Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-23
China.


Shanghai has French daily paper.
Ground for the railroad between
Tientsin and Taku is being surveyed.
On the 31st of December between
27o and 800 houses were destroyed at
Shanghai, in the French quarter.
A grand review of the troops at Can
ton was held during the last few days
of December. Their evolutions were
creditablc.
Much dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed of late with some of the work
done in Germany. Many of the gun
boats are said to be very crotchety and
patched-up tubs.
On the morning of the Sth of Jan
uary the China Shippers Mutual S. N
Co.'S steamer Ching-wo, in entering the
harbor, fouled the United States cor
vette Omaha. The damage was about
$40
The Chinese are still investigating
the charges of cowardice which were
brought against the Admiral of the
Chinese fleet at the memorable engage
ment with Admiral Courbet in the Min
river in August, 1884.
The Chinkiang correspondent OF the
Mern,y says: On the goth of De-
cember, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the
evening, body of natives (Ningpo
mem, numbering upward of forty, as
sembled at the newly erected houses of
the Revs. ]. Langden and G. Woodal
of the American Methodist Mission,
and forced their way in. They tied
both of the reverend gentlemen's hands
behind their backs and led them
through the public streets to the magis-
trate's yamen in the city, who, after
hearing the complaint OF the mob
against them, had the missionaries con
Quoted back to their houses by an
armed escort. Owing to the dispute,
the British man-of-war Wanderer and
the American vessel Marion Here or
dered to Chinkiang on the I4th of
January. An amicable settlement of
the difficulty was made.
Robberies are rife throughout Can
ton. A gang of armed robbers whilst
on an expedition, few days ago, were
hunted toward the Tartar Generals
yamen, the court of which they en-
tered by the western gate just as the
General was entering by the other.
The gate-keepers shut the gates, where
upon the robbers bolted into the yamen
and mounted the roofs. The General
seeing gang of armed men entering
his palace, ordered his guard to follow
and capture them. The order was
obeyed, but the guard was armed with
useless swords, and the robbers finding
themselves pursued fired their revolvers
and wounded, if they did not KILL sew
eral of the guard, who, however, gamely
continued the pursuit until several of
the robbers had been captured These
unlucky ones are not being very
tenderly dealt with, all kinds of tortures
being practiced on them.
A form of hysterical disease or
mania among adult males at Chang
chow is observed. The patient ac-
quires the impression that his abdomen
is inhabited by some animal, often a
rat, whose excursions cause violent
local pain. Unheard.of efforts are
made to expel the intruder, and often
the savings Of whole family for life
time are wasted on BONES, sorcerers,
doctors and other quacks in hope OF
obtaining relief for the sufferer 1t is
reported that in many cases death oc-
ours from suffiocation in the course OF
violent convulsive 'paroxysm. The
petient leads double life, marked by
the use of two voices of different tim
bres. AS rule his disposition alters
in correspondence with the change OF
voice Morally and mentally he is a
different being in the two states. What
ever occurs during the period betoken
ed by the unnatural voice is totally for
gotten during the normal period.