Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-17
COLUMBUS, MISS.
Cotton Doing WelI-Mules from Brooks
Vile for st. LOuis-senatOr Georges
Appointments.
Another Independent I'm the Field on a
Platform OF Many sIsms',-Reu-
ben Davis and Col. Lyon.

| Special Correspondence of the Appeal
COLUMBUS, Miss, September 14.-Tbe
cotton, under the ten days of fair weather we
have had, is commencing TO open quite rap.
| idly, and the planters are beginning again
to be hopeful of getting out a good crop
Peavine and other kinds of hay are begin
| ming TO come in, and the reports are that
there is irst-rate crop of grass being soved.
The corn Is also promising to turn out we'll
since the dry spell set in, and in consequence
there is considerable demand for hogs,
planters wishing to utilize their probable
surplus of corn in fattening them. There
are, however, very few in the market, as,
| owing TO the failure in corn last year, but
hardly any were carried over.
l heard the other day of the shipment OF
two carloads of mules from Brooksville, in
an adjoining county, 10 st. Louie, a thing
unprecedented, as that section has not since
the war raised enough mules for home con-
sumption, and these did not appear to have
been raised there, but were probably origin
ally brought from Tennessee or Kentucky.
The shippers claimed that they were receIv
ing good prices for them in st. Louis.
Senator George has Published list Of APP
pointmenIs 10 speak all over the State, and
covering some month and one-half. He
speaks here on the 9th instant.
Lyon is out in letter accepting the nom
ination as the Peoples Independent Candi-
date" as it was styled at Saltillo. He
claims shat there appears a grave political
significance in the present measure of inoe-
pendent thought and action throughout the
State and county" that will lead to ''the
correction, in some localities at least, of dis
honoring and demoralizing political
methods long enough tolerated under the
pressure of peculiar situation" He thinks
that the time has come for Stree speech, free
press and free ballot; to practice tolerance
and enter effective protest against machine
rule. - Nor is it the white man
that the black man hates and fears and
avoids, politically, but the Democratic
party. We conclude, there
fore, that the questions of nearest interest
to Us, at least as Mississippians, are popular
right and popular government, two active
political parties, law and order in eles
tions, and settlement of the race issue.
While, lastly, the great moral, social and
political question of temperance reform,
with its mighty wave, even now breaks over
our borders, echoing, in both reason and con-
science, its demands for society's Increased
protection from drunkenness, whisky-sorrow,
whisky-crime and whisky death"
In this platform he appears to cover as
much ground possible, and thus gives
every man who adopts it his choice among a
good many hobbies, SO that every man may
ride his own, and ali unite in sending him TO
represent their several ideas; in fact, carry
ing out the scripiural injunction TO ''be all
things to all men,"
General Ruben Davis, OF Aberdeen, was
announced in orr town papers this morning
an Independent congressional candidate.
The announcement was received here with
considerable surprise, but am considerably
more surprised to learn tonight, through
private sources, that he has decided to with
draw. Such a brief candidacy is difficult TO
comprehend, unless it be that he has arrived
at some sort of an understanding with Lyon,
which think highly probable.
Mr.. d. P. Blair, of this place, was a
holder of one-ffth Of the ticket that drew
the capital prize in the Louisiana State Lot
terry, giving him $4,000 He went down to
New Orleans 10 about it. MAX. .