The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-30
MILITARY MISCELLANY.

Gen. J. ]. Reynolds, colonel U. S. A.
retired, is in Paris.
English non-commissioned officers
and privates have been forbidden to
wear Grape on their arms at funerals.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, and
Senator Garland, of Arkansas, have
been designated as members of the
board of visitors to attend the next an
nual examination of the cadets at West
Poit.
a dispatch to the Leavenworth Times
from Fort Reno, Indian Territory. says
Maj. j. A. Brodhead, paymaster U. S.
A, was robbed of S20,o while on his
way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort
Reno.
Fitz John Porter rs pretty sure of his
vindication and his back pay or its
equivalent. But long after his pay has
been spent and he has gone to his long
rest, historians will wrangle over the
claims which he has set Pittsburgh
Telegraph.
1t is decreed by the Prussian military
authorities that any officer who shall be
struck by a civilian must forthwith
draw upon that civilian, though the
latter is unarmed and defenceless, and
cut him down upon the spot An Off
Ger neglecting to perform this duty is
liable to he cashiered
Capt. Edwin NJ. Coates, Fourth in
fantry formerly Twelfth infantry, and
Lieut.. James E. II. Foster, Third cav
airy, both of when are on sick leave,
are spending the winter at Nassau,
New Providence, Bahama Islands.
Recent private letters received here
state that both these officers are much
improved in health.
The wedding of Lieut.. Charles II.
Rockwell, Fifth cavalry, to Miss Cece-
liza Sherman Moulton, daughter of Col.
Charles w. Moulton formerly U. S. A
a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati. is
announced to take place February ., at
her fathers residence at Glendale, in
the suburbs of Cincinnati. Miss Moul-
ton will be recollected as one of the
beautiful young girls who spent the
winter of 1878 at the Ebbitt house,
and is neice of Gen. w. T. Sherman.
Lieut.. Rockwell will be attended by
Lieut.. Chase, Third cavalry.
The total number of recruits of the
German army for the year 1S7S-S9 was
143, ,119, of whom 2,574, or is per cent.
could neither write their names nor
read. The majority of the illiterate
recruits came from the eastern provin-
ces-east and west Prussia, Posen and
Silesia. They were ], 1886 in number,
and formed more than per cent. of all
the men levied in these districts. Out
of all the rest of Prussia there were only
332 men without education, or about
one-third per cent. OF the other Ger
man states, Bavaria sent i0l, or J per
cent. of uneducated resruits; Saxony
10, or per cent. Wutemberg 3, or .o5
per cent; Baden 3, or .06 per cent
Alsace-Lorraine 149, or per cent;
Hesse 6, or 2 per cent; Mecklenberg-
Schwerin s, or .04 per cent, and
Brunswick 6, or .O6 per cent. OF the
other small states, Anhalt sent 4,
Coburg Gotha ?, and SAKE Weimar,
Oldenburg, SAKE Meiningen, SAKE AL
tenburg and Waldeck each The re-
naming states had no uneducated
recruits.
The Ottawa correspondent of the
New York World says: The rumor
which has been cabled more than once
that the imperial government intend
sending a regiment of regulars out, is
without foundation. They are willing
to do so, however, provided the Cana
dian government ask for them. a reg
year to garrison town, and is exceed
ingly popular with the fair sex, from
the match making mamma who escorts
her daughters to the military balls and
supports them while they storm the
hearts of wealthy younger sons, down
to the servant girl who devotes her
Sunday out to Private O'Trigger; but
the troops were removed in 1870 against
the desire of the Canadian authorities,
and the latter are not willing to petit
tion for their return, especially as their
place is well filled by native militia.
Sir Garnet Wolseley favors recruiting
in Canada for the British army. He
formed high opinion of Canadian
troops during the Red river expedi-
tion in 1870, and a project was sub
mitted to the war office some time ago
for filling up skeleton regiments with
Canadian levies, but the Canadian off
GERS deputed to sound public feeling in
this country found that the ''spirit for
eign policy was not popular, and the
scheme was dropped.