The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-09-01

avg 'Sooh" oiiy w Cuod IN the world, its
eXportauons often reaching fifteen hun
dred thousand tons in year But most
OF the sugar sent from Pernambuco is of
low grade and must be refined in England
OF the United States before going into the
market for consumption. There is no
mistaklng the chief industry of the CITY.
the instant one sets foot on Shore fol-
sugar is seen and smelled at every step
on the lighters going out to ships in the
harbor, in great warehouses where ne
groes are handling hugh sacks of it. on
the backs OF pack horses coming in lroves
from the country, heaped on OK carts
which everywhere block the streets, here,
there and everywhere Even the pave
ments are sticky with melting sugar ooz-
ing from casks and bales and barrels, the
very air is redolent with it, and the peo-
pie are fat and sleek as only those can be
whose diet contains plenty of saccharine
matter The sugar and cotton exchange,
here called the Commercial Association, -
is one of the first things that attracts the
strangers attention on landing. 1t is
very large, two-stored white walled build
ing, surrounded by foreign looking flower
beds and an iron fence. Inside there are
tour enormous rooms two on the ground
floor and two above. OF the former, one
is set apart for the office of the President
of the Association and score of broker S
desks, its sides covered with blackboarls
for registering commercial quotations and
daily shipping and business news; the
other room furnished with long table
running its entire length and covered with
piles of newspapers in every language I'M
der the sun. One wall is faced with book
cases containing bound volumes of period
icals, law reports, commercial statistics
etc, another with framed diplomas and
awards. In short it is perfect and com
plete as a business man S reading room
clean, attractive and cooled by ocean
breezes. The up-stairs rooms are we'll
carpeted and furnished the walls hung
with portraits Of Dom Pedro and other
distinguished Brazilians. They are used
for club balls, and for occasional recep-
tions which may be rendered to visiting ce-
lebrities. The little plaza in front of this
building is filled during certain hours of
every day with knots Of merchants dis
cussing the two great items of local COM
merce-sugar and cotton. Close by is the
principal market house, very handsome
supplied with water All its tables are
large, smooth slabs of stone, and each
stall-kept scrupulously clean by LAWS
surrounded by a neat iron railing. Such
a profusion of fish, flesh and fowl, flowers.
fruits and vegetables, rare birds and talk
ing parrots and chattering monkeys. paint
ed gourds and hand made lace and a thous
and curious things must lie seen to be ap-
prcciated
The House OF Deputies is found III the
san. Antonio section--a square, red build
ing with an enormous dome and very large
windows filled with very small panes of
glass. Near it stands the President $
| "PaiaciO, (noW the Governor S y
another square, two-s stored structure sur
rounded by extensive gardens. in which
the mango, acacia, wild lie, bread fruit
and aloe flourish to perfection. 1t has
old furniture Of Brazilian rosewood.
quantity carved, and from every wall the
| pictured faces OF the late royal family look
| down upon you. Ia front of the alleged
palace is a pretty little park, with music
pavilion where a military band performs
on certain evenings; and on the other side
OF it is theatre-by no means the largest
OF handsomest we have seen in South
America, but the brightest and cleanest
not even except Santiagos boast the
''Teatre Municipal 1t has four tiers OF
boxes, besides a few procenium boxes,
| the largest Of which is reserved for the
President or whatever the ruling dignitary
may chance to be called as politics change.
| There is an extensive foyer with doors
opening upon belvedere at the top of the
vestibule, where people promenade be-
tween the acts for a breath of fresh air
for, as may be imagined from its nearness
to the equator, the indoor atmosphere OF
this CITY Of the Reef especially wheI
heated by gas and shared conformity with
a multitude Of fellow sufferers, is not by
any means OF the coolest.
FANNIE b. WARD.