National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-04


Orange County, New York, and Lancaster, Pa.
Major James H. Bell, captain Seventh Cavalry,
left here last Saturday evening with Mrs Bell and
her sister, Mrs Jewell, Of Cleveland, for Altoona
where they vii, remain fey weeks before going
recipients Of many attentions while here
MIR. George Glass, formerly acting ensign, who
was discharged the service June So 1879, when the
volunteer list IN the navy was abolished, is now
employed as pilot at the Norfolk Navy Yard. A
bill is pending In Congress TO place him back in
the service ne an ensign on the regular active list.
The Walla Walla Union says that orders from
the War Department make 1t incumbent on the
commanders Of military posts to keep register OF
all mSopgrels puppies, whelps, and hounds, and
ours OF low degree that are at the several stations.
Thc reason for such dog census is not given" This
Is news here.
The Alert, Commander Louis Kemptf, which is
now attached to the Asiaiic feet is expected at
San Francisco by May l. She will bring a. pas
sengers all the cadet midshpmen Of that fleet who
leit the Naval Academy In 1880, and who are or
uercd TO Annapolis In June for examination for
promotion to midshipmen
detachment Of thirty infantry recruits, re.
cruited by Colonel George A. Purington, captain
Ninth Cavalry, len here last Saturday for Co.
lumbus Barracks. The Washington recruiting
Office Is known to the service rs enlietng the best
he ses Sr sS sna arm mentally OF
Lieutenant Edward Farnsworth Wilcox, Sixth
Cavalry (recently transferred from the Twelfth
Infantry, arrived here last Tuesday, but len
Thursday for Detroit. He is son of General
Orlando d. Wilcox, colonel Twelfth Infantry. and
the commandnnt of the Department of Arizona,
ON whose stan he is on duty MS aide. de camp
The Jamestown sailed from San Francisco
Thursday to proceed via Cape Horn to the At
lantic coast This is the first vessel which has
started around the Horn since the cruise made by
the portsmouth, when that vessel made the pas
sage In less than four months without touching at
any intermediato port from San Francisco to
Hampton Roads.
Secretary Hunt has issued general order that
the Department deems It proper to call attention
to The practice Of holding surveys without au-
thority. It is believed that Irregularities have
been allowed togrow into use on this subject which
VIII be avoided In future by more strict regard
graphs |, Is Ct ibid.
General Thomas NJ. Vincent, adjutant- general,
and Colonel Joseph r. Smith medical director of
the Department of Texas, on General Augur's staff
were ordered February IS to Fort Mcintosh and
san Diego, Texas, on official business. During
Colonel Smiths absence Captain Valery Harvard,
assistant surgeon, was ordered TO take charge OF
the medical directors office.
Colonel Charles Bird, lieutenant Twenty third
Infantry, who has been here a couple of weeks on
leave, is visiting his brother Dr. James C. Bird at
No. 1925 street. Colonel Bird who commanded
q regiment during the war and has been nearly
sixteen years In his present grade, is now on duty
rs post quartermnster ut General UnncOck's head.
quarters, on Governors Island New York Harbor.
Passed Assistant Paymaster s. Denson Hurlbut
U. $. N, who was recently tried here for drunken
ness on board the Enterprise, to which he was or.
dered for duty, has been placed under suspension
LOT nYeyears on threo-quarters pay. The court
martial sentence was for FIVE years on firlough
pay, but Secretary Hunt mltigated 1t as stated.
lie Is now under treatment at the Naval Hospital
here for "dipsomania."
1t Is understood that number of line officers
are skirmishing around, hoping to drop into one
OF the vacant details as aide-d camp. Major
General Mcdowell has two vacancies Brevet
MINOR General Pope has one. Brevet Major.Gen-
eTal Terry has two, Brevet Major General Augur
has one, Brevet Major General Getty has one and
Brevet Major. General Wilcox has one. Eight in
all, and well distributed.
Lieutenant Frederick schwatka Third Cavalry,
ade-de- camp to General Nelson A. Miles, has left
Fort Vancouver, W. r., for the East, where he is to
be married TO Miss Bracket, q niece of Colonel
Albert g. Bracket Third Cavalry. In mention.
ing this fact, the Walla wala linton of February is
says; Lieutenant Fred. Schwatka has gone East
TO get her. Marriage may increase his desire 10 20
the North Pole. 1t affects some in that way"
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has
reported favorably on the joint resolution to
authorize Commander Charles d. sigsbee to ac-
ccpt from the Emperor of Germany the Prussinn
order of the Red Eagle 1t will be remembered
that at first the committee reported adversely on
THIS resolution, having IN mind the prollse
Kelakaun but friends had the resolution recon-
mitted, and OH the explanation that the honor
was conferred IN recognition OF commander SigS-
bees scientific work as wen as his inventions, the
resolution was reported again favorably, and will
without doubt become q law
Ex-senator Nesmith, of Oregon, who has been
visiting at Walla Walla, Washington Territory,
writes as follows: about mile from the town is
beautifully located military post, the head
quarters of the First Cavalry, and under the COM
mand of General Grover This regiment was or
ganized In 1888 and is the oldest cavalry regiment
in The service 1t used 10 be the First Dragons"
and under that designation IL achieved great
honor and renown in Florida in Mexico, In Cali
iornia, and Washington Territory. A troop of II
was in the first battle of Bull Run, under Captain,
now Colonel Bracket. 1t participated in all of
the battles Of Virginia up TO Appomattox. de-
tachment or IL was in the Yakima war of 1855 I'M
der sheridan, and another at Hungry Hill and
White Oak Flats in Oregon under Captain A. ].
smith. l have on several occasions heard its
bugles sound the charge, and have seen its bright
sabres cleaning in action. II Is grand old regi-
ment, of which the Republic should be proud"
The Grand Forks (Minn.) Herald gives the history
of a suit brought by one John ]. Bowie against
Captain Edward Collins, Seventeenth Infantry
commanding the post of Fort Pembna near the
brtlsh line. captain Collins served through the
Mexican and civil wars, and under the soldiers
homestead law entered the cast half of the north
east quarter OF section 4, township l62, north of
range 81 west, Pembina County. Bowie the
plaintiff, 1t would appear from the somewhat OBJ
scnre account of the suit given, entered the
same eighty, and now claims II as having
lived thereon, which Captain Collins was, from
We nature Of his positon unable to do, though he
9ulred by law and many more The decisions Of
the Land ONCE as 10 the tenure of n regular army
Omcer nave been SO diverse and contradictory that
mounting can be prcdioated from them, and the de-
eison o. the court IN the case In question win be
looked for with much interest as tending, at least
to settle an oft -mooted question.
g.NN