Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-25
B5IEE MENTION.


EX SENATOR OoRsEY's hesljh is much i'm
proved, and his eye-sight is also better.
MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT and Miss
Mildred Lee are in town, each in her way won
deTful woman.
The President nominated John w. Eos.
ter, of Indiana, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United States to
Spain.
WASHINGTON, February 24.-The Senate,
in executive session, confirmed a number of West
ern postmasters, and G. NJ. Lambertson UHited
States attorney for the district of Nebraska.
GEN. DANA is in town working for the
Webster statue, to be made by W. W. Story, and
placed at Charlestown, Mass Mr.. r. II. Dana and
his wife, the daughter of Mr. Longfellow, and Miss
Lonsfellow are also here.
The Attorney General has become 80
elated since he had the honor of leading Capt
Psget's wife's mother into that swell dinner in
New York that he can hardly sii still. He says It
was the proudest moment of his life.
ONE of the Oldest men on active duty in
the Treasury Department is Col. George Kent, of
Bangor, Me-, brother of the late Gov. Edward
Kent, of that state. He is new nearly eighty
seven, but is as hale and sprighty as most men Of
fifty.
MRS. MCELRoY's Saturdays at the White
House are great Improvements on Mrs. Hsyes's.
Very nice persons attend them-people who fer
merly would have died of chsgrin had they seen
levee.
THE report of the judiciary Committee of
the House in the matter of Majors's claim to a
seat as a contingent member from Nebraska, says
the committee has been imposed upon by false
testimony, ard Msjors is responsible for misinfor-
nation.
EXCEPT the B=rdsn question. which he
still upholds, Gen. Wallace, the United States
settlement OF all the American claims including
the payment of the claim OF the Winchester Re-
peating Arms Company.
EMORY SPEERs's nomination for United
States attorney for Georgia was Withdrawn at his
request, there being question whether he was
eligible to appointment while member of the
the adjournment of this Congress.
THE late cruel infiictiou upon the venera-
BILE Mr.. Corcoran provokes universal reprobation
bold, bad man inveigled him into room in
the Corcoran building, where he played to the
great philanthropist forty-two variations oi
ran has not been out of the house since. The man
is still at large,
Mrs. SEPTIMIA RANDOLPH MEIKLEHAM
the remaining granddaughter OF Mr.. Jefferson,
was given pension of ESQ month by Congress
lately. Mrs. Mekleham lives in Georgetown and
inherits The brains which run in the Randolph
family into which Mr.. Jeferson's daughter mar
ried. She is mine of Renaissance and one ol
the finest antiques i'll the sleepy old village.
THE President hiss accepted the resigua-
ton Of Lieut-Com. Gorringe as an officer of the
navy. Secretary Chandler, in his letter to the
President, stated that there were no charges Of
any kind pending against him, and no evidence
on record ip the department., or within hi:
knowledge, OF any act or expression OF his thai
should be investigated prior to the acceptance o.
| his resignation.
Mrs. SAMUEL BRIGHT, a sister-in-law q
| John Bnght. has been staying at Mr.. John W,
Fosters, the Ia tie minister TO Russia and hiss hso
several dinners given her. Ali the society people
think she is the widow of John Bright One in
| tensely fashionable woman assured your CORE
| dead, because she had attended his funeral. Thi
| would be an interesting Ieminiscence for Mr
| Bright
The number Of crank estate hunters is OF
the increase and it will soon b. in order for Con
gress TO pass appropriation for the erection o
an ssylum, devoted TO the cure of this psrticule
class of demented individuals. Every foot o
Washington is now laid claim 10 by the heirs o
| parties who happened 10 own properly here si1e,
the city was founded. One Bfodgett, of Philadei
phia, is the greediest of all these claimants, >
nothing less than half the city will satisfy him.
| PALACE-BUMDING as an Industry is at al
| end in Washington. 1t has not been scotched, bu
/ killed outright and buried, and the gravestoni
| marked with the names of Blaine, Robson ans
| Aindom, with room for Don Cameron's 10 come
| Senator Miller lives in fine house on Connect
cut avenue, but with such n1ensento Tnori befor
Ike Disappointment as Mr.. Blsine's house behint
him, he viii hardly be besniled into the fascinat
| ing pastime Of palace-building-
THE Secretary OF the Nsvy to-day received
| cable message from Rear Admiral Ciitz. com
manding the Asiatic stations. dated al Hong Kong
requesting instructions as to the disposition to b
made of the wreck of the Ashuelot and her Off
GERS and crew. He reports that about 5000 IL
the safe OF the vessel at the time of the wreck
that operations upon it are impossible, except b,
| Wreckers. He also states that an inquiry into III
Inatter has been ordered, but gives no furthe
| particulars.
MAxEY, of Texas, has taken up netiol
thar Hygeis Hotel at Old Point. Va, must b
Iazed, for nothing in particular. The hotel, whiel
is of the sznitsrums OF the South, is built oil
| government land. The government has no powe
to sell or rent an acre of the ground, as it woul
then revert 10 the State of Virginia secording &
| the terms by which The ground was eeded. Whel
| the hotel w6s put there II was with the under
| standing that If the ground was ever needed i
| should be knoeked away. It can hardly be needei
Tor defense, as Fortress Monroe is already tn