(From the Foochow Echo of 30th ult.)
H.E. Huang Yuen, the newly appointed Provincial Treasurer, assumed the duties boston Tuesday last, and on the day BLE, Tiong Ko-chen and Ting Ming-chai tock up their respective new positions as Provincial Judge and Grain Commissioner.
On Wednesday last H.E. Huang Yuen issued a proclamation requesting that on and after that date all communications in connection with the Treasury should be addressed to him.
We hear of a death of one of the competitors having occurred in the Examination Hall last week, and of two more being taken so ill that they died in their Jodgings the following day. The crowded state of the hall and extreme heat had probably something to do with these mishaps, and in part perhaps due to over excitement about the results.
The Examinations being now over the competitors are returning to their homes, some few of them only remaining to see the city and do some shopping. Most of the money of these late staying students was spent, we understand, in foreign medicines and Japanese toys.
'A romantic story comes to us from the Fokchan district. A young man, long betrothed to a pretty girl, now 20 years of age, was still too poor to marry, and this being known to a yamen runner who greatly admired the young woman led to making love to her himself, in the end obtaining her consent to marry him. The long betrothed man complained to the Provincial Judge who immediately sent orders to the district magistrate of Fok-chan to see that the girl married her first lover, and that the ceremony was to tuke place within ten days of the receipt of the order.
A man in the employ of a general-storekeeper in the city was lately entrusted by the proprietor to collect $100. The house at which he was to get this money was at some distance away. He walked the but after receiving the dollars hired a ch: to carry him back. On the way home he called at a rest house and had a cup of tea and on coming out refreshed, thought to continue his journey homewards, There was the chair sure enough, but neither the coolies nor the dollars were to be seen. After reflecting as to what was best to be done he wrote to his master informing him of his misfortune, and added that life under the circumstances was unbearable and that before the letter could reach its destination he should drown himself in the water near the West-gate, called Saihu, The store proprietor, on receiving this letter, at once went to' the family of the young man, and making known all the facts to them bogyed that they would go as quickly as possible to the place mentioned, when perhaps they might be in time to save him. They went, but were too Into; the unhappy youth had carried out his resolution Holloay's Pills and Ointment.—The most effectual Cure for Gout and Rheumatism, A frequent cause of these complaints is the indammatory state of the blood, attended ith bad digestion, lassitude, and great debility, showing the want of a proper circulation of the fluid, and that impurity of the blood greatly aggravates these disorders. Holloway's Pills are of so purifying a nature that a few doses taken in time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism. but anyone that has an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the powerful properties of which, combined with the effects of the Pills, ensure a certain cure. The Ointment should be thoroughly rubbed into the parts affected at least twice a day, after they have been sufficiently fomented with warm water to open the pores to facilitate glands, the introduction of the Ointment to the
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