The Washington critic., 1885-05-30
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to the Service From.
All Along the Lines.

Major Lawrence S. Babbitt. Ordnance
Corps. is at the Ebbitt House.
Major Frederick Mcars, Twenty fth In
fantry, is i'm st. Paul from Fort SssetUn,
Dakota.
Lieutenant James V. 5. Paddock. Fifth
Cavalry, has been granted fifteen days
leave from Fort Lcavcnworth
Captain Charles G.. Hood, Twenty fourth
Infantry, is granted twenty days' leave
FROM JUNO 10. from Fort Elliott, Texas.
Major Jesse A. i. Hampson. Tenth In
fantry, has been granted leave for one
month from the cantoumcnt on the TN
Compahgrc, Colorado.
Francis Harrington has been promoted
to the rank of captain i'm the Marine Corps
and James a. Turner promoted to the
rank of first lieutenant.
Lieutenant John +. Van Orsdalc. Scv-
cnth Infantry, has been relieved from
duty at Fort Washakie and ordered to
Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
Lieutenant John Biddlc Corps of Engi-
ncers, has completed the new survey of
the Fort Pembina reservation, Dakota,
and returned to Fort Smelling.
Lieutenant Edward G. Carter, assistant
surgeon, |. ;. A., is at the Ebbitt House
on leave from Arizona, but will leave Sat-
urday for his home in Richmond.
Captain Richard l.. Hoxic, Corps of En-
gincers, who is visiting at No. 2lS New ler-
scy avenue southeast, will leave Monday
for his station at Montgomery, Ala
The Quartcrmastcr-Gcn has been
directed to furnish each infantry non
commissioned officer with one pair of
chcvrons gratuitously for use on the
blouse.
General Edward Hatch, colonel Ninth
Cavalry, has been ordered from Fort
Leavenworth to Arkansas City and Cald-
well, Kansas under special instructions
from General Augur.
Captain Dwight II. Kelton, Tenth In
fantry, who was promoted while here last
winter, has been ordered to Join his COM
pany (G), at the cantonmcnt ON the Tn
compahgre Colorado,
Three men of Troop II, Second Cavalry
Captain Martin f. O Bmen'sl recently
enlisted Mt Washington and Harrisburg
were drowned last Sunday near Fort
Cmur d Alene, Idaho, from q fcrry-boat.
Colonel Fred. w Benteen, Major Ninth
Cavalry, is president, and Lieutenant
| Thomas Corbin Davenport, Ninth Cavalry,
| iudge-advocate, of court which convened
| last "wednesday ut Fort Riley, Kansas.
| All the members are of the same rcgi-
ment.
Mr.. John W. Moore, the father of
Colonel James NJ. Moore, L. s. A., died
at his home in Philadelphia last Tuesday
of pneumonia. Colonel Moore was sum.
moned from st. Paul but reached his
home too late.
Northumberland Nathan w. Osborne,
Sixth Infantry, is president, and Lieutcn-
ant Wm. p. Burnham, Sixth Infantry,
iudge-advocatc, of Il general court-martial
to convene Monday at Fort Douglas, Salt
Lake City. All the members are from the
same regiment
General Hancock has decided that the
movement of troops of the Second and
Third Regiments of Artillery shall be
made by rail. Tomorrow night Battery
| C, Second Artillery, Major William p.
| Graves, will leave for its new station,
| Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala, and Battery
| H, Captain James T.. Wilson, for Fort Bar
| rancas, Pensacola. General Ayres with
| the other batteries, except Light Battery
| A Major Hamilton's), will leave Monday
| night for San Augustine and other posts.
| General Howard commanding the De.
| partment of the Platte, has ordered that
| during September the troops in the com
mand will, for field practice and instruc
ton, form camps at points convenient tC
the posts where they are stationed. Those
from Forts Bridge and Douglas will camI
near Wauship Station, Utah, under com
mand of General Alexander Mcdowell
McCook, Sixth Infantry; those from Fort
| Omaha, uear Fremont, Neb. and those from
Forts Russell, Laramie, Sidney and Robin.
son, near Pine Bluffs Station, Neb., on the
Northern Pacific Railway. The companies
| at Forts Washallie, Mckinney and Steele
| Wyoming and Niobrara, Neb., Will camp
| within fifty miles of the several posts. The
troops of the Ninth Cavalry, which have
| lust marched from Indian Territory and
Kansas, are excused from this duty.