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2 THE WEEKLY STAR. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— CHAS. O. PEAVY. NOUGLAS COUNTY OFFICIAL ORGAN. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Year, in advance, .90cta. “ “on a credit, $1.15. OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Stab : L. S. Fbathebston, Villa Rica, Ga.. T. J. Bowen, Salt Springs, Ga., Thos. Adair. AuhtuLL. Q» Willie Dabnell, Winston, Ga., Lee Dobsett, Chapel Hili; Ga. Address all communications to THE STAB, Douglasville, Ga. Entered at the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga?, as second-class matter. A GREAT OFFER. -FREE- TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS! All subscribers of the Stab who make an advance payment of one year will re ■ceive as a premium one year’s subscrip tion to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON,' A handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper that will become a welcome visit or in the home of every intelligent 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. 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