Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-06
The Reward of Good News. TFrorp the New York Tirnea1

The successor to the Egyptian throne al
 ways rewards the person informing him of
 the death of his predecessor by promoting
 him to the rank of bey and paying him 1OO,-
 O0O piastres ($5, ,0OO). When Said Pasha, to
 whom Ismai Pasha, the late khedive, suc-
 ceeded, was dangerously i'll at Alexandria,
 Ismail Pasha himself at Cairo. It is
 sad to have been proved beyond doubt
 that Said Pasha died of slow poison which
 Ismail Pasha had personally administered,
 and when Ismail subsequently, did the same
 thing successfully to many others Egy yptians
 said that the victims had been ''Saided." Be
 this as it may, Said Pasha seriously un
 well at Alexandria, and the ambitious Ismail
 was anxiously awaiting at Cairo the news of
 his demise At that time the Eastern Tele-
 graph company had not yet established their
 lines all over Egypt, and Cairo was joined to
 Alexandria by a single line belonging to the
 Egy ptian government, and which was man.
 aged by certain Mir. Thomas, an English
 man; who is still in the service of the coun
 try, and who, only month ago, sent false
 telegram to Arabi Pasha, purporting to come
 from Arabi's friend Nidet, telling him that
 there fear of the British occupying
 the Suez Canal, and that he need not take
 steps in that direction to oppose them, when
 the British fleet was actually on it's way to
 seize the canal.
 MT. Thomas knew how anxious Ismail
 Pasha was to receive the news of Said Pasha' s
 death, and he further knew that the reward
 to the person first informing Isnail Pasha
 would be the title of bey and 1OO OOO piastres both of which would be very acceptable to Mir. Thomas himself, and which he resolved to get. His office was in Alexandria, but, knowing that the news must come over the telegraph wire which he controlled, he told his subordinates at Alexandria that he was going a visit of inspection to Cairo, where he might stay fer some time. He asked tn m to be very careful during his nlNr III concerning Said Pasha's health-about which poor lsmall Pasha was very uneasy-and, mounting his dromedary, started for Cairo. The Cairo office was then managed by a young American from Baltimore named Tin ney, to whose surprise MT. Thomas instead of go ng to the hotel as he had always done, took up his quarters at the telegragh station, where, esides staying all day, he also passed the night. He never left the office for one minute, having his meals brought to him there, and always being near the instrument | to see what passed over the wire The sys tenn by which the telegraph was worked in Egypt was by impressions of dots and lnes on paper bands, and not by sound as it is in America, and Mir. Thomas kept his eye on the slip for fully ten days and nights and yet the news he was so auxiously expecting came ! not. Young Tinney was at loss to under stand what all this meant. and was much annoyed by the managers proceedings, who l he thought suspected him, and therefore I watched him. Mir. Thomas had by this time become quite nervous, the effects of sleep 1 less nights were plainly visible in his face, and at about o'clock one afternoon feeling l exhausted, he told Tinney that he going ! to take little rest on the floor, giving him 1 strict orders to call him in case any telegram l came about the death of Said Pasha. Tin I ney then, for the first time, discovered what ! all MT. Thomas anxiety about, and as ! soon as the latter was fast asleep he called ir
 the Arab bookkeeper, from whom he learned | in casual way, if in no way interested 1 that the bearer of the news of Said Pasha's | death to hls successor, lsmail Pasha, would 1 receive the rank of bey and 100000 pias 1 tres.
 l Hour after hour passed many business | and other telegrams came, but not the one ! expected. At the commencement Mir. Thomas l awoke every time the instr ument ticked and l asked what it was, but at last he slept so ! heavily that ordinary noise would wake l him.
 l About two hours after midnight t'tick, 1 tick, tick" went the instrument. Young Kinney became all eyes and ears, and he knew 1 in few seconds that Said Pasha had just | then expired at Alexandria. He immediately ! tore away the slip, unscrewed the instru- ment. took away part of it with him, and, pulling off his boots, left the room, making as little noise as possible. For further se-