Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-15


didate for Congress 10 the Sixth district.
THE Aberdeen Examiner reports Missis-
sippi Republicans az badly snubbed by the
administration.
THE Republican majority in the House
| having set up the law Of might, let them be
made TO understand that by might only
a shall they prevail hereafter.
CONGRESS has appropriated $4,000 for the
improvement of the Yszoo, $1,000 for ITALIA
, batchie and $500 for Yalobusha. ''Small
, favors thankfully received"
; THE usually we'll informed Baltimore Sun
alludes to the Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, re-
Gently appointed on the tariff commission,
az ''Mr. Kenner OF returning-board fame"
Ex-GovERNoR Thomas III. Watts has
nounced himself candidate for the United
States Senate from Alabama. He will be
opposed by Senator John l.. Morgan, the
present incumbent.
PRIVATE DALzEIL has Noble county in
his pocket. II he can button it over another
county or two his chances OF being converted
into a congressman will become frst-class.
So says the Cincinnati Commercial.
ADVICE to Frelinghuysen as TO the Panama
canal-First dig your hole.-[ Boston AdUer-
tiser. Then point out the hole to the Euro
pean powers now engaged in gobbling the
Isthmus of Suez, with Egypt attached.
PROMINENT Democratic congressman of
Mississippi, recently interviewed by the
New Orleans Times Democrat correspondent
says that upon a careful estimate it is calcu-
lated the Democrats will have twelve
jority in the next House.
THE New York Tribune thinks the New
| Orleans duel one of the funniest things in
the world. But Major Burke, now lying on
his back in hot room, with eighteen band
dages on his legs, says he doesn't see any
| thing very funny about it.
Ex-GovERNoR THRoCK MORTON, of Texas,
says that he is willing again 10 be candi-
date for representative in Congress, but not
for governor of the State. The latter nomi
nation, he says, he would be constrained TO
decline if it were rendered him.
THE ladies OF southern Illinois are making
| great Roadway in a campaign against the
| granting of saloon licenses. There is ample
| field for such movement in Chicago al
though we have it from high authority tn at
| saloons do not make drupkards.
| TENNESSEE has acongressm an who declines
| to become a candidate for reelection on the
| ground that he is unwilling TO enter into any
| wrangle for the nomination with his polit-
| cal friends This is John d. G. Atkins of
the Eighth district.-New Orleans Ifmes-Dem-
Ocrdt.
SEVEN hundred employees of the United
States navy yard at Boston have received in
| vitations from the Republican Congressional |
| Committee for contributions to the campaign |
| fund, which, shows the farce of the recent |
| trial and conviction of General Curtis for |
collecting such funds in New York.
'IooK at Arthur's forbearance," Gays the |
Stalwart New York Commercial Advertiser, in |
admiration. We look and discover that he |
has been for some time moving down the i
Half Breeds with cold blooded ferocity. He \
has been whacking away ever since the days |
of mourning for Garfield were ended.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says that fol- |
lowing the precedent set by his selection of /
tariff commissioners, the President should |
name parcel of saints for the Utah COM
mission. They would deal with polygaDy as
the others will deal with the tarifr-recom-
mend it, like Brady's bitters, for every body
to take.
Mr.. HEMINGWAY, recently elected chair
man of the State Democratic Committee of
Mississippi was standard bearer in the hotiy |
contested campaign which first redeemed the
State from Radical rule, and he represents
the solid farming interests OF the country.
His intelligence and patriotism combine to
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Democracy.
SAYS the Monroe (Ala) Journal of Ex-
Governor Watts's candidacy and OF Senator
Morgan's reelection: "We regret to see Ex-
Governor Watts, of Montgomery, a man of
giant intellect and of sterling political hon.
esty and integrity, come out and declare him
self candidate for the United States Senate
against General John L. Morgan" He is
certain to be defeated.
LONG letter from Shuckers breaks out
in the Chicago Neius. 1t is very mean let
ter. The purpose of it is to revive the Gar
6eld-Rosecrans controversy, and to make
room for insinuations that Garfield W as
man who was sneaking and false. The task
that the alleged Stalwarts have put upon
themselves is to show that Garfield was the
kind of man Conkling said he was.
In letter from Washington to the Au-
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle Mr.. James r. Randall
says: ''The Hon. w. E. (Richelieu) Robin
son has had the enormous vanity TO place in
the members lobby of the House gigantic '
oil-paintiug of himself. The tail of the {
British lion is not visible on the canvas for |
the simple reason, presumably, that Mr.. |
Robinson is supposed TO have pulled it off {
and swallowed it."
THE Hon. John Blair Hoge, the able rep
resentative in Congress from the Second dis T
trict OF West Virginia, in response to requests i
to become a candidate for denomination, Il
yields his consent, provided he is the choice
of majority OF the delegates from the east
ern counties of the district. Though only in l
the first session of the first term, Judge Hoge !,
has made an excellent reputation as an in =
dustrious and able congressman.
THE Readlusters of Virginia claim to e
have made great gains in the town and city Z
elections held during the month of May, n
and the figures seem TO bear them out. The $
chief strength of the Bourbons has been in 2
the cities and their failure to hold their own !
there is significant proof of growing weak II
ness. The campaign of mud which the ?
Bourbons have carried on against Senator Il
Malone has not apparently added to their q
voting strength. II
THE municipal election in Vicksburg "
seems TO have passed off with general sat N
sfactory result. Mayor Blrchett is reelected, il
and in the council Messrs. Klein, Trowbridge
and Adrews, honest and faithful officers, have CT
been reelected. OF the new members, John il
+. Haipin is thorough business man and a cC
'eliable citizen, while Messrs. Ehrman and ii
Latter n colorea Inan} have c.
heir civic record to make. No change Is fc
made in the other city officers. C,
New York Herald: ''There is a cloud in q =,
he Republican political skies of Ohio about =,
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must not be inferred from this that the cloud y
8 small, for the Ohio hand is 10 ordinary
lands what Jumbo Is to the diminutive
pr cimens of his own species. There is ~
nothing in the Office line in the whole coun- 0,
ry which is too large or too heavy for the o.
,rasp of the modern Buckeye politician 10
The cloud in question is cast by beer W
,arrel." u
THE State Committee OF the Pennsylvania ! is
claims to have encouraging re- do
'orts from the interior of the State. A let Il
er from franklin county says that ''the III
ampaign will be the bitterest the county er
las ever known; there is more excitement in
ow than at any time during the presiden- m
ial campaign; the Stal8arts are very bitter, bl
nd will leave no stone unturned to keep ~
own the Stewart vote. They boast that tr
hey will have all the speakers, all the docu- be
lents, and all the money they want" vi
THE amount appropriated for the pay re
lent of special deputy-marshals at congress er
onal elections for the year 1881 and prior tn
ears is $112, 600. Attorney. General DeyeDs d.
repaired statement on the subject, showing stt
ne appointments for 1879. By this it is Or
zen that the whole number of deputies APP
ointed who served were 5494 Alabama
ad 10 msrshals, Arkansas us, Florida
80, Illinois 215, Louisiana 241, 4 Maryl and