Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-04

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ONE of the candidates for superintend-
ent Of education in Page county, Ia, is
a young lady, who is spoken OF as being
well qualified for the position. Being a
lady and a Democrat she will be elected,
if there is any chivalry left up there.
The Presidential bee is out OF place in
judicial bonnet, but it gets there. Ty
justices Of the Supreme Court-Miller "
Field-are understood to be aspirants T
the Presidency. 1t is rather g~ratifyinfo
note that neither appears to have ne
ghost of a chance.
THE Chicago Tribune, the leadinfRe-
publican organ of the Northwest,ay S
'The mistake made by Mr.. Douglass his
assumption that the rights of thlegro
are to be obtained by politics, Id he
makes this mistake because he q poll
ticiaH by trade. There is but onyay in
which the negro can rise, and Vt Is by
education"
THE New York Sun finds it nessary to
say that Holman, its candida for the
Presidency, is not the liver-paman. A
correspondent wrote Mr.. Danaletter the
other day in which he sal Il can
heartily indorse all you say ipraise OF
Mr.. Holman. l have worn ne OF his
stomach plasters and find it tlbest thing
l have ever tried for biliousnI :"
Tu.N.o. Iro Tr,Jon,.bnd HssssD-
ger y at is to be hoped at the time
will some dav come when athern and
Northern men can meet wlout suspl-
cious protestations Of the lie they bear
each other" We hope 50 to When the
dead line and sectionalisra are blotted
out by the nomination a Southern
statesman on a national DeScratic ticket
it will be.
BUTLER is king in Massachusetts,, and he
ought to have Il prince neSn succession,
says the New York Horidnt Mr.. Prince,
1t seems, has finally wead of politics.
lie declines the nominate Tor Lieuten-
ant-Governor. The peopon the Tewks-
bury ticket rejoice over t idea that But
Ter has been awakened treby, but a good
man will no doubt be find to take the
vacant place. I
The resignation Of 1dge Charies A.
nay, of Indiana, as lawclerA OF the foSt-
ofhce Department, wa.tsused by lncom-
patibility with ASSISTANT Acknowledgement
Freeman, of the s.me department. Judge
Ray was the had OF a little law bureau in
the departuent, independent of the As
sistant Acknowledgement detailed for duty
there; md the Postmaster-Genera think
ing that an anomalous state Of things,
consolidated Judge Rays bureau with
Judge Freeman's. As the two couldn't get
llong together, Judge Ray resigned.
TIE Denver Tribune doesn't take very
indy to the idea of Dana being a possible
indicate for President. 1t says; ut is
insult to the republiche has persistent
slandered, and to its public men, hardly
e of whom his mendacity has spared,
talk of Charles A.. Dana for such a pre-
dnently honorable position as the Presi-
dcy of the United States" at strikes
u says the Montgomery Adoertiser,
ut the venerable editor of ethe
S,would be quite n decided improve
mt on some who have held the position
sin the war. though we don't think
the is the slightest probability of the
ligning striking him. For all that, the
littbee is buzzing quite industriously in
h~is)nnet."
G. DANIEL $. LAMONT, private secre-
taryo Gov. Cleveland, was the bearer OF
the lden letter of d~eclination to the Gin
cinni convention in 1880. "He has had
a gre deal to do with Mr.. Tilden," says
the Aw York World. land has now an
%oppounity every day of seeing Mr..
Tides friends. He says that he is GER
tain 'lden is not a candidate, and that if |
everynan, woman and child in the United
Statesvere to rise up and ask him to serve
he void not consent. Mr.. Tilden has a
morbi fear of death, and has only one
obiectn liie-the employment oithe best
meanss preserve his health and lengthen
his day. He thinks if he were to undergo
the fatine of another canvas. it would
c%ertaint kill him"
QuIrEl sensation was occasioned in po-
htlcal cirles in Baltimore on Monday by
the announcement that r. Stockett Mat
thews, wLo was nominated THURSDAY last
oy the Republican Convention for the
OF Attorney of the State, will not
and that he has notified the Re-
publican Executive Committee. Mat
hews was nominated by reclamation after
our Others had declined to so on the
icket, and it is said he remarked: "Do
think i am n fool TO accept the nomi-
after four small-fry lawyers de-
lined the place. No. Matthews has not
ONE to that yet" Efforts are making to
induce him to accept the nomination, but
hey will be ~unavailing.
HAhandsome young editor of the Gin
'lnnau Enquirer has had his portrait
printed in IN illustrated journal in his
MY, his ~ehvious rival across the street
nus refers to the work of art: THE
H 'ttS mas the PICTURE Oh /
young man with n beefy neck, a bullet
haped head, fat eyes, square Jaws, a
louble chin, and with most of his hair ON
lis upper lip, the whole framed in a stand
ng collar Of immense breadth. The pic
ure is labeled John r. Mclean and ad,
nirably represents a type of face very
omnon among bruisers and bullies."
When,Mr. Halstead lectured in Chicago
deserves the New York Horld, con the
ress as a c~ivilizer and peacemaker, he
ertainly did not refer to the press of Gin
The fact that six times as many women
for school officers in Binghamton on
'riday as took part in the elections three
ears since is a hopeful sign. Comment
ig on which the New York Times says:
Whatever may be the success of Gen.
utter in securing suffrage without dis
notion of SEX the right to vote for