The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-08-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MULES IN THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.  A writer in the Cyprus Herald, who states that he saw nearly all the mules from Cyprus before they weie shipped, and also witnessed how they were treated in Egypt, gives a very painful explanation of how it was they broke down. "The mules," he gays, "were simply starved for want ot proper and sufficient food, and still more for want of proper and sufficient water. The mules were taken every morning about 4 a.m, to the canal for water by their drivers, most of whom bolted off to the land:na-stage, to try and get their names put down and secure a chit of paper se labourers to the Commissariat, Ordnance, or Engineers, who were paying from se. to 15s, a day for labour. Then they would rush back to their mules, try and extract them from the ma,..s of animals collected on the bank of the canal, and ride back to their lines. Whether the animals had managed to get a drink or not being a matter of utter indifference to them, and, as far as I could make out, to any one else. After getting back from water a ration of chopped straw Wag given to each animal. This was put into a nosebag, if the driver had not lost or sold it, otherwise it was thrown on to the loose sand in front of the animal, which had to make the best of a bad job by eating as much of the fodder and as little of the Fiend as he could before it was trampled upon or blown away by the wind. After a short interval allowed for this feed, they were taken away and made to work under a broiling sun for 10 or 12 hours, getting a sore back the first day from a pack-saddle that was made for an animal of about double the size. In the evening there was a repetition of the scene on the bank of the canal, for the drivers had to go and get their chits signed, claiming to have worked the wloole day as labourers. Taken back to their lines in the evening they would have another ration of chopped straw served out, and then they would be left to enjoy themselves on it the best way they could. That with such treatment the mules broke down by the hundred 18 ho wonder, and what surprises us is that they did not all die."  The returns of church membership were presented at the meeting of the Wesleyan Conference on Wednesday, chewing the present state of the Wesleyan Methodists in Great Britain. The total membership is 407,085, with 35,272 on trial and 41,800 young persons in junior society classes. The net increase is 3,281.  According to &return issued on Wednesday, the *umber of agrarian outrages committed in Ireland for the quarter ending June 30 numbered 186. There were no cases of murder or manslaughter. Intimidations by threatening letters and notioes numbered 93. Lizzie Emmerich, aged 20, shot and killed herself in Franklin Township on the 15th, because she was unable to keep up withthe other scholars at her school.  The wife of William Scholes, a fanner of Seneca County, Ohio, disappeared three weeks ago, during her husbands absence in the east, taking with her 2,000d015. in greenbacks and a handsome young stock. man who had been in her husband's employ. She left her baby in the deserted house, and when the forsaken husband returned home, and forced an entrance, the decomposed body of the infant, which bad penshed of starvation, was lying on the floor.  " Cambria Deily Leader," every (mean, one halfpenny. Immense oiroalaticol.  The enference.