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Show Not the 7aMe fair. A curious and unpunished murder In Canton is reporte by the latent China mail. One Ho, a wealthy merchant, bad two sons, tlio eldest et whom was a dissipated dis-sipated youth, who consortetl with thieves and gamblers, and was driven away from home after wanting his share of the patrimony, l(e was reduced to beggary, and was in the habit of soliciting solicit-ing alms from his father ' servants at tho back door of his residence. The second sec-ond son, however, had an excellent character. char-acter. Tho eldest, with a hand of companions, com-panions, broke into his fallier'a house uml stole the money chest. The father said that if ha would promise prom-ise to lead a better life hn would be for-Kiveu for-Kiveu and might return home, where after a timo bo would I married to a young girl of respectable family. The son agreed and went home, where he was received with every appcaranr. of joy, and a banquet was prepared. But tho dish set before him was poisoned w ith arsenic, and ho died in greut agony. Nothing will ho done to call tho father to account, as it seems that in Chinese law tho son is regarded as a part of the father, and tho tatter can do as he likes with his sons. Hud the latter killed his father, whether by accident or desigu, ho would bo sentenced to tile "slow pro. cess," or slicing to death, London Star. |