The region immediately about this city has been again infested with robbers, after comparative immunity for several years. They have again resorted to their old rendezvous on the banks of theHusi River, fifty Zi eastward. Here lies a strip of land which belongs to no one of the adjacent hsiens, a sort of no-man'sland very apt to become a refuge for such as habitually bold the law in contempt. Yesterday a blare of trumpets announced the success of a raid upon the bandit's nest, which resulted in the capture of six an slaughter of a seventh of the gang. The head of the dead victim was carried by the soldiers as sufficient evidence of his decease to the local magistrate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.