Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — Zeal in Mohammedanism. [ARTICLE]

Zeal in Mohammedanism.

A letter from Alexandria says that never has a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina been so numerously attended as the one which was concluded at the beginning of the present year. There is now at Mecca a celebrated preacher whose reputation has extended through the whole of Arabia. He is regarded as a saint and a prophet, and people from Turkey, Northern Africa, the Soudan, Arabia and India assembled in crowds to listen to him Among the pilgrims were several Princes, such as the uncle of the Shah of Persia and some Arabian and African Sultans. All strictly fulfilled the rules observed by the pilgrims, and even the Shah’s uncle; who is a man advanced in years, entered Mecca with only a cloth round his loins. An old man, feeling his end approaching, traveled all the way from Kurachee to hear the celebrated prophet, and died in Mecca shortly after his arrival. The correspondent also describes some sermons which were addressed to the assembled pilgrims, apparently with considerable effect. In one the preacher urged his hearers to have as little intercourse as possible with Christians, and to abstain entirely from drinking wine, and his words i reduced so much remorse in some of the pilgrims that as he rpde away they threw thernselves under his borse'a boon. Another predicted that within the next ten years the whole of Europe would be under the rule of the Crescent, and that th* Sultan of Constantinople would conquer the eastern portion of the continent, including Rome.— Pall Mali Gaxette. A safe deposit vault just completed in London is deemed invulnerable. It ia sunk forty-six feet into the ground, with, walls of brick and concrete six feet thick. Inside this structure is the safe, three feet thick, made of fire-brick and undrillable iron. The metal doors weigh four tone each, and are swung by hydraulic puwfir*