Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-09
GENTLEMAN GEORGE.
Highly UnpIeasant Gossip About the
PrOdigaI ohio Senator.

Washington Correspondence Chicago Times.
Gentleman George II. Pendleton. senator
from Ohio, has been q prominent figure in
Washington ever since he entered the Senate.
lie owns beautiful place here that must
have cost about $4,000. He has purchs sed
more expensive place at Newport and he
also owns handsome country residence at
Conway, n. II. His Cincinnati house was
lett him by his father. In Washington he
gives many entertainments. His dinners are
numerous and costly. To keep up this mode
OF LIE at these four establishments requires
very large income. Mr.. Pendleton has
been generally supposed to be yeTt wealthy
man His coming out presidential can
diL1te has led to glowing stories among hun
CRY Bourbons about the amount Of money be
would be willing TO fut up "slush fund
Prominent Cintinnsti pSop1e here, however,
say that Mr. PeDdltton is not rich man;
that the PROF lef, him by his father was
in the neighborh9od If $4,000. 1t has
been further source oil wonder for some
lime TO certain Ciuciunati capitalists how Mr..
Psndleton could have; acquired such repu-
tation for wealth. S.nator PendIeton was in-
yoived in the merhes a the notorious Belknap
scandal, and, had it not been for the fact that
the committee investigating Beiknap was
Democratic one, it is quite certain he would
not have escaped 50 easily. Ii will be re-
;nembered that in that investigation it was
given in evidence before the Committee that
Mr. Pendieton coil cted certain claim Of
>l4S, 900 against the government, and that
he r, ceived $4,000 Of The claim a. his fee
Tor It, collection. 1t WIS the claim Of the
Kentucky Central Railruad Company for
the transportation Of troops during the war
Mr.. Perdletcn was the president of the road
and the trustee of the estate owning a ma
] lrity of the claim. The estate as the
Bowler estate. Bowler was a very rich man,
who married PendletOn's sister. There were
three chlldren-two sons and a daughter
This vast estate has been in the care Of Mr..
Iendleion for years. At the time Of the
Beiknap investigation there were severe crit
iclsms upon Mr.. pendleton for collecting 20
large lee Tor services in promoting a claim
Tor the estate OF his brother-in-law. He had
been under cloud on that account for SOME
time. He sought "vindication" al the hands
OF the Ohio b=gislalure, and Binte his cleo
ton to the Senate has practically considered
that part Of his career as wiped out For
years Mr.. Pendleton has continued in pos
session OF the Bowler estate as trustee |
Something OF its mag litude can be learned |
from the fact that Mrs. Bowler spent for
years upwards of 100000 a year in keeping |
up the old Bowler homestead and the ele- |
3 int place in Cincinnati known as Clifton. |
The two male heirs Of Bowler have spent |
The greater portion Of their time in Eu-
rope, where, supplied with all the |
means necessary to their most luxurious |
wants, they have never called for settle |
nent of the estate. One Of the sons was |
married, and several months ago he died |
His wife has come no ne, and she has called |
or a settlement of the estate. Her demands. |
I is understood, haze not met With the |
-eady response that she has desired, and now
here is talk of her going to the courts to
;nforce her demands. Senator Pendleton's
'rother wealthy Cincinnati man, is a
pint trustee in the estate, so that there is
lbundant security for making good the por-
ion OF the estate claim ed by the young Mrs
3ewler. 1t is claimed that the affairs Of the
state have not been conducted in accordance |
Nth the best business principles and that a
lemand upon the part OF all the heirs for a
prompt settlement of the estate would result
n embarrassment for Senator Pendleton.
There is, OF course, a great desire upon the
'art OF the Ohio senator to keep the matter
ut Of courts, where it may so at an early |
lay il the claim OF the young Mrs. Bowler
5 not promptly satisfied. Any trouble with
Ter would naturally bring the other heirs TO
he front. The impe nding calling of the
rustees TO account naturally cxciles a great
cal of gossip. The outcome Is anxiously
Tatchea by many friends of both pIrties TO
he difficulty