Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-05-23

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ACCIDENT AT CAMERoN's FAcroRY.-C
eron & Brothers tobacco factory, was on Fri
day morning the scene of an accident which
caused the greatest excitement and result ne
in the serious injury of several persons and the
slight hurting of a number of others.
A band on some of the machinery on the
first floor became entanged with the shaft,
causing the second floor to vibrate considerably.
The colored hands on this floor, some sixty in
number. became frightened, and some began
to cry fire and others that the house was falling
pell nell for the windows.
The superintendent seeing what was to pay,
and knowing that there was no danger, used
ing out, but they heard him not, and expect
ing every moment to be crushed beneath the
falling walls and timbers, sought safety by jump.
ing from the windows, breaking in many cases
through the sash and glass;
The alarm spread through the neighborhood,
and In few moments hundreds persons had
congregated at the spot, all anxious to know
what was the cause OF the excitement.
Between fifty and sixty persons leaped from
the windows into the factory yard, distance OF
some fifteen feet, and number were Injured,
most of them only slightly.
The engine was Immediately stopped, and no
damage was done TO the building save the
breaking OF the window sash. The wounded
were taken to their homes. and the excitement
soon subsiding, the hands returned to their
work. PeterSbUg Courier.
MILLIoNAIREs. TO be considered wealthy
ia Manhattan is to be wealthy indeed Per
sons who arc thought to be very lch elsewhere
are hardy regarded in comfortable tircnm
stances here When NAN has an inmens.
amount of property as many OF our citizens
here, it is almost impossible to teIl-Le can
hardly tell hmself-how much he is worth.
William B. Astor is declared, by those who
ought to know, to represent $50. 100000; A.
T. Stewart, 100000; Cornelius Wander
ht, $50. 0O0.Oo Daniel Drew, sG000,O00;
GEORGE Law, 100000 600 August Belmont.
$1,000, 600; Samuel N. Pike $1,000, 900,
James Fisk, Jr:, $4,000, 600; James Lcanox,
$1,000, 600, and two or three hundred others,
whose fortunes are vaIiousy estimated from
two to five millions 1t is stated that there
are thousand persons in New York who are
worth. at the lowest calculation, $500, OOO
Apiece. Men who have only $l0U, 900 or 2OO,
900 are considered so INDECENT in Gotham that
they expect every year to be magnanimous'y
uomnated as candidates for the poor houses.
AS to the $50, 900 or $4,000 fellows, they are
compelled to hide their poverty constantly lest
they be the recipients oil pennies whenever they
take their hats off on warm day in the pub
lie streets. N T. Telegram.
A FALL-Whilst the co!ored people were
celebrating in Baltimore on Thursday the rati'
fcation Of the fifteenth amendment there was
a snddcn crash, and the next instant there was
an ipdiscriminatc mingling Of races on the pay
ing stones below. The positions assumed were
neither graceful nor lignGed in most eases tn C
head being down and tho feet up. Fred.
Douglass, who had gone down in the general
tumble, was one of the first to recover, and as
soon as he found that nobody was hurt, he
stepped upon the pile Of broken boards and
proposed three cheers for the fifteenth amend.
ment This reassured the crowd and prevented
panic. The platform fell about eight ieet
Two minutes before it went down the space
underneath was filled with young girls, who
had sought shelter there from tho SUD, ant
were sitting on the braces. a policeman
thinking it not very safe retreat, peremptorlly
ordered them out, and the last one had JUS
left when the floor went down.
MoNARCHICAL ESTABLISHMENTS The Rus
sian dynasty is the most costly OF any in Eu
rope, while France and Turkey are but litt
way behind. In Russia royalty costs $500,
600 year; in France, $1,000, 900; in Turkey
$4,000, 900. Other European nations ALLOW
their sovereigus smaller amounts. Austrl
heads their list. The house OF Hapsburg re
oeives in the aggregate, $4,O00,0GO year
Italy comes next, with $4,000 900; then Prus
STA, with $780, 900; while England provide
about 50, 1915, 900 for her royal family. Among
the smaller monarchies, Bavaria is the mos
costly, and sets apart for her king and tamil,
sl,25OOOO. Portugal pays 1856. 900; Holland
$50OOO0 Sweden and Norway, $500, 600; Den
mark $l4O, 900; Wurtemberg, 1920, 600; Rome
$500, 900 In the aggregate the crowned head
of Europe cost the people about $40, OOO,O 900
YEAR Tor private and household expenditures.
GETTING RID OF A TENANT.-A man |
Montana, short time ago. squatted On anothf
rcrson's land and built small frame shanfy
When requested to remove, he positively re
fused to do so: so one night squad OF me
came round, after the sQuatter and his wife wei
asleep, aud, lifting the whole concern, Shan'!
and alt, with deliberate care carried II
the river and set it on small !ait Then the
pushed the raft out into the steam, and let ~
20. When the squatter got up IN the morn't
TO 20 out, he was Supflseu 10 unu hi";'e" "oo
sixty miles down the stream, ana making go'
linz in a nine knot current The squatter o
served to his wife that if he ever got back
his old home war would probably be organic
on most formidable scale.
NOR SALE-A substantial TWO HOES
Z WAGON that will bed twelve barrels
the head and the very thing for heavy ms o
ket or meal wagon; has four springs ana
movable tor was built to order; is IN 60
condition, and for sale low.
my lS-oo3t L. /. EDELlN
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