Li Han, the Kolao Hui leader who was captoved some time ayo xt Svet'sien and taken to Nanking, has been undergoing severe examinations before the two and the Prefect,—Kffort 0 extort confessions f has kept obstinately doings although torture has been applied, Phe Shanghai city magistrate started for Soochow on the 26th inst. His worship's inn to the latter place is connected with some important business with the Governor of Kinngsu, Kuanytung, to th number of old people cannot help being that the Chinese are a long-lived race. there are three persona dred years of age, 180 abura the age of 90, and as many as three thousand who have reached the mature age of four-
The Nanking authorities have of Into deen striving their utmost to suppress gambling, and are now determined to do with this most f ich has been nny people, The number of families brought to ruin by gambling is incalculable. A successful rai made one night last week by the Commissioner of Police upon one of the houses that are rented out to students at Examination time and are aupprsed to be vecupied by respectable people. In spite of the innocent exterior of the house, gambling was carried on within, The capture effected this time is as valuable as it is rare, for all of the captives are men_of rank and several of the parties are friends of the Commissioner.
slumber of a thousand years." Under this head our correspondent reports the sudden death of a man who, in the prime of manhood and apparently in per. fect health, died quietly and without the least_sign of agony, in a tea shop near Smith's Market on' Saturday last. The man, who was about 40 years old was in the xct of leaning forward as if taking nap when eternal sleep overtook him. 4 'A. brutal outrage was committed last week upon rustic countryman and his witl at Tsxsa. 'The couple were returning from 'a visit to the parents of the young woman, and when they reached an' unfrequented place on the road they were attacked by three men who, seizing the man, divested him of all his clothir.g and money and then tied a tree and blindfolded The woman was then attacked and success sively outraged by the three villains. The matter has been reported to the officials und it is to be hoped that those who have the welfare of the people at heart will unearth the guilty wretches and bring them within the grasp of the lay.
Much to the inconvenience of passers-by, not tosay the residents of the Foochow Road, that thoroughfare has lately been infested with crowds of mendicants and juvenile loafers who make it a rule to come out in full fore ight and commit all sorts of depredations, The beggars per-tenaciously follow passers-by and do not relinquish their object until nims are given them, The youths confine their attention to women, from whom they derive a source of income by snatching earrings and head ornaments. It behoves the police to see to this,
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