(From the Foochow Daily Echo, of 24th Dec.)
Thieves a that they the authorities, as mentioned by us.an 3rd inst., have adopted the plan of buying second-hand soldiers' jackets from the old clothes' dealers, and have succeeded in deceiving many' a worthy shopkeeper who has mistaken them for part of the night patrol. Three of these rascals were caught on Tuesday night last while busy at work on the wall of a pawnshop, by the patrolling soldiers, and have been dealt with severely.
The fire in the city on Saturday morning last was not extensive, but of terrible consequences to four of the inmates of the house, It was confined to this one dwelling, one of large dimensions, happily surrounded by high walls over which the flames could not make their escape. The fire broke out in the front of the house, while, still asleep in the back of it, were two men, a woman and a boy of 13 of age, to whom timely warning was not iven, and they were burut to death, he disaster was the outcome of Jus-pidgin that had been carried on until Jate the night before, sll the lights not having been extinguished.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.