Married On the 31st ult., by Henry Aurandt, Esq., Mr. GEORGE KRAIG, of Somerset county to Miss MARY CANOWAY, of Huston twp, Blair co. ------------------------------------------ Lady Firemen Now don't imagine, ladies, that we intend you shall run 'wid der mersheen,' not at all; we merely wish to notice that a number of ladies in Harrisburgh have become contributing members of one the Fire companies of that place, thereby proving a valuable auxiliary to the company; and we would suggest that such action on the part of the ladies of this place would soon bring about the proper equipment of the Fire company recently organized. Will the gentlemen accept of the ladies on such terms, and will the ladies join? Both, we think, will answer "I." ------------------------------------------- Distressing Accident William Pruner, a citizen of this place, lost his life on Friday of last week, by an accident so strangely sudden and frightful as to startle the whole community, causing a general silent pang of grief. He left home in the morning coach for Bald Eagle Furnace-left full of joy, bright hopes and jubilant joy. Playfully bidding his wife "good-bye," as the stage rolled away, with the remark that he would not be back for two weeks, he took his last stage ride, thinking not, nor once dreaming of harm or ill. To make the sad and fatal reverse which awaited him, still more terrible by contrast, he was in an unusually humorous and pleasant mood all the way going out to his destination, and all the time preceding the accident-so much so, indeed, that is was remarked by his companions. Having dispatched his business at Bald Eagle Furnace, he first thought was to walk back to town; but, seeing an acquaintance going by with a wagon load of shingles, he engaged a seat for himself and two companions. He took a seat on the fore end of the load of shingles, with his feet hanging down, whilst his friends sat at the side. The wagon had not gone more than a hundred yards, when, moving slowly, and without any apparent or sensible jolt, the shingles on which he was sitting gave way; having no foothold, he fell to the ground, and, before he was observed by the driver, the front wheel passed over his body! One of his companions saw him fall, and immediately shouted to the driver, but not in time to have the wagon stopped. He was carried to a house near by; medical aid was procured, and every attention shown in which kindness and inexpressible pity could suggest. But human aid was vain. Death had already set his inevitable seal upon his brow: death glared from eye; friendship and affection softly pillowing and bolstering his return home, could not save him; and when the darkness of evening began to gather, he was passing through "the valley of the shadow of death." His physical sufferings were necessarily beyond expression-beyond possible conception; made doubly acute, too, by the fact that he was fully sensible until within a short time of his dissolution. It is a kind of mournful solace to know that he bore his extreme sufferings with heroic fortitude, uttering no word of complaint or repining. the few words he spoke disclosed a distinct knowledge he was approaching death. His solicitude seemed to be not for himself; but the thought of his dear wife and infant child seemed to snap his very heart-strings. She mourned as only a young wife can mourn-with a deep, wild, despairing, inconsolable grief. (Tyrone Star) -------------------------------------------- MARRIED On Thursday, September 2nd, 1859, by J. M. Cherry, Esq., in Altoona, Mr. GEORGE SHARRAH, of Huntingdon Co., to Miss REBECCA KEES, of Pinegrove, Centre Co. --------------------------------- DIED On the 21st ult., near Tifflin, Senoca Co., Ohio, Mr. MICHAEL ERHART, Sr., formerly of this place, aged about 65 years. In Logan township, on the 30th ult., Mrs. MARY ANN, wife of Wm. Black, aged 52 years, 10 months and 12 days. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair