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Show A rteayy Fal. Yesterday afternoon the rope, holding hold-ing one of the large weights of' the town clock, on the City Hall, broke, and the heavy piece of iron dropped, crushing the upper ceiling joists of the building and doing considerable damage to the ceiling and plaster cornice cor-nice of the District Court room. When the weight which weighs probably 300 pounds fell, the whole building trembled, and the report was like that if a cannon. The gentlemen gen-tlemen in the soveral offices instinctively instinc-tively started for. the open air, think-, ing it was an earthquake, which was disturbing tilings. |