From tue "Norrn-Ciiwa Dairy News" or January 31, 1878
From Soochow:—There has been nothing of interest in this city save the snow anu ice end cold. All say there has been no severe weather like this Since the time of the Rebels, seventeen years ago. Numbers of houses have fallen under the weight of the snow. The streets have been paved with ice. 30. The canals being all frozen, there has been no communication with the outer world save by a stray letter which has last American mail, being too heavy paliked in." The newspapers by the "to walk" and without feet, have been frozen along the road for two weeks. Just before the big freeze some foreigners passed by who had been one week en route from Shanghai to Soochow. One arrived here yesterday who left the houseboat and took it by foot. Since the snow is melting, there is not uch suffering, among' the poors m suffer among the poor, specially the refugees from the North.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.