The Washington critic., 1886-01-26
TIE dRuT AND NiIT.
Orders, Details, Eurioughs, Leaves
and Personal Notes.

Orders, Details, EurlOughS, Leaves
ana Personal Notes.
Forty-eight recruits are ordered to Texas
for the Sixteenth Infantry.
Captain Michael Cooney, Ninth Cavalry,
who is now at Leavenworth, Kansas, ON
leave, is ordered to establish recruiting
station at Nashville.
Lieutenant Colonel James W. Forsyth
First Cavalry, was ordered by telegraph
January 10, to proceed from Fort Kcogh to
Fort Custer, Montana.
First Sergeant Edward Fry. Company c,
Twenty-flfth Infantry, at Fort Smelling,
Mimi, has been granted three months fur
Tough on his re.enlistment
Lieutenant Samuel l.. Adair, Fifth CAV
airy, has gone to Fort Reno. Indian Ter
ritory, from Fort Riley, Kansas, under
special instructions from General Miles.
Lieutenant Everett +. Benjamin, First
Infantry, now at Fort l.eavenworth, is
transferred from Company IL to Company
!, and is ordered to his new company, at
Fort Bowie, Arizona.
Major George G. Iiuntt, First Cavalry, is
president, and Lieutenant Haydn s. Cole,
1lird Infantry, Judge e-advocatc, OF n gem
eral couft-martial convened January 20, at
Fort Ellis, Montana.
First Lieutenant John j. Dougherty,
his company (k) at Fort Sully, Dakota, is
ordered to examination at Fort Snolling,
Mimi, for retirement.
First Lieutenant Samuel w. Miller, Fifth
Infantry, q member, and Lieutenant William
ii. Sage, Fifth Infantry, iudge.advocate,
have exchanged duties on general court
martial sitting at Fort Keogh, Montana.
Chaplain Frank Thompson, U. S. N, ar
rived at San Francisco January lG to report
at the Mare Island Navy-Yard for duty. lie
was recently visiting Lieutenant Downs l..
Wilson, L. 5. N, at his home in George
town.
Fourth Cavalry, is acting adjutant of the
Army School at Fort Leavenworth during
tie illness OF First Lieutenant Robert +.
Bates, adjutant Eighteenth Infantry, from
q severe cold.
Civil Engineer Christopher G.. Wolcott,
U. s. Navy, formerly first lieutenant, Third
U. s. Artillery, is very III at the Mare Island
Navy-Yard, California, where he has been
stationed since January, 1882, and at one
time last week was not expected to recover.
Captain John NJ. Banester, assistant sur
geon, is ordered from Fort Adams, New
port, r. L., to Fort Warren, Boston lIarbor,
and relieve Captain Curtis j.. Mum as post
surgeon there, to enable the latter to pro-
ceed to Vancouver Barracks, Washington
Territory.
The funeral of Professor Edward Scager,
I. S. Navy, took place at the Holy Rood
Cemetery, Georgetown, yesterday after
noon at o'clock after services at Trinity
Church. General II. ii. Lockwood, pro-
fessor, l. s. N; Captain A. w. Weaver, u.
$. NJ; Pay Director I. II. Losker. L. S. N;
F. L. shepperd, Captains Il. Meade
and j. II. Sands, L. S. n; Major Bates, U.
$. A. Qeiired), and Samuel Rittenhouse
were the pall-bearers.
Army Leaves Granted. d.--Maior Wm. T..
Waters, surgeon Madison Barracks,
Secketts Harbor. New York, one month
and fifteen days. Captain Arthur Morris,
| Fourth Artillery, Fort Adams, Newport, r..
| l., two months. Lieutenant John ii. Beacon,
| First Infantry, two months extension;
| First Lieutenant Christopher w. Harold,
| Third Artillery, sick leave extended six
months; Acting Assistant Surgeon Robert
| T. Finley, two months without pay.
The Supreme Court OF the United States
| yesterday affirmed the decision of the Court
| OF Claims In the cases Of the navy cadet
engineers Of the class that left the Naval
| Academy in June, 1881, on completion of
| the four years. course, which reverses the
| arbitrary construction OF the act of August
| 5, 1852, by Secretary Chandler, who dis
| charged most of these young men from the
| service. Under this ruling all are still ofil-
GERS of the Navy Engineer Corps and con-
| tinuously in service since their admission at
| the Naval Academy. The decision aflirms
that cadet engineers were officers, not en-
DloyeeS.