Although the flood water has gone down bat five or six inches, all the are now ranning regularly, These launches make Hoochow and Hangchow very convenient and inexpensive, One can leave Soochow at 7.00 and reach Hangchow at 6.22 p.m; or leave Haogchow at 12.28 p.m, and arrive in Soochow at about 8.30 p.m.
At present, from lack of fands, the "horse roads" through the city seem nite far in the distant fatare; bat the is really coming when there wil be some half dozen "roads" though the city, both from north to south as well as from east to west, for there is 'a demand for them from every class of From the brisk trade io all the stores since the Antamn Feast no one would suppose that the people were soffering from the high cost of living. Most of the stores report the best autumn trade in many years.
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