From rhk "Norti-Curwa Dany News,"
or SEPTEMBER 24, 1877
From Tientsin:—The dry weather and the heat continue. It is quite ünseasonable to have the mercury rising above 90%, as it has been doing of late. "I am told that a very marked change has taken place in the climate of this place within the last 40 or 50 years, An intelligent man says he can remember when, during the winter, the water in their water-kongs would freeze solid in one night, in the best protected and warmest houses, a thing which never occurs now in an ordinary house. Tve no doubt but this statement will help to strengthen or weaken some one's theory con-the "oldest inhabitants" among the foreigners think they have observed the same ten: There have been frequent small fires of and about the city. A young lad, who is is supposed to have been burned to de one which occurred last night on the river bank east of the city. They are generally chan to incendiaries. Cholera seems to be among the Chinese; and, as the water in tion in the amount of offensive odour floating about promiscuously. A gentleman walking on the plain last evening came near being shot by in the exercise of this recreation, Denny, U.S. Consul for Tientsin arrived last night. He took charge of the Consulate to-day, September 20.
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