The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-07-10
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

All Along the Lines.
General James s. Brsbiu, lieutenant
colonel Ninth Cavalry, is to command
Fort Niobrara, Nebraska.
General Howard has gone to North
Platte, Ncb., to meet General Edward
Hatch with the Ninth Cavalry.
The Omeha Bee claims that the men of
the Ninth Cavalry never go off on drunk
after pay day, but fill up on candies, pies
and cakes.
Lieutenant John Hubbard U. S. N, as
sistant lighthouse inspector, is inspecting
the buoys in the Chesapeake on the light
house tender Holly.
Lieutenant George S. Young, Seventh
Infantry was in Omaha Wednesday on
his way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort
Laramie to join his company.
Hospital Steward Michael Tyrrell now
on duty at Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
completed thirty years service last We'd
ncsday, and will soon apply for retirement.
General $. b. NJ. Young. major Third
Cavalry, did not leave Fort Lcavenworth
with his family for Texas until Wednes-
day, being delayed by recent floods in
Texas.
"Captain" w. II. Spooner, foreman of
the sail-lolt at the Norfolk Maryland,
has been discharged. lie was first en-
ploycd in the yard in 1924, the Norfolk
Landmark says.
General Absalom Baird, colonel and
inspector general, reported to Malor-Gen-
eral Scholield on Monday and was an
nounced as inspector-general of the Divi-
sion of the Missouri.
Sergeant Xavcr Wilke, Company Il,
Sixth Infantry, has been ordered from
Fort Douglas, Utah. to Fort Monroe, for
final examination for promotion to Sec
ond lieutenant
First Lieutenant Stephen c. Mills,
Twelfth Infantry, who is military pro-
fessor at Galesburg. H., left Fort Leaven-
worth tuesday evening with his mother
for Las Vegas, n. NJ, for month.
Major Duncan NJ. Vance, Thirteenth
Infantry, recently promoted, who is now
| at Urbana, Ohio, on leave, will report for
assignment to station in New Mexico,
| probably to command at Fort Stanton.
| Colonel John ]. Coppinger, Eighteenth
Infantry, and Mrs. Coppinger left Fort
| Hays, Kansas on Tuesday for Augusta,
Maine, to spend the summer with Hon.
James G. Blaine, Mrs. Coppinger's father.
Sergeant Charles a. Farber, troop II,
Eighth Cavalry, and Sergeant James
Scarlet Company i, Tenth Infantry,
have been ordered to Fort Monroe for
| final examination for promotion to lieu
| tenants.
Licutenant-Co Colonel Charles Il. Compton
| Fifth Cavalry, is in command of the -four
| troops of that regiment to be stationed
| along the Kansas border near Kiowa City
| to protect settlers from the anticipated
| Cheyenne raid. He was to leave Fort
Riley this morning.
First Lieutenant Lewis Merriam, Fourth
Infantry; Lieutenant Charles II. Noyes
Ninth Infantry: Lieutenant Charles G
Morton, Sixth Infantry, and Lieutenant
Charles ii. Cochran, Seventh Infantry
have been detailed as range officers for TIC
Department of the Platte rifle competition
at Fort Omaha to report July % TO Captain
Evan Miles, Twenty-tirst Iliantry
Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Prince
captain retired, u. S. A., who died
Wednesday at his home, in New York, re
ceiyed his brevets of major and lieuton
ant-colonel for gallantry at Spottsylvania
and the Wilderness. He entered the
service in 1861 as first lieutenant Seven
teenth Infantry, and was regimenta
quartcrmaster until promoted to captain
August 8, 1862. His last service was. il
the Tenth Infantry, and he was retired il
March, 1870.
Naval orders: Passed Assistant Pay
master John w. Jordan has been ordered
TO duty at Key West Fla; Chief Enginee
Edwin Wells, TO duty NJ the Delawar,
River Iron and Ship-Building Company
works; Assistant Paymaster II. NJ. I
Dali, detached from duty at Key Yves
and placed on waiting orders; Chief En-
gineer Francis G.. Dade, detached from
the Delaware Iron Works and placed OF
waiting orders.
Northumberland Sheridan has ad
dressed lettert Major-General Schofeld
directing him to instruct company com
manders, to whom magazine rifles were
lately issued for trial, that in rendering
the reports as to the respective merits o.
the three different arms tried, heretofore
called for, they shall state in considerable
detail the experiments and firings to which
the arm issued to them has beed subjected
and that their reports be made particularly
full and definite as to the merits or defects
of the breech mechanism and magazine
system, and as to their estimate of its wortl
both as Il single loader and as magazine
arm, as compared with the rifles issued fol
trial TO other companies at the same post
They will also give their estimate of the
ballistic properties of the different arms
yet this is secondary consideration.