A Woman Worth $75,000 Found Dead
    Mrs. Eliza Baldwin, aged 72, the wife of Henry Baldwin, or more familiarly known as "Uncle Harry" Baldwin, was found dead on Monday in her house at Lake Mahopac, Westchester county, N.Y.  She had been for years somewhat erratic, and her husband was unable to live with her...

    Monday morning Charles Knoll and George Bauer, of Newark, went to Linden to hunt rabbits.  At that place they were joined by a number of others, and all started out through the woods in quest of game.  Near Peck's woods they separated, and shortly after Knoll heard the report of a gun, and following the direction of the sound was horrified to find Bauer lying dead on the ground and the entire left side of his head blown away.  The unfortunate man had evidently stooped to get under a fence and, while in that position, in some manner the gun had been discharged with fatal effect.

    Pleasant Anderson was hung by eight masked men on Monday night, near the town of Blakesburg, Iowa.  He was tried and acquitted of the murder of Christopher McAllister, but this mob believed him guilty and hanged him.  Anderson protested his innocence to the last.

    Sheriff Terry was shot and killed by Emmitt Butler on Sunday last, at Helena, Karnes county, Texas.  Butler, while attempting to escape, was killed by an unknown person in the crowd.   Terry was a prominent stockman.

    Leopold Von Zechen was found dead in his apartments at Baltimore last Tuesday, having been suffocated by gas from a coal oil stove.

    Ruth Gill, the little daughter of John Gill, a prominent grocer at Cleveland, O., was accidentally shot and killed on Wednesday by a 5 year-old companion named Walter Grosshar.  They were playing with a revolver.
 

Local Department

    Dory Sutton, of Sergeantsville, successfully worked out the egg problem published in this paper last week.  Dory is a good boy, and may take a seat among the big girls.

    Miss Maria Cherry, of Kingwood township, while visiting Mr. Howard Hunt's family, in Lambertville, was taken with an attack of apoplexy, and died on Monday morning last.  She was in her seventy-eighth year.

    Mr. Acker Moore, of Sand Brook, died at his residence on Tuesday last in the 80th year of his age.

    Ralph Teets died in New York last Tuesday, aged 71.  Mr. Teets was troubled for many years with heart disease.  On tuesday he attended to his business as usual.  On returning home at night he was seized with the old heart trouble and died in a short time.  He was born at Milford, Dec. 1, 1813.

    Mr. Isaac G. Marsh, an old resident of this town and vicinity, died at his residence on Main street last Tuesday night, after a weeks' unconsciousness from an attack of apoplexy.

    On the morning of the 23rd ult., William Crouse, of Holland, was found dead in bed, he having gone there the preceeding evening well as usual.  Deceased was an old steersman of rafts on the Delaware.  He was 82 years, 8 months and 8 days old when died died; was twice married, surviving his second wife about ten years; was the father of twelve children, and thirty-two grandchildren.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Alfred Martin, one of the oldest residents of the vicinity of Bound Brook, dropped dead there in the depot of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad on Monday.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Emmons, of Bernard's township, Somerset county, recently celebrated her 100th year.  She has outlived two husbands and is still possessed of surprising physical vigor.  Her home has always been among the hills of Morris county and that part of Somerset county adjoining.
 

State Items

    Theodore Rodgers, a Perth Amboy saloon keeper, has been arrested on a charge of having, a few days ago, struck his daughter with a chair, and inflicting injuries which caused her death.

    A brakeman named Clark was standing on the rear of a locomotive tank on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Perth Amboy, on Monday, when by the sudden starting of the engine he was thrown under the wheels, and instantly killed.  Clark lived at Ashley, Pa., to which place the remains were sent for interment.

    A ten-year-old daughter of William Rodda, of Port Oram, Morris county, fell into a open pit near the Hurd mine, on the 23d inst., and was drowned...

    Benjaimin Messenger, aged sixty-five years, a veteran of the late war, was found dead in bed, on Monday, at Preakness...
 

    A brakeman named Mason was fatally injured near Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday night by being struck on the head with a stone thrown by a tramp.  He was found lying insensible on the top of a car when the train reached New Britain and was cared for at that place.
 

Marriages

     At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Dec. 27th, 1884, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Ellis Burket, of Barbertown, and Amy Barcroft of the same place, all of Hunterdon county, New Jersey.

    At Sand Brook, N.J., Dec. 31st, by Elder Charles W. Moore, Judson Rose to Catharine Gethard, all of Lambertville, N.J.

    Dec. 25th, 1884, by Rev. A. B. Still, Isaac Thomas, of Junction, and Elizabeth Mary Moyle, of Bethlehem township, both of Hunterdon Co., N.J.

    Dec. 31st, 1884, by Rev. W. A. Smith, at the Parsonage in Junction, N.J., Charles E. Cougle, of Port Murray, N.J., and Mary E. Henry, of Henryville, Monroe, Co., Pa.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 21, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Thomas Taylor Hully to Matilda Suydam, both of Delaware township.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 24, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Edward Souders to Mary P. Taylor, both of Lambertville.

    Dec. 23, at Lambertville, by Rev. C. H. Woolston, Wm. Ramsey to Rachel Johnson, both of Lambertville.

    At Stockton, Dec. 31, by the Rev. C. S. Conkling, John Edinger to Anna Mary Ulmer, all of Stockton.

    Dec. 25, at the residence of the bride's uncle, Martin Rinehart, Esq., by Rev. W. Schmitz, of Pottersville, Wm. E. Davis, of Morristown, to Alice H. Welsh.

    At the Parsonage, Dec. 24, by Rev. W. Schmitz, of Pottersville, Wm. S. Swackhamer, of German Valley, to Minerva Schuyler, of Fairmount.

    At White House, Dec. 20, by Rev. M. Herr, James A. Shanger, of Newark, to Mary E. Conner, of White House.

    At the home of the bride, on the 31st of December, by Rev. Charles W. Pitcher, Godfrey C. Stout, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to Catharine E. Fulper, of Rowland's Mills.

    At the Parsonage of the Reformed Church, Stanton, by Rev. Charles W. Pitcher, on the 31st of Dec., Anthony Harsel to Mary K. Craft, both of Stanton, N.J.
 

Deaths

    Died, in Flemington, on Tuesday evening, December 30, 1884, Isaac G. Marsh, in the 67th year of his age.

    At New London, Conn., Jan. 1, 1885, Mrs. Harriet Chapell Brown, aged 90 years and 3 months.

    Died in Delaware township, on Tuesday morning, Dec. 30, 1884, Acker Moore, in the 80th year of his age.

    In Delaware township, Dec. 11, 1884, Elizabeth A. Van Dolah, aged 76 years and 3 months.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 15, 1884, Robert M. Dilts, aged 3 years, 2 months and 18 days.

    In Baptisttown, Dec. 25, 1884, Francis Roberson, in the 93rd year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 26, 1884, Esther Liverton, aged 84 years and 22 days.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 29, 1884, Maria Cherry, aged 77 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 27, 1884, Arthur Gordon Petrie, aged 1 year and 3 months.

    Dec. 30, 1884, at Mechanicsville, infant child of Joseph and Rosa Latourette.
 
 

January 13, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 22

    Enoch Bellis, a farmer residing near Warrington, in Warren county, died Tuesday morning, aged 74 years.  He came to his death in a singular manner.  His kitchen door was an old fashioned double one.  On New Year's morning he was standing near it, the upper part being half open, when his large dog jumped over the lower part, striking the upper part with great force and throwing it against Mr. Bellis so hard that it knocked him down against the stove, dislocating his shoulder and breaking his thigh.

A Centenerian Veteran Dead
    Charles Burch, aged 106 years, died recently at Lowellville, Ohio.  He was born in a soldiers' camp in England and becoming a British regular he helped fight the Americans in 1812.  Returning home he marched against Napoleon, was wounded in the hip at Waterloo, making him a cripple, and he has ever since been a British pensioner.  His pension always came in gold, and during the war the old man sold it, getting at one time 260 for it.  He came to America in 1851.  He had two sons in the Union Army during the civil war, and one of them died and his name is on the soldier's monument at Youngstown, Ohio.  The other is at the Soldier's Home at Dayton.

    Miss Ella McChesney, the daughter of Mayor Colgrove, of Corry, Pa., died at New Orleans, under most distressing circumstances.  She, with some friends, was visiting the New Orleans Exposition, and by some means was separated from them and could not be found.  The case was given to the police, and after two days search they found her in an out-of-the-way place and unable to gvie a clear account of what happened.  It seems that she was drugged by supposed friends, who left her where the police found the body.  She was in a pitiable condition and lived only a short time.

    James Donaldson, an engineer, living at Paterson, has been employed for some time past at the Laflin & Rand power works, at Mountain View.  On Saturday he crawled into the boiler of his engine for the purpose of cleaning it out, and almost immediately was overpowered by the foul air.  He shouted for help and struggled with all his failing strength to climb out through the manhole, but was too weak to extricate himself from the horrible trap.  At length some of the men, hearing strange sounds issuing from the boiler, went and looked in and found Donaldson lying unconsious within.  He was rescued as soon as possible, and everything that could be done was tried to restore him to consciousness, but in vain, as he died five hours after.  He was 46 years old, and leaves a widow and seven children.

    Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, pastor of St. Ann's on the Heights, an Episcopal Church, died in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, from the effects of blood poisoning...  He leaves a wife and eight children.  Mrs. Schenck is the sister of Senator Pendleton, of Ohio.
 

    The funeral services of Miss Laura Reisch was held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon last.  Miss Reisch was a daughter of James Reisch, who moved to this village last summer, and who is in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.  She was a great lover of music, and before her removal to Flemington she and her sister were salaried members of the choir of a Church in Jersey City....  As the sun was setting they laid her to rest in Prospect Hill Cemetery.  She had been afllicated a long time with a pulmonary affliction, and died on January 5th.

Burned To Death
    A sad accident occurred last Thursday evening at the house of Mr. John Snyder, near Baptisttown, resulting in the death of Mrs. Asa Hockenbury.  This lady has been in poor health for the last two or three months and has at intervals shown signs of mental aberration...
At about milking time on Thursday night Mrs. Snyder went out to the barn to attend to that duty, leaving Mrs. Hockenbury in the house to set the tea table, she requesting so to do.  In a short time thereafter Mrs. Snyder was startled by a sharp cry of distress and looking in the direction of the house saw Mrs. Hockenbury running toward her, her clothing all in a blaze...
Mr. Snyder was at the barn attending to his stock, and hearing the outcry made by the two women hurried out and after some difficulty succeeded in putting out the fire, but not before Mrs. Hockenbury was so badly burned that her death resulted about 12 o'clock that night.  Her maided name was Lavina Slater.  She leaves a husband and two children.

Old Naturalization Papers
    Probably the oldest naturalization papers in Trenton are in the hands of Miss Kate Leonard, of 414 Ferry street.  They were taken out by her deceased grandfather, Thomas Leonard, February 9th, 1822, at Flemington, Hunterdon county, Mercer not having been created at the time.  The papers include Mr. Leonard's notice of intention given at the "Hunterdon County Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the term of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen."  It is ther stated that the applicant left Ireland August 23d, 1809 and reached New York October 31st, following.  He was therefore about nine weeks on the ocean - rather a contrast with the fast passages of today.  The certificate of naturalization is made out by "J. T. Blackwell, per curiam," and is accompanied by the affidavit of one John Wilson, that Leonard had been a resident of the United States since 1814.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Thomas Titus, son of ex-Mayor Titus, of Hackettstown, was engaged in the White Hall mill a few days ago, when he was caught in a belt and drawn into the cogs of a corn sheller.  His injuries wer so severe that he died shortly after being removed to his father's house.  He was about 50 years of age.

    The New Brunswick News recently contained a portrait of Mrs. Arintha Bellis, the oldest lady in that city, where she has resided since 1832.  She was born near Clinton, Hunterdon county, May 16, 1786.  Her maided name was Smith, and at the age of 17 she married Peter Bellis.  She was a sister of "Uncle Henry" Smith, who kept the old Bull's Head Hotel in New Brunswick, years ago.

    Patrick Doyle, with three other miners, was buried under a mass of debris, which fell upon them on Friday night, while working in the Richard Mine, in Morris county.  Doyle was killed, while Patrick Burke and John Williams were severely bruised.  Doyle was about 35 years of age, and having recently lost his wife, sent to Ireland for his aged parents to come and live with him.  They arrived only a few days before the accident.

    Isaac Allen, one of the oldest residents of Mercer county, and who resided in Hamilton township, left home on New Year's day to call on a friend Rue, who lives near Sandtown.  He did not return on Thursday night.  Friday afternoon the body was found frozen stiff.  The physicians think Mr. Allen was taken ill with an apoplectic fit on his way home and fell by the roadside.

    Thomas Welsh, a tailor, aged 32 years, of Plainfield, was run over and killed by a train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, near Plainfield station, Saturday evening...
 

Marriages

    At Hope, Warren county, Dec. 24, by Rev. A. H. Belles, Edwin J. West, of Lebanon, Hunterdon county, and Tillie M. Cooke, of Hope.

    At the residence of the bride's sister, at Milford, Dec. 31, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, assisted by Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Wm. H. Shaw, of Trenton, and Lizzie V. B. Ulmer, of Milford.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 25, by the Rev. John Scarlet, William Smith Riley, of Bridgeton, Pa., to Ella, daughter of William Case, of Ringoes, N.J.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 31, by Rev. John Scarlet, Horace L. Parks, of Sergeantsville, to Marilla Matthews, of Ringoes.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Jan. 3, by the Rev. John Scarlet, Alfred William Zeihle, of Hopewell township, to Eva Goddard, of Ringoes, N.J.

    At the Parsonage, Clover Hill, Dec. 18, by Rev. N. I. M. Bogert, George Latourette, of Readington, and Maggie N. Sutphin, of Clover Hill.

    At Mechanicsville, Dec. 31, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, David O. Hoagland, of Readington, and Emma A. Hall, of White House.

    At the residence of John Green, Mechanicsville, Dec. 31, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, George W. Waldron, of Lebanon, and Emma J. Cole, of White House.

    Dec. 24, at the Christian Parsonage, Milford, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, John Moffat, of Durham township, Bucks Co., Pa., to Sarah J. Foos, of Holland.

    At the Parsonage, Dec. 27, by Rev. F. R. S. Hunsicker, D. D., Elmer Ellsworth Bowlby, of Junction, and Cynthia Y. Hagaman, of North Branch.

    Jan. 1, at the bride's parents, by Rev. C. H. Winans, William K. McCathern, of Cokesbury, and Irene, daughter of Isaiah Apgar, of New Germantown.

    Jan. 3, at the Asbury Methodist Parsonage, by Rev. Isaac Thomas, Edward C. Zimmerman, of Pattenburg, and Mrs. Jennie M. Bosenbury, of West End.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Daniel Muller to Lina Muller, both of Stockton.

    At Washington, D. C., Jan. 1, by Rev. Frank H. Burdick, Rev. Harrison Clarke, of Mt. Airy, Hunterdon county, to May Barnes.

    At the home of the bride's parents, Jan. 8, by Rev. Amzi L. Smith, Willard K. Crosson, of Sand Brook, N.J., Sarah A. Stenner, of Sergeantsville, N.J.

    By Rev. C. Clark, Jr., at Quakertown, Emma J. Roberts to Taylor S. Cook, all of Pittstown, this county.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of Samuel C. Stevenson, near Quakertown, Dec. 30, 1884, Rebecca Large, aged 90 years, 11 months and 8 days.

    In Kingwood township, Dec. 27, 1884, Mahala Lodor, aged 72 years, 3 months and 22 days.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 6, 1885, Ella, wife of Evan Dalrymple, aged 25 years and 11 days.

    Near Glen Gardner, Jan. 6, 1885, Margaret, daughter of Joseph Peoplesdorph, aged about 18 years.

    At White House, Dec. 31, 1884, Abram Van Horn, aged 80 years.

    In Delaware township, Dec. 24, 1884, Angie, wife of Peter N. Todd, aged 50 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 2, 1885, John E. Kelly, aged 33 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 1, 1885, Mrs. Eliza Large, in her 85th year.
 
 

January 20, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 23

    Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax dropped dead last Tuesday forenoon at the Omaha depot in Mankato, Minnesota....  Mr. Colfax was born in New York city, March 23d, 1823, and removed to Indiana in 1838....

    The veteran Captain Isaiah Rynders, died of apoplexy at his residence, No. 310 West Twenty-third street, New York, early Tuesday morning.  He was stricken in University place, near, Washington square, about 9:15 o'clock on Monday evening, and was immediately taken home in a carriage.
 

State Items

    A one-year-old child of John Churchill, living at South River, died recently while in laughing hysterics.

    Garret S. Van Blarcom, a prominent citizen of Sussex county, was killed by the paymaster's train of the Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad, on Tuesday at Sparta.  He was crossing the track there when the train struck his wagon, throwning him several feet in the air and killing the horses.  The train men were from the main line and did not give any signal.  Deceased was a wealthy farmer.

    Clayton Cramer, who is a man with a rather remarkable history, died at Medford on Saturday, aged 75 years.  In 1838 he murdered Hosea Moore, at Fox Chase, while intoxicated.  Moore said he was under the Lord's protection and defied anyone to hurt him.  Cramer waited until he fell asleep and then beat his brains out with a hammer.  He was tried and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but, after serving seventeen years in prison, was pardoned, and returned to Medford, where he has since led an exemplary life and accumulated considerable property.

    A brutal robbery and murder is reported from Scottdale, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.  Two brother named Adam and Christopher Reck are proprietors of the Vance House at that place.  Adam sleeps in the second story of an adjoining building, the lower story of which is used a general store.  About midnight Christopher, hearing a noise in Adam's room started on a tour of investigation.  Just as he entered the store-room, he was captured by two burglars dressed in Indian costume with their faces painted red, who pounced upon him and beat him unmercifully.  The cries of his wife aroused the neighbors and the robbers fled.  Adam was found in an unconscious state, bound and gagged.  His skull was crushed and his ribs were kicked loose from the vertebra.

    In 1863 Henry Grieves, of Lumpkin county, Ga., abandoned his wife and six children.  The mother was compelled to work in the fields for her support.  Five of the children died from want, followed by the grief-burdened mother.  On Saturday a stranger arrived in Dahlonega and announced himself as Grieves and sought out his living son.  He states that he went to Ohio under an assumed name, married and raised a large family and has accumulated $50,000.  His second wife having died recently, his return was for the purpose of making such reparation as he could.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. George W. Freeland, of Milford, died suddenly on Friday last.  She was taken with apoplexy at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and died at 7 o'clock in the evening.

    Mrs. Charles Tomlinson, for over fifty years a resident of Bloomsbury, died in that place on the 6th inst., aged 80 years.

    Stephen H. Brown, Esq., formerly of Junction, and a prominent Democratic politician, while in this county, died suddenly in Binghamton, N.Y., on the 20th ult.  Bright's disease was the cause.

    We are sorry to record the death of Peter Hoagland, son of the late Aaron C. Hoagland, which occurred at his residence in this place on Sunday, from congestion of the brain.

    A friend from Frenchtown informs us that the venerable Moses Roberson, of Kingwood township, was born January 30, 1799, and became of age in 1820, in time for the Presidental election.  He case his first vote for James Munroe, and voted three times for General Jackson.

    Mr. Andrew Larison, an old and highly respected citizen of West Amwell, died on Monday last, aged 82 years.
 

    Mr. William Scarborough, of Lambertville, died on Tuesday afternoon last from heart disease, in the 81st year of his age...  His funeral took place from the residence of his son-in-law, L. H. Sergeant, Esq., on Friday afternoon.

    Philip G. Reading, an old and prominent citizen of Frenchtown, died at that place on Tuesday last, aged 68 years.  In the early history of Frenchtown, he was an active business man, having been engaged in the lumber, spoke, handle and mercantile business...  He leaves a widow, six sons and one daughter.
 

    The Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Connet, of Readington, was celebrated on Saturday, the 10th inst.  The occasion was of much rejoicing, and one which the very worthy couple greatly appreciated...
    There were many unusual and pleasant freatures connected with this anniversary...  During the fifty years of their married life nine children had been born to them.  Of these, the first two died when young, within a short time of each other.  The others, with the exception of the youngest, who remains at home, have separated from the parental fireside and established homes for themselves - one in Iowa, one in Western New York, and the rest in New Jersey....
    Samuel Connet is one of three brothers, and all three of these, with their wives, lived to see the semi-centennial of their bridal years, and all of them celebrated the event.

    McEvers Forman, a well known citizen of Easton, died at that place last Sunday, at the age of seventy-nine.  He had a paralytic stroke in December, from which he did not recover.  He was born in Pittstown, this county, and removed to Easton in 1822.

    A bright little son of Station Agent Gerhart, of Clinton, aged 10 years, died at Mauch Chunk, Pa.., on the 11th inst., from an attack of diphtheretic sore throat followed by typhoid fever.  He had gone to Mauch Chunk to visit his grandparents.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The wife of Jesse Snyder, jeweler, died at Phillipsburg after a short illness, aged 26.  The couple were married on Thanksgiving in the presence of a church filled with friends.  The bride, Miss Mollie Stewart, was one of the most popular young ladies of the place, and none seemed better suited to enjoy life.  Shortly after their return from the wedding tour Mr. Snyder was prostrated and is now almost at death's door with consumption.  The wife nursed him until she was stricken down and called away by death.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 14th, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., in Elemington, Hervey Kuhl, of Copper Hill, and Arabelle Hill, of Flemington, daughter of the late John Hill.

    Jan. 14, at the home of the bride's mother, near Flemington, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, George M. Prall, of Somerville, and Malvina Wert.

    At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Jan. 7, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, Joseph Barrick, of Baptisttown, to Kizzie Arnwine of the same place.

    At Cokesbury, Dec. 31, by Rec. C. R. Snyder, Wm. J. Apgar, of Mountainville, to Mary E. Lindabury, of Apgar's Corner.

    At the residence of Mr. D. L. Alpaugh, Jan. 1, by Rev. C. R. Snyder, Robert H. Apgar, of Mountainville, to Sevilla Robinson, of Pottersville.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 3, by the Rev. J. A. Dilks, Max Garrish, of New Hope, to Annie L. Bennett, of Junction.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, January 13th, 1885, J. Russel, son of John C. and Deborah P. Sergeant, aged 9 months and 15 days.

    In Holland township, January 12, 1885, of heart disease, Abigal, wife of George Echlin, in the 77th year of her age.

    In Delaware township, Jan. 12, 1885, Andrew J. Larison, aged 82 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 13, 1885, William Scarborough, aged 81 years and 11 months.

    In Trenton, Jan. 8, 1885, George A. Kohl, grandson of the late Capt. Geo. A. Kohl, of Lambertville, in the 33d year of his age.

    In Delaware township, Jan. 13, 1885, J. Burroughs Mathews, aged 44 years.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 13, 1885, Philip G. Reading, aged 68 years and 2 months.

    At the residence of her son, E. W. Bellis, near Flemington, Jan. 8, 1885, Mrs. Ann Bellis, aged 72 years and 2 months.

    At the residence of Ellen Polhemus, White House, Jan. 9, 1885, John Van Buren, aged 88 years and 10 months.
 
 

January 27, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 24

    Nicholas Van Horn, a well to do farmer, and widower, of Habershaw, Georgia, the father of two children over thirty years of age, was married to Miss Ivey, a child of twelve.  During the ceremony the child began to sob, when the old man patted her on the head in a fatherly manner, and wiped her tears with his big bandana.

    George H. Fox, a young man of rather hard character, who has just returned from the West, was arrested at Rockford, Ill., last Friday for the murder of John Holliday at Chemung last Thursday night.  Holliday was the husband of Fox's aunt.  Fox went to Chemung to visit her Thursday night.  She told him that Holliday had beaten and abused her, and was the father of her daughter's child by a former husband.  Fox then fell upon Holliday, beating him horribly with chairs and clubs so that he died, and then lay down and slept the night through in the same room with the corpse.

    The sudden death of Capt. M. J. Farrell, of New Orleans, last Friday night was caused by a mistake in filling a prescription.  Instead of one ounce of water and twenty-four drops of aconite, as ordered, the druggist put in one ounce of aconite.  A dose of this was administered to Mr. Farrell and he expired shortly afterwards.  A warrant has been issued charging Melchert, the druggist, with involuntary manslaughter.

    A. M. Hammer, aged 53 years, proprietor of a small grocery store four miles north of Colliersville, Tenn., was shot and killed last Friday by unknown persons.  Subsequently Jesse Jones and Pan Drumright, both colored, were made by a mob to lynch them.  Both the prisoners were wounded, but were safely landed to jail at Colliersville.

    Miss Matilda Chase, aged 63 years, daughter of the late Chief Justice Chase, of Maryland, and living at Annapolis, while sitting in her night clothes before and open grate fire, reading her Bible, fell asleep.  Her clothing was ignited by the fire and she was so seriously burned, that she died in a few hours.
 

Local Department

    David Crater, of Fairmount, was found dead in his bed on Tuesday morning, Jan. 6.  He is supposed to have died with heart disease.  The deceased was 76 years of age and had seemed to be ususually well just previous to his death.

    Says the Clinton Democrat: Early last Sunday morning, Mrs. William H. Corson, of High Bridge, died very suddenly.  She retired about 10 o'clock on Saturday night in her usual healt.  At 2 o'clock she aroused her husband, who immediately went to another room for some medicine, and upon his return she was breathing her last.

    Mr. Wm. B. Scott, a prominent New York banker until last May when his firm collapsed, died at St. Augustine, Florida, on the 16th inst.  He was born in Hunterdon county in 1813,and went to New York while yet a boy, securing a situation as clerk in dry goods house.  In 1848 he embarked in the banking business and for about thirty-seven years his firm, W. B. Scott & Co., was considered one of the solidest in the country.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Isaac Shields, who for thirty-one years had been a collector in the employ of the Morris Canal Company, at Port Delaware, Warren county, died at his home in Phillipsburg, Tuesday night, aged 63 years.

    Last week we mentioned the death of Mrs. Mollie Snyder, daughter of Josiah Stewart, and the serious illness of her husband, Jesse Snyder.  The wife was buried last Friday, and while the cortege was returning from the grave, the husband expired.  They were married Thanksgiving eve, were young with bright prospects.  He was taken with typhoid fever, which she also contracted while waiting on him.  He rallied while she died, and her death caused him to relapse and fellow her.  -  Phillipsburg Democrat.
 

Clover Hill Items

    It is a little late for New Year presents, but Henry Case just received his on the 13th ult., and Scudder, the mail carrier, on the following day.  They were both in the shape of a boy baby.
 

Marriages

    On the 31st of Dec. 1884, at the residence of Mr. Franklin S. Terry, Fernwood, Montgomery Co., Pa., by Elder P. G. Lester, of Va., James P. RIsler to Katie Stout, all of Locktown, N.J.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, Jan. 17, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Philip H. Apgar, of Cokesbury to Eretta A. Rinehart of Vliettown.

    At the home of the bride, in Hamden, Jan. 17, by Rev. S. D. Decker, David E. Bellis, to Otellia M. Swayze, both of Hamden.

    At the residence of the bridge, Dec. 24, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Hezekiah Philhower to Emeline Thomas, all of Califon.

    In Flemington, Jan. 17, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Charles H. Roberts, of Flemington, and Maggie Nailor, of Asbury.

    In the First Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, Jan. 15, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., assisted by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D. D., James S. Studdiford, to Mary, daughter of Charles A. Skillman, Esq.

    At Ringoes, Jan. 10, by Rev. John Scarlet, Simpson Stout Agin, of Ringoes, and Jennie Maria Murphy, of Wertsville.

    At Ringoes, Jan. 17, by Rev. John Scarlet, Alanzo V. Emery, of South Branch, N.J., and Sarah S., daughter of Nathaniel Shepherd, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, January 18th, 1885, Peter R. Hoagland, aged 51 years, 2 months and 18 days.

    At New Germantown, Jan. 14, 1885, Rachel, wife of Urias Alpaugh, aged 48 years.

    Died at her home, near Stanton, on the 20th of Jan. 1885, Mrs. Maria Lunger, aged 81 years and 3 months.

    In Franklin township, Jan. 17, 1885, John Leonard, aged 69 years and 18 days.
 
 

February 3, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 25

    Mrs. Mary S. Dooley, of Winterset, Iowa, who had been deserted by her husband, on last Tuesday administered opium to her 5 year old son, her 12 year old daughter and herself.  All died except the girl, who will recover.

Cincinnati, January 28
    At an early hour this morning four men were found in a sleigh in the western part of this city but one of whom was able to speak. One was dead and the other two so drunk and so nearly frozen as to be unconscious.  The dead man's name was Peter Gerber.

    William Houck, of near Reading, Pa., died last Wednesday aged seventy-seven.  He had foretold his death, although he was never sick...

    John Francis Quarles, the well known colored lawyer, died last Wednesday at Flushing, L.I., from pneumonia, aged 38 years.
 

Killed and Burned Her Husband
    William Druse, a farmer in moderate circumstances, living in the town of Warrn, Herkimer County, three miles from Richfield Spring, N.Y., has been missing for a month.  He had had frequent quarrels with his wife, and for several days it was rumored that his wife had murdered him, cut and burned the body and placed the bones in a swamp.  An axe, owned by Druse, was found rolled in paper at the bottom of Weatherbee's pond, on Saturday last.  A nephew of Mrs. Druse, named Gates, aged 18 was "squeezed" by the neighbors and confessed that she had shot her husband while he (Gates) and her son were out of the house.  Upon Gates' return, Mrs. Druse put a rope around his neck and compelled him to fire into the body.  The remains of the murdered man were then burned and the bones which remained were buried.  The odor of burning flesh was noticed in the vicinity of Druse's house December 18.  It is said that the woman has admitted her guilt.  Mrs. Druse has a brother in New York.
 

Local Department

    A 14 year old daughter of John O'Brien of Raritan (formerly of High Bridge) was buried in the Clinton Catholic burying grounds on Tuesday.

    Eli C. Cook, of whose illness and expected death we spoke in our last issue, died at his residence in this place on Wednesday morning.  His age was about 36 years.  Mr. Cook was a nephew of the late Eli Camp, of Copper Hill, with whom he learned the brush-making business.  He leaves a wife and three children.  His funeral took place on Saturday last, and was marked by impressive Masonic services.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Some years ago, Mr. W. C. Van Doren removed from Washington, Warren county, to Virginia, and word has just been received from him that he lost a little son a few days ago from scarlet fever, and that another son is sick with the same distressing disease.  Before Mr. Van Doren removed from Washington he lost two little boys in one day from scarlet fever.

    Mrs. Thomas Winsor, of Bound Brook, received a letter Monay morning from her husband, who has been in Texas for sometime.  He said he was enjoying excellent health.  The letter was written a week before its arrival.  Monday night Mrs. W. got a telegram saying her husband was ill; a few hours later came another announcing his death.  No particulars were learned.  Mr. W. went South in October last.
 

State Items

    Dr. Charles Ellis, a leading physician of Burlington, is dead at the age of 74 years.

    Isaac Shields, Town Treasurer of Phillipsburg, for eight years, died Wednesday, of apoplexy, aged sixty-three.

    John Swartsweller and David Lanning, who lived near Stillwater, Sussex county, were felling trees in the woods, on Friday last, when they were both struck by a branch from a falling tree.  Mr. Lanning was badly hurt about the head, and died on Saturday.  Mr Swartsweller was also injured about the head, and had an arm broken, and it is feared that he will die.

    Last Tuesday, while the one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Compton, of Port Norris, was sitting at the dinner table she suddenly gave a piercing scream which brought her mother to her side.  Just back of the right ear a spider had bitten the baby.  The mother killed the spider - a big, black one.  The baby suffered a great deal from the bite, and Tuesday afternoon was taken so sick that the family physician was summoned.  The doctor did what he could to alleviate the sufferings of the little one, but she grew rapidly worse and on Thursday she died.

    A few weeks ago Charles Alberson and wife, of No. 5 Commerce street, Newark, started on a trip South.  They left at home their little adopted son, Charles Alberson Roth, aged 7.  While they were gone the little fellow wrote them a very affecting letter, imploring them to return at once, as he felt very lonely.  He said he cried for them nearly all the time, and did not think he could stand it unless they came back at once.  The latter shortened their visit, but they arrived home only to find the lad dead, he having contracted malignant scarlet fever a few days after writing the letter to his adopted parents.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Jan. 31, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, James M. Beldon to Kate B. Riley, all of Flemington.

    At Bloomsbury, N.J., Jan. 28, by Rev. John C. Clyde, John M. Van Nortwick and Louisa K. Gardner, all of Bloomsbury.

    Jan. 24, 1885, by Rev. A. B. Still, George W. Dalrymple and Emma Johnston, both of Union township, Hunterdon Co., N.J.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, Jan. 24, 1885, by the Rev. Jas. R. Gibson, William E. Sutton, of New Germantown, to Lydia A. Apgar, of Cokesbury.

    Jan. 22, at the home of the bride's father, by Rev. W. H. Williamson, of Tappan, N.Y., Daniel F. Beatty to Emma H. Barnes, daughter of Lewis Barnes, Esq., of Somerville.

    Dec. 31, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, John Broughton to Sarah Beynon, all of Junction, formerly of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 22, by Rev. C. R. Suydam, Leonard W. Dorland, of High Bridge, to Laura D. Alpaugh, of Tewksbury township.
 

Deaths

    Near Wertsville, Jan. 15, 1885, Julia E., daughter of Lewis and Annie Sutphin, aged 18 years, 1 week and 4 days.

    At White House, Jan. 28, 1885, Edna, daughter of S. K. and Mary Large, aged 8 months and 25 days.
 
 

February 10, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 26

A Female Hermit
    Sally Ketner, a moutain hermit, died at Bernville, near Reading, Pa., on the 1st inst., in the 84th year of her age.  She lived in a small hut for forty-eight years, situated about midway on the road from Bernville to Shattleville, and owned thirty acres of ground...
 

Local Department

    Mr. Jacob H. Todd, a prominent business man of Middletown, New York, died in that village Friday afternoon, Jan. 23d, aged 70 years.  He was born at New Germantown, Hunterdon county.  In 1840, he married Maria Bockover, of Beemerville, Sussex county, and a short time later engaged in the tanning business at Stockholm.  He also afterward carried on the same business at Beemerville and Swartswood.  From the later place he removed to Middletown in 1869.

    The death of Miss Sarah Wilson, of Sidney, this county, at the age of over 102 years is announced in today's paper.  Of the personal history of this woman we know nothing, but that she lived to a great age, nearly double the common allotment of mankind, goes without saying.

    Mr. John Sutton, of Hopewell, died at the residence of Mrs. Fisher, (his daughter,) near Ringoes last Monday.  He was in the 84th year of his age.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Solomon McIntyre, colored, an aged and respected resident of Belvidere, is dead in the 78th year of his age.  He had been ill a number of weeks.  The deceased was one of the survivors of the ill-fated steamboat, Alfred Thomas, whose boiler exploded at Easton, March 4, 1861.

    There were three deaths from diphtheria in Pluckamin week before last.  Mr. James Alpaugh lost both of his children, a girl and boy, aged 8 and 5, within four or five days of each other; and Mr. S. K. Hoffman his only child, a girl, aged 7.

    Frank, son of Mr. Edward Barrass, of Somerville, died Monday morning, from an injury received by falling on a stake while climbing a fence near his home, East Main street, on Saturday.  Frank was a bright, ambitious youth, in his 14th year. -  Messenger.
 

State Items

    George Brooks, a brakeman on the West Jersey Railroad, was run over while drilling a freight train at May's Landing last Wednesday both legs being cut off.  He died a few hours afterward.
 

Marriages

    At the Parsonage, Everittstown, Jan. 24, by Rev. H. Jones, Hiram S. Opdyke to Maggie A. Jones, both of Quakertown.

    Jan. 21, by Rev. D. T. Koser, at Riegelsville, Pa., John S. Deemer, of Monroe, Pa., and Annie A. Hagar, of Holland.

    At the Sandy Ridge Parsonage, Jan. 31, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, Elwood Slack and Mary Besson, all of Bucks Co., Pa.

    Dec. 31, at the bride's home, by Rev. John Hart, James Lawrence Hall, to Mary A., daughter of Richard Lowe, Esq., of Neshanic.

    Jan. 28, at the bride's home, by Rev. John Hart, Peter Vroom, of Branchburgh, to Annie M. Mahoney, daughter of John Mahoney, Esq., of Three Bridges.

    At Spruce Run Parsonage, Jan. 31, by Rev. C. H. Traver, Harvey Davis, of Chester, and Kate Apgar, of Glen Gardner.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 27, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D.,  Israel H. Hunt, of Camden, N.J., and Flora C., daughter of Jacob Sliffer, of Lambertville.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 27, by Rev. Garbutt Read, Edward L. Hart, of Titusville, N.J., to Carrie E. Everingham, of Lambertville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Easton, Jan. 22, by Rev. H. M. Kieffer, Wm. H. Johnson, Esq., of Lebanon, N.J., and Jennie M. Able.
 

Deaths

    At Glen Gardner, Feb. 2, 1885, Mary, wife of John Kyle, aged 36 years.  (Deceased was a resident of White House Staton, and died while visiting her sister in Glen Garnder.  About two weeks ago Mrs. Kyle buried her baby aged about nine months.)

    At Sidney, Feb. 6, 1885, Miss Sarah Wilson, aged 102 years, 3 months and 9 days.  (Her funeral services will occur today, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock.)

    Died in Raritan township, on Sunday, February 8th, 1885, Aaron P. Hoffman, in 71st year of his age.  (Funeral services at his residence, Wednesday 11th, at 10 1/2 o'clock A.M.  Burial at the Bethlehem Presbyterian church grounds.)

    Feb. 1, 1885, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lambert B. Kline, at Three Bridges, Dinah S. Foster, aged 89 years and 6 months.

    In Kingwood township, Jan. 30, 1885, John Vandolah, aged 81 years.
 
 

February 17, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 27

    Joshua S. Day, one of the firm of Naar, Day & Naar, of the Trenton True American, died on Monday of last week in the 57th year of his age.  Mr. Day was born in New York, and had been part proprietor and business manager of the True American for 18 years.  Moses D. Naar, the senior partner and editor of the paper, died a month ago, Jan. 10th.

    Frank Bonham, the eldest son of a widow living on a farm near Radical, Kan., on his return home last week after three days absence, found his mother, brother and sister murdered, and to all appearance they had been dead a day or two.

    William Dudgeon, living near Hammondsville, Hart county, Ky., owing to grief over the death of his wife and child, committed suicide on Tuesday by cutting his throat.

    Ed Green, a drug clerk, shot and killed Howard Martin at Cuba, Mo., on Wednesday night for assaulting him because he refused to sell liquor to Martin who was drunk.

    B. F. Warren, recently a Texas ranger and lately in the employ of the State as a detective and who had become a witness against fence cutters in Runnells county, Texas, while sitting in the office of the Central Hotel, at Sweetwater, Texas, on Tuesday night, was shot dead by some unknown person in the street.

    Alexander Jones, the mail carrier from Grant's Pass to Wilderville, Mrs. George Gibson and two children and a young man named McClung were drowned last Thursday near Ashland, Oregon.
 

Local Department

    Word reaches Flemington that Mr. Watson B. Cherry, who left this place for Wellington, Kansas, some three years ago, is dead.  He was son of the late Thomas Cherry.  For some time past Watson had been a sufferer from a large tumor in his breast and no doubt this was the cause of his death.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The family of Mr. Abraham Huff, near Middlebush, Somerset county, are deeply afflicted.  In October last their youngest son, a young man about 20 years of age died at the hospital in Philadelphia, where he had gone to be treated for the disease from which he was suffering.  He was buried at Neshanic, where the family formerly resided.  At that time his only sister, Carrie, a young lady about 17 years of age, was sick at her uncle's at Neshanic, and died there on Wednesday.  The disease of both was consumption, combined with kidney trouble.
 

Marriages

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 5, by Rev. Jacob Rodenbaugh, Augustus W. Britton to Emma Jane, oldest daughter of Charles Kline, all of Frenchtown.

    At the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, Flemington, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, Feb. 3, Samuel B. Stenner, of Sergeantsville, and Kate Suydam, of Cherryville.
 

Deaths

    In Bethlehem township, Feb. 6, 1885, Alexander Case, aged about 60 years.

    In Clinton, Feb. 10, 1885, Emma, daughter of James and Augusta Wyckoff, aged 3 years and 3 months.

    Near Sand Brook, Delaware township, Feb. 10, 1885, John A. Moore, in the 42nd year of his age.

    At Lebanon, Nov. 25, 1884, Mrs. Mary R. Hoffman, wife of David K. Hoffman, aged about 59 years.

    In Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1885, Henry J. Stevens, of West Point, Nebraska, formerly of this county, aged about 71 years.

    At Lebanon, Feb. 2, 1885, Mrs. Catharine Hoffman, wife of Timothy P. Hoffman, aged about 39 years.
 
 

February 24, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 28

Frozen To Death
    About three miles from Gardner's Camp, Michigan, last Monday, a party of lumbermen found John Johnson lying in the snow unable to rise, both legs frozen from the feet to the knees and both hands frozen.  The snow was beaten down for several feet in circumference in his endeavors to rise.  He was taken home and has since died.
    The nude body of man found near Hunter's Point, L.I., last Monday, was identified as that of Herman Rue, a German.  The man's clothing was found in the woods near by, and it is supposed that while suffering from delirium tremens he stripped himself and jumped down the embankment, twenty feet in height, at the base of which his body was found, and was frozen to death.
    Henry Lewis was found frozen to death last Tuesday about five miles below Prince George Court House, Virginia.  It is supposed that while intoxicated he laid down in the snow on the side of the road, as a whisky bottle was found on his person.
    George Schenck, a fireman, and Isaac Ivens, a sawyer, aged 50 years, both residents of May's Landing, N.J., but employed at Abbott's mills, walked from their homes to Egg Harbor City on Saturday 14th inst., a distance of nine miles.  Late in the afternoon they started to return in a blinding northeast snow storm.  When half the distance had been traveled Ivens collapsed and shortly afterward sank in the snow.  Schenck then took him in his arms, and partly carrying and partly dragging him over the snow made slow progress until he lost his way, and then took the abandoned Egg Harbor City Railroad and endeavored to reach his home.  On arriving at Bugketchem Swamp, about two miles away, Schenck was so much exhausted that he could go no further with Ivens, and after a consultation it was decided that Schenck should go on ahead and send assistance to his unfortunate companion....  Schenck soon lost his way, and blinded by the snow and bewildered, tramped through the forest until 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he reached home much exhausted.  A searching party several hours after found Ivens frozen to death.  He leaves a wife and four children.  The snow was twenty-one inches deep.

    In Hawkins County, Tennessee, a few days ago, James Reynold put kerosene oil on the heads of his three children, aged two, four and six years respectively, to kill vermin.  Two of the children died within two hours and but for the timely arrival of a physician the other would have died also.

    Mrs. Dinah Beekman, colored, at one time a slave for Benjamin Beekman, recently died at the house of John Voorhees, at South Branch, Somerset county, in the 98th year of her age.  She spent the best part of her life on the farm lately occupied by Bloomfield Beekman, above Raritan.
 

Local Department

    A four year old son of J. N. Naughright, of High Bridge, fell into a pail of boiling water on Monday afternoon and was so badly scalded that his recovery is doubtful.

    Mr. Jeremiah H. Wright, residing near Everittstown, was attacked by pneumonia on the 6th and died on the 11th inst.  Mr. Wright was a resident of Clinton for several years, and was highly respected by its citizens.  He was about 70 years of age.

    We are sorry to be compelled to announce the death of ex-Judge Sylvester H. Smith, of Bethlehem township, at his residence at West End, on Monday last...  He was born in 1821.  A widow and eight children survive him.
 

    Mr. Harmon Reed, of Branchville, Somerset county, held a vendue last Thursday.  Auctioneer Hope, of Somerville, had sold everything excepting a fine Shepherd dog.  The dog was brought in sight and the auctioneer had succeeded in getting him bid up to about six dollars.  Just then, Mr. Reed stepped forward and said: "Gentlemen, that dog is worth more money than that; I have reserved one bid on him, and I now offer hine dollars and fifty -" and just at this juncture, before he had finished his bid, he dropped dead.  It is supposed that heart disease was the cause of his sudden death, hastened by the excitement of the day.  He was a son of Mr. Joseph Reed, and his age was about 40 years.

    An awful accident happened in this town about 4 o'clock last Monday afternoon.  Richard P. Jackson, a colored man, aged 40 years, employed as porter at the Union Hotel, in company with "Bronse" Stryker proceeded to shovel off the snow...  Suddenly his feet slipped and he fell to the flagstone pavement thirty feet below, striking upon his face and killing him instantly...  His remains were taken to Clinton where he leaves a small family.

    John Walbert, an old and wealthy citizen of Frenchtown, died at that place last Friday morning.
 

Neighborhoon Notes

    On a recent Tuesday, Carrie, wife of Samuel Burgstresser, proprietor of the Erwinna Hotel, at Erwinnna, Buck county, Pa., fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck.  She died a few minutes after, and before a physician arrived.  She was a very stout woman and weighed over 200 pounds.
 

Quakertown
    The Prsiding Elder preached in the M.E. Church on the 15th.  On the same day, Wm. Hampton, long a resident of this vicinity, but lately of the neighborhood of Baptisttown, was buried here.  Funeral by Rev. C. Clark.  Ralph Dalyrmple died at his home near Pittstown, of inflammatory rheumatism, on the 14th.  Funeral on Wednesday.
 

State Items

    Annie McLaughlin, 15 years old, dropped dead of paralysis of the heart, in the Caledonian Skating Rink, at Newark, Tuesday night.

    J. T. Browne, of Sandytown, Suxxex county, has lost his wife and two daughters by death within the past two months.  Mr. Browne and his only remaining child are very sick.

    Miss Ida McCraken fell in the skating rink at Hackettstown, a few days ago, and was run into by another skater, whose skates struck her in the side.  Her death occurred on Tuesday, from the injury.
 

Marriages

    At Lumberville, Pa., Feb. 12, by Rev. William F. Sheppard, William W. Fisher, of Kingwood, and Mary J. Durling, of Lumberville, Pa.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Feb. 18, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Charles H. Rittenhouse and Nettie, daughter of Gabriel H. Slater, all of Flemington.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 12, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, John R. Holcombe, of Mt. Airy, to Sallie S. Larison, of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 14, by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D. D., Jordan Scheetz, of New Hope, Pa., and Flora Caffey, of Lambertville.

    Feb. 14, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. C. R. Snyder, Alvah Alpaugh of Cokesbury, to Jemima Alpaugh of Tewksbury township.

    At Lower Valley Parsonage, Feb. 7, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Charles Hoffman of Califon, to Fannie Beem, of Middle Valley.

    On Thursday morning, Feb. 19, at the residence of the bride's parents, Bridgeville, Sussex Co., Del., by Eld. E. Rittenhouse, John W. Green, of Lambertville, N.J., to Tillie M., daughter of George Trout of the former place.
 

Deaths

    In Somerset county, Feb. 19, 1885, Mrs. Eliza Quick, in the 74th year of her age.

    In Alexandria township, Feb. 11, 1885, J. H. Wright, aged 71 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 13, 1885, John Erbe, aged 71 years and 5 months.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 12, 1885, Mary Frances Yost, aged 29 years, 1 month and 12 days.

    In New Orleans, La., Feb. 13, 1885, Robert S. Coryell, son of Alexander and Susan Coryell, of Lambertville, in the 40th year of his age.

    In Kingwood township, Feb. 11, 1885, Wm. W. Hampton, aged 58 years.

    In Franklin township, Feb. 15, 1885, Ralph Dalrymple, aged 49 years and 6 months.
 

    Martin Blanchard, who died at Bloomingdale, Morris county, last month, was the father of thirty-six children.  He was married at the age of 14, and his first child, a daughter, was born when he was 15.  Before he was 17 he was the father of twins - Abner and Aaron - both of whom are now living in Morris county, at the age of 77.  His wife died in 1859, after having borne him nineteen children.  Soon afterward he married again, and had eleven children by his second wife.  Blanchard's oldest grandchild was born before he was 30 years old, and this granchild now has three grandchildren who are married and have children.  During the war, when Blanchard was 73 years old, he said that he enough male descendants of his own, including those who married into his family, to make a company of one hundred able bodied men.

One Hundred and Sixteen
    A Wilmington, Illinois, dispatch says: "Auntie Wilmore," as she was familiarly called, or Nancy Cass Wilmore, as her real name is said to have been, died in this city, Wednesday, at the age of 116 years.  She was undoubtedly the oldest person in this State, if not in the United States.  Her early history was not clear to her until on her deathbed, when her whole life seemed to pass in review before her, and a person who was present wrote down her history as she related it.  She was born about the year 1769 in North Carolina.  Her father, Samuel Cass, then removed to Shakertown, Ky.  Her mother, whose maiden name was Sally Wales, died at the age of 30, leaving nine children.  Her father soon married Nettie Taylor, by whom he had seven children.  Of the 16 children all were boys except Nancy.  Her father lived in Kentucky, for eight or nine years, and then removed to Alabama, though she remained in Kentucky, living with a family named Andrews, and married as her first husband a man named Keeney.

    John F. Krebs, a railroad section hand at Hicksville, L.I., died last Wednesday from the effects of blood poisoning.  He was wounded in the hand accidentally a few day ago, and the wound afterward came in contact with a portion of his clothing which contained some dye-stuff.
 
 

March 3, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 29

    Robert Logan, a member of the Illinois Legislature fell at the head of the House stairs last Thursday as he was on his way to the chamber, and died in a few minutes....

    Dr. Christopher C. Graham died at Louisville, Kentucky, in his 101st year.  He was an associate of Daniel Boone.
 

Some News Notes

    Samuel Graffton, Marshal of Forest, O., fell while skating at a roller skating rink, driving the point of a sewing machine oil can, which he carried in his hip pocket, into his hip.  He died in a short time.

    The boiler in the saw mill of Hein & Merton, at Finksburg, Md., exploded last Tuesday killing Samuel Rick, foreman, aged 22 year, and Edward Twigg, aged 23 years, both of Flintstone, Md., and badly injuring Owen Gallia, of Williamsport.

    Mrs. Margaret Vieweg, aged 73 years, was so badly burned last Tuesday at Baltimore that she died last evening.  She was sitting with her feet on the front of the stove when her clothing took fire, and before help could be had her limbs and body were fearfully burned.
 

Hunterdon County Surrogate Office.
    Order To Limit Creditors - Upon the application of Joseph M. Phillips, Executor of the estate of John Sutton, deceased....
 

Local Department

    A man named John Hassel died last week at Bloomsbury from a tumor in his stomach and one in his breast.

    George McFarren, aged 72 years, died suddenly of apoplexy, on Sunday morning, at his residcnce in Lambertville.  He got up as usual, at an early hour, but soon after felt badly and said to his family that he would not live an hour and expired just at that time.

    Those who remember Mr. George Wall, who kept the Hotel at Wertsville some twelve or fifteen years ago, will regret to hear that he is dead.  For the past four years, Mr. Wall had lived in Jersey City, being employed in a mill at Williamsburgh, on Long Island.  He was buried on the 21st ult.
 

Reaville
    Henry S. Peterson, Esq., died Saturday evening Feb. 21.  Squire Peterson had been sick for some time; his complaint was consumption;  his death was very sudden, and quite unexpected.  He was buried from the Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday, the 25th.  He leaves a widow and two children.  He was 32 years old.
 

Our Old Folks
    In Lambertville and vicinity there are a great many people who have passed their fourscore years, and several have gone far beyond.
    Mr. John W. Larison and Maria, his wife, now living near this city, expect to celebrate the sixty-fourth anniversary of their marriage before the bloom of Spring is over.  "Uncle John," as he is generally called, kept the public house at Larison's Corner, the next stopping place beyond Ringoes, in the early part of this century, when stages ran between Philadelphia and New York, before railroads were built.
    John Dilts, Sr., of this city, in his 89th year, is seen daily on the streets, walking about like younger men.  He and his wife Rachel, who is equally as active, will celebrate their sixty-fourth marriage anniversary the 12th of next June.
    Phoebe Ann Parker lives on Buttonwood street, in this city, with her son-in-law, Mr. Hueston Naylor.  She is in her 95th year.  She lived on Coryell street, near the river bank, in 1813-14 and tells us how Captain Lambert Hoppock, a few yards above, at the rendezvous, recruited a company of volunteers that joined the American forces near Lake Erie soon after.  But the brave Captain was killed shortly after their arrival at the seat of war.
    Mrs. Samuel R. Huselton lives on North Main street, in this city, in her 94th year.  She was born in Warren county, but has lived mainly in our city.
    Catharine Craft lives with her grandchildren here, in her 96th year, and can work indoors and out, and converses freely, and makes many things that are admired by her numerous friends.  She, it will be remembered, voted for Jefferson for President at his second election, as it was then lawful for her sex to vote at the age of 18 years.  -  Lambert Record.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death of Judge John M. Garretson, of Ten Mile Run, Somerset county, is announced.  He had been complaining for some time of a kidney trouble.  His age was 51 years.

    John Small, a colored lad in the employ of Lewis H. Mosher, was drowned on the meadows near Griggstown, Somerset county, one day last week.  He was skating at the time, and ventured upon the thin ice covering a "run" caused by the backwater.

    Abner Lemming, a Pennington farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself last Wednesday afternoon...
 

State Items

    James Elliott, of Jamesburg, died a few days ago from blood poisoning, which was caused from a wound he received during the rebellion.

    James Bill, residing at North Mullica Hill, Gloucester county, about half past six o'clock Tuesday night, while endeavoring to guide a wagon heavily laden with lumber down a hill, caught his foot in a chain and fell under the wheels, receiving injuries from which he died in a short time.  He leaves a wife and four children.

    Mrs. Johnston, an elderly lady, who was on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Demarest, of Pamrapo, Hudson county, was shot and instantly killed Monday evening by a niece whose brother was packing a valise preparatory to a trip West, and had laid upon an adjoining table and old fashioned revolver. While toying with the weapon the young girl asked her brother if it was loaded, but before she received an answer the weapon exploded, the bullet penetrating Mrs. Johnston's brain...

    Asa F. Randolph, the eldest of the old Virginia Randolph family, died on Wednesday, aged ninety-two, on property which was granted to his ancestors by the British Government in 1621, at Randolphsville.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, at Ringoes, Feb. 21, by the Rev. John Scarlet, Judson M. Warrick, of Princeton, to Ida M. Burgess, of Ringoes.

    At the home of the bride's mother at Flemington Junction, Feb. 26, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, John Boyd and Martha Britton.

    At the residence of the bride's sister, in Flemington, Feb. 25, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, George Vanness and Rebecca Warman, all of Flemington.

    Feb. 18, at the Parsonage, Reaville, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Aaron T. Post and Susie M. Cronce, both of Flemington.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 24, by Rev. Garbutt Read, Melton Black to Ruth Wilson, both of Lambertville.

    Feb. 24, 1885, by Rev. I. Poulson, J. Baker Poulson to Jennie Shepherd, both of Delaware township.

    In Newark, Feb. 18, by Rev. Messrs. W. K. Preston and R. E. Stewart, Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, of Califon, to Lillie E. R. Cairus, of Newark.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Feb. 19. 1885, Louis Guillick, aged 14 years.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 21, 1885, Anna Margaret Doughty, daughter of Charles and Mary E. Doughty, aged 3 years.

    At his residence between Flemington and Croton, on the 12th day of November, 1884, Andrew Walker, in the 75th year of his age.

    Near Milford, Feb. 19, 1885, Lina Stryker, aged 14 years and 8 months.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 20, 1885, John Walbert, aged 74 years, 1 month and 4 days.

    In Princeton, N.J., Feb. 20, 1885, Dr. Andrew J. Blackwell, in the 39th year of his age.

    At White House Station, Feb. 20, 1885, Mary Robinson, wife of John E. Seals, aged _5 years and 21 days.
 
 

March 10, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 30

Some News Notes

    Henry Wachel committed suicide last Monday, at Cleveland, O., by shooting through grief at the death of a 15 year old daughter.

    B. F. Avery founder and head of the great Avery Plow Manufactory, of Louisville, Ky., died there last Tuesday, aged 84 years.

    W. R. Lemmon, 22 years old, a student at the Missouri Medical College, killed himself on Monday, at St. Louis, because he failed to pass the final examination.

    The boiler of the elevator of the R. T. Davis Mill Company, at St. Joseph, Mo., exploded last Monday, and Joseph Link, who was a quarter of a mile distant, was struck by a piece of the iron and fatally injured.

    August Curth was arrested last week at Chicago, charged with having made a criminal assault upon Helena Koadst, 7 years old, on February 21, and from the effects of which the child died on Sunday.

    Joseph Merrill, of Coshocton, O., was married the other night.  Serenaders visited him and shot through the window, near his bed.  He died next day from the effects of fright.
 

Notice is Hereby Given,
that the following accounts will be presented to the Orphans' Court to be held at the Court House, in Flemington, in and for the county of Hunterdon, on Wednesday, the Sixth day of May, A. D., 1885, in the term of April, 1885, at ten o'clock in the forenoon for settlement and allowance:
    4.  The final account of Catharine Sutton and Amos Sutton, Administrators of John Sutton, deceased.
 

Local Department

    Mr. William Berkaw, of North Branch an account of whose injuries by being gored by a bull we gave last week, died on the 1st inst.  He was brother of Mrs. John Ramsey, of Flemington.

    A man named Patrick Breen, was killed by being struck by a train on the Lehigh Valley, R.R., at Neshanic, last Saturday morning.  He was formerly employed on a gravel train on the South Branch, R. R., but had latterly been section boss on the Lehigh Valley at Neshanic.  His age was about 60 years.
 

A Sad Accident
    A terrible misfortune befel the family of Mr. John Kell, of Baptisttown, last Monday evening, resulting in the death of one of his bright little daughters, aged 3 years....
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miller Ramsey, of North Branch, dropped dead in his barn on Monday.  The cause of his death was heart disease.

    Mrs. Butler, who has her home with her son, Mr. J. C. Butler, in Phillipsburg, for some months, was found dead in her bed Sunday morning.  She took a cold some days ago while attending a funeral, but was not thought to be dangerously ill.  She was nearly eighty years of age.
 

Copper Hill
    With many regrets we announce the death of John Conover, which occurred at the residence of David Conover, last Monday morning.
 

State Items

    William Voorhees, of Monmouth Junction, was thrown from his wagon, on Monday, by the running away of his horses.  He fell against a pile of bean poles, one of which pierced his body, and he is not expected to live.  A brother, Martain Voorhees, was killed on the railroad at Dean's Station, last week, and two other members of the family have been accidently injured during the past week.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 28, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, H. F. Bodine and Mary D. Horne, all of Delaware township, Hutnerdon county.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 4, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, William Stothoff to Emma A. Hill, all of Flemington.

    At the Presbyterian Parsonage, Flemington, N.J., by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., March 3, Jos. B. Crate and Mary E. Anderson, granddaughter of Elisha Runkle, all of Sunnyside, Hunterdon Co.

    At Sandy Ridge Parsonage, Feb. 28, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, Charles B. Case, of Sergeantsville, and Sadie Shepherd, of Sand Brook.

    At Ringoes, Feb. 28, by Rev. John Scarlet, Abram P. Stryker, of Trenton, N.J., and Ella Hartpence, of Copper Hill.
 

Deaths

    Feb. 28, 1884 (1885?), at Annandale, Nicholas P. Wyckoff, aged 74 years.

    At Reaville, Feb. 21, 1885, Henry S. Peterson, aged 32 years.

    Near Rosemont, Feb. 21, 1885, Laura V., daughter of Lewis and Emma G. Case, aged 3 weeks and 1 day.

    In Lambertville, March 2, 1885, Lavina Stout, aged 33 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 23, 1885, George McFerren, aged 72 years.

    In Lambertville, March 4, 1885, J. Johnson Lair, in the 49th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, March 1, 1885, Mrs. Anna Huselton, widow of the late Samuel Huselton, aged 94 years, 1 month and 12 days.

    In Lambertville, March 3, 1885, S. Smith Huselton, son of Samuel and Anna Huselton, aged 67 years, 8 months and 24 days.

    At her residence near Cokesbury, Jan. 29, 1885, Mrs. Eleanor V. Lance, aged 79 years and 11 months.
 
 

March 17, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 31

    Andrew Woods, colored, died at New Orleans last Wednesday, aged 110 years.  He had been the body servant of General Lafayette.

    Jacob Frey committed suicide last Wednesday at the grave of his wife in Toledo, Ohio, through despondency caused by her death.

    C. F. Riggin, aged 66 years, shot and killed his wife and then himself on Monday night, at Lanington, Ill., as both lay in bed, because he had recently lost $900 by a bank failure.
 

State Items

    The body of the man killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad at North Elizabeth on Tuesday night, has been identified as that of Thomas Walton, of Jersey City.

    While excavating the ruins of Janeway & Co.'s wall paper factory, at New Brunswick, burned in the great fire of Feb. 7, the remains of Patrick Dougherty were discovered.  Only a few charred bones were found.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, N.J., March 5, 1885, by the Rev. C. H. Woolston, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Mr. Mervin McCoy, of Trenton, N.J., and Miss Hattie Harrison, of Lambertville.

    March 5th, 1885, by Rev. A. B. Still, Benjamin F. Vogel and Urena P. Rodenbaugh, both of Clinton.

    March 7, 1885, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Wm. J. Banks, of Washington, N.J., to Isabella Hight, of Bethlehem, N.J.

    March 12, by Rev. S. D. Decker, David S. Servis, of Reaville, to Martie E. Walton, of Clinton.

    March 10, by Rev. A. Dean, William C. Wharton, of Keyport, to Carrie Apgar, of High Bridge.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 7, 1885, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, Aaron B. Henry and Martha S. Hendershot, both of White House Station.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of his son-in-law Richard Bowden, at Prallsville, on Wednesday, March 11th, 1885, William Seals, formerly of Raritan township, aged about 76 years.

    At White House Station, March 11, 1885, Elizabeth Hall, aged 92 years.

    In Lambertville, March 7, 1885, Lewis C. Rice, M. D., aged 49 years and 4 months.

    In West Amwell township, March 9, 1885, John E. Casey, son of John and Honora Casey, aged 3 months.

    In Baptisttown, Feb. 28, 1885, Cornelia, wife of Mahlon Fisher, aged 41 years and 10 months.

    In Holland, March 7, 1885, Michael Fraley, aged 85 years.

    In Lambertville, March 2, 1885, Lavina Stout, aged 23 years.
 

Local Department

    Kingwood reports the death of two old and highly respected residents - Mr. Joseph Smith, aged 81 years and Mrs. Mary Johnson, widow of the late George Johnson, aged 82 years.

    Mrs. Anna Huselton died of apoplexy, at Lambertville, on the 1st inst., and three days afterward, her son, Samuel Smith Huselton, was sticken with the same disease, and died two days later, at the age of 68.  Mrs. Huselton was in her 95th year.

    Dr. L. C. Rice, of Lambertville, died very suddenly from apoplexy, at his residence on the 7th inst.  About 5 o'clock he went out of one of the rooms where his wife was seated, to get his eye glasses, as he wished to read a newspaper.  He got the glasses and stopped at the palor door, looked in and said a few words to his daughter, and turning, fell to the floor.  He was found to be unconscious and died in about an hour.  Dr. Rice removed to Lambertville from Centre Hill, Pa., several years ago.   He had previously served in the late war as a surgeon.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Frederick Orthman, of Vienna, Warren county, went into his house the other day after a walk and in a few minutes fell from his chair dead.

    James Berge, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman, was killed by the overhead bridge at East Orange last Saturday.  His head came in contact with the bridge and the force of the blow broke his neck.  He leaves a wife and three children.

    The dead body of Michael McLaughlin was found near the railroad track at Kingston, Somerset county, one day last week.  Investigation showed that he had fallen into the ditch, and being too weak from disease to rise had died before he was discovered.
 
 

March 24, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 32

Killed By Roller Skating
    A couple of weeks ago there was a six days' race on roller skates in New York.  One of the half dozen men engaged in the contest made 1090 miles, and was declared the victor.  The following from a New York paper tells the fate of one of the racers:
    One of the contestants in the recent six days' roller skating match at Madison Square Garden, Joseph Cohen, has forfieted his life for his experience.  He was a dry goods clerk, but being out of employment entered the roller skating race in order to earn money for the support of his wife and child.  Cohen was in no condition to endure the strain of such a trial, and after the first day went around the track in such a disabled condition that the managers once or twice ordered him off.  The agreement, however, was that every man who stayed on the track twelve hours each day would get $50 for his labor at the finish, and this inducement kept Cohen hobbling along.  When he went for his money on the following Monday, however, it was refused him.  This so discouraged him that on Wednesday he was too sick to go around and took to his bed.  He kept brooding over his troubles until last Monday morning, when he died - worn out from physical and mental exhaustion.

    On Tuesday last Charles B. Cook, aged 29 years, baggage master on the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell from a car at Port Deposit, and two wheels of the car passed over his leg, horribly mangling it.  He died on Thursday.

    Louis Hubbell, an insane man, living northeast of Fort Wayne, Ind., on Wednesday shot and killed his wife and then blew out his own brains.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Durant, wife of Rev. Wm. Durant, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Morristown, died suddenly Wednesday morning after an illness of only a few hours duration.

    Miss Mercy Ann Sutton, aged about 82 years, of Stelton, fell while descending the stairs from the upper part of the house, on Sunday morning between nine and ten o'clock, and within three hours thereafter was dead.  It is supposed her skull was fractured by the fall.  She was living with her aunt, Sarah Smith, and other relatives, in the residence of Dunham Runyon, Esq., and at the time of her fatal fall was suffering somewhat from the effects of a dislocated shoulder received a while before by falling on the ice.
 

    Says the Bound Brook Chronicle: News has just been received here of the death by suicide of David R. Ross at Jerseyville, Ill., on Monday morning.  The deceased was the son of James Ross, who about fifty years ago had a blacksmith shop in Bound Brook where James Brady's house now stands.  Afterward James Ross moved to Greenbrook and then took his wife and children, among whom was David, in a one horse wagon out to Illinois and located near Jerseyville, where he gradually became a large land owner.  He left David in good circumstances but he of late is said to have been financially embarrassed, and ended his life on Monday by shooting his brains out with a gun.  He was in this vicinity last fall with his mother.

    A woman of the town named Mrs. D. M. Britton, whose husband is a gambler, was found dead in her room at St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday night, with Harry W. Kellogg, a former merchant of Neilsonville, Wis., who was also dead.  Kellogg leaves a wife and five children.  A man named Bergstrom has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered the couple.
 

Another Ocean County Murder
    Mrs. Elizabeth Brown was found dead near a charcoal pit at Cassville, eight miles from Lakewood, on Friday.  She was last seen alive with her husband and William Hendrickson on Thursday night.  The men had been drinking and went to coal pit with the woman.  Late at night Brown went home, leaving his wife with Hendrickson.  In the morning Hendrickson appeared at Brown's house, and when asked where Mrs. Brown was said he guessed she was frozen to death.  When the body was found it presented the appearance of having been foully dealt with...  It was decided to arrest Hendrickson and hold him for murder.

    In the Newark Insane Asylum last Tuesday Herman Fuchs, a patient, murdered William Mulcahey, another patient, by crushing his skull with a spittoon.

    Louis Bachus was Thursday at Chicago sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for killing Theodore Lay, a teamster, two months ago.  Lay was the alleged seducer of Bachus' 15 year old daughter, and refused to marry her.

    Frederick Nixdorf committed suicide in the Lancaster Pennsylvania Jail on Wednesday by disemboweling himself with a broken bottle.  He was suffering from delirium tremens, and leaves a wife and six children.
 

Local Department

    Mr. William Cummings, of New York, son-in-law of Mr. Peter F. Hoffman, of Annandale, died week before last, after some three days sickness from pneumonia.

    Moses Roberson, a highly respected citizen of Kingwood, died at his residence near Frenchtown, on Monday morning, aged about 80 years.  Mr. Roberson was one of the oldest residents, having resided in the vicinity his entire lifetime.

    Miss Rettie Lowe, who lived with her widowed mother at Reaville, was found dead in bed last Saturday morning.  She had for some time past been subject to attacks of heart paroxysms, during which she always suffered terribly.  She had one of these attacks on Friday.  Her funeral will take place this (Tuesday) morning, at 11 o'clock.

    The 25th anniversary of the marriage of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of Quakertown, was celebrated on Wednesday last.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Henry M. Abbott, of Hopewell, died on Tuesday from injuries received by falling from a barn recently.

    Postmaster H. V. D. Voorhees, of Hopewell, died suddenly on Tuesday of last week, of lung disease.  He was Postmaster for about thirteen years, and for ten years of that time never missed changing the mail but once.  He was in fifty-fifth year of his age.

    James, a son of William Allen, died at Baskingridge, Sunday evening, after a few days' illness.  He came home a week previous, suffering from a carbuncle.  He was a young man of 22 years.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 14th, by Rev. W. Tunison, Joseph W. Ader, of Clinton, and Maggie Groff, of Washington.

    At the Bethlehem Baptist Parsonage, March 15, by Rev. A. B. Still, Jacob H. Budd, of Clinton, and Flora F. Fritts, of Stockton.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood township, March 16th, 1885, Moses Roberson, aged 86 years, 1 month and 14 days.

    At Annandale, March 16, 1885, Emma Apgar, aged 28 years.

    In Clinton, March 14, 1885, Hattie, daughter of Wesley Hoffman, aged 5 months.

    In Flemington, March 13, 1885, Mary Choyce, in the 71st year of her age.

    At Sergeantsville, March 14, 1885, George T. Bush, aged about 35 years.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, D. B. Case, near Baptisttown, Dec. 27, 1884, Mahala Lodore, aged 75 years, 2 months and 22 days.

    In Lambertville, March 13, 1885, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Paxson, in the 81st year of her age.

    At her residence in Delaware township, Hunterdon county, N.J., March 3, 1885, Mrs. Mary K. Johnson, relict of George Johnson, Sr., aged 82 years, 7 months and 13 days.

    In Kingwood, March 3, 1885, Florence, daughter of Watson and Amy Rittenhouse, aged 1 year and 4 months.

    In Kingwood, March 5, 1885, Joseph Smith, aged 82 years.
 
 

March 31, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 33

    William Shields, who was appointed Postmaster of Westchester, Pa., by President Arthur on March 3d, comiited suicide last Tuesday morning by drowning himself.
 

Murdered By His Slave
    Twenty-three years ago Almond F. Ellington, a well to do farmer living near Rice's Depot, in Prince Edward County, Va., disappeared, and the only trace of him that could be discovered was his hat floating on a mill pond in the neighborhood of his house.  Seven years later a negro, while poking in a pile of decayed logs on the Ellington farm in search of a fugitive rabbit, discovered a skeleton, which was identified as that of the missing man by means of a rign and gold plugs in his teeth.
    A few weeks ago, on the southern border of Texas, a gentleman overheard three negroes talking.  One of them, in relating his history to his companions, said he had murdered a man in Prince Edward County, Va., early in the war.  His knowledge of these particulars induced the gentleman to write to the Clerk of Prince Edward County about the matter.  An investigation followed and as its result the negro, Crawford Jeter, a runaway slave of Ellington, is under arrest and enroute to Prince Edward County to be tried for the murder of his master in 1862.

    James Bond, a farmer, of Walker county, Georgia, together with his son, was drowned in Cane creek, last Monday.  Bond had been at the mill and was returning on horseback.  His little son was riding behind him, and when they reached the creek they found it greatly swollen.  Bond attempted to ford it, but his horse was swept off by the current, and the animal and both its riders were drowned.

    Captain James Dalton, a pioneer, aged fifty-seven, died at Montague, Michigan Sunday, of cancer in the mouth, identical in nature with the cancer now afflicting General Grant.

Bodies Found Under The Ice
    A Brookville, Pa., dispatch says:  In the early part of last month Charles W. Lucky was skating on the North Branch, three miles above this place, with Silas Gale.  The ice suddenly gave way beneath them and they both disappeared.  A search of three days was made for their bodies but they could not be found...
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 25, by Rev. T. C. Young, of Mt. Olive, N.J., Stephen A. Titus, of Hopewell, N.J., and Anna T. Bond, youngest daughter of David F. Bond, of Ringoes.

    At Flemington, March 26, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, George W. Hill, of Flemington, and Mary C. Bloom, of Locktown.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Franklin township, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, James R. Sutton, of Locktown, and Anna E. Bidewell, of Franklin township.

    By the same, at the Locktown Christian Parsonage, March 21, Sidney L. Bush, of Franklin township, and Celinda Snyder, of Baptisttown, all of Hunterdon county.

    At the Parsonage, Everittstown, March 21, by the Rev. S. H. Jones, Nathaniel Sinclair, of Frenchtown, to Maggie Dalrymple, of Everittstown.

    By Rev. C. Clark, assisted by Rev. S. D. Decker and Rev. C. S. Conkling, in the M. E. Church at Quakertown, Annie M. Clark, eldest daughter of the officiating clergyman, to George W. Hessey, of Boonton, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Glen Gardner, March 20, 1885, Mary M. Collins, aged 18 years, 3 months and 10 days.

    Near Mt. Pleasant, March 20, 1885, Mrs. Agnes Race, in the 61st year of her age.

    In Boston, Mass., March 21, 1885, Edgar H. Trout, son of John Trout, aged 22 years.

    In Lambertville, March 22, 1885, Bridget Smith, aged 72 years.

    In East Amwell township, March 15, 1885, Horace Horn, aged 43 years, 6 months and 12 days.

    In Flemington, on Sunday, March 15, 1885, Mrs. Anna M. Wilson, wife of J. C. Wilson, aged 35 years and 15 days.

    March 20, 1885, at Three Bridges, Mary Ettia Van Doren, aged 10 years and 6 months.

    Near White House, March 24, 1885, Ann Sutphin, wife of John I. Regar, aged 67 years, 11 months and 19 days.

    At Pottersville, March 27, 1885, David Ammerman, aged 83 years.

    In Franklin township, March 20, 1885, Lucinda Wright, after a long and very severe affliction of consumption and nervous prostration, aged 38 years.
 

Local Department

    Edgar H. Trout, son of Mr. John Trout, the horseman, formerly of Delaware township, then of Lambertville, and later of Boston, Mass., died with consumption on the 21st inst., aged 22 years, 9 months and 21 days.  His remains were brought to Lambertville for interment last Tuesday.
 

    Mr. Elijah H. Carhart, who left the northern part of this county years ago to establish a business in Macon, Ga., died on Sunday, 22d inst., at that place, of paralysis.  He had been in failing health for several weeks, but his death was not so soon expected.  His remains were brought to Clinton for burial by his business partner and nephew, Mr. J. C. Van Syckle, and Mr. W. B. Carhart, a nephew in his employ.  The funeral services took place at the residence of Dr. S. Van Syckel, his brother-in-law, on Thursday, and the remains were interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery.

Entombed In Ice - From the Bound Brook Chronicle.
    Wednesday morning a man walking along the north bank fo the Raritan river found frozen in a cake of ice on Dennis Vermeule's meadow, about two miles down the river, the body of a man.  Mr. Vermeule was notified and with a crowbar the ice was broken away from the body.  The man apparently about seventy years of age was neatly dressed, with an overcoat and scarf over his other clothing.  The face was covered with mud and the nose and the jaw were disfigured.  The body was in a fair state of preservation.  County Physician Rice, of New Brunswick, was informed of the discovery and had the body taken to New Brunswick.
        By a curious coincidence a Justice of the Peace and the Overseer of the Poor of Tewksbury township, Hunterdon county, came down to Bound Brook on Thursday to look up the reputed wife of John Burrill, a charge of that township.  He had a wife up in Hunterdon, and last winter it was learned that he also had a wife here.  Jane Hummer, of Bloomington, acknowledged that she was married to Burrill last September, but says she did not know he had another wife.  While here the officers from Tewksbury heard of the finding of the body down the river and from a description of the corpse they were satisfied that it was Burrill...
 

    The death, by suicide, of Wm. F. Apgar, son of Mr. Nicholas Apgar, of Annandale, is among the unpleasant news this week.  It occurred week before last in Nebraska, where he had been living for several years.  His remains arrived in Annandale on Wednesday for burial.
 
 

April 7, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 34

    The boiler in David Hulse's sawmill near Scipio, Ind., exploded on Wednesday, killing Anthony Clever, the engineer, and fatally injuring David Morton and Alfred Hulsed.

    Joseph Moyer, of Fredericksburg, Lebanon county, Pa., fell into a stream of water last Thursday while suffering from a fit.  He was accompanied by two dogs, one of which ran home and gave an alarm, leading a party of searchers back to where the other dog was standing guard over the dead body of his master, which was partly out of the water.

    William H. A. Brown, a wealthy member of the Chicago Board of Trade, is under arrest for bigamy, in having married Carrie L. Barney (19 years old and accomplished) in July 1884, during an eight-months visit of his wife and 17 year old daughter to friends in the East.  Mrs. Brown No. 2 is the prosecutor.
 

Local Department

    Our friend Wm. J. Rockafellow, late proprietor of the "Willow Tree Store," in Flemington, (now conducted by George Webster,) has disposed of his goods and store stand in Slateford, Pa., and last week started for Jacksonville, Florida, with a view of looking up a business somewhere South.

    We greatly regret to record the death of a bright, promising little daughter of Mr. Wm. H. Carpenter, local editor of the Clinton Democrat.  Little Florence was in the fourth year of her age.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. Sylvanus Ayers, aged 80 years, fell from the mow of his barn, near Bloomington, Somerset county, on the 26th ult., receiving injuries which resulted in his death a few days ago.

    John Garrecht, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman on the Jersey Central freight train, was killed on Friday morning, 27th ult., by his head coming in contact with the bridge at Fanwood.  He had been on the road eighteen years, and had passed under this bridge hundreds of times.

    The dead body found two miles below Bound Brook, and which the Bound Brook Chronicle supposed to be the remains of John Burrill, of Hunterdon county, was fully identified as the body of John Jennings, of Liberty Corner.  Two sons of the deceased lived in the vicinity of Bound Brook, and supposed their father to be safe in his own home.  They state that since the death of his wife, two years ago, Mr. Jennings has shown signs of mental aberration.  He was about 65 years old.  The remains were interred in the cemetery at Liberty Corner Monday morning.

Death of E. H. Carhart - From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
    Macon, Ga., March 23. - (Special) -
    The announcement of the death of Mr. E. H. Carhart in today's Constitution was a surprise to many of the people of Macon.  He had been in bad health for the last four or five months, but was not thought to be in a dangerous condition....  Tonight accompanied by Willie Carhart and John C. Van Syckel, the remains were placed on the north bound train on the Central railroad, and carried to the old home of the deceased gentleman, Clinton, New Jersey...  Mr. Carhart was fifty-six years old.  He entered the hardware business in this city in 1841, with the late John C. Curd...
 

    A. Ogden Kilpatrick, for the past thirty years a resident of Piscataway township, and a prominent member of the New Market Baptist Church, died on Monday at his home, midway between New Market and New Brunswick.  He was injured a few weeks ago by a horse stepping on his hand, where Mr. Kilpatrick had fallen in the stable, and his death resulted from lockjaw.
 

State Items

    Carrie Fowler, the 17 year old daughter of a farmer of Cross Keys, Camden county, has eloped with Mackenzie Wilson, of New York.
 

Marriages

    At the Reaville Parsonage, March 21, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenber, John R. Young, of Neshanic, and Mary Etta Van Horne, of Reaville.

    At the home of the bride, in Clinton, March 25, by Rev. S. J. Rowland, Thos. Laudendale, of Lambertville, and Alice Macklin, of Clinton.

    At the Parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Flemington, April 2, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, Ellis Huffman and Hattie L. Peterson, all of Flemington.

    At the house of John Stiger, March 26, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Jerome Emmons, of New Germantown, to Eliza T. Stiger, of Lebanon.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, March 31, 1885, Florence B., daughter of Wm. H. and Jennie M. Carpenter, aged 3 years, 10 months and 4 days.

    Near Mt. Pleasant, March 10, 1885, Andrew Race, aged 62 years and 3 months.

    At Macon, Georgia, March 22, 1885, Elijah H. Carhart, formerly of this county.

    March 20, 1885, at Three Bridges, Mary Etta Van Doren, aged 10 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, April 2, 1885, Catharine B. Gandey, aged 68 years.
 
 

April 14, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 35

Mrs. Tom Thumb Married
    Mrs. Lavina Stratton, better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb, and the Count Primo Magri, of Bologna, Italy, were married at the Church of the Holy Trinity, on Madison avenue, New York, at three o'clock on Monday afternoon....

    Miss Mary Packer, daughter of Judge Asa Packer, and one of the richest ladies in the United States, was married at her home at Mauch Chunk to Charles H. Cummings, of New York, and the eastern passenger agent of the Lehigh Valley road.  The groom was a most intimate friend of Harry Packer, formerly president of the Lehigh Valley.

    Edward Lambert, 23 years of age, called at the home of his mother-in-law (Mrs. Ann A. Mulligan, No. 138 South Desplaines street, Chicago), at noon last Wednesday to see his wife, from whom he had been estranged.  He shot and killed Mrs. Mulligan, shot and dangerously wounded his wife and then fatally shot himself.

    The twin boys, 3 months old, of William Blair, living a few miles from Macon, Ga., were found dead in bed on Tuesday morning, having been smothered by Blair and his wife during the night.

Long Lived Twins
    Abner and Aaron Blanchard, who were born in Rockaway, N.J., February 14, 1807, are both living at the age of seventy-eight and are hearty.  They were the sons of Martin Blanchard, who died a few weeks since at the age of ninety-four, and were born when their father was sixteen years old.  An elder daughter was born a year previous and as she married when very young, Martin Blanchard became a grand father when he became thirty years of age, and when he died as before stated, left probably 600 descendants, reaching to the sixth generation.  Anna and W. W. Laws, of Brooklyn, twins, were born April 7, 1807, and are both living.  They have just written a letter to Mr. M. Blanchard, of Dover, son of Abner Blanchard, congratulating the Morris county twins upon their prolonged lease of life.  -  Boonton Bulletin.

A Young Man Goes Wrong
    Perhaps few young men were better or more favorably known throughout the county than Van Kirk Bunn of Millstone, and his disappearance last week, with the developments which followed, caused a widespread feeling of surprise and sorrow.  It appears that Mr. Bunn left home Sunday week upon the pretext of going to New York to buy flour for his bakery; that he did not return, and that notes amounting to over $5,000 have come to light, which have been negotiated by Van Kirk within the past three years.  It is said that some of the indorsements on these notes of the name of his father (John C. Bunn of Lamington vicinity) are forged.  Mr. Bunn was consumptive, and it is charitable to suppose that he was affected in mind as well as in body.  The bakery has been discontinued and the wife, and her three children, has retired to the home of her mother, Widow Lever, at North Branch.

A Malicious Drunkard
    At the Coroner's inquest in Philadelphia last Tuesday in the cases of Patrick Cramer and Lawrence Murray, who were drowned in the Delaware River, the jury decided that it was a case of murder and suicide...

    Nelson Edwards, a dentist, residing at No. 617 East 141st street, New York, committed suicide last Wednesday by cutting his throat, abdomen and arms with a razor.  The physicians gave it as their opinion that the man had been two days killing himself.  Edwards was about 55 years old, and had a lucrative practice.

    L. K. Eldridge, a patient in the insane Asylum at Nashville, Tenn., from Overton county, suddenly seized a floormop and struck E. B. Buchanan, the attendant of the ward in which Eldridge roomed, crushing in his skull and fatally injuring him.  The infuriated lunatic next attacked Thomas C. Layton, a feeble epileptic patient, aged 28 years, crushing his skull.  Both Buchanan and Layton died in a few hours.  Eldridge is only 20 years of age.

    Last Tuesday morning on board a streetcar in Newport, Ky., John L. Cummings, a clerk in the First National Bank, of Cincinnati, was shot and killed by Mr. McMillian, a cutter in a clothing manufactory, who alleged that Cummings ruined his daughter.

    Gilbert Parker and Ferdinand Y. Rogers, sons of prominent citizens of Davenport, Iowa, were drowned in the Mississippi last Tuesday, while taking a pleasure sail.

    Anton Forbes, George King and N. Rado were drowned in the Columbia River, twenty miles from Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, by the capsizing of a hunting skiff.

    Miss Helen Eckert, of Brownstown, died last Thursday night after a long illness.  She was about 35 years of age and was known far and wide as the fat woman.  Several years ago she traveled with Barnum's show and at that time was considered to be the heaviest woman on earth, her weight being over 400 pounds.  -  Easton Free Press.

    Celestine Chambers, wife of Judge Samuel Chambers, a prominent New Jersey Democratic politician, committed suicide last Thursday at her home, No. 141 Pacific avenue, Jersey City, by taking Paris green.  She was of unsound mind.  Mrs. Chambers was 42 years of age.

    Francis Rodgers, aged 24 years, a resident of Kansas City, Mo., en route for Ireland, was last Thursday found dead in his room at a Baltimore boarding house, having been suffocated by the escaping illuminating gas.

    Wm. Donnelly, a farmer living near Urbana, Ill., died Wednesday from glanders, contracted from his horses.  His wife and daughter are both sick and it is feared that they may have been infected.
 

Local Department

    The wife of Fletcher Robeson of Madison, Wis., was buried in Quakertown on Friday, 3rd inst.  She and her husband were both natives of Hunterdon, having left for Wis., in the Fall of 1883.  Mrs. Robeson was a daughter of Amos McPherson, formerly of Cherryville, now of Iowa.  She leaves two children - one a babe.
 

    We have received word from Custer City, Dakota, that John T. Cody, Sheriff of Custer county, died in New Orleans on the 17th day of March.  On the 11th day of September, 1883, Sheriff Cody and one Mr. Little, of this county, called at this printing office. This Mr. Little is hereby informed that there is a letter here for him.

    We sadly record the death of our young friend Charles P. Moore, only son of Mr. John C. Moore, of Lambertville, which occurred on Wednesday morning last at the home of his parents.  This young man had been associated with Mr. S. L. Hart, in this place, for the last two and a half years, he having come here to learn the watchmaking and jewelery business...  But a combination of diseases marked him as a victim, and after a brave struggle the diseased and worn body had to yield to the grim monster, Death, and on Saturday afternoon last his remains were laid to rest.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death is announced in Somerville, of Miss Emma Garretson, one of the faithful teachers of the public school there.
 

    Richard Frazer was hanged last Friday at Charleston, S.C., for the murder of Jack Gethers (both colored) in July last.  Frazer confessed his guilt and died without a murmur.

    George H. Mills, who murdered his wife in Brooklyn, N.Y., on the 6th of October, 1883, last Friday paid the penalty of his crime by hanging in the yard of the Raymond Street Jail.
 

State Items

    George M. Drake, of Newton, Sussex county, aged 54 years, widely known in that county, fell dead Monday from heart disease.  The deceased was a man of unusual inventive genius, and has been the means of enriching numbers of men who adopted his theories.

    August Singleton, 60 years of age, was found dead in a barn last Friday morning on the Sorrel Horse pike, in Camden county.  An inquest was held by Coroner Beale and a verdict was returned of death from congestion of the lungs.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, March 28, by the Rev. C. H. Woolston, Edwin Wanamaker and Francelia Roberts, both of Stockton.

    In Lambertville, April 4, by the Rev. C. H. Woolston, John Bainbridge and Georgiana Everett, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, April 8, by the Rev. C. H. Woolston, Wm. W. Rose, of Moore's, and Madie Wert, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, April 8, 1885, Charles P. Moore, only son of John C. and Sarah A. Moore, aged 25 years and 2 months.

    Near Croton, April 3, 1885, Mrs. Lizzie A. Gorman, daughter of John and Emeline Trimmer, aged 23 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 6 days.
 
 

April 21, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 36

    A German named Humpf, residing at Danube, Herkimer county, N.Y., on Monday night, cut his wife's throat while she, with her four days old baby, was in bed.  He then saturated the bed with kerosene and set it on fire.  Neighbors extinguished the flames, rescuing the iwfe in a critical condition.  Humpf was found in the garret, with this throat cut, but alive, though he died soon afterwards.  He was insane.

    S. Henry Shaw, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives was found dead in a hotel at Springfield.  His death is the third during the present session.

    Mary Moore, of La Crescent, Minn., has just died, after a fast of sixty-four days...  The cause is supposed to be a cancer of the stomach latterly, though her first sickness was pneumonia.

    Chris Bradford, the famous life saver, died last Wednesday at Pittsburgh of paralysis.  During the past seven years he, along with his brothers Ned and Mike, saved 523 lives at the Atlantic City beach.

    A skiff containing Mary Draper, her daughter, aged 11 years, and her niece, Caroline Dempsey, 12 years old, capsized in the Ohio River last Wednesday at Evansville, Ind., and all were drowned.

    William Clark, a married farmer living about fifteen miles from St. Joseph, Mo., on Monday night shot and killed Widow Hardin, whose daughter he had led asstray, fatally wounded the daughter and her young brother and then blew out his own brains.
 

State Items

    Patrick Nash, a canal boatman, dropped dead in the street at Perth Amboy, on Saturday.  His death was caused from an excessive use of alcohol.

    Mrs. Cline, wife of John Cline, died at her home in Belvidere on Saturday last after a short illness.  She was attached with rheumatism, which struck to her heart.

    Mrs. Frederick Daley, a married woman living in East Camden, eloped on Saturday afternoon with James Smith, a boarder.  Mr. Daley is not worrying over her absence and will try to obtain a divorce immediately.

    On Saturday night Thomas Giblins, aged 17 years, who had been skating at a Paterson rink, sat down in a chair to adjust his skates, when he suddenly fell to the floor with an attack of apoplexy.  He was removed to his home, where he died on Monday morning.

    Mr. J. H. Polhemus, the Postmaster at Hanover Neck, died very suddenly last week.  He went to Whippany in the morning on some business, apparently felling as well as usual, but on arriving home he was taken with a sharp pain in his breast and died in a few moments.  He was about seventy-five years of age.

    Edward Garrecht, formerly of Phillipsburg, committed suicide at his home in Easton on Monday morning by hanging.  He was about fourty years old and a coal train conductor on the L. & S. road.  He leaves a wife and seven children, one of whom was recently taken to an insane asylum.  His brother John was recently killed on the Central Railroad.

    Hiram Foulks, an elderly and eccentric bachelor of some property, who lived alone on a farm near Independence, Kansas, was murdered Friday night by some unknown persons, who then stole a horse and escaped.
 

Married

    April 8, at the Locktown Christian Parsonage, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, John N. Smith and Sallie Johnson, all of Delaware township.

    By Rev. S. D. Decker, April 15, Thomas M. Foster, of Emily, Pa., and Salinda Kerr, of Kingwood township.
 

Deaths

    Near Croton, Feb. 10, 1885, Lydia, wife of Eliel Shepherd, aged about 76 years.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, George Stintsman, in Frenchtown, April 9, 1885, Mrs. Mahala Plum, aged 67 years, 4 months and 10 days.
 

Local Department

    Ex-Freeholder John T. Dorland died at his home in High Bridge, on Monday morning, after a protracted illness.

    Peter Rockafellow, of Stockton, died very suddenly on Wednesday of week before last.  He had been playing checkers during the day with some friends, and seemed in perfect health, and on going to the store he attempted to pick up something, when he complained of his head hurting and fell over dead.  He was a man well advanced in years.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Nancy Roberts, wife of Mr. Samuel Smith, died at one o'clock on Monday morning of consumption, at her home in Adamsville, Somerset county, aged about 69 years.

    Mr. Herman J. Hoagland died at his home in New Brunswick Saturday, aged 45 years.  He was born in Somerset county.  He leaves an aged mother and a wife and one child.  His relatives resides in Somerset county.

    Peter G. Drost, of Flaggtown, died Sunday morning, aged 89 years, 5 months and 25 days.  He was for many years a popular auctioneer, and also filled various offices in Hillsborough township.  The funeral was held in the Neshanic Church Tuesday afternoon, Pastor John Hart officiating, and the remains were interred in the cemetery there.
 
 

April 28, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 37

    Mr. I. W. England, publisher of the New York Sun, died on Saturday last from dropsy of the heart.

    Daniel Mace, the famous driver and turfman, died on Sunday aa his residence in New York.  He was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1834, and began riding horses from his fathers' livery stable in Boston when he was 9 years old, and only gave up driving in public a few years on account of failing health...  He went to Hot Springs six weeks ago, and there learned of the fatal character of his disease - enlargement of the heart and Bright's disease.
 

State Items

    Some days ago both James Rudolph, an aged resident of Alloway, Salem county, and his wife were stricken with paralysis within a few hours of one another, the latter dying.

    Solomon Jenness, a highly respected resident of Dunellen, dropped dead in his garden while doing some work last week.  He went to the store near by to purchase a few aarticles for his wife.  On his return she met him at the door and took them.  He walked a few steps from the door and commenced to work and fell dead.  He was 61 years old.
 

    Three members of the family of James Hamilton, of Horthrup, Ohio, were fatally poisoned by eating canned fruit.  Two daughters of Mr. Hamilton and a young lady visitor, Kate Simpson, died in terrible agony.

    Rev. Leonard Withington, D. D., the oldest Congregational clergyman in the United States, died last Wednesday at his residence, in Newbury, Mass., aged 96 years.

    Alexander Kinney, a stone-cutter employed in New York, returned to his home near Stony Hill, on the Second Orange Mountain, four miles back of Plainfield, on Saturday night and found his house locked up and no signs of life visible.  Breaking open the kitchen door he found the dead body of his wife lying in the corner, literally hacked to pieces.  On further examination he discovered the organ in the parlor and nearly all the furniture in the house broken up.  He gave the alarm, and with three or four neighbors, searched the premises.  In the barn, William Jones, the hired man, was found dead hanging to a rafter.  Marks of blood were found on the body.  It is supposed that he had murdered Mrs. Kinney and then hung himself.  Jones was in love with Kenney's youngest daughter, and it is the general belief that Mrs. Kinney's opposition to the match led to the murder.  The Kinney's have five daughters, four of whom are married, and the youngest is employed as a domestic in a Plainfield family.

    In Brooklyn, Maud McAllister, aged 15 was married to Wm. E. Darling, 19 years of age, and Ella Jones, 17 years of age, to Charles L. Peckham, aged 19.  The girls, who were married without their parents' consent, gave fictitious ages to the clergyman who performed the ceremony.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Wm. Latourette, who has been an inmate of the Montgomery township, Somerset county, poorhouse for 52 years, died of pneumonia on March 13.  He was 66 years of age, and had been a cripple from his youth.

    Mr. William Sulick Bayles, of Kingston, near Princeton, died last Monday night in his eighty-third year.  He ran stage coaches on the famous old New York and Philadelphia mail and stage route between New Brunswick and Trenton nearly half a century ago.

    Isaac Farley, Overseer of the Poor in Hopewell township, Mercer county, died suddenly of apoplexy, on Saturday, 18th inst.  Mr. Farley had lived at Titusville a long time and was one of the elders of the Presbyterian Church of that place and much respected.  He was in his sixty-fifth year and leaves a wife and one son.

    Two weeks ago Miss Lizzie Loudenbury, an attractive young lady of Easton, was married to John Berkey.  The couple appeared to be very happily married and all went well until Tuesday night last, when two young men from Philadelphia appeared.  One of them, Herbert Archer, was an old friend of the bride and called upon her with his friend.  Last Thursday night the trio eloped, and no tidings of them have yet been received.
 

Marriages

    At the Sandy Ridge Parsonage, April 15, by the Rev. M. B. Laning, Charles O. Shepherd and Rachel C. Manness, both of Delaware township.

    In Trenton, April 15, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. E. K. Smith, of Lambertville, Minnie L. Gove, formerly of Lambertville, to Charles O. Lutes, of Trenton.

    At the New Germantown M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Morris Sutton and Hannah M., daughter of John C. Trimmer, both of Califon.

    April 11, at the Bethlehem Baptist Parsonage, by the Rev. A. B. Still, Wm. W. Woolf, of Stewartsville, and Mary E. Cole, of Montana, both of Warren Co.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, April 23, 1885, only child of Rynear and Rosa Pickel, aged 9 months and 7 dyas.

    Near Lambertville, April 12, 1885, Wilford L. Ege, aged 20 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, April 8, 1885, John H. Fisher, aged 27 years and 5 months.

    In Lambertville, April 10, 1885, Sarah Price, aged 66 years.

    In Lambertville, April 21, 1885, Sarah Quick, aged 86 years and 11 months.
 
 

May 5, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 38

A Strange Murder Case
    Frank H. Parker, a saloon keeper at Great Bend, 300 miles west of Kansas City, was murdered at that place early Monday morning, by George Mack, his colored porter, and the latter was arrested on the arrival of the Santa Fe train in the evening.  Mack tells a curious story in his defense to the effect that Parker was in debt but had heavy life insurance and that he prearranged that Mack should kill him.  The murderer appears altogether indifferent and says that he will be exonarated by a letter which Parker wrote to his wife at Alma, Kansas, detailing the proposed plan.

Crished Beneath A Log
    On Saturday, Nina, the nine year old daughter of Harrison Conklin, of Fair Hill, Susquehanna county, Pa., left the sugar-bush, where her father was at work, to return home, a half mile distant.  In the afternoon, Mr. Conklin, on his way home, had his attention drawn to a large log which had rolled down a slope, on the top of which it had been piled with others.  He walked to it, and was horrified to find the crushed body of his little daughter beneath it.

    At Port Gibson, New York, last Monday night, Jacob Scott, aged 75 years, shot and killed his wife, aged 76.  He was arrested and taken to Canandaigue.  The couple had not lived happily for several years and they separated about a month ago, Mrs. Scott going to a farmer's as housekeeper.  Scott called at the house, found his wife in the yard, and began shooting at her with a revolver.  She was wounded in several places, and lived but an hour.

    One of the most shocking crimes ever known in the vicinity of Concordia, Ohio, was committed on Sunday night.  A German named Adolph Hess, with his wife and child, lived in a dilapidated house three miles from the village.  Some time during the night,  Hess, who was addicted to drink, took an axe, and with one blow severed the head of his child from its body.  Hess then beat his wife on the head until life was extinct.  He then hanged himself to a rafter.
 

State Items

    The eldest daughter of Elson K. Rockwell was married at Toms River a few days ago.

    A child, two years of age, the daughter of Lena Cloud, who lives at the house of Frank Haines, at Glenwood, Camden county, was killed Saturday by being accidentally hanged in a swing.

    Aunt Jane Seluby, a colored woman, 95 years old, was buried in Burlington on Tuesday.  She was born a slave on the Arlington estate, in Virginia, and was the nurse of Robert E. Lee.  She obtained her freedom by being taken into a free State as maid by one of the ladies of the family, and afterward succeeded in rescuing her two children from bondage.  She had lived in Burlington over fifty-five years.
 

    Charles Groger, of Washington township, near Erie, Pa., beheaded his young brother last Thursday morning.  The young man was chopping wood and had the axe swung over his back, ready for a blow, when his attention was directed to some one in the rear.  The little fellow toddled up to the block while Charles was thus engaged and the latter, resuming his chopping without looking, brought the axe down upon the child's head, almost severing it at one blow.

    Rosa Peca, a prepossessing young married woman, on Monday was walking on the Pennsylvania Railroad track in Jersey City.  The Pittsburg express was dashing into the city from the West, making up lost time.  Rosa did not hear it.  Engineer J. Maloney saw her on the track but it was too late.  The whistle was tooted several times before the woman saw the train.  She then had time to step aside, but became paralyzed with fright and remained standing there till the pilot of the engine struck her.  She was tossed with frightful force from the track down the embankment to the street, where she fell a quivering mass and soon died.

    Mrs. John T. Clark was shot and killed near Port Austin, Mich., on Monday, by her stepson Edward, during the absence of her husband at work in the field, because she had told the boy to assist his father at work.
 

Fatal Accident
    Tuesday morning last a fatal accident occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Midvale.  John W. Stires and Henry L. Stires, both farmers, and sons of Mr. Peter C. Stires, living near the above place, were crossing the track with a double team and were struck by the engine of passenger train No. 21, which leaves Phillipsburg at 8:50 a.m.  John W., aged about twenty-five was instantly killed, and Henry L., aged about thirty, was seriously, if not fatally, injured...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Lewis B. Thompson, a well known lawyer at Doylestown, Pa., was found dead and hanging by the neck in the cellar of his residence.  A note in his handwriting attributes the act to financial embarrassment.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Emmons died at Peapack, Somerset county, on the 23d ult., aged 100 years, 4 months and 14 days.  Mrs. Emmons enjoyed life to the last.  At a dinner party on her 100th birthday, when about thirty guests were present, she sat at the table and ate a hearty dinner with them.

    The wife of Amos Garrison, a farmer living in Oxford township, Warren county, died on Wednesday, of blood poisoning.  About a week ago the deceased while making soap poisoned her hand by the potash or lye coming in contact with a small sore.  Her arm at once began swelling and soon the malady spread over her entire system.  She grew steadily worse, although every effort was made to relieve her.  She leaves a husband and one child.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, April 23, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Wm. D. Wear, of Hightstown, N.J., to Mary Clark, daughter of Jesse Fulmer, of Lambertville.

    In Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 23, by Rev. F. B. Hodge, Alexander H. Van Horn, of Wilkesbarre, to Dora L. Reading, of Raven Rock.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, April 25, by Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, Nathan H. Apgar, of High Bridge, to Annie A. Alpaugh, of Mountainville.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, April 11, by Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, Shearwood L. Alpaugh, of Mountainville, to Ella Trimmer, of Califon.
 

Deaths

    In Califon, April 22, 1885, Elias C. Neighbor, in the 25th year of his age.

    In Flemington, on Tuesday April 28, 1885, Theodore K. Higgins, aged 57 years.

    In Alexandria township, April 23, 1885, Bethany B., daughter of Peter and Mary Gano, aged 2 years and 5 months.

    At New Germantown, April 27, 1885, of consumption, Gilbert Sheridan, son of Rev. G. H. Winans, aged 16 years.

    At New Germantown, April 30, 1885, of inflamation of the brain, Stanley Walden, son of Rev. G. H. Winans, aged 1 year and 1 month.

    At the residence of Asa Carkhuff, near Barley Sheaf, on Thursday, April 2d, 1885, Elisha Biggs, aged 81 years.  The deceased had been in the employ of ex-Surrogate Peter S. Balley for over forty years.
 
 

May 12, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 39

    Thirteen must be a lucky number.  John Bennett of West Fairfield, Pa., died of consumption at the age of 60, leaving a family of thirteen children.  All are alive and well today, the oldest being 87 and the youngest 60.

    Mrs. Pauline M. Hood, a young married woman, of Baltimore, troubled because of religious disagreement with her husband, she being a Roman Catholic and he a Protestant, bought a pistol and shot herself, inflicting it is supposed, a fatal wound.
 

Marriages

    At Lower Valley Manse, May 2, by Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, George B. Hornebaker, of Califon, and Louisa S. Johnson, of Middle Valley.

    April 25, at the bride's residence, by Rev. W. Lake, Thomas J. Smith and Casandra Snyder, both of Junction.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, May 2, by the Rev. Garret Wyckoff, Samuel Ulmer, of Milford, and Annie C. Prugh, of Annandale.

    May 6, 1885, at the Baptist Church, at Frenchtown, by Rev. James Walden, Harvey Kerr and Dora W. Walden.

    In Mt. Pleasant, April 30, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, Mahlon Apgar, of Little York, and Alida Stryker, daughter of David Curtis.
 

Deaths

    At Junction, May 3, 1885, Evelyn, wife of Jacob Hendershot, aged 22 years.

    In Lambertville, May 4, 1885, Wm. S. Hutton, aged 18 years and 4 months.

    In Lambertville, April 26, 1885, Thomas Nurtney, aged 72 years.

    At Pottersville, May 5, 1885, William Dorland, aged 63 years.

    At Charlestown, April 26, 1885, Ann Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Lott, aged about 47 years.

    In Milford, April 30, 1885, Wm. Lippincott, aged 65 years.

    At Pattenburg, April 26, 1885, Nellie Shive, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Shive, aged 15 months.

    In Campaign county, Ohio, on Thursday, April 1, 1885, Epinetus Everitt, in the 85th year of his age.  Mr. Everitt was a native of New Jersey.

    At South Norwalk, Conn., April 11, 1885, David B. Stout, formerly of Hunterdon county, in the 45th year of his age.  (Deceased was a son of Mr. Zebulon Stout, of Clover Hill, and was well known throughout this part of the county.)
 

Local Department

    We regret to announce that Mr. Wm. Voorhees Case, formerly of Stockton, now of Philadelphia, buried his daughter Laura at Mt. Pleasant on the 25th ult.
 

    A fatal accident occurred at North Branch last Thursday afternoon.  Mr. Timothy Porter, who had been flagman on the Central R. R. at that place for many years past, stepped out to flag the two o'clock passenger train.  He was seized with a fit as he was thus engaged, and falling backward was struck by a coal train going west.  His jawbone was broken, and two hours later his death ensued.  He was buried at Lebanon on Saturday.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miss Sarah Vosseller ("Aunt Salley," as she was familiarly called) died at the residence of her niece, Mrs. Voorhees, in Somerville, on Friday, 2d inst., of paralysis.  Miss V. was a maiden lady, a daughter of the late Luke Vosseller of Branchbrugh township, and she had attained the ripe old age of 83 years, 5 months and 24 days.

    Annie V. Smith, wife of Stephen Van Cleef, died very suddenly and unexpectedly at the residence of her father-in-law, Mr. Abraham Van Cleef, steward of the Bridgewater (Somerset county,) poor house, on the 3d inst., after an illness of about four hours.  She retired to bed in her usual health at about 9 o'clock and soon after was attacked with cramps.  Mrs. Van Cleef was a daughter of Mr. C. V. D. Smith, of Somerville, and aged 25 years.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Peters, of Carlstadt, while house cleaning on Tuesday, found an old pistol in a bureau drawer.  Not knowing that it was loaded, she handled it carelessly, and it exploded.  It was loaded with shot and the charge entered her body, inflicting wounds from which it is impossible for her to recover.  She has eight small children.

    Mrs. Rebecca Hodson of the village of Columbus, Burlington county, is said to be the oldest person in this State.  She has attained the age of 102.  Mrs. H. was born at Honeyman's lane, near Bedminster, and is well known by the older inhabitants of that place.

    Last Wednesday in Newark, Lucy Gilchrist, wife of John Gilchrist, while insane from drink, seized her 6 month bady and, placing it on a block, chopped its head, neck and body with an ax, killing it instantly.  Another of her children gave an alarm and neighbors rushed in, but too late to save the baby.  The woman without doubt is insane.  She says she did the deed because the spirits told her to, and because she must save Ireland.  The woman, who is about 38 years old, has three remaining children, aged 14, 11, and 5 years.
 

    At Richmond, Va., Miss Julia Jackson, the only child of the late General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, of Confederate fame, will be married on June 3rd to Mr. William E. Christian, a prominent grain merchant of that city.  Miss Jackson is twenty-three years old and Mr. Christian is twenty-seven.
 
 

May 19, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 40

    By the explosion of a boiler at Dunkert's stove works, at Grayson, Ky., on Tuesday, George, James and Theodore Bautz were killed, and George and Robert Gee were badly wounded.
 

State Items

    Philip Schwartz, a German truck farmer living at Clifton, Passaic county, was struck and killed on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Wester Railroad near Lakeview late Sunday night.  His body was frightfully mangled.  He recently married a widow whose first husband was killed a year or so ago by lightning.

    Mrs. James Ellenburg, of New Village, committed suicide last Monday night, by drowning in the Morris Canal.  She arose from bed at midnight and was followed by her husband.  Finding her plans spoiled she said she only got up to get a drink of water.  Both returned to bed and Ellenberg fell asleep.  When he awoke his wife was gone.  Her body was found in the canal.

    On Monday morning as Mr. David J. Meeker, was crossing the track of the Central railroad at Elizabeth, N.J., to take the train for New York, which was standing there, a freight train going west ran over him and killed him instantly.  Mr. Meeker was in his 59th year, and was a well known citizen of the county.

    Mrs. Isaac Hendricks, of New Brunswick, beat her eight year old adopted daughter until her head was almost a jelly.  Not being satisfied with this, she also brutally assaulted the child with a red-hot poker.  The child was tied all night to a door and the next day was taken to the hospital, and Mrs. Hendricks was arrested.  Doctors examined the child and express their opinion that she cannot recover.

    Isaac G. DeG. Angus, aged 45, was buried at Elizabeth, Tuesday afternoon.  He was born in Mexico, and graduated with honor at Princeton College in the same class with a number who have since become eminent in the legal profession...
    W. H. Sutherland, 40 years old, a dentist, committed suicide last Tuesday at Indianapolis, Ind., by taking morphine.  He leaves a widow - a bride of five months.  Financial reverses caused the act.

    Sheriff Ragsdale, of Fannin county, Texas, was shot and killed on Monday last at a point nine miles south of Bonham, by a party of desperadoes barricaded in a hut whom he had summoned to surrender.

    A terrible and deadly disease prevails in the Seward Valley, New York.  It first attacked Samuel McRoberts, who died, and since then funerals occur daily about there.  The throat first swells, the tongue is paralyzed, the patient cannot eat and he becomes double-sighted.

    John Neneighbar, a young man from Springfield, Ohio, last Tuesday shot his wife because she refused to return from her mother's house and live with him, and then shot and killed himself.  The wife may recover.

    James W. Raymond, a middle aged man, broken with drinking and consumption, shot himself dead in a little room at No. 33 Market street, New York, last Tuesday.  The suicide was a son of C. Raymond, of New Canaan, Conn.

    Mrs. Annie Casper, 55 years of age, was burned to death at Baltimore last Tuesday by her dress catching fire from the stove on which she was putting a wash boiler.
 

Marriages

    Wednesday, May 6th, at the residence of the bride's parents, Flemington, by the Rev. F. A. Mason, A. M., Emma E. Parse, of Flemington, to William D. Hunt, of Trenton.

    At Port Colden, May 2, by Rev. J. B. Mathis, Louis F. Warner, of Washington, N.J., and Bertha L. Slater, of Hunterdon county.

    In Lambertville, April 16, by the Rev. J. A. Dilks, Charles G. Wolverton, of Lambertville, to Maggie Van Buskirk, of Stroudsburg, Pa.

    At the Locktown Christian parsonage, May 13, by Rev. J. Rondenbaugh, Daniel D. Britton and Belle Thatcher, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    Near Mountainville, May 11, 1885, David F. Apgar, aged about 65 years.

    At Sidney, May 1, 1885, Tunis T. Smith, aged 37 years and 2 months.

    In Lambertville, May 14, 1885, Jesse Mathews, aged 33 years.

    In Flemington, on Sunday, May 17th, 1885, Daniel B. Rittenhouse, in the 82nd year of his age.  Funeral services at his late residence, on Thursday, at 10 1/2 A.M.  Interment at Rosemont.
 

Local Department

    The death in Trenton of Mr. Charles S. Hurley is announced.  Deceased was formerly employed at the freight depot in Lambertville.  His age was 35 years.  Rheumatism at the heart was the cause of his death.

    Mr. Elias Terriberry, of High Bridge, has been sorely afflicted during the past two weeks.  First, his son Harley, aged 4 years died, and last week his daughter Mattie, aged 13, followed her brother.  His wife is also very low with diphtheria, which was the cause of the death of the two children.

    Nelson Angel, an old and highly respectable citizen of Holland township, died at St. Luke's hospital, Bethleham, Pa., on Wednesday, 6th inst., where he had gone two weeks before to have a cancer removed from his right eye, which had been growing for several years, causing him much annoyance and pain.  His age was about 74 years.

    Mr. Jacob Sweazey, an old resident near Sidney, died on Tuesday from the typhoid fever; and several in the neighborhood are yet very low with it.

    The announcement of the death of Mr. Daniel B. Rittenhouse, one of our oldest citizens, which occurred yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, is made with regret.  Deceased had been in failing health for some months past.  He leaves a large family connection to mourn his depature.  Still, none should complain, God granted him over 80 years of life.

    A sad accident, resulting in the death of Miss Mercy Weller, occurred at the residence of our townsman, Mr. Vosseller, on Sunday night.  Miss Weller had lived some four years with Mr. V., whose wife is a niece of deceased.  Sunday night, after most of the inmates of the house had retired, and at a late hour, Miss Weller was heard to fall down stairs.  Young Mr. Harry Vosseller had not yet retired and hastened to her relief; of course, the whole family was soon around her, and on raising her up it was discovered that she had broken her neck.  Miss Weller was a native of Otsego county, N.Y., where most of her life had been passed.  Funeral services on Tuesday at the residence of Mr. Vosseller, at 2 o'clock P.M.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Morris Mann, of Delaware, Warren county, died suddenly on Sunday evening of heart disease.  He seemed as well as usual during the way, attending morning and evening services at the Presbyterian church, reaching home about 9 o'clock.  One hour later he was a corpse.

    Edward Benward, of Phillipsburg, died about 12 o'clock on Tuesday night from the effects of a dose of "Rough on Rats," administered by his own hand.  He took the poison about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, and, though a physician was summoned, nothing could be done to save his life.  He leaves a wife and three children in quite destitute circumstances.
 
 

May 26, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 41

Death of Hon. F. T. Frelinghuysen
    Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen died at his home, near Newark, New Jersey, at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.  His illness which was a long one, was a fatal one from the first and death has been awaited for many days.
    Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was born in Millstone, New Jersey, August 4, 1817.  The name has been an historic one in New Jersey for several generations, Frederic Frelinghuysen, the grandfather, having represented the State in the Senate during Washington's administration and Theodore Frelinghuysen, his son, being elected to the same position in 1826....

    Victor Hugo, the distinguished French poet, novelist, historian and statesman, died in Paris on Friday last, aged 83 years, and all France is mourning over the loss of its illustrious son.

    Nelson Dunham, a prominent citizen of New Brunswick, died on the 16th inst., aged 67 years.  He had been Secretary of the New Brunswick Savings Institution for the past thirty years.
 

    Mrs. John McAnerney, aged 23, of Jersey City, died on Monday under such suspicious circumstances that her husband was arrested and held to wait the result of an investigation.  About two hours before her death, Mrs. McAnerney gave birth to a child.  She told Dr. Smith that she had fallen down stairs and injured herself badly.  The woman grew rapidly worse, and when she realized that she must die she said that what she told him about falling down stairs was false.  Dr. Smith sent for Dr. Rea, and in the presence of both Mrs. McAnerney said that her husband had given her a terrible beating on the previous Sunday.  Dr. Converse, assisted by Drs. Smith and Rea, made an autopsy, and found the woman's body covered with bruises.

    Jennie Yarnell, a young lady of 19 years, committed suicide at Shennandoah, Pa., by shooting herself through the heart.  The cause assigned for the act is that her father had been drinking heavily and to avoid the disgrace which she imagined it brought upon her she decided to take her own life.
 

State Items

    On Monday evening last the infant child of Mrs. Peter Winkler, of Phillipsburg, died shortly after birth.  Wednesday evening the mother died.  The grandmother, a woman sixty-nine years of age, on realizing her daughter's precarious condition, was so shocked that she had a stroke of apoplexy, and she died on Thursday.
 

    William Kernick, 74 years old, a farmer near Beemerville, Sussex county, committed suicide on last Tuesday morning by hanging himself to one of the crossbeams in his wagon house...  He leaves a wife and nine children, all of whom are grown.
 

Local Department

    We last week announced the death, within a few days of each other, of two children of Mr. Elias Terriberry, the postmaster at High Bridge, from diphtheria.  On Tuesday morning last his wife died from the same dread disease, and his happy family of a few weeks ago is now completly broken up.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Koechlin, a wealthy and aged resident of Martinsville, Somerset county, was seated before an open fireplace last Friday, when she was stricken with paralysis and fell into the flames.  She was found by neighbors with her clothes ablaze.  She died an hour afterward.

    Mrs. Kahill, widow of Jacob Kahill, aged 69 years , who has resided near Dog Watch Hollow, in Washington Valley, Somerset county, for a number of years past, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire in some unknown way, on the 15th inst.

    Dr. Henry F. Vanderveer died at his residence in Somerville, on Saturday of week before last, from the effects of an accident.  We learn from the Messenger that on the evening of Apirl 23 he received a severe shock by being crushed between his horse and a tree, sustaining a triple fracture of the bones of the right leg.  Until within a few days he has been reported as making fair progress toward recovery, and to many of his friends the news of his death came quite unexpectedly.  Henry Ferdinand Vanderveer was born at Hyde Park, Dutchess county, N.Y., August, 1828.  His father, Rev.  Ferdinand H. Vanderveer, D. D. (pastor of the Reformed Church at Warwick, N.Y., from 1842 to 1876) died three years ago.
 

Marriages

  In Mount Pleasant, April 30, by the Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, Mahlon Apgar, of Little York, and Alida Stryker, daughter of David Curtis.

    In "Bunn Valley", May 21, by the Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, George C. Stover, of Walkerton, Virginia, and Laura Charity, daughter of James M. Duckworth, Esq., of Little York.

    At the residence of the bride's father, May 13, by Rev. C. H. Pool, Samuel Daggitt, of White House, and Anna E., daughter of John J. Van Derveer, of Raritan.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Copper Hill, May 12, by Rev. John Scarlet, H. S. O. Van Doren, of Flemington, and Kate Johnson, daughter of Jos. B. Johnson, Esq.
 

Deaths

    At Orange, N.J., May 22, 1885, Hannah M. Kitchin, wife of John J. Dalley, formerly of Flemington, aged 26 years.

    In Delaware township, May 11, 1885, Lizzie A., wife of George Marshall, aged 35 years, 1 month and 29 days.

    At Junction, May 1, 1885, Lizzie Apgar, elder daughter of William and Mary Apgar, aged 21 years 4 months and 18 days.
 
 

June 2, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 42

State Items

    William H. Campbell died at Millville, on Friday.  About two weeks ago he was walking out of his door, when the family cat rushed under his feet, causing him to fall, his back striking the doorstep.  Some days after Dr. Hubbard was called in and found the patient in a very critical condition, suffering from concussion of the spine,  from which death resulted.

    Rev. David Graves, of the Newark M. E. Conference, died at Newark on Saturday last, at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. J. A. Osmun.

    Herman Aertz died at Elizabeth on Wednesday, of injuries received at the hands of Henry Boltz.  Aertz boarded with Mrs. Mary Schuetzler.  The three were at a festival in a friend's house.  Aertz wanted to see the woman home, but she refused, asking Boltz to escort her.  Aertz became enraged, and lay in wait for the pair.  As they went by he jumped out and caught Boltz by the neck and endeavored to choke him.  The latter drew a knife and cut Aertz in the face, thigh and back.  The woman's cries awoke the neighbors, who separated the men.  Boltz is quite boyish looking, being only nineteen years old.
 

    The disease which appeared a week ago in Paris, Penn., is reported to be spreading, and a physician has pronounced it "black tongue diphtheria of the most violent form."  One man, Kennedy Trux, who has lost five children by the disease, is himself dangerously sick, and his wife is a maniac.  Nicholas Trux, who has lost two children, is not expected to recover, and his step daughter is also in a critical condition.

    On Monday night at Manilla, Rush county, Indiana, William Riley cut his 7 year old daughter's throat and then cut his own.  Their bodies were found in bed Tuesday.  Riley and his wife separated two months ago, and Riley kidnapped the girl.

    As Thomas Gupmall and Thomas Mannion, from Kankakee, Ill., were coming down the river in a skiff en route to Peoria last Tuesday their boat went over the dam at Henry, Ill., and capsized and Mannion was drowned.  Charles A. Marsh, who was standing on the lock wall viewing the disaster, took a fit and fell over in the water and was also drowned.

    Gilbert Prentice, aged 60 years, living in Orange, Mass., was shot and instantly killed on Tuesday night by his son William, aged 35 years.  The father had been on a spree, and, placing a tin cup on his head, directed his son to shoot it off, with the result stated.

    Dr. N. L. Buck, a respected physician of Oakland, Cal., was shot and killed on Sunday night by Henry F. Prindle, who said the Doctor had insulted his wife while attending her.

    Charles York last Tuesday stabbed and killed his brother John during a drunken quarrel.  They were sons of a prominent farmer living near Asheville, N.C.

    On Monday night, at Franklin, Ky., a mod took from jail Wesley Hicks and Jerry Taylor, charged with burning James Wheeler's house and barn, and hanged them.

    George Downey, aged 67 years, a well known resident of Howard county, Md., was gored to death by an Alderney bull on his farm, near Laurel.  He leaves a family.

    While John Glenn and his wife were crossing a swollen creek in a buggy, in Bedford county, Va., on Sunday, the vehicle was swept away and Mrs. Glenn was drowned.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Stanton, May 26, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Geo. B. Cook, of Flemington, to Lana Pierce, of Stanton.

    At Stockton, N.J., on Saturday, May 30, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Wm. Thatcher, of Lambertville, to Elmira Vanderbelt, daughter of Levi Vanderbelt, Esq., of Milford.

    May 26, by the Rev. H. A. Chapman, Carson L. Titus to Laura H. Croasdale, both of East Amwell.

    At Clinton, May 21, by Rev. T. H. Jacobus, Charles A. Capner of Newark, and Mattie L. Swick, of Clinton.

    At the home of the bride's mother, near Sunnyside, May 20, by Rev. J. G. Crate, M. A., of May's Landing, N.J., assisted by Rev. W. E. Davis, M. A., of Lebanon, Wm. H. Hibler to Angie, only daughter of the late Peter B. Crate.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Heathlawn, near Woodfern, May 27, by Rev. Mr. Hart, James A. Kline, Esq., of Flemington, to Anna V. L. Sheppard, daughter of Wm. N. Sheppard.
 

Deaths

    At East Orange, May 22, Hannah M., wife of John J. Dalley, formerly of Flemington, aged 36 years and 2 months.

    In Califon, May 10, 1885, John Amerman, in the 22nd year of his age.

    Near Midvale, May 21, 1885, Mrs. Chas. Emery, aged 67 years, 6 months and 21 days.
 

Local Department

    Rev. Mr. McKensie, of Pawtucket, R.I., the gentleman who had been chosen by the congregation of the Croton Baptist Church as their pastor, died on the 3d ult., from an attack of disease.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    William W. Mershon, an old railroad man and for the past seventeen years ticket agent at the Warren street station, in Trenton, died after a lingering illness, at his residence in Center street last Tuesday morning.

    Mr. Joseph Thorn, the well known Trenton baker, is in deep affliction, he having on Saturday, 23d ult., lost his 13 year old son, Willie, by drowning while bathing in the Delaware River.

    Last Thursday evening, Levi Fritz, landlord of the Narrowsville Hotel, was drowned in the Delaware Canal, at that place.  He was not missed until a bucket and hat were seen floating in the water.  It is supposed that, in stooping over to dip the water, he was attacked by heart disease and fell in.

    Noah Thomas, aged 40, of German Valley, has eloped with Katie Bird, aged 15.  Noah is a man with whom his wife could not live, while Katie is the daughter of the baker at Chester, and her friends cannot conceive how it was possible for her to form an attachment for such a coarse appearing man.  They were traced to Hackettstown, and from there to Easton, form which place it is supposed they went West.

    The family of Mr. Lewis Cline, residing near Barbertown, in Kingwood township, is sorely afflicted.  One son, a bright boy 6 years of age, died on Monday evening, and six others of the family are sick with scarlet fever.  So says the Hunterdon Independent.
 
 

June 9, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 43

Died In The Prison
    Frederick A. Palmer, once City Auditor in Newark, died at the State Prison on the 28th ult.  He was 45 years of age and had been sentenced to 20 years for embezzling public funds.  Palmer died of apoplexy.

    At Richmond, Va., in the case of Thomas J. Cluveriue, on trial for the murder of his cousin, Fannie Lillian Madison, whose body was found in the city reservoir in March last, the jury last Thursday evening returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.

    A little son of Joseph Z. Gilbert, of Farmingdale, fell down stairs, a distance of only a few feet on Sunday morning, and received injuries which caused his death a few hours afterward.

    At Oakdale, Tenn., on Wednesday, Sam Scarborough shot and killed his brother Talbert, who came home drunk and attacked Sam with an ax, threatening to kill him.
 

State Items

    Ezekiel Lewis, who was probably the oldest man in Ocean county, died on Wednesday, at his home near Forked River, aged 94 years.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812.

    Miss Lydia Bruden, of West End, died on Sunday, 31st ult., from congestion of the brain, caused by accidentally stricking her head against a rafter in the cellar a few days before.

    Mrs. Abigail H. Sproul, wife of the late Rev. Samuel Sproul, died at her residence in Keyport, N.J., on May 9, after a two weeks illness of typhoid pneumonia.  Mr. Sproul was a few years ago pastor of the church at Baptisttown.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    On last Friday afternoon, Clarence H. Kent, a man 26 years of age, living just outside of the line of Morris county, while changing the bridle of his horse after the harness was put on, the horse attempted to break loose from him.  He held to it, and in the effort he was fatally injured between a barn and a fence and died two hours afterwards.  He leaves a wife and child and widowed mother.
 

    A very unusual occurrence in this town was the funeral of two colored people last Tuesday.  There are not more than sixty colored residents in Flemington, counting men, women, and children, and it was considered rather remarkable that two of these - Rachel Lott and Frazer Brown - should happen to die within a few hours of each other - the woman on Saturday morning at the house of her nephew, Jeremiah Johnson, and the young man Brown at the home of his mother, Mrs. Joseph Bradley.

    We are sorry to learn of the death in Brookville, Illinois, of Mrs. Susan Hoff, daughter of Mr. John V. McCann, of this town.  Deceased married a young man named David Hoff some years ago, and removed with him to Illinois about a year ago.  We understand that her death is due to a severe attack of malarial fever.  She leaves several young children who will greatly miss her loving, tender care.
 

Marriages

    June 3, by G. S. Mott, D. D., Victor Clifford Hyde and Mary E. Anderson, both of Flemington.

    June 3, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Abraham V. Hall, of Neshanic, and Ella Brown, of Clover Hill.

    June 1, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, Wm. Hart and Mary A. Cooper, all of White House Station.

    May 30, by Elder R. Hyde, Samuel C. Buchanan, of Kingwood, and Emma J. Anderson, of Franklin township.

    May 27, by Rev. E. C. Romine, assisted by Rev. A. Cauldwell, David W. Hoppock and Maggie Dalrymple.

    June 3, by Rev. J. F. Brady, Thomas H. Matthews, of New Hope, Pa., and Mary C. Callan, of Lambertville.

    June 3, at the residence of the bride's father, New York City, by the Rev. J. P. Newman, Thomas K. Egbert to Mrs. Martha E. Gray, daughter of Christopher Meyer, Esq.
 

Deaths

     In Palatka, Florida, May 25, 1885, of cholera infantum, Bernice E. Horn, aged 4 months and 21 days, daughter of James B. and Mary Horn, formerly of Lambertville.

    In Delaware township, May 30, 1885, Lemuel Young, aged 49 years and 9 months.

    In Lambertville, May 15, 1885, Ralph Mathews, aged 28 years.

    In Lambertville, May 30, 1885, Mary Murphy, aged 40 years.

    At West End, May 31, 1885, Lydia Bruden, aged 22 years.

    At Mechanicsville, June 2, 1885, Sophia Wyckoff, aged 12 years.

    At Yorkville, Illinois, May 27th, 1885, Susan F. Hoff, daughter of John V. McCann, of Flemington, aged 28 years and 5 months.
 
 

June 16, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 44

    The entire family of William King, a painter, of Clifton, S.I., were poisoned last Wednesday by eating canned corn.  One child died and the remainder of the family are in a precarious condition.

    John Rawley, 22 years of age, pit boss at the Athens coal mines, nine miles from Petersburg, Va., on Tuesday fell down the shaft, a distance of 228 feet.  His body was crushed to a jelly.  The deceased was married in Petersburg last Sunday.
 

Marriages

    At the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, Flemington, by the Rev. F. A. Mason, A. M., June 6, Charles W. Brewer to Bella P. Scott, both of Quakertown.

    June 6, at the Locktown Christian Parsonage, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Thomas Jardine, of Kingwood, and Susie C. Rittenhouse, of Flemington.

    June 6, at the Methodist Parsonage, New Germantown, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Emery L. Hoffman, of Parker, N.J., and Lillie B. Hildebrant, of Farmersville, N.J.

    At the bride's home, June 3 by Rev. J. W. Lake, Isaiah Putney, of Kingston, N.Y., and Almira Pence, of New Hampton.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Milford, June 4, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Oakley Wean and Rachel Teets, all of Milford.

    In Lambertville, May 30, by the Rev. J. F. Brady, Patrick F. Caveny to Mary Kelly, all of Lambertville.

    At the Lower Valley Manse, June 4, by Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, Amos Tiger and Mary E. Alpaugh, both of White Hall.

    May 28, by Rev. I. Poulson, at the residence of the brides' parents, David S. Van Marter, of Ringoes, and Jennie Johnson, of Stockton.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, June 9, 1885, Wm. Fischer, aged 68 years, 3 months and 4 days.
 
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Col. James M. Robeson, of Belvidere, who has been ill with softening of the brain, for some months past, died at his residence on Monday.  He was 63 years od, and was one of the oldest practictioners in the courts of this State.

    A man named John Jones committed suicide at the Windsor House, in Washington, where he was employed, several years ago, leaving some $1700 that he had saved out of his earning...

    Albert Labar, son of W. P. Labar, 18 years old, was struck dead by lightning in the thunder storm on Monday afternoon near Tranquility, in Sussex county.  He was in the company of his father and another youth...

    Death is very busy.  On Saturday night last the grim monster laid his icy hand upon Mrs. John C. Hopewell, and summoned her hence.  She had been a sufferer for some months from a bodily affliction, an affliction which she bore with patience and resignation.  Her death will not only be mourned by her husband and children but by a large circle of friends.
 

State Items

    Herman Van Dien, a bachelor living on a farm near Paramus, Bergen county, was found last Tuesday hanging in his barn, having evidently committed suicide.  His estate is said to be worth probably $60,000.
 
 

June 23, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 45

News Items

    Alfred Smith, aged 16 years, was killed last Thursday at Batavia, N.Y, by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Walter Buxton.

    Rudolph J. Rohlfs, a baker at Peoria, Ill., committed suicide.  He was baking bread for a picnic, and after burning three batches in succession, flew into a passion and shot himself.

    Joe Barbour and Horace Terrill were hanged last Thursday in the jail yard at Charlottsville, Va., the former for the murder of a girl named Mary Foster.  The criminals and their victims were all colored.

    At a negro church in Navarro county, Texas, Sam Ramsey was killed in a free fight with pistols, knives and other weapons, Sunday night.

    Frank Butterfield was instantly killed and John Albright was terribly injured while unloading iron castings at the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway freight house in Cleveland.

    Uriah Delp and William Jarvis, farmers, living near Rockville, Ind., quarreled over the division of some land while Delp was intoxicated, whereupon the latter shot and killed Jarvis.

    Reports from the Indian Territory state that William Williamson, Peter Moon and George Moran, members of a gang of desperadoes and horse thieves, were overtaken on Tuesday near Healton, by a vigilance committee and hanged to a tree.

    Joseph Vlanca, a laboring man, against whom his wife had instituted divorce proceedings, on Wednesday went to Chicago, where his wife was staying, shot and killed her with a revolver.  He immediately after shot himself and will die.

    Mrs. Cora Folsom Seers, daughter of a prominent insurance man of Cleveland, Ohio, over a week ago disappeared from that city with a roller-rink instructor named Putnam, and the pair have been traced to Lancaster, N.Y., where they are reported to be living as man and wife.

    James H. Milliken on Monday shot and killed James Lee, to Weatherfield, Texas, while the latter, unarmed, sat in a chair.  They were partners in the construction of the new Courthouse, and had been quarreling for some days.

    James H. Rutter, late President of the New York Central Railroad Company, and his wife (who died within two days after her husband's death) were on Tuesday buried together in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

    Ely S. Prime, a Government gauger at Baltimore, aged about 46 years, got up at an early hour Wednesday morning, during a heavy rain storm, to close the windows of his house, when he missed his way in the dark and fell over the banisters to the hall below, breaking his neck.

    On June 6th Martin Eddins, a laborer living at Hamburg, Preble county, Ohio, was taken sick after eating lettuce for supper.  On June 11 he died, soon after taking a power prepared by his wife.  She was arrested on Monday and was sent to jail at Eaton.  She made a confession the same night stating that she gave arsenic to her husband at the suggestion of William Rowe, a man with whom she had been intimate for some time.
 

State Items

    Edward Kelly, better known as "Sweety," while drunk on Saturday night, went to the barn of Isaac Meeks at Riverside, Burlington county, to sleep.  In attempting to get into the hay mow he fell and broke his neck.

    Charles R. Zacharias and Miss Adelaide Marsh, of Newark, were married at Orange one evening recently.  Mr. Zacharias rode from Newark to Orange on a bicycle, and Miss Marsh rode a tricycle.  They were married in their riding costumes, and after the ceremony departed for a wedding tour on their wheels through Pennsylvania.

    Samuel Campbell, 26 years old, a carpenter and builder, who has a wife and two children living at Millville, has eloped with Lillie, the sixteen year old daughter of William Cobb, a wealthy resident of Port Norris, for whom Campbell was building several houses...  Officers are now looking for the runaways.

    William H. Davis of Jersey City has instituted divorce proceedings against his wife, whom he married twenty years ago.  They had five children.  In 1880 Mrs. Davis became interested in gospel temperance work, and devoted her special attention to the reformation of Jacob Stone, aged eighteen, who had become too fond of intoxicating liquors.  In a short time young Stone supplanted Mr. Davis in his wife's affections.
 

Death of Hon. John Blane, M.D.
    No man in Hunterdon county has for these many years been more universally loved and honored than the venerable John Blane, whose useful life of nearly 83 years closed on Thursday morning of this week.  He was born in North Brunswick, Middlesex Co., on the 7th of July 1802.  He died in the pleasant home he long had held in Union township.  His wife (who has been his cheerful and helpful companion for 55 years) survives him, and their two daughters (wives of Dr. N. B. Boileau and Dr. N. Case)...
 

Marriages

    June 11, at the residence of C. E. Prall, New Hampton, by Rev. Wm. Smith, Thomas E. Archer and Jennie Crotsley, both of New Hampton.

    June 13, at the Baptist Parsonage, Junction, by Rev. Wm. A. Smith, Jacob M. Cole, of Washington, and Ada M. Oakes, of Norton.

    June 23, at the Baptist Parsonage, Junction, by Rev. Wm. A. Smith, Holloway Osmun, of Junction, and Maggie M. Chezson, of White House.

    June 13, at the M. E. Parsonage, Anderson, by Rev. S. D. Harris, James Orts, of Middle Valley, to Sarah E. Crotsley, of Fairmount.

    By the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, June 17, at the residence of the bride's parents, Stanton, Peter H. Conover, of Pittstown, to Lizzie Huffman, of Stanton.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, May 26, 1885, Margaret Britton, aged 71 years, 3 months and 5 days.

    In Lambertville, June 17, 1885, Mrs. Fannie Guillick, aged 69 years.

    In Lambertville, June 16, 1885, Mrs. Margaret Sweasey, aged 65 years.

    At Interlachen, Florida, June 11, 1885, Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Mathis, formerly of Readington, daughter of James F. Ewing, of Pleasant Run.

    At Sand Brook, March 28, 1885, Achsah, wife of Asher Young, aged 72 years, 3 months and 16 days.

    In Frenchtown, June 16, 1885, Harry W., son of George L. and Mary E. Smith, aged 18 years, 11 months and 8 days.
 

Local Department

    Brice M. Pursell, a prominent Democrat of Bucks county, died on Wednesday night at his residence opposite Milford.

    Mr. Charles Poulson, a respected resident of Delaware township, died at his residence near the German Baptist Church last Tuesday afternoon.  Mr. Poulson was about 75 years of age.

    We are sorry to record the death of Mrs. Patrick Corcoran of this place, which occurred on Thursday morning last at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Stanley, in Trenton, whom she had gone to visit.  Deceased was the mother of Sheriff Corcoran.
 
 

June 30, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 46

State Items

    A three year old son of Thomas Applegate, living near Tracy Station, Middlesex County, swallowed two lima beans, a few days ago, which, lodging in his windpipe caused his death.
 

Heartrending Accident
    One of the most heartrending accidents that one can readily imagine occurred in Easton at noon on Tuesday last.  Mrs. Henry Sigman put her ten month old infant to sleep about 11:30.  In order to place the little one beyond the reach of the noise which several other children were making in the alley, she put it to rest in an upper room, beyond the reach of all disturbing sounds.  About 12 o'clock she had the occasion to go up stairs, when she discovered the limp form of the infant hanging from the foot of the bed, quite dead....

    While Mr. Jackson Wood was out driving with Mrs. D. E. Wood and her two daughters, on Tuesday, at Elgin, Ill., the horses became frightened and the carriage overturned, throwing all the occupants out.  Mr. Wood was severely hurt, and Mrs. Wood was so badly injured that her recovery is doubtful.  Florence, a bright girl of 11 years, was instantly killed, and the other daughter badly bruised.
 

Marriages

    June 25, at the bride's home, by Rev. G. H. Winans, John W. Lindaberry, of German Valley, and Jennie L., daughter of Theodore Lance, of Fairmount.

    June 18, at the residence of the bride's parents, Erwinna, Pa., by Rev. W. A. Patton, of Doylestown, Pa., assisted by Rev. W. H. Filson, of Frenchtown, Hannah P. Stover to Jerome C. Lambrite, of Doylestown.

    In Lambertville, June 29, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Leonard C. Bowers to Louisa Wurts, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, June 20, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Henry Sherman to Kizzie E. Johnson, both of Kingwood.

    In Lambertville, June 17, by Rev. C. H. Woolston, Frank T. Coryell to Minnie S. Lear, all of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, June 14, 1885, Mahala Dilts, aged 81 years.

    In Kingwood, April 15, 1885, Mrs. Jane Martin, wife of Thomas Martin, aged 65 years, 1 month and 2 days.

    At Stanton Station, June 21, 1885, Matilda Lowe, wife of John A. Hummer, aged 38 years.

    Near Readington, June 21, 1885, Mary Pittenger, wife of Thomas A. Hoagland, aged 28 years.

    In Flemington, June 12th, 1885, Mrs. Ann Hopewell, wife of John C. Hopewell, Esq.
 

Local Department

    In our hastily prepared mention of Dr. Blane's death, just before going to press last week, the type made the error of saying that the honored deceased had been "fifty-five" years married.  We meant to say forty-five.  We learn that he was married in May 1840, to the estimable lady who shared his life so long and happily.  Clinton Democrat.

    Margaret Devine, aged 86, who has been an inmate of the Lambertville poor house since 1877, died last Wednesday morning, from an attack of palsy.
 

A Man Found Dead
    On Thursday night last the dead body of John Cripps, an old man of 70 years, was found in the hay mow of Mr. Henry Crum, near Sand Brook.  Mr. Crum immediately notified Squire John H. DeMott, of this place, who, acting as Coroner, proceeded to the scene accompanied by Dr. John H. Ewing.  After a careful examination of the body the Doctor came to the conclusion that the man ha died from heart disease, and had evidently died without a struggle...  He leaves a family.

    We record the death of our friend John B. Rockafellow, the well known miller, with great regret.  The sad event occurred at this residence, two miles east of town, last Tuesday night....
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Louis H. Schenck, Esq. (son of ex-Senator Schenck of Neshanic), was married on Thursday last to Miss Emma Babcock, daughter of Editor Babcock of New Brunswick.  The wedding was quite private, only a few friends of the families being present.  Mr. Schenck is a resident of Newark and a prominent young lawyer.
 
 

July 7, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 47

    Carrie Miles and Jennie Miller, each 8 years of age, were drowned in a pond on the Miller farm, in Verona, Wis., on Tuesday evening by the capsizing of a raft upon which they were playing.

    Eli Buel, aged 60 years, committed suicide on his first wife's grave, in the cemetery at Pittsfield, Mass., last Wednesday.  His first wife committed suicide by hanging, and he had been divorced from his second wife.

    A double suicide occcurred at Gilson, Ill., last Thursday, the victims being Melissa Steepleton, a well known school teacher, and her affianced, Edward Southerland.  The two had been for a long time engaged and the nuptials had been set several times, but when the time came Southerland's circumstances were such that the event was postponed.  Her friends strenuously opposed the suit.  Tuesday he refused to marry her.  That evening she bought rat poison, afterwards exchanging it for arsenic, and took a dose of the latter in the morning and died.  When Southerland heard of her death he borrowed a rifle, went into the timber a mile away and shot the top of his head off.
 

Marriages

    By Geo. S. Mott., D. D., at the bride's father's, near Flemington, June 30th, William E. Stout, of Wertsville, and Ida Bartles, daughter of Andrew Bartles.

    June 25, at the residence of the bride's parents, in Clinton, by the Rev. S. D. Decker, of Frenchtown, Elmer E. Seals and Lantha E. Apgar, all of Clinton.

    At the parsonage, in Glen Gardner, June 27, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Mahlon J. Myers, of West Norton, and Eliza J. Rinehart, of Lebanon.

    June 26, at the residence of the bride in Glen Gardner, by the Rev. J. W. Lake, Victor Y. Schooley, of Bloomsbury, and Julia A. Myers, of Glen Gardner.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Frenchtown, June 25, by Rev. W. H. Filson, Dr. John F. Leavitt to Clara, daughter of ex-Mayor Kachline.

    At Allentown, Pa., by Rev. G. F. Pullock, May 14, Charles C. Webster to Belle M. Fargo, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood township, April 15, 1885, Jane Martin, wife of Thomas Martin, aged 65 years, 1 month and 2 days.

    At White Hall, June 24, 1885, Mary, wife of David P. Hill, in her 30th year.

    In Kingwood, June 28, 1885, Dinah Hoffman, aged 75 years and 8 months.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, William Stanley, in Trenton, June 18th, 1885, Mrs. Jane Corcoran, of Flemington, aged 72 years.  Deceased was the wife of Patrick Corcoran and the mother of Sheriff John Corcoran.
 

Local Department

    Mr. James W. Stockton, of Pattenburg, was stricken with paralysis some three weeks ago, and on Tuesday last he died.  He was the father of Mrs. Levi Apgar, of this place.

    Patrick McNickel, employed at Thomas Conner's quarry, above Lambertville, started to open a keg of powder, and finding a nail projecting from the end, struck it with a large stone.  An explosion followed, and McNickel was thrown tewnty-five feet in the air.  After thirty hours' agony he died on Sunday 28th ult.  Deceased belonged in Bordentown.

    The death of Rev. Nathan S. Aller occurred at his residence in Frenchtown on July 4.  He was born in Hunterdon county near Clinton, was a son of Henry Aller, a Justice of the Peace, and a prominent Democrat of his day.  The deceased was a Presbyterian clergyman and a portion of his pastoral life was spent in Pennsylvania, and a few years ago he became pastor of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, and the last four of five years had resided in Frenchtown.
 

    Johnston Cornish, Esq., the efficient Mayor of the borough of Washington, Warren county, was married on June 24th at Mecklenburg, N.Y., to Miss Margaret Banker, daughter of Mr. Jaocb Banker, on the lawn in front of the residence in the presence of a large number of invited guests...
 

State Items

    Mrs. Metta Victoria Victor, an authoress, whose publications ranged from the yellow covers of Beadle's dime novel to the zealously guarded pages of Harper's Magazine, died on Friday in Hohokus, Bergan county, at the age of 54 years.

    Old Jack Mowry, who was once a slave of the Hon. Philip Mowry, and who for years had been almost helpless, was taken to the Warren county poor house Thursday.  His age is 92 years, and he is the only person now living in New Jersey known to have been a slave.
 
 

July 14, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 48

    The death of W. G. Graham, a wealthy citizen of York County, S.C., occurred last Monday from a peculiar cause.  He had occasion, about a week ago, to handle a calf that had been born dead, and afterwards scratched a pimple on his lip with his finger, thus communicating blood from the dead calf to the pimple.  Two or three days later he was seized with terrible pains followed by swelling of the lip.  Medical aid was summoned, but the swelling continued, and finally resulted in his death.

Killed By The Stings of Wasps
    Wasps killed William P. Thompson, a farmer living in Allegheny county, Md.  While working in a cornfield, he noticed what be supposed to be bees swarming around the stump of an old tree standing in a fence corner.  He approached and rashly attempted to investigate them by striking the stump with his hoe.  In an instant a whole nest of wasps, probably 500 or 600 strong, attacked him...  In two hours Thompson's head had swollen to a monstrous size, his left eye protruding, and he was a terrible spectacle.  The man suffered great agony and died in a few hours.  -  Rochester Democrat.
 

Local Department

    Martha Ann Cherry, wife of Dr. Jacob Wyckoff Schenck, died at her home in Somerville, on Monday, in her 78th year.  She was born and married in Hunterdon county, moving to Somerville years ago.  The funeral took place at Reaville last Thursday.

    Mr. John Y. Yard, a respected and aged citizen of this township, died at his son's residence at Copper Hill last Friday afternoon.  Some years ago Mr. Yard was the owner of a fine farm at Cherryville, but financial troubles forced him to part with it.  His wife died suddenly last summer.
 

Great Flood In Hunterdon.
A Man Loses his Life while Trying to Save a Young Girl.
    The section of country embracing Lebanon, White House and Stanton, experienced such a rain last Monday afternoon as it never before saw....
    But the most heart rending accidents was the death met with by a young married man named George W. Dubois, of Perth Amboy.  He was on a visit to his father-in-law R. S. Swackhamer, Esq., late County Superintendent of Hunterdon.  Dubois and Samuel Swackhamer (his brother-in-law,) were watching the ruin being wrought by the storm, when they saw a young lady - Miss Sarah Messler - become surrounded by water as she was crossing a bridge on her return from driving home the cows.  These two young men secured a boat and went to the rescue of Miss Messler.  The swift current carried the boat against one of the abutments of the bridge, capsizing it and throwing both into the water.  Swackhamer succeeded in getting out, but poor Dubois struck his head against the bridge rendering him helpless, and his body was washed on down the mad stream.  It was found next morning a distance below...
 

Marriages

    July 8, at the Methodist Parsonage, Flemington, by Rev. F. A. Mason, A. M., Amos H. Hann to Mary E. Vanness, both of Flemington.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, Mechanicsville, July 4, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, Morris Crater and Amanda A. Wood, both of New Germantown.

    At St. John's Rectory, Somerville, July 4, by the Rev. W. E. Wright, Joseph Hendershot, Jr., of Lebanon, and Emma J. Jones, of White House.

    In Lambertville, July 4, by the Rev. J. A. Dilks, Albert V. Meincke, of New York city, to Artie M. Sherry, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of A. V. F. Yard, near Copper Hill, on Friday, July 10, 1885, John Y. Yard, aged 77 years, 1 month and 14 days.

    In Lambertville, July 2, 1885, Wm. H. Stout, aged 2 years.

    In Lambertville, June 24, 1885, Margaret Devine, aged 85 years.

    In Lambertville, July 8, 1885, Mrs. Euphemia Dilley, relict of William Dilley, in the 84th year of her age.

    In Frenchtown, July 4, Rev. N. S. Aller, aged 65 years, 11 months and 12 days.

    At Case's Saw Mill, July 6, 1885, Elizabeth Case, aged 66 years and 9 months.

    Near Mt. Pleasant, June 26, 1885, Lambert Hoppaugh, son of John and Clarissa Hoppaugh, in the 23d year of his age.
 
 

July 21, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 49

Premonitions of Death
    Kate Schneider, the young girl whose body was found in the Morris Canal, near the communipaw Bridge, Jersey City, Sunday night, was indentified Wednesday as the daughter of a miner who was killed in a coal mine five years ago....

A Coffin was His Bed For Years
    Mr. David Gamble, a farmer of Frederick county, Md., was found dead in a coffin in the dining hall of his residence last Monday morning.  For at least thirty-five years Mr. Gamble has been in an unsettled frame of mind, caused, it is supposed, by the sudden death of his wife, who died of heart disease shortly after their marriage...

    Senator Ezra Miller, of Bergen county, who died after a protracted illness on the 9th inst., was born at Pleasant Valley, Bergen county, May 12, 1815.  He lived for four years in Duchess county, N.Y., and in Wisconsin, where he was elected State Senator from Rock county.  He returned a number of years ago to New Jersey and settled in Bergen county and was elected to the Senate as a Democrat, in 1883.

    Near Dahlonega, Ga., Edward Lee had been courting Miss Mary Hyden for a period which tested the patience of the lady's mother.  When the suitor made his usual call the other night, Mrs. Hyden confronted him with the girl, the marriage licence, the preacher and an ugly looking Colt's revolver.  The young man concluded that the invitation was sufficiently pressing and married the girl.

    Benjamin Stehman, of Columbia, Pa., while trying to board a train near Middletown on Monday night, fell under the wheels and was fatally injured.

    John W. Clark, of Webster, Pa., recently committed suicide while mentally distressed, by placing the muzzle of a gun over his heart and pulling the trigger with a willow switch.
 

State Items

    Louisa Hoffman died suddenly at Jersey City from what was believed to be cholera.  An examination, however, showed that it was colic, caused by excesses at a picnic.

    Lizzie, the 14 year old daughter of Samuel Burdsall, of Bricksborough, Cumberland county, while swinging on Sunday was thrown violently to the ground by the breaking of the rope.  She struck on her breast and was fatally injured, dying in half an hour.

    Daniel Anderson, of Spotswood, while rowing on a pond near that place on Sunday, with his wife and four children, ran the boat on a snag.  In attempting to get clear of the obstruction the boat was capsized and the whole party were thrown into fifteen feet of water.  By great effort he rescued his wife and two daughter, but the two young sons sank before aid could be given.
 

    Miss Emma Boardman, of Bridgeton, was recently married to a Wilmington, Del., painter, Paul Betters, and went to Wilmington to live with her supposed husband.  A few days ago she discovered that Betters had lived in the Delaware metropolis with another woman whom he had married in November last.  Frightened by this discovery, Betters hurriedly fled from Delaware to Philadelphia, where it is supposed he now is.  He has informed Miss Broadman not only that she is not his legal wife, but that the woman he married in November was no better off than she.  His real wife's whereabouts he did not disclose.
 

Married

    At the residence of the bride's brother, Middle Valley, July 9, by Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, George Ader and Sarah Jane Ader, both of Middle Valley.

    On July 11, by Rev. H. A. Chapman, at the residence of the bride's parents, J. Howard Solomon to Anna M. Hill, both of Wertsville.

    At the residence of the bride, July 15, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., W. C. Stinson, of Wyoming, Del., and Annie M. T. Williamson, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    Near Perryville, July 12, 1885, Charles Carhart, aged 72 years, 2 months and 21 days.

    At Clover Hill, July 3, 1885, Bertha Schenck, aged 6 years, daughter of William D. and Mary C. Schenck.

    In Lambertville, July 9, Harry S., youngest child of J. William and Mary Dilley, aged 20 months.

    In Lambertville, July 12, Mrs. Patrick McConnon, aged 28 years.

    In Lambertville, July 15, Anna R. Ulmer, wife of Henry Ulmer, aged 40 years.
 

Local Department

    In our last issue we spoke of the disability of Mr. David Hoagland, of Pleasant Run, who had just been afflicted by a stroke of palsy.  We are sorry to now say that his death resulted on Tuesday evening last.  His age was about 61 years.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    George Heitzman, a farmer, living near Phillipsburg, hanged himself in a stable, last Thursday week.  He was seventy years old, and mourned greatly over the recent loss of his wife.

    Paddy Ward died in the State Prison at Trenton, on the 10th inst.  About a year ago a cancer appeared on his jaw, which continued to grow, and he was placed in the hospital.  The cancer ate off part of his jaw, part of his tongue, and was the cause of his death.  He was imprisoned October 1876, for the murder of Tinse Miers, of Phillipsburg.

    Catharine Hall, wife of the late Judge Bunn, died at her residence in Somerville on Saturday, 11th inst.  She was in her 80th year, and had been a member of the First Reformed Church from girlhood.  She leaves six children to mourn her loss.
 
 

July 28, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 50

    Dr. Irenaeus Prime, editor of the New York Observer, died at Manchester, Vermont, on Saturday, 18th inst., of paralysis.  He was born at Balston Spa, N.Y., November 4, 1812, and was so advanced in his studies that he graduated from Williams College in 1829.

    Peter H. Watson, ex-President of the Erie Railway, died last Thursday night after a long sickness.
 

Death of General Grant - Mount McGregor, July 23.
    General Grant expired at 8:08 A.M.  He was surrounded by his family.  His end was peaceful...
    Biography of the Dead.
    Ulysses S. Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27, 1822...
 

State Items

    William Jones, a young man who lives in Philadelphia, was visiting at New Brunswick on Monday and went to the canal to bathe.  While beyond his depth he was seized with cramps and died before assistance could be rendered.

    A drowning accident occurred in the river at May's Landing Wednesday.  Christopher Gibson, of Manhattanville, N.Y., and his two sons were in a sailboat fishing, when George, aged 7 years, was knocked overboard by the boon.  The father and the other son jumped into the water to save him, but failed to do it.  They were rescued in an insensible condition.  The body was not recovered.

    William Anderson, aged 17, and Mary Haffener aged 16, were in a boat on the Passaic river, shortly before 8 o'clock Sunday evening, when they were caught in the swell of an excursion steamer.  The boat drifted under the paddle wheels, and was broken in two.  Miss Haffener did not rise to the surface, but Anderson was rescued by a boatman.

    Charles Jackson, who lives in the mountains of Augusta county, Virginia, in a frenzy of temper, on Tuesday dragged his child from its cradle and struck it against the bed, killing it instantly.  He then felled his wife with a blow, and, thinking her dead, fled.  The wife will recover.  Jackson has not yet been caught.

    Abraham Denser, the German farmer living near Bloomington, Ill., who on Monday burned his house and barn and all his live stock to prevent his wife from getting any of the property has been lodged in jail.  During the night he improvised a rope from his suspenders, a towel and a piece of cord and hanged himself from the door frame of his cell closet.  The body was found hanging on Tuesday morning.

    Richard Craven, a florist on the Rumsen road, near Seabright, came home drunk on Tuesday, and in a quarrel with his wife attempted to kill her with a butcher knife.  She was so badly frightened that she ran to a neighbor's, and after telling her trouble dropped dead from heart disease.

    August Cruger, a track walker employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, was instantly killed near Linden, Union county, Friday morning.  He was sitting on the track when he was struck by a locomotive.  He leaves a family at Linden.
 

Marriages

    July 22, at the residence of the bride's father, Flemington, by Rev. F. A. Mason, A. M., Charles D. Peterson and Lizzie M. Reading, both of Flemington.

    In the M. E. Church, Frenchtown, July 22, by Rev. N. J. Wright, Edwin D. Leidy, M. D., of Baptisttown, to Sallie C., daughter of Edward Rittenhouse, Esq., of Kingwood tonwship.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, on Thursday, July 23, 1885, John Yennan, in the 64th year of his age.

    In Alexandria township, July 16, 1885, Harry A. Haldeman, aged 1 year, 10 months and 12 days.

    At White House Station, July 18, 1885, Ludlow P. W., youngest child of James and Caroline McDonald, aged 4 moths and 8 days.

    At Pleasant  Run, July 14, 1885, David Hoagland, aged 61 years.

    In Clinton, July 21, 1885, William Hardy, aged 67 years.

    Near Oak Grove, july 25, 1885, Thatcher Trimmer, Sen., in the 78th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, July 16, 1885, Edward W. Case, aged 32 years.

    In Lambertville, July 21, 1885, Frank M., son of Walter F. and Florence M. Hayhurst, aged 10 months and 13 days.

    In Lambertville, July 21, 1885, Ruth A. Wert, wife of Joseph R. Wert, in the 59th year of her age.
 
 

Local Department

    Thatcher Trimmer, Sen., an aged citizen of Croton vicinity, dropped dead as he was walking about his premises last Friday moning.  It is supposed that heart disease, aggravated by the extreme heat of the few days previous, was the cuase of his sudden taking off.  He had lived in the house formerly known as the "Old Frog Travern," a mile north of Croton, for several years past.

    John Yennans, a well known character in Flemington, died on Friday morning last from paralysis.  Deceased came to Flemington a stranger in 1841, and remained here.  He was a bachlor, and a man of many peculiarities, though quiet and inoffensive.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death is announced at Asbury station of an aged maiden lady, Miss Lizzie Bigler.  Deceased had rounded out 94 years, and during that long life had maintained a pure, unsullied character.  She was an aunt to Mrs. John C. Wene, of Asbury vicinity.

    On Friday the 17th inst., Charles Stich, of Raritan, jumped on a train of cars near Somerville, and when he got off at Raritan the train was going so fast that he rebounded, one leg going under the cars and was terribly mangled.  The other foot was broken by the jump.  He died of his injuries next day.
 
 

August 4, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 51

State Items

    John Nicol, of Orange, died on Sunday night.  He celebrated his one hundredth birthday on March 14th.

    Alonzo Marsh, 22 years old, was drowned in the canal at New Brunswick, on Monday while bathing.  He was the only support of a widowed mother.

    A nine year old boy named Owen Corrigan rush against a train under full headway, at Jersey City, and was almost torn to pieces.  The boy's strange freak is unaccountable.

    It is said that the divorced wife of the late Geo. M. Price, who committed suicide at Dover two weeks ago, was married at Montclair in less than a week after her first husband's death.

    James Vanderveer, Sheriff of Morris county from 1870 to 1873, and widely known as a prominent and worthy citizen, died suddenly at his residence in Chester last Friday morning.

    Old Michael Potter, of Willow Grove, who lately celebrated his 101st birthday, has slept in the same room since 1811.  He has in his room a gun with which he killed two deers at one shot, and a watch that has kept good time for over 80 years.
 

    A despatch from Anderson county, Kentucky, says Horace Mullen, a farm hand, insulted the sister of Edward, Robert and Porter Hawkins.  The brothers armed themselves and went to where Mullen was stopping and asked him to come out.  He came out armed with a gun.  All began firing about the same time.  Mullen's gun was loaded with buckshot, and at the first fire he instantly killed Edward and Robert Hawkins.  His next shot wounded Porter Hawkins.  Mullen escaped unhurt.
 

Marriages

    July 25, by Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, Willard Lowe, of New York city, to Alice Augusta DeMott, of Stanton.

    July 27, by Rev. J. W. Lake, John A. Anderson and Mrs. Mary L. Crotsley, both of Glen Gardner.

    In Lambertville, Jun 21, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, David Yost, of Lambertville, to Anna Zeigler, of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Stockton, July 25, 1885, Wm. Kirkman, aged 40 years and 3 months.

    In Lambertville, July 20, 1885, Willie, son of William and Mary Jane Lynch, aged 11 months and 11 days.

    In Lambertville, July 29, 1885, Mrs. Hannah McBride.

    Near Flemington, June 23, 1885, John B. Rockafellow, in the 59th year of his age.
 

Family Reunion
    The descendants of Asa Dalrymple will hold a family reunion in the grove near Bowne Station, on Wednesday August 12th.  Asa Dalrymple was the father of fourteen children, all of whom are living.  They are all married and have sons and daughters, and some are grandparents.  The surviving desendants of Asa Dalrymple today number 84.
 

    A heinous offence was committed in Tewksbury township one day last week by a man named Henry Sutton.  The whole county is up in arms over it, and the excitment knows no bounds.  Henry hooked a cucumber!  He was passing along the road with his little girl, it seems, but whether on foot or in carriage we are in doubt, when the little girl saw some cucumbers growing in the garden of one John Trimmer.  She asked her father to get her one of them, and the atrocious villian, without a moments hesitation hopped the fence and collared one of the colic begetting vegetables and gave it to the child.  But Justice, though supposed to be blind, had an eye upon the agile monster, and a constable was sent after him.  He was taken before two Justices of the Peace, who sentenced him to pay a fine of $10 and costs, amounting in all to $18.03.  In default of payment he was brought to the County Jail.  That Henry will eventually fetch up in State Prison or upon the gallows is plain enough.  The annals of criminal history report no such grave crime as he stands convicted of, and it is well that his punishment was prompt and vigorous for a man who will rob a garden of a cucumber is dangerous to the community.  He has to go but a step further in crime to pick from under a tree a specked apple.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    George Beatty, a native of Warren, and a well known Sussex county hotel man, died at Newton, a week or two ago from paralysis.

    A. J. Price, brakeman on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was run over at Phillipsburg on Monday, and sustained injuries which resulted in his death the next morning.

    Old Davy Robbins, who led a life of filth and misery unequalled in the history of Belvidere and who recently was removed to the county house, died at that institution a few days since.  He was well advanced in life and died possessed of considerable property.

    A young married woman named Mrs. George A. Smartz, residing near Deckertown, met her death by a singular accident a short time ago.  She was witnessing the operation of a new hay unloading machine, when an iron trace broke and flew back and struck her with great force in the lower part of the abdomen.  The unfortunate woman suffered great agony for three days and then expired.
 

    Hector Martin, colored man who resides on the mountain south of Bloomsbury, was a slave and was first sold with his mother, when a babe, to Isaac Larue, of Everittstown, wher he stayed a few years and was then sold to Jacob Hoppock, of Mt. Pleasant, and after a few years was sold to Peter Alpaugh, of Little York, where he remained a long time and was always treated kindly.  His former master, Larue, he states, treated himself and mother rudely and often knocked her down with his fist.  He thinks he is 74 years old; but aged persons in the township say he is over 80.
 
 

August 11, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 52

Murder In Morris County
     A murder was committed late Wednesday afternoon at Chester, Morris county, the result of jealousy and whiskey.  Samuel Wade, about fifty-five years of age, a veteran soldier of 72d New York Volunteers, received a pension last Fall of $1,200, and shortly afterwards went to board with a widow named Swayze.  He paid off a mortgage of $400 and contributed liberally towards clothing Mrs. Swayze's children and the general household expenses until another boarder named James W. Laurent came.  He seemed to supersede Wade in the widow's esteem, and Wade became jealous and drank more or less, and was abusive all around.  His friends advised him to leave, but he continued there until Wednesday.
    When he came to dinner, Laurent ejected him from the house, and served him the same way at supper time.  After a violent quarrel Wade rushed upstairs, seized a shot gun, came down, and fired at and instantly killed Laurent...
 

State Items

    A young son of Captain John Whittier and a son of Joseph Stillwell, both of New Brunswick, while fishing in the Raritan were drowned on Tuesday.  Their bodies were recovered.

    Peter Brady, 9 years old, of 11 Vesey street, Newark, fell into the Passaic river from a wharf, on Tuesday, and was drowned.  John Haug, aged 14, of the same city, fell into the Morris canal at Plane street, and was drowned.

    Mrs. Mary Drake, a middle aged woman, while engaged on Saturday in cleaning the apartments of Smith Tuttle on Coles street, Jersey City, fell dead from heart disease.  Mrs. Drake was a widow.  Her husband some years ago was superintendent of Lorillard's tobacco factory, and one night about four years ago, in a fit of jealousy he shot himself.
 

Abandoned His Wife
    Henry D. Slater, a well known citizen of Elizabeth, and electrician for the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Elizabeth, has disappeared.  His wife found a note on his dressing table on Sunday in which he told her that he intended to go away but did not state when he would return.  He wrote that she need never expect to see him again.  Before going away Slater gathered together all his wife's jewelry and other valuables, which, together with all the available case, he took with him; yet in his note he asked his wife to do the best she could with what was left....  They had no children,...  He is about forty years of age, and of splendid physique.  Four weeks ago he was discharged from the Domestic works.  He came to Elizabeth from Connecticut, highly recommended.

    A serious accident occurred in Philadelphia on Sunday, by which a little boy named Edmin Simpson lost his life.  Together, with another boy he was stealing a ride on the back step of a heavily loaded ice wagon and was holding on to a chain which was connected with the pin that held the tail boards in place.  The pin was pulled out, the upper board fell off and a hugh cake of ice struck the boy on the head and crushed him to death.
 

Marriages

    By G. S. Mott, D. D., in Flemington, August 6, William B. Boyd, of Flemington, and Lavina S. Williamson, of Sergeantsville.

    At Lower Valley Manse, July 23, by the Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, Nettie Slikar, of Pleasant Grove, and W. M. Cregar, of Middle Valley.

    At the bride's residence, Ringoes, July 29, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., Samuel Ayres, of Trenton, and Cornelia M. Fisher, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, July 30, 1885, Samuel B. Smith, aged 35 years, 1 month and 7 days.

    Near Annandale, Aug. 2, 1885, Wm. Cregar, son of J. D. Cregar, aged 16 years, 2 months and 1 day.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 5, 1885, Girard H. Worthington, in the 54th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 2, 1885, Metabella, infant daughter of Samuel and M. A. Stockton, aged 10 months.
 

A Very Sad Accident
    On Saturday afternoon, as Willie, the oldest son of John D. Cregar, was passing through the stable, he walked behind a pair of mules without speaking to them, when one of them kicked, striking the boy in the abdomen.  Dr. Hackett, of High Bridge, was at once called to his assistance.  Such serious internal injuries had been received that from the first no hopes of recovery were given, and he died on Sunday night.  Willie was a bright boy about 16 years old, and had been absent the past year at a private school in Central New York.  -  Clinton Democrat.

    The family of Mr. John Park of Weston, Somerset county, have been sadly afflicted within the past week, they having lost three of their children from diphtheria - a little boy four years od and pair of twins 2 years old.

    Mrs. John Smith, a most estimable old lady, living about a mile and a half west of Clinton, died suddenly on Tuesday morning.

    Mrs. Mary Snyder, mother of William Joseph and Jacob Snyder, of this place, died suddenly last Saturday evening.  She had been in her usual good health on up till about 5 o'clock when she was taken with an apoplectic fit, dying shortly afterwards.  She was a large, fleshy woman, aged about 70 years.
 
 

August 18, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 1

A Double Tragedy
    A despatch from Carrolton, Missouri, dated the 10th inst., says: Among others who attended the Presbyterian Church at Caloma, this county, Saturday night, were David Marhles and his divorced wife.  At the close of the services Mrs. Marhles was being assisted to mount her horse by a young man of the neighborhood, who had accompanied her to church, when Marhles stole up behind his wife, placed a pistol to her head and blew her brains out.  The murderer immediately went home, and had hardly entered when the house was surrounded by a mob of men, who demanded his surrender.  Thinking he was to be the victim of summary vengeance Marhles placed the pistol to his own head, fired and fell dead.  The young people were married about three years ago, lived together for one year, when the wife applied for and received a divorce on the ground of mistreatment.

Bitten By Snakes
    William Allanson, of Fishabee Falls, Alabama, was bitten by a large rattlesnake on Sunday.  Whiskey was the only remedy at hand, but as Allanson had identified himself prominently with the prohibition movement he declined to take it.  He died in great agony on Tuesday.

Blackened Her Face To Get Married
    Miss Rosalina Kimofoshi is the daughter of a wealthy Polish merchant of Wilkesbarre, Pa.  She has had many admirers, but has preferred the society of a young negro named Wheelock, a coachman living near her fathers house.  The two were seen quite frequently together, Miss Kimofoshi leaving home to go out to the stable, fifty yards distant.  She told her parents she was encouraging the boy to do right.  He had a widowed mother, and Rosalina wanted him to properly support her.  She left the house early on the evening of the 8th inst., telling her mother she was going to call on a lady friend.  She met Wheeloch and the pair went to Alderman's Groff's office, where they were married.  The Alderman says that the girl had her face blackened when she called on him, otherwise he would not have performed the ceremony.

    Edwin Preston, of South Otselic, Chenango county, New York, went to the house of his sweetheart, Tilda Miner, last Monday morning, and, as she sat at the breakfast table, fired three shots at her.  The last shot killed her instantly.  Preston then put the pistol to his head and fired, inflicting a fatal wound.

    During a recent severe thunder storm which passed over the locality of Rock Rapids, Iowa, on the 9th inst., a farmhouse about twenty miles south of the town was struck by lightning, and all the inmates, who were John Maguire, his wife and three children, were killed.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Stockton, August 5, by the Rev. E. C. Romine, of Philadelphia, Wm. D. Axtel, of Newark and Laura G. Bodine.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, August 9, 1885, Joseph T. Rienert, son of John and Ida M. Reinert, aged 10 months and 2 days.

    In Lambertville, August 2, 1885, Meta Belle, daughter of Samuel and Emma A. Stockton, aged 10 months.

    At Landsdown, Aug. 9, 1885, Jennie, daughter of H. E. and Linna Aller, aged 2 years, 11 months and 26 days.
 

Local Department

    Messrs J. R. and Stacy B. Sutton will take charge of the store at present kept by Mr. David Pittenger, at Baptisttown, the first of September.

    We are sorry to chronicle the death of little Jennie, the bright 3 year old daughter of Station Agent Henry Aller, of Landsdown, which occurred on Sunday morning from spasms.  About a week previous to her death she received a fall while playing about the station house, striking her forehead against a bench.  Nothing wrong was noted until the afternoon before her death.  -  Clinton Democrat.
 

The Fall Term of Court
    The Fall term of our Hunterdon County Courts will begin on Tuesday, September 8th.  The following Petit Jurors were drawn last Tuesday:
    Tewksbury - Lorenzo Sutton
 

Skipped With A Young Girl
    The report of an elopement of a married man from Ringoes with a young girl was freely circulated in this place on Saturday evening of week before last, but we made no mention of the matter in our issue of last Monday because we did not have any of the particulars.
    The names of the eloping couple are Richard Sked and Maggie Woodruff.  He is about 40 years of age, and she is a young girl of 18.  It appears that Miss Woodruff had lived with the Sked family for many years, she being engaged to do the chores about the house while Mrs. Sked, who is a school teacher, went out to teach...
 

A Noted Jerseyman's Death
    The death of James Wilson Marshall, in California, on Monday last, has just been announced.  The Trenton True American says:  He was made famous because he was the first man to discover gold in California.  He was the son of Philip and Sarah Marshall and was born at Marshall's Corner, in Hopewell township, nine miles north of Trenton, in the year 1812.  He was raised in his father's family, who soon after removed to Lambertville, and with his father learned the wagon and coachmaker's trade.  He went to Indiana, thence to Illinois and on to Leavenworth, in Missouri, at an early day.  Here he remained til the spring of 1844, when he joined a party who, with a hundred wagons, started overland to California in the face of the hostile Indians, and afterwards with a disrupted party, he joining in with 40 others at Fort Hall...
    He visited his friends in New Jersey in the winter of 1880-81, and returned to his chosen county, the following spring.  After a short illness, he died at his home at Placerville, California, on Monday of last week, in the 75th year of his age.
    There are three sisters of the deceased living in Lambertville - Mrs. Mary Reeve, widow of the late M. L. Reeve; Mrs. Rebecca Carr, widow of the late T. B. Carr, Superintendent of the Delaware and Raritan Canal; and Mrs. Sarah Hoff, wife of P. C. Hoff, a coal merchant.  His mother died about five years ago in her ninetieth year.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Ryke J. Suydam, an old and respected citizen of Franklin Park, Somerset county, ate a hearty supper on Friday evening last and retired at 8 o'clock, in apparently the best of health.  On Saturday morning he was found dead in bed.  Coroner Sutphen was sent for, and after an examination made by Dr. J. G. Meynard, a certificate was given that death had resulted from apoplexy.  Mr. Suydam was about 70 years old, and lived with his son, John.  -  Somerset Messenger.
 
 

August 25, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 2

Killed By Lightning
    Lightning struck an electric wire at Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday afternoon, jumped to the stay wire, splintering the stay pole and jumped from it to a fire plug, killing James Bonard, a mulatto, who was sitting on it.
    Six miles above Peoria, Ill., on Tuesday, a fishing boat containing a crew of eight men was struck by lightning.  Charles Schofield, John Murphy and an unknown man were instantly killed and a fourth was badly burned.

Crushed To A Shapeless Mass
    A Philadelphia dispatch says:  A horrible accident occurred this afternoon at Haig's pottery works, on North Second street.  Just before quitting work a man named George Hallock, who lived at No. 1417 Germantown avenue, went to examine a very heavy machine that is known as a clay cutter, without taking the precaution of having it stopped.  He slipped and fell into the machine and was almost instantly crushed to a shapeless mass, his head, breast and arms being ground into pulp before any of the horror stricken workmen could rush to his assistance.

    William Cox shot and fatally wounded Henry Fletcher, Jr., at Springfield, Tenn., on Monday.  Cox is a crank, and the boys had been teasing him.  He swore he would kill some of them, went home and procured a pistol, and as he returned met Thomas Volner and fired at him, but hit Fletcher, who had just come to town and who had not troubled Cox.

    Mary Ellen Williams, colored, was commited to jail at Yorkville, S. C., last Tuesday charged with administering poison "Rough on Rats" to her family in bread eaten at breakfast Tuesday.  Her husband and two step-children died and another child is not expected to recover.

    Jasper W. Umberfield, aged 17, of New York, while visiting his cousin, Jotham Carpenter, at Greenwich, Conn., got into a boy's quarrel over some rough play.  He went into the house and procuing a revolver, shot his cousin twice and then put the pistol to his head and killed himself.
 

State Items

    A young man named Dally, a nephew of Thomas Dally, a former resident of Woodbridge, was drowned on Sunday at Sewaren, a short distance from Rahway, while bathing.  He dived from a float, and was not seen again until his body was recovered.

    Frank Wilkinson, Jr., 8 year old, son of Frank Wilkinson, of Newark, was thrown from a horse between Camp Tabor and Morris Plains, Saturday night.  His foot caught in the stirrup, he was dragged on the ground and kicked until his skull was crushed into a shapeless mass.  He died in a short time.

    A respectable colored citizen, named Matthew Madden, met with a terrible death last Tuesday morning at his home in Trenton.  He had gone out to his stable to see what was the matter with one of his horses, which was restive when the animal kicked him on the right side of the neck, killing him instantly.
 

Neighborhood notes

    Carrie Klaus, 15 months old, died at East Brunswick, on Thursday last, from the effects of a hornet's sting.

    The Somerville papers announce the deaths of Peter A. Dumont, aged 76 years, Mrs. Josephine Allgair, wife of John Allgair, aged 28 years, and Adrian Olcott, aged 69 years.

    Samuel M. Sweet, 57 years old, a farmer residing between Fanwood and Westfield, was found dead on Monday in a neighbor's cornfield, into which he had gone to drive out some cows.  Death was caused by heart disease.
 

Horrible Death of a Boy
    A Marshall, Ill., dispatch says:  " A horrible case of suffering is reported from McKeen, six miles east of here.  On the 6th of the month 'Davie' Black, aged eleven, was thrown from a horse and his arm broken in two places.  An unskillful physician set it, leaving one of the bones protruding through the flesh.  Mortification set in and soon spread to the child's shoulders and body.  After suffering the most awful agonies for five days and having his arm nearly eaten away by the worms, the sufferer died Sunday night, and the remains were buried at once.  The surgeon has been warned to leave the country.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 12, by Rev. R. Hyde, Fretz Buck and Alice Hillyer, all of Franklin township.

    At Mechanicsville, Aug. 15, by the Rev. E. S. Jamison, Frank Reading, of Flemington, to Maggie Fleming, of New Germantown.

    At Mechanicsville, Aug. 15, by the Rev. E. S. Jamison, Edward L. Henry to Mary E. Hendershot, both of White House.

    At the residence of bride's father, near Ringoes, Aug. 19, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Elisha E. Holcombe, of New York city, to Marie A., daughter of Judge J. c. Durham.
 

Deaths

    Near Flemington, on Monday, Aug. 17, 1885, John C. Merrill, in the 84th year of his age.

    At Pittstown, Aug. 16, 1885, Pierson Downey, aged about 60 years.

    Near Quakertown, Aug. 10, 1885, Mrs. Ellen Smith, wife of Jeremiah Snyder, aged 58 years and 8 months.

    In Frenchtown, Aug. 16, 1885, Mrs. Hester M. Voorhees, wife of Henry Voorhees, aged 66 years, 4 months and 16 days.

    At his residence near Sidney, Agu. 14, 1885, Sidney Yard, aged 77 years and 5 months.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 15, 1885, at the residence of John Louden, Mary Reading, widow of Daniel Reading, aged 78 years.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 14, 1885, Annie G., daughter of Patrick and Mary Lynch, aged 4 weeks.

    Near Wertsville, Aug. 10, 1885, Lizzie C., wife of George Whitenack, and daughter of Lewis Sutphin, aged 22 years and 6 months.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Sidney Yard, an old and highly respected resident of the suburbs of Clinton, died on the 15th inst., aged 76.

    Mr. John C. Merrill, a life long resident of this vicinity, died at his residence on Monday last, aged 84 years.  He was a very active, industrious man up to within a few days of his death.  We understand that dysentery was his ailment.

    Miss Ida Trimmer, formerly of Frenchtown, but more recently of Trenton, died very suddenly on Saturday, 15th inst., while away from home on a visit.  She lived but a few hours after a sudden attack of sickness.  Her remains were interred at Quakertown last Tuesday.

    The young girl, Maggie Woodruff, who eloped with Richard Sked from Ringoes on the 8th inst., returned to the home of her father near this place, a week later.  It is said that she left Sked in Philadelphia.  It is also reported that Mrs. Sked has been on to Philadelphia to see her husband, and that a reconcilliation has taken place between them.
 

Sudden Death
    For many years there lived in the neighborhood of Pittstown a jolly bachelor named Pierson Downey.  Since the death of his sister a year ago, the man had lived alone on his lot of 16 acres.  He was a noted fiddler and a great talker...
    On Sunday, 16th inst. Mr. Downey started in company with Mr. David Conover, a neighbor, to walk across the farm of Mr. Jacob West, to see the effects of the late tornado.  The two men were walking through the peach orchard, Downey a few paces in the rear, talking loudly as was his custom.  Suddenly the voice was hushed in the middle of a story, and Mr. Conover turned around to see his companion stretched upon the ground.  He was dead.  A sudden attack of heart disease had in an instant silenced his tongue forever.
    He was the last member of a family of four - three brothers and a sister - none of whom ever married...
 

Quakertown

    Mrs. Ellen, wife of Jeremiah Snyder, died on Monday, the 10th inst.

    Miss Ida Trimmer, aged 19, daughter of the late Jeremiah Trimmer, was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery on Tuesday.
 

    Our old friend Oliver Kugler, now of Van Hiceville, Ocean county, writes us the following in reference to a terrible accident that occurred in his county week before last:
    "Three yound people were out boat riding on the mill pond when the boat capized and two of the party were drowned.  One young lady succeeded in saving herself, but she was very nearly exhausted.  The water was seven feet deep where the boat upset.  The names of the two unfortunates were Miss Annie Bowman and Edward Frake."
 

Clover Hill Items

    We are sorry to chronicle the death of Mr. Zebulon Stout which occurred on Tuesday of week before last, in the 84th year of his age.
 

    A few weeks ago we told about Henry Sutton of Tewksbury, getting into jail for the heinous offence of stealing a cucumber!  Henry is again in trouble.  Justice Field placed him under bonds for profanity.  He uttered two distinct oaths in the presence of witnesses.  His mother and brother were arrested at about the same time for creating a disturbance of some kind.  They are now spending four days with Sheriff Corcoran.
 
 

September 1, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 3

    Ex-Senator Rueben E. Fenton died suddenly at Jamestown, N.Y., on Tuesday.  He was at the time in the directors' room at the National Bank, of which he was President since 1881.

    Samuel Kingsland, colored, a shiftless character of Paterson, while drunk on Saturday night fell into a rain-water barrel that stood by the side of his house.  His neck was broken in the fall, and he was dead when discovered next morning.  Kingsland's wife, also a dissipated character, died under somewhat similar circumstances last Winter, having fallen asleep in the street on a cold night, and been frozen to death.

Killed by His Son
    White Meadow, about two miles from Rockaway, a village on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, midway between Morristown and Dover, was startled by a horrible tragedy Friday night.  Thomas Smith worked as a farm laborer for Mahlon Hoagland, proprietor of the Rockaway rolling mill and machine shops and the present County Collector of Morris county, and whose home is known as White Meadow.  Smith lived in a little cottage back of Mr. Hoagland's garden.  His family conssted of his wife, a son, Luther, and two daughters, one of the latter being an imbecile.  Friday night Thomas Smith and his wife played dominoes against Luther and Bridget Nolan, Mr. Hoagland's servant girl in the kitchen.  Before long Thomas accused his son and his partner of cheating, and became so greatly enraged that he swept the dominoes from the table, which he upset, threw the chairs aobut the room and struck his wife a blow, sending her reeling against the table.  Then he picked up his eleven year old daughter, threw her to the floor, and grasping a piece of stove wood, made for Luther, who, at the beginning of trouble, had hurried into his bedroom and procured a 32 calibre revolver.  He was standing in the door leading from the kitchen to the bedroom.  As his father approached him with an oath, threating to kill him, he fired three shots, one striking his father in the eye, another in the left arm, and the third entering the back part of the shoulder.  Smith fell to the floor on his face and lived only a few minutes....

    A very sad story comes from Erie, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Repose, people who were once wealthy but who have been reduced in circumstances, after a long fight with their pride, applied to the poor authorities for relief.  While in the Commissioner's office, when it came their turn to make known their wants, it was discovered that their daughter had died in her chair from starvation.

    At Sandy Run, Pa., last Monday night William Leonhart, while drunk, quarrelled with his sister, drew a revolver from his pocket and threatened to shoot her.  In attempting to get away from him she tripped and fell, and at the same instant the revolver was discharged.  Thinking he had shot his sister, he ran out, placed the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger, sending a ball through his skull and blowing off the back portion of his head.  Leonhart was a miner at Highland.

    Rev. Thomas Snerlock, a Methodist minister, of Lock Haven, Pa., while walking along the beach promenade, early Wednesday morning, was seized with a hemorage and died shortly after.  He had rooms at the Brunswick, at Ocean Grove, and his absence from breakfast led to the discovery of his death, which occurred in one of the pavilions.
 

State Items

    William K. Sheppard, of Greenwich, and his 7 year old son were drowned last Wednesday, at Bridgeton.  The boy fell into Cohansey Creek and the father jumped in to save him.

    J. B. Wortendyke, the inventor of paper twine, as well as the first machine to weave candle and lamp wick, died at his residence in Bergen county, on Friday night, aged 55.

    The coroner's jury in the homicide case at White Meadow, Morris county, in which Lodi Smith shot and killed his father in a quarrel over a game of dominoes, on Wednesday returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide."
 

Local Department

    A five month old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Hart Lomason, of White House Station, was found dead in bed last Thursday morning when its parents arose.  Cause of death unknown.
 

Marrying Two Women
    A year ago Elmer Smith, a rather well-dressed, good looking young man, went to Easton and obtained employment on the railroad.  He soon became acquainted with Miss Clara Linden, daughter of John Linden, a well known citizen, and in January last, despite the opposition of Mr. Linden and his frequent ordering of the young man not to come to his house, the two were married.  They boarded in good style for a while, and then trouble began with paying bills.  Smith lost his position and they went from one boarding place to another.  It now turns out that three years ago Smith married Miss Lizzie Hahn, a respectable young lady of Newark.  She went on there and told Mr. Linden of her marriage, and produced a certificate.  Smith was out of town, and his second wife, hearing of the charge, went to New Hampton, this county, where his parents live, to investigate...  A warrant is out for him.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Andrew Cassiday, a 10 year old Raritan boy, was instantly killed last Tuesday by falling from a car upon which he was riding.

    A little son of John Hoagland, of Rocky Hill, aged about 8 years, was drowned in the canal there on Thursday afternoon last.  He was playing on the bank with a number of other small children, when he accidentally fell into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 26, by Rev. R. Hyde, Samuel Case and Adaline F. Lake, both of Flemington.

    At Newburgh, N.Y., July 16, by Rev. Charles R. North, Hannah M. Reading to Holmes E. LaRue, both of Lambertville.

    At the Baptist Parsonage, Stockton, Aug. 22, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Joseph V. M. Book to Joanna Smith, both of Stockton.

    At the bride's home, Aug. 22, by Rev. T. S. Hagerty, John Robert Smith, of Norton, and Louisa Alpaugh, of Little York.
 

Death

    Near Croton, Aug. 21, 1885, Mrs. Catharine Brown, wife of Charles Brown, aged 75 years.

    In Kingwood, Aug. 18, 1885, Harry, son of Wm. W. Case, aged 1 year.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 16, 1885, Bertha J., daughter of Brazilla and Mary S. Samsel, aged 18 months.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 23, 1885, Mary Carrell, relict of the late Rev. B. Carrell, aged 73 years.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 22, 1885, William Smith Ely, son of Smith and Laura M. Ely, aged 11 months.

    In Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 22, 1885, Richard, son of Thomas Conners, aged 4 months, formerly of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 20, 1885, Jennie, daughter of Patrick and Mary Ann Lynch, aged 16 months.

    In Kingwood township, Aug. 24, 1885, Jeremiah Case, aged 44 years, 10 months and 28 days.

    Aug. 25, 1885, at Stanton, Irvin, son of Josiah and Anna J. Pickel, aged 5 months.

    At White House Station, Aug. 26, 1885, Elmer, son of Oliver H. and Martha Lomison, aged 5 months.
 

    Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Kile, triplets, are in vigorous health at Richmond, Pa.  Their mother, who died recently at the age of 98, left 9 children besides the triplets, 82 grandchildren, 120 great grandchildren, 28 great great grandchildren, and 2 great great great grandchildren.
 
 

September 8, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 4

Golden Wedding
    On the 1st day of September, 1835, George B. Stothoff and Phoeba Bartles joined their fortunes in wedlock.  A few years later the couple moved into this township of Raritan, remaining within its boundaries ever since.
    Last Tuesday their neighbors and friends to the number of eighty, met at their present residence in Reaville, to greet and cheer the aged couple on the 50th anniversary of their wedding...

Shot Himself
    Dr. George Curry, a young physician living at Red Bank, killed himself on Monday night at the Leighton House, at Newman Springs, on the Shrewsbury River....

    The dead body of Daniel Church, a prominent farmer of the Mohawk Valley, in Lane county, Oregon, was found in the road, near his house, Tuesday afternoon, with a bullethole in the back.  Shortly afterwards his wife was found back of the house with her face mashed in as if by a heavy club or other blunt instrument.  She is still alive, but ther is no hope of her recovery.  a hat belonging to Andrew Boggs, a neighbor, was found near the prostrate Mrs. Church and a party on going to Boggs' ranch found him hanging to the rafters in the barn, having committed suicide.

    The body of Edgar Maines, employed by Cowan, McClung & Co., of Knoxville, Tenn., was found last Tuesday in a grove near the river, a mile above the city.  He had been shot in the back of the head and robbed of over $1000 of his employers' money, which he had just collected, and with which he arrived in that city on Monday evening.  Maines was of good character and was to be married in two weeks.

    Thomas Bryson, a morocco dresser, living at Secon and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, was found dead in bed Monday morning.  The evidence of the attending physician was to the effect that the man had heart disease, which was aggravated by nicotine poisoning.

    William Thomas, white, shot and killed a negro named John Hooks near Greensboro, Ala., Thomas had ordered Hooks off his premises, when the latter attacked him with an axe.

    Gretchen Margaret, aged 19 years, and Ella, aged 16, daughters of C. F. Holtz, a millionaire wine merchant of Hoboken, were poisoned on Sunday night from the effects of morphine given in a prescription in mistake for quinine.  Gretchen died on Monday morning and Ella died on Tuesday morning.

    A man named John Custer, who died at Dayton, O., last Wednesday formerly worked at Youngstown, O.  While at the latter place he made a confession to a friend, in which he said that his right name was John Goodwin; that he had killed a man named McName, at Waltham, Mass., and changed his name to escape arrest.

    George and John Zimmerman, aged 6 and 8 years respectively, while playing in a barn at Proviso, near Chicago, last Wednesday evening, accidentally set fire to the structure by dropping a lighted match, and they were both roasted alive.
 

Marriages

    At Newark, Aug. 30, by Rev. Joseph Lincht, Jacob Bauer, of Flemington, N.J., to Minnie Meyer, of Newark, N.J.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Aug. 29, Daniel Marsh and Lillie M. Johnson, daughter Hart Johnson, all of Flemington.

    At the Parsonage of the M. E. Church, Pennington, Sept. 2, by Rev. E. H. Durell, Reuben P. Holman, of Clover Hill, to Emma A. Smith, of Titusville, Mercer Co.
 

Deaths

    At White House Station, Aug. 13, Charlie, youngest child of Mary and Emma Snyder, aged 5 months and 17 days.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 24, 1885, Joseph Bougheite, aged 72 years.

    In Frenchtown, Sept. 1 , 1885, David Earl Robinson, son of Lewis C. and Annie Robinson, aged 4 years, 7 months and 19 days.

    Near Littletown, Sept. 2, 1885, Bertha A. Steward, aged 1 year, 1 month and 10 days.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Eliza Humphrey of Ohio, is visiting friends in Bloomsbury and vicinity.  Thirty-nine years ago, she, in company with eleven others, went West in wagons, and was on the road three weeks.

    After long suffering Mrs. Smith Fields, of Croton, was relieved by death on Sunday morning.  Her funeral takes place this Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the Croton Church.  Deceased was in the 57th year of her age.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. William Gustin, of Rockaway, Morris county, died recently, aged 63.  She was very corpulent, weighing 355 pounds, and it was necessary to make a coffin for her which was 27 inches in width, 26 inches in height and 6 feet 8 inches in length.

    Asher La Tourette, who has been in the employ of John V. Quick, near Flagtown Station, was found dead in the barn on Wednesday morning last, after having done the morning work.  Dr. Merrill was summoned and pronounced heart disease as the cause of death.
 
 

September 15, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 5

    Christian Cooper, of Livingston, Columbia county, N.Y., died on Wednesday, aged 111 years, 10 months and 15 days.  Mr. Cooper was active and retained his mental faculties until a few days before his death.

The Deadly Dude Collar
    Andrew Jack, of No. 256 Little Richmond street, returned home Friday night slightly under the influence of liquor, and went to bed without removing his clothes.  Saturday morning he was found dead.  Blood was oozing from his mouth and nostrils, and it is supposed that he was strangled by a high collar which he wore.  It pressed tightly against the arteries of the neck, and stopped the circulation of the blood.  He was about 30 years of age and unmarried. -  Toronto Globe.

A Child Beaten To Death
    Near the fair ground on the Cornell farm at Somerville, resides a colored family consisting of Benjamin Vanderveer, his wife Caroline, and two sons, Charles A. and Frederick E., eighteen and fifteen years old.  They had boarding with them a boy eight years old named David L. Teneyck.  This child died last Sunday from an unknown cause.  On Monday Coroner Sutphen summoned a jury to go to the house and make and examination....
 

State Items

    Fanny Perry, a colored woman reputed to be a hundred and thirteen years old, died last Thursday at the home of friends of Fowler street Trenton.  She was born in Pennsylvania, and lived in Trenton only about nine years.  Most of the time she was too feeble to leave the house.  The remains were buried at Yardleyville, Pennsylvania.

    Bertha Fromm, aged sixteen years, daughter of John Fromm, a barber of Elizabeth, has eloped with Julius Bayha, twenty-two years old, son of John M. Bayha, a provision dealer.  The girl had a quarrel with her parents on August 30th, and fled from home.  They supposed she went to relatives in the country.  Last week a letter was received saying she was with Jule in New York and was happy.
 

A Tragedy in Atlanta
    Miss Ida Maxwell, a beautiful young lady of Atlanta, Ga., eluded the vigilance of her parents on Wednesday and met her lover, John Shelton, and was married.  The young couple went to the residence of the groom's mother, on Davis street.  Miss Maxwell's father and brother armed themselves with pistols and presented themselves at Shelton's house.  The father threatened to shoot Shelton, and the latter picked up a hatchet.  Young Maxwell, to protect his father, stepped between them and received a murderous blow upon the head.  Then old man Maxwell and Shelton fired simultaneously at each other and fell, Shelton being mortally wounded and Maxwell seriously.  It is considered certain that the three men will die.

    Rowland Reed, a colored boy, 13 years old, has been committed to jail at Winchester, Va., on a charge of having murdered his ten year old brother.  The parents were absent from home; the two boys, it is supposed, quarreled, when Rowland took a gun loaded with slugs and fired the contents into the stomach of his brother, then dragging the body to a ditch near by, covered it over.  The parties resided near Brucetown.
 

Local Department

    Wm. Runkle, an old and well known resident of this place, and for 27 years Sergeant-at-Arms of the Hunterdon Court, died at the residence of his son in Flemington, on sunday, of malignant erysipelas.

    On Tuesday last, in one of the spacious stone parlors on the lower floor of Sheriff Corcoran's  big hotel, Stewart Eldridge, aged 24, and Bridget McCarthy, aged 27 years, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Walter Williams, Esq., in a neat, dignified and ministerial manner - as the Sheriff confidentially informs us - in the presence of the numerous guests who are now spending their vacation with the popular Sheriff, as well as of many others who always manage to "catch on" when an unusual occurrence of this kind is on the tapis.
 

    Ex-Judge Robert Foster died at his residence in Clinton, on Saturday morning, 5th inst., after a brief illness, aged 84 years, 11 months and 24 days.  Robert Foster was born near the Bethlehem Church, west of Clinton, Sept. 11, 1800.  He removed to Clinton (then Hunt's Mills), in 1818, where he has since resided, being the oldest continuous inhabitant of the place...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Louis Black, a young man nineteen years of age, residing at Pequest, was instantly killed Monday afternoon on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Oxford Furnace.

    Joseph C. Fisher, formerly Postmaster at New Brunswick, committed suicide in Brooklyn, N.Y., last Thursday morning by turning on the gas in his room...  He was about 50 years of age and leaves several grown-up children.
 

Suicide of a Five Year Old Boy
    A little daughter of David Norf, of Dubois, Pa., died a few weeks ago.  Willis, her five year old brother, repeatedly declared that he wanted to die, so that he might go to heaven and see her.  On Friday last he asked his mother if he was good enough to go to heaven if he died.  His mother told him that she believed he was.  Not long afterward she heard a pistol shot in a room upstairs.  She ran to the room and found Willis lying dead on the floor.
 

Still Living
    Henry Sutton is seemingly about to make one of the most remarkable recoveries on record.  A little more than two weeks ago, while engaged in agitating an oil well owned by Collins & Thompson, at Stone Hill, near Warren, Pa., he attached an iron rod, known as the polish rod, to the sand pump line, and lowered it to the bottom of the well.  A sudden rush of gas threw the rod from the well and about thirty feet, into the air, and in falling it struck Sutton on the right side of the neck, came out on the side below the breast bone, entered again at the hip and emerged from the flesh below the knee.  The vital organs were not penetrated, but it was thought there was very little hope of his recovery.  In spite of this Sutton has continued to improve, not withstanding the fact that his physicians say that 995 out of every 1000 such cases would died in less than a minute after the accident, and that it would be almost impossible for even a knitting needle to follow the course through a man's body which this iron rod did without entering a number of large arteries, whereas the rod which passed through Sutton was three-quarters of an inch in diameter..
 

Marriages

    In Easton, Pa., Aug. 18, by Rev. Peter Daggett, Howard B. Rittenhouse, of New York city, to Miss B. M. Rielly, of Easton, Pa.

    By Geo. S. Mott., D.D., Sept. 5, Joseph C. Cronce and Mary Vogel, daughter of George Vogel, deceased, both of Flemington.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 9, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Dr. Nelson B. Oliphant to Lucy Cowin, daughter of the late William Cowin.

    At the Baptist Parsonage, Stockton, Sept. 5, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Richard H. Hutchinson and Elizabeth A. Godown, of Kingwood.

    In Mount Pleasant, New Jersey, September 9, by Rev. Horace D. Sassamen, Search Dalrymple, of Pittstown, and Sarah Ellen Stem, of Milford.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, at noon on Sunday, September 13th, 1885, William Runkle, aged 73 years, 10 months and 6 days.  The public generally are invited to attend his funeral on Wednesday morning, 16th inst., at 11 o'clock at the Presbyterian Church.

    Sept. 6, 1885, at Croton, Mrs. Elizabeth Fields, wife of Smith Fields, aged about 58 years.

    At West End, Sept. 6, 1885, Charity R., wife of John Chamberlin.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 8, 1885, Clara S. Mathews, daughter of Elijah and Carrie Mathews, aged 3 years and 3 months.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 8, 1885, Edward Weber, son of Nicholas and Emma Weber, aged 6 months.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 3, 1885, Rebecca Snodgrass, aged 37 years.

    At Milford, Sept. 3, 1885, George Search, in the 29th year of his age.
 
 

September 22, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 6

He Fought In Three Wars
    There died at the National Military Home in Hampton, Va., on the 9th inst., James Berry, aged 89 years.  Deceased formerly lived at Hollidaysburg, Pa., and was born in 1795 at Chadd's Ford, Chester county, but most of his life he spent in Hollidaysburg....

    At Owingsville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, John Ballard was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for killing William Spencer last Spring.  While the prisoner was being returned to the jail, his brothers Moses and James Ballard, opened fire on the guards.  The latter escaped injury and returning the fire shot their assailants dead.
 

A Terrible Accident
    Early last Monday morning Mrs. Eggers was awakened from her sleep in a five story tenement house No. 216 East Eighty-first street, New York, by the crackling of flames.  Awakening her husband, she gave the alarm.  There were nineteen families in the house, almost all of whom succeeded in escaping from the burning building by the fire escapes.  Mrs. Ruetlinger, with her three daughters and a six month old babe, went out on the roof.  She started to cross to an adjoining house, separated by an air shaft three feet wide, when, not hearing a cry of warning, she fell, with her baby in her arms, sixty feet to the ground.  The mother's and child's neck were broken by the fall.

    Catharine Quirk died at the residence of her grandson, James Quirk, at Long Branch, on Sunday last.  She was born in Ireland in 1776 and distinctly remembers the incident and features of the great Irish rebellion in 1798.

    Lakewood Times and Journal:  A report apparently well founded is current that Ellen Reynolds, of Greenville, near this village, a few days ago, gave one of her children one and half teaspoonfuls of laudanum, and that the child went into a sleep from which it never awakened.  The child was about a year old.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Simon P. Mattis, who has been sexton of the Readington Church for more than twenty years, was buried on Monday.

    Mrs. John Stryker, the most of whose life of 65 years was spent in Flemington, was buried here last Tuesday afternoon.

    One of the largest funerals ever seen was held in the Clarksburg Lutheran Church on the 14th inst., over the remains of Robert Brown, who was instantly killed by a railroad accident at Roselle on the night of the 11th inst.  Deceased was standing on top of a box car when his head came in contact with an overhead bridge.

    Mrs. Effie A. Mattison, a life long resident of Flemington, died at her residence on Branch street last Monday afternoon, after a brief illness, aged about 73 years.  She was the widow of John Mattison who died many years ago.  She leave six children.

    On Tuesday afternoon, as Charles Vliet, a young son of Mr. Richard Vliet, of Vliettown, was riding one of their horses home from the field where they had been at work with the team, when near the White House church the horse which he was riding gave a plunge, which threw Charles to the ground, and on his trying to raise up to regain his feet, the horse kicked him in the pit of the stomach, inflicting injuries to the boy of such a serious nature that he died in short time afterwards.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Rebecca Harvey, the oldest resident of Belvidere, and a sister of Captain Frederick Searles, died on Monday, aged 89 years.  She had been an invalid for years.

    Capt. Geo. W. Tunis, an old resident of Belvidere, died on Thursday morning.  He had been ill but a few weeks.  For years he was a prominent businessman.  His age was about 75 years.  A widow survives him.
 

    Simon Mattis, aged 71, died at his home in Readington, on the 13th inst., after a few days illness.  Had he lived until the 20th of September he would have rounded out a full twenty years as sexton of the Reformed Church of Readington.  He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom is an engineer on the Central R.R., and the other is living in Florida, but who came home on hearing of his father's sickness.
 

State Items

    Emmanuel Vannatten, of Pahaquarry township, Warren county, was fatally injured on Thursday last.  He was engaged in drawing manure with a pair of oxen, when the animals became frightened and ran away.  Mr. Vannatten was thrown from the wagon, and struck the ground in such a way that his spinal column was injured.  When picked up his entire body was paralyzed.  He died the next morning.

    Jesse Kent, 6 years old, was bitten by a mad dog, while playing in his father's yard at Fairfield, Passaic county, three weeks ago.  He was placed in care of a physician, and the wound soon healed, and the boy was apparently well.  Last Wednesday he was taken sick and had convulsions.  He would cry for water, and when it was given him he was unable to drink it.  The sight of it would throw him into convulsions again.  He grew rapidly worse and died on Friday.
 

Marriages

    At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Sept. 17, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Daniel S. Fisher and Annie Fauss, both of Delaware township.

    At the bride's home, Neshanic, Sept. 16, by the Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, A. Lincoln Woods, and Minnie Van Liew, both of Neshanic.

    Sept. 12, at Glen Gardner, by Rev. J. W. Lake, David Neff and Mercy M. Gano, both of Hunterdon county.

    Sept. 10, at Bloomsbury, by Rev. W. H. Williamson, of Tappan, N.Y., Walter Vliet and Laura Ruple, both of Bloomsbury.

    At the residence of the bride's brother, Round Valley, Sept. 12, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Wm. Hellems to Mary E. Hendershot, both of Hampton Junction.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, Stanton, Sept. 12, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Ezekiel C. Kline, of Readington township, to Louisa Smith, of Clinton township.

    At the Parsonage, Reaville, Sept. 12, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, John Schomp and Helena Cole, both of Pleasant Run.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 12, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Hugh B. Murray to Roxanna Larowe, all of Lambertville.

    Sept. 9, at the home of the bride, Ringoes, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., James S. W. Wilson, of Flemington, to Annie S. Munson.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, Flemington, Sept. 16, by Rev. A. K. Street, of Camden, N.J., uncle of the bride, assisted by Rev. F. A. Mason, Rev. G. J. Burns, of Crssona, Phila. Conference, to Lizzie L. Kline, daughter of the late Miller Kline, Esq.  (Rev. Mr. Street married the bride's parents 45 years ago.)
 

Deaths

    At Mt. Airy, Aug. 30, 1885, Ethel J., youngest child of A. B. and Sallie R. Holcombe, aged 4 months.

    In Franklin township, Sept. 14, 1885, Harvey Hoff, aged 7 years, 5 months and 22 days.
 
 

September 29, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 7

    A most distressing accident occurred last Monday afternoon in the little town of Fenton, Missouri.  Richard Anderson and his wife lived in a small house in the outskirts of the village.  Mrs. Anderson left her two infants sleeping in a room, the kitchen, and went into the garden to pick cucumbers.  While thus engaged the house took fire, and before assistance could arrive the building was burned past enterance, and the babies perished in the flames.
 

State Items

    Miss Addie Leonard, daughter of Richard A. Leonard, of Atlantic Highlands, died at her father's residence on Sunday from the effects of an overdose of medicine.  She was ill, and was taking two prescriptions alternately - fifteen drops of a solution of strychnine and two spoonful of some other medicine.  By mistake she took two spoonsful of the strychnine solution, which resulted in her death.  She was 22 years old.
 

Local Department

    Mr. N. G. Smith and wife, of this place, will celebrate their Golden Wedding on the 30th inst.

    The Three Bridges community was greatly shocked last Monday evening to hear that Mr. Jacob Agans, of that vicinity, had been found dead in bed.  As he had long been a sufferer from heart disease it is supposed that an attack of the malady caused his sudden death.  He was 74 years of age.

    Mrs. Rebecca Kline, one of the oldest residents of White House Station, died at that place last Saturday morning, aged 79 years.  Mr. John S. Kline, of this place, is one of her children.
 

    Mrs. Susan B. Patterson, a native of White House, and for four years (1833-37) a resident of Clinton, died last February, aged 76 years, in Canton, Ohio, where she has lived almost half a century, and been a leader in the Methodist Church - her husband being a preacher therein.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The New York Herald of Sunday contains the following romantic story:  "Philip Hatcher, when but six years old, strayed away from his home, in Washington, Warren county, N.J., some twelve years ago.  He got on board a train of cars and could not tell either his name or the place he came from.  Kind people took care of the little waif and he learned the trade of coachmaker, settling down in Vera Cruz, Lehigh county, Pa.  Recently he wrote to Postmaster Conklin, of Paterson, telling his story and asking assistance in his search for his parents.  The letter was published and attention called to the case in the Herald.  In this way intelligence of the lost boy reached his family in Washington, and Philip found his home on Friday.  His father's name is Anthony Hatcher.  Philip remembered the name of Anthony and accordingly adopted the name of Philip Anthony, by which he was known.  The publication of his letter brought him a number of answers, and his identification as Philip Hatcher was made complete by means of childish recollections, clothing and photographs.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 19, at the Parsonage, Baptisttown, by Rev. G. B. Young, Thomas B. Lequear and Belle Rittenhouse, both of Kingwood.

    At the Parsonage, Readington, Sept. 15, by Rev. B. V. D. Wyckoff, Nathanial Schomp, of Three Bridges, and Mrs. Joanna M. Thompson, of Readington.

    Sept. 20, at the residence of Charles Hildebrand, near Pennington, by Rev. E. H. Durell, Charles W. O'Daniels to Jennie F. Keightley, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 10, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., A. Jackson Elliott, of Salem, Mass., to Fredericka Kimmel, of Lambertville.

    Near Three Bridges, Sept. 22, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, John Hyler, of South Branch, to Annie M., daughter of Geo. C. Higgins.
 

Deaths

    Sept. 26, 1885, at White House Station, Mrs. Rebecca Kline, aged 79 years and 8 months.

    In Alexandria township, Sept. 17, 1885, Mrs. Annie Queen, aged 79 years, 1 month and 18 days.

    In West Amwell township, Sept. 9, 1885, Mrs. Elizabeth, relict of Charles Todd, deceased, in her 95th year.
 
 

October 6, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 8

Golden Wedding
    Mr. N. G. Smith and Miss Ellen Bellis were young people in the year 1835.  On the 30th day of September of that year they were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock in this town, and last, Wednesday marked their 50th wedding anniversary...
    One of the most notable events of the pleasant occasion was the presence of Mr. Mahlon Smith, now 93 years of age, and father of the groom.  He, of course, was a witness of his son's marriage half a century ago, when life was young and hope was strong.  There may have been others present who saw the marital knot tied, but of this we are not sure.
    Among those present we observed Revs. Mr. Mason and Mott, and ex-Judges Jones and Van Fleet, Mr. Adam Bellis, of the Warren Journal, (a brother of the bride,) and other prominent citizens of the town and State...
 

    Alexander Aaron was shot and killed on the streets of Van Buren, Ark., on Monday night by Charles Taylor, Mayor of that town.  They had a difficulty about a prostitute and had threatened each other's life.  Taylor is well connected and dissipated.  He was elected Mayor of Van Buren last April, when he was just 21 years old, and is said to be the youngest Mayor in the United States.  Aaron belonged to a lower class and was a regular ruffian.

    Four negroes, Jerry Finch, his wife, Lee Tyson and John Pattishill, were lynched on Monday night, one mile from Pittsboro, Chatham county, N.C.  They were taken from jail and their bodies were found next monring suspended to a tree near the public road.  All were connected with the triple murder of the Finch family on the night of the 4th of last July, and the murder of the Gunter family, near the same spot, some eighteen months ago.

    Joseph Martin, an old employee on the farm of Isaiah Wilson, near Sulpher Grove, in the vicinity of Dayton, O., was gored by an angry bull as he was driving cattle from pature, and died on Monday night.

    A negro man, Pud Mebane, outraged Mrs. Hugh Walker, near Milton, N.C., beat her with a piece of fence rail and afterward shot and killed her in the presence of her children.  The villian has not been captured.

    At Russelville, Putnam county, Ind., last Tuesday evening, Thomas and George Wilson, cousins, met in a public road, and an old feud was settled by Thomas shooting and killing George.  A woman figures as the chief cause.

    Mrs. Lane, who was brutally assaulted at Lebanon, Tenn., on the 12th, by Jim Baxter, died on Monday.
 

Marrigages

    Sept. 26, at  the M. E. Parsonaged, Norton, by Rev. T. S. Haggarty, John W. Hazlett, of Asbury, to Anna D. Bosenberry, of West End.

    At the residence of the bride's father, in Bridgeton, Pa., by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Sept. 24, Geo. S. Cronce, of Milford, and Lizzie Lear, of Bridgeton.

    At Flemington, Sept. 30, by Rev. B. L. Stanford, pastor of A. M. E. Zion Church, Abraham L. Detimos, of Clover Hill, to Emma C. Williams, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, Sept. 26, 1885, Wm. M., infant son of Benj. and Ranie Vogel, aged 6 weeks and 5 days.

    Near Milford, Sept. 19, 1885, Jonathan Robbins, in the 62d year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 24, 1885, Wm. N. Hibbs, aged 24 years.

    At the residence of her son in West Amwell township, Sept. 9, 1885, Elizabeth Todd, widow of Charles Todd, Senior, aged 94 years.

    On Thursday, Oct. 1, 1885, at Burnt Mills, Somerset county, Miss Fannie Traphagen, aged 87 years, 10 months and 18 days.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    An infant child of Miner Pyatt, of Phillipsburg, was drowned last week by falling in the cistern.  The cistern is situated in the house, to which the trap door is attached.  Through some manner this door was allowed to remain open, and the little one, during the absence of its mother, fell down the opening and was drowned before assistance could be given for its rescue.

    Rosa Melloy, a woman of somewhat irregular habits, was found dead in her house, near Belvidere, on Monday morning.  No one knows when she died, but she had not been seen since last Friday.  The house and her person bore traces of the manner in which she died.  Everywhere were the evidence of poison - on the floor, in the wash bowl, in a glass sitting on the table, and even on her mouth and face could be seen Paris Green, the deadly poison that she had administered to herself and which had without doubt caused her death.  She was quite aged, perhaps not far from 60 years, and had always worked hard.
 

    Miss Fannie Traphagen, whose 87 years were mostly passed here in her native county of Hunterdon, near Lebanon, died at Burnt Mills, Somerset county, on Thursday last.  Deceased was a kind and benevolent friend to the poor and needy, and retained to the end of her long life the respect and love of all.  She leaves a large fortune.
 
 

October 13, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 9

State Items

    Dr. E. B. Woodruff, one of the oldest physicians at Morristown, died Monday in the seventy-first year of his age.

    A two year old child of Hartshorne Cook, of Eatontown, was accidentally poisoned on Monday, by drinking benzine.  The child died within an hour afterwards.
 

    Mrs. Drouse, who murdered her husband, with the aid of her son, daughter and nephew, in Warren, Herkimer county, N.Y., last December, and cut up and burned the remains, was on Tuesday last sentenced by Judge Williams to be hanged on Wednesday, November 25.  No woman has been executed in Central New York for over forty years.

    Willie J. Costery, a messenger boy employed by the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Co., at Greensburg, Pa., and the son of a livery stable keeper, eloped with and married the other day, the only daughter of J. M. Laird, editor of the Greensburg Argus, and adopted daughter of the Tenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania.  The combined ages of the couple will barely reach thirty years.

    Peter Walker, about 60 years old, of Broom Centre, Schoharie county, N.Y., was arrested while attempting to break into a house at Shandakin on Monday.  A half hour later he was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself with a handkerchief and bed ticking.

    Dr. William Jones, a prominent physician of Livingston county, Ky., was shot and killed last Tuesday aat Smithland by Alexander Smithson, a watchman on the Tennessee River bridge.  The two had been drinking and were riding together when, without warning, Smithson shot his victim.

    John Chamberlin, residing in Hopkins township, near Allegan, Mich., on Saturday drowned his 8 month old child in Rabbit River.  Subsequently Chamberlin was found near a lake with his throat cut and the dead child in his arms.  He is now a raving maniac, but will probably reover from his wound.

    C. D. Lester, a stock dealer, committed suicide on Monday at Burlington Junction Springs, Iowa.  He was Deputy Sheriff of Erie county, N.Y., when President Cleveland was Sheriff.  No cause is assigned for the dead.

    Benjamin Burton, about 60 years old, a well known colored citizen of Newport, R. I., the founder of the Bellevue Avenue Omnibus Line, committed suicide there last Tuesday by shooting.  He had become melancholy over financial reverses.

    Albert Cook, on Tuesday last, shot and killed his mother-in-law and wife at Compton, Ill.  Domestic trouble occasioned the tragedy.

    Geo. H. Diskque, of Camden, killed his wife on Tuesday, by cutting her throat.  The affair is blood burdling; a 7 month old baby was found patting the blood pool with it chubby hands.  Drink seems to have had its had in as usual in such cases.

    Rev. John J. Githens, one of the oldest ministers of the New Jersey M. E. Conference, died at Atco on Monday night, aged 74 years.
 

Marriages

    By Geo. S. Mott., D. D., at the house of the bride's father, Oct. 6, George Webster and Sallie A. Hoppock, daughter of William W. Hoppock, all of Flemington.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, Flemington, Oct. 7, by the Rev. F. A. Mason, Samuel F. Martindell to Carrie Poulson, both of Lambertville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Flemington, Oct. 6, by the Rev. F. A. Mason, William H. Bodine to Cora B. Slater, both of Flemington.

    At the Frenchtown M. E. Parsonage, Oct. 5, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Benjamin F. Kline, of Tumble Station, to Sarah H. Smith, of Ringoes.

    At the Ringoes Parsonage, Sept. 3, by Rev. John Scarlet, Chas. R. Reading, of Ringoes, and Annie Thatcher, of Clinton.
 

Deaths

    Near Flemington, Oct. 6, 1885, John W. Hanson, aged 30 years, 11 months and 17 days.

    At Dreahook, Oct. 8, 1885, Miss Catharine Connet, aged 58 years, 4 months and 17 days.
 

    John W. Hanson, who lived with his father, Mr. Charles Hanson, on a farm about two miles west of Flemington, died very unexpectedly last Tuesday morning.  He had been in town on Monday evening, apparently as full of life and good health as ever he was.  Not arising on Tuesday morning with his wife - as was his custom - she went on down stairs and prepared breakfast, and then went back and called him.  He said he was tired and sleepy and would lie still awhile.  A few hours later he breathed his last.  The cause of his death is attributed to the bursting of a blood vessel, we understand.
 
 

October 20, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 10

State Items

    Mrs. Nancy Burns, of Salem county, celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday.

    The reason why John Hoffman, of Newark, shot his wife and then shot himself, on Tuesday, was because they could not live happily together in his world.  Both are fatally wounded.

    Philip Schroeder, a furniture dealer at Hoboken, and Mrs. Sophia Schor, the wife of a tobacconist, are missing, and as they were intimate, is believed they have gone away together.  Schroeder leaves a wife and four children, and Mrs. Schor has three children.
 

    "Josh Billins," (Henry W. Shaw), the humorist died Wednesday at Monteray, Col., aged 67.

    Fred Kelver, aged 64 years, and his wife, aged 56 years, residing near Holland, Erie county, N.Y., while riding home last Monday werer thrown from their buggy over a steep embankment.  Mr. Kelver was killed and his wife fatally injured.

    Thomas Boswell, a farmer, living near Ream's Station, Dinwiddie county, Va., was attahced and gored to death by a vicious bull.
 

Marriages

    By Geo. S. Mott., D. D., Oct. 14, at the house of the bride's grandfather, Atkinson Holcombe, William B. Cox and Mary E. Holcombe, all of Flemington.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Oct. 15, at the residence of the bride's father, Charles A. Blakeslee, of Mauch Chuck, Pa., and Jean S. Brodhead, daughter of Andrew J. Brodhead, of Flemington.

    At the Parsonage Cherryville, by Rev. T. S. Griffiths, Oct. 17, Charles A. Anderson, of Croton, to Bell Snyder of Delaware township.

    At Bruse House, Mt. Savage, Md., Oct. 6, by Rev. J. H. Eccleston, assisted by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, John R. Emery, of Newark, and Alla, daughter of James S. MacKie.

    At the Baptist Parsonage, Stockton, Oct. 8, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Daniel A. Sperling and Mary A. Naylor, both of Locktown.

    In the Second Presbyterian Church, New Brunswick, Oct. 15, by Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, assisted by Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, Rev. Theodore A. Beekman, Pastor Reformed Church Columbia, N.Y., to Maggie Hamilton, of New Brunswick.

    At the South Baptist Parsonage, Newark, Oct. 14, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, D. D., Daniel T. Clawson, of Flemington, to Amanda Youngs, of Plainfield.

    At the residence of the bride's parents near Woodsville, Oct. 14, by the Rev. John Scarlet, James Buchanan, of Lambertville, and Lizzie J. Dallas, of West Amwell.

    In the M. E. Churc Rosemont, Oct. 14, by Rev. J. Faull, Wm. B. Bonham, of Trenton, and Cornelia B. Burd, of Rosemont.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Frenchtown, Oct. 13, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Nathan Worman, of Flemington, to Lydia Taylor, of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Delaware township, Oct. 6, Asa Moore, aged 70 years and 2 months.

    In Stockton, Oct. 14, 1885, Eden B. Hunt, Sr., in the 90th year of his age.

    In West Amwell township, Oct. 9, 1885, Cornelius A. Hurley, aged 27 years.

    In Lambertville, Oct. 10, 1885, Frederic Keightly, son of Theodore and Susan Keightly, aged 10 months.
 

    Miss Sarah Park, of Changewater, was buried on Monday, aged 97 years.  At the time of the Castner murder, at Changewater, in 1843, Miss Park was a member of the family that was murdered, but as good luck would have it, she had gone visiting to a friend, or in all probability she would have been murdered with the others.
 
 

October 27, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 11

State Items

    Mrs. Louisa Loutrigg, who lives on the Hackensack road, near Homestead Station, was accidentally shot and killed on Sunday evening by Henry E. Waldberger, a candlemaker living in New York.  Waldberger was visiting the family, and after dinner he picked up a shotgun that was standing in the corner of the room.  While handling it it was discharged.

    The terrible railroad accident near Jersey City, Sunday night, 18th inst., which is reported elsewhere, brought intense anguish to Gus Armstead, a respected Norweigan formerly residing near Madison, O.  Armstead came alone to this county from Norway, eighteen months ago, and after establishing a home, sent for his wife and daughter.  They reached New York Saturday and started West on the ill-fated train.  Both were killed, the terrible news only being received by the husband Tuesday when he came into the city to meet them.  He is bowned down with grief over the sad calamity and will return to his native land again.

Death of Malcolm Hay
    At half past 6 o'clock last Tuesday morning, Malcolm Hay died at Pittsburg.  The family to which Malcolm Hay belonged was a Scotch one, but as it had long been in this country he may be said to have been purely American.  He was born in Philadelphia March 1, 1842....

    The family of Moses Hoffe_t, near Reading, Pa., has been almost obliterated by diphtheria.  Five out of nine children, between the aged of four and fourteen, have died within two weeks, and a boy aged seventeen, was thought to be dying at last accounts.
 

Death of A Centennarian
    On Sunday, 18th inst., the life of one of Hunterdon's oldest residents went peacefully out.  Mrs. Cornelia Hoffman, died on that day at her old home at Rowland's Mills, aged 100 years, 10 months and 27 days.  She was the widow of Abraham Hoffman, who died some thirteen years ago.  Perhaps 80 years of the life of Mrs. Hoffman were passed upon the old homestead where she died.  She was the mother of Mrs. Harriet DeMott, of this place, and the grandmother of John H. DeMott, Esq.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Joseph L. Shafer, formerly of Somerville and for the past three years proprietor of the Forest House, Budd's Lake, died at his home in Flanders, Morris county, on Thursday of last week.

    Absolem Purcell, of New Village, Warren county, died on Saturday last of paralysis.  He was once a member of Assembly and was a prominent candidate for Senate two or three times.  He was well and favorably known throughout Warren.
 

Fatal Accident
    On Tuesday, 13th inst., as Mr. Samuel Opdycke, of Glen Gardner, was engaged in picking apples from a tree on his premises, the limb upon which he ws standing broke, letting him fall to the ground a distance of about twenty feet.  The left side of his skuff was fractured by the mishap.  He had a bag fastened around his neck into which he was putting the apples as he picked them, and this additional weight caused him to fall head foremost.  The bag was found to be tightly fastened around his neck when assistance arrived, and had it not speedily been cut loose it would soon have choked him to death.  Eminent physicians were summoned to his side, but their efforts were unavailing, and on Tuesday last - one week after the accident - he died.
 

Marriages

    At Stoneham, near Boston, Oct. 13, at the residence of the bride's sister, by the Rev. Wm. J. Batt, Dr. J. S. Van Marter, of New Brunswick, N.J., to Mrs. Emma L. Voorhees, of the former place.

    Oct. 17, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, at the home of the bride, Samuel E. Holeman and Lizzie D. Sutphin, both of Clover Hill.

    In Mount Pleasant, New Jersey, Oct. 12,  by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, John Boileau Taylor and Josephine Cook, both of Pittstown.

    At New Britain, Pa., Aug. 4, at the New Britain Parsonage, by Rev. N. C. Fetter, Edward B. Arnett, of Lambertville, to Dona S. Hubbard, of Doylestown, Pa.

    In Lambertville, Oct. 10, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, William Fisher to Annie G. Conover, both of Kingwood.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Camden, Oct. 14, by Rev. J. Y. Dobbins, W. Wayne Robinson, of Lambertville, to Hannah Bessie Hollinshed.

    At Califon, Oct. 18, by Rev. C. R. Suydam, George Latourette, of German Valley, to Kate Ella Stires, of Califon.

    At Neshanic Parsonage, by Rev. John Hart, Aaron E. Lane, of Hillsborough township, to Annie R. Cole, daughter of Abram O. Cole, of Readington township.
 

Deaths

    At Pleasant Run, Oct. 19, 1885, Mrs. Priscilla S. Foster, aged 33 years, 8 months and 14 days.

    In Glen Gardner, Oct. 20, 1885, Samuel Opdyke, aged 47 years and 9 months.

    At his residence near Three Bridges, Sept. 22, 1885, John M. Agans, aged 74 years.
 
 

November 3, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 12

A Nation's Loss
    General McClellan died suddenly at his home "Maywood," on the Orange mountains, N.J., at 3 o'clock Thursday morning, Oct. 28th.  The cause of death was neuralgia of the heart....  -  Plainfield Constitutionalist.
 

Local Department

    Miss Fannie Traphagen, whose death has been announced, was a granddaughter of Gen. Putnam of Revolutionary fame, and it is said that among her effects will be found bridle used by "Old Put" in his reckless ride down "Horseneck Steps."

    William V., eldest son of Wm. P. Jeroloman, of Liberty Corner, died suddenly on Saturday morning last.  He was sitting on a chair in his father's store, when he was taken with hemorrhage, and died in ten minutes.  He was in his 21st year.  Rev. Mr. Hammond (his former pastor) preached the funeral Monday afternoon, in the church, and the remains were taken to rest in the family burying ground at Peapack.  -  Somerset Gazette.

    The little village of Summit, Union county, was thrown into a state of excitement on Monday evening of last week by the announcement that Miss Carrie Mullen, a daughter of Mr. Stephen Mullen, a prominent business man of that place, aged 16 years, had eloped with a blind man named Nicholas Cleary, who had been boarding in that village during the last Summer.  The rumor proved to be true, as the couple were married in Camden on Tuesday by the Rev. Isaac C. Winn of the First Baptist Church.  Cleary says he intends to reside near Plainfield.  Mr. Cleary is well known to many in Somerville, he having resided for a number of years with his parents on the "Island Farm," a couple of miles east of that town.

    Mrs. Achsah Craft, widow of the late Noah Craft, last Wednesday celebrated her 99th birthday at her residence on Delevan street, in this city, where many of her friends called on her, especially in the evening, and left her many things as a new outfit for her bedroom, such as a new carpet, handsome quilt, &c...  She was born in East Amwell, near Woodsville, and has spent all her life in this region, having lived most of her time in the vicinity of Mt. Airy, two miles east of this city.
 

Marriages

    At Bethlehem Church, Oct. 12, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John L. Shank, of Red Oak, Iowa, and Anna J. Stires, of Quakertown.

    Near Old Hickory Tavern, Oct. 24, by Rev. Summerbell, Stewart Huff and Emma Butler.
 

Deaths

    In Barbertown, Oct. 23, Sarah, wife of Samuel Gano, aged 58 years, 5 months and 21 days.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, Ira Higgins, Esq., in Wertsville, Oct. 24, 1885, Mrs. Catharine Holcombe, wife of Alfred Holcombe, aged 73 years.
 
 

November 10, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 13

    Russiaville, Ind., claims to have a resident, Mrs. Colter, who was a sister of Commodore Perry and was born in Delaware in 1769, making her present age 116 years.

    Mrs. Michael Gallagher, the wife of a policeman, in St. Louis, became the mother on Monday night of quadruplets, all girls.  The mother and children are all doing well.

    At Atlanta, Ga., last Wednesday, two colored men, William Kennebread and Phil. Johnson, well diggers, were blown to atoms by an explosion of blasting powder...

    John Bowers, a tinner, of Lancaster, Pa., last Thursday fell from one of the sheds at Union Depot, Baltimore, while at work, and was so badly injured that death resulted in thirty minutes.

    Mrs. Mary Stover, a blind woman, at Benion Ridge, Hancock county, Ohio, was burned to death last Thursday by her clothing taking fire while she was working about a stove.  Her husband, also blind, was severely burned while trying to save his wife.

    Mary Glanfert, 50 years old, was found dead in bed in a house in Newtown villaged, L.I., last Thursday.  At the beginning of P. T. Barnum's career she figured as one of his museum curiosities, being only fourty inches in height.  She was married eight years ago, but did not lead a happy life.

    John Knoll, with his family, consisting of wife and three children, were found at their home on St. Mary's street, Baltimore, last Friday, all apparently dead, except a son who showed some signs of life.  They were affected by escaping gas.  Elizabeth, aged 13 years, the second daughter, is dead, and Mary, the eldest daughter, is in a precarious condition.  Mr. Knoll, his wife and the boy are likely to recover.
 

Local Department

    Mr. John Maxwell, of Easton, died on Tuesday evening, aged 69, after a lenghty illness.  He was President of the Easton Water Company, and had filled many other important positions in his time.  He was born in Flemington, and was a son of the late William Maxwell, of this place.  He lived in Easton since 1830, and married a Miss Clark, of that place.

    It is with deep regret that we record this week the death of John V. Berkaw, Esq., of Stanton.  For perhaps thirty years past Mr. Berkaw had been storekeeper and postmaster at Stanton.

    Mr. John Cortelyou, the father of Mrs. J. V. Smith, of Flemington, and Mrs. R. B. Quick, of Ringoes, died very suddenly at the house of the latter on Thursday evening last.  Deceased had been living about among his relatives and friends for some months past.  For several weeks previous to his death he had been in Frenchtown, returning to the home of his daughter in Ringoes on Thursday evening.  His age was about 75 years.  He was a tailor by trade.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Thomas Tittsworth was killed on Friday night of week before last by being struck by a locomotive on the D. L. and W. R. R. between Washington and Port Colden.  He had been to Washington and was returning to his home at Port Colden when he met his death.  He leaves a wife and four children.

    George Taylor, of South Easton, a freight brakesman on the Bel. Del. Road, while coupling a couple of cars in the yard at Phillipsburg, had his head crushed between the bumpers in a frightful manner.  He lived about ten hours.

    Thomas Houser, a fireman on the D. L. & W. R. R., running from Scranton to Port Murray, was killed at the latter place on Tuesday evening.  He went out to oil the engine, when he was struck by an express train, and died in a short time.  He lived near the Delaware Water Gap.

    On Tuesday afternoon a man named Eugene Stiles was instantly killed while out hunting.  It seems that he was digging out a rabbit and had set his gun at one side.  While at work the gun either fell down or was upset by the dog and exploded, the entire charge going into his side and heart.  he lived at Walnut Grove, several miles from Dover, and the accident occurred in the woods near Millbrook.  He was about thirty years old and was married a year ago.

    Mr. and Mrs. John Newell will celebrate their Golden Wedding on Thanksgiving day, November 26th, as on that day fifty years of married life will have been completed by the very worthy couple.

    Mr. John Trout, a well known and respected resident of Delaware township, died on Saturday last after a very brief illness.  His age was about 60 years.
 

State Items

    Miss Lou Smock, of Plainfield, was married on Wednesday evening to Dr. Charles H. Penfield, of Independence, Iowa.  Among those present at the reception was the bride's great grandmother, who is 91 years old.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Pattenburg, Oct. 24, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Wm. S. Huff, of Millersville, and Emma Butler, of Pattenburg.

    In Plainfield, Oct. 28, by the Rev. A. V. V. Raymond, assisted by the Rev. A. R. Dilts, Jr., E. H. Bird to Ellastine Staats.

    By Rev. C. W. Pitcher, at the Reformed Church Parsonage, Stanton, Oct. 31, P. Luther Stryker and Sarah Jane Hann, both of Stanton.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Oct. 31, by Rev. Eugene Hill, J. V. D. Durham, of Centreville, to Hannah Elizabeth Cole, of Three Bridges.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Oct. 3, in Flemington, Jacob A. Henry, of Joliet, Ill., and Mrs. Rachel J. Apgar, of Finesville, Warren Co., N.J.

    At the home of the bride, in Flemington, Oct. 29, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Jacob Snyder and Charolette H. Rowe, all of Flemington.

    At the residence of the bride, near Potterstown, Nov. 4, by the Rev. E. S. Jamison, Ambrose B. Carson and Fannie Alpaugh, both of Potterstown.

    Near Annandale, Oct. 31, by Rev. G. Wyckoff, Hermann Hirschfeld, of Asbury, to Etta Howard, of Annandale.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, Nov. 3, 1885, after a short illness, John V. Berkaw, in the 68th year of his age.

    In Delaware township, Nov. 5, 1885, John Bearder, aged 68 years, 2 months and 16 days.
 
 

November 17, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 14

    H. B. Clafflin, the well known and wealthy New York merchant, died with apoplexy on Saturday afternoon last.  He was stricken while cracking jokes at the dinner table.

    Giesle Evenson, an inmate of the insane asylum at Jefferson, Ill., was found dead in his bed Wednesday morning, his face and beard covered with blood.  At first it was thought he had died in a fit, but on examination it was found that the hands and coat sleeves of John Stitz, another patient, occupying the same room, were blood stained, and on being accused of the murder he confessed, saying that he strangle Everson by virtue of an order from the Almighty.

    Captain Jennie Wilson, of the Salvation Army, who married H. L. Moore, a photographer, of Elizabeth, in May last, having a husband, Charles Frye, in Bellows Falls, Vt., was tried for bigamy in the Union County Court, and acquitted.  She testified that she believed a decree of divorce from Frye had been granted her when she married Moore.

    Joseph Tomlinson, an Englishman, who lived at Friendship, Cumberland county, was burned to death in his house Sunday night.  He lived alone.  It is said that two rough looking men were seen prowling around his house just before dark.  He owned his house and twenty acres of land, which he some time since bequeathed to the children of Henry Dare.
 

State Items

    Joseph Stead, who kept the hotel at Crosswicks for thirty-five years, died on Saturday night.  It is said that during all these years he never allowed a drunken man to buy a drink at his bar.

    William Wisse, a prominent citizen of Basking Ridge, was thrown from his carriage on Wednesday evening and after walking a quarter of a mile to the residence of Dr. Dayton, asked to lie down when he died in a few moments.  The horse kicked him directly over the heart.
 

    Policeman N. M. O'Brien, of Chicago, last Thursday night received a bullet in his left lung, from a revolver fired by one Max Rittenberg, a drunken shoemaker, who quickly fled, shooting promiscuously at people who pursued, and diving into a celler laundry, placed the weapon at his own temple, pulled the trigger and died instantly.  O'Brien expired shortly afterward.

    On Thursday, 5th inst.  Columbus Dronenberg, aged twenty-four, son of a prominent wheelwright and farmer living near Urbana, Md., attended a sociable at a neighbor's house.  He left for home an hour after midnight and was never seen alive again.  After two days absence his family organized a body of searchers, but they could find no trace of the missing man.  On Monday night, Mr. Dronenberg, Sr., had a dream in which he saw his son's corpse lying on the floor of a mammoth barn.  Last Wednesday at the request of the father, the neighbors began to search the barns in the neighborhood, large barns being given the preference, and in the barn owned by Thomas Dixon, near Urbana, the largest in the county, the corpse of the young man was found.  It bore many burises and the manner of death has caused a great deal of comment.
 

Local Department

    The marriage of Miss Emma Bellis, daughter of ex-Sheriff Richard Bellis, of Glen Gardner, to Mr. W. L. Slivers, an esteemed young citizen of Keokuk, Iowa, is announced.

    We announced last week that the Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John Newell, of Clover Hill, would be held on the 26th day of November inst.  This is a mistake.  The celebration will occur on Wednesday, the 25th.

    Jackson G. Reading, a well known old resident of Lambertville, was struck by a freight train and almost instantly killed on the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, above Bools' Island, about eight o'clock last Friday morning.  Mr. Reading, who was a mechanical engineer on the road, was walking the track at the time of the accident.  He was 72 years of age and the father of Thomas C. Reading, the conductor killed in the wreck at Milford, in October 1877.

    The Frenchtown Star says that Sarah Holcombe, of Mount Pleasant, celebrated in a quite way her 96th birthday, on Monday, Nov. 9th.  She was born Nov. 9th, 1790, in this county, near Sandy Ridge, and spent her childhood on the farm where Elijah Holcombe now resides.  Her maiden name was Butterfoss; and of a family of eleven children but two survive.  She has a sister living at Frenchtown, and is an aunt of President Matthews of the Union National Bank.

    Quakertown correspondent of the Frenchtown Independent says: Elwood Vail, who spent last winter here clerking in his brother's store, was fatally shot while out hunting in Colorado week before last...  He lived two days...  He was a native of this place, aged about 28, unmarried, a young man of exemplary habits and highly respected.
 

A Quaker Wedding
    A friend of ours in looking over the genealogy of his mother's kindred, has discovered that his great great great great grandfather, who settled in Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pa., in 1684, was possessed of the singular name of Smith - William Smith - and that he was a Quaker.  He married Mary Croasdale in 1690, and the following is a copy of the marriage ceremony between them:...

A Long Lost Sister
    Old Peter Dumont moved from his farm near Readington, in Hunterdon county, to Indiana, in 1856.  His wife was dead, and he took with him his two daughters.  His son John was left to continue the study of law.  For some years after the family went John heard of them and from them.  But soon after the war began he could obtain no response to his letters.  He wrote again and again, but to no avail, and finally gave it up.  Meanwhile he had been admitted to practice, and had married.  He moved to Phillipsburg, Warren county, and was soon doing a flourishing business.  He dropped work for a few weeks in 1870, however, and went to Indiana in search of his father.  But he fared worse than the Japhet of Marryatt's novel.  Not a trace could be learn of his father or sisters, and he finally gave them up for dead.
    Last Friday, much to his surprise, Dumont, now a middle-aged man with an extensive practice, received a letter postmarked in a small Indiana town.  It was from a physician, and said that he was needed at the bedside of a dying sister.  The letter said that his father and elder sister were dead, and the younger sister, now well along in years and unmarried, would not live long.  She had a delirious fever, and kept asking for her brother.
    The physician had learned the address, and besought the brother to come on immediately.  The letter also said that the sister had considerable property, which would fall to her brother at ther death.  John at once started for Indiana.  He found his sister slightly improved and in kind hands.

    Mr. John Hensler, a half brother of Mr. Jacob Veit, of this place, died in Germany, whither he had gone on a trip for the benefit of his health, a few days ago.  Mr. Hensler's home was in Philadelphia, and he often visited in this town.
 

Quakertown

    Lizzie, wife of "Court" Robinson, and daughter of the late Servis Trimmer, died at her home near the old Frog tavern on Wednesday.
 

    William Berwick, of New Haven, Connecticut, went to his boarding house the other day in a partially intoxicated condition and sat down to the dinner table.  He was helped to a sweet potato and a piece of raost beef.  Then his landlady had an occasion to leave the room, and Berwick was alone at the table.  When she returned he was at the table, clinching his knife and fork in his hands, and he was black in the face.  Half the sweet potato lay on his plate.  She ran for assistance, and two men carried him into the rear year, where he could have air. He lived only a minute or two, having been choked to death by the half of the sweet potato.

    A family named Blanchette, consisting of a woman and five children, belonging in St. Luce arrived at Father Point, Quebec, late from Montreal, where the head of the family died of small pox, and shortly after their arrival the mother gave birth to another child.  The small pox broke out among them and they all succumbed Friday.  The whole family of seven are extinct.
 

Marriages

    At Baptisttown, Nov. 14, by Rev. G. B. Young, Hiram Gulick and Mary E. Curtis, both of Hunterdon county.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Asbury, Oct. 31, by Rev. W. Chamberlin, Nicholas Everly, of Union Township, and Sallie Bowlby, of the former place.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, Stanton, Nov. 7, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, John H. Abbott, of Readington Township, to Annie D. Bailey, of Lebanon Township.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Nov. 4, by Rev. W. S. Emory, father of the bride, assisted by Rev. J. W. Mayne, Henry A. Jones, of Washington, D. C. and Emma V. Emory, of Frenchtown.

    In Kingwood, Nov. 7, at the bride's home, by Rev. J. Faull, Martin T., son of John H. Hagerty, Esq., of Phillipsburg, and Henrietta, daughter of Asa Nice, Esq., of Kingwood.

    In West Amwell, Nov. 4, at the residence of the bride's father, Joseph Mathews, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Augustus L. Phillips to Josephine Mathews, both of West Amwell.

    At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Oct. 31, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, George W. Hoffman, of Rosemont, and Sarah J. Rittenhouse, of Kingwood.

    At the home of the bride in Clinton Township, Oct. 22, by the Rev. T. S. Griffths, Frederic Sturms, Jr., of Sunnyside, and Carrie L. Tine.

    At the residence of the bride's father, J. L. Quick, Mt. Airy, Nov. 12, by Rev. Harrison Clarke, M. A., Edward Holcombe Wilson to Laura Belle Quick.
 

Deaths

    At Trenton, Oct. 29, 1885, Ann, wife of Enoch Hoffman, in the 77th year of her age.
 
 
 

November 24, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 15

    Louis David Riel was executed on the scaffold at the Barracks of the Mounted Police Force, near Regina, N. W. T., for high treason against the Queen of Great Britain, at 8:53 o'clock, Monday morning....
 

She Spun A Rope To Hang A Murderer
    A Susquehanna, Penna., dispatch says:  Mrs. Elizabeth Sands, age eighty five, died in Jackson, near this village, a few days ago.  She was widely known through this part of the State from having made, when a young woman, the rope with which the first murderer hanged in Susquehanna county was executed.  One night in May 1824, Jason Treadwell, a member of a leading family of the county, laid in wait on the road between this village - then Harmony - and Lanesboro to murder and rob a rich lumberman, John Comfort.  Oliver Harper came along the road and Treadwell killed him, mistaking him for Comfort.  The murderer was arrested and convicted and confessed his crime.  Samuel Gregory was sheriff of the county and Mrs. Sands lived in his family.  Treadwell was sentenced to be hanged on January 13th, 1825.  Mrs. Sands spun the flax and made the rope with which he was hanged on that day.  The rope is still preserved in the county.

    Miss Mollie Meeker, aged 17, on Tuesday in her home at Eddyville, Iowa, banteringly leveled a revolver at her companion and, demanding her money or her life, snapped the pistol without effect.  She then pointed the pistol in a playful manner at her own head and pulled the trigger.  The weapon went off and the girl is dead.

    Mrs. Rhoda Howard died in Bath county, Ky., last Tuesday, aged 116 years.  She was wonderfully well preserved and retained her faculties to the last.  She was three times married.  Four children survive her, the youngest being 70 years old.  She was born in North Carolina, and came to Kentucky in 1794.  She smoked a pipe and never took a dose of medicine.

    A train on the Detriot and Milwaukee Railroad ran over and killed William Sanbrook and his wife last Tuesday morning.  They lived about four miles from Pontiac, Mich.

    A tramp named Fritz Campbell went into a milk store in New York last Monday morning.  After drinking a cup of coffee, he said he wished he was dead and suddenly expired.

    Joseph Snyder, an engineer at Dorsey's slate quarries at Little Gap, Pa., lay down to sleep last Wednesday night with his head on a box of dynamite cartridges.  At 3 o'clock next morning he was blown to atoms, the cartridges having been exploded by the head of the boiler.

A Fatal Search For Game
    A Cleveland dispatch says:  Early this morning George Barber and his son, James, observed the tracks of an animal near their house, which they imagined might be game.  They followed the trail until it was lost in a hollow tree on the premises.  After striking a few blows with their axes, the tree, the trunk of which was decayed, toppled and fell.  The old man was caught under one of the branches, and the boy was pinned to the earth by the trunk of the tree.  The cries of the latter attracted a crowd, and both men were released.  The old man's skull is factured and he is internally injured, while both the boy's arms are broken, and his chest crushed.  He died tonight, and his father's case is hopeless.

    The body of the young man found floating in the Delaware river, near Red Bank, Monday, is believed by Chief of Detectives Kelley to be that of Albert Landis, of 1531 Locust street, Philadelphia, who was drowned on October 3.  Landis was 17 years old and was employed by Colburn & Co., Second and Arch streets...

    In Edgefield county, South Carolina, on Wednesday, Robert Jones, a farmer, shot and killed Edward Pressly, aged 80 years, and the latter's son, Charles, and stabbed to death Edward Pressly, Jr., a brother of Charles, who came to his rescue.  The difficulty arose about some rented land.  Jones surrendered himself, saying he had killed the three best men in the county in self defense.  The elder Pressly was the grandfather of Jones' wife.

    Mrs. Richard Nicholas, the wife of a colored laborer living near New Market, while cleaning a shelf in her house last week knocked down a half cocked revolver, and the charge was blown through her left wrist.  The woman was in a delicate condition at the time and the shock threw her in spasms, and on Saturday she gave permature birth to a child and died from lockjaw the next day.

    At Johnstown, Penn., Monday night while repairing one of the blast furnaces of the Cambria Iron Company, J. B. Smith was overcome by gas and fell into the furnace.  Ropes were thrown to him but he was unconscious and soon died.

    Arthur Lufburrow, fourteen year old son of Capt. John S. Lufburrow, proprietor of the Columbian House, Eatontown, died Friday of gangrene, resulting from a broken arm received by a header fro his bicycle one week ago.
 

Local Department

    We are pained to hear that a former Hunterdon countian, Howard B. Smith, committed suicide by shooting himself last Tuesday at his home in Butte City, Montana, of which place he was the City Attorney.  A few years ago he was a school teacher near Clinton.

    We last week spoke of the attack of paralysis which had afflicted Freedholder John F. Creager, of Clinton.  The unfortunate man failed to rally from the effects of the stroke, and last (Sunday) evening his spirit took its flight.  The funeral services will be held in the Clinton M. E. Church on Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock.

    A post office was established at Glen Garnder in August 1827.  Previous to that time the town was known by the name of "Bodom."  With the coming of the post office came also the name of Clarksville.  Jan. 3rd, 1871, the name of Clarksville was dropped and Glen Gardner (the present name,) adopted....

    The body of James G. Blackwell, an account of whose disapparance and supposed drowing in the canal at Lambertville we published last week, was found on Monday in the canal at that place, just one week from the day of his disapparance.  He was 55 years of age and his business was agent for the Singer sewing machine.  He leaves a wife.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    William Weis, a well known farmer living near Baskingridge, was thrown from his buggy on Wednesday by a kicking horse and killed.

    At Bound Brook last Monday afternoon, James Smock, an old colored man, deliberately committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn.  He climbed into the mow, fastened a rope to a rafter and then jumped off the upper floor through a trap-hole.  Ill health is supposed to have been the cause of the rash act.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Annie Farrell, of Newark, has died of hydrophobia.  About ten weeks ago she picked up a pet dog in the gutter, moaning with pain.  She was bitten, but had the wound quickly dressed.  On Saturday she showed symptoms of hydrophobia and on Tuesday died in great agony.

    Delafield, the six year old son of Issac Collins, of Westfield, was instantly killed on Thursday, by the accidental discharge of a gun, which had been left in the room in which he slept.  The boy jumped out of bed and was playing with the gun, when it suddenly exploded and the charge struck him in the forehead, blowing off the top of his head.
 

Marriages

    In Flemington, Nov. 21, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Peter E. Van Fleet and Alice N. Ewing, both of Readington.

    Nov. 18, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Charles W. Galloway, of Elizabeth, to Louisa, daughter of James K. Brewster, of Lambertville.

    Nov. 13, at St. John's Rectory, by Rev. W. E. Wright, assisted by Rev. Edward Warren of Trinity Parish, N.Y., Daniel Robert of New Utrecht, L.I., and Ageline Lance, of Somerville.

    At the bride's brother's, Cedar Point, Kansas, by the Rev. G. B. Norton, Chas. S. Capper to Kate R. Holcombe, daughter of Geo. B. Holcombe, of Reaville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Hamden, Nov. 19, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Frank V. Snyder to Annie M. Fritts, both of Clinton township.

    At Cherryville, Nov. 18, by Rev. C. Clark, assisted by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Jacob A. Barton and Anna Henry.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Quakertown, Nov. 18, by Rev. G. B. Young, George E. Race, of Franklin township, and Nancy Jane Mathews, only daughter of William R. Mathews, Esq.
 

Deaths

    Near New Germantown, Nov. 15, 1885, Mary Wearts, wife of Fred C. M. Brooks, aged 26 years and 3 months.

    Near Mechanicsville, Nov. 15, 1885, Mary Werts, wife of Fred. C. McBrooks, aged 26 years and 3 months.

    At Stanton, Nov. 16, 1885, Rebecca Smith, aged 72 years.
 
 

December 1, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 16

Death of Thomas A. Hendricks
    In the death of Vice President Hendricks, which occurred last Wednesday at his home in Indianapolis, the country loses a wise and patriotic statesman and the Democracy a bold, skillful and conscientious leader....
    Mr. Hendricks was born in Ohio in 1819 and removed to Indiana, and in 1847 he was elected to the State Legislature....

Frank S. Mills Dead
    We greatly regret to chronicle the death of Franklin S. Mills, one of the best known and one of the most popular men in the State.  His death occurred on Wednesday morning last....
    A Trenont Despatch says of him: Ex-Mayor Franklin S. Mills, who had reached his seventy-first year and was in apparent excellent health, fell over with a gasp as he stepped out of bed at 7 A.M. and five minutes later he was a corpse.  Mr. Mills came to Treton in 1838 from Reading, Pa., his native place....

Death of King Alfonso
    King Alfonso, of Spain, died at Madrid on Wednesday last.  His death was occasioned by consumption, accelerated by dysentery...
 

An Atrocious Murder
    John Sharpless, one of the most prominent Orthodox Friends in Delaware county, Pa., was most foully murdered at his farm in Nether Providence township about 2 miles from Chester on Sunday ngiht, 22d ult....

Three Men Crushed To Death
    John Cannon, James J. Smith and J. Harry Gaul coal miners, working at Franklin, near Seattle, Oregon, were crushed to death Saturday night in their cabin.  They were sitting around a stove, smoking and telling yarns, when a large tree, rotten at the butt, fell, crushing the cabin and its occupants.  The men died within an hour.  Gaul, who was twenty-eight years old, leaves a wife and child at Seattle.  Cannon, aged fifty-two, leaves several children in the East.  Smith, twenty-eight years old, was unmarried.

    Clement Grausinger, an old resident of Cass county, Ind., died on Sunday morning.  Six years ago Grausinger startled his neighbors by telling them that his daughter, a girl aged 20 years, had committed suicide.  On his death bed, Grausinger confessed that he and the daughter had been criminally intimate and that he killed her in order to avoid exposure.

    Harry P. Bell, 22 years old, of Portchester, N.Y., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver.  While the family were eating their Thanksgiving dinner, the father chided the young man for having been out so late on the previous night.  Young Bell seemed to be saddened by the reprimand, and leaving the table, went to his room and took his life.

    The 3 year old son of Samuel Meiz, living in Lycoming county, Pa., recently got hold of a box of morphine pills during the absence of its parents, and took six of them, with fatal effects.

    Augustine Watson, the inventor of the ready stamped newspaper wrapper and the system of storm signals by means of cannon, died Friday last at Washington, D. C.
 

Marriages

    By Rev. C. Clark, at Quakertown, Nov. 26, George W. Lair and Sarah E. Lair, both of Flemington.

    Nov. 26, 1885, at Palmer, Mass., by Rev. Pleasant Hunter, John N. Everitt and Alice L. Hoyt, both of New York.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, Nov. 22, 1885, John F. Creager, aged 46 years and 2 days.

    Near Annandale, Nov. 18, 1885, Mary, widow of the late Archibald Hoffman, aged 78 years, 1 month and 9 days.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 9, 1885, Jacob G. Blackwell, aged 55 years.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 20, 1885, Sarah, daughter of John and Hanorah Call, aged 4 years.

    In Franklin township, Nov. 11, 1885, Lizzie A. Robinson, aged 26 years, 8 months and 28 days.
 

Local Department

    A colored woman named Jane Gray, wife of John Gray, died at her home in Ringoes on the 21st ult., after a few hours illness.  She was stricken with apoplexy the day before.

    We received a pleasant call on Friday last from Mr. J. C. Holcombe, formerly of this county, who has spent the past thirty-three years in Ohio, and is now a resident of Piqua, in that State.

    The marriage of Suydam Van Horn, of White House, aged 80 years, to Mrs. Van Busen, of Mechanicsville, is announced, but with no particular flourish of trumpets.

    Miss Leila B. Hunt, on of Ringoes favorite young ladies, and Mr. Peter V. Drake, of Hopewell, were married last Wednesday in the Kirkpatrick Memorial Church, by the Rev. David Wills.
 

Golden Wedding
    Last Wednesday, 25th ult., the Fiftieth Anniversary of the marriage of Mr. John Newell and his wife Mrs. Margaret G. Newell, was celebrated at their residence in Clover Hill.  Their children (five daughters) were all present, also thirteen grandchildren and one great grandchild...

    Dr. Samuel S. Clark, one of the most prominent and highly esteemed citizens of Belvidere, died at his residence there last Monday morning, of heart disease.  Dr. Clark was 60 years of age, and was born at Flemington.  His father was the late Rev. Joseph Clark, D.D...  He was married in 1854 to Jane C., daughter of James C. Kennedy, M.D., of Warren county.  His wife and daughter survive him.
 
 

December 8, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 17

Death Of A Somerville Hotel Keeper
    Jacob A. Fritts, one of the oldest residents of Somerville, died on Sunday of apoplexy at the age of eighty years.  Mr. Fritts was one of the oldest hotel keepers in New Jersey.  He was a native of Hunterdon county, but for over half a century had been in the hotel business in Somerville.  He purchased Torbert's Hotel in 1847 and had kept the house ever since.
 

State Items

    Martin Supfle, a milkman, was found dead in his wagon, at Newark, Sunday morning.  Death had resulted from hemorrhage.

    Rose Moran, aged 85 years, the oldest woman in South Orange, and very infirm, was killed on Thursday by falling from a porch at her home.

    Shortly before noon on Monday Patrick Cannon, a young man working in Colgate's soap factory in Jersey City, while passing near some of the machinery, was caught by the clothing with the shafting.  In an instant the man was whirled along the belting and dashed against the ceiling and then to the floor.  Death was almost instantaneous and his body was badly mangled.

Jerked The String and Died
    A Youngstown, Ohio, dispatch says:  Henry Blackenburg, a wealthy and eccentric farmer living near Leavittsburg, on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway, committed suicide today by sending a charge of shot into his heart.  About ten years ago his wife received a divorce and subsequently married a neighbor.  Blackenburg had been partially deranged ever since.  Early this morning he took his gun, loaded with heavy shot, and fixed it to a tree - a string was attached to the trigger - and, standing up before the muzzle, he gave the string a jerk and died instantly.  He was about 50 years old, and had over $25,000 in property.
 

Local Department

    A couple of months ago this journal gave a brief account of a joyous occasion - the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Smith, of this place.  This week it is our painful duty to record the death of Mrs. Smith, which sad event occurred on Thursday evening last.  Deceased had been in failing health for a year past, and her demise was not unexpected.  The most of her long life of nearly 75 years was passed here in Flemington, and she retained to the end the respect and esteem of the people of the town.  She was a daughter of the late William O. Bellis, who many years ago kept a hotel on the spot now covered by the Presbyterian Church.  She leaves three brothers and four sisters here in Flemington - Jacob M., William C. and Andrew J. Bellis, and Mrs. P. W. Burk, Mrs. Jos. H. Higgins, Mrs. Jos. H. Fisher and Mrs. Eliza Kline.  Mr. Adam Bellis, of the Warren Journal, is also a brother.
 

Court Proceedings
    The December term of Court commenced last week.  The following cases were tried:
    John V. Melick v. Aaron S. Sutton.  This was an action for damages for obstructing a right of way of the plaintiff over lands of the defendant, by digging ditches across the way to permit his land to be drained of surface water.  The defence was that the digging was done with no intent to injure the way, but upon the contrary it was a benefit to the road.  Verdict for plaintiff $15.
 

A Birthday Celebration
    Mrs. Maria Park, relict of Col. James Park, residing near New Germantown, Hunterdon county, celebrated the eighty-fourth anniversary of her birthday on Thanksgiving Day.  Her children and grandchildren were present and none seemed younger than the old lady, who has never had but one serious illness in her life.  The history of some of her ancestors is peculiarly interesting. -  She was the daughter of Evart Bergan and Anna Van Deusen.  Hanson Bergen, the first in the line of ancestry, was born in Norway and came to this country in the year 1633 on the ship Salt Mountain, landing at New Amsterdam, now New York.  He married Sarah, daughter of Jansen de Rapslie.  She was the first white child of European parentage born in this colony, which comprised the States of New York, New Jersey and a portion of Connecticut....
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Elizabeth Angel died very suddenly at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Samuel Fretz, at Finesville, on Thursday morning of week before last.  She was standing at the stove preparing breakfast for her little grandson, apparently in good health and sank to the floor, expiring without a struggle.

    Hazen Bartow, of Allamuchy, Warren county, was found dead in the hay mow, on Tuesday.  He was a very penurious man, clothed almost in rags and did not live harmoniously with his family.  His home was in a sort of cave, in the mountain, and though he was supposed to be worth about $30,000, his relatives have not yet been able to find where he hid his money.

    We learn that a few days ago a baby of Mrs. John Mathews, near Pineville, Pa., was smothered to death by getting its head completely entangled and covered with bedclothing.

    Samuel Leigh Rodenbough, one of Easton's oldest citizens, died at his home on Saturday last, after a brief illness.  He was born in Bethlehem township, Hunterdon county, in 1817, and settled in Easton in 1831.  He was principally engaged in the wholesale grocery business.
 

Marriages

    In the Kirkpatrick Memorial Church, Ringoes, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., Nov. 25, Peter V. Drake, of Hopewell, and Leila B. Hunt, of Ringoes.

    Nov. 28, at the M. E. Parsonage, Norton, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Isaiah A. Apgar to Mary F. Cregar, both of Califon.

    Nov. 26, at the M. E. Parsonage, Peapack, by Rev. Amzi L. Smith, Eli Patry Melick and Francis Cole, al of Peapack.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Nov. 26, by Rev. A. B. Still, Austin J. Race and Mary Elmer Wright, both of Hunterdon county.

    At the residence of the bride's father, in High Bridge, Oct. 17, by Rev. C. E. Long, Isaac Smith and Emma Apgar, both of Hunterdon county.

    At Glen Garnder, Nov. 25, by Rev. J. W. Lake, Louis W. Worman and Leantha W. Bowlby, both of this county.

    Dec. 2, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Alzono Taylor Severs, of Trenton, to Rosselia A. Wilson, of Lambertville.

    At the residence of Aaron Howell, George S. Hahn and Fannie Wilson, by Rev. J. P. Krechting, Nov. 24, all of New Germantown.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Stanton, Dec. 3, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Edmund J. Painter, of Philadelphia, to Antha Huffman, of Stanton.

    Dec. 3, at the bride's residence, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, George Rea Hill and L. Anna Bowlby, both of Reaville.

    At the same place, by the same, D. Whitney Smith, of Flemington, and Cora L. Bowlby, of Reaville.
 

Deaths

    At Sunnyside, Oct. 26, 1885, William Case, aged about 72 years.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 1, 1885, Mrs. Mary F. Miller, aged 41 years.

    At Stockton, Nov. 30, 1885, Wm. Augustus, son of James and Elizabeth Sillery, aged 1 year and 1 month.
 
 

December 15, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 18

Death Of W. H. Vanderbilt
    On Tuesday afternoon last William H. Vanderbilt died quietly at his home in New York City, while in conversation with Robt. H. Garret of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.  He was stricken with apoplexy and fell at Mr. Garret's feet, where he expired instantly....

    Martin Convier, a leading citizen of Lodi, Texas, has been shot and killed by James Gray, his intimate friend.

    David J. Judd, a farmer from Green county, Ky., was on Wednesday found frozen stiff in the water underneath the Ohio River bridge at Louisville, Ky.  He had been drinking.

Death From Trichinosis
    The ten year old daughter of James Dunn, of Xenia, fourteen miles southwest of Wabash, died Monday evening from trichinosis.

    The marriage between Marianna Hunt Vanderveer, 14 year old daughter of a wealthy farmer at Manalapan, in Monmouth county, and James McCormack has been declared void by the Chancellor.  McCormack was a farm had hired by Vanderveer, ran away to Newton with the girl, took a room at a hotel blew out the gas and almost suffocated himself and her, was married to her the next afternoon, arrested by her pursuing father and hour later, locked up for several months, convicted of abduction and fined $400.

    The family of Frederick Hausmeyer, of Tarentum, two weeks ago ate a salad containing raw pork chopped fine.  Father, mother, three sons and three daughters were taken sick.  A son died of trichiniasis on Wednesday and the attending physician thinks the entire family will follow him in a few days.

    William Hooper, aged 12 years and David Knox, aged 10 years, were sliding on the ice on the outskirts of Reading, Pa., when Hooper broke through.  His companion went to his rescue, and both were drowned.

    Lott Schaw, aged about 23 years, died Wednesday at Canogo, N.Y., from religious excitement, producted at a revival meeting held at the M. E. Church there on Sunday, November 29.

    Mrs. Rooney, an old lady of Belleville, on Tuesday, was taken with an abnormal fit of laughter, which continued until Friday, when she died from paralysis of the brain.

    Patrick McLaughlin, a grocer of Gloucester City, died at the City Hall on Saturday, of delirium tremens.
 

Local Department

    For five hundred and fifty dollars, Mrs. Hannah Sutton has agreed to keep the poor of Kingwood township for the ensuing year.  Mrs. Sutton performed the same service last year.

    Mrs. James M. Duckworth, of Little York, died on the evening of the 5th inst. from apoplexy.

    A sudden death occurred at Kingwood on Friday morning, 4th inst.  Oscar Barcroft, son of Mr. Samuel Barcroft, was unloading corn stalks at the barn when he bursted a blood vessel and died before a physician could be summoned.  His age was about 24 years, and he leaves a wife and one child.

    We deeply regret to chronicle today the death of the young and estimable wife of Mr. George F. Hanson, our assistant Surrogate, which occurred yesterday (Sunday) morning at about 4 o'clock.  She had been a sufferer for some time from consumption, and her death was not altogether unexpected, though the end came much sooner than was anticipated.  She had been a loving bride of a little less than two years, and her taking off is a severe blow to her devoted husband.  She was a daughter of Captain Elisha E. Holcombe, of Mt. Airy.

Silver Wedding
    Relatives and friends to the number of nearly one hundred, assembled at the comfortable residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Shepperd, on Broad street, this place, last Saturday afternoon and evening, Dec. 12th, to participate in the celebration of their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary.
 

    Mr. and Mrs. George L. Van Sickle, of Newton, celebrated their golden wedding on December 3.  There were present on the occasion six brothers and sisters of the groom who had been present at the original wedding.  All are married and living in New Jersey.
 

Marriages

    At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Dec. 9, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Wilmer Bellis and Lizzie Morris, both of Kingwood.

    At the Parsonage, Babylon, L.I., Dec. 9, by Rev. J. C. Hume, Floyd S. Pearsall, of Babylon, to Emma S. Housel, daughter of Horace P. Housel, Esq., formerly of Ringoes.

    At the residence of the bride's brother, Lewis C. Gethard, Annandale, Dec. 2, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Isaac W. Hendershot, of Lebanon, to Arabell Gethard, of Annandale.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, near Three Bridges, Dec. 5, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, John L. Schenck, of Blawenburg, and Mary E. Crouse, of Three Bridges.

    At the parsonage, Reaville, Dec. 5, by the same, Stephen Stout and Sarah A. Godown, both of Three Bridges.

    Dec. 10, at the bride's residence, by the same, Isaac R. Crum and Maggie K. Smith, of Copper Hill.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Quakertown, Nov. 18, by the Friends' Ceremony, E. Ellsworth Case and Rebecca H. Vail, daughter of A. R. Vail.

    At the home of the bride's father, by Rev. Stephen H. Jones, Taylor Suydam, of Quakertown, to Rose Stout, of Alexandria township.

    At the home of the bride's father, by Rev. S. H. Jones, Miller Hildebrant, of Washington, to Lucinda Stout, of Alexandria township.

    By the Rev. S. D. Decker, of Frenchtown, Thomas M. Robinson, of Jersey City, to Emma O. Alpaugh, of Little York.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Baptisttown, Nov. 18, by Elder Wm. J. Purrington, Oliver R. Roberson, of Brooklyn, to Etta Brewer.

    At Quakertown, Nov. 28, by Rev. C. Clark, Charles Lanning to Belle Dalrymple, of Everittstown.

    At Quakertown, Nov. 28, by Rev. C. H. Woolston, Walter S. Apgar to Josephine Diamond, both of Stockton.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 29, by Rev. Father Brady, John Moonan, of Stockton, to Elizabeth Callan, of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 24, by Rev. Father Brady, Wilson Price to Hannah Dever, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Oct. 28, by Rev. Father Brady, Thomas McNally to Bridget O'Laughlin, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Dec. 10, Achsah, wife of Joseph B. Lake, in the 55th year of her age.

    In Flemington, Dec. 13, 1885, Carrie B., wife of George F. Hanson, aged 23 years, 2 months and 25 days.  Relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Presbyterian Church.
 
 

December 22, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 19

Twleve Persons Killed
    One of the most terrible railroad accidents ever known in Georgia occurred last Tuesday night at midnight, fifteen miles from Atlanta, on the Georgia Pacific Road....  The following persons on the Georgia Pacific train were killed or have since died:  Bernard Peyton, of Charlotteville, Va.; Nathan Hanley, of Anniston, Ala.; Jacob and Mary Banks, of Jonesboro, Ga.; B. Bright and wife and two children, of Jonesboro.  Bright being son-in-law of Banks;  a wealthy Texan named Pierce, of Aberdeen Texas, and E. T. Huyty, of Eastport, Ga.  Two children who are dead are unknown.

    On Tuesday about one o'clock the bodies of Joseph Stiles and Sylvester Smith were found in the canal at South Easton.  Both worked at Stewart & Co.'s wire mills on the night shift.  It is not known when the left the mill, but Stiles' watch stopped at two o'clock, and they were at the mill a short time before that.  Both leave families.

Burned To Death
    At an early hour last Wednesday morning, the house of Frank Knoch, a German who kept a farm and market garden near Detroit, Mich., was discovered to be in flames.  When the ruins had sufficiently cooled an hour's persistent search revealed the charred bodies of Knoch and his wife.  A little distance from them were found the charred body of a child.  Knoch's two children, George, aged three years and Frank Albert, aged nine months, were in the house at the time, but which of these the body represented cannot be ascertained, owing to its condition.

    At Laurel, Miss., Celia Perryman, colored, and her two children, a boy and a girl, aged respectively 8 and 11 years, were murdered on Wednesday.  Sam Wilson, colored, aged about 22 years, had during the absence of the mother and boy, attempted to outrage the girl and then killed her with an ax.  He enticed the boy into the house and slew him.  The mother returned while Wilson was in the house, and he immediately killed her.  The fiend was captured and lynched.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Jacob Johnson, formerly of Hamdem Mills, died suddenly from paralysis at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. C. Kuhl Kline, in this town, last Thursday.

    Samuel D. Barcroft, father of Oscar Barcroft, whose death was announce last week, died on Sunday evening, 13th inst., on the farm where he was born in Kingwood township.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Shimer, of Still Valley, had a stroke of apoplexy on Wednesday of week before last, at noon, and died at 11 o'clock the same night.  He was found unconscious near his barn, by hte side of a basket of corn, that he had taken from the crib to feed his horse.

    Sadie, the three year old daughter of Edward Mason, of Rocky Hill, was burned to death Tuesday evening.  She and her brother were playing about the stove when her clothes took fire.  She was frightfully burned and lingered in intense agony for about three yours.

    George W. Hartman, a well known and for many years a prominent business man at Hope, Warren county, died in that place on Sunday.
 

Clover Hill Items

    Mr. John Sharp, one of the oldest residents of the village, was buried here on Monday of week before last, at the advanced age of 90 years.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, Dec. 5, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Fennimore Boozer Bailey, of West Amwell, to Ella O'Daniel, of Lambertville.

    Dec. 12, at the M. E. Parsonage, New Germantown, by Rev. G. H. Winans, George A. Eick and Cora I. Reed, both of Apgar's Corner.

    At High Bridge, Dec. 5, by Rev. W. Hackett, Wm. Forrester and Millie Castner, both of Lebanon township.

    At Sunnyside, Dec. 9, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Theodore W. Higgins, of Ringoes and Arabella R. Compton, of Sunnyside.

    At Port Colden, Dec. 3, by Rev. J. G. Mathis, Stewart B. Miller, of Warren Co., and Lizzie Coleman, of Hunterdon Co.

    Dec. 10, at Annandale, by Rev. G. Wyckoff, Oscar Terry, of Plainfield, to N. Vini Smith of Annandale.

    At Ringoes, Nov. 25, by Rev. John Scarlet, Theodore Polhemus, of Clover Hill, and Anna M. Strkyer, of Wertsville.

    At the Readington parsonage, Dec. 9, by Rev. B. V. D. Wyckoff, Bergen T. Hendershot and Matilda J. Mannon, both of Flemington.

    At the residence of D. C. Sharp, Lebanon, Dec. 16, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Lewis Hendershot to Emma D. Hoagland, both of Clinton township.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, December 16th, 1885, Jane, wife of Samuel Johnson, aged 46 years.

    At Three Bridges, Dec. 7, 1885, Henrietta Saums, aged 43 years, 10 months and 16 days.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 8, 1885, Martha Hartpence, wife of Elmer Hartpence, aged 27 years.

    At White House Station, Dec. 15, 1885, Lizzie, wife of Hugh Doren, of Flemington, aged 45 years.

    Near Sergeantsville, Nov. 29, 1885, Eleanor, wife of Joseph Smith, aged 74 years, 3 months and 20 days.

    In Frenchtown, Dec. 16, 1885, Elmer E. Bonham, aged 24 years, 4 months and 5 days.
 
 

December 29, 1885, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 20

Gored To Death
    The town of Milford, Conn., was horrified by the terrible affair which resulted in the death of Town Treasurer David Miles.  Mr. Miles was a well to do farmer and fancy stock breeder, who lived on Gulf street...  On Monday morning Mr. Miles went out to the barn to feed his stock.  Hours passed, and as he did not return Edward Miles, his son, becoming alarmed, went to the barn in search of his father.  When he opened the door to the bull's box stall a horrible sight met his gaze...

A Victim of Hallucination
    George W. Kelpin, a Philadelphia painter, died at his residence on Sunday morning of exhaustion, the resutl of abstaining from food to rid himself of a witch of which he imagined he was possessed.

    Philip Brady, his wife and sister-in-law, while out driving on Saturday last, attempted to cross the track directly in front of the Chicago express on the Erie Railroad, at Goshen, N.Y.  The cowcatcher of the engine struck the vehicle smashing it to splinters.  Mr. Brady was killed outright and his wife received fatal injuries.  His son-in-law was thrown some distance, but received only slight hurts.  Mr. Brady and his wife had only been married one month.

A Terrible Death
    Last Wednesday morning, John G. Bertholf, who worked on a farm near Sugar Loaf, in Orange county, met with a terrible death while under the influence of liquor.  Bertholf and a man named Geo. Bennett had been drinking heavily, after which they started for home.  Between Warwick and Florida, they stopped along the roadside and built a fire.  Both men then laid down and soon were sound asleep.  After sleeping for some time, Bennett was aroused by the groan of his companion, and found that he had rolled into the fire and was writhering in agony from terrible burns about the entire body...  Securing assistance at Sugar Loaf, he rushed back to the spot where poor Bertholf was lying, and the dying man was soon removed to his home.  Bertholf's wife was visiting in Patterson at the time, and three small children were at home.  Bertholf died the following morning.  He was only 30 years of age.
 

Marriages

    Dec. 16, by Rev. J. B. Mathis, Charles E. Huff, of Stillwater, Sussex Co., and Laura Inscho, of Mt. Lebanon, Hunterdon county.

    At the Readington parsonage, Dec. 19, by Rev. B. V. D. Wyckoff, Stephen L. Cole, of Three Bridges and Viola C. Dalley, of Centreville.

    In Trenton, Dec. 16, by Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D. D., Thomas B. Murfit, of Centre Bridge, Pa., and Mary Virginia Phillips, of Lambertville.

    At the Clinton M. E. Parsonage, Dec. 18, by Rev. T. H. Jacobus, Eugene M. Bently and Elsie Odell, all of Mansfield, Pa.

    Dec. 12, by Rev. W. H. McCormick, Mantha W. Crater, of Fremont, N.J., to Lizzie Apgar, of High Bridge.

    Dec. 19, at the Frenchtown M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Jeremiah McPherson of Cherryville, to Adda Sutton, of Baptisttown.

    Dec. 19, at High Bridge, by Rev. W. H. McCormick, Oliver Sheets, of Stanton, to Jemima Mattis, of Lebanon.

    Dec. 19, by Rev. C. R. Snyder, Ross C. Trimmer to Jennie C. Starker, both of Lower Valley.

    At Baptisttown, Dec. 24 by Rev. Geo. B. Young, Geo. H. Marple, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Louisa E. Heath, of Delaware township.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Dec. 19, by Elder Charles W. Moore, John W. Bush, of Croton, to Anna Buchanan, youngest daughter of Peter Buchanan, Esq., of Sergeantsville.

    Dec. 24, at the M. E. Parsonage, Peapack, N.J., by Rev. Amzi L. Smith, William Hazel and Emma L. Huffman, all of Chester, N.J.

    Dec. 24, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Hiram D. Hoppock and Lizzie Horn, both of Delaware township.

    On the same date, by the same, at the Locktown Christian parsonage, McClellan Stryker, of Tumble Station, and Kate Rockafellow, of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At Reaville, Dec. 2, 1885, Augustus S. Case, aged 48 years, 2 months and 4 days.

    In Flemington, Dec. 17, 1885, Christianna Johnson, relict of the late Jacob M. Johnson, aged 82 years.

    Dec. 19, 1885, at Stanton, Howard, only son of Peter and Clara E. Daniels, aged 8 months.

    Dec. 18, 1885, at Clover Hill, Mrs. Kate Newell, wife of Aaron T. Dilts, aged 40 years.

    At her residence in Flemington, Dec. 3, 1885, Eleanor, wife of N. Green Smith, in the 75th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 18, 1885, Louisa T. Johnson, widow of the late Ira Johnson, aged 72 years and 9 months.
 

Local Department

    Thomas Ogden, aged forty years, employed as car inspector at White House Station was crushed between the bumpers of two coal cars last Wednesday, and was taken insensible to Elizabeth City Hospital.  His injuries will probably result fatally.  He is a life long resident of Elizabeth.
    LATER - We have since learned that Ogden died from his injuries on Thursday night.
 

Court Proceedings
    The Court of Quarter Sessions was continued part of last week.  The following indictments were tried:

    The State v. Emanuel Sutton.  This was an indictment for assault and battery upon David Sanderson.  The defendant was the tenant of Col. Sanderson, and under the lease the Colonel was to have access to the smoke house.  Finding it locked one day, he endeavored to break in with an axe, and was prevented by the defendant, who handled him quite roughly.  Verdict, guilty.

    In the Common Pleas, upon apeal, the case of Isaiah Philhower v. Harmon Sutton was tried.  This was a suit for damages for the value of a dog which it was claimed the defendant killed.  The defendant was awakened in the night by a disturbance among his sheep, and seeing a dog worrying the sheep, shot at it.  Sometime afterwards a dead dog was found in a field in the neighborhood, which was supposed to be the one shot, and to belong to the plaintiff.  In the trail before the Justice, a verdict of $50 was rendered the plaintiff.  Upon the appeal, a verdict was rendered for the defendant.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Elias Morgan, a Phillipsburg man, was struck by a Valley train, near Chain Dam, on Tuesday night and instantly killed.  The body was shockingly mangled.

    Mrs. Henry P. Smith, of Somerville, has received a pension amounting to $2,148, on account of her son, who was disabled in the army in 1863, and who shortly afterwards died from the effects of his injuries.

    Garret Q. Brokaw, son of Alex. Brokaw, of Harlingen, lately a resident of Linden, was killed on the Lehigh Valley R.R., last Wednesday near Woodbridge.  He was walking on the track between Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, and was instatnly killed by being struck in the back by a train in rounding a curve.

    Little Sadie, a three year old daughter of Mr. Edward Mason, of Rocky Hill, met with a terrible accident on Tuesday evening, 15th inst.  She and a little brother were playing about the stove when her clothes took fire, and before assistance arrived she was so terribly burned that she died in about three hours.

    George W. Hartman, once a prominent druggist in Hope, Warren county, died suddenly on the 13th inst.  He was 45 years of age, and the Coroner's opinion was that death resulted from alcoholic poisoning.  He leaves a wife whose health is somewhat impaired.

    L. L. Compton, the well known confectioner, of Plainfield, died of apoplexy on Tuesday.  He was 66 years old, and has been engaged in the candy business at Plainfield for twenty-five years.  His wfie was Miss Catharine Kurtz, of Washington Valley, who with two sons and a daughter survive him.

    Aunt Liddy, an old negress, died at Phillipsburg on Monday night at the advanced age of one hundred and ten years.  Sixty years ago she was purchased by Henry Winters of a man named Tinsman, in Greenwich township, Warren county, for $1 and had been with the family ever since.  She went with the father to Wisconsin and when he died she was willed to Sharps Winters, a son, who brought her back to Phillipsburg.  She was a mute all her life but had always been very active.

    One morning recently, Jacob Brodt, an old hermit, living under the shadow of Jack's Hill, was found dead in his small cabin.  He was 89 years old.
 

State Items

    Mr. Ellis Preston, of Bordentown, died at his home on Sunday from the bursting of a blood vessel in the nostril.  He bled to death.  He was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight agent.

    William E. Corey, better known as "Col. Corey," who died at the Soldier's Home at Newark, a few days ago, lived a hermits life at Brown's Mill, in Burlington County, for many years.  His age was 60 years.

    Jacob A. Stivers, a farmer at Beemerville, Sussex County, fell on Monday while climbing over a fence, and broke his neck.  He and his son had been to a moutain wood lot two miles away.  At 4 o'clock he started to walk home, taking a short route across the fields, while his son drove around by the way of the road.  The deceased was found by his son two hours later.  Mr. Stivers was a model farmer and was noted for his integrity.  He left a widow, three daughters and two sons.  He was sixty-five years old.