A LIVELY PLACE.
They are having another revolution in that lively and' enegetic republic, San Domingoj which; however, makes only 21 during the present fiscal year. The Baddlercolored children of the bird of freedom will'have to hurry themselves to make up their, average by Jan. 1. Last year their revolution business was better, aa t d the captain of a San Francisco barque f elates thit Once, while entering the principal, harbpr. of that island, he discovered a native a.wimming desperately out to sea, whom they dragged on board much exhausted,. He was asked for an explanation. V;r. ■■ , .... . . ■ . •'I am the President of the Republic,' he said ; "elected yesterday morning." Just at this moment they noticed a prodigious noise on the beach, and in a few moments the sailors hauled in anothei fugitive. "Ah !" said the first comer, gravely v Captain, let me present my successor." And, the captain went on to state that ii lesVthkn a week his vessel was so crowde< with -their ex-Excellencies that he wa ebinpeiled' to set sail in order to avoii being starved out or swamped.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5646, 25 March 1880, Page 3
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182A LIVELY PLACE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5646, 25 March 1880, Page 3
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