Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — An Example of Mohammedan Outrages Upon Christiana in the Easts. [ARTICLE]

An Example of Mohammedan Outrages Upon Christiana in the Easts.

Religious toleration among the subjects of the Sultan does not seem to hate gained in strength by the recent decrees. Some time ago the tomb of the ReVi "Mr: Morgan, an American mlssfohaiY l teifo was stationed for many years atitAtttioch,! and who, dying, was buried at Mfcbably, a village near Antioch, 'was desderited and broken up, together with fob naves of the native Protestants who slept near him. • . * »av >»■-« Bands of young men and yohfhk Of the city have also of late been addicted to parading the streets, invoking curses on the heads of the “Kaffirs,” pr models., These proceedings, coupled pith frequent insults, did not naturally ten 4 to reassure the Christians; and as no check whs' attempted to be put upon tke)d,' ,by tM authorities, they have been upion. fuq tepter hooks of still greater evUs. A week ago a man, called Gabriel Effendy, thfe'ctehier ot the Latakia Custom House, an Annenian Christian, a native of Bagdad', ms’-ac-cused of having been overhuarfl “to bl 3S t pheme the Prophet while in conjugation with his wife in his own garufo-M This crime if proved- -and the two wttSsfses required by Koranic law were not wanting,’ besides others—is punishable by death. Notwithstanding the flat denial of the ac cused and the improbability of such a statement, the charge alone was sufficient to pour oil on the already lambenyiame. The city was soon in an crying for vengeance and ; streets with loud cries. The as usual, looked wise and djd nothing, He is an old man, whose special mission inbeing sent from Stamboul is (according, as it is said, to his own statement)Mfoited to levying the taxes and asserting ffoslem ascendency. The Major, however, in command of the handful of troops arrested the accused, and took him to prison under escort, to save his life, followed; by the mob, and safely lodged him there. The telegraph meanwhile reported the state of matters to the Governor-General of the province at Damascus, who in reply sent orders to send the man to Tripoli, the chief town of the district. He was accordingly shipped on board the Russian steamer last Sunday morning, tttder a* guard, in company of several Of uis ac-" cusers. Forty minutes after quitting Latakia the unfortunate man, worn out by his past sufferings and despairing of the future, threw himself overboard.— Cor. Tall Mall Gazette. —• ■ r- ? A . * Dallas, Texas, has increased its population of 1,000 in 1871, before a railroad touched it, to 17,000. ’ .