The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
MASSACRE IN CHINA.
Aeh Thousand Native Christians,
SlRtEg ntered.

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The French periodical, Missions
Oashaoligues, of the last of July, gives
Ine Irst authentic and detailed narrative
OF the recent massacre of Roman Cath
o4ie native converts in China.
Inc account, as translated for the
LONDON Tablet, relates that the massa-
ere broke out on the 25th of FebrrgTtI
when the 4" literateB. '' az the persecuti1o
! party IS called, opened the campaign bS
Dehead1ng two men in the service OF
5er9 1)oare, and christian, whom they
Ghen threw into the river. The same
| Gay they burned the three villages of
1run-Lam, Flo Vinh and Bau-Tect, and
Laassaered the inhabitants that were in
them. These who succeeded in escap-
lng to the woods were hunted down
with hounds brought back and killed
on the following day. The river was
covered over with bodies floating down
1t from the side q Lareg. At that time
the murderers were massacreing the
christians of the parish of Holven, and
were burning their villages. Those
Who took refuge in the cliffs of the
neighborhood were hunted down and
burned alive. The grand mandarin of
Justice was at the market of La-Nam
with 800. soldiers, but remained an in
active spectator of the massacre of the
christians of Nam-Duong, only few
OF whom were able to escape.
THE LTTERATEs,
who were the heads of the militia ap-
pointed to massacre the christians, say
that the work of determination carried
out under the eyes of the mandarins
was concerted between the court and |
the literates, and was done in reprisal |
for recent events. The mandarins have |
have just received orders from the |
court not to employ any other means |
save those of persuasion TO stop the |
murderers in their career. One of the |
chiefs, who had just cansed two chris |
tians to be murdered on the highroad, |
went on the parade before the governor |
of the citidal, by whom he was dis
missed with honor. On his return
twenty women and children fell under
the sword of this man and his follow
ers. He had just come from offering
sacrifice to the goddess of prostitution,
to whom famous temple, that stands
near the road, is dedicated.
MODE OF TORTURE AND DEATH.
In several localities they take an er-
tire family-father, mother and chill
dren-bind them together with bam-
boos and then fling the bundle of liv-
ing humanity into the waves. First,
however, they take care to cut off the
mans head. The multitude of dead
bodies thus fastened together in groups
of from eight to ten block up the prin-
cipal river, but to the great surprise of ,
everybody, does not send forth any bad :
smell. There are then five parishes, :
containing 10000 christians, which have !
to be blotted out of the mission
namely, Lang Thankhuyen, Nam-Du- {
Ong, Hoy-Yen and Doreg-Thank. Many |
Ofsthe victims die in the midst of flames. {
A village of more than 400 christians G
was attacked by the literates, and soon /
became a prey to the flames. Among h
these 400 'chritians there were 100, f
more or less, who succeeded in saving O
themselves by taking refuge in a large
village near by. The remainder, about
300, were nearly all massacred. Two
small villages. of christians, situated
5wO hours's walk from the place at c
which 1 then was, were hemmed in by l
5he pagans. The mayor visited each E
house, numbered the christians, and a
forbade them, under threat of most u
severe punishment, to go out of doors. b
few of the christian women attempted s
10 go to market to keep themselves Il
rom starving. They never returned.
some pagan women who went with d
hem say that the christian women were r
,aptured and beheaded. Two men p
rom one of these same villages haz- c
lrded flight during the night. They "
passed the great river by swimming, Il
nd came to me TO tell their misfOr- b
unes. Il
"Alas," writes Archbishop Gauthier, e
rom whose letters this information is &
hiefly derived, 81 could do nothing Il
,ut weep for them, being unable to do L
to succor them" Two or 1
hree days afterwards I learned that all L
he men in that village had had their "
reads cut off, but the women and chill b
Iren were spared. And, as their houses a
we're intermingled with those of the Il
,agans, it was forbidden to burn them P
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