The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-22

The dictation was begun at 4:10, and was
closed as follows: At $40 p. NJ, nausea
and twitchir gs on the right side; trouble
to articulate; eyes closed; fullness
almost to suffocation in the throat
pulse about sixty. Here MIR. Walker
stopped and asked for some water. Mrs.
Walker started to get some coffee, and
had partly prepared it, when on return
ing to the room to see how her husband
was she was alarmed to find him unccn-
scious. A physician was Immediately
summoned and arrived at the house, but
the professor was then dead Mr.. Walker
was Past Grand Master in the Masonic
fraternity in Illinois.
Foreign Gossip.
"A Vienna lawyer is to be prosecuted
for "excess of duty in defending a
Client"
In Germany it is a personal insult to
dun debtor by means of postal cards,
and the law affords remedy.
-Charicari pictures France as lady
lately paralyzed who begins to get about
on clutches called constitutional laws.
I'm France a man has been con-
demned for a libel which he wrote with
sharp stick on the skin of green
pumpkin growing in the fields.
If you were living in Alexandria,
Egypt, and had boy, and wanted to i'm
prove his svntax, you could send him to
"1smail Pacha Grammar School No. L."
Many dead bodies of Chinese were
taken from the wreck of the Pacific Mail
steamship Japan, all of which were kept
under water by the money fastened about
them.
"A fellow with queer name has lust
arrived in Paris with a diamond worth
7,OOO, 900 francs, which he accide ntallv
found in an abandoned mine near the
Cape of Good Hope.
-Mdlle. Estelle, of Paris, gentle Great
ure, bit out half mans cheek recently.
And the worst of it was she made mis-.
take in the man. Without lovely woman
the world would be bleak desert.
Sophia Bruce, lineal descendent of
Robert Bruce, has not the same love of
spiders that her ancestor had. She is q
domestic servant in Nova Scotia family
and sweeps away cobwebs without COM
junction.
They make happy disposition of
persons inclined to suicide in Middlesex.
England. At the Hanwell ASYLUM 400
patients of suicidal tendency have been
received during the past year, and the
product of their industry saved the coun-
try over 100000.
"A nun has just died in Paris at the
age OF ninety years whose teeth were
completely renewed few years ago.
The same phenomenon occurred when
she was torty-seven years of age, and
again at sixty-three she had found her.
self in possession of perfectly new and
regular set of teeth.
Mr.. Rosenthal, the celebrated French
chess-player, recently played, at the
Palais Royal, twenty-seven games of
chess at once with that number of the
best French and foreign players. twas
stipulated that Mr.. Rosenthal should
have only one minute for each move,
passing along the twenty-seven tables in
order. MIR. X. won twenty-three games.
"A Partisan named Mohammed Mira
was confined in sack with cat. a
rooster and viper, to be cast into the
sea. His executieners forgot to search
him, and as soon as the mouth of the
sack was closed he drew a knife and
slew the viper. An hour later, when
thrown into the water, he ripped open
the sack, swan of, and escaped.
"A novel suicide is reported from
Paris: An elderly man living in the
Louvre quarter having stopped up all
the holes in his room and arranged his
affairs turned on the gas, shut the door,
and went out for an hours walk. He
then returned, got a lighted candle from
tue house porter, and proceeded to his
room, which he opened suddenly. An
explosion, of course, followed, and the
man was burned almost to cinder.
Religious and Educational.
The death is announced of Rev. John
w. Roberts, Bishop of the Methodist
Church in Liberia. Bishop Roberts was
virginian and negro, and had been in
Liberia since 1888. He is spoken of as a
man OF fine character and excellent abil.
tiles.
The Episcopal Church in the United
states comprises fifty Bishops, five Bish.
ops.elect, S,O85 priests and Deacons, z, ESQ
parishes, 273,O92 communicates. IS OO7
Sunday-school teachers, 225, 1888 SUNDAY.
school scholars. Contributions during
the year, $685. ,9ss.27.
The Rev. Thomas K, Beecber. in .
letter to his brothers Christian Union,
says: "Able preaching, by itself, pro:
duces laziness, sponginess, sentimental.
ism in the pews." He argues that the
members Of church as we'll as the
preacher need something to do.
Though Swedenborg, the founder of
the New Jerusalem Church, was Swede.
very little has been done for the propa.
CATION of his peculiar faith in his native
country, owing to the lack of religious
liberation. Since the passage Of the
Federation act" society of sixty men,
bers has been organized In Stockholm.
Southern papers have an account of
2 wonderful series of revivals in the val
ley OF Virginia, which has been in prog
res: since last summer, in connection
with the lsbors of Rev. G. NJ. Howard.
In someplaces nearly the whole of the
adult population has been converted. the
ministers Of all denominations co-operat.
ing with him. Such extensive REVEALS
were never experienced In that section
Of country.
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