Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-04
Washington Nofes.
IBy telegraph to the Dispatch !

WASHINGTON, July 3.-Henry Z.
Williamson, of Holly Springs, Miss.
Henry Fontonelle, member Of the Oma-
ha Indian tribe; and Edward l.. Thomas,
of Atlanta, Ca. have been commission
ed to appraise part Of the Omaha In
dian reservation in Nebraska, COM
prising about 5000 acres.
James Linn, postmaster at Robbins
CROSSROADS, Ala. has been arrested by
post-ofiice inspectors for riding regis
tered letters.
Malcolm Hay has rendered his resig-
nation as First Assistant Postmaster
General. The President has accepted
it, to take effect Monday, July 9th. and
ex-Congressman Stevenson, of Illinois,
has been appointed to succeed him.
The President has appointed Judge
Lambert Tree, Of Illinois, to be United
States Minister to Belgium James c.
Williams to be United States attorney
for the Eastern district of Tennessee,
and Montford S. Jones to be United
States attorney for the Western dis
trict Of Louisiana.
The appointment of Judge Tree, at
first announced and then denied, has
become an accomplished fact. ThK
Judge is lawyer, about fifty years Of
age. He is a son of the late Lambert
Tree, of Washington, who was a clerk
in the POST Office Department for forty
years or more. He is said to be very
wealthy. He ran for Congress three
years ago, but was defeated by the Re-
publican candidate. Recently he &C
quired national prominence as candi-
date for the Senate against General
John A. Logan.
The Postmaster-General stated that
Mr.. Hay had continued laboriOusly to
perform his duties in the Post-Otlice
Department from the day when he as
sumed personal charge of his Bnres"'
4 Gaw- 5ays ago he was Frustrated by
severe congestiye chill, and while he
was somewhat improved to-day he felt
himself unable to continue his work /;
therefore he had sent IN his resignation.
From the purest patriotic motives Mr..
Hay had striyen to continue the per-
Torrance Of bis arduous and exhaust
i've task, but his physical strength was
not equal to the strain.
OF Mr.. Stevenson, who had been Sc
lected to succeed Mr.. Hay, the Post
master-General said that he was thor
oughly in accord with the policy of the
Administration, and would carry out
the wishes of the President in the mat
ter Of appointments. Mr.. Stevenson
was born in Kentucky in 1885. and
removed to Bloomington, ILL.,, when
sixteen years of age, where he stuffed
law. He held various State judicial Of
fees and was a candidate for presiden-
tial elector OH the Mcclellan ticket in
1864. In 1874 he was elected to the
United States House of Representatives.
As a delegate to the last Democratic
National Convention he voted on every
ballot for James +. Mcdonald, and was
a member of the committee appointed
to notify the nominees of their selec-
ton. lie has been warm friend OF
Postmaster-G General Villas for many
years. Mr.. Stevenson is a man Of pow
erful physique, and is said to be well
equipped for the discharge of his new
duties.
Thomas +. Nash. of Centralia, Wis,
has been appointed chief clerk Of the
Post-Office Department to succeed {.
NJ. Walker, of Indiana, resigned.
Mr.. Nash is thirty-three years of age,
and was born in Ohio. In 1875 he was
county-school superintendent, and last
winter took his seat as a member OF the
State Legislature.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is in
formed that the suspicious cases OF fever
at the Cape Charles Quarantine Hospi.
tai are reported as being typho-malarial
fever instead of yellow-fever. The
Bureau is also informed that the cholera
is decreasing in Calcutta.