It is stated that when an indemnity of Tls. 80,000 was demanded from the gentry and inhabitants of the district of Hsin chang, Kiangsi province, on account of an anti-missionary riot in that city last month, in which a chapel and some houses belonging to converts wore burn-od down and a fow of the latter injured, the reply given by the leading gentry and merchants, who had to "foot the bill," as the Americans say, was that if the missionaries concerned would guarantee that from henceforth neither chapel would be built, nor missionaries enter Heinch'anghsion to "teach their doctrine" than the indemnity of Ts. 80,000 demanded would be gladly paid without a murmur, Needless to say that the promise was not given by the missionaries.
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