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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. At a meeting of the executive committee of the New Memphis Joclcey Club, held several day B-agd, M. N. Macfarlan was appointed presiding judge of tho meeting which commences at Montgomery Park March 30 and ends with the racing on April 22. Mr. Macfarlan has occupied the stand at Worth, Windsor and Nashville on various occasions, and last season he assisted Capt. J. H. Rees at Louisville. J. W. Russwurm, of Nashville, and S. M. Apperson, of Little Reck, were approved associate judges C.J.Fitzgerald, official Jockey Club starter, was reappointed to act in the position Be has held since 1S90. Concerning R. W. Walden and Sons filly, Petunia, by Knight of tho Thistle-Pansy, which won the Debutante Stakes yesterday, a horseman who had noted her work has this to say : "I will not say that I consider Petunia the best of the two-year-old fillies at New Orleans, but her work has impressed me with the. idea that she has more than ordinary claim to quality. I do not like her in the mud, but over a fast, even, fair track she will be hard to beat and is worth a bet any time she starts with good footing under her. I saw her merely canter three-eighths in 36 seconds a few mornings ago. C. R. Ellison has received word of the deatih at Memphis of one of his crack two-rear-old fillies, Norma Ellison, a full sister to Loving Cup, named after his wife. Tho filly died of lung fever. Ellison bought eight yearlings at the New York sale last summer, paying 5,0G0 for them. He gave one away and now has six left, the lot including two or three that ho bolieves to be stake youngsters. E. J. Arnold has received a teleeram from his manager at the breeding farm that a fine Spendthrift mare there has has just foaled a colt eirrd by Bitter Root. Mr. Arnold wired back to name the youngster Walter Arnold, after his only son. Bitter Root is a horse imported by Marcus Daly soma years ago. Amberita, Barney Schreibers chestnut filly, by " Balgowan Miss Baker, has been suffering from bucked shins since her debut on New Years Day at San Francisco, and as Schreiber thinks a whole lot of her ho is not likely to let George Covington do much with her on the track until she fully recovers. John Skain, administrator of the estate of the late James Murphy, has sold to C. B. Hawkins, of Midway, Ky., the seven-year-old bay mare Semper Eadem, by Rossington Semper Vivent, she by Jils Johnson, for ,000. The mare is heavy in foal to Wads worth. The horses Echo Dale and James J. Corbett hava been fired and turned cut and Shandonfleld blistered.
