The great soure of excitement in Wuchang for the Inst few months has been the mysterious. Emperor, whose arrival and subsequent experiences in this city have been referred to more than once in the Varth-China Duily New—'Vhis evening i bad some conversation with a more than Fusually acute Chinese gentleman when Treferred to the spurious Emperor he was quite indignant and insisted that the poor prisoner in the Chianghsia magistrate's yamaisteally Ue Emperor. Tt will easily be believed that the stories one hears about this illustrious exptive are somewhat con-factory. When we first heard of him it was stated that he came from Chichon. Now the story is much more romantic.
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