Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — Damascus. [ARTICLE]

Damascus.

Damascus, in fact, with its- 160,000 inhabitants, mostly Mohammedans, is quite as fanatical a center as there is in Syria. Here occurred some of the most disgracefu l scenes in the massacre of 1860. Christians are not safe at any time. A short time ago it was impossible to buy a Koran in the bazars if it were known that you wete a Christian. It is not an uncommon thing now to be received with indignities. Children shout at the Christians in the streets, and even throw stones at them. Aged Moslems will angrily spit on the ground, and show other signs of disgust. Of late there has been an increaseTn their social outrages. Pbof. N. S. Shaxeb is authority for the statement that 50,000 square miles of territory east of the Mississippi are covered with swamps, which might be drained Mid turned into fertile lands. The great Dismal Swamp and its southern ad,unc*ts amount to 4,000 square miles, all of which can be redeemed at comparatively small expense. Solicitor of Patents F. O. McCleary, of Washington, D. C., says the only thing that did him any good, when suffering with a severe cough of several weeks’ standing, was Red Star Cough Cure, which is purely vegetable and free from opiates ana poison.