Show MILES AND MRS DA DAVIS VIS The Memphis Morning News which hasn't yet learned that the Civil War is over oyer and that one of the greatest of the Confederates Gen Joe Wheeler has but recently been fighting on the side of the Yanks is en engaged aged in the old business of fighting for Mrs Jefferson Jeferson Davis The Time News charges harges Gen Nelson A. A Miles with bidding for Southern favor favora favor favor- a terrible thing indeed for any Northern man to think of Lest Iest Gen Miles l should make friends in Dixie the Memphis paper trots out the estimable wife of the dead president of the defunct Confederacy acy and amid causes cause'S her blood to boil while she denounces denounces de de- de the head of the United States arm army in inthe inthe inthe the bitterest terms Mrs 1 Davis characterizes him himas as a boor a and amid a a. plebe piebe Who would have suspected ted that bluff brave gallant popular Miles was was' a plebe I well remember his hideous uncouth conduct when he was my husbands husband's jailer I exclaims the dear old lady And why should not she remember The arch rebel who tried so harto haroto hard haro to d destroy troy our beloved country was entitled to nothing nothing- but the guillotine It is a pitiable business business busi bus ness at this l late te day when we are all united again and the past has been leen forgiven and nigh well well nigh forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten for fOl a newspaper to use the heart of an estimable esti esti- mable mabie widowed old lady to arouse sectional animosities ani ani- t 1 |