Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-16
Foreign News.

derer of the Englishmep, Richardson and
Dobson who was executed yesterday, was left
b .ngiug in ch rye Of twenty native police
men. Late last evening an Arab mob over
powered the guard and carried off the
body, together with the rope with which the
man was hanged. They intend to send the
murderer's clothes and the rope to mosque
as relics, and the body i, to be embalmed as
that of a saint. There were no British sol
diers on guard.
The ministry to-day submitted to the foreign
consul general proposal relative to indem-
nifying the inhabitants of this city for losses
sustained by incendiarism or pillage The
mini try suggest that an international COM
mission, whose decisions shall be final, be ap
pointed to settle claims.
There is no further danger of persons being
tortured, Sir Edward Malet, the British con-
sul-general, having taken measures for the
prevention of the practice. He says he had
difficulty in persuading the Arabs that the use
of screws was unnecessary in conducting exami-
nations Of prisoners.
! 1t is reported that Arab Pasha is ill with
dysentery.
| Mounted infantry made a spirited recon.
noissance of Mandara yesterday. They came
in contact with the enemy. and six of the
latter were killed or wounded.
1t is reported that the fresh-water canal has
been cut above Tel-el-Kebir, thus flooding the
low land to the south of that place. Forty
guns from Cairo arrived at Tel ell Kebir yes
terday.
The enemy are giving the English more
| trouble than the latter had anticipated. The
! Egyptians are new in possession of four posi-
tions from which the English had driven them.
j BERLIN, Sept s-The Tagblatt reports that
while grand cavalry maneuvers were being
conducted by the Grown Prince Frederick
William yesterday, two French officers ofhigh
rank, in civilian dress, were arrested. They
had been making sketches Of tn e ground.
MANILA, Sept. s., One hundred and seventy
natives died here of cholera ON Thursday and
lagos.
PARIS, Sept. S.-Advces received here state
that the cholera is raging in Cochin China.
Ten contributors of the Citoyen newspaper
have challenged ten members of the staff of
LIE Radical. difficulty has arisen regarding
seconds, but it is not improbable that the
contemplated duels will be fought.
SHANGHAI, Sept. THE difficulty between
Japan and Corea has been arranged, Corea
has agreed to pay 100000 as compensation
4 to Japan and 100000 to the relatives Of the
murdered Japanese subjects.
| LONDON, September 9.-After six o'clock
yesterday morning Bengal Lancers and scouts
came in with the news that the enemy were
| approaching in great force on the north side
Of the railway The British army was at once
put in motion, and by seven o'clock an artil-
lery duel began. The enemy attacked both
tanks Of the British position. The thirteenth
Bengal Lancers commenced the engagement
and killed ten of the enemy. They lost one
soldier in their first charge. Arabi's troops
OF all arms spread over the entire ridge, and
a mile and half up the line train heavily
armed soon appeared. The British forty
FOUNDER and Krupp guns shelled the enemy's
right. twenty-fve-pounder few hundred
yards off played on the same position. The
British had the enemy's range exactly; one Of
their shells burst right over the enemy's
ranks. The Egyptian artillery also got the
distance very we'll and their shells dropped
steadily into the British camp. The British
horse artillery extended along line half a
! mile i'll length on the north side of the rail-
way, firing rapidly About nine o'clock the
Egyptians began slowly to retire, followed by
the British infantry. At that time reinforce
ments began to come up from Mahsameh. A
Krupp gun recently captured from Arab sent
a shell nearly in front of his train.
On Saturday night small party of Arabs,
whose object, it is supposed, was incendiarism,
attempted to scale the ramparts between the
Rameh and Rosetta gates. One of the party
was bayoneted by sentry, and the remainder
fled. A large body of Bedouins approached
Meks. The English shelled them, but small
party succeeded in entering Meks. They were
dislodged at the point of the bayonet. The
| British shelled the Bedouin intrenchments
south of Meks during the whole afternoon.
| DUBLIN, September 10.-Marwood, the hang
man, arrived in Ireland Friday evening to
superintend the execution of Francis Hynes.
! Marwood is guarded by the police, and a num-
Der of Irish detectives will escort him to
| IlHtTlCh. IHO dutuOIluOn udNO lOlupCA "
| permit any reporters to be present at the
hanging of Hynes.
BERLIN, September 10-The North German
| Gazette states that Prince Bismarck, acting
under medical advice, will for the present.
abstain from the transaction of public bust
| ness.
dispatch from Pekin, dated the 9Th inst,
states that the Chinese authorities interviewed
boldly in Corea and seized the father of the
King and brought him to China. The King
has been reinstated by Chinese troops and
ships. = +@ a'-.
Earl Grey, late under-secretary for the home
| department, is dead. - Gv-
Tunis dispatch saysan engagement is re-
ported near Kairwain, in which the French
lost so killed and the Arabs 15O
| MANILA, Sept. 10.--There were 1853 deaths
from cholera here on Friday, and 274 in sur
rounding villages. All Of the victims were
| natives.
There was another short but sharp shock OF
earthquake at Panama. For two nights hall
the population of Panama have slept in or