Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
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-ALfxxNpRfA, Judy 90 The khedive
has signed decree d claring Arab
Pasha a rebel, and has saied asentral
order forbidding the army to obey his
command "The kfiedive has also pro-
claim ed that the English are promoting
the interests ofthe country. An evasive
answer received by the British govern
ment from the porte tp . .prpppsaito
immedis ely. dispatch troops to Egypt,
has decided them thatlthe time for fur
thdfsdelay ii past. Tile water in the
Observation-Disclosures at ,A2exatidria, fell
fourteen inches Id the forty eight hotlra
endinE Sunday morning, and the sup
ply To the public has been greatly d.
minisised Il News FROM Cairo is to- the
effect.abat there are $500. starving,
homeless persons there who are dying
by hundreds. Arabiris threatening that
ctr. The country il In q terrible stale
of anarchy, and murders ofaliens Of a
frightful. character ate being eomn,ittee
by the fanatic natives. The British
troopHlips Maiabar arrived at Alexan-
driaryesarday; with 400 men apd a
battsrY Of artillery. The mil steamer
fronrC onstautinople WAS siezed at the
latter.city, and docuniefts and letters
for Arab Pash2 were, recovered from
an officer of the vessel.
.--.,.e... UNCLE SAM on THE NILE,
ALEXANDRIA, July 4.-The cores,
poudent OF the London Post remarks
on Uncle Sans sixty marin es. at Alex,
andria, declaring the behavior of the
American admiral and his men be!
yond all praise. "When the European
allies were getting out of range, the
American admiral, with a. cool glance
at the threatening Egyptian cannon,
calculated he would stay where he
WAS, and if any of them fired at him
he would fire back When the, DOM
bardmont WAS over an American ship
alone salled around each Of our ships
and gave them a lnsty cheer When
Admiral Seymour asked for aid to pro-
tect life and property in Alex
andria, sixty American ma
rines landed promptly in way which
quadrupled their value. Last and best
of all, when there was rumor OF
Arab returning with 5000 men, and
the European. marines fastened back
TO their men-of- war, and while French
and Italians Ware sailing iI.asafety in
the open sea, the Americans preferred
TO stick by Eaglishmen and take their
chance" The Post ends rs follows -
"There are times when jealousy and
i'll feeling run high: between us, and
bad words are banded across the At
lantic; but, thank Heaven, there are
also times of national grief and oc-
casions of great moment when blood is
found thicker than water, and Amer.
cans and Britishers will be found stand
ing side by side. May it be so always"
DANGER AT PORT SAID. -
LONDON July 2a.-In the second edi
ton of the Duiiy Necs is published
alarming news from Port Said, which
place is reported to be full of refugees.
Yesterdsy large number of persons
were brought from Ismailia by n Ger
man ,man,of-war, being chiefly Ger
man refugees from Cairo, Tantah and
other towns in the interior. They bring
alarming reports Of the doings of the
natives. At Tantah many Europeans
were brutaIly murdered by them. One
respectable man describes scene in
which. he saw. a, Sofia sitting on the
ground cutting the throat OF a Euro
pean while others were holding the
victims head and knees. The Euro
pean population at Port Said are bad
ly armed and unaccustomed to the use
Of ey
with women and children.
THE CoPTs.
Christian. blood is bound to flow in
torrents The arrival of the false
prophet insures this Ia Every insurrec-
ton or revolution in Egypt, distinctive
" Mohammedan IN character, leads in
cidently to more or less persecution OF
the Copts. These constitute the prin.
cipal sect OF Christians in Egypt and
Abyssinia, and, it may be said, they
are the representatives of the native
race which inhabited Egypt in the time
of the Ptoemies, Up to the time Of
the Arabic conquest the Coptic church
had great influence. In the contest
between the Greeks and the Arabs the
Coptic church was charged with comm
wing with the Mosems for the over.
throw of the Greeks.
@'7..-4" WELL TREATED.
For some time after the fall of Alex
andria the Copts were well treated,
but as early as 724 the work of perse.
cution was inaugurated, and the Copts
were treated with great severity, rs oc.
casion offered, until the time of Niche
met Ali, the founder Of the present
Egyptian dynasty. .-t ...'. 81 '.7[-'-
THE PRESENT kHEDIvE
has continued the policy of his prede
cessorsi but Arab Pasha, representing
the Arab party, has more violent pre-
JUDGES, The Copts are most numer-
Gus at Cairo, where there are said to be
thirty or forty thousand. The church
members in Egypt number about $780,
600, and it is estimated that the Copts,
classed as a people, constitute one
fifteenth Of the population of Egypt
and Abyssinia. They are strict reIigi.
onists, are better educated than the
Arabs, but are no better morally. They
might, with as much propriety as
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