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Show MTEVIO!ITIIY EXM-DlrlOV Tlie Ilrlllsti South Arrlenn Coin-Iuid) Coin-Iuid) fusil I lie nrtl. LuMK-N, Oit. 12 One ot the most noteworthy expedltlo-is that ever entered Africa is the column or,VJJ meaibers or more, witii sixty wagons, tliat tlie British South Ariu.4iiCom--a.ay has Just sent to the heart ot Mashonaland, a loll region ltieti the Idnn-0 and Zambesi rivers. ThLs country is really a ue.v dls-coverv, dls-coverv, for though Mauch trawled thrjughiartor it In 1--9. Hm-Iug manyevidelicesorgoll, and thougii Kerrcros-etl it in i3s4, It did not begin to really attract iittmtioii uu til Sclous came home two year ago auJ rci-ortcd that the country iwuld sup-orl many thousands o while i0leln health aud comfort, and til it it w.is probably dtstlmtl to Income In-come the greatest gold rtgioit of South Africa. Glowing reports or the value anu salubrity or Mashonaland led h ' the furmation ot the British Soutli Af ri-cau ri-cau Coniuauy. IU first exiditl3ii lias now reathed IU destlnatioi-, after lo-olng for several hundred miles through regions south and east or Mallcbeleland that have never berore U-eii visited by w hitc Not a drop or blood was t Hied on tho way. It was reared that Jvlug iKjbengulIa, ruler of llic tierce Mal!elle. ould not Iw able to restrain hi- young Indians, and that in spite of hU promise to irniit the whites to lass oil to Mashoualaud, his vassal country, they would annihilate the expedition, t-elievlng tliat the luroicans would finally overrun their laud. Such a spectacle as this expedition Printed! seldom wltni-ssi-d. As builders went on ahead, cutting the way Tor the wagons. This road Is to be maintained iwrnianenlly and has now been completed tor a ills-Une-e ot W n.ll- At various shallow rivers, sand Uag, logs or wood and other materials were sunk ill the channels to make the passage or the wagons easier. A chain oT forts about seveuty-five milts apart w-asLullt an I garrisoned, and other foiU are to be established. So well was this work done tint the posL-d service which has been estabk-hed rrom Klmberly now carries mall at the rateorthlrty-IIve nillns a day. It will not be very K"s berore (he town or Hampden, the mit northern station of the wliites in Mashonaland, will be connected con-nected witii Cai Town by telegraph, tele-graph, aud It Is ixiccted at no dls-Stnr dls-Stnr day the little ral'r,wiIc'' ' Imlldlinr to the new capital or King Kagima. several hundred miles west, will be extended in the new white country. The Idaho loir. Boise Cm, Idaho, Oct. loV-The otllclal returns show that the total vo e cist at the recent State election wilSO. The majorities received bv tho rewbllcaii candidates for Cingressarid governor were J.I and 2373 respectively. Upon a jotot btllot the ISl-W.Urejenli" staud: Reiiubilcans, H5, democrats, demo-crats, 3. Olirornln n Wheels. vp. Vonic OcL IS. California on wheels Is on exhibition at Jersey ritv The display is remarkable SETl. aUracti'ug Vide attention During the ten months the cxh bl-iinn bl-iinn has been on the road h uas ravek"9M7 miles and ha, entertained enter-tained 1,05S,0S0 visitors. CHad.loneandElsht """T Lon-dov, October lS.-Gladstone w-rm-sSitHaworth, .-Sgf (JJa" tone's) comments on the general eight hours' aw wUh bis views on the miners' bill. "; he desires to keen an open "'? fulJeonfDtl.at ho ne?er -pttknanalJuda5U'D0ton.hemst- Ur. |
