Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-10

field.
IT is related that Senator Tabor, OF Colo.
RADIO. rising to make his maiden speech, said
"Mr. President, am paired with the gentleman
from Hampton, Mr.. South Carolina"
The new capitol of Texas is to cost S., 000,-
ooo Four Chicago contractors viii Duild it. and
take their pay in 100000 acres of State lands,
which they propose to devote to cattle-raising.
WHEN the tickets are made. out this year,
what will they consist Of? Bosses and ringsters,
or will the people be allowed to have a voice in
their makeup? asks the Oxford tdiss) Falcon.
The Rev. DR. KIRKs, leading Episco-
palian of Baltimore, created breeze by denounc-
ing Sunday and liquor laws contrary to the
spirit OF the age and inimical 10 individual liberty.
| He is right.
REFERRING to the talk among Democrats
OF again nominating Gen. Hancock for the presi-
dency, the Cincinnati Neiss says: at may be re-
| marked that lightning seldom strikes defeated
| candidates q second time"
The Oxford Falcon says that if the public
sentiment of other portions of Mississippi is SINH
lar to that which prevails in that part of it. the
success of the Democratic party next November de-
Mr.. PALMER, who has been elected United
States senator from Michigan, is generally I'M
known outside of his State. Ex-Senato-s Ferry
and Hubbell were too well known, and to that
fact Senator Elect Palmer owes his elevation.
For the sake OF doing something unusual
and being talked about, there are men who would
attempt to get upa subscription for the relief of
those who had lame thumbs caused by the labor
of cutting coupons from their own government
bonds.
THE last act of Speaker Keifer was CD arac
teristically mean. 1t was the removal of steno-
grapher of the House and the appointment of one
of his nephews to fill the vacancy. The salary is
s50OO with nothing to do till December. Keller
is a model Civil Service reformer.
THE Hon. George Hoadley has written a
letter in which he says he has not solicited the
Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, and
will not solicit it. He says if the nomination
comes 10 him at ALL it must be as the unsolicited
expression OF Democratic preference.
THE Petersburg (va.) Inder-Appeal doesn't
admire Gov. Ben F. Butler, and doesn't expect
ever to do so, but 1t confesses that it finds kind
Of pleasure in watching such man when he re
yenges himself ON such class of people as "the
rigidly righteous ones of Massachusetts,.
WHEN Gen. Grant is in New York on
Sunday morning he usually walks to the corner of
bsixty-sixth street and Madison avenue at about
\ 1880 O'Clock, and he 50 calculates that when q
downtown car arrives at the corner the stump Of
his cigar has given him the last possible Whit.
Ex-SEcRrrARY EvARTs turns his delicate,
thin-soled boots out when he walks; he holds his
hand against his thin overcoat as If he would aid
the buttons in holding together his hat rests on
| the back of his head, but not as far as Charles
| O'Conors famous hat; and he walks as spryly 81
a man of twenty-five.
VAN VooEHIs acts on the principle of the
! boy who said II he couldn't whip his Antagonist
| he could make faces at his sister. anyway Ht
spologized to Page to save himself from expulsion
he other night, and as soon as Congress adjourned
made haste to print 8 speech and letter. in which
| he nguratively annihilstes McLane and Reagan
As this method of getting even with the latte