Sometime last week the Chilsien sent out. a lot of his runners to pick up some robbers who had raided a wealthy family in the south-west of the district, and ax they were returning to the city upon bg a lot of armed men who ed them of all but one of their prison-Such occurrences ax these indicate that. the day of noise and bluster, supplemented with a few old horse pistols with red tassels stuck in their muzzles, is past so far as any effectiveness is concerned.
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