Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-19
GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

General Robert Toombs will spend the
summer vacation at Healing Springs, Va.
The New York Star neatly remarks: at
i is quite true; Robson may claim the honor
OF being called the father of American
| knavery."
! The Waynesboro (Ga.) Herald very pith-
l lily remarks: "Arabi Bey has one quality to
Y recommend him to Southerners. He hates
carpetbaggers."
The Philadelphia Times calls for Butter
| worth's expulsion from the House. 1t ought
| to be done. He certainly IS not 1t ascot
| ate for gentlemen.
Congressman Hewitt, OF Alabama, sup
ported the tariff commission bill. His DEM
ocratic constituents declare that Democrats
who voted for that measure betrayed their
party.
The returns from the counties in Georgia
| already heard from give Mr.. Stephens 200
votes for the nomination, with every indica-
| ton that he will secure the two-thirds votes
necessary.
The New York Times estimates the Repub-
| licau votes in Pennsylvania at 375, 900, oil
which number 200 900 will be Independents
If that is 80, Cameron had better be quick in
| getting in out OF the rain.
The Greenbackers of the Third Iowa dis
| trict have nominated the Rev. Roswell Fos-
Republican, and occupied the pulpit of the
Congregational church at Independence, Ia
| Mr.. Robbie, the Republican candidate for
| governor of Maine, is the owner OF 260'
| acre farm, and reckons his votes at SO many
bushels 10 the acre. He has yet to learn by
practical experience that the vote crop, like
some others, is mighty uncertain.
Looking at the object of his admiration
through the windows of the Boston custom.
house, Mr.. Worthingtou, of the Traveller, re-
| marks: "No president within twenty-five
| wears has been 30 little open to criticism as
| President Arthur Washington Post.
There is newspaper published in Column
| bus, Ohio, by colored men, which advises
the colored people to cut loose from the Re.
publican party, alleging that the Republicans
| have never done anything for them. The
New York Globe (colored organ) says the
same thing.
Says the Wetumpka Times: "At the last
| election for governor of Alabama, Cobb,
Democrat, received 1874, GIL votes, and Pick.
| ems, Independent Greenbacker, 43, 1853. Cobb:
| majority, 91,4 6S. Our Independence Green
back readers can calculate their chances next
month with the above vote as basis"
The Wigs reports OF Mahoneite meetings
| generally represent the sentiment in favor Of
| the "bossn to be unanimous. Yes, unani-
|
that one mind is doubtless the mind of some
individual who gets up meetings of one in
| honor of the petty tyrant.-RtchmoRd Va.
States.
One of tie recipients of the Jay Hubbell
assessment circular at the Brooklyn navy
| yard is an old man over eighty years of age
whose wages are 81 25 per day. He il
called upon to disgorge 81. at will not be
objected to in any official quarter" though
1 for 10 IN
Washington Post
To Congress marshaled by Keller, Robe.
son and Hubbell whose instincts and associa
| tons are received askance by no public
/ thief, the uppermost thought has been, ever
| in making reductions of the revenue taxa.
tions, to leave the larges' number of office
holders and to protect all the agencies, upon
| the abuse of which the Republican organi
cation depends to carry elections.-Lancastel
! (Pa) InteNigeneer.
Don Cameron will try to make himself
solid In one quarter, at least. He has intro
duced joint resolution, which WIS referred
making 1t "a misdemeanor, punishable by
| sne of $500 and dismissal from office, foi
| any officer of che United States government
| civil, military, or naval, 10 make any dis
elimination in favor of or against any
school of medical practice, or Its legal di-
| plomas or its duly graduated members, IL
| the examination and appointment of csndi.
dates for medical services in any department
of the government"
The belief is gaining ground every day
that Arthur will be the nominee of his party.
Blaine stock is falling, and there Is no other
| man with a boom visible to the naked eye.
Window can count only on the marred relics
OF dark horse fame, while John Sherman is
| fading even DINNER than that. Just now
| Chester Arthur is running the Republican
party, and Conkling is his right boyer. A
| Democratic victory in Pennsylv ania would
| embarrass the administration and raise the
/ grade of the Half-Breed wing, but at present
stalEsrtism rides on the crest of the hour.
The capture of Tennessee or North Carolina
would counterfeit the depressing effect OF the
| loss of Pennsy lvania on Arthur's popularity.
| His great aim has been to split the South,
and he would gladly swap of State or two
| in the North for a Southern convert. The
| Democrats have delightful situation. They
have simply TO watch their opponents and
make capital out OF all their errors. Will
they do it2