New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-16
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PROMOTIONS IN THE OrARTERMAsTER's DEPART
MENT-oFFIrERs FOR THE vICKsBURo
-nRDERS ISSUED.

PROMOTIONS IN THE oUARTERMAsTERs DEPART
MExr-oFFIcERs FOR THE vcKsBuRo
ORDERS ISSUED
ur.shing,or Oct Is (SpeciaD-The retirement Of
Colonel A. G. Robinson. Assistant Quartermaster-
General to-day results in the following promotions
in the Ouartermasters Department:
Lieutenant Colonel JAMES GIr.IIs to be colonel.
Major CHARLES F. HUMPHREY to Be lieutenant
coone;.
cs,ain SAMUEL r JONES TO be major
Tb. following Army orders were issued to-day:
r,,s, Lieutenant Edward p. Lawton. 18th In
fao.rv will report at the Micdls Georgia Agri-
cultural College. M.ledgeville. Ga on or abont
January l. 1885, preparatory to his assumption Of
the duties Of professor Oh nihtar! so'e"oe anu '
Tics az that institution
Tba following officers will appear before the
poard al Fort I,eavenworth for examination as 20
their fitness for promotion: First Lheutenahts d VI
r Portfolio 9TH Infantry. and Henry n. benhah'
ID Infantry; Second Licutenants John g. behneu'
-,h Jnfcn,rv: Melville s Jarvis 4th Infantry; John
w uesvey 9Th Infantry. and Harry A. Smith. LIST
ln Thn iyoovng infantry officers detailed at
vicn d,,ring he term beginning November 1891
Tst ynbnN w" III second tenisnan!s
larry j. rsch i5ih: Robsr, H tGaTs: 25 "a
}q g1g s MrraGGs s'jh d;n Waller
18Th and oscar j. Charles loih a ana Second Lieu
Isnntcnant Colonel William A. Marye Ordnance
r,an, mon, will proceed TO the WOrhs Oh lhe
Tre6egar Company. Richmond. Va ana inspect
nroiecfies I'm course OF manufacture there.
THE following officers ordered to the gunboat
y,cLshurp at Portsmouth. N. H. on October q,
uben she will be placed in commission:
commander Abraham 3. Fl. Lille to command
Attached from the New-York Navy Yard October Il.
lieutenant Charles f. Fox as executive officer.
aa,scbad from the Naval Observatory at washing
ton October 20.
Lieutenant Fidelio S Carter a. navigating onicer'
attached from the Boston Navy Yard.
Ensign Henry II. Hough watch and division
onsccr detached from torpedo inspection duv at
.ne works Of r. w Bliss Co. Brooklyn; Ensign
Ca,.,us y Barnes as watch and division officer.
SeIached from the Michigan. .
Assistant Surgeon Moulton IA Johnson ana ray
master Joseph Foster. 1n :,
"' psssed Assistant Engineer Robert g Grimm. de-
,ached from the Bureau Of steam Engineering,
Ass,s,ant Carpenter q. W "A baHey mas p'e"
! orderra TO the batte-shp Indiana
Paymaster Guy II. Rodgers Of the Saw. mas
9 9e.m rsireent on account OF physical disabilities
tncurred In the service. ne Vdcdncy VII ~.
'ror,ntly filled by Presidential appointmen' IN or,
Pr m remove the current embarrassment ~ Ine
I1, coros which is unable 10 secure pay oHlcers
- ss ,he new gunboafs now going into cominiss,on'
LOT .n a no payr1aser available for the Nckspurs
- he commissioned next week anu IL Ias ns sn
20 os 20 place an oniccr temporarily IN charge
nscess accounts Similar makeshifts were neees-
arw in the ca OF other ships a,1 n,esu,c 40 liz
r',y AIKEN TO weed out ali disabled ineI ~ i.,e
Germs 10 relieve officers VINO ere no" oe'io ''''"s
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