occurred within a few miles of us. The robbers belonged to at least three different parties. The darkness finds everybody priming up their guns, The firing is heard everywhere; when the moon poss down the firing of the watchers, the robbers, and the robbed sounds like a large city when the boys have been turned loose for a holiday and dawn brings word to thecampsand to the yamens that Wang's animals are gone, that Chang's grain is stolen, that A's big front door is taken away, that B. ete, are wounded by robbers, and G. is killed, Really this is no fancy story. Ifyour readers were up here dark night they might imagine that the Spanish and the Insurgents were having 'a nightly exchange of greetings. office the servant announced a secretary from While preparing to send this to the post the We were much pleased to sce Mr. Jenkin's watch and a familiar garment erse. A man named Li had been traced fighting, just one week after the fray. by espy and arrested to-day after: a little This arrest and the just penalty will make the country safer for all good citizens and travellers.
'27th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.