City and Country The railroad bridge at Mount Union was repainted last week. Matilda furnace, Mifflin county, is now turning out a good quality of iron. Altoona employs fifty-one teachers. Twelve years ago she had eighteen. Progress. J. B. Hileman, a young man who recently graduated at the public schools in this city, has gone to Gettysburg to begin his college life. John C. Dickey has been appointed passenger agent at Hollidaysburg, vice S. P. Waugaman, resigned. To take effect September 10. Mrs. John Owens, of Birmingham, who recently sprained her ankle, is no better. It is thought she will never recover the use of her limb. There has been considerable sickness among the horses in Todd township, Huntingdon county, resulting in the death of quite a number. Mr. John P. Levan's new residence on Twelfth avenue is rapidly approaching completion. It is the handsomest house in the city, and a credit to it. William Emerick, of Nittany Valley, Clinton county, had his left hand so badly lacerated in a threshing machine, Friday last, that it had to be amputated. On and after September 1 the name of the agency and station previously known as North Houtzdale, on Goss Run branch No. 2 of the Tyrone and Clearfield railroad, will be called Humes. Miss Gertrude Woodcock, a young lady who graduated with high honor at the late public school commencement in this city on Saturday started for Wellesley college, near Boston, to continue her studies. Conductor R. R. Bockus in jumping off the way passenger train Thursday morning at Anderson station, sprained an ankle so badly that he had to be sent back to this home in Harrisburg on day express. The Blairsville Enterprise says there is a farm in Westmoreland county which is believed to be cursed, inasmuch as every family that has resided on it since the year 1700 has suffered financial ruin. Jim Gifford, Aleck Boggs and Dave Brown were the happy men in town Friday. Two boys and a girl. On Thursday a chilled ball broke the shell of the squeezers in the big mill. A new one was substituted and the work goes on. Blair county's big 'Squire, Mr. H. Ingram, of Catfish, gathered from a single plum tree seven one-half bushels of plums. Miss Mary Cully, a young lady about 24 years of age, died at the home of her mother in the Fourth ward on Thursday evening. The bees and other honey-living insects have been feeding on A. S. Morrow's delicious grapes, leaving nothing but the inflated skins. On Saturday some railroad tie makers on Reservoir mountain discovered an over-grown copperhead snake, one of the most venomous kind, curled in their bed in the cabin. Two respectable citizens had a slight misunderstanding in Gaysport yesterday. One got hit with a bridle bit on the head and the other got his throat tightly pressed. The remains of the late Benjamin Hartman were brought yesterday from his home near Springfield furnace, on an extra train and at 2 o'clock laid in the Presbyterian cemetery. On Sunday morning a bright little ten year old boy, son of one of Gaysport's most respected citizens, went over to the Hollidaysburg side of the river. In one hour he was carried home dead, drunk. We could not learn how or where he got the liquor. On Saturday evening J. Irvin Brotherlin, Esq., while seated on his office porch, fell from his chair in a state of syncope. He was carried into his residence and still lies in a dangerous condition, having had severe hemorrhages of the lungs since. A huge air receiver, twenty-four feet in circumference and the same in length lies in the furnace yard. It looks like a big balloon. On it is printed in big white letters "Hancock Boom." It is a formidable boom and would make a capital wigwam. The third reunion of the former teachers, pupils, and patrons of the Old Hook school, on Spruce creek, took place on the 26th ult. There were present from this city: Mrs. Catharine Johnston, Mrs. Isabella Kinch, Mr. Oliver Brown and Mr. James Hileman; from Tyrone, Mrs. Isabella Weight and Mrs. Margaret Richardson; from Frankstown, Mrs. Dollie Walls and John Figart, and John A. Crawford, of Arch Springs. R. Sharar, of this city, sent a letter. A splendid time was had. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair