Our Chinkiang correspondent writes:—The cholera scourge in Chinkiang has abated somewhat. The surrounding country is suffering frow short crops of rice, and the ery of hard times is heard on all bands.
During the time of the cholera epidemic this Summer, it is said, one of the officials was approached on the subject of sanitation, He is reported to have ssid that he bad' a9 money except fourteen dollars, to clean the gutters of Chinkiang and disinfect the place, yet thousands of dollars were spent on burning incense, building sheds for the gods, ete. The people are priest-ridden and in no position to receive instruction. Mr. Howard of the railway service has gone home to England. Dr, Taft. of the Woman's Hospital is to take her furlough soon to the home land, Mos: of those who been fortunate, or otherwise, in getting to the hills and other summer resting places, have returned, and things are more lively than in the summer,
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