There is now a second foreign dwelling-house in the province. It is at T'aiyuanfu and is the property of the C.LM. The house has been built at a moderate cost for the accommodation of the missionary physician who could not otherwise be provided with a suitable residence. Experience is gradually teaching the foreign residents in the interior that Chinese houses were intended for the Chinese and that no reasonable outlay of money will ever make them fit for westerners to inhabit as a permanent residence. The walls of such houses are generally damp and disagreeable. They appear to have been built with a view to keeping out fresh air.
LAWLESSNESS, It is said that on the 4th of November eighteen cases of robbery were reported at the Taiyuanfu_yamén as having occurred during the previous night. Among others, one of the compounds of the English Bap-fist mission was entered and a quantity of clothing and a number of other articles abstracted therefrom.
10th November.
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