The beheading of three men in the city to-day created quite a stir among the people, inasmuch as the men were cunnected with a noted robbery in which over thousand taels of silver had been stolen from a boat on the river above Chungking about a y Most of the men connected with the altair were Kinting men but there had been much difficulty in phieing and "eaptui i Some families of themselves from guilt, either aken part in the robbery, or as having received some "f the silver that had been stolen. Two men of the gentry class were imprisoned and died in prison 1 ing trial.
The old father of one of the men who died in prison, is still under arrest. His means of every description have been squerzedl out of him by the ollicial so that now heis reduced toa state of abject poverty, while, atthe same time the officials failed' to prove that he knew anything about the robbery. Some one owes him 2 grudge and is taking this opportunity of getting even with, bim, Such We the lack of justice in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.