Live Stock and Even Children Carried Of row Our Own Connesroxnenr Kuviyang, Kueichow, Feb. 29.
Country districts in this provi are badly infested with wolves, which. carry off live stock, such as poultry and pigs, and not infrequent-utile children, too. I am just now on a visit to places south of Kueiyang and on the way I spent a night at the small hsien city which governs this district. Wolves could be heard in different directions during the night and in the very early, morning they were heard in the market-place (just outside the city) where I was lodged, and one actually tried to open the barred wi low of room. All this indica 5 that population of the district is Were the local militia us market-places any thi ike well trained in the use of thei rifles, considerable execution could be done amongst the brutes, but for the most part the "braves" seem to have no knowledge of how to shoot straight.
When I left Kueiyang on the 213 inst., we had been twenty days with-oat Shanghai.or Hankow mails and, although two mails from Kueiyang
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