A professional gambler thought to get the best of the innocent, and. ignorant foreigner the other day. At a feast given in honour of his son some of his guests were bulging in a gambling game when the yamen people suddenly pounced down upon them and arrested them for violating the law against gambling, a law seldom forced, judging from' the gambling that goes on even in the streets of some of our towns. The gambler thought to work the foreigner through mutual friends and get his influence to release the prisoners #0 unjustly imprisoned while playing an innocent game! The foreigner, however, got the cue, and the would be impostor met with cold reception and took his departure speech ly when told that the step more likely to be taken would be to request the official to arrest him.
AN ANTF-FOREIGN PLACARD, A little antiforeiga feeling crops up occasionally in this section, At Bohyien (JEREZ), & town nine miles away, where we have a chapel, a placard was posted on the street the other day denouncing the "foreign doctrine" and using very abusive language concerning it and the people who believe in it. The attention of the official was called to it by a native Christian, and it was taken down in short order. The official claims that he is searching for the author; we anticipate no further trouble.
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