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Show GOTHAM GOSSIP. Conover Not to Coine to Uiah A Reported ftllrncle lu Laller Oays-Hiews Sioles. New York, 6. A Washington correspondent reports that Senator Conover baa been promised an office after the expiration of bis term, possibly either commissioner of pen-BionB pen-BionB or minister to Italy. The Bame authority baa it that Collector Smith, of New Orleans, waB removed because he pooled bis salary witb the salarie of Deputy Collector Anderson and Burveyor J. Madison Wells. Several journals, announced to-day that Miaa Minnie Lombard, aged 19, of Wilmington, Del., who haa been blind for two years from typhoid ! fever, suddenly recofered her Bight I yesterday, after an earnest prayer. She is a zealous member of the Methodist church and attributes her recovery to tbe Bpecial interpoailion of providence, ' Owen Murphy, eiciBeoommiasioner of thia oity, who ran away wilb 40,000 a year ago, has brought Euit through one Walters in the Supreme court, for back salary. Tbe action is I looked upon as a piece of "monu- ; mental cheek." j Surrogate Coffin, at White Plains, Ihisatato, yeBterday, denied the application appli-cation of Jackson & Co. for an order for the aale of Ben. Holladay's farm in Westclwster county, to Batisfy a claim for $1,700. The present value of tbe farm ia about $130,000, less than half the valuation slew years I ago, |