The Washington critic., 1885-06-22
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

General James b. Fry is at Newport Tor
the summer.
Commander Francis a. Cook, U. S. A..
has gone to Newport.
Colonel Henry A. Morrow, Twenty
first Infantry, has been granted fifteen
days leave.
Commander Robley y. Evans iscruising
in the lower Chesapeake on the light
house tender Holly
Lieutenant John H. Bull, L. s. ~, and
Mrs Bull, arrived at San Francisco last
Tuesday from Annapolis.
Licutcnauts Michael j. O'Bricn and
John W, G.. Brooks, Just graduated from
West Point, are at Newport
Captain John G.. Butler, Ordnance Corps,
and Mrs Butler are visiting st. Paul
from the Rock Island Arsenal,
Colonel oscar H. Burbridgc of Ken
lucky is in the city, visiting Mr.. Byron o.
Billingsly at No. ll05 d street southwest.
Governor Cameron of Virginia visited
the Norfolk Navy Yard last Friday with
his staff and was salutcd from the lrigate
Franklin
Lieutenant Charles W. Mason, Fourth
Infantry Is visiting his brother Licutcn-
ant John - Mason, lr., First Infantry. at
Fort LcaycnwWth.
Captain James r. Icavy, U. s. A.,
formerly seventh Cavalry, IS in the city.
He is still quite lame from his fractured
ankle, which was broken last January.
Lieutenant VIM. NJ. Wright, Second In
lantiy, who was appointed last February
by President Arthur, has joined his COM
pany at Fort Spokane, Washington Terri
tory.
Recent adviccs from Panama state that
Mr.. Hiram Doyle, the brother of Assistant
paymastcr j u. DOYLE Of the lrOQuois, is
conv0lcscent from his attack of chagres
fever
General aud Mrs. Stewart Van Vliet.
with Or. Van Nlict and his wife, will
leave here next Thursday for their sum-
mer home at Shrewsbury, below Long
Branch.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert p. Hughes,
| inspcctOr.general, was relieved last Thurs
| day from duty on General Tcrry's staff, to
| enable him to proceed to San Francisco as
| ordered.
Pay Inspector John II. Stevenson and
Passed Assistant Paymaster John n.
Spcel, are investigating the accounts OF
| the several departments at the Norfolk
| Navy Yard.
First Lieutenant Joseph A. Sladen,
Fourteenth Infantry, is acting as inspect
| or-general on General Hancock's staff
until the arrival of Major Robert IL. Hall
! Twenty-Sccond Infantry.
Lieutenant and Mrs. William j. Nichol
son. who were visiting at Fort Leaven
worth last week. have gone with their lit
tie one to Eyansburg, Columbia County
Pa, to spend the summer.
Mrs. Edward Il. Plat, widow of the late
Colonel Plat, assistant acknowledgement
who spent last winter in Chicago, has re
turned to her home at Oueras, Long Island
| where she is living with her brother-in
law, Hon. James I'll. Plat, formerly o
Virginia.
The officers of the sloop-oi-war Iroquoi
are iubilant, Judging from cablegrams re
quill, Ecuador. Panama Bay is Away
hot, and likely the chagres or break-bon,
fever has Frustrated all of those on boarC
who are unacclimatcd.
Major David Porter Heap, Corps o
Engineers, the engineer secretary OF tn
Lighthouse Board, has gone to the Pacih
Coast with his wife and children, and vii
inspect the lights along that coast. The,
arrived at San Francisco last Monday
Naval ordcrs-Assstant Engineer Du
rand, detached from duty at the La Fay
cite College; Assistant Engineer McFar
land, from Cornell University; Assistan
Engineer Sample from the Western Uni
Versity; Assistant Engineer Hassen from
the University of Colorado and Assistan
Engineer Whitman, from st. Johns Col
lcge, July |,
tolOncl asa Bacon carey, paNmaStef
L, S. Army, who has been on duty her
in the PaymasterGencral's office since
1874, has applied to be relieved, and want
to go to the Pacific Coast 1t is under
stood by those who know that Pay
mastcr-Gcneral Rochester is opposed t
having the request granted, and insist
that Major Carey shall remain here il
performance of the duties of attending Il
the settlement and payment of bountie;
arrears and back pay to soldiers an,
marines Of the late war, and the colore
| sailors,