Tenghsien, June 27.
'There isan unusual export from Tenghsien.' It is the dried bloom of the sancy suckle, It grows in great profusion in the mountains three or four days East of the city and is gathered by poor people who have nothing to lose to the band!
One agent at Tenghsien 400 bales of 80 Ib, each. is also stacked along the station platform and up to the ceiling of the waiting room. One can scarcely visual the patient toil required to pick, dry and put this on the market here. And we are told that it is worth here about ten dollars a bale, It probabls sells for $50 in Shanghai, It is used tot a cooling drink, The Northern arty smatching at the Railway all along, through: Shantung. They hold it down to Tsinan last week they created a diversion by tearing up the track for a short distance below Taian, On June 24, plain clothes men tried to cut the road a few miles below Tenghsien. They did little damage to the road but carried off the eight guns of the guard, June 25 was set for taking Tenghsien (Whether by. plain bandits or by plain clothes men of the other army is not clear.) Any way at 11 pam, on the 25th an attack was made on the station. The soldiers that end of the city made such fa spirited reply that they accomplish anything, 'On the 25th the semi-weekly press that has been running' on a precarious time table for some time Was taken to transport soldiers. Needl s to. say! It was to the great inconvenience of the public way. there are ten thousand tons of 1 mostly wheat and peanuts stacked under mats along the siding It is said that the peanuts will be of no more account after June except for fertilizer. The wheat having been there for a year will soon be of no more value, Think what this means to the starving in the Northwest and to the merchants here, CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE,
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