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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
en. And now I have to describe no less horrible scenes enacted by the rebels, and in which, with many thousands of Chinese, two Americans were killed — on the Rev. H. M. Parker, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the other the Rev. J. L Holmes, of the Southern Baptist Convention, both young men in the full vigor of manhood. They arrived in China some two or three years back, and not many months ago, after the opening of the northern ports, removed to the province of Shautung, where thar Chifoo, called also Yental. Chifoo is a small town, or village, situated close to the sea on the north side of the Shautung promontory. * * * * * * * On Saturday, the 12th two gentlemen came in from the westward, one, the brother of Mr. Holmes, having traveled overland a distance of over two hundred miles from Tientain, and the other, a missionary, a distance of sixty miles, from Tungchan.--Through nearly all the regions over which they traveled the country presented one unbroken sce