The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, January 28, 1864 Volume 5, Number 18 **[No marriages announced in this edition of the newspaper] NEWS Local and Personal Peter Smith, of Altoona, was seriously if not fatally stabbed on Monday last by a man named Christ Feeny. Local Correspondence Johnstown, Jan. 24, 1864 For some time past, several citizens of this place have been agitating the question touching the propriety of erecting water works for the purpose of supplying our growing city with an inexhaustible supply of the fluidical commodity. A public meeting to devise ways and means for putting the project into execution was held in Council Chamber last night when and where it was determined to apply immediately for a charter and committees were appointed in the different wards to solicit stock subscriptions. From the well known enterprise charactering the gentlemen having the matter principally in charge, I have no doubt the project will be entirely successful. Our Councils have taken in hand the matter of the building of a Town Hall. A committee of one from each ward has been appointed to consider plans, location &c., with instructions to report at special meeting tomorrow night. We are badly in need of a public hall of this kind and it is due the prosperity of town that one be erected. The present term of our public schools closes on Saturday next with an examination of pupils. In connection with this subject, I cannot refrain from paying a compliment to Wood, Morrell & Co., for their large hearted liberality evinced in employing a teacher and paying all the expenses incident to a free night school for the boys employed in the mines and about the mills, who are, of course, deprived of many of the advantages afforded by our beneficent school system. The idea of a night school for these boys originated with Mr. Morley, Supt. of the company’s mines and was promptly taken in hand by Mr. Morrell. Mr. Freeman in charge of one of our day schools has been appointed teacher and the attendance already reaches seventy-five. Mr. Morrell, I understand, designs starting a similar school in Millville for the benefit of the boys residing in that vicinity. A short time ago a party of Germans, with their wives, concluded to take a little recreation after the manner of a sleigh ride. Accordingly all arrangements before perfected, they proceeded hence to a neighboring village, where the ladies betook themselves to one of the two public houses of the place. Meantime their lords and masters obtained possession of the other house, situate at the further end of the village, where, procuring a musician, they soon gathered a number of the country girls and amused themselves “tripping it on the light fantastic.” The “better halves” became informed of the occupation of their liege lords and as supper for the entire party had been prepared at their house, they concluded as a retaliatory procedure to eat not only their own but also their husband’s portions of the same! Which they did and the gay and festive benedicts perforce were obliged to return home supperless, doubtless convinced of the utter impracticability of getting ahead of women. Twenty-three of the members of Capt. Ryckman’s six months’ cavalry company are home on furlough, they having re-enlisted for the war. An effort will be made, by the inducements of liberal home bounties, to raise the entire quota of these districts by volunteering. [Signed] May Leon Arm Broken On Thursday last, Mr. Jacob Settlemoyer, whose nuptials we chronicled in these columns a couple of weeks since, met with a severe accident in this wise: He was coming to town, on the Eb. and Susq. Plank Road, with a load of shook when, some three or four miles out, his sled upset, throwing him to the ground and precipitating the shook upon him. His arm was fractured in three different places and he otherwise severely injured. We understand the sufferer is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Railroad Accident The first accident of magnitude characterizing the Ebensburg and Cresson Railroad since its construction occurred on Saturday evening last. When rounding a curve near “Bradley’s Cut,” the locomotive and a freight car ran off the track and over a precipice twenty feet down, smashing the former considerably and piling the latter in fragments on top. The passenger car fortunately remained on the track and none of the passengers were injured. The engineer went over with the locomotive but was not hurt; the fireman jumped off and had his hand severely bruised. A gang of workmen were immediately put on the ruins and in a short time had the road in running order again. Wake Up! No effort has yet been made to fill the quota of Ebensburg borough and thereby escape the necessity of a draft. If anything is to be done and well down, ‘twere well ‘twere done quickly. A bounty of $100 or $200 would most likely secure us the required number of men. _________________________________________________________________ It’s the same Hotmail®. If by “same” you mean up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Same_022009