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^.1 he Kio news^H^*7í0 PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY (ã mmi?\

RIO DE JANEIRO, JANUARY 14111, 1896.Vol. XXII, Number

WILSON, SONS & CO.(LIMITED)

2, RUA DE S. PEDRO .RIO DE JANEIRO.

M

;Z.: • AGENTS OF THEPaciZfíè Steam Navigation CompanyShaw, Savill âr3 Albion Co., Ld.

The New Zealand Shipping- Co., Ld.

QüAYLE, DAVIDSON & Co.1 19, Rua da Quitanda

CAIXA NO CORREIO 16

Repairs to Ships and Machinery:;.,,.* Having large workshops and eftecient plant we are in

¦0ül%a*position to undertake repairs of ali descriptions to ships and\A; Machinery.j$jfrtflf^ ^"«M-^ .* ,-'¦¦ i.^-' ______^_—

Cóal.—Wilson, Sons & Co. (Limited) have depôts at St.Vincent, (Cape Verde), Montevidéo, La Plata and at the

,. chief Brazil Ports; and, among others, supply coal underA':; contract, at Rio, to:

The Brazilian Government;Her. Britannic Majesty's Government;

The Transatlantic Steamship Companies;The New Zealand Shipping Companies,

&c, &c,

Coal.—Large stocks of the best Cardifl steam Coal alwayskept in Rio depôt on Conceição Island.

Tug Boats always ready for service.Ballast Supplied to ships.

Bstabhshments : Wilson, Sons & Co. (Limited),London. Cardiff, St. Vincent, (Cape Verde), Rio, Bahia,Pernambuco, Santos, S. Paulo, Montevidéo, BuenosAyres and La Plata.

K ING, FERREIRA & Co.Successors to IV, lt. CASSELS d** Co.

ji, Rua iu de Março, RIO DE JANE1KU,n, Rua da Quitanda, SÃO PAULO,

Importers and Agents for Mauufactarers.Further Agencies, suitable to their lines of business—Hard

ware, Domestic good, Specialtles, etc, etc—are respectiullysolicite-.

^/•ILSON & CO.21 Rua Conselheiro Saraiva,

Rio de Janeiro.Importers, Exporters

and General Commission Merchants.

AGENTS OF THE

Northern iFire) Assurance Company, London.Telephone No. 193. P. O. Box. No. 167

VA. WENCESLAU

GUIMARÃES & Co.WINE MERCHANTS.

.Importers ofOporto, Douro and Lisbon wines of the best qualities

bottles, or in casks, and under the private marks ofthe house

Sole Agents forBlandv Brothers & Co.,

Exporter of Madeira Wines

G. Prbllbk ft Co., Bordeaux,Exporter oi Bordeaux Wines;

E. Rrmv Martin & Co.,Exporter ofCognac

Dealers ind Burgundy, Rhine and Mosel wines, Sherries, Champagne

Cognacs and Liqueurs ofthe best brands.

ftua da Alfândega, 8).

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'*<*.

RãURIER ã Cq.*% V-i-if

a 6, RUA DO OUVIDOR

TAILORS AND COSTUME-MAKERS.This establishment is mounted lo execute every

order.Specialty in costume-making. Cashmeres, serges,

woollens and flannels, mohairs, alpacas biins,etc, etc, also silks and fancy stuffs for

circsses, kept in stock.Superior qualities of Ladies' *->tockings and shoes.

MODERATE PRICES.

Dr. Francisco Pereira(American Dentist)

RUA DA QUITANDA 37(Ist floor)

Office Hours: from 9 a. m. to 5 p. tn.

Representativas of

FLINT, EDDY & C<>.. New YorkAGENTS FOR

BROOKS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS;NATHAN MFGk Co-Monitor Injectors, lubricators, eto.;

HALE & KILBURÜST MFG. Co.-Car Seats;And various builders of railway cars: passenger and freight;

also manufacturers of railway supplies, machinery and ali articlesof American manufacture.

BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS,PHILAnBLPHIA, JPBNN.

(Established, 1831.)

BURNHAM, WILLIAMS & Co., Proprietors.

These locomotive engines are adapted to every variety of service, and are builtaccurately to standard gauges and templates. Like parts oí different engines of sameclass perfectly interchangeable.

Passenger and Freight Locomotives, Mine Locomotives, Narroio Gauge Locomo-tives, Steam Street Cars, etc., etc.

•__.11 -woxvls: tlxoaro-u-glxly g-__.a2?a_ateecl.Illustrated catalogue furnished on application of customers.

Sole Agents in Brazil: J[forton, JfiegziV & Cp. Z'â.No. 58, RUA PRIMEIRO DE MARÇO, Rio de Janeiro.

OTEL 1ARS0N' *" —

'Is now open under entirely new

management.Newly furnished and completely

renovated throughout.Cuisine of the highest order.

Prices moderate.

158, RUA DO CATTETE,Bonds pass the door.

153

Grand Hotel InternationalSITUATED ON THE TICTURESQUE

SANTA THERESA HILL,Rua do Aqueducto No. 108,

and served every 15 minutes by the tram-cars line from thetown (plano inclinado, rua do Riachuelo) to this hotel, andSilvestre. . ,

This establishment, thc first in Brazil, for its elegance,comfort and situation amidst forests and enjoying the mostmagnificcnt scencry views ofthe mountains, town, the harborand high seas, is lhe most suitable for families and gentlemenof distinction.

Excellent restaurant, always ready.Finest wines and liqueurs. Xumerous shower and warm

baths. Purest air, tcmpcrature bracing and invigorating.No health resort in the world is better.

For further information apply to F. MENTGES,Assembléa 72. Telephone 8otS.

SOCIÉTÉ AN."£

t3avaux et3-Entaepsises

mi BRÉSIL

D79 RUA í.o DE MARÇO 79

_xio de jjauisrEii.0

STOWAGE. LIGHTERACE.TUG-BOATS

Quieleest úispntoh -g-íve/i fo Steamersanti «ííij7//i_t vesscls.

THE WESTINGHOUSE AIR

BRAKE COMPANY,PITTSBURG, PA., U. S. A.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE

Westinghouse _Aütomatic BrakeThe Westinghouse Automatic ISrake i.s now iu use on26,000 locomotives aud 390,000 cars.

Freight Cars.The Westinghouse Air Brake Co. are prepared to fillorders for one lo one thousand seis of Air Brakes for FreightCars, at one huur's notice.For further particulars apply to theirSole representatives in Brazil:

Norton Megaiv & Co. Ld.58, Primeiro de Março.

Rio de Janeiro.

T HE HARLAN ANDHOLLINGSWORTH COMPANY.

Wilmington, Del.

MANUFACTURERS OFEvery description of Passenger

Cars for broad and narrow guageRailways.

Special attention given to the Sec-tional Construction of Carriages forshipment to Foreign Railways.

Sole Agents in Brazil:Norton, Megaw & Go., LUCARMO BATHS.

cmiioronisT.Hot and Slumvr Baths,

Sulphur and Medicai Baths,Plunsre Baths, etc.

Xo. 2$, Rua do Carmo,RIO DE JANEIRO.

AMERICANBank Note Company,

78 TO 86 TRINITY PLACE,NEW YORK.

Business líotiiided 1795.Incorporatwl under IaUws or lim íjtiilo ol' New York, 1856.

ReorganiZaCíl 1879.Engraveks and Printeks of

BONDS, POSTACE &. REVENUE STAMPS,LEGAL TENDER AND NATIONAL BANKNOTES ofthe UNITED STATES; and forForeign Covernments.

ENGRAVING AND PRINTING,BANK NOTES, SIIAKK CEKT1F1CATE8, 1IONDSFOK tíOVEKNMKNTS AND C01tI'OUAT10XS,IHIAET!*, CHECKS, K1LL.S OF EXCHANGE,STAMPS, «fcc, I11 tlie flneat nnd most nrtlutlc style

FKOM STEEL PLATES,With BFECIAL B.IKK«IIAR1>8 to 1'ItEVKNT COISTKUFKITING.

Special papers manufuctured exclusively foruse of the Compuny.

SAFETY COLORS. SAFETY PAPERS.Work Exeeuted in Flreproof Itulldlngs.

UTHOQRAPHIC AND TYPE PRINTING.HAILWAY TICKETS OF IMPROVEI) STYLE8.

Show tJurds, Lubeltt, Ciilcndura.JAMES MACDONOUGH, President.

AUG. D. SHEPARD, -. UI B tJ tTOURO ROBERTSON, |

Vice-Presidents.

THEO. H. FREELAND, Sec'y and Treas.JNQ. E. CURRIER, Ass't SeCy.J. K. MYERS, Ass't Treas.

>s| _B_

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For Stamp CollectorsBrazil Postage Stamps

Brazil—Sets for sale :20 Varieties, Rs. $60030 Varieties, Rs. i$ooo40 Varieties, Rs. 4S000

50 Varieties, Rs. 5S00060 Varieties, Rs. io$ooo80 Varieties, Rs. 208000

100 Varieties, Rs. 508000Collection of 120 Varieties (nearly complete)•"•.-.,..,......... Rs. 8o$oooA il Brazilian and Foreiglí -Siantfs sold scfaraicly.

Rarities—Nciv issues.Illustrated Catalogue of ali Brazilian Postage Stamps from1843 to 1894 Rs. $500.

Bngllsh-spoken. CASA l3HTL.A.TBZ,10Ar,

Rio do Janeiro. near Largo S. Francisco.

T HE ALLISON MANUFACTURINGCOMPANY.

Philadelphia, Penn.

MANUFACTURERS OFEvery description of Freight Cars

for broad and narrow gauge Rail-ways.

Sole Agents in Brazil:

Norton, Megaw & Co,, L'd.T AWRENCE W. HISLOP,^-r* PELOTAS,

andHISLOP & Co.

RIO GRANDE DO SUL,

li rn-s.il.

Ship, Steamer and General Commission Agents.Correspondénce and Consignments Invited.

Established 1884.Bankers, LONDON & BRAZILIAN BANK, L'd.

Codes used:No. 1, ABC, Watkins & Scotts.

TranSlatíOnS from English into Portugueseand vice-versa. Apply to C. S. cs this office.

©. I. DE- I-IMA & ©0.f>7, 2Co\V Stroot. líim An Qnitnntln, 5(8

A"c,\v Vork. Rio </o ./íino/ro.

Execute oídeis for American manufacttires, machinery ofali kinds, rolling 5tock, railway supplies, lumber, petroleum,rlour, provisions, &c Make firm offers of cargoes or partstheteof. Purchase and sell on commission. Make liberaladvances on consi-_nmenis. Correspondénce caiefuUy at-tended to.

Cable adddress " Deiima-New York."

THE RIO NEWS [January I4th, 1896.

%nsxxxixucz.

, A PROVIDENTELÉFE INSURANCE COMPANY,

Insurance against Accidents Branch.20, LARGO DA CARIOCA, 20.

Iiisiífance against accidents is a providential measure of small costand great compensation.

¦r**í%>

viThe insured pays annually 80$000, or 201000 per trimestre;should lie by any motive, caused by accident, be hindered from working,the company will pay him 50$000 per week, or should he be crip-

pled, from 1,000$000 to 8,0001000, and in the case of death fromaccident 10,000$000.

Arthur üomilcarManaging Directoe.

T)HCENIX FIRE OFFICE.

Established 1782Authorized by Imperial Decree No. 8,037 op

March 2$th, 1881.

Insures against risk of fire, houses, goods and merchandise,and offers the best of giiarantees with the most favorableconditions.

G. C. Anderson, Agent.2, Rua General Camara—ist floor.

COMMERCIAL UNION

ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIM'D.

Fire and Marine.*

Capital £2,500,000Agents for the Republic of Brazil:

Walter Christiansen & Co.

No. 115, Rua da Quitanda.

GUÂRDI-AN FIRE AND LIFEASSURANCE CO., LIM'D.

Agents in Kio de Janeirot

Smith Youle & Co.No. 38 Rua 1? de Março.

THE MARINE INSURANCE COM-PANY LIMITED.

Capital ,£1,000,000 sterlingReserve fund.... £ 500,000 ,,

Agent in li 10 de JaneiroG. C. Anderson.

3, Rua General Camara—ist floor.

HE BRAZILIAN COAL Co.LIMITED.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,

LONDON AND LIVERPOOLCapital £2,000,000Accumulated Funds....^6,000,000

Insures against the risk of fire, houses,goods andmerchandise of every kind at reduced rates.

John Moore &• Co, agents.No. 8, Rua da Candelária.

LONDON AND LANCASHIREFIRE

INSURANCE Co.

Capital (fully subscribed) ,£2,117,500Reserve fund £ 670,355

Agents tn Rio de JaneiroWatson Ritchie & Co.

No. 35, Rua de Theophilo Ottoni.

NORTHERN (FIRE) ASSURANCE

COMPANYEstablished 1836

Capital ^3,000,000Accumulated funds ^4,057,000

Agents in Kio de yar.eiroWilson & Co.

N°. ai Rua do Conselheiro Saraiva.

BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE

INSURANCE COMPANY, LIM'D

Capital £ 1,000,000 sterlingReserve fund... ,,1,328,751 ,,Uncalled capital. „ 2,400,751 „

Agent : P E. Swanwick,4, Travessa do Conselh iro Saraiva.

\171LLIAM SMITH,ENGLISH SHOEMAKER,

The best material used and ali work guaranteed.

TRepresentatives of

GORY BROTHERS & Go., Ld., LondonIden! Cardiff

A constant supply of fresh steam coal "Cory's Merthyr'always on hand. Prompt delivery at reasonable prices.

Tugboats always ready for service.

OFFICES •

Praça do Gonratercio, Salas 26 and 27.Entrance: Rua Gen. Camara

DEPOT:

Ilha dos Ferreiros

CHARLES HUE

Commission Merchant and Ship AgentRua Fresca No. 8.

P. O. Box 391. RIO DE JANEIRO.

Water supplied on short notice. Telephone 374.

CONSOLIDATEDDENTAL MFG. Co.

3STEW TOEK.

Manufacturers of Porcelain Teeth,Instruments, filling materiais, etc.

Guaranteed as good as the best,at lower prices. Get a sample set ofteeth at

C. S. BONTECOU & Co.Representatives for Brazil.

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2, Rua 1.° de Março.

No. 5. TRAVESSA DE SANTA RITAIst floor.

RIO DE JANEIRO.

FOR SALEA nice set cf rustic furniture for garden or summer-house.

Contains thirteen pieces: 3 tables, 1 sofá, 1 rocking-chair,and 8 other chairs. The set is new and will be sold cheap.Can be seen at No. 96, Rua da Assembléa.

PRIVATE LESSONS.Miss Marion Scadding having returned from England, will

be glad to arrange for pupils at Petropolis, where she intendspassing the summer.—80, Rua do Imperador.

STRANGERS' HOSPITAL,zzo, Rua da Passagem

Now open for the reception of patients.

Non-subscribkrs will be admitted on presentation of anOrder of Admit tance signed by any subscriber. The paymentofa sum equivalent to a fortnifçht's treatment, or a guaranteefor ali expenses from some resident in good standing, will berequired.

Applicants for admission should present themselves betweenxo and 11 a.m., if possible, or stíould first see the visiting phy-sician (Dr. Handeira) before going there, in order to seeureprompt medicai attendánce.

Patients tmploying other physicians can go direct to theHospital, but should carry with them the physician's instruc-tions as to assignineiit — whether in the ordinary or feverwards, and whether in a general ward or private room — andthe above mentioned "order ofadmittani-e."

Orders 0/adinittance may be procureaat this office.

Tlie Consulting office ofthe regular visiting physician is:

Dr. Bandeira No. 75 Rua 1" de Março.from 1 to 3 p. m.

The visiting hours are, for the present, 8 to 9 in the morn*ing aud 5 to 7 in the evening for patients and from 3 p. m.to 6 p. m. for the nursing staft.

w. & B. DOUGLAS

MIDDLETOVAN, CONN.

Manufacturers of pumps. Hydraulic

rams, pump chain, garden

engines, Yard kydrants, street

washers, etc.

Sole representatives in Brazil,

C. S. BONTECOU & Co.

CDffirinl pivertortjU.S.LEGATION.—Petropolis. THOMAS L.THOMPSON

Minister.

BRITISH LEGATION.—No. 1, Rua Visconde de Itaborahy(opposite Custom House). Petropolis. EDMUND C. H.PHIPPS, Minister.

AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL. - N? 56, RuaTheophilo Ottoni. Wm. T. TOWNES, Cônsul General.

BRITISH CONSULATE GENERAL. — N. 1, rua Visconde de Itaborahy [opposite Custon House. ] WILLIAMG. WAGSTAFF, Consnl General.

dljurclj pivcctorijCHRIST CHURCH.—Rua do Evaristo da Veiga. Morn-

ing service every Sunday at n a.m. Evening serviceduring cool season according to notice. Holy communionafter morning service on ist Sunday in the month andon 3rd Sunday at 9 a. m. Baptisms after morning ser»vice, or at other times by special arrangement.

HENRY MOSLEY, M.A. British Chaplain.Rua das Lárangeiras,

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. - Largo doCattete. English services at ta m. Sundays Lecture;services Thursdays, 7.30 p. m.Portuguese services : at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. Sun-days; 7:30 p. m. Wednesdays—Rua Riachuelo N. 108,7.30 p. m. Thursdays.—E. A. TILLY and JOSÉ DACOSTA REIS, Pastors. Sunday School 11. a. m.i a.Fabrica Carioca, Sundays, 11 a. m. aud 4. p. tn. RevA. J. MELLO.

PRESBYTERIANCHURCH-NV15 Travessada Barreira.Services in Portuguese every Sunday at ti a.m., and 7p. m., Sundays; and at 7 p. m. Thursdays.

ANTÔNIO LINO DA COSTA, Pastor.

BAPTIST CHURCH.-Rua de SanfAnna No. 115.Services in Portuguese every Sunday at 11 a.m. and7. p.m: and every Wednesday at 7. p.m.

W. B. BAGBY, Pastor.Residence: Ladeira do Senado No. 33.

IGREJA EVANGÉLICA FLUMINENSE.-Rua Largade S. Uoaqtúm, No. 179.- Divine service in Portugueseon Sundays: Prayer meeting at 10 a. m.; Worship at ita. m. Biblical class to study the Holy Scriptures, at 5,afternoon. Gospel preaching, at 6 '.^ p. m. on Wednesdays.Biblical study, and preaching, at 7 p. m.

JOÃO M. G. DOS SANTOS, Pastor.

tttrtirnl PtvrrtovijDr. William Frederick Eisenlohr, German Physi-

cian. Office: 7S, Rua General Camara. Consulting hoursfrom 13 to 30. ni,

Dr. Ed. Chapot Prevost, professor of Histology, espec-ialy of GynecoloRy, and Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine;Office: aj, Rua da Quitanda: Hours from a-4 p. m. Resi-dence No. 3, Rua Alice, Lárangeiras.

2>XisccU;xncous.

WEST COAST ITEMS.—The Chilian government lias issued a decree

ordering ali banks, joint-stock comuanies an'l in.surance companies to publish half-yearly balance*sheets.

—A Santiago telegram of the ioth says that theChilian government has resolved not to float itsnew loan in London at present, waiting until thecrisis in England comes to an end.

—A Santiago telegram says that the militarypreparations of Argentina are causing much anxietyin Chili. Very naturally. And thè military pre".parations in Chili are causing^much anxiety iuArgentina. Better quit, both ofthem!

—In Peru the American, British and Germanministers are using their good offices to obtain thewithdrawa 1 of the recent decree declaring Protes-tant marriat;es illegal. This decree shows how"liberal" a South Amei ican republic can be. It isa shame that civilized men and women should besubjected to such bigotry.

—If the Chilians wish peace they must treat thequestion of disarmament honestly and openly.Talkintí disarmament to-day and, secretly orderingships af war to-morrow will never lead to any goodresult. Neither Argentina nor Chili trusts lheother, so it may be presumed that this contest ofintrigue will go on until they come to. blows.

Caixa 1053. 2. Rua Io do Março.

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.The chamber of commerce of New York has

indorsed tlie following report presented by F. B.Thurber, James McCreei y and Gustav H. Schwab,favoring international arbitration : v,7o the Chamber of Commerce:

In view of recent warlike utterances by menprominent in public life, and the pendency of in-ternational questions afiecting commerce, yourcommittee on foreign commerce and the revenuelaws call attention to lhe following from a recentnumber of lhe University Lato Review :

The following account of the growth of inter-national arbitration was recently given by Dr.Benj. F. Trueblood : "The first real* cases of in-ternational arbitration were between this countryand Great Britain, less than a cen'ury ago. Thesewere provided for by the Jay treaty of 1794.From 1816 to the present time there has been anaverage, through the whole seventy-nine years, ofone important case of arbitration per year. Onlyfour or five of these are known to most people,for one war makes more noise than a hundrèdarbitrations and costs more than a thousand. Onlyrecently the President of the United States, asarbitrator, settled a difficulty between Brazil andthe Argentine republic involving a territory ofthirty thousand square miles, and the papers ofthis country had, perhaps, two inches of notice ofit! In the last twenty years these cases haveoccúrre^ at lhe rate of two or three a year. Theyhave covered questions of boundary, of insult tothe flag, of property, of personal injury, everyquestion, in fact, with which nations have to doexcept the one question of the actual existence ofthe national life. In every case the difficulty hasbeen'settled for ali lime, and no war has evergrown out of any of them. Our country hassettled more than forty of these difficulties. Dur-ing this period of eighty years we have had threewars with foreign nations, lasting altogether onlyfour years and a half. We have been literally thepeace nation of the world. Great Britain hassettled about a dozen in the same period, and alithe nations of Europe have had from one to sevencases. Japan and China have in this way settleddifficulties; ali the South American republiesexcept two and two of the Central American re-publies have done the same. What it is proposedto do is to crystalize into law what is the generalpractice of the United States to-day and, to a con-siderable extent, the practice of other nations-We shall find another interesting subject of dis.cussion in the proposed establishment pf a greatinternational tribunal of arbitration, which shalllie to the nations of the world what the UnitedStates Supreme Court is to the states of thisunion."

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AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETVS AGENCY. - No. ç6Rua da Assembléa. —H. C. TUCKER, Agent.BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETYS AG-

ENCY.—Rua Sete de Setembro No. ít.—On sale, theHoly Scriptures in Portuguese, English, French. German,Italian, Spanish and other languages.

JOÃO M. G. DOS SANTOS, AgentBRITISH SUBSCRIPTION LIHRARY AND READING

ROROM.— ti3 Rua da Assemblé.u—Open from noon to6. p. m. For terms. apply to Libram».

RIO SEAMEVS MISSION.-Restand Reading RMm.-33, rua cia Saude. ist floor; Hen-ry Braxdreth. Miss-icr.er. Gifts of books, magazines, papers, etc. also ofleft-off clothing, will be gratefully received at the Missionor at No. 35, ma Theophilo Ottoni.

Some interesting pariiculars as to the expendi-ture ofthe United States government, in river andharbor improvements, were given in a lecture re-cently delivered before the Franklin Institute byMr. I. Y. Schermerhorn, CE. The first appro*priation made by Congress, for the improvementof waterways, provided for the erection of publicpiers in the Delaware river at a cost of $30,000.This was at the beginning of the century, whenPhiladelphia was the capital of the nation. Thefirst river and harbor bill. which was passed dur-ing the administration of John Quincy Adams, cov-ered an expenditure of $150,000, applicable totwenty localitiés. By way of comparison, it ispointed out that that of 1892 aggregated $22,009,.000, and was applied to 425 localitiés exclusiveof surveys made at 145 localitiés. Front.1826 to185S Congress continued to make annual appro-priations for lhe improvement of a large number ofrivers and haibors, expending during that intervalabout $9,000.000. At the end of this period achange of public policy, extending to iSóó, tookplace, and only three regular river and harbor billswere passed during that time. In 1841, however.it was provided that for each new state thereafterentering the union 500,000 acres ol public landshould be set aside, the proceeds from the sale ofwhich should be applied by the state to tlie build-ing of bridge* and the improvement of roads, ca-nals, and water-courses. The only provision wasthat the Uniled States should have the right totransport mails, troops, and munitions of war oversuch canais, roads, &c, free of toll. The intervalof twenty-six years above mentioned. during whichso little was done in the improvement of nationalhighways, extended to tlie close of the civil war.From this time a new departure in river and harborimprovements took place, and a policy was orivjin-ated which has been steadily extended ever since.During the last twenty-nine years 94 per cent. ofali the money spent íor river and harbor improve-ments has been approprialed. The total amount ap-propriated from 1S20 is $262,845.900.— Transpjri.

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January 14th 1896.] THE RIO NEWS.

LONDON ANDBRAZILIANBANK, LIMITED.

Capital r 1,500,000Capital paid up ,, 750,000Reserve fund ,, 600,000

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

£#'¦,;'BRANCH OFFICE IN RIO DE JANEIRO

JO, Rua da Alfândega

Draws on Head Office and the following Branchesand Agencies:

LISBON, OPORTO, PARÁ,

PERNAMBUCO, BAHIA, SANTOS, SÃO PAULOCAMPINAS, RIO GRANDE DO SUL,

PELOTAS, PORTO ALEGRE, MONTEVIDEO.BUENOS AYRES AND NEW YORK.

Also on:

Messrs.' Glyn, Mills, Cur rie &* Co.,London,

Messrs. Mallet Frétts .&*, Co.,Paris,

Messrs. Sckrodtr «Sr* Co., J. H. Schtoder &> Co.,naehf. Hamburg,

Messrs. Joh, Berenoerg, Gossler <&» Co.Hamburg,

Messrs. Granel Brown &* Co.¦'M* ¦. Genoa,

BRASILIANISCHE BANK FÜR

DÇUTSCHLAND.Established t»i,Homburg on ibth Decembet

188J by the "Direction der Di'conto Gesellschafi"in Berlin and

~'Íhí:'"" Norddeutsche Bank in

Hamburg," Hamburg,

Capital. 10,000,000 Marks.

BRANCH-OFFICE IN RIO DE JANEIRO.(Caixa io8.>

Branch-offices In São Paulo and Santos(Caixa 5ao.j

'(Caixa 185;

Draws on: 'Direction der Disconto )Gesellschaft, Berlin. |Qermany J Norddeutsche Bank in í and corres-

1 Hamburg,Hamburg. (pondents.M. A. von Rothschild I. Sohne, Frankfurt a M. J

f N. M. Rothschild & Sons, London.I Manchester and Liverpool DistrictSngland < Banking Company,Limited,London.I Union BaukofLondon,Limited,Londonl Wm. Brandt's Sons & Co., London.f Credit Lyonnais. Paris and branches.f Comptoir National d^Escompte de

France 1 V*™! ^«n»- .j Heine & Oo., Paris.I Laiard Fréres & Co., Paris.I André Neufliae & Co., Paris.

8paio.............. í *Lrédit Lyonnais, Madrid, Barcelonal and correspondents.

Belgium í jj"»»» d'Aiwew, Antwerp.i H. Albert de Bary & Co., Antwerp.tlaly 5 B»?ca Commerciale Italiana, Milano,

( uenoa, and correspondents.Portugal í Banco Lisboa & Açores and cones.

( pondents...'¦",. "'¦' í, (G Amsinck & Co.. New York.United Statea...XLadenburg, Thalmann & Co., New

( York.uruguay.......... L. B. Supervielle, Montevideo.Argentine 5 |">---o Tornquist & Co., B. Ayres.

( oanco Alleman Transatlântico, do.and any other countries

Opens accounts currentPays interest on deposits for a certain time.Executes orders for purchases and sales of stocks, shares,

etc, and transacts every description of banking business.Krak^Petersen,

Directors.

THE LONDON AND RIVER PLATE

BANK, Limited.

London-. Primes Street, e. c.§ paris: 16, Eue Ealevy.Rio de Janeiro:

No. 20, Rua da Alfândega.

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THE URU AN INCIDENT.For the guidance of those who con-

sider that the British have been theaggressors in the boundary,.:,,. disputebetween British Guiana and Vene-zuela, we give herewith a statement byInspector Barnes of the Guiana policeforce, who was in charge of the front ierpost of Uruan and was one of the mencaptured and imprisoned by the Vene-zuelans. This statement was made inLondon to a repórter of the Pad MailGazette in March last and was published inthat newspaper at Lhe time. It elearlyshows that the Venezuelans were theaggressors, that the Venezuelan governmentrecognised this by releasing the prisonerswithout trial and offering to reinstatethem at the Uruan station, and that theBritish officers used no violence whatever.The statement made by Inspector Barneswas as follows:

"As far back as the beginning of August last,"said the Inspector, " I found some Venezuelanscutling bush on our side of the river, so I turnedthem off. They cirne back in force next day andconíinued their work. I reported the matter totlie government in Georgetown. On October 20 Iwas inslructed.to re-oecupy the hill where theVenezuelans were working whenever they vaeatedit, and to post sentries on it, and we were to remainthere until we were forcibly obliged to quit. Inthe event of that oceurring I was ti return to ourstation wiihoul using any íorcible íneasures inretaliation."

" Rather a difficult order for a Briiish spirit toobey ? "

"Ye*, but lhere was the order, and I am glad tosay I managed to obey it, although I had consider-able provocíiiion. I occupied the hill and postedthe sentries. Some Venezuelans put in an appear-ance, and said they had come to work. I refusedto allow them to land, so they had to retire; butafterwards about 25 or 30 came over with cutlassesand told me to clear off and take my men with me.I returned lo my station, but when they left thehill I went back,and posted my men as before, andwe remained there ali night. Next morning ourneighbours again came over, but I would not allowthem to land. They bronght 15 armed soldiers,who assured me they had come to turn me off. Iprotested again—ali I could do—and relurned loour station. They then remained in constant oc-cupation of the hill until 3lst Dec-mber, anderected a flagstaff on which the republican colourswere unfurled on Sundays and holidays. On NewYear's day I was informed by the corporal that hesaw no soldieis on lhe hill, but that the Venezuelanflag was flying. Accordingly, the following day Iwent down mysclí, *i]*»ing with me four of our men.I personally hauled dowú-the,..Venezuelan flag,hoisted our own, and posted the sentries as before.The captain in charge of tlie republican troopsshortly afterwards came over with 20 armedsoldiers, rifles loaded and bayonets fixed. He toldme he had come to occupy tlie hill again. I gotready lo leave again, but was told we were aliprisoners. The captain then instrueted his soldiersto disarm my men. There were only two sentriesarmed, but I ordered them to give up their armsquietly. I cautioned the caplain that we wereBritish officials on British tenitory, but he simplysaid he had his orders. I told him I declined toleave unless actual force was used to compel me,and, accordingly, he used force to put us in theboats. We were taken across under an armedescort to El Dorado, where I was confined in asmail room, with asentry at each door. About anhour afterwards Sub-Inspector Baker was broughtacross under nn escort, and he informed me lheVenezuelans had gone up to our station after dis-posing of me, arrested him and the two policemenremaining there, and my servant. About half anhour afterwards we (that is Snb-Inspsctor Bakerand mysell) were informed that if wemade noattempt to escape we would be allowed to go aboutthe grounds of the staiion. I gave the necessarypromise and when we went out we found the con-stables and my servant confined in a small hut. Atmy request, and on giving a similar promise, thejwere allowed to walk about. At night lhe captain,several civilian lonfers and some of the soldierswent across to our station, and we could hear thembreakingopen boxes, shouling, scieaming, singing,and so on until about three o'clock in the moming,when a number of them returned to the Venezuelanstation in a scandalous state of intoxication. Therevellers had looted nil the liquor they could find,and had approprialed ali the provisions they couldget through the windows of the stores. Thepolicemen's boxes were broken open, and theclothes and what little money they had were stolen.In fact, tlie station had been thoroughly ransacked,and was in such a filthy condition that it will takesome weeks for the relief party to restore it to ahabitablc condition. The officer who was putin charge of the station, and some of thesoldiers,. were found drunk about the place,among empty bottles, helplessly drunk. On theSth of January, General Lifontes, commander ofthe station, arrived at El Dorado. I was lakenbefore him and protested ag.rnst the indignitieslhat we had undergone. On the 121I1 we left ElDorado on males, under an escoitof a colonel ofthe national guard and three others, the orderbemg to piocee.l to Ciudad Bolívar. We reachedUpala on the iSth of January. I was informed bya local digmtary—a sort of chief magistrate-tluthe had received a telegram fiom General GonzalezGil, stating that by order ofthe President we wereto be released at orce, and if we wished to returnto our stntion at Uruan, we could do so with aspecial commissioner, who would replace us in ourStalionwiih ali guarantees. I decline l to return,and decided to piish on lo Georgetown by lhesbortest route. However, the mules of ail lhepariy weie niissing, and iry as best we could noolher animais were tu be obtained, and we had anenforced sr.joum in Upata until our mules wetebrought back 011 the alternoon oí Uie 24SI1. I was

informed that General Lifonles and Captain Do-minguez had orders to proceed to Caracas andexplain their aclions, the Venezuelan governmenthaving given no orders for the action which wastaken on the hill on the morning of Tanuary 2. Wereached Trinidad on February 7, tlien went 011 bymail to Barbadoes, and thence on to Geprgetown."

•"Then you have never' been actualíy iíi-treated?" v 3

" No, but one Btitish subject was, John Francis.His story is that 011 2nd jãituary a party of Vene-zuelans brought him to the EngIMi station, wherehe was made to sleep ali night in the open air.Next morning he was tied, and bealen with à rope.It appears to have been done iri slieer wantonness.He has laid his case before the government. TheVenezuelans are diminutive decidèdly. In fact, youcan imagine my feelings when, looking down frotnmy height of six feet 011 some of tlie Venezuelanlooters about three feet or four feet, I saw them -puffing away at my cigars, while I could not getone to smoke at ali."

DISCRIMINA TING INTERFER--ENCE.

A local correspondent sends us the foi-lowing clipping from The Times of Decem-ber 20. It is a singular circumstance,surely, that no indignation was manifestedin the United States over the invasion ofAmapá, and that subsequently a threat ofwar should follow a refusal of Great Britainto submit territories to arbitration whichhave been occupied by that country andHolland for two hundred years. It almostappears that the discrimination arises fromthe fact that the public takes no interest inthe doings of the French, and it would bedifficult to manufacture any political in-dignation over such a question. WithEngland, the case is different. The protec-tionists and the " silverites" are careful tokeep resentments alive, for their suecessdepends upon it. It is a pity, for it is anational disgrace, that the international rela-tions of a great country should be belittledand jeopardised by petty political issues ofpurely local interest.

The clipping from The Times is asfollows:To the Editor of The Times.

Sir,—The Times of the i8th gives an extractfrom the New York Heiald relating to the bound-ary dispute between France and Brazil. As bearingon the position now taken up by the President oflhe United States in setting up lhe so-called \Monroe doctrine as justification for interference inoür boundary dispute with Venezuela, the contestwhich is now going on iii upper Brazil has aspecial interest for us. The northerii poi tion ofthis republic touches French Guiana, exactly thesame as tlie norlliern portion of our possessionsin that pait of S»utl: America touches lhe southernpart of Venezuela. And, üke as we have a bound-ary dispute with the ádventurers who just nowcontrol the fortunes of Venezuela, so have theFrench a similar dispute with the Brazilians. . Thecases are thus far 011 ali fours. Two Eürbpeánnations, occupying and administering countriesconliguous to one another on the South Amei icancontinent, seeking to extend their boundaries(according to the presidential way of putting it),must naturally be subject to the same condilionsso far as the Monroe doctrine is concerned. Nowmark what has oceurred.

France claims a considerable slice of northemBrazil known as Amapá. It should be noted thatshe has never occupied this territory. or sought toattachit to the Cayenne province until quite lately.The district has been perfurictòrily administeredby one Cabral, whom the Nm York Heiald signi-ficantly terms a "brigand," but is palriolicallyfighting for his country.* The French governmenttook very little trouble to make their demands inordinary diplomatic forms. They preferred toadopt the high-handed course of sending soldiersfrom the adjoining Guiana, and they had just aslittle hesitation in killing and imprisoning Braziliansubjects who resisted and seizing their property inthe disputed district. And now wc learn that anaval demonstration in Brazilian waters is threat-ened. Here ends the parallel between the cases bfEngland and the republic of Venezuela and Franceand the republic of Brazil. Our case has not yetpassed out of the domain of diplomlacy, while theFrench action has been palpably effective.

As yet we have heard oí no vigorous protest orthreats from the American President against ourneighbours for the slaughter ol Brazilians and theseizure of their territory. It would be interesting,as well as more consistent if the American govern-ment would state why they make this disiihctioh inseeking to carry out lheir cnforcemenl of theMonroe doctrine. To those on ihis side of lheAtlantic it seems that the only difference is—first,that lhe twisting of the tail of the French eagle wilínot help a presidential election ; and next, that noterritorial conces.sions have been granted toAmerican speculators in that part of Brazil, ashave been improperly given in lhe disputed districtof Venezuela.

As an indication of the view taken in Franceover this mal ter, La Liberte, of the iSth, says:—"Our own dispute with Brazil presente severalfeatines of resemhlance to the difficulty betweenEngland and Venezuela." The Republique Fran-çaise.•—«* Of course, they would bke in Loitdon todrag usinto an idêntica! quarrel, in consequenceofour difliculties over lhe frontier settíement questionwith Brazil." Figuro.-—" France has an identicaldifficulty with Brazil; we could not accept a prin-ciple which would prevent us from seuling thedispute direct with lhe South American republic."

* 1 his ts a omtake. Cabra! ts a native oí Pará and acadventurer. He tied from Pará b-cause o! some pr>ftiic»!trouble, and lhen established himself at Ami|j. where he hasbeen iccupicd in exploiing tte setüeis the:e.-Ed. Naws.

THE RIO NEWS. [January i4th, 1896

There can be little dispute over the facts I haveset down. The matter has eirgaged the attentionof the Brazilian house of representatives, and hascaused many angry speeches to be made in thatassembly over the remissness of the governmentin not chiving out the invaclers.

Yours faithfully,

m(«¦ij.* il:

Observer.

. From. The Stàtlst, December 21, 1895.¦;"^THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION.

VThe tone of President Cleveland's message toCongress on lhe Venezuelan question is not suchas we should have expected Irom a public man whoiíí the administration of the domestic affairs of theUnited States bas shown slates manlilce qualities.The message is uhnecéssarily irritai ing lo a nationconnected by the closest ties to the United States,and it puts forward prètensions which 110 self-respecting people can tamely accept. Still, we

• hope that the message will be discussed here at'

borne in a fViendly and lemperate spirit, that therewill be 110 offensiye or provocative language used,and that we'shall make allowance for the election-eering difficulties of lhe democratic party. TheMonroe doctrine served a good purpose whenoriginaliy enunciated, and. indeed, was cordiallyweícomed by Mr. Canning, at that time Britishsecretary of state for foreign affairs. But the Mon-ioe díicirihe hns never been accepted as a pòriio.ríof international law, and thereloie is not bindingon any country except lhe United States. We willnot now, theref.ire, discuss what was the iutentionof President Monroe when enniiciatingthe doctrine,nor how lar he would have been prepared to siandby it. It is enough to say that the Uniled Statesbas no more legal right 10 dictale to other powerswhat they .-hall or shall not do in parts of theAmerican continent not affecting the interests ofthe Uniled Slales than has lhe British empire.The thirteen Brilish-American colonies which firstconstituted the republic ofthe United States couldhave uo other rights than such as they dei ivedfrom the British government. They had been sub-

jects oí the Britisli empire, and, when they made

good their independence, and that independencewas recognised by the moiher country, they, nodoubt, came inlo ali lhe rights wiihin the territoryunder tlieir jurisdiction whicli the British empire

previously possessed ; but they came into noneother. Any other prètensions they may put for-ward are matters of might, not maiters of right.Furthermore, lhe British empire was not only a

great American power before the Uniled Sta*escame into existence, but it is so to-dny, as em-bracing within iis foi d the dominion of Canada,Newfoundland, British Guiana, and many WestIndian islands. Whether, theiefore, we look to

pviority of exMence or t > present interests, theBrilish empire is as much—1<> say the least—anAmerican power as the United Sates; aud, beingsuch, it has an tqual right in ali matters American.

In ihe United States the message seems to beregarded as warlike. But it seems incredible thatPresident Cleveland can have made up bis mind todeclare war against the British empire if it relusesto accept lhe doctrine laid down in his message.Since 1840 there has been a dispute ln.tween theBritish government and the ^oveiiunentof Vene-zuela regarding the boundary between theirrespective territorie/.. The leiritoryin -.dispute isfar removed froin the United Slates. So lar asany one .can see, the governnient ol the UnitedStates hns no direct interest of any kind in the ulti-mate decision of lhe dispute between ourselves andthe Venezuelans. But the government of theUnited States now says lhat if we were to compelVenezuela to yield we should lhereby violate theMonroe doctrine, and strike a hlow against the

prestige and self-respect of the United Stales towhich it could not submit. ¦ And, since we haverefused aibitration, the President próposes anAmei ican commission lo determine the British andVenezuelan rights, and threatens war if we refuseto bow to iheaward. The argument or first partofthe contenlion would be intelligihle if the Britishgoveinment had 110 possessions bordering uponVenezuela, and ií it suddenly put foi ward a claimio Venezuelan lei ritory. But the British posses-s-ions bordering upon Venezuela were Britishbefore Venezuela came into independent existence—while Venezuela, in fact. was a Spanish pro-vince. Spain laised 110 objection to lhe claims

put fotward by us, and, in short.it was not till1S40 thal Venezuela put forward counter-daims.However, we are ready to admit lhat verv muchmay be said on the Venezuelan side. We iireready even to admit, fir the sake of argument,tha

'the whole dispute is not worth the trouble it

has already oceasioned. But that is not to thepoint. The'question is, whether any self-te*pcclingnation can allow a third power, not interesteddirectly, to detate to it how it is to carry on a cou-troversy with a neighbouring state respecting a

question of boundaiy. Suppose there were toarise a dispute between the Uniled S a'es andMéxico as to some border. would the Americanssubmit to an attempt 011 lhe pari of the Briii>hempire to dicate how the United Slates was toconduct the dispute ? And if the American peoplewould noi for an instaiit submit 10 such diciation.how can lhey expect tbat their near kinsmen shalldo what they would consider ignominious in tlieiro-vn case ? We feel sure that the good sense oftbe American people will speedily lead them to seethat Piesident Cleveland is pu>hing the Monroedoctrine to an exiiavagant extrnt, and lhat he ismaking prètensions which have no foundationeither iu right or in the intere-ts of the UnitedStates. Theiefore wc trusl, as we have saidalready, that nothing will be d.-ne in tlus countrylo prevent the controversy being onducied amic-ably between the two peoples.

Ápart Irom tbe pietenM.ms put forward by Pre-sideni Cleveland, it may well I e doubted whelberthe bit of territory in dispute between ourselvesaud Venezuela is worth much t-ouble. The factthat tbe dispute lias lasted for hall a ccniury seemsto show that it is n -t. Unfoitunately the Pre-sideni's message makes it more .lifficult to settlethe question now in a reasonable and proper waythan u would have liceu heretofore. If we giveway we shall noi merely seem to yield to a threatof war from the United S ates, but wc shall en-

courage the Venezuelans to think that furtheraggressions on their part will be successful. Onthe other hand, if we do not settle the questionsoon, it will remain a subject of angry discussionbetween ourselves and the United Siales; and no-body—in this country at aU events—wishes forunfriendly feeling or stsained relations betweenourselves and our American kinsmen. If it werenot for our difficulties in lhe lar East and the nearEast, in the Nile valley, and in Newfoundland, wemight put up with the inconvenience, and trust totime and the good sense of the American peopleto bring about a satisfactory arrangement. But abelief on the Continent lhat we are likely to getinto a quarrel with tbe United States will un-doubtedlyadd to our embarrassmenls in êvery partof the world. The question then is a very ticklishone, and requires the greatest tact and judgmenton the part of Lord Salisbury in dealing with it.Happily, Lord Salisbury can count upon the unitedsupport ofthe people, and his majority in parlia-ment is so overwheluiing, that whatever he de-cides upon he can easily carry through. Thatthere will be no war we feel sure ; that PresidentCleveland himself has used lauguage much inexcess of his nieaning we are convinced; that mspite of a noisy faction of jingoes, lhe great ma-jority of American people are peace-loving andfair-tninded we know. Therefore, we cannothesiiate to believe that a friendly settlement willbe arrived at.

SEA SICKNESSI have mueh pleasure in tesüfying to the

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I used it recently on a voyage and founditmosteffieaeious. Rio de Janeiro, 15th Au-gust 1895.- E. RICHARDSON.

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THE REMEDY FOR UNCONSTITU-TION AL LEGISLATION.

Rio de Janeiro, çjth January, 1896.To the Editor,

Sir.—-In <jne of the editoriais contained in yourissue oí 71I1 inst., we see that you say :

" // is regtel/able that no ptovision wasmade in lhe Constitution foi ihe suspen-sion of laius by the Supreme Court, onthe pie a of unconslitntionality."

We beg, however, to point out that by Art. 60,paragrapli B—

•• Compete aos Juizes ou Tribunaes Fe-deraes processar e julgar todas as causaspropostas contra o Governo da União ouFazenda Nacional, fundadas em disposi-ções da Constituição, leis e regulamentosde Poder Executivo."

You fuither say:•• If such a tevision could be had here inBrazil, it would be for the best interestsofthe whole country."

Concerning this latter point, we have at the 1110-ment a case befoie the courts, against lhe FazendaNacional, reclaiming export duty on gold producedbv the mining companies locaied in the state ofMinas Geraes, exacted unconstitutionally by theGoverno da União through the Rio custom-house,under decree No. 265 of 24th December 1894,article No. 9. The argument -j* our case is, thatby Art. 9, parp.gr^^h ISÔ'. I of the Constitution:

" E1 da competência exclusiva dos Estadosdecretar impostos: sobre a exportação demercadorias de sua próprio producção."

Therefore the disposition of the above quoieddecree is unconstitutional.

Our lawyer, Dr. Leitão da Cunha, is confidrntwe shall gain our case and get back the duty paidunder protest; and so are we, as we have ali con-fidence is the Supremo Tribunal Federal.

Immediately the Rio custom-house demandedthe double duly of 2l/2 %, we protested andagitated ali round, to the efiect that threemembers oí Congress put in amendments to thebudget law lor 1896, declaring the custom-housetax of 2x/z % contiined therein to be uncomtilu-tional: the objectionable tax was withdiawn fromthe budget, and we have already this year dis-palched gold free, so far as the Rio custom-liouseis concemed, having, however, paid to state ofMinas Gerues lhe only export duly—2x/z %—admissible by the Constitution of Brazil.

Concerning the imposto of 2l/2 % on lhé divi-dends, and the 1/20 % 011 tlie •• operações" ot theforeign banks and companies locaied in the states,Ai t. 9 aud paragraph 4 of the Constitucion says :

'* E1 da competência exclusiva dos Estadosdeci eta r impostos: sabre industrias e pro-fissões."

whicli is specially confirmed by Art. 12.It appears therefore to us that these *• impostos "

created by the federal government, so far as theyconcern banks and companies located in the states,are unconstitutional. Doubtless the banks andcompanies are working under a charter from thefedeial government, but we take it for granted thatthe dispositions of the Constitution come first! Weunderstand that in the federal distdct aU banksaud companies which pay the 2% % on dividends,are exenipi from the old -'imposto sobre industriase profissões," which is a virtual admission by thegovernment that they are one and lhe same thing !

" A Constituição assegura a brazileiros eestrangeiros residentes no paiz a inviola-bilidade dos direitos concernentes d liber-dade: Todos são iguaes perante a lei: AKepublica não admi tte privilegio de nas*cimenta : £' garantido o livre exet ciciode qualquer profissão moral, intelíectuale industrial."

But by thc ne* law only foreign banks and com-panies ate taxed with 1/20% on their " operações,"thc-refore they are not on an equality with thenative banks and companies before the law ! Bythe limit ition of exchange operations to a maximumof 30 days, and the prohibition of lhe liquiduton olirans.tciion-iin exchange "por differença" the freeexeicisc of your proíession, wh<ch is said lo beguaranteed by the Constitution, is abolished!

It is to be hoped that ali foreign banks and com-panies will combine, and appeal lo tlie SupremoTribunal Federal f.ir protecii >», under the power3contained in the Constitution of Brazil.

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THE RIO NEWS.

TRINIDAD ISLAND.THE CRUISE OF THE "ALERTE".

The doctor, as I have said, was a mostuseful man on shore, and, as we wereanxious to complete our operations asquickly as possible and leave the islandbefore the stormy season should set iri, itseemed a pity to waste so much energyand muscle as his in an idle life on boardthe yacht. Having* remained at anchorfor so long*, and knowing that our anchorhad now got such a firm hold that therewas but Uttle chance of its drag*g*ing*, andhaving, moíeover, discovered by experi-ence thatr<i\::"%*íis-. possible to ride wherewe were even in bad weather, I had ac-quired a considerable confidence in thesafety of th*#Vessel, and I believe that shecould hav«p remained off the cascade forsix months without suffering damage. I,therefore,'How came to the conclusion thatit would not be very imprudent to leave asomewhat-incómpetent person in charge,as thé chances were that he would havenothing to do. Pollock, who had com-plained of sickness for some time, was theone from whom the least amount of workcould be extracted on shore, and was,therefore, the one who could be themost easily spared. I, consequently, de-cidjed to* leave him on board the yacht,instead of the doctor.

Thé'\véjathér now looked very settledand there rwas little chance of bad weatherfor a time. Tgave Pollock his instructions,and left with him, as a crew, Ted Milnerand George Spanner. I packed up mytraps and pulled off with the others to thebay, not ^t ali sorry to do a little work, fora change.

We took jacko on shore with us. He didnot admirer the island, and particularlyobjected to ;the land-crabs. His favoriteamusement was to turn on the tap of ourtank, whemno one was looking, and letali our hard-çot supply of water run out.

He behaveâ very well on the whole,however, except on Christmas Day, whenhe drank some rum which he found at thebottom of a pannikin and, I am.grieved tosay, became disgracef ully intoxicated. Hehad a dreadful headache the next day.

As it was Sunday there was no workdone on the first day of my stay in camp,ali hands had the usual holiday, whichthey chiefly employed in fishing, andmending their clothes. I walked up theravine and was surprised to find that somuch of the landslip had already been re-moved. The trench was about twenty feetbroad, and ultimately attained a depth ofupwards of twenty feet in places. It ex-tended f or some distance along the faceofthe cliff—if that term can be properiyapplied to a steep slope of a sort of naturalconcreté, à compact but somewhat brittlemass of stones and earth. It was at thefoot of this cliff that we expected to findthe cave described by the pirate, but howfar we should have to dig down throughthe accumulation of earth and rocks thathad fallen from above and now filled upthe bottom of the ravine it was not easyeven to conjecture.

Our object, it will be seen, was to clearthe face of the cliff until we came to theoriginal bottom of the ravine. Thoughthe cliff was, as I have explained, composedof brittle matter, as if in an intermediatestate between earth and rock, and of com-paratively modern formation, it was easyto distinguish it from the much looser soilof the landslip that lay along its sides;this last, too, was of a very different color,being reddish brown, whereas the cliffwas slate-blue.

The men had construeted several littlepaths leading from the trench, down theravine, to'the edges of the chasms andprecipitous steps which are frequent inthis gully, and the earth and stones thatwere dug out of the trench were carrieddown these paths in the wheelbarrows andtilted over the precipices. As we gradu-ally filled up these chasms the roads hadto be extended further down the ravine,and at last we had formed a great dykewhich stretched right across it. I wassatisfied that aU the operations had beencondueted with judgment, and, if thetreasure were in the ravine at ali, therewas but little doubt that we should find it.The same rules that had been laid downby the doctor for the discipline of thecamp were observed during my stav onshore. AH hands turned out

"at dâwn,

and cocoa and biscuit were served. Then-.íSre worked hard from half-past five till»JJne« at which hour the temperature in

that closed-in ravine became so high thatí* w¥r^ite in»possible even for a blacklhan Io work with pick and shovel. A bathin the sea, to refresh ourselves and washoff the clinging red dust, was our nextP^ceeding. Then we put off our workingClothes for others, and partook of a good!>reakfa»t, consisting chieflv of oatmeal,which we found by experience was the best Ifood to work on. During the heat of theJay we lay in our tents, almost pantingfor breath at times, so intolerablv hot and«close it was. At half-past three we re-turned to the ravine and did another threehours' work. After this was another bath,then supper. There was a whole holidavon Sunday and a half holiday on Wed"-nesday.

Even during the early hours of themorning, when the sides of the ravine

shaded us from the sun, digging was hotand trying work for white men. We were,of course, bathed in perspiration ali thewhile, and were, consequently, vervthirsty, so that the cook was kept busilyemployed in going backwards andforwardsbetween camp and trench to refill ourwater-bottles.

In the middle of the day the sun, blazingon the sands, made them terribly hot.No one could step on them with bare feet,even for a moment; one could not evenlay one's hand on the ground. The sandhere is mixed with a finely granulatedblack mineral substance, and I think it isthe presence of this that causes so greatan absorption of heat. - I have never foundsands elsewhere, even in the Sahara,attain so high a temperature.

We were not altogether lazy out of dig-ging hours. One's clothes had to bewashed, Avater had to be brought down iribreakers and demijohns from the distantissue in the cliffs, and firewood had to begathered. We sometimes went out iri abody to perform this last duty. We wouldclimb high up the mountain sides, wherethe dead trees lay thickest, and throwdown the timber before us as we de-scended, until we had accumulated a largequantity at the bottom.

I shared one of the tents with Pursell,while the doctor and Powell occupied theother. On my first night on shore wecaught three turtles. Our black cook, whowas always looking out for them, came tomy tent and reported that, while prowlingabout the beach, he had observed severallarge females crawling up the sands. Itwas a very dark night, so taking a lantern,four of us set out. We soon came acrossone of the creatures, and followed herquietly until she had reached a spot farabove high water mark, and then weturned her over on her back. This is byno means an easy undertaking when onehas to deal with a seven-hundred-poundturtle, and requires at least four men tocarry it out. The turtle does not permitthis liberty to be taken with her withoutoffering considerable resistance : with herpowerful flippers she drives the sand vio-lently into the faces of her aggressors,attempting to blind them, so that cautionhas to be observed in approaching her.We turned over three turtles, and, on thefollowing day, salted down the meat thatwe could not eat in a fresh state.

Turtle are kept alive for weeks on boardship, even in the tropics, and ali the caretha. is taken of them eonsists in placingpillows under their heads, as they lie ontheir backs on deck—so as to preventapoplexy, I suppose—and in throwing anoceasion al bucket of water over them.These creatures seem to be able to dowithout food for a very long period. Wefound that we could not employ thismethod of keeping alive the turtle wecaught, for, though we constantly pouredbuckets of water over them and shadedthem with matting, they could not existon these blazing sands, and the practice,cruel enough at sea, would have beenmuch more so here.

The paid hands enjoyed turtle-hunting,and were inclined, thoughtlessly, to turnover more turtle than we required for pur-poses of food; so that I had to givean order that no turtle should be turnedover without leave, and the destruc-tion of the creatures was strictly limitedto the requirements of the larder.A similar law was made for the protectionof the silly sea-birds, and the only animaisthat could be slaughtered with impunitywere the unfortunate land-crabs, for theyhad no friends among us to take their partand legislate on their behalf. They werenow not nearly so plentiful in the vicinityof the camp as they had been. They hadbegun to give up their ignorant contemptfor man, and on only one oceasion duringmy stay on shore was it considered neces-sary for four of us to sally forth withsticks, before supper, and slay about ahundred each.

The turtle were now so plentiful that wecould have caught in a fortnight sufficientto last us for six months, had we evenlived on nothing else. The Trinidad tur-tle are of large size—SOO to 700 pounds—andtheir flavor is excellent. We had turtle-soup and turtle-steak every day for break-fast and dinner, so that we became utterlyweary of the rich food, and I do not thinkany of us wish to see calipash or calipeefor a long time to come.

We did not neglect the other useful pro-duets of the island. We gathered the wildbeans, and found them a very welcomeaddition to our diet. Of fish we alwayshad plenty. Powell was our great fisher-man, and was the inventor of the seineconstrueted of wire-fencing which I havealready described. In addition to theedible fish I have mentioned as swarming

these waters, there are several other

River Plate Items—The population of Buenos Aires on December

3ist was estimated to be 677,532.—During 1895 the courts of Buenos Aires in-scnbed Ò20 foreigners as Argentine citizens.—A Buenos Aires telegram of lhe íoth an-nounces the termination of the stevedores' slrikeat La Plata.—The recent heavy rains throughout Argentinahave caused a general interruptiou in lelegraphiccommunication.—The Argentine immigration returns for iSgsshow 61,226 arrivals and 20,398 departures, show-ing a net increase for the country of 40,828.—A subscription in favor of the Cuban revolu-tionists is being promoted in Buenos Aires, towhich, it is beheved, large contributions will bemade.—The standing army for 1896 will he composedof 126 commanding officers, 859 suballems and12,745 rank and file. Total 14,729. - Review,Buenos Aires.—The Argentine government is tlie proud pos-sessor of about 200,000 Mauser rifles. It issaid, -also, that 12 new batteries, of 72 guns areexpected to arrive in April. "'—In Buenos Aires great preparations are malc;ing for carnaval this year. Money enou<>h will belh town away, without a doubt, to pay a consider-able part of the interest on some of their lepud-lated obligations. v-Anamateur conceit was given in one of lhe«aros of the British Hospital at Buenos Ai.es onthe evening of the 26U1 ult. Ali the patients thatcould be moved were brought in and theythoroughly enjoyed the entertainmtnt.

. 7^ece,ntte|eg«-ams irom Buenos Aires advisethat the Argentine government has lately Muried acontract with Krupp for field anillery, nnd hasresolved to order new war ships, ten millionspesos gold to be spent on lhe latter. This is dis-armament with a vengeance !

—The government is negotiating for the pur-chase of an ironclad of 12,000 tons displacement,13,500 horsepower and a speed of 18 knots. Shêwd carry 35 guns : 4 of 10 in., 8 of 6, 8 of 4 i,,.,and 16 of 55 millimetres, also 5 torpedo lubes!hlie will not be able to enter any Argentine ports—Buenos Aires Herald, Dec. 25.-A telegram of yesterday from Montevidéosays the sanitary aulho.ilies there are crediledwith the behef that yellow-fever will not spread inlhat country, hence they aie willing to reduce

quarantine lo seven davs. It is very good of them,surely; but if they consider the fever 111 this light¦ why impose any quarantine at ali "'-Tlie miiitary and naval expenditure (exclusiveofthe purchase of ships and armamenls) is e>ti.mated for 1896 at $9,312,000, and the two inten-denotes -which have been created for .managing thatexpenditure, will cost an additional síim of $1 201 -200, which seems to be rather a high commissionlor the nation to pay.— Buenos Aires Herald.—One of our Buenos Aires exchanges gives theAmerican commission on the boundary betweenGuiana and Venezuela as composed of MessisBi ewer (Supreme Coun), White (ex-presidentCornell University and ex-minister to Rússia)Alvey (?) (Court of Appeals, Washington), Gil-inan (president Johns Hopkins University), andCoudert. *"-The increase iir municipal taxai ion in BuenosAires has led lhe different trades affected to resolveupon a general strike. The consequences to btisi-ness will be most prejudicial. It must be con-fessed, however, that taxation has become so vexatious and oppres>ive lhat the people can notstand.taiiy longer. A general strike, closingtheir sliops, is themildest form of protest thev canemploy. 3-The debale upon imposing duly upon lhe sandnnd building-stone shipped Irom Montevidéo hasbeen occupying the chambers there for an intermin-able period At last they decided upon leavingthe si one alone and letling it pass free, for fear ofbeing outdone by the quarries in Tandil. 'lhe

sand, on lhe other hand, is looked upon as bevondcompetition, and will have M pay as heavy dutiesas ever. Protectionism, a.s everywhere else wesuppose.—Times, Buenos Aires. '-The national attorney has at last- issued hisobservations on the conflict between the governorsandjudges in the federal territories. In his opiniona comp ele series of special laws will have to bemade, defining lhe attributes of each one and takiiu'away nil danger of collision by a clear and exactlegislation. We liope that this will be donethough it is too much to expect it from Congress at

present. Besides good laws it is also essenliallhat a good per.sonnel should be appointed ; menwho know lheir duties and who are honest publicservants.—Times, Buenos Aires.

inspecies that we looked upon with somedoubt, and refrained from eating. Someof these were of quaint forms and dazzlingcolors, so that their appearance seemed towarn us of their poisonous nature. Therewere fish of brilliant blue, others withstripes of white and purple, others withvermillion fins and yellow bands like thoseof a wasp.

(To be continued.)

-Lasl year the stevedores' men slruck and ob-tnined higher wages. The masters at the timesaid lhey would have their revenge, and according-ly when trade got a bule dull, they were able toput lheir threat in force. Now, however, lhe turn«.f the men ias come again, and whereas lhe mas-le.s are willing to pay them in round figures $<iper day, and double this for overtime, lhe men il.sim on «, and much more stringent rales for or-dinary.hohdays than the masters are disposed toadmit. Both parties seems determined, but the.stuke must end in some way or another within ave.y few days.-AVí,,Vw,> Bllenos Aires> ja|| ^-The councillors of the government are ser-lously l.arassed with doubts as to whether thevought to buy the Varese or anolher larger man-of-war. The latter has a displacement of over 0,000lons. and has been construeted for the Italiangovernment, which is giving up the contract; i«was to bc calledEmanude Fi liberto, and will befinished about the same time as lhe Garibaldi Ifthey buy this man-of-war it may not be a matchf..r a larger one, and if .hey buy the Varese, it andthe Garibaldi might face any one twice their sizeWc would sugge_t to buy them ali; to buy ali themen-of-war in Europe, and then-and tlien-Iopay is the question ! - Times, Bueno* Aires

-lhere is nota cotint.y in South Americawhere lhe people would not think that the UnitedStates hns s.nister nnd selfish designs in any inter-fe.er.ee concerning them, nnd thal country shouldnot be so quixolic as to do anything beyond its owninterests, not one count.y in Spanish Americaca.es anything for the Uhi.ed States and tha,S.try should leturn the compliment with interestAnd there is net a Spanish Ame.ican countrywh.ch does not disl.ke England nnd is not jealous?J n,n 1 P0",er am\ Ff Perity, and this- dislik*wou d be shown p]ainly enough were it not lhatEngland is; lhe wo.ld's money' Wnúer.^BuertosAnes Herald.

-The bill for nrranging the claims of the guar-anteed m.hvnys (excej ting the Great Wètteinand the Transandine) has passed the senateiionds are to be issued to the amount of $50,000 '

000 gold, bearing interest at 4 0/0 per annumwilh an nmortizatioh fund of y2 0/0 per annum!Ihis amount will, however, include the east of lheSan Crist obal to Tucuman. ailway, for which thenr.ee is fixed at $10,400,000 gold, which inclndesthe rolling stock stipulated for by the concession.Ihis is at the rate of $16,000 gold per kilometre,but ;t is said that the line has not cost more than».lp,000 Moieover, the goveniiiient will have topay handsomely for rolling st- ck in excess of whatwas stipulated.—Buenos Aires Herald.

—President Cleveland is reported to have saidthat he is much indebted to the people for theirprompt sympathy, but that rather less demonstra-tion would have answered the purpose just as well.He probably f.nds himself in the same f.x as wasthe farmer who was breaking a colt lo saddle Inorder to tendi him not to sby at sudden noises orsights he instrueted his son Tom to hidé aroundlhe corner and as he came along 011 the colt to

jump out and sliont _S<w! Tom hid around thecorner and the old man came ridi.ig proudly on thecolt ; Tom jumped out and shouled Boo ! Thecolt jumped around the corner too, but the oldman didn't, but went ashore at the signal station.Iicking himself up and rubbihg hisbruisesxhepla.ntively said, "Tom, that was too bi» a Boo "Presidem Cleveland has found too big a" boo ' —Dttenos Aires Herald. *

—The authorities in Lima, Peru, have just givenan extrao. dinary example of religious bigofry andinto erance by refusing lo .egister and recognize aslegal a marriage celebrated lhere according to Pro-testam rites between: the American citizens F AHazeltine nnd Amy E. Wood.. According to theirinterpretation, no marriages nre legal unless ceie-brated accoidmg to Catholic rites, whatever the re-igion of lhe conti acting pa.lies ! In other words,these must e.lher sacrifice their religion and theircnscience or else live i„ concubinage and seethe.r children depnved of civil rights A morenionstiotis nnd im.nora! deçision cannot be con-ceivecl, and we denounce it as an insi.lt and oflencelothecivihsaiion nnd toleration oí the íoth cen-tury. It 1. to avoid sud, abominable specimens ofp.iestly b.Kotry as this that ali the advanced nationsot lhe world have fQund the ínstitution of civilmarriage an abolute necessily. It is by such actsofmtolerance as this that the priesis who a.e thestrongest opponents of civil marriage damage lheirown cause nnd disgrace themselves before ali lib-eral mmded men.—Monta-ideo Times, Dec. 29.

-About I o'clock on Thursdny morning [Dec19] a huri ícane passed over the Santa Caialinâcamp, doing an immense amount of damage. Theroof of the building in which lhe 4th battalion wasquartered was tom off causing the walls lo lumble.180 soldiers weie sleeping under this one roof.lhenotse caused by the wrecking of the galponwas teir.fie, and in an instant the soldiers werebmied beneath lhe falling walls. Soon the 5th,Sih and 91I) batlalions were at wo.k by the light oftorches, extracting their comrades from the ruinsnine dead bodies were taken ont of the debris and60 men we.e extracted alive but wilh severe in-jtuies. By 5 a.m., ali the wounded had beenprope.ly housed and put under medicai care. Theminister of war was ai the scene of lhe disaster at6 a.m. The killed included three cadets a sergeant and a corporal. The sentinel at the doorLopez died nt his post. Two prisoners, sen-enced to s.x and three years' imprisonment, mighthave escaped, but nssisted in the work of rescueandlhen relurned to their prison. The colonelhas asked fora mitigntion of their punishmentUp to lhursday evening the total number ofdealhs was 12; 67 men were injured of whomtwo or three will probably ^.-Buenos AiresHerald. t •

—The war deparlment is most decidedly wakiiicup. Both .11 lhe army and navy reo.ganizationis lhe o.der ol lhe day. The supreme council ofwar has been worsted in ils action in regard loCommander Rawson. Minister Villanueva haslaid down sound precedence in this ca-se lo theeffect that lhe council is only a higher branch oflhe service and that ils employ.s a.e subject toordinary miiitary discipline. The navv is beingkepi wo.king constantly by Captain Garcia, thechief of staff, and although many changes and im-provements have yet to be made before the lleet is-anyihmg like what it ought to be, still a great dealofgiound hns aheady been coveied by the newmen, and they are winning their way againsteveryih.ng. 1\c new ships will shortly be readyANe see it announced that lhe Buenos Aires is tóbe mann.d by Spaniards. The San Martin{Garibaldi) is abo lo be manned bv Spaniardswhen ready. The sister ship of the San Martinthe Varese, is to be purchased by the governmentasananswer to the nniuuincement that Chili i*woikmg day and night to complete thiee ía«t andpowerlul ciuisers in England. It is aNo announced lhat government is negoiiating for theseivice m our army of < fficers and pem* officcisfrom some ofthe best Spanish regiment sof engi-neers Besides this, a party of young lieulenantsfrom the three branches of the land forces are totake service in various European armies for twoyears. Altogether, we are getting on. Our rawmatei lal is to have a chance at last; and we a-enow on lhe high road to have an army and navythat will, together, le a source of national stiengihinstead oí national weakness—a guarantee of reaceinstead ofa constant menace to naiional stab.lityand pubhc order.—IheSoutAem Cross, Dec. 20

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The article published elsewhere in regardto the frauds committed at the Santoscustom-house, needs a word of explanation.The exposé in Congress by Senator RamiroBarcellos was very largely misleading, lor it

gave only a pardal and ex parle statementof the case and attributed the fault to cer-tam finns which had attended to the dis-patching of merchandise for the interior.Further investi gations are developing exten-sive frauds in this custom-house, con-sequently it is not im probable that the offi-ciais weie parties to the particular írauds ofwhich tlie Rio Grande senator complained.One of lhe parties involved writes to us thatthe custom-house,refuses to give receipts forduties paid, and when information is soughtthe ofiicials impose so many delays, formali-ties and obsUcles that it is impossible forthem to know just where they stand. Abusiness house is therefore very much at themercy of its dispatch clerk, especially whenthe latter is in with a clique of unscrupulousofficials. That there have been frauds noone will question, but it remains to be seenhow far lhe Santos custom-house itself isresponsible for them.

correction of abuses on the part of those ináuthority. It must be remembered thatthese officials are not the government ; theyare only the representatives of the govern-ment, and are therefore responsible for theiracts.

' If such laws as this abominable rev-

ehue budget could be declared nuli andvoid by the Supreme Tribunal, the legis-lator would be more careful in his work.It might induce him to study the constitu-tion a little more closely, so that such blun-ders might be avoided in the future. Atany rate, we are certain that immediateefforts should be made to have the lawsuspended. We have no patience withthose who tamely submit to every imposi-tion, in order to avoid offending the au-lhorities. One imposition always leads toanother, and the victim gains nothing butkicks for his submissiveness. The manwho lights may not always win, but in theend he gains more than lhe man who al-ways yields. As war has been declaredagainst the foreigner in chauv.inist circles,and as these discriminating taxes are bulpart of their plans, let us see if somethingcan not be done to hold them in check.The foreign banks and companies haverights under the constitution which eventhe legislator must respect, but he will notdo so unless they compel him.

The appearance on Sunday of anothermonarchist manifesto signed by some ofthemost prominent siatesmen of the old reg-ime, is certainly full of significance. Ap-parently the monarchist movement hasbeen making rapid slrides in the last sixmonths, but in reality this growth is butlittle more than the expression of opinionswhich a very large percentagé of Brazilianshave held from the beginning. It has been

Tr is said that the Brazilián reply to theBritish proposal to submit lhe Trindadequestion to arbitration conveys a refusal toaccept that inethod of settlement becausethe Brazilián government considers itsclaims to be indisputable. This decision is,in our opinion, a serious error, for it notonly closes the way to an honorablesettlement, but it deals a treacherous blowto the principie of arbitration itself. Gov-ernmenls are very much like individuais—they like to escape from a false positionwithout humiliation and loss of dignity. Ifwe wish to remain on friendly terms, weouo-ht to let our opponent choose his ownway out of such a difficulty, and this holdsquite as true with nations as individuais.We have no doubt whatever but that theBritish government wishes to find such away out of lhe Trindade en tangi emenit, andit proposed arbitration as such a means.This government has permitted itself to beinfluenced by chauvinist prejudices, how-ever, and arbitration is refused. A.s for thereason given, if il is valid then ali arbitra-tion in future becomes a farce. Ifagov-ernment may decline arbitration because itscase is indisputable, then it follows, logic-ally, that it will accept arbitration onlywhen its case is doubtful. To accept arbi-tration, then, is a virtual admission of aweak or doubtful claim. No nation willcare to employ arbitration on any suchterms.

The continued protests against the newimposts and the apparent inability ol lhetreasury officials to devise means for carry-ing them into force, raises the questionagain :—Is it not possible to have the lawdeclared nuli and void because of ils un-constitutionalitv ? It will be seen irom aletter published elsewhere thal the courtshave intervened in such questions : conse-quently they might be appealed to again.lt is our convictioti that the citizen isün-der every obligation to resist an anjust law.Ií his rights and privileges are abridged, ifhe is oppressed, if his Übertv is restricted, orhis property taken from him, he is morallvbound to appeal to the courts. And in thishis neighbors should encourage and assisthim} for ali are equally interested in the

currently believed, and the gòvernmenl hascarefully nourished the belief, that the revo-lution of 1S89 was a popular one and thatthe people are ardently in favor of the re-public. The revolution, in fact, wasnoth-ing but a military revolt, of which a hand-fui of so-called republicans made use tooverthrow the monarchy. The people hadnothing whatever to do wilh it and theylook no interest in it. That they haveever voted in favor oí the republic/ every-one knows to be untrue ; they have neverhad a chance. In the eíections since held,they have manifested their interest by re-m.iining away irom lhe polis. The prom-inent men of the monarchy have also near-ly ali abstained from participation in thenew government. From this it wouldseem lhat a very large percentagé of thepeople have not unreservedly accepted therepublic, but have maintained an attitudeof neutrality, or non-participation. In viewof the abuses and blunders of republicangovernments since 1SS9, of the extreme de-moralization which has fallen upon everypublic department, and ol the disorganiza-tion of the treasury, many of these menhave concluded that now is the time to de-clare themselves. And it may confidentlybe assumed that the few who have sospoken are but the outposts of the arrnywhich will follow. For this the republicanshave only themselves to blame. They havegrossly abused their opportunities. Theyhave misgoverned the country and plungedit into disorder and distress. They haveenormously increased public expenditureand the public debt, and to meet this theyhave increased taxation to a crushing ex-tent. If the pople to-morrow demandrestoration, the men who are responsiblewill be, not those who issue these maniles-toes, but the promoters of misrule who havehad the direction of public affairs duringthe last six years.

[ From the rapid increase in the yellowfever mortality during the past week, it willbe seen lhat our warnings have again beenjustilied. For lhe past two months we havebeen urging the ádoption of better sanitarymeasures in order to counteract a threatenedepidemic oí fever; but, as the custom is inthis cily, nothing effective has been done.Until the epidemic is actually upon us, thesanitary authorities never think of precau-tions. Year after year we go throughexactly the same experiénces : apathy andneglect in the cool season ; excited andprorktess measures during the epidemic.^ Itseems impossible ior these officials to loreseean emergency, and to provide againstfever by cleaning out the more dangeroussources of infection during cool weather.Money enough is spent in this city to insureits heahhfulness, if it were property applied.Rio de Janeiro ought to be healthy in every

particular, and would be if its people wouldobserve the simplestlaws of hygiene. Freshair, purê water, cleanliness, wholesome food,the prompt removal of ali garbage, the avoid-ance of ali excesses in the hot season—theobservance of these would ensure themagainst ali these deadly epidemies. Insteadof attending to such simple matters, theyspend their money on improvements whichcould easily be deferred, and on the salariesoí an arrny of wortliless officials. Nothingisdone to improve the Saude district, orthecrowded, low-lying districts ofS. Christovão.The hundreds of cotiiços irí the city, whichwhich are known to be hot-beds of infec-tion, are allowed to remain as before—dirty,crowded and pestiferous. And then, whenone ventures .to sound a note of warningand to predict a bad season, these self-satisfied officials call him a pessimist andsneer at the warning. Year after year, thesame experience is repeated, but no onederives any wisdom from it. The Braziliánis very much like the butterfly) he enjoyshimself in fine weather and when the sun isshining. The world is ali beautiful, and tohim there is no disastrous to-morrow. Heexercises no forethought and he makes noprevision for the future. The epidemicdisturbs him, but when it is gone it is for-golten. It never oceurs to him that nextyear it will again return. Of course it isnow too late for precautions, fòr the epi-demic is upon us. During the last twelvedays there have been 175 deaths from feverin this city, or an average of 14 % a day. Asthe rate has been steadily going up, wemust conclude that the. disease is spreadingand is becoming moie virulent. As it isunusual for an epidemic to begin so earlyin the season, we must conclude that wehave a bad time before us. Now, what doour sanitary authorities propose to do?Will lhey have the foul places cleaned ?Will they enforce proper sanitary observ-ances in the crowded places of the city ?And will they try to provide the peoplewith wholesome food ? With the addedcosts which the new tariff compels, foodwill naturally become dearer and poorer inquality, ali of which will be prejudicial tohealth. Will they not at least protestagainst these obnoxious imposts in\ theinterests of public health ?. \

[January I4th, 1896.

proportional stamp, 100 reis per 1,000?, or frac-tion thereof, on the pay notes for money paid intothébanks, and i$ooo on the termos de responsi-bilidade executed in tlie custom-house. Bills ofhealth will also hear a stamp oí 2o$ooo.

A tax of 1/10 per cent. hy huyer and seller ontime operations in exchange or coin ; 2% per cent.on lhe dividends of nàtional and foreign companieswith offices in lhe nàtional capital, and on lhe for-eign companies with offices in the states ; 1/20per cent. on the business results of the branches offoreign banks and companies ; 5 Per ^n\. on thepremiums ol ali new insnrances of foreign life com-panies after January 1, 1896 ; 2 per cent. on thecapital of nàtional lotteries and 3 per cent. onlhose of slate lotteries whose lickels are oftered forsale in the nàtional capital,; 2 per cent. on ali pub-lie salaries, including those of lher executive andCongress. /

FALB'S PROGNOSTICA TIONS FOR iSçb.

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the lides according to the formula of Laplace.

Provincial % otes

THE NEW TAXES.According to the circular sent out to ali the cusV

tom-houses hy lhe minister of finance, the importduties this year will be double what they were last',year (because of lhe change in the basis of valua-tion fiom 24 to 12 pence per mureis), hut the sur-taxes of 50 and 60 per cent. are suppressed whilethose of 30 and 40 per cent. established in the bnd-get for 1895 are retained.

From the foregoing dispositinns are exceptedthe following ai ticles which will pay the specialduties mentioned, without suriaxes :

líeer, I$200 per kilo; liqueurs and sparklingwines ofall desuiptions, 3$6oo per kilo; gin,1Í500 per kilo ; alcohol, for pharmaceutical pur-poses, unchanged ; gum arabic, coarse, 600 reisper kilo ; sheet tih, 30 reis per kilo ; perfumeries,5$ooo per kilo ; playing canis, l$ooo per pack, orC$000 per kilo when in sheets uncut; sardines,1 $000 per kilo ; ali olher fish, unclassified, l$5ooper kil<»; bags, plain, not specified, I$500 perkilo; bagging, etc, No. 564, class 17, the dis-tinetions as to tlireads, finMi, etc, being sup-presse.l, 900 reis ; capsules, comfiis, diaçeas,medicinal pérolas, whose raie will he 40 per cent.,official value 73$200 and duty 29^280 ; medicinalelixirs, liquors, wines, syrups, and solutions,whose rate will he 30 per cenl., official value 20-$750, and duly 6$225 ; fluid magnesia of Murrayand other manufacturers, same as elixirs ; medi-chiai pastillcs whose rate will be 40 per cent.,official value S$625, and duty 3^450 ; compressedmedicinal pastilles, rate 45 per cent., officiil value120$, duty 54$ooo ; pills, medicinal boluses, gran-ules and grams of every description, whose ratewill be 40 percent., official value 1561500, duly62S600; sarifapaiilla, the same duty as elixirs ;plain cotton yarn for warp or wool, natural orwhite, 300 reis per kilo ; colored diito 400 reis ;wooden matches, 3$200 per kilo ; matches of aliother descriptions 4$500 per kilo ; soaps, sapohos,etc, unscenled,' l$200 per kilo ; ordinary enamelor cohalt vitrified for potter's use, 2$5oo per kilo ;purê cyanuret of potassium the same as crudecyanuret; ali oils to pay on gross weight includ-ing package ; bottled wines to pay the same taxon bottles and package ; the bottles, demijohns,pots, fUsks and wooden boxes, knocked down ornot, when imported under conditions resemblingthose which contain liquids or maiks of foreignbeverages, lahelled or not, will pay the same asthe beverages indicated ; the weight per squaremetre of casemires of wool, or cotton and woolmixed is elevated to 500 grammes ; coarse saltwill pay 15 reis per kilo

—In Piauhy there are 22,571 electors.—In the year 1895 there| were 1,541 deaths in

the city of Fortaleza, Ceará.—The municipal eíections in Bahia have been

postponed to March 22.«iAt Campo Largo, Bahia, several persons have

been assaulied by policemen.—A successful trial of the new electric light

plant was made at Maceió on the I7th ult.

—The construction of lhe new reservoir in theConsolação suburb ol Sâo Paulo has been intfiaied.

-Gen. Galvão states that he has never wished*to be a candidate for the office of governor ofBahia.' —In Santos during the month of December therew^re 135 deaths, of which only one was caused by

ye.Vlow fever..UThe state legislatute of Rio de Janeiro is dis-

cusSng a project for lhe introduetion of 100,000immigrants.

-Vuring the past year there were 1,900 deaths,2,141I birtlis and 427 marriages in the municipalityof Calnpinas, São Paulo.

— Jhe collector of the Banco de Manáos, whohad dlsappeared with 100,000$, has been arrested.Ali thi money except 2,000$ has beenreçovered.

Rua Boa Viagem, Nictheroy?- there haspllected the sum of 1,250$ to assist thekal government in levellingand repaving the

—O]been amunicistreet.

—Quineimasler Arthur Maria Antunes, ofthe3rd corais of lhe police brigade of Minas Geraes,who is Iresponsible for a shortage of 6,000$, hasbeen anlested at Bahia.

' —Thtre were 56 suicides in the «late <of SâoPaulo Èuring the past year, of which«I were inlhe capital. In addition, there were 12 unsuc-cessfull attempts to commit suicide.

—Iih the gubernatorial campaign in. EspiritoSanto lofficial pressure, it is stated, U openly andscandíalouMy u>ed for the purpose of defeatingSenati >r Domingos Vicente.

—(Jen. Galvão had a cordial reception not only* - Valença, where he went ontlie citizens of ali classes

united to do him honor, jglili the café at the Praia Grande station lhere

was a/fight on the 6:h inst. at 10 o'clock p.m. Asergejknt ofthe 381b battalion of infantry and twopolidemen were wounded. Four artests wete.madfe.

—I jen. uaivao naa a cat Bahia but also at Vathe inth inst., and whereand political creeds unitet

—In Santos the proseenting attomejr hai ft-piJSrted in favor of lhe indiciment of Fábio Paulista,\ .vho is artused of being the principal author of the•A'tack on lhe printing offices of tlie, Tribuna do

II pay IS reis i-cr miu. , r. . r* • 1The merchandise shipped for Brazil up to De- i Pozo and Sanlos Comniercial.

cemher 3ist last will be admitted under the uld j| _The gambling mania has arrived. *» such «n-*« 1 • .1 ___• _»* _ ___.__..„_-.__• 1. n nè tiftatirates

Owing to various complicalel requirements,such as stanrtpinç ali beverages in lhe bottleM,which is impossible of adjustmen', the regnlatio úsfor the execution of these taxes have not yet beenissued. 'llie stamp taxes, also, are of uncei^ tainapplication and have given ri-e to many pro/íesls.These stamp taxes inclu<le too reis on each.bankpass-book receipt in account current, 20 r.eis onbiokei's contracts and cheques independer it of the tection against 1-andrs.

extreme in Bahia that the native papers have^heencompelled to denounce it and to call upon the au-thorities for its repre-sion. Thi» implies that thèvice has become very bad indeed. g *

—In Bihia, the cit zens of the municipal districtsof S. íofto de raraguasni, Brejo G«ande, BomTesus,*R:o das Contas Meiras and Japyassú haveorganized themselves into an associalton for pro-

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january 14th, 1896.J THE RIO NEWS—The Tiibnna ao Povo, of Santos, whose office

was déstroyed by a mob of firemen on Dec. 5ÍI1,has resumed publicati-ni. As yet nothing lias beendone with the authors ofthe outrage, beyond aninvestigntion para inglez ver.

—In São Paulo a monarchist club has been or-ganized among the students. The Commercio saysthat many young men of .good positiòn and brightprospecls are declared monár.clnsts, while in lhelaw school their number is large,

—A well-known planter of Rio Claro, Sr. Ar-thur Guimarães, has lately received an anonymousletter threateninghim with deaih if he does not de-posit a large sum of money .in a certain place. Itis time lhat nesl of ciimiuals were broken up.

—And now Campinas wants a "modern th a-tre" also ! If someone is willing to build it as aprivate investment, we see 110 objecti«)ii to supply-ing the vyant, but it will be a gross abuse of powerto use lhe'tax-payers' money for that purpose.

—'During the past year there were 95,087 immi-grant arrivals at Santos, of which 67,409 wereItalians, 13,135 Spaniards, 12,819 Portuguese,I,t20 :Austrian«, 301 Tuiks, 133 Germans, «139Russians, and the balance of other nationalities.

—Tlie senatorial election in Minas on Sundaylast seems to have resulted in favor of FernandoLobo, lhe complaisant minister of Floriano Peixoto.His presence in the senate will add nothing to thehopes of those who are working for better things.

—According lo lhe Commissão Geographica,the rainfall in lhe city of S. Paulo in December

' was 22.3 millimetres. The average temperaturefor the month was 73.3o Falir., the maximum(29t)i«) béiiig 101.3°, and the minimum (.uth) be-ing 50°.

—Letters from Pernambuco state thal, whenthe legislature meets to count the votes at therecent election, Barbosa Lima's friends will en-deavqr to cause the election to be annulled for thepurpose of holding a new election in which Juliode Mello will be the ofhcial candidate.

—A Bahia telegram oflhe 9II1 inst. slates thatDr. Octaviano Cezar Corrêa de Araújo wasstabbed 011 the previous day by João Corrêa daSilva, postnraster of Villa Viçosa, who sucçeededin effecting bis escape. The wounded man diedon lhe çth at 3 o'clock a.m.

—In Bahia much discontent has been caused bythe removal of the national telegraph office to theupper town, which is a great inconvenience tobusiness men. But how about lhe comfort of thetelegraph .officials ? In these improved times (heconvenience of business men is the last thing to be

sconsuhed.—-It is saicl Dr. Arthur Thiré, lhe well-known

mining engineer formerly connected witli the OuroPreto school of mines, has accepted an offer fromtlie state government of Rio de Janeiro to takecharge of lhe agricultural school' which it is pro-posed to found somewhere in the southern part oflhe state.

—It is deserving of notice that while an inde-pendent telegram from lhe Rio Grande frontiersays that João Francisco'* force lias been paid off,that its c«)mmander reluses to disband his «men andisarming them from private sources, GenernlSavn-

Íet reports the same body as paid and disbanded.

s General Savaget trying to deceive the govern-ment, or is lie himself deceived ?—The Phatól, «of Juiz de Fora, has passed into

new hands and will, it is said, take on a new po-litical character. Its new proprietors are favor-able to a return to the old regime, but will notmake lhe paper an avowed organ o'f theinonarch-ists. The abuses committed by the so-called re-publicans aue thus driving ali conservative and re-spectable people back into the ranks of the mon-archi si s.

—We published some time ago an account ofthe destruetion of the residence and plantationbuildings ofa planter in the vicinity of S. Carlosdo Pinhal, who had paid 110 attention to a demandfor money. Jt is now stated that similar demandshave been made on other planteis and ithe chief ofpolice ofthe slale of S. Paulo left on lhe çth inst.with 100 policemen for S. Carlos for the purposeof investigating the matter.

—A São Paulo alderman is proposing lo pre-sent a project to lhe municipal council for theconcession of certain favors for the construetionof:a modem theatre in that city. Betler pay themunicipal debts and make the city decentíy cleanand attractive first. This craze about buildingtheatres «hould be repressed. Inasmuch as cer-tain capitalists are talking of expending £00,000$io buildinc a thealre, why not let them do itwithout¦*- favors " ?•/*;-Aí the meeting of the municipal chamber ofTíictheroy on Friday considerablé concern was ex-pressed at the idea of the Jurujuba hospital beingwed Jor small-pox patients and at lhe report ofthe «governmenPs intention to establish a militaryhospital on the Largo de S. Domingos. Thepresident professed to have learned from goodauthority that the military hospital would not beestablished and that the utmost precaution wouldbe taken for the complete isolotion ofthe Turuiul.ahospital. r

—Last year we called attention to lhe disgrace.Ini fact lhal lhe sewage drains from some of lhestreets in Santos discharge into lhe river alongtbe new quays. Much harm was done last year,wt no steps were taken to correct the evil. Even

V the so-called sanitary commission did not see* *lllê,|y,,,i,,ff hurtful or unseenilv in such an arrange-

^f|»ient. Now we see that the Chargeur Réunis% #J;omp«"y has given notice that its steamers will

no longer go alongside these qnays because ofthese pestilential drains. That yellow-fevershould decimate such a place as Santos is not atali aurprising.

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! Ül% *RIO GRANDE DO SUL.

Complying at last wilh the demand of the press,the minister of war caused to be publiihed onTuesday in lhe Diário OJicial his order íor cen-snríng Gen. Galvão. TÍie press continues to de-mand the publication of Gal vão's lei ter in regardto the interview of which an account was publishedin the JcmaIdo Brazil.

On Sunday the Jornal do Commercio publishedthe letter addressed to Gen. Galvão by the Presi-dent. In this letter, which was forwarded by tel-e-graph to the Jornal by its correspondent in Bahia,the President warmly thanks and eulogises Gen.Galvão, to whose patriotic devolion to the inter-ests ofhis country he altributes the glory of paci-fying, in spite of almost insuperable difficulties,the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Pie probably knows too well, however, thatthose difficulties have not been entirely overcomeand that pacification' i.s still far from being com-plete. Nearly every day telegrams are receivedshowing lhat the Casiilhistas are fully determinednot to lespect the rights of lhe federalists, nor toobserve the terms ofthe treaty of Aug. 23.

Recently the attacks of the Casiilhistas havebeen directed towards members ofthe press. Onthe 9'th inst. in lhe streets of Pelotas Dr. AlmeidaPires, a Castilhista, fired four revolver shots, oneof which took effect, at lhe revolutionary journal-ist Affonso da Silveira Nunes and then, droppingbis revolver, fled, pursued by the wounded man,aml sucçeeded in making his escape. Municipalguards who witnessed thescene refused to arrestthe criminal.

Abelino Moncorvo, editor of the Brazil, andThadio Amorim, editor of the Bisturi, have beenassaulted by Casiilhistas, Amorim being severelywounded by a blow on lhe head.

At Livramento Tiburcio Chaves, an ex-revolu-tionist, was arrested and held in cuslody for eightdays, being forced during this time to work 011 thestreets. At the same place another revolulionistlias recently been assaulted by Castilhjslas.

On the 9U1 inst. the Correio do Povo, of PortoAlegre, published a letter of Dr. Reinhol Ludwigappealing to Julio de Castilhos to put an end tothe crimes that are committed wilh impunity bythe police authorities in Taquara do Novo Mundo.In that distiict, he says, aged men whose respect-able character caused them to be generally es-teemed, have been cruelly tot tured and even mur-dered on lhe simple suspicion of being fedeiálists.The people, he adds, tired of these outrages, areinclined to expel the police authorities, but havebeen advised to wait and see whether lhe slate gov-ernment will cause justice to bedone. It is statedthat those police authorities have since been dis-missed at the instance of Col. Thomaz Flores; butno steps have been taken to punish them for theircrimes. It moreover appears lhat the criminaiswho wounded Belisario Baplisla nt Caixias willlike.wise go unpunished,. the police invesligationhaving evidently been a a mere farce. A similarresult is to be expected from the investigalion or-dered by «Col. Flores, who íor this purpose hasappointed a court of inquiry, in regard to theciimes committed by Col. Firmino Prates and hismen at Conceição do Arroio.

Cols. Prestes Guimarães and Felippe Porto arestill prevented from reittrning to their homes bySenator Pinheiro Machado's brolher, Col. Salva-dor Pinheiro, who still keeps a biigade of irregit-lar troops under arms at S. Luiz. A telegram oflhe uth stales that Capt. Manoel Domingues(brolher of Capt. Luiz Domingues, one oflhe vic-lims of miliary niurder in .Santa Catharina) liasbeen sent to S. Luiz to pay and disarm thosetioops.

It is officially announced that on the 6th inst'.João Francisco's men were finally paid and dis-armed. It appears, however, that, although theyreceived 01 ders to disband, they coniinue to main-tain their organisation nnd have armed themselveswith lhe lances of whose maiiufacture we gave anaccount in a previous issue.

The ioth corps of irregular troops, which wasstationed at llaquy, is said to have been disbanded.

From the accounts presented to the Porto Ale-gre custom-house by Gen. Hyppolito it appearsthat this officer up to March, 1895, received 1,-690,09695743 of government money, of which I,-654,000!)? passed through lhe hands of Dr. Vic-torino Monteiro, thtn minister al Montevidéo.

The government is reported lo be sending moretroops to Rio Grande. The 3rd regiiiient ofar-tillery, which has just arrived here from S. Paulo,will, it is stated, leave in a few days for that state,and it is asserted that the Sth regiment of cavalry,now in Minas Geraes, and the ioth regiment, nowin Santa Catharina, will also be sent. On lheother hand Col. Bormann lias been witlidruwii,but has left 100 ofhis men at Passo Fundo.

Gen. Savaget, temporary coinmander of tlie dis-trict, is expecled to leave on lhe I9th for Pará nndwill be sucçeeded in lhe command, until the ar-rival of Gen. Cantuaria, by Col. Thomaz Flores.It was expected that Gen. Cantuaria would com-plete yesterday the organisal ion ofhis staff.

It is stated lhat Capt. João Clemente Torres,who lias an eslancia in the vicinity of Jaguarão, iu-tends applying for compensation for properly des-troyed by the 3rd baltalion of infantry in Decem-ber, 1894.

Julio de Castilhos has at last published a lawregulating lhe impeachment of the head of thestaie governnient. He lias recently been vigor-ously attackèd by the Republica, Homero Baptis-ta's paper, for having failed, during an adminis-tration which has now lasled nearly three years,lo publish a law on this subject, It also attackslhe new police law which, il says, is contrary 10Julio's own cònstitutión.

Dr. Fernando Abbott, Brazilian minister aiBuenos Aires, has obtained a leave of ab.sence andis retuming to Rio Grande. His trip is supposedto be dictated by political motives.

On Sunday Silveira Mai trns took passage forEurope, being accompanied on board by a largenumber of friends. Some days ago nt a breakía>_at Montevidéo, one ol his friends in toasting himexpressed the belief lhat Silveira Martins wouhlnever rest until Brazil is entirely free from ty-ranny.

The eminent Ri>.Grandense in responding tothe toasts emphasized the fact that his pobcy hadalways been conciliatory and that lie had neverfailed to recomniend patience and moderation.He is willing, he said, to cooperate with anyonewho wiil work to reconslruct the counlry in accordwilh liberal principies.

One of the speakers, on this occavíon, suggestcdthal statues ol Gumer^índo Saraiva and Saldanhada Gama should be erected at Porto Alegre.

Railroad Notes—The Campinas tramway line carried 61,991

passengers during the momh of December.—In the city of Ubá, Minas Geraes, ihe work cd

laying the rails for lhe tramway has been com-menced.

—The number of persons who have season tick-éts 011 the boat and railway from here to Petropo-lis is estimated at 400.

—The receipts ofthe Sobral railway. in Ceaiá,for the month of November were i7,78o$4to, andthe expenditures 15,215^.79:1.

—The excursion train to Nova Friburgo nowleaves on Wednesdays and Saturdays and returnson Fridnys and Mondays.

—It is stated that the S. Christovão companywiil shortly place express cars on the Santa Alex-andiina line of its tramway. These cars will plybetween 3:38 and6:oS p. m.

—The heavy rains of Saturday night last causedsome extensive landslips 011 the Central which arenot even yet removed. Passenger traffic is pos-sible only by trânsfers 011 foot, but ali freighttraffic has been suspended.

—The direcior ofthe Central railway is said tohave found that there were some Iwo hundred em-ployés on that line who had not given the bondsrequired by the regulations. In conecting tliisabuse several have lost their places ihrough in-ability to find bondsmen.

—A passenger train 011 the Sorocabana line wasderailed between S. João and Cotia on the 7th inst.,caused by an animal on the track. The íocomo-tive and several coaches were ihrowii off lhe rails,but forumalely 110 one was injured. The Soroca-bana line is not fenced.

—The municipality of Campinas has granted aconcession with an interest guarantee of6 percent. on 400,000$, for a cheap railway from thatcity to a place called Funil, six leagues distant inian unseltled district. The guarantee is íor 15years. The grantee must purchase 1,200 alqueiresof land on which to locate colonists.

—The S. Paulo Railway Co.'s ineome tax caseon appeal has been decided by lhe House ofLords,the Lord Chancellor deciding that the conipany'shead office being in London, its business must alsobe considered as transacted in London. The com-pany must therefore pay ineome lax 011 the wholeof its profits and gains, irrespective of lhe residenceof its shareholders.

—The S. Paulo Railway Co. has been activelypusliing forward the surveys for the new linebetween Santos and S. Paulo. The explorationsOuve been made along the valley of lhe Rio Cuba-tão, and are completed, notwilhslanding the bad,\\)eather. The engineers are now compuling thec^st of the projected line. Surveys for lhe doubletrítek between S. Paulo and Jundiahy are also inprogress.

—The new time table 011 the Central for theSão Paulo trains is, we understand : direct tram5 a.m. aniving at S. Paulo at 5:15 p.m. ; ex-ipress train 6 a.m. arriving at S. Paulo at 8:35 p.m.From S. Paulo the direct train leaves 7 a.m. andthe express at 5 a.m., arriving here at 7:25 and6:50 p.m. respeclively. This time table enteisinto force 011 lhe 15.I1, but it is doubtful whetherit will last long.

—On the 2nd inst. the President signed the bill,«passed by Congress, granting to tlic CompanhiaLeopoldina an exleiision of two years to the limefixed for complcting the line fiom Santo Eduardo;to Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. The company willalso constiuct cxlensons from Inibe t«> Harra daBonança and from Macuco to Córrego dos índiosand, as soon as cirouinstaiices permit, it will extendjtheStinto Eduaidò lineto Bom Jesus de Italia-ipoana.

—On Tlmisday the condticlors and cbivers oíthe Nictheroy tramears struck for higher wages,demanding 4$ooo per diem in place of 3^500which they were receiving. They also demaiuledthe dismksal oí assistant-maiiager Alfredo An-tonio Gloria and lhe employé Arthur Silva. Man-ager José Ignacio de Carvalho, 011 htiiig aceusedby the directors of conniving at lhe strike, tender-ed his resignation and was enlhnsiastically cheer-ed by lhe strikers. Sixiy conduetors and driverswere engaged in Rio, bul 011 their arrival at Nie-lheroy were afraid to go to woik and 40 recrossedthe bay. The station was guarded by 20 police-men, who arrested two of lhe drivers from liio 011the charge of disorderly conduct. Other arrestswere made on the folio.ving day, some of them be-ingof persons who are supposed to have insiigatedthe strike. There appears to have been no fight-ing, bul in some places the track was torn up andin others stones were placed on the line lu pre-vent lhe running ol cars. On Friday 68 moredrivers and conduetors arrived from Rio and 20 ofthose in lhe service of the company returned totheir work. At 7 o'clock a. tn. there arrived fromPetrop li, 50 policemen, and at 9:45 the firsl carsleft the station, each car canymj» iwo policemeuwith loaded guns. No attempt was made to inter-lupt the trafiic, which continued with some irregu-larity during the day. It had been intended thatthe cars sliould quil running at 8 o'clock p.m., butit was aflerwards decided lu keep them at wo«k alinight.

Coffee ]\Jotes—In the vicinity of Brej«*ies, there is a 20-yenr-

old coffee tree which, according to the Luz ofAreias, produced last year 60 poundi of coffee.The tree is so tali that m gathering lhe coffee aladdcr has lo be used.

—The country along the line of tlie Oeste deMinas railway, which formerly imported coflee, isnow shipping lliis staple lo Rio de Janeiro, thequantity ihus shipped amounting in December to459 tons. In the last five years over 7,000,000coffee trees have bceu planted in these distriets.

Local Notes—The Chilian nvnister took leave ofthe Presi-

dent yesterday.—Gen. Pires Feireira bas been appointed tem-

poraiily direcior oí the arsenal.—Gen. Francisco Carlos da Luz has been suc-s'

ceeded in the command of the military school byGen. Miguel Maria Girard.

Colonel Oliveira Salgado, of revolutionaryfame, has returned to this capital and has pre-séntèd himself at heaclquartèrs.

—The Gazeta de Noticias of Salurday announcedthat the protocpl of the new commercial treaiy be-tween Brazil nnd Chili is ready for signinc. •

In lhe municipal council of this city there hasbeen introduced a bill oTfenng a premium òf50,000$ for lhe best hislory ofthe Federal District.

—According to the Comnicrcio de S. Paulo cheminister of war is on lad teims not only with thePresident, but with the ncljulant-genérál of thearmy.

Col. Anlonio Ilha Moreira has tendered hisresignation of the ofiice of vice-director of tliearsenal. Apparently he objecls to serving withPires Ferreira.

—The Portuguese minister, Conselheiro ThomazRibeiro, who has enjoyed an unúsúal pppularityhere, left on lhe ioth inst. íor Lisbon on the Frenchpacket Brésil.

—The police are now walèliing the "bool.mal.er'gambling dens to compel their obseivance of lhelaw. Would it n«»t lie better to close them úp alto-geiher, and use the police to watch lhe thieves ?

—The celebrated Capi. Marcos Curius Mariatinode Campos, who is aceused of being responsiblefor lhe military mürders at Sepetiba, lias beentransferred fiom lhe 32.KI to the 12th batlalion ufiníantry.

—Persons r.e.iding 011 Ruas Real Grandeza andDezenove de Fevereiro complnin that they getmicroscópio fish in their drinking water. Witliexchange al gd. per t$ooo they must not expect togel whales.

—In a petition addressed to the war departmentFrederico Emilio Frèi.lal claims to have servedwilhout anypay in lhe Batalhão Franco Atira-dores. If Frederico can prove what he says hecan make his foiüuie in a dime museum.

—Commissary Conceição, who was responsiblefor the írregularities conimilled in the purcliase ofvegelables for the cruiser Almiiaiite Tamaiidãrclias been rebeved ol his place on board that cruiserand appointed to a positiòn in the Matto Grossoflotilla.

—On Friday night burglars entered the house ofDr. Raul Peideineiras nl No. 255 Rua SenadorPompeu and cáriied off i65$ooo iu money, a g,«ldwatch and chain worth 7,oo$ooo andtwo Irunkswhich he had paciced for a trip to S. Paulo 011Saturday.—Col. Eugênio de Mello, one of the ofíicein

who were captured by the revolutionists i 11 Paranám January, 189*1, is m this cily, having anivedlasl 1 uesday, 011 a leave of absence, from RioGrande do Norle, where he has been in commandof the 34th bnttnlion of infantry.

Tbe protocol ofthe commercial treaty betweenBrazil nnd Chili was signed last Fiklny, lt isstated that among the provisions of the treaiylhere is one lor holding simultaiieously an exhi-bition_ of Chilian produets in this city and ofBrazilian prriducts in Santiago;

—Duiing lhe year 1805 the botânica] gardenwas visitei! by .|5,oS6 pe«s«ms against ^4,050 in1894. Ofthe viMtors last year 3,622 weie -tran-gers passing through theciiy, auainst 929 111 1894.Iu 1895 the visitors were composed of 22,180men, 14,718 women and S,i88 childien.

—The Gltiela siys that a skilful [iickpòiket wentlo the chief ofp«.]ice the olher day lo a-k foi wÒik.During the interview he improved an opportunity10 pick the clii^Cs pocket. of a watch and chaiii.We can confidently predict that there is ..ne thiefwho will gtt his ju-t deseits when eauglit.

—The minisler of finance has informed lheboard of brokers {câmara syndical dos corietoies)that it will «Io well lo continue to hold ofliceuntil after the eleclii n ofa boaid to siuceed il.But, as lhe syndic will uo longer consent 10 serve,Broker João Jncome de Campos has taken hisplace.

According to teíegrnphic advices from BuenosAires, Dr. Garcia Me.ou. has been transferredbom the Argei.line legaiion in Rio de Janeiro tothat in Washington, His suecessor as minister tolírazil will he Dr. Epiplinnio Portella, apiom nentjournnlisi, formerly connected wilh the 5taíf of ImjYiictoit.

—The minister of war. it is siated, lias isMiedorders for prosecuting Col. Firmino, a politicianbeli.nging 10 lhe govemnieiit party, at Pirnjtí. S.Paulo, who Ias failed lo account in a satisf.tciorymanner for the sum of 60.000$, which he receivedíor niiiittiy ixien^e.> in lhe time of the laterevolution.

—One of our morning papers published .tnextraordinary poitmtt on the 11101 ning of the iothnnd called it Paulo Kruger, pie-ident oi Transvaai.On the fo!l«>wing day the Gazela dc iValicias an-n ou need that the said" portrait was of Vi^onde deSeira Frio. These liltle tricks add nothing to thecieditof a new»paper.

—The mini-ter oí justice lias ordered the prose-culmg attorney oí the Federal Dtsirict to bring aciiminal suit against lhe journal Brazi.'ior liavtngpublished an anseie recnmiuending the employ-ineiit of violence ú»r the ovei ihr-uv of tepublicaninstitutions in Iítazü. It should not be fr»jg«>'trnthat thi* jouinai lias a jacobin among us íounders,and i< thereíore 110S rt.sponsii-Se íor violent lan-guage. It shosiii le ciassed with O Ja .x/.v.

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8 THE RIO NEWS. [January I4th, 1896.

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—During the first twelve days of this monlhthere have been 175 deaths from yellow-fever inthis city/ah average oí liltle over 14^' a day.When we consider that this i.s more lhan thenumber oí deaths during the whole of December,it will be appárent that .the disease is spreadingwith alarming rápidily.

i0._ —On the loth inst. the notorious Conde deSebastião Pinho was again arrested aiid_ placed inthe detenção. This was in conformity with a sen-lence just rendered by Dr. Lima Drumnioiul,/w/sda camara criminal, who pronounced the prisonerguilty ofa theft ofthe autos (documents, evidence,ele.) in a case in which he is inteieste 1.

—On the ioth three more employés of the mintwere dismissed) because they clareei to complain ofthe director. It is said lhat the dismissàl followedimmedialely the receipt of an official commtínica-tion, piesumably on this subject. Dr. Ennes deSouza is a great republican in theory, but ih prac-tice he believes in a dictatorial form of govern-ment.

—Lawyer Alfredo Gonzaga da Costa, in view ofthe order of the chief of"police prohibiting hisentrance into lhe central police office and its de-pendencies, applied some time ago to tlie ministeroí justice, asking him to cancel lhe order. Thislhe minister dtelines t@ do, alleging that t heorder does not prevent Gonzaga da Costa frompleading before the police authorities.

—D. Maria Coelho de Moura has complained to .the police that Eugênio Pereira, to whom she rented'a room, has not only failed lo pay his ren', but hasalso stolen from her a turkey nnd four chickensand tried to borrow money in her name. It canhardly be said that Eugênio is a desirable lodger,but the police have nevertheless venlured to givehim quarters at the casa de detenção.

—After having so many shade trees cut down inthe public streets, we are glad to see that manyothers are being planted. It will take years forlhem to grow large enough to give much shade,but still it is something to look foi ward to. Wenow hope lo see the constitution so amended that ahouseholder can shoot any man who attempts tocut down or mutilate one of these shade trees.

—The minister of finance has informed theminister of justice lhat the provisions of Art. 73 ofthc constitution, Ait. 2 of lhe law of June 2, 1892,and law of October 14, 1895, do not prevent Dr.Ennes de Souza from holding simultaneously theoffice of'director of the mint and a professorshipin the Polytechnic School. The law againstaccumulations must not be taken seriously.

—The official returns for the first half of De-cember, published last week, state that there were542 biiths, 680 deaths and 107 marriages in thatperiod. The port arrivals were 14.153 aiul lliedepartures 14,610. Ofthe deaths 51 were fromyellow-fever, 71 from small-pox (including 2 atJurujuba), 2 from measles, 2 from lyphoid fever,'8

from beri-beri, 68 fiom malarial causes and liofrom pulmonary consumption.

—The minister of finance has ordered th-treasury agency at Curytiba to pay to D. Guilheremina Slierer Schleder lhe montepio pension whichhad been withheld from her in viitue of MinisterCassiano's celebrated circular No. 36 confiscatingthe pensions of so-called traitors to the republic.D. Guilhermina is lhe widow oí José LourençoSchleder, who was one of the victims of the mili-tary murder at kilometre C5 on the Paranárailway.

—The war department has given Col. SerraMartins, commander oí lhe 40U1 battalion ofinfantry, a leave of absence so that he may go toPernambuco and take his seat in the legislature oflhat state, to which he belongs. It is a singularidea, Uüs permilting military ollicers to hold legis-lalive offices, which requires leave of absence inorder to períorm the duties of the other office.And how about lhe accumulation? Will Col.Serra Marlins draw two salaries?

—The government has lixed the number ofstudents at the military school in this city at 650,of which 250 are oflicers and 400 privates. TheRio Grande school will have 200 officers and 200privates, and the Ccar.i school 100 officers and 360privates. This gives an aggregate of 1,510 mili-tary sludent for the whole country, or about sixtimes the number educated by the United Slates.It would be instruetive to know what need Brazilcan have for so many military oflicers ?

—The bili, voted by Congress, lor incréasingthe pay ol certain judges and judiciary officers was.signed by the Presidem 011 the 6th inst. The in-crease in the pay of judges^f lhe supreme courtis 500$ a monlh and in that oí judges of the comtof appeals 200$. The pay of ollicers ofthe supremcourt is increased 30%. The pay of retiredejudges of the supreme court will be calculated inconformity with these allerations only for thosewho serve for ten years after the promulgation ofihis order.

The iminister of foreign affairs deliveredBraziPs reply to the British aibilration proposalon the 7th inst. It is said to contam a decidedrefusal to submit lhe Trindade dispute to arbitra-tion, because the Brazilian government considersits case to be indisputable. The Jornal do Com-*mercio says that if the island is restored it is notKnpossible that the Brazilian government willenier into an accord with Sir John Pender, orwith the British government, for the landing of acable on that island.

—The United States govemment has claimedindemnity from Turkey lor thc assaults and lossessustained by American missionaries. Suppose theBritish government now demands that the claimbe referred to arbitration, because it affects Britishinterests in that part of the world. And supposeshe threatens war ií her interference is not honor-ed. And suppose she reminds Uncle Sam that hismisMonaiics had no business in Turkey, and thathis meddling in European affairs 4000 miles fromhome is unnatural, inconsistent, etc. And sup-pose but this is quite tnough !

—The altention of the sanitary authoritiesshould be directed to lhe milkmen who supply thepeople of this city with an important article offood. The stuff they sell under the name of milkis frequently unfit to feed the hogs. And some ofthe establishments selling Minas milk are not apai ticle belter. The liquid is half water, thickenedwith flour, stareri, chalk, or anything else to suitthe purpose. Often it is sour before it can besold, and then it is mixed with sweet milk; It,of course, can not be boiled. The majority ofplaces where it is sold do not know the rudimentsof cleanliness. In a city where there is so muchsickness, the authorities should be scrupulouslyobservant oí these articles of food.

— Visconde de Ouro Preto and Councillors JoãoAlfredo, Andrade Figueira, Lafayette and CarlosAffonso have issued a manifesto in which, afier ex-piáining the causes which have induced themonarchists to reftain írom ali participation inpublic affairs, they assert that in view oí thedangers which now thieaten the country, a passiveattitude is no longer patriolic and it is consequentlythe duty of every citizen to exert himself to defendthe nation from those dangers. They do not pro

—According to a recent statement Messrs. A.Fioiiti & Co. have imported a total of 636,044 im-migrants under its contracts with lhe state of SãoPaulo C1887 to Nov. 1895), the national govern-ment (1888 to June 1891), and the CompanhiaMetropolitana (July 1891 to November 1895.)

—A great many person ¦* and corporal ions arequite ready to accept the help of the newspaperswhen in difficulties and then quite ignore and for-get them when apparently free from difficulties ;ali the same, neither man nor company can be surethat a day will pass when they may not require thenewspaper.—Buenos Aires Herald.

—The public gas account of the cily of SãoPaulo for December amounted to 52,933$97o, ofwhich 34,55o$38ocovers "differences in exchange,"or more correctly "depreciation in the currency."This should figure as a tax upon the country be-cause of its errors in keeping mercenary and in-competent men in important public offices.

—At the meeting of the municipal council onSaturday Intendent Luis Alves proposed that anabatement of 30 per cent. should be made in the

pose, they say, to make proselytes to the cause oí [ municipal taxes of merchants who deal solely inmonarchy. That, they think, the republic itself isdoing. What they propose is to form a centrearound which patriotic citizens of ali politicalopinions may rally for the purpose of aiding in thework of shielding the country írom impendingcalamities.

—According to some Argentine exchanges theVenezuela boundaiy commission appointed byPresident Cleveland consists of Messrs. Lincoln,Phelps and Brewer—the first two being ex-minis-ters to Great Britain and the last a justice of theSupreme Conrt. By other telegrams we see thename of Mr. Coudert mentioned in connectionwith the commission. Mr. Coudert is a prominentlawyer, and was connected with the Paris arbi-tràtion commission on the Behring sea dispute.If this composition of the commission is correct,it may be considered that a fair and impartialreport will be made, but at the same time tins willnot justify its creation. It is not customary forone nation to appoint commisions to investigatethe private affairs of others without even theshadow of an invitation.

—A peculiar case of official negligence andcruelty has just been exposed by the Gazela deNoticias. On the ioth our colleague noted thedeath ol a boy named Joaquim in the lock-up atthe police station. On the following day it wasstated that the boy died of yellow fever. He wasfirst taken to the Misericórdia, where he wasdenied admission by the attendant because heconsidered the boy to be insane. The boy wasthen taken to the police station and locked up,because of said insanity, but no doctor visitedhim and he died of yellow fever that night. Thereare some abuses of this description here in Rio,de Janeiro which need vigorous reform. In th*1'first place, a hospital of the importance of thtMiericordia ought to have a competent physiciají:always in attendance, and, in the second place, rçí>ill or deranged person should ever be detained anhour at the police station without a thoroughmedicai examination.

DEATH.Hainsworth.—On Januaiy çth, at São Paulo,

of yellow-fever, Charles Ernest HAINSWORTH,of Araraquara and Sanlos, in his 271b year.

Business Notes—In the city of Ceará there were slaughtered

last year 17,125 beeves.—The town of Carangola, Minas Geraes, is to

be lighted with electricity.—The sum of 120,000$ has been subscribed for

building a theatre at Ribeirão Preto, S. Paulo.—The reported resignation of Dr. Del-Vecchio

as direclor of municipal works has been denied.—It is si ated that there are employés of lhe

telephone company who have not received theirpay for seven months,

—The phylloxera, it is stated, has made ilsappe.ii ance 111 the vineyards in lhe vicinity ofSanta Barbara, Minas Geraes.

—The debts of the Banco Industrial e Mercan-lil, amounting to 11,000,000$, were sold at aue-tion last Tuesday for 38,ooo$ooo.

—Messrs. John Moore & Co. have announcedthat Mr. David Roberts has been admitted to fullparlncrship in that firm dating from the ist inst.

—The Guarany of Cachoeiras says. that its edi-tor has received from Col. Guillcrmino Adolphoda Silveira a sugar cane 30 palmos long, whichhas 72 joints.

—On Tuesday last the board of brokers (cantarasyndical dos corretores) tendered its resignation tothe minister of finance. This is its way of pro-tesling against the new law.

—There are 779 kilometres oí river navigationin lhe state of S. Paulo, distributed as follows : —Mogy-guassú, 200; Piracicaba, 220; Ribeira deIguape, 154 ; Jacupiranga, 103; Juquiá, 78;Una, 24.

—The motive power for the electric illuminàtionof Santos will bc furnished by thc Cubatâo water-fali, which was purchased for 150,000$ íor thatspecial purpose. The machinery will soon be inplace and then lhe street and house service wireswill soon be placed in position.

—We take much pleasure in noting that Robertf. Kinsman Benjamin has been authorized to foim

a joint-stock company to be called the CooperativaNacional. At the present moment there is muchneed of "cooperativa," particularly if it suffices togive us food, clothes and employment.

Brazilian produets. We should bke to ask "this

patriotic alderman where the Brazilians would nowbe had it not been for foreigners and foreignproducls.

—Public feeling is much excited in Santos overthe election of a new municipal council, which willhave to do with the projected sanitary improve-ments in that city. As the state is to assist in theundertakings, and as the improvements are esti-mated to cost not less lhan 30,000,000$, it is feltthat lhe office of alderman for the next few yearswill be worth holding.

—In Santos the prosecuting attorney has openedan investigation in

"regard to the disappearance of

the register of municipal contracts. It is a emiousstate of things, surely, where important publicdocuments are carried off in this way. What se-curity can there be for either the cily, or lhe con-tractors, when the new improvements, to cost 30,-000,000$, are carried into operation ? Let ushave a little common honesty, gentlemen, and alittle impartial punishment of knavery !

—The theatre project in São Paulo has at lasttaken definite shape, and on the çth AldermanPenteado submitted to the municipal council a pro-posai, conceding to the party who shall build atheatre suitable for opera, ele, the right to disap-propriate the site, il necessary, and exemptionfrom ali taxes for twenty years. The calls are tobe made in S. Paulo, Rio and Buenos Aires andwill be closed at the end of four months. Thetheatre must be ready at the end of two years.

—It is said that the new duties on medicineswill immeasurably increase the bnsiness of Messrs.Hic Jacet & Co. This was of course anticipated,as shown by the hurried exodus of our legislatorsjust before their work took effect. In ali proba-bility a testimonial will be presented to Congressby the well-known house of Le Febre Amarella,Variola & Co., in behalf of themselves and theirclients, because of this signal proof in their interestin the preservation of a time-honored national in-dustry.

—The national candles are now at war. One oftheir creators, Dr. Júlio Brandão, opened an ex-hibitafew days ago at the industrial exposition, inwhich he placed some candles made by his com-petitor, Dr. Júlio Ottoni, in 1893, with the object,of course, oí showing what progress has beenmade. It so happens, however, that Dr. JúlioOttoni is a member of the exposition commission,and he at once ordered the show-case covered.This caused arowbetween the rival doctors, andthe tallow is ali over the shop and some of it is tobe found in the newspapers.

—The São Paulo druggisls have issued a circu-lar informing their customers that lhey have in-creased their prices 40 to 100 per cent. on thearticles affected by the new import duties. Theirlist includes: ioo per cent. on Murray's andother fluid magnesia, BristoPs sarsaparilla, medi-cinal pastilles (tabloids) in boxes or tins, granulesand pills in paper boxes ; 70 per cent. on syrupsin general; 00 per cent. on elixirs, liqueurs,wines, solutions, Knorr's and other antipyrinepastilles ; 50 per cent. on sarsaparilla oí Ayer, ofRadway and others, on pills and granules inboitles, on almond, castor, cod-liver and olher oilsin boitles; 40 per cent. on ali pastilles in bottlesand oils in tins.

—The committee appointed at the meeting ofbankers and merchants held 011 the 4th inst., pre-sented a formal representation 011 the subject onthe 8th inst. Contrary to expectations they donot deal with the excessive character of the taxes,but wilh the uncertain interpretation of certainprovisions. Ofcourse, as ihtèrmédiariestliéy passthe taxes on to their customers, who in the endwill have to bear the burden.

ftí—The receipts ofthe custom-house at this portduring the month of December last were asfollows :

Imporls, schedule 5»675»97i$907do. sut taxes 3,247,743 930do. other taxes, labor

and warehouse charges. 295,000 338Port dues 26,845 362Export duties 29,034 900Tobacco tax 19,316 545Extraordinary 16,924 535Deposits 59,038716Hospital tax 61,425 585Municipality 22,377 013

Total 9,453,7383.831Increase from November... i,385,244$327

The large increase in December was due to thereceipt and dispatch of merchandise in anticipationoí increased duties in 1896.

—We see that the direclor-general is improvingthe service at the postoffice, but we can assurehim that there is still someihing to be done. Onthe 3rd two registered letters were received at thepostoffice for the editor of this paper, but only oneaviso was sent to us. We called in person andreceived one of the said letters. Subsequently(on the loth) we were again at the registeredletter department for letters, and the missingletter was not mentioned. On the nth wecalled again for more letters, when the clerk in-formed us that there was an extra one there forwhich we had no aviso. As thc letter containedan important document, the loss of which hasoceasioned complaint, we consider it proper to saythat more care should be required írom the clerksin this section of the postoffice.

—lt is surprising what advertising will do for agenuine article. We learned yesterday that sincelhe introduclion into this market of "Odol" thesales have steadily increased till at present themonthly consumption is simply enormous.—Buenos Aires Herald. It is an'established factthat judicious advertising greatly assists the sale ofany article. Besides this it insures much earlierreturns. We happen to know of a disinfectantwhich has been only moderately advertised here,during the past year, and has already secured avery piomising foolhold in the market and now en-joys good sales. On lhe other hand. we know ofanother disinfectant, a good article, which lias beenmuch longer in the market but is rarely everspoken of, simply because its agents do not believein advertising.

Financial Notes—The régulations for the new taxes are still uu-

der consideration.—The November receipts of lhe Pará recebedoria

amounted to 1,471,445^464.—The recebedoria of the state of Bahia received

1,422,409$ 364 during the past year.—According to the Santos Commetcial lhe city

of Santos has a public debt ol 1,011,000$.—The São Paulo state treasury had a cash bal-

ance on hand 011 the ist inst. of 4,551,2781557.—On the 3lst ult. the balance in favor of de-

positors in the government savings bank {caixaeconômica) at S. Paulo amounted lo 6,600,000$.

—A S. Paulo telegram of the gth inst. states thatthe investigations in the Santos custom-househave already revealed Irauds to the amount of1,000,000$.

—The receipts.of the recebedoria at Campinas,São Paulo, in 1895 amounted to972,958$93i, andlhe expenditures 365,3Ôo$48l, leaving a netbalance of 6o7,598$45o.

—A project is under discussion in the São Paulomunicipal council authorizing an expenditure of90,000$ on a piece of land adjoining the hospitalfor in fectious diseases, which it is proposed to turninto a cemetery.

—In December the Pernambuco custom-houseyielded i,9Ó3,984$7i4, against I,699,002$i64 in1894 and i,644,592$539 in 1893. The staterevenue for the same month was 8o2,279$i62,against 5i6,987$3Ó2 last year and 621,0775543 in1893.

—The Platea, oí S. Paulo, publishes a letter olprominent merchants of that city, asking the gov-ernment to postpone the collection of the newduties on imports, since otherwise they will loseheavily on merchandise ordered in October andNovember.

—One of the Pernambuco state bonds for 100reis (about two cents) has made its appearance in

this city. It bears interest at the rate of 6 per cent.per annum and is redeemable in ten yeai s. It is, ofcourse, a subterfuge, an evasionof the law againstthe issue of currency.

—Congressman Serzedello in one of his recentarticles intimates lhat he proposed a plan of re-tienchment lhat would have produced a reduetionoí from 80 to 100 thousand contos per annum inthe public expenditure, but that Congress refused

to adopt it. Let lhe tax-payeis take note of thestatement.

—Messrs. Holwonhy & Ellis, of Santos, haveadvised the municipal council lhat the banker, J.Henry Schroeder, is ready to enter into negotia-tions for the projected new foreign loan, not wilh»standing the íact that the loan of 1887 ii not yetliquidated. The municipal council says, however,thal it is not seeking a foreign loan.

«¦» St- ¦—It is said that the municipal council oí this

city has given up ali idea of a loreign loan (andprobably wilh good reason), and will try to floatan internai loan through the Banco Nacional. The 'misgovernment of this city, and lhe recklesttestand incapacity of the men now in charge OÍ itsaffairs, will not make such a loan very popular.

—The Gazeta de Noticias hears that the Bancoda Republica has agreed lo sell the new edifice, asit stands, 011 Rua lc de Março, tothe government for 3,000,000$. The caixada amortização (redemption bureau) willthen be moved into this edifice as soon as it isfinished. It piomises to be the finest public build-ing in Rio.

—Questions have now arisen as to the necessityof the 10 per cent. surtax on stamped paper. Ittranspires, however, that this vexations surtaxwas made permanent by various laws and regula-tions, and is therefoie not subject to annual bad-get authorizalions. It is 10 be observed that a snr-lax in Brazil is very rarely given up. The scale oftaxation is a rising one, always.

. ;

January i4th, 1896.J

C°MMERCIALTHE RIO NEWS.

Rio de janeiro, January, i$th 1896.Par valne of the Brarilian milreis (i$ooo), gold. 17 d.

do do do do in U. Scoin at $4.86,65 per j£i stg.... 54 75 cts

do $1.00 (U. S. coin) Brazilian gold.... 1^827do of £1 stg. in Brazilian gold 8 890

Bank rate of exchange,official,011 London to-dayPresent value of the Brazilian mil reis (gold) ..

do do do (paper)..do do do in U.S.

coin at $4 80 per j£i stg...... 18.37Value of $1.00 ($4.80 per £1. stg. iu Brazi-

lian currency (paper) 5*44»Value of £1 sterling a6$i22

9 3Ii6rfaÍ939

341 rs. gold

H«

EXCHANGE.January 7.—The market was still said to he sufiering from

the uncertainty as to the working of the new law, but therewas some business doing, and bank sterling was obtainableat t)l/s, with money for other paper at 9 5131. TheBrazilian banks posted 9^, the English banks 9 i(t6 andthe Brasilianische Bank 9. During the day repassed billswere offered with some freedom at 9 5(32, and business wasreported at 9 3(16, lhe extreme rates for the very moderatebusiness done being 9 i|i6—9^ for bank and 9%—9 3(16for other sterling and the market closed steady, Sovereignssold at the Bolsa at a6$22o, and closed with buyers at26$aoo, sellers at 26.ÍÍ260.

January 3.—The Brazilian banks were again drawing freelyat 9%, and the foreign banks, with q i|t6 posted, furnishedbillsat the higher rate, eitlfer on bankers, or on head offices.During lhe day the Banco Nacional did busines&at 9 5132.There was less excitement over the new law, and somemodus operandi was possibly discovered ; as coffee will beshipped, and bills drawn against these shipments, we cannotsee how the teal broker will suffer from the new law, and iflhis restricis the speculation lhat has had charge of themarket for five years, its exeeution merits applause. Therewas business doing in exchange at the extremes of 9 i]t6—9% for bank and 9 SI32—o 3116 for other sterling, and themarket closed steady. Sovereigns sold at the Bolsa at?6$35o, and closed with bu>ers at 26^220 and sellers at

367270.January 9—The market was quiet, but very steady until the

afiernoon, when the news from Pernambuco was rather un-favourable, and at the close there was some indecision. Nochangts were made in the posted rates of 9 ni6—oj^g, andat the latter bank sterling was obtainable somcwheiethroughout the day. In the morning repassed bills wereoffered rather freely at 9 5132, which the banks refused, butsomething was done iu commercial sterling andjust befoie the close it was said one of the fui eign bankspurchased repassed paper at this rate. The day's businesswas small, at the declared extremes of 9 ijió—9^ for bankand 9 5l32—9 31'6 for other slerling. Sovereigns were soldon the street at a6$28-, aud closed at the Bolsa with buyersat >6$2io, selleis at 26.1300.

January 10.—Official rates were unchanged, and the marketopened firm with 9%, therate for business at ali lhe banks, onhead oflice only however, at some of the English banks, andother paper offered at g 5)32. Then there was a halt, andbusiness was reporled in repassed bills at 9 5132, but com-mercial sterling carne out freely in the afternoon and a con-siderable business was done at 9 3(16, the market closingfirm at 9J/8 for bank and 9 3116-9 7132 for other sterling.lt isno secret that dire results weie prophesied from lhenew law, but the business done to-day looked like anabandoninent. at least for the present. ot lhese cxpecia-tiuns. The extreme rates were 9 i|i6—9^ for bank and9 513a—9 3|i6 for olher sterling. Sovereigns closed at theBolsa with buyers at aôijiióo, selleis at a6$27o; on the

street nothing was doing.

January 11.-The market was fairly active, firm and higher,and the brokers showed more animation; but the week hasbeen a veiy nnsalisfactory one for them, if not to the legiti-mate trade of Rio. The opening rates were 9^—91116and the higher was posted by lhe London «& Brazilian andBritish banks during the morning, the market advaucingsteadily unlil 9 3)16 in bank and 9^ tor other sterling wasrepoited. Then lhere was a halt, and money-carne Out at9 713a» bul «'• t'»e afternoon the tone was belter again andthe closing rates were 9 3(16 for bank and 9 713a—9# forother sterling. The business done duiing the day wasfair at the extremes uf 9 i|i6—9 3116 tor bank and 9 3116—9W for other sterling. Sovereigns closed at the Bolsawilh buyers at a6$i4o, sellers at a6$aoo, no business wasspoken of in gold 011 lhe street. Rumor has it that "futures"are still being dealt-in on the exchange inurket, and itonljr is natural they should be, but these transactions noware in the nature of di. ect business between buyer and seller,and cannot therefore be quoted with any degree of certainly'.

January 13.—The Brazilian banks opened at 9 3(16, on Lon-•don, at which the toreign banks were drawers, with 9%posted, and lhe market advanced steadily until bank paperwas reported at 9 7132 and olher slerling at 9 9132. A cou-siderable transaction, realized "on lhe slreet" at a\{, intepassed bills was spoken of, and in lhe afternoon themarket was not so firm, buyers at 9JÍ coming out ratherfreely. Al the close rates were steady at 9 3|i6 for bank and9 713»—9Jíf°;.other sterling, with bills at lhe lower, andmoney at the higher rate. A very fair movement was agai nreporled at the extremes of 9^-9 713a for bank and 9 7132— 9 9132 for other slerling. Sovereigns sold at the Bolsa at26.1-100 and on the slreet at 26$oso, closing wilh buyeis at2t$iao, sellers at 26$ 170.

*i SALES OP STOCKS AND SHARES.January 7.

17 Apólices, 5S.600$

3

, '9

dodo

dodo

4s

. .v,'«Tjoo Construetor .January 8.

33 Apólices, ss..

96a rcósjá Sovereigns .. a6 aao96.2 8 Apólices'95 reg 950i»a°5 5 do 9451,266 15 deb Carioca mili 303

1,867 34 h.n. Cr RI Braz. 57 SOoBanks.

is 500 50 Nacional..

25 *9,400$54.

1,000$400$

dodododododo

4S ..

iooo Sovereigns....

34 Lav. e Com. ..January 9.

a8 Apólices, 5s ..58. do

*aõf do3.feo$, do

. .4 do 4$•o do

do5CoW,4«'89

963962

961,3661,370137ia6Já26 250

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1 doroo deb Sorocabana

230

2,38095595095a

68ico100

Carioca mili aoodo 303

50 Lav. e Com. as 71

96396296

95-3«,a79

. 1,180.. 127.. 1,600

a8 Apólices, 1895520 do

30 do110 do200 deb. I.'dna 100$300 do550 hn.C. R. Braz.

95595095«95a

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aoo Lav. c Com as.. 71xoo dottf Mere de Santos

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SOO50 Republica

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. ¦»

900 O. Minas, as.aoo Loteria Nac.% ¦ January to

13 Apólices, 4» ..\*> do

»5o do 1895 .20 do-TT •

joo Lav.« Com.10 Nacional....

69•35

Miscellaneous '

100 Agric. dePatanapanema

'58«57

January 11.5 Apólices, 4S .. 1,283

ro do .. 1,28440

' do .. 1,285100 h.n O R. Braz. 58

14 ,, CRS Paulo 72

40 Nacional...40 do

41 Apólices. 1895112 do15 do regist.60 do80 deb L'dna 100$

Banks.100 Lav. e Com. ss 66 500

95°955955,952

14

267 O. Minas, as ..400 V F Sapucahy

f450 Melh. 110 Braz.

220225

Miscellaneous.15 42 Obras Publicas

26500 IOO Torrens 25

BRASILIANISCHE BANK FURDEUTSCHLAND.

BALANCE SHEET, 3IST DECEMBER, 1895.

Capital ún-realized "... 4,Soo,ooo$oooGuaranteed accounts.... 4.442681 637Head ofiice branches and agencies 17,^96,065 531Bills recetvable .M*4 «4°do discounted 6,762,269 357do Pl?dged. ; •

J6 l5lSecuru.es pledged. 5,300,448000do deposited 8,2t6, 044060Cashin currentfunds 7,999. '73-397

, . ..,.,. 6i,032,746$7i2L iabit1tiesCapitalsubscribed io,ooo,ooo$oooDeposits 111 account current:

With interest 4,982,515 030Without interest... 1^001,6.5 033Head office and branches 9,909,510 086Deposits with fixed maturity i \„ (),(, 7QQSecttnties pledged and 011 deposit 14,766,278 950Sundry accounts 3,854! 880 814

E. & O. E. 6i,o32,746$7i2Krah— Peterscn, Directors.

LONDON AND RIVER TLA TE BANK, LIMITED

Èstablished in 1S62.

Capital. £1,500,000dem realized * 3 'Reserve fund ^Oi000

BALANCE SHEET OF THE RIO URANCH, 3IST DECKMDER, 1895

Asseis,'Bills discounted .* 5,562,8578870Bills receivable. 9,063 379 600Loans, guaranteed accounts, ele 4,733,471 760Sundry accounts J ™ «6 g °Pledges for loans guaranteed accounts, etc. 5,753,392 240Cash in current funds 7,705,846 6Í0

... ..,.,. 34,9641894*93°Liàbilities ;Declared capital of this branch i,Soo,ooo$oooDeposits, fixed maturity and subject to notice 9,204,806 «oIdem, without interest 5,434225 530Sundry accounts -«,«,2 sLSecurities pledged .

*.""" 7£?M LoBills payable..!..,. """í::— ^ o^ 650Head office, agencies and branches 5,027,529 580

E. & O 34i964,894$93oRio de Janeiro, 7th January. 1896.

For the London and River Plate Bank, Limited,HavillandA. De Lisle, Manager.F. S. Youle, Accountant.

«521

«,282 20 Apólice, ss«.2S5 25 do950 500$ do952 60 h.n C R. Braz.

Banks.Republica ....11

»2$ O. Minas, as ..300 V. F. Sapucahy

as 67.. 225

Miscellaneous.50

96296196.2

58

«56

«58 500

S. Christ iram 150

MARKET REPORT.Rio de Janeiro, l3th January, 1806.

Exports.Coffie.—Thm reported sales for the past week were 20,000

bags. but shipmenls are over 65,000 bags, and there is somesnspicion that ali the coffee bought is not yet a board shipReeeipts promised a sharp increase on those of the precedingweek, but 011 Saturday the railway suddtnly fell off to about900 bags, and yesterday only about 600 bags were receivedSome new disarrangement of traffic is possibly lhe cause ofthis decrease, but at the same time the stocks at the stationsare liecoming reduced, and there is a certain belief in asmaller supply henceforward. The market has been far fiomstrong during the week, but appears to be "delicate," Thesteady shipments by important exporters, and rather betteradvices from consuming markets give some stability to thefactors, and 011 lhe other hand lhe visible supply of 206,000tons, telegraphed from Rotterdam, is not at ali reassurinc.To an outsider it looks as if a moderate supply, and any con-siderable demand, would cause an advance here, but ihedealers are certainly very caulious, and the business reportedhas been gene-ally 011 lhe "hand to month " basis.

On the Tlh brokers quoted No. 7 at ao$aoo-2o$soo, but onthe next day the market was easier, and on lhe oth 20$ 200was quoted by some, while other brokers considered themarket nominal. Then there was rather more ftrmncsswithout any great increase in thc demand, and 011 the ioth30ÍI.400 was spokcn of, as the basis of the sales realised 011 lhatday. This morning lhere was some demand and sellersadvanced lheir ideas to about 20^500, but there was not muchbusiness reported this afternoon, and lhe close was ratheruncertain.

Santos has been quiet also. wilh reported sales of 29,000bags, against reeeipts of 42,500 bags. The shipment» for theweek were 18,000 bags for the Uniled Slates and 21,000 bagsfor Europe, and after quoting at 15^000 per 10 kilos for goodaverage during the week, 011 Satmday the market wasreported strong, and the quotation was advanced to 15Íam.It would appear lhat Sanlos also now appreheuds a reducedsupply. The stock on Saturday was estimated lo be 417,000bags.

The shipments since our last report have been ;39,949 bags for the United States23.309 » „ Europe

„ Cape of Good Hope„ River Plate, etc.„ Coastwise

65,448 bags.The vessels sailed with coffee are :

United StatesJan. 7 New York, Br str Euclid

13 do.. „ Creole PrinceEurofe :

Jan. 5 Hamburg, Ger sir Curytib.i MMCopenhagen, do 3liSO6 Genoa, Ital str PS 8038 Havre, Fr str Campana S(75010 Algiers, „ Brêsil. u5

Elsewhere :Jan. 10 River Plate, Fr str Portugal. 1,783

Coastwise—sundry steamers 4,22aReeeipts during the past week were 48,951 bags.against 62,156 for the preceding week and 71,237 bagsfor the week before. There arrived also some 4,903 bagsin transit.

Thc official quotations on Saturday were quite unchanged,and the pauta is slill i$4So.

Biokers' quotations, according to New York types andper arroba, were the following:

January 4^21*500

20$2OO—20$ 50019Ç5C0—i9$8oo1CÍTCO 1 jf IC3

bags.23.14727,1118

SANTOS.Coffee shippers in December :

Nãiimahn, Gepp & CoEdw. Johnston

"& Co

Goetz, Hayn & CoKarl Vaiais & CoTh. Wille & CoHard, Rand&Co .'.'.".'Steinwender, Stoffregen & Co.Holwnrthy, Ellis & Coloão F. de Lacerda & CoLevering & Co\íliiickfe BrothersNossack & Co 'Zeírenner, Bttlow & CoFrank Norton ifc CoHetnrich Wolije & CoFord & Co....W. F. McLatighlin & Co.!.'."!J. W. Doane& CoA. Trommel & CoJulian Hnugnitz Aug. Létíbá & CoH. Hafers & CoRose & KnowlesLudwig Schweitzer & Co .'.Sundries

bags99.34530,14523,20715,82014,430M.32312,079'1.36311,00010,9089,S328,7158,2006,2505,6 = 75,6295,4.353.0905,0554,t)SS4õoo3,88.82,5311,5001,104

T°tal 321,081

No. 6 ...

8....

but some of the biokers report lhe marketdealers' ideas are at least 20^500 f.r Xo. 7.Stocks were this morning estimated to lein ali hands.

January ti2l$JOO—21Í5CO

2C^20OlQ?«OD !9$5COH5J700—itijSoo

n minai, and

249.925 l«gs-

The shipments were divided as followsUnited'States'.•

New YorkNew Orleans

"1.9331,640

bags

"3,573Europe :

Hamburg..,TriesteRotterdam..Antwerp ...HavreLondon....GenoaBremenMarseilles..VentcèBordeaux...Liverpool..,Amsterdam.

95,90i3 '.65931,22822,64210,5003.5533,'052,9382,475

75o600250250

Coastwise.206,651

857

Total. ;2i,t8i

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Imports.There is no marked improvement in the markets, for piiccsare „ot yet èstablished on tbe new basis of the increaseddut.es, bu the general i.npression seems to be lhat anadvance ali around will soon be reported. In flour lhere hasbeen some business doing, owinK to impoiters «' civinc in

*to dealcs, but stocks are increased and the market closedwithout much animation. Quotriliohs for lard, cothi h, porkand rice are slightly higher, and the supply of none of theseartiejes has been large. The reeeipts of ftlch pine have beenconsiderable, aud have supplied lhe demand. but we a re nowhkelyto have a period of no arrivals; White pine is hicherbut Spruce and Swedish are about unchanged Kcosenc ssi.II fiai, and no.change is made in quotations. Indian coras advanced sharply. according to retailers, and the s ipp yhas lately been moderate In hay and bran we have heará ofno great changes Exchange hai been very steady b .Tratesare low, and tfie brokers l.aye become calmer. f cer.íi, íyooks as if ihe new law might produce some good elíecls alixcha8íge.Cann0tClUla

":ri0US'>', "°r abolisl' speculation ii,Flour—Reeeipts since our last report have been •

¦Swm/.frpm «altimore . .2,6,0 b.Is.Catania, from the United States.... . , ;„Sfi.ott, from the River Plate, 6,500bags!.*." ',,0 "hr.tagne, do.. 3.7,3 bags... %%% ]]

During lhe latter part of lhe week imp,rters "g^m^some

concessions, and a fair amount of business has been doing, lhewuhdrawals from stock amottnting to about 16,000 brU.Hrokcrs (ittotc American llcur about 750 rs. per bri. lower andnative about i$cop, but make no changes in River Plate. Thcmarket closed with some demand at lhe following p,ices,Trieste. nominal.R.chmond .st a6íoao-»6$a5ond,°. lnd nominal.Balnmore ist. í6 oao_l6 ,do and ,- t-,,_,t _t.Western and Interior ,' g^| ^Loca,M,l,s «iooo-.ssoo

Stocks ,n first hands are eMimated to be 28,500 brls. American,mt l57° btK K,vcr PIate and dealer-S a'« holding about

Lard-Reeeipts are 1,510 kegs per Catania and Severa.Dealers have advanced the retail rftotation for Geirge's lardto 800 rs. per lb., and there is said to be no st >ck of otlierAmerican brands. Native lard is still quoted at i$rio -i$iooper kilogramme.

Codfish—Reeeipts have been -,,260 tubs per Morning.Starfiom Gaspe and 25 cases from Liverpool. Dealers are stillquoung Canadian tubs at 43$ooo -44^030 and Norwegiancises at 46$;oo-47$o30.

Retail quotations for Rangoon are$503 per bag, aud native is quoted at

strong at

Rice—Reeeipts nii.advanced to 16^500—1I7$000 — 20$000.

Pork—The Catania and Severn brought 1,200 brls. Re-lailers still quote American at i$3oo—i$35o, with nativo at900—1^1400 per kilogramme.

Pitch Pine—Receipls aro 045,072 feet per Maglnla and1.7847120 feet per Marthara, from Pensacola, and 616,801leet per Aidigua, from Brunswick Quotations are 73+coo-71^000 per doz., but the demand is about süòpliéd-for lliepresent.

White Pine —Reeeipts nii, and the market is firm at 20;rs. per foot.Spruce Pine-Tho .¦>/>¦///%•>¦/brings 198,381 feet fromllie bagueiiay, and lhe market is repoited to be >.

70$ooo—71:íooo per doz.Swedish Pine-Receiptsare728doz ner WesternorlaiulIrom Kramfors, 55. doz. per Arken from Westerwick, and 819doz. per Flidírom Iíudikswall. Brokers now quote red deálsat 74*000—75$ooo per doz. and white at 71 $000—72^003 audreport lhe market steady.Kerosene-Reeeipts nii, and brokers quote at 9$ooo—0*500 per case; market (lat.Turpentine—Reeeipts are i;o cases from Raltimore, andlast quotations ef 880—900 rs. per kilogramme may be con-tinued.Rosin—The Cai mia and Severn brought 550 brls. Last

quotations weie i5$ooo — 2o$o.o per bri., according toquality. b

Cement—Receipls aie 3,800 brls. per Echo from London.We may quote Biiiish at 13!$000-17^000, Belgian and Ger-man io$5co—14^000 aud French i7$5oo—18^500 per br.

Indian Corn —Reeeipts have been i5,3ir bags per Roça.land, 4,242 bags per Sprott, 3,034 bags per Br tagnè, ànd27,260 bags per Vòliner, from the River Plate. Retail quota-lions for River Plate c >rn have been advanced to 7$000—7$5co per bag, and native is quoten at 6$ooo—o$coo.

Hay—Reeeipts are 0,357 bales per C. W. Jones, 4,129bales per Sprott, 6,288 bales per Ivy, and 3,440 bales perPlate. Last quotations wereOh-Kiin-Soon, from tbe River

140—150 rs. per kilogramme.Bran- The Sproet brought 1,140 bags from Montevideo.

Brokers quote River Plate at 4$Soo-5$oo3 and native at4*500—4$8oo,

Coal—The A11 glo A me rica brought 2,349 tons from Car-difi toa dealer.

Shipping News.ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN VESSELS.JANUARY d.

BuUNSWiCK--.Br lug Autigva; 725 tons; Johns ; 50 dspine to order.

Camimwi.ton— Br lug Sf>-Hibbert; 246 tons; Bafuse; 45ds ; pine to Geral de Commercio e Industria Co.London-Nor bg Ec/w ; 338 tons; Olsen ; 48 ds ; cement

to Industrial do Brazil Co.Westerwick—Pan lug Arken ; 171 tons • Christensen ;

56 ds ; pine to order.JAN. 7.

Kkamfokss—Swed bk Westernorland} pine to C. Heck-sher & Co.

JAN. S.Rosário -Br bk Ivy ; 547 tons; Caron; 22 ds; hay to J.de Souza & Co.—— Brbk Oh l\im Soon ; 335 tons ; Amberman ; 27 ds ;

hay to Silva Vieira & Co,JAN. 11.

Hudikswai.l—Nor bk Flid; 332 tons; Jorgensen ; 90 ds ¦pine to order.

JAN. 12.Cariufp—Nor bk Faèrdei ; 738* tons; Sorensen ; -,2 ds;

coal to order.IniRA—Span bk Constância ; 649 tons; Ab.il; 52 ds; salt

to order.Macáo—Nor bc .S'. N. Hansen; 307 tons; Rassmussen ;26 ds ; salt to Antônio de Oliveira Maia.

DEPARTURES OF FOREIGN VESSELS.JANUARY'6.

Nuw Orleans — Port ship Glanta ; 1080 tons; Santos'ballast.

Pensacola—Swed ship Carl Hindric ; 1066 tons; Swans-trom; do.

JAN. 7.Buenos AtRES-Swed bk Anna Sofia ; 476 tons; Loudin ;

ballast.Pknsacol\—Br ship Efershe ; 1346 tons ; Stone: do.Barbados— Dan lug Claus ; 256 tons ; Hansen; do.Pernambuco—Ger bgAçiiv ; 266 tons; Drost; do.

JAN. 8.Newcastle—Br bk Tjp/ionus ; 1121 tons; Spurr; ballast.

JAN. 9.Prnsacoi.a—Ger ship Itumboldt; 719 tons; Richcrts ;ballast.Newcastle—BrlúúpC/ydesdale; 1536 tons; Evans; do.

JAM n.Fai.moutii f.o—Br bg Hebe; 220 tons; Coon; salted

hides.Montevidho — Port bk Atlântico; 504 tons; Molledo

salt.

VESSELS AFLOAT & CHARTERED FOR RIOÂlaska (str) Newport 15 f)ecA rgoincne Rangoon ^ Sept.A uriga ' BrunswickAsyria (str) Antwerp 17 Dec.Areelina OportoBaron tíellhav n (str) Natal 26*Nov.Bella For mi gosa OportoBlenlieim Paspebiac j" DecCambria, PensacolaCaria. Hernosand is Oct.Cashntcre Leith 7 Nov!Columbus HamburgContelioZino Pcnsacola • ' ..Chondor Grimstad «o Nov.Coniitess of Devon Shippegan n Nov.Cu/iioi HullDaniel Norkopping 13 Nov.Erik LondonFr.mces Baltimore 11 Nov.Fra tel i Laurín Marseilles 22 Nov.Ceorge T. Hay Newport . .1Giuseppina, Mobile v- •Haldon (str) Newport 17 Dec»tlaabct. Alloa 18 Oct.t»ger Xorkpbing 10 Dec.Jennit Huibert New VorkJttàa Pensacola 17 Oct.Ju i.-ts...... Oporto 10 Dec.Kathteen Swansea iS Dec.Mzambi.jue HullMary L.Burrill PensacolaMal ei Taylor PcnsacolaMontaria PensacolaNeva Lide OportoUra/City PensacolaAV//;/» PensacolaNile LeiihÚtaf Trygvason PensacolaOn-b _. Marseilles 6 Nov.PriSiilla Baltimore »$ Nov.Çuttena........ ............ OportoKcsa PensacolaSarai Attce Paspebiac iS N&v*W» at Chiistisnsand

l, '¦.*, .-«. . .¦.*.'.' ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ;.." '*

IO THE RIO) NEWS. [January i,4th, 1896.

Santa Rosa Falmouth io Dec.Stèinvora CardiflSnowitiop ». Gaspe 23 Nov.SoiiMwold (stt) Cardift' ai Dec.Tanjore Pensacola A.Taria Topan Brunswick 25 Nov.hãrtina WesterwickVcilturosa OportoVasco da Gama OportoW.fí.Corsãr Cardiff it DecWcstfileii (str) Wisby 20 Dec.White Winçs Baltimoie 7 Dec.White Wings. PàscagoulaZ. Ring Pensacola

ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN STEAMERS.

FOREIGN SAILING VESSELS IN THE PORT

OF RIO DE JANEIRO, JANUARY lath, 1896.

NAMH

American

DATB NAME FHOM CONSIGNED TO

Jan.

88999'9o

10101010TOIIIIIIII12

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Liverpool* 27c!New York 331!*""Genoa* sodPetisacola* 31c!Liverpool" i8dHamburg** 25dNaples* 21 dValparaiso* 1.4c!Pernambuco 6d|{(,rdeau:<* iadBuenos Aires 6dAlcobaça ulSantos 20I1Havre* 3odLa Plata 7dlis. Aires 6%&

do 6dSantos i8h

do 20I1líremen' 29dRiver Plate* 3ddo ód

Rio Grande* ndGlasgow* v6ãRiver Plate 71}Victoria* 6dSantos 16I1Hamburg* 24c!

Wilson Sons & CE. lohnston & CA. Fiorita & CW. Samson & CWilson Sons&CE. Johnston & C

N.Vincenzi&FWilson Sons u£ CE JuhnstDn & CMess MaritimesKarl Vaiais & CSouza Alves &CNorton, M. & ÇChargeursRéunisL, CamposCamuyrano & C

doQuayle, D'. & CRomba uer & CH. Stoltz & C.Mess. MaritimesKarl Vaiais & CH. Stoltz & CNorton, M. & CWilson Sons& CoLa VeloceE. Johnston &C

do

lug Merom....lugGeneva....lug Lottie Moore

British

sp P. Caledoniasp Bermuda....bk Coronasp C< mliebank ..bk Firth of ClydeukJohnO'Gaiintsp KWIanCstlésp Cellic Chief..sp Port Logan...lug West. Belle..bk Eurusbk Pomonasp E. J. Spicer .sp 1uskar bk Bankholme..lug Morning Starsp AngloAmericalug C. W. Janes.lug Anligualug Sir Hibbert.bk Ivybk Oh Kimsoon.

AR-R1VED

3*3.399837

Dec. 20•28

31

DEPARTURES OF FOREIGN STEAMERS.

***»Jwy-

DATE NAME WHERE TO CARGO

Jan.

9Vo10IIIIII1212

Canova BiPó ItAntisana BrBrookside BrHolstein GrIbéria BrS. Gottardo* ItEuclid BrSempione ItHektos GrMalca GrGuahyba GrCampana FrBrenttnor BrAshley BrRogaland1 Nor'1'roja GrOropesa BrBrésil FrPortugal FrRiver Mersey BrPorto Alegre GrCatania GrBuenoe Ayres GrStrabo Br

12 Creole Pr. Br

Havre*Genoa*Valparaiso*Buenos Aires

doLiverpool*Genoa*New YorkRiver PlateBuenos AiresRosárioRio Grande*Havre*Buenos Aires

doMontevidéoSantosVa'paraíso*Bordeaux*River PlateBuenos AiresHamburg*Santos

doNew York

do121212121212

Rosário ItNagy Lajos AustProvence FrBoston City BrBretagne FrNi.rte Nor

Genoa*Ti iestc*Marseilles *Buenos AiresRiver Plate*Aracaju

Sundriesdodo

Ballastdo

Sundriesdo

CofleeSundriesBallast

doSundries

dò]Ballast

dodOJ ;Sundriesdoidodo

BallastSundries

dodo

Cofleedo

Sundriesdodo

BallastSundries

do

Danish

lug Arken

Dutch

bg Vlaanderen

German

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171

Nov

Dec,

FROM

New York.New Yo»k .New York.

Jan.

13152222

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212

5556699

CONSIGNEES

The Académie de Módecine of France has placed

HullCardifl....CardifT....Antwerp..ArdrossanAntwerpCardiff.....Antwerp....Greenock ..GaspeLondiin ....Antwerp.New York..Tadousac.Hyères....GaspeCardiff.....Rosário . ..Brunswick.Campbeton.Rosário...,Rosário....

467

Jan. 6

Sept.13

spLika. 1615 Oct. 11 Cadizbk Antuco 1460 Dec. 7 Hamburg..bkF.v.dLaenken 286 13 I. Boa Vista

West'wick.

Hamburg.

Watson, R. & C.Cardoso, F. & CV. W.Guim &C:

Gas CòWilson Sons & ÇBraz. Coal Co..To orderThedim, R. & CW. Samson & C.B.Rodrigues &.C*A. A1 ven ier &. CGas Cò.L. A. MagalhãesWalter, C. & C.To order.Geral de C. & I.Geral de C. & I.To orderPS Nicolson &CBraz. Coal Co.Sa'fcadbZ. & C.V. VV. Giiim. C.Geral de C. &C.). de Souza & C.Silva Viei.a & C.

C Heckshei &C

C. Hecksher &C

Apolhnaris"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS"

" At the head of all the waters examined for purity and

freedom from disease germs."

Italian

bk Splendezza .. 53clDec.bk Papa Giac'o.. |; 412

Norwegian

bgSwift.. I 234bk Assyria 1027lug Vega 191lug Nordenskjold 285bg Echo 338bkFlid 3'»bk Faerder 738bg S. N. Hansen 307

Portuguese

Marseilles.Hamburg.

Jan.

* Touching at intermediate ports.

bk Tentadora...bk Propheta...bk Mariposa...bk Triumpho..bk Isabel......

Swedish

bk Augustbk WesternTd

Sp.inish

bk Constância.

3944*2813478

1148

Dec. 12'3-¦.

3o6

ii1212

Nov. 10Dec. 12

1419ai

536396

Paranaguá.Ardrossan .Ilha do SulParanaguáLondon....Hudiks'11...Cardiff ....Macáo*.....

I. do Sal.Valencia..Oporto ...Mossoró..I. do Sal..

Jan. Ramsjoe..Kramfors.

Macetb Jr. &C.H. Stoltz & CG. Saboia & C.

A. Avenier & CC. Hecksher & C

J.H.Lowndes&CB. Rodrigues &CG. Saboia &C.To order.Ind. do Brazil.C. Hecksher &CTo orderA. O. Maia

J. A. G. SantossOliv. G. «t Santo*Veiga Pinto & C.To orderMacedo Jr. & C.

Ferraz Sob. & CC. Hecksher & C

649|jan. 12'íbira |To order

>HZ. Last Quotations of Stocks and Bonds — Jan. 13th. W

Circulation

262,055,800$105,000,000124,642,00018,541.50024.761.50016,868,500

Fcs, 17,500,0007,329,0004,000,000

Public Funds

Stock 5°o currency (apólices)Bonds of 1895, ,,Bonds .^0 (gold), convertedGold Loan, 1868, 6%Do do 1870, 4Í4%Do do ,1889, 4%State of Espirito Santo

,, of Minas Geraes, 5%,, of Rio de Janeiro, 6uó

960^000— q6?$ooo

954 000— 956 0001,285 0.0—1,287 0.0

1,600 000—

Capital

P ¦ -00,000,900$80,000,000

• • • •80,000,00017,000,00020,000,000

10,000,000156,766,200

30,000,000

Banks

CommercialCommercio

do and seriesConstructorCredito Movei.....Lavoura e Commercio

do and seriesNacional Brazileiro....Republica do Brazil

do and series...Rural e Hypothecario .........

do and series.

Par

200$aoo80

aooaooaoo100200200100200100

Last div.

8$ooo—Jan. 96000—Jan. 96

3 200—Jan. 96

000—Jan. 9600c—Jan. 96000—Jan. 96

10 000—Jan. 96000—Jan. 96000—Jau. 90000—Jan. 96500—Jan. ç6

2CO$0OD—205$00Oao5$ooo—

ia 000— i3$ooo

—154 000— 09 000

220 000—223 000155 coo—157 000

70 500— 72 510

' Á,

».¦-• Capital

40,000,000$16,000,00062,000,000

24,000,00070,000,000

Railways

Bahia íc MinasMu**.mbinhüOeste de Minas

do 2iid series....S. Paulo-Rio GrandeUuiãj Sorocabana-Itauna

do :nd series....

Par •4 ...;>.*

40*f ___—100 —'—aoo -75aoo -200 ——60

i4$ooo—

70$coa-

Capitai

14,000,000$12,000,000

Traiuw.iys

Jardim Botânico.S. Christovão

Par

aoc$soo

Last dn:

—Nov. 95-July 95I22$000— I25ÍCOOI50$ooo—»6o 000

WONDERFUL INVENTIOM.Whodoes not care about health and economy ? lhere is no doubt that we all

do, and in order to enjoy a comfortable bath, we must have many of these instantaneousmachines which, in 5 minutes, will heat a sufficient volume.f water and for all domestic

purposes, always ready day or night and consuming an insignificant quanlity ot gas.

These machines are made entiiely from copper and their durability is therefore

not aflected by any chemical action arising from the acids contamed 111 the water, and

we claim the three follòwing poiuts of vantage :

1. They consume 80 o|o less gas on account ofthe air pressure ;

2. They will last a lifelime and not corrode ;,

3 Besides being an object uf utmost necessity, endorsed by leading medicaiauthorities, lhey are a handsome feature of decoiation to any partof a house and are guaranteed for 10 years.

In stock : Gasoline macliíiies, especially adapted for lhe use of planters, important

coffee machines, suitable for Hotels and Restauranis.

Duplex machines for coffee and tea.

Special machines* for laundry work.

The public is cordially invited' to visit the agent.

Thomas Price,50, Rua Gonçalves Dias.

A-sUs: f ou?

CÀãà/mL

Sole importers :

ROMBJLUBR & Co.78, RUA DO GENERAL CÂMARA,

RIO OE JAJÍEIRO.

LONDON STORE

This new establishment has always in stock alarge assortment

of English, American, French,Portuguese and Brazilian Preserves, Wines,

Liqueurs and Grains.

Nectandra Amara Pills.These wonderful pills, so useful and

beneficiai in all affections of the stomachand intestinos, are obtainable in all placeswhere a post-office exists; the manufaetu-rer -will forward by registered mail andto any given address, if accompanied bymoney :

1 box for 2$300

)£ dozen boxes for... 12$600 andOne dozen „ „ .. 20$000

Address:JOAQUIM BUENO DE MIRANDA,

No. 72, Rua de S. Pedro, Ist floor.

Rio de Janeiro.

Capitai

)0,COO,OO0?6,coo,ooo3,00,600c6,ooo,occ

500,0001,200,0001,500,000

4,coo,ooo2,coc,occ

360,000

Miiis I P*r11 ¦

AlliançaBiazil Industrial...Carioca ..................Confiança IndustrialD. IsabelIndustria 1 MineiraManufactera Fluminense..PetropolitanaS. Pedro de Alcântara ...Santa Luiza ...

aooi*93030020O2002O0IOO2DC2CO2 CO

Lasl dk

v -Ju!>" -i4$coo—Aue. 05

- -K>-'Julyjar..•Aug•AugAug.

.. -Juiy6 oco— Jau.

10 ooo-25 coo1 j coo

6«0 P- a6 ooo;

939595959595959595ç6

214Ç000—

Orders carefully attended to andthe quality of every article is guar-anteed.

Catalogues sail postftxe on re-quest.

—245$o«30

—130 eco XXiliwUAJ AllwiiU.UiJ Wk uiOiUUwu

Ouvidor Nó. SJp.

Companhia Serviços de PortosOffloe i

No. 64, Rua do General Câmara

Landing of goods. heavy machinery andlive cattle. Floating Steam Crane for liftingup to 30 Tons weight.

Powerful steam pumps. Drag boati .Stonehallast supplied to ships. Slip way and workshops at Toque-Toque. (Armação, near Nic-theroy).

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January Hth, 1896.] THE RIO NEWS. n

H. F, ORTONS3a.ii>, Steairtex" aaid. Oeneral

"'Correspondence and consignments invited.

VICTORIA,

Espirito Santo, Brazil;P. O. Box 45.

Cable address : ORTON.

Mel\s Explosives Co.,LlGLASGOW.

-Manufacturers ofNo. 1 DYNAMITE, GELIGNITE

and GELATINE DYNAMITE,1 under Government inspection.

Packed in cases of 50 lbs. each, nett weight.

Works: ÍSESIST^fXlshire} scotlandStocks of above goods always on hand in Rio magazines,¦and also oí Detonators and Safety fuses suitable for all¦workings.AU information concerninsr the above can be had on"application to the Agents in Brazil

Watson Ritchie &> Co.25, Rua Theophilo Ottoni,

Rio de Janeiro.

FILTROSPASTEUR

FILTROS

1

VENDEM-SE NO DEPOSITODOS ÚNICOS AGENTES

de li Société tnnnyme da

FILTRE CHAMBERLANDSYSTÈME PASTEUR

PARISPara o Brasil

EMANUELE CRESTA A C.44, rua da Quitanda, [44

RIO DE JANEIRO

ALPfflE HOUSEPENSION AND RESTAURANT

HUA DO AQUEDUCTO, 6B

On the Une of Silvestre tramway. SANTA THEREZA.To be reached in 30 minutes from town.

This house is hiehly recommended for its excellent position:and most beautiful view upon the far ocean, city and islands,being situated on the very summit of Santa Thereza hill, andentirely out of reach of fever or malária. Itis, therefore, a'•most safe place for foreigners, tourists and new arrivals.The hotel is surrounded by beautiful parks, walks and aHarge forest.

The restaurant and kitchen are first class.

ENVELOPES.A LARGE ASSORTMENT LATELY RFXE1VED OF

"SQUARE COMMERCIAL ENVELOPESfrom superior calendared papers of various colors;

American Commercial Envelopes,made from the best white and tinted papers:

LINEN ENVELOPES,'made from the best qualities of linen papers known in the

United States.These envelopes are superior in both quality and make.

Samples-may be seen at theT3n>ogara.i>lx±a. ^.ltíLi-rta

No. jg Rua Sete de Setembro.

To tràellers on Land or Sea.No traveller should forget to take withhim a box of pills or a bottle of Tincture

of Nectandra Amara, which might comevery handy In cases ot' sudden náuseas orany other disarrangement of the stomachor intestines, 80 frequent during traveis.This marvellous remedy is accompaniedby.a prospectus in three languages, viz:Português», English and French tofacilitateits use among natives and foreigners. Forsale at all Druggists and Chemlsts and atthe manuraeturer'8 depôt, No. 72, Rua S.Pedro, Ist floor, Rio de Janeiro-

The Franklin Typewriter.<i GUARANTEED THE BEST

IIMIIil! Ul ui MPIIIIIIIUIIIIWI!»111' M jt

¦ ¦H»,*»i* ,r'i

"r- ® mim m <*'"""HifUI

SOME DISTINCTIYE FEATURES

f. Baldes larGia'sMEAT JÜICE

Awarãed premiums at the following .*

Barcelona 1888-Paris 1889-Genoa 1892Chicago 1893 and Uruguay 1895.

Analysis made and approved by the Inspector ofHygiene, of Rio de Janeiro.

Analysed by the celebrated checni.sts of theLondon University, Messrs. Hassall and Claytoir.The result of their analysis made 011 the 3rd Nov-ember, 1892, shows that they obtained 30% ofpeptone, soluble albumen and olher ássimilableprotéines.

It is the only preparation which can be said tobe a tonic and most nourishing food.

Depôt at

No. B 1, RUA SENADOR DANTAS

Simplicity.—Has fewer by six hundredparts than any other type-bar machine,thus reducing liability of getting out oforder. Any intelligent person can un-derstand and operate it.

Durability.—All metal, except the key-tops, platen, and feed-rolls. Construetedof the best material, by the most skilledworkmen.

Alignment—The type-bars are guided,thus ensuring exact and permanent align-' ment.Speed.—The expertness of the operator is

absolütely the only limit to its speed.Visible Writing.—Every letter is shown

as soon as struck, and the work remainsin sight. Corrections are thus easilymade, and context verified.

Manifolding.—The stroke is downward,direct, and powerful, making it the mostperfect manifolder and mimeographer onthe market.

Repairs.—Owing to every part being in-terchangeable, purchasers can almost in-variably make what few repairs may beneeded themselves, thus saving cost ofrepairer. The machine is therefore ex-tremely economical.

Arranged for writing Portugtiese, French,charging parts.

Type Cleaning.—The types are cleanedin five seconds time, without touchingwith hands.

Ribbon Changing.—No soiling of handsor loss of time in changing ribbons, thelatter being reeled from the spool onwhich it is purchased to the machinespool.

Keyboard.— Has the standard keyboard,with capital shift, locking shift, andcelluilóid keys—the latter being blackand white, as recommended by eminentoculists.

A Time Saver.—Owing to its automaticpaper shift ribbon changing device, easein making corrections, quickness of typecleaning, and the fact that the work isalways in sight, it is the greatest time-saving writer manufactured.

Appearance.—Without exception, thehandsomest typewriter made, beautifully• nickeled and japanned—an ornament aswell as an article of necessity.

Work.—Its work is clean, clear cut, andbeautiful in appearance. Samples che-erfully furnished upon application.

Italian, Spanish and German, without

Price ? $90 with Table.M. M. King éè Co.

RUA DA ALFÂNDEGA 77 A & 79RIO DE JANEIRO.

IZALThe non-Poisonous Antiseptic and Disinfectant.

Non-Caustic, Non-Corrosive.

The only preventive of Yellow fever, Small Pox, Choleraand all contagiou* diseases. Used with marvellous resultsduring the last epidemic season here.

For Veterinary and Agricultural purposes Izal may be re-commended as one &f the most useful agents at-our dispossl.

Used on board the steamers of the principal Companies.It does not damage the decks.

Sold in bottles and gallon drums.Sole agent for Brazil:

NESTOR SAMPAIO,

Rua da Alfândega, 40Rio de Janeiro.

Samples and direclions for use grátis on application.

New Zealand Store.This establishment has always in stock a large

assortment of English, American, French, Port.uguese and Brazilian preserves, as well as wines,liquors, bacon, liams, and many sorts of cheese.

Lobsters, crabs, fish and game are also receiveddirectly from New Zealand and Southampton byfrigorific process, in every mail steamer.

Orders are carefully attended to and the qualityguaranteed.

Carriage free to every house in town.

SPINNING AND WEAVING MACHINERY.¦.¦**¦.¦¦¦¦

HOWARD & BULLOUGH, LimitedSPECIALISTS IN SPINNING;

HENRY LIVESEY, LIMITED.SPECIALISTS IN WEAVING.

Coelho & DiasOuvidor No. 37.

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•. 1^: ___W__^^_'Z_í_i__í__tÊf^^^^^^--~^~~~ ~~\l——~~~"j£5_P

M. JJatila ~~"

,

OSWALD EVANS & Go. *Import and Commission Merchants.

Lubricating Oils, .

Plows, Hardware, etc.'

i •- ¦¦ 7Á-.y ¦¦• ¦.•¦' -.¦

Np. 9, RUA DA BOA VIS7A

P.O. Pox, 527. S5° PAUL0-

Telegraphic Address : " EVANS."Agencies and Correspoudenco íolieited

Sole Agents in Brazil:HENRY ROGERS, SONS & Co.

Engineers and Contractors,77, Rua da Alfândega, Rio ©E JANEIRO

HEAD OFFICE: Wolverhampton, England.Mili Sundries always in Slock in Rio.Plans and estimales on application to Agents.

VICTORIA STORE.8 B, Rua de São Bento

SÃO PAULONEWSAGENTS, BOOKSELLERS

and COMMISSION AGENTS.

Assorimentr- of EnglUh Novéis, Books, Shoes, Lincoln andBennetts Hats, Pcar's soaps and nearly every Englishatticle of general use, on hand.

Agents for Lipion'* teas, of which there is always a goodstock.

VICTORIA STORECaixa O. São Paulo.

'¦iggJSZi^: &8!!2!&Jtttt!2&i£^ «ww

12

fM^piU0.Geo, R, Peijton. Frank H, Norton

ESTÁBLISHED 1865.

Thomas Norton & Co.Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants,

Old regular Line Sailing Packets to

RIO DE JANEIRO & SANTOS.104, Wall Street.

NEW YORK.

ROYAL MAIL

STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

Under contracts with the British and BrazilianGovernments for carrying the mails.

TABLE OF DEPARTURES,

1896Date

1896Jan. 15

., i5

16

Steamer

Thames..,

Danube..

Tagus...

Destination

Montevideo and Buenos-Ayres.

Souihampton and Cherbourg, calling atBahia, Pernambuco, Lisbon and Vigo.

Santo».

¦ 3.<"

This Company will have steamers from and to Englandthree times per month.

Insurance on freight shipped on these steamers can betaken out at the Agency;

For freight, passages and other information apply to No. 2,Rua General Camara, ist floor.

G. C. Anderson,Superintendem.

¦«St.;.'-BR?-, ¦

ÍKS.TÍA' í'. -

'<-:¦: '

'

LIVERPOOL, BRAZIL AND RIVERPLATE MAIL STEAMERS.

4 •*>•,' „«##%

LAMPORT & HOLT LINE

PASSENGER SERVICE FOR NEW YORKThe well-known steamers

Wqrdsworth, Hevelius, Leibnitz, Coleridge and_, , Galileo

sail at intervals calling at _y __...» .,à >! ji V'BAHIA, and PERNAMBUCO

/"¦• and taking ist class passengers at moderate rates,

<¦ ¦ Surgeon and Stewardees carried. -

Tlie voyage is much quicker tlian. by way of England. and^ittíoiylthè iticoriveniences of transfer. ¦>¦<

•%

'¦¦:.. ¥>

THE RIO NEWS^

LEA & PERRINS'OfíS£/?/£ THAT THE

SIGNATURE

^0^ •, /%

a \flflfl\rf ^^^ m

18 NOW

PRINTED

IN BLUE INK '

DIAGONALLY ACROSS THEOUTSIDE WRAI»í»EIt

of every Bottle of the

TO PHILATELISTS.FOR SALE :

Scotfs Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue,1895 Edition Rs.

Stanley Gibbons Descriptive Catalogue. Price List 1895-6 ,,Senf Brothers' Catalogue, 1895 „Catalogue Maury ".' ,,Catalogue Barbarin ., ,,Manual du Collectionneur de Timbres t.

4S00G-

5*000^4$0005S000-6S0OO-3S500.

Sold Wholesale by the Proprietors,Woreester;

Crosse & Black well, Ltd., London;and Export Oilmen generally.

RETAIL EVERYWHERE.SAUCE.

A.RGENT1NE POSTAGE STA.MPSA nice Card. containing 32 genuine Ar-

gentine postage stamps, all differentkinds Rs. 4$50G>

JPostag-e Stamps of tlie South American,Republies t

Paraguay, Chili, Uruguay and PeriS.

A nice series of 32 varieties of stamps ofthese neighboring countries, containingsome rare ones, sold at Rs. 6$000».

OASA PHILÀTELICA,1 A, Travessa S. Francisco..

COMMERCIAL PRINTING

OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION AT

No. 79 Rua Sete de Setembroist floor.

çrjacobs Qn

YARROWS SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS.if

'?'3-~ '^-^--z.

ÊRÈ^aoíCURES

Rheumatism.Neuralgia.Sciatica,Lumbago, Backache, Headache.Toothache, '

Bors Tfcrout, Swelllngs. tiprain». BruUet,4 Burnt, Seuldn, Frort liltet,.

' f o)J by DrnKgtnU tnd Detltn e»«rjwher«. Flfty Ceau a

bottle. Dlrectloni la 11 Linguiget.THK U1IA11LES A. VOOKLEU CO.

King, íerreira & Co., Agents for Brazil,

S-c

STERNWHEEL STEAMERS have beou found by experience to be'the best type of vessel for shallow mer naviçation,

nnd of these Messrs. Yarrow have construeted a laree number of successful examples for all parts of the world.Vessels on this system nre construeted when required, to draw as little as 6 inches.Messrs. Yarrow lately built the sternwheelers " Mosquito " and " Herald " for the British Government, for servicehe Zambesi. ..,.., A *, ij. iv':'i.They were construeted in floatablesections (capable of shipment), which were simply bolted together, avoidingtnereDy-" la

on the ZambesiTlicv wcre l

the costly and diflicult process of riveting up and launching

V*'For full particülars apply to—

YARROW & CO., Shipbnilders,POPLAR, LONDON.

4

_. Weekly cargo steamers for NEW YORK.

« FLAXMAN"isth January.

Fôr freight apply to the Broker •t 1 Wm. R. McNiven,

^^p f'°. K»a >° de Março.

• Fer passages and other information apply to the

Agents: NORTON, MEGAW & Co. Ld.

58, Rua Io de Março

PiACIFIC STEAM

NAVIGATION COMPANY.ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.

DEPARTURES for LIVERPOOL.Liguria Jan, 22111I

These popular steamers nre fitted with the electric light andall modern convenienees. Insurance policies may be takenout at the agency on merchandise, baggage and values.

For freights apply to F. D. Machado,No. 4, Rua de S. Pedro;

and for passages and other information to

Wilson Sons & Co., L'd., Agents,

No. i, Rua de São Pedro.

NORDDÈUTSCHER LLOYD,

BREMEN.

Capital. 40,000,000 Marks.

sHAW, SAVILL & ALBION Co.,LIMITED.

,:v

f.-<- ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.BETWEEN

NEW ZEALAND and LONDON., ft

¦*¦

HOMEWARDS-Due at Rio de Janeiro.Tainüi Jan. 3ist

Steamers superior in every respect and fitted with everyconvenience for the comfort of travellers. Call at TenekIkkeand Plymouth ; passengers may land at latter port

For frelsht apply to F. D. Machado,No. 4, Rua dc S. Pedro;

and L<r passages and other information toWilson, Sons & Co., L'd., Agents

No. 2, Rua de São Pedro.

Regular Lines of Steam .Packets between

Bremen—United StatesBrazil

„ River Plate„ China, Japan

Austrália

Departures fiom Rio de Janeiro óntliejrdand iSth of each month to

Bahia, Lisbon, Antwerp and Bremen.Passengers and cargo for all ports of the different lines

accepted.Passages Ratís: \st.-cl. yd-cl.

Rio—Antwerp, Bremen 500 Marks. 150Í000„ —Lisbon 425

For further information apply to

Companhia Nacional de Navegação Costeira.

120$0OO

HERM. STOLTZ & Co,, Agents,Rua da Alfândega, No. 63. Rio de Janeiro.

w. SAMSON & CO.Steamship Agents

AGENTS OF THEALLAN LINE OF STEAMERS

HOWDEN LINE OF STEAMERSGELLATLY LINE OF STEAMERS

Rio de Janeiro, RuaS. Pedro No. I, P. O. Box 1113Buenos Aires, Calle Cuyo No. 429, ,, „ ,, 905Montevideo, Calle Zabala No. 30, ,, „ ,, 253Rosário, Calle Rijada No. 156, ,, ,, ,, 54

Cable Address-SAMSON.

RUBBER HAND STAMPS.

and

Metal-Bodied Rubber Type.

S. T. tONGSTRETH,Otüce aud wcrks: i3, Travessa do Ouvidor, ist door.NB.—Special attention given to large stamps (trade-marks)

and large type for marking coifee bags.

Business Signs Engraved

Weekly Passenger service between Eio deJaneiro and Porto Alegre, calling at Para-naguá, Desterro, Rio Grande and Pelotas.

Sailings every Saturday at 4 p. m. inva-riably.

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The Steamer

ITAPERTJNÀwith excellent accommodations for Ist and

3rd class passengers,will sail íor

Paranaguá, Antonina, Desterro, Rio Grande,Pelotas and Porto Alegre,

Saturday, 18th inst. at 4 p. m.Freight and parcels received through the

Trapiche Costeiro, Rua da Saude 56, up tothe 17th.

Yaluables at the ortice, on the day ofsailing till 2 p. m.

The Steamer

ITAPEVA

will sail shortly for

IMBETIBA

*rt

This steamer reeeives Cargoes for all sta-tions from Macahé to Campo^. Araruama,.Central de Macahé, Padua, Carangola andothers of the Minas branch of the'LeopoldinaRailway, daily at the Trapiche ;'?Vapor,"'

Armazém No. 6.

For passages and information apply to the office of

LAGE IRMÃOS,Rixa 1.° d-e IMIaz?ço3 49.

WATCHE8 AP CLOCKSCLEAXEDani REPMP.ED.

H. Kliewer makes a speciaüty oftlie above work.

All hich class watche* petsonally at-lendcd to, and in every case the

\vorkman»hip is guaranteed.

74 RUA DO OUVIDOR 74

A PÊNDULA SUISSA.JEWELLER AND WATCHMAKER

American eiaht-<lay clocks, slnkinc hoursand haU-hours.. Rs. SWOO.

American alarm clocks.. Rs. 8*<X»

No. 92, Rua dos Ourives.I^rSDOL.l*UO J». SA^TOÃ.