Appointed-We are pleased to learn that our agreeable friend, William Mann, Esq., has received the appointment of conductor of one of the sleeping cars on the Pa. R. R. Mr. Mann is exactly suited to the station assigned him, and we predict he will be one of the most popular and efficient conductors on the road. ---------------- Serious Charge-We learn from the Standard of last week, that a man whose name is not given was committed to prison on Tuesday of last week charged with the monstrous crime of ravishment. The prisoner, in connection with some fifteen or twenty others, committed the horrid crime of ravishing a woman at Ironsville, in the lower end of this county, on Sunday evening last. The balance of the party has been arrested and those of them who could not procure bail were sent to jail. ---------------- New Trial Granted-At the Argument Court held in Hollidaysburg last week, the motion for a new trial in the case of Bunn vs. Ferre-an action of ejectment for a house and lot of ground in this place-in which the verdict at last term was for Deft. was argued by Hall for the motion and Hofius against it. The Court set the verdict aside and granted a new trial. ------------------------ We copy the following from the Tyrone Star of Saturday last-- Ought to be Punished--Affidavits were taken in this place the other day, proving that a certain woman in Warriorsmark Valley had cut up and fried out the fat of an old sheep, which had died from disease, and mixed part of with stuff which she sold as lard to one of our merchants, and part of which she made candles of, and sold to another merchant. We forbear giving names at present, as it most likely that her conduct will undergo a legal investigation. We may be allowed to state, however, that the husband of this same creature says she cooked for his dinner two or three chickens which had fallen into a water vessel at the barn, and lain there so long that the feathers dropped off when he lifted the fowls out with the dung-hook! From the same paper we learn that the tailor shop of Wm. Port, in that place, was entered on Tuesday night of last week, by means of a false key, and a suit of clothes, two pair of pants and a vest were stolen therefrom. On the same night the shoemaker shop of Mr. Hagg was entered and robbed of several pairs of boots. A lot of tinware was stolen from the foundry and machine shop of John Forbes. A man by the name of Bennett was arrested and sent to jail for whipping his wife and child, now about two months old, and threatening to kill wife, child, mother-in-law and other kindred. -------------------------------- Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair