Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-20
POLITICAL.

EXGOV. boutwell, has opened a law Of
fee in Warrington. His legal services are much
sought alter, particularly in patent cases.
THE grave of Linton Stephens, whom
Georgiaus consider al ADLER man than his brother
AleEsnder IL, IS marked only b mOu.d Of 3
mines and r0s.s
DR.. GRAHAM, Of Kentucky, fathef-in law
of Congressman Blackburn, will be 100 years oil
ia october when II Is proposed - tender him q
grand dinner et Louisville.
CHAREs LYMAN, of Connecticut, on May
IS, 1868, By order Of 5ecretary-otWa Stanton, was
peremptSrily dismissed from the army. This is
The man who has been appointed chief examiner
Of the Civil Service Commission.
TIE Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans PicdyuRs telegrapbs that Mr.. 1ilden
declares positively his unwilisgnessto be presi-
Dental candidate in 1854, and even goes so far as
10 say that he would decline ii nominated.
The Hon. John F. Finerty, editor of the
TriSf Citi=sa and member OF Congress from the
Third District of Illinois, wants the members OF
the Roman Catholic Church to boycott the Pope
for interfering with the Parneu Fund movement.
"SHow me boss," said Mr.. Conkling,
'aEd viii show you. a man who, by virtue of his
ability, deserves 10 be boss" He could, II SO
desiring, also show you man who did not
show sufficient az fry 10 remain a ''boss'-which
his name IS K. C0rFirE.
THE New YORK Herald falls into the error
Of calling Alex Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Tins, Democrat. Mcclure was not enough OF a
Democrat 70 vote for Pattison but cast his ballot
for Stewart the Liberal Republican. His only
vote for a Democratic candidate was put in for
Greeley, IN 1872.
THE rate at which the national debt was
being smoked out before the recent reduction OF
to nicotine. The tobacco tax paid on tobacco up
70 The beginning Of the fiscal year was $3.50, $50,
Az o., and up TO Nay LIST, when the reduction was
Effected, II was about 3625 900, 900.
A LARGE number of farmers in the East
have requested the President to remove Dr. Lorfng,
COMMISSIONER OF Agriculture because he removed
Dr.. Collier, the sorghum authority of the Agricul-
tural Bureau. The farmers assert that DR.. Lorng
is ineIhcieat and incapable as an officer, sud
charge him with Offering fraudulent prizes.
SECRETARY LINCoLN's decision that the
Roman Catholics snail not have chapel at mill
tary headquarters at the preside has created Bit
ter feeling in Roman Catholic circles in San Fran
cisco. They ray that f0ur-hfths of the soldiers
and many OF the officers are Roman Catholics, and
that no provision has ever been msoe to afford
them opportunities TO worship.
Ex-senator McDoNALD's presidential
boom Is gfvem a rude puncture by the Wick sbrrg
Herald It tells his lriegds that the claims put
forth i'm his behalf are absurdly exlrayapant The
fact that he Yves defeated for governor of his own
State and for reelection TO thu United States Sen
ate Is pOtntet 10 as proof that his alleged popu-
4aAALg Al 4A-NAlauH las bttA uNSl<stiulhlcu'
THE New York Word saya: "Our ariHtoc-
racy js the sristocrsCy Of labor. The man who by
honest toll supports his family in respectabiity
who fights his way through life courageously,
Maintaining his good name through privations
and temptations, aud winning from his children
respect well love. Is the proudest aristocrat
in Lns American republic"
THE st. Helena Times notices in the Pha-
nix (Ariz) Herald: 1.-THE Enterprise says that a
nephew OF Senator John A. Logan has just escaped
from the Globe jail, snd adds the following Just
comments: There are black sheep in many
tiOcks, and while we arc no special adnirer of Mr..
Logan, we condemn most pointedly such illusions
os this 10 public man if they are made with view
OF n.--lns their reputation"
Gov. BUFIEE hss written letter to the
editor 81 THE montgomery (Ala0 National hide
peHdsts. 7..it he declares that equal rights
euua' ppfa-. p ri privileges and equal burdens
20 ~. rlCI r- q motto which he placed on his
political 5s 40 I've close Of the war, aud that who
ever arc for these VIII find him with them, and
whoever are not VII mad him against them, ire
gardiaas OF every other consideration"
FRED DOUGLASS defends the motives OF
himself and associates Il calling q colored con-
veutiou il Washington, ana says that it has no Sc
cIel purpose; that only object is advance the
interests Of the cOlored race, and that there is
more reason Why there should not be colored
convention than that the conventions of Irish
men, women, tvmpeHnce people, workingme n
and religions societies Sd ould be Abandoned.
THE Hon. Milton z OVID, who died few
days ago in Jackson Tenn, served in Congress
from May 1871 10 March, 1877, three terms as a
Wing. Thirty years ago he was one of the leading
men in the State, aud long after retiring from
politics he was president of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad. For several years he was president OF
the Mississippi Central railroad, now q portion
of the great route from Chicago to New Orleans.
Ex-Gov. WAsHBURHF, who died in Phila-
delPhla on the 18th was he Oldest OF seven
brothers and three sisters. OF the brothers, Z. B.
Washburue, OF Illinois, and c. c. Washburns
Of Wisconsin, represented their respective States
in Congress, while Israel Washburne was there
from Maine. In other words the three brothers
served in Congress at one lime from three different
States. c. G. Washburue afterward became gov
ernor OF Wisconsin, and died about year ago.
THE Hon. ]. PrOctOr Knott, Kentucky
next governor, was born August 90 1890, in Marion
county Ky. He received "A fine literary educa-
ton, studied law, settled in Missouri in 1850 was
elected to the state Legislature in 1888, and re
signed in the following year. Ia 1860 he was
elected attorney general OF that State; dele
gate to the Missouri Convention in 1861 returned
to Kentucky in 1852; in 1867 was elected repre-
sentative from kentucky TO the Fortieth Congress,
in which body he mas since served.
AN electric machine, designed to register
and record the votes of parliamentary bodies, is
to be placed in one Of the rooms OF the capitol at
Washington as an experiment which, il IL works
satisfactorily, will HEey be introduced into the
House of Representatives. By this system yea
aud nay csil Of the House Of Representatives can
be made, it is claimed, in sss than minute. The
machine prints the name of each member and in
dicates on what side he votes. 1t also indicates
the absentees and those who are paired.
The president of the National Republican
Executive Committee Col. John A. Martin, editor
OF the Atchison (Ks) Champion, thus refers to our
Malone: Gen Chalmers wishes to be the Ma
hone of Mississippi. Gen. Chalmers will not sue
coed; Mississippi is not Virginia, and Gen. Chal-
meIs Is not Malone. II tho administration helps
Gen. Chalmers il will disguee itself. Postmaster
General Gresham says he will not do it, and he is
right. Let Mississippi remain in darkness until
some honorable and able leader attempts her re-
demption."
THE Grenada Sentinel says: "The APPEAL
of last Wednesday contains an article that ex-
cOriates Gen. Chalmers, and leaves him nothing TO
stand upon hut his honor, which he is now to
Chalmers has we5 kness iot rushing into print
and in his fall he may trace one of the leading
causes TO that absurdity The article is certainly
scAthing beneath the epiderm1s and goes to the
joints and marrow like dose OF red hot lightning.
Tae APPEAL is a dangerous foe to antatgonize, and
when men go in for controversy wirh or without
a foundation, they generally find the old reliable
equal to the oecasion."
THE Jackson Clarion says that without a
word Of dissent from his constituents and in full
accord with their wish Gen George Introduced 4
Pill II the United states senate to regulate freghts
and fares aud 10 prevent dlscrimtnation eud oyer-
harge by comE esTr5Ss SjS,sS;Ta 10 the inter
Senator george did exactly tight in the matter.
and we hope ewiI have the hearty cooperation
Of the editor OF thu Clarion when he takes his seat
Ia the House. A just, wise national law of that
kind is becoming necessary in some of the States
"a State lsw on the subject is not needed and
would only work injury.
. The New York World sends this out az
its platform:
E L. Tax Injuries
2. Tax inheritances.
3. Tax large incomes
4. Tax mOnopOlies
5. Tax the privileged corporations.
6. a tariff for revenue.
T. Reform the civil service.
s. Punish corrupt Oficeholdsrs.
g. Punish vote-buying.
10. Pusish employers who cOeree their employees
in elections.
This is popular platform in ten lines We
recommend 1t TO the politicians in place of long
Winded resolutions.
BENJAMIN T. BUTLER, in letter 10 Ham
Carter, says. 'i You ask me what line of conduct
would advise the colOred men of the South TO pur.
sue in political affairs. To that I answer frankly
look Out for yourselves That is TO say vote for
the be 81 men. whose life and conduct you know
well, and who have shown thereby their desir,
tlat equal justice and equal rights shall come to
al rE-s rneeI the law. No matter what promises
are made by political orators, or what induce
-lEu-S are leld uut 10 obtain your votes, look to
WA. u-l have some and been, and not what
they say they VIA 10 or will be. il a candidate
TO Utts rlpf- pI can trust Is in favor of the ed
ucau'u 9i yCu- children, the squal taxation OF
Your pr1rrrsg. ana ne protection OF your persons
b. 1W .nte Toy aim whatever he may be called