On Saturday afternoon, a large Pawnshop in the city was burnt down, and $30,000 worth of stuff was destroyed. was the shop where almost all the Poor people pawned their winter clothes and bedding. The shop will give a little money to recompense them, but cannot give the full value of the articles. It is, therefore, a grievous loss, especially at this. time, when they have no money to buy more things.
Next month, it is said, we are going to have a big, new launch running up the river from Haemeng. to the city, which will be a great oon, as the little things running at present are always" over-crowded. One small launch was burnt out during the summer, when a workman who was cleaning some part of the interior let a lighted match fall on to a piece of cotton wool, which ignited at once. Ho immediately threw it overboard, but the wind blew it back into the oil tank, and instantly the flames leaped up and the whole thing was burnt,
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