May 25th.—The only document of any this day' a report from governor and Vice-President of the Board of Punishments at Moukden report-ang An having which occupied four days, and cess of which he also made fri Hu Wan-shun'a wife. This acquaintance ripened, and in due course led to something closer with Bre, Hu, the hus. band being perfectly unsuspicions of his i fidelity. Not content with the f Mrs. Ho, Sung An-fu next cast daughter and with the Consent and assistance tried He in his earlier attempt but afterwards and time forward tr attentions to the daughter. This aroused the jealousy of the mother, who began to be disagreeable, and finally forbed Sung the house until he would give her money to buy cotton with for spinning, Angered at the restrictions placed upon his inten with the girl, Sun determined to kill the father and mother and then run away with the daughter, and the following manner in which he accom! pose.
He went aft oon to Hu's and asked his help in getting toget! Toad of cotton which he said the animal ing i over the road into collision with the branches of a tree. Hu consented to help his friend, and after they had walked li down the road and_reacl Sung knocked Hu on the carried in his hand and killed ed the body in a ditch at thy of the road and covered it with after which he returned to the ho dispose of Mrs, Hu, He told her that Ler husband could wot pick up all the sted, and begged her to lend d, which Mea, Hu was all the more ready to do as he said the cotton was to be deposited in her house. When they had yone some two li together he knocked Mrs. Hu on the head as he id the daugh father and mother were both busy picking up cotton and could not be back f some time, ea now was the time to run away The girl consented, and was just about to atart when her little brother child of eight years of age who was lying asleep on the kang, woke up and bogan tory. Sung, fearing the boy would say hat hie had seen, him, Sung, leave with to kill cut the boy's tabbed him in mach, causing instant death, Sung and the girl, who was entirely nor ant of the murders that lad been committed, then travelled from place to place for several days until their money was exhausted, when they were caught by the vil-Inge headman and a cousin of the murdered man who wore in pursuit of them. It was then that the girl heard fur the first time from Sung of the crimes he had committed for which she so bitterly reproached hi himself with a knife jomach, but was prevented by captors from doing himself any injury. Sung An-fu has been sentenced to death by the slow process, and penalty has been inflicted, a request, sent to the Governor of Shantung 10 ce ficate for the beueit of the family of the victim any property the murderer may hare in his native place. The girl has been sentenced to 10) blows and banishment for 3,000 li with the usual permission to commute the penalty.
Governor of Kiangan reporting on the results of an enquiry instituted by Imperial Command into certain malpractice the Imperial manufactory at Soochow which had been alleged to exist by a denunciator withheld, 'The denauciator stated that n certain clerk in factory called You Ch'un, who by employed there for over twenty years, hi made @ large fortune out of squeezes' ud was the owner of considerable property irregul complained of do not and land. enquiry shows
exist, but it wns discovered that the son of Yen Chun, the latter being dead, who succeeded fo his father's place in the manufactory, lias been the victim of ex-by a colleague who conveyed some of the fabrics turned unt to Peking, This colleague falsely declared that on ar in Peking he found that 800 pieces of and satin had changed colour and had consequently been obliged to spor over Tis, 1,000 in purchasing more, Yeu Yung, Yen Ch'au's son, at first declined to make this payment good on the grow that the receipt of the office of the Imperial Household made no mention of damaged tually ho did pry the money, well May 270 ry will take his seat in the 0 Throne Hall at 5 30 am. to hear the list of the successful candidates at the Palace Examination of the Metropolitan Graduates read by the Ch'uan-Lu, or fourth graduate on the list, The following are the names of the Grat four geaduatos:—(1) Chao F-chiung 4@Q) from Kuvi-yang Fu, Kusichow 5 Taou Fu-pao (RGR) from Wa Hsien in Kiangm; (3) Feng Astin (3 my) from Chiv-tfau Haien in Kiangsu Shu (93m) from Eh ug. Wu Hon Human, May 28th.—A joint Memorial from the Governor-General at Foochow and the Director of the Foochow Arsenal reporting the loss ut the Government mer Beng Hai (AGF) off the Pescadores in 6 13th of March, Ch'au Ming-chih, the acting taotai of Formosa, left Fuochow for T'aiwan vi@ Amoy with treasure, on board Hing Hai, The senior ist, who was engaged on his tour ary inspection at the time, had crossed over to Formosa from Amoy just axhead of the Taotai in the steamer Afei Fu, naval commander-inwith whom the Memorialist wished pect the condition of the Formosan ports, being with the Taotai on board the Hong fai, Th 1 left Amoy for the Pescadores on ho morning of the 15th of March, fog was thick that she missed the ort Prang-hu and had to tum back, The following morning the vessel was of a place to the north of the islands, but the weather still continued so thick that there was no telling, was going. Suddenly o crash was heard and the ship tras sahore, but no lives or treasure were lost.
The above circumstances having been reported to Memorialist by Hsin Ch'éng-fa, (FAR FE), the commander, he despatched tie Mer Pu to tow the feng Has off but the attempt failed and all that mas was the removal of the ing gear, ete, Fearing lest the hull and engines should be broken up if asea got up, the Major in command of the Pescadore Garrison was instructed to aseist the Commander in looking after the wreck. The setal at Amoy was further instructed to telegraph tothe Arsenal tosond 1a vessel to the assistance of the Hong
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