Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

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ropes tied around their necks. they
Wore nothing but long blue gowns-ihe
gokbich and the middle Egyptian
strongly resembled Barabbas rs rep
resented in the Ober- ANN ergau Pas
sion play. Behind the three Egypt
ians was carriage containing phys
clan-Dr. Londinski--and three at
PENDANTS. told the driver of my
carriage to follow tue procession in
order to see an Egyptian execution,
and also to see how the Arab popula-
ton of Alexandria would behave when
hey saw one of their brethren shot by
Egyptian soldiers at the dictation Of
an English subaltern.
The procession passed through all
the streets of Alexandria, and before
we had proceeded quarter of a mile
we were followed by about six hundred
Arabs. In the Rue des where
the famous massacre Of Europeons
commenced last month, and where the
principal malefactor at the head OF our
procession was proved by the Mixed
Police Tribunal to have murdered at
least three Europcans-w made a
short halt. Proceeding again to the
Place des Consver, and marching
through Boulevard de Ramleh, we
passed through the Eastern Gate, and
arrived at Pompey's Pillar where all
other short halt was made. We then
marched through the small Arab vii
age of Cormoose, and arriving at
hollow among the Roman catacombs
we found newly made grave. The
principal malefactor-the man who re-
sembles the Barabbas-was then blind
folded and forced to stand at the end of
the grave that had been dug for him.
AT the English s'Ibaltern's direction five
Egyptian gendarmes advanced to within
ten PAGES of the man condemned to
death. The other two criminals, who
had been convicted Of stealing, were
made to stand facing the grave and SO
that they could best appreciate the ex-
ample that was about to be offered
them. The five Egyptian gendarmes
leveled their Remington rifles at the
man sentenced to death. But at the
word of command "Fire" from their
sergeant the hammers of their rifles
simply clicked upon the cartridges,
which turned out to be damp and use
less. After delay of five minutes
which must have seemed like five hours
to the malefactor-new CARTRIDGES
were obtained and the five gen
darmes again leveled their rifles
but with the same result. The car
tridges turned out to be spoiled. New
cartridges were then distributed The
command, Fire. was third time
given. And for the third time there
was only click in the pan, and the
wretched malefactor still stood at the
head OF his grave trembling with sus-
pense. New cartridges were then OBJ
tanned from the magazine-about one
mile distant-and now for the fourth
time the five Egyptian gendarmes ad-
vanced, aimed their rifles at the unfor-
tunate devil, and at the command,
"Flre!" a rafting report was heard,
and the convict fell into his grave. The
doctor stepped forward and found that
he had only been hit by two bullets
one tearing through his cheek, and the
other making hole in his leg. The
man was now pulled out of his grave
and proped up so that he could again
be shot at. In the meantime he begged
and implored for somebody to come
and run a bayouet through his heart.
The tive Egyptian gendarmes, however,
advanced, this time to within about
eight PAGES of their target, and for
the fifth time the command was given
to fire. The result of this flsilade was
that he was riddled with bullets, not
one of which, however, had struck him
in vital spot, and the man was still
writing in the dust, covered with
streams of blood.T he sergeant of gen
darmes then came forward, put the
muzzle of his rife to the poor wretch's
car pulled the trigger, and the car
fridge happening to be good one, the
mans head was blown to pieces. Just
as the remains of the convict were be.
ing buried a man quite near me shout
ed in Arabic, "Now is the time to kill
more CnsistiansW Looking around me
| found that besides three English Off |
GERS, few newspaper correspondents !
and some dozen European spectators,
the whole assembly of perhaps thou. |
sand persons, We're all Arabs. There |
WAS no English post within the di lance
of half mile. A young employe of |
the Eastern Telegraph Company
promptly coiiared the Individual who |
had uttered the dangerous cry, and the
gendarmes took him in charge, and to-
gether with the two thieves who had
been brought out to witness the execu
ton, he was handcuffed and marched
to the police station in Alexandria.
LONDON, Aug. 30--The Timss says:
We may soon hear that Maj. Gen. Sir
Edw. Hamley has beea ordered to re-
move from Alexandria, and that he
will be replaced by Gen. Hartman, late
assistant sdiutant general in Ireland.
The telegraph construction and main
tenance company's steamer Scotia put
into Plymouth yesterday for stores.
Her work or repairing the Atlantic tel
egraph cable IS not yet completed.
The Times says the invitation to the
British association for advancement of
science, to meet in Canada, ought not
to be accepted. A meeting of the as
s ISOLATION in Canada can be in no sense
the same thing as q meeting on Eng
lish ground, but that an invitation