Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-21
tSournaI arth Courier.
Thursday Morning, Oct. e1, 1880.
Local News.
rFor other Local News see Second Page,
Theological School.

Recent Explorations in Palestfne-Cana-
 ans Fertility and Mineral Wealth.
 Marquand chapel, Yale Theological School, was filed to it's utmost capacity yesterday afternoon, when the first of series of lec- lures on Palestine was delivered by pr. Selah Merrill, who has spent some time in that country. Prof. George E. Day introduced Mir. Merrill, saying that the gentleman was we'll known, had been engaged in the recent explorations of Palestine. A volume of maps had been received few days ago giving the results of the explorations near the Jordan. These maps were in the University library. Dr. Merrill had kindly consented to give the results of his observations.
 Dr. Merrill vigorously opposed the idea that Palestine is forlorn country, with miserable soil, barren and thin. Horace Walpole had the idea of prominent Jewish banker, who had recently died, that this worthy Jew had been of more service to England than the whole land of Canaan. So Voltaire thanked God that he had never seen it, and he never wanted to- Saint Jerome had the same idea. So Pagan writer said that the God of the Bible must have been very little God, since he gave his chosen people such poor little country. Gibbon also wrote to the same effect, saying that the God of the Promised Land would have despised it had he seen fertile Sicily or Italy. These views were all erroneous. He spoke of the beauty of a sail from Egypt up the Palestine coast. He next spoke of Beirut grown in a few years from 5000 or 5000 people to 10000. city with eight printing establishments, nine news papers and periodicals, several schools of high order, a medical college of high charac- ter, etc. One thousand Moslem girls were at the Protestant schools at Beirut. Twenty or | twenty-five years ago it would have been as much as a mans life was worth to be found teaching @ Protestant child. Beirut, the rivers adjacent and the cedars of Lebanon | adjacent, were spoken of. In the vicinity | were vast tracts covered with orange trees, pomegranates, figs and many other kinds of | valuable fruit trees. Dr. Merrill spoke of the ancient. beauty of Beirut and locality | and it's fame under the Roman emperors, and l it's surviving calamities, battles, sieges and l tempests. A great hindrance to the develop | nent of Palestine the authority of the Turks Near Joppa, 25 miles southeast, were immense orange groves. The oranges were the finest in the world, and | four could be bought for a cent, al- | though they are transported to the cities over awful roads on the backs of camels. People ought to export them to America. Dr. Merrill, speaking of the ploughs of Pal ] estine, said they were of the most primitive kind, hardly fit to be dignifed by the name. Yet such was the soil that the agriculturist l could make furrow mile long a straight line. The farmer, his days work done, put | his plough on his shoulder and rode home ,on I his donkey. A sturdy Maine man might carry home man, plough and donkey. The mineral 1 wealth nf nn7 oped The speaker had seen deposits of iron l ore in the Lebanon mountains from to 100 miles in length and one to two miles in width. At one point a mountain torrent had worn chasm to 8 depth of 1,5O0 feet. It cuts through @ bed of ore which can be seen l in the perpendicular sides of the chasm 500 | feet in thickness. So there was vast | amount of coal and lead and sulphur. A great amount of fine wheat was raised on the lava beds, which were the biggest basalt and | lava beds in the world. The speaker gave other very interesting facts. The lecture was a valuable one.
 An alarm is sounded that fever and ague and other forms of malarial disease are marching steadily up the valleys of eastern New York and New England and that these distressing complaints @Ae becoming every year more prevalent among large populations hitherto unacquainted with them. Whatever
 form the malady may assume, the origin is
 the same. It is an infection from decayed
 and decaying vegetation, arising from swsmps
 and marshy places, or from soil disturbed
 by cultivation. Where these complaints are
 not known, they are difficult to treat and
 the apprehension of danger makes every
 body uneasy.
 In the South and West, where fever and ague is common every season and has been since the settlement of the country, Ayers dy. A faithful trial will convince sufferers that it is equally certain here and positively harmless. Patients and physicians agree that it never fails, and that the cured recover their usual spirits, and resume their regular pursuits in the briefest possible time. No bad effects follow it's use, and, when taken according to directions, the proprietors war rant it. If taken occasionally by persons ex- posed to malaria, it will expel the poison, and protect them from attack.
 Ayer's Ague Cure is a purely vegetable preparation, containing neither quinine, ar senic other mineral or injurious sub- stance In chill sections where 1t has been known and used for the past quarter of a century, it is very popular for people have found it what they want-a remedy easily procured and always sure.
 Manufactured by J. c. Aver & Co.,. Lowell, Mass, and sold by all Druggists.
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