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

NoteS III Interest tO the service FROM
All Along the Lines
Captain Hugh g. Brown, Twelfth In
tontry, is ut the Ebbitt on leave from Ford
Niagara, n. Y.
Captain Samuel r. Hamilton, Second
Cavalry, has been granted one month ex-
tension of leave.
Captain Joseph Y Porter assistant sur
guUn, has been granted six months sick
leave by the Secretary of War.
Major Culver c. Sniiicn, paymaster has
been assigned to station in New York city
lie was recently on duty at Omaha.
Lieutenant Daniel CornnIan, adiutant
Twenty-frst Infantry is granted four
months leave from Fort Sidney, Neb
Lieutenant Alton II Budlong, Ninth
Cavalry, will report July ut Fort lIeaven-
worth for duty ut the Military Prison.
Captain George G.. Greenough Fourth
Artillery, has been granted len days leave
from to-day from Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor.
Commander Albert Kautz has been ex-
anined and promoted TO captain, and
Lieutcnant-C Commander Ben. y. LANDER
ton to commander.
Lieutenant Louis p. Brant, First In
fantry, Is at The Ebbitt House from Gen
eva, n. T., where he is military pro.
fcssor of the college there.
The lroquois, on her arrival at the
Mare Island Yard from Panama and the
Mexican const, will receive extensive re-
pairs, and will be generally overhouled.
Captain James w. Reilly, Ordnance
Corps, will inspect recruiting property Mt
pittsburg for which Captain Thomas Il.
Rose, Sixteenth Infantry, is responsible.
The soop Adams, at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, is so near completion that q
large force Will be put on her after June
20, TO tit her for sea by the end of August,
Lieutenant Francis r. Eltonhcad,
Tweniyfirst Infantry, who is spending
his leave at his home, No. 2l36 Arch
street Philadelphia, is in the city for "A
day or two.
The order of March 20, ordering Cap
tain Cyrus 5. Roberts, Seventeenth lnfun-
try, to join his regiment has been revoked,
and he is detailed asacling judgc-advocat
of the Department OF Arizona.
Lieutenant De Rosy G. Cabcll Eighth
Cavalry, has been ordered TO conduct Il
detachment of recruits for the Third
Cavalry from San Antonio to Fort Davis,
Tex, and report at Fort Clark for duty.
Naior.General Hancock has ordered an
international salute of twcnty-one guns to
be fired from Bedloes Island on the ar
rival in New York Bay of the French
steamer irene with the Bartholdi statue
on board.
Musicians Joseph Elsen, West Point, and
Antonio Escudero, Eleventh Infantry,
and Private John Hartman, general
service, have been retired for over thirty
years service.
General Horatio Gates Gibson, colonel
| Third Artillery, has been ordered to remain
| at st. Augustine, Fla, until the arrival of
| General Ayrcs and the garrison for that
| post, before coming North to assume COM
| mand of the Arsenal here.
A general court martial, composed
wholly of officers of the Fifth Artillery,
| convened yesterday at Fort Hamilton,
| New York Harbor. Major John II. Brine
! kle is president. and First Lieutenant
Oliver Il. Wood iudge-advocate.
The grade of second and third class
| hospital stewards has been abolished, and
| hereafter there may be acting stewards in
cases of necessity, who will wear bras
sard Tor band) of white cloth around the
left coat cuff with red Greek cross two
inches long each way.
| Adiutant-Gc Mccarthy of Mime
| sofa and Colonel Bend of the National
Guard are disputing over the authority of
Liculcnant-Gcneral Sheridan to decide
military question of rank and army
| regulations. Colonel Bend denied the ali-
| thority and was placed in arrest.
1t has been astertained that the neccs-
! sary repairs to fit the Lackawanna for sea
again would cost more than the amount
| allowed by law for repairs to vessels, and
she will be laid up in 'rotten row" at the
Mare Island Navy Yard waiting sale. The
| Wachusett, at the same yard will be dis
posed of in the same way.