Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-15
The Jews The Rev Mr. Dufiell Of Detroit; who
has spent the winter i'd The East, in letter from Je

The JEWS -Ihe REV. NlT. DuWeiL oil DetI0its Wno
has spent the winter The East, letter from Je-
One Of the most affecting sights have witnessed
during my travels, was encountered yesterday. r M.
repaired to the appointed spot to hear the lamenta
tons of the Jews over their desoated temple. and
scattered nation The site of the ancient temple is
now occupied by the Mosque of Omar. No christian
or Jews is allowed by the Musselmans to enter It's
precincts. The nearest approach that the jews can
make to it, is to the large and massive stones OF Inc
wall which Solomon built from the bottom OF the
narrow valley ravDe, called the Tyropean, Tor the
purpose of sustaining and forming the terrace or arch
es, which we're built out from the base of the rock
on its four sides, atd OH sch the temple on Mount
Moriah was originally Constructed.
saw ,hirty-fve Jews standing OF seated, near these
stones, all of them bowinS; and tesesSly swinging
10 and fro, while they read their Scriptures in the
Hebrew, and some weeping bitterly DIS they uttered
their wall of distress.
One man sobbed if his heatt tas ready 10 break
while he stood reading and trembling with emotion In
his whole frame. Women, with white scarfs thrown
over their heads passed mournfully along the wall
some kissed the stones with their lips others laid their
hands them, and then kissed their hands, whilst
most sat in squatted Turk like po<llon reading
their liturgy in Hebrew. | venured, with courteous
sauation, 10 look upon the page. from which an ageo
man quietly reading. He was reading the 5Sth'
seth and Goth Psalms. The whole scene was so deep.
ly moving, exhibiting in such powerful light the sad
reality of the Jews great national sorow. and caused
such rush OF solemn thoughts IN my udt L
| was quite overcome by IT,
THE Poison OF RArTLEsNAKEs.-Ata late meet
ing of the Boston Society of Natural History, pa
per was read showing that this poison is most pow
erful sedative and that stin1ulants We're its anti
dotes. Alchohol is designated. In two instances
in which this remedy has been applied the persons
have been cured. Brandy was freely given to them
until relieved from the usual symptoms, and contin-
ued in smaller doses until the third day. when they
went about as usual Alcohol in these cases did not
produce intoxication. The venom of rattesnakes is
now employed as a remedy, and is already found to
be specific for very many maadles.
The Morning Advertiser. of London in abiding
to recent distressing of animal magnetism "
says, "We are sorry to announce that Miss c.,
the young lady of Surrv place, who reported in
this journal some few weeks ago to have suffered
from trying the table moving experiment, by means
of the above agency, is much worse. Hopes were
entertained that she would recover the OIL
her hands Ttseems however, that these hopes have
not been realized. Her hands now firmly clench
ed together and 1t requires great force to separate
the fingers even for moment, from the palms Of
her hands This extraordinary affair has caused
intense excitement in the medical profession"
JACK WHALEY's BREEcHEs-Jack Whaley's wife
one day CHANGED to find an elegant piece of white
leather on the road, and she brought it home with
her in great delight to mend Jacks small clothes
which she done very neatly. Jack set of the mex
day, little suspecting what in store for him, blu
when he had trotted about five miles--it was in thu
month of July-he began to feel very uneasy in the
saddle, feeling that continued to increase at every
moment till at last he said It like canter
beehive in swarming time" and we'll it might. fol
the piece ofleather other than blister tina
the apothecarys boy had carelessly dropped on the
road that morning
DELICATE INSTITUTIONAL Southern pape
just drops hint, that it's not good sign to
man with his hat off at midnight, explaining thu
principles of genuine Jeffersonan Democracy to
lamp post! Just opinion, only better expressed
QU1cx-A gentleman from Ogdensburg, N
Y, to Boston-4l9 miIes-in less than twelve hours
The first eleven miles of the journey run in nine
minutes The public loves to go fast, and encourage
fast travelling, and pats the conductor engineer up
on the back who put it the road quickly but lie
the off the track or into bridge, and TIL
public is the last think of blaming itself for VIVA
is its own fault.
D1v1DEND.-The Fayetteville and Southern Plan
Road Company has declared semi-annual dividen
] OF per cent
z. A fast young gent married woman old enoug
to be his grandmother, because he owed her $50 fo
board