paiaabh Ce ets (From the Foochow Daily Echo of 2ud inst.)
The Loong-ngan crop, like other fruit crops this yenr, is a failure. The yield is found to be only a third of tie quantity produced Inst year. The retail price, in consequence, iz three times as much as it was Inst yenr, viz: 60 to 70 cash per catty.
The influence of the typhoon telegraphed as travelling up the coast began to be felt here yesterday. A correspondent informs us that the barometer in the hall of the Foochyw Club stood at 30 inches at 8 o'clock yesterday morning while at the same tive this morning it registered 29.60. The thermometer in the same building rose ty 92 degrees, being 44 degrees higher than the average maximum of the earlier da of the week. The wind is northerly 5 strong and gusty.—I p.m, The barometer hus fallen another tenth, reading now 29.50.
A district magistrate in the city has arrested a so-called wizard, a rascal who was deceiving people and taking their money by undertaking to convey them temporarily to the next. world to meet their deceased relatives, He was doing quite a thriving business, He wrote on a prepared sheet of paper which he burned under the nostrils of his victims who it appears went "ff into a faint for some little time and then became conscious again. But. few could recollect having met their relations in the regions to which their souls had been transported, but this did not deter " host of other credulous simple natives daily taking their chance It is suid that the effect of the fumes which his victims had to inhale was to produce " feeling of sickness for two or three days subsequently.
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