Weekly News. — 1892-10-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MISSIONARIES MUTILATED.  It has been ascertained, telegraphs the Shanghai 3orrespondent of the Standard, that the tears sxpressed lat2ly for the safety of the missionaries :n the province of Shensi were only too well founded. Telegraphic advices have come to hand from Singan-fu, the capital of the province, of a terrible outrage upon some European missionaries and native Christians in the south eastern part of the province. The telegram was dated Singan, September 6th, and was 10 the following effect: "European missionary Christians mutilated Snensi," Which evidently means that there has been an antiChristian outbreak in Shensi, in which European missionaries and native Christians have been mutilated. The epidemics that have visited Northern Central China this year have, as I mentioned before, been taken advantage of by the enemies of missionary work, and it is to be feared that these men have succeeded in stirring up a riot in Shensi. The China Inland Mission has 27 members, including associates, in Shensi, mostly in the west of the province, at Fengsiang, Hanchung, Chengku, and Sanyang. There are 30 Franciscans in Shensi, including seven nuns, and many of these are near Singan-fu. There are also three English Baptist missionaries in the province. It is difficult to know what can be done to assist the foreigners in Shensi, if thy need assistance. The nearest port is Hankow, but it is impossible tc send any relief party 40 miles up the Han river. It is believed that the telegram was sent by an English missionary from Singan. where the news bad only just reached, and that the victims of thE outrage are members of the Swedish Mission.  Friday being the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, which was fought on October 21st, 1305,1 the figurehead of the Lord Nelson in Chathau Mr. R. Barber, of Harlescott, Shrewsbury, one Dockyard was handsomely decorated wth at of the largest and best-known farmers in the enormous wreath of evergreens and flowers by the county, and a Shropshire sheep-breeder of considerdockyard police. The famous flagship the Victory, able renown, committed suicide, by shooting himlying at Portsmouth, was also decorated. self, early on Thursday morning. He attached a piece of string to the trigger of a gun, the muzzle The failure has been announced in Cardif of which had been placed against his face, and in of Mr. George Hopkins, general provision merchani that way discharged the weapon. and retailer, of the :layes Market. Cardiff. Thi turnover is said to have exceeded £130,000 a year The captain of the Anchor liner Ethiopia, which and the liabilities are estimated at about £60,000 arrived at Greenock on Thursday morning:from New The creditors are dislributed all over the country York, reports that while off Cumbrae Head the The failure is attributed to losses in shipping Ethiopia was in collision with an outward bound steamer, the Waldey. The liner had two plates on transactions. the port quarter damaged, and it is thought that Lord Acton, like Mr. Theodore Watts, is one of the other vessel was more seriously damaged. that select company of authors of whom it may be though she did not report her injuries. laid that they write too little, and Messrs. Iliacmillan's announcement of a volume of ' A little girl was walking in a cemetery,ana,reatthistorical essays from his pen will be received with jog one after another the praises upon the tombs ot keen pleasure by all who appreciate sound and wide those who slept beneath, suddenly exclaimed: "1 scholarilip, combined with grace of style. Lord wonder where they bury all the sinners ?" Acton, who was born in 1834, and served in the To buy her presents his cash he spent, Crimea, has succeeded—again like Mr. Watts—in And hr words of thanks were sweeter than honey; making a high reputation as an author without But when she had squandered his last red cent having wiitte n a book. He has, however, published She married a youth who saved his money. P detached essus in London, Paris, and Berlin, and Young hopful: "Papa, I wish you'd buy me a now his infr(quent contrilanions to the reviews are and arrow." Papa: "It's only an hour since I an lig the hest things that our periodical bought you a kite." Young hopeful: "Th' kite's on i, liteiature c=m shew. top of a telograp'i pole an' I want to shoot it down.*