According to a Kaifeng dispatch the district magistrate of Linhsien, Honan province, having been informed the other day that there Was an anti-missionary riot ina village outside the city walls, went at once to suppress the rising. Upon returning to the city, however, the mag trate found himself shut out of his own city for several hours by the inhabitants.—It is reported that the R. C. Bishop of Honan, Monsgr. Anhsiman (?) having heard that a certain priest in that province was making unnecessary exactions on both converts as well as non-converts, has sent a secret agent to investigate matters on the spot.
The Paoting-Taiyuen Railway.
According to a Paoting, capital of Chibli province, arch work on the proposed Railway between that city and faiyuen, the capital of Shansi province, which is in the hands of a British Company, was to be commenced on or about the Ist instant. The dispatch further Peking KEelean (Changebiawany states that the reposed railway between and which is in the hands of a British syndicate will be begun sometime in August next.
The Insurrection in S.W. Chihli.
A dispatch from Peking states that the Grand Council has wen informed by Viceroy Yuan Shu that the insur gents of Kuangtsunghsien, who murdered amongst others a French priest, number over 6,000 fairly armed men, and that they have retreated into the hills in the
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