Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-25
GOSSIP OF THE GUARDS.

CAPTAIN JAMES H. MURDOCH spent the
week in Philadelphia on business.
THE Washington Infantry will picnic at Sill
yer Lake Grove, June Is. Invitations will be
| out in about ten days.
COLONEL ALExANDER HAWKINS. of the
Tenth Regiment will shortly be called Senator
instead of Colonel that is, if the good people OF
the Forty-sixth district treat him properly next
month.
COLONEL FRANK MAGEE. of the Eighth
Regiment is slowly recovering from a serious
| illness of several weeks standing. His physi.
clans had almost despaired of his recovery al
one time.
ACCORDING to general order from the Sec
retary of War. the national salute for both the
army and navy is now 81 guns. The salute tc
the Union, commemorative of the Declaration
OF Independence is one gun for each State, fired
at noon on July4
A SPECIAL meeting Of the members of Com
pany G, Fourteenth Regiment, is called for
next Tuesday evening at in the Central
Armory. All members are requested to be
present. as business of the utmost importance
will be transacted.
AN election for Captain of Company G.,
Fourteenth Regiment, will be held Tuesday
evening, June 8, 1890, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Captain Hamilton.
Colonel Parchment has not yet announced who
will conduct the ceremony.
THE combinations for rifle practice for 1889
were issued from the Adjutant Generals
office last week and are now on the way down
through the regular channels. They would
probably still be hanging fire in Harrisburg
were it not for the stream of inquiries that
poured in from all over the State.
THE inspection of the Eighteenth Regiment
closes tomorrow evening with Company H.
Companies F and G having passed through the
ordn 1ac Tril ,,ir
inspection of Company G was one of the best
that organization ever passed, and means that
the laurels of the regiment tor the present can
be found IN the vicinity of Captain Penny.
THE inspections of the companies of the
Fourteenth Regiment start next Tuesday
night and continue in the following order:
Company F, May 81: Company A, May 28: Com
pany B. May % at $50 P. M; Company K, May
20 at P. M; Company E. June 4 and Company
u. June g. The Central Armory i'll the old
market house has been we'll fitted up with
electric lights, SO that the inspecting officers
will have no trouble on that score.
A LARGE number of invited guests, including
many ladies' witnessed the inspection of Bat
terry at the Fifth Avenue Market House last
Thursday evening. Sixty-two men and five
officers were presented before the inspecting
officer, the appearance of the organization as
whole being excellent. The drill in the saber
exercises, foot movements and handling of the
pieces was fairly well executed, many minor
details OF command and execution being faulty
AS a whole the inspection was successful one
and no doubt the battery will receive good
treatment at the hands of Major Patterson.
Captain Hunt will vacate his present quarters
this week and move into the building on Dia-
mond street in conjunction with the Eighteenth
Regiment.
THE meeting of the Second Brigade Examin-
ing Board last Monday night at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel was of rather short duration. as
candidates
Quartermaster John Hubbard, of the Four
teenth, and Lieutenant Bennett Graft of the
Eighteenth. Lieutenant Coughlin, of Company
E, Eighteenth Regiment, not appearing at the
meeting, the board recommended the Ad-
jutant General to order another election in this
company. 1t was expected that Lieutenant
appear but that gentleman has taken the stand
that the company having elected him Captain
and having been sworn IN as such by the cleo
tion officers he will fight for his commission in
another way.
AN interesting tale Of the pugilistic ability of
Adjutant General Hawkins, of the Ohio Guard
is now going the rounds. 1t seems that Colonel
Smith, of the First Regiment, had appointed
personal staff of IL gentlemen with the rank
OF captains, among whom was member of the
State Legislators. General Hawkins, object
ing to this wholesale appointment of bogus
staff officers, went into the Legislature TO have
their commissions refused, and stirred up quite
a hornets nest by doing. The final result
was that the Legislative member of the staff
was invited out in the rotunda by General
Hawkins, and there given most thorough
thrashing. To place matters in still more
forc1ble light, General Hawkins then pro-
ceeded to the hotel where Colonel Smith was
stopping and presented that gentleman with a
beautiful pair of black eyes, and a generally
battered up countenance. General Hawkins is
now very large man in Ohio.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN NEIBAUM, of the
Washington Infantry, will complete his Goth
year in connection with that organization next
month. The members of the company are en-
thusiastic over the trip to Cleveland this week.
They will be accompanied by the Sheridan
Sabers, of Williamsburg, and the Montooth
Band, of this CITY, 1t is expected that at
least 50 muskets will be in line. A special
train will leave the Union depot at
8 P. n. Thursday, May 29, and reach Cleveland
in ~ hours. The party will remain In Cleve-
land until Sunday afternoon, when a special
train will bring the boys home, reaching this
city between and o'clock P. NJ. This will be
the third trip of the Washington Infantry to
Cleveland Thev were there in camp for
week in 1850 attending the unveiling of the
monument erected to the memory of Commo-
dore Perry, and also at Garteld's funeral in
1851, being the only military organization pres
ent from Pennsylvania. They will take with
them sn elegant floral tribute IN the shape OF
diamond on an easel, as o tribute to the MEN,
ory OF one Of the first members of the company
At Its organization, Colonel w. II. Creighton,
late Colonel of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer In
fantry, who was killed while leading his regi-
ment in charge at Ringgold, Ga. November
"a, 1868. Colonel Creighton received his first
military lessons as . member Of the WASH |
ington Infantry. and just previous to the war
moved to Cleveland.