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Daring" the afternoon the official here called on one of the missionaries and said that he had hear of several cases of d-ach from cholera. He his issued a proclamation exhorting the people not to eat melons, etc., and has ordered that the streets be He says cholera was taken to from Tientsin, and that it has been brought from K'aiféngfu here.
The Crops, I think I mentioned when I last wrote that the cotton crops were likely to be spoiled by the spell of dull wet weather we had. Ilearued a day or two ago that only about one-third of the quantity gathered last year will be realised this year. The other crops, yellow millet, beans, sweet potatoes, etc., appar to be yielding well.
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