Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-28


to nine and three-quarters c. nts pound,
but Virginia nuts always bring a cent a
pound, or more, above Tennessee nuts; not
from any defect of quality en- the part ofthe
latter when fair care is taken in selecting
the seed, but on account of the dirty, slov-
euly way in which Tennessee nuts are put
on the market. With equal care in
preparation Tennessee nuts will bring
prices equal TO Virginian. Now our people
are becoming aware of the value of va
ried crops, the claims of the peanut to Gull
tivation should arrest their attention; there
would be a good profit in the culture, and
the land would be Improved by cultivating
peanuts as an alternate crop.
POLITICAL NOTES.
The Hon. Van. II. Manning will speak by
request at Independence next Tuesday night,
October 3lst.
DEMOCRATS of Shelby county, you can not
win in this contest, or any other, unless you
THE Aberdeen Examiner boasts of 800
reliable, patriotic, colored Democrats. The
Yazoo Herald sees that and goes 500 better.
KEEPERS remarkable speeches in behalf
OF Robson were probably written by Robson
himself. They have the genuine Robesonisn
ring.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON said in aspeech
in Chesterfield county, S. C., the other day /,
that he would never be a candidate for Office
again.
WILL il be said of Mississippi after the
9TH of November that she has not been true
to her best interests, and that Radicalism is
again triumphant?
Ex-Gov. THRscKMoRToN, of Texas, is so
i'll that he has been compelled 10 abandon
his personal canvass of his district for re-
election to Congress.
"ErERNAL vigilance is the price OF lib
erty," and no great victory was ever won ex-
cept by hard labor and organization. Demo-
Gratis of Shelby, you must work.
SPEAKER KEIFER is stumping the First
New Jersey District for Robson. This is
highly appropriate, and shows that gratitude
for favors conferred is not after all played
out sentiment.
THE Ashland Register says that the Dem
ocrats and Greenbackers who will be found
voting for Chalmers on election day can be
packed away in an ordinary passenger
coach on a narrow sauger- abroad.
A GENTLEMAN In Atlanta has a letter
from Mr.. Blaine stating that he contempiates
visit to the South TO learn more
of its people thsa he can from partisan ac-
counts, either from one side or the other.
ETHE Hon. William. A. Wallace, formerly
United States senator from Pennsylvanis,
has been nominated for the State Senate by
The Democrats of the CleAIlield District, and
it is understood he will accept the nominal
ton.
The town of Darlington, r. l., has elected
Mrs. Addie E. Smith, superintendent OF
public schools, she being the first woman
ever chosen to that position in that State.
But women have for some years served in
school committees.
PROMINENT Mississippi Greenbacker sad
= few days ago: 81 Joined the Greenback party
from principle, and have no intention of
bang led into the Republican party; 80
cannot swallow Chalmers, and the Green
packers in my neighborhoeG are in the same
ix."
A wELL-KNowN citizen and retired mer-
liant of New York, Mr.. Thomas Holland,
~ recently sent letter-incloeing check
or S1O0-to Messrs. David A. Wells, presi.
lent; Ira Bursley, treasurer, and Abraham
T. Earle, secretary, OF the America Free
Trade Lssgue.
TIE Republican convention for the Third
Congressional District of South Carolina
ep6disted the money principle Of the
Ireenback party and then Endorsed I. ID.
Russell, the Greenback candidate for Con-
,ress. 1t is said there was only one white
nan in the convention.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN II. REAGAN, who We
member of the Confederate cabinI' Is ae-
iyering speeches in Texas ~ "hicn Ne taxes
f,ono qround iu fo-,f OF bis interstate COM
80 bsn snd against protective tariff |
md ,bS continued existence of national |
,saks.
THE Hon. W. Porcher Miles, OK South
'arolins, former member of Congress from |
hat State, has resigned the presidency of the
outh Carolina College to take charge of the
burnside sugar plantations in Louisiana.
alued at $4,000 900, belonging to his father
n-law, Mr.. Oliver Beirne, of Virginia.
SENATOR VAN WICK, of Nebraska, is
liking bold stand for reform in the Repub-
can party in his campaign speeches. In an
ddress in Fremont, in his State, recently. he
enounced the levying of assessments on
and said that "the greatest enc
les to the Republican party are those who
ave practiced the doctrine that all things
e fair in politics"
The HOE. V. B. Waddell, candidate Tor
ongress in the Third Congressiona District
Mississippi, is making good use Of the
tie time allotted him to canvass his dis
let. His reception at Vicksburg and other
aces ia said to have been the most encour-
ing, and there is no doubt he can be
,cted if the Democrats will only work.
Why, asks the Franklin Review and Jour |
! should every true Democrat in William
/ county work and vote for Bate, Berry,
llentine, Mccullough and Bullock? Be-
Use they participated by and through their 4
" chosen delegates in the convention of +
Goth of June, and in the adoption of the ,
.tferm, and in the nomination OF Gen. [