The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-12-19
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
JoHSsrowN, DBc. 10, 1861.

| 1HAHSeiS NiS4IinS our town during these gen.
eral vacation days. Two grand Fairs
VIII te Ia operation, commencing on Christ
mas Eve, and as every person who has ever
attended festival of this kind is aware that
more genuine enjoyment can be extracted
from an evening spent at q "Fair" than
from any other species of entertainment, i;
| VIII OF course be an induceLnent for the Ia
dies to make them as entertaining as possi-
bic. The Methodist Festival will be held in
their new church building, whilst the Cath
ellcs have secured the new three story build
ing recently erected by Mr. John Parke-
! the largest and best arranged building for
! public purposes which our town could ever
boast OF. The latter affair promises to eclipse
anything of the kind which has ever trans
pred here, as neither pains nor expense have
been spared to make it = complete success
The Cambria Iron Company of this place
has recently entered into a contract with the
Union Pacific Railway Company for I6 900
tons Of rails, In addition to considerable guam
titles already furnished said Company. The
rails called for by this last contract will be
sufficient to put down $50 miles, and is an
other evidence Of the great popularity of the
rails manufactured at this point. This large
order Will insure the running of the Mill the
entire winter, but the Company has notified
It's employees that after the 10th of the pre-
sent month their wages will be reduced ten
per cent. How much better this reduction,
however, than the suspension of operations,
which would have deprived hundreds of per-
sons of employment, a majority of whom
would have been reduced TO abject poverty
at this most :tclement season OF the year.
gave, in my letter of the ID inst, an ac-
count Of an assault committed upon Ger
man citizen of this place by two young men
Il 7.
parties who committed the act were sent up
to your place to await trial, but as the diff
Guilty has been compromised by the payment
of $3.50 and all expenses to the injured man,
the father of one CT the boys goes to your
village to>night, properly equipped with the
necessary documents for Che release of the
youthful prisoners.
An alarm OF fire on Saturday morning was
caused by the due Of Mr.sW. Hughes tailor
shop taking FIRE, and although it for q time
gave every promise of first class couhagra-
ton, the prompt assistance of several men
and a few buckets of water iudiciously sp-
piled, arrested the progress Of the flames,
and no damage beyond tie burning of few
shingles was sustained.
K. 2. Robinson. one of the severely injured
sufferers by the platform accident, received
4 commission last week. from Gov Geary
regular bruising match, conducted uA-
der the rules of the P. r., came off on va
cant lot near the depot last weSk. between
two young men whs pride themselves in be
ing adopts IN the manly art of standing ap
and hammering each other. A number of
well contested Grounds" were INDUCED in.
when one of the party planted "deadner"
in the mug of his antagonist, and the used
up individual failing "to come to time" the
successful shoulder-hitte- was declared the
champion. Such disgrsceful proceedings
should not be permitted to transpire in any
locality, except Chicago,
The preparatory steps have been taken
toward the formation Of Dramatic troupe
in this place, to be known as the Edwin
Forest Dramatic Association" The young
men who are taking the initiative in the
movement are all possessed of considerable
histrionic talent. and combine within them
selves the material for making first class
troupe. Hope they may succeed.
Two young men of this place were enjoy
ing thens elves by indulging in a sleigh ride,
yesterday, and whilst passing up Main ST.,
in the 9Th Ward, the horse evidently came
to the conclusion that he could make better
time at any rate he pulled out like the
pedestrian on his hundred mile trip, and the
sleigh, by a sudden lurch, took a real ling po-
sition-the young men in the snow ditto.
Sleigh and shafts dissolved partnership, but
horse and shafts stuck together Dobly, max
ing rapid circuit Of town, and then striking
bee liue for Woodvale. eventually put
down the brakes in the vicinity Of the wool
en- factory, when the horse was captured by
the sleigh riders who had been so unceremC-
niously spilled ont. SkU BAL.
A CAMBRIA County PEDgGrRIAN.-Wes-
toms Portland Chicago tramp has created
considerable interest on the subject of walk
ing in general, says the Hollidaysburg Reg>
lister, and some of the newspaper tell of
Captain Barclay, an English pedestrian. who,
in the last century, walked eight miles in an
hour, and also got over 100 miles on foot IN
10 hours a friend tells us Of some of the
tramping exploits of an Allegheny noun
talHeer, named Singer, who lived in Cambria
county, and was timer by occupation
lie traVe'ed several years ago, ard being over
SIX feet tall, his long legs enabled him to
march at about as rapid pace as any one
We have heard of. he once walked from
Jefferson to Ebensburg, a distance of ninc
miles, in 6l3 minutes, He had eudeaYored
to make it in an hour, but failed BY a min
ute and half. on account of being worried
along the route by persons on horseback,
who were interested in money staked in the
result. lie also tramred from Pittsburg to
Cresson, "a miles, between daylight and
dark on a summer day. He enlisted at Lo-
retto during the late war, and was frozen to
death while going to Crcsson, on a sled on |
the way to the army.
THE TIME FIxED.-We have already sta~
ted that our yourg friends of the Mountain
eer Base Ball Club had in contemplation the |
getting up of concert in order to secure |
fun1s f,r the li0uidafion IF