Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-06
MILITARY NOTES.
Inspections of the Companies Target
Practice and Other Matters.

l1spGEIlDuS Oh Inc COMPANIES al b u
Practice and Other Matters.
The staff officers Of this Brigade, or five
of them at least, will have something to
keep them fully occupied for the next two
months if they enter heartily into the spirit
of General Orders No. 6. which they nc
doubt will. The intention of the order is
to give every assistance and encouragement
to the officers and the various companies
with the view chiefly of securing a large
attendance at the weekly drills. This &C.
ton is to put into practice the recommends.
ton of the Brigade Commander in the bi.
ennial report just published by General
orion. which is 10 the effect that if full
attendance can be secured at the weekly
drills, the little aud great defects TO which
attention is called will be remedied. Cap
tains of companies will feel encouraged &c
go on in the good work, and the taxpayers
viii feel that they are spending their money
to some purpose in fostering the National
Guard. the general order referred to is as
follows:
Companies a, B, T, G and Fl, of the First Ar.
tillery Regiment will be informally visited every
drill night during the months of October and
November, 1888, by staff officers of the Brigade
in fatigue uniform, who will note the number
present at Qr1ll tQe LdIlle Oh cOQ
mand, if the drill is by squad, company or both
and II each company has its complement of cap.
able non-commissioned officers.
Said staff officers will procure from the CON-
pany commander list of names OF members OF
such company who habitually absent them
selves from drill, personally visit such members
and their employers at as early date as posi-
bic after the receipt of this ORDER and ascertain
the cause of their neglect of sworn duty. The
officer will use all his influence with such negli.
gent member, and endeayor to convince him
that it is clearly his duty as man of honor to
faithfully attend the weekly drills for the term
for which he enlisted, and to impress upon him
the disgrace which n dishonorable discharge
carries with 1t if he should be contaminated.
The officers detailed will report to these head
quarters prior to December 10, 1888, the results
of their supervision and personal appeal in Sc
curing better attendance, and the cooperation
of company officers is earnestly solicited in this
WORT.
Thf detail for this special service is as follows
Majoc II. Weinstock, Company A. Tuesdays:
Major c. S. Houghton, Company B, Wednesdays;
Major W. H. Sherburn, Company f, Thursdays;
Major C. II. Hubbard, Company G. Mondays;
Captain NJ. ]. Dillman, Company Il, Fridays.
The work of these officers commences
this week, and it is hoped that good results
will follow.
The annual target practice is over, and
as far as heard from Company G., of the
First Artillery. carried off the honors as
usual, both in the matter of winning the
champion gold medal and in the highest
percentage for the entire company. This
is no doubt the best shooting company in
the State, and has been for several years.
The officers and men deserve the distinc-
ton this gives them. They have spent
more of their own money for eight years
past in target practice than perhaps all OF
the companies N the State combined, and
if ii were not Tor the frequent change in
membership, st;d consequently the loss OF
many first-class shots, it would push any
company in the United States to beat it at
the butts. The percentage made by the
company this year was beaten six years
ago, when, cut of membership of &c, the
average was some 632 per cent, with two
of the best shots in the company counted
as missing, on account of absence or sick
ness. 1t has been suggested that the staff
of the ommander-in-C Chief and the various
brigade stats offer a handsome trophy to
the 25 or 80 men in any company in the
State doing the best shooting, under the
same rules as governed in the annual
practice. If any company in the State de-
sires TO put up coin in addition, they can
no doubt be accommodated by Company
G and its friends.
The annual meeting of the Officers As.
ISOLATION will be held in San Francisco
December Sd. when action preparatory
to the meeting of the Legislature will be
had. The meeting will be followed by 8
banquet.
The next battalion drill of the regiment
will take place Tuesday evening, October
9th. 1t has been noticed for some time
that the privilege of the galleries to the
public has been abused by the noise made
and the applause and jeers as the spirit
moved the gods in the gallery. If contin-
ued the public will not be admitted The
regiment is not giving an exhibition drill
on these occasions. 1t is there to learn
1t does not claim to be perfect, and if it is
any pleasure to the pubic to see the drills
it is welcome, but proper decorum must be
maintained. 1t is settled that dancing will
take place after these drills and no member
of the regiment who does not participate in
the drills will be allowed to dance.
Several of the old members Of Company
G, whose time had expired about year
ago, left the company then, but now find
that they cannot keep away from the old
stand by" and are going to enlist again
Among the number are ex-Lieutenants
Maurice Fl. Sheehan and Peter Flaherty
and also n. j. Holland a member of the
company almost from lis organization.
The boys of the cadet company will hear
with regret the announcement of Captain
Wlseman's res gnation, on account of bust.
ness matters, which were so pressing that
he felt that he could not properly attend to
both.
Sergeants Henry s. Linnell and Edgar N.
Sheehan of the cadets have been trans.
ferred to Company G.
Tie happiest officer in the Brigade is
Lieutenant w. R. Ormsby OF Colonel
Guthrie's staff. He expected to make ter
goose eggs at the annual shoot b11t sur.
prised himself and friends by making g
very good score.
CORPORAL sHEEHAN's SCORE.
The following communication is self
explanatory:
EDS. RECORD UNION: Ordinarily the bes
way of replying to articles in newspapers
that are of slanderous nature, is to give
them no reply at all. But since the publ
cation in the Examiner Of last Monday O
the article rejecting upon the genuinenes,