Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-29
|OUR ARMY.


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g,srIng 32l,623 interments.
,.S City and New Albany
|csneterles roadways have
1 led during the year. Elk
In,ovements are in progress
tlon Park cemetery, Addi-
! has been purchased for the
fnlis National cemetery,
pands are being prepared for
t,hase OF the Arlington es-
'vided for in the act OF
4 1853. was completed on
N az July 7, 1854, an appro-
$1,000 was made for the
~ ofa railway from Spring
a 10 the national military
near that city. Proposals
( we're invited by Rdver-
Ibe lowest bid for the work,
4 the two routes suggested,
4 80. 900. AS the act pro-
none Of the money shall be
until contracts shall be
Be completion of the road
appropriated, IL seems im-
a 'oceed with the work, and
Is submitted for such &C.
seem proper to congress.
srgNCE DEPARTMENT.
a Of the cOmmissary gem
istence shows u total Of ex-
during the last fis-
amounting to SS,2l7, 224 80.
Moulded In this sum the
ubsisience funds embezzled
fef the army who deserted
snd, II Is believed, fled to
he sum embezzled by him
Is: ard IL may not be inn
mark In this place that this
10 batheOnly sum OF money
ubllc treasury by the dis.
.ny person in the military
ing your administration.
there have been three
ces OF dishonesty on the
ers N the army, each hav-
different bureaus, but in
he money embegzled was
led 10 the treasury before the
officer involved, and each
promptly dismissed from
N service by sentence OF
ia.
missary general Of subsist-
Invites attention to the inn
pmyiding for the enlist.
X snd bakers for the army.
bib him In mis- belief that
" would add much to the
well as the health of the sol.
must now, in many in.
lend upon the cooking of the
sn who have no especial apt.
d work.
lnissary-general reports that
n the hscal year there re-
bis office but two claims
act Of July 4, 1854.
fopriation made by congress
for the relief of persons
lutte by the floods OF the
and its tributaries, which
ION was subsequently ex
oyer the relief of persons
butte by floods of the Missis-
was dlsbursed under the
the secretary of war BY
the commissary dc
assisted by detailed
q the line; anC
md activity displayed 10y
Nursing the national bounty
highest commentator
lies, clothing and OtheI
STITCHES were given to al
he by the floods; in many
aily on the Ohio river, til,
plcily authorities being in
4 in a proper distribution
we're expended upon tn,
and its tributaries, an,
lgn the Mississippi, leay
e'sl, Of the whole appro
|laSa42
plcAl DEPARTMENT.
NaSeneral reports that tn
N of deaths in tn
ne last fiscal year wa
pea 1872 were from dlseas
u Injuries. No casualtie
warfare are reported.
number of official dt
y the division of record
p during the year for info
the cause of death in tia
eased soldiers and for III
ofds Of invalids WAS 65, So
less than the number {
llcatlons during the prev
including the 81, 532 appl
ialning unanswered at Tn
last fiscal year, the tot
sases to be disposed Of Wa
v cases IS, $40 were receive
,onlmlssioner of pension
ne acknowledgement of tb
o6O from miscellaneOl
ave been furnished TO II
ofllles In s2,l4S cases,
were to the cOmmissiou'
SoSS TO the adjutant ger
TO miscellaneous appl
" b2Sl cases to be searcht
on. In addition 10 IL
sports above stated as fu
commissioner of pension
81 prepared and furnish'
lref hy the administrator
.neous branch OF the offiC
~ q 81, 4l0 reports In Pc.
lulshed during the year.
as OF the medical and 81
oI the war OF the rebt
" completed.
= pas to the library duril
include about 1000 VI
pamphlets. BY actu
end Of the fiscal year I.
tlned 65. 1913 volumes al
alsts. These include .
VI lOurnalu a,.a . 600 -,