The officials here are having a lively time trying to catch a noted highway robber who has been at largo in this region for the past four or five years. Capital punishment has been meted out to his blood relations one by one till all are gone, The innocent have suffered death for. the offender and still the offender has his freedom.
new Military Commander has recently been appointed here with the task given him of capturing this destroyer of the peace and delivering him up to the Viceroy dead or all 'A fow days ago this "great man" came back from along chase after the outlaw, with a badly smashed up arm and shoulder received by being thrown from his horse over a cliff, The robber still goes on his way. The man who catches him will receive special notice by the Imperial authorities in Peking.
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Another destroyer of the peace in this inland region is the Imperial Chinese Post. Office, so-called. Barring a fow special weaknesses, this new institution has for the past two or three years been doing the public a real good, and had it been satisfied to continue on in its somewhat modest career for a few more years, it'Would have doubtless met with splendid success throughout the length and breadth of the Empire—but, alas! because somebody unfortunately began to make too much use of
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