National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
MOVEMENTS OF THE OFFICERS.
latest from the Camp, Garrison. and Field-News
from the Navy.Nards aud Quarterback
Gossip Among the Men Who
Wear Epanlettes.

being examined at Fort CLARK, Texas, for promo |
hon TO lieutenant
The japanese navy comprises twenty seven |
vessels, and the Emperor personally inspected !
iach of them during February.
Lieutenant Edmund Luil reglmental quarter |
paster Eighth Cavalry, was in san Antonio |
rexas last week from Fort Clark.
The question Of completing the unfinished |
double .turreted monitors will be considered next
Monday by the House Naval Committee.
Major Alfred L, Bates, paymnstcr, arrived at
Bismarck, d. r., March Il from st. Paul, aud paid
The troops at Fort Abraham Lincoln the next day. |
Lieutenant Ed ward :. Fnrrow, Twonty.nrst In.
fnntry now on duty at the West Point Academy, |
was granted patent for tent March H. last
Tuesday.
Master James C. Palmer. ir, the youngest chd |
pf the late Lieutenant Palmer Z. :. ~, who was |
lost in the Inflated Huron on Kitty Hawk beach |
aied Tuesday, aged seven years.
IL has cost the Government to keep peace with |
he Indians for the last ten years S223s9 2Gt, aud |
" fight them for the same time, t1uJoS1l' Inc !
moral IS incvitablc.-Omdbd Republican.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred J.. HOugh, Sixteenth |
Infantry, recently promoted from major. Twenty. |
rcond-lnfanlry, lcit Fort Clark, Texas, March 10
br his nGw command ut Fort Mckayett, Texas
Captain William Barnes, who was once au officer
our navy, and who participated in the action
lctwCCn the Enterprise and Boxer IN 1913, died
uarch u at Woolwich, Me-, aged eighty five years
General Sherman and party accompanied by
General Augrr. wns at Fort Clark Texas, Tues
10y, Wednesday, and Thursday Of last week.
Thursday evening n grand ball was given at the
post in honor of the visitors.
The new Marine Barracks at the Naval Academy
rcrc formally turned over tn the Government on
Monday, MINOR William b. Slack Marine Corps, |
having Inspected the work and found that 1t has
been performed according to contract
The Toledo 7dtgrdm has heard That gang OF
Apache scouts are On the path IN New Mexico, |
md understands that the regular, lsodcr, who is |
EurrsOuing that nciChhOrhOOd Will be obliged to |
put on his war clothes and gu to the front.
Colonel Lewis Merrill, mnpr Seventh Cavalry, !
was the founder and is nov the principal owner
Of the new and rapidly growing town of Gicndicr,
Du the Yellowstone River in Montana, the present
terminus of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Some of the officers nj the Naval Academy had
fox hunt last Saturday near Annapolis, aud
actually succeeded in killing II foX. They must
have got him into fence corner and hit him in
Me head with bclhying-pin ~ marlin'spike,
Second Lieutenant Thomas II. Barry, First In
fantry, has been appointed rceimcnia quarter.
master, which will promote him to fist licutcn
mt. He was ordered March II 10y telegraph from
Fort stockton. Texas, TO rcgimcnta headquarters
II Fort Davis.
The Providence journal, which is owned by
Senator Henry i. Anthony, is cdtoriay of tho
opinion, AFTER the disclosures made Gy General
eamuel u. Sturgis, governor Of the Soldiers Home,
That one or two prominent officers Of the army
should lie court -mHrtinlcd.
The board of officers at san Antonio, Texas, to
purchase cavalry horses for the army, was dis.
plyed March 49, OF the members Of the board,
Captain Nicholas Nolan, Tenth Cavalry, was or
deued to remain on sick leave, aud Captain Louis
!. Morris and Lieutenant James h. Hickey, Eighth
cavalry, TO rejon their station at Fort Clark.
The Senate bill TO reimburse the officers and
men Of the Fifth Infantry rthcir loss OF property
IN 1874 by the sinking Of the Quartcrmaster's
steamer J. Don Cameron in the Missouri River has
passed that body. and was sent to the House last
Monday IL Is to be hoped that the sufferers from
chat disaster will Mt last obtain what has 50 long
been justly due them.
Aserious fire took place at Fort Leayenworth on
.Hau mia nf1 oaf al. ,iplt
destroyed two of Abe troop stables occupied by
the horses of Troop G, Seventh Cavalry, and Bat
lery +, Second Artillery Fifteen roopGud twenty.
Troop was badly hurt while irving 10 gct a
frightened horse out of the burning stable.
c. II. Perkins, who was paymastcr's yeoman oil
NE flagship Richmond during the cruise in the
Arctic fleet Of Pay Inspector Richard Washington,
u N, las been appointed To the same position
OH board the training ship Saratoga by Passed
Assistant Paymastcr Lawrence q. BOggs. The
oTmer paymasters ycoman of the Saratoga, Will
am c. Hart was discharged last Monday.
Gunner Cornelius Cronin has been detached
from the Minnesota and ordered TO the Ports
mouth Gunner Robert II. Cross, iIom the Ports
mouth and ordered to the naval magazine at Fort
hiniin, Delaware, April 10 relieving Gunner Cor
nellus Dughn, who is placed on waiting orders.
Sailmaker CHARLES G. Freeman is ordered to the
leceiving-ship Colorado, at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard.
Mrs. John l.. Bulls, wife of Lieutenant Bulls
Twenty fourth Infantry, arrived at San Antonio,
Texas, March 10, from Fort Supply. Indian Terri.
tory, and her husband was expected there the
owner iyery large tracts of we'll watcrcd land in
Western Texas which by reason of the rapid APP.
proach Of the railways has recently increased fully
ts rapidly in value
The Senate Military Committee reported favor.
ably Tuesday on the nominations of Major J. Il. NJ
Potter, to be lieutenant. colonel and deputy pay.
master general John c, Muhlenberg, of Pennsyl-
wanna, 10 be major ana paymaster, and William
II. Gill, to be captain and military store. keeper
Quartermaster's Department The committee de.
eded to report adversely on the bill which pro-
Edes for placing General Alfred Pleasonton on
ME army retired list
The following paragraph Is going the rounds Of
the press: Representative Jonathan Chace, of the
Second District Of Rhode Island, is n member of the
Society of Friends, and closely ndhcres to thC
non combatant doctrines of his sect that he de-
clines TO nominate a cadet to West Point" In
ease like that the President can make the APP
pontment anyhow; besides, the law (see section
1915, Revised Stntutes) does not even requir,
Representatives to make nominations
At Pau in France recently died Colonc
Adolphus W. d. Burton, of the English army, who
had served in the Eastern campaign of 1851. .
and commanded the Fifth Dragon Guards at the
battle of Bal9klaya. lie also took part in the sicg,
Of SebGstopol For services in the Crimca he oh.
tanned the medal with three clasps the 1urksl
medal the nth class of the Order OF the Med idle
1862, and in the following year was married.
The House Military Committee Tuesday In
structed Representative Maginnis 10 offer as ~
amendment to the army appropriation bin whel
II comes up for consideration in the House tn
following: That any officer of the army who ma
be supernumerary to the permanent organization
authorized by law may, upon his own re-
quest, receive an honorable discharge and on,
years pay ana allowance for each five years o
service, provided that no olccrshall receive mort
lhan three years pay and allowance
co5ifcr Il csaf;-;Ss9Es major Third Artillery
Lieutenant. Colonel Samuel $, Elder "a Pla.n FRS
Artillery; Major Joseph b. Campbell, captain
Fourth Artillery; Major John II. Calcf captain
Second Artillery, and Captain james Chester
Third Artillery, compose board Of officers or
dered by General Hancock 10 convene March
u at Fortress Monroe, to examine Sergeant Henry
l0wenStein, Battery a, Third Artillery aud Ser.
Eeants Robert West and Thomas V. Turncy Bat,
terry G, Finn Artillery for promotion to secon,
hcutenanH
Tie Bismarck Tribune says; An enormou
meteorie stone fell in the vicinity Of Fort Assini
boine, Montana, on the night orthc 9th instant, a
ten o'clock, lighting up the surrounding cOuutr
with the glare, The time which elapsed betwcu
Its striking the earth and the report reaching lh
fort was nearly five minutes, The shock was llE
the report of Il cannon, Hud the earth was shaker
n telegram snys "A bright glare, followed In
lew minutes 10y loud report was Observable q
the north last night. \ trembling of the cart
was distinctly felt here" Wasn't Il about pay dU
all this happened?
Passed Assistant Paymuster James Il. Cam, VIII
has been on duty on the receiving. ship Pussuic Il
the nGyy.yard here, for period only II few day
shortof three years. was relieved on Monday b.
Passed Assistant Paymastcr Ots G, Tiffany, VIII
returned from his AsiGtiC cruise last fall MI
Cam Will leave here April =, with his clerk, 10
the Mare Island Navy Yard TO report for duty nj
board the slOOp-oi-war lToquOis. During the ub
sence OF her husband Mrs Cam will live with he
mother, in Harrisburg but will not leave Wash
mgion for another month.
Lieutenant Rogers BiTuie ir Ordnance Corn,