Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21

started out alone. When came to the garden found the bushes, but upon tasting the leaves concluded it could not be tea. 30 [ trayeled on about two miles up among the mountains to tea plantation which had been pointed out to me by person who had been l i'll the country some years When I pot mn l there found that there was no more faste to green tea leaves than to an apple leaf. and the bushes passed on the plain were tea also.
 me tea nrlng business goes on as lively as ever: I am told the packing season ia from April to October.
 me cholera scare has about passed of. and l DeneVe It was not the cholera, but a very latai cholera morbus. A great many natives ai dled, l., ana there are great many deaths yet, put the panic Is about over. Gen. Grant did not land here on that account the ship in which he came lay in the harbor all night one week ago, but he did not show himself to any person on shore. It would have been just as safe for him to land at Kobe, as it would be at Boston, Mass. However, we had an immense display of lanterns, and some fireworks The weather IS getting pretty warm here.
 There IS considerable rain, and every after hIl noon IS breezy. suppose it would be more live so crowded together that when disease gets started it spreads rapidly.
 wish you could see the rice fields they are t smch pretty green, and of such great extent
 mere IS an immense amount of rice raised in th!s country Everything is very pretty, but it is not home.
 LETTER NO. 6.
 KOBE. Japan. July 13 1879.
 l attended church this morning; we had full service and Communion, Mir, Ting preached, and read the service. I expect to get an introduction to some of the missiona- | r1es soon. You cannot find out anything about what they are doing by the foreign popula- ton here; there seems to be spirit of op- position to them in almost all you speak to about them. The poor missionaries are blam- ed tor the cholera scare. The Japanese gov ernment Is all to blame in this matter, for they | esta bilshed a quarantine against this port, ! ing at this port, and that spread the excite
 ment far and near. I doubt whether there | has been single case of Asiatic cholera in Hlogo. and know there has not been one in | Kobe. The cholera morbus has been very fatal among the low class of Japs, but you must re- member they live upon green vegetables, rice and fish, almost entirely. The plants which are grown at home for ornament. (the foliage plants,l are here grown for food see large quantities of it carried by, on the way to the
 native town. The introduction of drugs in | Japan IS very recent and the natives are just beginning to use them as you may say. Not knowing the nature and effects of drugs they ta ke so much they kill themselves with med lclne. The men in the mill some way got the | notion that sulphuric acid is 8 preventative, and every time they get chance they drink | acid and water. I have tried to reason with them, and told them they must not drink it, but 1t does no good. They are frightened al- most into the cholera, and do all they can to prevent it. One of the places where they burn | the bodies of the dead is in 8 mountain glen, and not more than mile from the mill, and in sight There were about two weeks that the nre was kept going all the time. They burn SIX bodies at time. There are comparitive- ly few bodies buried in and around Hiogo, which is very old town. There are few very small graveyards. The foreign cemstery is said to be very pretty have not beeh there yet, in fact I do not get out much, the weather ls so warm. The natives watch for the smoke from the burning house, and think their turn will come next. I have not seen a smoke there for two days, and there is no doubt the disease is abOut over