The Washington critic., 1885-07-06
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

All Along the Lines.
General Bennett H. Hill, Y. S. A., is at
the Brighton, Atlantic City
The Third Artillery troops at the Arse
nal were paid off to-day for May and
June.
First Lieutenant Charles NJ. O'Connor,
Eighth Cavalry, has been granted one
months leave
Lieutenant Thomas NJ Defrees, Fifth
Infantry, is on one months leave from
Fort Custer, Montana.
The Coast Survey steamer Arago was
put out of commission at the Norfolk
Navy-Gard last Friday.
Lieutenant Leroy f. Sebree, Signal
Corps, was visiting Lieutenant Augur last
week at Fort Leavenworth.
First Lieutenant billiard II. Clark, regi-
mental quartermaster, Fifteenth Infantry,
is on leave until July l5 from Fort Blu
ford Dakota.
Captain Francis NJ. Bunce, U. s. n,
with Mrs. Bunce and their daughter are
at Holderness, in the White Mountains,
from Boston.
Captain ID. Mortimer Lee retired for
merly Sixth Infantry Is at Bethlehem, in
the White Mountains, with Mrs. Lee, from
their home in Boston.
Light Battery c. Third Artillery, which
has been at the Philadelphia Encamp-
ment for week, will return to the Arse
nal here tomorrow morning.
President Cleveland will appoint four
cadets to the Naval Academy this week.
These of General George d. Ruggles, U.
S. A., will probably be one of the lucky
ones.
Major Blencoe Il. Frye, surgeon, U. s.
A., who is on leave at Kansas City before
going to the Department of Dakota for
duty, was visiting at Fort Leavenworth
last week
Assistant Engineer Frank II. Eldredge
L. $. n who has just been relieved as in
structor in marine engineering at the Co.
lumbus, o., University, is at the Ebbtt
House ell route to his home in Norwalk,
Conn.
Major Frank r. Bennett, Second Cav
airy, who was recently promoted from the
Ninth Cavalry, was in Leavenworth last
Thursday, .en route from Indian Territory
TO his new post at Fort Walla-Walla,
Washington Territory
First Lieutenant Colon Augur, Second
Cavalry, who will be relieved as aide-de-
camp on his fathers staff when the latter
is retired next Friday, has been granted
one months delay in joining his troop at
Fort Cuur d'Alene, Idaho.
Lieutenant VIM. Baird, adjutant Sixth
Cavalry, u son of General Absalom Baird,
was married quietly at San Francisco last
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The wedding was strictly private owing to
the recent death of Mr.. Baird's mother.
Lieutenant William p. Evans, Nine
teenth Infantry, who was relieved last
week from duty at the Fort Leavenworth
military prison, left the next day for his
home, at Dodgeville, Wis, to remain
| until August, before reporting for duty at
| West Point.
First Lieutenant Edward f.. Harden,
I,,In at,. ,tnl
master has been relieved from duty at
| Fort Laramie and ordered to Join his COM
| pany at Fort Washable, Wyoming. First
| Lieutenant John r. Van Orsdale has
been appointed regimental quartermaster
The following changes have been or.
| dered at the Fort Leavenworth Military
Prison: Lieutenant Alton II. Budlong,
| Ninth Cavalry, has reported for duty and
| detailed as provost-marshal, commanding
the prison guard; First Lieutenant Benja-
min II. Cheever, Sixth Cavalry, detailed
as post commissary, relieving First Lieu
tenant Thomas c. Townsend, Sixth In
fantry, who is detailed as adjutant in place
Of Lieutenant Wm. 7. Evans, Nineteenth
Infantry.
Major Jacob +. Kent Fourth Infantry,
just promoted from the Third Infantry,
was captain in the latter regiment for
twenty-one and Il half years. Captain
William Krause, who succeeds Major
Kent, was first lieutenant for over twenty
years. AS the old song has it, 'In the
army ~ promotions very slow" Last
year an officer was placed on the retired
list for age who was still lieutenant and
had been for nearly twenty years.
OF the officers just detached from the
Army School at Fort Leavenworth,
the following will spend the two
months leave granted as indicated:
First Lieutenant Arthur c. Ducat, jr.,
Third Cavalry, is at the Ebbitt, to
remain in tins city; First Lieutenant
Robert A. Lowell, Fourteenth Infantry;
Lieutenant William Il. Amy Fifth Cav
airy, and Lieutenant George r. Burnett,
Ninth Cavalry, in Philadelphia; Lieuten,
ant Walter NJ. Dickinson, Fourth Cavalry
and Mrs. Dickinson left there last Thurs
day for st. Paul; Lieutenant Charles J. T.
Clarke, Tenth Infantry, and Mrs. Clarke,
at Des Moines Iowa. and First Lieutenant
Timothy A. Toney, Sixth Cavalry, at
| IcayenWorth.