The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-11
WOODVILLE, TENN.
THE NEXT STATE ELECTION AND
THE CANDIDATES.
mr.. GIass's Chances for Reelection
Attorney General Lea for su.
preme Court Judge.
IooRREspovpESoE or TIE AppEAL,l


WooDvILLE, TENN, February o.
The big snow is all the talk. 1t meas
ured from fifteen to eighteen inches.
The snow fell steadily twenty-four
hours. From careful inquiries this is
the deepest snow that ever fell in this
country. 1t is melting away fast at
this time.
J. L. Anderson aud j. II. Houston,
doing business at this place, have dis
solved, Mr.. Anderson retiring. Mr..
Houston will continue the business.
D. S. Anderson, who lived a few
miles from here, moved to Brownsville
Yesterday. He has bought out r. L.
Gordon's tin, stove and gas-fitting es-
tablishment.
W. B. Moore is going the rounds as
sessing lakes. He complains greatly
of the bad weather.
1t is thought that the winter has
been favorable on whea. 80 far. Strong
hopes are entertained Of a heavy
yield. There will, perhaps, be an in
creased acreage Of oats this season,
owing to the scarcity of corn.
Corn is selling for 80 cents per
bushel, and there is not much wheat
to be found in the country. Meat is
cheap and can be bought fSom Al to 5
cents on pole. Some hogs are dying
through the country, and it is pre-
dicted that this will be a sickly season
for hogs on account OF the heavy mast
last fall.
The judicial elections are stirring
the people up to some extent. Hay
wood county has O candidate for Su-
preme Judge in the person OF Attor-
ney.General B. J. Lea. A. O. Estes is
candidate for circuit Judge and John
X. Bond for encouragement of the
Twelfth Circuit, composed OF Hay
wood, Crockett, Gibson, 0bion, Weak
ley, Henry, Carroll and Benton coun--
ties. The old circuit was Haywood,
Crockett, Gibson and Dyer counties
the new one just double.
Judge Henry ]. Livingston OF
Brownsville, this county, is q candi-
date for reelection to the chancellor
ship.
A Nashville correspondent OF the
APPEAL, in letter published in Sun
days APPEAL Of January 3lst, misses
the mark when he Gays "P. I. Glass,
in the Ninth Congressional District,
will find his opponents in stronger
force than ever, and bis reelection is
among the improbabilities." The
same correspondent seems to think
that all the other Democratic Con-
gressmen will be elected in Tennessee
except Glass. Perhaps he bases his
conclusions on the petty dissatisfaction
occasioned when the famous conven-
ton was held at Dyersburg in 1884,
and balloted 1900 times, and failed to
make nomination and adjourned to
meet at Trenton. A nomination was
made at Trenton on the 264th ballot
Glass was nominated, and about a half
dozen men with a few followers
thought the mode of the nomination
revolutionary" The disaffected ones
were principally the followers Of ex-
Congressman Pierce. 1t is well known
that Mr.. Pierce was nominated "under
q cloud" at Milan, in 1882. The cir
surrounding the Ninth
Congressional District Convention in
1884 justified the action. Mr.. Glass is
a pure, honest and upright man, and
would spurn an unclean thing. II
Col. Glass's opponents expect to make
capital out Of that convention they
will find it an uphill business. The
people should look at a mans record
and Judge by his works, and act &C
cordingly. The practice OF changing
a Congressman 80 often Is also fatal
business, and ought not be carried out.
II man makes a good record, keep
him in. The race for Congress in the
Ninth District between Glass, Cooper,
Caldwell, Latta and Pierce promises
to excite peculiar interest, and the
ground will be contested to the inch.