National Republican., 1882-07-08
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.


Rear.Admiral Aaron X. Hughes was in New
York city on Thursday.
Commander Henry Glass U. s. N, was regis
tered in San Francisco, June go
Lieutenant William W. Forsyth Sixth Cavalry,
was at the Ebbitt House yesterday.
Ensign Harry s. Knapp, U. s. N. who Is In the
city, will remain during the month.
Rear-Admiral Taylor is at Fort Adams, Now
port, visiting his son, Lieutenant Sidney w. Tay-
lor, Fourth Artillery.
Lieutenant Louis II. oreman. retired U. 8. A..
formerly Tenth Cavalry, is at No. 1910, Eighth
street.
General Charles II. Crane, the new Surgeon
General Of the Army, will be 81 years of age in
September.
Cadet Midshpman McDonoush Craven, of the
class OF 81. in San Francisco June Is from the
flagship Pensacola, Pacific feet.
General Gustavus A. DcRussy, recently pro-
NOTED to colonel Fourth Artillery, will be retired
III October next when he will be Ga years fage,
Lieutenant Theodore Mosher, Twenty second
Infantry, arrived here yesterday from Fort Clark,
Texas on leave, and is visiting at No. 6lS street
Surgeon James s. Knight U. s. N, who was re-
Gently on duty at the Boston nayy-yard, has re-
ported for duty at the torpedo station ut Newport.
General Rufus ingalls,, Quartermaster. General,
and General James A. Ekin. Assistant Quartermas-
July, 1888
Cadet Midshipman Frederick II. Stable Is visit
ing San Francisco from the Naval Academy He
was member of the class which has just COM
pletcd the academic course.
Colonel Henry II. Humphreys, captain Fifteenth
Infantry, arrived here Thursday on leave from
Kansas, and Is visiting at No. 1888 street, where
no VIII remain some days.
Passed Assistant Paymaster John N Spee', q.
9. N. was in the city yesterday on brief leave
from the Keariarge at Norf ,lk, and left in the
evening for his home at Harrisburg.
Major Phineas p. Barnard, lieutenant Fifth
G valry, is the Oldest officer In years In the
cavalry corps ofthe Army. He will be retired In
| 1885 under the compulsory retirement act
| Lieutenant Edward Lloyd, fifteenth Infantry,
| whose arrival from Colorado was published yes
serdny, is at NJ 5li Thirteenth street, but Will
leave here Monday to sail for Europe soon.
Lieutenants W. McCarty Little aud Charles w.
| Bartlett u s. N, arrived at San Francisco June
80. over. tn Union Pacific. Both were recently
| attached to the training squadron at Newport
| Captain Cullen Bryant Ordnance Corps, U. s. A +,
| has reported at Fort Vancouver, Washington Ter
ritory, TO command the arsenal there and for duty
| as chief ordnance oticer on the staff of General
Nelson A. Miles
Lieutenant william McCarty Little, U. s. N,
who was recently detached from the frigate New
Hampshire of the training squadron, has left
| Newport for San Francisco to report for duty on
| board the Adams, which Is ordered to Alaska.
| Lieutenant Thomas c. Mclean y. s. N, who
recently returned from special duty at Paris
France, has reported at Newport for duty as in
structor at the torpedo station. His visit abroad
wa, 10 study up she subjects ei eiectrlciIy ana Ie
1
| cal Exhibition
First Lieutenant Arthur L. Watson, retired, Ma
rine Corps, died Friday morning, June 80, at his
home in the Charlestown district of Boston. He
was born in Boston In lSi0, was appointed second
Lieutenant in the Marine Corps March o. 1865, pro.
NOTED to first lieutenant May 49, 1871 and was re-
tired March 20, 1875 for impaired eyesight.
Now that the Army has at last secured compul'
sorry retirement as partial stimulus to promotion,
let It press for two other measures that are needed
to perfect its efficiency in every branch and twig
lineal promotion in each grade, by corps as is now
really provided by statutel. and examination for
promotion in every grade, from lieutenant TO gen.
eral officer, as is now the practice in the Navy.
Colonel Nicholas Vedder major and paymas
ter, U. s. A.. will be retired next month. 1t is in
order for the other 1913 applicants for paymaster
brushed off their papers, and see to their sena-
tors and members and other "'huence," as more
SpRiicaons are coming fhii on pFncpaiy from n
| civilians.
Colonel John W. Barlow, major of engineers, u
s. A., met with narrow escape from death re
Gently at New London by drowning. He, with an
assistant, Captain Albert II. Comstock, were in a
small skiG going from the dock to the engineer
department surveying vessel, Alice, which was
m0ored IN Shaw's Cove when the fral craft cap.
sized and the Two occupants were rescued with
much difficulty just in time to save lille by boat
sent from tug AT the wharf.
The Boston Star Says: "The New Hampshire
and Minnesota Of the United States training
Harbor Island. The school, it was at first thought
| would be detrimeHt rather than an advantage 10
| Newport; but oil late the conduct of the men and
boys comprising the squadron has been all that
could be desired. Coasters Harbor Island, ceded
to the United States for the use of the school, has
not as yet been accepted by the government
The Toledo Telegram publishes the following:
Here's personal about an officer Of the United
States Army met at the depot" said the new
porter, handing the item to the city editor.
What's his rank p asked the g. e., glancing
about that, but think he must be pretty high up.
By the way, he gave me cigar. As don't
smoke. you know, m give it 70 YOU" Later in
that If the officer ranked as high as the cigars he
smoked, he must be at least major-general
Colonel Orlando H. Moore, Seventeenth Infantry
who came to this section in 1872 as captain OF
Company B, Sixth Infantry, is expected here by
| full -fledged lieutenant colonel, with orders to
take command OF Fort Abraham Lincoln. This
country is alive with warm friends of the new
commander. During his former sojourn on the
Upper Missouri, by his intelligence and uniform
courtesy he gained the esteem Of every one with
whom he came in contact, and his return Will be
welcomed alike by the soldiers and civilians
Bismarck tribune, July2
Mrs. Annie Bailey Jones, wife of Walter r. T..
Jones, esq., and daughter of the late RearAdmiral
Theodorus Bailey, died last Wednesday at her
residence, No. ISL Madison avenue, New York
city. The funeral will take place at $50 O'Clock
this morning from the Fifth Avenue Cathedral IN
and, as pretty Annie Bailey, was the center of q
very large circle OF loving friends at the time Mrs
Nellie Grant saitoris and Misses Barnes, Radford,
| Poor, Hentzelman, and Others formed group
| that led the young society here.
| Under the Army compulsory retirement act re-
Gently passed, the general officers of the line will
| be retired as follows: General William T. Sher-
man. December, 1888; Lieutenant General Philip
| II. Sheridan, 1885, Major General Winfield Scott
scbodeld,. 1885, Major General Irwin Mcdowell,
July, 1886; Brigadier General oliver .. Howard,
1884; Brigadier- General Alfred IL. Terry, 1891
Brigadier-General Chr stopher G. Augur, August,
| 1885; Brgadier- General George Crook, lS9. aud
Brigader- General Nelson A. Miles, -.
The charges ON which Colonel William r. Par
NELL captain First Cavalry, is to be tried Fort
Boise, Idaho. the trial beginning next Monday,
were preferred by Second Lieutenant Jacob G.
Galbrah, who belongs to his own company The
charges nllege that Colonel Parnell sold oats that
were issued for the horses OF his troop Of and ap-
piled the proceeds to his own use. Major John A.
| Kress Ordnance Corps, acting inspector general
on General Miless staff, Inspected the case ami
| found only technical irregularity, wherein 0ats
had been exchanged for bran and shorts for the
benefit OF the troop horses. Major Edward ID.
Baker, chief quartermaster, examined the matter,
when the case was again urged, and the court was
ordered June 10 on his return to Fort Vancouver.
II looks like trihing troop quarrel, which Is in
decidedly bad form.
The Toledo telegram, telling of the efforts to
suppress the cowboys and desperadoes in Arizona
and New Mexico, says: Colonel Forsyth, we'll
known in Toledo, went after them" The Telegram
"Colonel Forsyths" in the Army. Both are
brevet brlgader-generas; both lieutenant-c l.
onels of cavalry, and both were for years during
the war and until promoted to their present runk)
| members of Lieutenant General Sherdan's STAFF
| The officer that Toledo people know and respect
SO highly is General James W. Forsyth, Lieutenant
colonel First Cavalry known to his Army friends
| as "Tony ~ is stationed at Fort Walla Walla,
Washington Territory, and was raised and ep-
pointed from Maumee The other, who is serving
in New Mexico and Arizona, and who is celebrated
| as an energetic, brave, and successful Indian