The national Republican., 1867-08-01
Aatiuual &spahlitau.
NEWS AND MIsCELLANY.

NEWS AND slIsCELLANY.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the San Francisco
Bulletin states that near Monterey there
are frogs weighing twenty-five pounds,
and their croaking can be heard six miles.
The same yeracious authority AYERS that
they are used in place Of fog bells, and
cost nothing 10 keep in repair.
The first temperance organization was
in 1917, In England, and only prohibited
its members from getting drunk; no mem
Der was allowed TO drink more than four
teen glasses day The next organiza-
ton was in the year 1000, and only al.
lowed It's members TO get drunk on public
days. A century later society was formed
in the State Of New York, in which the
penalty for getting drunk was twenty-five
cents. d..
IT Is said that in the representation OF
"Our American Cousin" In Paris great
amazement was occasioned by the appear
ance Of q shower-bath in bedroom scene
"a property new to the French stage.
This Is mentionedby French paper as an
ergtn hydrotherapique, and the opportu-
nifty is Of course improved by the English
correspondents to have fling at the alb
sence Of bathing accommodations on the
continent.
A COMPANY has been formed in France
with capital o; three million francs, to
search for three Spanish galleons which
were sunk by the English feet at the COM
mencement Of the last century. The gal
Icons in question were returning from
Mexico, and had on board about five mil
lions piasters. They are still at the bot
tom Of the sea, and several attempts to
come at the treasure have failed. Power.
full machinery is constructing at Bor-
deaux.
The Townsville (Georgia) Enterprise
tells with great enjoyment Of the discom-
future Of the Freedmens Bureau, in the
persons Of three Of its soldiers, by three
Georgia women-"small delicate ladies'"
the paper calls them. The soldiers had
endeavored to aid q negress in Occupying
and possessing a shanty belonging to Mrs.
King, the elder Of the ladies'" but were
ignominiously put to flight, after being
rolled in the dirt under q heavy trunk, |
with which the Ainazons had resisted their
attack.
A PROPELLER has been invented which
is designed to steer as well as drive the
vessel. Three nearly square blades are
attached by arms to perpendicular shaft,
and, by q mechanical arrangement, are
made to exert propelling power through
the entire circuit. The position Of these
blades can be changed from the deck by
means Of wheel similar to the present
rudder wheel. One man, by properly ad-
justing this wheel, can start, stop, back
Uatar turr IN tha r;sbt lart ouo,I
cause the vessel to revolve on its center.
A FRENCH PAPER, the Journal DE- Pom.
tdrlier, relates case Of premature inter-
ment. During the funeral Of O Young
woman at Montforin, who had apparently
died in an epileptic fit, the grave-digger.
after having thrown spadeful of earth on
the coffin, thought he heard moaning
from the tomb. The body was conse.
quently exhumed, and vein having been
opened, yielded blood almost warm and
liquid. Hopes were for moment enter
tanned that the young woman would re-
cover from her legarthy, but she never did
so entirely, and the next day life was found
to be extinct.
LONDON medical journals conclude that
the pestilential disease which has recently
prevailed most fatally among the Arab
tribes in the marshes Of Hindee, south ofl
Kerbela, in the Valley Of the Euphrates,
Is the veritable plague. The disease is
described as commencing with symptoms {
Of high fever. There is intense thirst:
delirium quickly supervenes; tho eyes are
oloodshot; the tongue covered with white
'ur; the glands swell, and carbuncles ap-
'ear in various parts Of the body. Dur
ng the past winter and spring the district
n which the outbreak has occurred was
ubjected TO extensive floods, and the
ribes were exposed to great suffering and
,rivation.