Show SOUTH AMERICA A RAILROAD IN THE HOME OF THE INCAS SMALLPOX ETC the following is from the panama star awl herald berald of june 4 COLOMBIA the telephone system cabrae into operation in panama on june ast 1st for the alist time at present there are awen ty five telephones in full work in the city and those who have joined have expressed themselves highly satisfied with the results as they have at once found the convenience to business busine Ss to bean be an advantage while as the system extends to the railroads a saving of time as well as of money aitor lor carriage hit hii e is the direct result it has transpired that the local government have not concluded the proposed contract with the electric lighting company to illuminate the streets of colon the alleged reason is that the citizen citizens s should do so this at one time a good law is now rather antique and in view of the importance to which the city has attained we hope to shortly see it follow the example of A merica america and most european countries of like importance wac hilve bave public lights put up on pi uw thoroughfares for the accorn in 0 ceat 10 u of the public smallpox continues in colon but it is steadily yielding to the wise measures taken for its su and is in intact fact less threatening now than at any previous time since its appearance during may thirty nine nide cases were treated in the hospital of these twenty three have been discharged as cured whilst sixteen of new cases case remain of the entire number 0 only rily one has su succumbed cuin bed to the disease nor is the disease spreading outside the hospital dogs are now being poisoned in bogota smallpox has reappeared in bogota during darin 1880 1886 the number of murders committed in was eighty five making a favorable showing as compared with 1885 during which year persons were murdered A letter from cuarta in the state of santander and dated april says yesterday I 1 visited the crevasses cre at cuarta with colonel carvajal and about thirty others the spectacle is terrifying the principal opening is about metres in diameter whilst in other places the opening is from ten to forty metres in width there are many other crevasses cre the bottom of which cannot be seen the place where these phenomena are in operation I 1 is 0 situated between two ravines and it appears that one of them threatens the town in which some houses have already suffered through one of the fissures having baving opened in their vicinity destroying ying some entirely and cr cracking aking the walls of others it news from the line states that the cutting at mindl is going on with groat great vigor but that exceeding difficulty is experienced in keeping the loose earth from from falling back as cast out of the trench this is said to retard the work considerably the united states steamship mohican expects to leave panama on june atti for payta where she will meet tile the vandalia the remain in post until f urther further orders PERU our lima cable message reports that the government of peru has called tenders for the construction of a rail road between tarma barma and chaucha mayo tarma barma is an island town most picturesquely situated and the whole of the valley in which it is located is under cultivation the idea of building the railroads from the interi inter orand lorand not from the coast coas was first suggested some years ago to bon don manuel pardo fardo when he was president and he enthusiastically asti cally sup supported arted the proposition although the lear fear that he would w weaken eak his power among the sugar growers of the coast impelled him to act very cautiously in the matter the construction of a tarma barma chan chamaro railroad will be a blessing to the country and will tend to dispel much of the internal discord now so prevalent there if they succeed in building this track as iron copper and timber of every description are to be found there in wild profusion peru will at once commence to regain her former position the interior of the republic has been two long iong allowed to remain desolate there is no tropical cal production which does not grow wild in those vast peruvian amazonian provinces and yet there is no one to gather them those these territories are at present abandoned and are simply a wilderness of forest and stream if the tarina railroad now proposed be built it will not repaire ten years before braziers gra will crowd one another in the pampas del sacramento and the wila cattle now roving there and the few scattered bands of chuncho indians will have dies disappeared p feared and the greater peru which must some day be formed formed 1 in the is r tul lul country will a nave vve ever the f revola revolutions have so long been the ee I 1 e public V railroads are grad ta aa tended towards bolivia ern era slope of the amar ande 41 years pa past the line but bu rata cost by peru from the peoer has not passed that lake 10 the bolivian frontier the afa it has not been e extended altese hea i with bolivia peru pern used every deiy tion and incurred an enormous enof toki f build one of the most 1 yet constructed in IB the world ii though the engines atall cluel steep gradients and pass pasi ai 5 e wilds of on their I 1 yaa puno no effort is made DT by boehs tn extend the road towards the D dessem dero and thence e on tota to be where the indiana lives in that happy state which owl be understood by those who believe that where ignorance to tg I 1 folly to be wise th ak necessity it A is true an and b any means from choice not I 1 able to assist her I 1 money to carry a rail railroad tn her territory the Aige Ai gentine appears to be about to take aj an in the matter and to make an join oin the Tran lines wi central central part of bolivia where tural and mineral riches abound abea would well repay coast referring to the ate steps H have been taken for this I 1 t buenos ayres papers now JV p alter nineteen months of sever t ane h e e engineers a gi ne er 8 h have a ve sea sent t in the inary plans lor for a road to kulil the bolivian frontier th Tae Bemi have been made from the jun jonutis salta through the toro ra ravine 0 w to quinca thence the huma M ravine is followed to juia jukjul tance surveyed amounts to met e r t of w which aich nu number in her 2 abed in the line atte altet study a selection will be made bt the two routes me mentioned n tinned boned mid tid will be then commenced on OB which will carry argentine p to the bolivian frontier CHILL an idea of the direful dired ul eff effects ecta cholera in santiago chili bayl tamed bained from the following given by a corres correspondent 04 amounts expended in that through the cholera march eth up to date we hayi h in this santiago de dep it of f which sum ya been obtained from the an and dw f from rem the mun municipality to 6 houses and lazar ettes 50 la hah w spent ent and on OH furniture the balance of the has for salaries provisions inadi etc in the cholera olera cem eteo immense brickwork receptacle recep tac constructed and lined with R boi ment each one was made td to bodies and all are bil enough to enable a thick cot co lime to be placed over the corp subsequently at least one alt earth each of these 1500 1600 y meat flour and other brov 00 reaching famine prices in gasp |