upon the recent failure of several local cash considerably in price and this, fetlowing The fact is a bitter one; rice has gone up
shops, means hard times for maay in Wuchang. The rumours relate in part to the cause for such dearness of rice. It is said that no more rice is to be sent from Hunan because of disturbances there, mission property has been wrecked and it is even said that three missionaries have been murdered: The name of the mission is ment but as their station is in another district to that in which the trouble is reported to have taken place, there seems good reason to hope the rumour is a false one. A later rumour says that the Governor of Hunan has committed suicide.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.