The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-14
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From
All Along the Lines

Japan n. |, IraWlOru, ds5lsUHnb surgeon,
U. S. A., has been granted an extension of
leave for week.
Lieutenant w. M. williams, Nineteenth
Infantry, has been granted one months
leave from Fort Clark, Texas.
Lieutenant N Il. McCauley, assistant
surgeon Z. S. A., has been granted three
weeks leave by General Terry.
Captain Augustus A. De Loire, assistant
surgeon L. s, A., has been assigned to duty
as post surgeon at Fort Sisseton, Dakota.
Captain Samuel r. Hamilton, Second
Cavalry has been granted two months
leave with permission to apply for months
extension.
Lieutenant John II. Shallcnberger, Tenth
Infantry, has been granted two months
leave from Fort Lyon, Col, with permits
sion to apply for months extension
Major Abram X. Arnold, Sixth Cavalry,
now at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, has
been granted leave fora month with per-
mission to apply for one months exten
sion.
Lieutenant ]. Walker Benet, Fifth Artil-
lery, has been granted leave from Fort
Hamilton, New York Harbor, for n month,
He is son of General Benet, Chief of Ord
nance.
I.ieutenants Ballard S. Humphrey and
| Matthias w. Day, Ninth Cavalry, have each
| been granted one month leave from Camp
| Russell and Fort Reno, Indian Territory,
| respectively.
The experimental magazine guns now in
| the hands of the companies OF the Eigh-
teenth Infantry are to be turned over to
| the Twentieth Infantry to complete the
| prescribed tests.
Lieutenant A. NJ. Palmer, Twenty fourth
Infantry, has been ordered as post quarter
master and commissary, and to command at
| 81 a
| of the Fifth Cavalry.
The Fifth Cavalry in Nebraska and Wy
| oming, and the Tenth in Kansas and In-
dian Territory, will march overland in ex-
changing stations. The movement began
Tuesday with both regiments
lieutenant Benjamin Alvord .ir., Twen
tieth Infantry, will remain at Fort Hays,
Kansas in command, after the company
leaves until a company Of the Eighteenth
Infantry arrives from Montana.
In future exam inations of recruits the
Adjutant- General of the Army directs that
the following question be asked: Have
you ever been convicted of felony, or been
imprisoned in a penitentiary or Jail"
Major VIM. H. Jordan, Third Infantry,
is president and Lieutenant Charles w.
Kennedy, Third Infantry, judge ad vocate
of a court.martial which will convene
Monday May Is, at Fort Missoula Mon
tana.
General John r. Brooke, Colonel Third
Infantry, has been ordered to command the
District of Montana. relieving General
Thomas II. Ruger, Eighteenth Infantry,
who is to command the Fort Leavenworth
School.
Captain VIM. G. Spencer, assistant SUR
geon t. S. A., has been assigned to duty at
Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, and
Captain Louis Brechemin and Lieutenant
Marlborough G. Wyeth to Fort Wadsworth,
New York Harbor.
General James S. Brisben, Major Second
Cavalry, was recently ordered to special
duty In connection with the Indians on
Woods River, Idaho, and on It's completion
to return to his station at Fort Boise
Idaho. He is next for promotion to lieu
tenant.colonel of cavalry
General Sheridan has sent letters to the
various division commanders enioinine
upon them the necessity of greater care OF
the Springfield rifles and carbines in use
1t is found that many condemned arms are
serviceable, but have been badly cared for
These arms should last five years in
active service at the least
During the quarter ending March 81
1855, there were 81 cases of desertion among
the troops serving in the Department o
Texas. These were distributed as follows
|
Light Battery f. Third Artillery, 2; Six
tenth Infantry, 10, and Nineteenth In
fantry, Is. In sixteen troops and com
panies none were reported.
Lieutenant. General Sheridan has de
cided that as one of the duties of thu
iudge.advocate of court martial is tn,
execution of its orders, he is carrying on
the orders of the court, whom, if the cour
has adjourned subject to the call of the pre-
siding officer, in notifying the members o
the time designated by the presiding OIL
Ger for reassembling.
General Stanley, commanding in Texas
has ordered the following; Major Georg
A. Purinter, Third Cavalry, with Troops 4
and G, are ordered to take station at For
stockton Major Samuel M. b. Young
Third Cavalry, at Camp Rice; and Majol
Horace Jewett Sixteenth Infantry, will
Company +, to Fort Concho; Companies
and X, Sixteenth Infantry, to Fort Stock
; tor
NAVY NOTES.
Assistant Paymaster John Quitman Low
ell, L. S. n, is visiting at the Arscna
barracks
Rear-Admral and Mrs. Pierce Crosby O
this city are at the Hygeia Hotel, OIL
Point Comfort.
Ordnance Sergeant Van Duzep, who wa
last week promoted from Battery G, Fift
Artillery, arrived at Fort Foote last Tues
day for duty.
Assistant Surgeon William Martin, u. S
n. who is at the Ebbitt House will leav
to- morrow night for San Francisco to tax
the steamer of May 90 for Sitka, to join tn
Pipta.
Lieutenant. Commander James NJ For
. sy til has been ordered to the League Islam
Navy.Yaid. Lieutenant Rees has beef
ordered to the Michigan. Captain K. W
Meade has been granted permission to leav
the country
Information has been received at tn
Navy Ordnance Bureau that Germany
after protracted tests, has at last adopte
the Hotchkiss breech loading rifle for shi
use, and has ordered large number of thes
guns. Every European nation has no'
adopted this American invention.
Lieutenant Greedy has again change,
the name of the headland sighted by th
late Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergean
Brainard from the falthest point reache
l by them. 1t will hereafter be known a
: Cape Washington, instead of Cape lincolI
3 after tho late Secretary of War. 1t will
!. remembered that Secretary Lincoln inter
I fered with the names assigned by Iieutei
Q ant Greedy while in the Arctic, aud by h
7 order many were changed.
A The following is the complete roster {
: the frigate Pensacola, which is now i
. Hampton Roads, under orders for the FL
Iopean squadron as flagship, and which wi
sail tomorrow Rear Admiral Samuel
@ Franklin; Lieutenant S. l., stanton, fla