Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-30

Dc surprised 10 near that IL mad happened
THE Boston Globe claims that "the editor
of the New York Sun, Herald, Times or Tribune, or
the influence 81 Resident APthur Gentlemen
who are applicants for Office don't hold that
opinion.
The HoN. J. W. BRYANT, of Princeton,
H., brother OF William Cullent Bryant the
poet, was struck BY falling sesfold Monday,
this accident, Mrs. Bryant was thrown from car
rage and had her collar-bone broken.
THE New Jersey Legislature has passed a
bill, which has since become q law, requiring all
the manufactured products of the State prison to
be stamped with its distinct name. In that way,
people who are opposed to convict labor in COM
petition with free and honest labor will know Just
The bill for the five colored maps for Gen.
Wheelers speech, printed in the Congressional Rec
| plates for the text of SO much OF this Record
was occupied by Wheeler for the regular edition
amounts TO S56o more, making the simple cost OF
this leave to print some sl4ie.
Ex-Gov STONE, of Iowa, an active Pro-
| hibitionist, now urges that the liquor question
and politics be kept apart, saying: "rhe Republic
can party can gain no strength by udering this
Issue again, and have never thought the temper
ance question one that could be safely dragged
through the pool of party politics"
SENATOR GARLAND is working up boom
] in Arkansas for ex-senator Mcdonald OF Indiana,
as Democratic presidential standard-bearer. The
that Sin 1850 Mcdonald was the logical candidate
and in resisting this fact the Democracy probably
lost president Now, as then, Mcdonald is the
"BEFoRE the Democratic party can win in
1854 says the New York World, sit must fight out
the tariff issue in its own ranks upon the ques.
ton whether II viii tolerate protective taxes as
distinct from revenue taxes" whereupon the
Sun remarks that "a party that begins the year
preceding presidential election with an internal
idea of electing the president the year afterward.
One of the most influential Georgia gran.
CtseT Gaa a Ss e
colonel, that the tariff bill has passed" lis that
per cent. ad valoSens." wen, here. You BOYS
thar sift another shovel o. sand in the middle of
that bale, can't afford to reform until the tariff
does"
THE Boston Star says that "perhaps the
| reason why Rhode Island uses her statesmen over
and over again for all they are worth is that her
territorial boundaries are SO contracted as to pre-
vent me presence OF population large enough to
is 10 be filed. Bun 1t does seem as If there ought
to be timber enough in the State to make gov
| ernor Of without reconstructing william Sprague
| for that purpose"
STATE elections are TO be held in Michigan
| and Rhode Island the first week in April-in the
former State on the % and in the latter on the 4th
Michigan (besides township officers will choose a
another for fun term; and also two regents OF
the University Rhode Island elects State officers.
Michigan, it will be remembered, went against
the Republicans in November through combine
uon OF Democrats and Greenbackers.
"WHY Contend About an Abstractien?"
the Sun asks plaintvely, of the friens of revenue
reform. The timid ones and the trimmeu have
put mat same question at every period Of the
able ana week-kneed people lamented so much
secede and throughout the reconstruction era
good Republicans could never forgive the Demo-
Gratis in Congress for making such us, about that
archaic abstraction, the constitution.
POLITICAL ambition has again evertaken
Gen. J. B. Gordon. He resigned from the United
ness for the benefit OF his fortune. He has become
rich, and is reported to be the great railroad mag
fee sgsin, and with that view he has bstaken him.
sell 10 tlor1da where competition is not so sharp
as i is in Georgia he intends report says to sue
sharp politician, there is chance that he may
succeed in the design.
ACTING GOVERNOR BoYNToN, of Georg'sr
who seeks the nomination to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Gov. Stephens, finds HIM
sratulnting Rufus B. Bullock upon his election al
governor in 1855 and asking the appointment Of
Judge Tor the Flint judicial district In this Letter
Mr. Boynton says he has "demeaned himself re
spectivey TO all parties, taking no decided public
| Y,
become a politician" The acting-governor &C
knowledges the authorship of the letter, and III
opponents are making effective use Of it agains
WHEN Grover Cleveland walked down
Broadway the other day a curious friend walked
behind TO see how many people would recogniz:
the governor. The curious man says: Between
Madison Square aud Canal street he was not rec
ognlZed, as far as could discern, by single per
sou. tried to make some calculation of tn,
number of people passed in the course OF tn,
walk, and estimating by trial counts that 100 PEG
pie were walking on block, figured that at leas
i 5000 people passed within arms length and die
not recognize the man whose place in politics ha
welded greater influence than any man sine,
| Seward
GEORGIA is soon to hold an election {,
choose governor in place of Gov Stephens. B!
the constitution, in case of the death of the gov
ernor, the president Of the State senate become
governor, and 1t is made his first duty 10 call 10
gether the Legislature, which appoints a day 70
an election: There is no such officer as lieutenant
governor. IL Is impossible to predict who viii
succeed. The acting governor is a candidate TO
the nomination of the Democratic Convention
and there are at least twenty other candidates IL
them with anything like majority of the peopl
IN MS favor. IL looks as II every county had de
term1ned TO put forward O man and take tn
chances.
ILLINOIS ia moving for general law regu
lating savings-banks At present these institu
tions are conducted by virtue of special charter
from the State The absence of a general law ha
When the town of Pullman, for instance wish q
bank, it was necessary TO hunt the State over Z
| ma cherter not in use, and one was purchased
a bill before the Legislature is said TO combine
| the exeellences OF the savings-b bank systems o
Massachusetts, and New York. The stockholder
chiefly profit by the present banks, but the bill
authorizes the creation of mutual banks, and
after ceducting expenses, the depositors are
have the profits. 1t is surprising that Illinois is q
| tardy in this matter.
| In plea for national aid TO education tn,
New York Globe negro orgsnl says: I'VE do no
thank the American government for freedom
since il had no right in law or equity TO enslav
done US in the em6nclpation-we earned that oil
the field Of battle Where is the result of our Ia DO
for hundred years TO 1866? Who was enrlcheS
by that labor? 1t would almost parilyze the gov
eminent OF the United States to indemnify US fo
labor done under the inspiration of the lash ant
| the sanction of the law. We do not expect to re
| eeiTe that indemnify. The American government
has never done Us justice; it has always shown II
incapaeity 70 do 1t, and we are not the man to ex
pect it at this late date Yet it Is enirenty just
that the government should shoulder Its response
bities, If it does proceed out OF the depths o. II
, Ittleness, to repudiAie Its honest obligations"
TIE Richmond Wing, organ of The Read
justers SAYS its opponents rely solely and eIclu
siyely upon tne.sF F. V. Stud book" 10 decid
all political and personal questions. Accepting
the issue, il proceeds to give st Of iae
9 Surveyor, by Patrick Henry twho was countr.
. grocer, by John Adams (the son OF shoemakerl
; Roger sherman (a shoemaker HIMSELF, Benjamin
Franklin Ia candle and seapmAker and stterwRrS
journeyman printer, Clay 1.-THE mill-ooy OF m
Slashes), Webster (oorn in log cabin, the son o
an inn-keeperl; Shelley, Andrew Jackson anS
''StonewAll' Jackson, Andy Johnson, Extfa 81 y
Smith. John Leteher, Gen Grant, PRESIDENT
Arthur Hayes, Garfield (;he 50 called boatmanl
Tfueol n fthe rail-spltterl- Macon. Of North caro-