Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-29
THE BAILY RECORD-UNION.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER go. 1880.
CHINA AND JAPAN.

By the steamship Gaelic, which arrived
at San Francisco yesterday, we have later
dates from China and Japan
CHINA.
There has been a serious disturbance in
Canton, in which 5000 or 1000 Chinese
we're fighting for some hours. The French
missionaries were threatened, and the
whole foreign community were so scared
that they armed and put the place IN
state of defense, and kept the steamers IN
the river with steam all night, so that they
might decamp if the worst came to the
worst The Viceroy called out the SOL
diers and fred into the mob, killing several
persons and wounding several others. IS
10 the ORIGIN of the disturbance there are
conflicting accounts, but it arose somehow
ont of Jealous misunderstanding between
the Hakka stone. dressers and the Can
which broke out in the evening near the
the work of incendiaries, broke out at 8
o'clock in the morning. and fifty or sixty
houses were destroyed.
There are tidings from Foochow of more
burning of chapels. Some 200 soldiers
NeHV, Oh buG OtLu ulb., W tilt Village VI
Ngiang A, on the Island of Nang Nix,
which is about two days southeast of Foo
chow, avowedly in pursuit of pirate who
had absoonded. They burned down his
house and then fired the chapel, attacking
with their spears, at the instance of the
military officers, and injuring very much
the Catechist, who demonstrated and stated
that the place was Christian chapel. On
September I'd the same body OF troops at
tackled another house in which services are
held, at village five Ii distant from
Ngiang A, and partially demolished and
burnt that also.
The news from Pekin lis again contra
dictory and uncertain. 1t is stated on one
hand that II. E. Won Butzow, the Russian
Minister to Pekin, has been ordered to re-
turn there Immediately. The conduct of
negotiations on the question between Rus
STA and China will be left entirely to Pekin,
and it will be for the Minister there to de-
clare war, if necessary.
The Chinese, it is said, have become
alive to the fact that their Capital can be
easily approached by hostile force in the
direction of Moukden, and have accord
ingly concentrated force of 10000 men
at Moukden, under the command of Tseng
Kwo.tsuan. 1t is said that there are now
nearly 100, 900 troops at Tientsin under the
command of the Viceroy, Ii Hung shang.
More than half of these have gone there
recently. At Shanghai considerable pur-
chases of war material have lately been
made. Large purchases of powder, cart
ridges, Armstrong and Krupp guns, Mar
TIM, Remington and Winchester rifles have
been made.
JAPAN.
The principal feature of interest in com.
mercial matters has been combination en-
tered into by the native merchants not to
purchase imported goods for seven days
from the Doth of September, ultimo, Pc
Rod which was subsequently extended for
another week.
The native journals have been occupied
lately with reports and rumors of dissen-
sions in the Cabinet and stories are fire.
quent of Ministerial designations and
changes.
To Judge from the native papers, which, |
however, are not very reliable guides in |
matters of the kind, the agitation fomented |
by noisy minority in favor of the imme- |
date establishment of representative insti- |
buttons, is not 80 active as it was some |
months since.
September 29th Yokohama was visited |
by very severe gale, which has since
proved to have been the outer edge of
typhoon. Several of the vessels in the
harbor dragged their anchors. H. NJ. S.
Fly narrowly escaped going aground, but
luckily steam was got upwith great CELEBRITY,
and the vessel speedily extricated from her
perilsus position. On shore there was
much destruction of fences, trees were
blown down, and tiles and plaster stripped