The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-18
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to tho Service From
All Along the Lines.

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Twenty-lifth Infantry, remains in the city
until tomorrow.
The respective prices of sharpshooters'
crosses, marksmcn's pins and marksmcns
buttons for soldiers have been fixed at 81,
fifty and twenty cents.
One of the new s-inch converted muz-
zle-loading rifles (thc 10-inch Rodman) has
been mounted Mt Fort Candy, Washington
Territory, and fitted with new sights.
A general court-martial convened to-day
at Fort Monroe, of which Major La Rhett
H. Livingston, Fourth Artillery is prcsi-
dent, and Lieutenant II. b. Osgood Third
Artillery judge-advocatc
Major William Sinclair, Second Artil-
lcry, is president and Lieutenant Charles
B. Satterlce, Third Artillery, iudge-advo-
cate of court-martial convened to-day ut
Jackson Barracks, New Orleans
General James S. Brisbin, Major Second
Cavalry, is president of general court
martial which convened last Tuesday at
Boise Barracks, Idaho. Lieutenant
Thomas ii. Wilson, Second Infantry, is
iudge-advocate of the court.
Company g. seventh Infantry, has been
relieved from duty at Fort Fred steele,
Wyoming, and ordered to take station at
Fort Washable. The officers of the COM
pany are Captain William Quinton, First
Lieutenant Levi +. Burnett and Second
Lieutenant Abraham T. Burlington.
Lieutenant James V. S. Paddock, Fifth
Cavalry, has been ordered by General
Schoiield TO proceed by rail to Fort Leav-
cnworth and report in person to General
Augur. The medical officers certified to
his physical inability to march across the
country with the regiment from Wyoming
to the Indian Territory.
Major Charles d. ThrocRmorton, Second
Artillery, is president; Captains Frank b.
Hamilton and James Il. Wilson, Second
Artillery; Captain T. T.. Wilcox, assistant
surgeon, and Leutenants John c. Scant-
ling, James Il. Eastman. Robert NJ. Rogers,
J.. n. Lewis and ii. l.. Hawthorne, Second
Artillery, members, and Lieutenant Ham
ilton Rowan, Second Artillery, Judge
advocate of u general court-martial which
convened this morning at the Arsenal
here for the trial of enlisted men.
The following army orders We're made
ut the War Department Saturday First
Lieutenant Theodore Mosher Twenty
second Infantry (now III this city)is grant
ed two months extension of leave Colo
mel Almon i. Rockwell, Major and Quar-
tcrnaster will report TO Quartermastcr-
General llolabird on being relieved from
duty in charge of public buildings and
grounds here Lieutenant Henry f.. o. ;.
DCistand, Eleventh Infantry will report
ut New York to conduct detachment of
thirty recruits to Fort Smelling Mimi, for
the Twcnty-fth Infantry.
Major General Schofed has ordered
that the rifle and carbine competition this
year for the military division of the Mis-
souri, shall take place ut Fort Smelling,
Mimi, instead of at Fort leavenworth, as
in previous years. The department COM
petitions for places on the rifle teams are
to be completed by August %, and the
several teams must arrive ut Fort Smelling
by September /, each in charge of u COM
missioned officer. Major John c. Bates,
| Twentieth Infantry, will report to General
Terry at Fort Smelling to conduct the di-
vision competition under direction of that
officer. The competition for the division
places and prizes will begin Saturday,
September D. and will be conducted under
the rules prescribed by Captain 5. T..
Blunts manual of rifle and carbinc
firing
Paymaster J. Porter Looms, L. ). ~,
is here from the Naval Academy.
The soop-of-war Omaha Captain
Thomas o. Selfrdge, will sail to-day
from Portsmouth, n. H., for the Asiatc
fleet. She goes via the Sucz Canal
Lieutenant j. Walker Benet, Fifth
| Artillery, arrived here Saturday on leave
| from Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor,
and is visiting his father General Benet,
| nj, No. Iii street. He will be here about
| two weeks.
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| ~, left here last night for san Francisco
| To join the Mohican ut the Mare Island
Navy-Yard. The vessel will be ordered to
| the Pacific Station, and next year will
make an extended cruise among the South
| Sea Islands.
Commodore Jonathan Young, L. ). n,
| died Saturday at the New London naval
| station (whcre he was in command) of
| intermittent fever, contracted in this city
| while on duty as a member Of the general
| court-maTial in the Wales case lie was
| born in Ohio in 1897 and entered the navy
| October 49, 1871, from Illinois, as Il mid
| shipman. He served with distinction in
| Japan lin 1870, in the Mexican war and
| in the rebellion lie became commodore
| June 49, 1882.
| The following navy orders have been
| made; The leave of licutcnant-C omman-
| der Oscar f, Heyerman, now in Dresden,
| SaXony, is extended to August t. Licuton-
| ant-Commander Joseph Marthon, Lieu
| tenants Hamilton lutchins, Edward +.
| Qualtrough and John A. ii. NickclS,
| Boatswain +. A. Dean, Carpenters. H. Ma
| loon and Saimalier Garrett Van Mater,
| detached from the Hartford June /, and
| proceed home To wait orders; Lieutenant
| William H. Parker, TO duty in the Hydro
| graphic Office; Passed Assistant Engineer
| George Il. Tower, to duty i'm connection
| with the machinery of the new steel
| cruiser Boston; Assistant Engineer Will
| lam c. ChriSman, granted fourmonths' cX-
| tension of sick leave; BOutswain j. b. r.
| Langton, Carpenter Warren Barnard and
! Sailmaker John Roddy, detached from the
| Independence ut the Mare Island Navy
| Yard June |, and ordered to the Hartford.
The following orders were issued from
| the Navy Department Saturday: PaymaS-
| ter j. Porter LOOMS, to continue his duties
| as comnissay mt the Naval Academy, in
| addition 10 his duty on the practice ship
| Constellation; Lieutenant Reginald +.
| Nicholson is authorized to delay reporting
| for duty on board the MOhican, at the
| Mare Island Nayy-Yard, California, until
| June /; Passed Assistant Engineer Luther
| II, Harvey, ordered to report to Commo-
| dorc John H. Russell for duty at the Mare
| Island Maynard; Passed Assistant En-
| gineer Hugh III. Cline, detached from the
| Mare Island Navy-Y0rd and ordered to
| the Hartford June /; Assistant Engineers
| Edward O'C, Acker and John l.. Cow, de-
| tachcd from the Hartford and ordered
| home to wait orders, and Assistant Engi-
| necr Ira n. Hollis, detached from duty
| with the Naval Advisory Board and
| ordered tO the Hartford, at San Francisco.
Major Edmund G. cambridge, Third
| Artillery, has been assigned TO duty ut
| Fort Mcllenry, Baltimore, June T. by or
der Of General HANCOCK.
|
| Tho Spring Meeting, Maryland Jockey
| Club.
The Maryland Jockey Club will hold
| their spring meeting at Pimlco this week,