Not wholly unbroken, however; a distinguished guest arrived, " few days ago, feom the vicinity of Chinan Fa, to the temporary excitement. of the whole city. He was accommodated—with what seems like an excess of careful attention—in a wooden cage, large enough to allow him to sit at ease, and bound with ropes to the floor of the cart on which he rode. He was the true, Simon puta, only genuine Pring Ch'ng Wang (4% ffy =F), all others who have been beheaded or sliced in pieces on this charge having been base imitations,—a trifling error, but one which the capture of the authentic original renders plain. He was captured not long ago in Southern Shantung, and has been brought to the provincial capital for examination. He gives his name~as Chang Ta-che, and is evidently a man of education as well as of iron determination. It 0 happened that no arrangements had been made in advance for his reception here, so that on his arrival the escort were obliged to leave his equipage standing in a vacant temple yard while inquiries were being made as to which of the several score of yamen in the city was to receive him. He improved this opportunity to hold up rule of the crowd the negligence icy of the official in charge, much to that ofilcer's disgust and to the crowd's amusement, In answer to questioning, he described that portion of the revolt of which he was the leader as having ita origin solely in the feud between the Roman Catholics and the people (probably at Pakou). Ho repeated the thread-bare tales of the atrocities practised by the Christians, the usual eye-gouging and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.