The Wuhu taotai has received i tions to inspect the Chichow copper mines and to close them if they can no longer be worked at a profit. As the mining com-pavy is heavily in debt, no government Tiki been paid for a long tne. that three Hunan men, proprietors The ni miavistrate lately learned certain hotel inside the city, were members of the Kola Society and had also been connected withagang of robbers who plundered the government treasure while being conveyed tothe on pital. A force was despatched and arrested two of the men; the third leaped from a window and escaped. Another hotel, opposite the Provincial Treasurer's amen, was closed, xs the owner was a Hiunan man, though no charges have, been preferred against him.
'A Hunan brave lost a tobacco pipe in a tea-shop in Nanking and demanded its restitution by the attendant. From alter: cation they came to blows. The attendant Doing a smaller man was getting-the worst of the fight when bystander, an Anhui man, interfered; and a fierce struggle between him and the brave ended in the latter receiving injuries from which he died the same night. Next morning his Hunan. comrades stoned the tea-shop. The. Anhui man surrenderrd himself to the magi trate who was holding the inquest, He is now awaiting examination.
The gates of the inner wall of Peking are closed us 5 p-ni." daily "but Are partially. re-opened about L'clock the next morning for admitting officials whuxtteud the Throne and wh" have State business on their hands, Only ingress and nu egress is allowed. After the officials and their retinues have passed the gates are again shut until 7 o'clock a.m, A few nights ngo: a party of seven: fat chus, apparently women, attempted to force an exit from the city while the pas. sage' was crowded with chairs, carts, and horses of the incoming officials. ('Phe evident taste: and: agitation on the.part of these Manchus aroused the suspicion: of
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