PUBLISHED EVEKY FRIDAY MORNING, N. 138 FRANKLIN STREET, JOB /SO iyjV, CAMBRIA CO., PA. TElvMS—•l.&n per year, payable in advance ; outside the county, rtfteen cents additional tor Bintage. it not paid within three months ■( wjll !>e charged. A paper can be discontinued at any time by paying arrearages, and not oNierwlse. t'ho failure to direct a discontinuance at the of the period subscribed for will be imsldered a new engagement. .Veto SuOscrti)- tWM must be accompanied by the CASH. L. 1). WOODKI'FF, Editor and Publisher, FRIDAY JANUARY. 10 1889. DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE. II ARKISSURG, PA., January 7, lstK). The Democratic State Central oommlttee will meet at the rooms of the Committee, Market street, Harrlsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, January •12, 1881), at 18 o'clock, noon, to elect one person to serve as Chairman of Democratic commit tees, and one person to serve as Permanent Sec retary of the state Democratic Central commit tee, for the ensuing year; and to transact such other business as may properly be brought be fore the committee. The rules that relate to this meeting ure as follows: lifts os—The Democratic organization of the state of Pennsylvania shall consist of: First— A chairman of Democratic Committees, and a permanent Secretary. Secuim —A Democratic State Executive com mittee, composed of nine members. Third —A State Central committee. Fourth— Nine State Division committees. llfi.E Two—The Chairman of Democratic Com mittees shall be ex-ofllclo, a member of all the committees and the Acting chairman of the Democratic state Executive and State centtal Committees. HCI.K TURKE— The chairman of Democratic committees shall be elected by the Democratic state Central Committee at an annual meeting thereof to be hold on the first Wednesday after the third .Monday In January, at such place as may be designated by the state Executlvo Com mittee and shall hold office for a period of cne year or until his successor shall be duly elected. Any qualified Democratic voter of the state of Pennsylvania shall be eligible to said office. K171.R FIVE— The State central Commltte e shall consist of one member from each county and the chairman of the local county organiza tion shall be ex-oificlo the member of the Demo crat lc state Cent ral committee from said county, jiroridcd that any county that Is entitled to more than one State senator shall have an addi tional member for each additional senator which said additional member shall be elected In such manner as the local county organiza tions of the respective counties may determine, and provided that not more than one member of he state central committee shall be elected In any senatorial district from the same county And this committee shall elect one permanent Secretary who shall have charge of the records of the committee and transmit the same to Ills successor. ltn.K Six—Members of the state central com mittee unable to attend, may, for any meeting dsputlze In writing, substitutes, to act pro tern for them, but they must be voters In the coun ties and senatorial district which; their princi pals represent. KCI.E FOVRTREN— (Part of old rule No. 1) "it (referlng to the State central committee) may at this (referlng to the annual meeting In Jan uary ;or subsequent meetings fix the time tor the S'ate convention and arrange therefor.'' ELLIOTT P. KIBNEK, Chairman. BENJAMIN M. NKAD. permanent Secretary. THE WORLD-WIDE INFLUENZA. As what has been variously called in fluenza, la Grippe ami Tyler grip is find lug lis way with wonderful speed into every nook and corner of this eouutry, it may he of general interest to know some thing of its history during the past cen tury. We, therefore, make room for the followiug items: The last appearance of the grip, which is now afflicting a gootl many communi ties, was in 1843. Of course there have beeu limited epidemics of influenza since, but nothing of such a wide-spread na ture. It is a singular coincidence that the last severe epidemic was during the term that should have beeu served by the gradfnther of the present President. As he died within a month after his inaugu ration, the epidemic took place during that part of Harrison's term that was filled out by Tyler. The disease was known as the " Tyler grip." Tyler had abandoned the Whig party on the bank question, and during his entire term lie' was cordially hated by the Whigs. Every affliction, from the hog cholera to the potato-rot, was charged lo Tyler. The Whigs took all unhappy experiences us a just penalty for having made Tyler the Vice President. So when the influ enza made its painful way into every town and village in the country, making strong men weep and giving everybody a sore , throat and a headache, the Whigs charged it to Tvler, and everybody spoke of the 1 " Tyler grip." This much Is certain— that the two most decided epidemics have followed the electior. of a Harrison to office and the Democrats may make the , most of it. Account of an epidemical catarrh or in- 1 tluenza, by Dr. John Fothergill, London, . December 6, 1775 : "About the beginning of last month it was mentioned to me in many families I that most of ihe servants were sick ; that - they had colds, coughs, soar throats, and | various other complaints. " In the space of a week these com plaints became more general; few ser- 1 vants escape them, especially the men ' who were most abroad; many of the i other sex, likewise, and people of higher condition were attacked; nor were children wholly exempted." • •!• 1 Most of those whom I saw were seized ' (and often so suddenly as to be sensible 1 of the attack) with a swimming or slight . pain in the head, a noreness of the taront and all over the body, with a ( sense of coldness, particularly in the ex tremities. A cough soon followed, a run ning of the nose, watery eyes, and slight ( nausea. * * * More or less feverish : heat, inquietude, pain about the breast J and limbs soon succeeded. * * In 1 many cases it was necessary to take I away some blood. * * * Other treat- 8 merit consisted of warmth; diluting, cooling liquids ; mild diaphoretics, and C gentle and repeated purgatives. Some- 1 times blisters became necessary, and were I Serviceable in abating the cough, which t was the last of all the symptoms to give away. * * ♦ Many who neglected C themselves, and went abroad with the 8 distemper upon lliem, frequently got ad- r ■ TJftnald Monro,"London, May SO, 1782 : " This disorder has been epidemical in many parts of the continent for some time past. * * * It commonly begins with a sneezing and running at the nose, and more or less cough, attended with fever, heaviness, pain in the head and back, or with a weariness and pain in all the hones." * * * Account of the influenza, as it appear, cd in Devonshire, in May. 1783, by Dr. B. Parr : " Patients were commonly attacked with irregular shivcrings, a weight and confusion of the head, with indistinct vision. * * * There was soon a con siderable flow from the eyes and nose ; a harsh, short cough ; a sense of excoria tiou in the fauces,larynx, and (esophagus, and sometimes an aching pain externally down the throat and breast. The lan guor and debility were considerable, and the attack often so sudden that there was not an hour's interval between per fect health and extreme weakness. * * * The disease often yielded to light di luting liquors and confinement in bed. Emetics, however, hastened the cure. * * * I have not bseu aide to learn any case of a second attack after a complete crisis. * * During the progress of the epidemic the horses were affected with a cold " * * * GAMBLING AND ttI'KGt.INO. All the Year Hound. Gambling and burgling always occupy a good deal of public attention during the course of a year. There is not a very ob vious connection between the two, yet the subtle moralist may find an associa tion. Both sre pcrsuits of men who ought to be otherwise, and inore profita bly, engaged. Both are the expressions Of a desire to acquire riches at one stroke —or, at the most, two strokes—and to avoid the monotony of continuous labor. And both are the results of radical mis conceptions on the part of the individual practitioners. Nobody ever gets rich by gambling; but it is open to demonstration that, if the same amouut of skill, of cerebral energy, of mental dexterity, and of acute perception, were expended in productive work of some kind ,as is expended on games of chance, the rewards would be substantial and certain. Again, the burgler on the large scale is playing against fearful odds,'and is cer tain to come to grief sooner or later; while, if he burgles on a small sca'.e, he can but snatch a precarious and insignifi cant pittance, considerably below what he might easily earn by legitimate industry in lawful hours. There is perhaps, a charm of excite ment in burglary with facinatcs the pro fessional outlaw, even as the excitement of the truf or the cards enthralls the pro fessional, gamster. But to take a plain, practical view of both pursuits, and one apart altogether from the ethics ef the matter, is to lead one to the conclusion that neither game is worth the candle. Tiie law, of course, takes other views of both. The burglar indulges iu his ex citing career at the expense of the com munity, and injures everybody, including himself. The gambler indulges in his habitual excitement without injuring directly any body but himself and those dependent on him, who, from a social point of view, may he regarded as part of himself. The burglar, therefore, is objec tive in his existence ; the gambler, sub jective. To put it otherwise, the burglar is a common ememy, and the gambler nobody's enemy but his own. The great fact which the community lias to consider, and the law to provide for, is that the burglar is one who is in permanent rebellion against society, and is, by the very nature of his employment, both degraded and desperate. And this we are compelled to assume, in spite of Mr. W. S. Gilbert's humorous theory that - When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling When the cut-throat isn't occupied In crime. He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgllng, And listen to the merry village chime. Tim January number of Drake's Maga zine contains its usual amount of entor taining, instructive and amusing reading supplemented with timely illustrations. Its frontispiece is a very cleverly executed picture entitled the Village Milkman, The leading article is an interesting de scription of the City of Havana and its people, fully illustrated, by E. Ida Williams. Mittens Millett, the actress, contributes an interesting story entitled "What the New Year Brought Her.' Thco. P. Wolf, A. M., of Columbia Col lege, describes Byron's school boy days at Harrow, and relates many incidents regarding the youthful days of the great poet. New \ ear as it was observed in New York thirty yeprs ago, is treated by Hobert Morris. Zenas Dane, Nathan Bevy, Ella Higginson, Frank W. Gassa way and other well known and popular writers contribute stories, sketches and poems calculated to please every reader of this popular monthly. Drake's Quacks, a leading feature of the Magizine, ce always funny, and the January number has its full quota. One Dollar a year or ten cents a copy.— The Brake Publishing Company, 21 Park How, New York City. THE Nicely boys, found guilly of mur der in the first degree by an impartial jury of their countrymen and sentenced by the Court to bc_hanged, are still con fined in the old rickty jail at Somerset awaiting the action of our tardy Gov ernor. It is now over half a year sinee they were sentenced, yet Governor Beaver has made no move. The Herald is get. ting impatient because the date for the ixccution is not fixed. The old jail is un lafe, and keeping them too long might '•suit in more trouble. "Watch Nljht" m It Wu and I* —New York's Knickerbockers—Modern Swells and Anglomunlaca—The Old Customs Went. Out All at Once. "Goin' to sit up to-night?" "I reckon—yes, I reckon I will. Notli ln' in it, y' know, but lots o' fun and fresh cider." "COWS KNELT AT MIDNIGHT." Such a conversation might have been heard in any rural region of the central west some forty years ago on any New Year's eve. And the "setting up" vas the one and only point in which New Year's observances differed from time of Christmas. Tho Knickerbockers have so far impressed themselves upon Ameri can life that most of the present genera tion think "calls and congratulations" have always been the great feature of New Year's. Know then, innocent youth, that as late as forty years ago "New Y'esr's calls," as New York has known them, were an unknown institution in thrie fourths of the United States. But inihe border states, especially the eoutlitrn sections of tho states just north of ;he Ohio, the practice of "watching the >ld year out and the new year in" was 'he one thing peculiar to New Year's. Wonderful tilings were to be seen at taat hour. Cows fell upon their knees, fovls went through a sort of reverential per formance, the wild animals lost tlßir fear of man, and certain plants of a mra-! terious nature sprang up in the dMHr yard. "I have had the children pull and liy on my lap shoots as long as my ham," was t he testimony of one good old lacy, and for aught any hearer could ever 4s cover, she honestly believed it. A lifcle later, when the old superstition died oit, "Watch Night" became a religious pro ceeding. The ordinary evening meethe was followed by a "song and praise" ats sion. A few minutes before midnight the members of the church gathered | around tho "altar" (it was merely tie ( space in front of the pulpit, but tlm do ' name remained), and sometimes joimd | hands in a circle. As the minute hand of the clock ncarxl I the XII mark the most profound silen:e was observed—every Christian was sup posed to lie in silent prayer for pardon for the sins of the closing year. Whin the i.eiv hour and new year begin all broke into a glad song, often mingled witli ".shouts" in Methodist or United Brethren churches, and after the song closed the members pledged each other to renewed devotion and "greater faith fulness to duty" for the coming year. The negroes, al ways quick to adapt their old African customs to their new reli gion, took special delight in this one, adding many fanciful features; and it still survives in the far south as "Walk ing Egypt." But what of the original "Watch Night?" Well, all we oan say is that some of our ancestors brought it from Scotland with them, and as they told of the wonderful things that had hap pened in Scotland, so their children in Kentucky and Indiana told the same things as having happened in Maryland, and by and by their children in Illinois and Missouri told of them as occurrences in Maryland or Kentucky, and so the superstition lived on in many neighbor hoods even to the outbreak of the ciril war. Ah, the war—that iconoclastic wir! How many fine old traditions did it ban ish at once and forever. How many sweet illusions were utterly destroytd; how many local customs, how maay racy local legends; how mightily did it fuse all the people of the north into oie image and likeness. "There have ben HEW YEAR'S CALLING IN KNICKERBOCKER TIMES. no witches in Germany Bince the wais of Napoleon," was a German saying of the last generation—"Bonaparte lulled all the witches." And so there have been since 1860 no visions of the "Watch Night;" no praying cows, no devotional roosters, no suddenly growing night plants. Christmas had its own riotous sports and shooting matches in the early west, Easter its "calicoed eggs," and th Fourth of July its cannon or anvils with procession and speech; but New Year's tod_nothing_ peculiarly its own bnt ii mil iuii i hi mm mil is really the older festival; Christmas KM added at a comparatively late day. It was perfectly natural that all people from the earliest times should celebrate the beginning of the year, and if the do mestic animals had any sort of fellow feeling about them why shouldn't the sows and the roosters pray for their iwners? In Ireland the fairies and elves clus tered around the shrines on holy nights; in England the dark shadow of Druidism long rested on the holy days; but it was in Scotland—the land of gloomy crag and tarn and black mountain pass and grewsorue mist—pre-eminently the land of superstition, that even birds and beasts bowed to honor the New Year's. From the Highlands the exiles brought the tale to sunny Maryland, but in that region it soon took on bright and joyous Irnits. New Year's observances are of very ancient origin. The Romans on the first day of the year were accustomed to ex change greetings and make presents. These under tho Caesars were a great source of profit to the emperor and quite burdensome to his subjects. The church at first ( rohibited Christians from hav ing anything to do with it, but at last made it a Christian festival. Strange to say tho custom of calling on New Year's day grew most nearly universal umong the Chineso and Amer icans. The former celebrate tho New Year through three days, during which they call on their friends, exchange greetings in the streets, beat gongs, offer paper prayers and make a "Fourth of July" of it in fireworks. In tho days when a little group of frame houses with gable ends of Dutch brick clustered about the fort adjoining the point culled the battery, Mynheer and Vrouw, together with their children, the youths and maidens of New Amsterdam would go about making visits to eacli other, celebrating the day as oniy a primitive people could oelebrate it, the elders smoking their pipes and tho youngers making merrv, ami all enjoying themselves heartily. NEW YEAR'S CAIJ.INO OF MODBRN DAYS. But the burgers of New Amsterdam, as iirw generations came on, waxed rich. Broadway [<assed the old ropewaik near the present site of the Astor house, shot over Union square; and where the Fifth Avenue hotel now stands met Fifth ave nue, which, climbing Murray hill, now runs through the aristocratic dwelling portions of the city. New Year's day bo came a social gala day. Tie young bloods went.half a dozen togetLer, in car riages, and parties vied with each other as to how many calls they could make. In the palniv days of New Year's calling the most fashionable people wore even ing dress, the blinds of the parlors were closed, and the gas lighted. The scene within was often like that of an evening reception of the present day But as the Dutch New York burgers of old were overrun by the English, so the New York swells of todiy have suf fered the same fate. A disease called Anglomania appeared in the land and seized upon swelldom. The English aris tocrat spends the Christmaj season at his country seat, and when the New York parvenu became wealthy enough to have u country seat he must needs im itate his English model and go to it for Christmas and New \ T ear. When the New Yorker began to spend the holidays as his English cousin spends them, New Year's calls began to fall off. So for several years New Year's calling in cities has been dropped. Fortunately there are still left people who do not have chateaus in the midst of great parks, who cling to the old custom. On New Year's day they visit their friends with something of the simplicity of for mer days and enjoy it as it was enjoyed then. But the great rush of New Year's day as it existed ten ysars ago is passed, and it is no great loss. TIM Nationalist*. It was a very enthusiastic gathering that celebrated the anniversary in Bos ton the other day of the formation of the first Nation- Nationalists are / a body of theor ists who are lr( working hard to If. . JjC] put into practice M -y the ideas describ- , J ed so graphically by Edward Bel- /jLfe lamy in his now Jtfr famous book, ideas ore really GEORGE D. AYRES. identical with the socialistic ideas pro mulgated by Laurence Gronlund and al ready partially crystallized in the Kaweah colony, California, but they have gained headway much faster since the publica tion of Mr. Bellamy's book than they were before able to make. The president of the original Boston Nationalist club, George D. Ayres, of whom a portrait is given, was of course an important fignre At the recent Boston celehution Picture. Showing to Some fcxtent the Coe tnmlng of the Charactem, Together with a Highly Appreciative Article from an Kngllsli I'upcr. Pictures of Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, "Tlie Gondoliers," hare come to hand, and two of them aro here present ed. The English papers all speak highly of the production, of course. Here is what The London Saturday Review had to offer early in the London run of tho piece: The story of "The Gondoliers" may be very briefly summarized. One of the two, Marco or uuiseppe Pahnieri, is be lieved to be heir to Barataria; they have both married; but if either is king, he was married in infancy to some one else; so that there are two husbands and three wives, and mystery attaches to the pro blem who is at once king and bigamist. A very neat end is, however, provided, for it appears that tho King of Barataria is quite another person, and that he has long been devotedly attached to the girl to whom he was wedded at the age of 0 months. This is the main story, the clever satire of a monarchy tempered with republican equality being inciden tal. C'asilda, daughter of the Duke of Plaza-Toro, un impecunious hidalgo who is being mado into a limited company, loves her father's "suite," his drummer Luiz, the sole attendant upon tho im poverished duke. Casilda learns that she was married in infancy to tho Prince of Burataria. and, as ho lives, Luiz and she must part. "Henceforth," she says, "my life is another's." The dialogue con tinues: Luiz—But stay—tbo present and the future— they are another's; but the past—that at least is ours, and uoue can take it from us. As we may revel iu naught else, lot us revel in thut! Cos.—l don't tbiuk I grasp your meaning. Luiz—Yet it is logical enough. You cay you cease to love mo? COB. (demurely)—l say 1 may not love you. Luiz—But you do not say you did not love me? Cos.—l loved you with a frenzy that words are powerless to express -and that but ton brief rain utos since. J Luiz—Kxoctly. My own—that is, until ten min | utossinoe, my own—my lately loved, my recootly j 'idored—tell me that until, say a quarter of an • hour ago, I was all iu all to thee I (Mm bracing | Iter.; i Oa#.— l SIM your idea. It Is ingenious, but don't i do that. (.Releasing herself .) i Luiz—There can be no harm in raveling in the past. Cos.—Nouo whatever, but an embrace cannot be taken to act retrospectively. Luiz—Perliaps not. C'na.—We may recollect an embrace—l reoollect many—but we must not repeat them. Luiz—Then let us recollect a few: (A inomout's pause, as they reoollect. then both heave a deep sigh.) | Luiz—Ah, Casilda, you were to me as the sun is to the earth! A cxMnrrn i x * THX (MITOOUSBB." Cos.—A quarter of an hour ago? Luiz—About that. Cos.—And to think that, but for this miserable discovery, you would have been my own for life 1 Luiz—Through life to death—n quarter of an hour ago! Cos.—How greedily my thirsty eurs would have drunk the golden melody of those sweet words a quarter-well, it's now about twenty minutes since. (Looking at her watch.) Luiz—About that. In such a matter one cannot be too precise. The verse is frequently poetical, and it is charming to note the manner in which Sir Arthur Sullivan enters into the spirit of the lines. The Gondoliers' duet, "We're called Gondolieri," is light and gay, until a reference is made in the course of it to vespers and vigils and serenades, and then a shade of sentiment is cunningly suggested in the score by other means than a simple piano. The good ideas are discreetly handled and not overdone. The fantastic notion of turning the Duke of Plaza-Toro into a limited company is a case in point. A few sentences spring from the announce ment. The daughter trusts that she may never be called upon at any time to wit ness her honored sire in process of liqui dation; and her mother admits that, "if your father stops, it will of course be necessary to wind him up." Otherwise little is heard ef the Duke in his novel capacity until the excellent satire of the song in which Duke and Duchess describe the nature of the functions they fulfill, the Duke explaining how he secures honors to satisfy cheap ambition, adver tises "ready made" tailors, at whose manufacture he admits that Ilobinson Crusoe would gibe; while part of the Duchess' confession runs; I write letters blatant On medicines patent. And use any other you mustn't; And vow my complexion Derives its perfection From somebody's soap—which it doesn't. "It certainly doesn't!" the Duke quaintly echoes. The ladies who at once advertise themselves and soap are so familiar, and the business is so obvious and absurd, that it is a wonder satirists have had nothing effective to say hitherto. Sir Arthur's music is Unfailingly me lodious, and the freshness of it, consid ering that this is his tenth opera, is quite extraordinary. Only very rarely indeed do we catch a faint echo of his [when ho pnrpoeely imitates always ! with taste and gracefulness—the man ner of a school. One of the most re ! markable and delightful features in the ■score is its variety. Sir Arthur has a ! marvelous aptitude for fitting his music I to the occasion, and can be gay or ten der with equal ease and appropriateness, while ho lias always struck us as tlie one "*■ composer of tho day, at any rate the one English conqioser, who can extract gen uine humor from an orchestra. The | long opening number is full of melody, | and the Duke's entry with drum obli- A | ' THE QUINTET. „„ F ; gato is not to bo heard with a grave face. Tlie song of the Duke, allegro,, marziale, is without special value; but the ballad for Luiz is a 1;', tie gem. In several respects the Savoy operas are far superior to any contemporary work of the sort, and this ballad furnishes an example. Mr. Gilbert has adopted the style of tho Seventeenth century poet— though for some reason lie has chosen to date the opera at a later period, 1750 and Sir Arthur lias entered into the spirit of tlie words with wonderful feel ing and refinement. Such work is, it *' may be feared, wasted on many hearers, but it will be cordially appreciated by those who have perception. Tessa's song, "When a Merry Maiden Marries," is again an instance of sympathetic ex pression. It is bright, with just a touch of senti inent: while Giauetta's air, "Kind sir, you cannot have the heart our lives to part," is equally charming, though in some ivspeets the reverse of Tessa's Bong . in tie: Mi -sentiment slightly pre dominate.,. a there is a light undercur rent of 1:■ 111: i So we come to the quar- " tet, "Then one of us will be a queen." a burst cf unmitigated joyousness mid fun. Once more we find the happy blending of sentiment :■ ! t':o gentlest humor in the verse- i i.i-> l.vautiful refrain of "O my d. : . . ' n.v pot," which tho brides sing sparking lords. And we have i' -■. i ■ •!' the melody and aignifl oa; .ui*ie without mentioning one i' rouroea of fascination— the . d scoring, full of grace, !::<• ,| ■ -egg ■stiveuess. The horns bail' d Ito do that is always curi ous!;. oclive: the other brass instru mouis a.a very seldom employed, bat the woodwind is constantly called into requi sition; and i lie writing for flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon will remain a model of what can lie accomplished when perfect taste is united lo a thorough mastery if orchestral resource. Bussing on to toe second act, we would direct the spec, d attention of tlie hearer, if lie be a musi cian, to the accompaniment of the tenor song, "Take a pair of sparkling eyes," a captivating melody in G-flat major, six-* eight time, Ibe rhythm recalling the cir cumstance that Marco has been a gondo lier, and so acquainted with barcarolles. The chords are exceptionally rich, and at the same time singularly delicate, wood wind being joined with pizzicato violins. As for thecachuca, the writing of it must have been an easy task for Sir Arthur; but it makes a great hit, as, happily, does the quartet, "In a contemplative fash ion," whicli doubtless cost the composer a good deal of thought. A Portuguese Explorer. Portugal has been acting as if she would fight England rather than yield any part of her claims to African terri tory, but those who know best say this is only the bluster of the ruling class in Portugal, who want to divert the people's minds from tlie movement towards a re public. The "war feeling" is always favorable to a strong central government and the party in power, and so the Mon- ' archists have acted shrewdly in backing up Maj. Serpa Pinto in liis somewhat ' high handed proceedings. He was a major in the Portuguese army before he became noted as an African explorer, fund, like all edu cated Portuguese, the burning de sire of his fife is to restore the glo ries of the Portu guese empire in Africa and India. Four hundred years ago, nearly, Vasco da Gama made his wonder- \ ful voyage and 'l SEKPA PINTO, explored the coast of East Africa, and his countrymen have ever since felt as if they owned it all The British concede them Mozam bique and the country west of it, but claim equal rights on the Zambesi and exclusive rights northward, with an open field to the interior. Maj. Serpa Pinto insists on greater rights for Portugal, charges that the British consul at Mozam bique excited the Makololo to war against the Portuguese, and is taking the most f. energetic measures to expel all English men from the region he dominates. In Lisbon all journals of all politics are loud in his praise, and insist on the gov ernment sustaining him. lie is compar atively a young man, full of enthusiasm, and remarkably successful in dealing with the blacks. So the complication is quite interesting. No Hurry to See the Elephant. Elephants have been known to five to the age of 400 years. Moral—Young man, do not be in too much of a hurry to see the elephant. He'll keep.—Boston Transcript.
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