The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27
A COLUMBIAN IN CEINA.
An Interesting Account cf the Recent
Riot in Chin-Elang from the Pen of a
Lady Well Known in This City

An Interesting Account cf the Recent
Riot in chin-zlang from the Pen Of a
Lady Well Known in This City.
Below is reproduced an extract from
& private letter from Mrs. Woodbridge,
the wife OF the Rev. Mr. Woodbridge, a
missionary in China, published in the last
issue OF the Southern Presbyterian
Mrs. Woodbridge is the daughter of DR..
James Woodrow of this city, and her
letter treats Of the recent riot at Chin
kiang, China, where she is located.
After saying that she was just recover
ing from an attack oftyphoid fever, she
says:
u write TO assure you Of our safety
after TIE dreadful riot of last week. a
Sikh policeman (the Chinese hate the
Sikhs) beat a Chinaman for some tres
pass in the foreign settlement last Tues
day, the 5th. and the Chinese burned
the police station. Then they looted
and burned a new $4,000 Or $50, 900
house Just erected, the English Consul
late, Marshal's house, Mr. Hunnex's
american Baptist, South. Mr.. Bryan's
(American Baptist, South fine new
house just put up. the Baptist chapel,
and row OF five buildings, one Of which
was our first home il. Chin-kiang, in
1884. They looted the American Con-
sulate, and took axes and cut and
smashed everything in the Northern
American Methodist Episcopal chapel.
No lives were lost, but everybody had to
run, saving only the clothes they had
on. Mrs. Eunnex had a week-old baby,
and had to run for her life with her
baby in her arms. They have three
other children, the youngest four years
old. Her husband was kept back by the
Chinese for some reason.
"We were down at the South Gate,
and stay ed UP all that night, waiting for
the rioters to come. The next morning
early Mfr. Woodbridge called coolies and
had me taken to Mr.. Bears on our hill.
Soon after we left fifty or sixty soldiers
came and battered our house with stones,
breaking the only snail window that had
no shutter. Our neighborS reasoned
with them that they ought not to injure
our house, and 50 they left our dear lit
tie home undistnrbed, for which we
thank the Lord who has been so good to
us. We stayed at Mr.. Bears one night,
and arc now in our own hill home, to
stay until am well again.
''Gunbo ais were telegraphed for and
there are four or five now anchored
here, and all is quiet. Gen. Kennedy
came up, and the Chinese will have to
pay large sums for the handsome build
ings they destroyed. | should think at
least 100000. Gen. Kennedy came to
our Sunday service at our house and
spoke to the Chinese, Mr.. Woodbridge
interpreting. When he left he shook
hands all round-something very unu-
sual in China, wheie people shake their
Il elst sGoSs oa
can crush US if they like, port or no
port, if the-Lord We're not caring for US.
The rioters were mostly the riff-raf and
people from other places. It is Chinese
New Years too, and bad year of
famine, floods and drought all over
China. The suffering in China this
year is fearful. I hope and think we
Shall be quiet hereafter The Sikh
policemen, the cause of many disagree
rents, have left for good. Burning
houses is capital ofense, and several
of the men have been caught.
almost all the foreigners have left
for Shanghai I am the only married
missionary lady here. Misses Hoag,
Robinson, and Peters are next door.
Mr.. Bear and Mr.. Woodbridge are the
only male missionaries here. Why should
&c escape and others sufer?"-ColasS:
6ia Daily Register.