BEARS-David Brown, Jacob Confer and other Nimrods living at Canoe Creek, killed four bears on Thursday last. They (the bears) came down from the mountain, probably in search of food, and crossed the turnpike a few rods from Mr. Brown's house, where they were perceived and the dogs started after them. They were soon treed, one after another, and shot. They are thought to be the same "critturs" which a day or two after the election chased George W. Reed, on his way home from this place with the returns. Hollidaysburg Register. ---------------------------------------------------- RE-OPENING.--The vestibule and audience room of the Methodist E. Church, in this place, having been papered, painted and otherwise fitted up in the most handsome style, will be opened for divine service on Sabbath morning next, at 11 o'clock. We think that all who visit the Church will agree with us when we say that the audience room is decidedly the neatest outside of the cities, and that there are but few in the cities that surpass it. -------------------------------- MAMMOTH CABBAGE--We are indebted to James Park, of Allegheny Furnace, for two heads of cabbage, weighing respectively eighteen and a half and nineteen and a half pounds. They were "scroungers," and no mistake. They would "scrouge" out of their place a half dozen of the heads generally offered for sale this season. It would not take over twenty-five or thirty such heads to make the largest dutchman in the country enough "Sauer-Kraut" to do him over winter. If any one can beat the above, in the cabbage line, we should like to see the article. Anderson's potatoes are still ahead in the potato line. ------------------------------------ MAN KILLED--A railroad accident occurred in the Narrows, between Lewistown and Mifflin, on Thursday last, by which Dr. S. S. Cummings of the former place, was instantly killed. He had driven down the Pike to a point below the dam, crossed the river in a skiff and was walking down the track to visit a patient, when he met a Westward bound freight train. He stepped from the track of the freight train and was standing on the other track, looking at the train passing, when the East Mail Train Eastward came dashing along the track on which he was--the engine striking him, fracturing his skull, and instantly killing him. ---------------------------------------------- NEW BANK--The "First National Bank of Hollidaysburg" commenced business on last Monday, Col. William Jack is the President and Robert Johnston Cashier. The bank is chartered with a capital of $50,000 with the privilege of increasing it to one hundred thousand. They have not yet commenced paying out the new issue, but will do so in a very few days. For the present the business will be conducted in the building lately occupied by "Johnston, Jack & Co." This bank will meet the wants of business men of the whole county.--Register. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair