Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-12-15
Town Meeting.


Council. a meeting of the Gas consumers of
the CITY was held in the Council chamber on
last Saturday night, DR.. C. II. Ohr was call
ed to the Chair, and VIM. o. Sprigg Esq,
appointed Secretary. The Chairman stated
that the object of the meeting was to take in
to consideration the present exhorbant price
paid for gas, (S4 per thousaud.l More than
is paid in any other city in the Union. The
city paying between twelve and fourteen hun
bred dollars for what it uses, and many Of
the citizens complaining of their bills, and
to suggest what steps should he taken in ref
erence to the matter. Several addresses were
made in the best spirit, evncing DISPOSE
ton to submit to what might appear right
While all concluded to do the gas company
justice, yet the charge Of rent for the metre
was pronounced by every one present as an
cnormity, not to be tolerated. On motion,
it was resolved that committee of two
should be appointed to cooperate with
committee of the same number to be appoin
ted by the Mayor, who should obtain all the
facts in the case and report to an adjourned
meeting:
The Chair appointed VIM. Taylor and NJ.
Treiber, on the part OF the citizens.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet
again on Saturday oath inst.
Our LOCAL ENTERPRISE. The attention
we have bestowed on this subject we are en-
couraged to believe, is not without some good
result citizen exhorts us to continue it.
In Alexandria, where a movement Of this
kind is in progress, the wholesale Shoe mer-
chants are arranging to become their own fac
tors, and not to be longer dependent on i'm
ported work. Why r,ay not Cumberland do
the same? Our position is favorable for
working leather-this is evident from the
number and magnitude of our Tannerics-
certainly then it ought to be favorable for
making shoes. five work up our own stock
we shall save two freights, and can any one
tell what advantage there is in paying to
send our leather away and then paying again
to bring it back before we feel it on our feet?
Would it not be better to import the work.
men at once? The quantity ofwork impor-
ted by Mcssrs. Mnke. Brengle, Thistle, and
others, would we presume, give constant en-
plovment to 100 or $50 additional hands,
And these men, many of them at least, are
on the spot-able, willing and anxious to be
employed. Our home work is more durable
than that made in the East it is better a.
dapted to our cangeable climate, and, no
doubt, cheaper in the end. Here step in
advance could be taken without delay. Let
the customers pledge their support and we
venture to assert our manufacturers will glad
1y extend their operations How many homes
might thus be chcered during the long win
ter. We commend this thought to those Of
our citizeus whose unreasonable preferences
forces in work from abroad. They are I'M
consciously deprving our mechanics of the
employment on which they and their famil-
les are solely dependent If as a question of
home growth and improvement this subject
appeals to our local pride, so also does it APP
peal to our benevolence 1t is emphatically
question of bread. There are those per-
chance in need whose pride will not suffer
them to reveal their condition, they want
work and not the charity of pence. Help
the poor to help themselves, this is the no.
blest method of well doing. Now then we
go for making Cumberland the Shoe Mart of
Maryland. We can, to great extent, raise
our own hides ; we can tan our own leather
make our own shoes, and sell to all that want
to buy.
BROKE JAIL.-On last Saturday night three
prisoners, named Lazarus Strader, 7. lIar-
per, and F. II. Inkhouse. At the usual hour
for locking up, the jailor visited the cell in
which the men were confined and thought he
found all right, but upon an examination
Sunday morning, they were missing. An
investigation discovered the fact that they
had torn off the sheet iron and punched the
bricks out Of th3 wall of the cell and bioke
the lock of the door. In order to get over
the Jail wall, they tore up the bedding, out
or which they made a rope. and finding
an Old carpet sack in the Jail yard, they
filled 1t with stones, and tossed it over the
wall by which means they were able to pull
themselves TO the top, then changing it to the
other side, they let themselves down on tn c
out SIDE and made their escape. On Sun
day evening they were overtalen by our en-
ergetic Sheriff. II. r, Atkinson, at Grants
vile, having gotten there in Carryall that
they hired in Frostburg They were lodged
in Jail again on Monday last.
Mr. John J. Maupin, who was accidental
ly shot by his brother, died on last Monday
week. A sad afflctioa 70 Ills family, and IA
loss sincerely ppurned by many warm and
devoted friends. Requiescat in pace.
For the Civilian q Telegraph
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