Tt caused more than a nine days' wonder sengers succeeded in perpetrating 'a horrible when four men on a boat with other pas-murder on the way from Shanghai to Soochow. A few weeks ago, a man bought a ticket in Shanghai, intending to go a3 a passenger on a native boat which with other similar craft was to be towed to Soochow. These boats are divided into cabins, each containing from two to ten. passengers, according to their size. When the victim paid for his ticket he was incautious enough to exhibit a roll of dollars at least a hundred in number. He was observed, and the result was that four desperadoes, having laid their plot, took passage on the same boat and entered the cabin occupied by the owner of the coveted silver. There was a sixth passenger in that apartment and thereby hangs the tale, In the night the four villains murdered their his man and divi body-and his dollars among them, putting their horrid acquisitions into their in so skilful a manner that they made a clean sweep indeed of the whole affair. But murder wil] out. The sixth man pretended to be asleep during the dissection of the lay peractly quiet till morning. Wit body and the division of the spoils. He sudden exclamation, to the effect that he must step out a minute, he I before the murderers knew of hi He made his way along the line of boats till he reached the tug itself Be soon stated the facts and the men on the tug at once turned around and laid their little vessel alongside of the boat wherein the villarly had been perpetrated. At first they found nothing amiss, But closer scrutiny revealed the whole uncanny proceeding. The miscreants were rig 4 arrested and they are now in prison. almost certain that each will soon find bim-self shorter by a head than he was when he started to Soochow recently.
8th December.
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