AN! government schools here received a fright when Gen. Kin left for Kian. "Teachers and scholars made for home and places of safety, few, if any, examinations were held, and' these scholars spread the news that things were in a bad state. Banks refused to accept deposits, many, rich left for Shanghai. Ah such incidents as these combined to put the city in a state of great uncertainty for a few days. spurned aside with the foot the clothes of the victim evidently: desirous of seeing the wound. This went on for a couple of hours perhaps when two coolies brought a plain looking coffin, the corpse was bundled into it and they carried it! away.
A few days later the sound of two shots again caused me to'look at the hill and it seemed from the vast crowd that in summer's many hued garments covered the hill from-almost its base to the pavilion summit, to be a' gala day, but they had just' looked on the shooting of two more brigands, and even s 1 looked a soldier with a broad, sword two feet long knelt on the sward and swinging his weapon apparent ly over the same object invisible from-the house he dealt a-succession of blows one! two! three! Then a"pause of a few seconds to shift his position to get more purchase four! fiver and raising himself he walked a few paces carrying by its short,-half-cut hair a human head.
Laying. it down he wiped his weapon on and with the grass while another soldier strode forward picked-up the head and-walked away probably to expose it az cne of the pater
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