The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-16
tBy Our Special Correspondent

camp 1Ubd lslnrc, Near JdthSuhN iit
Fla. July II.
The second pay day for Camp Cuba
Iibre has come and gone The pay
masters finished their work tonight. The
North Carolina troops were among the
last paid. This was due to certain cor
rections that had to be made in the pay
roll in regard to back pay. 1t took nearly
twenty five thousand dollars to pay off
the Tar Heels. Each man got eighteen
dollars and twenty cents, or two dollars
and sixty cents back pay.
Majof Hayes is here. He came up
from Tampa to spend Il few days with
General Lee. He returns tomorrow
night. He will go to Porto Rico with
General Miles.
General Lee today reviewed the entire
second division The troops made Il
most satisfactory showing. After the
review General Lee called ut the North
Carolina headquarters and spoke in most
iattering terms of the North Carolina
troops. Major Hayes was present at
the review and was delighted with the
change that has been wrought in the
soldiers since they left Raleigh.
With the rain has come an alarming
increase of sickness among the soldiers
lin Camp Cuba Iibre. There are now
over 300 patients in the division hos
pitaI. to say nothing of Il still larger
number sick in quarters. OF these in
the hospital a score or more are dam
gerously ill.
The typhoid and malarial fevers here
are often of a most malignant and fatal
type. A case of this kind came under
my observation the other day. A sol
dicr of the Fourth Virginia regiment
was taken to the hospital, showing symp-
toms of typhoid fever At dinner he was
bright and had pretty good appetite
That night he was a corpse. An autopsy
showed sixteen alterations on his bowels.
One company-Company f. of the
Second Illinois regiment-has lost four
men by death out of seventeen sent to
the hospital The sickness of all these
seventeen men dates some two weeks
back when they were made sick by eat
ing spoiled beans.
The North Carolina regiment congratu-
lates itself on the fact that it has not
yet lost Il man by disease.
HOSPITAL PHARMACIST MUNDS
RETURNS.
III. III. Mcknight. chief steward at the
division hospital. has been relieved of
that duty and ordered to report back
to the First North Carolina regiment.
y. Il. Deering, of the Forty-ninth Iowa,
succeeds him as chief hospital steward.
The statement that he has been pro-
NOTED is mistake.
A. J. Munds has returned to the hos
pital AMI given himself up. 1t will be
remembered he disappeared the day
after he arrived here, returning to his
home in Wilmington. He says he had
no idea he was doing wrong in going
back; that he enlisted in North Caro-
lima. but he thought he had to enlist
here also and unless he choose to do that
he was free He enlisted in North Caro-
lima as pharmacist; arriving here he
found he was to be only chamber
maid,' and not liking the job he took
French leave. When he saw in the
News and Observer that he would be
arrested and tried for desertion at the
expiration of ten days, he decided to
return. Not having been absent ten
days he will be tried for being absent
without leave. As he was ignorant OF
the law, the punishment imposed upon
him will be very light, if indeed he be
punished at all.
SOLDIERS AFRAID OF YELLO1
FEVER.
The announcement nT a yellow fever
endemic at Santiago has about removed
from the Seventh Army Corps all de-
sire to go to that place. 1t has not
robbed them of the war spirit, however,
and they are again building their hopes
on Porto Rico 1t is believed here that
as soon as Santiago falls the invasion
of Porto Rico will begin and Cuba will
be abandoned until after the yellow fever
season. Porto Rico has Il most delight
full climate and is healthy all the year
round.
Tar Heels perhaps, are no Drawer than
other people, but they had rather race
Mauser rifles and dynamite guns than
fight yellow fever. One bullet i'll i've
hundred is fatal. while one victim in
FIVE succumbs to yellow fever. No breast
work is strong enough to stop the raw
ages of the dread disease, once it gets
hold in such Il climate. Its casualties
in one short week have often been great
or than have been registered since the
beginning of this war with Spain.
Already. if reports be true, yellow
lack has broken out in this State rs well
as in Cuba. 1t is to be hoped there is
some mistake. but parties from Tampa
declare positively that the fever has
broken out there among the troops.
Located as il is, in what was once n
swamp. Camp Cuba Libre furnishes a
most inviting spot for all manner or
fcvers
The North Carolina members of the
hospital corps are arranging to establish
a mess to themselves.
Messrs. Staples. S.chenck and Bogart,
of Greensboro and Smith and Troy, Of
ReidsviIe, have arrived here. They en-
listed for the hospital corps. but not lik-
ing the work they are trying to get Il
transfer to the First North Carolina
regiment They have not yet reported
for duty at the hospital.
George Nottingham has been sick ever
since he has been here. His sickness is
not serious.
WORK OF CATHOLICS AMONG
THE SICK.
Anent the Biblical Recorders attack
on Roman Catholics it will. perhaps,
not be amss for me to state that the
q Il. l.. Il l.y.l