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seated by a Controller General having a seat 
in the Cabinet, but responsible only to his 
own government. In 1880 he appointed a 
Commission composed of seven members 
from as many foreign nations to liquidate the 
Egyptian debt, and for this purpose to collect 
and distribute the revenues. Tremendous 
pressure had been used to force him thus to 
hand over his country to foreign control. In 
return for the concessions England, Frauce 
and Turkey pledged themselves to uphold the 
Khedive. 
In 1871 the population of Egypt amounted 
to 5,203,405, consisting of 8S,038 foreigners and 
5,115,367 natives. It has probably increased 
. t least half a million sincp. Of the natives the 
vast majority are peasants, cultivating the 
soil and known as fellaleen in the plural 
and fellah in the singular. By the new ar¬ 
rangement these were no better than slaves, 
all their surplus earnings being wrung from 
them in the shape of taxes to pay foreign 
bondholders for money lent to an extrava¬ 
gant ruler, and from which they had derived 
no benefit whatever. Much just discontent 
and heart-burning resulted. Eighteen months 
ago this was voiced by Arab! Be}', who two 
years ago was ody a colonel in the E/yptian 
army. He gave rise to the “National Party,” 
whose motto is‘ Egypt for the Egyptians,” 
and who resent the oppression of the natives 
by foreign tax gatherers, and the control of 
foreigners in nearly every department of the 
government. 
Shortly after the accession of the Khedive, 
Arabi was raised to the rank of Bey, second 
only to that of Pasha, and putting himself at 
the head of the soldiers extirted increased 
pay for the army by planting cannon before 
the Khedive's palace. Soon afterwards we 
And him Minister of War with the other Min¬ 
isters and the Chamber of Notables (consisting 
of the chief landed proprietors and delegates 
from the village comranues) his puppets. 
In their desire to economize on all outlays 
in Egypt in order to save money to pay inter¬ 
est on the foreign debt,the Controllers General 
cut down the army from about 40,000 to 
15,000, and wished to reduce it still more. 
This, of course, begot iu the army bitter hos¬ 
tility which was fomented by Arahi, whose 
popularity grew so mightily that the soldiers 
clamored for his elevation to supreme power. 
Henceforth confusion became general. The 
Khedive's authority was only nominal, Arabi 
being the real ruler; taxes could not be col¬ 
lected, so that the interest on the debt again 
fell in arrears. England's policy suffered 
severe check after check; efforts to mollify 
Arabi failed miserably, and threats were 
equally futile. Just before the actual out¬ 
break of hostilities the conditions were these: 
The Khedive w’as nominally the ruler of 
Egypt, but all actual power was in the hands 
of Arabi Bey. The former, while sympathiz¬ 
ing with the “National Party,” wus forced bv 
circumstances to side with the foreigners. 
Arabi was the leader of the “ National Party,” 
and bitterly opposed to the foreign horde who 
held nearly all the high offi 'es iu the country 
at heavy salaries, while the people were taxed 
to the utmost to p \y interest on money loaned 
to extravagant rulers, not for the public ben¬ 
efit but mainly for their private indulgence. 
England and France were eager to collect all 
the money they could, but the troubles pre¬ 
vented the tax-gatherer’s labors, and the 
bondholders became clamorous for the interest 
on their money, and kept urging their govern¬ 
ments to take prompt measures to insure its 
collection. Ever since the Rus-ian war, in 
which Turkey lost some of her European prov¬ 
inces,she ha< been anxious,as an offset,to regain 
more contrd over Egypt, and the Sultan, a 
very shrewd diplomatist, while outwardly 
supporting the Khedive was secretly guiding 
and encouraging Arabi, who professed strong 
allegiance to him both as suzerain of Egypt 
a id as religious head of the Moslems. To set¬ 
tle the muddle, the Great Powers agreed to 
hold a Confen nee at Constantinople; but the 
Sultan refused to participate on the ground 
that he alone ought to set things right there. 
When asked to send troops there simply to 
carry out the agreement of the Powers, he re¬ 
fused to be the policeman of Europe. The 
Powers could not agree upon a line of action 
in the absence of the Sultan’s representative 
from the Conference; Arabi’s influence was 
growing mightier, and the hostility to for¬ 
eigners became more inflamed. Finally, on 
Sunday, June 4 ,tbis found vent in riots in 
Alexandra during which about 2,00(1 Euro¬ 
peans were massacred by the populace, aided 
by some of the soldi-rs. Then began a reg¬ 
ular exodus of the foreigners—all of whom 
were eager to get away from danger eveu at 
the loss of everything but their lives. The 
British and French demanded the punish¬ 
ment of those guilty of the outrage; but Arabi 
took no action in that d rection, but was very 
active in improving tb a fortifications of Alex¬ 
andria, before which there had a-snnbled a 
powerful iron-clad fleet made up chiefly of 
English and French men-of-war with small 
oootingents frota moefcof fcbe other Powwa 
England, highly exasperated at the injury 
to her prestige in the East, and alarmed at 
the threatened loss of her bondholders’ 
money, and, worse still, at the danger of the 
Suez Canal, the great highway to her vast 
possessions in India, Australia and the rest of 
the Eastern world, determined on prompt 
action, nominally in support of the Khedive’s 
power; and having in vain sought the co 
operation of France, on July 12 sent an ult.- 
matum to Arabi Bey ordering liiru to stop 
work on the fortifications under penalty of 
having them destroyed by bombardment from 
the vessels at the end of 24 hours Arabi 
worked all the harder on the fortifications, and 
on the morning of July 18, Adm. Seymour, com¬ 
mander of the British fleet, opened fire on the 
forts, and after a few hours of terrific bom 
bardme»t forced the Egyptians to abandon 
them. The inhabitants of Alexandria left the 
city, which was at once looted by the rabble, 
freed prisoners and Bedouin Arabs from the 
neighboring country, who set fire to it 
in a multitude of places, and thus nearly 
destroyed the greatest commercial city in 
Africa. The course of the war thus begun 
will be told in our “Foreign News.” 
Mans of tht' Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturda y, August 5, 1882. 
This city was visited by another conflagra¬ 
tion ou Ihe 31st ult. Hecker& Co.’s flour 
mills on Water Street, with IS other buildings 
iu the vicinity, were burned to the ground, 
and others damaged more or less. The dam¬ 
age is laid at about $000,000. No lives were 
lost. 
The National Mining Exposition opened at 
Denver, Col., on the 1st inst. There was a 
parade of military and civic societies, and an 
oration by the Hon. W. D. Kelley or Pennsyl¬ 
vania, The exhibits are lieing arranged as 
fast as possible. 
The River and Harbor Appropriation Bill, 
which has been before Congress for some time, 
and which was last week submitted to the 
President for his approval or non-ap¬ 
proval, was vetoed. The bill appropriated 
$18,743,875 for river and harbor improve¬ 
ments. On the 2d inst., however, both Houses 
of Congress passed the billover the President’s 
veto. 
Cspt. Hugh S. Thompson, of Greenville, 
S. C., has been nominated by the Democrats 
for Governor of that State; Col. John C. 
Sheppard was nominated for Lieut.-Governor. 
A sudden rise in the Licking River (Ky.), 
which flows into the Ohio River, opposite 
Cincinnati, caused considerable destruction of 
property at the latter city and elsewhere ou 
the 1st iust, 
Mr, E. B. Elliott, the Government Actuary, 
estimates that the population of the United 
States ou the 1st of June, 1900, will be 81,- 
529,000. 
The House has passed the Senate bill making 
an appropriation of $018,000 for printing the 
reports of the tenth census. The bill provides 
a system of distribution which is iutended to 
secure these valuable publications in complete 
sets to public libraries as well as to individu¬ 
als. 
The total number of deaths reported iu this 
city for the first seven months of this year 
were 23,350: marriages, 0,185; births, 15,385. 
The most deaths occurred in July (4,482); the 
most marriages in May (1,000) ; the most 
births in March (2.506). 
On the 2d inst. the Democratic State Con¬ 
vention of Indiana nominated State officers 
as follows: W. R. Myers, of Madison County, 
Secretary of State; J. H. Rice, of Floyd, 
County, Auditor; J. J. Cooper, of Marion 
County, Treasurer. 
The Republican State Committee of this 
State on Wednesday appointed September 20 
as the day and Saratoga as the place for hold¬ 
ing the State Convention for nominating a 
candidate for Governor and other officers. 
Wiseacres in politics think Gov. Cornell's 
chances for renomination are not good, and 
say that James A. Wadsworth is the “com¬ 
ing man." 
We note that the Johnston Harvester Com¬ 
pany, of Brockport, N. Y., have decided to 
remove their business to Batavia, N. Y., and 
there rebuild their works. The date of re¬ 
moval is not yet announced, but the new 
works will probably be in operation by De¬ 
cember 1,1882. 
The most destructive storm which has vis¬ 
ited the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wis., for 
years swept over that city on the 3d. The 
damage to property cannot be definitely 
known at present, but it is variously estima¬ 
ted at from $o0,0(r to $100,000. But two 
lives are reported to 1 'sve been lost. The 
water filled all the basements in the flat part 
of the city. Many business houses near the 
river suffered heavy losses of goods stored in 
basecnoate, Neighboring farms suffered much. 
Vennor makes the following predictions for 
August. He is evidently determined to keep 
people at home this Summer: “1 cannot but 
think August will be another month of storms 
and unusual rainfall, with one or two remark¬ 
ably low curves of temperature. I txpect 
snow fulls will be recorded in extreme West¬ 
ern and Northwestern sections, and c old rains 
at more southerly stations shortly after the 
middle of the month. October will be very 
similar; but, of course, colder.” 
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>'o Drug Medication. 
Compouud Oxygen is simply a new combi¬ 
nation of the two elements which make up our 
common atmosphere, and in such portions as 
to render it much richer in the vital or life- 
giving quality. It contains no medicament, 
unless the pure air are medicines, and its ad- 
ministrstiou introduces nothing into the body 
which the sj stem does not welcome as a 
friend, accept with avidity and appropriate 
as entirely homogeneous to itself. Our 
Treatise on Compound Oxygon; its nature, 
action and results, with reports of capes and 
full information, sent free. Drs. Starkey 
& Palkn, 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Since the evacuation of Alexandria by the 
Egyptians, as mentioned in the Rural of 
July 23, a great deal of what was left of the 
town has been destroyed by other incendiary 
fires; but moreof it still remains than the first 
fire spared according to the first cablegrams. 
A large number of plunderers and “tire bugs” 
have been shot at once by the English sailors 
who have been acting as police in the town in 
the name of the Khedive, who lives in Alex¬ 
andria under British protection. The Con¬ 
ference at Constantinople has been wrangling, 
but Turkey is now about to send troops to 
Egypt to settle matters. England, after hav¬ 
ing asked the co-operation of France and 
Italy, both of which have declined, is hurry¬ 
ing forward troops from Great Britain and 
India, and hints very strongly that the Turk¬ 
ish forces in Egypt must be subordinate to the 
British. At the demand of England the Khe¬ 
dive has, apparently with much reluctance, 
proclaimed Arabi Bey a /ebel and deposed 
him from command. Turkey s ill refuses to 
do so. The Egyptians have established a pro¬ 
visional national government at Cairo, which 
declares the Khedive a traitor and his dismis¬ 
sal of Arabi void. Arabi styles himself 
“ Representative of the Sultan in Egypt,” and 
doubtless he is in constant communication 
with the Sultan, devising plans for co opera¬ 
ting with the Turkish troops when they land. 
A very great number of horrible massacres 
of foreigners have been perpetrated iu differ 
ent parts of the country: the fanaticism of 
the people has been worked up to a savage, 
belligerent bight, and crowds are reported to 
be flocking to the standard of Arabi. 
Meanwhile nothing has occurred in the way 
of fighting beyond a few unimportant skir¬ 
mishes in the immediate neighborhood of 
Alexandria; for Arabi Bey, instead of hurry¬ 
ing off to Cairo after evacuating Alexandria, 
us at first cabled, halted a short distance 
from the city and cut the canal that supplies 
it with water from the Nil* at a point 50 miles 
away. The interval he his used in consoli¬ 
dating his lower, spreading false reports of 
British defeats, so as to inflame the natives, 
and in recruiting vigorously amoug the 
Egyptians, Arabs, and all whom he ooukl in¬ 
fluence through Jove of pluuder, patriotism, 
hatred for the “ Gioure,” or religious fanati¬ 
cism. The number of his forces is variously 
estimated at all the way from 10,000 to 200,000; 
but It is probably not over 40,000—if so high. 
Whatever it may be, be is, of course, sure to 
be defeated in the long run, but as he has a 
vast country into which he may retreat, 
where European troops could hardly follow 
him, the war may be protracted, and then 
other nations may interfere—but we’re not 
in a prophetic mood just now. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
There is very little room for agricultural 
news this week, but what was said of the 
crop outlook week before last and of prices 
last week might be repeated this week with¬ 
out much alteration. The corn prospect, how¬ 
ever, has been greatly brightened by rains 
over most of the country, and especially the 
great corn States, during the past week. 
These have placed the crop beyond danger 
from drought in nearly all parts of the West 
and Middle States. Illinois now is ex¬ 
pected to produce fully two-thirds of a 
crop, and the deficiency in this greatest of 
the corn growing States will be made good by 
the greater yields of Kansas, Missouri and 
Texas. Owing to this brighter outlook the 
price of corn ha3 weakened; but it is still as 
much above the average price of the past 10 
years as the price of wheat is below the aver¬ 
age. Most of the “vicible supply” is now 
Qtruoeafcrateid in Ghieago, which is drawn 
upon to supply New Epgland and most of the 
East. For two weeks before August 1, the rush 
of wheat to the markets in the West was so 
large that pri -es fell lower than t hey have been 
since Jan., 1881. This decline at once checked 
receipts, as farmers wouldn’t sell at such 
figures, many preferring to stack their wheat 
in the Winter wheat belt. Accordingly during 
the week ending August 5, the total receipts 
at the principal Western markets were less 
than half those of the previous week. In St. 
Louis the receipts fell from 200,000 bu«hels 
per day two weeks ago, to 80,000 to 85 000 
bushels per day, in Chicago from 400 cars a 
day to less than 200, and at Toledo, Indianap 
olis and other points in proportion. Owing 
to this and the fact that buyers for export had 
bought “short” heavily, j rices have gone up 
within the last feur days from four to five 
cents per bushel over the lowest figures at 
the beginning of the week. 
“The Kemp Manure Spreader which I pur¬ 
chased of you is working splendidly. Our 
people are going to buy them by the hundred 
as soon as tney are introduced. Visitors from 
New York; Vermont, Tennessee and Canada, 
who have seen it work on my farm all pro¬ 
nounce it a grand success.” This is whatM. 
W. Dunham, Wayne, III., proprietor of Oak¬ 
land Farm, the largest breeding establishment 
in the West, writes to the Kemp & Burpee 
Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, N. Y., after 
using one of their celebrated Manure Spread¬ 
ers.— Adv . 
--- 
Faded articles of all kinds restored to 
their original beauty by Diamond Dyes. Per¬ 
fect and simple. 10 cents at all druggists.— 
Adv. 
-- - 
Among the most efficacious of remedial 
agents are the medical preparations lrorn the 
laboratory of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, Lynn, 
Mass.— Adv. 
- 
See Johnson & Fields Racine Fan Mill ad 
vertisement, issue of August5, page 528.— Ado. 
-- 
Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, 
cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” 15c. per 
box.— Adv. 
Premature Low of ilie Hair. 
May be entirely prevented by the use of 
Burnett’s Cocoaine. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their perfect purity and 
strength.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Up to Saturday, August 5. 
Chicago, Ill.— Wheat— Regular unsettled 
at$1.U0%@1.01, July; 97%c,, August 98c.@ 
98%c., September; 98%c.;October; 98%c., all 
the year; No. 2 Red Winter in good demand, 
but at lower rates, at $1.00%($1 01, cash; 
$1.01}$', July; No. 2 Chicago Spring quiet 
but firm at $1.29%@1.3Q, cash; $1.28@1.30, 
July. Corn unsettled at 77%c., cash and 
July; 75%c., August; 75%»,@75%c., Septem¬ 
ber; 73j>;e,@74c., October; 96%c., all the 
year; rejected, 72%c. Oats unsettled at 58c., 
cash and July; 37%c.@37%c. f August; 35%c., 
September and October; 64%c., all the year. 
Flaxseed, $1.27. Butter dull, tending down¬ 
ward; creamery 19c.@24c.; dairies, 14c. @ 
2lc. Eggs stronger at 18c(gl9c. Pork in 
fair demand, but at lower rates, at $20 60@ 
20 05, cash; $20.55@20.60, August; $20.72%@ 
20.75; September; $20.77%@20.S0, October; 
$19@19.05, all the year. Lard active but 
weak at $12.01}*, cash and August; $12.15@ 
12.17%. September; $12 22%<g 12.25, October; 
$12, all the year. Hogs— Market weak and 
5c. lower than y'esterday; quality not good; 
buyers selecting very closely; common to 
good mixed, $7.40@8.25; heavy, $S.30@8.75; 
light, $7.50(g;8.25; skips, $5.25@7 30. Cat¬ 
tle—Market slow, but steady on best exports, 
$7.20@7.75; good to choice shipping, $6.40@ 
6.90; common to fair, $4.50@6; butchers’ 
$2.40(2)5; stockers and feeders, $2 50@4 80; 
range cattle slow and weak; Texans, $8 50@ 
4 70; half-breeds, $4.40@5.20; Americans, 
$5 60@0; all low grades weak; market 
closed dull. Sheep— Trade steady and mar¬ 
ket fairly active; poor to fair, $2 85@3.50; 
medium to good, $8.75(0,4 25; choice, $4.30@ 
4.00. Glasgow cable advices quote a weak and 
dull market for cattle and hogs, but steady 
prices, top grades of cattle bringing 16c.@ 
18c.; best, 17c @18c.; estimated dress weight. 
Cincinnati.—Wheat dull; No. 2 red Win¬ 
ter, $1.00@1.01, spot; $1.00 bid, July; $1.00%, 
August: $1.01%, September; $1.01%, all the 
year. CORN firm; No. 2 mixed, 83c , spot; 
81 %c. bid July; 78c. bid, August; 79%(g79%c., 
September; October; 74%@74%c., November; 
68c(g,09%c. all the year. Oats scarce and 
firm; No. 2 mixed, 01c. Rye dull at 72cj 
Pork dull at $22. Lard dull; current make, 
12c. Hogs firm; common and light, $6.50<2 
3,30: paakiflg' and URohers’, t?.6utg&S5. 
