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from which place to Altoona the road was not completed until the latter part of 1854; but by an agreement between the officials of the state and the Pennsylvania Railroad, the latter was granted the use of the Allegheny Portage Railroad (the New Portage was not then made), from Hollidaysburg to the Great Viaduct, in return for which accommodation the state was allowed the use of the Pennsylvania line from said Viaduct to a point at the lower end of the present railroad town of Conemaugh, where it crossed over the Little Conemaugh River to its own line from the canal basin in Johnstown to the foot of Plane No. 1.
The reception of Bishop O'Connor and Monsignor Bedini in Pittsburg, as compared with the grand ovation extended to them in Cambria County was as a transition from Heaven to Hell. It was with considerable difficulty that they eluded a mob of "Native Americans" or Know Nothings, who were clamoring on the streets in opposition to the visit of the Nuncio. It was like a Nemesis of retribution that one Wharton Barker, the leader of the "Native Americans," who may, or may not, have been present on that occasion, was some time later, while walking along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, one evening to attend an Anti-Catholic meeting in a suburb of Pittsburg, was run down and killed by a locomotive steam engine.
In striking contrast to the fate of this unfortunate man was that of Marchand, the founder of the "Native American" organization, who died a Catholic.
The Oldest Former Member of the Parish.
The good Sister Martini, of St. John's Convent, Altoona, having called the attention of the writer to the fact that the oldest former member of the parish, Mrs. Margaret Mary Delozier, relict of Henry Delozier, resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maloney at 1510 Second avenue, Altoona, he called to see the venerable lady, and found her confined to her bed, she having about a year ago suffered a paralytic stroke, but although she complained of a loss of memory, her intellect appeared to be unimpaired despite her illness and the further fact that if she lives until the eleventh day of August next, she will have attained her ninety-fifth year. She is a daughter of the late Henry Krise and Mary Jordon Krise, and was born near St. Augustine, August 11, 1827, and was baptized by Father Gallitzin, although her name does not ap-
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