A short time ago the bank or cash shop in the county town was attacked by a band of armed robbers. Ore evening about nine o'clock, they surrounded the building, and smashed in the back door. Two of the shop assistants were wounded la the fray, and when several neighbours raised an jann the robbers decamped without carrying off any booty. Five of them have been arrest At a lonely village near the border of two hsiens a traveller has been murdered for the balti jum of 6,000 ili which he had in his baggage. He slept at an inn on the previous night, and the murderers must hava followed him early in the morning, and attacked him at a lonely part of the road. If the hot-brained reformers would try to reform the administration ai the country and the manners of the people 80 that life would be safe and travelling comfortable they would have quit sacagh work to do, without vapouring against the foreigners and calling om all to kill kill The Autumn Crops have been very good on the whole, and farmers are now reaping the second crop of rice, or aftermath that springs up when the firat crop has been reaped. The cotton crop has not been equal to the average yield.
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