in these parts. Every effort is being mate by his friends to secre his release on the groand that he is a law-abiding wan, but fas yet without avail. It is that he wields a very great influence in these parts, and that he is using it against the constitu: ted government.
Nearly all the stone for the embankments of the new Haukow- Peking railway is taken from this port. Up tu this year has been passed by the local Li without paying duty. But a new ofticiat has taken charge and tried to make the boatmen pay duty. They have retaliated by gathering in a body and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.