Tampa. and the men are glad to get
| away. They say the camp was under
water half the time.
Through the kindness of Mr. Isaac A.
Wright of Kansas City, Mo-. valua-
bic little language primer has just been
distributed among the troops in camp
here. Spanish words for Soldiers" is
its title. Five hundred of these little
| hooks were given to each regiment. Mr..
| Wright sent them to Colonel Curtis
Guild, inspector general on General
Lees staff, and he distributed them
among the regiments.
| The Concord company sent four men
to the hospital yesterday: James l.,
| Rarger and Cyrus w. Lowry have
measles; Martin l.. Parker has typhoid
| fever, and Robert +. Charles has remit
| tent malarial fever. The Hornets Nest
| Rifles sent two men: VIM. Proctor,
measles, and John ID. Hill. mumps.
| The Waynesville company: Dennis
! Williams. rcmittent fever. and William
| III. Brewer, rheumatic fever.
| English sparrows. which have proved
such Il nuisance in North Carolina and
| cther parts of the United States, have
| this summer made their first appearance
| in Florida. They were unknown here
until month ago.
All branches Of business have flourish
| ed here since the establishment Of the
| camp, but none have prospered like the
saloons. OF these the most popular are
those with concert halls attached. There
are two Of these. and they take in hun.
dreds Of dollars every night. They are
| always crowded with soldiers. Nc
! ADMISSION 10 Inc concert IL cliaTSeu, bu'
| rs long as you occupy a seat watching
! girls in tights dance and sing you arc
expected to buy drnks-and you usually
i do.
The establishment of Camp Cuba
Librc has increased the population, get
ting their mail through the Jacksonville
| postoffice fully 30 per cent, The money
order and registry divisions are especially
busy these days. Money is constantly
being sent or received by the soldiers
During the past four days 9O6 money
orders have been issued representing q
i total amount of S10,G13. or an average
of over S11 to each order The work il
the registry division is equally as heavy
: n total of about 100 registered letters
and packages having been sent out this
month.
: These figures show that many of tn,
); men do not waste their money, but save
il and send il home to snpport thei,
!; families or to accumulate against theil
return from the war One Tar Heel. {
member of the Raleigh company, tells
| me he never takes more than 50 n montl
5 out of his wages. The rest he SENDS
/ home, so that he may have snug littl,