Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — A Boom in the Holy Land. [ARTICLE]

A Boom in the Holy Land.

The East is really waking up. The railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa is to be ex,ended to Nablus and Gaza, and there is a project on foot for the establishment of a lino of steamers on the Dead I'sea. The intention is to bring the i leh produce of Moab across the sea in a few hours instead of carrying it, now, around the north and south end of the sep by caravan, a trip of four or five days’duration. The next we hear will probably be news of an uprising on the part of the camel drivers against the innovation which is to take the bread and dates out of their mouths.