(From the Foochow Echo of dvd October.)
Wo hear that the troops lately stationed in the neighbourhood of the Arsenal have been dispersed amongst other garrisons and their post replaced by more reliable me 'A small guard of soldiers is sent to the different churches and chapels of the issiouaries just now, and when a service going on they attend without its being known to the congregation that they are there on duty. The other day one of the congregation rose and interrupted the preacher with the remark that he did not believe the words spoken were true, whereupon one of the soldiers requested the jabelieving native to sit down, adding, Every word the gentleman says is perfectly true and very good taikoo,"" or words to that effect, and the preacher resumed his discourse, (From the Foochow Echo of 10th October.)
It is reported that the tea vil, und potato crops are exceptionally good this season, and when we add that the second crop ut rice, after all tie misgivings a few weeks back, is likely to turn out really very plentiful, the local celestials will have reason to be pretty well satisfied.
We have nothing to report this week in reference tu the late scare excepting that some shop-keepers and others who had left the neighbourhood of the Arsenal from sheer fright lave returned to their homes again. Everything is perfectly quiet, and all talk of trouble at an end, In our issue of bth September we drew attention to the large number of unemployed natives loafing about in the city and suburbs. "The question is asked," we remarked, cannot. the authorities do something for them?" They evidently did not see their way to do anything at the time, but the course of events since would seem to have suggested an iden on which they have acted promptly. They are enlisting these men as soldiers, and forming them into separate battalions under able officers for service in this province. Many
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