An occasional Wuchang correspondent in a recent letter mentions the fact that, of late, every time Viceroy Chang Chih-tung leaves his yamen either to pay a all, or to inspect school, factory, or public works, he is always surrounded by numerous guards fully armed, as if his Excellency feared harm from some enemy. This is now clearly explained by a dispatch from Peking to the effect that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has tele-plied the Grand Council that an attempt had been made upon his life in which he received some injury, namely, a shot in the left arm, sca that, as his guards had succeeded in capturing the would-be assassin on the spot, he requested advice as to what form of punishment the culprit shall be made to suffer. Upon being questioned as to the cause of his enmity against the Viceroy, the would-be assassin replied that his comrades had sworn to take the life of -Viceroy, or any other official, who prohibited the publication and sale of revolutionary literature,
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