Jan. 6, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 10 (1572)

Marriages

    At the Pottersville Parsonage, December 24th, by Rev. Thomas W. Jones, William H. Todd, of Pottersville to Annie M. Rinehart, of Union Grove.

    At Copper Hill, N.J., December 22, 1868, by the Rev. Dr. John L. Janeway, at the residence of the bride's father, Isaac Hughes, of N.Y., to Lida S., daughter of J. H. Kuhl, Esq.

     On Thursday, December 31st, 1868, by Rev. Jos. W. Dalley, David H. Turner of Baptisttown, to Lottie Hall, of Clinton, N.J.

     December 2d, 1868, by Rev. N. L. Upham, Henry S. Rynearson, of Blawenburgh, to Hannah M. Higgins, of Westsville.

 
Deaths from Drowning
    A sad event took place at Stockton, on Tuesday last.  Two sons of Mr. James Maginnis, in company with another boy, were skating on the feeder, just above the bridge.  It was only partly frozen over, and they were skating near the edge of the open water, when the ice broke.  Charles Maginnis, the eldest, aged eleven years, fell in first, when his youngest brother, aged nine, and the other boy went to his assistance, when they also fell in.  The two Maginnis boys were carried under the ice by the current, and the other boy held on to the edge of the broken ice and kept his head above water until rescued.  The bodies of the two boys were got out in about ten minutes after the occurrence, but they were both beyond recovery, although every
effort was made to resuscitate them.
 

    Miss Fannie K. Taylor, a beautiful and promising young lady of about 16 years, was drowned at New Market, on the 23d ult.  A party were skating on the pond at that place, when Miss Taylor and a Miss Emma Ayres, broke through.  Miss Ayres was rescued and although every effort was made to save the other lady, she sank in the deep water.  The body was recovered.
 
 

Jan. 13, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 21 (1573)

Marriages

    On the 29th ult., at the bride's residence, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Joseph S. Smith, to Sallie J. Richey, both of Asbury, N.J.

    On the 31st ult., at the M. E. Parsonage, in Asbury, by the same, George Fritts, to Rececca P. Bell, both of Clarksville.

    On the 29th ult., at Croton, by Rev. William Humpstone, Sylvester Robbins, of Flemington, to Elizabeth Robinson, of Croton.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, on Tuesday, January 5th, by Rev. Mr. Wines, William Muirheid to Clara W., youngest daughter of the late William Pearsall, all of Jersey City.

    Near Little York, January 2d, by the Rev. C. S. Conkling, John A. Van Syckle, to Hannah Mettler, daughter of the late Jonathan Mettler.

    In Trenton, Dec. 24th, 1868, by Rev. W. E. Perry, Elias Kulp, of Lambertville, to Maggie E. Nice, of New Hope, Pa.

    On the 29th ult., by Rev. H. M. Brown, Edward Westner, and Susan E. Phillips, both of West Amwell, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.

    On the 31st ult., by the same, Amos T. Dalrymple, of Mercer Co., N.J. and Lavinia Stockton, of Stockton, N.J.

    On the 29th inst., at German Valley, by Rev. J. Alstyn Blauvelt, Wm. Hunt, Esq., of Philadelphia, to Abbie Hebbler, of German Valley.
 

Deaths

    On Tuesday, of heart disease, at the residence of Mr. Wm. Price, of New Germantown, Mrs. Susan Trimmer, aged seventy.

    Near Ringoes, December 28th, 1868, James B. Moore, in the 27th year of his age.
 

Death of Commodore Salter
    Commodore Salter, of the United States Navy, died at Elizabeth City on Monday last, in his 75th year...
 

Horrible Death
    A colored man named Boice was suffocated by the caving in of a well on Wednesday last which he was engaged in digging at the new building in course of erection at Bound Brook by Mr. Jas. M. Thompson...
 
 

Jan. 20, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 22 (1574)

Marriages

    January 16th, 1869, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Benjamin Bradfield, of New York, to Rosa C., youngest daughter of John J. Combs, of Flemington.

    January 6th, 1869, by Rev. N. L. Upham, at the Reaville Parsonage, Lewis Baker of Readington, to Anna D. Housel, of East Amwell.

    January 9th, 1869, by the same, at the same place, John Wesley Biddle, to Anna Tunison, both of Flemington.

    At the M.E. Parsonage, Andover, Sussex Co., N.J., January 6th, by Rev. W. B. Wigg, William S. Lawshe, of Oakdale, to Carrie C. Green of Headquarters, Hunterdon Co., N.J.
 

Deaths

    In New Germantown, N.J., November 16th, 1868, Elisha Waldron, aged 59 years, 7 months and 29 days.
 
 

Jan. 27, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 23 (1575)

Marriages

    At Little York, January 12th, 1869, at the residence of Wm. J. Duckworth, Esq., by the Rev. John L. Grant, of Easton, Pa., Dr. John H. Lesh, of Tannersville, Monroe County, Pa., to Mary E. Kistler, of the same place.

    Near Little York, January 2d, by Rev. S. C. Conkling, John A. Van Syckle, to Hannah Mettler, daughter of late Jonathan Mettler.

    January 13th, at Clinton, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Jacob Austin Leigh, and Cinderella Runkle, both of Clinton.

    January 16th, at Sidney, by the same, Theodore J. Cramer, of Clinton, and Elizabeth Hoppough, of Union township.

    January 19th, 1869, by the Rev. M. F. Swaim, Larrison D. Carhart, of Clinton, to Mary A. Frace, of Pittstown.

    At the same time, by the same, Samuel H. Boss, to Lydia Frace,  of the same places respectively.

    Janaury 21st, by Rev. R. Thomas, at the residence of A. K. Wagner, Augustus Wilson, of West Amwell, to Jane Lair, of Oakdale.
 

Deaths

    At Everittstown, on Wednesday, the 6th instant, Mrs. Elizabeth Kase, widow of the late Samuel Kase, aged 88 years, 5 months and 6 days.

    In Flemington, December 30th, 1868, of Diptheria, Sarah Jane Poulson, daughter of James and Rhoda Housell, aged 4 years, 5 months and 24 days.
 

Suicide
    On Saturday morning last, Henry A. Emery, a respectable citizen of Clinton, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol.  Mr. Emery was laboring under a depression of spirits caused by financial difficulties.  He lease
a wife.
 

    A horrible death-bed confession of poisoning by Mrs. White, in Sussex county, turns out to have been the wanderings of a mind clouded by morphine and brandy, taken to sustain a consumptive in her last moments.
 

Death from Poisoned Candies
    A little girl of four years of age, named Goline Doremus, living with her parents in Paterson, died on Thursday night last from the effect of eating candies which ar suppposed to have been colored with poisonous matter.  They were eated by the child in Newark on Christmas, since which time she has been suffering greatly, the skin breaking out in sores and the body swelling until death put an end to her agony.
 
 

Feb. 3, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 24 (1576)

Marriages

    January 21st, by Rev. R. Vanamburgh, John C. Hockenbury, of Readington, to Elizabeth Rowland, of Clinton.

    January 23d, by the same, Nathan A. Conover, to Sarah A Crate, both of Lebanon.

    Near Mount Pleasant, N.J., on Tuesday, monring January 19th, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, D. Alfred Tinsman, of Easton, Pa., to Emma Francelia Runyan, youngest daughter of Oakley Runyan, Esq.

    At the residence of the bride's father, in Kingwood, on the 20th instant, by the Rev. S. Sproul, Daniel B. Hawk, to Mary Eliza, only daughter of J. Wesley Johnson.

    Also, at the same time and place, Nelson M. Thatcher, to Mariah, daugher of Joseph Opdycke.

    By Elder R. Hyde, on the 23d of January, at the residence of the bride's father, William B. Potts, to Sarah A. Bush, daughter of Sidney Bush, near Croton.
 

Deaths

    January 25th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Levi M. Metler, Esq., in Readington township, Sarah Job, at an advanced age.

    George H. Allen, formerly of Rosemont, this County, died at Princess Ann, Maryland, last week.
 
 

Feb. 10, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 25 (1577)

Crushed to Death
    On Monday of last week, George Apgar, of California, was instantly killed at High Bridge.  He had just commenced his first day's work on Taylor's dam, and was excavating the embankment for earth not frozen.  He had not worked two hours when a hugh rock weighing two tons, which was on the hillside, having had its support removed, was preciptated upon Mr. Apgar, crushing him to death.  He leaves a family.
 

Obituary
    We learn with profound regret that our old and esteemed friend Jonathan Pickel, has departed his life at this residence in Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon County....  As a private citizen, Mr. Pickel was without reproach, and in domestic relation he had no superior.  He has left to mourn his loss an aged wife and several children and grandchildren, ...  His remains will be interred at Mount Pleasant on Wednesday at about noon, ..
 

    Hon. S. R. Magonagle, of Cape Island, who died week before last, had his life insured to the amount of $5000.  We understand that C. S. Magrath, of the Burlington Enterprise, will undertake the management of the Ocean Wave, the paper of which the late Mr. Magonagle was editor.
 
 

Feb. 17, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 26 (1578)

Marriages

    At the Lutheran Parsonage, January 26, 1869, by Rev. David Kline, Andrew Vansyckle, of Warren county, to Emily Martin, of Clarksville, Hunterdon county.

    At the Pottersville Parsonage, January 28, by Rev. Thomas W. Jones, Morris Crater of Chester, to Matilda L. Swick, of Pottersville.

    On the 28th ult, by Rev. J. C. Duy, Peter Lane to Emma J. Rinehart all of New Germantown.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, on Wednesday evening, February 10th, Carrie Callis.

    At Ney, Illinois, February th 7th, 1869, from teething, Robert S., infant son of George II and Mary Ann Kesler, aged 6 months and 4 days, grandson of Robert Smith, formerly of New Jersey.

    At his residence, Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon county, after a long illness, on the 7th inst., Jonathan Pickel, in the seventy first year of his age.
 

Sudden Death
    On Saturday last, Mrs. Eleanor Polhemus, a widow lady, residing at Reaville, fell from her chair a corpse...  The deceased was an old and highly respected resident ...
 
 

Feb. 24, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 27 (1579)

Marriages

    At the Baptist Parsonage, Stockton, 13th inst., by Rev. J. S. Hut?, Wesley W. Snyder, of Delaware township, and Emma Johnson, of Kingwood.

    January 20th, 1869, by the Rev. M. F. Swaim, Elijah R. Robinson, to Frances E. Best, all of Pittstown, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, February 14th, George William, son of Elijah and Annie E. Dalrymple, aged 2 years and 17 days.
 

Death of S. G. Stockton
    Mr. S. G. Stockton, the well-known undertaker, died at his residence in Lambertville, on last Sunday afternoon... the remains to Mount Hope Cemetery, where they were interred...
 
 

Mar. 3, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 28 (1580)

    On Friday last E. H. Tower formerly of Pittsburg; R. J. Williams, his son-in-law, of Monongahela City; William Larnell, of Wooster, Ohio; Beckwith Sears, of Morgantown, and Stockton Harvey, of Monongahela City left Morgantown, Va., in a skiff for New Geneva, Pa., and have not since been heard from.  It is supposed they have been drowned, as a skiff has been found floating bottom upwards and the hat of one of the parties found with it.
 

Marriages

    January 20th, 1869, by Rev. J. R. Willox, George E. Salter of Fairmount, to Margaret Ann Pitney, of Chester, Morris County.
 

Sudden Death
    Through inadvertance, we failed last week to announce the very sudden death of our old friend, William S. Servis, which occurred at his residence in Ringoes, on the 16th ult.
 

Notice
    By virtue of a warrant issued by the Township Committee of the township of Kingwood, in the County of Hunterdon, against John T. Hewit, to the subscriber, colletor of taxes in and for said township, directed and delivered, I will sell on Thursday, the 15th day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, ... all that tract of land owned by said Hewit, situate in said township, adjoining lands of John Sutton, Jacob G. Gordon, Moses Bonham, and George D. Rittenhouse, ...
 
 

Mar. 10, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 29 (1581)

    J. N. Ford and wife were found murdered in their house near Lebanan, Ind., on Friday morning last.   The murderer is unknown.

    A nergo girl named Louisa Fields, a nurse in the family of J. E. Mosely, of Louisville, Ky., caused Mrs. Mosely's two year old boy to drink lye, which resulted in his death.

Kissing His Wife While Dying of Hydrophobia
    Mr. Eckerson, who died of hydrophobia at Saddle River had to be held by five or six men, and during his lucid intervals begged to kiss his wife, who was very ill in another part of the house.  Just before this last dreadful fit he pleaded so piteously to kiss her once more before he died, that, risking the consequences, they took her to his bed...
 

Marriages

    February 18th, near Perryville, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Jesse L. Lake, of Bethlehem township and Mary C. Snyder, of Union township.
 

Deaths

    February 27th, 1869, in Alexandria township, Samuel Besson, aged 73 years.

    February 18th, in Delaware township, after a long and lingering illness of four years, Lemuel Naylor, aged 29 years and 6 months.

    In East Amwell township, February 26th, 1869, Ruth Labaw, relict of the late James Labaw, aged about 95 years.
 

Death of an Aged Lady
    Through the kindness of our venerable friend, Charles Ewing, Esq., we learn of the death of Mrs. Ruth Labaw, which occurred at her residence in East Amwell township, on the 26th ult.  Deceased was 95 years of age at the time of her death, and we believe the oldest person in the township.
 
 

Mar. 17, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 30 (1582)

Marriages

    February 25th, 1869, by Rev. Uriah B. Guirscard, Wm. Watson F. Swearer, of Pittstown to Josie A. Brown, of New York City.
 

Deaths

    At Rahway, March 8th, of consumption, Elijah Hewitt, son of John T. Hewitt, formerly of Flemington.

    In Flemington, February 21st, 1869, William Swallow, Sen., aged 75 years.

    March 14th, Anna Selinda, daughter of W. J. and Mary Hiff, aged 6 months and 24 days.

    Suddenly, in Clinton township, on Sunday, March 14th, 1869, William Sharp, aged about 45 years.
 

Junction, March 6th, 1869
    Our little town was thrown into excitment on Tuesday of this week, by the announcement that a human being had been terribly mangled at the railroad station.  A young man, named Gearhart, a resident of Scranton, and employed as brakeman on a coal train on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, stepped from his train at the above named place, to the track of the C. R. P., and was run over by another train...  He lived forty-eight yours after the accident.  A young wife is left to mourn his loss.
 

    While the above was still before our eyes, a son of Morris Bowlby, living at this place, fell from a train on the same road on the which he was employed, the cars passing over his body and killing him instantly.  Deceased was 17 years of age.
 
 

Mar. 24, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 31 (1583)

Marriages

    March 13th, 1869, by the Rev. R. Van Amburg, Jacob Hyler, of Readington, to Mrs. Mary Jane Haver, of Clinton.

    At Trenton, N.J., on the 11th inst., by the Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, Amos Trimmer and Elizabeth Ott, both of Frenchtown, N.J.

    In Philadelphia, by Rev. William Cathcart, on the first of November, 1868, Adley B. Lawrence, of St. Louis, to Mary B. Hummer, daughter of William Hummer, of Kingwood township, New Jersey.
 

Deaths

    In Readington township, March 15th, 1869, John York, Ser., aged about 89 years.

    March 9th, 1869, Mrs. Jerusha Webster, aged about 84 years.
 

Death of an Aged Lady
    Mrs. Margaret Cox, relict of Albert Cox, died at her residence in this place, on Monday at the advanced age of 82 years.
 

Strange Case of Syncope and Death
    The Jersey City Standard of the 16th instant, records the sudden death of Miss Rebecca W. Talcott, daughter of the late Wm. H. Talcott, Esq., the former President of the Morris Canal Company, which  sad event occurred at 5 o'clock this morning... Miss Talcott was an estimable young lady, twenty three years of age, ...
 
 

Mar. 31, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 32 (1584)

 Another Mysterious Tragedy.
    Philadelphia, March 25 - Last evening the body of Joseph W. Smith, janitor of Girard Hall, corner of Sixth street and Girard avenue, was found in the building with his hands and feet tied, and a pistol bullet in his head, which caused his death.  He was an unmarried man and lived in the building....
 

Fatal R. R. Accident
    Three women - a Mrs. Coffee and her two daughters - of Still River, Mass., were run over by the cars near Groton Junction, on Friday morning last, while crossing the Fitchburg R. R. in a sleigh.  The two daughters - between 20 and 23 years of age - were killed and the mother very severely injured.
 

Marriages

    March 17th, by Rev. I. Poulson, Charles R. Adams, and Margaret Rudebock, all of Newark, N.J.

    March 17th, by Rev. R. Vanamburgh, George Sharp to Sarah S. Kline, all of Clinton.

    On the 23d inst., by the Rev. James Y. Mitchell, William B. Burk to Lind J. Knause, both of Philadelphia.
 
 

Apr. 7, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 33 (1585)

    Thomas C. Bowie, nephew of Reverdy Johnson, and of the present Governor of Maryland, was killed by falling into a cellar in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday night last.
 

Marriages

    March 20th, by Rev. John R. Willox, James S. Smith to Mary Catharine Lindaberry, both of Tewksbury, Hunterdon County.
 

Deaths

    At Neshanic, March 22d, 1868 (9), Hannah N. Van Camp, wife of Calvin Corle, in the 35th year of her age.
 

Horrible Butchery - Phila. Evening Star, March 31.
    ... The murdered family lived at No. 815 Judson street, a small thoroughfare running south from Parrish street, above Twenty-third, in the Fifteenth ward.  The family consisted of James L. Blackstone, Isabella Lee Blackstone, Lee Blackstone and Catharine Blackstone.  The two first named were husband and wife, and the latter their offspring...  (Husband axed wife and children then drowned himself).  Mrs. Blackstone was in her thirty-fourth year..  The names of the children were Lee Blackstone and Catharine Lee Blackstone.  She (Catharine Lee) was but three years and two months old.  Lee, the little boy, had nearly reached his ninth year.
 
 

Apr. 14, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 34 (1586)

    Madame Olga Van Plittendorff, a German actress, committed suicide at San Francisco, on Tuesday night last, owing to grief for the death of her husband.

    Rev. Mr. Gibbs, a minister of the Dunkard church, has died from the excessive vivacity of a party of ingenious youths, near Lancaster Pa., with whom he remonstrated for their misconduct at an auction, and who answered him by playfully throwning him again
st the ceiling until his skull gave way.
 
 

Apr. 21, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 35 (1587)

    David H. Carpenter was executed at Angelica, Allegheny county, N.Y., on Friday last,for the murder of his brother, Richard E. Capenter, in September last.

    Col. Edwin Wright Morgan, Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University, died at Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday morning last.

    Philip Dietrick hanged himself, while drunk at Buffalo, on Friday last.  He leave five children and a wife in the insane asylum.

    Mrs. Thurston Dame died at Utica, N.Y., on Friday last, from burns received by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp the night before.
 

Deaths

    At Newark, N.J., April 12, 1869, Joakim Hill in the 87th year of his age.
 

Fatal Accident
    On Monday of last week, Peter Wyckoff, a farmer living near White House Station, met with an accident causing him the loss of two valuable horses and through which one human being lost his life....  When the horses struck the cars (train), the shock was so great that they were thrown back some distance, striking a Mr. Cozine, an old resident of that vicinity, throwing him with great force against a truck, injuring him so severely that he died on the following Wednesday.

 
Court - The April term
    The Circuit Court list was then taken up - No. 7, Sutton vs Johnson, replevin, Bird & Voorhees - Allen was put off by consent.

    For Argument - No. 1. Sutton vs. Kiple; certiorai.  Bird & Voohees - Schomp. Off till next term.
 
 

Apr. 28, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 36 (1588)

    Four Children Burned to Death.  From the Flemingsburg (Ky.) Democrat, we copy the following; On last Thursday night, about 10 o'clock, the house of Mr. Nelson Hurst, about one mile and a half from Poplar Plains, in this county, burned up and four of his children perished in the flames.  Mr. Hurst and his wife went over to his father's, about one and a half miles distance, to spend the night, leaving the house in charge of his children, seven in number, the oldest a young lady in her teens.... The four children who perished are the oldest.
 

State Items -

    A Mrs. Honey, a woman of about 70 years, hung herself in the woods near Stillwater, Sussex County, on Thursday of week before last.

    Robert Stoddard, aged 45 years of Quaker Settlement, Warren county, committed suicide by hanging himself on Friday.  Insanity.

    A little child of John McClary, of Bridgeborro, near Camden, was accidently burned to death a few days ago, by its clothes taking fire in a field where its father was buring brushwood.
 
 

May 5, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 37 (1589)

    At Montgomery, Ohio, Thursday, Alonzo C. Mueller was shot dead, while dining with his family, by Abrahma Crest, his brother-in-law.  They were disputing about a family matter.

    Louis Lane, colored, was hanged for wife murder, at Pittsburg, last Thursday.  He had four wives, and had served six years in jail for attempting to poison his third.
 

Drowned
    We learn from the Warren Journal, that a little daughter of John McMurtrie, of Belvidere, was discovered in a cistern last Friday afternoon.  The little girl had been given a piece of cake by its mother and is supposed to have gone to the ciste
rn for a drink.
 
 

May 12, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 38 (1590)

Marriages

    On the 1st inst., by Rev. John R. Willox, William J. Bidby to Mary E. Lesh, both of Morris county.

    On the 8th ult., at Asbury, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Christopher Shrope, of Union to Mary E. Walker of Clinton.

    On the 17th ult., by Rev. David Kline, Thomas McCann of Clarksville, to Lidia C. Anthony of White Hall.

    On the 24th ult., at the M. E. Parsonage in Lambertville, by the Rev. H. M. Brown, J. W. Opdycke and Sarah Jane Housel, of Flemington, N.J.

    At the same time by the same, Theodore Stewart and Rachel Ann Alles, of Flemington, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Readington, February 6, 1869, Sarah Rebecca, daughter of Capt. Gambling, in the 19th year of her age.

    In Flemington, April 18th, Elizabeth, wife of William Barrass, in her 68th year.

    In Frenchtown, May 2d, of typhoid pnenumonia, Mary Ann, wife of W. W. Hedges, in the 50th? year of her age.
 

Sad Drowning Accident
    We take from the Casket the particulars of a sad drowning accident which occurred on Wednesday night, April 28th, at Clarksville.  It appears that David Conelly, John McNelly, Martha Bruce, and Mary Cooley, were to take a ride on the pond of the Hunterdon Manufacturing Co., upon a raft made of four barrels fastened to gether with boards, and when in the middle of the pond, where the water was about eight feet deep, they foolishly began to rock their vessel, which careened, throwing the whole party overboard.  Conelly was the only one of the party that could swim, and he succeeded in getting to the shore with Miss Bruce, but was too much exhausted to attempt the rescue of the others, who had both sunk by this time.  Wm. McConnell, Esq., seeing the state of affairs from his window, hastened to the rescue ...  succeeded in getting to the shore with McNelly, who was almost lifeless, but by the untiring efforts of Dr. T. E. Hunt, who happened to be on the shore, he was restored to life.  The body of Miss Cooley could not be found till about 10 1/2 o'clock, when life was entirely extinct, she having been in the water over four hours.
 

Death of a Veteran
    Alexander Bradley, a veteran of 1812 died at Saddle River, Passaic county, a few days since, aged 80 years.  He was a native of Portugal, shipped for this country as a cabin boy, was taken captive by the Indians while yet quite young and for them acted as interpreter.  He escaped, and in 1812 served under Commodore Perry on board the ill-fated Niagara.
 
 

May 19, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 39 (1591)

Marriages

    On the 12th inst., at the residence of the bride, by Rev. J. Mead, Hiram Scott of Trenton to Isabella Hardy, daughter of Mr. Wesley Hardy, of Pattenburg.
 

Deaths

    In East Amwell township, May 8th ,1869, Jane, relict of Ezekiel Quick, in the 91 year of her age.
 

    Charles Miller, killed at Danville, Ill., recently while acting in a circus, is the third of five brothers in the buisness who has met his death while performing, within eight years.

    At Vienna, Ill., Henderson Hooker suicided by hanging.  His wife discovered him before life was extinct and held him up until her strength became exhausted, when she was compelled to let him drop and go after help, or a knife to cut the rope.  When she returned he was dead.
 

Fatal Casualty
    Samuel Bowlby, of Junction, was thrown from his buggy near Mt. Pleasant, on Saturday last, and received injuries from which he died on the same evening.  He leaves a wife and numerous relatives to mourn his sudden taking off.
 
 

May 26, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 30 (1592)

Marriages

    On the 15th inst., at the bride's residence, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Wesley J. Kuhl, of Cherryville, to Marilda Smith, of Bethlehem, N.J.

    Saturday, May 8th, by John P. Moore, Gideon C. Moore, to Amy Carroll, all of Delaware.
 

Deaths

    At Asbury on Wednesday the 12th inst., of Consumtion, Dr. F. Shepperd, in the 25th year of his age.  The deceased settled in Asbury about two years ago...
 
 

June 2, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 41 (1593)

Marriages

    May 22d, 1869, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Peter C. Mechling, of Union to Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, of Alexandria.
 

Deaths

    At Spruce Run, near Clarksville, May 22d, 1869, Lena, wife of Jos. B. Fritts, in the 54th year of her age.
 

Boy Drowned
    We are sorry to announce that George Opdycke, son of James Opdycke, of Bools' Island, was drowned in the Feeder at that place, on Sunday, the 24th ult.
 

    Mrs. James Dougherty, of Newark, was run over and killed last Wednesday by the cars.

    A boy seven years old, named Ralph Amburg, was crushed to death on the C. & A. R. R. near Princeton, on Saturday last.

    The Lambertville Beacon says:  Isaac Haney, captain of the canal boat "W. W. Paxson," was drowned in the Delaware and Raritan Canal Feeder, below this town, on Monday morning last...  He was a young unmarried man and resided at Erwinna, Pa.
 
 

June 9, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 42 (1594)

Deaths

    In Readington township, June 1, 1869, Abram A. Hall, aged 73 years.

    In Raritan township, April 30, 1869, Asher Cronce, aged 57 years, 6 months and 18 days.
 
 

June 16, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 43 (1595)

    John Murray, an old citizen of Portsmouth, Va., was shot dead by an oysterman, named, Alexander Perry, on Saturday week.  Murray was attempting to kill Perry whom he suspected of having wronged his daughter.

    James M. Murdeck, a retired merchant, was killed by being thrown from his carriage in Boston, on Sunday evening week.

    Mrs. J. P. Hauck committed suicide by taking poison in Albany county, N.Y., on Sunday week.  Domestic troubles are assigned as the cause, though she had been married only six months.

    It was reported from Washington county, Ga., that Col. R. W. Flournoy, a member of the Georgia Legislature, was killed on Thursday last by a negro in his employ.

    Lieut Col. Crane, commanding the Fourth Military District, and acting Mayor of Jackson, Miss., was killed Monday week in that city by E. M. Zerger in a difficulty growing out of an order by Crane, levying on Zerger's property for taxes.
 

Marriages

    June 5th, by the Rev. R. Thomas, at the residence of the bride's father, in Sergeantsville, William H. Williams to Mary E. Moore, both of Sergeantsville.

    At the house of Sheriff Bellis, on the 8th inst., by the Rev. P. Van Syckle, of L.I., assisted by the Rev. G. S. Mott, of Flemington, N.J., James L. Van Syckel, Esq., to Lillie Bellis, both of the latter place.

    June 10th, near Pattenburg, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Rienzi Cadugan of Jersey City, and Emilie M. Egbert of Union township, Hunterdon County, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At Kuhl's Mills, May 29th, 1869, John Wilson, aged 63 years, 11 months and 9 days.
 

Annual Report of the Finances of the Township of Tewksbury for the Year Ending April 12, 1869. -  Robert Craig, Treasurer of Committee in Account with Tewksbury Township, Dr. 1868.

    Apl. 17, Balance on Sutton's note,      12 00
 

Sad Accident

    On Wednesday morning last, as workman were employed in moving an old frame house on the farm of Samuel V. Buskirk, in West Amwell township, the frame work gave way and the building fell upon William Stout, son of Jonathan O. Stout, of Lambertville, who was inside the building assisting in moving the rollers.  His limbs were broken and he was injured internally to such an extent that he died on Wednesday evening.  He was about 16 years of age, and had been in the employ of Mr. Van Buskirk for about four years.
 
 

June 23, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 44 (1596)

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, on Wednesday, June 9th, by Rev. Thomas W. Jones, Frederick K. Lamerson to Mary A. Fritts, all of Pottersville.
 

    Death of Henry J. Raymond - New York, June 18

    Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, died of apoplexy at his residence at 5 o'clock this morning....  Mr. Raymond was the founder of the New York Times which was started in Sept., 1861...

    Mr. Isaac Bockus, a tailor at Junction, died on Thursday last on his bench.
 
 

June 30, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 45 (1597)

    Jere. Philyaw, formerly a colored U.S. soldier, but latterly a resident of Willmington, N.C., was bitten by a spider, last Saturday night, about twelve o'clock and the next morning expired.

    Sam Sutton, the murderer of Caesar Zabriskie, who is imprisoned in Hackensack, and who was to have been hanged on Friday, has his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.

    A man named Jacob Smith, residing in Newark, leaped on Wednesday from the Hoboken ferryboat, Morristown while she was in mid stream and was drowned.

    The wife of George McDowell, Esq., of Prospect Plains, was instantly killed last Wednesday evening while walking on the track just in front of her residence.  She was returning from a visit, and being deaf the alarm of the whistle was not heard.
 

Marriages

    June 1st, 1869, by Rev. J. L. Janeway, Dr. J. K. Johnston of Altoona, Pa., Annie Merriam of Ringoes, N.J.

    On Thursday, June 10th, by the Rev. John R. Kugler, Edward Cooley, of Junction, New Jersey, to Henrietta Skinner, of Clarksville, N.J.
 

Suicide
    James N. Silvers, a young man employed as telegraph operator and assistant ticket agent at Bound Brook, committed suicide on Tuesday night of last week, by cutting his throat with a razor and throwing his body into the creek.
 
 

July 7, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 46 (1598)

Deaths

    May 13th at his late residence in Union township, William L. King, aged 80 years, 3 months and 1 day.
 

A Woman Falls into A Well - Horrible Death
    A most distressing and horrible accident happened at the residence of Jesse H. Simpers, near Union Meeting house, Cecil county, Md., on Saturday week.  Miss Susan McDowell went to the well to draw a bucket of water, and while engaged in drawing the same fell into the well, and in the fall her head struck the stones, lacerating the scalp for about three inches in a most shocking manner... Deceased had lived in the family for more than thirteen years.
 

Drowned
    A young man named Servis, a painter by trade, on Wednesday evening last went in bathing at Milford and was drowned.  The body was recovered on Friday.  He resided at Ringoes, where a widowed mother mourns his sudden and sorrowful death.
 
 

July 14, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 47 (1599)

Marriages

    On the 1st inst., in the Second Baptist Church, Plainfield, by Rev. C. E. Young, Charles M. Wilson and Lucinda S. Thorp, all of Plainfield.

    June 28d, by Rev. J. Van Liew, A. V. S., Baird, of Readington to Kate Brown of Millstone.

    June 19th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Peter R. Teets to Caroline Buchanan, both of Tewksbury township.

    July 8d, by the same, Silas W. Sutton, of Tewksbury to Mary E. Young of Morris county.

    July 2d, by Rev. S. M. Andrews, at Doylestown, Pa., William H. Cawley of Frenchtown, N.J. and Mary A. Gilbert, of Buckingham, Pa.
 

A Fatal Spot
    At the precise spot in the Delaware river, at Milford, where young Jos. Servis was drowned week before last, notice of which we gave last week, three other persons have lost their lives while bathing, within the past three years.  The first two were Miss Lucy Vansyckel and Mr. Stanford Eckel; the third was a little son of Mr. Henry Wagoner.
 

Shocking Casualty.
    The Lambertville Beacon - New Hope, 5th inst.  A child of Jas. Bulger attempted to kindle a fire.  She had placed some light wood and shavings in the grate, and holding a can of kerosene oil in one hand, took a lighted match in the other and was about to apply the match to the kindlings, over which she had poured some of the oil, when the gas issuing from the spout of the can ignited causing an instant explosion, and in a moment the little girl was wrapped in a sheet of flame...  She died within the hour.
 
 

July 21, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 48 (1600)

Accident on the Pacific Road
    The passenger train on the Pacific railroad, which left Omaha on Wednesday last, met with serious accident on the follwoing day, near Antelope Station, 450 miles from Omaha...  Two persons were killed, the fireman, Melville Stears, of Michigan and a passenger named John Dwyer, of Emmetsburg, Md....

    A man named Joe Wilkinson committed suicide in a station house at Rochester, N.Y. on Wednesday night last.
 

Marriages

    In the Christian church, in Milford, June 16, by Rev. Philetas Roberts, Lemuel Wright to Frances, daughter of Charles Warford all of Milford.

    In Frenchtown, June 19th, by Rev. John R. Taylor, William H. Britton, to Merenda, daughter of Daniel Stahler, all of Frenchtown.

    March 19th, by Rev. Mr. ?gdenbaugh, Levi Hann to Emma, only daughter of Michael Worman all of Frenchtown.

    May 19th, by Rev. John H. Scofield, Howard G. Thompson to Lizzie Faust, all of Frenchtown.

    July 14th, near White House, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, J. R. Conover and Mary Lair, both of Readington township.

    July 10th, 1869, by Nathan Lance, Esq., George Orts of Anthony, N.J., to Mary Beam of Lower German Valley, N.J.

    On the 13th, by Rev. G. S. Mott, at the house of Mr. George B. Stothoff, G. A. J. Higgins, M.D., of Plainville?, Conn., to Sarah Felmly.
 

Deaths

    On Monday, July 12th, at the house of her son-in-law, Abram Runkle, of Wertsville, Mrs. Sarah Labaw, aged 76 years.

    In Trenton, on the 17th inst., Joseph Miller, infant son of Manual and Annie M. Kline, aged four months and twenty-nine days.
 

Died of Injuries
    Mrs. Sarah Labaw, widow of Lewis Labaw, an account of whose accident we gave last week, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Abram Runkle, at Wertsville, on the 12th inst.  Though 76 years of age, she was still vigorous and had every prospect of years yet to live, when on the 6th inst., she met with an accident breaking and dislocating a limb, the effect of which she failed to overcome.  Deceased was a grand-daughter of Mr. Lewis Chamberlin, one of the early settlers of Amwell township, from Monmonth, more than one hundred years ago.  She had almost always lived on the old homestead, and for 38 years was a member of the First Amwell Presbyterian Church.
 

Obituary
    Ellen Runkle, wife of Thomas Cherry, who died on Friday last, lived out more than three score years and ten and died in the same house that gave her birth.  After her marriage her father moved from the old homestead, situated about one mile north of this town, and Mr. Cherry adopted it as his residence, near sixty years ago, and has lived there ever since.  It is not many who have lived so long a time in the same house as Mrs. Cherry, embracing a period of 76 years from cradle to the grave.
 

Another Sad Drowning Case
    Last Tuesday afternoon, about one o'clock, Sylvester, a son of Moses Q. and Sarah Wilson, of New Hope, in company with a young man named Stout, went into the canal above Moore's Station, to bathe.  Wilson had procured a post, and after swimming upon it for some time, when directly opposite the residence of John A. Beaumont, it was washed from under him and he sank.  His companion, seeing him go down, shouted for help, and Mr. Levi Stout, with whom he lived, and a neighbor ran to the spot but did not reach it till he had gone down the third time and was out of sight.  The body was recoverd about two hours after the accident and brought to Lambertville on the cars, and then taken to the home of the boy in New Hope.  The deceased was in his fifteenth year.
 
 

July 28, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 49 (1601)

Death of John A. Roebling
    Mr. Roebling, died at his residence No. 137 Hicks street, Brooklyn, at six o'clock Thursday morning.  He has been confined to his room by an accident which beful him June 28th.  A week last Sunday, the windows of the room were thrown open, and it is supposed that he then caught cold, as he shortly after showed symptoms of a pulmonary difficulty, which increased and soon resulted in lockjaw. - Under his terrible infliction his strenght rapidly declined, until he peacefully died.
 

Fatal Accident in a Church Building
    About half-past 10 o'clock Wednesday morning the stone arches intended to span the sanctuary of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral, now in process of erection on Summit street, in Hudson City, fell, crushing two workers who were engaged upon the building, named Roger Tilghe and Lewis Andrews, killing Tilghe instantly and injuring Andrews so badly he died a few minutes after.  Two of the other workmen engaged under the arch were severely, one of them fatally, injured - George Burns, one of these, was terribly bruised and cut upon various parts of the body, but is not expected to die. Lawrence O'Connor, the other, sustained a fracture of the skull and his death was momentarily expected.
    Lewis Andrews ... was carried dying to the residence of the young lady to whom he had been paying his addresses....  He died with ten minutes after being conveyed into the house.  He was the son of the foreman, of the men engaged upon the building, and was about twenty-three years of age.
    Roger Tilghe was a resident of Jersey City.  He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and family.
 

    Captain Morgan Reno, one of the oldest settlers of Iowa, and one of the most prominent citizens of Iowa City, is dead.  He was the first Treasurer of the State of Iowa, being elected in 1816.  He was again elected 1848.  He was brother to the distinguished General Reno of the Union army, killed at the battle of South Mountain.
 

Died of Lock Jaw
    Aaron, son of David D. Schomp, of Readington township, about two weeks ago accidentally cut off two of his fingers with a reaping machine.  Although every endeavor to cure the wounded had was made, the young man was thrown into the lock jaw, and after terrible suffering died on Thursday last.  He was a promising youth of about 19 years of age.

    George Hasbrouck, a negro, while hunting near Port Jervis, last Thursday, shot a little daughter of Henry Hoffman, through the head, killing her instantly, under the impression that she was a wood-chuck.
 

Casket Notes

    On Tuesday morning of last week, Wm. Berkaw, aged about 70 years, residing a little beyond Mechanicsville, was seized with apoplexy, and the next morning received a second attack from the effects of which he died on Thursday night.

    A little girl of H.V. D. Polhemus, at Mechanicsville, aged 18 months, was taken on Tuesday night last with croup as was supposed.

    Andrew Stout, well known in the vicinity of White House, engineer in the Empire Brewery, N.Y., was killed on the 15th inst., by being struck on the head with the fly wheel of the engine.  He was 62 years of age.
 
 

Aug. 4, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 50 (1602)

Death of an Editor
    Judge A. R. Speer, editor of the New Brunswick Times for more than twenty years, died on Sunday evening, of a long and painful illness.... He leaves a wife and several children..

    A little girl of Mr. Davis, of Edge Hill, Chester county, Pa., died on the 20th inst., of hydrophobia.  She had been bitten by a mad dog about nine weeks before.
 

Marriages

    On July 22d, 1869, by Rev. J. L. Janeway, Mr. John J. Clark to Miss Virginia Hart, all of Flemington, N.J.
 

    Hon. Isaac Toucey, who was Secretary of the Navy, under President Buchanan, died at Hartford, Conn., on Friday last, aged 73.

    Milton Alden, patentee of several agricultural implements, was killed on Friday last, by being caught in a revolving wheel at his own manufactory, in Auburn, N.Y.
 

Death of a Jerseyman
    Stewart Apgar, son of John A. Apgar, of Lebanon, this County, met with an accident on Tuesday of week before last, which terminated fatally.  He was employed as conductor of a gravel train on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, and by some means was run over and had both legs cut off.  He died on the following day.  Deceased was about 26 years of age, and had been married but a short time.
 

State Items

    Oakley Bellerjeau, a well known citizen of Trenton, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor in an open lot in that city on the 25th ult.

    Colonel Samuel F. Headley, a prominent citizen of Morristown, died at that place on the 25th inst., in the 61st year of his age.

    A little daughter of Mr. James Wells, residing in Bridgeton, was poisoned last week.  It appears that its mother had an attack of toothache and had used creosote, leaving the bottle on the mantle, which the unfortunate one reached by means of a chair.  Having partaken of a portion of this insiduous poison, she was thrown into convulsions, and although remedies were speedily applied, died in a few hours.
 
 

Aug. 11, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 51 (1603)

Marriages

    At Clarksville, by Rev. C. C. Winans, Samuel G. Lunger to Maggie Bogard.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton on the 4th inst., John J. Huffman, aged 72 years.

    In Clinton, July 31st, Adam Stiger, aged 82 years, 1 month and 9 days.

    In Clarksville, August 4th, Joseph Wyckoff, aged 55 years.

    In Delaware township, August 4th, William Johnson, aged about 86 years.

    In Jersey City, on July 29, Anna A., youngest daughter of J. D. and Mary M. Suydam, aged 11 months and 23 days.
 

Fatality at Clarksville
    On Tuesday last a little son of Alex. Lucans, at Clarksville, was instantly killed by an express train on the Central Railroad...

    On the 20th ult., a son of James Mcnamee, living a few miles east of St. Mary's, Ohio, took a gun, and on examining the cap the hammer fell, discharging the contents of the gun into the head of his sister, killing her instantly.  The shock to the boy was so great that he lost all consciousness for a time, and he could not be induced to eat or sleep after the accident until the morning of the 23d, when he died.

    At New York, Thursday, Emma Taylor committed suicide by cutting her throat, and at Portland, Emily E. Ricker killed herself by taking poison.
 
 

Aug. 18, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 52 (1604)

Deaths

    August 2d, at Reaville, John Hall, aged about 38 years.

    In Union township, August 15th, John H. Case, aged about 60 years.
 

Two Boys Roasted to Death
    The charred remains of Michael Mahoney and James Caffrey, of Elizabeth, aged respectively about 12 years, were found in an ash pit at Hampton Junction, on Saturday monring the 7th inst.  On the previous day they had stolen a ride on a train of the Central road, and not being discovered before reaching the Junction were put off there.  They wandered about unitl night, when becoming cold they took up their quarters for the night in the pit used for hauling the fire from the locomotives.  During the night the live coals and ashes from several locomotives were hauled out into the pit where the boys were sleeping, completely covering them up and suffocating them.  Both bodies were horribly burned.
 

A Boy Commits Suicide
    A melancholy affair occurred at Hampton Junction on Wednesday 4th inst., the facts of which we give below, so far as ascertained.  It seems Mr. Wandling a highly respectable farmer near the Junction, had in his employ, Peter Cones, a boy about sixteen years of age.  During the week the lad complained of being unwell, and Mr. W. favored him so much as possible, and required him only to pick berries and do the barn work.  On Wednesday, Mr. W. left home and on his return in the evening he found that the work had not been, or the boy had not been seen.  While in the hay mow he came in contact with the body of the boy suspended to the rafters by a rope.
 

Fatal Accident
    A fatal and distressing accident occurred on Tuesday last, near Phillipsburg.  Mrs. Barnet DeWitt and her daughters were returning home and when on the hill, just out of Phillipsburg, the bridle on the horse came apart, and the horse taking fright ran into the fence upsetting the wagon and throwing both ladies out.  Mrs. DeWitt struck upon her head breaking her neck and killing her almost instantly.  The daughter sustained but slight injuries.
 

Fatal Accident at Passaic Falls
    A little girl, eight years of age, daughter of Mrs. Jane Collyer, of Paterson, while walking with her mother on Sunday evening week, fell from the cliff at the Passaic Falls a distance of fifty feet and was most horribly crushed and mangled.  Assistance was obtained and the child was taken to a neighboring house, where she was attended by a physician, but her injuries provded to be so severe that only a fatal termination was expected.
 
 

Aug. 25, 1869,  Vol.  XXXI, No. 53 (1605)

    Samuel Ramsey committed suicide in Jersey City, Friday, owing to liquor and domestic trouble.  Martin Billinger, confined in Jail at Williamsport, Pa., for illicit distillation, committed suicide back of the jail on Tuesday and his body was found Friday.

    Mr. Gifford, a resident of Northern Iowa, died on Saturday from fright at the eclipse.
 

Marriages

    In Frenchtown, August 17th, by Rev. John B. Taylor, Peter Kraft to Christiana V. Gordon, all of Frenchtown.

    On the 14th instant, by the Rev. C. S. Conkling, Daniel Axford Schooley, of Mt. Bethel, Penna., to Annie Able, daughter of George Able, of Little York.
 
 

Sep. 1, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 2 (1606)

Terrible Disaster
    A terrible disaster has occurred at Atlantic City.  On Wednesday morning last, Burton Stout, aged 19 years, Miss Annie Rogers and Miss Martha Hunter, all of Philadelphia, were drowned while bathing at 11o'clock in front of the Lighthouse Cottage bathing grounds...
 

Singular and Sudden Death
    On Saturday evening, the 14th ult., Mrs. Gus. Reis, of San Francisco, while sitting in her parlor, engaged in conversation with some friends was bitten on the fact by a fly.... she breathed her last during Sunday night.

    John Durviage, an old actor and one of the founders of the Alta California, died at Memphis last Friday.

    A railroad agent named Griffin has been murdered by a band of armed negroes, at Whittaker's Station, on the Wilmington and Welden railroad, N.C....

    Hon. John S. Tenney, ex-Chief Justice and one of the ablest lawyers in Maine, died at his residence in Norridgewock on Monday, aged about 80 years.

    Henry Griffin, of Greenbush, a breakman on the Albany and Boston Railroad, fell from the train recently at Kinderhook, N.Y., and was instantly killed.  He buried his wife on Monday week.
 
 

Sep. 8, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 3 (1607)

Heart-Rendering Accident
    In Germantown, Pa., on Tuesday night last, a distressing accident, that ended in the death of an estimable young married lady, occurred.  The clothes of Mrs. Gertrude Mitchell Smith caught fire while she was superintending the canning of fruit in the kitchen of her residence on Tulpehocken street.  ... Wednesday monring death put an end to her suffering.  Deceased was the wife of Mr. William Smith, and daughter of Mr. Joseph G. Mitchell, President of the Mechanics' Bank.

    Henry Prather, of Decatur, Ill., a brother-in-law of Governor Oglesby, was killed while riding in his buggy, by a collision with running horses, on Wednesday evening.

    Mrs. Connolly, a newly married lady, while visiting a flour mill at Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday evening, was caught between the millstones and crushed to death.
 

Fatal Accident
    Last Tuesday morning William Fisher, formerly of Ringoes and well know through this section as "Yankee Bill," was so badly injured while coupling cars at White House Station, that death resulted in the evening.  He had just been employed by the Central R.R. company as breakman that morning, and was on his first trip at the time of the accident.  He leaves a wife and three children.
 

Drowned
    Patrick Thompson, of New Hope, was drowned at Mauch Chunk, on Monday evening of last week.  His boat was passing through the first lock, and he being caught in the tow line, was thrown into the water and drowned before he could be rescued.
 

Court
    The following gentleman have been summoned to appear as Grand and Petit Jurors for the term which beings this (Tuesday) morning:

                Grand Jurors - George B. Sutton

                Petit Jurors - Amos Sutton
 

State News

    A Mrs. Johnson, of Asbury, Warren county, who has been laboring under a mental abberation for several weeks, committed suicide on Saturday last by cutting her throat with a razor.
 
 

Sep. 15, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 4 (1608)

Marriages

    On the 28th ult., by Rev. N. L. Upham, at the Reaville parsonage, Phillip Mettler, to Mary Sands, both of Raritan.

    On the 7th by the same at the same place, George W. Case, of Franklin, to Sarah L. Swearer, of Raritan.
 

Deaths

    In Franklin township, September 6th, 1869, Mrs. Harriet Nixon, aged about 80 years.
 

Drowned

    We learn that a son of Lewis Davidson, at Centreville, was drowned on Saturday last, but were unable to get the particulars of the sad event.

 
Court
    For Argument - Sutton vs Kiple
 

    Henry T. Moore, the proprietor of the Rutherford Park, N.J. Hotel, committed suicide on Tuesday week by shooting himself with a pistol...
 
 

Sep. 22, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 5 (1609)

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, September 17th, George H. Cooley, aged about 40 years.
 

Drowned
    A man familiarly known as "Larry," formerly employed as ostler by Wm. S. Barron, hotel keeper at Centre Bridge, was drowned in the canal at New Hope, on Friday night, the 10th inst.  He was seen walking along the tow path, very much intoxicated, about 9 o'clock in the evening, and on Monday his body was found in the basin below the lower lock.
 

State News

    The son of Mr. Decker, the bridge tender of the Newark and New York Railroad, fell into the Passaic near the bridge.  The father could easily have saved him had he gone at once to his assistance, but had he done so the train would have been precipitated into the water... The dead body was soon after recoverd.

    A terrible tragedy occurred, at Union Hill, near Hoboken, N.J., about one o'clock last Friday morning.  A German, named, Joseph Paschardt, of intemperate habits, during an altercation with his two sons, aged respectively 28 and 21 years, stabbed them both with a knife, from the effects of which one has died and the other will not recover.  He then attempted to committ suicide by cutting his own throat, but the injuries inflicted are not mortal.
 
 

Sep. 29, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 6 (1610)

Tragedy in Brooklyn
    Mrs. Catharine Halpine, of Brooklyn, whle in a a fit of insanity on Wednesday afternoon last, inflicted ten wounds with an axe upon her son, Edward, a boy of eight years of age, any one of which was sufficient to cause death....

    John Dorrance, a prominent citizen of Bristol, Pa., died on Tuesday last.... He was sixty-nine years of age.
 

Marriages

    September 18th at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Asa R. Cronce of Quakertown, and Emma Ella Cook, of Clinton township.

    September 22d, near High Bridge, by the same, Abraham A. Sutton, of Tewksbury and Sarah Ann Cregar of Clinton township.
 

Deaths

    At Croton, August 28th, Lizzie Shorday, only daughter of George T. and Sarah Arnwine, aged 2 years and 20 days.
 
 

Oct. 6, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 7 (1611)

Death From a Spring Gun.
    Thomas H. Field, of New Rochelle, New York, whose grounds were much infested by thieves, recently arranged a series of wires near a grape vine ...  On Monday morning he was fastening his vines after the storm of Sunday, when he came into contact with the wires, discharging one of the guns ... One shot passed through the frontal bone, killing him instantly.

    The wife of Thomas Branning died in Boston, on Thursday from the effects of a beating by her husband the night previous.

    Isaac N. Fowler, whose defalcation and disappearance, when postmaster of N.Y. many years ago, created a sensation, died in Chicago on Wednesday.

    John Hopwood, who was badly scalded on Tuesday while tending a locomotive on the Morris and Essex Railroad, died last Wednesday.

    Timothy Connerty, who had been run over on the Erie Railroad, near the Jersey City depot, died last Tuesday night at the Jersey City hospital.
 

Marriages

    On Thursday, September 23d, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Charles Bowlby, of Warren County, N.J. to Sarah Carling, of Hunterdon County, N.J.

    September 29th, at the house of the bride's father, at Grier's Corner, Bucks County, Pa., by the Rev. B. Carroll, John A Vannest, of Somerset County, N.J. to Tillie A., daughter of Mr. John Grier, Esq.

    On the 23d, inst., by Rev. J. Meade, at the residence of the bride's father, in Quakertown, Abraham C. Shepard of Sand Brook, to Elizabeth P. Holcombe, of Quakertown.
 

Deaths

    Sept. 6th, 1869, at the residence of her son, in Perryville, Harriet Nixon, relict of William Nixon, Esq., aged 78 years.
 
 

Oct. 13, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 8 (1162)

Deaths

    In Flemington, Ocotber 7th, 1869, Bertha C., infant daughter of John B. and Mary A. Hopewell, aged 2 months and 11 days.
 
 

Oct. 20, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 9 (1163)

Death of Ex-President Pierce
    Ex-President Pierce died at Concord, N.H., on the 8th inst.  The deceased was born in Hillsborough, N.H., Nov. 23, 1804, and was therefore nearly sixty five years of age...
 

Marriages

    September 22d, 1869, by Rev. D. Walters, George Plum to Sarah C. Cronce.

    October 9th, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Henry Emmons, Esq., of Clinton, and Mrs. Sarah Ann Cole, of Union township.

    On the 29th inst., at the bride's residence, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Stewart Rodenbaugh to Adaline Shearman, daughter of John Shearman, Esq., of Bethlehem, N.J.

    On the 12th inst., at the bride's residence, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Jacques V. Quick of Flemington, to Mariah S. Bird, daughter of Wm. W. Bird, Esq., of Union, N.J.

    By Rev. H. L. Upham, September 30th, at the house of Mr. John Williamson, Isaac N. Housel of West Amwell, to Mary H. Dalrymple of East Amwell.

    October 12th, at the Reaville Parsonage, George W. Lanning, of Trenton to Rebecca E. Bennet, of East Amwell.

    At Branchville, Somerset County, at the residence of Gilbert S. Amerman, October 14th, by Rev. G. D. Huist, of Bushwick, Long Island, assisted by Rev. Wm Pitcher, of South Branch, the Rev. John Guernsey Van Slyke, junior pastor of the Reformed Church at Readington, N.J. and Mary Amelia Amerman, only daughter of Daniel Amerman, dec'd late of Branchburg.

    Near Little York, October 14th, by James M. Duckworth, Esq., Benjamin Smith to Sarah Petty.
 

News Items

    Hon. John Nesmith, formerly Lieut. Governor of Massachusetts, died last Friday at Lowell, aged 76.
 
 

Oct. 27, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 10 (1164)

A Sister Shot by Her Brother
    In Weston, Va., on Tuesday of last week, Miss Lee Gum, a young lady twenty-two years of age, residing on Freeman's creek, about six miles from Weston was accidently shot through the heart by her brother, Adam Gum, a young man aged about nineteen years...  While going in the direction of the bird, his eye being intently fixed upon it, he made a misstep, the hammer fell, and the gun was discharged the bullet passing entirely through the body of his sister, who was watching him.
 

Marriages

    September 18th, by Rev. John R. Willox, John Lutes, of Tewksbury, Hunterdon county, to Sarah J. Barker, of Chester, Morris County.
 

Local Department

    We learn that a son of Isaac Smith, of Frenchtown, was run over and instantly killed at that place on Saturday afternoon, by a coal train on the Belvidere Delaware Railroad.

Death from a Scald
    On Monday last, a child of Samuel Wilson, of West Amwell, aged about 10 months, was so severely scalded that it died within a few hours after.  A tub of hot water had been placed on a chair for the purpose of washing, and the child pulled it over, throwing the scalding water almost entirely over its little body.

    Rev. John Van Liew, for forty-three years pastor of the Reformed Church at Readington, died on Monday last, aged 72 years.  Dr. Van Liew had been in feeble health, owing to his advanced years, for some time past, and last year partially retired from the ministry and went to Bloomfield, where he died.   He was born in Somerset county, near Neshanic.... He preached a short time at Meadville, Pa., and at Mendham, N.J.
 
 

Nov. 3, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 11 (1165)

Marriages

    October 27th, in this village, by Rev. G. S. Mott, assisted by Rev. Samuel Studdiford, Balch W. Pierce, of New York, to Annie, daughter of Wm. P. Emery, Esq., of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    Near Mt. Pleasant, October 10th, 1869, Elmer Apgar, son of Absalon and Mary Lucinda Apgar, aged 6 years, 10 months and 11 days.
 

Local News

    James Agar, of Junction, aged about 35 years, died on Tuesday last, from injuries received about a fortnight ago, by falling from a hand-car on the D.L. & W.R.R.  He leaves a wife and three children.
 
 

Nov. 10, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 12 (1166)

Shocking Death of a Bride
    A very painful accident, resulting in death, occurred near Illiopolis, Ill., a few day since.  Mrs. Fannie Capp, wife of Benjamin Capp, a farmer, was visitn at the house of her brother-in-law, and in the evening she, in company with her sister, went out to saddle up her horse, ..  Mrs. Capp was about 18 years of age, having been married only about two months.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 5th, by Rev. J. Richards, at St. Paris, O., John J. Young, of Centreville, N.J. to Nora C. Hendrickson, of St. Paris.

    Sept. 21, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Leonard Bellis to Ellen Ann, daughter of James S. Rockafellow, all of Raritan township.

    At the same time by the same, Asher Williamson, of Delaware township, to Anna Jane Hummer, of Raritan.

    On the 3d inst., near New Hampton, N.J., by the Rev. John B. Kugler, M.D. Knight, M.D., of Little York, to Mary A., only daughter of Paul Marlatt, Esq.
 
 

Nov. 17, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 13 (1167)

    Major General John E. Wool died last Tuesday at Troy, N.Y., in the eighty-first year of his age.  Deceased was distinguished for services in the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the late struggle for the Union.
 

Death of George Peabody
    The cuble last Thursday week brought the not altogether unexpected intelligence of the death of George Peabody, the millionaire philanthropist, which sad event occurred at half past 11 p.m., at his residence in London.  Mr. Peabody was born in Danvers, Mass., on the 18th of February 1795, and was descended from one of the early Pilgrims....
 

Sad
    A Mrs. Waters left her children, a boy and girl, on the train, which stopped at Salina, Kansas, on Monday of last week, while she went to the hotel for a moment.  They attempted to follow her.  The train moving, they both fell from the platform on the track, the train passing over them... Both children lived until early the next morning.

    Hon. Robert J. Walker died at his residence in Washington, Thursday morning at twenty minutes before eleven o'clock after a protracted illness.  His age was 68 years and four months.
 

Marriages

    October 28th, by Rev. D. Walters, David B. Boss to Sarah E. Hight, all of Flemington.

    Nov. 3d, by the same, Wm. Tunison to Mary L. Johnson.

    Nov. 10th, by the same, Theodore R. Bellis to Margaret B. Bateman, daughter of G. W. Bateman, Esq.

    Nov. 10th, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Theodore Anderson to Hannah Yawger, of Clinton.

    Nov. 4th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John H. Hall and Phebe Ann Kline, both of Neshanic, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Readington, Nov. 5th, Anna Lewella, daughter of Peter W. and Mary Jane Haver, aged 5 years, 5 months and 25 days.
 

Kerosene Murder
    Early on Saturday morning, the 7th inst., Samuel Fox, proprietor of the American Hotel at Frenchtown, was so badly burned by the explosion of a kerosene lam that he died on the following Monday.  He was in the 49th year of his age, and had kept the hotel about one year.  A wife and three children are left to mourn the sad event.
 
 

Nov. 24, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 14 (1168)

Fatal Railroad Accident
    The freight agent and station master of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, Co., Major H. A. Perrine, was killed on Saturday night a week, at the junction of the Camden and Amboy and the Freehold and Jamesburg roads.... As the engine neared the train, it was suddenly reversed, throwing the Major on the track.  The whole train passed over him.  He lived about thre hours after the accident...  The deceased entered the late war, in April 1861, as Captain of Company A, Fourth Regiment of New Jersey Militia.  He was promoted Major of the regiment in 1864.  He was wounded at Spottsylvania.  Major Perrine was a son of the late Gen. Perrine, of Princeton.
 

Marriages

    November 13th, at Allentown, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John Schenck of New Germantown and Delilah Campbell, of Allentown, N.J.

    At the parsonage in Ringoes, on the 17th inst., by the Rev. Samuel L. Harrison, Alfred Whitenack, Hopewell township, Mercer county, to Ann ElizaHill of Ringoes.

    On Thursday evening, November 11th, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. G. S. Conkling, Jacob Vanarsdale Smith, to Emma Francis Apgar, daughter of Mr. John Apgar.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, on Saturday evening last, November 20th, William Hamilton Rittenhouse, aged about 24 years.
 
 

Dec. 1, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 15 (1169)

Marriages

    November 24, 1869, by Rev. D. Walters, A. Williamson Boss, to Helen Stansbury, all of Flemington.

    November 24th, 1869, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Joseph R. Potts to Victoria L. Roberson, all of Flemington.

    November 24th, 1869, by Rev. E. A. Woods, John A. Schultz of Hopewell, to Kate B. Rockafellow of Raritan township.

    November 25th, 1869, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Joseph V. Smith to Cornelia Cortleyou, all of Flemington.

    At the house of Mr. David Conover, near Ringoes, N.J., November 24th, by Rev. Robert S. Manning, Jacob K. Bowne to Annie C. Young, all of Hunterdon County.

    By the same, November 25th, at the Kirkpatrick Memorial Church, Ringoes, N.J., John B. Blackwell to Sallie B. Schenck, all of Hunterdon County.

    On the 17th ult., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. H. Doolittle, David Cole of Pleasant Run, and Mary Lane, of Stanton.

    At the Methodist Parsonage, in Mountainville, by Rev. J. H. Runyon, Peter Bunn of Lebanon, to Mary J., daughter of Isaiah Apgar, of Cokesburg.

    In the First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria, at Mount Pleasant, on Thursday morning, the 18th ult., by the Rev. C. S. Conkling, Cornelius J. Bergen of Pluckamin, Somerset County, N.J. to Louisa Cole, daughter of the late Ezekiel Cole.
 

Drowned
    On Thursday last, the body of Dr. Frederick P. Auten, of Trenton, was found in the canal at that place, inton which he had accidently fallen.  The deceased was 58 years of age, was a native of this State, and learned the trade of a wheelwright
with his father at Middlebush....
 
 

Dec. 8, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 16 (1170)

Marriages

    December 1st, 1869, by the Rev. Wm. Pittman, Thomas P. Rittenhouse, of Jersey City, to Frank A. Williams, of Frenchtown, N.J.

    November 13th, at Clover Hill, by the Rev. Wm. B. Voorhees, Theodore F. Swarer, to Zadilea? Higgins, daughter of John Higgins, Esq., both of Three Bridges, N.J.

    November 17th, by the same at the house of Ralph Sutphin, Abraham Allen to Lizzie Prall, both of Pleasant Valley, Somerset County, N.J.

    November 17th, by the same, at the house of the bride's father, John Elberson to Anna Servis, daughter of J. B. Servis, both of Clover Hill, N.J.

    December 1st, by the same, at the house of the bride's father, George M. Wyckoff, of Plainfield, N.J. to Margaret Suydam, daughter of Peter J. Suydam, Clover Hill, N.J.

    December 1st, by Rev. J. D. Randolph, Joseph A. Melick, of Barbertown, to Lizzie, daughter of Henry Wood, Esq., of Delaware township.

    November 27, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Elisha Wolverton to Martha J. Lunger, all near New Hampton, N.J.
 
 

Dec. 15, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 17 (1170)

Marriages

    On the 8th instant, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. Thos. W. Jones, David Welsh, of New Germantown, to Lizzie M. Potter, of Pottersville.
 

Deaths

    December 4th, 1869, near Perryville, N.J., Isaac Hoppock, aged about 72 years.

    In Newark, N.J., on Thursday, December 2d, 1869, Susan, wife of Amos Hoagland, aged about 61 years.

    November 27th, 1869, near Bethlehem church, Isabel Wilson, aged about 71 years.
 

News Items

    The body of Charles H. Rogers, a travelling collector, was found on the road, near Richmond, Va., last Sunday.  He had been murdered and robbed.

    On Tuesday evening last, Paul Gerard, brother-in-law of the Peruvian Minister at Washington, was married to Miss Wormley, daughter of a negro citizen of that city.  The nuptial ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. White, of the Roman Catholic Church, at his residence.
 
 

Dec. 22, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 18 (1172)

News Items

    Dr. Oliver, agent of an English Emigration Company, was shot dead in Charlotteville, Va., last Thursday, by George C. Ayres, a planter of Fauquier, who charges Oliver with having injured his daughter.

    At Columbus, Ohio, early last Thursday morning, George Eagle, was murdered in a saloon by Peter Desbain and Peter Troot.  The men had been drinking and gambling together all night.

    Hon. John Russell, ex-Secretary of State of Ohio, died on Thursday...
 

Local Department

    Hugh Curran, who was injured near High Bridge, three months since, by a hand-car, died at his home in Clinton Station, on Sunday night week.
 
 

Dec. 29, 1869,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 19 (1173)

Death from a Scratch
    A widow lady named Hendrickson, residing in Trenton, came to her death on Monday from a very trivial cause.  A short time previous while opening a chicken preparatory to cooking it, she inflicted a slight scratch on the forefinger of her hand with knife she was using.... Gangrene finally set in and death resulted on Monday.
 

Marriages

    On Wednesday 22d inst., by Rev. G. S. Mott, at Mettler's Mills, John B. Hunt of Flemington to Annie M., daughter of James B. Quick.

    Dec. 16, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, James M. Aller, of Clinton, to Mary A. Bunn, of High Bridge.

    On the 4th inst., at the residence of the bride, by Rev. J. Mead, William Hummel of Union, to Elizabeth Bellis, of same place.

    On the 10th inst., at the residence of the bride, by the same, Andrew R. Moore of Kingwood, to Catherine A. Mechlin, of Raritan.
 

Deaths

    At Baptisttown on the 12th inst., Samuel Melick, aged 37 years and 2 months.

 
    Much excitement exists in Yardleyville in consequence of the death of Alex. McDonald, from Hydrophobia....

    A child of Captain Cook, of Camden, on Tuesday afternoon, caught its neck between the rounds of a chair, and before it was discovered by its mother it was choked to death.