The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-04-07
correspondent in Brazil.

,,a.,NNY PETS. AFFAIRS IN THE
NEW HEPrBLlc.
.,l correspondence of the journal.
a., NJ tANE1Ro, Feb. 23rd. Our only
o., .ol 50 completely altering the pro-
ntel tickets had been bought for
4 ,a, Ayrcs, luggage actually on the
III, the wharf of the waiting steamer,
a .ur mail for month past having been
med to the care of the Argentine
.+sr- is the time honored one that it
vomanS privilege to change her
The moving cause was this: We
4 ..i hv accident, at the literal eleventh
..at party of ladies and gentlemen
,.s,e company We journeyed some
e-t, # miles on the other side of the
.pr were bound for Rio, on board
..,1 Wing out in the harbor. which i'll
0.ars time would sail.
M GREAT deal can be accomplished
, I,ns. by dint of vigorous hustling,
u telegraph and cable A man
agyrr have done it, among these
4 y,lfuUug manana people; but all the
wa to women. and the LATEST
mlican will bestir himself for
4 sake when lucrc would not
.. ON our side the incentive WAS
4 Laying long outStaid the original
4 .-nltv. VIC tind our ranks cmhar-
! rduecd in this third year of
1rine; and in numbers there is
.. specially for foreigners in these
uAJrc>. We had been dreading
bn,A je visit to Brazil, imagining all
t r Mgaboos to alright lone fe-
-hleWainted with the Portuguese
.O- and here was an opportunity to
4 uii,l ii under the most favorable
N instances.
"a rst.1e here we are, fifteen hundred
g, ueuct the equator than when we
N
fact that the French, German
g.lsh steamers that ply these coasts
A#r regular trips between South
4l aud Europe, register an average
tmea ot thirteen knots an hour, and the
rng, vUpies five days. \ few weeks
b 0hen Yellow Jack stalks abroad on
Hamal raid, we will fit southwark
nd proceed To do the big Argen-
N uu.lV. the lonely Parana and lln-
kvn Tdraguay-si Dios quicrc, as the
k.Mds say
u taltlic>t season in Rio, when yell
te}cI DtsCS are down to the minimum :
l> evening, in course of AN hour $
h. which happened to lie along the
palu- bordercd avenue leading to
lylu ampo Salo. we passed no fewer
a-br funeral PROFESSIONS on their
Ill otUc lily of the dead. whose popu-
nu,i outnumber the living city a
u ,l. one. Though every foot pro-
ern' ut a lively jog-trot, and those
tmla-es galloped along at full speed,
b a,,ssv to tell to which social strata
9 BIZ naurd belonged. for here as else
h 4u. same treatment is melted out to
perir As when they were living. ac-
n rD9 To the scriptural axiom, ''To him
' MI shall he given. Those Brazil
n nave lived in luxury are escorted
ID n. with the ''ponp and cireum-
R Gnd incidental. with the vast
20 The relatives. who thus have
a-, to- mourn). OF blc-canopied
al score OF plumed horses, and IA
M n doWin. of hired carriages filled
Nalr liends-cvery man of them
D rH- Black kid gloves and a broad
Wud his tail silk hat, and ward
Al, Not ri the same emblem of woe
WU>ly streaming from his light
m 1e0" and those whom we saw bow
u.l behind the hearse were all
A- She inevitable cigarito and animal
osclSSine politics. OF perhaps the
ha@ condition of the family of the de
'dse are there any women, for, It's
% % these Southern countries, the
@ and presumably more tender
H -ecX are excluded from funerals
AlS bd the last adeauX to those they
'9'ed IN the privacy of their homes
} sensible arrangement among these
'iae high strung. uncomfortable
tDq Ne vito boast no Spartan females.
hmhler dead, stretched cotfinless.
Ngk palled board. or enclosed il
IL WN} painted box. are borne to the
-. lnterment on the shoulders OF
eidS, while those OF the followers
muster enough mil ,'eis 80 out OF
Whtpl custom, that everybody il
ii p heir balconies, in the streets.
N' IN carriages, rich and poor
and humble reverentially UNI
IT "j heads when "A funeral cortegt
NJ DOING involuntary homage tt
Nrtr 1t which we must all be
wien the soul has fled
foe VII grim death is not without its hum
N1' n this strange city. Brazilian
weed little angels as the corpsci
+, ,be ''.eo are universally ealled), are no
enoe '' lle grave in the conventional
o. 3 back Of other countries, but il
~ lutre is a small scarlet hears,