The following incident may also be recorded as showing the energy and watehfulness of the Governor, Not long since he was passing in his chair the Hsipinkuan, the house where the only missionary now resident in Taiyuan is living, and noticed that one of the four soldiers on guard at the door was dressed in a most slovenly manner. He at once ordered his runners to arrest the man and take him to his yamen. Because these men did not at once carry out his orders he first had them beaten with the bamboo, He then directed that three large wooden collars should be brought to hix yamen, and summoned all the military officials of the city and vicinity to be present at the trial, which was to take place at noon. The result of the trial was that the culprit himself, the shu chang, and the shao-kuan of his company were all sentenced to he beaten one hundred blows, to wear the wooden collar and be paraded round the street with a small guard, preceded by a couple of trumpeters. ' When it came to the turn of the soldier to receive his castigation, it was found that he was already suffering from an unhealed wound caused by a previous flogging. The Governor was so much annoyed that a man of this description should have been sent as one of a guard for the foreigners, that he ordered the ing kuan himself" to be beaten, forty plows with the heavy bamboo! The sentences were carried out in the presence of all the officials, and the soldiers. Shih-chang and shao-kuan were then sent round the city wearing their wooden collars. Shen Taotai of the Foreign Bureau then went to the missionary to apologise in the Governor's name for the carelessness of the military officials in sending such 'a man as part of the guard. The whole camp of 500 men has now been broken up and the soldiers, most of whom are Hupeh men, are to be escorted out of the province. All this was of course done without referring to the missionary, and when he suggested to the hsien "magistrate (subprefect) who called the next day, that he thought of asking the Governor to mitigate the sentences, he replied: You had better say nothing about it."
Missionary News.
The two C. I. M. missionaries who went north to the district of Tatungfu have returned, and in a day or two the balance of the indemnity money will be sent to the Christians in that district.
Mr. Nichols, the representative of the Herald" (N. ¥.), has passed is way to Hsianfu, Mr.
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