The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-23

ana absorb the La Plata provinces OF Brazil. Thus
there are "a many reasons hating each other ~
any reasonable would-De belligerent could desire.
Army AND NAVAL RECRUiTMBNr.
4, AZ .. ~ an approved maxim TO prepare for war
Ia time OF peace. the men hunt by which the Bra
zeal, and any bIack-halred young fellow yellow in
the gus ana wasp WASTED, and any stray Niger
whose vanity has led him to Undue his understand
ing In the shee OF liberty are in cOnsderabIe dan
ger OF being locked up with pimps. drunkards ana
thieves; while the authorities leisureiy decide upoa
tneir ntpess ior 1000 for powder. Cannon ana
muskets are gong or all day on the shooting
ground and the srsenals are busy to the ears upon
rockets pes invention, which Is SAID to act on
the boomerang principle and be bound 90 do some
Then cOrveLtes ana gunboats are in oonstruo-
ton with haste post haste; the naval cadets arc
sea-tossed without rest. and. disgastsd, render
tune and finally, this year the great sea mOnstor
Dom Pedro L. said to be the thickest and most pow
erful iron lrIgate yet made is expected out this
year, armed with 1. 600 FOUNDER rides.
AMERICAN RIFLES ON HAND.
Ine Argentine, however, nave I'VE; not been seeptng
the Brazlians. From the United states have como
100000 Remington rifles and number OF In
mense thunderers, which the Argentnes are pux-
cling their brains to devise means to hoist out and
In March they will have monitor out from Eng
land capable OF thrashing ali the combined Brazil
ian mosquito iron-clads- and within year tooy
will have two iron-clad trgates, monitor. Tour
cuirassed gunbOats and four or hve despetch
steamers. which Will not MAKE bad-stzed aeet
for state of 100000 souls, counting the Gauchoa.
souls nor Sowe With suc an W
fear the Argentines VIII feel like boy with new
pistol and win feel bound to try il some ono.
whom we think here Will certainly DC Brazil. ands
therefore, think 1t would be well to bring on the
aud place us at a terrible disadvantage,
RAILWAY PROGRESS.
The first Fell central rail railroad was tnaugu-
rated on the 18th. II y eight and one.aG Quartz.
mOuntain called Sierra da Boa Vista, in the north
west OF the basin OF the Bay Of Rio. The con
has been made Baron de Nova. The CON.
tract Tor the surveys and plans OF
the Rio Grande DO Sui Railroad has inst
de Almelda and Engineer Ferreira Penna at 695a00e
1927 SOY per kilometer Of feet Sx inches gauge
gauge re- tSe @overnmen wanting surveys Of both
the wide and the narrow gauge. The present sur.
yey is from Porto Allegro, across the province. %
Uruguayana, and branch to the south Ii cOntem-
plated. These railroads are those for which
The General Assembly appropriated last session
CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST CLERIC.
In Ceara the priest OF the parish Of kiacno 90
Sangue (Rlvulet OF BLOOD has been arrested upon
the charge OF ordering and causing murder to %
committed on four persons the motives pro,
duclng these murders were peculiar. The prioss
ers, and for more than year had tried to ssduos
her and to get her to live with him as bis concu-
pine ae even had the ar. 70 get he, daths y.
young girl resisted firmly both the priestiy
solicitations and the paternal pressure. AZ
last, BY the advice OF q missionary.
the girl ned to the house OF relation, and after .
time betr0thed herself to q cousin. Sometime
later another relation, Judge OF high position,
came 10 parish and, on hearing OF the state oil
things wrote to the Bishop Of Oeara about them.
The Bishop at once sent q license to marry with
out banns and BY any clergyman, but the priest
openly declared that the girl should never marry
her cousin or any other. In fact lew days before
the marriage day two men-one slave OF tho
priest-seized the young man IN daytime ana bar
barously murdered him In the open street OF the
village. An old man. who came accidentally to the
spot ana a relative OF the girl, who ran up TO the
bloody scene OF the day was closed by the murder
OF q young girl, who, on seeing the assassnatiOna
In perpetrAtiOn, ran between the murderers and
their victims with an image OF Christ neld before
her, to implore them to desist. The two assas.
sins were arrested and confessed That the priest
had employed them to murder the cousin ana
other persons, but had charged them strictly TO "a
no hurt to the girl who had inspired him with -
unbrided and deadly q passion.