AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. ============================================== LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. PENRITH HORSE FAIR. - On Tuesday last, a horse fair was held in Sandgate, Penrith, when the show in all classes was a very secondary affair. Horses for agricultural purposes were most numerously represented, but though many in the class were fair useful animals, there were only two or three really superior animals. Long prices were asked, the highest being £90, whilst £40 to £50 was seriously asked for horses which a few years ago would not have been looked at if the owners had offered them at £20. Harness horses and ponies were almost unrepresented, and for what were shown, correspondingly high prices were demanded. This put a check upon trade, and only an odd animal or two changed hands. The chief fair will be held on Tuesday next. NARROW ESCAPE FROM BEING KILLED AT WORKINGTON. - On Friday, MR. JONATHAN CRAIG, a time-keeper in the employment of the West Cumberland Iron and Steel Company (Limited), at Workington, had a narrow escape from being killed. He was walking along a line of railway between the blast furnace and the steel works, and in his anxiety to avoid a train that was coming towards him, he did not observe that some waggons, pushed by a locomotive, were coming behind him. He was knocked down by the first waggon, and fell right between the rails. The whole of the waggons, sixteen in number, and the locomotive passed over him without doing him any injury. Beyond the shock caused by being knocked down by the waggon, MR. CRAIG was none the worse for the accident.