Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-18
NEWS AND VIEWS.

NOIlNG Luc TcCcub Va tch
new cotton manufacturing companies in
South Carolina, the Boston Post remarks:
"They are bringing the mills to the cotton
pretty rapidly in the Palmetto and other
Southern States."-
THE 400th anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus, October IL, 1892, will
fall on Friday. Columbus started on his first
voyage ON Friday, and discovered San Sal
vador on Friday. 1t seems that great
events, as well as murderers, hang on
Friday.
The New York Star remarks: at does
not pay for 6rst-rate mau TO spend three
quarters of his time and strength in doing
fourth-rste work" We suppose that must
be the reason that some young men orna-
ment street corners and other loa6ng places
instead OF working.
"THE speliina-hook il bsnishedp Yer,
that's what's the matter with our modern
system Of education. We manage too much
after the fashion of the Frenchman, whose
fret care is to provide the ruffles; as for the
shirt, that must be got afterward if it can, or
II not, the wearer must make ebift without
it. The snowy parts of education, as we'll as
character nowadays, would seem to be sufi-
Gent. So long as a man can display the
ruffles, society is good-naturee enough to
give him credit for possessing the shirt also.
Ihe matter needs mendlng.
A GEORGIA paper says: at is gratifying
fact he new year finds the farmers Of Georgia
less disposed to emigrate and more inclined
to stick to the old State than ever. This is
wise. II a farmer cannot succeed in Georgia
he would be apt TO fail anywhere" To this
| the Nozzle Republican says: "We believe
the came thing eau be said OF Alabama.
| Many of our farmers who have left this
State in years gone by for Texas, or other
| portions OF the South have returned to their
| old homes from time TO time, having learned
| by experience that there is as good an OPEN
| ing for industry aud energy here as in other
| localities"
THE Chicago Herald says the ordinance
| declaring that the telegraph wires must go
underground next May must be rigidly en-
| forced, for no city in the Union is so hedged
| about and encom passed on all sides by such
an intricate maze OF wires as is Chicsgo.
Their fatality to life has been amply proved,
and there is now more urgent reasons than
| ever to tear down the unsightly network
and hide it underground where only good
can come out of it. The conduit system,
which is practicable, must be adopted
and what is also highly important and
almost equally as necessary, the city must
reserve the right to lay down these conduils
and charge q rental for their use, thereby
increasing the revenue for street purposes.
| The late Clark Mills left widow, two
| sons, who are sculptors of no mean ability,
and daughter, Miss Eva Mills, the we'll.
known singer. 1t is related thai when his
sons went abroad 10 study art he furnished
them with SO small an allowance OF money
that one of his intimate friends remarked
upon it. "Well," said the sculptor, 81 wish
to teach my boys self-relisnce. Living is in.
/ .ah Il
/ will cost nothing, and they ought soon to be
able to earn something in that city. l want
them to start in life while live. Then, ii
l they stumble and call for help, can go to
4 their rescue. II / keep them tied to me, de-
i pendent, till / die, then if they fall in the
untried paths of enterprise, they will have
no sure friend to help them to their feet
| again."
The New York Herald says that certain
unhappy Pennsylvania manufactseers are be.
wailiug the idleuess of their looms conss-
quent on the erection OF numerous cotton
! mills in the South. So far from considering
! this as an unfortunate circumstance in the
| manufacturing interests of the North, il
should be hailed as one of the most encour-
| aging signs Of the times. With a radical
change in the labor system OF the South il
was impossible that she should remain SIM
ply producer, and the best evidence OF her
full determination to regain under new con.
ditions her former importance in the mar
kets OF the world is her effort to handle her
vast crops in the factory we'll as the field.
! Some temporary Inconvenience may be fell
in certain milling localities in the North,
but the country al large cannot fail to be
benefited eventually by this new business
interest in the Southern States.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that all
the factories in and near Augusta have de
clared their regular January dividends. Tn.
paper from which we learn this does not tell
the amount of the dividends paid, but the
use of the word regular" shows them to b.
in the neighborhood of twenty per cent, and
in one case at least thirty per cent. Augusts
is the town from which one factory, at least
makes a habit of shipping its products te
Brszil and competing in open markets with
the goods of free-trade England. Having
found that cotton goods can be manufactures
in the South, even under tine additional ex
pense csused by the protective duties Levied
on each item of material except tn raw cot
ton, and sold in open competition with the
world, no wonder the mill owners O
Augusta are not high protectionists. Pro
tective taxes reduced means cost of produc
tion reduced. Cheaper goods means a wide
market for their sale. III Southern cottor
gOOQs, maue uuueI nlgu protective System
can compete with English goods in marke
equally open 10 both, made under low du
ties, they can monopolize such markets.
THE Baltimore Sun thinks athe career o
Clark Mills, the sculptor, who died in Wash
ington On Friday, aged seventy -three, fur
nishes yet another illustration of the demo
cratic impartiality with which nature dis
tributes her gifts Of genius, and of the COLDER
possibilities of distinction which lie within
the grasp of every one in this country, NJ
matter how humble or obscure his starting
point. Mr.. Mills was plasterer by trade
but he believed that he had too much talent
| to remain all his life where he commenced
and he soon laid aside the instruments of hi
trade for the implements of the artist. Hi
success in the field into which he thus bravely
ventured, without training or instruction, j
a proof of what native talent can accomplish
when united to energy and determination
and his triumph was one Of peculiar value
because 1t showed that the genius OF Americi
did not lie solely in the direction of oratory
but was capable OF taking all the form
which it assumes under the influences o.
older civilizations Other and create
American artists in both sculpture and paint
ing have arisen since Mr.. Mills threw ava,
the trowef of the plasterer for the chisel o
the sculptor, but his influence and example
will long be bene6cizlly felt in the domain
OF native art"