Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-12
TIE NEUH

Herbert Spencer's Philosophy is
now q text book NJ Oxford.
Miss Muhlbach has received silver
Tea act from some OF her American adj
uirers.
The G commander of our feet on
the Cuban station j. an earnest symPa-
thistr With The Cuban movement.
The Huntsville Democrat chronicles
the death IN that plsceof Philip Woodson,
aged = years, 3 mOnths and 9 DAYS.
Ii Is believed By the friends of Bo-
rEtaes. BeckInan & Co., that they viii be
able 10 pay one hundred cents on the dol
Isr.
Twenty Cuban prisoners escaped
from Fernando Pc and arrived at New
York per steamship Java. Others are ex-
pected in a Few DAYS.
"A French journalist who recently
visited Victor Emanuel's private library
nc Pitt Palace, maliciOuslV remarks that
the edges OF nearly every book are uncut.
Father Hyacynthe lately declared
" that there are three religions in this
world-thg Jewish, the Catholic, and the
PTotestant-and all three ere equal in the.
eyes Of God."
The London Institute Of Civil En-
g.ncers has awarded a Watt Medal and
AGAA1GA premium 10 Etfhl A0AfuEn. N0T a
paper ON " American Locomotives and
Rolling stock"
Miss Kate Field Is already engaged
To lecture next winter in both the Mercan-
Tie Library and Fraternity Courses, Bos-
ton, besides several other engagements
elsew here.
Il is reported that TennysOn's new
volume Wiii contain one long poem, Civ
ing the @ its title, and a collection OF
mlzcellaneous pieces, among them Of
course Lucretus.
The Harvard boys appear to be
picking up on the Thames. Report saws
that they improve in the rapiditV Of their
stroke with every days practice az the
oar, and that their popularity among the
London sports is gaining strength.
At the Springfield Street Chanel.
Boston. last Sabbath, Father Ceve,
land, IA his S6th wear, made the conclud-
ing prayer; and the father Of DR.. Chaplin
ana Alf. ltogers, who Was one hundred
That day were among the congregation.
Three OF the prisoners who escaped
ram the Baltimore jail on Monday NIGHT
were recaptured in that city Yesterday
and remaHded 70 Jail az Union Bridge. Car
roll county, Md. Dennis, one of The ex-
press robbers, was one Of the parties
taken.
NesSrs. \. T. Stewart d Co. of New
York, say they haye never done Is large a |
business at tlis time Of the wear before.
They attribute this fact 70 their having
advertised more his season than ever be.
fore. They are undoubtedly right.
There are at this moment 1862 stu
dents az the University Of Berlin. OIL
these 400 are foreigners, chiefly Ameri-
cans, English and Scotch. There are no
less that sixty American students, mostly
sons Of rich planters from the Southern
States OF the Union.
According to the Spanish jour
mails, the following insurgent
commanders have been killed
ana come 10 life again several times:
Qnesadar twice; Figueredo, Agintela, Fe-
ratio Clsneros, each once: Marmol, twice, 1
and Lorda three finest At this rate the
phgnix is nowhere.
A dispatch from Utica, N. Y. YES
terday, says that a woman named Eliza /
johnson died suddenly in tho Office of Dr.
Nathan Bingham, Of that citv. dav
before. The evidence before the Coronerg
jury Was such that Or. Bingham WAS ar
rested on the charge of causing her death
while attempting 90 perform an abortion.
The wealthiest novelist in Ger
many says an exchanged is John TOurge-
ne1, the Russian exile. BerthOld Auer-
bach has received since 1873 about Sl20.O0O
Tor his books, and has accumulated a
handsome fortune. Carl GutzkoK is poor.
Louisa Muhlbach, who has received about
$4,000 since she entered the field Of litera-
tUre. has spent everything, and now OBJ
hged TO write for z living. Fritz Reuter-,