The Washington critic., 1885-06-15
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines,


Clark, Texas.
Colonel S. n. Benjamin. assistant adiu-
tant-general, has recovered from his re.
cent severe illness.
Captain Smith s. Leach, Corps of Eng-
neers, now on duty at Memphis, Is granted
three months leave.
Major Albert S. Towar, paymaster, will
change station June % from Omaha to
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Quartermaster-Se Eugene Wren
has been granted one months furlough
from Fort Adams, X. |.
General Sheridan is recovering rapidly
from the injury to his leg, received at Los
Angeles, Cal, last month.
Lieutenant Henry c. Danes, Third
Artillery, recently at Mount Vernon Bar
racks, Ala, has reported here for duty.
Captain John J. Kane assistant surgeon
from the Willets Point Engineer Depart
ment, arrived at the Ebbitt House yester-
day.
Lieutenant Robert G. Peck and Mrs
Peck are here from the Naval Academy
and are at General Lockwood's, No. 2900
@ street.
Passed Assistant Paymaster A. X.
Michler, Y. 5; N, a son of the late Cen
cral Michler, has taken quarters at No.
1909 + street.
Lieutenant Louis A. Craig, Sixth Cav
airy, is at the Ebbitt House TODAY, on
leave from the cavalry depot at Jefferson
Barracks, Mo.
All the available packers and pack
mules in the Department of the Platte are
to he sent by General Howard to General
Crook in Arizona.
First Lieutenant Oliver T. Wood Fifth
Artillery, has been granted leave for one
month from June 10 from Fort Hamilton,
New York Harbor
Colonel John J. Coppinger, with the
Eighteenth Infantry, arrived at Fort
Leavenworth Saturday from Montana, via
Bismarck and st. Paul.
General Henry r. Misner, lieutenant-
colonel Tenth Infantry, arrived in San
Francisco last Monday from his station at
Fort Union, New Mexico.
General James S. Brisbin, recently pro-
NOTED to Northumberland Ninth Cav
airy, is ordered to join his regiment in the
Department of the Platte.
Company X, Seventh Infantry Captain
James NJ. j. Samoa, leads in the target
practice of the Department of the Platte
with a score Of 70 per cent.
Colonel John NJ. Wilson, Commissioner
of Public Buildings and Grounds, con-
tinues his former duties in the Office of the
Chiefof Engineers in addition.
Assistant Engineer Ira n. Hollis, who
was recently on duty with the Naval Adj
visory Board, arrived at San Francisco
last Tuesday over the Central Pacific.
Sergeant Andy Skala Company X,
Nineteenth Infantry, at Fort Clark, Texas,
will be granted six months furlough after
re-enlistment, with permission to go
abroad
Colonel Francis l.. Gucnthcr, major
Second Artillery, arrived at Little Rock
last Wednesday from Newport Barracks,
nd - tb.,
son there.
Colonel Edmund &. cambridge, major
Third Artillery, left Little Rock last We'd
nesday night with Mrs cambridge for
Baltimore to assume command of Fort
McHenry.
Captain George Brown reported for duty
as captain of the Norfolk Navy-Yard Sat
urday, and will also act as civil engineer
of the yard until an officer of that corps
is ordered there.
The Navy Board of Inspection, Rear
Admiral j. c. p. DeKraft, president, made
the annual examination of the old
frigate Franklin last Friday at the Nor
folk Navy-Yard.
Captain Frank II. Harrington, Marine
Corps, is under the weather, the result OF
his recent service on the Isthmus of
Panama, and is confined to his quarters
at the Maryland
quartermaster, arrived here Saturday to
report for duty as disbursing officer of the
Signal Corps, and has taken quarters at
No. lilo Sixteenth street.
The contract for building the new ord
nance dock at the Brooklyn Nayy-Yard
was awarded Saturday for $4,000. Work
is to be commenced in twenty days, and
be completed in six months.
If any army people here know the
whereabouts of Lieutenant William +.
Doyle, formerly Tenth Cavalry, and later
clerk in the Postotfce Department, THE
CRITIC will be glad to know his address.
Lieutenant Charles A. Johnson, Four
teenth Infantry, arrived here last Friday
from Newark Valley, N. Y. where he has
been on sick leave, and is visiting at No
l3Il q street, to remain until the last of
next week.
Lieutenant Charles o. Allibone has been
detached from special duty at the Navy
Department and granted leave until
| August l. and Passed Assistant-P aymaster
James II. Chapman is granted three
| months leave.
Maior-General Hancock has ordered
board of officers, which is to examine the
reservation at Fort Niagara, N. Y, to de-
termnc the cost of establishing range
there for the division and department rifle
team competitions.
The Twenty-fir Infantry has subscribed
500 for three prizes of $50 $50 and 500 to
be given the three men of that regiment
making the highest target score in the
coming contest for places of the rifle team
| of the Department of the Platte.
The Coast Survey steamer Arago arrived
! at the Norfolk Navy-Yard last Friday
| from Palatka, Fla, Ensign William Trux-
| tun (son of Commodore William r. Trux-
tun) commanding, and Ensign Edward
| Simpson, jr,, (son of Rear-Admiral Simp-
| SOM is executive officer.
Major Francis l.. Guenther, Second
| Artillery, is president, and Lieutenant
Mclzar c. Richards, Second Artillery,
| judge-advocatc of court-martal to
convene Wednesday at Little Rack,
| Ark. Captain Frank b. Hamilton and
| Lieutenant T.. 7. G.. Richmond, recently
| on duty here, are members of the court
Major Charles b. Throckmorton, Cap
| tains }. Gales Ramsey and William p.
| Nose, First Lieutenants Louis V. Caziarc
| and Hamilton Rowan and Lieutenant
| John T. Thompson, with Lieutenant Will
| loughby Walker as judge-advocate all Sec
| ond Artillery, compose court-martial
| which will convene tomorrow at Jack
| son Barracks, New Orleans
1t is stated that Colonel Fred ID. Grant
has been of Invaluable assistance to his
| father in arranging and collecting official
documents used in preparing the memoirs,
| and that General Grant has much conf
| dence in his ability. Recently General
| Grant said "For an ordinary-looking
| man, Fred is the best informed, partic-
| ularly ON military subjects, ever saw.
| When he was in Europe bestowed great
| acquaintance with the history of the coun-