The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-26

sun 80 pnNtrfNi 3toUt m4dday.
While the mercury i playing around
among the t~hrct-figur,~l notch.s nn the
thermometer. Jacksonville j. threatened.
with an ice famine. To properly supply
the city ana camp with ice requires about
l0O tons 4 day. The combined zee
plants of the city. however. have a daily
capacity Of only ~ tons. 70 supply the
deficiency a carload IF 3o tons j. every
day brought here from Savannah. ga.
IL consequence 81 this the price II ice
has gone up from ~ Ia "a cents i hun
dred pounds.
The improper enlistment of men in
North Carolina for the Hospital corps
Of the Seventh Army Corps. i causing
no end of trouble here. .h~ | have
stated before. the men are enlisted by
the .Adjutant General in Raleigh a
pharmacists. When they reach here
they are made nurses. y Pharmacists
salary is ST.. n nurses is S21GO.
OF course this has caused the greatest
dissatisfaction and the men have raised
a mighty Kick. They demanded that
they be released on the ground that they
had been fraudulently enlisted. When
the matter began I" he Investigated il
was also found that they had been enlist
ed for Two years instead Of three. a>
they should have been.
This has di>p!eaSed Colonel Mans. The
chief surgeon Of tle Seventh Nanny
Corps. He SAYS he authorized no such
enlistment and minated that unless
the men here re-enliSted for the three
years service the men who first enlisted
them may ave to pay for his mistake
by reimburSing the government for their
TRANSPORTATION down here.
The whole matter has been referred to
the Judge Advocate General Of the
United States for his decision.
In case the men are released from the
hospital service. as Colonel MauS thinks
they Will be. some of them Will return
home. some will enlist in the First North
Carolina regiment as privateS and one or
two will join the engineer corps.
Joseph G. Spotwood. i kinsman Of the
Pescuds in Raleigh. who died
in the hospital here Thursday. was
Il most remarkable young man. His vi
tally was something Wonderful. He
has been sick ever since his regiment
came here. nearly we months ago. and
many times was thought to be dying.
He always rallied though. and often he
became so bright and cheerful that hopes
of his recovery were entertained. His
illness was caused by typhoid fever. but
| recently blood poisoning set in. Though
the flesh dropped away from his bones in
places. he still held on to life with the
| most remarkable tenacity. "Wednesday
morning Just before his death he bright
ened up, recognized his friends and ask
ed for food, the first he has taken in
many days. Soon after it was given him
he was a corpse.
Hereafter. by order Of General Burt,
| there will be officers and non-commis-
stoned officers school on two days Of
the week Only-Mondays and Thursdays.
In order that the Seventh corps may
not be wholly without an enlisted force
having some instruction in the practical
duties required of engineer troops. Gen
eral Lee orders Il detail, consisting of
one commissioned officer and twenty en-
listed men, be made from each regiment
with instructions to report to the chief
engineer of the Seventh Army Corps
for duty. The men detailed will be tenn
p~orarily detached from their regiments
and assigned to duty at corps head
quarters.
Mrs. II. S. Chadwick left last night
for her home in Charlotte. Mrs. Thomas
X. Robertson leaves tonight. 1t is with
sincere regret that their friends here
see them go.
Sergeant r. Z. Courts, of the Reids-
vile company, has returned to camp and
reported for duty. He has been at Raj
eish and other points in North Caro-
lima for the past month getting recruits.
William Yount is the member of the
Hornets Nest Rifles who is charged with
sleeping on his post. and not Thomas
Yount as printed. There are four men
in this company named Iount.
Lieut.. JAS. \. 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
Yesterday. The detail was comprised OF
| Sergeant w. G.. Wood. Of the States
vile company; Private w. II. Chick, Of
the Winston company. and Private Elgin
T.. Williamson. of the Queen City
Guards. They went to New York by
boat. but returned by rail. stopping over
for two days ut their respective homes
in North Carolina.
O~uartermaster Harrell has had 123 Of
the tents now i'll use by the First North
Carolina regiment condemned. New
wall tents were to-day issued in their
stead.
BY order of General Arnold a garrison
court martial has been established for
| the First brigade, with Captain Thomas
X. Robertson, president. The other
members of the court are Lieutenant
John X. Wells. OF the Shelby company;
Lieutenant John BrinkerhOff, Of the
| Second New Jersey regiment, and Lien
tenant John f.. Nanatta, Of the Second
illinois. This court is for the trial Of
trivial cases. in which the punishment
is less than 80 days Imprisonment or a
fine of not more than one months pay.
Private Leo ID. Belvin. of the Durham
company. has gone home on 4 fnrlough.
He is just recovering from an attack Of
typhoid fever.
Captain Niche, of the Durham com
pam 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 il.