Misc. Items from The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA. The citizins of Altoona, on the 4th of July will raise a flag fifty feet long, and thirty-two feet eight inches wide. It will require two thousand seven hundred yards of maching sewing and ninety yards of hand sewing to complete, and will weigh about fifty-five pounds. Wed. 10 May 1876 issue. A lady who has visited the Centennial and consequently has valuable experience, says that those who go there must not wear any article they do not expect to ruin entirely. The grounds are five miles from the city and the streets are deep with dust, which goes through clothing like a sieve. Ladies are advised to wear linen suits and hats should be as near dust color as possible and very plainly trimmed. Wed. 31 May 1876 issue. A pickpocket on the Centennial grounds relieved Mr. Frank Miller, of Altoona, of his wallet containing about $400 worth in checks. Wed. 14 June 1876 issue. Some sixty workingmen of the Pennsylvania railroad company having been arrested at Altoona for working on Sunday and fined by the alderman before whom they were tried, the compnay has taken the case unto court, on writs of certiorari, with a view to a judical determination of its rights in the premises. Levi Knott was the informer. Wed. 7 June 1876 issue. Levi Knott has had forty more track hands arrested for Sunday work. Virtuous Levi/ Wed. 28 June 1876 issue. Among the prominent attractions of the Fourth of July celebration at Huntingdon, is to be a balloon ascension by a young lady named Miss Lizzie Ihling , of Philadelphia, who is to be dressed as the Goddess of Liberty, and go up in her own air ship, the "Republic". Wed. 21 June 1876 issue. The St. Mary's Catholic Church intend holding a picnic, in Dell Delight Grove, on the 4th of July. It is to be gotten up on an extensive scale. Everybody is invited to be present. Wed. 28 June 1876 issue. The Altoona Mirror, a daily penny paper, is charged with stealing all its telegraphic dispatches. Well, a paper so poorly gotten up and conducted, couldn't be expected to buy them. Wed. 28 June 1876 issue. William Young, charged with the murder of switch tender O'Brien, at Gallitzin, has been arrested at Noblestown and will be taken to Cambria county for trial. This murder was supposed, at the time of it, to be one of the Molly Maguire series. Wed. 2 Aug. 1876 issue. In an old building torn down in Huntingdon a few days ago, was found a document written by Wm. MacAlavey to Col. John Piper, and bearing date July 9th, 1777, in which the writer assured the Colonel that his (MacAlavey's) company is fully convinced that the United Colonies ought to be free and independent States. Wed. 2 Aug. 1876 issue. M.S.