The news., 1882-10-31
s1.OO A YEAR.
GALLANT DEEDS.

gunner on board one OF the British
vessels who picked up shell with
burning fuse and immersed it in a
bucket of water. This was a cour-
ageous act, but not "more gallant
than anything of the sort ever before
Chronicled." During our own war
for the Union hundreds of cases as
deserving of mention occurred.
At Stone River when Croft's Bri-
gade Of Palmer's Division was pur-
suing the routed rebels on the second
of January, they came suddenly on
reserve battery that opened on them
with surprising fury. The men we're
ordered to lie down, and dropped in
the soft mud of corn field. The
rebel artiilerymen had the range
however, and poured shot and shell
into the advance line in a way that
tore some unfortunates in pieces and
covered nearly everyone With mud.
In the midst Of the terrific fusilade
shell struck between two men lying
fas on the ground SO near to their
heads as to stnn both. Dozens Of
men the brayest there, closed their
eyes in anticipation of the terrible
scene that would follow the explosion.
But one Of the soldiers at whose
shoulder the smoking shell had struck,
digging up handful of mud, held it
aloft for moment while he coolIy
said, aTen to one, boys, she don't
bust" and then with sort Of gleeful
agility he brought his great wad Of
mud down on the shell smoking in
the shallow hole, and s'she didn't
bust" No one thought George
Hunt Of Company @, First Kentucky
Infantry, hero for doing that, but
possibly he ranked as high as the
courageous gunner at Alexandria.
When Sherman was getting ready
for his move on Atlanta, great guam
titles Of. ammunition were stored in
the railroad sheds at Resacs. One
day in the midst of thunder storm
that dismantled the camp, the ammu-
milton building was struck by light
ming. Hundreds Of the bravest
soldiers ran blindly away as they saw
the boxes of she'll thrown ab1ut, saw
the guards drop as if shot, and saw
smoke issuing from the top Of the
great pile of explosives. But one
man, clear-eyed and cool-headed, saw
that the smoke came from the tow in
which the shells we're packed, and
climbing to The top seized the burn
ing mass, and holding it up shouted,
"All right boys, no fireworks this
time" His intrepidity and alertness
saved the ammunition and possibly.
many lives, and his record should be
kept as green as that Of the gallant
gunner at Alexandria.
These are only sample cases. The
American war for the Union brought
hundreds ofsuch gallant deeds into
clear light, and there is no good reason
why they should be forgotten.
HOW THE EGYPTIANS TORTURED
THEIR PRISONERS. sls +
When the British forces occupied
the citadel at Cairo they found that
torturss had been inflicted upon pris-
oners that were horrible in their bar
barity reminding one Of the old In
QUESTION period. The prisoners had
been beaten and racked if they could
not pay money; they had been hanged
up by the thumbs, BY the ankles, by
straps around their waists; their bod
els had been barred, the skin over the
hips and legs tightened by contriv-
ance SO ingenious that only a 6end in
spired by Satan could have devised it,
and then the lash applied, one man
making an upward blow alternately
with the downward cut of another,
until at last the flesh in pieces was lif-
ted from the quivering victim.
Then, too, the bastinado, most hor-
rible of all punishments, was used. l
saw prisoners who could not walk, and
whose feet we're simply Jumps Of dis
colored flesh. Others I saw who had
been fsyed. One, an old man seemed
to be dying. Mad with the agony Of
pain he had endured, he dashed away
from his tormenters, and, running
swiftly around the mosque, he jumped
thirty feet down the rampant.
When he reached the bottom he
lay crushed and helpless mass be-
low, and then they brought him back
and they hogged him again on the
limbs that we're broken, and on the
bones that protruded through the flesh.
The name Of the brute who perpetra-
ted these atrocities is Sulieman Zorab
Zim Pasha, Colonel in the artillery;
by birth from Kantarah, By educa-
tion a soldier, by nature fend. Col.
Knox having discovered all the facts,
he called Mr.. Zorab Pasha into his
presence, and ordered him to be man
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