The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20

great tanks on the roof and fell in
sheets of spray to the court below.
He said the huge building rocked like
cradle after the first grand. spasms:
the walls seemed to belly inward like
sail, and fakes of plastering began to
drop on him. He then went out and
slid, feet foremost, down one or tive
hundred feet Of bannisters, partly for
amusement, but chiefly with an eye to
expedition. He said he flashed by the
frantic crowds in each succeeding story
like telegraphic dispatch.
It is, said that the noise of the earth
quake on the floor of the hotel. which
is paved with marble, was as if forty
eight trains we're laundering over It.
The large billiard saloon, in the, rear
of the Office, was full at the time, but
moment after they were all seen flying
up the street with their billiard cues in
their hands, like q squad Of routed Ian
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BARBER-sHop sTASIpEDE.
From the fashionable barber-shops
in the vicinity gentlemen rushed into
the street with the towels round their
necks, and with one side Of their faces
smoothly shaved and the other side
foamy with lather. sl' 4i's.l .a3. liia
One gentleman was having his corns
cut out by a barber. When the pre-
monitory shock came the BARRIERS un-
der jaw dropped and he started aghast
atthe dancing furniture. Thegentleman
iwinked complacently at the bystanders,
and said with fine hnmor, ''Oh, gol-on
with your surgery, John, its nothing
but an earthquake; no use to run, you
know, because if you are going to tho
devil you might as well start from hero
as outside" Just then the earth COM
menced its hideous grinding and surg
ing movement, and the gentleman re-
treated toward the door, remarking.
However John. if we've got to go, wo
had as well start with the street after
all" I'm e,..
On North Beach, men ran out of the
clearinghouse attired like the Greek
slave, and mingled desperately with
ladies and gentlemen who were so bad
Iy frightened as themselves, but more
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The earthquake rang a merry peal
on the City Hall bell, the "clapper" Of
which weighs seyenty-eight pounds.
Bells of all sorts and sizes were orung
blythe shake Throughout the city, and
from what / can learn the earthquake
formerly announced its visits ON every
door bell in town. lone gentleman
said: sMy adoor-beH fell to ringing yio-
lently, but I said to myself, e know
you-you are an earthquake, and you
appear to be in hurry, but you'lljin-
gle that bell considerably before I let
you on the contrary, I'll crawl I'M
der the sofa and get out Of the way Of
the plastering /" '.'si 99 s'esa
49, 4 SACRED pEDAeoeUE. H
The Reverend Mr., Harmon, princi-
pie Of the Pacific Female Seminary, at
Oakland, just across the bay from here.
had his entire flock of young ladies at
and was watching and protect
ing them jealousIy, like one Of those
Internal scaly monsters with a pesti
Iential breath that were employed to
stand guard over imprisoned heroines
IN the days Of chiyalry, and who al
ways proved inefficient in the hour Of
langer; he was watching them. 7 say,
when the earthquake came, and what
10 you imagine he did then? Why.
;hatconfding trustin Providence which
lad sustained him through o long min
sterial career. all at once deserted him,
and he got up and run like Q quarter
aorse,, But that was not the misfor-
tune of it, The exasperating feature
IF it was that his wife and children.
md the schoolgirls, remained brayely
u their seats and sat the earthquake
through without finching. r,.s
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In "a certain aristocratic locality up
town, the wife ofa foreign dignitary il
the acknowledged leader of fashion,
and ndswhenevera she .emerges from her
house all the ladies in the vicinity fly
to the windows to see what she has
''got on, SO that they may make inme-
date arrangements to procure similar
costumes for themselves. Well, In tho
midst Of the earthquake the beautiful
foreign woman (who had Just indulged
in . bath, appeared in the street with
a towel around her neck. It was ell