(From the Daily Echo of Ist August.)
News has reached us, which however requires confirmation, that three foreign missionaries have been killed up country. We can only hope it is incorrect.
Rain is much needed to save the second crop of rice from total failure. The offering up of prayers has been gone through, and the prohibition to slaughter pigs for three days n faithfully attended to, but all to no effect so far. The farmers are in a state bordering un despair.
Teamen are not, we understand, grum-ting at the result of their ventures this year, indeed they are well satisfied with the cut-turn of common teas and second crops, but it makes them wince to find that their profits are simply carried to their credit in account to meet the heavy losses of the past two years, instead of having them to put into their pockets, We have it on the best authority that some of the members of the Yangtze Kolao Hui have been in the city for some time past, and this seems to be confirmed by the cards which have been making their pearance, corresponding word fur word with those posted about the Yangtze ports lately subjected to rioting. It appears that xs soon as the attention of the authorities was drawn to then: they were removed, but in the meantime they had been read by thousands, When in addition to this lacerd sti happens, as, is, well nown, that there are s thousand disbanded Hunan soldiers idling about, ready any kind of devilry, it is not surprising that sume little uneasiness prevails in the port just now,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.