The Washington critic., 1885-12-10
TIE ARMY IND WY.
Orders, Details, Leaves, Furloughs and
OIhcr MnIInra of InIcrcst.

Orders, Details, Leaves, Furloughs and
other Matters of Interest.
The December "Roster OF Troops OF the
Department OF Texas is received at this of
flee.
Twenty.sevcn recruits arc ordered TO be
sent from Columbus Barracks TO the Sey-
enteenth Infantry.
Post Chaplain Orville j. Nave, T. s. A.,
Is relieved from duty at Fort Lyon, Col,
and ordered TO Texas.
The Yantic completed coaling yesterday
at the Norfolk Navy Yard, preparatory TO
sailing very soon for Key West for further
orders
Lieutenant Colonel Zenas r. Bliss, Nine
teenth Infantry, has been relieved rs mem
Der of the general court-martial sitting at
San Antonio Texas.
First Lieutenant Thomas NJ. Woodruff,
Fifth Infantry, acting adiutant Of the Signal
Corps, is ordered TO New York city and re-
turn, on public business
Lieutenant John McMartin, Twenty-nfth
Infantry, Is relieved from temporary duty
Mt Columbus Barracks, Ohio, and will con-
tinue on leave Of absence.
The daily bread ration Of the light bat
terry at the Arsenal here has been increased
TO twenty-five ounces, the command having
arrived too late TO make garden,
Captain Charles A. Woodruff, chief COM
missary Of subsistence on General Gibbons
staff, has returned to Vancouver Barracks,
Washington Territory, from special duty at
Tacoma.
General George Crook, in general "1eld
ordor,n dated December | at Fort Bowie,
Arizona, assumed command OF the District
of New Mexico under Geographic orders
from Lieutonant-Gene Sheridan.
Brigadior- Stanley left San An
tonic last week for Laredo, Texas, on an
official visit, and was accompanied by First
Lieutenant Oskaloosa NJ. Smith, Twenty
second Infantry, his aido-do camp.
The Adams, Commander Louis Kempfr,
which sailed December 2 from San Fran
cisco, will stop at the Mexican and Central
American ports that arc not infected with
yellow fever, and then take station at Pan
anna temporarily.
First Lieutenant George X. Hunter, the
new adjutant of the Third Cavalry, Is APP
pointed recruiting officer at Fort Davis,
Texas, vice Captain Stoever, Third Cavalry
Whenever he is absent the acting adjutant
will perform the duty.
Major Ezra b. Kirk, quartermaster, has
been ordered from Atlanta to inspect the
National cemeteries In Louisiana, MIssls-
sippi. Alabama, Tennessee, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina and North Caro-
lima, and to return to his station.
Captain John G.. Balance, acting judge
advocate OF the Department Of Texas First
Lieutenant Twenty second Infantry, has
relieved First Lieutenant Eugene Cushman,
Sixteenth Infantry, as judge-advocate Of
the general oourt-martial sitting at San An
tonic
Navy orders--Iieutenan David Peacock,
| detached from the Yantic and placed on
| sick leave; Ensigns 4. W. Kellogg and =.
| NJ. Orchard, to the Yantic; Ensign A. f..
| Fechteler, to the traning-ship jamestown;
| Ensign Thomas NJ. Brumby, detached from
| the Coast Survey steamer Gedney Decem-
Der 10, and placed on waiting orders.
Army furloughs authorized First Ser
| geant James Kelly, Battery Il, Fourth Ar
tillery, Fort Adams, Il. l., thirty days, on
re-enlistment; Corporal William w. Blair,
Company +, Fifteenth Infantry, Fort Bu-
| ford, Oak, four months; Private George
Seymour, +, Twentieth Infantry, Fort AS
sinniboine, Montana, four months.
Colonel Charles Sutherland and Majors
| Albert HartsufT and John II. Janeway, sur
| geons, compose board of medical officers
directed by General Hancock to consider
and report upon the sanitary and other
| questions Of transferring certain remains
inferred at Governors Island, New York
IIarbor, to the Cypress Hill National Gene
terry, Brooklyn.
Army leaves granted: Lieutenant Colonel
Joseph s. Conrad, Twenty-second Infantry,
| Fort Lyon, Colorado, two months, from
December 10; First Lieutenant Oscar F..
Long, Fifth Infantry, Fort Keogh, Mon
tana, one months extension, with permits
sion to apply for two months further OK
tension. First Lieutenant John K.Warng,
Second Infantry, six months, from January
| 90, 1886.