The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-06-13

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and felt fervent kiss upon her lips
Another step at the door. It was
"Galena" Mike, miner
chihuahua" he said, there's an
eight-foot vein Of that stuff, and it will
run at least one thousand dollars to the
ton. y
'Chihuahua" did not answer Mike.
but Doris heard him say:
II wouldn't give one minute like this
for eight million tons of it.''-Richard
u. Lenthiemer, in N. Y. World.
EXPLORATIONS IN PALESTINE.
The Tomb of Herod Believed to BE Locat-
ed-The Holy sepnIcher.
United States Consul Merrill at Jeru-
salem has written interestingly to the
state department about archie ology in
Palestine and around Jerusalem. He
says:
1.-The only systematic exploration
that has been carried on the past year
or, in fact, that has been allowed by
the Turkish government has been done
by an American acting for the English
society known as the Palestine Explor-
alton Fund, at Tell ell Hesy, generally
supposed to be the Hachish of the Old
Testament, which was besieged by SEN
nacherib, and was of suffi Gent ilnpor-
tance to be sculptnred on slabs in the
national galleries of Nineveh- This
Tell is, as the word means, a mound
of earth and ruins, and an effort has
been made to remove it entirely bit by
bit in order to ascertain its structure
and archaeological contents AS is usual
in such cases, successive layers of civili-
cation or of building have been I'M
earthed, and variety of bronze imple-
ments, stone weights and other relics
have been found; but the mostinterest-
ing find was that of an Assyrian in
scription, thought to be of as early
date as l400 b. C. 1t seems to have
been addressed to the governor of the
place, who was afterward murdered BY
dis own subjects.
Many of the discoveries that have
been made about Jerusalem within
twenty years past have been made by
accident The ground sinks down,
a hole appears, and that leads to an ex-
animation, which results in valuable
addition to our archaeological knowl-
edge of the city. This was the way the
magnificent ground plan and beautiful
mosaics, covering 400 or 500 square feet
of st. Stephens church, near the Da-
mascus gate, was first brought to light
This was built by the empress Eudocia,
wife of Theodosius the younger, A. D.
400; and the spacious tomb chambers
xul ainf chfa Of la c<,1f
the church, and in which she was
buried, likewise became known by acct
dent
During the last year hole was dis
covered in a piece of land southwest of
the city. A man went down in it to
see what he could find, and large tombs
and beautiful sarcophaguses were soon
made known to the world In connec-
ton with other archeologists, l have
for many years tried to locate what Jo-
sephus describes when he is marking
out the line of the wall of circumVala-
ton which Titus, during the siege of
Jerusalem, A. d. 66-7O, threw around
the city as the monuments, meaning
the tomb, of Herod' WARS ", 10, q.
He gives but few general indications,
points or objects well known
at the time, and that of
these monuments should be just
about where this wonderful find
has been made. | suppose Josephus
had in mind Herod Agrippa H., and not
Herod the Great, who was not buried
in Jerusalem The rolling stone at the
door of the sepulcher, six feet in diam
eter and twelve inches thick, the orna-
mentation on the sarcophaguses, the
character of the masonry and some
other bits of evidence lead me to believe
that this is the very monument to which
Josephus referred.
MANY modern scholars in the de-
partment of Palestinean archaeology,
having abandoned as untenable the
traditional site OF the Holy Sepulcher
as the place of the crucifxion and bur-
ial of our Lord, have fixed upon the hill
above Jeremiah's grotto, three hundred
yards north of the Damascus gate, as
the site of the crucifixionL Adjoining
this HILL which is covered with Moham-
medan graves, Is large garden con-
trolling the face of the hill, which is
rock for one hundred and fifty yards
Excavations at different times in this
garden have shown that six or more
feet below the surface of the ground
there exist interesting ruins, and in the
rock itself there is an remarkable tomb
which has recently attracted much at
tention. An effort has been made the |
last year to purchase the garden, with
its appurtenances, place it in the hands
of general committee, so that it should
not be in the control of any particular
religious sect, have excavations made
and everything that might be
found preserved and exposed for the
benefit of all who take an interest in
such matters The negotiations were,
it was thought, successful and the
money ready to be paid, but very re-
Gently there has come hitch of some
kind, so that after all the project may
fail
''In one American cemetery on Mount !
Zion was overseeing the digging of a
certain grave, and at the depth OF four
feet we came upon large blocks of stone.
| tried to dig in two places near the
first, but with similar results At last |
we dug the grave elsewhere and subse-
quently employed men to remove the
earth from the stones referred to, and |
at that point and at two others where |
made examinations / found the re-
mains of a large building, which, !
Judge, was a church These founda- |
tons of pillars were on a pavement of |
six or seven feet below the surface of |
the ground, and it is a curious fact that |
wherever we attempt to dig grave In
that yard we come at the depth mem
toned upon human bones and skulls |
It seems shocking, but as the ground is
full of such remains there is nothing to
be done This filing in must have been
lone long ago, for this ground has
been American property since about
$780, hoped to have walled in these
finds, so that they might always be ex-
posed, but this was too expensive for
my private means, and have partially
covered them and marked the places,
30 that they can be avoided whenever
it is necessary hereafter to dig graves.
Chicago Tribune
DRUGGISTS MUSK.
rhe Swimming Rodent of the Jersey
Meadows Is the Main source Of supply.
"As to musk, now, said the young