January 5, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 19, Whole No. 1892

   The death of Whitfield S. Johnson, Esq., occurred at his residence in Trenton on the 24th inst…. He was about 67 years of age and leaves a large and estimable family.  He was admitted to the bar in 1828, then being a resident in Sussex county…

   Singular Death
        A correspondent of the Elmira Gazette, who writes from Cuba, Allegheny county, Pa., give the following account of the singular death of a clergyman in that place:  "Rev. I. C. Seeley, the Pastor of the Baptist Church, while whittling kindling wood, ran a small sliver into his hand…. Mr. Seeley continued sinking until between eleven and twelve on Monday morning, 21st, when he gradually sank into his last sleep.  The funeral took place on Thursday, the 24th.  Mr. Seeley has been pastor in Cuba for the last eight or nine years and was beloved by all who knew him.  He leaves a wife but no children.

   Mystery In Cincinnati
        In Gamble alley at the back of Central avenue in Cincinnati about ten o’clock on the night of December 29th, Mary Lee, a colored girl about eighteen years old, was murdered by some one at present unknown to the authorities.  She was employed in the house of Mrs. Grant, a colored woman,…

   Murder
        In Lee county, Miss., on the 26th ult., Richard S. Brown, his wife, two children and three colored boys were murdered, and their bodies were consumed in their house, which was fired by the murderers.

   Isaac B. Becker was fatally stabbed by Scott Hibler, at Newton, Iowa, on Thursday night last.  It appears that Hibler insulted Becker’s wife and was knocked down and severely injured by Becker…. Becker was helped home by his wife and soon after died.  He was 26 years old, and had been married only a few weeks.

   On Tuesday last a young man named E. Henry, a stranger in the place, committed suicide in Cedarville by first cutting his throat and then hanging himself…

   The residence of Smith Lynn, near Blairville, Pa., was destroyed by fire on Friday last.  Mary Lynn, a daughter of Mr. Lynn, and Edward Mason, a servant in the family were burned to death.  Mr. Lynn and another of his daughters and Clara Stewart, from Indiana county, were fatally injured by jumping from a window.

   Garrit Smith, the great Abolitionist died on Monday at the residence of General John Cochrane, in New York, in the 78th year of his age.  The cause of his death was an appopletic attack, which developed itself on Saturday morning.

   Thomas Cox and George Alexander, "notorious horse thieves," who murdered a gentleman named White near Springfiled, Mo., last October, were killed by a detective near Ockmulgee in the Indian Territory, on Tuesday.  Another desperado named Kinch West was mortally wounded at the same time.

   On Saturday evening last, Silas Timberman, 27 years of age, who had come home to spend the holidays at Cherry Hill, Bergen county, was suddenly seized with convulsions and died in two hours.
 

Local Affairs:

    Fatally Burned
        We learn that on Wednesday morning last, a Mrs. Chamberlin, of East Amwell township, was so severely burned by her dress taking fire, that she died the same day.  The woman was about sixty years of age..
 

Marriages:

    December 30th, 1874, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. J. Poulson, Lambert Hyde of Raritan to Sarah Hoppock, of Head Quarters.

    December 31st, 1874, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Daniel M. Shearman, of Clarksville, to Georgie A. Young, of Three Bridges.

    December 31st, 1874, by Rev. Geo. Young, Peter Heath, of Delaware township, to Annie e. Shaffer, of Bucks county, Pa.

    December 24th, 1874, by Rev. B. F. Summerbell, Miller A. Cline and Samanthe M. Lake, both of Locktown.

    December 26th, by the same, Jeremiah s. Slack of Locktown and Jennie Baker, of Croton.

    In Philadelphia, December 22d, 1874, by Rev. Jas. R. Bryan, George M. Rittenhouse of Plainfield, N.J. to A. Frances Mettler, of the former city.

    December 31st, 1874, by Rev. C. S. conkling, at the residence of the bride’s parents, William Riddle, of New Hampton, N.J. to Lida S. Mack, only daughter of E. B. Mack, Esq., of Easton, Pa.
 

Deaths:

    In Flemington, Nov. 26th, 1874, Jacques V. Quick, aged 80 years and 10 days.

    At Elizabeth, N.J., December 31st, 1874, after six days sickness, Edwin T. Burk, son of Peter W. Burk, of Flemington, in the 24th year of his age.
 
 

January 12, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 20, Whole No. 1893

   Lewis Adams, colored, was hanged Friday at Pittsylvania Court House, Va., for the murder of another colored man named Rice Wilson, in June last…

   A surveyor named Jones of New Haven, Conn., was drowned while crossing a Canadian lake, the ice having broken in.  His wife and child were with him and were boarding at a farm house about thirteen miles from where the accident occurred…

   Joseph B. North, accused of having murdered George Jones a year ago, was hanged by a mob at Wallace, Kansas on the 30th ult.

   Isaac B. Becker, aged about twenty-six years was killed in a fight with Scott Hibler at Newton, Ia. on Thursday night.

   Hatch McDaniel, a steamboat captain was shot dead by William Weitzel, at Point Pleasant, W. V., Wednesday last.

   John Hughes, a laborer, of Ogdensburg, Sussex county, New Jersey, murdered his wife Thursday by striking her in the head with an axe, and then set fire to the house to cover the crime.
 

Local Affairs:

    Mr. William Hunt, an old man of 70 years, who resided near Milford, died very suddenly on Monday morning of week before last.
 

Marriages:

    January 2, by Elder Robeson Hyde, Cornelius Williamson, of Sand Brook, to Mary Bowman, of Croton.

    In Frenchtown, Nov. 9, 1874, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Ephraim B. Yost to Mrs. Susanna G. Butterfoss, all of Frenchtown.

    In Doylestown, Pa., by Rev. S. M. Andrews, Dec. 24, 1874, Harry Harvey, of Doylestown to Mary Jennie Garren of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths:

    In Easton, Pa., Dec. 30, 1874, of consumption, Isaac Garren, in the 26th year of his age, formerly of Frenchtown.

    In Holland township, Dec. 28, 1874, Wm. S. Hunt, aged 67 years.

    Dec. 18, 1874, at Mattison’s Corner, Letha D., daughter of W. J. and Nancy Cronce, aged 4 years, 1 month and 9 days.

    Near Sergeantsville, Nov. 22, 1874, of scarlet fever, Frank B., son of Gideon and Elizabeth Moore, aged 3 years, 2 months and 26 days.
 

    Mahlon Fisher
        Mahlon Fisher, born February 8, 1810 in Alexander township, Hunterdon county, N.J., died at his residence in this city of typhoid fever, December 28th, 1874…  In 1834 he was married to Miss Stires, who shared with him the trials and struggles of his young life and his toiling hours, as well as the luxury and opulence of declining years, until 1873, when her gentle spirit seemed to be wafted to the better land by the soft zephyrs of the June morning…..
 
 

January 19, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 21, Whole No. 1894

   Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, well-known throughout Warren county as the "colored preacher," died at her residence in Belvidere, on Monday last.
 

Marriages:

    December 5th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John Sipes of Union and Maria S. Oakes of Bethlehem, both of this county.

    By Rev. W. H. Haggerty, at the M. E. Parsonage of New Germantown, Jan. 9, Joseph Van Pelt and Mary Ellen Sutton, both of Fairmount.

    At Baptisttown, Dec. 24, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Rev. S. Sproul, Augustus Green to Etta, daughter of Daniel B. Roberson.

    Jan. 9, by Rev. J. D. Hewitt, of Ringoes, Charles Todd, Jr. to Cornelia B. Mathews, of West Amwell.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 7, at St. John’s R. C. Church, by the Rev. P. F. Connolly, Mathew Masterson to Ellen Lynch.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 1, at St. John’s R. C. Church, by the Rev. P. F. Connolly, J. A. Bachman to Isabella Early.

    Near Sergeantsville, December 30, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. P. G. Buckman, James Sergeant to Lorinda A. Sine.

    In Stockton, Dec. 31, at the Presbyterian Parsonage, by Rev. Wm. Swan, George B. Hurley to Rachael Clark.

    In Sergeantsville, Dec. 30, at the M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. P. G. Ruckman, George Fulper, of Flemington, to Mary C. Reading of Rosemont.

    In Sandy Ridge, Dec. 31, by Rev. B. R. Black, John T. Everet, of Sergeantsville, to Amelia B. Stull, of Frenchtown.

    Dec. 29, by the Rev. David Kline, Edward W. Davis to Jennie V. Cline, both of Anthony.

    On Dec. 31, by the Rev. W. H. Shermer, Joseph Lake to Katie Alpaugh.

    Dec. 21, at the residence of George W. Madison, in Clinton, by the Rev. I. N. Vansant, Joseph P. Marshall of Clinton to Ella Van Fleet, of Readington.

    At Plumsteadville, Pa., on the 13th inst., by the Rev. Samuel Harrison, David O. Servis, and Evalyn M. Hixson, both of Ringoes.
 

Deaths:

    Near Lambertville, January 1, Mary Ann Holcombe, wife of Martin V. B. Holcombe, and eldest daughter of John A. Kutter, aged 29 years, 9 months and 28 days.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 10, Mary B. Campbell, aged 50 years, 10 months and 15 days.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 10, Aaron Pelts, aged about 70 years.

    In Flemington, January 9th, 1875, John C., son of Jacob and Louisa Veit, aged 2 years, 7 months and 17 days.
 

   Aaron Pelts, a person known by almost every one in this part of the county died in this place, on Sunday evening last, of erysipelas.  The funeral services took place in the Presbyterian church on Tuesday.  His remains were deposited in the cemetery.

   Sudden Death
        Mr. Wilson B. Reading, and employee at the Rubber Factory of the Lambertville Manufacturing Co., was taken with a fit this morning, while employed at the factory and died in about an hour.  He was an unmarried man and boarded a the residence of Mr. Saml. Moon.
 
 

January 26, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 22, Whole No. 1895

Local Affairs:

    Mr. Philip Hinkle, quite an aged gentlemen, living near Frenchtown, went out to feed his cattle on Thursday evening, and while out at the barn, dropped down and died.

    Old Soldier
        Peter Sweeney, a pensioner of the war of 1812, was buried at Wertsville a few days ago.  The deceased was ninety-two years of age and for the past fifteen years has resided on the west side of Neshanic mountain.  The only surviving pensioner of the war of 1812 in Somerset county is John Williamson, who also lived on the mountain.  He is ninety-six years of age, and formerly carried on the shoe business at Ringoes.
 

    Thomas Shaughnessy, aged 20 years in employe at Meserole’s stable, Jersey City, was found dead in his bed on Monday morning.  Dr. Bird was summoned and decided that death was caused by apoplexy.
 

Marriages:

    By Rev. Dr. Mott, Jan. 21, Andrew Boyd, to Mary K., daughter of William Chamberlain, all of Flemington.

    Jan. 2, at the Everittstown M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. H. C. McBride, assisted by Rev. H. Bice, Charles Harrison to Mary F. Eckert.

    At the residence of the bride’s mother, Jan. 5, by the Rev. O. Brown, Dennis S. Hall, to Ella K. McCormick, both of Clinton.

    At the residence of the bride’s parents, Jan. 13, by Rev. A. M. Jelly, John W. Vannatta to Mary M. Snover.

    Jan. 16, in Union, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Peter McManes and Mary Esther Dalrymple, both of Union township.

    Jan. 20, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, William De Motte, of Franklin, to Sallie M., daughter of Mahlon Higgins, of Raritan.

    On the 21st inst., at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. I. Poulson, Charles Blackwell, to Sallie, daughter of John Fisher, both of Ringoes.
 

Deaths:

    Jan. 16, at Sydney, Joseph Wilson, aged 90 years.

    At Clarksville, Jan. 12, Priscilla Stevenson in her 55th year.

    At his residence in Kingwood township, on Jan. 7th, Joseph Opdycke, aged 77 years.  He was a brother to Hon. George Opdycke, ex-Mayor of New York.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 19th, Rachel Bellis, relict of David Bellis, in the 81st year of her age.

    Suddenly, in Lambertville, Jan. 13, Wilson B. Reading, in the 22d year of his age.
 
 

February 2, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 23, Whole No. 1896

    Shocking Murder In Chicago
        A shocking murder was committed in Chicago on Saturday night.  Christopher Malone stabbed James Kegan and inflicted a wound which proved fatal in a few minutes…
 

Local Affairs:

    A little son of Mr. Charles Sine, of Clinton, died last week from the effects of a fall on the ice.

    Sudden Death
        Mr. J. B. Claxton, a farmer residing near Pineville, Bucks county, Pa., died very suddenly in Lambertville on Tuesday afternoon last…. His age was about 50 years.

    We regret to record the death of Mrs. Robert J. Killgore, of this place, which occurred on Tuesday morning last in Philadelphia, where she had been for several weeks underging medical treatment.
 

    A Lively Wedding
        Thursday evening of last week, says the Washington (N.J.) Star, Mr. Joseph H. McClary was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Malvina Hoff, all colored.  The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. George Hoff, Rev. J. W. Myers, pastor of the Union Church (colored) officiating….
 

Marriages:

    On the 13th ult., at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Sansbeuary Gano of Pattenburg, to Mary Jane, daughter of ex-sheriff Lake, of Junction.

    At the residence of the bride’s parents, in Kingwood township, Jan. 13, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Peter L. Rittenhouse of Frenchtown to Martha E. Bonham, daughter of Ezekiel Bonham.

    Jan. 23, at the M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. I. N. Vansant, Asher P. Brown of Rowland’s Mills, to Mary R. Cline, of Pleasant Run.
 

Deaths:

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 19, Philip Hinkle, aged 74 years, 3 months and 18 days.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 25, Alice W. Rodgers, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Rodgers, aged 3 months and 3 weeks.
 
 

February 9, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 24, Whole No. 1897

Marriages:

    Jan. 30, in Cherryville, by Rev. C. E. Young, William E. Sheppard of Flemington and Mary Bateman, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths:

    In Philadelphia, Jan. 26, Alice V., daughter of the late Aaron Van Syckel and wife of Robert J. Killgore, aged 53 years and 12 days…
 

    Mr. Moses P. Mendell, of Cranford, died on Tuesday from a rather singular cause.  A short time ago he was breaking some wood across his knee and a rusty nail in an lath penetrated the flesh above the knee joint.  The leg shortly after began to swell and gradually the inflammation appeared to spread until death resulted as stated.

    The latest sensation in Jersey City is the elopement of Coroner Jacob Reinhardt with an actress named Maria Griffing, but whose stage name was Marian Requa…

    Nelse Seymour (Thomas Nelson Sanderson) the well known negro minstrel, died Tuesday from asthma and Brights disease of the Kidneys.  He was the son of Col. Henry S. Sanderson, Collector of the Port of Baltimore at one time, and his mother, who is still alive at the age of 77, is the lady who made the original "Star Spangle Banner,"…  He was 40 years old.
 
 

February 16, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 25, Whole No. 1898

    Joseph Wilson, an elderly man, was on Monday found dead in his room, on the top floor of No. 287 Newark avenue, Jersey City…

    At Kearney Junction, Nebraska, on Friday, Mrs. John Grabash killed her step daughter aged five years, by kicking and jumping upon her.  She had previously attempted to poison the child.

    Captain William Wyble, of the schooner Julia R., lying at the foot of Sixth street, Jersey City, had an old conical shell on his lap and was endeavoring to force the fuse out by hammering the head of the screw with an axe.  The missle exploded and killed him.

    Charles Wannamaker, of Ridgewood, Bergen county, who had his feet badly frozen some time since, died from the effects of it, on Sunday last.  He refused to have them amputated, and death was the result.  He had been particularly unfortunate in the past, having lost one arm and an eye.

    George Sauer, employed in a color factory on Staten Island, was killed Tuesday by being drawn between two cog wheels.  He leaves several children.

    Michael McCormick fell from a bucket in a shaft of the Delaware and Lackawanna Tunnel, at Bergen Hill, Tuesday evening and was killed.
 

Marriages:

    Feb. 3, near Hampden, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Charles E. Lake of Raritan, and Anna Smith, of Clinton township.

    In Frenchtown, at the M.E. parsonage, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Jan. 26, Samuel R. Alligar of Croton, to Emma F. Trimmer of Sergeantsville.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 11, by the Rev. P. A. Studiford, D.D., A. H. Titus to Maggie Williamson, all of that place.

    In Stockton, Jan. 25, at the parsonage, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Elias Conover to Maggie German, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths:

    In Lambertville, Feb. 10, Josie K., daughter of Edward L. and Mary G. Brodhead, aged 22 months.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 2, John, son of Charles and Mary E. Dowdy, aged 10 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 30, Mary E., daughter of John and Mary Howell, aged 3 months.

    Jan. 23d, at the residence of her son-in-law, Nathan Hann, in Kingwood township, Catharine Emmons, aged about 87 years.

    Feb. 5, at Pittstown, after a brief illness, Mrs. Thodosia Stryker, in her 75th year.

    In Flemington, Feb. 13, John, youngest son of Robert J. and the late Alice V. Killgore, in the seventeenth year of his age.  Funeral from the residence of his father this (Tuesday) morning at ten o’clock.
 
 

February 23, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 26, Whole No. 1899

    Jesse Andrews, a traveling engineer on the Philadephia and Erie Railroad, jumped from a freight train, in Harrisburg, Thursday evening and was run over by a shifting engine on the next track and killed.  He lived in Sunbury and leaves a wife and three children.

    The infant son of Benj. S. Harris of Harmersville, Salem county, met with a sad death on Friday last.  The child had been sick and was recovering.  The mother gave him some preserves, which, at attempting to swallow, lodged in his throat, choking the poor little fellow to death.

    On Friday last Ellen Sheehan a seven year old girl was fatally burned at the Weehawken Shades by a little boy whose name is not yet known… she died on Tuesday night.

    A man named John G. Lane, died in New York last Thursday night after an illness of only ten minutes.  His wife was visiting a neighbor at the time..

    The house of D. B. Mellot, of Belfast township, Pa., was burned last Tuesday and three of his children were burned to death.  Mr. and Mrs. Mellot went away on a visit, and left the children locked up in the house.

    Shortly after one o’clock Wednesday afternoon, John McMahon, aged 25, committed suicide by jumping from the second outside gallery of the done of the Capital at Washington…
 

Marriages:

    Feb. 18th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John W. Maxwell, of Union township, and Lizzie D. Wolverton, of Tewksbury.

    In Stockton, Feb. 9th, by Rev. Wm. Swan, A. T. Walrath and Mary A. Wood, both of Stockton.

    By Rev. R. Van Amburgh, John Banghart of Clarksville, to Maggie E. Cregar, of High Bridge.
 

Deaths:

    At his residence near Locktown, Feb. 12th, Stacy W. Risler, aged about 41 years.

    At Stanton, Feb. 6th, Gitty J. Ewing, aged about 44 years.
 
 

March 2, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 27, Whole No. 1900

    Lucy Hawkins, colored, died in Washington on Monday, at the age, as reported of 115 years.

    Ernest Ortwein, "the murderer of the Hamnett family, was hanged Tuesday at Pittsburg..

    Patrick Gallegher died Tuesday, at Eastchester, N.Y., from injuries received in a remarkable accident.  Last Tuesday, Mr. Gallegher was chopping down a tree near the farm house.  He slipped and fell while delivering a heavy blow with the axe.  In the falling the axe was turned, and its sharpedge cut a slice from the back of Gallegher’s head.

    By a coasting accident in Meriden, Conn., on Monday night, William Michen, aged 16 was killed and a number of young men and women were badly injured.

    James Murphy, the "Irish Giant", who formerly traveled with Barnum died in Baltimore last Friday, of bronchitis, aged 33.  He was about 8 feet high, and weighed 350 pounds.

    John Dempsey, a bartender in a well known saloon in Washington, last night shot a woman named Lottie Warren, with whom he had been living for some months and afterwards shot himself.  The wounds of both are pronounced fatal.
 

Local Affairs

    Horrible Fatality
        A most horrible accident befell Mr. Isaac McCloughan, living near Stanton, last Saturday, which cost him his life.  He was preparing the thresh, and after pitching a quantity of grain out of a barrack, threw the fork down which fell in such a manner as to leave the handle pointing up.  In descending, Mr. McCloughan slipped and fell upon the fork, which penetrated his groin nearly a foot.  He lived in terrible agony until Monday morning when death came to his relief… His funeral takes place on Thursday morning at 11 o’clock at the Lebanon Reformed Church.
 

Marriages

    At the Bloomsbury, M.E. Parsonage, by Rev. J. W. Dailey, on the 25th ult., William Lefferer of Kingwood, to Charlotte Duckworth of Asbury.

    At the parsonage in Barclay street, Newark, on the evening of the 17th ult., by Rev. F. A. Farrow, John Meeker of Union County, to Mary A. Wilkinson of Clinton.

    Feb. 11th, at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. W. W. Page, New York, J. B. Castner, to Lizzie Macklin, both of Clinton Borough.

    On the 13th ult., at the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. H. R. Scott, James A. Creveling to Lucy E. Robins, both of Bloomsbury.

    By Rev. Dr. Mott, Feb. 24th, Alexander S. Rockafellow of Rockafellow’s Mills to Mary A., daughter Christopher Kuhl Kline, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    March 1st, 1875, Isaac McCloughan, aged about 40 years.  The funeral services will be held on Thursday, at the Lebanon Reformed Church, at 11 o’clock.  The friends are requested to meet at his late residence near Stanton at 10 o’clock.

    Near Bloomsbury, on the 14th ult., Isaac R. Fitzer, in his 82d year.  His wife survives him and her years are nearly 80.  They have lived together fifty-eight years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 23, Fieda, daughter of John and Emma Savage aged 3 months.

    In Asbury, Feb. 17th, suddenly, Sarah A., wife of Joseph Williver, in the 65th year of her age.
 
 

March 9, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 28, Whole No. 1901

    Cornelius Van Nest, residing near Martinsville, Somerset county, was found dead in his barn on Tuesday, hanging by a rope from a beam.  He committed the act while under abberation of mind, caused by the unhappy relations existing between himself and his wife, whom he married last November.  He was 67 years old; she is only 27 and is his third wife…

    Patrick Berkley, of Fall River, Mass., leaped from a Delaware, Lackawanna and Great Western railway express train Tuesday night, near Paterson, while running thirty miles an hour.  The back of his skill was crushed in and he also sustained severe internal injuries…

    Mr. Jacob L. Sutton, while on his way to Stanhope, last week, stopped at the Waterloo Hotel, and jumped out of his sleigh when a pistol in his pocket went off in consequence of the jar; the ball passing through his coat sleeve but fortunately doing no harm.

    Mrs. Colonel Curry and her daughter were drowned on Monday, while attempting to cross Mill Creek, near Fortress Monroe, in a small boat.
 

Deaths

    In Franklin township, Feb. 11th, of Diphtheria, Catharine Trimmer, wife of Ezra Allegar, in the 40th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, March 4, Johnny Ennis, aged 2 years and 3 months.

    In Elizabeth, N.J., Feb. 18, 1875, Margaret, wife of Samuel Slater, Jr. formerly of Baptisttown, this county.

    In Kingwood township, March 3d, Samuel Bellis, aged 87 years.

    In Kingwood township, Feb. 20, 1875, John Hines, at an advanced age.
 

Marriages

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 27, by Rev. H. C. McBride, Daniel M. Everitt to Lillie D. Parsons, all of Frenchtown.

    In Milford, Feb. 20th, by Rev. C. A. Beck, Isaiah R. Neeld, of Philadelphia, to Mary C. Clark, of Milford.

    In Milford, Feb. 11th, by Rev. Isaac Patterson, Amos H. Smith, of Belvidere, to Louisa Poulson of Frenchtown.
 

Local Affairs

    Sad
        During the past week or ten days, Mr. Ephraim Dilts, of Three Bridges, has been called upon to bury three of his children, they having died of scarlet fever.  At last account another child was very poorly with the disease.
 
 

March 16, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 29, Whole No. 1902

    Coincidence Death
        Robert Wehe was found on Wednesday morning hanging from the door casing of his room, at his residence, No. 304 West Twenty-first Street, New York.  Just an hour later and without having learned of the death of her husband, Mrs. Wehe, died from natural causes, having been an invalid for a number of years….  Wehe was fifty-nine years of age and his wife sixty-one.  Both were Germans.

    A boiler in the saw mill of Nelson & Shortridge, near Rushville, Ind., exploded Wednesday morning, killing Alfred Joyce the engineer and a twelve-year-old boy named Oscar Henchman, and seriously injuring three men.

    A Shocking Tragedy – Youthful Heroism
        A shocking tragedy occurred at the Mount Pleasant Mine in Scranton, on Tuesday, by which two boys, named Henry Welsh and John Owens, were crushed to death in a coal screen room….

    Nehemiah Perry, Jr. a son of Mayor Perry, and City Councilor of Newark, died of pneumonia Friday night.  He was a promising lawyer.

    William Vanderwoert, aged twenty-one, employed in an oyster saloon, in Jersey City, was found on Wednesday afternoon suspended by a rope from the staircase in the basement.
 

Local Affairs

    Death of An Aged Lady
        Mrs. Mary Baird, living for some two years past with her son, at Firthtown, died on Monday, at the advanced age of one hundred and two…  She was a native of Hunterdon county, and had never left it for any time till she went to the neighborhood of Phillipsburg, where she died.

    Fatal Accident
        Mr. Michael Collins, a highly esteemed citizen of Glen Gardner, while inspecting the railroad track, as his duties called him to do, met with a horrible death last Saturday, as follows:  It seems it was his work to walk the track from Junction to Honness’ bridge, with instructions to walk down on the north track and up on the south; after he passed by Glen Gardner Station, an up coal train broke an axel at or near the station, which he was not aware of.  He had arrived at Honness’ bridge and turned to come back on the south track, when the up three o’clock train, by instructions, was coming up on the south track, struck him unawares, knocking him down and the whole train passed over him, severing his body into two pieces.
 

Letter From Stockton
    On Sunday last occurred the funeral of three children of Mr. L. Hartpence, all of whom died of scarlet fever.  Yesterday was the funeral of Mr. James Barcroft, an old and valued citizen.
 

    Mrs. Mary Lair, a Bloomsbury centenarian, died at the residence of her son, Joseph Lair, on Sunday, the 6th inst.
 

Marriages

    On March 11, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Thomas D. Roche, and Francis Smith both of his place.

    March 11, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, David Hoffman, and Mary Case, both of Sidney.
 

Deaths

    March 8, near Rowland’s Mills, Susan Johnson, aged 34 years.

    In Frenchtown, March 5, Harry W., only son of Peter W. and Mary L. Stone, aged 1 year, 2 months and 30 days.

    Near Cherryville, March 4, Hannah Buchanan, aged 86 years.

    On the 9th inst., at the residence of her son-in-law, Wm. E. Anderson, Aletta, wife of the late Samuel Hill, Esq., in the 88th year of her age.
 
 

March 23, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 30, Whole No. 1903

    Stacy Atkinson, of Mount Holly, was killed almost instantly on Tuesday last, by the accidental discharge of a shot gun he was carrying.
 

Local Affairs

    William W. Voorhees, Esq., the senior member of the firm of Voorhees, Hann, & Co. spoke and wheel manufactures at Frenchtown, died very suddenly on Monday morning of last week, aged 57 years.

    Suicide
        Elisha Larue, a farmer living near Quakertown, committed suicide on Sunday morning, 14th inst., by hanging himself in his barn.
 

    Mrs. Sarah Pendleton, of Elizabeth, aged 38 years, died on Sunday under mysterious circumstances.  She had been suffering from rheumatism, and her husband procured some unknown root, boiled it, and gave her a wine glass full every hour.  At noon, on Sunday, she took a dose and at seven o’clock she died.

    An infant, sixteen days old, son of John Clausen, of Elizabeth, was found smothered in bed on last Tuesday morning.
 

Marriages

    March 19th, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Lemuel Worman to Hattie C. Salter, both of Flemington.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, New Germantown, by Rev. W. H. Haggerty, Peter Eick, of Vliet’s Mills and Ellen Schuyler of Fairmount.

    At the bride’s residence, on the 4th inst., by Rev. W. C. Nelson, John H. Bowlby of New Hampton Junction to Esther A. Blackford of White House Station.

    On Wednesday evening, the 10th inst., by Rev. Wm. Pitcher, Creveling Hoffman of Lebanon, to Maggie Kiple of Readington.

    On the 17th ult., by the Rev. W. S. Emery, at Point Pleasant, Tomlinson Kugler, of New Jersey and Eva. C. Bloom, of Point Pleasant.

    At Centre Hill, on the 20th of February, by Rev. R. C. Wood, John Sergeant of Raven Rock, to Kate Powell, of Solebury, Bucks county, P.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, March 12th, William Housel aged 80 years, 8 months and 8 days.

    Near Rowland’s Mills, Feb. 19, John W. Wert, aged 63 years.

    Near Clover Hill, Feb. 19, of membrane croup, Cora C., daughter of John and Annie E. Miles, aged 2 years, 11 months 2 days.

    Near Clover Hill, Feb. 28, Ella S., daughter of John and Annie E. Miles, aged 4 years 8 months and 10 days.
 
 

March 30, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 31, Whole No. 1904

    On Monday night the body of Mrs. Mary Bingham, a widow of 30 was found in the cellar of her mother’s house, in East Boston, with the marks of brutal murder upon it.

    Henry Keeler, the keeper of a basement restaurant in Pemberton, committed suicide on Tuesday morning about 10 o’clock by hanging himself with a cord attached to a hook in the ceiling of his saloon.

    Joseph Brown, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Kramer in Schuylkill county, in February 1872 was hanged Wednesday at Pottsville…. He was about 21 years of age.

    A man named John Balch, of Harrison, who has been suffering from aberration of mind for some months, got out of bed on Thursday morning at 2 o’clock, telling his wife he was going down to the river.  He left a note stating his intension to commit suicide.  He has not been heard from since.

    In Lowell, Mass., on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Sarah Low was fatally wounded by her husband, Charles J. Low, who fired two shots from a revolver into her head and then killed himself with a remaining charge.

    Colonel Richard Thomas, who was rather conspicuous in the early part of the war, died suddenly last Wednesday night at his brother’s residence in St. Mary’s county, Md.
 

Local Affairs

    The wife of Rev. Andrew Armstrong, of Easton, died very suddenly on Monday morning last week.  Mrs. Armstrong was a sister of Rev. Thomas Swaim, formerly of this place.  Her husband was pastor of the Lambertville and Frenchtown Baptist Churches previous to 1870.
 

Marriages

    March 17th, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. Edward Cornet, John Sergeant of Flemington to Debora P. Kinney, of Stanton.

    March 25th, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Thomas E. Besson, and Mary Hattle Brewer, both of Flemington.

    At Union Grove, March 6th, by Rev. John A. Davis, Moses C. Amerman to Eliza Philhower, both of Union Grove.

    At the parsonage, March 18, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Benton Williamson, to Lydia Crater, both near Asbury.
 

Deaths

    At Pottersville, March 21, Emmafeda?, infant daughter of H. P. and Mattie Burd, aged 1 month and fourteen days.

    March 21, at the residence of her son-in-law, John D. Anderson, Eliza Van Houton, in the sixty-sixth year of her age.

    Near HeadQuarters, Dec. 25th, 1874, Stephen McClary, aged 74 years and 4 months.
 
 

April 6, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 32, Whole No. 1905

    A Sad Accident
        On Monday evening last, John Phillips, baggage master on the evening up train on the Belvidere Delaware Railroad, was instantly killed at Manunka Chunk…

    Henry Brown, aged 13 years, was found hanging dead in his father’s barn, near Bloomingburg, N.Y. on last Thursday morning.
 

Marriages

    At the Presbyterian Parsonage, Stockton, March 18th, by the Rev. Wm. Swan, Wm. Pursell to Sarah McAloan, both of Raven Rock.

    March 30th, at the same place, by the same, Thomas Farley of Mount Airy, to Rachel Cooper, of Solebury, Pa.

    In New Hope, March 27th, by Rev. Wm. Umpleby, Joseph T. Smith of Kingwood, to Parthamia A. Howell, of Locktown.
 

Deaths

    At Pittstown, March 12th, suddenly of apoplexy, Mary Kline, wife of Wm. R. Smith, aged 68 years.

    Near Perryville, on March 31, William Bellis, aged 84 years.

    At his residence near Kingwood, March 27th, Jacob Heath, aged 86 years.
 
 

April 13, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 33, Whole No. 1906

    David Keavey, aged 15, was arrested at Springfield, Mass., Tuesday for parricide.  He murdered his father, on Easter Sunday, by striking him with a flat iron.

    At Brownsville, Tenn., on Tuesday night, Robert Midley, the County Clerk, was shot dead by two brothers named Henry and Ely Bond.

    W. H. Garfield was arrested at Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday for the murder of his wife.

    Peter Deptford, aged 59, stabbed himself on Monday night in Baltimore and died Tuesday morning.  He was a carpenter by trade, but had been ill and out of employment for several months.

    Two trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad came into collision at Jersey City Tuesday morning.  One of the engines was almost demolished and a brakeman, named Charles Stackett, was killed.
 

Deaths

    March 9th, near Croton, Asher Barrack, aged 66 years and 5 months.

    At New Hampton, March 31st, Elizabeth E., wife of Edward Fritts, aged 21 years 3 months.

    In Lambertville, April 7, of pleuro pneumonia, William C. Ely, son of the late William C. and Lydia D. Ely, in the 21st year of his age.

    In Lambertville, March 27th, Mary King, aged 42 years.
 

Local Affairs

    Court
        The regular Spring term of our Hunterdon Courts commence this (Tuesday) morning….  The following Grand and Petit Jurors have been called:
            Grand Jurors:  George B. Sutton
 

    We regret to announce the death of John Wortman, of Reaville, which took place on Friday last.  A few weeks ago deceased very slightly scratched one of his legs and the wound got very sore.  Finally mortification set in and death resulted.
 

    On Friday afternoon of last week, while the mother was out, the little child of Mr. Adam Verback, of Matawan, about four years old, attempted to take water from the kettle on the stove, when its dress caught fire.  She was most terribly burned and died the next morning.
 
 

April 20, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 34, Whole No. 1907

Officers Chosen at the Township Elections:
        Tewksbury:  Collector – George B. Sutton
 

    At San Francisco Wednesday, Frederick Brandenburg, or Brandenberger, aged about 18 years, was found under a pile of lumber, dying from exhaustion and starvation.  He stated before his death that he had crawled under the lumber nine days previously… According to a telegram from San Francisco, the deceased was a son of Matthias Brandenburg or Brandenberger, living at No. 6 Charles place, in Phildelphia.

    The wife of Abraham Voorhees, President of the State Bank of New Brunswick, departed this life very suddenly a little before noon Thursday at her residence.
 

Marriages

    March 24th, at the Parsonage in Clover Hill, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, John D. Van Cleef, of Plainville, to Alice A. Higgins, daughter of Asher Higgins of Ringoes.

    At Bloomsbury, on the 8th inst., at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. H. B. Scott, Daniel S. Rockafellar, of Somerville, to Laura E., youngest daughter of William S. Gardner of the former place.

    In New Hope, March 27th, by Rev. Wm. Umpleby, Joseph T. Smith, of Cinswood, to Patthamia A. Howell, of Locktown.

    At Everittstown, April 14th, by the Rev. N. S. Aller, assisted by the Rev. H. Bice, Mr. Samuel W. Margerum of Trenton, to Miss Anna Henarie of Everittstown.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, April 10, 1875, Lewis J. Titus, in the 59th year of his age.

    In New Hope, Pa., April 11, 1875, Lizzie, daughter of William and Maria Conners, aged 4 years 6 months and 22 days.
 

Local Affairs

    Killed on the Rails
        Mr. Hiram Force, a young man well known in this place, and a brother of Mr. William H. Force, of the County Hotel, met with a terrible death last Tuesday morning.  For some time past he had been engaged as brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and on the above morning while coupling cars in Newark, was caught between them, crushing his head into a shapeless mass.

    A Goner
        We see that our brother inkslinger, Mr. Dan S. Rockafellar, the able local editor of the Somerset Messenger, has taken unto himself a wife.  The name of the young lady who has made Daniel happy by consenting to travel over the thorny paths of life with him is Miss Laura E. Gardner, a daughter of William S. Gardner, Esq., of Bloomsbury.
 
 

April 27, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 35, Whole No. 1908

    Charles Smith, aged 16 died at Port Jervis on Tuesday from the effects of inhaling coal gas.

    John Harper, the senior member of the well-known firm of Harper & Brothers, died at his residence in New York on Thursday, in his seventy ninth year.
 

Local Affairs

 Court
        The State v. John Sutton.  Indictment for stealing eight sheep skins, the property of one Vescelius.  It was proven that the defendant sold the skins and being unable to account for their possession he was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days in County Jail and $1 fine.

    The following is the result of the Town Meeting in Kingwood township, which we were unable to get for our last issue:
        Assessor – Wm. B. Sutton
        Justice of the Peace – Wm. B. Sutton
 

Marriages

    On the 15th inst., by the Rev. John B. Kugler, Jacob Vusler to Sarah Plum both of Junction.

    On the 23d of March by Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, John F. Godly to Sallie E., daughter of Edward Hunt all of Milford.

    At Mt. Pleasant on the 9th of April, by Rev. S. S. Aller, Thomas M. Warford to Francelia Barcroft of Frenchtown.

    In Bloomsbury, April 14, 1875, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. J. W. Dally, Theodore G. Allen to Sarah Ann Funk all of Bloomsbury.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of Lewis Carver, in Kingwood township, April 18th, Mrs. Mary Hunt, aged 78 years.

    In Flemington, April 13th, 1875, Jennie E., only daughter of William H. and Catharine Williamson, aged 21 years 6 months and 11 days.
 
 

May 4, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 36, Whole No. 1909

    Fatal Result Of A Hasty Temper
        John Blake, a coachman, employed by Mr. Stout at No. 57 West Fifty-third street, New York city, was killed on Monday afternoon by Thomas Boylan, of No. 612 Eight avenue, with a horseshoe….

    Two colored women, mother and daughter, named Elizabeth Thomas and Harriet Fisher were found murdered in their beds at Detroit, on Wednesday evening.  Their bodies had been frightfully hacked with an axe.  John Thomas, the husband of the former, has been arrested on suspicion.  He is 62 years of age.

    Late on Saturday night, as Dennis McCarty had reached the top of the stairs at his residence in Philadelphia, on his way to bed, he slipped and fell backwards, down the whole flight.  When he was picked up a few minutes after the fall, he was examined by a surgeon who was called in and he stated that the man was dead, and that his neck had been broken.
 

Local Affairs

    Sudden Death
        George M. Snook, an old colored man who had been living in the family of Dr. Merriam, on Sourland Mountain, was found sitting in a chair dead last Wednesday morning.

    Fatal Railroad Accident
        A conductor on the Kensington freight train, which leaves Trenton at 5:35 A.M., named Lewis Moore, was instantly killed on Saturday afternoon 24th ult., at Holmesburg Junction, by the Washington express train, which leaves Trenton at 2:50 P.M….

    Rope Jumping
        A little French girl, named Mary Graff, about ten years of age, living in Paterson, died on Monday from over-exertion, she having on Saturday afternoon, jumped a rope 399 times in succession..
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, on the 24th of April, by Rev. Chas. H. Thomas, Harry Dry, of Titusville to Lydia Powell of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, April 22d, Ingham Waterhouse, in the 63d year of his age.

    In Kingwood township, April 27th, William M. Beers, aged about 68 years.

    In Flemington, May 29th, 1875, Amy Cole, aged about 75 years.
 
 

May 11, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 37, Whole No. 1910

    Marriage of a Daughter of The Late Horace Greeley
        Miss Ida Greeley, eldest daughter of the late Horace Greeley, was married last Saturday morning in New York to Col. Smith of Kentucky, and sailed at noon for Europe.
 

Local Affairs

    Jacob Housel, a merchant for many years in Milford, this county, and at Bridgeton, Pa., died suddenly on Monday of last week.
 

Marriages

    May 1, by Rev. I. Poulson, John L. Smith to Lizzie Bloom both of Delaware.

    April 26th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Oliver W. Hann, of Union and Catharine A. Teats of Tewksbury both of this county.

    May 1, at Sidney, by the same, Samuel R. Chandler and Charity E. Hoffman both of Franklin township.

    April 24, at the Glen Gardner M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. C. S. Woodruff, George E. Smith to Lida Banghart, all of Glen Gardner.

    By the same at the same time and place, Jacob C. Martenis to Sallie Crum, both of Glen Gardner.

    In Frenchtown, April 10, by Rev. C. S. Spencer, S. Crevling of Milford to Jessie Wilson of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At Glen Gardner, April 20, Jacob Shultz, aged 62 years.

    April 30, in Clinton, Martha Kline, aged 84 years.

    April 30, Julia D., wife of Abram W. Suydam, and daughter of Samuel and Ellen A. Waldron, in the 26th year of her age.

    Near Croton, March 26th, 1875, of scarlet fever, Jane, daughter of Hiram and Edathy Gary, aged 6 years 9 months and 15 days.
 
 

May 18, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 39, Whole No. 1911

    A frightful tradedy occurred at Newbury, Mass., on Thursday morning
        William Russell, a widower, about 30 years of age, quarelled with a younger brother and his mother interferring, he attacked her with a shoeknife and almost severed her head from her body, killing her instantly….

    Nathaniel Eaton, of Sutton, N.H., celebrated his 100th birthday May 4th, and died May 10th from Pneumonia brought on by the excitement of the celebration.

    Albert Young, son of Sate Senator Young of Wisconsin, shot his father on Friday and then committed suicide.  The father will probably recover.

    Daniel Murphy, eleven years of age, was struck on the head by a plank thrown from the top of a house in course of erection in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon and so badly injured that he died in a few hours.

    Mrs. Kreamer, aged 43 years, wfie of Nabold Kreamer, a resident of Newark, eloped on Friday with a young man named Anton Kentof? Aged 23 years.
 

Local Affairs

    Triplets
        We also believe that if a thing is worth doing at all it should be well done, and therefore, when on Friday morning last we heard from Mrs. John S. Kline of our town had presented her husband with three children on the preceding night, we rather thought she was a woman worth having…. At last account, two of the trio had died, but the mother was doing well.

    Drowned
        On Tuesday last, a young girl daughter of Mr. Frederick Hellipot, of New Hope, was sent to the store for some article, but not returning the proper time, the parents of the child became anxious about here and after all necessary search was made around New Hope, it was proposed to draw the water out of the canal….
 
 

May 25, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 40, Whole No. 1912

    Jesse D. Bright, ex-United States Senator from Indiana, died on Thursday in Washington, aged 63 years.  The cause of his death was organic disease of the heart.  He was born in Chenange county, New York, studied law and removed to Indiana….

    Death of Gen. John C. Breckenridge
        Gen. John C. Breckenridge, who was Vice President of the United from 1857 to 1861, died at his residence in Lexington, Kentucky, on Monday last after a lingering illness in the 55th year of his age…

    A Fatal Practical Joke
        A practical joker named Edward Cole, near Penn Yan, was killed by his brother-in-law, George Pierce, on Thursday night….  Mr. Pierce is about thirty-eight years of age and one of the best citizens of Yates county…

    At Zanesville, Ohio, on Sunday night, Alonzo Jackson and Albert Smith were sailing with their wives and children in a skiff and it went over the dam.  Both the women and one child of Jackson’s and one child of Smith’s were drowned.

    A young man named William French, a machinist employed at the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in East Newark was instantly killed about 9 o’clock Monday night. He came from Bordentown, where he resides by the train which leaves that place at 6:25 A.M. and when the train stopped near the shops to let the workmen get off, deceased was struck by the locomotive of a freight train coming west and his neck broken…. Deceased was an unmarried man, about 28 years of age and the only support of his mother, his father, having recently been removed to the Insane Asylum at Trenton.

    Poor Little Innocents
        Last Wednesday morning a little child of Mr. Albeck, grocer at Twelfth and Montery streets, Philadelphia, was drawing a baby brother along the sidewalk in one of those little wagons sacred to babyhood, when a wheel slipped down the curb and the wagon and baby and the little child who had been so pleasantly and proudly tugging at the tongue, were all thrown under an ice cart that was standing in the street.  Just then the driver, unaware of the accident, started his horses and one of the rear wheels of the heavy cart passed over both the children, killing the baby instantly and fatally wounding the other.

    Chancellor Runyon, of New Jersey, Wednesday granted a decree of divorce in the case of Jeannette D. Chapman against James Chapman, a lawyer, having an office on Montgomery street, Jersey City…

    On Sunday afternoon, Samuel Day of Newark, came to his death in a singular manner….
 

Marriages

    In Philadelphia, April 14, by Rev. Mr. Langley, David B. Stout of Clover Hill, N.J. to Sallie E. Kimsey of Philadelphia.

    May 15th by Rev. Wm. H. Pease, Deacon J. Dalrymple of Kingwood township to Mary Bennett of Frenchtown.

    May 19th, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D. Theordore H. Studdiford, M.D. of Lambertville to Mary G. Seabrook, of Richmond, Va.
 

Deaths

    On the 18th inst., in Frenchtown, Elizabeth R., wife of John L. Hartpence, in the 35th year of her age.
 

    Terrible Affair
        On Friday afternoon last the woods on the estate of the late John Holcombe, in West Amwell township, near Lambertville, were discovered to be on fire…. On Saturday morning, while some persons were passing over the place, the dead body of a man, horribly burned, was found.  Upon investigation by Coroner Geo. H. Larison, M.D., it proved to be the body of an old man named John Stame’s, 70 years of age, who lived with his son-in-law, just on the outskirts of Lambertville…
 
 

June 1, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 41, Whole No. 1913

    Suicide of A Young Lady
        Miss Sebina Mason, aged seventeen years, a daughter of John Mason, left her bed at her father’s house, in Pawtucket, R.I., last Wednesday, about 4 o’clock and drowned herself in a neighboring pond…

    Philip Pfarr, living several miles from St. Louis, was murdered on Tuesday night last by an unknown negro, who also feloniously assaulted his victim’s wife.

    While some workmen were putting a truss roof on the Central Lunatic Asylum, at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday last, the scaffold gave way, killing George Brown, Jerry Ryan and Albert Gottlief, and fatally injuring Benjamin Smith, Wm. Harmon and Frederick Kluntz.

    Mary Forgarty, aged 20, a dometic in the house of Postmaster Robinson, at Troy, N.Y., disappeared on the 10th inst., while she was supposed to be sweeping the sidewalk.  Her body was found in the river Wednesday, bearing marks of brutal treatment, the face was terribly disfigured.

    Four children of S. H. Christian, at Versailles, Ohio, were burn to death, on Wednesday by the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, May 27, 1875, Frederick Andress aged about 70 years.
 

Local Affairs

    Suicide
        Nicholas Emery, a farmer living near High Bridge, committed suicide by hanging on Sunday, 23d ult…. He was aged about 63 years.
 
 

June 8, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 42, Whole No. 1915

    Peculiar Suicide in Brooklyn
        Christopher T. Provost, aged 56, a retired liquor dealer, committed suicide by hanging, at his home at No. 1845 Fulton street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday.  Mr. Provost, who was living with his second wife, visited the grave of his first wife, in Greenwood Cemetery, about one month ago and stayed so long that he took a severe cold, which resulted in paralysis of his left side…

    A Romance Ended
        Lilly Sicilian, aged twenty-four years died at the Almshouse last night.  This poor woman, deserted by her husband, was compelled to work out among our people, and two or three months ago went to the poor-house, where she soon after gave birth to a child…  She will be buried in the pauper’s burying ground..

    The body of L. W. Selsor, a Secret Service detective, was found on Sunday near Cypress station, in Wise county, Va., with a bullet hole in the head and another in his breast…

    Death Of The "Fat Woman"
        Mrs. Rohm, known as the "Fat Woman" of Barnum’s show, died at her residence, East Baltimore, on Friday, aged twenty-nine years.  Her weight was 583 pounds, hight 6 feet 4 inches and the span around her waist 72 inches.
 

Marriages

    At Sidney, June 3, 1875, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Samual A. Yawger of Clinton township and Lizzie R. Kuhl, of Raritan township.

    At the Glen Gardner M. E. Parsonage, May 29th, 1875, by the Rev. C. S. Woodruff, Henry H. Anderson to Sophia Trimmer, both of Little Brook, N.J.
 

Deaths

    Near Copper Hill, May 26th, Lizzie daughter of Jacob and Jane Swallow in the 27th year of her age.

    At Reaville, June 6th, 1875, Susan, relict of the late Thomas Wilson, in the 79th year of her age.

    In West Amwell township, N.J., June 3, 1875, Martha, wife of Jordan Mathews, in the 48th year of her age.
 
 

June 15, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 43, Whole No. 1916

    On the morning of the 3d, Miss Mary Petty, who resided in a story and a half frame house, located at the edge of Parks’ Grove, on the old Spruce Run road, a short distance south of Washington, Warren county, met with a horrible death…. She (Mrs. Charlotte Sharp) was horrified to see Aunt Polly Petty lying upon the ground, her clothes on fire and her body almost burned to a crisp…

    Another Iowa Horror
        A story more horrible than the Kirkman lynching comes to the State Leader from Carroll county:  It seems that about 18 months ago a man named Jacob Weaver, who lived with his step-daughter on his farm, about one mile from Miles’ Point, in Carroll county was missed by his neighbors…  Dr. Barnes examined the body and recognized it as the missing man’s….

    A Tragic Affair in Vermont
        A shocking tragedy occurred at St. Albans on Sunday morning involving arson, attempted murder, and suicide.  Henry C. Greens, a respected farmer and magistrate, living in the southern suburbs, was awakened early in the morning. Finding his barn on fire he went out and was fired upon twice.  He returned to the house, gave an alarm and aroused the neighbors.  His house and barn were consumed, involving a loss of $4000.  The citizens turned out at daylight and scoured the vicinity for the would-be murder.  Finally suspicion fell on Clifton S. Weeks, a neighbor.  While search was being made for him, a pistol shot was heard and on going to the spot, a shed near the scene of the first attempted tragedy, he was found in a dying condition, with his throat cut and a bullet wound to his temple…

    At Wilmington, Del., on Thursday morning, a police sergeant named O’Neill while pursuing a young man named Wingard, fired two shots at the fugitive.  Neither struck Wingard, but one of them entered the head of Syrah Doyle, aged 13, and killed her instantly.

    Early on Wednesday morning, Mrs. Wiswall, of Jersey City, discovered the dead body of her husband, James, hanging directly in front of her when she opened her bed-room door in order to go into the kitchen…. He was thirty-eight years of age.

    The Elizabeth Herald says:  Mrs. James Kneeland, a resident of this city having been a great sufferer from tumors, one day last week it was decided to have a surgical operation performed… She expired soon after the operation was performed.

    While Deputy United States Marshal Ramsey and a posse were attempting to arrest two horse thieves at Stockton, Kansas, on Monday, one of them shot Ramsey in the abdomen and he died about an hour afterwards…

    Elias Jamison, a young man living near Crabury, tried the experiment, on Tuesday last, of kindling a fire with kerosene oil.  Death relieved his suffering in about thirty-six hours.
 

Marriages

    June 2, at the New Hampton parsonage, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Albert H. Skinner to Christy Ann Bowlby, both of Junction.

    At the same place, by the same, June 3d, Lewis M. Castner to Emma V. Apgar, both of Glen Gardner.

    At the residence of the bride’s father, June 5, by the Rev. R. Thomas, Andrew W. Abbott to Lydia L. Moore, both of Sergeantsville.

    On the 22d of May, by the Rev. T. S. Long, Theodore R. Apgar of Hunterdon County, to Melvina Zeller, of Warren County.
 

Deaths

    June 3d, Freddia, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Axtell, aged 6 years.

    In Ringoes, June 11th, after a painful illness, Charles M. Lee, M.D., aged 33 years.
 

    A boiler explosion at the Smith Paper Company’s mill at Lee, Mass., on Tuesday noon, completely demolished the boiler house, instantly killing William Brown, and fatally injured a woman…
 

Annual Report of the Finances of Tewksbury Township
    George B. Sutton, Collector of Tewksbury Township, in Acc., Dr.

        C.I.G…, keeping E. Sutton, pauper  - $7.00

    Henry C. Hoffman, Treasurer of the Township of Tewksbury, in Acct. Dr.

        Dec. 5, 1875  Wesley Sutton, on his note.  -  $50.00
        Apl. 8, G. G. Alpaugh, late Collector -     $30.00
        George B. Sutton, Collector -      $400.00

        Sept. 2, Melissa Lutes -        $11.39
        George B. Sutton, store bill -      $74.24

        Noah Hoffman, keeping Elizabeth Sutton -      $42.01
 
 

June 22, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 43, Whole No. 1917

    On Tuesday night John Moran and a woman named Mary Fallon were in the neighborhood of Greene and Sussex streets, Jersey City, drinking freely.  Moran accompanied the woman home.  He took with him two bottles of ale.  One of the bottles contained about a tablespoonful of Paris green.  After reaching the woman’s house he gave her the poisoned ale.  She drank it, and in few hours died at the Jersey City Hospital…. The husband of this woman is in Ireland, and for some time past Moran had been living on terms of intimacy with her.  She leaves five children.

    During a storm at Milford, Ohio, Friday last, a child of T. B. Elsthm was killed and two daughters of E. Edwards severely burned by lightning.

    Tom McGehan, the notorious desperado, made famous by the death of Vallandigham during his trial some time ago was assassinated in his saloon Monday night by an unknown party.

    Patrick Pavne, a blacksmith, quarreled with John Libney at Watson’s Hotel, Dover, N.J., Monday and threatened to shoot him.  He went to his home in the adjoining building for his revolver, which he caught up hurriedly and was about to return to the hotel when the weapon exploded and the ball entered the abdomen of his wife, who was present, causing her death.

    Captain Joseph Green, was fatally stabbed at Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday night, by a woman named Murray…

    Judge Martin Byerson, for many years a prominent citizen of North Jersey, died at his residence in Newton, on Thursday of week before last, aged 60 years…

    Wm. Waldman, aged 60 years, shot himself at Summit on Saturday… He had been divorced and wished to marry again, but his church, not recognizing divorces, was a barrier.  He was dead found.

    Henry Wortzeill, a German boy, 12 years old, whose parents live near Toms River, hung himself on Monday afternoon…

    Joseph C. Wills, one of the officers of the Essex County Penitentiary, accidently shot himself on Tuesday while in the performance of his duty.  The charge from his rifle entered his head, killing him almost instantly.

    At Indianapolis, Thursday, Jeremiah Monroe murdered his wife by beating out her brains with a monkey wrench.  She had recently been divorced from him, and was receiving the attentions of another man.

    Anson Godwin, of Rochester, a man noted for his great strength, while testing it by lifting a large beer keg filled with water on Monday, suddenly turned pale, fell back and died in a few moments.

    William G. Cook died in Trenton, N.J. on Saturday evening…

    Officer Reupp, of Trenton, whom we noticed last week as having been shot by a desperate rowdy named Keenan, lingered until Monday evening when he died.

    Henry Martin, a young farmer, was shot dead by another young man, named Edward Jenkins, in Hartford, Ind., on Wednesday.
 

Marriages

    On June 15, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Jacob M. Johnson of Hamden, N.J. to Bella Apgar of Lebanon, N.J.

    June 99, by the Rev. R. Van Amburgh, Oliver Shurts of Stanton, N.J. to Mary Ann Voorhees, of Cold Brook, N.J.
 
 

June 29, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 44, Whole No. 1918

    James Henry Costley was hanged Friday in Dedham, Mass., for the murder of Julia Hawkes.  In order to become intimate with Julia Hawkes, he had murdered his house-keeper, Mrs. Congdon; and, in order to marry Miss Cushing, he murdered Miss Hawkes.

    Henry Logan, colored, was assassinated near Shelbyville, Ky., on Friday.
 

Marriages

    June 23, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, William D. Brewer of Franklin township to Mary E. Cronce, of Raritan.

    June 18, at the Baptist Parsonage, Point Pleasant, Pa., by the Rev. Geo. Young, Augustus Godown, to Mary A. Martin, both of Kingwood.

    June 27, by John Vescelius, Esq., Justice of the Peace at Fair Mount, Wm. A. Sutton of Fair Mount to Charity C. Been, of German Valley.

    In Morrisville, on June 23d, by the Rev. J. M. Rogers, Ira Higgins, of Wertsville, Hunterdon county, N.J. to Carrie V. Holcombe, of Morrisville, Bucks county, Pa.

    At Locktown, June 16, by Elder A. B. Francis, John Risler, of Delaware township, to Annie H. Francis, of Virginia.
 

Deaths

    At High Bridge, on Saturday night, June 12, Catharine, daughter of Mark and Margaret Devlin, aged about 9 months.

    June 1st, at the residence of Wm. Bodine, near Stockton, Catharine Roberson, in the 76th year of her age.

    In Pittstown, Wednesday, June 23, Peter T. Stryker, in the 50th year of his age.
 
 

July 6, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 45, Whole No. 1919

    A Fatal Stroke of Lightning
        During the storm of Sunday afternoon the 27th ult., the lightning struck the Allen School, at Allen’s Corner, with terrible effect.  The building or what remains of it is situated about two miles from Hightstown… A young man, named Thomas Hulit, son of James Hulit, a farmer at Allen’s Corner, and about twenty-five years of age, was engaged at the time in distributing tracts, and was passing in front of the fire-place as the electric fluid entered.  It struck him dead….

    Ordeo Davis, aged 52, a farmer of Herkimer county, New York, was found dead in his barn last Thursday morning, with his head nearly cut off.  His son, aged 24, his wife and wife’s sister, nephew, aged 35, and a neighbor, named Adams, have been arrested for the crime…

    Another Wife Murder and Suicide
        John Condon, a laborer, residing at No. 17 South Halsted street, Chicago, on Tuesday morning while at breakfast drew a revolver and shot across the table at his wife, hitting her in the left breast and head.  The first ball passed through her lungs, and she died instantly.  Condon then placed the pistol in the region of his heart and fired, inflicting a wound which will doubtless prove fatal…. Condon was sixty-five and his wife forty years old.

    A South Jersey Suicide
        At Cedarville, about eight miles from Bridgeton, Thomas Mulford, aged 26 years, who was to have been married at 12 o’clock on Wednesday to a young lady of irreproachable character and high respectability, committed suicide on the morning of that day…

    Albert Brown, colored, was hanged Thursday at Towanda, Pa., for having in August last feloniously assaulted and murdered a girl of five years.
 

Marriages

    On the 26th ult., at the M.E. Parsonage in Clinton by Rev. I. N. Vansant, Richard C. Schuyler of Fairmount, to Mary A. E. Hopwood, of Annandale.

    At the Presbyterian church in Flemington, by G. S. Mott, D. D., June 20th, Theodore Luman, Esquire, of Cumberland, Maryland to Annie W., daughter of James W. Macbeth, Principle of the Collegiate Institute of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    Near Lambertville, June 21, Asher Ege, aged 43 years and 4 months.
 

    Notice is Hearby Given that the following accounts will be presented to the Orphan’s Court to be held at the Court House, in Flemington, in and for the County of Hunterdon, on Monday, the Sixth day of September, A. D., 1875, in the April Term…
        The first account of George N. Alpaugh acting Executor of Isaac Sutton, deceased.
 

    Mr. W. H. Bishop, of Glen Gardner, died at the Asylum at Trenton, on Wednesday, under peculiar and very sad circumstances..
 
 

July 13, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 46, Whole No. 1920

    Death of Hon. Thomas B. Florence
        Hon. Thomas B. Florence, a gentleman known in the political circles throughout the Union, died in Washington City, on Sunday last, after a long illness, in the 64th year of his age.  Mr. Florence was born in Philadelphia in January 1812, and notwithstanding his living in Washington City, for the past twelve or fifteen years, he always kept his residence in the city of his birth….
 

Crimes and Casualities
    During the week past there have been an unusual number of fatalities.  The following are a few of them:

    A wagon was upset while crossing Middle River, near Greenfield, Adair county, Wis., last Saturday night, and five persons were drowned.  The victims were Mrs. Thomas Montgomery, and her infant, Mr. A. Montgomery and his child and J.R. Baker.

    Two young men, named Guthrie and Hubbard, were struck dead by lightning at Portsmouth, Va. Tuesday afternoon.

    Richard McCutcheon, aged 67, was killed by a train of the New Jersey Central Railroad Tuesday while walking on the bank between Westfield and Crawford.

    Patrick Gleason, and old man, was killed in Washington Tuesday by being thrown from a cart.

    At Shrewsbury, Thomas Kelly, aged 19, was killed by lightning while working in a field.

    In Holden, Mrs. Collier was killed and her two daughters struck senseless.

    Robert N. Yerby was shot dead by B. L. Oliver and his son, on a steamboat near St. Louis Landing, Arkansas, on Monday.

    At Port Jervis, N.Y., on Monday night, O. G. Griswold was killed by his step-son, Ezra Huntingdon.

    Walter Whittaker killed Frank Doud with a butcher knife, at Scranton, on Monday.

    A policeman named Frank Yost, was shot by two strangers, while on duty at Tamaqua, on Monday night and died of his injuries Tuesday morning.

    Lizzie Schmit, aged 7, was feloniously assaulted and murdered near Ofallon, Ill., on Saturday night.  James Hogan has been arrested in St. Louis on suspicion and taken to Ofallon.

    Alexander Milner was shot dead by Preston Whitaker at Walton, Ky., Wednesday.

    During a fight between a party of drunken men at Morristown, N.J., on Tuesday night, Michael Beston, was shot by Michael Kenney, and is not expected to recover from the wound.

    Mark Brown was hanged at Monticello, N.Y., for the murder of Sylvester Carr in October last.

    Emile Girard, a storekeeper in Assumption Parish, La., was shot dead by a drunken negro on the Fourth of July.

    At New Haven, on Friday night, Mr. Michael Reedy was shot dead by Alfred H. Hosmer, one of a military company who had been out target shooting.

    A man named Bradrack had his throat cut by another named Guidi, and was instantly killed in a quarrel at Cincinnati last Friday night.

    Jacob Miller, aged 35, was killed by falling through the hatchway at Bayview Brewery, near Baltimore, last Friday.
 

    General Frank P. Blair, Jr., died in St. Louis on Thursday night last, at the age of 54 years…
 

Marriages

    June 30, by Rev. R. Thomas, at the residence of the bride’s parents in Sergeantsville, George W. Olmstead to Jennie Jackson, both of Hunterdon.
 

Deaths

    June 15th, near Centreville, Jane, widow of Anthony Harsel, in her 78th year – formerly residing near Stanton.

    June 1, Mary F., daughter of Charles and Hannah Lake, aged 38 years, 4 months and 10 days.
 

Local Affairs

    Mr. John ?, aged 94 years, died at his residence in Milford on Tuesday last.  He was the oldest man in Holland township..
 
 

July 20, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 47, Whole No. 1921

Crimes and Casualties

    Lena Hebb, aged 19 and Cecia Keibert, aged 17, were killed by lightning in St. Mary’s county, Md. On Wednesday of week before last.

    Mrs. Dunn was kicked to death by her drunken husband at Lowell, Mass., Tuesday afternoon.
 Thomas Roach, aged 32, was drowned near Baltimore Tuesday, while bathing.

    Frank Brogan, a liquor dealer of Beaver Meadow, Pa., was killed Wednesday morning by a fall of earth while procuring coal for his family in an abandoned mine.  He leaves a wife and nine children.

    Thomas McCarthy, aged 21, a brakeman, was killed by a train of cars at the Union Depot, in Baltimore, Wednesday.

    A young girl named Giles, living at Mill Creek Station, near Pottsville, fell into a wash tub while in an epileptic fit, on Tuesday and was drowned.
 

    Count Waldeck had a rival centenarian in Philadelphia, if accounts are true.  Thomas Taylor, who died in that city a few days since, was one hundred and three years old…
 

Local Affairs

    Deceased
        Hiram Nixon, well known throughout the county as a horse trader and veterinary surgeon, died at his residence in Frenchtown on Thursday evening last.
 

Marriages

    July 10, at the M.E. Parsonage, Flemington, by Rev. S. J. Morris, James H. Dean of Flemington to Mary C. Wyckoff of Potterstown.

    At the residence of the bride’s parents, June 2, Austin W. Lowe, of Lebanon, to M. Almira Shurts of Readington.

    In High Bridge, June 26, at the residence of the bride’s mother, by Rev. J. S. Faull, Isaac W. Blanchard to Sarah J. Henry all of High Bridge.

    By Rev. R. Van Amburgh, July 15, Isaac W. Matthews of Pluckamin, to Emma R. Hall, of White House.

    At the Parsonage, New Hampton, July 5, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, Wesley McLeary of Washington, N.J., to Elizabeth Parks, of Stanton.
 

Deaths

    June 2, near Flemington of Consumption, Ross J. Hagaman, in the 34th year of his age.

    At Frenchtown, July 12, Anna Cronce, aged 75 years, 10 months and 28 days.

    In Lambertville, June 3, Wm. Sweezey, aged 54 years.

    In Lambertville, June 15, Mary A. Stull, aged 65 years.

    At Washington, N.J., June 4, Jane Stevenson, wife of Nelson Read.

    At White Hall, April 18, Ella, daughter of Richard W. and Eliza Iliff, aged 21 days.

    At White Hall, April 19, Anna Mary, daugther of Richard W. and Eliza Iliff, aged 1 year and 6 months.

    At White Hall, June 2, Elisa, wife of Richard W. Iliff, aged 27 years and 9 months.
 
 

July 27, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 48, Whole No. 1922

    Death of Lady Franklin
        Lady Jane Griffith Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin, died last Saturday night in London.  Lady Franklin was born at the beginning of the present century.  In 1826 she married, Sir John…

    On Saturday last Mr. John G. Atwater of Flaggtown, was thrown from his wagon while driving home from the depot. He was so badly hurt about the head that he died on Sunday night.  Deceased was 65 years of age.

    Louis S. Vansyckle, a son of Mr. George L. Vansyckle, of Frelinghuysen, Warren county, met with an accident on Saturday afternoon last, which terminated in his death on Monday….  He was about 25 years of age.

    Child Killed by a Rooster
        On Thursday a child of Mr. A. Langley, who lives two miles from town, while playing in the yard, was attacked by a rooster and was knocked down and spurred several times in the face and head before the mother could rescue it… The little sufferer – eighteen months old – lingered in great agony until Saturday morning when death came to its relief.  Gadsden (Ala.) Times.

    Sunday afternoon, Samuel Bailey, of No. 424 West 44th street, New York, was shot and killed by his son, James, aged 22…

    George A. Gunn, a New York dentist, has been separted from his wife for two years.  Friday he met her on the Coney Island boat, threw himself at her feet and they became reconciled.  On reaching the Island, Gunn proposed to go in bathing, but his actions being suspicious, his wife refused to go in with him… he rushed into the surf and was drowned…
 

Crimes and Casualties

    At Bangor, Me., on Monday last, William Pangborn was committed for the murder of his wife, at Medway, on the previous Saturday night…  He is 82 years of age; his wife was 61.

    John Wallace, an inn-keeper of Cumberland, Md., was shot dead by a young man named John Stuart, on Sunday evening week.

    Mrs. William A. Allen, a young married woman living near Basket Station, N.Y., was seized with an epileptic fit while going down stairs with a lighted lamp on Saturday night last, and was burned to death before assistance could reach her.

    At Baltimore, on Tuesday evening last, Henry Zaiser, while in a temporary fit of insanity, shot and mortally wounded Louis Eggner, and then fatally shot himself.

    Elizabeth Bennett was brutally beaten by her husband, in Brooklyn, last Sunday and died of her injuries next day.

    Etta Robinson, aged 17, committed suicide, at Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday last, by swallowing corrosive sublimate.

    E. A. Roderty, a tax collector of Grant Parish, La., has been murdered in Colfax by ex-Sheriff John B. McCoy.

    A horse attached to an open wagon containing three woman was frightened by a locomotive at Elizabeth, N.J., on Wednesday morning and overturned the vehicle.  Mrs. Schreiner, one of the occupants, had her skull fractured on the curb and died instantly; the other were very severely injured.  The deceased lady had been visiting some friends in Elizabeth and was on her way to the depot to return to her home in New Albany, Indiana.

    At Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Holden S. Briggs, of Blackstone, was killed while walking on the railroad track…

    Miss Kate Smith, aged 18, daughter of Henry Smith, was drowned at Baltimore, on Wednesday while boating.
 

    Suicide
        A maiden lady named, Flagg, of Readington, committed suicide by jumping into a well one day last week.  Deceased lost a sister a few months ago, since which time her mind had been affected.
 

Marriages

    At the Glen Gardner M.E. Parsonage, by Rev. C. S. Woodruff, on the 7th inst., James L. Binningham of Junction to Catherine Ely of Glen Gardner.

    On July 10, by Rev. A. M. Harris, John S. Beam to Elizabeth Haines, all of California.

    At Mechanicsville, July 11, by Rev. W. C. Nelson, John L. Snyder to Catharine A. Rinker, all of Lebanon.
 

Deaths

    July 6, Georgiana, youngest child of Thomas P. and Margaret A. Bird, aged one year and four months.

    Near Readington, July 19, Andrew Latourette, aged 50 years and 7 months.
 
 

August 3, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 49, Whole No. 1923

    Death of Ex-President Johnson – Cincinnati, O., July 31
        The Gazette’s Greenville special says: This morning at about two o’clock ex-President Johnson died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Brown, formerly Mrs. Col. Stover, in Carter county, from a paralytic stroke…

    Shocking Accident
        Shortly before eight o’clock this morning, an accident of a most shocking character occurred at the round house of the Pennsylvania railroad, between Washington and Warren streets, Jersey City.  Frank McCloskey, a boy about 13 years old, who resided with his parents at No. 28 Railroad avenue, was engaged in picking up coal and cinders on the track and at the round house… The engine caught him as he was getting out and completely severed his head from the body, the head rolling over the edge of the pit and the body falling back into it.  Death ensued instantly.

    An express train ran over a cow near Jamestown, Ind, early Tuesday morning and the engine and baggage car were wrecked.  Thomas McWilliams, fireman, was killed.

    Suicide of A Young Man
        Charles J. Mussell, a young man twenty years of age, committed suicide at his mother’s residence in New Haven…

    John Smith, colored, was hanged last Friday at Charleston, S.C., in the presence of several thousand persons, for the murder of a white man, committed in February last.

    George Harde, colored, was killed by lightning during a severe thunder storm in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon.

    Blasius Lang, aged 60, committed suicide near Paterson, N.J., on Thursday.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Schubert, aged 30, hanged herself in Baltimore on Tuesday night.  It is supposed she was temporarily deranged from the loss of a child.

    There have been 19 deaths from yellow fever at Fort Barrancas, out of 64 cases of the disease.  Among the latest victims are Lieutenant Deshler and Mrs. Lieutenant Ingalls, who died on Wednesday.

    At Cynthiana, Ky., last Tuesday, a dentist named C. L. Donnelly, approached another dentist named Peckover, and after charging the latter with calling him a liar shot him dead.  Donnelly then surrendered himself, but while on the way to jail was shot dead in his turn by a brother-in-law of Peckover, named Ridgley.

    The body of Frederick White, of Sterling Centre, Mass., was found last Thursday, on a wharf at New London, Conn.  It was evident that he had been murdered and that his body had been taken to the place where it was found.

    Captain Sissney was shot dead by an unknown assassin while sitting in his own house, at Carbondale, Ill., on Wednesday night last.

    Thomas Donahue was drowned in a cesspool at Carondolet, Mo., last Friday afternoon.

    Benjamin Rosseau was killed at Troy, N.Y., on Thursday last, in a singular manner….

    A man, named Miller, living on an island in Casco Bay, shot and fatally wounded his son a few days ago.  The son had attempted to save the mother from being beaten by the father.

    Thomas A. Kennard, a war department clerk, was shot by John Fraumer, in the streets of Washington, last Tuesday evening.  He was walking with Fraumer’s wife at the time.  The wound was at first supposed to be slight but Kennard died of its effects last Thursday night.

    Mrs. Hirman J. Nason, wife of a prominent citizen of Boston, was accidently killed under peculiar circumstances….
 

    Killed on the Railroad
        We very much regret to know that our genial friend Wallace W. Farnum, well know to many of our readers as a book subscription canvasser and more recently as canvasser for Geo. W. West, Job Printer, in this place, was killed on the Easton and Amboy railroad, a short distance above the Pattenburg tunnel, on Friday night of week before last…. He was about 38 years of age and was unmarried.  Easton Sentinal

    Sidney
        Last Sunday afternoon, Mr. John Hann, after returning from the Camp Meeting, sat down in his house, when the cellar door, against which he was leaning, became unlatched so that he fell headlong down the steep stairs, breaking his neck.  He died in a few minutes.  Mr. H., was employed at Baldwin’s Mills.  He was an old and highly esteemed resident and leaves a wife and children.
 

Marriages

    July 24th, by Rev. Roberson Hyde, James R. Fisher to Mary F. Gary, both of Franklin.

    July 24, at the residence of Harmon Apgar, High Bridge, by Rev. J. Faull, Louis J. Miller to Mary E. Burrell, both of White House.

    At Mount Airy Parsonage, July 24th, by Rev. C. H. Asay, Chas. E. Reading to Lucinda Macauley, both of Sergeantsville.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, July 6th, Mary E., daughter of Gershom C. and Ellen R. Hires, aged 3 years, 8 months and 17 days.
 
 

August 10, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 50, Whole No. 1924

    Death of Charles Tomlinson
     …  The most melancholy task we have ever been called upon to perform is to announce the death of our friend and employer, Charles Tomlinson, the editor of this paper.  This sad event took place on Thursday morning last, in New York, where he had gone two weeks previously to receive treatment for heart disease…  Charles Tomlinson was born in Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, N.J., October 29, 1819.  His father was Francis Tomlinson, who kept the store at the little village of Kingwood….  Married Miss Margaret Barcroft, an estimable lady, daughter of Mr. Aaron Barcroft, of Kingwood township….  Mrs. Tomlison being for some years distressingly afflicted with a bronchial affection, which finally ended her life July 24, 1872….  In the early part of 1874, he concluded to marry again, choosing for his companion, Miss Carrie Borden, an agreeable and accomplished lady of Somerville, N.J…

    A Sensation at Englewood
        Englewood has a horrible sensation.  In June last as five-year-old boy named Charles Powell disappeared suddenly from the residence of his widowed mother, and though the most vigorous search was made for him he was not found.  An uncle of the boy who quarreled with Mrs. Powell concerning the child’s affairs was suspected of murdering him, but no clue could fasten the mystery upon him.  The matter rested until last Friday evening, when the remains of the child were found in the cistern of an adjoining yard attached to the residence of the parish priest, Father Smith.  This yard was the place where he had last been seen alive.  On being interviewed Father Smith told the following remarkable story: …  He was buried on Saturday.
 

Crimes and Casulties.

    David King, a laborer, was run over and killed by a coal train at Newburg, N.Y. on Tuesday morning.  Luke Rideout was killed by an express train at Quincy, Mass., the same day.

    Patrick Carney, aged 19, died suddenly at Worcester, Mass., on Tuesday afternoon, from injuries alleged to have been inflicted by his uncle, James Clinchy, who had been chastising him in the forenoon…

    Dwight F. Steere, of Putman, Conn., was arrested at Worcester, Mass., Tuesday evening on suspicion of having murdered Frederick White at New London last Wednesday night.  He confessed his guilt..

    George W. Hawley was stabbed to death by Charles Ransdell, in a bar-room at Gloucester, Mass., last Wednesday.

    In Maury county, Tenn., Thursday morning, the boiler of a steam thresher on the farm of Mr. Benjamin Harlan exploded, killing Mr. Cullen Harlan, Mr. Howard, the engineer and a colored man, and injuring several others, two of whom are not expected to recover.

    At Providence, R.I., Wednesday evening, Edward Hudson was shot three times by Owen McKeyver, and will probably not recover.  An attempt was made to disarm McKeyver, when he again fired and mortally wounded Edward McCarron.  McKeyver was then captured.  He is supposed to be insane.

    Lean Bear, the insane Cheyenne chief, imprisoned at Fort Marion, Florida, died on the 24th ult.

    Hon. Wm. B. Lawton, agent of the Vineyard Camp Meeting Association and member of the commission to build a State Prison for Rhode Island, died at Warren, in that State, last Friday morning.

    Eugene Archie Kelley was hanged Friday at Selma, Ala. For the murder of another colored man.

    Henry Gentle was shot dead at Charlotte, N.Y., on Thursday, by a stray bullet from a picnic party who were indulging in target firing.

    George Conner, aged 56, was killed in the shot tower at Baltimore on Friday morning, by falling into the machinery.  He had been employed at the place for twenty years.
 

    A fatal accident of a very singular character occurred in Harrison Tuesday night.  A little daughter of Mr. Satchell, accidentally swallowed an iron jackstone, which lodged in the throat.  The father picked the child up and started in search of a physician.  On the way, he stopped and held the child head downward, when the "jack" fell out covered with blood.  During the night the little girl’s throat began to swell and Wednesday morning she died of suffocation.
 

Local Affairs

    Death on the Rails
        Last Friday evening a fatal accident occurred on the Easton and Amboy Railroad, near the residence of C. J. Garrabrant.  A boy named Tenbrook Elgard, aged 17 years whose mother resides at Mettler’s Mills, made an attempt to board a coal train which was going west at a slow rate… He was struck and instantly killed, breaking his neck, arms and legs.
 

Marriages

    At the house of the brides’ parent, Charles Miller, August 5th, 1875, by Rev. S. J. Morris, William Kimble to Martha K. Miller, all of Flemington.

    July 31, 1875, aby Rev. J. Faull, Jacob A. Corson to Edith A. Comings, all of High Bridge.

    July 28th, 1875, in Hopewell, by Elder P. Hartwell, A. W. Weller to Emma A. Butterfoss, both of Stockton.

    July 31, 1875, at High Bridge, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, George W. Gano of Bethlehem township to Emma Theresa Bunn, of High Bridge township.
 

Deaths

    On Thursday, August 5th, 1875, in New York City, Charles Tomlinson, proprietor of the Hunterdon County Democrat, in the 56th year of his age.

    In Kingwood township, July 28th, 1875, Mary, oldest daughter of the late Philip Hinkel, aged 45 years, 4 months and 18 days.
 

Notice is Hereby Given That the following accounts will be presented to the Orphan’s Court to be held at the Court House, in Flemington, in and for the County of Hunterdon, on Monday, the Sixth day of September, A.D., 1875, in the April Term…
    1. The first account of George N. Alpaugh acting Executor of Isaac Sutton, deceased.
 
 

August 17, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 51, Whole No. 1925

Items of News

    John Roadcap, a fireman, was killed at Big Bend Tunnel, on the Chesapeake Railroad, Tuesday.

    John Emmons fell from a wagon, near Sharon, N.J., Tuesday, and broke his neck.  He leaves a wife and child.

    Miss Murray, of Montreal and a son of Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Kingston, were drowned at Quebec on Monday night while attempting to step from the wharf to a steamer which was just leaving.

    Thomas Dunn, aged 10 years, was run over and killed by a train at Baltimore, Tuesday.

    R.N. Wallingford, deputy sheriff of Hillsborough county, N.H., was found dead with a shot through his side, Wednesday morning.  It was supposed he was murdered.

    Perley C. Hill, employed in the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass., committed suicide Wednesday, cutting his throat.  He was 63 years of age.

    H.J. Mahler died Thursday, at Newark, N.J., from injuries received on Tuesday in a quarrel with William Hyde.

    The passenger car of a train on the Denver and South Park Railroad, in Colorado, was thrown from the track, fourteen miles west of Denver, on Tuesday afternoon.  James Smith, repairer of the Western Union Telegraph and Mrs. John Land and daughter, of Denver, were fatally injured.

    Jesse Woodson, charged with the murder of a woman named Jarrat, was taken from the jail at Murfreesforo, Tenn., on Thursday night by a party of mounted men, who carried him outside the town and hanged him to a tree.  His body was found Friday riddled with bullets.

    At Detroit, Friday morning, John Hoffman, of the firm of Hoffman & Mayer, ship chandlers, shot and mortally wounded his wife and then shot himself dead.  It is supposed he was jealous.

    Austin F. Jones, a desperado, was shot dead by W. R. Dickinson, at Fayette, Missouri, on Thursday morning.

    Wright W. Wheatly was hanged Friday at Helena, Montana, for murder.

    John Webb, convicted of murder, was hanged at Knoxville, Friday, in presence of about twelve persons.

    Major Swartzman, of the Swartzman Cavalry, shot himself through the body, at Albany, New York, Friday.  He was in pecuniary difficulties.

    Alfred Harmany, aged 40, committed suicide at Lancaster, Pa., Friday morning by taking aconite.  He was a photographer and unmarried.

    Rose Corrigan, aged 42, committed suicide by jumping from a third-story window in Baltimore on Thursday night.  She was insane.

    Mrs. Margaret Childs was fatally burned while lighting a fire with coal oil in Baltimore, Friday.

    Charles Fessler, a boy, was killed Friday, at Mount Carmel, Pa., by being caught in the elevator of a colliery shaft.
 

    A Fatal Leap
        Ira Wood, a prominent lumberman of Delaware county, N.Y., lost his life on Friday while saving that of his aged father…  He was about 40 years old and leaves a large family.

    Lost In A Niagara Eddy
        At 5 P.M., on Monday six citizens of Niagara Falls visited the Cave of the Winds, without a guide, as they had frequently done before.  After passing through the cave, two of the party, Mr. Ethelbert Parsons, aged twenty-nine and Miss Lottie C. Philpott, aged twenty-five, descended to an eddy, which is never visited by the guides.  While bathing, the lady lost her foothold and was caught by the gentleman, but the current carried both into the river below, where they were drowned.  They were soon to be married.

    The house of William P. Milburn, at Freeport, Ill., was burned Friday morning and Mrs. Milburn perished in the familes.

    Wm. Henry Harrison, a married man, and Mrs. High, a married woman, both of Paterson, went to Newark and got married, and then flem to Bridgeport, Conn.  A detective followed and arrested them and they now languish in jail.  Harrison had only been married three years to a young Paterson lady.
 
 

August 24, 1875, Vol. XXXVII, No. 52, Whole No. 1926

    Mrs. James Clark, committed suicide at  ?ancestown, N.H., on Monday, by cutting her throat.