The Canton pawnshops are on strike. It appears that on the 11th inst. a Bannerman went to a pawnshop to pawn a coat, and asked more money than the value of the article. This demand was of course refused: he then suddenly snatched from the customers waiting the goods they had ready to pledge, and ran away with them. The alarm was given and the thief captured, but as the Bannermen have been frequent offenders and the sufferers have had no remedy, the pawnshops all closed and sent in a petition to the Governor stating that unless the Bannermen were punished and restrained, the pawnshops would be afraid to carry on business.
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