The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . just before sunrise,there was a consideraljle loud and longearthquake. January 6, 1747, about midnight anearthquake. December 3, 1747, at half past four,an earthquake. December 6, 1747, at four p. m.,another. March 11, 1748, about a quarterbefore seven a. j\i., there was an earth-quake. November i, 1755, the great earth-quake at Lisbon occurred, and con-tinued for several days. Accordingto Appleton, this earthquake was feltin Iceland, on the coast of Massachu-setts, and on Lake Ontario. November
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . just before sunrise,there was a consideraljle loud and longearthquake. January 6, 1747, about midnight anearthquake. December 3, 1747, at half past four,an earthquake. December 6, 1747, at four p. m.,another. March 11, 1748, about a quarterbefore seven a. j\i., there was an earth-quake. November i, 1755, the great earth-quake at Lisbon occurred, and con-tinued for several days. Accordingto Appleton, this earthquake was feltin Iceland, on the coast of Massachu-setts, and on Lake Ontario. November 18, 1755, about fouroclock A. M., was the most violentearthquake ever known in NorthAmerica. It continued about fourand a half minutes. In Boston, aboutone hundred chimneys were leveledwith the roofs of the houses, and fif-teen hundred shattered and throwndown in j^art. There was a shockevery day till the above I copy from Joshua Coffinshistory, who quotes from RichardKelley. ( To be continued.) K. W. & CO. 191 SOMETHING ABOUT THE DRY GOODS BUSINESS IN Prominent among the fine blocks inConcord is the Board of Trade Build-ing, located on Main street, c:orner ofSchool. In this block we find thestore of K. ^V. \\illard .^c whoare known thro nhout New Hamp-shire as one of the leading dry goodsfirms of the State. The above cutshows their store, with its three en-trances, Nos. 83 North .Main Streetand 2 and 6 School Street. For thebenefit of our rea:iers we have takenpains to inspect the large stockand numerous departments of thisstore. Also, the Lamson Cash Rail-road, a novel device (used only bythe larger stores) for carrying cashfrom clerks to the cashiers clesk. Thisis the only one of the kind in Con-cord, and would well pay any onevisiting Concord to inspect. In a single ])age which we shall de-vote to the leading dry goods store inConcord, we can but mention some ofthe many attractions offered by W. Willard & Co., and only a
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