(From the Foochow Daily Echo of 3rd inst.)
We hear from the city that an eccentric mandarin has ordered a house to be built for himself entirely of bamboo. No stone, brick or timber of any kind is to be used even thenalls are to be bamboo. The order includes the furnishing of the house with rubles, chairs, sofas, &e., of the same material. It is said that the cost will be between $10,000 and $15,000.
Complaints continue of the heavy losses sustained by the native cloth manufacturers, owing tu the high price of cotton yan Consumers will not pay a higher price th they are accustomed to and make old ga ments do duty longer. The consequence is, very small sales and an accumulation of unsold stock; which state of affairs, it is thought, must soon bring this trade toa dead-lock.
On Sunday last a respectably dressed man of some GO years of age was seen the Long Bridge evidently very much d turbed in mind, and on some of the passers-by asking him what might he the matter he stated that his son had misconducted himself and ruined him, A few of the ben volent amongst the crowd were open their purses with the intention of giving him relief when an ill-disposed native declared that his story was false and that he was only trying to impose on the kiud-of the people. The words were no mer spoken than the unhappy man jumped into the river and was seen no
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