The Washington critic., 1885-06-26
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines.

Maior-Gcneral Winfield Scott Hancock
has been made doctor of laws.
Lieutenant VIM. r. Burnham, Sixth
Infantry, is granted one month leave.
Major J. V. d. Middleton surgeon, has
been granted forty-fve days leave from
Fort benvcnworth.
Captain Curtis Il. Price, assistant sur
geon, has been granted one months leave
From Fort Custer Mon.
Major Charles II. Whipple, paymaster,
has been ordered from Fort Smelling to his
former station at Fort Keogh.
General Thomas NJ. Vincent reported at
Fort Smelling last Friday for duty as adiu-
tant-general on General Terry's staff
General George A. Forsyth, lieutenant
colonel Fourth Infantry, has been ordered
to command his regiment at Huachuca,
Arizona.
General Francis Il. Pierce, captain First
Infantry, has been detailed to inspect
stock cattle delivered at San Carlos
agency, Ariz.
Lieutenant William c. Brown, First
Cavalry, at Fort Lcavcnworth is prepar-
ing Il new edition of "Memoranda of De-
cisions on Points of Tactics
MAJOR Harvey H. Brown, surgeon, who
has been at Stapleton, Staten Island, on
leave, reported at Fort Leavenworth last
Tuesday for assignment to q station.
The British gunboat Satellite, Captain
Arthur ii. Arlington, arrived at San Fran
cisco last week from Esquimault, British
Columbia, en- route to the Mexican coast.
Lieutenant Charles ~ Clinch, Twenty
fourth Infantry, is acting as adiutant at
Fort Sill, Indian Territory, during the
absence of Lieutenant Charles j. Crane,
on leave.
Major John G. Bates, Twentieth In
fantry, is president, and First Lieutenant
Robert 7. Page Wainwright, First Cavalry,
judge-adyocate of court to convene
Monday at Fort Maginnis, Mon.
Captain S. u. Ito and i've other Japa-
nese naval officers are at the Ebbitt for q
few days. They are on their way to Eng
land for duty on a vessel built there for
their Government to take it to Japan.
Lieutenant Frederick d. Holton, Sec
ond Cavalry, has been detailed member
Of the board inspecting contract horses at
Fort Walla Walla, Wash. r., in place of
Captain Samuel Il. Hamilton, Second Cav
airy.
Colonel David H. Brotherton, from
Waynesboro, Pa; Captain William Raf-
ferty, Sixth Cavalry; Lieutenant III. 9. L..
Pound, U. S. A., and Lieutenant William
II. Shuetze, Z. S. N, are at the Ebbitt
House.
The Republican has joined THE CRITIC in
advocating the voluntary retirement of
Rear-Admiral Francis A. Roe on date
prior to August ~, instead of August 4, by
age, so that Commodore Oscar c. Badger
might be promoted before retirement on
that date.
The additional troops of the Fifth Cav
airy ordered to Fort Reno are u, Captain
George i. Price, |, Colonel Sanford G.
| Kellogg, and L, Captain William G. For
| bush, under command of Colonel Louis
| II. Carpenter. They went by rail to
| Caldwell Kan, and thence are marching.
Dispatches from Ann Arbor, Mich, state
| that Assistant Engineer Mortimer f..
| Cooley, who has been on duty for two
| years as instructor of mechanical en-
| gineering at the University of Michigan,
has forwarded his resignation from the
navy, and has accepted the professorship
| Of mechanical engineering there.
| Naval orders: Lieutenant NJ. +. Wright,
ordered to the Alliance; Passed Assistant
Paymaster VIM. w. Gait, ordered to tenn.
| porary duty in the Bureau of Navigation
Surgeon Ross, detached from duty at the
| New York laboratory Paymaster Barton
and Passed Assistant Paymaster Deering
have been detached from the Bureau OF
Provisions and Clothing.