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family,
mttsical and dramatic.
JhtrvEMLLE “Mikado” companies already
nave sprouted up.
“U an® I” is the title of a new farce pro
PHced recently in Boston.
Queer companies and queerer plays are
tumbling ail over the country.
Patti etrid to have lost $15,000 by not
being able to kapp her engagements in Hol
land.
Mr. J. 11. Havev.lv is iww quietly man
aging a comic opera* company in Ban Fran-
Faure, the great French baritone, is on
the point of publishing it- work on the art of
singing.
Mrs. Langtry has lead'd the Prince’s
theatre, London, for six months, <wi opens
■j. ’v year with a new play.
” VE Ward haA ended hdr
Miss Geneva®. . ’-'brated Iho 1,006th i
Australian tour and v n rr i,v nk.. 1
performance
Miss Mather
the formidable task of writing her name on
2,000 photographs. They were given as sou
venirs of the seventy-ilfth performance of
“Romeo and Juliet” in New York.
Mb®. Adelina Patti contemplates re
tiring to hear Welsh estate at Craig-y-Nos on
the completion of her European tour at
Easter. She wishes to leave her professional
jTfo while her voice is still in full tvigor,
ana gjie is still the idol q£ the musical
world.
* “H*Ubob Lights,” Messrs. Sims and Pet
tit’s new melodrama, has been succensfully
produced at the London Adelphi theatre. The
work is a romantic drama, in five acts and
eleven tableaux. The deck of an ironclad
with all its details faithfully p*>resented, fur
nished one of ita striking scenes.
One o$ fhebaw’s last acts as king of Bur
mah, was to recolvo a party 6f Parsec actors.
After witncs?rfng them playing lie arranged
on a table as many silver e<x»anutii as there
were actors, each nut containing A handful
of precious stones, anti invited each player to
take one as a token of royal appreciation.
Miss Bertha Rtoci, the priwia dowtui, is a
finely educated young womoh. She speaks
and writes German, French and Italian with
gramatical precision, and is at home with the
classical literature of all three languages.
A portion of her daily leisure is devoted to
study. She is a close render of tho daily
papers and evinces a strong interest in poll
tire, both of home and abroad. Before she
determined to study for t he operatic stage she
was an overworked and underpaid school
teacher in Bt Louis. “Then I earned ftlOO a
year,” she remarked, laughingly, “now I
make $6,000,” Several of her relatives are
ungnulgingly sup(x>rted by her vocal notes.
The stage obituary list for 1885 is a long
one, and includes several names of eminence.
The stage has lost since Inst January Edward
Arnott, Mme Sainton-Dolby, W.‘ H. Beek
raan.John Ryder. Mrs. George Vondorhoff.
John PnrsftlK George Browne, Thomas E.
Morris and John McCollough. The death
list also includes Sir Julius Benedict, the dis
tinguished composer; Dr. Dainroeeh, the ad
mirable conductor of German opera; .hums
W. Daviaon, the famous musical critic of the
Loudon Times, and Richard Grant White,
the Hhakesjierian scholar. Victor Hugo, who
te claimed by the stage as well as by literature,
has also died within this year.
TRAIN VALLS THFOTGIT A BRIDGE
A Fatal Accident tea Train the Penney l»
vanla RallreaA.
About half past eighto'clock Monday evening
the local east-bound freight train on the Psnn
•ylvanla railroad was crossing the bridge at
Merman's creek, near Dungannon, fifteen miles
from Harrisburg, Pa, when one of the span*,
weakened by high water, gave way and precipi
tated the engine and eight ears into the stream,
which empties st’lhst point i«to the Hnsquchana
river. Five men went down with the wreck.
Two of the crew succeeded is rescuing the en
gineer, who was badly hurt. The
named Turbit. was gotten en shore and con
veyed to the station al Duncan, where be died.
Conductor Nall is reported dead, and the fire
man and two brakerm>n missing. Several land
tildes occurred at other points on the road, but
were discovered in time to prevent accident.
The storm waa one of the moat severe that has
ever visited that vicinity. The streams in the
Mighlxirhood of Harrisburg are swollen beyond
their banka. Tho lower »tones of the houses
are flooded, and the ram at mi.lntght showed
no sign ©f abatement Throughout the entire
*Cumberland valley much damage has been
tio*.
Presidential Visitors.
MOUK THAN iWOFTHKM ATTENDED
TO IN M.YTKKN MIMTKM.
Foor hundred and forty person* waited pa
tkoatly in the cast room of the White House
• few days ago to pay their iwptate to the
Prvmdent The crowd wag almost twice as
large as at any iweredingroceptkm of this kind.
Th.’ Prwhlettt appeared <n«t Iwfore 2
o'ehx'k, wl entered upon hte task with
sueb exptalttion that the entire mom was
cleered in sixteen mmat« Several ptireona
tried to engage the IVamtentV attention with
private matter*, but they wwv udd to call
again to-morrow. <h*c individual shook
hand* in an agitated mana- r with one >4 the
wdicr* Aii l pmsKwd ths' I'T-swtih-nt without uo-
Ueing him lie wim remmded of his mhatake
to the laughter << ih' »rowd Msfl strove to
retum and shak»th* l‘mudc*>t's temd. twit
waa hnt awav by the rapidly -moving line
tt people Ixhurl mul
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND .MIDDLE STATEN.
A Chinese girl baby, the first infant of
the pig-tail nation ever born in Philadelphia,
has just been added to the Chinese colony in
the Quaker city.
The number of emigrants arriving at the
port of New York in 1885 is 280,745, a falling
off of about 30,000 over 1884.
The late storms along the coast have been
very disastrous to the Gloucester (Mass.)
fishermen. Five vessels and eight lives have
»een reported lost.
Ten men were badly burned by an explo
sion of natural gas at a gas well near Kittan
ning, Penn.
Hartford, Conn., has been treated to
several sharp earthquake shocks.
Many herds of cattle are being killed in
several Pennsylvania counties by order of the
State authorities; because of “ pleuro-pneu
monia.
Peter B. Sweeny, the brains of the no
torious Tweed ring, has returned temporarily
to New York after a long absence in Paris.
Hebecca Batterson, said to be 117 years
old, died a few days ago in Little Falls, N. Y.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Alexander Reed, a colored man, brutal
ly murdered Miss Carrie Boyd, at Gaines
town, Ga. Reed was captured by two colored
men, taken to the scene of the murder, tied
to a tree, wood piled around his body, and in
tiie presence of 500 people he was burned to
According to a prominent Arizona ranch
man dozens of families have been massacred
by Apaches in distant parts of the Territory,
and the news of their death has never spread
beyond the immediate vicinity, owing to the
long distance and a separation from the out
side world.
A fire at Greenville, Miss.. destroyed a
large oil mill, together with 2,400 bales of
cotton and ten small buildings, causing a
total estimated damage of $200,000. i
The wife and two children of Ferryman
James Saunders, were drowned by the cap
sizing of their boat near Nicholasville, Ky.
Hon. James E. Bailey, United States
Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881,
died a few days ago at Clarksville, Tenn.,
aged sixty-two years.
James Turner, a nephew of United States
Senator Brown, was run over by a freight
engine in Atlanta, Ga., and killed.’.
Two negroes, caught setting fire to a quan
tity of cotton near Crawford, Miss., were
taken from jail by a crowd and hanged to a
tree.
A Chicago paper states that the total
length of main lines of railroad laid in 1885
was 3,113 miles, which is about 700 miles lass
•han in 1884.
WASHING P
Mrs. Della Benner, the widow of ths
gallant officer who sacrificed his life whil*
endeavoring to relieve the yellow fever suf
lierers of the Lower Mississippi river several
yaars ago, has been appointed postmistress of
the yillage of Rogers Park, 111.
PBK3IDENT Cleveland has written to
Senator Voorhees expressing a desire to aid
in ths urv nosed erection of a monument to the
late Vice-President Hendricks at Indianapolis.
The goverfiiJ'ent will dispatch the revenue
, '“'■’Nir Rush fro.’’ 1 San to ssarcb
w „. v „
Mu V P hf.VYMBR, X f Hudson, N- has
bi»n appointed deputy of tho
currency-
A DeTAchmknt of United States tru.,
routed a large band of Mexican revolutionists
who had taken possession of an island in tha
Rio Grande river which belongs to our
government. _____
FOREIGN.
A severe storm has caused many wrecks
along the New Brunswick coast.
Jules Grew has been re-elected president
of France by the French senate and chamber
of deputies' at Versailles, his majority on
joint ballot being 135 t
ft h elated that Russia and Austria are se
c'tvUv’arming, and that both countries nave
sent, order# to England for quantities of
stores for their respective armies.
Great distress prevails among the fisher
men of the west coast of Ireland owing to a
lack of food, and many families are rejtorted
to be in a starving condition.
The eccentric king of Bavaria is a bank
rupt.
Captain Polleys, k»ng the American
consul in Cuba, has committed suicide in
Barbados#.
An Italian organ-grinder was struck dead
while leaning against an electric light pole in
New Orleans, and a companion who touched
his body also received a shock which
knocked him over and burned one hand to a
crisp.
Queen Christina, widow of King Ab
fonso, has l>een sworn in as regent of Spain.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The aveiT<e oust of a session of Congress is
(WO,OOO.
The Prince c! Wales has entered on his
forty-fifth year.
I iSnake poison, it is stall'd, kills at least
17,000 jHxiple per annum in Indio.
An Indian high school is to be establishe<l
I tn San Bemardine county, California.
A wild stallion has been killing animals
and scaring men near Cheyenne, W. 1.
The Missouri Cremation society has 40®
members, twenty-five of whom are women.
Silver coin is so veiy scai'cn in some i»artfi
i of Mexico that business es seriously interfered
1 with.
The new town erf Dunreith, in Dakota, of
; fens S;W and a town lot to the first boy baliv
; born in the place.
! The Burmese capital. Mandalay, is said to
I be infested by hordesof small black pigs, which
; are protected bv the govemtneut as s -aven
; gws.
i‘ At tho beginning of last year Vermont had
I thirteen ex-governors living, but four of them
I died during the year. Nine ex-governors
•till live.
The Congregationalist church at Walling
foni. Conn., has had but live pastors in a
continuous period of two hundred years of
church life.
The value of the pig iron produced in this
country in 1885 was $73,000,(W0, or nearly as
i mneh as the combined values of the gold'and
I silver producte.
1 As fall approached a Georgia farmer pulled
, up a watermelon vine that hail been bearing
■ all summer and transplanted it into a green
house. It now carries half a down mekma,
’ } which will average twenty pounds each.
J, M Waxjckr. who had a fifth interest in
the famous “bonansa firm,” was worth
so much money onee that he thought jx> verty
never again would knock at his door. But it
doos, for, though once a millionaire, be is now
moneytess.
The largest vine in the world is said to be
one growing at Oys, Portugal, which has been
|in bearing since 'IBO2. Its maximum yield
was in likrt, m which year it produced a suf
ficient quantity of grapes to make 165 gallons
' of wine; in ISfl. 1« l-o gallons, and in
only 7» 1-4 gallons. It covers an area of
5,815 square feet, and the stem at the boas
measures 6 M teet in • ircumferesnre.
All tl*e Metes DrewerA
Al! the mates in Preston N . 3 colliery, Ash
.snd. Pa, numbering tidrv -six, were drowoed
rharsday morning Tbs water gaieed on the
jnitups so rapidly that the animals could not b#
rssened. They ware rained at $l2O saoh.
1 DtSTRUCTIVI FIRE.
A MILLION DOLLARS OF PROPERTY
IN DETROIT SWEPT AWAY.
The City’s Largess Theatre Destroyed and
a Fireman Killed.
The most destructive fire than Has .occurred
Detroit in a score of years broke out tho
other morning in the seed store and ware
house of D. M. Ferry & Co., which occupied
one-half the block, bounded by Croghan and
Lafayette streets, east of Randolph. Smoke
was seen issuing from a window at about 9
o’clock and an alarm was sounded The fire
department was on the ground promptly, and
the men found the upper part of ibn building
full of dense smoke, which seriously interfered
with every attempt to locate the fire. Tho
breaking of windows to run in hose furnished
a sufficient draft to kindle the smotherd flames,
which at once broke out in fury. The
entire contents of the building were as inflam
mable as tinder and burned as rapidly, From
one end to the other it seemed to inflame at
once. The crowds fell back before the- intense
heat and the firemen were driven away from
their posts. Water seemed to have no effect on
the flames. In one hour’s time tho walls of
the south half of the building had fallen in.
The north half was shut off by a heavy brick
wall, with openings closed by double iron
doors. So powerful was the heat that these
were twisted from their fastenings and tho
flames swept into that half of the structure
and in half an hour more that was gone.
The fire then spread across an alley and
communicated to White's theatre, the largest
and most complete structure of tho kina in
the city, which trouts on Randolph street,
and this was soon destroyed. Several ad
jacent single stores in the block followed, so
so that finally an entire square was .wept
clean, with the exception or one smalhiriclc
structure.
This was the busiest season of the year for
Ferry & Co. Their building was full from
top to bottom of material already sorted and
packed for shipment. Their loss is, as near
as can bo estimated, $G50,000 on building and
gtock, on which they have an insurance of
$430,600.
The loss on White’s theatre is estimated nt
about $125,000. The building originally cost
$75 ,000, but a large amount of additional ex- |
pease lias been put on the premises. Ths
stage properties, scenery, etc., were very
complete. All the contents, with slight
exceptions, were destroj’ed. William H.
Wesson is the owner, ■nd is well in
sured. The other buildings on the Randolph
street side of the burned block belonged to
the estate of the late E. A. Brush, and were
worth $75,000. They are fairly insured. |
There were other losses of stocks that
will aggregate something like $50,000
more. Altogether the losses can
not be less than $1,000,000, about
two-thirds insured. Captain Richard Filban, ■
of one of the truck companies, was struck by i
a falling wall during the progress of the firs ;
and instantly killed. He was an unmarried
man, twenty-eight years old, and the support
of a widowed mother. Two other firemen
were seriously injured from the same cause.
.’•.CESEfc IN THE GREAT SCIENTIST’S
LABORATORY.
l4iX .lujcricntif. Bitten by Hud Do*s, Inocn.
fated Against the Rabies.
A special < Paris to the
New York toI&WS scenes
in the laboratory M- i. the
whose discovery of a cure Xw* hydrophobia j
has created sufe a sensation tbXC’PghouHife I
civilized world’
Another dog-bttten- e|tizA-il of New Jersey |
—Edward Bucklin, m'teen years of age—ar
rived to-day the laboi*rfory in the Rue
d’Ulm and received his first inoculation at
11:80. fie makes the sixth American treated
by Id.. Pasteur up to date. Kaufman is doing
Well and M. Pasteur says he may start for j
Ijomfi on Saturdav. Sartor now says he ■
doesn’t wailt tq-oSTbocimv'd.
While Pasteur wak supervising the iu- '
oculations to-d*)' two telegrams were hand
ed to him. Tearing one of them- open he 1
exclaimed, “It's front America!'’ It proved i
to be frolh the president of the Pasteur in
stitute in Newt York, and asked if M. Pas- ■
teur would receive a medical man who knew ‘
French to study fn his laboratory and leva I
his methods.
As M. Paitteur handed me the telagrtun he ’
said: “These gentlemen are in too much of a j
hurry. It is premature to attempt anything 1
yet. Wait until we see hew the cases ■
, already treated turn out. Wait until I
we see how the Newark children get i
along. Wait at leaM until March, when j
the series of experiments already commenced !
will enable me to moke known facts and <lata
much more specific and detailed than any- '
thuiK yet puphshtel. (>t rourse I feel very
much flattered to bear that Americans have
thought fit to give my name to the institute,
but in the pure interests of science delay is
needed, as everything so far is merely ex
ptanmental.”
M. Pasteur then opened the seeoud di>
Fateh. This was (Yom a fanner at Aire-sur-
Adour, in the Department of the Landes,
announcing that a mad shepherd dog hail at
tacked him and sixty cows, biting a very
large number of the latter. The dog, which
was undoubtedly mad. was killed. The
farmer l>egged M. Pasteur or an asaif
tant to come to Aire and inoculate the
whole herd. I asked M. Pasteur. “How do
you propose to answer thw telegram f’ M.
Pasteur said: “It is impossible for me or an
assistant to go there, and for the cows to
come hen* is impracticable. Mv laboratory,
as you see. is too small even to hold the score
' of patients that cotne here every morning, to
i rav nothing of sixty cows,”
Five new patients then entered the labora-
I tory. One of them was a shoemaker, ac
companied by his wife, who nslted. “After
my husliand was bitten I sucked the wound
with my mouth. Must I be inoculated alsoT
M. Pasteur said, “Nt». it is not necessary.”
and as the woman was poor, he gave her
twenty francs to go home with.
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.
A ( •mblaattea wbteb Rnn<«T»avther I.SSS
Mite* es Hoad.
It is stated here that C. P. IJ intiugton will
i tonsolidate all his property east of the Misda
* i:ppi River at an ear y date. The Newport
News and the 11 is use: ppi Valiey railroad is to
j be the title of the new oomusny. which emir aces
She Chesapeake and the Ohio, extending fr<uu
j Newport News to Huntington, West Va, 531
I miles; the Elizabethton. Lexington and Btg
Sandy, Huntington to Lexington. Ky . ISS
' Bailee; the Cheeapeaka Ohio and Southwrsiern,
Louiaville to Memphis. 322 mdea; the Ixmisville,
New Orleans and Texas, Memphis to New Or
ioans, 533 milee, and the Keo tuck ▼ Central, *154
■tile*. These roads, witi an segregate mueag«
of 1,828 miles, are to be under one general mae
agetnent. The Maysville and But Sandv road
will be extended from Ashland. Ky., to Cincin
aati this year. This will shorten the distance
about sixty bulsa.
A Pretty Blende'* Tsurte.
Miss Eda Rrawnell, a young and pretty
blonde, of Qeveland, Q., whose parents are in
good circumatances and moved in good soci
ety. has just married a colored man named
Barber, who is also a barber by trade. A col
ored clergyman performed the service. A eol- '
cred woman servant has acted as go4x tween
between the girt and her black lover. Hi*
viMta were esteneibly to the colored woman.
The new married ooup.e left ths city after the |
marriage.
CALLING IN BONDS.
SECRETARY MANNING’S CALL FOB
TEN MILLIONS
■ ' i
The Call Issued to Allay a Fear of Disturb
ance iu Finance.-
Secretary Manning has issued a bond cal
for ten millions of three per cents, interest on
which will cease on the Ist of February next.
This is the first call of bonds since September
26,1884, fifteen months ago.
| It is understood that the call was made by
Secretary Manning in order to remove from
the minds of the public any apprehension as
lo a disturbance in the money market grow
ing out of any or continued shipments of gold
to foreign markets. It is said that sufficient
calls will be made whenever it is evident that
a supply of gold is necessary to meet demands
-of this character.
the call.
Treasury Department, I
Office of the Secretary, >
Washington, D. C., Dec. 29,1885. )
By virtue of the authority conferred by
law upon the secretary of the treasury, no
tice is hereby given that the principal and
accnied interest of the bonds hereinbelow
designated, will be paid at the treasury of the
L nited States, in the city of Washington, D.
C., on the Ist day of February, 1886, and that
the interest on said bonds will cease on that
day viz.; three per cent, bonds issued under
the act of Congress approved July 12, 1882,
and numbered as follows:
sso—Original No. 299 to original i?o. 303,
both inclusive, and original No. 1,314 to orig
inal No. 1,367, both inclusive.
sloo—Original No. 2,166 to original No. 2,-
*O4, both inclusive, and original No. 9,564,
to original No. 9,863, both inclusive.
ssoo—Original No. 1,076 to original No. 1,-
090, both inclusive, and original No. 4,048 to
original No. 4,200, both inclusive.
9 r j gina * ■ No * original No.
10,012, both inclusive, and original No. 23,011
to original No. 23,587, both inclusive. ■*
SIO,OO0 —Original No. 17,401 to original No.
18,364, both inclusive.
Total, $10,000,000.
on S^ s . described above are either bonds
of the ’original” issue, which have but one
serial number at each end, or “substitute”
bonds, which may be distinguished by the
doulfle set of numbers, which are marked
plainly “original numbers” and “substitute
numbers.” All of the bonds of this loan will
be call**! by the original numbers only.
The three months’ interest due February 1,
1886, on the above described bonds will not be
paid by checks forwarded to the holders of
the bonds,but will be paid, with the principal,
to the holders at the time of presentation.
Many of the bonds originally included in
the above numbers have been transferred or
exchanged into other denominations on
waiver,” the original numbers being can
celed, and leaving outstanding the apparent
amount above stated.
The provision of law governing the order
in which the bonds shall be called in is as fol
lows:
11 The last of the said bonds originally issued
under this act, and their substitutes, shall be
fifrt called in, and this order of payment
sjiall followed until all shall have been
Bonds forwarded fbf redemption should be
addressed to the “Secretary 61 chi Treasury,
Division of Loans, Washington, D. (3.,”/na
all bonds called by this circular should be
assigned to the “Secretary of the Treasury for
redemption.” Assignments Tifdst be dated
and properly acknowledged as prescribed in
the note printed on the back of each bond.
W here checks in payment are desired in
f ? vo r any - one but the P ft yee the bonds
should Ixi assigned to the ‘‘Secretary of the
(Treasury for redemption for account of’
(hen? insert the name of the person or persons
to whofje, order the check should be made pay
able), iDaniel Manning, Secretary
(- ’
PERSONAL MENTION.
Ex-Premier William E. Gladst .. .
just passed his seventj’-sixth year 4 * "
King Milan’s courtiers p
. txo dagger won by P
JOAQOT Mtux?Lth. cx-po.t.i, g( , ingto
Cuba m search of a * 8
Secretary PLa yard is to speak a com
mencement piece at the University of Kan-
P„ Gowen, the Pennsylvania Railroad
magnate, will never talk business after three
P. M.
“I think I was bora with a headache,”
' said the poet Whittier to a visitor a few days
j ago-
Leland Stanford, the millionaire Sena
| tor from California, pays to his private sec
; retary the salary he receives as Senator.
Lord Salisbury, the English premier, has
his eldest son, his son-in-law, his brother-in
law and two nephews in the House of Com
' mono.
Pasteur is not a physician, but a chemist
He is a native of Dole, in tile Department of
Jura. France, and is in his sixtieth year.
George Bancroft, the historian, now
eighty-six and George H. Calvert, eighty
three, are the only Americans living whoever
I saw the poet Goethe.
President Porter, of Yale, with his five
■ assistants still engaged in the revision of
! Webster’s dictionary, will admit “boycott”
i and “dude” in the new edition.
Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tichborne
will tome of age and enter into possession of
I his estates next May, and in spite of the
S*jOO,(XM) spent in op}x>sing “the '’lai ma nt" he
s will be a rich man, his rent roll amounting to
| more than $140,000 a year.
; All of the candidates of the presidential
; tickets of 1«72 are dead. They were Grant
i Greeley, Wilson and Brown. General John
! U. Fremont is the sole survivor of the cam
paign of 1856. Hannibal Hamlin of the cam
l>aign of 1860. George H. Pendleton of 1864,
! and Horatio Seymour of 1868.
r
Boiler Explosions.
i HIX MEN KILLED ALABAMA AND
PENNSYLVANIA.
A few days since the boiler of the Gulf City
Oil Mills, Mobile. Ala., exploied with ter
j rible force, tearing down the boiler-house
: ami part of the seed sheds, and burying four
colored laborers in the debris. They w >re all
killed. Three other negroes were'seriously
‘ scalded, and two slightly hurt. I. 8 Stanton
twhitel, the foreman of the mill, vas badly
I injured internally.
I Jn the same day the boiler of a threshing
I machine in * barn near New Provtaence,
j Penn , exploded, killing two young men
nanuxi respectively Christian Hildebrand and
j Edward Helm. The barn waa set on fire and
| destroyed.
ClaiMla* a City.
Quite a seasation wm produced in Charles
ton, N. C., by the appearance of Mr. K. Elias*
of Franklin, N. Cl, having in his possession a
title made by the sheriff of Macon countv in
year 1838, to Mr. Dillard Love, for a certain
tract of land located in what is now Swaim
county, and situated exactly where thia town
and tne town ot Bryajn now ataud. Mr. Elias,
I for his client, Mr. johnlngram. of Macon coun
'i tv, procured the regi -trail n of hia deed, and
I the inbabitanta of the twin cities ca'enlate only
so much of their property as can by the laws of
| our country be be d by poasemtom
(Th- finsai Cavla* la.
A eave-in occurred at Boston Bet®, near Ma-
I honey City. Pa , and a block of bouses went
down oct of atgt-ti Famiii.a Lving in the
houses made a narrow escape. The sunace »
•till caving, and five more blocks are expected
to go down
DBSTIHIK ARABS.
STILL FIERCELY FIGHTING THE
BRITISH IN EGYPT.
A Butttie In Which the Rchela were Com
pietely Routed.
A dispatch from Kosheh, Egypt, saysi
“Lieutenant General Stephenson, command
er of the British forces in Egypt, who recent
ly arrived here with large reinforcements,
attacked the rebels who had been menacing
the garrison for several weeks. A three-bours
fight ensued, resulting in the British troops
capturing Giniss, a village near Kosheh. The
rebels were completely routed. The cavalry is
pursuing the enemy. The guns and twenty
banners were captured. The English losl
one officer killed and twenty-one men
wounded. The Egyptian allies of the Brit
ish lost six killed and thirteen wounded.”
The Arabs fought stubbornly. Five Emirs
were killed. Twenty dead Arabs were found
in one house.
British men-of-war have been ordered to
blockade the coast of Egypt from Massowab
to Suez, in order to prevent the importation
into the Soudan of arms and ammunition for
the Arabs.
The rout of the rebels was so coriiple’te, says
a later dispatch, that General Stephenson is
hopeful that there will be no necessity for
further operations.
A recent report stated that the at
Giniss and Abai numbered 7,000, of whom
1,100 were riflemen. They had six guns and
plenty of ammunition. The guns were placed
in earthworks, and the line of fire was dire/J
on the Nile, so as to oppose the passage of a
steamer.
Ab-del-Kader Pasha, minister of war, for
merly governor of the Soudan, in a recent
conversation on the Egyptian question, said:
“If the English retire on Wady Haifa they
must retire on Assouan, and if on Assouan,
then on Cairo. Every pace in advance give!
the English a hundred friends; every pace in
retiring gives them two hundred enemies,
half in front, half in real-. England may
gain victory after victory, but if they arc
followed by retreat the English government
has uselessly wasted blood. There is not one
in ten who will believe in England’s defeat. I
say that a retirement now would be fatal.”
When asked whether the question was in
soluble he replied; “No, it requires two things
—first, a fixed policy to crush rebellion;
secondly, money. Let England attack the
enemy m force, and after the latter’s defeat
open negotiations. With native emissaries
and money England could detach the soldiers
who are now the backbone of the rebellion
and also some tribes who are always jealous
of each other.”
When asked what sum would be required,
the minister said: “Perhaps £2,000,000, but
this policy would be the cheapest in the long
run. ” #
m. Mm Irk.
SCENES IN THE GREAT SCIENTIST’S
LABORATORY.
Six Americans, Bitten by Mad Dogs, Inocu
lated Against the Rabieg.
A special cable dispatch from Paris to thd
New York Herald describes as follows scenes
in the laboratory of M. Pasteur, the scientist
whose discovery of a cure for hydrophobia
has create sack a sensation throughout the
civilized ftbrid;
Another dog-bitten citizen of New Jersey
—Edward Btieklin, fifteen years of age—ar
t/Mlay ht the laboratory in tho Rua
and (received his first inoculation at
.• * .du. He makes the sixth American treated
dy M. Pasteur up to date. Kaufman is doing
well and M. Pasteur says he may start for
home on Saturday. Sattler now says lie
doesn't want to be inoculated.
While M. Pasteur was supervising the in
oculations to-day two telegrams were hand
ed to him. Tearing one of them open he
exclaimed, “It’s from America!” It proved
to be from the president of the Pasteur in
stitute in New. York, and asked if M. Pas
teur would receive a medical man who knew
French to study in his laboratory and learn
his methods.
As M. Pasteur handed me the telegram ho
said: “These gentlemen are in too much of a
hurry. It is premature to attempt anything
yet. Wait until we see how the cases
already treated turn out. Wait until
we see how the Newark children get
along. Wait at least until March, when
the series of experiments already commenced
will enable me to make known facts and data
much more specific and detailed than any
thing yet puplished. Os course I feel very
much flattered to hear that Americans have
thought fit to give my name to the institute,
but in the pure interests of science delay is
needed, as everything so far is merely ex
perimental.”
M. Pasteur then opened the second dis-
Fatch. This was from a farmer at Aire-sur-
Adour, in the Department of the Landes,
announcing that a mad shepherd dog had at
tacked him and sixty’ cows, biting a very
large number of the latter. The dog, which
was undoubtedly mad. was killed. The
fanner begged M. Pasteur or an assic
tent to come to Aire and inoculate tho
whole herd. I asked M. Pasteur, “How do
?ou propose to answer this telegram?” M.
'asteursaid: “It is impossible lorineor an
assistant to go there, and for the cows to
come here is impracticable. My laboratory,
as you see, is too small even to hold the score
of patients that come here every morning, to
say nothing of sixty cows.”
Eive new patients tiif-n entered the labora
tory. One of them was a shoemaker, ac
companied by his wife, who asked, “After
my husband was bitten I sucked the wound
with my mouth. Must I be inoculated also?"
M. Pasteur said, “No, it is not necessary.”
■ and as the woman was poor, he gave ucr
twenty francs to go home with.
FIYK PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Murderers Roaming Looae ever West Vir
ginia.
A dispatch from Charleston, W. Ya., saya:
Five prisoners escaped Monday night from the
county jail, when Dick Wyatt, the night guard,
went ipto the jail to Jock the prisoners in their
cells, one of them knocked him down, A gen
eral stampede fo,lowed. Jailer Cowles attempt
ad to fasten the outer gate, but was knocked
• down before he could do so. The men who es
caped were Georg® and Rjchard Seffrey, broth
ers, who killed William Douglass; George Bears
■ ley, who killed Henry Moore; Lewis Douglass
T“° killed Tom Neal last Christinas eve, and
Luther Smith, a negro, who was serving a three
/•are aenteuce for grand larceny.
TUOS- W. KEENE PARALYZED.
A Great Actor Laid Upon a Red of
SlckneM.
Thomas W. Keene, the actor, was stricken
rith paralysis at a reception tendered him Sun
day night by the local lodge of the order of
E ks, and is now at the Coate house, attended
bv able phyaiwans anA a host of friends.
" e »an®nng any pain, and insists that
he win appear on Tuesday n;ght. His right
arm and ehoulder is parah z d, and his face »
drawn to the right. He ca n speak only in
whispers. It is probable that be will recover
from Ihw attack, but it is certain that he will
not be able to resume the duties of his profes
sion as he expect*.
A Japanese court has just set an ex i
xmple to civilization by fining an editoi
twenty-veven yen for neglecting to ac
knowledge the source of extract* clipped
from a contemporary.
Prosjeeins for “Siar.”
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