(By Arrangement with The Gold Cross, the prize awarded to the highest total scorer in the competition of the S.V.C. just concluded, Was won by Sergt, Dünman, of the Mih-hosloong Company.
A Paris letter of September 29, says: "all business is dead here. When the elections are over things will possibly resume the usual course. France has never experienced such a political and mercial crisis as that on the eve of is gratifying, while we hear so much of squeeze and corruption among the Chinese officials, to find that a flagrant case can occasionally be punished, when brought clearly to notice, with severity, The Magistrate Of a district in Kweichow has been found guilty of imposing illegal exact tions upon certain communes of Miao aborigines in that province. It is re-Commended that he be executed by strangulation.
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