News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
MILITARY, NAVAL AND G. A. r.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles will make a tour of
= Eastern gun-making establishments before
returning to the West.
In january nearly twelyn thousand Rus
sian troops were advanced from Odessa and
Sebastopol to Batoum. They were mostly
infantry.
Capt Thomas VI. Smith, of BROOKLYN. has
Deen appointed master of tugs at the Navy
Yard. 1t is civilians place and pays So q
day.
Lieut.. Commander Newman. who has been
Tor several years commandments aid at the
BROOKLYN Navy-Yard, will be detached April
! and join the receiving ship ST. Louis at
Philadelphia.
Capt. Thomas A. Smyth of the revenue
cutter Washington, in accordance with time
honored customs of the service, wet his new
commission and rendered handsome COLA
ton to his brother officers and friends in
honor of the event.
The rudder OF the British warship Vulcan
when complete will weigh twenty-five tons,
being the largest and heaviest ever fitted to
ship of the Royal Navy.
The Austrian Government is building
torpedo hunter" in which the hull will be
protected by cellulose armor. 1t will cost
$1,000 and is expected to be the swiftest
craft of its kind afioat.
A Chinese official report on the trials of
some Pinch guns contained the following:
The experiments were entirely satisfactory.
The guns made very loud noise and were
heard long distance off,"
The new rife now being issued In English
troops has many novel features. 1t has n
magazine, a detachable steel box holding
eight cartridges.
The Monongahela has sailed from San
Francisco for New York. She will be the
last sailing man-of-war to double the Horn.
The passage will consume between four and
five months snd upon arrival she will be
utilized as training ship.
The uayy of Portugal is more backward
than that of any other nation. and to bring
its effective strength nearly in proportion to
the demands upon it, the immediate aequisi-
ton of TOUR steel cruisers of 5000 tons and
others of a smaller class has been advocated.
An estimate of 5000, 900 has been submitted
TO Congress by the Navy Department for the
purpose of fitting up the Lancaster rs gun
merry vessel. Commodore Ramsay favors the
plan, in order to have trained men in con-
nection with modern guns.
The prospect is favorable for the promo
ton of Major-Gen. Schofield to lieutenant
general, Brighten. Miles to major-general
and Col. Grierson to brigadier-general. 1t
would seem that this country might well
afford to maintain the rank of general COM
manding above the grade of q major-general.
A torpedo cruiser called the spanker was
recently finished for the British Navy at
cost of about S250,000. All the latest i'm
provements and devices were made use of,
and great things were expected of the yes
sci. She has made several trial trips, and has
utterly failed to fulfill the conditions i'm
posed upon her.
The largest smooth-bore guns ever cast
for the government were the mammoth 20
inch. There are three of them on the ord
nance dock at the Navy Yard. Their huge
proportions are about to be covered with q
much-needed coat of paint. They have re-
eeived the names of Moloch, Lucifer and
Satan. All of the material at present depos-
tied on the dock is to be cleaned and painted,
the result Of the new appropriation being
available, which has been looked forward TO
with longing by many hungry patriots and
ward heroes.