The Washington critic., 1886-02-10
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Leaves Granted. Martial, Eui
1oughs, Orders and Personal Notes.

Leaves Granted, Courts Martial, Fur
loughs, Orders and Personal Notes.
The swatara sailed this morning for Key
West, from Hampton Roads.
Hospital Steward Daniel u. Miller has
been assigned to duty at Fort Barrancas,
Florida.
The Juniata is to be repaired at The New
York Navy-Yard, instead OF being sent to
Norfolk, as was intended
The new steel dispatch vessel Dolphin
coaled yesterday as the Norfolk Navy Yard,
taking on one hundred tons.
Lieutenant Commander Edwin $. 1Ious-
ton, who is stationed at the Norfolk Navy
Yard is quite i'll at his home there.
First Lieutenant Edward Lynch, Eighth
Infantry has been ordered back TO his sta
tion at Fort Bidwell California, from San
Francisco.
First Sergeant James O'Ncill company
II, Thirteenth Infantry, at Fort Wingate,
New Mexico, has been granted four months
furlough, to take effect upon his rc-enlist-
ment.
The Brooklyn, Captain Edmund o. Mat
thews, which has been at Key West since
January n, sailed from that port Monday
for Aspinwall to relieve the flagship Ten
nessee.
Lieutenant Guy J.. Edic, assistant sur
geon, has been ordered from Fort Mcln-
tosh, Texas, to Farvicw, New Mexico, to
report to Captain Henry w. Sprole, com
mandiDg troop X, Sixth Cavalry.
Colonel Elmer OTIS Eighth Cavalry, has
been ordered from San Antonio to Forts
Brown, Mcintosh and Rlngold, Texas, on
official business. Troops of his regiment
are stationed at each Of the posts named.
The Fortune, which is commanded by
Lieutenant Oren +. Lashcr, which left the
Norfolk Navy-Yard last week with stores
for the monitor squadron of iron.clads at
City Point, is iccbound In the james
River.
A letter received at Norfolk from man
on the Galena, which is now in the Gulf OF
Darien, states that there is yellow fever on
board, there being eight cases at the date Of
writing. 1t is more than probable that the
cases are merely Chagres fever, although
that is bad enough for the victims.
Major William +. Drum, Fourteenth In
fantry, acting inspector general OF the De-
partment of Arizona, and First Lieutenant
Eugene j.. Spencer, Corps of Engineers,
chief engineer officer of that command,
were recently ordered from Whipple Bar
racks to Fort Bowie, to report In person to
General Crook.
Army Leaves Granted-Maior John j.
Upham, Fifth Cavalry, Fort Sill, Indian
Territory, one month, with permission to
apply for one month extension Lieutcn-
ant Wendell l.. Simpson, Third Cavalry,
Fort Elliot, Texas, twenty days extension.
First Lieutenant Joseph Garrard, Fourth
Artillery, one months extension. Lieut..
Robert j. G. Irvine, Eleventh Infantry,
Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota, one month
extension. Lieutenant Lawrence ID. Tyson,
Ninth Infantry, seven days extension.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph S. Conrad,
| Twenty-second Infantry, three days extern
sion. Captain Charles Il. l.. B. Davis,
| Corps of Engineers, two weeks. First
| Lieutenant Joseph Garrard, Fourth Artil-
| lery, one months extension.
Navy Orders-Comman Henry Glass,
| detached from the Mare Island Navy-Yard
and ordered to proceed by the steamer OF
March to command the Monocacy, on the
| Asiatic Station, relieving Commander
Francis j. Higginson, who is ordered to
| return home; Ensign Howard NJ, Wetzel,
| detached from the Smithsonian Institution
| February 10 and ordered to the Vandalia;
| Passed Assistant Surgeon NJ. II. Crawford,
| detached from the Shenandoah and placed
| on waiting orders; Passed Assistant En-.
| gineer John l.. Hannum, from the Pinta Cat
Sitka) and ordered home; Passed Assistant
Engineer j. A. b. Smith, from the Norfolk
Navy-Yard to the Pinta.
Colonel Burton Randall surgeon IRE
tired), U. S. Army, died on Monday morn
ing at the Insane Asylum here. He was
born in Annapolis, in 1905, and was the
seventh son of Major John Randall, who
was an officer of the maryland Line" III
the Revolutionary War. He was gradu
ate Of the University of Pennsylvania, and
entered the service October "a, 1882, a:
assistant surgeon, becoming surgeon
(major) July Z, 1888, and was retired fol
age October II, 1868. His wife was 0
niece Of General Zachary Taylor
who was afterward President of the United
States. A sad thing in connection with DR.
Randall's death was the suicide, almost al
the same hour, of one OF his sons, Mr.. John
Knapp Randall, the librarian of the Balt
more Mercantile Library, who shot himself
in his quarters in that CITY,