Jan. 20, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 20, Whole No. 1801

    George W. Bliss was run over and killed by a train on the Delaware Railroad near Middletown on Wednesday last.

    Cyrus Pickard was hanged yesterday, at London, Ontario, for the murder of Duncan McVannel, his employer, last April.

    At Paterson, N.J., on Wednesday last, Chas. B. Burroughs was found dead in his house by the sheriff who went to serve an attachment on him.  It appears that Burroughs committed suicide by taking poison on the 10th inst.

    At St. Louis, Annabel Hamilton, 16 years old, committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium, on Wednesday night last.  Cause, she had quarrelled with her lover.
 

State Items

    A few days ago, a boy, named Willie Turner, was drowned while skating on a pond near Vineland.

    The terrible effect of Tetanus or Lockjaw, was illustrated in a fearful manner in the instance of the late Thomas E. Gravatt, late Postmaster at Clarksburg.  He died.

    Leonard Copenhall and his wife, two poor Hollanders, were suffcated on Saturday night by gas escaping from their kitchen stove.
 

Marriages

    December 26th, 1871, by Rev. G. S. Mott, John H. Matthews to Helen C. Hart, all of Flemington.

    In Frenchtown, November 25th, 1871, by Rev. C. Clark, Jr., Lambert Rockafellow, of Stockton, to Mrs. Christiana Mason, of Frenchtown.

    In Kingwood, November 30th, 1871, by Rev. J. T. Osler, Alfred Ashcroft to Sophia, daughter of the laste Thomas Cherry, all of Kingwood tp.

    At Glen Gardner, Dec. 2d, 1871, by Rev. W. Chamberlin, Spencer L. Fisher to Emma Hann, all of Glen Gardner.

    At the M. E. Parsonage in Frenchtown, Dec. 9, 1871, by Rev. C. Clark, Jr., George Opdycke to Mrs. Salina Horner, both of Kingwood.

    In Frenchtown, Dec. 25th, 1871, by Rev. John C. Soule, Simeon R. Opdycke, of Kingwood to Elizabeth O. Stryker, of Frenchtown.

    Dec. 23d, 1871, by Rev. John R. Willox, Jacob L. Castner to Ellen Beam both of Washington tp., Morris Co.

    Dec. 23d, 1871, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Andrew Scott and Mary Eliza Smith, both of Union tp.
 

Deaths

    In Washington City, D. C., Dec. 9th, 1871, at the residence of her son-in-law, Captain Wm. H. Slater, Mrs. Miner Risler, aged 80 years, formerly of Frenchtown, Hunterdon county.

    In Cherryville, Dec. 23d, 1871, Gideon Ewing, aged about 88 years.

    At Dreahook, Dec. 23d, Phoebe Reed, aged 39 years.

    Near Dreahook, Dec. 23d, John Dilts, aged 22 years.

    Near Dreahook, Nov. 12th, 1871, Catharine Ann Davis, aged 55 years.

    Near Reaville, Dec. 26th, 1871, ___ child of John and Sarah Williamson, aged 3 years.

    December 29th, at White House Station, at the residence of her son-in-law, Peter Davis, Catharine Shurts, relict of Henry Rockafellar, of Clinton tsp., aged 82 years, 5 months and 15 days.
 
 

Jan. 9, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 21, Whole No. 1802

Local Affairs

    John Snyder, formerly a resident of Delaware township, fell dead on the 23d ult., at Brookville, with heart disease.

    We regret to announce the sudden death of John Carroll, which occurred in this place on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 30, from the effects of taking an overdose of morphine.  He was a tailor by trade and aged about 44 years.

    Killed on the Railroad
    George Kanouse, a brakeman on a cattle train on the Central Railroad, was instantly killed at an early hour on Monday morning last by his head striking a bridge near White House.  Kanouse? was from Illinois and had just entered the employ of the Road, this being his first trip.  He was in his 22d year.
 

State Items

    A daughter of Herman Miller, of Hoboken, died a short time since from eating pork infected with trichina.

    The wife of Joseph Berger of Newark eloped on Friday night, with a married man named John Lenthardt.
 

Marriages

    January 1st, 1872, at the Parsonage, by Rev. G. S. Mott, Furman Gise to Henrietta Book, all of Flemington.

    December 23d, 1871, at Barbertown, by Rev. John C. Soule, Wm. Burkit and Martha Myers, all of Kingwood.

    December 25th, 1871, at Frenchtown, by Rev. John C. Soule, Simeon Opdyke and Lizzie O. Stryker both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, December 31st, 1871, in the triumph of Faith, after long and very intense suffering, which she bore with Christian fortitude, Mary K., wife of Thomas York, in the 65th years of her age.

    Near Lebanon, December 22d, 1871, Anna Seals, aged 87 years, 11 months and 22 days.

    At Rousaville, Pa., Dec. 16th, 1871, James Clark Boughner, in the 25th year of his age.

    In New Hope, Pa., Dec. 27th, 1871, Dr. Charles Foulke, in his 57th year.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 22d, 1871, James Miller, aged 39 years.

    Dec. 16th, 1871, at his residence near Shiloh, Richland county, Ohio, John Opdycke, formerly of this county, in the 70th year of his age.

    At Frenchtown, Dec. 31st, 1871, after a lingering illness, Dr. Charles R. Cowdrick, in the 39th year of his age.

    Near St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 2, 1871, Daniel S. Servis, aged about 62 years, formerly of Mercer county, N.J.

    In Kingwood, Dec. 30, 1871, of membrane croup "Little Ida", only daughter of Thomas and Jane McAloan, aged 7 years, 5 months and 13 days.
 
 

Jan. 16, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 22, Whole No. 1803

Marriages

    January 9th, 1872, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. A. H. Brown, John A. Bullock and Lida A. Van Fleet all of Flemington.

    Dec. 28th, 1871, at the Parsonage, in Ringoes, by Rev. Samuel Harrison, Mahlon Schenk and Mary C. Wilson, both near Ringoes.

    January 10th, 1872, at the house of the bride's father, by Elder A. B. Francis, John Dalrymple to Kate, second daughter of Abbott Dalrymple, Esq., all of Kingwood tp.
 

State Items

    Dr. Jeremiah Whitenack, Raritan, recently died from the effects of a kick from a horse.

    Mrs. Williamson, wife of the hotel keeper at Six Mile Run, died very suddenly on the evening of the third inst.
 
 

Jan. 23, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 23, Whole No. 1804

A Terrible Fall Down a Railroad Embankment in Sussex County. - Hamburgh, N.J., Jan. 10
    The body of Daniel Everman was found on Thursday morning at the foot of the Midland Railroad embankment in this village....

    Utica, N.Y., Jan. 18
        Milton H. Thompson, of this city, was this forenoon shot through the nose and cheek, and H. H. Hall, a coal dealer of Ogdensburgh, was shot in the heart and instantly killed by a woman giving the name of McCarty, from Albany.
 

Marriages

    January 17th, 1872, by Rev. G. S. Mott, assisted by Rev. Mr. Harrison, Abram V. F. Yard, of Cherryville, to Clarinda T. Bellis, daughter of Adam W. Bellis, of Flemington.

    January 17th, 1872, at the Parsonage in Readington, by Rev. John Smock, Abraham Van Fleet of Three Bridges to Kate Van Doren, of South Branch.

    At Barbertown, January 10, 1872, by Rev. John C. Soule, Henry Bellis and Matilda Oakes, both of Perryville.

    At Barbertown, Janaury 10, 1872, by Rev. John C. Soule, William Bellis, Jun., and Susan Bruer, both of Perryville.
 

Deaths

    Near St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 16, 1871, David S. Servis, aged about 62 years formerly of Hopewell, Mercer county, N.J.

    At Vienna, Warren co., January 5th, 1872, Nellie, youngest daughter of Rev. John McLaughlin, aged 11 years late of Milford, in this county.

    In Kingwood tp., December 24th, 1871, at the residence of his son, Abraham Kise, Sen., aged 76 years.
 

Local Affairs

    S. T. Stockton, merchant of Hampton Junction, died at that place on the 29th ult.  He was buried at Rosemont by Perserverance Lodge. I.O.O.F., of which he was a worthy member.
 

State Items

    Ezra Haines, a highly respected citizen of Rancocas, died suddenly one day last week.  He was in his shop at work, when he suddenly raised his hands to his breast.

    The deaths are announded in Washington, N.J., on January 13th, 1872, of William Miller, aged 83, and January 14th, Andrew Miller, aged 82 years.  William and Andrew, brothers were born and always lived in the house in which they died, and were yesterday bu
ried together.
 
 

Jan. 30, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 24, Whole No. 1805

    The marriage ceremonies of Secretary Roberson and Mrs. Aulick were solemnized at the Church of the Epiphany of the morning of the 23d.  The President and Cabinet with their families were present.
 

State Items

    Isaac Van Newburg, aged 79, while sitting in a "grocery" in Newark, holding in his hand a glass of liquor, fell to the floor and expired instantly, one morning last week.

    Robert Jorday, aged 96 years, the oldest citizen of Salem county, died near Sheppard's Mills, last week.  He was born in Philadelphia on the 16th of March 1776.

    David Doremus, Esq., a blooming widower of seventy-four, and Mrs. Jemima Christie, a blushing widow of fifty-five, were united in wedlock, on Saturday evening at Hackensack.  It is rumored that a settlement of $10,000 on the youthful bride was one of the i
nducements.
 

Marriages

    January 20th, 1872, by Rev. John R. Willox, Jacob Lance of Tewksbury, Hunterdon co., to Elizabeth M. Lindaberry, of Washington, Morris Co.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, Janaury 21st, 1872, Abraham Johnson, at an advanced age.
 
 

Feb. 6, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 25, Whole No. 1806

    At Williamsburg, N.Y., on Friday last, George W. Watson, a hair dresser, was shot dead by Mrs. Fanny Hyde.
 

State Items

    On Sunday night Mrs. Carroll, the wife of officer Carroll, of the Hoboken police force, while teaching her little children how to spell, at her residence, in Meadow street, fell back in her chair and died instantly.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 31st, 1872, by Rev. George Young, James M. Cox and Mary Jane, daughter of Wilson B. Rittenhouse, Esq., both of Delaware.

    January 31st, 1872, at White House Station, by Rev. Wm. Vanbenschoten, John P. Brothers, to Ella, daughter of A. H. Pickel, Esq. all of White House.

    January 20th, 1872, at Sidney by Rev. J. G. Williamson, William Trimmer of Quakertown and Jane Elizabeth Woodruff, of Sidney.

    January 31st, 1872, at Sidney by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Josiah w. Dalley of Readington and Mary Elizabeth Anderson, of Raritan.

    January 24th, 1872, by Rev. John R. Willox, Jeremiah Teats to Mary Jane Lance, both of Tewksbury.

    By John C. Lake, Esq., at his office in Junction, N.J., Jacob Smith to Eleanor Hess, both of New Milford, Pike co., Pa.

    January 27th, 1872, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Whitefield E. Slater, near New Hampton, to Addie Hellms, near Junction.

    January 27th, 1872, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Frederick L. Rose to Jennie A. Welch, both near New Hampton.
 

Deaths

    January 29th, 1872, at Elizabeth, Tunis, son of Jacob T. and Mary Wyckoff, formerly of this county, aged 7 years.

    In Dubuque, Iowa, December 24th, 1871, David S. Ten Eycke, formerly of this county, in the 44th year of his age.

    In Readington, February 2d, 1872, at an advanced age, Nancy Thompson, widow of the late William Thompson.
 
 

Feb. 13, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 26, Whole No. 1807

    Mary Suydam, formerly a slave of Cornelius Suydam, at Bedminister, died a few days since at the advanced age of ninety five years.
 

State Items

    Judy Wiring, a colored woman, who has lived with a family of Friends named Woodruff, at Salem, for more than 50 years, died on Tuesday at the age of 106.  She has a grand daughter living at Salem, aged 50.

    The divorce case which has been pending in the Court of Chancery for the past two years between Wm. C. Potter of Newark, and his wife, Lucy A. Potter, was refused, and her bill dismissed; and a divorce has been granted to Wm. C. Potter on the ground of t
he adultary of Mrs. Potter.
 

Marriages

    February 8th, 1872, at the parsonage at Ringoes by the Rev. Samuel Harrison, A. Munroe Hixson, of Ringoes, to Lizzie W. Hill of Neshanic.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, January 16th, after a long illness, Elizabeth T., wife of William E. Sheppard, aged 38 years, 5 months and 24 days.

    Near Dreahook, Feb. 7th, 1872, Peter P. Hoagland, aged about 55 years.
 
 

Feb. 20, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 27, Whole No. 1808

    Louis Haer, a young German, of Elizabeth, committed suicide by taking a dose of arsenic.
 

Local Affairs

    Suicide
        A man named Philip Daniels, a German, by hanging himself in his barn on Sunday evening week.  He was familiarly known hereabouts as "Dutch Phil."  He lived near Rowland's Mills, and was aged about 45 years.
 

Marriages

    February 5th, 1872, by Rev. John R. Willox, Peter Sowers of Washington tp., Morris co., to Margaret M. Eick, of Tewksbury tp., Hunterdon co.

    February 17th, 1872, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Jeremiah Trimmer and Lizzie Godown, both of Three Bridges.
 

Deaths

    At Elizabeth, January 25th, 1872, of Consumption, Mercy R., wife of Alexander R. Risler, formerly of Flemington.

    In Flemington, January 30th, 1872, Mary M. Pyatt, aged 23 years and 6 months.
 
 

Feb. 27, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 28, Whole No. 1809

    Mrs. Haeffy, a relative of Gov. Joel Parker, recently died at Hoboken at the advanced age of eighty-five.

    Miss Ellen Higgins, a beautiful and accomplished young lady of East Forty-first street, New York, died on Saturday morning from the effects of a dose of poison she took on Friday night.
 

Local Affairs

    On Wednesday of last week, at the residence of her son-in-law, R. L. Williams, in Frenchtown, occurred the death of Mrs. Mary Powers.  The exact age of his lady cannot be ascertained, but she had always maintained that she was one year old when the Declaration of Independence was made.
 

State Items

    Robert Arnold of Paulsboro, while walking out with his niece a few days ago, dropped down and died almost instantly of apoplexy.
 

Marriages

    February 12th, 1872, by Rev. John Burroughs, David R. Bloom to Permelia, daughter of the late Peter Sinclair, all of Alexandria township.

    In Frenchtown, February 17th, 1872, by Rev. J. D. Randolph, William J. Poulson, of Flemington, to Emma C. Hudnit, of Frenchtown.

    February 17th, 1872, by Rev. John R. Willox, Frederick Lindabury to Jane Lindabury, both of Tewksbury township.

    February 22d, by Rev. David Kline, Reuben A. Williamson to Sarah Rounsavell, all of Pattenburg.
 

Deaths

    In Everittstown, February 11th ,1872, Christopher Snyder, aged about 58 yrs.
 
 

Mar. 5, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 29, Whole No. 1810

Marriages

    March 2d, 1872, by Rev. Roberson Hyde, Wilson B. Cline, of Kingwood tp., to Sarah Carrell, of Delaware tp.
 

Deaths

    On Sorrel Mountain, February 3d, 1872, David, infant son of James C. and Emma Myers, aged 2 years and 5 weeks.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 21st, 1872, Mrs. Mary Powers, aged about 92 years.
 

State Items

    Last Friday, one day after the 140th anniversary of Washington's Birthday, Mrs. Abby Halsey Van Dorn, died at Boonton, in her 90th year.  She was the daughter of an officer under Washington, and clothed herself in deep morning upon the death of that illustrious man.

    Mrs. Van Nostrand, said to have been the oldest person in Somerset County, died at her residence near Blawenburg on Friday and was buried on Sunday.  She was mother-in-law of Mr. John I. Voorhees, with whom she lived, and entered upon her 99th year during the holidays.
 
 

Mar. 12, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 30, Whole No. 1811

State Items

    Garret S. Demarest of Westwood, a gay young bachelor of 72 recently espoused Miss Anderson of Demarest Station, a blooming spinster of 40.

    Samuel Demarest, one of the oldest inhabitants of Bergen county, died at Demarest Station on the 23d ult., aged 90 years.  He was a member of the Assembly in 1830.

    William Coffin, Esq., a well-known citizen of New Jersey for many years, died on Thursday last, aged 72 years.  Deceased was one of the projectors of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, and an active stockholder and director.  He resided for many years in Ha
ddonfield.

    On Wednesday, during the progress of a vendue in Lower Penn's Neck, Salem county, an intoxicated man, named Joseph Poulson, willfully or accidently fired a gun into the crowd, the shot taking effect in the body of Thomas English, aged about fifty-five year
s.  The wounded man died soon afterwards.
 

Marriages

    March 5th, by Rev. J. R. Willox, Peter J. Downie of Chester to Martha Jane Drake, of Fairmount.

    On Wednesday, the 5th inst., at the residence of the brides' brother-in-law, E. G. Wheeler, Esq., in Washington City, by Rev. Alfred Holmead, Colonel Ingham Coryell, of New Jersey, and Susie Murray, of the former place.
 

Deaths

    At Glen Garder, March 6th, (from consumption), Oliver E. Cole, formerly of Annandale, aged 24 years.

    At New Germantown, March 3d, (from consumption), Gilbert Gulick, aged 28 years.

    At the late residence of Charles Luxton, Hudson City, N.J., March 4th, Mrs. Amelia Hopper, formerly of this county, aged 78 years.

    At New Germantown, March 5th, Anna, relict of the late Egbert Melick, aged about 70 years.
 
 

Mar. 19, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 31, Whole No. 1812

    Suicide of a Boy
        A boy of sixteen named Henry Schapen, residing at 319 Middle street, Brooklyn, committed suicide on Thursday monring by blowing his brains out with a pistol.
 

Local Affairs

    Suicide in Lambertville
        John B. Stryker, of the firm of Styker & Vantine, who kept a large crockery and glass ware store on Church street, Lambertville, committed suicide by hanging himself with a surcingle in the loft of an unoccupied dwelling house adjoining the store, on Saturday morning about 10 o'clock.... Mr. Stryker was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and one child.
 

State Items

    Two children of Jacob Green, living a few miles from Egg Harbor City, were frozen to death on their way to school, a short time ago.

    A Miss Rosa Brown, daughter of a prominent citizen of Hoboken, was suddenly seized with cramps on Saturday evening and died while her father went out for the purpose of procuring a remedy.
 

Marriages

    At the M. E. Parsonage in Frenchtown, by Rev. C. Clark, Peter Snyder to Lydia A. Hoff, both of Alexandria.
 

Deaths

    At Rosemont, March 11th, 1872, William Bonham, aged about 85 years.

    March 9th, 1872, Mrs. Geo. Rockafellow, aged 30 years and 6 months.
 
 

Mar. 26, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 32, Whole No. 1813

    Heartrending Tragedy
        A heartrendering affair occurred in New York city on Monday.  A German named Wm. Frevert, shot his wife dead in the dining room while surrounded by her children....

    A Drunken Woman Burned to Death
        On Friday afternoon the 15th inst., the body of Elizabeth Hoare, a woman about forty years of age and a county pensioner, was discovered by some boys at play, lying charred and alomst consumed by fire in Centre street, between Court and Smith streets, South Brooklyn.... It is a singular coincidence that about ten years ago Mrs. Hoare's husband was burned to death in Ketchum's oil factory only a few blocks distant from the scene of her own miserable ending.

    Freezing a Boy to Death on Long Island
        A son of Thomas Carter, of Hyde Park, who died a few days since, now appears to have been frozen to death, through the treatment of his inhuman parents.  The boy was only eleven years old, ...

    On Friday last a man entered McIntyre's saloon, 1164 Broadway, and suddenly falling on the floor died in a few moments.  He proved to be Benjamin Lyman Millard, for several years a head clerk in the firm of Mathew Morgan's Sons in William street....

    At Cincinnati, on Friday, James C. Davis shot his wife dead at a hotel.  He says the shooting was accidental.  His wife was a circus performer known by the name of Rosa.

    Mrs. Dougherty, of Kentucky, who jocularly gave a loaded pistol to her grandchild and told him to shoot, was surprised to find herself dead immediately afterwards.
 

Local Affairs

    Sudden Death
        Mrs. Fonner, a widow lady, died very suddenly at her residence in this place on Wednesday last... She had reached her 69th birthday on the moring of her demise.

    Another - Robert Miller, living opposite the above, on Bonnell street, died suddenly on Friday morning.  Mr. Miller had long been a victim of consumption and his death was not wholly unexpected...  He leave a wife and one child.

    Bloomsbury
        A serious accident occured here Tuesday the 19th.  Nicholas Hager, a farmer living about two miles form town, brought a load of wood in the place and sent his team home with his boy; he staying in town indulged pretty freely, became very much intoxicated and about five o'clock started to go home by way of the Railroad and before he had walked 150 yards upon the track the express freight came upon him striking him with such force as to break both legs, one arm and mashed his head.  He lived but a few minutes.
 

State Items

    S. M. Hewlett, a well-known termperance lecturer, in Irvington, died suddenly at Minden, Conn., on Monday of congestion of the lungs.

    Elijah Plant, a crazy man, escaped some time ago from his friends, near Vineland.  He was search for till the 19th, when he was found dead near home.  It is supposed he was frozen to death.

    On Friday last a child of Mr. Williams, of Pemberton, was supposed to have died of croup.  A coffin was engaged and a grave dug, but while the body was being prepared for burial, the little one gave a sudden cough, and all at once was full of life.  The ch
ild, however, died on Monday and was buried on Tuesday.

    A day or two since a young man named Penn Repsher, a son of the supervisor of streets and highways of Camden, and John Ambruster, another citizen of Camden, while in Philadelphia, became embroiled in a quarrel from which violence was used.... The unfortunate man (Repsher) lingered in great distress until Tuesday morning when he died.
 
 

Apr. 2, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 33, Whole No. 1814

    A Wonderful Man.
        ... William W. Hawthorn died at his residence in Millsboro, Washington county, Pa., on the 18th ult., aged about seventy-five years....

    A tramp, supposed to be John W. Pratt, of New York, met a horrible fate on the New Jersey Railroad, near Waverly, last Monday morning....

    Henry Cole was killed on the night of the 29th at Louisville, by a locomotive running into a steet car.
 

Deaths

    March 12th, at his late residence at Sidney, John C. Wilson, aged 84 years, 4 months and 9 days.

    March 21st, at his late residence near Perryville, John Carhart, aged 86 years.

    March 31st, 1872, in Raritan township, Wm. H. Johnson, Sen., aged about 74 years.
 

Local Affairs

    Mr. Jacob Lake, brother of Charles R. Lake, of this place, while prunning an apple tree on Saturday, 23 ult., missed his footing and fell to the ground killing him almost instantly.  Decased was formerly a resident of this county, and a short time previous to the unfortunate accident which ended his life had purchased a home hear Hopewell, in Mercer county.  He was aged about 50 years.
 

State Items

    Augustus Schwartz, a lad 14 years old, died suddenly in Jersey City on Friday, from convulsions brought on by a strain, caused by carrying a heavy pail of coal up stairs.

    Mrs. Bozarth, residing in Camden, who was seriously burned about ten day ago by the explosion of an oil can, died on Saturday night from the effects of the injuries she received.

    Mr. Aaron Brewer, a well known hotel keeper in Monmouth county, was found dead in his bed at Blue Ball, a few days ago.  He was 80 years of age and had not tasted liquor since 1820, though daily dispensing it to his customers.
 
 

Apr. 9, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 34, Whole No. 1815

    Terrible Calamity in Rockaway, N.J.
        A terrible calamity occurred at Rockaway, Morris county, on Sunday the 24th ult., which resulted in the burning of a family of four person.  A frame dwelling occupied by a Mr. Givenen and his family, took fire at about 2 o'clock A.M., and was quickly burned to the ground.  Mr. and Mrs. Givenen and three children were sleeping in an upper story....

    Two children of Mr. Ferrel, a little boy and little girl, living on Arnold's Creek, in Grant county, Tennessee, got into a playful scuffle, when the little boy fell on his sister and killed her instantly.  The girl was about ten years old and the boy abo
ut eigth.

    Grace Plucker, a woman 40 years of age was found dead in a shanty just outside the City of Erie, Pa., yesterday.  Apparently she had been killed by strangulation.  Her husband is in custody.
 

Deaths

    March 7th, 1872, in Flemington, from consumption, Kate Cortelyou, aged 22 years.

    March 23d, 1872, in Kingwood, Lilly May, infant daughter of Silas and Margaret Coudrick.
 

Local Affairs

    Court - Petit Jurors - Uriah Sutton
 
 

Apr. 16, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 35, Whole No. 1816

    A Terrible Murder
        On Friday last a terrible tragedy occurred in Westminister, Maryland.  The victim was Mr. Abraham Lynn, a young married man of twenty-seven years, a miller and who at the time was in possession of what is called the "Stone Mill"...

    Melancholy Tale
        A family by the name of Vielbig, living at Mount Bethel, Warren Township, in this county, have been almost wiped out by the small pox.  The family consisted of father, mother and eight children.  The mother and six children are dead; the seventh sick with the dread disease and in a very critical condition.... Somerset Messenger.

    At Trenton, N.J., on Monday, Joseph Prince, was seized with a fit and killed by falling through a hatchway.
 

Deaths

    Near Copper Hill, Feb. 29th, 1872, David Bellis, Sen., in the 94th year of his age.

    March 14th, near Copper Hill, Lambert Rosenbury, in the 75th year of his age.

    In Clinton township, on the 10th inst., of paralysis, Peter Rockafellar senior, in the 61st year of his age.

    In Trenton, on the 5th inst., Amos Callis, formerly of Flemington, in the 35th year of his age.
 

Local Affairs

    Obituary
        Mr. William Ryner, who for the past thirteen years has been employed by the Flemington Gas and Water Company, as plumber and gas fitter, died at his residence in Philadelphia on Monday last, of pleuropneumonia, in the 60th year of his age...
 
 

Apr. 23, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 36, Whole No. 1817

Marriages

    At the Junction, April 10th, 1872, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Harrison S. Puterbaugh to Mary F. Lunger, both of Junction, N.J.

    At the Sandy Ridge Baptist Parsonage, April 17th, 1872, by Rev. G. Young, Jesse I. Pegg to Sarah E., daughter of John Whitlock, both of East Amwell.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood, on the 11st inst., Sedgwick, infant son of Lafayette and Barbara Bonham, aged 1 yr, 2 mos and 2 days.

    In Kingwood, on the 13th inst., U.S. Grant, son of Lafayette and Barbara Bonham, aged 7 years, 2 months and 6 days.

    April 4th, 1872, at Copper Hill, after a short illness, Clark, son of Edward and Matilda c. Rodenbaugh, aged 9 months.

    Near Sand Brook, March 24th, 1872 of consumption, Jane, wife of Trimmer Aller, aged 25 years.

    Near Everittstown, March 1st, 1872, Thomas H., infant son of George and Rachael L. Anderson, aged 1 year, 4 months and 21 days.
 

State Items

    Mr. Samuel Hewlett, the aged father of the late Prof. Hewlett, died, on Monday, his death having been hastened by grief at the loss of his son.
 
 

Apr. 30, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 37, Whole No. 1818

    Shot Dead by Steam
        Jacob Lewis was killed at Albany, a few day ago, in a very singular manner...

    In a quarrel between Frank Camp and Henry F. Cook, conductors on the North Hudson County Railroad in New Jersey, Camp fired three shots at Cook, doing no damage, and then shot and stabbed himself twice, dying from his wounds.

    The residence of Mr. Vollmer, at New Scotland, near Albany, was burned Saturday morning.  Mr. Vollmer's mother, four of his children and his wife's step father perished.  He escaped with his wife and one child.
 

Finances of the Township of Tewksbury - Overseer of the Poor's Account - Frederick Apgar, Overseer of the Poor, chargeth himself with the following:
    1871
        May, By cash rec'd of James Umstead on keeping Catharine Sutton's bastard child.  $8.00

        Sep 26, James Umstead on keeping Catharine Sutton's bastard child, $18.00.

    1872

        Feb 23, James Umstead, on keeping Catharine Sutton's bastard child,  $15.00.

 Amount paid out by the Overseer, as follows:

    1871

        Cash paid Geo. B. Sutton for the support of Godfrey Bolmer and wife, and house rent, coal and wood, and for moving them twice during the last year.  $155.83

    1872

        Feb 14, Catharine Sutton, keeping her bastard child,  $54.50

        Mch 27, Elizabeth Roberson, keeping Elizabeth Sutton, $104.00
 

State Items

    The little daughter of Hon. John O'Neill, member of Assembly from Hoboken, died on Friday evening from the effects of swallowing a pin about nine months ago.

    Miss Maria Dick, a young lady of Salem, was seized with apoplexy while at church, on Sunday eveing, and expired shortly after being taken home.

    Hon. Geo. F. Fort, once Governor of this State, died Sunday at his residence in New Egypt, Ocean County.
 
 

May 7, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 38, Whole No. 1819

Marriages

    April 25th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Bergen B. Berkaw and Ella Shafer, both of Clinton tp.

Deaths

    At his residence near Flemington, April 19th, 1872, Able Everitt, in the 87th year of his age.

    April 9, at Headquarters, Joseph Housel, senior, in the 92d year of his age.

    Near Rowland's Mills, April 24th, 1872, of Inflammation of the Brain, Anna Emma, daughter of Ralph V. and Sarah M. Smith, in the 15th year of her age.

    April 23d, 1872, in Alexandria tp., Charles Wright, aged 32 years.

    April 26th, in Alexandria township, Cornelius Hoff, senior, aged about 70 years.
 

Local Affairs

    Mrs. Maria Apgar, widow of the late Jacob C. Apgar, was sticken with paralysis while returning from Church at New Germantown on Sunday, 28th ult., from the effects of which she died during the day.  She was in the 75th year of her age.

    Mr. Editor
        We had the pleasure recently of attending a celebration, so rare and interesting that you ought to know of it.  It was the sixtieth anniversary  of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. George Dunham, of Plainfield, the parents of David and Clarkson Dunham of our town.  The nine children with their wives and husbands and grandchildren and great grandchildren, to the number of 39, were present.... Mr. Dunham began housekeeping at Piscataway, near New Brunswick, in those troubled times, when the war of 1812 broke out with England....
 

State Items

    A man named Augustus Cole committed suicide last week in Branchville, by taking rat poison.
 
 

May 14, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 39, Whole No. 1820

Local Affairs

    On Wednesday night last, William Opdycke, who resided in Tinicum, Bucks county, Pa., was killed by being run over by a coal train, at Frenchtown.  Mr. Opdycke was about 80 years of age.

Marriages

    Near Little York, on the 27th ult., by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Henry Strader, of Port Jarvis, N.Y., to Chat. Hoagland.

    On the 30th ult., in Kingwood, Rev. S. C. Boston to Mary, daughter of William Britton.

Deaths

    In Flemington, April 19th, Wilson F. Vlerebone, aged 8 years.

    In Philadelphia, April 27th, Mary S., wife of Henry Unckel, aged 27 years and daughter of the late H. A. Kirkpatrick, M.D., and grand-daughter of the late Jacob Kirkpatrick, D.D., of Ringoes.
 
 

May 21, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 40, Whole No. 1821

Local Affairs

    Peter, an eight year old son of Joseph Dalrymple, of Clinton, died on Tuesday last under very painful circumstances.  He was bitten by a pilot snake about three weeks ago, in the great toe...
 

Marriages

    On Sunday, May 19, in Flemington Baptist Church, by Rev. E. A. Woods, Robert H. Clayton, to Charity R. Hummer.

    At the house of the bride's father, Ishmael Brink, Frenchtown, by Elder A. B. Francis, Mahlon Emmons, of Kingwood, to Clarissa S. Brink of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, April 21, Catharine M., wife of William S. Rockafellow, aged 64 years, 1 month and 21 days.

    May 16th, 1872, at his residence in Croton, Elisha Warford, aged 88 years.
 
 

May 28, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 41, Whole No. 1822

    Margaret Brewer, living fifteen miles east of Zanesville, murdered her son, aged six years, on Monday the 22d, by beating his brains out with an axe while he was sleeping.  She and the child had been living with her parents for some time past...

    At Worcester, Mass., a few days ago, Mrs. Ellen O'Laughlin called upon a neighbor who had nailed slats across a window to keep the children from falling out.  She tipped her chair back against these slats, when they gave way and she was thus precipitated from a three-story window to the walk below, and died in three hours.
 

State Notes

    Mr. William Balser, of Camden fell dead on Monday while engaged in conversation in a grocery store.  Deceased was 68 years old.  Cause of death, congestion of the brain.

    The death of the little daughter of Col. I. S. Buckalew, of Jamesburg, is an instance of a pecurliarly painful nature.  The child had by accident swallowed a prune pit and unable to pass it, inflamation of the bowels supervened.  After nearly two weeks of intense suffering, nature gave way and the child died.
 

Marriages

    On the 9th inst., by the Rev. H. Westcott, Robert Milroy of Hunterdon, to Emma L. Martenis, of Morris county, N.J.

    On the 18th inst., by the same, Robert Rupell to Amanda Abel, both of this county.

    On the 9th inst., by Rev. Mr. Day, James Case, of Cherryville to Sallie Pittenger, of Pittstown.

    On the 16th inst., by Rev. John B. Taylor, Wm. H. Slater, of Milford to Maria, daughter of Charles A. Roherson (Roberson).

    May 22, by Rev. I. Collier, Joshua Comly, of Lambertville, N.J., to Amelia G. Ramsey, of Richboro, Pa.
 

Deaths

    At Reaville, Apr. 15, David O., aged 13 years, and James, aged 3 years oldest and youngest children of William and Catherine Deats.

    At Frenchtown, Apl. 25, Minnie Pierson, aged about 5 years.

    Near Pleasant Grove, on the 9th inst., Margaret Lance, aged about 42 years.

    At California, N.J., on the 15th inst., Mrs. Daniel Cole, aged about 40 years.

    At High Bridge, on the 14th inst., from scarlet fever, Emily Adeline Hildebrant, aged 14 years, 11 months and 13 days.

    In Clinton, May 22, Sarah, relict of Henry M. Kline, aged 82 years and 6 months.

    In East Amwell, on the 24th ult., Pierson Mathews aged 48 years.

    Near Young's Mills, Apl 20, John T. Marshall, in his 66th year.
 
 

June 4, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 42, Whole No. 1823

     Mr. Moore, aged 68 and Mrs. Abbie Rosa, aged 73 were married at Plainfield, Mich., recently.  Each of the parties had been married three times before, and the happy groom is the father of fourteen children.

    Sparta Ky., May 30
        A man named John Branham, who murdered his wife yesterday by splitting her hear open with an axe, was hung last night by a party of about one hundred men, who collected in front of the jail about one o'clock and demanded the keys from the jailer, which were reluctantly given.

    A shooting affray between Thaddeus S. Bennet and William R. Howe, at Richmond, Virginia, resulted in the latter being killed.  The difficulty originated in an alleged intimacy between Bennet and Howe's wife.
 

State Notes

    A youth named Earnest C. Wolhaven, seventeen years of age, committed suicide by drowning, Wednesday, at Jersey City.
 

Marriages

    June 1st, at the Flemington M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. Gilbert H. Winans, John H. Skillman and Miss Nettie Benbrook, both of Somerville.

    May 25th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Isaac W. Storr, of Croton and Esther M. Housel, of Union.

    May 28th, at the residence of the bride's parents, Easton, Pa., by Rev. John Beck, D. D., Samuel Rockafellar, Esq., of Frenchtown, N.J. and Amelia P., daughter of Melchnor Mixsell.
 
 

June 11, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 43, Whole No. 1824

    James Gordon Bennett
        This veteran journalist died June 1st, in the 77th year of his age, at his residence at Fort Washington, near New York city.  James Gordon Bennett, was a native of Scotland, born at New Mill, Banffshire, about 1800.... In April 1819, he emigrated to the United States ...

     The Somerset Gazette says:  On Friday evening of last week, Wm. Ross, Jr. and lady, after living together twenty-five years and raising a fine family of children, were married - that is they held their silver wedding - and Rev. R. K. Rodgers, who officiated for them just twenty-five years before, presided at the ceremony...
 

State Notes

    Mr. Christopher Stryker, a farmer residing at North Branch, died very suddenly on Monday afternoon, of heart disease.

    A bright little boy aged two years, son of Bernard Cowan, of New Brunswick, was drowned on Sunday, by falling into a cask that had been sunk into the ground for the purpose of catching rain water.

    Elsie Seaman, a little child of Mr. Frank Seaman, living in Elizabeth, died on Sunday of hydrophobia, the result of a bite from a mad dog received more than five weeks ago.
 

    Mrs. Lewis Downing, wife of the principle Chief of the Cherokee nation, died at Tanlequah recently.  She was a Miss Eyre, a white lady of Philadelphia, who conceived a romantic passion for the chief and was married to him but a few months since, after th
e death of his first wife.

    Eva Cudney, a little girl, was accidentally killed at Flint, Michigan.  She ran in range of an axe with which a boy was chopping wood, just at his moment of its decent and her skull was crushed.
 

Local Affairs

    Suicide
        William Gray, son of Jacob Gray, living about one and a half miles west of this place, committed suicide by hanging himself in his father's wagonhouse, last Friday night.... He was about 25 years of age.

    John I. Moore son of the late Isaac I. Moore, of Neshanic committed suicide on Sunday the 3d inst., by hanging.... He leaves a widow but no children.

    On Tuesday evening a fatal accident occurred in the family of Theodore Fields, of this city, (Lambertville), which resulted in the death of the youngest child, aged about two years.
 

Marriages

    At Croton, June 8th, by the Rev. B. C. Morse, John B. Sharp of Charleston and Ann Elizabeth Stoor, of Croton.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 9th, 1872, Charity Britton, aged about 95 years.

    In Flemington, June 2d, 1872, Margaret Hill, aged 85 years, 11 months and 24 days.

    At Wertsville, June 6th ,1872, after a long and painful sickness, Rachel, wife of P. V. D. Manners, aged 30 years.
 
 

June 18, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 44, Whole No. 1825

    Death of Col. Wall
        We regret to have to record the death of Col. James W. Wall, at his residence in Elizabeth, on Saturday evening last....

    Joseph H. Scranton, the founder of Scranton, Penn., died on Friday last in Baden Baden, Germany, aged 58 years...
 

Local Affairs

    Sad
        We are pained to record the sad death on Sunday, of a little son of our friend and patron, Jacob T. Wolfe, of Plainfield, lately of Round Valley...
 

    The wife of Mr. John Miller, a very respectable German family living a short distance north of Somerville, committed suicide on Tuesday evening by cutting her throat with a razor.... She was about 60 years of age.
 

Marriages

    June 2, at Cokesburg, by Rev. A. H. Belles, Winfield Schomp to Sarah Elizabeth Lare, both of Readington.

    On the 2d inst., at Potterstown, Jacob Hockenberry to Sarah Elizabeth Oaks.
 

Deaths

    Emma Lavina, daughter of Richard and Mary E. Hoffman, in the 7th year of her age.
 
 

June 25, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 45, Whole No. 1826

    A Young Lady Crushed to Death
        Miss Sarah J. Luse, of Peapack, Somerset county, met with a frightful accident a short time since, while on a visit to Watkins Glen, New York State.  It appears that Miss Luse was visiting the family of Mr. Allen Craig, (son of Mose Craig) at Eddytown, New York, and on Saturday in company with five other young persons made an excursion to Watkins Glen, a place noted for its romantic scenery and only a short distance from Eddytown.  While they were in the Glen, a large mass of rocks and stone was suddenly precipitated from the hights above upon the party below and Miss Luse was completely buried in the mass... She lingered until Sunday morning at ten o'clock when death came to her relief.

    Drowning Accident at Atlantic City
        On Saturday evening about 9 o'clock, Capt. Wm. H. Stattzenbach, an employee of a billiard room in the United States Hotel, Atlantic City, while laboring under mania-a-potu, drowned himself in the ocean...
 

Marriages

    At the Methodist Parsonage, Flemington, June 17, by Rev. G. H. Winans, William S. Hardin and Eleanor N. McPeck, both of West Amwell.

    June 22, at the M. E. Parsonage, Flemington, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Green S. Bellis and Annie Hanson, both of Flemington.

    Near Hackettstown, 12th inst., by Rev. John B. Kugler, Josiah Prall to Lydia Stewart, both of Warren county.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 1st inst., Mrs. Margaret Hill, aged about 85 years.
 
 

July 2, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 46, Whole No. 1827

Local Affairs

    Sad Suicide
        Lewis Keipel, a well-to-do farmer, living about a couple of miles to the east of Centreville, committed suicide by hanging on Thursday night last.
 

Marriages

    At Stanton, June 15, by Rev. A. Van Deusen, Wilson Swallow to Rebecca Hartpence, both of Rosemont, N.J.

    By the same, June 20, Rev. Fred. Bloom to Lizzie Huffman, all of Allertown, N.J.

    Also, by the same, same day, Jacob Hann, of Phillipsburg, to Ida Sheets, of Stanton.
 

Deaths

    At Reaville, June 10, Robert Coates, on his 39th birthday.

    In Delaware township, June 3, (23), 1872, George Johnson, Sen., aged about 82 years.
 
 

July 9, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 47, Whole No. 1828

    Samuel Gotten, a young man about 30 years of age, fell into a vat of boiling tan water, in a tannery at Newark, on Monday afternoon, and although immediately taken out by his fellow workmen, he died of his injuries about 11 o'clock at night.
 

Local Affairs

    Mr. John Hall, an old resident of White House, was found dead in his cornfield last Wednesday.  No doubt his death was caused by the extreme heat. He was aged about 80 years.

    William Lare, formerly of Mechanicsville, this county, was buried at that place on Wednesday last.  Some years ago Mr. Lare went West and engaging in the railroad business, worked himself up to an engineer's position.  It was while running his train that an accident happened which cost him his life.  He was familiarly known through this section as "Pud" Lare.
 
 

July 16, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 48, Whole No. 1829

Local Affairs

    A colored woman named, Weart, was killed at Wertsville on Wednesday by lightning.
 

    A Man Killed on the Railroad
        Peter Ewing, aged 40 years, residing at No. 34 Allen st., in Trenton, was killed yesterday afternoon at Tacony, on the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad.... He leaves a wife and two children.   -  State Gazette, July 12.
 

Marriages

    July 6, at Sydney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Peter H. Huffman and Lydia Ann Case, of Franklin township.
 

Deaths

    Near Trenton, July 2, Francis Horner, of Kingwood, in his 67th year.

    June 20, at his residence near Klinesville, Isaac Barton, in his 77th year.

    At Somerville, July 5, Lizzie Young, wife of Robert Maxwell, aged 20 years and 8 months.
 
 

July 23, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 49, Whole No. 1830

Local Affairs

    We regret to report the death of Mrs. Mary Bird, mother of Hon. John T. Bird, which occurred in Bloomsbury, on Saturday morning last.
 

    Miss Margaret Fredericks, a woman of considerable wealth, residing on Passaic street, Hackensack, committed suicide on Sunday of last week, by drowning herself in a cistern.

    At Morristown, about 6:30 Saturday night, an Englishman named William Derry, who has been missing since the 3d inst., was found dead in one of the fields attached to Hon. Augustus Cutler's farm.

    Mr. William Reenck, of West Hoboken, died very suddenly on Friday afternoon, while taking an after-dinner nap.
 

Marriages

    At Frenchtown, 17th inst., by Rev. John C. Soule, Myron J. Skinner to Sarah Williams.

    In Trenton, 13th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Van Cleef, Liscomb T. Errickson to Mary Jones, both of Lambertville.

    On the 13th inst., by Rev. G. F. Apgar, Thomas M. Spangenburg, of Mt. Pisgah, to Mrs. Jane Stephens, of Sussex co., N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, July 6, John L., son of William H. and Mary A. Cawley, aged 2 years and 5 months.

    In Frenchtown, July 10, Mary Francis, daughter of John and Lucy Chandler, aged 4 week and five days.

    In Brooklyn, July 3, Peter S. Hunt, formerly of Lambertville, aged 38 years.

    In Frenchtown, July 10, Ettie, daughter of Britton and Rebecca Pinkerton, aged about 1 year.

    Near White House, on the 13th inst., of Dyspepsia, Elias Pickell.

    In High Bridge township, July 10, of scarlet fever, Julia Ann, daughter of Nathan and Ann Apgar, aged 2 years and 8 months.

    At Cokesburg, July 5, of diptheria, Louisa, daughter of George and Mary Ann Farley, aged 1 year and 9 months.

    At Alpaugh's Mills, July 2, Mary Ellen Stires, in her 13th year.

    In Lambertville, July 8, John L. Gordon, in the 21st year of his age.

    In Lambertville, July 4, Mrs. Anna Stout, in the 82d year of her age.

    In Lambertville, July 17, Lillie H., youngest child of Vincent R. Mathews, aged 9 months.

    July 20, at Bloomsbury, Mary, wife of James Bird, Esq., aged about 77 years.
 
 

July 30, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 50, Whole No. 1831

Marriages

    July 6, by Rev. I. Burrell, Joseph Sheppard, of Junction, N.J., to Mary C. Bowman of Portland, Pa.
 

Deaths

    July 24th inst., in Flemington, Mrs. Margaret Tomlinson, aged 53 years.

    At White House, July 21, Freddie, son of J. N. and Fannie A. Pidcock, aged one year and 3 months.

    Suddenly, on July 23, Morris Rodenbough, of Union township.

    At his residence, in Delaware township, on Sunday morning, June 23, George Johnson, in his 82d year.
 

Local Affairs

    Suicide
        Mr. M. D. Rodenbaugh, of Union township, was found hanging in his wagon-house last Tuesday morning.

    This community learned with sorrow of the death of Joseph Applegate, which occurred at the residence of his parents in this place on Friday night last.
 

State Notes

    Charles Duff, a longshoreman, residing in Hoboken, was talking with some friends in his room on Monday morning when he fell dead to the floor.

    William Wagner, a German, died suddenly in New Brunswick on Monday night week.
 

    Samuel Thatcher died at Bangor, Me., on Thursday night last, aged ninety-six years.  He was born in Concord, Mass., in 1776, ..
 
 

Aug. 6, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 51, Whole No. 1832

Marriages

    July 23, 1872, by the Rev. Dr. Messler, Charles B. Honeyman to ? Gildersleeve, both of Somerville, N.J.

    July 17, 1872, by Rev. P. A Studdiford, George Naylor to Sallie Cook, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    July 25, near Mechanicsville, of palsy, Cornelia A. Dilley, in her 68th year.

    July 25, Peter Hendershot, formerly of White House, aged about 87 years.

    July 29, near Centreville, John Thompson, aged 35 years.

    In Trenton, July 23, Jane E. Geary, daughter of the late Dr. William Geary, of Flemington.

    Near Kingwood, July 26, Virginia Sherman, in her 17th year.

    In Flemington, May 18, Ann W. Fleming, in the 62d year of her age.
 

Local Affairs

    Drowned
       On Saturday evening last, while some lads were playing on a raft in the Canal at Lambertville, one of the number named, Smith, about five years of age, a son of Wm. L. Smith, fell into the Canal.
 
 

Aug. 13, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 51, Whole No. 1832

    A horrible murder was committed near Yates City, Ill., on Monday morning.  The victim was the wife of John Mathewson, a farmer, married but a few months...
 

State Notes

    Mary Ann Murphy, a servant girl living on Hudson Terrace, in Hoboken, while working in the kitchen on Tuesday morning dropped to the floor dead.

    Patrick Mannion, age 22, an employee in Todd and Rafferty's machine shop in Paterson, was caught in a revolving shaft on Saturday week, as was so mangled that death resulted in a few hours after the accident.
 

Marriages

    At Croton on Aug. 3, by Rev. B. C. Morse, Albert H. Lewis to Rachel A. Shepherd, both of Kingwood.

    On the 5th inst., by Rev. J. Poulson, Ollie C. Runyon of Wert's Corner, to Mamie E. Wilson, of Phila.

    At Long Branch, Aug. 4, by Rev. Dr. James B. Wilson, Johnson D. Banghart, Esq., of Hunterdon Co., to Mrs. Caroline Marsh, of New York.
 

Deaths

    Near Croton, July 12, Mrs. Sarah Shepherd, aged 79 years.

    In Frenchtown, Aug. 1, William H., son of Joseph H. and Mary M. Reading, aged 5 months and 3 days.

    At Shanghai, China, June 14, Mrs. Miers Coryell.
 
 

Aug. 20, 1872, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Whole No. 1834

    Mark Flanning, resident of 405 East Seventeenth street, New York, murdered his wife, Mary Flannigan, Thursday night by cutting her throat with a shoemaker's knife.... Flannigan has a family of eight children.

    Death of Dr. Lowell Mason
        The death of Dr. Lowell Mason is announced.  He died at his residence at Orange, N.J., at the advanced aged of eighty-one.  Dr. Mason is prominent among musical teachers and composers.  He was born in Medfield, Mass., in January 1792...  He removed to Savannah, Ga., in 1812...
 

Local Affairs

    Major A. V. Bonnell - We this week record the death of one, who in the vigor of his manhood was one of our most energetic, enterprising and public spirited citizens.... Major Bonnell was born and spent the greater part of his days in Flemington...
 

State Notes

    On Saturday afternoon a little child of John Murphy at Farmingdale, was drowned in a hogshead of rain water, into which it had accidentally fallen.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 11, at Sydney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John Hartrum, of High Bridge, to Margaret McConell, of Annandale.

    At Clinton, July 25, by Rev. J. B. Taylor, Charles P. Wright to Maria D. Gordon, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At Flemington, on Tuesday, August 13, A. V. Bonnell, Esq., aged 63 years.

    At Sydney, Aug. 11, of Consumption, Lemuel Emery, aged 33.

    At Lebanon, 4th inst., Kate, wife of Lemuel Pidcock, aged about 28 years.

    July 21, Gideon Quick, aged 79 years.

    July 2, near Trenton, Francis R. Horner, formerly of Kingwood, aged 68 years.
 
 

Aug. 27, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Whole No. 1835

    A Sad Affair
        Mrs. Caroline C. Nathan, with her husband came from Long Branch on Wednesday morning and went to the Jersey City depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad, intending to take the express train for Philadelphia, where they lived.  They got on the wrong train by mistake and did not discover their error until the train on which they had embarked started.  Both sprang from the car while it was in motion.  Mr. Nathan, who is 74 years of age, being the first to leap off.  The wife attempted to follow, but staggering fell upon the track... Deceased was about the same age as her husband, and they have been married nearly fifty years.

    At Olney, Illinois, last Saturday Henry Houltz was shot dead by Jefferson White, and Mrs. Houltz was so shocked by the bereavement that she died on Monday night, after prematurely giving birth to dead twins.  On Tuesday morning at one o'clock a mob broke open the jail, took out White, and hung him on a tree in the court yard.
 

Local Affairs

    Another Boy Drowned at Lambertville
        About half past nine o'clock last Wednesday morning, a son of Mr. David Sibborn was seen on the raceway of the Lambertville Water Works, playing with a stick along the banks.  He was missed by his mother, soon after, and search was made for him until about two o'clock when the body was recovered by Mr. Joseph Sproat.
 

State Notes

    A young girl named Jennie Burns, living at Mr. Borton's near Mullica Hill, while ironing clothes on Tuesday last, knocked down a bottle of turpentine, which igniting, caught her clothing and she was so badly burned as to cause her death next morning.

    John Henry Wetyen, aged 21 years, of Closter, Bergen county, was drowned at Leonia on Tuesday last, while bathing.  He was to have been married on his birthday, August 15, and was to have come in possession of a fortune of $60,000.

    Four servant girls employed at the West End hotel, Long Branch, were carried out to sea by the undertow, while bathing on Saturday.  Three were rescued and one was drowned.  Mary Cullen, a servant of J. J. Bradley's was also drowned.
 

Marriages

    At Croton, Aug. 17, by Rev. B. C. Morse, Levi M. Hoffman, of Frenchtown, to Mary M. Carroll, of Headquarters.

Deaths

    Near Readington, Aug. 24, Mrs. Jeremiah Stryker, at an advanced age.
 
 

Sep. 3, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Whole No. 1836

Miscalladeous News Items

    At Baltimore, Mrs. Amelia Wheat, aged 78, was shot dead in her bed at two o'clock on Tuesday morning.  Her nephew, Jesse Upporcue, who was the only person in the house at the time, has been arrested on suspicion.
 

Deaths

    In Erwinna, on the 19th inst., Henry S. Stover, aged 85 years, 10 months and 2 day.

    July 30th, at Pennington, of Consumption, Thomas H. Snook, of Flemington.

    In Ringoes, August 18th, Mrs. Hannah, wife of Jesse H. Landis, aged 74 years, 4 months and 10 days.

    On the 11th, inst., at his residence in Morrow county, Ohio, Charles D. Potts, aged 64 years, formerly of this county.
 
 

Sep. 10, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, Whole No. 1837

    In Ossawattomie township, Kansas, on Friday, a wealthy farmer named Caleb Shereer, murdered his daughter, Mrs. Wallace, and mortally wounded his wife and his son-in-law, Wallace.  In defending himself the latter killed Shereer by striking him with a club
 

State Notes

    Henry Quackenbush, of Hackensack, aged seventeen, asked a young lady to marry him, but she declined, because he was too young.  Thereupon he shot himself through the head, inflicting a wound of which he since has died.
 

Marriages

    By Rev. J. Poulson, Sept. 7, Mr. Albert C. Case, of East Amwell, to Miss Emma Parks, of Head Quarters, N.J.

    Aug. 24, 1872, at Ringoes, by the Rev. Mr. Hewitt, Nathan Solomon, formerly of New York, to Jane E. C. Williamson, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood, Aug. 31, 1872, George W. Rittenhouse, aged 33 years, 6 months and 22 days.
 
 

Sep. 17, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, Whole No. 1838

State Notes

    Miss Ann Holdon, aged sixty years, living at Paterson, on Saturday night undertook to extinguish a kerosene lamp by blowing down the chimney.  The lamp exploded and set her clothing on fire.  Despite the exertions of her friends she was so
badly burned that she died on Sunday of last week.
 

Marriages

    On 10th inst., by Rev. G. S. Mott, Jacob Griggs to Theodotia Prall, daughter of Thatcher Prall all of Flemington, N.J.

    Sept. 9, by Rev. John R. Willox, Ebenezer S. Beam to Eliza Ann Bray both of Tewksbury.

    Sept. 7, by Rev. John Smock, Abram E. Reed to Maggie Gambol both of Dreahook.

    By the same, at the same time, Gilbert Vandoren to Ann Abbott, of Pleasant Run.
 

Deaths

    Sept. 5, at Stanton, wife of Peter Kinney, aged 67 years.

    At Stanton, Sept. 7, wife of Thomas Jobes, aged 72 years.
 
 

Sep. 24, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, Whole No. 1839

Local Affairs

    Death of Andrew B. Rittenhouse - On Sunday morning Andrew B. Rittenhouse was walking the streets of Flemington, apparently in his usual health and spirits.  On Sunday evening his funeral was announced from our churches.  He was taken ill about eleven o'clock in the morning, and before five in the afternoon he was a corpse.... It is supposed that he died of heart disease.  His funeral takes place on Wednesday, the 25th inst., at the Presbyterian Church in Flemington, at 10 1/2 A.M.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 12, by Rev. C. E. Young, J. Milton Everitt, of Hackettstown and Sallie A., only daughter of William Maxwell, Esq., of Union township, Hunterdon county.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, Aug. 12, 1872, Susan Suydam, aged 68 years.

    Sept. 1, at Bridgeville, Del., Henry F. Trout, of Typho Malaria Fever, in the 44th year of his age, formerly of Hunterdon county, N.J.

    Sept. 22, 1872, in Lambertville, Hon. John Runk, aged about 82 years.

    Sept. 22, 1872, in Flemington, Andrew B. Rittenhouse, aged about 65 years.

    Near Reaville, on the 11th inst., George F. Wilson, in the 73d year of his age.  Mr. Wilson resided on the farm where he died, for nearly 70 years....
 
 

Oct. 1, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, Whole No. 1840

    Miss Julia Cober, daughter of Christine Cober, living at Jersey Ridge, Scoot co., IO., died suddenly on Wednesday morning, the 18th inst.

    Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D. , died in Brooklyn Sunday last after a lingering illness.

    Elizabeth has had an excitement in the shape of an elopement.  A woman named Brandt, aged 57, has left her husband (Thomas Brandt), with whom she had lived forty years, and gone off with a gay and festive young carpenter.
 

Marriages

    On Sept. 25, by Rev. J. S. J. McConnell, Ephraim R. Kugler to Anna M. Opdyke, both of Kingwood, N.J.

    Sept. 19, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, William Broad, of Cokesburg, to Mary S. Sigler, of Pattenburg.

    Sept. 25, by the same, Tunis T. Smith and Mary Elizabeth Sweazy, both of Hampton.
 

Deaths

    Near Sand Brook, Aug. 23, Mrs. Eliza Brewer, aged 72 years.

    At the residence of his son, in Flemington, Dr. Isaac H. Parse, formerly of Irvington, in the 80th year of his age.

    In Flemington, Sept. 29, Dr. J. Alfred Gray, aged about 60 years.
 

State Notes

    Ella M. Smith, a young girl living at Lafayette, was sunstruck at the Central Park, New York, on the 4th of July last.  She was taken home but never recovered her reason.  On Saturday last she commited suicide by hanging herself.

    Miss Sallie Connaugh, aged 35, recently hung herself in Tennessee, because her father would not consent to her marriage.
 
 

Oct. 8, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 7, Whole No. 1841

    Trespassers Take Notice
        The undersigned residents of Delaware and Kingwood townships, here give notice to and warn all persons against entering upon their premises with dog or gun for the purpose of hunting, fishing, gathering fruit, nuts, berries, or for any other purpose, for which he or they have no special permit from them...
                                                        Wm. B. Sutton, Uriah Sutton
 

State Notes

    A farmer named Cornelius McCracken, of Jacksonville, Morris county, on Saturday drove his horse and wagon into the canal at Boonton, and both he and the horse were drowned.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Berry Cook died at Bloomingdale a few days since at the age of 72, having been born in 1800 at Pompton Plains, in the same county.... Mrs. Cook was the mother of ten children, all of whom are living except one.
 

Marriages

    September 25th, at the M. E. Parsonage, Stanton, by Rev. A. Van Deusen, S. Low Shurts, of Lebanon and Lizzie Gathers, of Stanton.

    At the same time and place by the same, John Prost, of Annandale, and Maria Sheets, of Hampden.

    At Baptisttown, September 3d, by Rev. s. Sproul, John w. Burd to Frances B. Danes, both of Kingwood.

    September 25th, at the same place by the same, David Heath to Jennie Salter both of Delaware.

    At the residence of the bride's father, near Baptisttown, October 2d, by the same, Augustus E. Roberson to Emma, daughter of Peter V. Dalrymple.

    Sept. 28th, by Rev. John R. Willox, John P. Apgar to Sarah Jane Rinehart, both of Tewksbury tp.

    In Philadelphia, Sept. 1st, by Rev. W. Ridgway, Alfred C. T. Stilwell, of Philadelphia, to Sallie E. Heany, of Frenchtown, this county.

    October 2d, at the house of the bride's father, by Elder A. B. Francis, Geroge Marshall, of Franklin, to Lizzie A., daughter of Abbott Dalrymple, of Kingwood.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, September 29th, Franklin Larue, aged about 68 years.

    In Littleton, Morris county, August 19th, Lillie, daughter of Philip and Lucy E. Yost, of Baptisttown, this county.
 
 

Oct. 15, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, Whole No. 1842

    Death of William H. Seward
        A telegraphic despatch announces that William H. Seward died at his home in Auburn, N.Y., last Wednesday afternoon....  Mr. Seward was born at Florida, in Orange county, New York, May 16, 1801...
 

Marriages

    Oct. 2, by the Rev. B. C. Morse, Samuel C. Case to Mary Eliza Hart, both of Raritan.
 

In Chancery of New Jersey - To Ann Hoagland:
    By virtue of an order of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, made on the second day of October, instant, in a cause wherein Daniel H. Hoagland is petitioner and you are defendant, you are required to appear, plead, demur or answer to the petition of the petitioner, on or before the second day of December next, or in default thereof such decree will be made against you as the Chancellor shall think equitable and just.  The said petition is filed against you for
 a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.
 
 

Oct. 22, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 9, Whole No. 1843

    In Arizona, on the 13th ult., Sergeant Steward, Corporal William Nation, and private Edward Carr and John Walsh were killed by Indians.

    Major Patrick H. King and Benjamin Colley, lodgers in a hotel at Washington, retired on Tuesday night without turning off the gas.  The next day King was found dead and Cooley insensible.

    Death of "Fanny Fern"
        Sara Payson Willis, better known as "Fanny Fern" died on Thursday.  She was born in Portland, in 1811 and while a child removed with her parents to Boston, where she passed her earlier years.
 

Marriages

    At the Parsonage, Ringoes, on the 21st ult., by the Rev. Samuel Harrison, Robert F. Storr and Maggie Sutphin, both near Clinton, N.J.

    Also at the same place, by the same, on the 12th inst., Cornelius Cray and Sallie Hande, both of Woodsville, N.J.

    Oct. 5, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Edgar Castner of Changewater, N.J., to Hannah R. Smith, of Antonetown, N.J.

    At the same place and by the same, on the 12th inst., Joseph W. Apgar, of Junction to Mary E. Castner, of Changewater.

    Also, on the same day and by the same, John H. Harris to Sarah Snyder, both of Changewater, N.J.

    Oct. 16, by the same, George W. Bowlby, of Imlaydale, Warren county, to S. Clara Bowlby, of New Hampton.
 

Deaths

    At White House, on Oct. 16, Judge Peter E. Voorhees, aged about 62 years.
 
 

Oct. 29, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 10, Whole No. 1844

    Joshua Horner, aged 86 year, died at Hornorstown, on Wednesday last.   Joshua was a farmer and a bachelor.  He had three brothers all of whom he outlived.
 

State Notes

    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Arsdale, of Pluckamin, Somerset county, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding on the 15th inst.  Four generations were represented on the occasion, which was one of much enjoyment.
 

Marriages

    By Rev. G. S. Mott, Oct 22, in Flemington, Floyd C. Clark, of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, to Helen D. Gray, daughter of the late J. Alfred Gray, M.D., of Flemington.

    Oct. 19, 1872, by Eld. A. B. Francis, at his residence, Zachariah Kugler of Kingwood and Arabell Opdycke, of Frenchtown.

    On the 23d of Oct., 1872 at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. N. Aller, Woolsey H. Alpaugh, to Ida Platt, all of Little York, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At Centreville, October 18, Col. John Coy?, formerly Sheriff of Somerset county, in the 84th year of his age.

    In Kingwood, Oct. 10, Mehala, wife of Seth Rose, aged 68 years, 8 months and 25 days.

    Sept. 21st, 1872, in Raritan township, Robby T., son of Theodore and Rachel Stewart, aged 1 year, 10 months and 21 days.
 
 

Nov. 5, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 11, Whole No. 1845

    A little son of Mr. Skinner, of Syracuse, Kosciusko county, Ind., accidently killed himself last Sunday, while playing with a sling.
 

State Notes

    Two men named respectively George Elwell and John Peacock, got into dispute at Yorketown, Salem county, on Wednesday of last week.  From words they came to blows, and Elwell was so badly injured in the fight that he died on Sunday.

    On Saturday afternoon last Mrs. Wm. Hammonds, of this place, sent her little son Willie, aged about 12 years, into the cellar to sweep it out.  At first she heard him stirring about.  In about twenty minutes time, the little fellow not coming up and not hearing him, she became uneasy and looking into the cellar discovered him hanging by a swing...
 

Marriages

    At Ringoes, Oct. 30, 1872, by Rev. J. D. Hewitt, Abm. S. Wilson to Medorah, eldest daughter of Dr. Rowland.

    Oct. 26, 1872, by Rev. Wm. Bailey, Martin Kline of White House Station to Almira Haver, of Dreahook.

    Oct. 23, 1872, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. N. Aller, Woolsey H. Alpaugh to Ida Rutt, all of Little York, N.J.

    Oct. 10, 1872, at Sergeantsville, by Rev. Mr. Jackson, Asa P. Hartpence to Sarah Carkhuff, oth of Frenchtown.

    Oct. 23, 1872, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, Abraham W. Suydam to Julia, daughter of Samuel Waldron, Esq.
 

Deaths

    Oct. 26, at Cokesburg, Aaron Philhower, aged 35 years.

    At Readington, Oct. 30, Peter Nevius, aged 86 years.

    In Frenchtown, Oct. 31, 1872, Nancy Brink, aged about 62 years.
 
 

Nov. 12, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 12, Whole No. 1846

Marriages

    By Rev. George Young, Nov. 7, at the Baptist Parsonage, Sandy Ridge, Charles W. Roach and Mary H., daughter of F. Smith Phillips, Esq., both of Delaware.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Pleasant Run, Wm. H. H. Stryker of Flemington to Emeline Cole.

    On the same day, by the same, Cornelius Wyckoff, of Barley Sheaf, to Mrs. Clarissa Hendershot, of Three Bridges.

    Oct. 26, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. John W. Porter, John W. F. Boman and Adeline Fine, both of this county.

    Nov. 2, at the Parsonage, New Hampton, Samuel L. Rodenbaugh to Amanda Bowlby, both of Junction.

    On the 31st ult., at South Branch, by the Rev. Mr. Pitcher, Bergen L. Burniston, of Elizabeth, to Sarah Wyckoff of the former place.

    On the same day, at South Branch, by Rev. Mr. Pitcher, assisted by Revs. James B. Wilson and George Swain, Thomas C. Bodine, of Flemington, to Helena T., daughter of Jos. B. Beekman, of the former place.
 

Deaths

    Oct. 18, in Flemington, Mary Rose, aged 74 years.

    Oct. 25, 1872, at Elizabethport, Irene S. Clark, daughter of John H. and Annie J. Clark, formerly of Flemington, aged 1 year, 5 months and 11 days.

    Near Sergeantsville, Oct. 31, after a long and lingering illness, Hannah H., wife of William Wenzel, aged 41 years and 9 months.

    July 19th, Charles Willis, son of William and Hannah Wenzel, aged 28 days.

    On Thursday, October 24th, 1872, in Flemington, Henry, son of John H. and Christiana Grabow, aged 17 years, 10 mos.
 
 

Nov. 19, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 13, Whole No. 1847

    Mrs. Catharine J. Boden, aged 40, of No. 27 Ochard street, N.Y., for the last nine months has been afflicted with rheumaticm.... Last week a neighbor called to see her, and advised her to try a decoction of colchicum seeds.  Mrs. Boden followed the advice, but took an overdose, and was soon seized with convulstions.  She died.

    Murdered for Gain
        Mr. Richard Swaringen, of Cain township, Fountain county, Ind., was murdered and robbed while on his way to Hillsboro to meet the train on Thursday morning last.
 

Local Affairs

    Another Man Killed
        The Casket says: Hugh Gilroy, of this place, was killed by the down mail train, last evening (Wednesday).... He leaves a little son, here, and a wife and some other children in Trenton.
 

State Notes

    Col. Baker was found dead in Jersey City, having accidentally poisoned himself by an overdose of black snake root and jessamine root, which he took for neuralgia.

    Samuel Applegate, a Monmouth farmer, died a week ago at the age of 80.

    A Terrible Death - The particulars of the death, by burning, of Annie Fox, a little daughter of Thomas Fox of Phillipsburg, which took place a few mornings since....
 

Marriages

    Nov. 13, by Rev. J. D. Hewitt, Jacob Dilts to Mrs. Mary F. Egbert.
 

Deaths

    Nov. 2, Willie, youngest child of Hugh and Mary E. McConnell, aged eleven months.
 
 

Nov. 26, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 14, Whole No. 1848

    Mr. Wm. Hawkins, aged 54 years, a member of the wealthy jewelry manufacturing firm of Carter, Hawkins & Dodd, of Neward, eloped last week with Miss Mattie Lynch, a young lady, of considerable musical taletn, who for two or three years has been very popul
ar with Newark audiences.

    James Robinson, a brother of ex-Congressman Robinson, was found dead on a door-step in Brooklin, on Friday night last.  The cause of his death is not known.
 

Local Affairs

    Death of Lewis M. Prevost
        The death of Lewis M. Prevost occurred at the residence of his son-in-law, William D. Evans, at Pottstown, Pa., Nov. 15th, 1872, in the 88th year of his age.  Judge Prevost was a son of Paul Henry Mallet Prevost, who was the first settler in Frenchtown and owned at one time all land in that Borough.
 

Marriages

    In Belvidere, Oct. 29, 1872, by Rev. J. Anderson, William C. McPeck, of Frenchtown, to Jennie B. Galloway, of Belvidere.

    Nov. 20, by Rev. T. E. Vasser, Peter S. Skillman to Annie McCann both of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood township, Nov. 7, Amos M. Search, aged 40 years.
 
 

Dec. 3, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 16, Whole No. 1849

    Miss Sarah Sawyer, a Quaker lady, died recently at Newbury, Massachusetts, in her 95th year, the oldest person in town.
 

Local Affairs

    Sudden Death
        On Monday night last, Mrs. David Williamson, of Ringoes, died very suddenly.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 21, at the Parsonage in Ringoes, by Rev. Samuel Harrison, David Bond, Jr. and Mattie Fisher, both near Ringoes, N.J.

    Also, Nov. 28, at the same place, by the same, Charles E. Ryno and Amanda Bosenbury, both of Copper Hill.

    November 20, by the Rev. R. Van Amburgh, at Clinton, Lambert Humphrey and Laura Gulick.

    November 20, by the same, William Rhinehart and Sarah Jane Eyck, of Tewksbury.
 

Deaths

    At Three Bridges, Oct. 31, Mary Ann V. Thompson, wife of John R. Case, aged 51 years, 5 months and 2 days.

    In Lambertville, November 24, 1872, Amy Cooper, in the 73d year of her age.

    In Flemington, Nov. 18, 1872, Laura S. Vlearbome, daughter of John H. and Mary Ann Vlearbome, aged 1 year, 7 months and 6 days.

    At the residence of Mr. John Donohoe, in Flemington, Friday, Nov. 29th, Mr. David McCrystal aged about 60 years.  David had been in the employ of Mr. Donohoe, who has a contract for building a section or more of the Packer Railroad, below Three Bridges.  Several weeks ago he dislocated his arm, at the shoulder, from the effects of which he died after severe suffering at the house of his friend.
 
 

Dec. 10, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 17, Whole No. 1850

    Wife Murder in Morris County
        At Irishtown, near Dover, a woman named Mary Anne Moore, was found murdered on Friday morning.
 

Marriages

    In Frenchtown, by Rev. C. Clark, Jr., Nov. 27, John S. Curtis to Addie C. Stull, both of Frenchtown.

    Nov. 26, by Rev. L. E. Baptist, Richard R. Rittenhouse, formerly of Everittstown, to Sallie A. Hutchinson, of Mechlinsburg county, Virginia.

    On the 28th ult., by Rev. W. Walton, Samuel Large to Angie Sands, both of Lambertville.

    Nov. 27, by Rev. J. A. Van Doren, Samuel Tait, of High Bridge, and Lizzie D. Blackfan, of Bray's Hill.

    Nov. 26, at the M. E. Parsonage, Succasunna, by Rev. J. H. Runyon, James A. Wiggins, Esq., to Ellen J. Bush, of Mountainville, this county.
 

Deaths

    At Ringoes, Nov. 29, Henrietta, daughter of David and Anne Bond, aged about 7 years.

    At Ringoes, Nov. 25, Mary L. Williamson, wife of David Williamson, aged 45 years.

    Nov. 23, in Kingwood township, Absalom Fox, aged 78 years.
 
 

Dec. 17, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 18, Whole No. 1851

    A very singular death was that of Mrs. Patty Moore, an old lady of 77, at West Campton, N.H., recently.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 17, at Sydney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John w. Carr and Mary Jane Hann, both of Pittstown, N.J.

    Dec. 7, at the same place by the same, Abram Pittenger, of Alexandria, and Anna J. Case, of Cherryville.

    Dec. 5, at Clover Hill, by Rev. Mr. Oliver, Henry Boyer, of Wertsville, and Ann Bloxin, of Seaford, Delaware.

    Dec. 7, at Cherryville, by Rev. C. E. Young, Joseph B. Case, and Susan M. Case, only daughter of Jonathan Case.

    Dec. 10, at Lambertville, by Rev. A. D. Willifer, Charles M. Amey to Mrs. Mary E. Fowler.

    Dec. 11, by Rev. George Young, S. R. Bodine and Sarah L. Larison, both of Delaware township.

    Dec. 11, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, John Larison and Delia C. Bodine, both of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    Dec. 6, at the residence of Ambrose Barcroft, in Kingwood, Joseph Dean, in the 91st year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 11, Mary Etta Stout, in the 18th year of her age.

    In Clinton, Dec. 5, Martha, wife of Wyckoff Fleet, in the 24th year of her age.

    In Bloomsbury, Dec. 5, Judiah Schooley, in the 62d year of his age.

    In Clinton, Dec. 11, Mary, only daughter of Dr. S. and Mary Van Syckel, in her 5th year.

    At Frenchtown, Dec. 8, Geo. W. B. Hartpence, aged 1 year, 1 month and 25 days.

    Nov. 24, near Little York, after a protracted illness, Alvah Runyan, in the 56th year of his age.
 
 

Dec. 24, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 19, Whole No. 1852

    Edward A. Pollard, the editor and author, died on Tuesday last, in Lynchburg, Va.  He was a Viginian and was born in the year 1827.
 

Marriages

    Dec. 14th, by Rev. John R. Willox, Harvey K. Lindabury, of Tewksbury, to Miss Amanda Huffman, of Lebanon township.

    Dec. 19th, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Samuel L. Goodfellow to Amy W., daughter of Richard Brewer, both of Ringoes, N.J.

    Nov. 20th, at the residence of the bride's parents, near Reaville, by Rev. John H. Scofield, Theodore Bellis to Eliza M., daughter of James P. Chamberlin.
 

Deaths

    At Plainfield, N.J., Nov. 25th, 1872, of diptheria, Mary H. only daughter of John P. and Ellen Hartpence, aged 9 years, 5 months and 9 days.
 
 

Dec. 31, 1872, Vol. XXXV, No. 20, Whole No. 1853

Local Affairs

    Mrs. Leigh, widow of Joseph Leigh, late of Delaware township, choked to death on Saturday, the 14th inst., while eating her dinner.

    Sad Affair.  A correspondent at Mount Airy sends the following:
        A sad affair happened in our vicinity on Friday night.  Mr. Joseph Lair arose about 5 o'clock and discovered his house on fire in the kitchen part.... Elizabeth Lair, an aged lady, slept in aroom next to the part that was burned and she was found dead in the upper room of the kitchen where the fire was... She was the sister of Joseph.
 

Marriages

    On Christmas Eve, in Ringoes, by Rev. Samuel Harrison, James Goodfellow to Mrs. Mary Jane Sergeant, both of Sand Brook.

    At the Parsonage in Ringoes, December 28th, 1872, by Rev. J. D. Hewitt, Lewis Conover to Mary Servis, both of Ringoes.

    December 25th, 1872, in this village, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, John C. Race, of Clinton, to Margaret B. Green, of Flemington.

    December 25th, 1872, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Alexander Arlson to Amy F. Housel, both of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    At Paterson, Dec. 21st, 1872, Rev. Manning F. Decker, late pastor of the Baptist Church, Pottsville, Pa., in the 25th year of his age.

    On Pine Hill, Dec. 14th, 1872, Margaret, relict of Joseph Leigh, aged 82 years and 10 months.