The gentry at Wuchang, together with the Iveul cuistables and the tipao, lately been engaged in surveying tie ble gardens in and about the city. proposed to turn these gardens into cotton plantations for supplying the mill with the raw material.
THE YANGTZE PIRATES, On the night of the Feast of Lanterns a eud sized merchant craft, laden with 40 sies of cotton and other cargo, while on its way to Chinkiangy was attacked by rates at Tashan. The pirates shot the jelmeman, and then took possession of the bunt and plundered it.
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