National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-13
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.

Sixty recruits have been ordered to be sent TO
Wilcox station, Arizona, for the Sixth Cavalry
The Naval Academy grounds at Annapolis are
being beautifed aud placed In shipshapo order
for the spring,
Captain william +. Filzhugh. U. s. N,exeoutiye
officer Of the League island Navy-Hard, was IN
New YORK city Saturday.
Lieutenant John s. Mason, jr., First Infantry
arrived at San Antonio Texas, on Sunday and lett
Monday Of last week by stage for Fort Concho'
The Powhatan, Captain Edmund o. Matthew's
arrived at Martinique March 9, all well on board
and will reach tho Venezuelan coast March "o'
Captain Charles Hawkins, Second Infantry, ar
rived at San Francisco March A from the East, en-
| route to his station at Fort Cmur dAlene, luaho'
The Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk, Lieu
| tenant Zera H. Tanner commanding, LETT An
napos last Friday for short cruise GOWN '"e
| Chesapeake.
Colonel Zenas r. Bliss Nineteenth Infantry has
! been granted one month leave from Texas, Dy
| General Augur, with permission to apply for hve
| months extension. 20
board Of survey Is engaged onl'to decide
Trenton at the Ne N cost 70 Of work. %S, '' '' "'
prenssS ifoface Jewott, Sixteenth Infantry, re-
Gently promoted from the Fifteenth Infantry, mr.
rived at san Antonio, Texas March y with MIS-
Jewett, en- route to join his new command.
orders have been sent to the Norfolk Navy
Yard to have the dry-dock there prepared for the
training ship Portsmouth, which will leave here
soon to have her bottom oyerhaued and cleaned.
Lieutenant Wilbur f. wilder, Fourth Cavalry.
who Is now visiting Lieutenant Charles Dodge,
Jr, Twenty fourth Infantry, at Fort Leaven-
worth, has been granted eight days extension OF
leave.
Lieutenant James n. Allison Second Cavalry,
has been granted three months extension of leave
lie served nearly two years during the rebellion
~ Kentucky regiment before being appointed to
West Point from Ohio.
The United States flagship Tennessee arrived at
New orleans Sunday morning from Hampton
Roads and anchored in front OF the city The
kcarsargc will depart about the middle of the
week for the West Indies.
Colonel Jacob c. D9Gress, captain retired, U. S.
A., formerly Ninth Cavalry, who is now post
master at Austin, Texas returned to that city last
week from Galveston, where he bad been very
sick. His health is much improved.
Civil Engineer Norman Stratton (retred), U. 8.
n, died Saturday at his late residence, No. 2i2 De
Kalb avenue Brooklyn, of heart disease. The
funeral will take place this afternoon In Brooklyn,
and the remains will bo taken to Troy, N. Y, for
burial.
Colonel William c. Rawollc, captain secOrd
Cavalry, Is ordered to inspect uuscrviceable ord
nance property ut Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, for
which General Thomas II. Ncill, colonel Eighth
Cavalry, is accountable rs superintendent of the
Mounted Recruiting Service and commanding the
post at Jefferson Barracks.
Lieutenant John d. J. Kelley, U. $. ~, the tall
cnted young officer who wrote the Naval Institute
prize essay of 1889 OH "Our Merchant Marine"
has written a two. and. a.half column article OH
the same subject, which was printed in the New
York HsTdd of Su.day. II is very able, and, like
his prize essay, has won him much hearty COM
mendatiOn.
Lieutenant Thomas S. Mumford Thirteenth In
fnntry was recently ordered from Fort Cummings
to Fort WIngate, New Mexico, to report to General
Luther Z. Bradley, colonel Thirteenth Infantry,
for appointment rs regimental quartermaster In
place of Colonel john $. Bishop lieutenant Thir-
tGeuth Infantry, who has held the position since
September |, 1880
The following young gentlemen were authorized
to appear before the examining board, which met
lust Friday at the nayy-yard, to compete for ap-
pointment as ASSISTANT paymasters in the navy:
MidshipmAn Frank W. Kellogg, Sidney IL. Dent a
of General Fret Dent; ]. o. Lowell, Of Louisl
ana, son of General Lowell formerly U. S. Al T.. j..
Evans of New York. and S. f. Belford, of this city
The Tennessee, Captain Joseph Fyife, which was
sgnaled at Key West last Wednesday, had not ar
rived Mt New Orleans Saturday night. Secretary
Hunt tclegrHphed Rear Admiral Wyman Saturday
the latter being now at New orleans on the Kear-
sarge for Information regarding the reported sui
eide OH the Tennessee, while en- route, ofa wealthy
Massachusetts gentlcmnn who was u guest on
| board.
Commodore Thomas Pattison, who is now COM
manding the nRyy-yard here, is TO be placed on
the retired list in June next Sunday paper
says that "already number Of officers have been
mentioned us his SUCCESSORS, but officials nt the
Navy Depnrtme are of the opinion that Commo-
dorc John Lee Davis, at present a member of the
naval examining DONfO, Will DC lne lucky man.
Commodore Davis is well known in this city, and
should Secretary Hunt select him 1t will be graft
| Tying to large circle Of his friends" The paper
Is correct to the qualification of our people at
Commodore Davis detail.
Colonel George II. Cook, who was recently ap-
pointed captain and assistant quartermaster re-
signed as rogimp ntal dutant Nineteenth Infantry
| February 2l at Fort Brown Texas, which resigna-
| tion was accepted that date by the colonel Cen
cral Charles IL, Smith, in l rogimentul order,
! which wns NJ ny coE.pllme ;lry TO Colonel Cook.
| The same order appointed Captain Charles b. Hale,
| regmcnt0l QuHTtermaster, to be adjutant and
| Major simon C.. Nedder, lieutenant Nineteenth
! Infantry, to be rcgmontal quartcrmaster. Major
Neddet is now OIL special duty by order of General
sheridan in connection with the relief of the suf-
| lerers from floods along the Mississippi
| The following order was sent Saturday to Com
mOdorc Stephen b. Luce, commanding the train.
ing squadron at Coaster Island Harbor, near New
| port II. l.; You will sail from NeWport r. L. not
| later than April g. with the Portsmouth and Sara.
toga of the training squadron and proceed to Ply
mouth and Portsmouth, England remaining five
days at each place; thence to Cherb0urg and Brest
France, remaining four days at each place. Upon
leaving Brcst yokwil visit Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibral-
| tar Malaga, Naples LeghOrn, Genoa, Port Mahon,
remaining not longer than four days in
each place. From Port Mahon you will proceed
| to Gibraltar and Madeira aud return to New
port arriving MS near the 10th of October posi-
bic. Should you find 1t impncticabe 10 visit all
of these places within the specified time you may
omit such rs may bo necessary During cruise
every favorable opportunity should be availed of
| 10 instruct both young officers and boys in sea-
manship, gunneTy, and all the practical details
belonging TO life in a vessel of war" During the
cruise Commodore Luce will use tho Portsmouth
as his flagship, aud his staff and the full band oi
the squadron VIII go out in her The Portsmouth
in the dry. dock and will proceed to Newport be.
fore sailing for Europe Lieutenant Sumner c.
Paine, at present attached TO the New Hampshire,
will be ordered to the Portsmouth before she goes
| abroad