Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-07
he Icelandic and Swedish literature

outside the Royal Library at Stock
holm. is the. property of Prof. Fiske,
who, it is reported, will probably pre-
sent it to the University The muse
um has received large additions of
| birds. Students from foreign eoun-
! tries are seeking admission, and there
| are in the Freshman Glass of the cur
| rent wear two from England, one from
Russia, and one from Brazil The
faculty are Obliged to refuse admission
to many from the fact of the institu-
| ton being entirely filed.
Mr.. Beecher grayely denies-no,
lie never does any thing gravely, but
| ne does deny in joe0se letter to
Charleston paper that he ever robbed
church in that city. 1t seems a
runor to that effect has been current.
This Mr.. Beecher says was the only
foundation for it: lie brought awayssa
Bible OF an edition of 1876. A negro
gave it to him; but Mr.. Beecher, not
relying much on his title, offers to re-
turn it TO the true owner, on demand.
Doubtless the negro had heard of Mr..
Beecher's celebrated Grafton in which
he spoke of Good Friday as the day of
resurrection; and from this and other
indications of his ignorance of the
Scriptures, Cufy argued that a Bible
would be very suitable present to
make to the Radical divine. He took
it; q Radical viii take anything in
these times, from a spoon to q house
and lot, or even a Bible, if of rare
and valuable edition. We assure the
real owner that no one needs the
book more than Beecher-let him
keep it.
-Kiev is said to be the city chosen
by the Russian Emperor for the new
capital of his dominions. This would
indicate, iftrue, a move upon the po-
litical chess-board, and far-reaching
plans. The proposed capital is 670
miles south of st. Petersburg, and 400
miles southwest of Moscow, and has
less than one hundred thousand peO-
pie at this moment. By situation and
importance it is not untitled to be the
seat of empire, and the choice of it by
the Car would be a fair notice of his
disposition or capacity with respect to |
the invalid realm at the BosphOrus, /
and possibly to the Austrian provinces. !
There is probability in the rumor that |
the Gar, who has some ideas and pro- (
pensities ifnot political enterprise, de- |
sireS to become, if he can, nearer 4
neighbOr alike to ChristendOm and to |
Turkey. The new capital would seat |
him to satisfaction. While the Car |
is contemplating his exit to Kiev, Eu- /
rOpean apublicists deem themselves I
shrewd in looking forward to the time .
when the Austrian empire may have |
to remove its seat to Hungary.
A New York letter writer remark I
ing upon, how fast the richzmen of /
Gotham are dying OFF, says: Here is
John j . Phelps, once the Apollo of the 4
dry goods trade, and worth a half |
million, cut Off in the fulness of his
powers. Here, too, is Charles NJ. Con-
molly, once the colossal tobacco dealer,
and OF late q real estate lord, worth
million or more; and here is the aged
Rufus Lord, the oldest of our capital
lists, all carried to the grave within Il
week The latter reached an advance
Of years which exceeds that of any of
our rich men. Peter G.. Stuyvesant
and Stephen Whitney were not more
than three score and ten, and John
Jacob Astor only reached eighty,
while Mr.. Lord saw his eighty
seventh year. He was fourth in point
of wealth of all our citizens, being
ranked by Stewart, AstOr and Wander
bilt. He was the largest real estate
holder down town, having at the time
Of his death, possessions to the amount
of three millions of dollars.
The London correspondent of the
BOok$elleJ' says: The evening edi-
ton of the Daily NelrS, called the Err
press, is dead, The most enterprising
Of the evening papers, the Echo, price
a half-penny, is very much more after
the idea of American newspapers than
in London; it has a large /
circulation, but advertisers don't
think it a respectable medium for
their appeals. The best proof of how
dull and shOrt-sighted is the English
was lately set forth
by meeting of newsdealers to do
away with selling journals on Sunday,
the grounds being that mo Sunday
paper ever has more news than the
nights edition. 1t is fact
that, though there are nOminally, Sui
lay papers, nothing that transpires
lfter O'Clock on Saturday is in print
Intu Monday mornings paper"