The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-06-19
TIE ARMY AND NAVY.


| Fort Davis, Texas.
! Passed Assistant Engineer Wythe NJ
| Parks is at his home in Norfolk on lcay@
from the Naval Academy.
Captain stephen Il. stafford, Fifteenth
| luiantiy, has returned to Columbus Bar
| racks, Ohio, from his leave.
MAJOR Lawrence :. Rabbit, Ordnance
! Corps is granted two months leave from
| June ~ from Fort Monroe.
Dr. Leonard Wood OF Boston has been
| appointed acting assistant surgeon in the
navy and ordered to Arizona.
The leave granted Major John H.
| Blaine. paynastcr, from IIclcnu. Mon
tHna, June H. has been revoked.
General e. g. Augur went to S. Louis
| last Monday with his sou-in-uw. Major
George H. Russell, Ninth Infantry.
Lieutenant William T.. Evans Nine.
tcenuI Infantry is granted one months
leave from July from Fort Lcnycn-
| worth
Major Frank H. Hamilton, second Ar
| tillcry, Is ordered to tirccnvillc, Miss" to
| inspect and report upon the militia to be
| cHmpcd there July I.
Mrs. James T.. Martin Formerly Miss
| Bacon of this city,, wife of Colonel Mar
! tin, assistant diutant-gencral, was visit
! ing at Kansas City this. week
Sergeant Ebert NJ. Cronk, Troop H.
/ ~
| six months from Fort Mcintosh, Texas
! with permission TO go abroad
| First Lieutenant Theodore Moshcr,
! Twenty Infantry, now here, is
| ordered to conduct cavalry recruits to
! Fort Scldcn, y. NJ. and then Join his
company at Fort Lewis Col
Lieutenant benjamin Alvord, .r, Tween
ticth Infantry, is granted leave for
! month on being relieved as post commits
saiy AZ Fort Hays, Kan, with permission
TO apply for one montll's extension.
Lieutenant Frank d. l.. Darlington, First
| Infantry and Mrs. Darlington, arrived
ut SAN Francisco June 10, from Prescott,
Ariz,, and are on their way TO Georgia.
lieutenant Darlington has leave for sew
cral months,
Miss Cora Taylor daughter of Lieutcn-
ant Frank Taylor Fourteenth Infantry
ladiutant of the Columbus recruiting de
pot), is an expert tccgraphcr, having been
taught by her father and Captain Charles
G. Penney, Sixth Infantry.
Mrs. George y. Wallace wife of Lieu.
tenant Wallace seventh Cavalry has
gone from Fort lcaycnwomh to st, Paul
to remain with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Otis until September when She will Join
her husband ut Fort Kcogh to which fort
hc has been transferred with his troop.
Lieutenant William j. Nicholson, Sew
cnth Cavalry, and Mrs Nicholson arrived
in -Icavcnworth last Monday to visit Mrs
Nicholsons parents. The lieutenant
who is SON of Commodore Sommcrvillc
Nicholson of this city, is ON duty at the
Kansas Agricultural College at Manhattan.
igadicr-Gcncral David 5. Stanley,
lioutcnant-C oloncl Joseph Il. Smith, sur
geon; Major Joseph f. Wright Surgeon;
Major Isaac Arnold ordnance corps, and
Major Edward NJ licyl, inspcctor-gen-
cral, compose Il retiring board to convene
at san Antonio, Texas, to examine Cap
tain George +. footc, Eighth Cavalry, for
retirement.
Captan Robert H. Meade Marine Corps,
has applied to be placed ON the retired list
for disability, and board will be ordered
here rs soon rs Secretary Whitney returns
to examine him. He has been in very
poor health for II number of years past,
and his troubles were greatly aggravated
by exposure and the climatic influences OF
his recent trip with the marine battalion
to the Isthmus. lie was formerly mid
shipnan in the navy, and entered the
Marine Corps in June, 1852
Lieutenant. Commander Charles II
Davis is detached from special
duty in the Bureau of Navi
cation and ordered as executive Of the
Powhatan June y, to relieve Lieutenant
Commander Willard H. Brownson,
ordered to the Coast Survey; Lieutenant
George H. Peters, detached from the
Powhatan and ordered To the Coast Sur
vcy, tor duty in the Office here; Gunner
William Elalford, to temporary duty ut
the Mare Island magazine, California.
Colonel VIM. +. Carlin and Major Isaac
u. De Russy, Fourth Infantry and Major
.lustus NJ. Brown surgeon with First
Lieutenant Butler u. Price, adiutant
Fourth Infantry, rs recorder, compose Il
court of inquiry convened June 10, ut Fort
Omaha by order of General Howard, tC
examine and report the facts relating To
the accusations made against First Ser
gcant Jesse III. Farmer company i Cap
tain Quinn's), Fourth Infantry, in paper,
forwarded to department headquarters
The court was ordered at the request oi
Sergeant Farmer.
General Samuel b. IIolabird, quarter
master.gencral; General Nelson H. Davis
inspcctor-general; and Colonel Guido \
liebtr, acting judge-advocatc general
compose board which convened ycstcr
day at the Quartcrmaster-Gene office
to consider and report upon the claims %
army officers for private property de
stroyed in service, The act Of March 3
, 1852, provides for payments for "sucl
artcies OF Rersonnal 5P ro]perty IS thu
sonable, useful, necessary and proper TO
each officer while in quarters, in the lin
Of duty The board will report to tn,
Secretary of War what articles are in
cludcd IN the above proyiso, and its rec
Ommcndation should be comprehensive
enough to cover all claims under the act
, which was passed in the interest of tn
| | Fifth Infantry for losses in 1876 by tin
t steamer j. u. Cameron.
Cadet Davidson who was court-mar
, tailed az West Point for insubordinatiol
/ in disobcying the orders of one of TIN
I file closcIs-a second classman--durin
: the last skrmish drill at West Point, ha
= been sentenced to be confined ut the Mill
+ tary Academy during the summer en-
< campment and not to receive his diplon
4 until the expiration of his sentence. An
> gust Is, The effect OF this is To reduce hin
0 in rank from his class number, Is, to tn
Q foot of the class, ms he viii not be al
. pointed in the army until released. David
sons Otlcnsc was considered all the NOR
grave because that from June | the mem
Y hers cf the graduating class were "o
: honor as to conduct and were subject +
I no dement's for breaches OF discipline
r 1t seems that he is by no means Il faYorit
) with his classmates and they are indie
, nHnt that his outrageously insubordinat
& conduct, especially on such an occasion
) and in the presence Of the Board of Wis