The evening times., 1895-11-28
MANY WANT 1T.

A count of applicants for the vacancy in
the Judge advocate generals department
some time since revealed 5S. If them. includ-
ing 2S captains aud Is lieutcnants in the
army, and IL persons frum civil life.
Col. Anson Mills was recently In El Paso
as our commissioner to settle the Rio Grande
boundary between that point and the gulf.
This necessity has arisen from the trans
fers, by the erratic stream, OF parts of
Texas to the Mexican side and parts of
Mexico IL the Texas srie.z - -. - >
1t appears that at the close of the last
term OF the artillery school at Fortress
Monroe, as the commandants report states,
besides the other Instruction, thirteen nom
commissioned Officers had completed
two years course, receiving diplomas,
and eighteen one years course, while
others were at other stages of progress.
At this school nOnronImissioned Officers
receive education and training uf much
value to them.
The trials of the three dynamite guns
mounted side by side IN high bluff at
San Francisco will be uf nInch- interest.
They are mounted IN turntables between
Baker Beach and Fort Point, behind para
pets, and have their compressed air reser-
voirs well prhtected in the ground under
the guns. They have the great advantage
OF being protected, except from high angle
or mortar fire, on such site.
The publication uf the present series
of the Official Records of the Rebellion is
dra wing to cluse. Vol. OF Scries2, which
relates to prisoners of war, will probably
be ready for distribution next summer.
Other series will follow in their turn.
There are now 500 miles of military tele.
graph under charge of the chief signal off
Ger, and there was an increa of about one
fourth in the pecuniary amount or the nom
military or commercial messages sent over
them during the last year reported on,
that amount being about 81 .S66- Besides
the study of ordinary signaling. nnchatten-
tionisgiven tolong- grange eheliographing and
some splendid successes in tt have been
achieved.
Signaling has become a nutewurthysfea-
ture of the colleges that receive military
instruction, and the army signal service
has also aided State troops wherever this
has been practicable. A great deal of the BIZ
cycle work in the army is now doneby7 the.
signal corps, and practical use made OF
the wheel has been that of proceeding with
it rapidly along lines, with a view to repair
ing tracks. There is also bicycle equipped
with an automatic wire for reeling out or
taking in wire. and the same automatic
service has lately been applied to an out
post cable cart.
Gen. Greedy says that this will give the
signal corps an equipment superior 10 that
of any other country for rapidly paying out
and taking up line, the operators being ut
all times in communication with the base.
Each section of the field train will e,ent-
ually be supplied with bicycles and cable
carts fitted with automatic devices for
practical work 1t is thought that the bi-
cycle for general use should weigh from 90
to 30 pounds. t9- So. -,--s.4. $500
The retirement of Capt. Palfrey of the
engineer corps. under the provisions Of the
thirty-years law, is considered in some
quarters as evidence that Secretary La
nont's objections TO using that law for
retirement have in some respects been over
come, and especially if 1t will aid in nia king
places for the enlisted men who have passed
tile examination for shoulder straps. .'-sl