A local sensation has just occurred in this conservative old city that is worthy of noting. For a year or more a public library of Western learning has been imaintained here by the subscriptions of a few of the progressive clique. Recently a astern School with a rather pretentious prospectus was opened in the library, also by private subseriptio A few day' ago, the city prefect m rail on the premises, arrested sever young men who were known to b of the enterprise, and issi amotion eontiseating the the library and sel warning those who had been fre) the premises, that they had here: better asso in' future. It now appears that the premises had been reform, some of 1 turned' from Japan and that. assemblies were held there wussing methoxls of reform, i nblishe: distributes the library dim heard spai the Government a e proper correct it, tht were farm discrete." Upon his the arrests wore might have fared belly not their high social conn for the in the Gove ern their how they and rumour says they have best to return yan for to The pre neces that sch w lowning under to tara the library into "ani
ment control, but the people think it empty bluff.
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