If ever the day comes when there are reporters and Jocal papers in China there will be no lack of gruesome details, unless the people change, At a fire in the town this morning a lad of fourteen and a little baby have been burned to death. The adults all escaped. A day or two back a woman took opium. We sent round at once to try to save her life, but she died despite all efforts. When the flood water washed out one of the ponds near Huang-sikang, no Jess than four corpses in a highly advanced state of decomposition were washed out too. A batch of lawsuits will be the result. The waste of human life in China is terrible. In thi part people seem to commit suicide without the least compunction.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.