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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Harmoneans and the Charleston sufferers. (search)
sponding Secretary of the Southern Baptist Mission Board, has received information, through a flag of truce, that Rev. Mr. Holmes, a native of this State and a missionary of the Foreign Mission Board, located in this city, was murdered at Yental, China, in October last, by Chinese insurgents. Rev. Mr. Parker, an Episcopal missionary, was murdered at the same time. The following were the circumstances as detailed by a correspondent of the New York Commercial: The insurgents were advancingChinese insurgents. Rev. Mr. Parker, an Episcopal missionary, was murdered at the same time. The following were the circumstances as detailed by a correspondent of the New York Commercial: The insurgents were advancing upon Chefce and Yental, the village where the missionaries and their families resided, and Messrs. Holmes and Parker went out to endeavor to prevail upon them not to molest the villagers of the latter place. But their efforts to save the people were in vain. They were cruelly murdered, and their mangled, half burnt bodies were not found for more than a week afterward. Mr. Holmes was struck five times on the head with swords and twice with spears, his left hand cut, and, after receiving seve