Jan. 5, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 20 (1174)

      A Woman Shoots Her Seducer - At Ironton, Ohio, on Tuesday of last week, a young man named Pres. Baker charged with the seduction of Elizabeth McQuigg was shot and killed by her...
 

News Items

    Martin McGuire, charged with the murder of his wife last summer, hanged himself in jail at Hartford, Conn., on Thursday night last.

    Mary Elizabeth Whittle, aged 25, drowned herself in Boston on Thursday night last.

    Dr. James Dove, a well-known physician, died in Washington city, recently.

    Mr. Steadman, of Oneida county, N.Y., was killed while trying to get on a train at Oil City last Thursday.
 

Marriages

    At Pottersville parsonage, on Thursday, December 23d, by Rev. Thomas W. Jones, Lemuel Sheets to Tanson Pace.

    December 25th, by Rev. John R. Willox, William Henry Fleming, of Washington, Morris county, to Mary Ellen Hildebrandt, of Tewksbury, Hunterdon county, N.J.

    December 25th, at the house of Mr. Henry Cole, by Rev. John Burrows, James Shaffer, of Little York, to Amy Dunn, of Bunn Valley.

    In the Presbyterian Church, Milford, by the same, Isaac P. Carpenter of Still Valler, to Mary J. Tomson, of Milford.
 

Local Department

    The young man Harrison, who was bitten by a mad dog at Haddonfield last week, died of Hydrophobia on Monday night.  The other who was bitten at Ellisburg, also died the same night; so its is reported.  His name was Graif.
 
 

Jan. 12, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 21 (1175)

    A. D. Richardson married a Miss Pease, in this city, the daughter of a periodical vender, who, fourteen years age kept a store on Sixth street.
 

News Items

    Captain Thomas Burton, of the Baltimore schooner Hope, was found drowned in the dock at Richmond, Va., last Friday.

    Mary Staenger, a domestic, aged 20, committed suicide by hanging, in Baltimore, last Friday.

    A breakman named John E. Burnet was killed by the cars, near Poughkepsie, last Friday.

    Hon. Wm. L. Goggin, for several years Representative in Congress from Virginia, and Whig candidate for Governor in 1859, died at Richmond on Tuesday in the 64th year of his age.

    Lieut. E. P. Colby, U.S.A., son of S. C. Colby of the Treasury, committed suicide at Jefferson, Texas, on December 30th.

    Miss Burt, a school teacher at Peabody, Mass., hanged herself on Tuesday.

    Wm. P. Marrand and Henry Boyle were run over and killed by a train last Thursday, while driving across the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, near Milton, Pa.  The last named was a son of General Boyle, of Kentucky.
 

Marriages

    December 23d, by the Rev. R. Thomas, at the residence of the bride's father in Rosemont, William H. Lair of Mount Airy to Martha W. Reading of Rosemont.

    By the same, at Sergeantsville, January 1st, 1870, James S. Kerr to Mary J. Emmons, both of Kingwood.

    December 18th, by Rev. D. Walters, Peter Vlearbone of Three Bridges to Carrie Cole of Barley Sheaf.

    December 29th, 1869, by Rev. John R. Willox, Amos Schuyler to Jemima Huffman both of Tewksbury, Hunterdon Co., N.J.

    January 1st, by the same, James Bird, of Washington township, Morris County, N.J., to Ann E. Colwell of Tewksbury township, Hunterdon County.
 
 

Jan. 19, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 22 (1176)

News Items

    Governor Durkee, of Utah, died of pneumonia on Saturday last.  Rev. Dr. Amos Blanchard, for forty years a clergyman in Lowell, Mass., died there on Friday evening, aged 63.

    In Wayne county, N.Y., on Friday, Walter Graham and Samuel Otto quarrelled while chopping in the woods, and the former killed the latter with an axe.

    Rev. Benjamin J. Bowie, a Baptist minister, committed suicide at Grasshopper Falls, Kansas, on Tuesday last.
 

Marriages

    On the 8th inst., at the bride's residence by Rev. H. J. Hayter, Samuel P. Opdyke, of Quakertown, to Lizzie C., daughter of Rev. Robert Smith, of Bethlehem.

    January 6th, by Rev. Israel Poulson, at the residence of the bride's father, Reuben T. Bisse, of Doylestown, Pa., to Hattie, daughter of C. Van Dolah, Esq., of Hunterdon County, N.J.

    January 5th, by Rev. Wm. Humpstone, at his residence, Wm. Rake of Sergeantsville, to Maggie Besson, of Stockton.

    December 7th, by the Rev. E. A. Woods, at the residence of Mahlon Higgins, near Klinesville, James H. Swallow to Emeline Higgins, both of Raritan township, Hunterdon Co., N.J.
 

Deaths

    January 4th, at Sandy Ridge, Hannah, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Fauss, aged 26 years, 6 months and 8 days.

    In this village, January 1st, after a brief illness, Harry W., youngest son of John V. and Jane McCann, aged 2 years, 2 months and 19 days.
 

Sad Fate of Three Children
    On New Years' Day three children, sons of Joseph Wyhle, a respectable laboring man, residing near Pompton, in Passaic county, this State, at the base of the Wynockie Mountain, left home the purpose of "going nutting' in the woods on the mountain....
    The innocent trio were found, on Tuesday, lying dead, side by side, on the south side of the mountain, some ten miles from their home.  Aged ten, seven and five years....
 

    Dr. John Miller, Coroner of Sussex county, has commenced an investigation of the circumstances attending the sudden death of Mr. John Palmer, of Newton, who is alleged to have been poisoned by his wife and a man named Brown, whom prominent report points
to as her paramour.
 
 

Jan. 26, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 23 (1177)

A Fearful Suicide

    A poor, worthless drunken young man named John Decker, living with his brother, a building mover named Aaron Decker, at Jackson, Mich., after getting drunk on Wednesday, purchased fifteen grains of strychnine, saying that he wanted it to kill rats, took it home, and drank it in a tumbler of water in the prescence of his mother and brother....  He was about 20, unmarried, and leaves a mother, brother, and two sisters.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, January 18th, by Rev. A. D. Willifer, Joseph Sproat, to Kate Zeigler.

    January 19th, by the same, Henry F. Trout, of Sergeantsville, to Mary Matilda Case, of Lambertville.

    On Saturday, January 23d, 1870, by Rev. N. L. Upham, Edward Ouderkirk to Amanda Van Houten, both of East Amwell.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of Stephen B. Hill, Esq., in Flemington, on the 13th inst., of consumption, Augustus H. Servis, in the 20th year of his age.

    At the house of Mr. Peter Eckle, on December 18th, David Rockafeller, in the 82d year of his age.

    January 20th, 1870, Rebecca J. Rockafellow, aged 62 years, 10 months, and 18 days.
 

Local Department

    Elijah R. Hall, of White House, an account of whose attempted suicide we gave last week, died on Sunday last from the effects of his injuries.

    101 years was the age attained by Mrs. Ann Nowland, who died at Camden, last week.

    Johnson Vannoy, of Lower Valley, died on Thursday last from the effects of a kick by a horse.
 
 

Feb. 2, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 24 (1178)

    George D. Prentice is dead.  He was perhaps the oldest editor of any note still adhering to the profession...
 

News Items

    Mrs. Harrold recently became insane from religious excitement in Jo Daviess county, Ill. and committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor last Tuesday.  Two of her daughters attempted to prevent her from killing herself, and one of them was badly cut in the hand.
 

Marriages

    January 8th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Theodore Van Doren of Bedminister township, Somerset County, to Beulah M. Bulmer, of Tewksbury township, Hunterdon County.

    January 11th, by the same, Peter H. Huffman, to Mary E. Beam, both of Washington township, Morris County.

    On the 4th inst., by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Perry Stanton, of Phillipsburg, N.J. to Mary Jane Rowland, near Junction, N.J.

    January 17th, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, John Gearhart of Phillipsburg, to Margaret Klingel of Clinton.

    On Saturday, Jan. 22, at Pottersville, by Rev. Thomas W. Jones, Davis S. Sutphin of New Germantown, to Mahala Hellibrant, of Pottersville.
 

Local Department

    William Winter, County Clerk of Warren county, died very suddenly on Wednesday night last, of rheumatism of the heart...  He was aged 62 years.
 
 

Feb. 9, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 25 (1179)

Marriages

    Tuesday, February 1st, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Wm. T. Enyard, Wm. R. Carroll to Carrie, eldest daughter of Isaac S. Enyard, and niece of the officiating clergyman, all of Brooklyn, L.I.

    On the 30th of January, at the M.E. Parsonage, in Quakertown, by Rev. J. Mead, Henry S. Trimmer, Esq., of Quakertown, to Isabella Probasco of Franklin.

    Jan. 27, by Rev. D. Walters, Weon Fisher, of Kuhl's Mills, to Mary I. Higgins, of Plainfield.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 26, by Rev. S. Sproul, Joseph Hoff to Sarah Dalrymple, all of Kingwood.

    In Frenchtown, Dec. 30, by Rev. Jos. D. Randolph, James M. Snyder to Susan E. Risler.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Sarah Lair, whose death is published this week, had passed her four score of years in the possession of a remarkable remembrance of the many changes which she had witnessed around her.  She remebered when from Clinton toward the Delaware River there was an unbroken forest as far as the residence of Hiram Huffman, now Pittstown.  She joined the old Stone Church while James Monroe was President of the United States.  Her death was very sudden, she having just done some housework and seated herself when a hemorrhage of the lungs seized her fatally.
 
 

Feb. 16, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 26 (1180)

    Alexander Gardiner, colored, was hanged at New Kent Court House, Virginia, on Friday for the murder of Mrs. Stewart and her colored farm manager, John Baker.

    At Springfield, Tenn., on Thursday evening, Thomas Hackersmith, a boy of 14, accidentally shot and killed his cousin, Mrs. Bibb.

    Dr. Charles P. Bricken, author of "Cabin and Parlor," which used to be performed in Southern theatres as an offset to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was killed at Richmond, Va., on Friday by the accidental discharge of a pistol.
 

Marriages

    February 5th, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Frederick Bogardus of Clinton, to Adelaid C. Corsen of Clinton.

    At Mount Pleasant, on Wednesday evening, 2d instant, at the residence of the bride's mother, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Martin Cole of Bunn Valley, to Jennie Pickel, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Jonathan Pickel.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, February 5th, Catharine C., youngest daughter of James P. and Catharine C. Rittenhouse, of Cholera Infantum, aged 1 year, 9 months and 28 days.

    At Mattison's Corner, on the 11th instant, Jacob Voorhees, aged about 82 years.
 

Local Department

    Bridget McGowan, aged 16, died suddenly on Saturday morning week, at the house of Geo. Shurts, in Lebanon, from rupture of a blood-vessel.

    Jacob Voorhees, an old and highly respected citizen of Three Bridges, was found dead in his bed on Friday morning last.  He was aged about 82 years.

    Rev. George Banghart, one of the fathers of the Methodist Church in the United States died at his residence, near Bridgeville, Warren county, on the 9th inst., in the 88th years of his age.

    The scarlet fever is raging in Millstone and vicinity.  Mr. Henry Hall has lost one child, aged eight years, and has six others lying sick with the same disease.

    The body of Hannah Robinson, a young girl of Trenton, who had been missing for about ten days, was found in the Assanpink, near the Black Bridge, on Sunday week.
 
 

Feb. 23, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 27 (1181)

Marriages

    On the 16th instant, at the house of the bride's father, by Elder J. Reimer, Andrew R. Dilts to Urania Poulson, both of Hunterdon County.
 

Deaths

    On Sunday morning, February 20th, 1870, near Flemington, Martha Coryell, wife of Ingham Coryell, aged about 47 years.  Funeral services on Thursday morning, February 24th, in Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, at ten o'clock.
 

    Charles McLear, a coach-trimmer, living at New Brunswick, while on a visit to a sister residing at 129 Prospect street, Newark, in company with several friends drank three or four quarts of beer, and towards evening partook freely of soup, when he commenced to cough..  McLear lingered through the night, and died early Monday morning.
 
 

Mar. 2, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 28 (1182)

    James Hill, a native of Philadelphia, about 22 years of age, employed on the large railroad bridge now building over the river at Boonton, fell a distance of forty feet off the bridge last Friday evening, while at work.  He struck on his head among the r
ocks below, crushing his skull fearfully.  He died instantly.

    Near Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, E. D. Kinney and John H. Wells were shot by a ruffian, named Dubois, and Kenney was instantly killed.  A number of citizens went in pursuit of Dubois and killed him.
 

Marriages

    On February 10th, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Sam'l Harrison, Augustus F. Young, of New York City to Mary Y. Stout near Ringoes, N.J.

    At Mount Pleasant, February 19th by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Jacob Rolle of Mount Pleasant, to Elice Vogellacher of Baden, Germany.

    February 23, 1870, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Wilson Wert of Franklin and Margaret Ann Anderson, of Clinton.
 

Deaths

    At Mount Pleasant, on the 19th inst., Henry Kels in the 83d year of his age.

    February 23d, Elisha E. Bird, aged about 78 years.
 

Fatal Accident
    Nicholas N. Cherry, in the employ of S. P. Stryker, at Tumble, met with an accident which cost him his life on Tuesday last.  He was hauling logs rom near Locktown, and when within a mile from that place,the rear axle of his wagon broke, throwing him upon the ground.  The log fell upon his head, crushing it in a horrible manner and killing him instantly.  A wife and two children are left to mourn the sad event.
 
 

Mar. 9, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 29 (1183)

Marriages

    In the Ringoes Baptist church, on the 27th of February, by Rev. A. B. Larison, A. S. Pittenger, M.D., of Clover Hill to Emily J. Case, of Ringoes.

    At the residence of the bride's father, near Baptisttown, February 24th, by the Rev. S. Sproul, John C. Arnwine, to Lizzie, daughter of Peter Vanderbilt.
 

Child Burned to Death
    A very distressing accident occurred in the family of Jacob B. Dalrymple, near Frenchtown, last Tuesday morning.  Mrs. Dalrymple had gone out to mike the cows, leaving a little two year old child alone in the house.  During the woman's absence the child is supposed to have been playing in the fire, as it was found by the mother upon her return, dead - it being literally roasted to death.

    Rev. Dr. John McClintock, president of the Drew Theological Seminary died of typhoid fever at his residence in Madison on Friday.  He was fifty-five years of age and had been in the ministry since 1836.
 
 

Mar. 16, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 30 (1184)

Marriages

    On the 8th inst., by Rev. I. Poulson, George O. Poulson, of Brooklyn, to Ella Gaddis, of Lambertville.

    On the 10th inst., by Rev. I. Poulson, Ezra Allegar, of Delaware, to Catharine Trimmer, of Franklin.

    On the 3d inst., by the Rev. Samuel Harrison, Johnson Servis to Mrs. Jane Large, both of Ringoes, N.J.

    On Tuesday, March the 8th, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Rev. Frank B. Miller, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Asbury, N.J., to Sallie M. Bennett, of the same place.
 

Deaths

    February 19th, 1870, in Delaware township, Joseph Lee, aged about 87? years.

    March 9, Elizabeth H. Johnson, wife of Ezekiel L. Everitt, aged 44 years, 9 months and 16 days.
 

    A little girl named Maggie Haly was burned so badly in Elizabeth on Monday, from her clothes taking fire, that she died on the following day.
 
 

Mar. 23, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 31 (1185)

Marriages

    February 19, 1870, by Rev. John R. Willox, of Nicholas H. Apgar, to Leanora T. Dorland, both of Lebanon township, Hunterdon county.

    March 5th, by the same, Philip S. Huffman, of Washington township, Morris Co., to Hannah M. Rowland, of Clinton Station, Hunterdon Co.
 

Deaths

    In Philadelphia, on Saturday, March 19, 1870, Stacy B. Barcroft, in the 76th year of his age.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Mary Foster, an aged resident of Newark, died on Wednesday morning, at her residence.  She was a resident of New York City during the early part of her life... Mrs. Foster was ninety-one years of age.
 
 

Mar. 30, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 32 (1186)

Deaths

    Near Flemington, March 23, 1870, after a long and painful illness, of Scrofula, Arabella, only daughter of Abraham and Amy Hoppock, aged 3 years, six months and eight days.
 

News Items

    Manning Vanderheyden was murdered by three robbers, who broke into his residence near Troy, N.Y., on Wednesday night last.

    At New Bedford, Mass., Thursday night last, Elizabeth B. Chapman, aged 40 shot and killed Theodore L. Parker, aged 21 and then shot herself through the body, inflicting a dangerous wound.  The crime was committed in a house where they both boarded.
 
 

Apr. 6, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 33 (1187)

News Items

    In Kent county, Delaware, on the 19th ult., Thomas Hagan, a Philadelphia peddler, supposed to reside on Pine street, was robbed and murdered.  Two negroes named Lober and Young, have been arrested on suspicion, and one of them is reported to have confessed their guilt.
 

Deaths

    Near Voorhees Corner, March 12, George G. Kuhl, son of Peter C. and Elizabeth Kuhl, aged 3 years, 3 months and 18 days.

    February 4th, 1870, in Delaware township, Jerusha Fulper, in the 82d year of her age.
 
 

Apr. 13, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 34 (1188)

    Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Mumford, living near Colona, Ill., were murdered on the night of the 5th inst., by two robbers, who made their escape with $1600.

    Terry Cotton, who was to have been executed at Galveston, Texas, last Friday, for the murder of Major Lochman, committed suicide by taking morphine, at 5 o'clock in the morning.
 

Marriages

    March 5th, at the bride's residence by Rev. H. J. Hayter, William Edmonds to Mary A. Duckworth, both of Clarksville, N.J.

    April 6th, at the M. E. Parsonage, in Asbury, by Rev. H. J. Hayter, William W. Bast, of Bethlehem, to Jennie C. Nowder, of New Hampton, N.J.

    April 2d, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Wesley Johnson, and Mary Elizabeth Brooks, both of Union township.
 

    A man named Richard Watterson, entered a saloon in Jersey City last Friday afternoon, sat down on a chair, and in a short time was apparently asleep.  On endeavoring to arouse him, however, life was found to be extinct.
 

Letters Remaining in Flemington, P.O.
    Through the courtesy of Postmaster Smith, we are permitted to publish for the benefit of all concerned, a list of letters remaining in our post office on the first of April:
    J. P. Alpaugh, Kennedy Burk, Miss Jennie Butler, N. J. Dalrymple, John Dockerty, Wm. A. Dilts, J. Closson (care of Mr. Daily), Ja. Fellmy, Samuel Green, John Hill, sen., Susan Higgins, Wilson Kugler, George F. Omsbee, Wilson Sheets, J. H. Swallow, Annie J. Snyder, Elizabeth Verris, H. C. Williamson, A. L. White, John F. Walker.
 
 

Apr. 20, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 35 (1189)

Deaths

    In this village, April 12th, 1870, Phoeba, wife of Mahlon Smith, in the 79th year of her age.
 

Sad Fatality
    A most heart-rending accident occurred at Bethlehem last Wednesday.  A little son of Charles Opdycke, aged five years, while riding on a farm wagon with his father's hired man, was thrown off by the wagon striking a stone or post, and falling under the wheels was crushed to death.
 

    Hon. John H. Williamson, who represented the Democracy of the first Assembly District of this County, in the Legislature of 1868-69, died at his residence in Ringoes on Tuesday last, after a long and painful illness.
 
 

Apr. 27, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 36 (1180)

News Items

    The most horrible murders since the Probst butchery, were committed at Baltimore last Thursday.  Mrs. Catherine Marsh, residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer, at 99 Canal street, murdered her four children, by cutting their throats. She also cut the throat of her mother, who is not expected to recover.  The eldest of the children was only 8 years old, the youngest two years and a half.  The circumstances, as detailed elsewhere, indicate that the murderess was insane.

    James Henry, a passenger on the emigrant train, west from New York to San Francisco, fell from the cars while in motion, at Wentztown Station, East Pennsylvania Railroad, Monday night and his body was severed in twain.

    At Greenfield, Wis., on Wednesday, Mrs. Lydia Duville was found dead, hanging by a rope, and locked up in a room of her house.  A divorce suit was pending between her and her husband, and the latter has been arrested.

    Thomas Halloran was committed to jail at Morristown, N.J., last Thursday, on the charge of murdering his wife.
 

Deaths

    In Ringoes, April 12th, 1870, John Williamson, aged about 75 years.

    Near Readington, April 17th, 1870, John A. Quick, aged 86 years.
 

Statement - Of the finances of the township of Lebanon, commencing April 17th, 1869 and ending April 16th, 1870.

        Martin O'Brien, Overseer of Poor, Cr. 1869-70: Paid: John Sutton, $12.48.
 

Sudden Death
    On Thursday last, Mrs. Noah Hixson, died very suddenly at the residence of her husband in East Amwell.  The lady had been troubled for some time back with an affection of the heart and at the hour of ten o'clock on the morning above cited, as she was in the act of rising from her bed, she suddenly fell dead.
 

The Returns
    We are this week enabled to complete the list of township officers elected at the recent town meetings:

         Kingwood - Town Committee: William B. Sutton

                           Justice of the Peace:  William B. Sutton
 
 

May 4, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 37 (1181)

Wife Murdered
    Mr. Charles Smith, of Machias, Little Valley, New York, in a quarrel with his wife on the morning of the 28th ult., struck her with an axe, killing her instantly.  He made no attempt to escape, and at his examination before a justice he pleaded guilty, and was committed to the County Jail in the village.  Mr. Smith is about 60 years, and for sometime past has lived unhappily with his wife.
 

Deaths

    April 29th, 1870 in Flemington, James Harrison, aged about 77 years.

    April 27th, 1870, in Flemington, Hugh Capner, aged about 70 years.

    April 17th, at Three Bridges, Emma E., daughter of Jacob V. and Kate Higgins, aged 1 year and 4 months.

    April 26th, 1870, in Raritan township, Flavius Josephus Hinkley, aged about 21 years.
 

Local News

    Deaths - Since our last issue, death has brought sorrow into several households ...

        On Wednesday night last, Hugh Capner, one of our oldest inhabitants, died at his residence in this town, after a very long illness... To him belonged the distinction of erecting the first public hall ever built in Flemington, and also the largest dwellinghouse.  He was a farmer by occupation and his particular fancy was in raising fine stock.  He was about 70 years of age.

        On Friday morning, James Harrison, another of our oldest citizens, died suddenly at his residence on Bonnell street.  Mr. Harrison (more familiarly known as "General") had lived in this place and vicinity for many years...  He was a butcher by trade...  Among the first things we can remember was the ringing of "General" Harrison's bell as he drove about town with his meat wagon.

        On Thursday evening, at Copper Hill, Theodore Bellis, son of Peter Bellis, died and on Friday his sister, Mrs. Hartpence, followed him.  Both had been suffering with consumption.  Mr. Bellis had been married but about six months, and his sister a little over a year.  Their funerals took place on Sunday morning, both at the same time at Larison's.

        In this township, on Thursday, Josephus Hinkley, son of John Hinkley, died while yet in the bud of youth, of scrofula.
 

    A Trenton paper says that Mr. Knowles, who moved from Yardleysville to that city on the first of April, and opened a grocery store at the corner of Warren and Perry streets, died very suddenly on Sunday morning last.
 
 

May 11, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 38 (1182)

Uncalled for Letters

    Simmind Adams, Joshua Brown (4), Mrs. S. A. Burton, , G. D. Coryell (2), Mrs. Sarah Case, Miss M. A. Cooley, Miss Annie Cooley, M. F. Aberley, David Eagle, Martha Gary, Mrs. L. J. Hoagland, Daniel Hoagland, Peter J. Huffman, Mrs. Mary J. Hooser, Aaron Hart, Peter S. Kinney, Jesse Myers, John Nicklus, J. W. Price, A. E. Reed, Mrs. Mary St. Clare, W. R. Stout, Joseph W. Stamits, Wm. Voorhees.
 

    John Larkin, aged five years, was burned to death in Jersey City, by his little brother setting the bed on which he was sleeping on fire with matches, during the absence of the parents.
 

Marriages

    On the 30th ult., at the house of the bride's mother, by Rev. A. H. Brown, Mr. Carl J. Dittman to Mrs. H. G. Wagner, all of his place.
 

Deaths

    At Sandtown, near Clinton, N.J., April 1st, 1870, Margaret Stewart, widow of Capt. James P. Hunt, and daughter of the last John Willox, Esq., aged 82 years and 9 months.
 
 

May 18, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 39 (1183)

Confession of John J. Nixon
    John Nixon, the Bloomingdale murderer, was removed to the State Prison at Trenton, Wednesday last, where hs is to be imprisoned 20 years for killing David Sisco.
 

State Items

    An old man named Stephen Cassady was run over and killed at Raritan, a few days ago, while picking coal from the railroad track.

    Fritz Masker and Henrietta Dube, two German lovers of Union Hill, have eloped because Henrietta's parents would not approve the match.

    Miss Jelf, aged 104, the oldest woman in N.J., died at Elizabeth, last Saturday week.
 

Marriages

    At Frenchtown, May 3d, by Rev. John B. Taylor, Benjamin Philkill to Sarah E., daughter of the late Alfred Taylor, all of Frenchtown.

    May 7th, at Frenchtown, by Rev. John H. Scofield, George A. Stryker to Carrie M., daughter of the late Bateman Brink, all of Kingwood township.
 

Deaths

    On Sunday, April 17th, at her residence, in Quakertown, Mrs. Charlotte Sheets, in the 27th year of her age.

    May 5th, 1870, near Mount Pleasant, Wesley E. W., son of Jacob and Sophia Hassel, aged 2 years, 3 months and 13 days.

    In Kingwood township, April 17th, Rev. Amos Merselles, aged 67 years.

    At Landsdown, near Clinton, N.J., April 1st, 1870, Margaret Stewart, widow of Capt. James P. Hunt, and daughter of the late John Wilson, Esq., aged 82 years and 8 months.
 
 

May 25, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 40 (1184)

Death of Enoch R. Borden.
    This widely-known printer and journalist died in Trenton on Monday, after a lingering illness, in the 49th year of his age.  Mr. Borden was born at New Sharon, East Windsor township, Mercer county, in 1821....

    At St. Paul, Min., on Tuesday evening Mrs. Elizabeth Hatch called on Miss Jessie Bush and requested to see her privately.  They entered a room, when Mrs. Hatch turned the key of the door, and shot Miss Bush through the lung, inflicting a fatal wound...

    A Notable Wedding - The much talked of marriage of Mark Rennie De Mortie, a Frenchman, with Miss Cordelia Downing, daughter of the well known colored caterer, George T. Downing, took place on Wednesday evening last, at the residence of the bride's father, in Washington....
 

State Items

    John Dennis, a resident of Newark and aged 68 years, went into his cellar to get some coal.  After waiting some time for his return a member of the family was sent to discover his whereabouts, when he was found lying on the coal-bin dead. His complaint was disease of the heart.

    The wife of Robert McComb, of Somerville, was burned in a most shocking manner on Monday morning last, while she was lighting the fire... She leaves a family of three children, the oldest of which is five years old.

    A girl 20 years of age, named Jane Reynolds, came to her death in Newark, on Monday, under the following dreadful circumstances:  Burned.
 

Marriages

    May 21st, 1870, by Rev. Israel Poulson, Lambert T. Servis, to Emma, daughter of Samuel Holcombe, of Kingwood.
 

Deaths

    On Saturday May 14th, 1870, at the residence of his son, in Readington township, Jacob K. Rowe, aged 81 years, 9 months, and 17 days.
 
 

June 1, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 41 (1185)

News Items

    Judge Richard Stockton Field died at Princeton, N.J. on Wednesday night.  Gen. John H. Granger, died at Canandalgua, N.Y., Thursday.  Rev. Isaac Collins, aged 81, who served his chaplain and soldier in the war of 1812, and was for sixty years a clergyman of the Methodist Church, died in Baltimore on Wednesday.
 

Marriages

    May 18th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Aaron H. Hartpence, of Raritan township, and Tamsan G. Burd, of Quakertown.

    At Cherryville, N.J., May 26, by Rev. E. S. Lear, Thomas H. Rowe, of Three Bridges, and Cordilla Cronce, of Cherryville.
 

Local Department

    A man named Bailey, living in Warren township, Somerset county, committed suicide by hanging, on Sunday morning.  On Monday morning a lad named Conklin, 15 years of aged, living at Liberty Corners, took his own life in the same way.
 
 

June 8, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 42 (1186)

News Items

    At St. Paul, Minn., C. W. Ray, a printer, fell from the third story of the Pioneer newspaper office, on Saturday night, while drunk, and was instantly killed.
 

Marriages

    June 1st, at Mount Pleasant, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Elijah Van Syckel, Esq., of Union, to Sarah E. Duckworth, of Bethlehem.

    May 14th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Adam Young, to Ida E. Van Doren, both of Bedminister township, Somerset County, N.J.

    In Milford, by Rev. Philetas Roberts, May 19th, George Sinclair to Mary Stevenson, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of Stephen B. Hill, in Flemington, on the 31st May, 1870, of heart disease, Jeremiah Gary, in the 47th year of his age.
 

Uncalled for Letters
    Miss Amelia Allegar, Herbert Austins, Lance Apeter, John C. Brown, Charles Baur, Miss Agnes Brown, H. W. Courtwright, Mrs. Mary Q. Cronce, John Godown, Arabella Godown, John Hiller, John Hill, Izekiel Hagarman, L. H. Hood, Miss Sallie E. Johnson, Miss Annie R. Price, R.S. Reed, George B. Rittenhouse, Mahlon D. Smith (2), Samuel Shaffer, J. R. Sutphin, Mrs. Susan C. Seals, Isaac J. Stryker, Asher Van Doren, Cornelius C. Vansyckel, Uriah Worman, Annie Williamson, Wyckoff & Co., Philip Whitehead (2), Lydia S. Walters.
 
 

June 15, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 43 (1187)

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's father, Flemington, N.J. on Wednesday, June 8th, by the Rev. George S. Mott, Stephen C. McCandless, of Pittsburg, Pa., to Maggie R., daughter of Charles Bartles, Esq.
 

Deaths

    July 18th, 1870, near Clover Hill, William B. Kuhl, aged about 60 years.

    At Kingston, N.Y., on Tuesday, May 31, of consumption, Hannah M., wife of John R. Farlee, in the 48th year of her age.
 

Report - Of Finances of Tewksbury Township, for the Year ending April 11, 1870:
   Frederick Apgar, Overseer of Poor, Dr.

        Wesley Sutton, to pay on keeping Mary A. Aders, bastard child,  $35.00.

        Mary A. Ader, for support of her bastard child,  $101.00

        George B. Sutton, for trade furnished to Godfrey Bulmer and clothing for the poor,  $70.94
 

Local Department

    A colored woman, named, "Mat", who had lived in the Wyckoff family at Potterstown for 99 years, died last week, aged 105 years.

    A shocking death was that of the child of Geo. Gerhard, at Bellville, last week.  Left asleep on the bed by a busy nurse, the child rolled backwards until its little body fell between the bedstead and the wall, hanging by its neck, in which position it had strangled to death.
 
 

June 22, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 44 (1188)

Shocking
    On Wednesday evening last, at Philadelphia, a row-boat containing, D. Almond, Albert Baker, Miss Maggie Cade and another young lady whose name is unknown, was capsized in the Schuylkill river, near the Falls Bridge.  Almond was the only one saved.
 

Marriages

    June 1st, at Mt. Pleasant, by the Rev. John Burrows, Mr. Albert Fisher, of Bridgeton, Pa., to Miss Elizabeth Van Syckle, of Mt. Pleasant.

    June 2nd at the residence of the bride's mother, by the same, assisted by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford of Lambertville, John C. Richards, M. D., of Lock Haven, Pa., to Miss Carrie Van Syckle, of Milford, N.J.

    June 9th, by the same, at Mt. Pleasant, Mr. Elbrig Hiner, of Kingwood township, N.J., to Miss Mary Martha Apgar, of Mt. Pleasant.

    June 4th, by Rev. R. Willox, Mr. John Welter, to Miss Catherine Beam, both of Washington township, Morris County.

    On the 6th inst., in the Parsonage at Ringoes, by the Rev. Sam'l Harrison, Mr. David M. Moore, of Sand Brook, to Miss Parmelia Johnson of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    June 9th, 1870, at Stanton, N.J., Mrs. Ann Anderson, aged about 91 years.

    June 15th, at Bloomsbury, N.J., John R. Smith, aged about 60 years.

    In Washington, D.C., June 11th, 1870, at the residence of her son, of dropsy, Elizabeth Seymour, widow of George C. Seymour, formerly of Flemington, in the 69th, year of her age.  The remains were interred in Flemington.
 

Local Department

    A little son of Dr. T. E. Hunt was drowned in the Spruce Run at Clarksville, on Monday afternoon last...
 
 

June 29, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 45 (1189)

Charles Dicken's Death
    The report that Mr. Charles Dickens had been seized with an apoplectic attack on Wednesday evening and had since remained unconscious, reached London yesterday, and was followed briefly by the sad news that he died at 6:10 last evening at Gad's Hill, his residence near Rochester....

    The house of Elijah George, near Clinton, Mo., was burned a few nights since, and three of his sons perished in the flames.
 

Deaths

    In Delaware, June 14, 1870, of Consumption, Mary Jane, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Fauss, aged 25 years, 1 month and 28 days.
 

Local Department

    From the Clinton Democrat, we learn that Benj. E. Smith, a little boy of six summers, and youngest son of B. C. Smith, of Clinton, was drowned in the South Branch on Saturday afternoon, the 18th inst.  He, with his brother, Morris, nearly two years his senior, were bathing, when the younger stumbled or slipped and went under the water to rise no more.

    James Vansycle, a colored man, accidentally fell into the Feeder, near Halstead's basin, yesterday, and before any assistance could be rendered life was extinct.

    Miss Sarah Cox, a respectable young lady of Camden, died recently under circumstances that led to the suspicion that she had been poisoned by one of the females in the boarding house where she resided.

    A singular accident occurred at the slip next about the Hoboken ferry entrance, in Hoboken, on Monday night.  A German, whose name is supposed to be Erkko Oltman, was approaching the ferry, when the wind blew his hat down the adjoining slip.  He gave chase with such impetuosity that he could not stop himself on the bridge and fell in head first, his head sticking fast in the mud at the bottom of the slip.  When taken out a few minutes later life was extinct.
 
 

July 6, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 46 (1190)

Awful Accident
    On Tuesday afternoon last between 4 and 5 o'clock, the foundation wall of an old building on Sassafras street about the depot, owned by Frank Tracy, fell from want of proper support.  Six children were playing beside it at the time, three of whom, Charles B. and Mary Furness, and Kate Miller, were instantly killed, two of them having their heads crushed into a shapeless mass.... The two Furness children were from four to five years of age, the little Miller girl was about three years old. They were all grandchildren of Mrs. Furnes, who resides in the vicinity.  - Erie, Pa., Despatch.

    Lewis Kennedy, (colored), who ravished and murdered Mrs. Stewart, in New Kent county and killed John Baker, the farm manager, was executed last Friday morning, at New Kent Court House....
 

Local Department

    Fatal Railroad Accident
        Edward C. Ackerman, for several years conductor on the Central Railroad, and who formerly run the morning train from this place to New York, was fatally injured on Tuesday last at Hackettstown.  He had recently been employed as conductor on the Morris and Essex Railroad and it appears from all we can learn that he was standing between two cars, overseeing his train, when they came together, mangling one leg in such a condition that amputation was deemed necessary.  He was taken to his home at Easton, where he lingered until 10 P.M. of the above day when life left him.  Mr. Ackerman leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss.
 

Uncalled for Letters
    Jos. Allen, Henry Barton, Geo. Buchanan, Wm. Dunne, Nichlus Emmons, Charles Eick, Henry Halderman (2), Charles Haines, Misss Anna Hulsizer, Miss Dorathy Hackett, Mrs. Lidia Hahn, Mrs. Annie S. Johnson, Miss M. Madens (2), Mrs. Jane Martin, Jacob Newel, Charles Gorman, Wm. Taylor, J. J. Thomas.
 
 

July 13, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 47 (1191)

    Fourth of July brought forth a crop of murders.  At St. Johnsville, N.Y., Charles Gacker deliberately shot Thomas E. Burdick, a school teacher, through the breast, killing him instantly.

    Near Boston, Abraham Rechberg, a German, was killed during a drunken row.  At the west shaft of the Hoosic Tunnel, Charles McCarthy was found murdered by some person unknown.

    At Union Hill, N.J., Michael Reynold, of New York, was stabbed and instantly killed by another man who was pursuing some one with whom he had a difficulty.
 

Marriages

    On the 23d ult., by Rev. N. L. Upham, at the house of the bride's mother, Mrs. Thomas Hill, of Reaville, Clinton B. Blackwell of West Amwell to Arrie A. Hill of East Amwell.

    July 4th by Rev. N. L. Upham, at the house of Mr. John Hoagland, in Reaville, William W. Little, of Philadelphia to Delilah E. Martindale, of East Amwell.

    July 7th, near Hamden, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, William V. Garrison, of Nansemond County, Va., and Anna Elizabeth Neighbor, of Clinton township, N.J.

    At Bloomsbury, July 4th, 1870, by Rev. W. C. Nelson, John W. Kels, of Little York, to Olivia Weller, of Springtown.

    July 9th, by Rev. A. H. Brown, at the M.E. Parsonage, Flemington, John N. Hurley of New Hope, Pa., to Uree A. Still, of Croton, Hunterdon Co., N.J.
 
 

July 20, 1870,  Vol.  XXXII, No. 48 (1192)

    Long Branch, N.J., July 17 - A young man named William Sawtell, was drowned while bathing in front of the United States Hotel this morning.

    Springfield, Mass., July 17 - George Ashmun, formerly a distinguished politician, died in this city today.  Mr. Ashmun was born in Blandford on Christmas Day, 1804...

    Providence, R.I., July 17 - At Blackstone, Friday afternoon, Anna Garritz, aged fourteen years, was drowned in the "Trench".  The circumstances warrant a belief of suicide.  - Saturday afternoon, John Seehan, aged 8 years was drowned while bathing at Woo
nsocket.
 

Local Department

    Gored to Death by a Bull
        As Mr. David Melick, of Lesser Cross Roads, was crossing the field of Mr. Wm. Demond, on Saturday morning last, he was pursued and attacked by a Bull of Mr. Demond, that was pasturing in the field.  ... John Bird, Esq., observing Mr. Melick lying on the ground insensible, procured assistance and took him lome.  But Mr. Melick's injuries proved so severe that after lingering until Tuesday morning last, he died... at the time of death about 70 years of age.

    A colored woman known in the neighborhood as Aunt Jenny Jackson, formerly a slave of John Van Horn, died at her residence near the Rocks, at Jersey City, on Thursday, at the advanced age of 113 years.
 

Marriages

    June 25th, by Rev. R. Van Amburg, John S. Apgar, of Tewksbury to Nancy Elizabeth Rowland.

    June 7th, by Rev. R. Van Amburg, Thomas R. Grey, of Chester, to Mary Brown of Clinton.
 
 

Missing issues - No. 49 - 52 (July 27 - August 17)
 
 

Aug. 24, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 1 (1197)

  (poor quality)
 
 

Aug. 31 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 2 (1198)

Deaths

    At Ringoes, August 6th, 1870, Hannah Maria, wife of Mahlon Schanck, aged 62 years.
 
 

Sep. 6 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 3 (1199)

Marriages

    Aug. 31, at Sydney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Lemuel L. Buchanan and Carrie Busenbury, both of Franklin township.
 

Local Department

    Court commenced this (Tuesday) morning..
        For Argument - Anderson Sutton vs Lewis Kiple; Certiora.  Bird, Voorhees & Vansyckel - Shomp.
 

Sad Calamity
    On Tuesday afternoon of last week, John Hill, former well-known citizen of this County, of late a resident of Warren, near Changewater, sent his hired man, John Handy, down a well near the door to adjust a chain attached to the pump.  The well was filled with foul air, and Handy was instantly suffocated.  Hill descended to render him assistance and shared the same fate...  Handy was an industrious young man, the only support of his mother.  Hill was a man of large wealth, and leaves a large family to mourn his loss.  The funeral services were conducted in the Spruce Run Lutheran Church, on Thursday, by Rev. David Kline, and was largely attended.
 
 

Sep. 13 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 4 (1120)

Eight Persons Drown - The Victims from Long Branch.
    Toms River, N.J., Sept. 8 - Today an excursion came to Toms River from Long Branch, and while crossing the foot bridge from the depot to the village, the bridge gave way, precipitating over one hundred persons into twenty feet of water.  Eight were drowned.   Their names are Mrs. Sidney Throckmorton, Peter Howland, Mary E. Styles, Maria Martin, Helen Lane, Ella Maple, James Martin and Alfaretta Martin.  The party returns at one o'clock to Long Branch.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's mother, September 7th, 1870, by Rev. John B. Taylor, Abraham H. Chapin to Anna Risler, all of Frenchtown.

    By Elder P. Hartwell, at this residence in Hopewell, J.L. Pittenger to Amy T. Cronce, both of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, August 29th, 1870, Rebecca Shafer, aged about 50 years.

    In Frenchtown, August 14th, 1870, Mary, widow of the late Nathan Whitening, aged 60 years.
 

State Items

    Elizabeth Fulton, a maiden lady 70 years of age, died suddenly at Elizabeth on Sunday, after eating a hearty breakfast.

    On Tuesday a man named William Coffie, employed in the sewer excavation in Hudson City, was instantly killed in a most singular manner...
 
 

Sep. 21, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 5 (1121)

State Items

    James McCurnin was struck by a locomotive of the Erie road, at Jersey City, on the 14th and instantly killed.

    The body of Francis Brady, a New Yorker, was found in the water at the foot of First street, Hoboken, on Monday.  It is supposed that he committed suicide.

    A young man named, Hall, son of Lieut. Hall, U.S.N., died at Woodbury, a few days ago, from a heavy dose of laudanum which he took before leaving Phildadelphia.

    J.B.H. Mertling, a New Yorker, committed suicide by taking strychnine at the ferry house in Jersey City, on Friday night.  He was recently married and family difficulties are said to have led to the act.

    A most singular suicide took place at North Bergen on Wednesday morning.  A laborer named Frank J. Whipple borrowed a gun for the purpose, he said, of shooting a mad dog.  Going off into the woods, he pulled off one boot, and stocking; then planting his back against a tree, he placed the muzzle in his mouth and struck the trigger with his toe.

    The body of Mr. Thomas Corson, of Rahway, has been found in the Rahway river.... Mr. Corson leaves a young wife and child.
 

Married

    At Asbury Methodist Parsonage on the 14th inst., by Rev. James N. Keys, Clarkson Farrow of Bethlehem to Allie Housel, of Bethlehem.
 
 

Sep. 28, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 6 (1722)

Marriages

    On the 8th inst., at the M.E. Parsonage of Quakertown, by Rev. J. Mead, Nathaniel E. Opdycke, of Alexandria, to Rachel J. Able, of the same place.

    In Quakertown, on the 19th inst., by Rev. J. Mead, Rev. James W. Hartpence, of Newark Conference, to Anna Johnston, of Franklin.

    Sept. 21, by Rev. N. L. Upham, Aaron G. Case, of Croton, to Caroline Rudenbock, of East Amwell, at the house of the bride's father, Mr. John Rudenbock, Larason's Corner.

    At the parsonage, September 21st, by the Rev. John R. Kugler, Wilson L. Opdycke to Rachel C. Bennett, both of Junction, Hunterdon county, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Alexandria township, Aug. 25, Willie Anna, aged 9 months and 3 days; Aug. 26, John, aged 9 months and 4 days, son and daughter of Wilson and Eliza J. Kugler.

    In Flemington, August 10, of dysentery, Annie A. Bateman, daughter of Hiram and Susan M. Case, aged 1 year, 9 months and 2 weeks.
 

Fatal Accident
    Samuel Mathews, a farmer living near Quakertown, died on Saturday evening last from injuries received the previous day.
 
 

Oct. 5, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 7 (1723)

    Mrs. Mildred Clarkson shot herself dead in Vermillion county, Ill., while religiously excited.

    Terrible Death in Schuyler Co. - [from the Watkin's Express, September 16.]
        A few evenings since, Mr. J.H. Stothoff, living near Burdett, was killed....  The deceased was about sixty-one years old..

    Hon. Wm. F. Packer, ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, died at Williamsport on Tuesday, aged sixty-four years....

    Fatal Kerosene Casualty
        "Information reached the coroner's office yesterday afternoon that George Bredlin, a child two years of age, was lying dead at the residence of his parents, 494 Sixth Street...." - N.Y. Herald.
 

Marriages

    By Rev. N. L. Upham, at the Parsonage, Reaville, Sept. 28th, Henry A. Stout of Hopewell, to Ida S. Quick, of East Amwell.
 

Deaths

    Sept. 16th, 1870, near Wertsville, Mary Anna, wife of Iia Higgins, aged about 27 years.
 

Local Department

    Thomas B. Hudnit, of Reaville, buried one of his children last Saturday - a little boy of seven years of age.
 

List of Letters - in the Flemington PO:
    H. B. Agar, Miss Lydia A. Ayers, Wm. Barstow & Co., Hixson Bellis, Miss Lizzie Buchanan, Miss Mary Brandon, Wm. Bowne, W. V. Durand, Miss Isabella Farma, Ezekiel Hughes, P. C. Kuhl, John Lorence, Fred. Larrence, Lemuel Miers, Peter McCollum, M. M. Mallon, Geo. McCray, Maggie Marks, Furman D. Updike, F. Robins, Francis Rittenhouse, Miss Hannah Stout, A. C. Servis, Nellie Snyder, Henry Snyder, Alf. Williamson, Geo. A. West, Elizabeth A. White, A. H. Wyckoff.
 
 

Oct. 12, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 8 (1724)

State Items

    Mr. Van Emburg, the resident of East Newark who died recently at the age of 104 years, left property to the value of $25,000.

    Robert Currie, a plumber, while repairing a cesspool at Hoboken, on Thursday, fell in and was suffocated before assistance could be rendered him.

    There is living in Hope township, Warren county, a couple that have enjoyed married life for nearly sixty years.  They were married in November 1810.  Their names are Joseph Merrell, aged 81, and Mary Merrell, aged 80.

    Noah Van Houten, who lives near Amity, Sussex county, last week buried a son, making the twenty-fifth child he has lost by death.  He has yet three living and has been married but once.
 

Local Department

    Railroad Fatality
        Cassius Plum, a son of Joseph Plum, of this township, was killed while coupling cars on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at or near Scranton, last Tuesday.  The deceased had previously worked on a farm at High Bridge, and had only been on the road about eight days, acting in the capacity of brakeman.  He was aged about 20 years.

    Sudden Death
        About 12 o'clock on Thursday last, a German man aged about 24 years, was found in a dying condition in the barn of John Newell, near Clover Hill, in Somerset county.  The man was removed to a building at the latter place in Hunterdon county, .. but in a short time he breathed his last.... The deceased was a stranger in those parts, but from the papers found unpon his person, his name was ascertained to be W. Eisenicher.
 

Marriages

    At Perryville, N.J., on Wednesday, Oct. 5, by Revs., J. M. Huntting and John Ewing, Rev. J. M. Huntting, Jr., of Melville, L.I., and H. Louisa Van Syckel, daughter of Mr. Elijah Van Syckel.

    Sept. 3, by Rev. John R. Willox, David Lindebeaury of Washington, N.J., to Amelia Moke, of Tewksbury, N.J.

    Oct. 1, at Sydney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Nathan Hoppough and Sarah C. Jones, both of Union township.

    Oct. 5, at Sydney, by the same, Elias W. Hummer and Mary S. Frech, both of Clinton Station.

    In Flemington, October 6th, by Rev. E. A. Woods, John E. Adams, of Martinsville, N.J., to Hannah Dougherty, of Liberty Corners, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of James Housel, in Flemington, August 24th, 1870, Anna C. Poulson, wife of Sam'l Van Norman, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., aged 32 years, 4 months and 17 days.
 
 

Oct. 19, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 9 (1725)

Marriages

    At Rocktown, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 13th, at the residence of A. Kemenire, by Joseph Servis, Esq., Alexander Cochran to Frances Pipher, all of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.

    October 11th, in Flemington, by Rev. E. A. Woods, R. D. Runkle, to Mary Fields, both of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, Sept. 11th, 1870, Emery, son of Samuel S. and Josie Sheppard, aged 3 weeks and 5 days.
 
 

Oct. 26, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 10 (1726)

Local Jottings

    Peter Suydam, hotel keeper at Clover Hill, died at that place last Sunday night, of comsumption.

    Marriage Anniversary.
        Mr.and Mrs. Jacob Vliet, of Bloomsbury, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marrage on Monday, October 10th, in a very quiet, pleasant, but none the less interesting manner.
 
 

Nov. 2, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 11 (1727)

Marriages

    September 3d, at the M.E. Parsonage in Frenchtown, by the Rev. John B. Taylor, George B. Severs, of Mt. Pleasant to Lavina, daughter of Hugh Sinclair, of Frenchtown.

    October 5th, at the residence of the bride's father, by the same, Sylvanus D. Slack, to Emma F., daughter of Reeder T. Slack, all of Frenchtown.

    At the residence of Stacy B. Huffman, near Frenchtown, by the same, Lambert Brink to Sarah Jane, daughter of the late John Bonham, all of Kingwood tp.

    October 19th, at the residence of Peter Y. Lowe, in Frenchtown, by the same, Charles S. Stout to Mary Eudora Clickner, all of Frenchtown.

    October 13th, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the same, William T. Stires, of Union, to Mary K., daughter of Joseph M. Pickel, of Kingwood township.

    October 27th, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. N. L. Upham, George W. Smith, of Reaville, to Clorinda C. Case, daughter of Jacob Case, near Three Bridges.

    October 26th, at Neshanic, by Rev. G. Ludlow, Gilbert Lane to Lizzie Stevens.
 

Fatal Burning Accident
    "On Monday evening, Mrs. Margaret Greenleaf, an estimable widow lady, about fifty years of age, was so badly burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, that death ensued on Wednesday morning... " - Middlesex County Democrat.
 

Administrators' Sale of Real Estate
    By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of the County of Hunterdon, the subscribers, Administrators of the Estate of Jacob B. Apgar, deceased, will sell at Public Sale on Saturday, the 26th day of November 1870...  No. 1.  The Homestead Farm, containing 120 acres of land, more or less, situate on the road from High Bridge to Cokesburgh, adjoining land of John P. Sutton, Daniel Seal and others....
 
 

Nov. 9, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 12 (1728)

List of Letters in the Flemington Post Office
    J. D. Anderson, Robert F. Abbott, John Barton, Belle Bowlsby, Barney Cannon, Richard S. Conover, Daniel Dalrymple, E. Frost, J. V. Griggs, Dennis Hagaman, E. C. Hamington, P. A. & J. P. Hoffman, Jno. W. Highfield, Peter S. Kinney, Asa Phillips, Samuel Rinehart, Jacob S. Smith, Winfield Wagoner, Miss Abbey Yorker.
 

Marriages

    In Trenton, Nov. 3d, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Louis Anderson, of South Branch, Somerset county, to Laura, daughter of John B. Alpaugh, Esq., of Trenton, formerly of this place.

    November 2d, at Hampton Junction, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Jas. H. Snyder, of Clinton, to Agnes H., daughter of Stephen H. Brown, Esq.

    Oct. 8th, at the Parsonage, New Hampton, by the same, Geo. A. Beatty to Emma Augusta Miller, both of Hackettstown.

    Oct. 27th, at the residence of John Rodenbaugh, Samuel S. Minnick to Margaret Tyce, both of Imlaydale, N.J.
 

Deaths

    November 2d, 1870, at the residence of Chas. Tomlinson, in Flemington, Aaron Barcroft, aged 93 years, 4 months and 27 days.

    November 5th, 1870, at Lincoln, Delaware, after a brief illness, Mahlon R. Risler, formerly of Flemington, in the 49th year of his age.

    July 23d, 1870, near Princess Anne, Maryland, Joseph B. Case, formerly of New Jersey, aged 59 years, 3 months and 4 days.
 
 

Nov. 16, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 13 (1729)

Railroad Accident
    On Friday morning, as the Belvidere train which leaves Warren street station at 8:45 was running at the usual speed, making regular time, near the Feeder Bridge above Dean's farm it ran into a horse and wagon belonging to Henry Stout, of Ewing, in which was Mr. Stout and a man named Peter W. Davis, killing the latter outright and injuring Mr. Stout severely, though not fatally.
 

Death of a Journalist
    George R. McCarter, of the Newark Journal, died last Friday from the effects of a fall from a ferry boat.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 9th, at the house of the bride's father, by Elder J. N. Badger, of Warwick, N.Y., William J. Rounsavell, of Baptisttown, to Mary M. Rittenhouse, of Flemington.

    Nov. 9th, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Joseph W. Hardon to Frances Brown.

    Nov. 10th, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. Mr. Scott, Thomas C. Bodine, of Flemington to Laura, daughter of Joseph C. Smith, Esq., of Bloomsbury.

    Nov. 8th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Nathan Case, M.D., of Asbury, and Mary W., youngest daughter of John Blane, M.D., of Perryville.
 

Deaths

    Oct. 21st, at Pleasant Run, Mary, daughter of Watson and Agnes Shurts, aged 18 years and 1 week.
 
 

Nov. 23, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 14 (1730)

Marriages

    Nov. 5th, at the residence of the bride's parents, White House Station, by the Rev. Wm. B. Van Benschoten, Theo. Van Fleet, of Three Bridges to Sarah Wyckoff.

    Oct. 29th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Johnson Apgar of Lebanon, to Mary E. Huffman, of Tewksbury.

    Nov. 12th, by the same, George M. Lindaberry to Sarah Ann Tiger, both of Tewksbury township.

    Nov. 16th, by the Rev. John Ewing, assisted by the Rev. J. M. Hunting, Jr., John H. Hartpence, of New York, to Keziah Van Syckel, of Perryville, N.J.

    Nov. 17th, by Elder P. Hartwell, of Hopewell Church, John M. Chamberlin to Sarah E. Strimple, both of Kingwood township.
 

Deaths

    November 20th, at Frenchtown, George L. Tomlinson, in the 45th year of his age.

    November 20th, at Mount Pleasant, Flora, infant daughter of F. J. Tomlinson, aged about 5 months.
 
 

Nov. 30, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 15 (1731)

Marriages

    On Wednesday, Nov. 22d, 1870, at the parsonage in Mt. Pleasant, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Wilson Silverthorn, to Margaret, youngest daughter of John E. Case, Esq.

    On the same day by the same, at the residence of the bride's father, Cornelius Van Buskirk Apgar to Mary Martha, youngest daughter of Samuel Wilson, Esq.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, Nov. 22d, Mahlon H. Huffman, aged about 50 years.

    In Kingwood township, Nov. 25th, Sarah, wife of Mahlon Emmons, aged about 51 years.
 

Sales of Real Estate - The following sales have recently been effected by William S. Riley, Auctioneer:
    Farm of John Sutton, near Hopewell, containing 93 acres, sold to Luke Van Fleet for $60 per acre.
 
 

Dec. 7, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 16 (1732)

Marriages

    Nov. 19th, 1870, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. S. Sproul, William H. Dalrymple, to Hannah, daughter of Peter V. Dalrymple, all of Kingwood.

    Nov. 30th, 1870, near Centre Brdige, Pa., by the same, Chas. W. Bodine, to Hannah R., daughter of Tobias Shadinger, all of Bucks Co., Pa.

    Nov. 24th, 1870, at the residence of the bride's parents, near Baptisttown, N.J., by Elder S. H. Durand, George L. Conklin to Maggie Sine, daughter of George Arnwine.

    Nov. 22d, 1870, by Rev. J. Bailie Adams, Peter Q. Holcombe, of Reaville, to Rhoda P. Barber, daughter of Samuel C. Barber, of Spring Valley.

    Nov. 30, 1870, by Rev. A. H. Brown, Minna N. Rockafellow to Catherine Sharp, both of Readington.
 

Deaths

    Nov. 19th, 1870, Joseph S., son of Joseph B. and Ann E. Rockafellow, aged 2 years, 7 months and 22 days.

    In Flemington, Dec. 1st, 1870, Mrs. Margaret Bonnell, aged about 80 years.
 

The following letters remain in the Flemington PO:
    Rev. J. V. Ambler, Peter C. Onderdonk, T. M. Bartolett, Wm. M. J. Baker, Geo. B. Bowne, Case & Britton, Eliza Buchanan, J. A. Ballie, J. D. Carrell, J. B. Eggleson, D. John Flangan, M. S. Forker, Henry Floyd, Mrs. Mary Gruden, Miss Harris, Henry Hubbard, E. M. Hutton, Jos. Hambelton, J. H. Hagerman, J. W. Jones, Miss Sarah Kinney, Charles E. Noyes, John Provost, E. P. Smith, Margaret Schenk, Fred. Stunn, Jos. Van Syckel, C. C. Warner.
 

    An infant child of William Clark, colored, of Elizabeth, was found dead in bed on Thursday morning of last week, it having been smothered during the night by its drunken mother.
 
 

Dec. 14, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 17 (1733)

Suicide
    Theodore Manners, a farmer in good circumstances, living about three miles east of Wertsville, in Somerset county, committed suicide on Monday night of last week, by hanging.... He was about 65 years of age.
 

Marriages

    December 7th, at the M.E. Parsonage in Flemington, by Rev. A. H. Brown, George H. Carver to Sarah E. Stone, both of Stockton, N.J.
 
 

Dec. 21, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 18 (1734)

Marriages

    By Rev. G. S. Mott, December 10th , 1870, Hiram N. Updike, of Kingwood to Hannah E. Buchanan, of Franklin.

    November 30th, 1870, by Rev. J. Herr, John M. Wyckoff to Jennie Stokes, all of White House.

    November 29th, 1870, by Rev. H. Doolittle, at the residence of the bride's father, near Flemington, Peter T. B. Nevius and Georgianna Jones.

    November 16th, 1870, at Milford, by Rev. J. B. Taylor, Samuel H. Wilson to Hannah Johnson, all of Kingwood.

    December 1st, by the same, John W. Rittenhouse, of Croton, to Emma J. Holcombe of Quakertown.

    On the same day by the same, Henry C. Dilley, of Mt. Pleasant to Marietta Race, of Everittstown.

    December 10th, 1870, by Rev. J. S. Hutson, John B. Watson, of Kingwood, to E. Augusta Phillips, of Stockton.
 

Deaths

    November 29th, 1870, at the residence of his brother near Ringoes, of apoplexy, Theodore Stewart, in the 28th year of his age.

    In Kingwood, November 29th, 1870, Sarah Emmons, wife of Mahlon Emmons, aged 54 years.
 

Local Department

    Sudden Death
        Ruliff Voorhees, a citizen of White House, aged about 80 years, was found dead in a chair, a few days ago, by his daughter on her return from milking.  His wife had died a few days before.
 
 

Dec. 28, 1870,  Vol.  XXXIII, No. 19 (1735)

Death of Rev. Charles S. Stewart, U.S.N.
    Mr. Stewart, the Senior Chaplin of the United States Navy, died at Coopertown, N.Y., on Thursday last.  He was a native of New Jersey; was born at Flemington, in 1795....
 

Sudden Death
    Mr. James H. Lyles, residing at Brookville on the Mile Run, Franklin township, died very suddenly on Thursday monring.... He was about 45 years of age, and treasurer of the Honeybrook Coal Company. - Somerset Unionist.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 26th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Joseph Blain to Mary E. Apgar, both of Washington township, Morris Co.

    Nov. 20th, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Henry Voorhees, of White House, to Anna L. Reid, of Readington.

    Dec. 7th, by the same, John Hacket, of Clinton, to Sarah Jane Evans, of Asbury.

    November 23, 1870, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Farley Taylor to Sallie Skillman, both of Flemington.

    On same day by the same, Nicholas O. Biggs to Sarah M. Hoagland, both of Readington.

    Dec. 20, 1870, by the same, Geo. W. White, of Millstone, to L. E. Rockafellow, of Readington.