National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-16
ALL SORTS.


Mr.. Walker. o Cincinnati scientist, has allowed
himself to he stung once day for three weeks sy
bees to ascertain the effect. He says that AFTER
about the tenth time the pain and swelling were
slight, the body seeming to become inoculated
with the poison.
The weather is brisk and healthy, 90 long Is
people keep warm. Last weeks death rate was
but Is IS per 1000 annually, which ia an unusually
good showing. The suffering Incident to ths
strike Of Fall River 10 proved y the great death
rate there for the last weeks in September. II
reached 43 per 900 annually.
Under the sanction OF the Bishop of Touloufs
pamphlet has been Issued and extensively eircu-
lated through France on Freemasopry, In which
the author declares that the Freemasons sre pos
Tesseo Of a. ~, satanic secret; that they perform
crueic, tramples Il beneath his feet, and that ct
the altar and strikes the holy sacrament with .
Poinsrd.
In Reunebeck, Bremen, an engine has been
nearly completed by Heir Trossin which resolves
the problem, which for nearly thirty years has en-
Of superheated steam in common engines. The
answer to the problem has been found In the new
application Of physical law and the use Of Pc
culiar lubricant. An engine working with super
heated steam needs only half the ordinary amount
Of coal the heller and CRATE can be smaller BY one
sIa T 9s
half their usual space. The Improvement has
been patented In England, Belgium and other
the existing type.
Although half million persons have been
banished from Russia to Siberia between the
years 1872 and 1872, there has been scarcely any
perecptibe increase in the population, and, as
hfty years sgo, there is not one inhsbitant per
square verst. The reason of this is that the
NUMBER OF persons who make their escape from
siberia continues to be very great. In 1873, for
lists as condemned to Punishment In the Irkoutsk
district was 1o3S7, while ], 994 only were to be
from 1885 to 1916 no fewer than 2652 fugirives
were reeaptured. In 1859 the exiles In the Gov
eminent factories at Nertchinsk attempted to
escape in body, and $50 Of them have been re-
turned as missing" ever since.
John Gray's wife was very Ill In Chicago, aad
the family, obeying the PHYSICIANS injunction Of
quiet, tiptoed silently around her bed. The Rev.
ID. A. Norton, Methodist clergyman, called to
look after her soul, and would not heed the hus-
bands request not to disturb her, but persisted
in exhorting the sick woman to prepare for death
Gray pulled the minister out Of the room, boxed
his ears with his fists, and threw him into the mud
OF the street. A justice, impressed with the hei-
nousness OF assaulting praying and exhorttng
minister, sent Mr.. Gray 70 jail for thirty days.
About the same time the vile died, killed, &C.
element Of the spiritual ministration. fhe facts
aroused strong sentiment favorable to the pris-
oner, and he was pardoned out Of eonanemest
after only two days Of it; but nothing has been
done to the Rev. Mr.. Norton.
The trial of John Camberg, in Omaha, for the
murder Of James Thompson, makes public an odd
state Of Q family's affairs. Thompson boarded
with Camberg, and not only loved Mrs. Oamberg,
band. She declares that she was induced TO obey
oy fear, Thompson having previously killed TWO
men, and being apparently willing to kill more.
band, stabbed him in the face. After that she
was more circumspect, Thompson continuing to
board With the family: Ls.er Thompson COM
dent, although she swears that she went without
wanting to. Csmberg searched them out, and at
prairie farm house. looking In at them. The sight
maddened him, and he killed Thompson with q
rifle shot. He was acquitted, and his wife, re-
ieved Of her unpleasant lover, will return to her
home.
Writing about the Holy Communion, Mr..
Beecher says: "There is but one use to which
our grapes can be put, should we not sell or burn
them, and that's the manufacture Of Connecticut
communion wine. Our deacons," he continues,
'were good temperance men. They had a suit
able horror Of alcohol. When pious vineysrdist
Of Connecticut advertised that he manufactured
pure wine without drop OF alcohol infused
therein, It seemed q proyidential event That
pure juice OF the grape raised on the hills Of Con
from the hills Of Palestine. The wine was tried.
No man that tasted It ever desired another
drought; It was as good as pledge; IL was
was not only q wine of bitterness, suited to o
mourniul occasion, but it dlsarmed the curiosity
VI yOuLu anu was means
Of grace to reformed drinkers, making relapse
a dreadful thing TO contemplate"
formidable conspiracy, with its leaders re-
siding abroad, but with It's local committees In
nearly every centre OF population in Russia, Is
described as peryadiDg the country districts, the
workmen's quarters in the towns, large sections
Of the middle classes the students Of the colleges
and high schools. aud even q considerable portion ]
Of the upper ranks of society. Noble ladies are
mentioned as among the most enthusiastic propa- |
gators Of the plot. IL Is the design OF the con-
spirators to introduce Communism instead Of the |
State idea, and the expected occurrence Of war |
between Germany and Russia is fixed beforehand |
as the most opportune moment for exciting a L
domestic insurreetion. The Grown Prosecutor
states that large number Of branches of the /
association cannot be discovered, |
and asserts that the ignorance Of the lower
classes, and the instructed philanthropy of the
philosophic section Of educated society, afford /
materials only too proptious for the plans Of the
auitatOrs.