The all- n question on the street to-day i © you any notes from Ghung Fu's cash-shop!" If you answer in the affirmative, you are greeted by a smile that is pensive and blind, Some time duri the small hours of this morning the ow of the above-named shop was 8 hasty meal, having urgent business out of town. He' has gone; and left hundreds to mourn his loss—or rather th The broken, and if you go on the street now you will see a dirty" Legrimed pulling the place to pice of wood an and in fact anything usable, Phe district magistrate happened to come into town yesterday, and he I some of the smaller mandarins was hurrying about this morning trying to stop the work of destruction, Tu answer to their expostulations the sufferers suid: You pay up, old man, and we'll go quietly home. This was too much, and the mandarins retired, The place is an old-established one and has had a fairly good name, A NEW VENTURE, Much excitement has been by the fact that a foreign formerly a missionary, is opening a blee of busitiess here. This is the beginning of Wight days. There are visions of large foreign warehouses, wh steamers disehi ug cargo, ete, etc. such is going to. grow rich! correspondent has been asked somethin; eigners living here will now be able purchitse anything from a pin hw'won or a few miles of runway-metals, The owner of the place has forbidden ths sale of opium or anything contraband. Brerything will be conduct!
jo on Christian principles, and we erely hope that success may attend the enture, chilly ax an example vf honest and stiatightforward business.
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