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THE SENTINEL. MISSISSIPPI J. W. Il'CIMH, liuitr Ml Proprietor. GRENADA i CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. A bail-storm in the Black Hills ruined two thousand acres of growing grain. The Georgia State University has just received a gift of $30,004 from Senator Jo seph Brown. Under the repression act, sixteen counties, eight cities, and four baronies Ireland have been proclaimed. John Bright has retired from the English Cabinet. Ills resignation was offi cially announced in the House of Commons on the 15th. The Canadian Government has im posed upon the Pullman Car Company very heavy fine for bringing supplies into the Dominion without paying duty. Two-thirds of the Italians and Rus lian Jews who took the places of the strik ing freight-handlers In New Y'ork have quit work, and It Is predicted that the railroads will be compelled to yield. The Mayor and Councilmen of Lead vllle, Colo., were fined $250 each and sen tenced to ten days In Jail for contempt of court the other day. The Police Judge and City Attorney were removed and their suc cessors appointed. A band of two hundred Jacarilla Apaches are encamped sixty miles from Las Vegas, and soldiers from Fort Union have been ordered out to watch their move ments. Agent Thomas has ordered the savages to return to their reservation. Alexandria is a mass of crumbling ruins. Americans, Germans^ Russians and Greeks who disembarked from their respec tive ships of war act as police in different districts, while the British occupy the forts and bastions, and are stationed at the gates. Judge-Advocate Swaim thinks that Sergeant Mason, who failed to kill Guiteau, was unjustly sentenced, in that the assault with which he was charged was a physical impossibility; that the positions of the two l»en and the surroundings were such as to make the charges wholly invalid. The President has issued an order dis continuing the military department of West Point, placing the academy In charge of the General of the Army, and appointing Gen eral Wesley Merritt Superintendent. Gen eral Howard Is assigned to the department of the Platte and General Crook to the de partment of Arizona. The bill to extend the charters of na tional banks has received the signature of President Arthur. In accordance with its provisions, Secretary Folger has Issued to holders ot continued bonds a circular an nouncing that on August 1 such securities will be received in exchange for registered 3 per cents bearing interest from that date. The investigation into the causes of the disaster to the steamer Scioto clears Pilot Keller of the charge of in toxication. Several witnesses who in the pilot-house at the time of the acci dent, and In company with Keller previous to It, testified that he was perfectly sober and had not touched intoxicating liquors that day. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, widow of the martyred President and mother of Hon. Robt. T. Lincoln, Secretary of War, died on Sunday, July 10, In Springfield, III. The immediate cause of her death was apoplec tic paralysis. To those acquainted with her condition her death was not a surprise. Mrs. Lincoln was born December 15, 1818, in Lexington, Ky., and died In her 64th year. She was the daughter of Hon. R. S. and Elizabeth P. Todd. She was married to Abraham Lincoln November 4, 1S42, and from that time until the assassination she shared the successes and fortunes other dis tinguished husband. N I Ft The agent of the Suez Canal protests against the action of the British Consul at Port Said, preventing vessels from entering tbe canal, as violative of Its neutrality, and declaring the company will hold the British Government responsible. All ships, includ ing the Indian mail steamers, remain In the roadstead. The British Consul, In pursu ance of Admiral Seymour's Instructions, has hauled down his flag and gone aboard a gunboat. In the House of Commons on the 12th Dilke, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that so far as be was aware Ad miral Seymour had merely cautioned mer chant vessels that they would pass tbrough tbe canal at their own risk. The British fleet opened fire upon Alexandria on the morning of July 11, The batteries at once responded, but their shots at first fell short of the ships. After twenty minutes' cannonade two of the forts ceased firing. Shortly after noon all tbe exposed guns on the forts were dismounted and only those In sheltered positions were able to return tbe fire. The Egyptians stuck to their guns until the forts were crumbling, but they had no shells and were not good marksmen- Considering the extent and na ture of the works, tbe weight and number of guns mounted, and the dogged pluck with which tbe Egyp tians fougbt, tbe victory Was obtained with surprisingly small loss to the British, tbe total of casualties in the fleet being five killed and twenty-seven wounded. The Egyptian loss Is unknown, but Is likely to be severe. Part of tbe Palace Is In ruins. The lighthouse was slightly damaged. It Is reported lbat the Egyptian Ministers were not aware of Admiral Seymour's nltlma tum, because It was Intercepted by Arabi Pasha. The bombardment was resumed on tbe 12th, the Egyptians making a feeble response. A flag of truce was displayed at noon, but no formal surrender was made. Oil the 13th tho Egyptians abandoned tbe city to plunderers and Incendiaries and fled inland, A force of English marines went ashore and were met at tbe wharf by about n hundred European residents. The others bad been driven together and butchered or burned. The massacre was fearfully avenged. Fifteen hundred Arabs are dead, and two thousand wounded. Germany and Austria have telegraphed Gladstcne their approval of the action of the fleet. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Six boy* have died in Boaton and vielnltr ilnee the Fourth from lockjaw caused by toy-pistol wounds. A party of Germane made an attempt to batter down the doors of the Jail at Las Vegas, N. M., the other day, In order to lynch H. C. Brown for the murder of Frank Meyer. The Sheriff gave them ample warning, and then ordered the guards ot open with Winchester rifles. When the smoke cleared away, four men lay on the ground badly wounded, two of whom will die. A second attempt at a lynching Is predicted. Ill the star-route trials at Washing ton, the other day, an attachment was issued for ex-Senator Spencer. A letter was pro duced from one of the officers of the Over land Mall Transportation Company, alleg ing that $30 had been paid to Postmaster Abbott, of Alvorid, Oregon, to prevent him from making complaints to the Post-office Department. A party ol one hundred Indians cap tured every horse belonging t* a band of cit izens who left Globe City, Arizona, to pro tect settlers In the .Salt River country, and the rangera walked home. Three commands of cavalry went after the savages. Two sons of J. A. Todd, of Washing ton, Iowa, were drowned in the reservoir supplying the city with water, July 11. One fell In and the other fried to save him. The first accident to the newly com pleted Chicago, Burlington £ Quincy Road occurred on the 13th, at Brush Station, 90 mllea from Denver. A pasaenger train ran Into a drove of cattle and was thrown from the track. The engineer and fireman were Injured. James Finki.e, a thirteen-year-old hero, lost his life while trying to rescue a companion who had got beyond his depth while bathing near Chilllcothe, III., on the 13th. Miss Belle Parr, of Columbia, 0., died od the 12th from an overdose of morphine. The drug was prescribed by a physician, who claims she must have taken more than the quantity directed. Black burglars entered the store of Mr. A. Farkas, Vicksburg, Miss., at an early hour on the 13th, murdered Mrs. Far kas and chloroformed her husband, After which they fired the house and escaped. Mr. Farkas recovered from the effects of the drug in time to escape. A robber who attempted to stop the Laporte and Marysville stage near Straw berry, Cal., the other day, was shot at and wounded by M. Hackett, messenger for Wells, Fargo & Co., but managed to escape. A train with 217 persons on board ran off the rails between Tohnery and Basti Jeur, Russia, on the 13th. One hundred and seventy-eight persons were killed. Those not killed were injured more or less. As Dr. Martin, a veterinary surgeon was driving near Canton, Ohio, tho other night, he was stopped by three highway men, who gave him a terrible beating, rob bed hifn of $275 and a gold watch, and then hurled him over a bridge into a stream. The doctor happened to fall in shallow water, however, and was rescued. Three laborers were killed and a number of others seriously injured by an explosion of blasting powder near Milton, N. Y., on the 13th. On the Fourth of July a young fellow named John Hetler obtained employment onafarmnear Wabash, Ind. On the 13th the Sheriff of Ottawa County, Mich., ap peared and arrested him on the charge of murderiDg his mother at Grand Haven. Hetler confessed his guilt and went peace ably with the officer. The Chicago police captured two sneak-thieves, the other evening, one of whom asked a private hearing, when he stated that he and his companion seven years ago murdered a woman In a theater at Stockholm, Sweden, for $500 offered them by a man whom she had blackmailed. The penitent thief said his accomplice had ever since forced him to continue in tho path of crime, and he desired to be freed from him. When the officers went to interview the second party they found him attempting su icide. The steamer Charlotte Vanderbilt was cut In two by the iron yacht Y'o-emlte on the Hudson River the other night. No lives were lost. Two colored women, named Thomp son and Hardy.quarreled about money mat ters in Lewiston, N. C., July 14. Mrs. Thompson selected a carving-knife and the other grabbed an ax. A sanguinary battle ensued. Mrs. Thompson drove the knife through her antagonist, killing her, and then had to be dragged off the body. Six business blocks in Dayton, W. T., burned the other night. The loss is es timated at $300,000. J. R. Collins went on a spree in Chattanooga, Tenn., the other night, and was robbed. The next morning brought re gret and an ounce of laudanum. Wm.Todd, of Pittsburgh, Pa., a steam boatman, was fallen upon by the inmates of a gambling-house In Cincinnati on the 15th and was stabbed in the back, groin and side. The wounds are regarded as serious. The assailants escaped. M. J. Crouch, a grocer, was arrested In Chicago on the 14th on a charge of obtain ing money on false pretenses and being a fu gitive from Justice. His property was levied upon for claims amounting to $11,700. Crouch says It Is a case of blackmail. Some twelve hundred feet of the Hud son River tunnel has been completed the Jersey side nnd over five hundred feet on the New York section. Edward Hall and wife and H. S. Hall were drowned at Worcester, Mass., on the 14th, while driving across a bridge. At Brownsville, Texas, on the 15th, Leonard Haynes, son of the Collector, avenged a alster'a wrongs by killing District Attorney W. E. Cummings. After firing the shot Haynes ran for the river, distant but a few hundred yards, where a boat was In waiting, and made his escape. He was closelyspursued by two police, but James Haynes held them at bay with two revolvers till bis brother was safe in Mexico. James then gave himself up and was placed in Jail. At Mandan, Dakota, the other day, on a trestle-work sixty feet high, a light oc curred between William Watson, of Sagi naw, and Peter P. Stuart, of Dali Prairie, Mich., which ended in both going over to death. Twenty-three families of Russian Jews have returned to New York from Philadelphia, complaining of their treat ment, and begging to be sent back to their native land. A woman was shot dead at Balia, Ireland, for taking a farm from which a tenant had been evicted. Fikty-eiwit horses and a cow wer« routed In a Chicago livery liable the other day. There wa« no chance to save any of them, for the doorways were choked with flames, and none of the windows were over two feet square. For a few moments the ago. ntzlng neighs and groans of the scorching and suffocating brutes were terrible to hear, but they were soon over. Within ten minutes after the breaking out of the flames all the Imprisoned animals were dead. Avery, the living skeleton, became too thin for existence on the 16tb. Chronic dyspepsia carried him off. Jos. Addison and Richard Garland fought a duel near Petersburg, Va., the other day, with pistols at six feet distance. Addison was killed and Garland wounded. Alfred H. Pease, the pianist, is dead. Five destructive fires occurred in New York City on the 14th. The losses in each case are serious. FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Tn the Senate, July 11, the conference re tlie bank charter bill dopted port and the river and harbor bill proceeded with. An amendment to strike out the $100,000 ap propriated for reset* of the Mississippi was rejected, of appropriations were Increased, and Mr. Vest finally called attention to the fact that the bill was being loaded down to such an extent as to endanger it. After a long de bate an amendment to increase b appropriation defeated. The van voirs at the headwaters A number y $50,000 the Sound was for Cumberland bill was reported from the committee of the whole, but went over with out action.In the House a few more pages of the sundry civil bill were disposed of. The river and harbor bill passed the Sen ate on the 12th—30 to 23. The amendment appropriating $20,000 for surveys of the Dela ware ship canal was concurred in, as were the otner amendments of the oommlttee. The Pembina Territory bill was laid over as unfinished business cnsslon of tho sundry civil bill wafr resumed. The item of $2,400,000 for public printing caused debate, and it was voted that the Su preme Court reports should be published at the public printing office and sold at ten per cent, above cost. In the House dis The bill to establish a bureau of animal industry was reported in the Senate on the 13th. A resolution to inquire into the expe diency of publishing certain napers of An drew Jackson was adopted; also, a resolu tion appropriating $50,000 lor representation at the fisheries exhibition in May, 1683. The Republican leaders moved to set aside tho business of the morning hour to tnke up the tax-reduction bill. Tho Democrats, on opposing this, were ac ceused of opposing a reduction ot taxation, and the result was an all-day debate over the matter, with some tariff talk thrown in. In the House the sundry civil bill was taken up and the sum of $70,000 voted to thirty-five contestants for scats. A wrangle arose over an item of $15,000 for civil-service-reform measures, Mr. Ilorr declaring competitive ex aminations a humbug. The bill passed—138 to 49. Mr. Bayard criticised the tax bill in the the 14th, after which It Senate for amendments and went over. read In tho House most of the Senate amendments to the general deficiency bill were rejected. The amendment to establish a board of audit to determine claims for services to President debated by Messrs. Blackburn .Taylor, Springer, Hitchcock, Dun nell and others, and the House refused to concur—78 to H3. Mr. Taylor was then given unanimous consent to pay to the widow of Mr. Garfield $50,000, less any sum paid him on bis salary as President, and the bill passed. A night session for pension bills was held. Senator Anthony introduced a bill to Garfield while sick w repeal so much of the army bill as relates to the retirement of Gens. Sherman and Sheri dan, July 15. A resolution was adopted call ing for declarations of Bulwer and Clayton on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The resolution withholding payment of double pc Gen. YV. B. Burnett was discussed till piration of the morning hour. The pension appropriation bill was then taken np, and Mr. Beca moved an amendment thut once a be published In eiision to . the ex y<yir the names of pensioners one newspaper in every county. After some discussion the amend ment was ruled out on a point of order and the bill passed. The Senate Insisted on its amendments to the harbor bill House the committee on tho legislative appropriation bill reported a disagreement and the same conferees Tho matter of salaries of employees reform committee. Tho resolution adopted calling for information as to the privileges of the French Cable Company. The Senate amendments to tho river and har bor bill In the were reappointed. I Senate and House ! referred to the civil service ! At e non-concurred in. LATE NEB'S ITEMS. In the Senate, on the 17th, a new conference committee on the legislative ap propriation bill was appointed. The inter nal revenue bill went over. In the House resolutions were Introduced In the interest ■ of Americans in British prisons. The bill passed to establish training schools for In dians. : | Tiie ambassadors of six nations at Constantinople urge the Porte to sendTurk lsb troops to Egypt. The French Government has signi fied its intention to send troops to Egypt to assist in the protection of the Suez Canal nnd has ordered transports to be placed In readiness for service. The famous suit of James R. Lang don and others against the Vermont & Can ada Railroad, asking for a foreclosure on the property, has been decided by the Ver mont Supreme Court In favor of ex-Gov ernor Smith. A dispatch from Cattinje, Montene gro, says the Governor and Judicial Chief and twenty-five soldiers were surprised and slaughtered by insurgents the other day. It is alleged that the liquor interest In Milwaukee, WIs., has been boycotting temperance advocates, causing tbe cancel ing of a $12,()00 order for furniture and tho withdrawal of insurance risks ot $40,000 from an obnoxious agent. Mrs. Hueknbrock, wife of Adolph Hufenbrock, of the Lockport Brewery, near New Philadelphia, O., committed sui cide the other day. She was sick and hopo less. Rosa and Lilly Dunnigan, aged 9 and 11 years respectively, were drowned in a pond at Sedalla, Mo., the other day. Rosa got Into deep water and her sister went to tbe rescue. The Venezuelan Government has re quested the Government of the United States to detain tbe piratical steamer Calon, for merly the Cantabro, should she make her appearance In American waters, and the Secretary of the Treasury directs all Custom officers to take the necessary steps to that end. TnE Massachusetts Federation of Trades and Labor Unions completed or ganization on the 10th. The federation in cludes the mule spinners (women) of Law rence. Edward McKinley, Thomas King, and an unknown companion, circus men, were seated in tho door of a oox-car on a train near Lykens, Pa,, the other day. In passing a siding McKinleys legs came in contact with a car, bo was thrown with great force against his two companions, and all three were knocked from the train. King fell under the cars and was Instantly kll cd, Mcalnley had a heel crushed, and I the third utan was badly bruised. SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. Tennessee State-Credit Democracy. The convention of State-Credit Demo crats at Nashville, Tenn., July 11, adopted the following platform aud nominated J. H. Fuesell for Governor: We, the Democratic party of Tennessee in convention assembled, do declare: 1. That we are unalterably opposed to the repudiation of any of our State or national obligations and are In favor of maintaining inviolate the public faith. 2. That we recognize the recent settlement of the State debt made by the present IiCg islature as In accordance with the platform of the Democratic party of I860, both State and national, and as Just and honorable both to the people and the creditors of the State, and declare that it should not be disturbed or readjusted. , , 3. That we are opposed to all class legl-la tion and partial laws, and to a.l laws the ten dency of which is to impair the obligation of contracts. 4. We arc in favor of a liberal system of public schools, so that every child in Tennes see may have a good common school educa tion, and recognizing the good effects of \t hat the four-mile Jaw, by which tno increased and Is know number of schools lias bee crime and vice diminished, we are opposed t Its repeal. 5. Yve favor a policy that road corporations as w rations and individuals in nessee to bear their equal part of the burden of taxation. 6. We favor the establishment of will compel rail ell as all other eorpo the State of Ten •ail road commission to regulate freights and tariffs so as to prevent unequal discrimination, with uuoli powers as shall protect the rights of both and tiie railroads, opposed to a constitutional con vention at this time, believing that the neces sities for such convention do not justify tho danger of opening the organic law to amend ment in these times of unsettled political opinion. «. VVe the people 7. YVe are •aign the Republican party for Its reckless extravagance with public funds, the Issuance of subsidies to the favored few, the disregard ot the organic and fundamental jaw of the land, as set forth in the Constitu tion, and for its growing and increasing ad vance to centralization; for its system of pro tection to the strong corporation, thereby im posing additional burdens upon laborer, pro ducer and mechanic. Miscellaneous Items. Statistical returns of the Department uf Agriculture for July, which are very full, show that cotton has improved since June 1, Its average condition being three points bet ter than on 1st of July. From Virginia to Georgia and West of Mississippi every State shows higher figures. From Florida to Mississippi and Tennessee the condition has slightly declined. General average, 92, which is higher than in July, 1873 and 1874, and lower than in any other year for the past ten. It was 93 in 1877 and in 1879, and 95 last July. This condition is due to the late, wet spring, and rapidly and gener ally Improving under favoring skies. The figures for the several State* are: Virginia 86, North Carolina 90, South Carolina 98, Georgia 02, Floridji 92, Alabama 93, Mis sissippi 87, Louisiana 90, Texas 97, Arkan* aas 90, Tennessee 78. In Texas and South Carolina the condition is better than In July, 1881, and the same as that date In Louisiana. The drawbacks reported are those of the past, and mainly deficient stands, sIoyv growth and general backwardness, but there Is a marked absence at present of an un healthy condition. Returns are nearly unanimous in Indicating a good degree of vigor and rapidity of growth. Thus far there is only loss of time for deY'elopment and fruiting. Further favorable conditions may make good the deficiency, but unfavor able Yveather in July and August would make a full crop impossible. Mr. Black, who resides in Hillsboro, Ark., exhibits a control and influence over the reptile family astonishingly myster ious. In the woods,creeks, or wherever he finds a snake, it matters not of what type of deadly poison and venom it may be, he suc ceeds in capturing it alive and suffering as little from tho clasp of its fangs were on ordinary pin scratch. He handles and fondles them about his person with much indifference as if they were so many harmless toys. He will allow the largest rattlesnake to deliberately strike and bury his fangs into his flesh, and apparently suffer no inconvenience or serious conse quences from the tragic risk. By a certain weed or growth of vegetation he claims to destroy tho effect of the bite. When bitten, he chews and swallow's the Juice of the weed, which acts like a charm. A* nogro recently found on a planta tion fifteen miles from Tuscaloosa, Ala., not far beneath the surface of the ground, if it U entire skeleton over six feet long with a necklace upon It of white stone beads. The an bones crumbled as soon ss exposed. They were found close to an Indian mound, and, as other three skeletons have been unearthed on the three otbersides, It Is supposed the bodies were buried at the four ends of a cross, the mound being the central point. Not more than half the usual amount of tobacco has been planted In Virginia. Col. Bagley, of Covington, Ga., owns a mule eighty years of age, and will publish his pedigree in order to convince people that the age of the animal is not ex aggerated. It is estimated that the South has this season paid to the North $55,000,000 for wheat, $50,000,000 for corn, $72,000,000 for meats, and about $25,000,000 for hay, but ter, cheese, oats, apples, potatoes, etc. Georgia has recently been manufac turing miraculous stories similar to those formerly owing their origin to the boundless West. AVithin the limits of a single week a man's body disappeared completely after bis clothes had been torn off by a revolving shaft, a boy fell head first into an almost dry well sixty-five feet deep and was presently drawn up In the bucket, unscratched, and a man who had been bitten by a rattlesnake was snatched out of the Jaws of death by a celebrated mad-stone,whose owner values It at $1,000. More attention is now given to bee keeping in the South than ever before. The old-fashioned "bee-gum given place to Improved lilves, and a large Increase of honey Is the result. Henderson, N. C., has a new tobacco factory with a capacity of over 500,000 pounds of plug a year. For $7 George Graham, of Rome, Gn., recently climbed a flag-pole one hun dred feet and adjusted the rope by which the flag is managed. Newton Co.,Ark., has one negro voter. The ooal-fields of Alabama oover 10, 800 square miles, and the coal Is all bitumin ous, but differs widely in quality. The best coal In the Stnte, and in fact in the United States, being fully equal to English eannol coal, Is the Monievallo coal. In J872 only 10,000 tons were mined In the State; In 1870 tho annual output had been swelled to 290, 000 tons; In 1880 to 840,00f) tons, nnd In 1881 to 400,000 tons. Mormon missionaries are not preaeh soon has generally Ing In Grayson County, Kentucky, without effect, anil thirteen converts wero taken into the church by baptism recently. Fort Worth, Tex., has la,000 inhabU putts, BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. Two DayV Operationg-FIags of Truce and Their Kegults-The Damage Wrought by the Guns of the Iron-Cladg—Alexandria Burning and Evidently Being Pillaged The Beginning of the End. Off Alexandria, July 11—6 p. m. A British naval officer has furnished me with the following account of the day's operations: The bombardment commenced nt 7:45 this morning. The Iron-clads Superb, Sultan and Alexandria engaged and totally destroyed Fort Pharos aud the lighthouso batteries, which are at the entrance to the new port and were Intended to dominate the approach to, the new harl»or. The flag ship Invincible, the Monarch and the I e nelope took up commanding positions inside the reefs, and, assisted from outside by the Temerairc, attacked with destructive effect the strong position of Fort Mex, with the light-house ami shore batteries. The Inflexi ble was stationed so as to command the lightr house batteries. Fort Pharos ami Fort Mex at the same time*and was thus in a position to co-operaro both with the division outside and that inside the reels. The gun-vessels Bittern, Condor, IJ 'acon, Decoy and Cygnet attacked the Marabout batteries nt the entrance of the harbor, and, taking close and destructive range, soon silenced them, after which they ran in and shelled Fort Mex, on the southern side of the en trance to the anchorage or outer harbor. 'Jhe Invincible, under cover of herownguns and those < f the Bittern, then landed a party of blue-jackets and marines, who entered Fort Mex and blew up the heavy £uns. The bom bardment practically ceased at noon, though some heavy guns at this hour are still shelling Fort Napoleon, a large work situated at the southern angle of the inner harbor and domi nating the town. The fort does no reply. On whole the Egyptians fought their batteries with more determination than had been ex pected. Several of tho earthworks behind which guns were mounted were found to bo mere heaps of sand. the The Second Day. Off Alexandria, July 12,5 p. m. At 8 o'clock a. m. the Admiral summoned tho Captains of the fleet to consultation. Tho result of the deliberation was a decision that the sea was too heavy for serious operations. The rolling of the iron-clads would unsettle their aim, and the town might suffer severely from shot flying too high. Admiral Seymour therefore deferred tho intended attack on tho Marabout forts, but directed tho Temeraire and lnfle ible to watch the Ras-el-Tin and Ada forts. At half-past ten tho Temeraire sig naled that parties of soldiers wore at work at tho hospital battery near Fort Ada. The two Iron-clads opened fire. Only six rounds of shot and shrapnel were fired. All took effect, the practice being excellent. Tho troops engaged upon tho work at once abandoned it, and firing ceased. A white flag was now hoisted at tho light-house Tho Bit tern was sent inside to inquire as to tho in tentions of the Government After she steamed off, tho Temeraire made the f< Rowing signal: "Tho body of men we saw working the hospital battery dispersed ait r our last shrapnel was fired. They took refuge in the casements close by. We saw about ICO men, armed with rifles, running toward tho light house fort. They carried bags. YVe saw, also an Egyptian General, apparently Arab! Pasha, sin rounded by his staff." At three o'clock the Bittern was seen steam ing out of the harbor. As she came out she signaled: "Negotiations have failed. 1 have accordingly informed the authorities on shore that you will engage tho batteries at half-past three." From this it seemed staff observed in tho hospital battery, finding themselves In a dangerous position and un able to escape, had simply hoisted a flag of truce in order to get out of the fire. There was great indignation expressed that five hours should have been wasted in abortive negotiations, while meanwhile the swell had increased so much that tho fire from the v sels, if hostilities were resumed, would be in effective. At half past three the Bittern arrived along side. Lieutenant Lambton reported thut the evident object of the flag of truce was to gain time. When the Bittern went in largo bodies of troops were evacuating tho barracks behind tho forts, going out In full marching order. The Ministers had no proposals to make Lieutenant Lambton informed them he had not come to offer conditions, but to receive proposals. He informed them we did not con sider ourselves at war with Egypt but that the Mex fort must bo occupied by our troops, and Fort Marabout be destroyed. They replied that Fort Marabout hud already boen evacu ated, but they could give no definite answer ns to tho Mex fort. Finding no agreement was likely, and being unwilling to waste further time. Lieutenant Lambton left. The Military Governor conducted the conversation. He was in command during the action yesterday. 11(3 admitted that the troops hud stiffen'd heavy losses. Lieutenant Lambton informed him that, should ho agree to the terms, tho troops would be allowed to evaquate the forts with their rifles and all the honors of war; but, unless these terms wont complied with, no negotiations could bo entered upon. So tho Bittern steamed out and tho Egyptians hauled down the flag of truce. Orders have been given to tho Tomerniro nnd Superb to lire two rounds each nt Fort Pharos. Wc shall do the same at tho Mex fort. If there is no reply we shall anchor for the night, and resume operations to-morrow. It is a pity we have not two or three thousand troops, for it would be easy enough to occupy tho town and save it from destruction which, judging from the increasing conflagrations, the mob has prepared for it. if the officer nnd ■ July 12, midnight 'the barracks, houses and wind-mills around Fort Mex have been shattered to pieces. A portion of tho Ras-el-Tin palace, recently In habited by Dcrvtsch Pasha, which formed a separate building from the Khedive's resi dence, has been burned to tho ground. Tho light-bouBe is still standing, but a number of holes are visible in the masonry, and tho light appears to be injured. A large tiro is now visible In tho direction of the Britfsh Consulate. In tho Khedive's pnlaco is a largo gap caused by a shell. The harem palaco is com pletely gutted. TJie bombardment had evi dently Produced a gn at inoral effect upon the military officers. Another flag of truce has been hoisted. Another tiro has just broken out, nnd fearif that a mob Ims begun to p illago and destroy are expressed. The Admiral Is agnin sending ashore to inform tho authori ties that ho uccepts the Hag of truce, but that It wdl be tho last truce to wh ch he will agree anil that honooforth he will consider that hoisting the white ting signifies unconditional surrender, nnd will act accordingly. Off Alexandra, Jqly i;j—B :30 a. m. I took an open boat and went close along side land. I found nil the batteries facing the ion destroyed and the guns dismounted. Arab Informed me that many hundred persons boen killed between Adjoin! (ind Alexnn oria. An explosion oeourred in tho middle of the fort, killing everybody inside. Tho light house will probably soon fall. Arabs informed mo tho noise of bursting shells was like thun ' h ?Y declared hundreds of people w. ln distant streets. They stated that tho obstinacy of the defense was owing '>'' w , t l!,T the batteries were manned by Mohammedans. They estimate tho loss of life Hmong soldiers and townsfolk thousand. Naval officers witnessing the combat n pressod tho opinion thut, with the Mention "| f i .J, h "J e r rnlro " n ,d tho gunimats, tho En gl sh ships have not distinguished themselves very grentiy as artillerists! many shells from tho Monarch, Invlnciblo and Superb falling seriously short. Nearly half the missile? seemed to fall in the water. Tne guns like wise were served very slowly, riving Egyptians time to recover from'their surpriso and regain eourago. Foreign officers think lighter pins more quickly served would hi™ ended the action sooner. 0 At daylight, this morning, n Hag oftnico'waa flying at Has-el-Tln palace. TheTlellcm srtth » "«* of truce Hying, and the InvIncS Mon arcb and 1 enelope are new steaming liitn ih. oner harbor The remainderof"he*, md™ are outside, steaming about The fire in thS town has greatly extended during the Sight A Turkish vessel Is still lying off Hamleh. Ihorl An had at two l he Is a heavy sea on. • 7* T n°e A T rica ? 1 ® a P*' 8,; missionary in St. Petersburg lias recently been per- mitted to baptize a convert within the walls of the city. Previously all bap- tisms were of necessity performed out- side the walls.— N. Y. Independent. -Three thousand tons of sand aro annually dug from Neversink Mount- near Reading, Pa., for use in tho foundries of that place. am, -Kansas complains of too heavy a fruit crop If half of the fruit buds had been killed, it would have been better for tho trees.— Chicago Journal. GDITEAU'S BRAIN. The Report of Drs. Sowers and Hartlf* n Under tho date of July 13 a WttthJngton A&sociatod Press telegram says/ The report of Drs. 8owers and Hartigmi upoa the Guiteau autopsy is completed. In the pref. ace to the report the physicians say; " So much contention has grown oaf of mak ing th*8 autopsy, and recently there baa t> ee so much controversy made public through the press concerning it, that wo are oomMrained to give a brief history of the case." Drs. Sowers and Hartigan then jell their story,and it differs little from the atory*i ready told for them in the newspapers. From the port of the autopsy the following is taken; BRAIN MEMBRANES. "The dura mater was quite atrougly adhe rent in places to the Inner surface of the skull —viz.: near the trunks of the middle menin geal arteries! also near tho longitudinal sinua in front, but could be stripped cleanly from the bone at all these points of attachment, as there was no roughening of the skull here or else, where. There was no exudation on any part of the inner surface of the dura mater. Quite a number of pacchionian granulations distributed along the course of the sinus, and the cerebral sinuses contained but little if any blood. The dura mater, pia mater aud brain were adherent to each other on both sides along a limited portion of the longitudinal tig. sures adjacent to tho pacchionian granula tions. ' ARACHNOID. "There were very well marked milky opaci ties of the arachnoid, but no apparent thicken ing extending over tho upper portion of the convex surface of tho hemispheres only. a» elsewhere the membrane was perfectly nor. mal. These opacities were confined to the upper portion of the sulci in this vicinity ex clusively, and were such as are often found without previous history of disease. The sub ameboid space contained very little fluid. The pia mater was easily^ stripped from all parts of the brain. Tho blood vessels of the membranes and brain wore empty, and the general appearance of tho brain was anaemic or bloodless. Both of those ditions can be readily accounted for by the unfortunate remoY'al of the lungs and heart and tho severing of the large blood vessels by Dr. Lamb, before the brain or its were exposod or examined, and, on this ac count, nothing of importanco was attached to this condition, as the blood that was in the brain nt the time tho autopsy was commenced had an opportunity at least of making its exit Into the chest cavity. Sufficient examination was made of the large blood-vessels of tho brain to determine that they were in a healthy condition. COD* ■mi), ,-h-h BRAIN. '•The brain entire, with a portion of thodura muter attached, weighed forty-nine ami a half ounces, about an average weight for an adult male. Just how much more it would have weighed had it not been drained of its blood, and had the scales been more delioote, we __. unable to say, but certainly It is safe to assert it would have been considerable more. The consistence of the brain was normal. Its spe cific gravity and the measurements of the chords and arcs could not be obtained, owing to the lack of facilities. There was no appar ent asymmetry of the two hemispheres. As regards contour and shape exact studies were not made, and the comparative weights of tho different parts were not obtained. Tho cere bellum was well covered. Tho ocoipital lobes were not noticeably blunt in shape." Drs. Hartigan and Sowers say in conclusion: " We wore not in accord with Dr. Lamb in the order adopted by him in making tho au topsy. We did not object at the moment, for the reason that it had been agreed that ho (Lamb) should do the cutting, and, after this agreement, we did not feel at liberty to inter pose an objection at tho very instant of begin ning the work, with a number of gentlpmen present to Witness the operation.. We thought then, and think now, the brain should first have been opened nnd examined; instead of which tho first incision made by Lamb was in tho region of the heart; and when the thoraic cavity was laid open wo had no idea It was the intention of tho op erator to se\'er tho largo vessels which must necessarily be cut in tho removal of the heart before the examination of the brain was had. The cutting of these ves sels was the work of an instant, and was done before objection could bo interposed. That the brain had born cut in two pieces, and parts distributed, and this before its examination under the microscope, is true. It was done without consultation or authority from us, and furnishes another instance of what has boon apparent all through this proceeding viz.: the unwarranted assumption of author ity and responsibility by Dr. Lamb." A YY'ashington special of tho 13thsays: "This report, which is by the majority of the com mittee, ought to settle tho question afl to Gui teau's sanity. Drs. Sowers and Hartigan, in short, find Gulteau's brain in a generally healthy state." Arabi and the Egyptian Debt. Arab! Pasha says: "The fellaheen arc ru ined, but not by mo or my party. Tho real rea son why they nro in a condition of penury is that they have never yet been able to get rid of the load of debt under which thoy were crushed by the reghno of Ismail. This has com pelled them to borrow and reborrow, and made them slaves of tho Jewish and Syrian and Greek money-lenders, with whom they have always to renew their bonds at over nugumfenting rates of interest. They have never been ablo to esenpo from their ruinous obligations to these blood-sucking usurers, and the high suluried officials of tho Control of course never deigned to giro n thought to the intolerable misery which the tillers of tho soli bad thus to endure. On tho contrary, they told Europe that under their improved ndministmtion these wretebod people were happy and oven rich. I declare this to be false. " I say that, on tho contrary, tho fl^lnheen of Egypt owe today over several millions of pounds sterling to tho money-lenders, which they principal part of my policy to deal with this fact, and to put a stop to the odious trade of the entire tribe of usurers, Greeks, Syrians, Jews and others. Instead of their enslaving system, I intended to inaugurate a scheme for a National Bank, which would have enabled tbe fellubc too poor to pay, and It has been the to get over their financial difficulties equitably and easily. For this 1 hnvo drawn down on my head the bitter onmity of the usurers and their hangers-on and advocates. Their lies are believed by Mulct, Colvin, and the official European clique, wiio get tho En glish to believe them also. The lntrlguee,of tho money-lenders rnmify all ovcrEurapo, and the result is thut the present position of Egypt is desperate, because Europe will not open its ears to the truth about it." But there is another side to this statement of A raid's. Tho Control benefited tho fellaheen so fat thnt It caused the rate of Interest to be vastly reduced. Tho intrigues and tho vio lence of the military parly really upset Cher ire sehoino for establishing a National Bank, and tho result Is that now nobody can raise money anywhere on any conditions whatever. —London Standard. —New Jersey is said to be infested with outlaws, who live and hide in the woods and caves, like the bandits that infest Southern Europe. They depre date mostly along the railroads. ■ A New York letter carrier hits been sent to the penitentiary for two years for stealing letters. He ought to stamp himself "held for postage." —The biggest thing on ice — The profit.