The Washington critic., 1885-11-19
THE ARMY 1yD NtyY.
Matters Interesting 10 All Members oI
the Service.


Matters Interesting 10 All Members OF
the Service.
Captain Cass Durham. Eighteenth In
fantiy, Is visiting 0t -. Paul on leave.
Corporal Michael j. Murphy, Company /,
Twentieth Infantry, has been granted four
months furlough.
Captain Robert Mcdonald, Fifth lnfan-
try, viii he retired May ~ next, ON reaching
siNty-four years Of age.
First Lieutenant John McE. Hyde Eighth
Infantry, has been granted one month";
leave from BcniCla Barracks, Cal
Captain Richard W. Meade has been de.
tailed as q member of the Navy Retiring
Board in place Of Captain James A. Greer.
The Adams, now at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, will he ready to sail for San Francisco
about December to join the Pacific squad
ron.
First Lieutenant Beach ef the Engineer
Corps has been ordered to assist IN cNamin-
ing the boundary line between Texas and
Indian Territory
First Lieutenant John l.. Bulls, Twenty
fourth Infantry, reported at Fort Leaven-
worth last Sunday To General Miles, from
special duty In New Mexico.
Lieutenant James Brennan, Seventeenth
Infantry, who is on leave from Fort Yates,
Dakota, Is visiting Lieutenant Oglc of this
regiment at Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Major Thomas II. Hamburg, Corps of
Engineers In addition to his present duties
at Chicago has been ordered to temporary
duty, relieving William II. II. Bcnyaurd of
the same corps.
-Four companies Of the Fourteenth In.
fantry returned to Vancouver Barracks
November 10 from Tacoma, Washington
Territory, under command of Captain Gil
bert 5. Carpenter.
Major Alexander sharp, paymaster (for-
mcIly L. $. Marshal of this Distrlctl, is
ordered relieved from duty at Yankton
Dakota, and to report for duty in the De
parmeut of Missouri.
Navy orders: Ensign Henry Mlnett is
granted extension Of leave until February
next; Sailmaker Herman Hansen, ordered
to the receiving-sllp Independence, at the
Mare Island Navy-6S41.
Lieutenant B. II. Buckingham, L. s.
Navy, sailed from New York yesterday in
the Elder for Berlin, to enter upon his
duties as naval attache to the legations at
Berlin, St. Petersburg and Paris.
Captain Charles w. Williams, assistant
quHrtcImGster, is ordered to New York
City TO take charge of the construction Of
the new buildings authorized at the Willet's
Point engineer depot New York harbor.
There is n strong movement on foot to re-
vivc the grade of general of the army and
continue the grade Of acknowledgement so
MS 10 provide for the promotion Of Major
General Hancock to the latter before his
retirement February IA, 1883, for age
Colonel Lewis Cass Hunt, Fourteenth In
fOrtry, has been ordered from his station at
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Ter, to San
Diego Barracks, Cal, to take station, and to
perform such light duty as his physical con-
dition will permit. lie will remain through
the winter.
Lieutenant Thomas Cruise, Sixth Cavalry,
is granted two months leave, with permis-
sion to apply for one month extension, to
take effect when First Lieutenant Charles
b. Gatewood, Sixth Cavalry, reioins his
troop at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, from
detached service.in Arizona.
Lieutenant Colonel Isaac d. DeRussy,
Fourteenth Infantry will command his regi-
mcnt during the absence of Colonel Hunt
at san Diego, on the southern coast of Cali
fornia, during the winter. Colonel De-
Russy is now with the regiment at the
scene of the recent Chinese trouble on Pu.
get Sound.
General John Gibbon, commanding the
Department Of the Columbia, went in per-
son to Seattle, on Puget Sound, in regard
TO the trouble there against the Chinese,
hh'A ~ W &c nun NllNlN bilstJ lt Olltltl Illt
Fourteenth Infantry to the scene. lie was
accompanied by Lieutenant Edwin j. Nc
Clernand, Second Cavalry, his aide-de-camp
Privates Frank Esmond and james Mo
Gurk, Third Artillery, who were last week
acquitted in the Supreme Court of the Dis.
tlict on the charge of stealing Major James
b. Burbank's watch, are confined in the
guard-house for trial by court-martial for
the same ofTensc, under the siXty-secOnd
article Of war; 1t Is difficult to see how
they can be SO tried, as the constitution os-
pecially forbids that any person "shall
twice be put in jeopardy of life or limb
Cibefty) for the same ofIense.n
Captain Allan II. jackson, now Judge
advocate ON General Gibbons staff in the
Department Of the Columbia, who was pro-
NOTED last Saturday from first lieutenant
served during the whole of the late war, be-
coming ieutenant-colonel of the One Hun
dred and Thirty-fOurth New York In April,
lsG3, and was severely wounded in action.
He was brevetted from second lieutenant to
major in the Regular Army for gallantry at
Chancclorsville, Gettysburg and at Chat
tanooga