Rice, which has been selling for double going down a little as a result of the recent rains. The last that has been heard of the money that came to the city early in the fall from the Emperor for famine relief is, that two rich rice merchants have been sent to Chengtu with it to buy rice for distribution here. 'The men have not returned; no rice has come and the starving are cly'
One of the Missions in the city has oper ed a rice kitchen where a bowl of rice, with salted turnips to go with it, is sold for three cash to the very poor. Between three and four hundred are helped daily in this way. About twenty thousand destitute men, women and children, have already been helped.
The New Silver Dollar is going into circulation very slowly. The cash shops are determined to suppress it if possible One of their schemes is to buy them all up and remould them into the ton-tael lumps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.