Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-05-30
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Terrible Earthquake in Turkey.
Six Hundred Lives Lost in one Town

Terrible Earthquake in Turkey.
Six Hundred Lives Lost in one Town!
Accounts from Malta announce
succession ofierrible earthquake>.wh
have been felt at Makri, u city oi Ado
liza, Turkev, on the Mediterranean, and
al the far famed city and Island ot
Rhodes, which is situated fifty miles
out from Makri and the Turkish coast.
The first shock was felt on the 2sth OF
February, between and half past ,
p NJ; when at Rhodes, the upper part
of the castle, which is at the entrance
of the town, fell with an awful crash
overwhelming the offices of the Autriaa
Loyd's Steam Navigation Company.
whilst the Tower of Array s-kule.
which commands the entrance of the
harbor, and several other parts Of the
fortifications sustained great injury, as
did likewise many dwelling houses,
some of which were shakei to their
very foundations on the focl-others
cracked throughout. The oscillations
were from west to east.
Slighter shocks succeeded almost
/ daily up TO the 18th March. Al Makri,
on the main land and its Immediate
neighborhood, the consequences have
/ been most disastrous and hear.raIdiDg.
The whole of the houses, dwellings,
and stores, lately erected in the iown.
have been levelled to the ground: iis-
sures have been formed in the very
streets, from which bituminous vapor
exudes continually, almost suiiocating
the inhabitants, many springs have
dried up, whilst in arid localities new
ones have gushed out, changing the
whole feature of the earth's surface.
The town ofLevissy, which contain
ed $500 houses, has not one left stand
ing, and no less than GOO human be-
ings are reckoned to be under the ruins,
which number would have been awful
ly augmented had the shock been after
nightfall, when the inhabitants retire 10
!. their homes after the labors Of the day
, The village of Chiorge has nearly met
, the same fate, the upper part Of huge
) mountain having fallen into, and block
ed up, the small port of Ekscnide, over
whelming all the dwellings round about
its base. Another village, more inland.
has been buried from the fall, in oppo-
. site directions, of two hills, between
: which it was situated.
a A recent visitor to Lowell, gives the
a following account of the Mills and the
: Maids of that great New England City
f of Spindles.
: If the visitor wishes TO gosinto the
. factories, it is necessary to obtain tick
e cts of admission from the agents, J. W.
J: Paige & Co. and A. & A. Lawrence &
! Co., before leaving Boston. On arri-
! val he will be admitted to witness the
4 vast operati tons in the Hamilton, Ap-
!, pleton, Lawrence, fremont, Suffolk,
e Boot and other mills, which altogeth-
r er have capital of Sl3,OO0,OOO inves-
ted, and give employment TO 5000 ie-
: males and 1000 males. The annual
!, consumption of cotton is $4,000, 600
: pounds, and wool 2,5OO,O pounds;
from which is manufactured $4,000, 900
n yards of cotton cloth, 30, ,0OO, 900 yd's.
q calico, $1,000, 900 yards bleached and
# dyed goods, ,OOO. 900 yards broadcloth
S and cashmere, and 100000 yards car
r, peting. The annual product ofcotton
IS cloth alone allowing it TO be yard
i wide, would extend over $4,000 miles
of serface, or twice around the globe !
, Such is the vast extent of the manuiac-
;, turing operations in Lowell, where pre-
: vious to the year 1921, the Merrimack
), flowed noiselessly through an almos,
. unbroken forest, disturbed by its own
:. natural ripple, as it rolled along on its
= = way to be lost in the Atlantic.
= : The outpouring of female beauty
- from the mills, at the ringing of the
factory bells for the dinner hour and il,
the evening, and the generally neat, IL
ut dy, and cheerful appearance. of the op-
y eratives as they pass along en- masse
e. to their respective boarding houses
lr impresses the stranger strongly in favor
n of the regulations of the factories
IS, Though their attention is constant from
a. early dawn until late in the evening
es yet the labor is light, the rooms ar.
,ir clean and airy, and the health of those
t. Wituhl tuC IiiiuS dppCdiS SCf fanny io
y, to suffer from the popularity of theil
er employment. Twas informed that thu
IN operatives have their dinner at half
f. past twelve, are again at work at Z
quarter after l, and leave the work a
nd half-past seven O'Clock in the evening
ur .->-.-
Awkward.
h A fellow, the other evening of bash
an full temperature, screwed his courag'
ev to the sticking point as Shakspear
to says, and actually dared to pop tn
TX question to young lady, who, in ac
II cordance to custom, of course immedi
Of ately tainted. In his hurry and agita
Sc ton he seized bottle of ink, mistakin,
ur it for bottle Of cologne, and dashed
in her face and over her snow whit
dress. OF courseshe Immediately "cam
to-" and the awkward fellow had tn
an felicity Of being kicked out of the hous
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