country round about was struck by a high northwest wind lasting two or three days just when the wheat was ready to cut, The heads were prematurely dried, and much of the grain' was blown' to the ground, Some people lost almost everything, and generally the crop has been very poor. The price of wheat going up, but farmers will have tle or no' surplus for sale. We have heard of at least three cases of sulcide in the immediate vicinity due to despondency about the prospects for living through' the next winter, News comes from Sianfu, Shensi, of the prevalence in that city and district of typhus fever. The peo} are very nervous, knowing the verity of the disease, It is to be hoped that the situation does not reach epidemic proportions,
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