The eagle., September 04, 1895, Page 13, Image 13

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THE EAGLE: WEDNESDAY. HKl'TKMHFIi 4. 1l5.
County School Superintendent Link
litiH not been able as yet to make another
apportionment to the different sel. o l
districts there is. only eight huidred
dollars at his disposal and the amount
lias been scarcely increased since the
lirst of July.
A force of ' Santa Fe carpenter.i have
made needed improvements at the
temporary station below town. The
ticket ollice in 'now of the lower floor.
J. J. McEwen has decided to continue
in the fruit and produce business and the
sale between him 'and Mews' Xe.'f a id
White has been declared off. . ,"'
The contract for (lie conduction of the
new Santa Fe depot at this point . has
lieen awarded to M. Council, a builder of
Toneka, Kansas.
Miss Joan Warren left Wednesday for
Palo Alto, where she will attend the
famous Stanford University. A large
numlier of her friends assembled at the
depot to bid her farewell and wish her
God speed on the journey. Miss War
ren has been one of the brightest 'stu -dents
in attendance at the Silver City
schools and she will undoubtedly main
tain her reputation abroad as well as at.
home.
Toe Silver Citv Evh.k hai e ,nileted
its lirst voluinn, and is one of the very
best newspapers published in Grant
county,. An editorial mention states that
its first year has been prosperous and
the Headlight can only extend co i
gratulations and best wishes that the
future will be even more so. Mcndliglr.
Juan Trujillo, arresti d on the charge
of being implicated in the Gonzale.
murder on the Mimbres last sprii e, va.
released from ciistodv Saturday nr. bond.
BRAZIL'S NEW CAPITAL.
The Propo83d Sito Selected by
the Government Oommlgalon.-
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cial Headquarters from IMo de Ja
neiro A Project That Looks
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After leisurely searching for more than
two years, the scientific commission ap
pointed to find a site for the new Bra
zilian capital has reported. And as no
body except themselves knows any
thing about the chosen locality, their
data, if not their conclusions, will, no
doubt, be received with all the respect
due to so well diseussod a question.
Naturally, the first point to be consid
ered is whether Brazil needs a new
capital. ' In Rio de Janeiro it has . a
splendid city, of historic fame, with all
the buildings and other offices required
for a seat of government, so that to
people less endowed with a mania for
brand-new constitutions than the '
quondam subjects of Dom Pedro it may :
seem as needless for the Brazil-1
iun federal rulers to leave Rio
as it would hn for the monarchial
ones to leave London for the Wolds,
of Yorkshire. But Brazil "enjoys"
home rule to such an extent that every
state or province is in itself a little re
public, which -as the world is by this
time aware-is at intervals struggling
to break loose from the rest of the con
federation. Each of the provincial capi
tals is naturally jualous of Rio, and of
the splendid opportunities which the
local politicians of that city have for
place, and pelf, and pronuneiamentos.
Hence the outcry, says the London
Standard, for a more centrally situated
capital, the inhabitants of which shall
be less subject to corrupt influences
than those of a great city like the pres
ent metropolis. The result was the
appointment of a commission of geolo
gists, engineers, meteorologists, doctors,
astronomers and political economists,
to report on some desirable locality for
this ideal capital, with a goodly guard
of soldiers to protect them, in caso tho
wild Indians of the interior might en
tertain a pivj.nlice against the disturb
ance of their primeval forests. Twenty
thousand p. mds wir.i voted for the ex
penses of 'Hi. i parly, the consequence of
whose impedimenta 'required tho serv
ices of one hundred and eighty horses,
mules a:id it '.Vs . I5iu?.l is. however,
so large a land that: had the explorers
received ' a rovin.f 'coi!iiiiÍ!Í.sioti. they'
might haw died of old age.'of "yellow
jack," or by Indians, long before thoy
had examined a tr.'.ie of the possible
sites suite. 1 for the purpose indicated.
Their attention was. therefore, devoted
to the Brazilian highlands northwest
of Rio a rolling country covered with
stunted trees and grass, inhabited by a
pixir-spiritod lace, reputed to be too
lazy to either rob or murder, and too
few to be of any account, if forced to
fight for their birthright. It is in this
region that tho commissioners have
found the sought for site, on a plateau
four thousand feet above the a.;i level.
well-watereu', tree irom yellow fever,
and naturally this point is made much
of, as it is eighteen hours by railway
from. Rio not liable to be bombarded
the next time the fleet revolts or the
republic feels it necessary to flatter
the electors by insulting a European
power.
And there the scheme is likely to
end. The report will be printed, and
possibly debated. But it is quite cer
tain that the new capital is to-day as
far off as it was before the commission
ers set out on their travels. For to
build even the bare outlines of a gov
ernment city would cost more millions
of milreis than Brazil can obtain credit
for on the money markets! Railways
must, in the first place; be constructed
to the' chosen spot. Otlices for the state
business, legislative buildings, and a
host of similar necessities must be pro
vided, even if private enterprise erected
hotels and houses, and a municipality
which does not exist undertook to lay
out roads, make drains, erect gas and
water works, and generally constitute
this capital in the outer world fairly
habitable. And, of course, barracks
would have to be built, otherwise a
change of government might be sud
denly precipitated by the opposition
playing Cromwell on a large scale, by
not only turning out the legislature,
but what would be much worse by
putting tho late otii.cials in jail, and
their adh.crenjs in the posts ' recently
filled by then. All this, it may be
added, is apart from the endless politic
al difficulties inherent in the proposal,
all of which are perfectly well known
to those eone-evned. - ' .
. Tur: itiul Armenian.
The feeling of the Turks against the
Armenians is very bitter now. Talk of
massacreing them is very common i:
the coffee houses of Constantinople.
The situation is very critical. We d i
not know what may turn up before,
help arrives. We have hopes that Lk'
rope is going to do s.melhing forpo;;r
Armenia. There will never be a.;
peace while the Ti rk i.i left in r.olj t ;
even leadie;; con; rol over Chri.iti.! i
subjects. L'..:ivty and eq::lity arc. im
possible for them under Moslem rule.
Joint conli'Jl by Hiiro'can powo'.i
would see-.: to lit) the i.iost pruj'iij&Mv
mid beiieli.::.! i::etht:d ut . resent, rai.Ii
er than giving it over to any one power,
especially if that be her nearest neigh-
bor.
Out of I.avc fur .".1 other.
A notable ca:;e of filial loro came to
light in I i:'...!u:r;ih a ie.w days nfo.
says the J.'ew York S;::i, wlicu a
onty-iiix-yer.r-old i.oit ca'..;e to the o'. i:c
of un aid .soe.Lty to chum his mother,
who is two ycuis past tho century
mark, from whom ho had been sep
arated by the long illness of both. It
was shown that tho man had remained
a bachelor all his life in order to care
for his mother. Thoy came from Ire
land thirty years ago. find had lived to
gether since that lime, as they had
. previously in the old country, until
live months ago, when both were taken
sick and had to be removed to a hoa-
pital.