Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-06
CHINA AND JAPAN.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
BY the arrival Of the Arabic at San
Francisco yesterday we have Hongkong
and China dates to the Sth CT January, and
from Japan to the 10Th:
CHINA.
The Douglas Steamship Company S coast.
ing steamer Albay, Captain f. D. Goddard,
went ashore on the bar of the river at Swa.
tow on the evening of the 9th ultimo,
through the steering gear suddenly giving
way. The second officer and three chi
nese passengers were drowned.
Since the failure Of the Vow Kong Bank
at Peking there has been such scare
among depostors that large runs have been
made on all the banks, insomuch that
much Inconvenience has been occasioned
thereby.
1t is reported that the telegraph cable to
Corea will be opened for general traffic
about the 10th of January
The latest advices from the fro1 repre-.
sented Admiral Courbet as having stopped
his advance beyond Sontay, and as having
sent back half his troops to Hanoi, against
which a demonstration was being made by
Chinese from Bacninh. Probably Admiral
Courbet considers that his force is not
strong enough to follow the Black Flags up
the Red river, and to keep in check the
large numbers Of Chinese who would be
threatening his rear and communications
from Bacninh aud other places.
There is great trouble in Pekin, In the
Imperial City, just outside the palace walls,
stands the Temple of Imperial Ancestors,
and in the Temple are ranged all the spirit
tablets OF the deceased Emperors of the
dynasty. Night after night there is said
to be a mysterious sound of wailing and
weeping in the shrine, and then crash,
az though the tablets had all fallen,
Dagon-hke, from their places. Ga enter
ing, every tablet is found in it's proper po-
sition yet the next night the same mex.
plicable noises are heard, and the greatest
CONSERVATION is felt in consequence of the
portentious omen. Weeping and wailing
are also heard proceeding from the i'm
perial tombs, where the old Emperors are
buried. The Chinese, Of course, look on
all this as big with adverse fate to the Man.
chu dynasty.
News having been received at Pekin
that several tens of thousands Of famine
sufferers are crossing over the canal, the
Governor General of the Grand Canal, in
conjunction with the local officials, con.
suited upon measures to relieve the
distressed ones. The Governor General
went in person to number the sufferers,
when suddenly they fell upon his guards
and severely hurt them, and having done
so, proceeded to break his sedan chair
Upon the Governor General getting out of
it, he himself was maltreated, his clothes
being torn from his person and his sedan
chair knocked to pieces. In this affair
both the Governor. General and his guards
were completely at the mercy OF the fam
inc sufferers.
About the 9th of December 20, 600 famine
sufferers arrived at Yangchow. The local
officials Immediately had three mud in
closures made Outside the North Gate at
WI Tai Shan and housed the refugees,
none of whom were allowed outside of
these Enclosures. A wei yuan, with some
soldiers, was deputed to call the roll three
times day but tueir numbers were so
great that it was impossible to keep track
of them all. Moreover, in the night
consid erable number would climb over the
walls and rob and pillage the villagers in
the outlying districts of their clothes, etc.
On the 18Th of this month, however, the
local officials, in conjunction with the WI
Tai Shan military officers, captured
number of these pillaging refugees, and
punished them severely according TO mill.
tary law.
The fleet OF the China Merchants Steam
Navigation Company appears to be under
going the process of changing its national
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Dragon.
The natives at Anam have it that the
French forces have been destroyed. The
absurdity of their news does not seem to
strike even the most sensible of their num-
Der, and all are now as happy as they were
downcast short while ago.
HoNGKoNG.
a meeting of the Legislative Council
was held on the 2Sth ultimo, but no bust.
ness Of Importance was transacted.
During night attack by party of
armed robbers on house in British Kow-
loon, two Chinese were shot by two Sikh
policemen, who were first fired upon by the
attacking party.
Considerable anxiety has prevailed in
the foreign community for some days past
regarding the safety of two of the coast
ing steamers, viz, the Hwai Yuen and the
Namvian, both being now some days over
due.
JAPAN.
Several cases of incendiarism are re-
ported from Toxic. About fifty persons
have been arrested on suspicion.
The damaged reputation of Japan tea,
upon neglect and adulteration,
has given rise to many curious devices for
it, vindication. One of the latest is
by tea merchants of Toxic,
X anagaws and Saitama to found com.
pany. The promoters are to provide
100, 900 yen; 200,0 yen is looked for
from the Government; 10000 yen will be
devoted to bounty to tea producers, and
10, 900 will be set aside for the expenses of
travelling experts to report on teas sent to
foreign countries. Only those tea brokers
whose means exceed 5000 yen will be ad
mitted to the Association. What is to pay
the company is not stated. Perhaps that
is a secondary and unworthy coIsidera-
ton.
II. d. MASON, Esq, of the New York Ho'
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