The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-06-16
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest 90 the Service From
All Along the Limos.


Chaplain orvile y Nave has been
granted twentyseven days leave from
Fort Lyon, Colo.
DIR. William Il. Bureigh of San Fran
cisco, formerly U. S. Army, is. visiting his
old-time home, near Springfield, Mass.
Lieutenant Aaron Ward has reported
for duty on board the Hartford at San
Francisco as aide to Admiral McCauley.
The court at Fort Missoula, Mon, of
which Major VIM. II. Jordan, Third In
I. iantry, was president, has been dissolved.
& The court-inartal at Fort Sisseton, OAK.
of which Major Frederick Mears Twenty
fifth Infantry, was president, has been
dissolved.
Lieutenant Thomas s. Phelps, iro has
been appointed secretary to Rear Admiral
Edward Y. MCCauley, commanding the
Pacific fleet.
Assistant Engineer Arthur r. Woods
u. 5. ~, is here from the University of
Illinois, where he is on duty, and is visit
ing at No. 1909 street.
General August V. Kantz, colonel
Eighth Infantry, has been ordered to Fort
MCDermitt and other places in Nevada and
Oregon under SPECIAL instructions from
Ma1or.Gcneral Pope, commanding the
Division of the Pacific.
Colonel George H. Weeks, depot quarter.
master ut San Francisco, returned to that
city last Tuesday from a six weeks visit
TO Honolulu with his wife and two young
EST children. Mrs Charles T. Egan, wife
of Captain Egan, L. :. A., also arrived
with her children
Passed Assistant Engineer William l..
Baltic was examined yesterday before the
Naval Retiring Board Carpenter John
A. Dixon will be examined tomorrow;
Boatswain Peter johnson on Wednesday,
Boatswain Heron on Thursday, and Lieu-
tenant Albert.J Dabncy on Friday
The Naval Board of Inspection inspected
the rcceiving.ship Wyandotte here last
Saturday and left yesterday afternoon To
make the annual inspection at the League
Island yard, and will go thence to the
Brooklyn yard. They will remain at New
York to take part in the official reception
of the French frigate lscrc, with the Bar
tholdi statue on board.
Captain james 5, Tomkins, U. :. A.,
and Mrs. Tomkins, have gone to Mime
| sofa from their home in Wilmington, Del,
to spend the summer. Captain Tomkins.
| who was an acting midshipman in 1861,
| enlisted in the Twelfth Infantry in 1865,
| was promoted to lieutenant and captain,
and was retired from the Twenty fifth In
iantry in 1879 for blindness.
The Ninth Cavalry, except troops A, &
and !, left Fort Riley, Kan, last Friday
for Wyoming. Lieutenant A. III. Bud
y
at that post waiting the arrival of the Fifth
| Cavalry as post quartermaster, and Lieu
tenant Walter ID, McCaw, assistant sur
| geou, was ordered to accompany the Ninth
| to Fort Laramie and thence return to Fort
| LeaVcnworth.
Naval Orders Lieutenant Commander
| John Schoulcr, detached from the Lam
| caster and ordered home; Naval Cadet
| Jackson. ordered to the torpedo sta
| ton at Newport; Ensign Alfred Jeif'ries
| from the Coast Survey and ordered to
| await court-martial ON the receiving-ship
at New York; Naval Constructor George
| W. Much, from the department and
| placed on waiting orders; Naval Cadet
| A. l.. Keith, granted leave until July |,
1856
| The following are the future posts of
field officers OF the cavalry regiments
| which have recently changed stations
Fifth Cavalry-I.icutenan Colonel Chus.
| f.. Compton commanding regiment), at
Fort Riley, Kan; Major John j. Upham,
Sumner, Fort Reno, |. T. temporarily at
Arkansas City, Kan) and Major Louis
Henry Carpenter, Fort Riley, Kan. Ninth
Cavalry Colonel Edward Hatch Fort
Mckinney, Wy; Liehtenant-ColonelJ Jas
$. Brisbin, Fort Niobrara, Ncb,; Major
Guy V. Henry, Fort Omaha, Ncb. Major
Thomas Il. Devices, Fort Robinson, Neb.
and Major Fred. w. Benteen, Fort Me.
Kinney, Neb. The field officers of the in.
fantry regiments exchanging station will
have posts as follows: Eighteenth In
fantry-Coloncl Thomas II. Kruger, Fort
Leavenworth; Lieutcnant-Colonel John J,
Coppingcr, Fort Hays. Kan, and Major
John S. Poland, Fort Leavenworth
Twentieth Infantry-Colonel Ewell S
Otis Fort Assiniboine Mon.,. and Major
John G.. Bates, Fort Magihnis, Mon
(Lieutenant- Colonel Caleb II. Layton is
on an extended sick leave in Baltimore.