We are experiencing something of a reign of terror in these parts. This is due to the unsettled state of the country. There is no real Jaw anywhere. Only to-day one of our Christians has been carried off for ransom and the relations are hurrying about seeking to find $1,800 in silver. They are not well off, but the farmers of all classes are now in danger. Everyone who can has come into the city.
The price of silver is very high: one only has to whisper that you have a cheque to sell and you are swrounded by would-be purchasers. We have never had such a high exchange. Business as usual suffers from these outbursts among the military. There is no future, for one dare not venture to invest and of course this, with the poverty caused by famine and floods, is bringing ruin and misery to many.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.