This city is still feeling the effects of the failure of crops in the South. The harvests in this region were fairly good but the alarming reports from Kiangsu and other quarters have given the farmers a good excuse to put up prices to the highest notch. There will be much suffering this winter, At this season the ronds are usually filled with refugees going South, but this year the movement is reversed and hundreds of wretched families are to be met with making their way northward. It is semic relief to one's feelings to be told that many of these are cases of many years' standing who have discovered that it pare thus to change their abode and play the role of honest farmers driven by stern necessity to return at any cost to their ancestral homes and to lay special claim to public charity on this score.
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