Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS

Josh Billings says: When find
real handsome woman engaged In
wiIAmin's rights bizzness, then | am
going to take my hat under my arm
and jine the proeession!"
Dick Turpin, were he alive, would
have better field f1E operations ON
Long Island than ever he had on
Hounsl0w Heath. The knights OF the
road there achieve exploits scrpassing
anything in the Newgate calendar
Philadelphia bids fair to eclipse Chi
cago i'm her criminal calendar. A
watchman at a distillery there was
nearly killed by three men, and q clerk
in the ProthonOtaryas Office was un-
warrantably arrested, and his office
ransacked by the police. The devil
is making sad havoc among the Quak-
ers.
The vote in the Methodist Episcopal
church, on the question of lay tlelega.
tion, is reported by the New York
Methodist of last week as follows: E'or
lay delegation, lac, 40; against 81 ,044.
Majority for, 1896. Returns from
twenty-five conferences give the eleri-
cal vote on the question as stated;
For lay delegation, 1900; against,
3l2. Majority for, l,lSS. To carry
the amendment it IS necessary that it
should receive the votes of three
fourths of the members (cleriea) of
the annual conferences, and this is the
only point upon which the friends of
lay delegation have been solicitOus, as
the result of the lay vote was uu-
doubted. So far in the conferences
the amendment has received the re-
quisite three-fOurths vote, and has
ninety-one votes 10 spare.
"Pet'' Halstead, in response to an
invitation 70 attend a meeting of
WOrkingmen recently held at~ the
Cooper Institute, New York, writes
thus sensibly in regard to the inter-
ests Of that class and as to what should
be the financial policy of the country:
regret | cannot be with the working
men at Cooper Institute. Be mode
rate, resOlute, practical Avoid dead
issues and partiZan entanglements;
suffrage and finance are the eOniroll-
ing questions. Impartial, intelligent
manhood suffrage, not universal, ig-
nOrant voting. A permanent national
| financial system based on an inde-
pendent, self-regulating, legal tender
currency. Gradually convert and
| fund the public debt into greenbacks
and long bonds at 3.65 per cent, not
bank notes costing US twenty-five mil
lions per annum, short bonds at usuri-
Gus rates, liquidation or Reputation.
Our enormous debt properly managed,
can. and should be made a national
blessing, not a curse. This generation
must neither pay off nor repudiate the
debt. The one overtaxes and op-
presses, the other dishonors and dis
| graces the people. Unite, organize,
| persevere, progress. The beneficial
results Of your action are certuin.
Memo, of the Commercial, writes a
sketch of Gen. Heningsen, from Wash
ington City, which gives a graphic
1 pOrtraiture of one of the most remark
able men of the day. We do not
know any superior of the General in
| the military art. He has been ap-
proved by Wellington, and he has
| seen hazardous service in many cOun-
tries among the most polished as well
4 as among the rudest of mankind. He
has been also a most successful author.
His 'sWhite Slave" q Russian ro-
nance, is one OF the most thrilling and
popular novels. His powers OF phys
| ieal endurance are something very
superior. The like Of them can hardly
be found in any other man. They are
fairly matched by his wonderful men
| tai ability, We do not doubt that
man who has made such round o.
fortune Is reserved for something ex-
traordinary. He has seen the world,
and he understands very well what be