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Show KUUIOAI) IX 1MLCMTXE. A i-BiVATB coricspandent from Jaffa, Palestine, Mr. J. F. Dieterle, states, in a letter dated June 23rd, that the long-talked-of railroad to tween Jaffa and Jerusalem Is to be finished iu the course, of two J cars from now. The work of grading is progressing speedily; The first locomotive ever sxeu In the Holy IVand is expected In Jaffa this month, freni New York. There is also some prospect of a railroad Iie-tween Iie-tween Haifa and Damascus. An English, syndicate with a capital of I tome millions of francsarc interested I In this work. As the present Sultan I ss3B9sUsanslmHPsB of Constantinople has shown him-jlf him-jlf favorable to reforms, itls thought likely that Ills vast dcmlnlons will be opened by degrees to the influx of occidental civilization. |
