From Our Own Correspondent, Changchow, July 14.
The rice harvest is just being pice ape which was planted but that which was planted ater early yielded a very good
came into flower while we were having very heavy rains which washed off the pollen, so that some of the grain did not form properly.
The fruit crop is much better than last: year. Peaches, plums, nichi, and mangoes are very abundant and cheap, but the old proverb that when mangoes are abundant much sickness Will prevail is again being verified, for plague, cholera, and scarlet fever are worse than usual this year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.