Jan. 6, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 20, Whole No. 1891

    A Terrible Deed
        The Philadelphia papers contain the details of the murder committed in that city early on Wednesday morning last.  The victim, Godfray Kuehnle, kept a bakery in the lower part of his dwelling on the Frankford Road.  The murderer, a journeyman, named Fritz Heidenblut, aged, as he states, about 23 years, has only recently emigrated to this country....

    Sheriff's Sale
        ...Beginning at a post or stone also a corner to Aaron Barcrot's land: thence (1) north forty-two chains and forty-two links to a stone corner; thence (2) along John Sutton's line north eighty-eight degrees, east thirty-one chains and sixty-links to a white oak marked R: ... containing one hundred and thirty-four acres of land be the same more or less, it being the same tract of land converyed to Marissa M. Venable by William B. Sutton and wife by their deed bearing even date herewith.  Seized as the property of Marissa M. Venable, et. al., and taken in execution at the suit of Joseph Williamson, Administrator, &c., of George W. Rittenhouse, deceased and to be sold by J.P. Rittenhouse, Sheriff.

Local Affairs.

    Fatal Gunning Accident
        An extremely sad accident occurred at Quakertown last Tuesday, the particulars of which are as follows:  Lambert Nixon, a son of Justis L. Nixon, and George Hartpence, son of Mrs. Rhoda Hartpence, were out gunning. Some quails alighted in a thick bunch of bushes, and Nixon fired at them.  Hartpence was on the opposite side of the copse, unseen by Nixon, and received the whole load in the temple, killing him instantly.  The unfortunate victim of this lamentable accident was only 18 years of age....

    Mr. Sidney Blackwell, formerly a resident of Lambertville, died suddenly in Philadelphia, of paralysis, on last Sunday evening...

Marriages

    December 25th, by Rev. W. C. Nelson, Mahlon Worman, of Flemington, to Lucelia, daughter of Jacob Van Doren, of White House.

    On Dec. 24, by Rev. W. H. Shermer, at Clinton; Adelbert Dalrymple, of New York, to Miss Amanda Rea, of Pattenburgh.

    Near Quakertown, Dec. 18th, by the Rev. P. D. Day, John S. Schomp to Mary Egbert.

    At Quakertown, Jan. 1st, by the Rev. P. D. Day, Thomas T. C. Smith of Bethlehem to Alice Apgar of Pattenburg.

Deaths:

    In Flemington, Nov. 23d, after a long illness, George Fink, in the 51st year of his age.

    In Franklin township, Dec. 25th, Mitchel Hann, aged about 56 years.

Jan. 13, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 21, Whole No. 1892

    Death of Centenarian
        We are informed that Mr. John De Ford died on Christmas Eve, near Augusta, Carroll county, Ohio, at the advanced aged of 105 years.  He was born in the year 1768, seven years before the beginning of the revolutionary war.  He removed from Maryland to Pennsylvania in 1782, in which State he served as one of the volunteers against the famous "whiskey rebellion."  A few years later he removed to Ohio, and was one of the early settlers of Carroll county.....

    A sad accident occurred to a young man named William Thomas, of Mansfield township, on New Year's day.  In company with several other young men he was engaged in hunting near Karrville, and in endeavoring to dislodge some snow from his boots by some means he struck the breech of his gun which was discharged and the entire contents lodged in his head.  He lived for two hours after the mishap.  He was 17 years of age, highly esteemed, and of much promise.

    Clinton Kouff, aged 17, murdered his sister, near West Jefferson, Ohio, on Sunday last.  His sister threatened to tell their mother that he was playing the fiddle on the Sabbath, whereupon he struck her on the head with a poker, killing her instantly.  The murderer and his victim were children of a widow.

    At Stambury, near Salamanca, N.Y., Caleb Omans was murdered on Sunday night by his step-son, Wm. Boorn, a youth of 15.  Boorn was drunk and wanted to go to a dance;  he was refused permission by his step-father and hacked the latter to death with a hatchet.

    A little daughter of Rev. E. P. Terhune died in Newark a couple of days ago in consequence of having had her nervous system shocked a year ago by a fright.  While rambling through the woods at the residence of her father a little friend jumped suddenly upon her from a clump of bushes and frightened her so badly that she never recovered from it.

Local Affairs.

    Aaron Van Syckel, Esq., one of the oldest and most widely known and respected citizens of this county, died the residence of his son in Union township, on Monday morning last, after a protracted illness.

    Elijah R. Lair, for many years agent of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company at Frenchtown, died at that place on Wednesday last, after a lingering illness of more than three years.  He was buried with the honors of Odd Fellowship on Saturday last.

    Obituary
        Died, at his residence in New Germantown, Hunterdon county, on Friday, the 2d inst.  John Honeyman, M.D., in the seventy-sixth year of his age...

Marriages:

    January 1st, in Raritan township, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, William M. Clayhance, of Titusville, and Mary E., daughter of William Swallow, of Raritan.

    At his residence in Doylestown, Dec. 25, 1873, by Rev. S. M. Andrews, Charles B. Everitt, of Frenchtown, N.J., and Angeline W. Gilbert, of Buckingham, Bucks county, Penna.

    Jan. 1st, in Lambertville, by Rev. John S. Heisler, Azariam M. Akers to Miss Virginia A. Lanning, both of Lambertville.

    At the Readington Parsonage, on Dec. 25th, by Rev. Mr. Smock, Alex. Demott, near Dreahook, to Jane Gambler, of Readington.

    At the same place, on Jan. 1st, by the same, Bloomfield Welsh, of White House Station, to Mary Young, of Stanton.

    At Junction, M.E. Parsonage, Dec. 27th, by Rev. C. S. Woodruff, assisted by Rev. H. Bice, James Boss, to Alice E. Hutchinson, both of Junction.

    At the same place, Dec. 31st, by the same, William C. Dennis to Rebecca A Osmun, both of Bloomsbury.

    In Kingwood township, December 27, 1873, by Rev. John E. Soule, Elwood S. Servis to Amy, daughter of the late Francis R. Horner.

    On the 7th inst., at Junction, by Rev. John B. Kugler, William S. Ace to Sue, daughter of John C. Lake, Esq.

Deaths:

    In Union township, on the 4th inst., Aaron Van Syckel, in his 81st year.

    In Lambertville, January 1st, Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Margaret McNamara, aged 5 years and 6 months.

    In Centreville, on the 2d of December, Letitia A., wife of Charles K. Fell, in the 64th year of her age.

    Near Rowland's Mills, on Dec. 24th, child of Levi Cole.

    In New Germantown, Jan. 2d, Dr. John Honeyman, aged 76 years.

    In Frenchtown, January 7th, Elijah R. Lair, aged 59 years.

    In Milford, January 7th, son of Alfred and Lenna Curtis, aged 7 months.

    At Locktown, on the 4th inst., Alvin, infant son, of Judson and Jennie Fields, aged five weeks and three days.

    January 3d, 1874, near Ringoes, Ellen Swearer, in the 59th year of her age.

    In Somerville, Dec. 30, 1873, Ida B., daughter of David S. and Sarah C. Kline, aged about 10 years.

    At his residence in East Amwell, on December 6th, 1873, of paralysis, Waterhouse Woodruff, in the 44th year of his age.

Jan. 20, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 22, Whole No. 1893

    A terrible calamity occurred in New York last Tuesday.  About 6 o'clock, a.m. smoke was seen issuing from the elegant residence of Mr. Jacob Stiner, the large tea dealer, No. 24 Sixteenth st.  The police were soon on the spot and the front door was broken open, but the smoke was so dense it was impossible to gain the staircase to alarm the inmates....  Mr. Stiner jumped from the second story window and was instantly killed... Mrs. Stiner, a large woman, and the daughter Deborah were suffocated and burned to death....

Local Affairs:

    Fatal Affray - A fight among the negroes on Sourland Mountain last Monday night, resulted in the death of one named Theodore Cruise (Cruse Jr.)...

    Fatal Accident - A portion of the west end of the Jugtown Tunnel caved in on Wednesday morning of week before last killing a man named John Hageny...

Marriages:

    Jan. 8th, by Rev. Father Connolly, Edward McDermott to Mary Cawley, both of Lambertville.

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, Dec. 24th, 1873, Eliza, wife of Richard Bennett, in the 73d year of her age.

    Near Lambertville, January 5th, Louisa, daughter of Ralph and Eliza S. Ashton, in the 19th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 7th, Sallie, daughter of Joseph Akers, in the 21st year of her age.

    In Lambertville, January 9th, Bessie, daughter of Thomas K. and Julia Auld, aged 6 months.

    In Lambertville, January 14th, David Hoff, son of George E. and Rebecca Suydam, aged 7 years.

Jan. 27, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 23, Whole No. 1894

    A Dreadful Accident
        The knitting mill of H.E. Bradford at Pennington, Vt., was burned on Tuesday afternoon, the fire being caused by a leakage of the gasoline pipe.... Nine women at work there were instantly killed by the explosion or were burned to death in the fire which followed..  The following are the names of eight of the killed: Mary Hurley, Augusta Buss, Carrie Northrop, Miss Moon, Mrs. Martin Garrity, Mrs. Wm. Gould, Mrs. Cunningham, and Mrs. Laura Vaughn, the forewoman....

    Dr. J.C. Parkinson, a homeopathic physician of extensive practice in Vineland, died very suddenly at that place a few days ago...

    On Tuesday evening last, while Miss Mitchell, a teacher in the public school at Swartswood, Sussex county, was crossing a pond on the ice, in company with a little girl, she accidentally stepped through an air hole and was precipitated into the water, together with her companion.... the child was rescued; but as the water was very deep, Miss Mitchell, quickly sank beneath its surface and drowned.  Her home was in Ellentown, New York.

    Sad Affair
        Mrs. H. Bredinger, the wife of a well-known merchant of Norristown, somewhat acquainted in Hackettstown, was found drowned in the Schuylkill river last Saturday...

Local Affairs:

    Deceased
        The Hunterdon Independent states that Smith Rittenhouse, an aged resident of Kingwood township, who had lived alone most of the time for the past thirteen years on what was formerly known as Lequear's Island in the Delaware river, about three miles below Frenchtown, was found dead in his bed on Wednesday.

    Henry S. Shapleigh, of Salem, and his son, five years old, inhaled gas from a coal stove, at Boston on Sunday night ...  The child was found dead on Monday and the father insensibly.

    A Suicide in Salem
        George M. Ward, an influential and well-known resident of Salem, N.J., committed suicide Wednesday last by cutting his throat with a razor...

    About ten o'clock Friday morning, Edmund Miller, a gentleman aged thirty-seven, was found frozen to death, sitting up against the rear basement door of the Market Street M.E. Church, Paterson.  Deceased was formerly a saloon-keeper at Riverside, losing his wife about four months ago, has been dissipating ever since.

Marriages:

    Jan. 15th, by Rev. D. S. Coles, H.H. Van Horn to Mary E. Snyder both of Kingwood, N.J.

    Jan. 17th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Richard F. Taylor and Margaret E. Cook, both of Clinton.

    Jan. 22d, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Richard Boss and Sarah Barrass, both of Stockton.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 17, 1874, by Rev. C. Clark, Otheniel Gordon to Martha, daughter of David Curtis.

Deaths:

    At his Island home, below Frenchtown, on the 16th inst., Smith Rittenhouse, aged nearly 70 years.

    In Hartford, Conn., Jan. 15, 1874, Mae Adeila, wife of Samuel E. Perry, Esq., aged 24 years.

Feb 3, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 24, Whole No. 1895

    Miss Agnes Rush, a single lady of 82, was found dead in her bed at her residence in Mount Holly on the morning of the 21st.  She was sister of the late Samuel Rush ...

    A farmer named Lawson, residing near Morristown, met with a terrible death at that place, on Tuesday morning...

Local Affairs:

    Obituary
        On Friday last the remains of Asa Jones, one of our oldest and in his day, one of our most active citizens, were attended to their last resting place, by numerous body of relatives and friends.  He died in his 83d year.... From 1833 to 1836, when Mercer still formed a part of Hunterdon, he was Sheriff of our county, an office, which he lived to see filled by his son.   In 1849, he was elected county collector a position holding him for three years and was Post-Master of Flemington from 1866 to 1869....

    William S. Browe, justice of the peace at Glen Gardner, fell dead from heart disease on Saturday, 24th ult.

Marriages:

    At the Parsonage by Rev. G. S. Mott, Jan. 28th, Geo. O. Gillan, of New Brunswick, to Charity E. Durling, of Newton, N.J.

    Jan. 29th, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, John R. Case, of Readington township, to Sarah A. Moore, of Neshanic.

    January 14th, at the residence of the bride's father, Cornelius Lane of Readington to Victoria E. Cole, of Pleasant Run.

    January 3d, by Rev. J. B. Taylor, William Sherman of Asbury to Emma Lair, of Perryville.

    At the same time, by the same, John Rea, of Glen Gardner to Maggie Brown, of Clinton.

    By the same, Jan. 24, Mansfield Hummer, of Annadale to Kate Alpaugh, of Hamden.

    January 24th, 1874, at the Lutheran parsonage, by the Rev. David Kline, John S. Eveland, to Mary E. Dilts, all of Clarksville.

    January 24th, by the Rev. Mr. Fiefer, David K. Alpaugh of Cokesburg to Emma J. Alpaugh, formerly of Mountainville.

    Janaury 20th, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Barrett L. Alpaugh to Isabella Roseberry both of Little York.

Deaths:

    In Flemington, January 28th, Asa Jones, in the 83d year of his age.

    In Flemington, December 27th, Margaret, wife of Nathan Warman, aged 74 years.

    January 17th, in Gordon, Ohio, Ann Bonham, widow of Ambrose Bonham formerly of Kingwood township in the 87th year of her age.

Feb 10, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 25, Whole No. 1896

Marriages:

    February 5th, 1874, at the residence of Mr. John V. Voorhees, in Somerville, by the Rev. Abraham Messler, D. D., Charles Tomlinson, editor of the Hunterdon County Democrat, to Miss Caroline Borden, of Somerville, N.J.

    February 3, 1874, at the Bingham House, Phildaelphia, by Rev. J. J. Timanus, Mr. Frank Z. Fritz, of Lambertville, N.J., to Miss Maria L. Seymour, of Philadelphia.

    January 31, 1874, by Rev. Geo. H. Larison, Mr. William J. Carroll, to Miss Elizabeth Slack, all of Lambertville.

    At Glen Gardner, Jan. 31st, by Rev. C. S. Woodruff, Lambert Frits (Fritts) to Catharine A. Fritts, both of White House.

    December 3d, by Rev. P. Hartwell, John E. Dickson, of Harlingen, and Susan E. Craft, of East Amwell.

    Jan. 3, 1874, at Clinton by Rev. J. B. Taylor, John Rea, of Glen Gardner, to Maggie Brown, of Clinton.

    Jan. 17, 1874, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Richard F. Taylor and Margaret E. Cook, both of Clinton.

    On the 16th ult., by Dr. Messick, Alex. Hall of Clover Hill, to Maggie Stryker of Millstone.

    Dec. 13, 1873, by Rev. J. A .Davis, John Row, to Anna L. Wortman, all of Pottersville.

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, N.J., Jan. 24th, 1874, Paul, youngest son of Wm. and Olivia McCready.

    In Solebury, on the 4th of January, Mary Ruckman, daughter of the late Ruckman, aged 68 years.

    In Buckingham, on the morning of the 25th inst., Miriam C. Fell, in the 55th year of her age.

    On the 25th ult., at Pleasant Run, John J. Smith, aged 26 years.

    On the 31st of January, Isaac Drey, in the 79th year of his age.

    Mr. David Smith, an old resident of Newton, Sussex county, was found dead in his store at that place on Sunday afternoon last...  Mr. Smith was 57 years of age...

    Jacob Hill, the hermit of Greenwood Lake, whose cruelty to his cattle had made him notorious, while crossing that Lake on January 23, with three cows, broke though the ice and was drowned.  His body was recovered and buried on the following Sunday.  He was born near Dover, October 9, 1817 and was consequently in the fifty-seventh year of his age.  Severe disease long ago affected his mind.

    Judge Alfred Conkling, father of Senator Conkling, died suddenly at Utica, N.Y., Thursday, aged 85.  He was a member of the Seventeenth Congress, serving from 1821 to 1823...

    Buried Alive
        Last Thursday afternoon a portion of the roof of a coal mine in Plains township, four miles from Wilkesbarre, belonging to the Hillside Coal and Iron Company, fell in crushing beneath it a laborer named Patrick McDonald...

Sheriff's Sale
    By Virtue ... land and premises hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the township of Kingwood, in the county of Hunterdon, and State of New Jersey, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone, in a line of Danse C. Rittenhouse's line, corner of Sutton's land; thence running nearly west by land of said Sutton to a beech tree in Sutton's line corner to said Warford and Jacob Gordon; ...  Seized as the property John T. Hewitt et ux., et. al., and taken in execution at the suit of Mary Ann W. Ellicott, Admr'x, &c., of Elisha Warford, deceased ....

Feb 17, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 26, Whole No. 1897

    Sad Affair
        A melancholy accident happened in the Raritan Woolen Mills, on Monday morning last, at about half-past nine o'clock.  Mr. Thomas Hazelton, an employee of that institution while in the act of placing the band upon the large flywheel was caught in the belting, .. and before the machinery could be stopped and the poor man extricated, he was completely torn and broken... Mr. Hazelton was a hard working industrious man, respected by all who knew him, and he leaves a wife, with five small children, and several brothers and sisters to mourn his untimely death.

    The following are the particulars of the distressing accident by which Mr. Matthew Hall, a well-known citizen of Cape Island, lost his life on Wednesday last:...

    Saturday evening last a number of children were skating on a pond in Union, Union county, when some of them very thoughtlessly built a fire, and a large crowd gathered around it.  The heat soon melted the ice, and the entire crowd of children fell into the water.  A party of men who witnessed the catastrophe from the shore hastened to the rescue, and succeeded in saving all but one, a lad named Jasper White, 11 years of age.  His body was recovered Sunday morning.

Local Affairs.

    Sudden Death
        Arhibald T. Seals, was found dead in his bed at his residence in Frenchtown on Saturday morning, 7th inst.  He retired apparently in his usual good health.  His age was about 70 years.

    A woman named Howard died very suddenly a few days ago at Washington, South River.  She cooking meat by a hot stove, when some of the grease sputtered up in her face, frightening her so much that she fell on the floor and expired in a few seconds.

Marriages:

    At Baptisttown, Jan. 31, by the Rev. S. Sproul, Henry G. T. Sigafoos to Cornelia A. Godown, all of Kingwood.

Deaths:

    At his residence in Union township, Feb. 8, 1874, Joseph Exton, in the 81st year of his age.

    In Lambertville, February 8, Thomas Carpenter, aged 50 years.

    In Centreville, Feb. 5, Willie, only child of Jacob A. and Magdalene Craig, aged 8 months and 5 days.

Feb 24, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 27, Whole No. 1898

Last Sunday morning, a woman named Mrs. Dilks, a widow, residing in the family of Mr. John Lloyd, at Penn's Neck, about two miles from Salem, was found in the backyard of the house, dead. From examination it appears she had been stabbed twice in the neck and afterwards her throat cut, severing the jugular vein. She was badly bruised on her arms, as if she had been struggling desperately. There was a razor found in an iron pot about 200 feet from her body, but there was no blood on it, neither was there much on her person. On Saturday, sometime during the day, the family of Mr. Lloyd had gone to Salem, and on their return home in the evening, Mrs. Dilks was missing. They called for her, but no reply was received. A search was then made, and early on Sunday morning her body was found as above described. Three men have been arrested, two of them colored and one white, who are supposed to be concerned in the crime. They have locked up for examination. Deceased bore a good character and was much esteemed. The crime has created intense excitement in the neighborhood, and a thorough investigation will be made.

    A Boy Murdered by His Mother
        A dreadful occurrence took place in Trenton Saturday night of last week.  Mrs. Ellen Keeler, who lives near the city, and whose husband is a tinsmith in Neward, came into town with her little boy Willie, aged five years.  During the day she became intoxicated and wandered off with the child until she reached the railroad crossing in South Trenton, just as the Phildadelphia train was approaching.  Here she made an attempt to draw her child upon the track, when another lad, seeing his danger, caught his hand and tried hard to prevent his death...

    Drowned
        An old man named Abram Chapman was drowned on Saturday while attempting to cross on the ice from Duck Island to the canal bank.... Deceased leaves a wife and several grown-up children.  (Bordentown Register).

    General Lewis F. Wigfall, aged fifty, died in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday after a brief illness...

    On Monday evening, a young man, named George Garling, son of Frederick Garling, a respectable tradesman of New Brunswick, hanged himself at the home of his father, where he resided...

    A curious death occurred the other night at Jersey City.  Timothy A. Simmons, of Ege avenue, while conversing with his wife on some humorous subject, suddenly exclaimed, "Hold on! don't say anymore; you make me laugh too much," and the next instant he fell to the floor and immediately died.  The physicians have decided that apoplexy was the cause.

    Garret G. Banta, of Paramus, was married on Saturday and on Sunday hanged himself in a barn.  The cause of the act is unknown...

     J. M. Kimberly, of Baltimore, Md., fifty-eight years of age, a retired merchant, committed suicide Saturday afternoon last, by shooting himself through the heart with pistol.  The deceased had been laboring under a temporary fit of insanity caused by softening of the brain.

     Franklin B. Evans, "the Northwood murderer" was hanged at Concord, N.H., on Tuesday.  He confessed the murder of his niece, Georgia Lovering, and of a young girl, in 1850..

    N. M. Wood shot himself and poisoned three of his children at Rutledge, Ga., on Friday night.  He had been abandoned by his wife.

Local Affairs:

    Death of Dr. Schenck - We inadvertently omitted to mention to our last issue the death of Dr. Jos. H. Schenck, which occurred at his residence in Philadelphia, on the 18th inst... He was a native of Flemington... He leaves a wife, one son (Dr. Joseph H. Schenck, Jr.) and two daughters.  For the past two years, Dr. Schenck was totally blind, ..

Marriages:

    In Quakertown, Dec. 21, 1873, by Henry S. Trimmer, Esq., I. Smith Allen, of Kingwood, to Mary E. Yorks, of Stanton.

    By the same, in Alexandria, Feb. 3, Edward S. Potts, of Somerville, to Mary E. Ruple of Alexandria township.

    Feb. 18, by David Pittenger, Esq., John J. Stout to Caroline Jones, both of Kingwood.

Deaths:

    In Sand Brook, Feb. 2, 1874, S. Arabella Holcombe, aged 23 years and 9 months.

    In Readington, on the 10th inst., of membrane croup, Alvah H., son of Jacob and May G. Hyler, aged 3 years.

Mar 3, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 28, Whole No. 1899

Local Affairs

    Death of Abner Parks
        About a month ago Abner Parke died at Urbana, Ohio.  He was one of the persons indicted and tried for the murder of John B. Parke, (his brother), John Castner and Maria, his wife, and their child, on the first day of May 1843, at Changewater, Warren county, in this State.  Parke was acquitted while Joseph Carter and Peter W. Parke were found guilty and executed at Belvidere in August 1844.... He was in the 85th year of his age at the time of his death.

    William L. Hoppock, Sen., father of Representative Hoppock, was buried at Prallsville on Monday last.  He was in the 82d year of his age.

    A woman, in Jersey City, named Mary Buckho, on Tueday night attempted to fill a kerosene lamp with kerosene oil, and for the purposes of doing so held the lamp over the stove.  The usual results followed, and she was burned to a crisp.  She died early on Wednesday morning.

Marriages:

    Feb. 18, 1874, by Rev. J. Lefevre, of Raritan, Richard H. Layton, of Somerville, to Lottie B. Dilts, of South Branch.

    At Reaville, Feb 18, by Rev. J. H. Scofield, John Hoagland to Caroline Slack.

    Feb. 19, by Rev. A. R. Shaw, Gershom C. Allen to Jennie L. Bowlby, both of New Hampton.

    At Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, by Rev. A. Van Deusen, Ellwood Larason to Mattie Snyder, both of Sergeantsville, N.J.

    Feb. 24, at Clarksville, by Rev. David Kline, Robert S. Cramer, of High Bridge, to Allie G. Fulper, of Clarksville.

    At Quakertown, Feb. 17, by Rev. P. D. Day, George Hann to Emmarrillows Leonard, both of Franklin township.

    In Trenton, Feb. 17, by Rev. A. U. Stanley, A. W. Barber, of Lambertville, to Ellen Gray, of Pennington, formerly of Flemington.

Deaths:

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 17, Johanna, widow of the late Dr. Charles R. Cowdrick, aged about 30 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 16, Bartley Hester, aged 50 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 10, Thomas McNamara, aged 40 years.

    At Bloomsbury, Feb. 16, Jonathan B. Hunt, aged 27 years, 7 months and 13 days.

Mar 10, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 29, Whole No. 1989

    A brutal murder was committed by a New York Policeman named John Doyle, a few days ago.  Doyle had won the affections of a young woman named Mary Lawler, but of late; his drunken habits and neglect caused a partial estrangement.... he first expostulated with her and then deliberately drew his revolver and shot the unfortunate girl in the head...

    Terrible Murder
        A horrible murder was committed on Saturday night last at Doe's Corners, a little settlement in the town of Wilton, about four miles north of Saratoga.  George See and his father, farmers living near the village, had gone to attend the political town caucus.  Jas. H. Standish, a single man, who owned the farm and lived with the See family, remained at home.  On the return of See and his father, the wife of George See charged Standish with having insulted her.  This led to an altercation, in the course of which Standish seized a hot flat-iron from the stove, with which he struck See on the head....  He was about forty years old.

    During a temporary aberration of mind, Miss Mary Snyder, left her home in Easton, on Saturday, February 21, and has not been heard of since.  The probability is that she has wandered into the county or is drowned.  She has auburn hair, on upper front tooth broken out, is forty-nine years of age...

    John B. Hill, for many years President of the National Bank of New Jersey, died on Saturday at  his home in New Brunswick...

     Mr. Alfred Egley, collector of Northampton township, Burlington county, was found on Thursday, hanging from a beam in his barn, near Mount Holly.  He was forty-one years of age and unmarried, and was in good circumstances, being worth about $30,000.

    Mrs. Ellen Larney, a resident of Gloucester, was buried on Saturday.  At the time of her death, it was supposed that her age was about ninety-four years, but subsequent examination has proved that she was over one hundred years old.  She came to country, from the north of Ireland, twenty-three years ago, and up to within a week of her death retained all her faculties unimpaired and was able to walk about the house and yard unaided.

    Peter Hasting, conductor of a gravel train on the West Jersey railroad, was found dead on the tender when the train reached Palatine Station, on Thursday .... He was about forty-five years of age and leaves a wife and four children.

    John Louis Brunnig, a German, was arrested in Newark, at an early hour on Wednesday morning and locked up on the charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct.  A short time after the officer, on visiting his cell, found that he had committed suicide by hanging himself to one of the bars of the cell with his handkerchief.

Local Affairs:

    Rev. Jacob Fehrman, pastor of the Reformed Church at High Bridge, died on the 1st inst., after a brief illness...

Marriages:

    By the Rev. G. S. Mott, March 3d, John Painter to Lizzie Anderson both of Flemington, N.J.

    By the same, March 5th, John S. Harden to Anna M. Wyckoff, both of Flemington, N.J.

    By the Rev. G. H. Winans, February 21st, Charles Elgard to Maggie C. Shelts, both of Readington, N.J.

    By Rev. G. H. Winans, March 5th, G. W. Vanhorne to Mary J. Alexander, both of Flemington.

    By Rev. T. E. Vassar, March 4th, John A. Dilts to Rachel A. Merrill, both of Flemington.

    German Valley, Feb. 28, by Rev. A. Hiller, Joseph L. Smith to Ella H., eldest daughter of Nelson and Catharine F. Hyde, all of German Valley.

    In Milford, Feb. 28th, by the Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Jacob Johnson to Elizabeth Ann Swick, both of Alexandria township.

    At the residence of the bride, Feb. 28th, by the Rev. N. S. Aller, Jonas T. Tharp to Elizabeth Wright, all of the Hickory.

    At New Brunswick on the 25th ult., at the residence of the brides parents, by Rev. Caulker, Wm. T. Reed of White House Station to Susie A. Gamble.

    Feb. 28, by the Rev. C. H. Asay, Andrew Larason to Annie Stevenson, both of Mount Airy, N.J.

Deaths:

    At High Bridge, on Sunday March 1st, Rev. Jacob Fehrmann, in the 37th year of his age.

    Near Readington, on the 19th ult., Alva H., son of Jacob and Mary G. Hyler, aged 3 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., March 1st, Julia, wife of Matthew Coin, aged 51 years.

Mar 17, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 30, Whole No. 1901

    Ex-President, Milliard Fillmore died at his residence in Buffalo on Sunday evening 8th inst.  His disease was paralysis from which he had been prostrated for some time.  He was born in the wilderness of Cayuga county in 1800, the son of a pioneer farmer.

    Death of Charles Sumner
        Charles Sumner, Massachusetts eminent Senator died at his residence in Washington, on Wednesday afternoon last of an affection of the heart, with which he has been afflicted for several years past....  Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Mass., January 6, 1811 ...

    Ex-President Millard Fillmore, died at his residence in Buffalo on Sunday evening 8th inst., in the seventy-fifth year of his age....

    Eddy Coe, son of Mr. Oscar Coe, of Morristown, died on Thursday last of lock-jaw.  A few days before he ran a nail in his foot and catching cold in the wound it terminated fatally as above stated.

     Supposed Murder at Princeton
        What seems to have been a most atrocious murder was committed on Tuesday night at a little village known as Stony Brook, located about midway between the Princeton junction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the town of Princeton, N.J.  The victim was a resident of Princeton named Solomon Kranskopf...

    A boy named William Pallon, aged six years, died Sunday, in Jersey City, in consequence of injuries sustained by being immersed in a wash boiler filled with boiling water....

     Mr. James F. Markland and his wife died Tuesday within two hours of each other at their residence No. 340 Plane street, Newark.  Monday night they were both prostrated almost a the same instant by a paralytic stroke and never recovered consciousness.  They were each sixty years old.

    The death of Captain Benjamin W. Smith, of Millburn, is announced at the age of ninety-one.  His father, who lived to be ninety-six years old, was born in Millburn and had never been outside the township.  The old gentleman had sixteen children and since the death of Captain Smith but two are living, one of whom a Mrs. Cree, ninety-six years old.

    Death of a Noted Revivalist
        The death of Elder Jacob Knapp, the noted revivalist, at his home near Rockford, Ill, is announced.  He was born in 1799 ....

    The Captain of a Steamer Drowned
        The steamer Pennsylvania, from Liverpool, arrived Monday at Philadelphia and reports having met a violent hurricane on the 27th ult., at midnight.  The sea carried away the bridge on which were Capt. Bradburn, and the first and second officers, and two sailors who were all washed overboard and lost.  Capt. Bradburn belonged to Baltimore and the other officers were from England...

Marriages:

    On the 7th inst., at Ringoes, by Rev. Samuel Harrison, Ely H. Quick and Mary C. Dilts both of Ringoes.

Deaths:

    On the morning of the 22d ult., Samuel W. Dilts, of Ringoes, in the 65th year of his age.

Mar 24, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 31, Whole No. 1902

    An Elopement in Trenton
Trenton was thrown into a flutter of excitement Wednesday by the discovery that an elopement had taken place in that city.  George W. Wheeling, a prominent dealer in human hair, for some weeks past has attracted attention by his intimacy with a Mrs. E. B. Smith, whose husband died in the insane asylum eight months ago.  She is about twenty-eight years of age, daughter-in-law of a prominent banker, prepossessing, and the mother of a boy eight years old.  Wheeling is thirty-five, of Teutonic birth, and rather good-looking.  He leaves a wife and two children behind....

    A man and wife, named Ellwood, living in East Orange, were both absent from home, on Wednesday morning, leaving a three year old daughter with a baby locked in a room. About one o'clock the mother returned to find the room filled with smoke, the bed burning and the little girl lying dead on the floor burned to a crisp.

Marriages:

    March 1, by Rev. David Kline, at Clarksville, Henry Kellihan to Paulina Westfall.

    On the 16th inst., by Rev. Wm. Pitcher, Chas. H. Housel to Sarah Elizabeth Dunham, of Centerville.

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, 16th inst., Mary Kane, aged 30 years.

    In Lambertville, 10th inst., George, son of Charles and Isabella Akers, aged 7 years and 9 months.

    In Lambertville, N.J., March 15, 1874, Gershom, son of Charles and Isabella Akers, aged 2 years and 1 month.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, in Milford, March 12, 1874, Elamor, relic of Allen Queen, aged 84 years and 4 days.

Mar 31, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 32, Whole No. 1903

Local Affairs

    Sad Fatality
        On Friday afternoon last, about 6 o'clock, a son of Mr. Benjamin C. Bird, of Clinton, was sent off on an errand on horseback.  In a short time after, the horse returned home without his rider, and at once the fears of the family were aroused, and they started out to ascertain his whereabouts.  Not far from home the young man was found lying in the road where he had been thrown by the horse, entirely unconscious.  He was conveyed home with all possible dispatch and medical aid summoned, but his injuries were so severe that death resulted in a short time afterwards.  He was a promising lad, 17 years of age..

    Suicide
        Charles Crook, a hardware merchant of Lambertville, was found in an insensible and dying condition on Friday last, and all efforts to resuscitate him were unavailing.  It is supposed that he committed suicide by swallowing poison on account of financial troubles.... He leaves a young wife and one child.

Deaths:

    In Stamford, Canada West, March 19, John C. Fisher, formerly of Ringoes, N.J., in the 68th year of his age.

    March 17, at Mt. Pleasant, Theodore Statts, in the 78th year of his age.

Apr 7, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 33, Whole No. 1904

     Emily S. Parker, residing in Brooklyn, committed suicide on Wednesday last, by strangling herself with a rope.  She had been very despondent since the death of one of her children about a week ago.

     Horrible Tragedy
        A dispatch from Austin, Nevada, of last Wednesday night, gives the particulars of a terrible tragedy in Smoky Valley, in that State.  It appears that Christopher Reckstein had been for a long time jealous of his wife, and they had frequent quarrels.  On Tuesday, a man named Osterhaus went to Reckstein's house, and receiving no response to his demand for admission, broke open the door.  On the floor lay the naked body of Mrs. Reckstein.  At her feet were the bodies of their two little girls and near by were the dead bodies of Reckstein and young Norton, grappled in a death struggle...

     At Centralia, Pa., a miner, named Dougherty, lit his lamp and placed it in his cap, bade his wife good night and started from home for his regular night work at the mine.  His wife stood at the door watching the light in her husband's lamp as it gradually receded into the darkness.  Suddenly she heard a report and the light disappeared.  On giving the alarm, Dougherty was found dead on the ground, having been shot and instantly killed by some person who was evidently laying in wait for him.

     Jesse P. Borton, formerly of Burlington county, but for many years a resident of Camden, died on Thursday, aged 86..

     Two Negroes Hanged
        A dispatch from Sumter, South Caroline, dated Friday, says: " Aaron Furman and Sam Vincent, two negroes, were hanged here today for the murder of a young white man of this town about eight weeks ago....

     Anne Seabury, a young woman who recently arrived in New York from Philadelphia, with three other girls, was found dead in a deserted house in Brooklyn, on Tuesday.  She had the small-pox, and it is supposed that the other girls, fearing to catch the disease, had left her to die alone.

Marriages:

    In Lambertville, Mch. 30, by Rev. J. S. Heisler, William Perrine to Susie Phillips, both of Lambertville.

    March 27, by John C. Lake, Esq., George C. Pittenger to Mary Haggerty.

    At High Bridge, 25th ult., by Rev. John Ewing, Andrew E. Voorhees, of North Branch and Francis A. Bennett, of High Bridge.

Deaths:

    At Sand Brook, March 28, Kate R., wife of Daniel B. Ege, aged 31 years.

    At Lambertville, on April 1, Mary H., wife of Ashbel Welch, aged 60 years.

    Near Ringoes, March 22, Charlie J., son of Jacob C. and Emeline H. Sutphin, aged 3 months and 14 days.

     A Mistake
        The report that Charles W. Crook, of Lambertville, had committed suicide is denied by Drs. Wetherill, Studdiford and Robbins, who certify that the cause of his death was cerebral apoplexy.

     The scarlet fever is raging in the neighborhood of Everittstown.  Several children have died from the disease.

Apr 14, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 34, Whole No. 1905

     A little school girl named Katie Matin died at the residence of her father, in Newark, a few days ago, from the effects of over-exertion...

     A young woman, named Carragan, residing at Black Oak Ridge near Pompton, committed suicide because her father refused to allow her to marry the man of her choice....

     A child of Mr. Marks, a tailor, living at South Amboy, a few days ago, was sitting on the counter in the store with an open pen knife in its hand, when by some mishap it fell to the floor, the blade of the knife penetrating the child's brain, resulting in almost instant death.

Local Affairs:

    Fatal Explosion
        A terrible accident occurred in Jugtown tunnel of the Amboy and Easton Railroad at about 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, by which four men were killed and several others injured.  Five boilers are used at this point to compress the air for working the drills. One of these exploded with terrible force, instantly killing Thomas Irving, master mechanic, John Boner, fireman, Jacob McGaraghty, coal passer, and Thomas Gaughan, fireman....

    Drowned
        A little son of David and Eliza Fisher, between 3 and 4 years of age, was drowned Wednesday afternoon in a well upon the premises where the parents reside, on Franklin st., above Coryell...

Marriages:

    March 31, 1874, by Rev. H. B. Scott, George W. Loyer, of Boston to Maggie M. Stute, of Bloomsbury, N.J.

    On the 4th inst., by Rev. Wm. Bailey, Georege W. Shampanore to Kate Reed, both of White House Station.

    March 21, by Rev. J. A. Davis, Ezra L. Horton to Jennie Huff, both of Potterstown.

    April 8th, by Rev. B. C. Morse, of Croton, William B. Lawrence, of Elizabeth to Carrie F. Tucker, of Sunny Side, Hunterdon county.

Deaths:

    In Flemington, 7th inst., George E. Risler, in the 24th year of his age.

    March 13, near Everittown, of Scarlet Fever, John M., son of John and Jarusha Bird, aged 27 years.

    In Somerville, 6th inst., Henry S. Stryker, formerly of this county, aged about 68 years.

    At Three Bridges, 5th inst., Maria Van Fleet, aged 82 years.

    At Prallsville, March 29, Patrick Brodlick, aged 72 years.

    March 22d, Walter D., son of John and Leah V. Tunison, aged 1 month and 22 days.

Apr 21, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 35, Whole No. 1906

Hunterdon's Iron Mines.
    Fox Hill Mine
        This is of so recent a date having been opened in November, that it may be premature to dignify it with the above title.  The diggings are on the lands of Henry Fisher and George Sutton near a tributary of the Rockaway creek, and about three quarters of a mile southwest of Fox Hill M. E. Church.... In an adjoining field on Sutton's farm, a shaft then sinking had struck ore of very good quality..

    Was It Murder, or Infanticide and Suicide
        On Wednesday last a mysterious case of either murder of suicide was discovered in a house in Hilltown township, Bucks county.  A woman named Rearing and her little son were found dead in her house, the former with her hands nearly severed from her arms, and the latter strangled to death as the marks on his throat clearly showed...

     Recently a little girl, aged seven years, named M. E. Kennedy, while playing with some burning leaves in the woods near Perth Amboy, caught her dress on fire.  She then started for home all ablaze, but before she reached there, fell from exhaustion and terrible agnony... The child lived only a few hours when she died in the most terrible suffering.

     A little girl named Kattie Martin, whose parents reside at No. 91 Somerset street, Newark, died a few days ago from over exertion....

Deaths:

    At Quakertown, N.J., April 13th, 1874, Rachel Probasco, in the 86th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, N.J., April 2, 1874, Henry C., son of Israel C. and Sarah M. Pittenger, aged 7 years.

    At South Amboy, N.J., April 2, 1874, Mrs. Elizabeth Risler, formerly of Lambertville, N.J., aged 67 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., April 7, 1874, Parmelia Lake, relict of Othniel Lake, aged 80 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., April 8, 1874, Mathias C., son of David H. and Elizabeth Fisher, aged 2 years and 6 months.

Town Meeting Returns -
Tewksbury - For Collector, George B. Sutton

Apr 28, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 36, Whole No. 1907

     A Case of Cremation
        An actual case of cremation occurred in Philadelphia on Friday last, when the body of George Obdyke, son of Dr. Francis Obdyke, was burned in the cellar of his late residence.  The deceased was twenty-one years of age, educated at the University of Pennsylvania.  He died last Wednesday from heart disease....

     Shocking Murder
        The New York papers of last week gave long accounts of the murder of a Mrs. Hujus in the village of Nanuet, in Rockland county, New York, on Sunday evening....

Local Affairs:

    The Murder Trial
        The third murder trial for Hunterdon county within the year, was commenced on Tuesday last, when Israel Morrocco and George Thompson, colored, were called to answer the charge of having murdered one Theodore Cruise, another colored man, on Sourland Mountain, in East Amwell township on the night of the 12th of January last....

Deaths:

    At her mothers residence at Baptisttown, N.J., April 6, Alma C., only daughter of the late Eli and Susan E. Britton and grand-daughter of the late Elder Gabriel Conklin, in the 16th year of her age.

    At the residence of her son in Flemington, on the 9th inst., Sarah, relict of Dr. James Pyatt, in the 87th year of her age.

May 5, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 37, Whole No. 1908

     Mrs. Philip Welsh died at her residence at Chester on Wednesday evening last, and her mother, Mrs. Jerusha Brown, died at the same house the night previous.

     A little girl named Maggie S. Lowerhill, whose parents reside at Oldham, near Paterson, died of hydrophobia on Monday night....

     A five month old baby belonging to a fellow known in Stanhope as Jack Spring, died a short time since.  The father put the baby in a box and carried it to the burying ground....

     An accident occurred on Wednesday morning last near Cresson, Pa., twelve miles west of Altoona.  Five raftmen walking on the track toward Cresson were met by a freight train going east.  They stepped on the other track to get out of the way, when the Pacific express going west struck them, killing four instantly and seriously injuring the fifth.  The names of the killed are Edward Pardee, Amose Pardee, Jacob Bowder, and P.S. Chwin and William Chwin injured.  They lived at Cherry Tree, Indiana County, Pa.

Local Affairs:

    Peter G. Snook, an old resident of East Amwell, Hunterdon county, died on his farm on the 22 inst., at the advanced age of 85 years.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and served on the Canada line and in Canada...

Deaths:

    At Kinney's Saw Mill, April 30, Matilda Kinney, wife of Peter P. Kinney, aged 38 years 1 month and 11 days.

    April 12, near Quakertown, N.J., of Dropsy of the heart, Eleanor A. Larue, wife of Elisha Larue, aged 38 years.

    In Kingwood Township, 22, 1874, Abijah, son of Wilson and Catharine Hoff, aged 19 years.

    At Mountainville, on April 27, Job Wolverton, aged about 76 years.

    In Quakertown, April 13, 1874, Rachel Probasco, aged 65? years and months.

May 12, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 38, Whole No. 1909

     James Sargent of Cornish, Me., accidentally shot and killed his little daughter, a bright little girl of eight years, on Sunday last.

Local Affairs:

    Mayor Lambert H. Sergeant, of Lambertville, (son of Gershom C. Sergeant, of this township) was married on Wednesday night, at the First Presbyterian Church, in Lambertville, to Miss Sadie Scarborough, daughter of Mr. William Scarborough, of New Hope, Pa.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford, pastor of the church....

Marriages:

    In Lambertville, May 6, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, Lambert H. Sergeant, Mayor of the city of Lambertville to Sadie P. Scarborough, of New Hope, Pa.

    In Lambertville, May 5th, 1874, by Rev. P. F. Connolly, Thomas Hanahan to Bridget Grimes.

    At Sidney, May 2d, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, George H. Willever, of Stewartsville, N.J., and Maggie Little, of Asbury, N.J.

    On the 2d of  May, 1874, at Mount Pleasant, by Rev. N. S. Aller, Peter Gano, of Perryville, to Mary H. Lanning of Alexandria.

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, May 7th, Edward D., son of Mortimer Forman, aged 21 years.

    In Lambertville, May 7th, Phoebe Ann Parker, aged 83 years.

    In Lambertville, May 2d, John L. Pierson, aged 63 years.

    April 12, 1874, near Frenchtown, N.J., Howard Heath, son of Anderson and Mary Heath, aged 1 year, two months, and 5 days.

    April 28, 1874, at Metler's Mill, after a long illness, Levi M. Metler, aged 77 years, 1 month and 18 days.

    In Stockton, April 24th, suddenly, Hannah R. Bodine, wife of Charles Bodine, in the 30th year of her age.

    In Stockton, April 20th, Jennie Vansyckle, aged 4 years.

    In Wertsville, Elizabeth N., wife of Ira Higgins, aged 32 years, 3 months and 6 days.

    At Westfield, N.J., April 10, Mahlon Chamberlin, in his 73d year of his age.

May 19, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 39, Whole No. 1910

     Fall of Building
        About 5:30 on Monday afternoon, without previous warning, a four-story brick block on main street, above Eagle street, at Buffalo, N.Y., fell with a terrible crash, crushing in the adjoining two-story block, (Stevenson's).  The blocks were occupied by McArthur confectioner; Lanke jeweler; Cook, Sheffel & Co., variety store, and others.  A daughter of the janitor, Frank Nagle, five years old, was instantly killed;  also a son of Prof. Buckham, the Principal of the State Normal School, fourteen years of age....

     Mr. Daniel Wiedner, a young man of 24 years, died at Farmingdale, recently, after thirty six hours' illness.  The symptoms were those of hydrophobia and it is stated that he was severely bitten by a dog when seven years of age...

     On the 9th inst., a son of Mr. Samuel Raisnor, of New Hope, aged about 12 years, was drowned in the canal above that place, by being caught in a coil of the tow line and thrown from the boat.

Marriages:

    At 12P.M. on the 29th of April, ult., at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. John F. Pingry, D. D., Rev. Wm., J. Henderson to Meta, oldest daughter of Dr. T. Edgar Hunt, of Clarksville, N.J.

    In Frenchtown, May 9th, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Edgar Sebold of Lambertville, to Mary F., daughter of William Sipes, of Kingwood township.

Deaths:

    In Alexandria township, May 3d, Henry Staats, aged 71 years.

May 26, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 40, Whole No. 1911

     A Colored Man Killed by His Mistress
        A tragedy occurred about midnight on Saturday on the farm of Peter Barkley, between Dayton and Plainsboro, N.J., in the murder of Charles Timbrook, a colored man.  The circumstances are as follows: Rachel Coward, colored, lived with her husband until about four months ago, when he, from some unknown cause, became deranged, and was taken to the Insane Asylum at Trenton, where he is now confined....

     Another Murder Mystery
        A horrible murder was committed near Mauch Chuuk on Tuesday night.  Kate Leinbach, a young and beautiful girl of 16, being enticed from her home and killed in some low brush just outside of town.  The victim was the daughter of a widow....

     Capt. Waite, who recently died at Stamford, Conn., was a famous man among mariners in the days of sailing vessels... he was only sixty-nine years old when he died.

     Bridget Carter, of Camden, who caused the death of her two children by breaking a bottle of coal oil on a stove, and setting them on fire, while she was in a drunken fit, was herself badly burned, was on Wednesday sentenced to four years in the State Prison at hard labor.

      One day last week a little son of Chas. Rogers, of Shamong, went home from school at noon, and the family being away he tried to enter the house by a window.  While doing so the sash descended upon his neck holding him fast, in which position he remained until evening.  When found the poor little fellow was quite dead.

Local Affairs:

    The body of John McQuillan was found in the waste way below the cotton factory in Lambertville, on Saturday, 16th inst.

    Sudden Death
        On the 2nd of this month Godfrey Fleming of White House Station, married a Miss Mary Teats, of New Germantown.  On the 14th of this month he followed her to the grave.

    On Wednesday 13th inst., Mr. Frederick Reger, near Harlingen, was at work in his field and becoming tired and thirsty, he went to the house to get a d drink of buttermilk.  Soon after drinking it he was taken with the colic, which resulted in a speedy inflammation of the bowels and the next day he was a corpse.

    A son of Harman Hageman, near Readington, was taken with a sudden attack of derangement a short time ago, and in a few days he died.

    John H. Housel, son of Horace P. Housel, of East Amwell township, left home on the 24th of September, 1872, and enlisted in an artillery company.  While the young man was at Fort Hamilton, in New York Harbor, he wrote two letters home, the last one being received in October of the same year.  From that time no tidings were had of him until now.  On the 20th of April last, Mr. Housel wrote to the Adjutant General at Washington for information of his son, and has just received the sad intelligence that the young man died in Savannah, Ga., December 4th, 1872.  He was aged about 19 years at the time of his death.

Marriages:

    May 19th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Hiram R. Parsons of Phillipsburg, N.J., and Elizabeth Apgar of Clarksville, N.J.

    On May, 1874, at the Spruce Run Parsonage, by the Rev. David Kline, David Hill to Mary Hill, all of Spruce Run.

Deaths:

    In Clinton, May 19, 1874, Alice, only daughter of Mr. Benj. C. Smith, aged about 19 years.

    At Savanah, Ga., Dec. 4, 1872, John H. Housel member of Company D, 1st Artillery and son of Horace P. Housel, aged 19 years, 6 months and 20 days.

    In Milford, May 19, 1874, Thomas Bogert, aged about 74 years.

Jun 2, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 41, Whole No. 1912

      Death of a Member of Congress
        Hon. David B. Mellish, member of Congress from the ninth district of New York, died in the government insane asylum at Washington City, on Saturday last.

      J. Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania railroad company, died at his residence in Philadelphia on Thursday from and affection of the lungs.

     Mr. Carlisle and wife were struck by lightning at Allosburg, near Manumuskin, Cumberland county, on Monday afternoon and the wife was instantly killed....

     "Prof. Risley," the well known showman and crobat, died in a Philadelphia insane asylum recently, aged sixty years.  He was a native of Salem in this State...

Statement of the Finances of Tewksbury Township for the Year Ending April 18, 1874.

    1873 - Received of Geo. G. Alpaugh
        Wesley Sutton, on note - $52.00

    Frederick Apgar, Overseer of Poor for Tewksbury Township, in Acct., DR.

    George Rinehart, Overseer for High Bridge Township, on account of Peter Sutton, $48.00

    Oveerseer of Poor, in Acct., Cr.
        Catharine Sutton - $28.00
        Elizabeth Sutton - $120.50
        Peter Sutton - $48.00

Deaths:

    Near Centreville, May 19th, 1874, Sarah S. Campbell, aged 48 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., May 21, 1874, John, son of Charles H. and Hannah Clarke, aged 9 months.

    In Lambertville, N.J., May 15, 1874, Margaret Wilson, relict of John Wilson, aged 38 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., May 26, 1874, Margaret Bevan, aged 89 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., May 28, 1844 (1874), Albert P. Orem, son of W. S. and E. B. Oram, aged 7 years and 5 months.

Jun 9, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 42, Whole No. 1913

     Sickening Tragedy - New York, June 2
        Michael Devine, a cooper, residing at No. 35 North Eight street, Brooklyn, E. D., with his wife and three children ...  A horrifying sight presented itself when they reached there.  The woman had really become mad, and had murdered her three children - Maggie, a little girl seven years old, James, four years, and Timothy, two years.....

     A Paterson milliner named Booth recently died leaving two daughters, and an estate of $12,000.  She had applied for a divorce from her husband to which he had consented, but pending the decision she died and was buried under her maiden name.

Local Affairs:

    Drowned - A five year son of Michael Fahey, of Lambertville, while playing in a boat on the creek, one day last week, fell into the water and was drowned.

Marriages:

    In Kingwood Township, May 20, 1874, by Rev. W. H. Pease, Reuben Hilipot to Mary, daughter of Daniel T. Rittenhouse, of Kingwood.

    On May 30, 1874, at the Glen Gardner, M.E. Parsonage, by Rev. C. S. Woodruff, Mr. William Bainer of Asbury, to Miss Sarah C. Ruple, of Union.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, on  Wednesday, May 27, 1874, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Thomas V. Gordon to Letitia Stout, daughter of Solomon Stout all of Frenchtown.

    On May 9, 1874, at the Spruce Run Parsonage, by the Rev. David Kline, James Hill to Miss Mary E. Smith, all of Spruce Run.

    May 28th, by Rev. Mr. Colburn, Joseph A. Goss, of Shamokin, to Isabella A. Houseweart of Lower Augusta, Pa.

    May 30th, by Rev. Mr. Harris, Amandus Farley of Cokesburg, to Angeline Potter, of Mountainville.

Deaths:

    In Frenchtown, May 22, 1874, Adelia, daughter of George L. and Mary E. Smith, aged 4 years and 7 months.

    In Frenchtown, May 27, 1874, George W., son of Wm. W. and Arretta Earl, aged 3 years.

    In Lambertville, June 4, 1874, Alice Feeney, aged 53 years.

    Near Readington, on Friday, the 15th ult., Frederick Reger, aged about 74 years.

    Near Readington, on Wednesday, the 13th, ult., Derrick L. Hageman, aged 28 years.

    At Junction, on Tuesday, June 2, 1874, John V. Stockton, aged about 30 years.

    At the residence of Isaac S. Aller, Clinton, on the 1st inst., William Field, aged about 27 years.

    At Ringoes, May 31, Rachael P., wife of David Williamson, in the 43d year of her age.

Jun 16, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 43, Whole No. 1914

     On Tuesday afternoon, as Cornelius Derenny and John Quinn were on a scaffold, painting the cornice of the roof of No. 105 Duane Street, the rope broke and they were dashed to the sidewalk, a distance of more than fifty feet.  Derenny was instantly killed, ..

     At Jeffersonville, Ind., on Saturday evening, a saloon-keeper named McDemott, being drunk, shot his wife while she was nursing her baby...wounds that will probably prove fatal.  He then blew out his own brains.  It appears that his wife had left him and applied for a divorce, but had gone back to live with him.

     Suicide of a Lunatic
        On Sunday week, a patient in Trenton Asylum, named Wm. Brooks, committed suicide by hanging himself with his suspenders ...

Marriages:

    In Trenton, June 9th, by Rev. Dr. Hall, assisted by Rev. Mr. Neilson, Col. J. R. Freese of Trenton to Mrs. E. C. Nostrand, late of Crosswicks, N.J.

    June 4th, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Elijah Fleming, of this place, to Esther Runyan of Plainfield.

    At the home of the bride's parents, June 4, 1874, by Rev. James B. Campbell, Isaac B. Carpenter, of Belvidere, to Margaret S. Apgar, daughter of John A. Apgar, Sr., of Lebanonville.

    On May 21, 1874, by Rev. H. B. Scott, James Robinson, to Mary Relly, both of Bloomsbury, N.J.

    On June 4, 1874, by the same, Albert Hubeck to Christiana Ernestine, both of Bloomsbury, N.J.

    At Milford, in this County, on the evening of June 8, by the Rev. J. M. Patterson, the Rev. George W. Tomson, Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Elizabeth, N.J., to Emma Woodruff, of Milford, daughter of H. S. Woodruff, deceased.

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, on the 27th of June, Melvin Harrington, infant son of Charles and Mary R. Schulhaus, aged 8 months.

    In Flemington, May 15th, 1874. Waltey, son of Wm. H. and Harriet Reamer, aged three weeks and one day.

    In Philadelphia, on the 10th inst., Gertrude Van Derveer, aged 5 months and 10 days, infant daughter of Dr. Oliver P. Rex, formerly of Reaville.

Jun 23, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 44, Whole No. 1915

     An Indiana Tragedy
        Special dispatches from Lawrenceburg, Indiana, report a mysterious murder discovered on Tuesday, two miles from that place.  Mrs. Mary G. Bradley and her two daughters, aged 10 and 12 years, were found dead and horribly mutilated.... A baby was found alive suffering from a slight wound, and a three-year-old boy was found wandering in the adjacent woods uninjured...

     Charles B. Johnson, aged 20, son of Ezekiel Johnson, of Red Bank, was drowned in the Shrewsbury river on the 6th...

Jun 30, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 45, Whole No. 1916

     A distressing drowning accident occurred at Woodport last week.  Wm. Day, about 18 years of age, son of Silas Day, was with some others loading wood along the shore...

     An infant of eleven months, just able to crawl, lost its life on Sunday in Newark, owning, as alleged, to the cruel negligence of its parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Wintz, of No. 335 Washington street....

     Mrs. Mary E. Bradley, and her daughters aged respectively 10 and 12 years, were found murdered in their house near Lawrenceburg, Indiana.  An infant and a three-year-old boy were uninjured.  The family was poor.  The husband of Mrs.
Bradley was absent at the time working as a farm hand.

     Jesse Bell, of Hainesville, Sussex county, died suddenly at his home, on Thursday of last week.  He had been out cutting grass, and on going into the house fell dead on the floor...

Local Affairs:

    Drowned
        On Thursday afternoon last, a seven year old son of Mr. R. Butler, of Lambertville, while playing upon a raft in the canal at that place, fell into the water and was drowned..

    The Hon. James Snyder, who served this county as member of Assembly and Senate some 25 years ago, died at his residence in Delaware township on the 14th inst., at an advanced age.  He was also Sheriff of the county many years ago.

    We regret to announce the sudden death of little Belle, daughter of Captain John Shields, of this place.  The child was taken with croup on Sunday afternoon and at midnight she was a corpse.  Belle was aged about four years .

    Dr. Dewees J. Martin, some years ago a practicing physician of this county, died at his late residence in Allentown, Pa., on the 20th inst.  At the time of his death he was engaged in the drug business..

Marriages:

    At New Hampton parsonage, June 10th, 1874, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, William W. Staples to Alth Plum, both of Junction, N.J.

    At the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton, on Wednesday, June 24, 1874, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Bennett V. Leigh to Lizzie K., daughter of James P. Huffman, Esq.

    Near Juntion, on the 18th inst., by Rev. J. B. Kugler, John M. Skillman to Mary Riddle, both of Junction.

    In Lambertville, June 22d, by Rev. C. R. Hartanft, George K. Todd, of that city, to Ella Naylor, of New Hope.

    In Doylestown, Pa., June 6, by Rev. L. B. Hoffman, John R. Green of Lambertville to Lizzie Amy, of New Hope.

    In Kingwood, June 20, by Rev. B. Carrell, Johnson Gary to Keriah Bloom, both of Kingwood township.

Deaths:

    In Milford, June 21st, Mahaia, wife of Joseph Myers, aged 67 years, 6 months and 17 days.

    On the 11th inst., at Pleasant Run, the youngest child of David and Mary Cole, aged 6 months.

    In Lambertville, on the 19th of June, 1874, Amanda B., wife of Clark Pierson, and daughter of the late Francis Bodine, of Mount Holly.

    At High Bridge, N.J., on the 7th inst., George Auble, in the 63d year of his age.

    In Clinton, on the 16th ult., Prime Lane, aged about 70 years.

    At Pottersville, on the 4th inst., Mary Rolph, wife of Isaac Perry, aged 34 years.

    Near Quakertown, on the 10th inst., Sarah, wife of Samuel Stevenson, aged about 70 years.

    At Sidney, N.J., on the 16th inst., William Stevenson, aged about 50 years.

    In Lambertville, N.J., June 17, 1874, Rebecca Hann, relict of Jacob Hann, aged 81 years.

    In Lambertville, June 23, 1874, Ellen Simpson, daughter of Rev. P. A. Studdiford, aged 14 years.

    In Lambertville, June 24, 1874, Daniel H., son of Winfield S. and Patience A. Roberson, aged 11 months and 8 days.

    In Lambertville, June 25, 1874, Blanche, daughter of Edward R. and Mary R. Solliday, aged 6 months.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, J. V. D. Wyckoff, at Woodhull, Michigan, Sarah, widow of the late Henry Stothoff, of Somerset county, in the 85th year of her age.

    June 12, in Flemington, Willie, son of William and Angeline Hall, aged 1 year, 1 month and 17 days.

Jul 7, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 46, Whole No. 1917

     Alleged Hydrophobia - A Terrible Death in East Orange
        A gentleman named Ames died at an early hour on Tuesday morning last ,at his home in East Orange, New Jersey, from alleged hydrophobia...

     A Murder by a Congressman
        The Hon. J. H. Sloss, a member of Congress from Alabama, shot a man named George Long, while he was walking on the opposite side of the street by Sloss' house, in Tuscumbia, Ala., on Monday..

     Death by Bathing
        The Clinton Democrat says:  A very sad affair occurred in this town on Monday, which resulted in the sudden death of one of our best known and most active young men, Sidney Hack...

Marriages:

    By Rev. G. S. Mott, in Flemington, June 30, Charles Raube to Mary Kurz both of Flemington.

    On July 1, William H. Young to Annie V. Conover, of Elizabeth, formerly of Hunterdon.

Deaths:

    Near Sergeantsville, June 17, James Carroll, aged 61 years and 9 months.

Jul 14, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 47, Whole No. 1918

     Melancholy Accident
        On Fourth of July four boys at Passaic went out rowing on the river.  At the same time some of their young friends on shore began firing off a salute from a small cannon loaded with ball and cartridge.  One of the boys in the boat fired off a pistol similarly loaded, and a ball from one of the weapons penetrated the throat of Willie Anderson, aged thirteen years, son of a leading merchant of the place.... fell dead.

     The two colored men, Lewis Rosentine and John Moody, who murdered Abraham Behm, near Harrisburg, in November 1873, paid the extreme penalty of the law at Harrisburg on Thursday...

      John P. Weasey was out in a boat off Gloucester Point, on Wednesday, with four others.  It is alleged that the four commenced rocking the boat until it was swamped and Weasey being unable to swim was drowned.

     John Arx, an Elizabeth grocer, went in pursuit of some negroes, on Sunday, who were cutting down his trees.  He became bery much overheated and on returning to his home drank freely of water.  He became ill and on Thursday died in consequence of his indiscretion.

     At New Brunswick, on Monday, Thos. Kemp, threw his three children into the canal and then jumped after them.  The eldest child was drowned, but the others and Kemp were rescued...

Marriages:

    June 18th, by Rev. J. B. Campbell, John W. Fine and Eliza J. Rockafellow, all of Clinton township.

    June 24, by Rev. Wm. Swan, John Hoagland Wilson, of West Amwell township to Elizabeth C. Warman of Stockton.

Deaths:

    In Milford, June 5th, Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Raub, aged 32 years.

    In Lambertville, July 7th, Peter R. Young, aged 66 years.

Jul 21, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 48, Whole No. 1919

     A workman named Charles Palmer was instantly killed at Field's foundry, at Trenton, on Friday.  He was engaged in "turning on" a large grindstone, the power for running which is supplied by the engine, when he was caught by the belt, dashed against the shafting and shockingly mangled.  The unfortunate man was about forty years of age, and leaves a wife and nine children.

     Elopement with a Minister's Daughter
        John C. Kraft is Pastor of the Twelfth Ward City mission church in Newark.  He has a daughter Margaret about twenty years of age, who lived with him at his home on Charles street.  A volunteer choir furnished the music for divine service in the church, and John Wagenblass, always regarded as a strict church member, acted as leader.... Wagenblass' wife, for he is a married man and has three children, frequently expostulated with him because of his attentions to Miss Kraft, but he assured her that her fears were unfounded... There is no doubt they both fled together but their route of destination are unknown.

     A Deputy Sheriff Murdered
        On the 13th of last March, Side Wallace, the Jonson county desperado, was hung at Clarksville, Arkansas....  Deputy Sheriff Kline conducted the execution.  Thursday morning, Kline left Little Rock for Clarksville, accompanied by a young man named Banks.  Reaching the depot at Clarksville they started on foot for the town, and were fired upon from the roadside by some unknown person.  Kline was mortally and young Banks slightly wounded. ...

     John W. Conroy, of Trenton, died about a year ago, leaving an estate worth $40,000, but with no living relations, so