Cholera has appeard at this city within the past few days, though as yet the fatal eases have all been traced to' Yangkiaokou as the source, and hence it cannot be said that the disease is epidemic. At Yangkiaokou (the junk-p rt at the mouth of the Chinanfu canal), the ravages of cholera have been such as to almost stop local trate, ant the {outtlow of travellers and coolies from that ace has scattered the disease far and wide. The Weihsien magistrate has posted 1 prochination warning his people wzainst eating raw melons and drinking auh siled water, which is very ood i only it vould enforead, Our metieal missionaries are als using their host enieaventes tee impress, pon the Chinese the import imee of clan ud Food as a preventative ull quantities of tits use, one stematically distributed. Curiously enough, the Chinese jhere are in the habit of adding a little vinegar to their d 4g water as A precattion against the d The lot of Sun Chia-n i, the official mentioned above, has lien on evil lines 4 in his old age.' His name. as most of your readers will probably remember, was rouger pro before "he public first Director ity and in 54 us of Kia
jai he is known to have done splemtid a cast. ow hi " me work. This goo? old mau, who is a native of Anhui, and passed as Chuang Yuaut 1 fifty years ago. had to flee from the in Peking dressed as 2 c when summoned by the notwithstanding h braved the hardships of the journey. On the return of the Court he was allowed (1s. 100 month for his travelling expenses, but owing to the fact that he was known as the Emperors man, he was charged exorbitantly for everything, and this poor pee barely sufficed to keep him and family from starvation. and they all arrived in Peking ill and worn from lack of food. They are now in miserable quarters, his house having been demolished and his land appropriated by the Legations. He is known and respected by all as that rara avis, an honest Chinese official, and after fifty years in office has not enriched himself "Li Hung-chang once introduced him to a foreigner as "one of our few honest officials," adding with a laugh, "I think him a great "fool." Can one wonder that the officials known as Emperor's men are few and far between? All honour to good old Sun; there are few in Westera lands equal to this follower of Confucius.
The Rev. Timothy Richard s been in Peking for some time, seem: and interviewing the principal officials, and rte the crops sere in imminent ager of € ing from the sovonble heat ans dtroug t of thy pss two tasted thorui hate and Sly 9th aline usa chil,
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