Excitement has been abnormal in our city and suburbs, and there is evidence that it is spreading into country places. For more than a month, daily rumours have been abroad that the eyes of children were being gouged for medicinal purposes. About a week ago, three men were near some children. The ery was raised that they were there for foul purposes. An excited crowd streamed together, they caught the three men and mauled one so seriously that he succumbed to the treatment. The other two mex were dragged to the yamen, and thousands of excited men declared they would not go home until they had seen the other two men executed. It is said the two men were summarily tried, and that one confessed in the "ordeal" that he had violated graves. The executions were carried out, when the excited crowd separated, but under the conviction that these men had been guilty of this barbara ism and that they were in some wey agents of the foreigner.
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