This is a land of extremes! For a couple of months during the summer there was so much rain that, the midsummer crops, corn, ele., were seriously damaged, and now it has' been so dry for about six weeks that the autumn crops, beans and peanuts, will only have about one third of their usual yield. The wheat harvest was an excellent one and at that time T never saw a better promise of a good season. There will be much want "in this section this autumn and winter, though we shall not have the famine which is a certainty in other sections.
Robberies rife.
Coming events cast their shadows before them. In anticipation of this future want, the country side is becoming the scene of constant robberies. A traveller was robbed a couple of days ago, just outside the city wall, in a frequented place. My country friends tell me that they can rarely have full night's rest, for the different members of the family have to do regular armed sentry duly over the property, not only vor the house and the hive stock, but even over the crops still in the ground. nob uncommon thing for them to the morning and find that a good part of Noir crop, my of unday sect, potutocs, ws walked off bodily in the night. The as usual, scorns unable or unwilling to cope with the difficulty. At present I do not hear of any especial rumours or threats against the foreigner; everything in the city, xo far as we are concerned, is quiet and friendly, but how long it will continue I do not know.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.