State Items
On Monday evening of last week, Samuel Wright, a colored man, while attempting to go to his home from Allowaystown, was frozen to death on the way.
The death of Mr. Elston
Marsh, of Plainfield occurred on Sunday after a brief illness of pneumonia.
Marriages
Dec. 27, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, James S. Hunt, of East Amwell, to Mary A. Fisher, of Delaware.
Dec. 28, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Joseph B. West to Lizzie H. Smith, both of Franklin township.
Dec. 25, by Rev. Father O’Neal, James Connelly to Ellen Shay, both of Junction.
Dec. 23, by Rev. R. A. Chalker, William W. Housel, of Lambertville, to Henrietta Sipes, of Frenchtown.
Dec. 23, by Rev. C. H. Asay, Cyrus A. Van Dolah of Oakdale, to Hannah H. Runkle of Mt. Airy.
Dec. 23, by the Rev. R. Thomas, John Skillman, of Andover, Sussex county, to Alice Fisher, of Sergeantsville.
Dec. 31, by Rev. W. H. Shermer, assisted by Rev. John Ewing, and Rev. M. C. Reed, John C. Hackett to Mary A. Grandon, both of Clinton.
Dec. 23, by Rev. R. Thomas, Myron Smith, formerly of Pittstown, to Lavina Bird, of Rosemont.
Dec. 21, by John Faull, Isaac M. Hoffman, of Lebanon, to Mary E. Tiger, of Clinton township.
Dec. 21, by Rev. N. S. Aller, William Weydemeyer, of Mt. Pleasant, to Minerva A. Emery, of Clinton.
Dec. 21, by Rev. Geo. W. Anderson, Calvin Apgar to Isabella B. Hammond, both of Hunterdon county.
In Clinton, Dec. 26, by Rev. M. C. Reed, Ransom White, of Clinton, to Mary M. Force, of White House.
Dec. 26, by the Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, William L. Abbott, of Readington township, to Isadore Hiner.
Dec. 26, by Rev. J.
P. W. Blattenberger, James Hoagland to Georgie A. Van Ness, both of Readington
township.
Deaths
Dec. 19, in Kingwood township, Mary, wife of Jacob Sebold, aged about 70 years.
Dec. 11, in Sergeantsville,
Harvey Laning, only and beloved child of Michael and Mary S. Cole, aged
5 years, 7 months and 24 days.
Pocket Picked
George N. Alpaugh,
a farmer of High Bridge, had his pocket picked on Wednesday of week before
last, while riding on the cars between Newark and Jersey City. The
thief got $20 in money and a note for $150 which was due and payable...
January 9, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 20, Whole No. 1997
Gen. Bankson's Suicide
The suicide of General
Bankson, of Philadelphia, is now understood to have been caused by financial
trouble...
Marriages
By Elder George Tenney, December 30th, 1876, John R. Riley and Lizzie Ewing.
August 26th, 1876, by F. P. Hoffman, Esq., Henry Beam to Mary Ann Ader, both of Morris county.
December 30th, 1876, at the Baptist parsonage, Point Pleasant, Pa., by Rev. George Young, Augustus R. Emmons and Emma Burd, both of Kingwood.
December 28th, 1876, by Rev. J. Faull, A. M. Fritts to Phoebe McLain, all of High Bridge.
December 30th, 1876, by Rev. David Kline, Frederick Lindabury, of Flemington, to Mary C. Brown, of Glen Gardner.
At Little York, by Rev. Geo. W. Tomson, of Asbury, W. W. Rutt, of Finesville, to Tillie E., daughter of Benjamin W. Alpaugh.
December 23, 1876, by Rev. G. W. Roth, Augustus Beckman, of Milford, to Georgie Ann Bosenbury, of Frenchtown.
In Philadelphia, October 25, 1876, at the residence of the officiating clergyman, H. B. Herr, to Jennie Large, both of White House.
December 2, 1876, by Rev. I. Poulson, Lambert B. Hann, of Franklin, to Ida Gary, of Raritan.
January 1st, 1877, by Rev. I. Poulson, Charles Eberhardt to Elizabeth Alfader, both of Sand Brook.
On the 1st of Nov. 1876, by the Rev. C. E. Felton, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa., Jennie W., daughter of Prof. A. Rittenhouse, to Mr. T. E. Mallory, of St. Petersburg, Pa.
On the 4th of Jan.,
1877, by the Rev. C. Shreve, D. D., of Bloomfield, Pa., Mamie H., daughter
of Prof. A. Rittenhouse, of Spartansburg, Pa., to J. B. Kylie, of St. Petersburg,
Pa.
[It seems but a little while ago since
the two young ladies whose marriages are above recorded, were small children
here in Flemington, twin daughters of Prof. A. Rittenhouse....]
Deaths
At her residence in Frenchtown, December 31, 1876, Eliza Kean, at an advanced age.
In Frenchtown, December
31, 1876, Cyrenas A. Slack, aged about 67 years.
Sherriff's Sale
In Chancery of New
Jersey - between John F. Edwards and Catharine E. H. Crater, executors,
&c. of Mary Crater, deceased, complainants, and William S. Van Arsdale
and wife, Peter P. Philhower and wife and others, defendants. Fi.
Fa. For sale of mortgaged premises.
By virtue of the above stated
writ of fier facias, to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at the Court House in Flemington, on Monday, the Twelfth day of
February Next, at two o'clock p.m., all that parcel of land and premises
situate, lying and being in the township of Tewksbury, in the county of
Hunterdon and state of New Jersey, ... thence down the middle of said river
- including one of two small islands heretofore owned by Aaron Sutton -
to the place of beginning...
Commodore Vanderbilt died on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, at his residence in New York. The Commodore was 82 years of age, and left an immense fortune, his railroad stock alone being estimated at 45,000, 000.
On Friday night during
the snow storm J. Kehoe, who lives near the Singer Sewing Machine Factory
at Elizabethport, heard loud cries of distress, but from what direction
he could not tell. He searched for a while, but becoming chilled
through he went home. He searched the next day but could find no
one. On Sunday morning several citizens were looking for one Michael
O'Neill, who had been missing since Friday, and found his body frozen stiff
in the snow near the Singer factory, which fully accounts for the cries
heard by Mr. Kehoe. Deceased was a man of steady habits, and it is
thought he got bewildered in the blinding snow.
State Items
Mr. Jonathan S. Smith,
a very highly respected citizen living on his farm between Lawrence Station
and Princeton Junction, died very suddenly on Friday evening last before
retiring to bed.
January 16, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 21, Whole No. 1998
Lucille Western, the actress, died on Thursday evening last, in Brooklyn, from congestion of the lungs....
Mrs. Julia Kilpatrick, mother of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, died at Deckertown, on Saturday last at the ripe age of 77 years.
Edward Burns, aged seventy-three, was married in Jersey City, on Sunday, to a girl of sixteen years. Thirty years ago the bridegroom was a prosperous merchant in Dublin, but he espoused the cause of the rebellion in 1848 and was compelled to fly. He has been employed by the Erie Railway Company since his arrival in this country.
Jonathan Lundy, a well-known farmer of Blairstown, Warren county, retired to bed on Saturday night, 6th inst., about 9 o'clock, in his usual health and was found dead by his wife about 3 o'clock in the morning. Apoplexy is supposed to be the cause. He was about 50 years old.
We are sorry to hear of the serious and destructive fire at Newton.... One of Newton's most estimable citizens, Halsted Shafer, perished among the burning ruins Wednesday morning.
Death From A Peach Pit
On Christmas Day,
Miss Louisa Marcellus, aged 30, of New street, New Brunswick, while eating
some canned peaches, swallowed a pit. It lodged in the throat, and
Dr. Williamson being summoned, an effort was made to extract it.
Finding it impossible, he forced the pit down into the stomach. Medicines
were prescribed, but on Friday last Miss Marcellus grew worse and died
suddenly. A post mortem was held, which resulted in finding the pit
in the intestines, which were ruptured.
State Items
The widow of the late
Samuel C. Atkinson, who at one time published the Gazette, died in Mount
Holly, last Sunday, in the 82d year of her age.
Marriages
Jan. 3, by the Rev. J. Faull, I. S. Cregar, to Susan S. Hummer, of High Bridge.
Jan. 11, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Calvin Solliday, of New Hope, Pa., to Louisa F. Hoppock, of Lambertville.
Jan. 6, by Rev. G. S. Mott, James Deats, of Wertsville, to Rebekah S. Case, of Cherryville.
Jan. 6, by the Rev. R. Thomas, Wm. H. Brewer, to Nancy E. Green, both of Sergeantsville.
Dec. 30, by Rev. Wm.
Pitcher, Gerorge Stothoff, of Flemington, to Mattie A., daughter of Henry
Post, of Centreville.
Deaths
In Lambertville, Dec. 4, John J. Cooper, aged 41 years.
Dec. 1, at Centreville, Mary S., wife of John Forker of Flemington, aged 35 years.
In West Amwell township, of diptheria, the only children of Carlisle and Amy T. Phillips: Dec. 12, Charles M., aged 6 months and 10 days; Dec. 23, Lillie May, aged 10 years, 1 month and 1 day; Dec. 24, Florence, aged 1 year, 11 months and 10 days.
At Columbia, S. C., Jan. 8, Thomas H. Blackwell, in the 33d year of his age.
Dec. 13, in Kingwood township, Mary, wife of Jacob Sebold, aged about 70 years.
In Trenton, on the 8th inst., Mary E., daughter of Mahlon C., and Maria Hart.
In Union township, on the 1st inst., Anna Leigh, in the 93d year of her age.
In Bloomsbury, Dec. 30, Margaret, widow of the late Gideon Leigh.
In Frenchtown, Jan. 9, Mrs. Nathan Shurtz, aged 54 years and 1 month.
Jan. 10, in Headquarters, John Green, aged about 80 years.
Jan. 8, in Headquarters, Mr. Higgins, at an advanced age.
Jan. 7, near Lambertville,
Frank D., son of Samuel and Mary Snyder, aged 4 years and 2 months.
January 23, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 22, Whole No. 1999
A Shocking Accident
About two o'clock
on Thursday morning, 11th, Samuel Morris and his wife and two children,
who lived in a two-story frame house belonging to Doctor James Bean, near
Cranberry Park, New Hanover township, Burlington county, were awakened
by flames bursting from the floor of their bed room, and volumes of suffocating
smoke. Mr. Morris took one of the children, aged about eleven years,
in his arms and started down the stairway. Mrs. Morris attempted
to follow him, but was driven back by the flames and smoke. She then
went to the window and lowered the child to the arms of those who had assembled
below, and then jumped out herself, reaching the ground unharmed.... On
Thursday searched was made among the ruins for the remains of the unfortunate
father and child but nothing could be found but two skulls and a few other
bones... Mr. Morris was about fifty years of age, and was a laboring man.
State Items
William H. Barton, a prominent resident of Trenton, died on Monday.
Elder Henry V. Brittain, of the Asbury Presbyterian Church, died very suddenly on Wednesday morning, the 3d instant, at his late residence, a short distance below the village of Asbury.
A young married woman
named Soden, living at Hightstown, shot herself one day last week.
He husband left home at 6 o'clock in the morning. Returning for some
reason at 9 o'clock, he found her lying dead on the floor, a gun lying
by her side.
Public Sale of Personal Property
The subscriber, being
about to relinquish farming, will sell at Public Sale at his residence,
two miles north of New Germantown and one mile south of Fairmount, on Thursday,
the 1st of February, 1877, the following Personal Property:...
Jan. 23, 1877, Geo. N. Alpaugh.
Local Department
Mrs. Anna Sharp, of German Valley, a lady over eighty years of age, had her clothing to catch fire from a stove one day recently, and was so severly burned that she died two days afterwards.
Peter A. Post, a veteran
of the war of 1812, died at South Branch, Somerset county, on the 11th
of January, aged about 84 years. He had always lived in the vicinity
of Readington, and was buried near the Reformed Church at that place.
The church records show that he was baptized there in 1792.
Marriages
Jan. 6, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, George Cowell, of Broadway, N. J., to Hattie Hockenbury, of Clinton.
On the 11th inst., by Rev. John Ewing. P. S. Smith, of Lebanon, to Anna Macklin, daughter of John Macklin, Esq.
Jan. 6, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Stephen Apgar to Mary Wolverton, all of Mountainville.
Jan. 18, by the Rev. R. Thomas, Dr. George N. Best, of Rosemont, to Hannah Wilson, daughter of Richard Wilson, Esq.
Jan. 18, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Samuel Marjarum to Lottie Cooley, all of Lambertville.
On Dec. 29, Henry w. Silverthorn, of Warren county, to Annetta Casner, of Hunterdon county.
On the 4th inst., by Rev. E. C. Cline, Edward W. Sharps, of New Hampton, to Annie G. Smith.
Jan. 17, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Thomas A. Hoagland, of Readington, to Mary Pittenger, of Three Bridges.
At the residence of
the officiating clergyman, R. M. Hatfield, D. D., at Philadelphia, on Oct.
25th, H. B. Herr, to Virginia B. Large.
Deaths
Suddenly, on the 15th
of December, Kate, daughter of John J. and Frederika Alles, aged 16 years
and 1 month.
January 30, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 23, Whole No. 2000
Local Department
Gone From Our Gaze
Stanford Opdyke,
recently of Little York, has removed to Barnegat, N.J., and J. B. Lequear,
of Kingwood township, has settled down in Fauquier Co., Virginia.
Almost a Centennarian
A correspondent writes
us that in October last, Mrs. Margaret Cole died while on a visit to her
son, Ezekiel Cole, in Annandale, at the advanced age of 95 years....
Death of Elliot Servis
Says the Indenpendent:
Elliot Servis died at the residence of the late John Servis, about a mile
east of Frenchtown, on Thursday morning of this week.
Death of Judge Haines
Hon. Daniel Haines,
of Hamburg, Sussex county, died on Friday morning last after a few hours
illness, aged about 73 years....
Marriages
Jan. 24, by Rev. M. K. Ellison, Austin, T. Emery to Mary E. Elston, both of High Bridge.
Jan. 23, by the Rev. G. F. Love, William K. Stout to Mary C. Seals.
At the M. E. Parsonage, W. Lambert Thatcher to Abby E. Dean, both of Flemington.
By the same, at the
same place, John J. Felter to Cassie L. Geroe, both of Rockland Lake, N.Y.
Deaths
At Wertsville, Jan. 13, Lewis Stout, in the 84th year of his age.
Nov. 29, Sarah H. Trimmer, daughter of Jeremiah Trout, aged 34 years and six months.
In Lambertville, Jan.
12, Richard H., only son of Mary E. and the late Richard H. Moore, aged
13 years and 5 months.
February 6, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 24, Whole No. 2001
Death of Isabel Moore, 107 Years Old
On Sunday last Isabel
Moore, known for years as the oldest person in this part of the State,
peacefully departed this life.
Marriages
Jan. 24, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., George L. Dilts, to Martha Wilson, all of Lambertville.
Jan. 24, by Rev. C. S. Converse, Howard Bennard to Mary E. Larue.
Feb. 1st, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. E. F. Moore, A. Parish, M. D., of Flemington, and Theresa H., daughter of Osborn Down, Esq., Downsville, N.J.
Jan. 17, by Rev. W. W. Blauvelt, D. D. , James Weldon to Martha A. Field, all of Lamington.
At the same time,
by the same, Fred N. Jenkins, of Chester, to Jennie F. Vescelius, of Fairmount.
Deaths
In Trenton, Jan. 19, Ella, only child of Levi B. and Georgiana Metlar, aged 21 years and 2 months.
At Sidney, Jan. 13, Eleanor, widow of Henry Aller, aged 87 years, 11 months and 10 days.
In Clinton, Jan. 30, Patrick Mulligan, Sr., aged about 63 years.
At Pittstown, Jan.
11, Mrs. Ella McCrea, aged 28 years.
February 13, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 25, Whole No. 2002
Death Of A Old Lady - From a lengthy
report in the Banner we extract the following:
Morris county is
famed for many things - among others we can safely chronicle that until
Thursday last it probably contained the oldest spinster in the United States.
On that day departed this life Olive Howell, of Halseytown, near Parsippany,
in the ninety-third year of her age.... Her father, Benjamin Howell,
came from Long Island three or four years anterior to the breaking out
of the American Revolution and settled in what was then and still is Parsippany..
He had seven children, four girls and three boys, of whom the oldest was
Olive - Sylvester dying in Ohio about four years ago, at the age of eighty-three,
now leaving the only survivor, Hannah, wife of Samuel Harrison, Esq., of
Halseytown....
A brutal murder was
committed on Saturday in New York, a woman named Mary Flood being killed
by her husband...
Local Department
David Morgan, the oldest resident of Delaware township, died on Thursday of week before last. He had attained the ago of 95 years.
Enoch Knowles, of
Lambertville, died on Sunday, 4th inst., while on a visit to his son at
Maiden, Mass. He was aged 72 years, and the cause of his death was
apoplexy.
Marriages
By Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Jan. 25th, Charles W. Eversole, of White House, to Martha E. Abbott, of Pleasant Run.
October 5th, 1876, by Rev. G. W. Horton, Joseph D. Dilts, of Franklin, N.J., to Lucy J. Cox, of Dayton, Ohio.
January 23rd, 1877, by the same, Joseph P. Trimmer and Mary E. Philhower, all of Franklin.
At Stockton, Feb. 3rd, by Rev. R. Thomas, Charles B. Fisher and Martha N. Bird, both of Kingwood.
By Rev. R. A. Chalker, of Lambertville, January 24th, James W. Roberson and Anna Stamets, both of Frenchtown.
By Rev. J. W. Hartpence,
January 31st, Bateman Stout of Everittstown, to Susan Swallow, of Quakertown.
A Record of 1776 - {The following interesting
sketch of the life and services of a native of Hunterdon County who figured
in the Revolutionary War, we take from the Christian Intelligencer}:
Among the heroes
that fell in the cause of American independence in the first year of the
Revolutionary War was one, at least, whose worth has not yet received its
due meed of grateful historical notice. We refer to Col. Philip Johnston,
who was killed in the battle of Long Island, August 27th, 1776...
February 20, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 26, Whole No. 2003
Local Department
C. F. Moore, the Lambertville druggist, has gone with his family to Florida's genial climate, on account of his failing health.
Sudden Death
On Saturday evening,
February 10th, Mrs. Mary Jane, wife of ex-Mayor F. B. Fargo, of Frenchtown,
while engaged in preparing supper, she dropped on the floor unconscious
and died in about six hours. Her age was about 45 years.
Suicide
Peter F. Staats,
of the Raritan Screw Mower and Reaper Company, hung himself in a shed attached
to his residence in Raritan, on Tuesday night. Business embarrassment
is supposed to be the cause. He was a brother of the late John R.
Staats, member of the Legislature from Somerset.
Execution At Newark
Messrs. Oschwald
and Ryan, the murderers of police officer Brock, met their doom Thursday
at Newark, the latter dying in the morning by taking poison, it is believed,
just in time to cheat the gallows of its victim, and the former paying
the penalty of his crime under the strong hand of the law.
An Eccentric Woman
Mrs. Eliza Kean,
who died at her residence in Frenchtown, in December last, was a very peculiar
character. The following brief sketch of her life and eccentricities
may be interesting: Forty years before her death she had been divorced
from her husband, but for what reason we are not informed. She lived
on a farm belonging to the estate of her mother, (who died in 1852), adjoining
the Borough of Frenchtown, until about three years ago when she removed
into the Borough. She had many wills written, but as far as known,
but two of them were ever executed. After her death a will which
had been made in 1853 was found....
State Items
Dr. A. Hetzog, a well-known German physician of Newark, died on Thursday at Jacksonville, Florida. He was a graduate of the medical College at Freiburg, and came to this country in 1837.
Peter O. Staats, of
Messrs. Reese, Staats & Merrick of Somerville, committed suicide by
hanging, at his residence in Raritan, early Tuesday morning.
Deaths
At Ringoes, Feb. 10th, Adaline Housel, aged 50 years, 7 months and 25 days.
In Sergeantsville, Feb. 8th, Sarah Butterfoss, in the 78th year of her age.
At the residence of Theodore Bellis, near Wertsville, Feb. 6th, C. Louisa McPherson, in the 21st year of her age.
Feb. 5th, at New Market,
West Amwell township, Elizabeth Wert, in the 88th year of her age.
February 27, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 27, Whole No. 2004
State Items
John T. Forman, a prominent resident of Freehold, died a few days since, and on Friday his widow died.
Charles Voorhees and Mrs. Mergard, of Elizabeth, have eloped, taking with them the latter's baby and $200 of Mr. Mergard's money.
George Baird, of Green
Village, went to Chatham on Wednesday with a load of wood, came home as
well as usual, was taken during the night with pains and died soon after.
He was 77 years old.
Local Department
David Butler, an 18 year old son of John Butler, of Palmyra, died suddenly on Wednesday last.
We regret to announce the death of Freeholder Isaac Smith, which occurred at his residence in this place, on Thursday afternoon last. He had been suffering from heart disease and kidney complaint for several months. Mr. Smith was a warm-hearted man, a kind husband and father.
Rev. Horace Doolittle, who for twenty years presided over the Reformed Church of Stanton, dating from the year 1852, and who had undertaken an engagement to fill the pulpit of the Reformed church at Three Bridges, died on Sunday, 18th inst., of catarrahal pneumonia. He was aged 73 years.
Josiah Rounsavell,
an old and respected citizen of Frenchtown, died on the 18th inst.
He was aged about 90 years.
Marriages
Feb. 12th, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Henry Dow and Emma Huffman, both of Raritan.
Feb. 17th, by Rev. R. Thomas, Charles W. Woodruff to Mrs. Rettie Earls, both of Head Quarters.
Feb. 14th, by Rev. W. E. Watkinson, Eddie Ashcroft and Ann Dalrymple, both of Kingwood.
Feb. 22nd, by Rev. R. S. Gillingham, A. J. Reading to Mrs. Emma Thompson, all of Doylestown, Pa.
Feb 17, by Rev. P.
G. Ruckman, Lewis Gordon to Cornelia M. Search, all of Frenchtown.
Deaths
At Copper Hill, Feb. 6th, 1877, Pheobe A. Swallow, in the 26th year of her age.
At Dearbook?, Feb.
21st, 1877, John, son of Joseph S. Swackhamer, aged about 28? years.
March 6, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 28, Whole No. 2005
Local Department
George Deal, a brakeman on the Central Railroad, was run over by the cars and killed, on Tuesday evening at Junction.
John L. Tomlinson,
of Pittstown, is going to sell out and settle in Kansas. The Kansas
display at the Centennial has induced many Jerseymen to emigrate thither.
Sixty-sixth Wedding Anniversary - A correspondent
sends us the following interesting sketch for publication:
Paul K. Dilts and
Sarah, his wife, were surprised on Friday morning, 23d ult., by the arrival
of unexpected guests, consisting of their children, grand children and
great grand children at their residence near Clover Hill, Hunterdon county,
where they have lived for forty three years. They were born in Hunterdon
county, were married in the year 1811 by Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick, and have
had four children, two of whom are now living. Their son, Elisha
died in Fairview, Illinois; their daughter, wife of John L. Bellis, died
at Plainfield, N.J.... The husband, Paul K. Dilts is 89 years of age, and
is enjoying good health. His wife, Sarah, is 84 years of age.
They now have living two children, nine grand children and nine great-grandchildren...
Marriages
March 3d, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Henry Britton to Julia H. Salter, both of Raritan.
In Mount Airy, Feb. 8th, by Rev. C. H. Asay, Zepahniah Stout, of Woodsville, to Bell V. Fisher, of Mt. Airy.
Feb. 7th, by Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Dorsey G. Reigel, of Hackettstown, to Kate, daughter of Dr. J. N. Lowe, of Milford.
By Rev. C. E. Little, Feb. 22d, Francis A. Apgar, M. D., of New Germantown, to Elmira H. Fisher, of Schooley Mountain.
By Rev. Father Treacy, Feb 17th, Daniel Howley, of Junction, to Mary Hayes, of Washington.
By the Rev. J. Faull, Feb. 24th, Edwin s. Ammerman and Mary E. Fritts, all of High Bridge.
By Nathan Lance, Justice of Peace, Feb 19th, John Norman to Margaret Cottingham, of Lebanon tsp.
By Rev. Wm. Pittman, Feb 19th, David Danbury and Leah Bodine, both of East Amwell.
By Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Feb 28th, Garret S. Kinney, of Three Bridges, to Mary Shaffer, of Allertown.
By Rev. R. Thomas, Feb. 27th, Asa Crone, of Rosemont, to Mrs. Loraine Reading, of Kingwood.
By Rev. Geo. F. Love, Feb. 22d, Thomas C. Roberson and Emma L. Wilson, at Croton Parsonage.
At Croton Parsonage,
Feb. 24th, by Rev. George F. Love, Hiram W. Dalrymple and Eliza Jane Hummer,
all of Hunterdon county.
Deaths
Near Mechanicsville, Feb. 26th, David Swackhamer, aged about 36? Years.
In Frenchtown, on the 18th ult., Josiah Rounsaville, aged 90 years, 9 months and 10 days.
In Frenchtown, on the 11th ult., Mary Jane, wife of Franklin B. Fargo, aged 45 years.
In Frenchtown, on the 27th ult., Lizzie Voorhees, aged 36 years.
Near Anthony, on the 5th ult., Susannah Mayberry, aged 99 years.
At Spruce Run, on the 20th ult., Leonard Hipp, aged 87 years.
At Flemington, December
3d, Adam W. Bellis, in the 65th year of his age.
March 13, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 29, Whole No. 2006
Local Department
Dr. S. H. Craig, a well-known dentist of Somerville, died very suddenly on Saturday morning of week before last.
Mrs. Jerusha Hummer,
of Frenchtown, died after a few hours illness on Saturday of week before
last, aged about 79 years. Her death was as sudden as it was unexpected.
Panic in a Church
A panic in the Church
of St. Francis Xavier, in New York, Thursday night caused a rush from one
of the galleries and in the tumult six women and one boy were trampled
upon and killed.... The bodies of the dead were identified as follows:
Mary Casey, Ann Spencer and Michael Spencer, Mary Coughlan, Eliza Masterson
and Ann Forbes...
Marriages
March 10, by Rev. G. F. Love, Eli Myers, of Sheffield, Ill., to Hannah M. Allen, of Baptisttown.
March 6, by Rev. J.
G. Williamson, Charles W. Hann, of Pittstown, to Arena Watters of Sidney.
Deaths
At Pattenburg, March 3, Emmet Shrope, youngest son of Robert Shrope, in the 16th year of his age.
In Bethlehem township,
March 5, Christopher Groendyke, aged 79 years.
March 20, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 30, Whole No. 2007
Notice.
Hunterdon County
Orphans Court of March 16, 1877, December Term, 1876, In the matter of
the offer for Probate of a paper written purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of David Morgan, deceased. - Order on Caveat, &c.
The paper writing
purporting to be the last will and testament of David Morgan, deceased,
having been ordered for probate in this Court, and a caveat having been
filed by Elizabeth Ann Sutton and Mary Kise, and citations issued for the
appearence of George W. Morgan, Emma Lowry, Ann Augusta Morgan, Catharine
Haynes, Charles Morgan, and Florence Morgan, and retruned according to
law, not served, and it being made to appear by affidavit that the said
George W. Morgan, Emma Lowry, Ann Augusta Morgan, Catharine Haynes, Charles
Morgan and Florence Morgan, cannot be found in the State of New Jersey,
and that they reside out of the State of New Jersey, to wit: that the said
George W. Morgan resides in St. Charles, county of Butler, State of Ohio;
and that Emma Lowry, Ann Augusta Morgan, Catharine Haynes, Charles Morgan
and Florence Morgan reside at East St. Louis, in the State of Illinois,
and that process cannot be served on them, it is on this Sixteenth day
of March, A.D., 1877, on motion of Voorhees & Large, Proctors for the
Executors, ordered that the said George W. Morgan, Emma Lowry, Ann Augusta
Morgan, Catherine Haynes, Charles Morgan and Florence Morgan, do appear
and answer said caveat on or before Monday, the Seventh day of May next.....
Shocking Affair
Last Thursday morning
the store of Fielder Magruder, in the District of Columbia, near Benning's
Station, on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, was destroyed by fire,
and the bodies of Ebenezer Large and his son, John, the latter a clerk
for Magruder, both of whom slept in the store, were in the ruins, burned
almost beyond recognition... Ebenezer Large was a brother of William Large,
of Cherryville, this county.
Marriages
At the M.E. Parsonage in Flemington, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, Feb. 22nd, Matthias Buchanan to Ettie Hight.
At the same place, by the same, George A. Leidy to Mary Amanda Thomas.
Feb. 17, by Rev. R.
A. Chalker, Charles M. Servis and Amanda H. Willets, all of Lambertville.
Deaths
At Clover Hill, March 2, Anna E. Miles, aged 25 years, 8 months and 14 days.
At Sergeantsville, Feb. 27, of Diptheria, Elmer, son of Amos and Caroline Fisher, aged 4 years and 7 months.
At Sergeantsville, Feb. 28, of Diptheria, Isabel, daughter of Amos and Caroline Fisher, aged 6 years, 10 months and 20 days.
In Flemington, March 19th, 1877, Eliza E., wife of Charles Bartles, Esq., aged about 60 years. The furneral will take place on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at the residence of her husband.
February 19th, near
Baptisttown, Mary R., wife of Charles W. Hetzel, aged 32 years.
At the residence of
his son, John A., in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the evening of March 13th,
1877, John Duncan MacMurphy, in the 77th year of his age. [Deceased was
born in Loudenderry, New Hampshire, and came to New Jersey many years ago,
following his profession of a teacher, and as such will be remembered by
very many people in different parts of our county... He removed to Nebraska
in 1871. His remains were interred at New Hampton. - Ed. Dem.]
March 27, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 31, Whole No. 2008
State Items
Hon. Peter Smith of Waterloo died on Sunday. He was President of Hackettstown Bank and represented his district two terms in the State Legislature. He was 68 years of age.
Warren street, Newark,
was the scene of a terrible tragedy on Saturday night. Peter Degnan,
a returned Californian, aged about fifty, wished to marry his stepsister,
named Mary Matthews, a young woman about twenty. She did not return
his affection, and laughed at the idea of marrying him, whereupon he became
enraged and attempted to kill her. He cut her badly with a knife,
but she escaped. He then shot himself in the head with a rifle, inflicting
a fatal wound.
A Peddler Murdered For His Wares
William O'Brien was
waylaid and murdered by a negro named Edward Wells, near Buckhead, in Burke
county, Georgia...
The Township Elections
Tewksbury: Pound
Keepers - John B. R. Clark, John L. Apgar, George W. Sutton, Hugh Rolph,
John Wyckoff and Jacob K. Crater.
Local Department
On of the twin daughters of Levi Abel, formerly of this place, died at Frenchtown last week of pneumonia.
Sudden Death
Mrs. Aaron Griggs,
living just east of this town, died very suddenly on Friday afternoon last,
of pneumonia....
Marriages
March 15th, 1877, by Elder George Tenney, John C. Hart and Allie V. Brewer, both of this county.
At Mountainville, March 12th, 1877, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Peter E. Robinson, of Fairmount, to Emma L. Teats, of Califon, N.J.
In Glen Gardner, March 17th, 1877, by Rev. J. A. Kingsbury, Andrew S. Crater to Maggie J. Foose, both of Glen Gardner.
At White House, March 21, 1877, by Rev. Wm. Bailey, Leander T. Stryker to Emma Reed, all of the above place.
By Rev. R. A. Chalker, Feb. 17th, 1877, Charles M. Servis to Amanda H. Willets, all of Lambertville.
By Rev. Wm. Swan,
March 17th, 1877, Edmund W. Thaw, of Plainfield, to Kate E. Snoden, of
Ringoes.
Deaths
In West Amwell township, March 19th, 1877, Mrs. Hannah Conaway, aged 78 years.
Near Sergeantsville, Feb. 18th, 1877, Parthania A., wife of Joseph Taylor Smith, in the 28th year of her age.
In Flemington, March 8th, 1877, after a long and painful illness, Tunis L. Stires, aged about 68 years.
At Clover Hill, March 2, Anna E. Miles, aged 25 years, 8 months and 14 days.
March 10th, at White House, of consumption, the wife of Jacob Lewis.
Near Larison's Corner, March 8th, Adrian Smith, aged 50 years.
March 18th, 1877,
near Larison's Corner, Elizabeth, widow of the late Adrian Smith, in the
56th year of her age.
April 3, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 32, Whole No. 2009
Death From The Spitz Bite
Another terrible
death from the bite of a Spitz dog has just transpired at "Blackthorn",
in the village of New Castle. Effie Sparks, the latest victim of
the dreaded Spitz, was 18 years of age at the time of her death, which
occurred at a late hour on Thursday night last. She was the daughter
of a merchant residing in a neat homestead in Blackthorn and doing business
in New York City...
Death of a Hermit
Austin Sheldon, commonly
known as the Hermit of Lehman, aged seventy-one years, who for the past
forty-one years has made a deep and dismal cave in the mountains back of
Milford, Pa., his home, living upon fish and game, was found frozen to
death near the entrance to his cave on the morning of the 28th of March
by two fisherman...
The death is announced at the residence of his son Thomas, near Jacksonville, Tompkins county, N.Y., March 19th, of Samuel Vane, formerly of New Brunswick, aged 105 years, 3 months and 11 days.... Only the day before he died there was a funeral at the same house, of Mrs. Hildabrand, daughter of Thomas Vane, son of the old gentleman.
A man named Maxwell and his son, aged 16, were murdered in Colfax county, New Mexico, on Friday last, by a negro, whose motive is believed to have been robbery.
Died From Diphtheria
The Trenton True
American of Friday last says: About two weeks ago, Mr. Edward S.
Pullen removed his family from Morrisville, Pennsylvania, to Ashbury street,
in this city. The children were attached with diphtheria and on Wednesday
of last week two of them, Mary L., aged 8 years and Sadie, aged 4 years,
died. On Thursday of last week another child, Susie A., aged 6 years,
died from the same disease. The three little ones were buried Sunday
afternoon at Riverview Cemetery.
Local Department
George Sanford Roberson,
son of Ogden Roberson, of this place, died on Sunday morning last, of consumption.
Marriages
By Rev. C. H. Thomas, on the 28th ult., William Weber, of Lambertville, to Lizzie C. Bond, of Ringoes.
By Rev. B. F. Robb,
March 26th, John B. Mason to Annie E. Niece, both of Stockton.
Deaths
Near Sergeantsville, Mrs. Catharine Hatfield, in the 93rd year of her age.
At Ringoes, March 14th, 1877, J. Livingston Pittenger, aged 28 years.
In Kingwood township, March 24th, 1877, Mrs. Mary Heath, aged 73 years.
In Kingwood township, March 28, 1877, John W. Leonard, aged about 53 years.
In Frenchtown, March 26th, 1877, Eddie M., son of Otheniel and Mattie Gordon, aged 8 months and 2 days.
In Easton, Pa., March
24, 1877, Emma G., only child of Rev. Andrew Armstrong, aged 26 years.
April 10, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 33, Whole No. 2010
Death of D. M. Boyd, Jr.
David M. Boyd, Jr.,
the General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died
at Jacksonville, Florida, at one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.... Mr. Boyd
was only thirty-eight years of age, and resided at Haverford, Montgomery
county. His body will be brought home for interment.
Marriages
March 24, by Rev. J. Faull, Isaac V. Stryker, of Somerville, to Mrs. Phoebe A. Henry, of High Bridge.
March 31, by Rev. Charles S. Conover, Wm. R. Smith, of Pittstown, to Mrs. Elizabeth D. Cook.
April 5th, by Rev.
G. W. Horton, Abram S. Little and Kate Vanderbelt, both of Asbury, Warren
Co.
Deaths
In Flemington, April 1st, Geo. Sanford Roberson, aged 21 years, 7 months and 2 days.
Near Larison's Corner,
March 13?, Benjamin J. Hoffman, aged 50 years.
Sudden Death
On Tuesday last,
John A. Kutter, while at a physician's office in Lambertville, was taken
with a hemorrhage from the lungs and expired in about three minutes.
The deceased was about 57 years of age, and leaves a large family to mourn
his death.
Found Dead
Mr. Hiram Dilts,
of East Amwell township, near Ringoes, was found dead in the road about
a quarter of a mile from his residence, on Monday afternoon of last week.
Mr. Dilts was widely known throughout Hunterdon county as one of the most
extensive fruit growers in this section, having a fine residence, where
he had lived for many years, and had there celebrated his golden wedding
with his many friends about a year ago, his age being about 78 years...
The supposed cause of his death was apoplexy.
State Items
Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of
Louisiana, is to be married in June, next to Miss Sallie Durand, daughter
of James M. Durand, the principal jeweler of Newark, N.J.
April 17, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 34, Whole No. 2011
State Items
Mrs. William Scott,
of Bergen avenue, Greenville, gave birth on Thursday to four infants, two
boys and two girls. One girl died within an hour, but the other infants
are doing well.
Marriages
In San Francisco,
Cal., March 24, 1877, by Rev. Thomas Gnard, G. A. Runk to Miss L. Roberson,
of Washington, D. C.
Deaths
Near Locktown, Mch. 5, 1877, Harry Kerr, aged 1 year, 8 months and 12 days.
At Pleasant Run, April 3, Mrs. John T. Cole.
Near Ringoes, on April
1st, 1877, Anna May, youngest daughter of Peter and Mary Snyder, aged 11
months, 3 weeks and 1 day.
Fatal Accidents
On Saturday afternoon
of week before last, Maggie O'Bryan, a girl of fourteen whose parents reside
at Bethlehem, was struck by a coal train on the Easton and Amboy Railroad
at West End Station, and so severely injured that she died in the evening.
Hugh McGinnis, also
of Bethlehem, employed on the Easton and Amboy R. R., when near the Three
Bridges, was thrown from a gravel train and run over, and otherwise injured
so badly that little hope of his recovery are entertained.
Found Dead
The dead body of
Dr. D. J. Brittain, the Glen Gardner druggist, was found lying in the road
beneath the bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, near Easton,
Friday morning last.
A Somerset Gazette
writer has pleasantly interviewed Mr. and Mrs. Joachim Gulick, living near
New Germantown, who are now aged, respectively, 92 and 91 years, and will
celebrate the 70th anniversary of their wedding next Sunday, if they live.
April 24, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 35, Whole No. 2012
New York, April 17
On January 2, Robert
M. Dickie, aged fourteen, while playing with a cat was bitten in the hand.
The wound healed and nothing was thought of it till Sunday, when the boy
experienced great difficulty in swallowing. Soon after all the symptoms
of hydrophobia developed themselves, and early this morning the sufferer
had to be removed to the Bellevue Hospital. No hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
Marriages
April 12, by Rev.
C. H. Thomas, assisted by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Martin Johnson,
of New Hope, Pa., to Emma L. Hunt, of Lambertville.
Deaths
In Frenchtown, April 17, Sarah H., wife of Charles A. Roberson.
At White House Station, April 11, Mrs. James Hall, aged 47 years.
At Copper Hill, April 3d, John Housel, in the 75th year of his age.
At the residence of Henry Hunt, near Sandy Ridge, on the 28th of March, Emma, daughter of Margaret Mackey, aged 9 years and 16 days.
At Clinton, April
20, Sarah Ann Yard, aged 66 years.
Financial Statement of the Township of
Tewksbury.
Robert Craig, Treasurer,
in Account with Township of Tewkesbury.
Apl. 28, 1876 - Cash from Geo. B. Sutton, Collector - $500.00
Aug 24, 1876 - "
" " "
"
" - 200.00
Nov 1, 1876 - "
" " "
"
" - 200.00
Mch. 5, 1877 - Cash from G. B. Sutton, on tax
Warrant of 1874-5
- 110.58
Henry C. Hoffman,
Overseer of the Poor, in Account with the Township of Tewkesbury.
Keeping Elizabeth Sutton - $123.18?
Sudden Death
Anthony L. Case,
an old and respectable citizen of this township, died very suddenly of
heart disease, on Thursday night of week before last.... Mr. Case was 82
years of age.
State Items
Lizzie Bounter, colored,
about four years old, whose mother lives in Passaic, was scaled to death
on Saturday by pulling a wash boiler full of scalding water from the top
of a stove, the contains falling over her.
May 1, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 36, Whole No. 2013
Deaths
April 22, at the residence of Stewart Rodenbaugh, in Bethlehem township, Ann Fritts, aged 79 years.
In Lambertville, April 22, Carrie S., wife of Samuel Slack, in the 27th year of her age.
In Lambertville, April 24th, Owen O'Connell, aged 50 years.
In Lambertville, April
28, Patrick Colligan, aged 50 years.
Annual Report of the Finances of Kingwood
Township, from Apl. 10th, 1876 to Mch. 13th, 1877.
Charles Kugler, Collector,
Wm. B. Sutton, paid two notes in favor of township - $500.00
Wm. B. Sutton, interest on notes - $11.37
Wm. B. Sutton, justice's fees - $19.26
Wm. B. Sutton, balance due as assessor's fees - $24.07
Wm. B. Sutton, making out tax warrant - $6.38
Wm. B. Sutton, keeping poor - $346.37
Wm. B. Sutton, justice's fees in pauper cases - $13.00
Sworn and subscribed
before me, this 19th day of April, A.D., 1877. Wm. B. Sutton, Justice
of the Peace.
Local Department
Hiram Gulick and his wife, residing at New Germantown, last week celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding. The couple are aged ninety-seven and ninety-four respectively.
On Thursday last,
in Frenchtown, occurred the death of Fletcher Bray, a son of Wilson Bray,
a former sheriff of this county, of pneumonia.
May 8, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 37, Whole No. 2014
Ex-Gov. Parson Brownlow is dead. His funeral occurred last Tuesday.
Fatal Mistake
On Wednesday last,
Simon Demorest, of Pompton, was returning from a funeral, in an open wagon
drawn by a spirited team. In the wagon with him were John and Thomas
Caboy and their sister, aged 22 years, and a Miss Emma Taylor, of Paterson.
The party attempted to cross the track of the Montclair and Greenwood Lake
Railroad when a train was passing. The result was the kill of Mr.
Demorest, John Caboy and Miss Taylor, and the supposed fatal wounding of
Thomas Caboy and sister.
On Monday afternoon, Allie, a little daughter of conductor Bowers, was drowned in the Morris Canal near Phillipsburg.
The body of P. P. Bliss, the celebrated hymn singer, who was killed at the Ashtabula railroad disaster, last December, was found by a party of hunters along the lake shore at Euclid, a small village about fifty miles from the scene of the accident.
Ten Persons Buried Alive
A terrible land slide
is reported to have taken place on the bank of the Veillet, a tributary
of the Batiscan, in the Parish of Sainte Geneuieve, county of Champlain,
Quebec, about 100 miles northeast of Montreal... It is positively asserted
that 10 persons were buried alive. The bodies of Mrs. Massicotte,
wife of the owner of the mill, her three children, aged respectively 3,
7, and 12 years, and Mr. Cloutier, father of Rev. Mr. Cloutier, of Three
Rivers, have been recovered.
Local Department
James Rutan, a shoemaker,
who came from Asbury to Clinton this spring, died very suddenly of heart
disease last Monday. He leaves a family.
State Items
Henry Mitchell, Sr., of Swedesboro, an elderly gentleman, went to Philadelphia last Saturday to be operated upon for a painful disease. The surgeon administered an overdose of the anaesthetic and death resulted.
Allen Hannah, of Jersey
City, was married recently to Miss Hannah Allen. Miss Hannah Allen
is now Mrs. Hannah Hannah.
Marriages
May 1st, by Rev. R. Thomas, Matthew L. Cole, of New Germantown, to Sarah M. Stevenson, of Junction.
April 25, by Rev. John B. Kugler, asssisted by Rev. Messrs. David Kline and G. W. Anderson, William Grant, of Clarksville, to Hattie Shepperd, of New Hampton.
April 21, by Rev.
A. Van Deusen, Sylvester Hann, of Stanton, to Almira Manning, of Centreville.
Deaths
At Annandale, April 30, Richard Hall, aged about 65 years.
In Lebanon, April 30, wife of John R. Emery, aged 45 years.
At Stanton, April 30, Lydia, wife of John Yorks.
At Bound Brook, May 1, Peter Emmons, aged 40 years, 8 months and 25 days.
Near Three Bridges, March 14, Elizabeth Blackwell, wife of Lewis C. Case, aged 50 years.
Near Three Bridges,
April 12, Anthony L. Case, in the 79th year of his age.
May 15, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 38, Whole No. 2015
Local Department
The death of Nelson
V. Young, Esq., of Lambertville, is announced.
Marriages
May 5, by Rev. C. H. Thomas, Henry O'Daniel to Ella Lewis, both of Lambertville.
May 1, by Rev. Mr. Ferrier, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., James E. Brodhead, to Hattie, daughter of Nathaniel Boyd, Esq., both of Clinton.
On the 5th inst.,
at the residence of Mr. Augustus C. Landsey, by Rev. J. F. Mesick, Mr.
Israel B. Higgins, to Mrs. Rebecca Voorhees, both of Neshanic, N.J.
Deaths
May 3d, near Sergeantsville, Lizzie Bowen, aged 7 years, 4 months and 13 days.
In Allertown, March 28, Sarah, wife of John I. Smith, aged 72 years, 10 months and 21 days.
May 4, in Union township, Mary, relict of the late Mahlon Swarer, in the 58th year of her age.
At Califon, April
26, Adam Apgar, aged 81 years.
May 22, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 39, Whole No. 2016
The Burning Of Five Children
Early on Tuesday
morning a terrible tragedy occurred at Little York, Courtland county -
a flag station on the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad, fifty miles north
of Binghamton. The station house was occupied by Frank Dunigan, section
foreman. About 5 o'clock he started a kitchen fire and with his wife
went across the tracks to the barn, leaving their five children asleep
in the house. The mother returned from milking shortly afterwards
and found the house in flames.... The children were burned to death.
The bodies were recovered about two hours afterwards. The oldest
child was aged nine years.
News Items
A dispatch from Carson, Nevada, says Hon. Charles H. Bryan, an ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of California, was strangled to death by a piece of meat lodging in throat while he was at dinner last Tuesday.
A special from Mount Vernon, Missouri, says Samuel Orr was executed there Friday for the murder of a farmer named Davis, on December 11, 1873.
Last Wednesday, the
death warrant was read to Frank Wilson, colored, at Harrisburg, who is
under sentence of death for the murder of a peddler named Rudy.
State Items
Joseph Lott, of Bloomsburg,
was killed on Saturday night near that place while attempting to jump from
a train on the Central Railroad, while running at a high rate of speed.
His neck was broken and one leg was cut off.
Marriages
May 16, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Anthony Killgore, of Great Bend, Pa., to Louise E., daughter of C. C. Dunham, Esq., of Flemington.
May 5th, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, John Bryant and Elmira Anderson, both of Clinton township.
May 5, by Rev. B. F. Robb, George R. Salter, of Pennington, to Annie Holcombe, of Brookville.
April 21, by Rev. Wm. Stout, Enoch Castner, of Changewater, to Lizzie Watters, of Anthony.
By the same, May 5,
Robert R. Webster, of New Hampton, to Emma L. Cline, of Anthony.
Deaths
Near Flemington, May 17, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, wife of Jonas Moore, in the 79th year of her age.
At Bethlehem, May 6, Emma, wife of Edward A. Anderson, and daughter of Hon. Sylvester H. Smith, of Bethlehem, in the 26th year of her age.
May 8, near Readington,
Jacob Mattison, aged 35 years.
Local Department
Miss Rebecca Hall,
formerly of Readington, died about noon on Tuesday, at her residence in
Somerville, aged 80 years and 8 months.
May 29, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 40, Whole No. 2017
Frightful Accident - Chester, Pa., May
22
A terrible accident
happened at the launch of the iron steamship Saratoga at Roach's shipyard
this morning, at about eight o'clock. About forty men were under
the vessel when it went off, and not hearing the order to come out a number
were crushed to death. The names of the killed, as far as known,
are: Edward Fowley, John Nelson, Charles Aright and Edward Burke....
In addition to those already reported, J. J. Crew was instantly killed
and George O. Woof and Barney Cannon died at 11 o'clock...
A Negro Lynched
A Cario, Ill., dispatch
says: On Sunday night last, a party of disguised men went to the jail at
Blandville, Ky., and with drawn pistols demanded and received the keys.
They entered the jail and seized a negro named Levi Pile, who attempted
to assault and murder Mrs. Pile, the wife of his employer, last week.
They put a rope around his neck, tied him to a mule, and dragged him away
to the woods. Nothing further is known, except that his dead body
was found hanging to a tree with several bullet holes in it and the clothing
burned off...
New Items
Joseph Iasigi, Turkish Consul General at Boston, died last Tuesday. He was about 70 years of age.
Austin Humphreys, who shot and killed his employer, Frederick Appell, was hung at Windsor, Ont., on Tuesday.
By the fall of a scaffold last Tuesday afternoon, in the Church of the Holy Cross, West street, Baltimore, Henry Knauss, aged 58, was killed, and three other were seriously injured.
A boiler in the Orion steam cotton mill at East Greenwich, R. I., exploded Wednesday morning, killing John Hughes, the foreman.
George A. Austin, of Bow, N.H., assaulted his wife Tuesday night, and was fatally shot by his step-son, a lad 17 years old.
In Brooklyn, Henry Steinbacher, residing at 29 Boerum street, committed suicide on Wednesday, by shooting himself through the head. He was laboring under temporary abberation of the mind, supposed to be caused by grief over the death of his wife, which took place on Monday night last.
Thursday night, a white woman, named Mary Frances Beech, who was arrested on the Bladensburg road for intoxication, was burned to death in a cell at the police station, corner of First and F. Streets, Washington.
A carriage containing
Hugh McDougal and Mrs. William Parks and daughter, of Paterson, N.J., was
demolished at that place by an Erie train Friday, and all the persons named
seriously and probably fatally injured.
Death From Burning
Charles Smith, an
old resident of this township, near Croton, died on Monday night of last
week from injuries received on the Thursday night previous...
Sudden Death
On Tuesday afternoon
last, Mrs. Jacob Pickel, of Stanton, started to go to the pasture field
after the cows. Being gone a long time, her husband went to ascertain
the cause of the delay, when he was horrified to find her dead body by
the bars leading into the pasture field, she having, it is supposed, died
of heart disease.
Chamberlain Sutphin, of Ringoes, died on Friday last from injuries received a few weeks ago by a runaway accident, which we chronicled at the time.
On the 19th inst.,
Mrs. Anna Schomp died at Kinney's Mills, aged 93 years. She was supposed
to be the oldest lady in Readington township; has been a widow 25 years.
Her husband lived to be 68 years old; she was active up to her death.
She leave two children. - Casket.
Marriages
May 15, by Rev. A.
W. Peck, Charles B. Fletcher, of Brooklyn, Minnesota, to Millie H. F. Peck,
of Sandy Ridge, adopted daughter of the officiating clergyman.
Deaths
Near Sergeantsville, May 5, Ozi. S. Parks, in the 85th year of his age.
Near Head Quarters, May 20, Harrison Vanorman, aged 50 years.
In Flemington, on the 21st inst., of consumption, David Mabrey Bateman, son of Moses M. Bateman, aged 36 years and 6 months.
At Quakertown, on the 3d inst., Rachel Myers, wife of John Leonard, aged ?9 years.
In Readington township, May 19, Anna Schomp, relict of George D. Schomp, aged 93 years.
In Lambertville, May
16, of consumption, Maggie G., wife of William Hill and daughter of William
Mifflin, aged 28 years.
June 5, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 41, Whole No. 2018
News Items
A son of Frank McGillage, aged 18 months, was drowned in the canal at Middletown, Pennsylvania, Wednesday.
By an accident on Wednesday at the new outlet lock, a mile above the aqueduct bridge, in Georgetown, D. C., John M. Meade, assistant harbor master of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, was instantly killed, and two employees, Sylvester Carroll, aged 17 years and Michael Reynolds, aged 60 years, fatally injured.
Juan Salazai was hanged on Friday at San Rafeal, California, for murder.
D. M. Knowlton, Assistant Adjutant General of the Grand Army of the Republic, of California, committed suicide on Friday.
Joseph C. Riley, a Baltimorean, jumped from the third story window of the American House in Washington on Friday, and received injuries which resulted in his death a few hours afterward.
A Terrible Crime
A Columbus, Georgia,
dispatch says: Last Friday morning, before daybreak, Mrs. C. C. Chambliss,
of Stewart county, was murdered by three negroes of the neighborhood.
They fired fences and drew her husband away from the house. The negroes
then proceeded to the house to rob it, and were met by Mrs. Chambliss,
a beautiful woman, aged 18 years, armed with a gun. One of the negroes,
Jerry Snead, took the gun from her and lodged its contents in her head,
causing her death instantly.... Jerry admitted the deed and implicated
his companions, Stephen Abram and William Booth. They were brought
to Chambliss' house that afternoon, and it was unanimously decided by about
three hundred whites and blacks present that they should be hanged.
State Items
John Harper fell dead while drinking at the bar in Clowing's saloon, Jersey City, on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Theodore Brodhead, the widow of the man who was murdered at the Delaware Water Gap some years ago by Brooks and Orme, died in Philadelphia on Tuesday of last week, where she had gone to have a surgical operation performed. Mrs. Brodhead was about 45 years of age, and until recently taught school at the Gap.
In the "Meadows",
on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, just beyond the Hackensack river,
New Jersey, on Tuesday, a freight car backed into a handcar from which
four men were distributing ties. Thomas Hogan and Philip Goodman
were killed; Edward Henry lost both legs and Patrick Donnelly had a hip
broken. It is thought both will die.
Marriages
May 26, by Rev. J. Faull, Dr. B. D. Howell, of Clinton, to Carrie Gillen, of High Bridge.
May 23, by Rev. Wm. H. Ruth, assisted by Rev. J. W. Dally, of Basking Ridge, Lambert Smith, of Stanton, to Bella Stires, of Bloomsbury.
May 17, by Rev. C. L. Twing, Henry J. Donahoe to Anna Bell Stryker, both of Flemington.
May 23, by Rev. C. H. Asey, Cornelius Farley, of West Amwell, to Susan Docherty, of Sandbrook.
May 17, at New York
City, by Rev. Mr. Galladant, George R. Sullivan, M.D., of Flemington, to
Ada H. Crater, of New Brunswick.
Deaths
At Oak Grove, May 20, Mrs. Eleanor Mattison, wife of Evans G. Mattison, in the 84th year of her age.
May 15, at Cokesburg, Mrs. Lydia Hoffman, aged 67 years.
May 22, at Somerville, Maggie, wife of George Carkuff, aged 23 years and 8 days. Formerly of Readington, and a daughter of Samuel Brown, deceased.
At Stanton, May 29, William Shafer, at an advanced age.
At Anthony, May 22,
Catharine, wife of Peter Watters, aged 52 years, 8 months and 2 days.
Local Department
John, an eleven-year old son of Smith Clark, of High Bridge, was drowned at the dam of John T. Dorland's mill, on Tuesday afternoon.
On Sunday morning,
May 27, an unknown man was found dead upon the lime kiln of E. V. Cregar,
Lower Valley. From papers found near him, it is supposed his name
is John McLoughan, lately emigrated from Ireland.
June 12, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 42, Whole No. 2019
John R. Slack, a prominent
Democrat of Burlington county, died at Mount Holly last week. He
was the oldest member of the bar of that county, and Clerk from 1833 to
1838.
Marriages
May 22, by the Rev.
Mr. Smock, of Readington, Levi M. Cole to Alletta A. Dalley, both of Pleasant
Run.
Deaths
In Frenchtown, May 31, Mary Cronce, aged 70 years.
In Frenchtown, April 26, Fletcher Bray, aged 56 years.
At her residence in Flemington, June 9, Elizabeth, widow of the late Robert Stout, in the 87th year of her age.
June 5, at his residence near Cherryville, Daniel Runkle, an old resident.
In Lambertville, June 4, Annie Curtis, aged 1 year and 3 months.
In Lambertville, June 5, Amanda M., wife of Amos M. Morgan, aged 28 years.
In Clinton, June 5, Margaret, second daughter of William C. and Eliza A. Reeves, in the 16th year of her age.
In Clinton, June 6,
Charity, relict of the late Jacob Low, in the 93d year of her age.
Local Department
On day last week, a young son of John Shays, of High Bridge, was run over and instantly killed by a train of cars. Both legs and one arm were cut off.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stout,
one of our oldest residents, died rather suddenly last Saturday.
During her useful life of 87 years, she was known as a kind and loving
mother, an obliging neighbor and friend.
June 19, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 43, Whole No. 2020
Murdered By Masked Burglars
A Beaver Valley,
Pa., dispatch says: Within the past week numerous attempts at highway
robbery have been made by masked men. Several houses in the surrounding
country have been entered and robbed of everything valuable which could
be conveniently carried off. Thursday afternoon at a late hour, the
residence of Geo. Thompson, a dairyman, was broken into and robbed.
As the masked burglars were leaving the premises, they were met my Thomas
Burns, a hired man. Burns in trying to prevent the departure of the
robbers was shot and killed.
Calvin Stewart, we
learn, aged 19 years, while intoxicated, attempted to board the drill locomotive,
in Dover, N.J., Monday. Ira Cole, the fireman, prevented him from
doing so, and Stewart, with a long knife, stabbed Cole in the leg, severing
an artery. Cole was removed to his home, where he bled to death.
Local Department
A daughter of George S. Heany, formerly of Frenchtown, was burned to death in Philadelphia, last week. Her clothes caught fire from the cook stove.
Wm. J. Rockafellow,
who for the past ten years has conducted a dry goods and grocery store
in this place, has taken down his sign and removed his stock of goods to
Marshall's Creek, Pa., a village five miles this side of Stroudsburg.
William Williams,
an old colored man of Belvidere, died on Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock.
He was born in the south, a slave, and running away from his master, came
north to Belvidere. A number of years after, he was found, and was
claimed by his former master, when he was purchased by the citizens of
that place and given his freedom.
State Items
John Thompson, foreman in the grinding room of the rubber factory at West Bloomingdale, on the New Jersey Midland Railroad, was instantly killed on Friday night by the bursting of a grindstone, a large piece of which struck him in the face.
Nick Salter, of Park Ridge, is the father of twenty-five children, the last being a son, with which he was presented by his lady one day last week. The present Mrs. Salter, is the mother of sixteen of them. Salter is said to be the champion father of Bergen county.
Ex-Sheriff Miller, of Monmouth county, died last week. He was Sheriff of that county in 1834-5-6.
The Matawan Journal says - There is an old colored woman named "Aunt Peggy" Logan, living about two miles east of Marlboro, who is one hundred and ten years old. Her sister died a little over a year ago, aged 112.
There has been quite an excitement over the sudden death of Capt. Moses Tyrrell, whose remains were brought to Woodbridge, N.J., for interment, from Saybrook, Codn...
Joanna Farnham, for
many years housekeeper of the American Hotel, Boston, died not long ago
at the age of eighty....
Marriages
June 9, by Rev. A.
Vandusen, Joseph Hoffman to Rebecca Dilley, all of Mechanicsville.
Deaths
In Frenchtown, June 8 and 9, Carrie and Martha, twin daughters of Hugh E. and Sidney Warford, aged about 5 weeks.
In Flemington, June
12, John M. Moses, aged 65 years.
June 26, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 44, Whole No. 2021
Jane Burk's Money
Miss Jane Burk, who
died last February at her residence near Freehold, on the Blue Ball turnpike,
left, as it now appears, a considerable amount of property to her two nephews,
Dr. Milton Turnure, of Cloister, N.J. and Mr. W. A. Hankinson, of Brooklyn,
N.Y....
Rev. John S. C. Abbott, the popular historian and writer, is dead.... He had reached the advanced age of 72 years.
Hon. John Pettit, died in Lafayette, Ind., last Sunday, aged seventy....
Sad Suicide
For some time past
a young man named Furman Titus, a son of Mr. Nathaniel Titus, of Rocky
Hill, had been stopping at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Archibald
Updyke, near Pennington, and was noticed to be melancholy and uneasy in
mind for several weeks past. On last Tuesday evening, a short time
after supper, after his sister had washed up the dishes, and while she
went out into the yard to empty the dish water, having only been absent
a few moments, she heard the report of a gun, and on running back to the
kitchen, she found her brother lying on the floor, bleeding from a wound
at the side of the head, the brain oozing out.... He died next morning.
the unfortunate man was about 27 years of age.
Robert Richter, aged
40, a clerk in the Quartermaster General's office in Washington committed
suicide in a garden attached to his dwelling, last Friday evening.
State Items
On Tuesday of last
week, a small child of a Mr. Sheppard, near Moore's Mills, Cumberland county,
fell into an uncovered tub of lye. The parents were out strawberry
picking at the time. On returning they found the child in the tub,
in a dying condition. Restoratives were applied but all to no purpose,
and the little sufferer soon passed away.
Marriages
June 20, by Rev. C.
S. Conkling, John W. Frounfelker, of Scranton, Pa., to Amy Bellis, only
daughter of Holloway W. Bellis, of Everittstown.
Deaths
At Mechanicsville,
June 18, David Dilley, aged about 50 years.
In Chancery of New Jersey. To Catharine
L. Cenderling -
By virtue of an order
of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, made on the day of the date hereof,
in a cause wherein Robert B. Cenderling is petitioner, and you, Catherine
L. Cenderling, are defendant, you are required to appear and plead, demur
or answer to the petitioner's petition on or before the Thirtieth day of
July next, or that in default thereof such decree be made against you as
the Chancellor shall think equitable and just. The said petition
is filed against you by the said Robert B. Cenderling, for the purpose
of obtaining a divorce from the bond of matrimony. L. H. Sergeant,
Solicitor of Petitioner, May 29, 1877.
July 3, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 45, Whole No. 2022
Four Men Killed
Seven miners, while
engaged in drawing a bucket filled with zinc ore from the mines in the
mountains between Waterloo and Newton, Sussex county, on Tuesday last,
accidentally caught the rope on a sharp stone and cut it in two.
Five of the men were precipitated into the mine, and Baxter Jones, William
Garvey, Henry Peters and Richard Apgar were so badly injured that they
died next day.
George L. Crosby, wife and two children were drowned in a creek near Hannibal, Mo., Wednesday, while crossing a bridge over a small stream swollen.
Death From Blood Poison
On Friday, the 15th
inst., Dr. William Leroy Stevens, a young physician, who has been acting
as surgeon at St. Peter's Hospital, in Brooklyn, while making a post mortem
examination upon the body of a woman who died from an abscess and pneumonia,
was slightly cut with one of his instruments on the forefinger on his left
hand. He at once had suitable poultices made and administered; but
in the course of a few hours his arm swelled to almost double its natural
size. He remained at the hospital under the care of his fellow doctors
until Sunday afternoon, when he died. Dr. Stevens was a graduate
of the University of Virginia, and his remains were taken to Charleston,
S.C.
Local Department
John Water, Esq., on old resident of Lebanon township, died suddenly on Saturday week, in the ninety-second year of his age.
John Bonham, an old resident of Hunterdon, and for many years a school teacher in Clinton, died on the 15th ult. In South Haven, Mich, aged 74 years.
Albert Butler, son of John Butler, Esq., an old resident of Musconetcong, was drowned in the Missouri river, at Weldon, Platt county, Mo. On Thursday of week before last.
A week or two since,
two children of Dr. L. M. Stevens, formerly of Lambertville, died of diphtheria
in Burlington. On Saturday, 24th ult., the third and only remaining
child was buried.
A Burglar Shot and Killed
A farmer named Cranston,
living near Hackettstown, last Wednesday morning shot and killed a burglar
named Burton Mitchell, who was attempting to enter his house.
State Items
Mrs. Adolph Tuffe and infant, of Jersey City, were under the charge of a physician who prescribed morphine powders for the mother and infantile powers for the child. A sleepy nurse Tuesday morning gave the wrong power to the infant, with fatal effect.
On Friday evening, Mary Kenna, a widow lady, aged sixty, while conversing with friends next door to her residence, in Gloucester City, placed her hands to her eyes and complained of the loss of sight, and in a moments expired. Cause, apoplexy.
An infant child of
Mr. Nathaniel Lawrence, residing at Millbrook, near Morristown, wandered
away from home on Tuesday morning. A search was immediately made,
and the child was found drowned in the race. The little fellow was
about two years old.
Marriages
By Rev. A. Van Dusen, June 28th, Frank Kelley to Josie Todd, all of Mechanicsville.
June 21st, by Rev. Chas. S. Converse, J. V. D. Losey, of Raritan, to Lavina Sked, of Unionville.
June 23rd, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Enoch B. Suydam and Alice M. Agans, both of Franklin township.
By Rev. A. Van Dusen, June 27th, Dr. William Purcell to Emma Ditmars, all of Mechanicsville.
By Rev. W. H. Ruth, June 14th, Henry L. Phillips to Emma E. Martin, both of Bloomsbury.
By Rev. B. F. Robb, at Stockton, June 23d, Jesse Lefever and Lizzie Martin, both of Kingwood township.
June 21, by Rev. Alex.
Miller, Dr. John V. Robbins to Hannah, daughter of David Williamson, Esq.,
all of Ringoes.
Deaths
In Kingwood township,
June 27, Joseph Hann, in the 77th year of his age.
July 10, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 46, Whole No. 2022
Local Department
Joseph Hann, an old resident of Kingwood township, died on Wednesday of week before last. He had creditably filled several of the local offices of his township, and at one time was a Justice of the Peace. His age was 77 years.
A son of H. V. D.
Van Liew, near Clover Hill, died on Sunday week from what is supposed to
have been blood poisoning.
Marriages
July 4, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Josiah Pickel, of Stanton, to Anna J. Parks, of Flemington.
June 30, by the Rev. J. S. Beekman, Levi F. Chamberlain, of Woodsville, to Emma J. Baldwin of Ringoes.
July 4, by Rev. J. Faull, Isaac W. Dorland, of High Bridge, to Lizzie S. Morgan, of Lower Valley.
June 23, by Rev. D. Hallerson, Andrew Scott and Fannie Pittenger, both of Clinton.
At Jewett, N.Y., June
20, by Rev. J. B. Whitcomb, of Jewett, assisted by Revs. N. Leighton, of
the same place, and J. A. Davis, of Pottersville, N.J., Rev. T. E.
Davis, pastor elect, of Fairmount, to Evilla S. Whitcomb, daughter of the
first named clergyman.
Deaths
In Alexander township, July 1, Ann W. Atkinson, wife of Benjamin Atkinson, aged 70 years.
At Pottersville, June 23, Joseph S. Burd, aged 58 years.
In Trenton, N.J.,
June 15, of pulmonary consumption, Edward Kuhl, in the 34th year of his
age.
July 17, 1877, Vol. XXXIX, No. 47, Whole No. 2023
Death of Colonel J. W. Woodruff.
Col. James W. Woodruff,
who for many years has been widely known through his connection with the
Pennsylvania and other railroad management , died suddenly at his residence,
No. 118 Union Street, Elizabeth, at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning, 8th inst.
from paralysis of the spine... Deceased was a member of one of the
oldest families in that portion of the State, having been born at Elizabeth
in November, 1814....
Five Persons Killed By A Train
A Greenfield, Mass.,
dispatch of Wednesday says: An extra engine and caboose, while running
toward Greenfield, on the Fitchburg Railroad, at Wendell Station, last
Thursday, ran into a carriage which was crossing the railroad at that point.
Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brown, and
Miss Nellie Lacey, the occupants of the carriage, were killed...
State Items:
During the violent
storm of Monday evening last two girls named Ella Costigan and Mary Colloton,
aged respectively 7 and 10 years, while pasturing cows in a field
near Freehold, were struck by lightning and prostrated. When found
Ella Costigan was quite dead and the other girl was unconscious, but finally
recovered.
A Singular Death
A letter from Decatur,
Ill., states that Miss Kate Kelley, an estimable young lady of that town,
was stung in the mouth by a bee on Wednesday morning, and so rapidly did
the poison take effect that she was dead in eight minutes.
Fatal Fun On The Fourth
A number of boys
and young men found about half a keg of blasting powder in Brookman's quarry,
in the western suburbs of the city