The "Universal Gazette" publishes a petition from a missionary whose name in Bureau of Poreign Affaire for Shansi pro. hinese is given as Tun Ch'ung-li, to the vince, denouncing certain local officials of the sub-prefecture of Hsingchou, in said province, for the share they took last year in the massacre there of eight missionaries, male and female, and on the other hand gratefully Iauding the action of one hu Hung-hao, the Director of Studies of that sub-prefecture, who at great personal risk took compassion on the plight of the unfortunate victims of mandarin vengeance and took the next best step that could be done, failing ability to save their liv that is to say, buried the mutilated body chanted a requiem he had composed on their sad fate, and poured out a funeral libation over their graves after he had buried them. The petition finally demands the punishment of the guilty officials and gentry of Hsingchou, whose names are contained in a list' accompanying the petition, and asks for some fitting official recognition of the Jaudable act of the Director of Studies in question.
A Soochow dispatch states that the recent strike of merchants and traders at Nanch'ang, the provincial capital of Kiangsi, in protest against. further taxation, an account of which was
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