It is reported that a certain Chinese recently approached a local foreign dent with the request for two thousand rifles to be passed through the Customs in the foreigner's name. It is needless to state that the gentleman thus accosted refused to aid in this wholesale importation of firearms. Such a proposition may have been made in a spirit of commercial speculative la view of the probable prohibition of arsenals and foreign munitions of war, for it may have a more serious interpreta tion as pointing to some sort of gunpowder plot against the unpopular "men from over the sear."
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