Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15

we'll in his high Office"
AN exchange thinks the PAYNE boom
moves as if it was stiff at the joints. The same
boom for the Ohio Senatorship was afflicted with
the rheumatism until il was lImbered up with
frequent and vigorous applications of coal oil.
ALL the Suns readers have not followed
that treacherous sheet in its desertion of Mr.. Hol-
man. A subscriber by the name of Pike has
written a letter to say that Mr.. Holman is the
strongest piece of Presidential timber to be had.
If reports be true, Joe Blackburn is to
have a more than worthy successor in the person
Of Col; We P Breckenridge, who, it is said,
haps the foremost orator of the land of orators.
The Camden (Ark.) Halberdier notes
that the Hot Springs Democrats want the next
Democratic state Nominating Convention held at
that place, and the Republicans desire the Re-
publican state Convention TO meet at the f0un-
tain of health.
Ex-Gov HENDRICKS, of Indiana, doesn't
play billiards. when 1 came to settle up for
told told It was s.. How s p5a'f I asked d. BE. Because yoa
were So long, was the reply. And have never
OUR Commissioner OF Agriculture thinks
the home demand and more too, and will very Very
likely go into the industry on a large scale. What
sr" tEenf asks the Nashville Wrrtd.
Ex-Gov. BUTLER has a profound disre-
gard for % Pestitions. You could get in Massachu-
hanged he says. "and half the lumber nav" would I'd
sign a petition to have themselves hanged with
out knowing what they were doing"
THE Boston Post says that the State con-
%vention, which the Massachusetts State Commit
tee will meet on the sd instant to name the time
and place for, and which will select the delegates
at large to the Democratic National Convention,
VIII be composed OF the same delegates as made
up the convention which met in Springfield last
summer and renominated Gov. Benjamin F.
Butler.
THB st. Louis Post Dispatch says the
Aorrison bill has split the party wide open-the
F'bune hops on TO it with canine teeth and quad
rlmanous claws like an enraged baboon. The
st'p at least in the direction Of tariff reform and
eonmends 1t to the support ofahe anti-monopoly
Republicans.
OF Wendell Phillips Beecher has moth
ing tut appreciative praise. The great Abolition
9raer, he says, has become to us a lesson; his
agenent to manhood and to heroic manhood"
In addition TO the estimate of NJ Phillips's char
day srmon a great deal of interesting material in
relatl'n to the struggle against slavery.
Got 0'NEAL, of Alabama, will attend
the River Con yention to be held at Chattanooga
on the 9th of March, and is being prominently
Chattanooga fms., in speaking sihs Of ibfiS him. .ays: tns
better seectiou could not be made. He resides
near Muscle Shoals, and the expenditure will be
made within the confines of his State. He is n
brilliant gator and will make a most capable
president
1T a square issue" says the Kansas
City Times. ION the one side reduction of taxa
uon twenty PR cent, the placing of 100 articles
the other side / is the retention of the infamous
arm m9nopSl,. that is swelling our Treasury re-
cslpts SlOO,OOO,O annually above the wants of
tho sovernment.. On the one side it is competen-
ey; on the otherineompetency. The people will
h. no trouble IN judging and declaring how
BIN PBRLEY PooRE's Washington letter
can ticxot if the soh Of the martyred President is
put on + especially at the South, where the col
UT n SOLE are all anxious to see 'Massa Link
south NO longer talk in that way. The word
masss as been Ions ago eliminated from their
uniting rot nd bOsh in his old aFe.
IT has ben agreed to report an appro-
priation of SLIGO 900 to Congress for the com
mencement OF work on the Hennepin canal.
Rlet1Sn OF the cAal around the Muscle Shoals, on
pT@osT tant as the o Ter. one project 5j% is fully as i'm
yor OF the Iennesse. The Hennepin canal con-
meets the upper Mississippi with the lakes, while
the nayigable waters If the second stream in the
United states east OF We Mississippi.
is not impossible, saws the
Leuisyllle COGrssr-Joun1E. The olive branch is
9nsred to tho malcontens in the Morrison hill
II Is thator nothing, This bill or n bill essen
tally the sane is to be the platform of the Marty
In the next Residential contest. II will h. ac,
copied BY the Democrats of he House- Without
q doubt 1t willpass the Hous' II is n nract;caI
1t is not q radical measure of fiief. II . not cer'
tain, BY any mems, a RepubliGn Senate Tonid
reject IL and thusallow the issue 20 he ma5s M
If 1t should do 81, the Democrat. marty woafj
have every Feasonto be satisfied. III If Is PASSED
and signed by thePresident, the fople viii sec
that the professionsof the Demoeratsare s;nner.
and they mean to cary them out, thattheir Lad,
ss are practical and courageous STATESMEN. wbo
when they pretend toreduce taxation, d III "
Miss CoRNELIA PADDOCK, of Salt Lake
ApthOr of the Mormon Story, The Fate Of Me- n,
a losrs says that il is doubtless easier to denytbst
po,yssmy is Increasing than e furnish statis;cs
: IN support Of such o denial, owing largely to No
HHe.eeyto which witnesses b the Endowms1t
exists Ssemonies are sworn, That polygamy
Int n sc continues in q kter to the Denye,
;nfran tan We all know. .Thit the system has
Law is ITSories since the passage VI the Edmund
u soon be whom Mormon contsl IN ad w v
me Mornons ns-e held the baispeee Of nauer nv
9 quietly biding thsA time sure : tS SAINTS are
Il 1 mon yota which nav can Ahota 70 acethe Nor