'A horrible tragedy was enacted in a village twenty miles from here, while I it recently. A married man jably spent his evening playing fan-tan, retarned home one night ear! than usual sod surprised bit sparamoar. Seizing " chopper which hay to his hand, ho attacked the intruder and inflicted terrible injuries on his bead and face. One ear was lopped off, part, of his nose wes cat away and as he tarned to escape, the wretched man was badly cut in the back of the head. In his futile efforts to protect bim-telt one of his bands was nearly severed. It is not expected he will recover, alhongh I was told the next morning that be still breathed. In the coafation the guilty wife escaped, bat I was told openly that had she not managed to fade ber outraged husband, she and her lover woald probably have been bound together and drowned in the river. Nothing will be done to pro-mecate the assailant, public opinion regard attack as quite justifiable per 0 praiseworthy, ble story is reported to-day from the South. In the middle of the tenth moon s vessel with " large cargo of unhailed rice, bound for a near Canton, anchored for the aight at Pakoogkeu, some dozen miles the yerth of Tsiogyan.
In the dark watches of the night the FI was boarded by a score of thieves after s desperate straggle, overpowered all the crom. They bound the sprain hand and foot, lashed bim to yr and thea dropped him over-'The remainder of the crew vere drowned la a similarly cold-Hlooded fubjon and then the vessel silently weighed anchor and slipped dowa the rer, The sole survivor had gone
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