Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-06


1gain the the peri perfume sumIaeI's day:
But los in the grave the Srg..a lo"n !; nay
And The woman that sings Is sadly SseT;Pg
EFFIE N. Ia.
POLITICAL NOTES.
REFORM i. generally the sentiment of the
under dog in the fight.
RHODE ISLAND is TO have a Civil Service
Reform Convention.
LOGAN appears to be the tree-toad in the
Republican presidential jungle.
BLAINE believes in anti-ciimaxes, 20 he
will Try for the presidency again.
THAT Iroquois "igwam will be fatal to the
scalps OF good many politicians.
Tom OCHILTREE thinks that Ananias wss
nothing but novice in the art Of lying.
REPUBLICAN, politics with Conkliug and
Grant left out IS like a salad without vinegar
TIE Democratic party opposes monopoly,
but encourages tae legitimate enterprises o! cap
ital,
Mr.. Justice BRADLEY is the only man
whose single vote ever elected president of the
United States.
THE Report apostrophiz 9 Senator Logan
as a gallant old statesman" The s1rdine may
yet be known as 3 whale.
If The Ohio Democrats elect Judge Thur
man governor, it will come very near settling the
pr, sidentiai nomination.
The Galveston Neus believes that under
any other leadership than that of Tilden discom-
future and confusion awaits the Democratic party.
THE lTisF-IourRnt is now giving a due
share of its attention to the Chicago mayor and
his utteranees at the Iloquois banquet JACK
sssery'' Is what Mr. Watierson now calls the Har-
AND now il appears from an 1lsur -r,-.-
| hshed recently that George Washington, the
father of his country Is Indicted to the aforesaid
country in the sum OF ,3S9 which he received
nd naya accounted NV fha
roses fade.
| 1HE Charlotte Journal is Of opinion tn at
before the year 1900 the North will make a deter
mined effort TO get rid of negro suffrage because
was intended to break the Southern head, but
failed In It's mission.
The couutry owes its gratitude 70 Gov.
Butler for having the courage TO uncover the most
revolving spectacle of human depIayity in the an.
mails of crime. The TewKsbury horror IS withsut
| parallel IN loathsomeness IN ham anity aud us
exposure will prevent the recurrence of any SINH
| lar outrage for yeas to come.
Bills are now be fore the Missouri Legis.
| lature proposing the construction of an elevated
| is 10 be built from Fourth and Walnut streets to
| Forest Park, with diveIgIDg lines at Twelfth
street running TO the northern and southern limits
: of the city.
| ACCORDING TO the New York World, which
by the way, is very good authority. many signs &c
10 show that the proteetonists who got eontrol OF
| the Hancock canvass in 1850 an1 made q mess Of
il, are eoncocting d conspiracy TO put Mr.. Randall
| into the Speakers chair with the help of the Re
publicau S."
JOHN KELLY, of New York, who says tbs
Democratic outlook for 1884 is exceedingly bright
does not think Mr.. TilIen is the man to choose as
| a standard bearer. He charges that the nomina
ton of Grace for mayor OF New York City, with
the loss of the State aud The defeat of Hancock in
consequence was engineered by The Ti!deu fac
ton.
DEMOCRATS are not all happy over the
| prominence Kentucky is assuming in the coun
| sells of that party. Kentucky, they say is trying
| to dictate who shall be Speaker of the House
what policy on the tariff question the Democratic
national platform shall ADOPT, and in ali ways In,
| ''grand old commonwealth Is assuming aud some
what yociierous.
A CONVENTION Of colored people has beer
called to meet in Washington City on the Gath o
September next, for the consideration of the pres
emit and future condition of laid people in thi
country. Under the call Louisiana will be entitled
to elect twenty delegates, Mississippi tTenty-six
Alabama twenty-fJur, Florida three, Texas min
and Arkansas nInes
THE common schools of Alabama are 10
Heterogeneous condition. The attendance
regularly increasing, the standard of proficiency
| peipg gradually raised. and The general fund 10
the Schools was last year augmented by an spprC
priation OF SlUO CO., There are four normal school
in the State, three of which are for colored stu
dents. There $500 colored teachers in the State
! The New York Herald is sat efied that i
| is only by a well-managed coalition of Republi
cans with protectionist Democrats that Republican
. success in 1884 can be secured. We Say
! ing what astule Republican managers have di.
pr diets that Mr. Randall Will be the next aTe
he Is only taking this view Of the near future.
THE Mary land State Temperance Allianc
has adopted a series OF resolutions, one of whic
looks to an cary demand for the submission of
constitutional amendment prohibiting the manI
facture and sale of liquors in the state. At III
local option shall not nag, aud the good result
already effected by local agitation are pGesente
as an encouragement to more diligent efforts.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN bias been accused b
rfr,f~1x HAIL ia.
apondent Of the Chicago Inter. ocean, writing fro,
santa Fe, of having secured land enough fC
a large ranch out there by cheating the Indians
| somebody else out OF 1t. And acco ding TO In
correspondents story, not only residents, bU
government officials say Gen. Logan has bee
guilty of cIookedness in connection with tn
| matter.
' Our Republican contempor aries of NJ ASA
/ chusets are very much exercised over the dam a,
: ing disclosures OF the Tewksbury outrsges II
Springfield Republican, becomes quite excited oy,
! | these hldeous Stories hitherto untold" and s.
Verely cTiticises the 'lmpsh skill with which tt
vile aud sickening compound is poured upon II
: ! afflicted STATE" 1t Garages the managers of tt
! | grand old party beyond control 10 have their N
iarious misdeeds exposed.
. Elk Gov. HESDRICKs makes his allege
sore toe the subject of further remarks to III
country. II am so near dead" ne says las r
{ ports would make it appear that am, l certainl
( ought TO receive the exemption from the persona
+, am not, don't deserve to be lied about Icaun,
= understand why leading Republicans are so il
u |
n anxious 10 have their statements printed"
4 The New York Sun thinks that the oul
, | way 10 stop the drain OF emigration from the D.
y m1nlon INFO this country is to become annexed
q Us. No doubt this will occur some day, but i'll
g. now it would break all the political States 1nt
, would have fourteen senators aud forty membe
:, OF the House of Representa- ives. Only think
q IT. Fhtyfour presidential electors We would &
Il a State Church with them too iu Quebec and sep
!. rate schools for Roman Catholics. 1t would be
:, revolution. Better go slow.
'1
), the systems of road-woking in the different Stat
i and to assist IN reaching solution of this in
q portant and difficult problem has called for
:, much favorable comment throughout the couutr
From the tone OF the press it is very evident tn
a South Carolina is not singular in the misfortune
}, having an ineficient system OF working her publ
4 highways. If Senator Butlrr should succeed
= devising practicable aud acceptable plan
D woodworking he will become q national ben
Y factor.
If The Charleston News and Courier bea
il gifts to the colored men of the cJuntry. 1t tel
A Them what power in politics they may be If on
they will stop being tue dupes of white Repub
rs ungrateful party The balance of power viii
in negro hands If only the colored voters oreani
" thoroughly the Courier thinks, or rather affirm
e and then II quotes approvlngly from a colored {
y gau in New IorK, as that paper talks OF the pha
tom which masquerades under the name of B
pubncan1sm.
& THE Texas Legislsture, early in the sassio
withdrew all State lands from sale until Ia
could be passed regulating their disposal. A Ia
was passed, but by some means it failed TO inclu
the public domain, or what is known as the "for
bit'' land. and this consequently is indefinite
withheld from sale. The oversight prevented I
State University from receiving the benefit of
W millionaire grant, which was made condition
n upon the sale of a certain quantity of the pub
- domain The oversight cannot be Iemedied un
Y an extra session Is called.
l. THE Newb .rn Journal has found a color,
l. man and brother who finds that farming a
p politics don't mix well, and he prefers farmtl
~ peas on Friday, says our contemporary, was Lett
4 172 boxes shipped by Jesse Brooks one of 4
> well-to do colored farmers Of this county. Je'
bought a farm nine years ago. and promised
er pay $1,000 For few years after making his pI
% chase he was a county commissioner, OF coul
u during that time be had Trouble in making
payments, but since he has quit pol tics be doesl
a. find much troaole in coming 10 time. and ow
n only about $500 on his plantation. He says far
- ing and politics won't work well together.
= IT is sad to r.fsct that the govsrnne
might itself the cost OF advertising in them,
lie York, Philadelphia Boston and Baltimore new
e | papers, for bids for the construction of the ne
=, steel cruisers. since every one or the only 70
u Arms ia The United States which are in a con,
D ton to do the work know all about the matter
e ready, and 1t is said have arranged things pleI
- antly SO that they will not bid very ercely agar
" each Other. But we want the cruisers, and 1t W
= be cheaper to get them in this way from resp Il
J. | BILE parties than for the Navy Department TO ,
- | vide the work up among the bureaus. In the o
e case if the work is unsatisfactory it need not
accepted in the other case, If IL is unsatikfaeto
q it cannot be got nd OF.
d | PROHIBITION does not stop drinking z;
q | merely changes the method Of doing it, aud
| making it lawless makes it furt!ve, secret al
| sneaking. A correspondent Of the New York S
has coIlated the following interesting table Will
a | bears on this point, giving the number of ARE
| for drunkenness and the percentage to the pop
J. | lation for the year 1850 in two towns in Mai
e where prohibition is in force, and in six towns
cities in other States where there is no prohibito
: | as follows:
e Population. Arrests. Per Ger
l. Hoboken, n. j.. so 999 402 LIZ
n | Newark, n. L. 136,400 1,I76 l31
Burlington, Ia 1880 2e6 Isl
l. Bangor. Me .--.-.- , iS.s53 . 9 9S2 Is.
A | Des Noines, la. 22,4CS 576 23l
New YORK n. VI, 206 $50 29,526 81.
4 Portland Ne. $3.50 1927 3s.
j In 1876 the arrests in Bangor were ~
IT nesr i've per cent of the popul alton of the eli