Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-26
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.
The Pacific Mail steamer Colima has ar.
rived at San Francisco from Panama, bring.
ing dates to the lst instant.
CHILE.
The smallpox was conveyed to Los Who's
by laborer from Valparaiso, who was en-
gagged TO work or farm in the immediate
vicinity OF the former place. A few days
after his arrival FIVE men were attacked /;
in few days more there were nineteen
persons in the smallpox hospital, and
eleven had succumbed to the disease.
None of the persons attacked escape
Some die on the third day. and none sur.
vive the fifth. In ono house a father and
six children succumbed one after the other.
but the mother escaped, owing, probably.
to her having had the smallpox and to the
fact of her having been vaccinated quite
recently. In another, woman died, leav.
ing little girl, who was taken charge Of
by charitable gentleman, but on the
seventh day it was attacked and died.
Two similar cases are reported. The pop
ulation Of Los Who's is between 700 and
500, and it is computed that one-third of
the inhabitants have been attacked. A
panic has seized upon the town, and every
body who can get away is flying from it.
1t has been necessary to allow the dead to
be buried anywhere, as men cannot be
found to carry the bodies.
Monsigneur Dell Frates, the Papal Dele
gate in Chile, has been expelled because
the Pope refues to consent to the petition
presented by the Government to the Apos-
tolic Chair in 1878. praying fer the preconi-
cation of the candidate presented for the
vacant Archiepiscopal See of Santiago.
His departure was signalizsd by manifesto
tions Of regret and grief on the part of the
people.
The bill empowering the President of the
Republic to grant patents for twenty years
has been sanctioned by the Council of
State.
Rich silver discoveries have been made at
Petorcs, the ore yielding 1920 ounces to
the ton.
The bill empowering the President to let
by tender the construction of four railways
has been sanctioned by the Council of State.
The lines are A branch line from Rengo
or Pelequen station to Peumo line from
Corhue to Mulchen and from Angel to
Traignen, and another from Renaico to Fort
Victoria.
PERU.
Iglesias is at Cajamarca with a body
guard of a hundred or more men, and gives
no sign of an intention to leave the pace.
Outside of Cajamarca he has not even the
shadow of power, and the sympathy of the
seven Northern Departments, upon which
he sanguinely relied, has been absolutely
refused to his cause.
Large reiLforcements have arrived at
Tacna and africa from Callao and Valpa-
raise, making the Chilean forces at those
points amount to probably over 5, 600 men.
An order has been made public reducing
the outward duty or concrete sugar to so
cents per 100 kilos.
No more cases of yellow or typhoid fever
are reported from the Bay of Callao. The
United States steamer Hartford has all on
board in excellent health, after having lost
two men from typhoid fever.
GUATEMALA.
As set-off in some measure to the con.
tinued low price of coffee, the crop itself
has been in most districts very abundant,
SO that the expectation will probably be
greater than in any previous year.
Messrs. BRsterheld and Croker have
made the last payment On the San Jose and
Escuintla Railroad, but as yet the prop
erty has not been turned over to the new
company.
The Central American Union seems to be
recommending itself more and more to the
minds of the people as the one political goal
to be striven for.
COLOMBIA.
Locusts and sickness have done much
damage in Magdalena.
Congress was formally opened on Febru-
airy lst. The Senate elected Sr. B. Rein
ales as President; Sr. Benjamin Ruiz,
Vice.P President, and Sr. Leonidas Flores as
Secretary. The Deputies elected to hold
the same Offices, Senores Constancio Franco
Vargas, Juan F. de la Espriella and Carlos
Cetes.
There is break in the section of the
cable of the West Coast Company, which
connects Lima with Mollendo Several
Interruptions have previously occurred In
this same section, owing to the nature of
the sea-bed in that region, which sound
ings show to be exceedingly broken and in.
tersected by deep ravines. The Central
and South American Company's northern
section is broken at about ninety miles
from Panama.
As the canal enterprise acquires consist
ency it becomes evident that labor will be
abundant, and that the work is progressing
in spite OF opposition from various sources.
ECUADOR.
At Guayaquil it is feared that directly
the least opportunity offers, the city will
suffer q sack similar to that experienced in
Quito, Cayambe and other places.
Matters at Guayaquil are growing worse
daily, and the position OF General Viente-
milla is becoming extremely critical. To
his other troubles are now added two inter.
national questions. He has abruptly can
celed the exequatur of the italian Consul,
and has also tortured an italian subject.
He expects some Krupp guns and men who
know how to work them, and SO he hopes
to defend Guayaquil from the attacks of
the rebels, who will most certainly not
allow him to long remain in peace. Quay
aquil will be captured with greater ease
than Esmeraldes. but the destruction which
is sure to be effected by the troops here
makes all dread an attack on the town.