Accident--We learn from the Hollidaysburg papers that Col. John Piper, of that town, Assistant Provost Marshal, of this county, met with a serious accident on Monday of last week.--While driving in his sulky, one of the wheels came off and he was thrown out with such force as to dislocate one of his shoulders, besides sustaining other injuries. He is now mending rapidly. --------------- Notice.--Foreign notes will not be received at the office of the Altoona Gas and Water Company in payment for gas or water bills, inasmuch as the bank in this place will not receive them on deposit. BENJ. F. ROSE, Treasurer ------------------ Distressing Accident.--A young man named Morrison McCartney, a resident of Logan township, who was, for some time past, employed as a brakeman on a freight train on the Northern Central Railway, between Harrisburg and Baltimore, came to his death suddenly, a few days since, in a manner unknown. He would found dead on the bumper of a car on the train on which he was employed, with a severe contusion on his head. It is supposed that he was standing on the top of a car and was struck by a bridge which knocked him down, and that he fell in the position in which he was found. --------------- Thieves "Pulled."--Constable Ely has been doing a thriving business during the past week, in the way of arresting thieves who were endeavoring to escape on the trains. On Saturday morning last, he received a telegram from Huntingdon, requesting him to arrest a small fancy looking Italian, on a charge of entering the rooms of a couple of Hotels in that place, in one instance abstracting some $16 from the pockets of a boarder, and in another appropriating a gold watch and some money belonging to a traveler.--On the arrival of the Express Train Joe "spotted" the "larkey" and "pulled" him forthwith.--Great were his protestations against such treatment towards a man who had only been 12 days in this country; but Joe was deaf to entreaty, and insisted upon furnishing the stranger with lodgings in the "Lockup," until constable King should arrive and take charge of him. Constable K. arrived in the evening train and furnished the foreign gentleman with a free ticket to Huntingdon, and provided him with lodgings in the stone house with diamond windows. On Monday last, Joe received a telegram from Pittsburgh, giving the description of a boy, about 19 years of age, named Benjamin Gough, who had stolen some $45 from his mother and taken passage on the Express Train Eastward, and requesting that he arrest him. From the description given, Joe had no difficulty in "spotting" his game, and as soon as he cars stopped he observed him upon the platform and at once laid his "fetche cum takum" upon him and offered to provide lodging in the "Lockup" for the night.--The boy was rather taken aback by the suddenness of the proceeding and denied all complicity in the larceny. Finding that he was fairly caught, and that there was no getting out of the scrape, he "simmered down," and admitted little by little until he admitted all. His mother came on Tuesday, and took charge of him and conveyed him back to Pittsburgh. ---------------------- MARRIED On the 19th inst., by Rev. W. R. Mills, Dr. WALTER BELL, of Summitville, Cambria county, to Miss CELIA YODER, of this place. On the 12th inst., by Rev. A. H. Sembower, W. MARTIN BURKHIMER to Miss HENRIETTA WAYNE, both of this place. On the 19th inst., by the same, CHARLES MYERS, of Altoona, to Miss SARAH R. ZELLER, of Greensburg, Westmoreland county. DIED In this place, on the 5th inst., SAMUEL DARON, aged 44 years. ----------------------------------------------- Biblical Enigma.--A friend has handed us the following Enigma to be solved by the Sunday School Scholars who read the Tribune. Answer Requested. I AM COMPOSED OF SEVEN LETTERS My first is the first letter of Zebedee's wife's name. My second is the first letter of the name of the Governor of Samaria under Darins. My third is the first letter of the name of one of the seventy that were appointed to aid Moses in governing the people of Israel. My fourth is the first letter of the name of a distinguished Apostle of the gentiles. My fifth is the first letter of the name of an Egyptian handmaid in the house of Abraham. My sixth is the first letter of the name of a station of the Israelites on their way to Mount Sinai. My seventh is the first letter of the name of a grandson of Ham. My whole is the name of one of the seven Deacons first choices by the church of Jerusalem. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair