which raged here, about a month ago, has somewhat abated, since we have once more been favoured with _sunshine. In some districts, the mortality was fearfully high, and hardly enough able-bodied people' were left to bury the dead, while the bounteous harvest lay rotting and growing again in. the inundated fields. "Doctors and religious quacks must have reaped a rich harvest of hard cash, judging from the number of sick folk who have sought their healing arts. The whole catalogue of propitiatory measures has been tried, but the gods refuse to hear, and the popular mind will not be pacified without one last mighty effort. Accordingly a_petition was presented to the local mandarin, for permission to hold a ten days' procession of the SRPBAK (the presiding god of the city}, which has not been held for about twenty years, A. proclamation was finally issued granting three days and confining the procession within the city walls.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.