(From the Foochow Dairy Echo of 28th ult.)
On Thursday Inst the newly appointed Cho-jons presented themselves at the Viesroy's yumén in accordance with the established custom to go through the ceremony of thanksgiving to the Emperor and ench received six taels, a gift conferred by H. I. Mnjeaty, to meet the cost of the new garments worn on the occasion.
E. the Provincial Judgs on passing through' the streets Inst. Wednesday saw two men walking along with their arms round each other's necks. This is not at allan uncommon sight on our hill, but it surprised His Excellency, and ao far dis. pleased him that he ordered them to be into wooden cages and exposed to the public gaze in the city Owing to the lately made on the money-changers' stalls in the city, as ro ported in a Into issue of the Echo, there hus been some difficulty in obtaining all the copper cash required, We understand that in exchange for, say,, one Mexican dollar only half the value is given in copper cash and the rest in Chinese bank nutes amall silver coi There is evidently teo little copper cash in circulation to meet current requirements, There is a story current among-t the Chinrse of the discovery of a large "mount of treasure on a hil) near the foreign residence. Tt is said that this treasure was brought by perhaps mora than one wealthy man and Fecreted in coffins on this hill in Nantai at the time of the Taiping rebellion where it lag remained ever since, the parties to whom it belonged having apparently disappeared from the face of the earth. After all these years it became known, somehow or other, that a vast amount of treastize had been hidden away and a determined, though unsuccessful, search was made for it by many people. At: length Wong-hong-lee, a rice merchant, well Known aga good and just man, prayed to his tutelar deity al to him the whereabouts of this treasure, His prayer was answered, The spot where the treasure was to be found was disclosed to him and he is enriched to the extent of two millions of dollars, On making special enquiries about this story we learn that itis substantially correct. The value of the treasure may possibly be exaggerated, but that it was very able there is no doubt. A good dey was in gold, The silver was chiefly in old chopped Spanish dollars. The whole was hidden away in coffins,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.