The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-06
MILITARY MATTERS.

Capt. &. A.. Hill, u. s. army, and
family passed through the city yester.
day en- route for San Frsncisco.
Capt. E. N. Coates, Fourth infantry.
has been granted one years leave Of
absence with permission to 90 beyond
the sea.
Surgeon.L. N. Loring. o. 8. army.
has been granted a delay Of fifteen days
In joining his station In the department
Of the Missouri, on account of sickness
in his family at st. Louis, Mo.
Col. Wesley Merritt, commandant at
Fort D. A Russell, Is spoken of as
likely to be president Of the court
which Is to convene at Chicago TO in
vestigate the conduct Of Gen. Reno at
the battle OF the Little Big Horn.
J. J. o'Brien and ]. r. Clazett, U.
8. army, are registered at the Railroad
house.
Col. A. Taylor, o.. 8. army, is among
the late arrivals at the Railroad house.
Col. II. R. Rathbone and family
sailed from New. York last Saturday
for a prolonged stay in Europe. Mrs.
Rathbone, it will be remembered, was
a daughter of the late Senator Harris,
Of New York.
Gen. Richard G. Drum, who returned
last week to Washington, from an ex-
tended tour of inspection of the differ
emit recruiting rendezvous, Is very
much pleased with the condition Of at
fairs at the different stations. He says
the present recruiting detail Is one of
the best we have ever had. The re-
cruits we are getting are superior to
any that have ever yet been enlisted In
the regular army. They are princi-
pally Americans, young and intelligent.
Out Of one hundred and sixty recruits
he saw leave Jefferson barracks, forty
were suitable for clerks, and question
ing some of them why they had en-
listed, they said: Cuisines is dull;
there is q chance. of promotion now,
and, II that fails, after our term of en-
listmeht ends we can settle somewhere
in the west, for life in the army will
give US a chance Of seeing the country
and becoming accustomed to frontier
habits and Manners"
Gen. McCook has returned to WASH
ington from Columbus barracks, Ohio,
where he has been to establish an army
normal school, which is to DO under
the supervision of Col. Thomas M.
Anderson, Tenth infantry. This school
is for the education Of enlisted men to
6t them for teachers Of military posts.
Already applications have been re-
ceived for three enlisted men as teach
ers from frontier posts. The schools
to be established at the different mill
tary posts are to be non-sectarian, and
officers may send their children, and
the only expense they will have will
be the cost Of the text books; settlers
may also send their children under the
same conditions that officers do theirs.
The quartermaster's department is to
furnish the necessary furniture for the
schools.
Lieut.. Francis Woodbridge and Gen.
John Gibbon, Seventh infantry, are So
journing in Washington.
Gen. Sheridan is defendant in a suit
for 100000 about to be tried in the
United States circuit court, New York.
The suit grows out of an order Issued
by Gen: Sheridan, at New Orleans, in
1865.
Capt. Thomas B. Devices, Second
cavalry, has been spending several
weeks at the national capital.
1t is believed In army circles that the
committee on army reorganization has
no disposition to recommend any sweep
ing changes or radical reductions. Gen.
Burnside, who is chairman Of the COM
mittee, and a friend Of the army, has
said: "Our meetings are harmonious
and everything is proceeding favor
ably"
The trial of Gen. Reno has been set
FOR January 18th, in Chicago.
Among the recruits who arrived in
Cheyenne from Missouri yesterday are
John Good and several other excellent
musicians.
S~eventy-two recruits from Jefferson
barracks, No., under command of
Capt. A. B. Taylor, Fifth cavalry, ar
rived from the east yesterday and went
to Fort Russell. From that point they
will shortly be transferred to Fort Lar
annie for distribution among the north
western posts.
Fact Versus Theory.
On August I'd, 1878, Western Union
Telegraph stock sold at the New York
Stock Exchange for 84t per share.
september 18th, 1873, this same stock
sold at 0S4, a l~uctuation of III per
cent. in AZ days. 10000 shares OF this