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Show Mltltx inMicnevrsl. Sesenly Orientals Arrive In tbr Steamer Veri la." New Youk, Dm. 2. Upward cf seventy Syrians litvearrived on the steamer ''&cv ria," several of whom will go to California. Fur the past thirty days n good many of the Immigrants Im-migrants have landed at the barge office They are nearly all craftsmen, crafts-men, silk weavers and decorative workers. They propose to locate themselves hen', preparatory to making an exhibit of their work for Ihe World'j Fair in Chicago in 1S93. It is said lhat a numlcrof wealthy Syrians or New York are shortly to establish a colony, probably In Pennsylvania, to be called New Damascus'. The pu rpose of th is is to afflni employment to all new comer from Syria, who have no other plans ani who might become public ihargcs unlets aided. |