A Boston Girl Kills Her Mother
    A Boston dispatch says: Mrs. Helen Josephine Ward, living at No. 11 Hamilton place with her daughter, aged nineteen, was shot last night while asleep and died this morning.  From what the daughter says it is believed that while in a state of somnambulism she shot her mother who occupied the same room.

An Innocent Man Punished
    The Lancaster, Pa., papers publish the statement that a man named Leonard Shields, of Marietta, that county, who died a few days ago, made a confession just prior to his death that he murdered James Brady, a saloon keeper at that place, in 1863.  At the time of the murder, James McCully, a drunken barber of Chester county was arrested for the deed... The circumstances were against him, and he was sentenced to ten years and four months in the Eastern Penitentiary, where he died five years afterward, and just previous thereto he made a written statement declaring his innocence.

    George, the Count Joannes, originally George Jones, author, actor and counselor, of the Supreme Court, died at the West Side Hotel, New York, on Tuesday afternoon.
 

Marriages

    Dec. 24, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, James H. Swallow, of Copper Hill, to Jennie Galvin, of Locktown.

    Jan. 1, 1880, by Rev. Alex Miller, John H. Hunt, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., to Martha Young, of Ringoes.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Harrison Van Horn to Annie N. Gregg, both of Lambertville.

    Dec. 24, by the same, Eugene R. Fox to Sue Green, both of Lambertville.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. J. M. Helsely, George H. Suydam to Mattie W. Blackwell, all of Ringoes.

    Dec. 24, by Rev. C. H. Asay, William N. Holcombe, to Ida M. Hixson, all of Mount Airy.

    Dec. 17, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, Daniel P. Case, of Quakertown, to Minnie Sturm, of Sunnyside.

    Dec. 27, by the same, Milton Trimmer, to Harriet S. Trimmer, both of Franklin.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. W. H. Ruth, John B. Oppie, of Headquarters, to Mary J. Angleman, of Clinton.

    Dec. 24, by Rev. A. Van Deusen, William Altemus, of Clinton, to Lizzie Eichlin, of Norton.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. B. F. Hodge, J. Y. Clark, of Trenton, to Carrie Warford of Milford.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. P. D. Day, Jacob C. Apgar, of Potterstown, to Sarah A. Apgar, of Mountainville.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. H. D. Doolittle, Jacob H. Tiger, of Annandale, to Amarillous Barrass, of Clinton.

    Dec. 25, by the same, Charles A. Leonard, of Pittstown, to Maggie Blackburn, of Clinton.

    Dec. 25, by the Rev. Chas. H. Thomas, Joseph H. Sebold to Mary C. Slack, both of Lambertville.

    At the house of the father of the bride, Raritan, on Christmas morning, by Rev. Chas. H. Pool, H. Alexander Campbell, of Metuchin, N.J., to Emma Stout.

    At the same time and place, Elisha W. Breuer, of Ringoes, to Hattie V. H. Stout.

    At the same time and place, Jacob W. Hoagland, of Three Bridges, to Anna M. Stout.
 

Deaths

    In Bethlehem township, Dec. 30, 1879, Jacob B. Vliet, aged about 70 years.

    In Clinton, Dec. 25, 1879, Lizzie, daughter of George Gulick, Esq., aged 22 years, 8 months and 22 days.

    In Pittstown, Dec. 6, 1879, Elsie Duckworth, wife of Peter Oaks, aged 83 years and 8 months.

    In Milford, Dec. 2, 1879, Edward Roy Thomas, son of Edward and Virginia V. Thomas, in the 4th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 29, 1879, Alpheus B., son of William and Jennie Naylor, aged 5 years.

    In Headquarters, Dec. 25, 1879, Anna Moore, aged 92 years, 8 months and 18 days.

    Near Flemington, Dec. 27, 1879, Jacob Wagoner, in the 78th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    Our friend Jacob P. Rockafellow a native of this county, now a resident of New Rutland, Illinois, gave us a call last Thursday, he being on a visit to his brother, James S. Rockafellow.
 

    Daniel B. Sebold died in Virginia last week.  His remains were brought to Baptisttown for interment.  Mr. Sebold was a native of Kingwood township, and for many years resided between Baptisttown and Croton.  Some years ago, at the close of the war, he invested in real estate in Virginia and removed there.  He had many relatives living in Kingwood and Franklin townships.

Sudden Death
    Richard Van Liew, for the past thirty-five or forty years a store-keeper at "Van Liew's Corner." in East Amwell township, died very suddenly on New Years' day.   The cause of his death was apoplexy.

A Shocking Accident
    One of saddest accidents that we have been called upon to chronicle in many a day, occurred at Bloomsbury on Monday of last week.  An 18-months-old son of William C. Smith was toddling about the floor while its mother was engaged in doing the weeks' wash.  She, unmindful of danger, dipped out a pail full of scalding water from the wash boiler, and set it down on the floor, and then left the room for a moment.  During her absence, the baby boy walked up to the pail and fell backwards into the scalding water, burning himself so terribly that his death resulted during the day, after awful suffering.

Death of Joseph C. Wright
    On New Year's day, in Frenchtown, occurred the death of Joseph C. Wright, Esq.  He had been totally blind for the past two or three years and in May last had a paralytic shock from which he never recovered....   He leaves a wife but no children.  His age was about 70 years.

A Strange Suicide
    On Wednesday evening last, at about eight o'clock, Operator [Martin] Nugent, of the County Line office, a small railroad office about three miles east of White House, was relieved from duty for the night, after reporting at headquarters.  A short time afterwards he was discovered lying near the office, shot through the head and the heart, with a revolver lying at his side in such a position as to indicate that he had shot himself....  Nugent was a man about twenty-five years of age....
 

State Items

    Fred Baldwin, of Boonton, was recently married to Fanny Blanchard, of Denville, but the groom failed to secure possession of his bride, as she claims she was married against her will, and remains at her father's.

    Michael Sullivan, who was convicted of manslaughter in the Union County Courts, a short time since, for burying the illegitimate child of his daughter while it was alive, was on Monday sentenced to one year in State Prison at hard labor.

    Margaret Nugent, the oldest resident of New Brunswick, died on Christmas Day at the age of 109 years.  The old lady was a native of Ireland.
 
 

    The death is announced, at his home in South Orange, New Jersey, of Charles Coudert, a survivor of the battle of Leipsic and sometime a lieutenant in the Guard of Honor of the First Napoleon.  Born in Bordeaux, December 27, 1795, when seventeen years old he joined the corps named - a part of the Young Guard - and during the last year of the first empire, as well as during the Hundred Days fought gallantly for Napoleon...
 

Marriages

    Dec. 24, by Rev. J. S. Foulk, Elmer A. Hartpence, of Harbourton, to Martha Tomlinson, of Lambertville.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, Charles W. Johnson, to Rebecca Reamer, both of Lambertville.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. Wm. H. Hoffman, Aaron Cregar to Mary Wortman, all of Pottersville.

    Dec. 24, by S. W. Roe, D. D., John Dawes, Esq., to Laura Sharp, all of Clinton township.

    Dec. 18, by Rev. Wm. H. Ruth, John R. Henry to Mary A. Cole, both of Mechanicsville.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Alfred H. Seigfried to Lavina Leigh, both of Glen Gardner.
 

Deaths

    In Bull's Island, Dec. ? 1879, James Colligan, Jr., aged 18 years.
 

Local Department

    Near Cokesbury, on New Year's  morning, Sophia McIntyre, colored, aged about 70, fell dead, on leaving her bed to go to look out the window.

    Dr. Jacob Ludlow, of Nashville, Tennessee, will shortly move to Neshanic and take the practice of his brother, Dr. R. G. Ludlow, lately deceased.

    William W. Hedges, an old resident of Frenchtown, died at Kingston a few days ago.  He was at one time postmaster of the borough.
 

Found Dead
    Last Tuesday morning, 6th inst., as Mary Swarer was on her way to the house of her sister, near Sand Brook, she suddenly came upon the body of a man lying partly under some rails near a fence upon lands of William Shepherd.  She retraced her steps to the house of William Sutton, and there apprised the occupants of what she had seen.  In company with the Sutton's, Mary returned to the spot when the startling discovery was made that the body was that of Daniel R. Wolverton, cold in death....
    After an inquiry into the cause of the man's death the jury returned the following verdict: "After due deliberation we find that the deceased, Daniel R. Wolverton, came to his death from exposure between the 30th of December, 1879 and the 6th of January, 1880, as we verily believe."
    Deceased was a married man, between 35 and 40 years of age, and resided at Sand Brook....
 

State Items

    Miss Harriet Hoff, of Mt. Pleasant, Morris county, whose death was announced on Sunday, was the last of her family.  She and a bachelor brother and maiden sister all kept house together; they died some time since.  She was nearly ninety years old.
 
 

Shocking Death of a Bishop
    Dr. John S. Utterton, Bishop suffragan of Guilford, England, died under painfully sudden circumstances a fortnight ago....

    Diana Freeman, a widow woman, colored, in Elizabeth on Saturday at 1 A.M., died of pneumonia, in the sixty-ninth year of her age.  Charles Thompson, a brother of the above, two years younger, lived in Roselle for the past seven years, until the same hour, when he too died, and singularly enough, of the same disease as his sister.  Both parties were born and brought up in Bull's Ferry, and were members of an aid society.  On Sunday a double funeral was held, and both were taken and buried together.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 10, by Rev. S. D. Decker, James L. Schooly to Fannie R. Rosebury, all of Bloomsbury.

    Jan. 7, by Rev. J. B. Thompson, D. D., Aaron J. Thompson, of Readington, to Abbie H. Thomas, of Metuchen.
 

Deaths

    In Sandbrook, Dec. 18, 1879, Jonas Sutton, aged 75 years, 9 months and 4 days.

    In Groesbeck, Limestone Co., Texas, Dec. 12, 1879, Ada Mathews, only daughter of Benjamin Mathews, and formerly of Lambertville, aged 14 years, 11 months and 15 days.

    In High Bridge, Jan. 8, 1880, Ella L., wife of Frank P. Seal, aged 22 years, 3 months and 29 days.

    In Milford, Dec. 18, 1879, John, only son of John and Lizzie Jameson, in the 6th year of his age.

    In Milford, Dec. 27, 1879, Peter H. Thompson, aged 73 years, 9 months and 15 days.
 

Executors' Sale of a Valuable Farm and Distillery.  Also Personal Property.
    The subscribers, Executors of Jonas Sutton, late of the township of Delaware, county of Hunterdon, deceased, will sell at Public Sale on the premises, on Tuesday, February 3, 1880, the Homestead Farm of said deceased, situated in the said township of Delaware, adjoining lads of Nelson Holcombe, Jacob Thatcher, Daniel Ege and others, containing 115 48-100 acres of land, 12 acres of which are timber.
    The personal property consists of 1 cow, about 20 tons of hay, 1 spring wagon, 1 sleigh, green grain in the ground, five or six hundred gallons of cider, household goods - consisting of beds, bedding, bureaus, tables, chairs, carpets, 1 good old-fashion 8-day clock, stone earthen, glass and tin ware, &c.
            Amos Sutton, John P. Rittenhouse, executors.
 

Local Department

    The body of Charles Suydam, who died suddenly out West last Summer, was brought to Mechanicsville for interment on Saturday of week before last.

    John Sutton, of Fairmount, now knows the dangers of wrestling.  He was engaged in that amusement the other day when he broke one of his legs.
 

The Funeral of J. R. Clark
    The funeral of Jacob R. Clark, whose sudden death had been recorded, took place today at the residence of his mother, on Water street, at half-past twelve o'clock.  The Rev. Wm. Day performed the services, and the body was taken to Flemington on the 2:04 train, for burial.  A touching tribute from his comrades of the late Co. E., 3rd Reg., was sent in the shape of a handsome wreath of flowers - Plainfield Bulletin, Jan. 13.
    The young man above alluded to was a son of the late William Clark, of Flemington.
 
 

State Items

    Old Thomas Thompson, who died in Paterson on Saturday, was born a slave to a Belleville family, but purchased his freedom.  The valuable Market street property falls to his son, John, now an old man himself and with issue, so there will be no heir to the property when he dies.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 29, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, Andrew B. Rittenhouse, of Flemington, to Emma L. Hockenbury, of Glen Gardner.

    At Pittstown, Jan. 21, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Porter C. Little to Julia, daughter of Hiram Deats.

    At Quakertown, Jan. 21, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Henry S. Brown, to Mary E., daughter of Asa Case.

    Jan. 21, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D. , John V. Blackwell, of Hopewell, to Julia A. Van Doren, of Flemington, daughter of the late Abraham I. Van Doren, of Neschanic.

    Jan. 13, at South Branch, by Rev. Wm. Pitcher, James Todd, of White House, to Annie E. Dow.

    Jan. 17, by the Rev. B. Carrell, Hiram Holcombe, of Wertsville, to Sarah E. Quick, daughter of Horace Runkle, Esq., of Mount Airy.

    Jan. 14, by Rev. P. M. Doolittle, Andrew Emery of Dreahook, to Emma Van Doren, of Centreville.

    Jan. 17, by Rev. H. G. Williams, Wm. E. Kelly, to Mrs. Lizzie Smith, all of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    Near Pattenburgh, Jan. 20, 1880, of dropsy, Ann, wife of Jacob Fine, in the 67th year of her age.

    In West Amwell township, Jan. 16, 1880, of diphtheria, William E., son of Daniel and Mary A. Burk, aged 4 years and 8 months.

    Near Clinton, Jan. 12, 1880, Peter Young, aged 76 years.

    Near Readington, Jan. 20th, 1880, John Kline, aged 95 years, 5 months and 12 days.

    Near Pittstown, Jan. 16, 1880, John P. Apgar, in the 81st year of his age.
 

Hunterdon County Surrogate Office
    Order to Limit Creditors - Upon the application of John P. Rittenhouse and Amos Sutton, Executors of the estate of Jonas Sutton, deceased....   W. H. Johnson, Surrogate
Dated Surrogate's Office, Jan. 19, 1880.

In Chancery of New Jersey
    To Joseph B. Sutton and Theodore C. Sutton.
    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 William H. Williamson, Executor &c., of John Williamson, deceased, is complainant, and you and others are defendants, you are required to appear, plead, demur or answer to the complainant's bill on or before the Twenty-third day of March next, or the said bill will be taken as confessed against you.
    The said bill is filed to foreclose a mortgage given to Jonas Sutton, now deceased, to John Williamson, on lands in the township of Delaware, in the county of Hunterdon, dated the twentieth day of April, A. D., 1860, and you, Joseph B. Sutton, are made defendant because you hold a mortgage on said lands subsequent ot the above mentioned mortgage; and you, the said Joseph B. Sutton and Theodore C. Sutton, are made defendants because you are two of the children and heirs-in-law of the said Jonas Sutton, deceased, and tenants-in-common of the premises described in said mortgage.
    Asa Jones, Solicitor of Complainant, Flemington, Hunterdon County, N.J., Jan. 20, 1880.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Ellen Hill, widow of the late John Hill, of Reaville, is erecting a new dwelling on Main street, south of the Baptist Church, in this town.

    The Hotel property at White Hall, with thirty-five acres of land, had been sold to George Apgar, merchant at New Hampton, for twenty-four hundred and fifty dollars.
 

    Rev. C. P. Miller, well known in the upper end of the county and along the river, died recently at Bridgeton, opposite Milford, at the age of 74.  He had resided of late years in that place and Milford.  He was for the last 23 years of his ministry, Pastor of Nockamixon and Tinicum Lutheran Churches....  He was buried at Nockamixon.
 
 

State Items

    A few evenings ago a lamp in the rooms of Mrs. Mary Fitsmorris, Jersey City, exploded.  Mrs. Fitzmorris, enveloped in flames, ran to rooms occupied by Mrs. Margaret Shiel, and attempted to get in.  Margaret Shiel was prostrated by fright, and on Saturday she died in consequence of the shock.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 17, by Rev. W. D. Roberts, Charles W. Bond, of Solebury,  Pa., to Urania T. Knowles, of Ringoes, N.J.

    Jan. 27, by Rev. Mr. Letz, Wm. A. LaRue, of Annandale, to Laura Struble, of Myrtle Grove, Sussex Co.

    Jan. 24, by Rev. C. H. Traver, George H. Adams, of Providence, R.I., to Jennie M. Kline, of Glen Gardner.

    Jan. 28, by the same, Jospeh E. Corzatt, of High Bridge, to Kiziah Moore, of Anthony.

    Jan. 29, by the same, Isaiah Hildebrand to Francis Teraberry, both of White Hall.

    Jan. 31, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, George G. Burd, of Kingwood, to Josephine Worthington, of Locktown.

    Jan. 24, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, Wesley Oakes to Jennie Drake, both of Junction.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, Jan. 29, 1880, Catharine Louisa, wife of William A. Hope, aged 59 years, 7 months and 5 days.

    Near Califon, Jan. 17, 1880, George Flomerfelt, aged 65 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 27, 1880, suddenly, Nathaniel Coffey, aged 62 years.

    In West Amwell township, Jan. 22, 1880, Mrs. Eliza Ann Mackey, aged 74 years.

    At Ithica, Darke county, Ohio, Dec. 30, 1879, Moses Thatcher, in the 76th year of his age, formerly of Kingwood township.

    At Erwinna, Pa., Jan. 25, 1880, Charles, son of Isaac S. Stover, aged 19 years.
 
 

A Pittsburg School Girl Cremated
    Another cremation took place in  Washington, Pa., last Saturday.  The body of Miss Dolly Hartman was cremated in Dr. Lemoyne's furnace.  Miss Hartman was a school-girl, 17 years old, extremely pretty and highly accomplished for one so young.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 29, by Rev. E. DeYoe, John H. Nunn, Esq., of Glen Gardner, to Norah W. Bogert, daughter of James N. Bogert, of Campgaw, N.J.

    Jan. 31, by Rev. Alex Miller, Nelson L. Van Epps to Mrs. Caroline Hoagland, of Ringoes.

    Jan. 28, by Rev. D. R. Foster, Elbert E. Wert, of Lambertville, to E. Rena Phillips, of Woodsville.
 

Deaths

    At Fairmount, Jan. 17, 1880, Wm. Rhinehart, aged 78 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 29, 1880, Betsey Makin, aged 72 years.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 1, 1880, of diphtheria, Mary J., daughter of George F. and Elizabeth Chidister, aged 9 years.
 

Local Department

    Frederick Crill, who murdered his daughter up in Sussex county, a year or more ago, had been sentenced to be hung on April 3.

    Norman Dean, for the past fifteen years Postmaster of New Hope, died on Tuesday evening last, very suddenly, it is supposed from paralysis.
 

State Items

    Mr. Peter Van Arsdale, an old and most respected citizen of Pluckamin, died at his residence on Saturday last at the ripe old age of 88 years.  He was the oldest member of the Bedminister Church.
 
 

Marriages

    Feb. 11, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, William F. Brown, of Kingwood, to Jennie E. Gulick, of Flemington.

    Jan. 28, by Rev. F. Bloom, Elwood D. Conner, of Kingwood, to Sallie S. Williamson, of Stockton.

    Jan. 31, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, William Young, of Union, to Eliza Ann Leonard, of Alexandria.

    Feb. 7, by the same, Asher Fleming, of Branchburg, to Matilda E. Haver, of North Branch, both of Somerset county.

    Feb. 10, by the same, Levi Apgar, of Alexandria, to Mary Belle Stockton, of Union.

    Jan. 28, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, assisted by Rev. E. H. Reinhart, John L. Ballantyne to Fannie Bacon, all of Elizabeth.

    Feb. 12, by Elder W. G. Purington, Andrew Y. Scarborough, to Hattie H. Holcombe, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    Near Locktown, Jan. 18, 1880, Jacob Lake, in the 73rd year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 8, 1880, of consumption, Emma Augusta, wife of John Savage, aged 33 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 9, 1880, John William, son of Harrison and Caroline R. Sutphin, aged 17 years and 6 months.
 

    In the year 1874, the Presbyterian Church at Flemington, sent Miss Ella Kuhl, daughter of the late J. Higgins Kuhl, of Copper Hill, as a Missionary to Brazil.  The young lady reached Rio Clara where she entered upon her labors with great ardor and efficiency.  About a year ago she was removed to Sao Paulo were she has been engaged in a Training School.  Her health failing from the great amount of work she performed during the past six years, Miss Kuhl had to apply for leave of absence, and will visit her home to recuperate her health and to confer with the Missionary Societies of this country.

Ringoes Notes

    Mrs. Solomon, an old resident of this place, died on Wednesday last at an advanced age.  She was a sister of our merchant, David Williamson, Esq.
 
 

    Rev. Dr. J. B. Jeter, a leading Baptist minister, died in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, aged 78 years.  He was born in Virginia, and entered the ministry nearly 58 years ago...

    Edith Gilliam, colored, a native of Sussex county, Va., died in Philadelphia, Wednesday, aged 115 years.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 12, by Rev. F. Bloom, Lewis S. Bloom, of Kingwood, to Laura A. Bidewell, of Franklin.

    Feb. 12, by Rev. Alex. Miller, Stephen Lofton, of Delaware township, to Mary Elizabeth Perkins of Flemington.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. A. Compton, George W. Bird, to Sarah Jane Carver, of Kingwood.

    Feb. 14, by Rev. A. Compton, Smith E. Vanselous to Rachel J. Wilson, of Kingwood.

    Feb. 11, by Rev. H. G. Williams, Thomas F. Craig, of Mount Airy, to Mary L. Chamberlin, of West Amwell township.

    Feb. 7, by Rev. J. M. Helsey, Adelbert R. Hortman, of Mount Airy, to Mary E. Gordon, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    At Baptisttown, Feb. 5, Mrs. Sarah Philkill, aged 80 years and 2 months.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 13, 1880, George J. Naylor, aged 60 years and 6 months.

    At Bergen Heights, Jersey City, Feb. 18, 1880, Charlotte L., wife of E. G. Clark, formerly of Lambertville.
 

Local Department

    Philip Rockafellow, a much respected resident of Stockton, died very suddenly last Thursday morning, but from what cause we did not learn.

    John D. Stout, one of the oldest residents in Mercer County, died at his nephew's residence, near Hopewell, N.J., in the 97th year of his age.

    Rev. J. T. Crane, a prominent minister of the M. E. Church, died suddenly at Port Jervis, on Monday, of paralysis of the heart.  He was formerly presiding Elder of the Elizabeth District, and as such was well known to all the churches in this county.  He was 61 years of age, and his wife and nine children survive him.
 

State Items

    At Centreville, on Wednesday, James Yard, Jr., while shooting crows with his brother, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun.

    Ellen Steadwell, a former slave, died in Tuckahoe last Saturday at the age of 104.  Her owner freed her when she was fifteen years of age, and she lived in Tuckahoe from that time until her death.

    Mr. R. H. Gray attended the debating club at German Valley, last Friday evening, and appeared to be in his usual health.  He returned home and shortly after complained of feeling a peculiar sensation, and in a few moments dropped dead from his chair.  He was buried in Lower Valley Cemetery on Tuesday.

     A boy by the name of Barney Gilligan, aged 14 years, employed at Rumson, was severely injured a short time ago while jumping over a chair.  He fell and lacerated the spinal column.  After lingering a few days in intense agony, he expired.
 
 

Death of Judge Naar
    David Naar, popularly known for many years past in New Jersey as the "war horse" of the Democracy, died at his residence in Trenton, last Tuesday, after a lingering illness, resulting from a general wearing out of the system.  He was born in the Danish Island of St. Thomas, West Indies, November 10, 1800.  His father, Joshua Naar, was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Hayti at the time of the insurrection of the negroes, and escaped massacre by leaping into the sea with several others and swimming to a ship, which hastily put to sea....
He raised a large family and his widow survives him.  His nephew and son are associate editors of the True American.

    Aaron Barnes, a veteran soldier of Independence, Iowa, said that he would "die first" before going to the Poorhouse.  He went to his lonely cabin, just out of the village, and was not seen for a week.  Then a pension agent, who walked out to tell him that his claim of $1,600 for pension money had been allowed, found him dead - starved to death.

A Child's Pitiful Suicide
    The N.Y. Sun's Poughkeepsie correspondent says that Sarah Weaver, a child of only thirteen years, committed suicide there a few days ago.  She had been living with her aunt since her mother's death, eight years ago...
 

Marriages

    Feb. 26, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Charles A. Higgins, to Rachel J., daughter of Wesley Bellis, both of Flemington.

    Feb. 24, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., William Richards to Lide M. Kee, both of Flemington.

    Feb. 26, by Rev. I. Poulson, George Alvater to Lizzie Bunn, both of Raritan township.

    Feb. 15, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, John R. Crater, of Trenton, to Alice V. Hughes, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Ringoes, Feb. 11, 1880, of dropsy of the heart, Mrs. Jane Solomon, aged 66 years.
 

Local Department

    John A. Cregar, one of the oldest residents of High Bridge township, is dead.  He had lived in the same house over forty years.  His age was 78 years, 6 months and 7 days.
 

    People lived to a good age in "ye olden times."  In proof of which read the two following obituary notices which we copy from the old files of the Hunterdon Gazette of May 30, 1827:
    "On the 6th inst., in Bucks county, Mr. Joseph Force, at the advanced aged of 107 years.?
    "In Shropshire, England, Thomas Spears, aged 163 years.  He married at 30, had a son and daughter who lived more than a century, and had a numerous offspring.  At his funeral, 638 of his descendants attended."
    In the issue of the same paper of June 9, 1825, we find the following jolly marriage notice:
    "Lately, of Halifax, Eng., Mr. D. Farrar, of Elland, aged 93, who had been a disconsolate widower seven weeks, to Mrs. Macbel, of Botley, a blooming widow of 25, after a tedious courtship of one hour and fifty-nine minutes."

Ringoes Notes

    Joseph Housel, son of Horace, who has been living in New Hampshire for the past thirteen years, has returned to take charge of his father's farm, near Pennington.
 
 

A Woman's Will Contested
    This week Chancellor Runyon will hear arguments in the contest over the will of the late Anne J. Andrews, who died Aug. 26, 1878, at the house of her mother, Mrs. Bertha M. Cordukes, on Jersey City Heights, having only been married two years.  In her will, Mrs. Andrews left her jewelry and personnel property, valued at about $10,000, to her mother, cutting off her child and husband....
    The case is a very sad one.  A. Jennie Cordukes was a beautiful girl of twenty when she married Andrews, the next neighbor of her father.  Andrews had been a widower and had two children....  Finally, Mrs. Andrews broke down, went into a hasty consumption and died, leaving the property she possessed, part of which had been given her by Andrews, to her mother.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 18, by Rev. George Young, I. Edward Loux to M. Lizzie Casner, both of Bucks county, Pa.

    Feb. 28, by Rev. Henry Litts, Joseph A. Coright, of Hampton, to Evangeline Lattermoore, of Swartswood.

    Feb. 26, by the Rev. Frank E. Miller, Cyrenas Slack, of Lambertville, to Emily D. Smith, of Easton, Pa.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, March 1, 1880, of general paralysis, John O'Laughlin, aged 59 years.
 

    An item has been going the rounds of the papers, announcing the death of "the last slave in New Jersey," who died recently in the eastern part of this State.  Our neighbor, the Republican, says that this is a mistake, as all the original slaves in this State are not dead.  There are two yet living in the township of East Amwell, in this county, who were slaves before the institution was abolished in New Jersey.  One of them is Aaron Hagaman, a colored man about 90 years of age, who is supported by the township.  The other is a colored woman named Sylva Dubois, who lives on the mountain, near Wertsville, and is supposed to be over 100 years old.

Ringoes Notes

    Theodore Hill, the carriage painter, last Wednesday removed to Scranton, there to follow his trade.
 

    Last Tuesday at the residence of Uriah Larue, in Franklin Township, occurred the death of Mary, widow of Rev. Thomas Barrass, who for many years was pastor of the Baptist Church in Baptisttown, at which place he died several years ago.  Mrs. Barrass, has been an invalid for twenty years or more.
 

State Items

    Capt. Daniel B. Bruen, the oldest native of Newark died suddenly at his home in that city on Wednesday afternoon.  He was the oldest Odd Fellow in the State, and was a Past Grand of the Grand Lodge.  He served in the war of 1812 under Capt. Andrews.
 
 

    In Upper Alton, Ill., March 1, Mrs. Hilderbrand, over eighty years of age, was horribly burned to death...
 

State Items

    Mr. Caleb Dickinson, one of the oldest native residents of Morris County, died suddenly on his farm near Chatham, on Sunday afternoon, at the age of seventy years.  He was born on the farm, which was owned by his family before the Revolutionary war....  He never married.

Death of an Old Engineer
    Alfred Hurd, familiarly known as "Pop Hurd", probably the oldest engineer on the Pennsylvania Railway, died at his residence in Rahway a couple of week ago.  He was retired some time ago on account of failing eyesight, since which time he acted as a flagman until within a few months, when ill-health compelled him to give it up.  He was about seventy-two years of age, and went on the road about forty five years ago.

    Jacob Lincoln, a first cousin to ex-President Abraham Lincoln, was murdered near Harrisonburg, Va., so days ago.  Lincoln was murdered in a mill which he owned by two men with whom he had been gambling, and to whom he had shown a roll of money obtained that day from the sale of cattle.
 

Marriages

    March 3, by Rev. Mr. Johns, Aaron H. Sipes to Martha H. Peters, all of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, March 7, 1880, George Gulick, aged 56 years.

    Near Everittstown, March 4, 1880, Lizzie, wife of Peter Hockenbury, aged about 27 years.

    In Lebanon Township, near White Hall, March 7, 1880, Eugene, son of Ellen and the late Eugene Sullivan, aged about 24 years.

    In Flemington, February 25, 1880, Asa McPherson, aged 82 years and 23 days.

    Suddenly, at White House, March 3, 1880, Mrs. Jacob Dilts, aged 63 years, 9 months and 10 days.
 

Local Department

    A young man named Johnson, nephew of John McCloughan, Esq., of Annandale, killed himself by an accidental pistol-shot a few days since in Quakertown, Pa., where he was attending school.  He was buried in the Clinton Presbyterian Church grounds on Wednesday.

    We regret to announce the death of our old friend George Gulick, of Clinton.  Mr. Gulick was Director of the Board of Freeholders a few years ago.  For the past five or six years he kept the hotel known as the "Clinton House."
 

A Strange Married Life
    Under this head the Philadelphia Times give the following in relation to parties well-known in Flemington:
    A decision of the Supreme Court reunites Sarah Peterson to James V. Peterson, although they had been divorced for thirteen years, and the dead body of Peterson was found three years ago, having been drowned, at the bottom of the Potomac.  They lived together until 1858, when Mrs. Peterson, by request and at the desire of her husband, went to live with her mother at Flemington, N.J.  Peterson supplied his wife with money for her support, and made repeated visits to her until 1863, when his mind became affected....  In 1865 she left Flemington and came to live with him, and remained at his house until February 1867, when she left him at his request on account of his mental condition.  November 10, 1877, Peterson committed suicide by drowning himself in the Potomac.  Hs wife made arrangements to administer to his property, when she discovered, as she alleges, for the first time that a divorce had been granted in 1865....
 
 

State Items

    Henry M. Courier, a resident of Pine Brook, Morris county, was found on the bank of the Rockaway River, on Sunday morning, frozen to death.  He had been drinking, and it is thought he met his fate in the cold of last Tuesday, as he has not been since then.

    William Tway, whose remains were interred at Rahway on Monday, was a veteran in the war of 1812, and a son of William Tway, who fought under George Washington in the Revolutionary War.  He died at Brooklyn last week.  He served at the age of eighteen in Colonel Frelinghuysen's regiment in the war of 1812, and for his service he received at its close a warrant entitling him to a tract of land near Detroit, and since 1871 he had been in receipt of a monthly pension of $8.  He was eighty-five years old, and leaves five children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
 

Marriages

    March 11, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Edward R. Stout, of Lambertville, to Clara E. Tyson, of New Hope, Pa.

    March 17, by Rev. F. O'Neill, John O'Hara, of Sidney, to Mary Ann Mulligan, of Clinton.

    Feb. 24, by Nathan Schuyler, Justice of the Peace, Henry Sutton to Lizzie Moore, both of Hunterdon county.
 

Deaths

    Near New Germantown, March 13th, 1880, Mrs. Fannie Neff, aged 93 years.

    Near Hamden, March 13th, 1880, Richard Prost, aged 84 years and 4 months.

    In St. Louis, Feb. 19th, 1880, Lemuel Pidcock, of White House Station, aged 35 years, 5 months and 27 days.

    In Flemington, March 16, 1880, Sarah Roberson, wife of the late William Roberson, of Baptisttown, in the 90th year of her age.

    In Clover Hill, March 8, 1880, of dropsy, Mrs. Caroline Jane Brush, widow of Jonas Platt Brush, aged 75 years.

    In Philadelphia, March 14, 1880, Miss Mary M. Haward.

    At Port Oram, March 11, 1880, Peter V. Johnson, formerly of Junction, aged 31 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, March 12, 1880, Miss Mary Clancey, aged 66 years.

    In Lambertville, March 15, 1880, Joseph W. Mosier, aged 72 years.
 

    The widow of Henry Rey, generally known by the name of "Decatur" (as he had served an officer of that name during the Revolutionary war,) is now living in Glen Gardner, who says she is 104 years and 6 months old.  She says she was born at Belvidere, and was a slave, and that she has a sister still living at Bloomfield, who is three years and six months older than herself.  Henry Rey, her husband, was born at New Brunswick, and died in Warren county at the age of 102 years.

Sad Death of Lemuel Pidcock
    Mr. Lemuel Pidcock, of White House Station, who had been for some weeks in the West buying sheep for the firm of Kase & Pidcock, was to return home about the middle of February, and on the 13th wrote from St. Louis, to his wife, that he was about to start from there.  That was the last heard of him until, in response to telegram of inquiry and photographs of the missing man, sent to the principal points in the West by his brothers a dispatch was received week before last saying that his photograph showed that he had dided and been buried in St. Louis last month, as an unknown man.  It seems that he had been found near the East St. Louis Railroad Depot in a dying condition, badly wounded in the head, and with no papers upon him to show his identity.  He had evidently been foully dealt with and robbed.  He was removed to a hospital and died on the 19th ult., and was buried by the authorities.  A Mr. Riley was written to by the family of deceased and requested to forward the remains to White House.  The remains were accordingly sent on, and last Thursday the funeral took place at Lebanon.  Mr. Pidcock leaves a wife and young daughter to mourn his mysterious death.

Court
    The Spring term of the Hunterdon Courts will commence April 13th.  On Tuesday last the Petit Jury was drawn as follows:
    Kingwood - Jonathan Sutton
 

    Mrs. Sarah Robenson, mother of Ogden Roberson, and of Mrs. Miller Kline, of this place, died at the house of the latter last Tuesday night.  The deceased was born on the first day of May 1790, and consequently at the time of her death lacked but about six weeks of being 90 years of age.  She lived to see four generations of her family.  Up to within the past three months her health had been good.
 
 

Marriages

    Dec. 6, 1879, Theodore Riel, of Changewater, and Sarah A. Bryan, of White Hall.
 

Deaths

    In West Amwell township, N.J., on Mch. 18, Alfred H. Hart, aged 19 years and six months.

    In Lambertville, N.J., Mch. 22, of consumption, John H. Sweasey, aged 27 years.

    In Delaware township, Mary Moore Hice, daughter of John Hice, in the 52d year of her age.
 

Sad Accident
    On last Sunday morning, the body of Alfred H. Hart, a young man aged about 20 years, was found with the head crushed between two logs, on the farm of C. F. Drake, in West Amwell township...  -  Lambertville Record, March 24.
 

State Items

    On Tuesday, Eva Steele, a negress, living at Belvidere, Warren county, was discovered to have killed her illegitimate child by strangulation.  She is in charge of an officer.  Meanwhile, Alfred Hulfish, the reputed father of the child, has left the town.

    Sydney Holly, a well-to-do citizen of Branchville, Sussex county, committed suicide on Sunday night last by hanging himself in his barn.  He had speculated lately in Wall street, like a good many other New Jersey farmers, and having lost nearly all his wealth, it is believed that, in a fit of melancholy, he committed suicide.
 
 

State Items

    The death is announced of ex-Sheriff Ivins, of Ocean county, and of ex-Assemblyman, Chalkley Albertson, of Camden county.

    George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has requested that a decent burial, and at his expense, be given to the remains of Dr. Piner, of Newark, uncle of the late Bishop Odenheimer, who was found dead in his room last Saturday afternoon.  The Doctor was a relative of Mr. Childs.

    Susan Holbert, an old mulatto woman, was burned to death in a house at Burlington, on Thursday.  Neighbors discovered fire in the house, and on entering they found the corpse of the woman lying on the floor, her flesh burned to a crisp.

    On Saturday, immediately after the family dinner, the little boy about three or four years old of Mr. Josiah P. Doremus, of Paterson, dropped dead from what the physician pronounced heart disease.
 

Falling Forty Feet - N.Y. Star, March 31st
    During the heavy gale which prevailed yesterday morning, Matthew Cantwell and Peter Pfeiffer were blown from the roof of the Seventh Regiment Armory at Sixty-Seventh street and Lexington avenue.  The latter was instantly killed, while the former sustained injuries which will probably result in his death....  Pfeiffer leaves a wife, but no children.  He was 32 years of age.
 

Marriages

    April 1, by Rev. A. B. Still, Joseph B. Hummer to Anna Hummer, both of this county.

    March 26, by Ira Higgens, Esq., Asa Cruzen to Mary C. Wyckoff, both of East Amwell.

    March 27, by Rev. A. B. Still, George Kellenbenege to Mary E. Burd, both of this county.

    March 15, by Rev. W. J. Henderson, Daniel C. Anderson, of White Hall, to Mary C. Lance, of High Bridge.

    At Bangor, Pa., Mar. 18, by Rev. James M. Salmon, W. R. Grub to Carrie R. Schooley, all of the above place.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, March 28, 1880, of diphtheria, Lizzie, daughter of Patrick and Julia Conway, aged 5 years and 8 months.

    In Lambertville, March 30, 1880, of pleura-pneumonia, William Johnson, aged 68 years.

    In Lambertville, March 25, 1880, of convulsions, Maggie, daughter of Patrick and Mary Lynch, aged 5 weeks.

    In Quakertown, March 29, 1880, Samuel Trimmer, aged 84 years, 5 months and 26 days.

    At Toms River, N.J., April 1, 1880, of consumption, J. Rutsen Schenck, son of Dr. J. F. Schenck, of Flemington, in the 49th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Akers, of Lambertville, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage, on the 27th ult.   Mr. Akers is 77 years old and his wife 67.

    Samuel Trimmer, one of the oldest citizens of Franklin township, and of Hunterdon county, died from an apoplectic stroke last Monday.

    Adam Shick, aged seventy-eight years, of Erwinna, Bucks county, and Elizabeth Haggerty, aged forty-six, were married in Philadelphia, on March 26th.  The aged gentleman and his bride returned to their home Monday.
 

    Henry Emmons, a colored man, about 72 years of age, and well-known as "Black Hawk" throughout this section of country for most of his life, died last Sunday, at the residence of Charles Emery, in Union township.  Old "Black Hawk" was ostler at the County Hotel in this place years ago during the time that the late Asa Jones kept the house.  He remained at the stables many years after Mr. Jones retired from the house.  His wife, "Molly Jenkins," as she was called, was cook for the hotel all the time that "Hawk" was ostler.  Her death occurred some ten years ago.

    We regret to announce the death of our old friend and former office-mate Jacob Rutsen Schenck, editor of the Ocean Democrat, and son of Dr. John F. Schenck, of this place....  His death was caused from consumption.  He leaves a wife and a son and daughter to mourn his loss.

    Dr. Samuel Lilly, one of the most prominent citizens of Lambertville, died on Saturday last from injuries received some two weeks ago by being thrown from his horse....
 

Ringoes Notes

    The funeral services of Miss Beakman, sister-in-law to Jacob Van Marter, took place at the house of Mr. Stryker last Tuesday.  The remains were taken to Branchville for interment.
 
 

Marriages

    March 13, by Rev. J. B. Mathis, Wm. H. Anthony to Hattie S. Mayberry, both of this county.

    April 3, by the same, Charles Howard to Alice Castner, both of this county.

    March 31, by Rev. J. E. Davis, James L. Johnson, of White House, to Eudora Sutton, of German Valley.
 

Deaths

    March 21, 1880, near White Hall, Lydia Tager, aged 63 years, 4 months and 10 days.

    In Lambertville, March 31, 1880, Miles S. Whitman, aged 42 years.

    In Lambertville, April 4, 1880, Ada, daughter of Joseph and Laura Shaw, aged 3 weeks.

    In Lambertville, April 3, 1880, Samuel Lilly, M.D., in the 65th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    John A. Thompson, a well-known citizen of Readington, died very suddenly and unexpectedly last Saturday morning.

    On Thursday afternoon of week before last, a young son of Joshua Whiteley, of New Hope, was drowned in the raceway of Stroud's Mills.

    Miss Mary Ann Cool, one of two maiden sisters who have conducted a farm near Mattison's Corner a long while, died on Saturday last, aged about 80 years.

    John E. Case, aged 80 years, died at his residence in Alexandria township, last Tuesday.  He was the largest landholder in that part of the county.

    Simon Kinney, now living with his son-in-law at Brookside, Morris county, was 100 years old on the 11th day of April.  He was born near Rocky Hill, in Somerset county.
 

Death by the Roadside
    The body of an unknown man was found last Sunday morning by Mr. John Hackett, of High Bridge township, on the bridge over the Central Railroad track, near the residence of Mr. H....  - Clinton Democrat.
 

State Items

    Christopher Search, of Sparta, fell from a load of hay on Friday, and was run over and his back was broken.  He crawled to the woodshed and died soon after.

    Mr. George Brown, of Springfield, was instantly killed by the discharge of his gun on Friday afternoon, shooting him through the heart.  He was taking the gun from his wagon.  He was to have been married next week.
 
 

    Charles W. Kase, better known to Journalists as "Karl Kase," died at Stewartsville, N.J., on Tuesday.  He was thirty-one years of age, though so young had made his mark in the newspaper world....

State Items

    An old colored woman aged about 80 named Elizabeth Griffin was found burned to death at her residence near Smith's Landing on Monday last.  She lived alone and it is thought she was kindling a fire in the morning her clothes ignited.
 

Marriages

    April 13, by Rev. C. H. Thomas, John S. Sebold to Anna V. Dobins, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, April 10, 1880, Grace Holmes, infant daughter of Hugh B. and Theresa I. Ely.

    Near the Kingwood Presbyterian Church, April 1, 1880, Theodore Hiner, aged about 65 years.

    Near Everittstown, April 6, 1880, J. E. Case, aged about 80 years.

    In Milford, April 4, 1880, John Hise, aged about 65 years.

    In Catasaqua, Lehigh county, Pa., March 26, 1880, Evan J. Evans, aged 26 years and 5 months, formerly of Lambertville.

    In Trenton, N.J., April 14, 1880, Samuel R. Smith, formerly of this county, aged 63 years.
 

Local Department

    John Peters, who removed from Neshanic to Raritan on April 1st, has lost four children from diphtheria within the past week.  They were afflicted with the disease when they moved to Raritan.
 

    A man named Albert Hellwich, who has been an inmate of the Poor House of Hillsborough township, Somerset county, for the past two or three years, was found dead in the road near the late residence of John C. Van Liew, not far from the Three Bridges, on day last week.  He was a German, about 70 years of age, a tin-smith, and was well known in the township.
 
 

    Mrs. Kate Wurtz, a widow, living with her brother in Wilkesbarre, Pa., was a victim of consumption....

Marriages

    April 17, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Jonathan Ent, of Delaware township, to Jennie Gano, of Kingwood township.

    April 16, by Rev. H. G. Williams, Horatio N. Ege, Jr., to Hannah E. Pettee, all of Lambertville.

    April 21, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Thomas M. Drake, of Stoutsburg, N.J., to Eleanor Stout, of Lambertville.

    April 17, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Andrew Hixon, of Warren county, to Mary Hockenbury, of Clinton.

    April 15, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Rev. George P. Wright, of South Easton, Pa., to Chettie Vliet, of Bloomsbury.
 

Deaths

    Near White Hall, April 18, 1880, Susan, wife of John Fine, in her 59th year.

    At Frenchtown, April 13, Mrs. Francis Stryker, aged 68 years.

    In Lambertville, April 16, Katie, daughter of Patrick and Julia Conway, aged 7 years, 11 months and 3 days.
 

    Last Tuesday morning, Asa Lowe, living near Stanton, fell dead while standing in his barn talking to his wife.  He was aged about 55 years.  It is supposed that his death was caused from heart disease.

Horrible Accident
    Last Friday afternoon a shocking accident occurred to a daughter of Peter Hyler, of Readington.  The little one, about four years of age, accompanied her mother out to feed the chickens, and when the mother returned to the house she left the little girl playing about the wagon-house.  In the course of fifteen and twenty minutes thereafter the mother went out again to see why the little one did not come to the house, when she was almost stricken down with horror at finding the dead body of her child suspended by the neck from the door of a corn crib which is built in the wagonhouse...

    Mr. Alfred Terriberry, son of Nathan Terriberry, Esq., of Junction, died on Monday morning, of typhoid fever, after a short but severe and painful illness....  He was about 20 years old; enjoyed excellent health usually, sustained a high character and was a fine scholar.  -  Clinton Democrat.
 

State Items

    George DeHart, aged thirteen years, son of Wm. DeHart, was fatally injured by being run over by a coal train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at Boonton, on Monday.  While jumping on the cars while the train was in motion, he slipped and fell beneath the train.
 
 

    Charles De Young, editor of the Chronicle, in San Francisco, was brutally murdered in his office, on Friday 23d ult., by J. M. Kalloch, son of the "sand lot" Mayor, of that city.  Kalloch entered the office and whilst De Young was conversing with some friends, fired on him without a moment's warning.  The feud grew out of the difficulties of the last elections at which time De Young shot and slightly wounded Kalloch's father.
 

State Items

    Brigadier General Joseph W. Revere, of Morristown, died at Bersch's Hotel, Hoboken, on Tuesday morning, of neuralgia of the heart.  He was sixty-eight years old and a native of Boston.  Paul Revere, the Revolutionary patriot, was an ancestor, and in the late struggle between the States tow members of the same family as himself lost their lives - one at Antietam and the other at Gettysburg.
 

Marriages

    April 14, by Rev. H. G. Williams, Tunis S. Vreeland to Mary L. Castner, of New Brunswick, N.J.

    April 27, by Rev. George Young, Judson Voorhees, of Readington township, to Emma A., youngest daughter of A. Wolverton, Esq., of Delaware.

    In Flemington, May 1, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, Charles Hill to Frances G. Vail, both of Newark.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, April 28, 1880, Mrs. Sarah O. Moses, widow of the late John M. Moses, aged 60 years.

    In Lambertville, April 24, 1880, of consumption, Frannie C. Parker, aged 19 years and 6 months.
 

Local Department

       Aaron Barcroft, a farmer living near Rosemont, went out on Sunday morning last to hitch up his horse to drive to church.  Half an hour later his dead body was found on the barn floor.  His sudden death was caused from apoplexy.  His age was 44 years.  Furneral on Wednesday morning of his week at 10 1/2 o'clock, at his late residence.
 

Ringoes Notes

    The youngest child of David Bond, Jr., was buried Sunday afternoon.
 
 

State Items

    During the burning of the dwelling of George Jackson, at Little Falls, Passaic county, on Saturday, his imbecile son perished in the flames.  He also lost several thousand dollars drawn from the bank to pay the hands of his felt factory.
 

Local Department

    On Monday, two of our citizens, Herman H. Dahn and Spader Quick, a son of James B. Quick, set out for Kansas to seek their fortune.

    The remains of Peter H. Rowland, of Scranton, Pa., were taken to Lebanon on Monday last, where they were interred.  Mr. Rowland was a former resident of Lebanon township, and once owned the mill which has since been known as Rowland's Mill.
 

    Last week we published an obituary notice upon the death of Mrs. Grace Brittain, of Lambertville, wherein we claimed that she was born in October, 1775.  We had this information from the best sources, and there is no doubt at all that it is authentic.  The Republican and one of the Lambertville papers, in announcing the death of the aged woman give her age as 101 years and six months.  We know not from whom these papers got their information, but they have been misinformed.  Mrs. Case, of this place, one of the two surviving children of Mrs. Brittain, is in the 83rd year of her age, and not in her 81st year as the Republican also mistakenly asserts.  Let it be properly recorded that Grace Brittain spent 104 years and 6 months amid the ills and joys of life.

    Cornelius Van Buskirk, aged about 60 years, committed suicide, at Easton, Pa., Thursday night, by taking laudanum.  He had been employed as bartender at the American House, but was recently discharged on account of his excessive drinking.  He took the poison in the morning and then locked himself in his room, where he was discovered at noon.  The door was forced open, and he was found in an unconscious condition.  He died at 10 o'clock.  A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of suicide, and a son from Belvidere took charge of the body.
 

Ringoes Notes

    Our worthy Freeholder elect, P. W. Shepherd, died last Thursday afternoon.  He was taken sick early this Spring, and was just getting about when he was stricken with paralysis, three strokes of which he suffered before his death.
 

Marriages

    April 24, by Rev. M. C. Reed, Wm. H. Lance to Alice Apgar, both of Fairmount.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, April 29, Emeline Kuhl, wife of Jacob C. Sutphin, aged 48 years and 5 months.

    At Croton, April 17, 1880, William Eick, aged 69 years, 3 months, and 8 days.

    In West Amwell township, May 4, 1880, of typhoid pneumonia, Elcie Maria Danbury, aged 24 years and 7 months.

    Near Ringoes, April 30, 1880, the infant daughter of Benjamin S. Egbert, aged 66 years and 5 months.
 

Death of a Nonogenarian
    Abraham Reynolds, a well-known citizen of Mendham, died suddenly on Tuesday morning at the homestead where he lived for over fifty years.  He had reached the ripe old age of four score and ten, have been born in the year 1790 in Somerset County.  He was a veteran of the war of 1812, having served as an officer in the same regiment with Gen. Frelinghuysen....  His son, A. M. Reynolds, is a prominent citizen of Newark.
 
 

    Hon. Sanford E. Church, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York, died very suddenly last Friday afternoon at Albion, N.Y., where he had gone to spend a three weeks' vacation...

A Terrible Accident
    A terrible accident occurred at Rome, N.Y., at 5:30 o'clock last Monday morning, occasioning great loss of life.  On the starting of the engine in the Merchant Iron mill, one of the boilers burst, killing C. Farr, William Francis, Reuben Davis and Joseph Beesock, and probably fatally wounding Adam Briesendierder....
 

State Items

    James McGrath, who was struck with a beer glass by Joseph Burns, in a saloon in Newark, on the evening of April 26, died on Wednesday.  Burns has served terms in State Prison.  He has eluded arrest for several days.

    William Dalzell, who shot and killed young John Joseph Van Houten on Garret Rock, near Paterson, on Sunday, the 2d inst., has been indicted for manslaughter by the Grand Jury.

    Forty years ago, William Lemons, of New Brunswick, deserted his family, and nothing was heard of him until Sunday, when he reappeared.  He had a son Charles, an eccentric but frugal young man, who died three years ago, leaving property valued at $5,000, which was divided up among his relatives by order of the Orphans' Court.  The elder Lemons now claims the entire property.

    Mr. Chas. H. Williams, of Herbertsville, Ocean county, was sinking a well at that place on Monday, when the earth caved in on him.  An attempt was made to rescue him, but a second fall of earth rendered the efforts fruitless.  Before the body could be recovered life was extinct.  He was about 30 years of age and leaves a wife and four small children.

    Robert S. Little, aged about 70, an old and respected citizen of Hackettstown, died very suddenly on Tuesday evening...  He was at one time proprietor of the Warren hotel of Hackettstown, and he was also engaged for a number of years in mercantile pursuits there.
 

An Insane Mother's Deed
    Early last Wednesday morning the wife of Geo. Woodward, of Penn Yan, Yates Co., N.Y., threw her two children, a boy of 7 and a girl of 1 year, in the cistern, and then jumped in herself.  Her husband reached the spot in time to get his wife out alive but the children were both dead.  Mr. Woodward and his wife had been married nine years, and the latter at times exhibited insanity and attempted suicide.  They are well-to-do people.
 

Deaths

    At Junction, April 26, 1880, Frederick O. Raymond, aged 31 years, 6 months and 28 days.

    At Stanton, April 20, 1880, Asa Lowe, aged 59 years, 8 months and 23 days.
 
 

Murdered On A Jersey Train
    W. Gavin, residing in Philadelphia, was brutally murdered on Monday last on the train from Delanco, on the Camden & Amboy division of the Pennsylvania railroad, due in Camden at 7:57.  Gavin, a stone mason by trade, accompanied by three companions, left Philadelphia at noon to go to Delanco, N.J., to attend a private party....
 

State Items

    John Turner, aged 8 years, was drowned while bathing in the Morris Canal, at Paterson, on Monday.  He was seized with cramps.

    A young child of Peter Aumic, of Augusta, Sussex county, died on Wednesday morning from the effects of swallowing a brass button.

    Miss Vilona Harris, aged twenty, died in great agony at Blairstown, on Saturday last, from eating wild hemlock root, which she mistook for sweet licorice.

    Elias Hewitt, an aged man and an old resident of Raritan township, Somerset county, committed suicide on Sunday night at his home by shooting himself.  Misfortunes of late had made him despondent.

    Joseph Carroll, of Jersey City Heights, a carpenter employed on the new grain elevator of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the foot of Fourth street, Jersey City, fell from the top of the elevator on Tuesday afternoon and was instantly killed.  His body was horribly mangled by the fall.
 

Marriages

    May 15, by Rev. Alex. Miller, William Stout, of Hopewell township, to Lavinia Bice, of Lambertville.

    May 19, by the same, Joseph G. Stires, of Quakertown, to Ellen Frances Hoagland, of Ringoes.

    May 8, by Rev. A. S. Compton, Isaac T. Cronce, of Frenchtown, to Tacy A. Martin, of Kingwood.
 

Deaths

    At New Hampton, May 11, 1880, Alpheus B. Silverthorn, aged 38 years.

    In Milford, May 12, 1880, Mrs. La Reine Coughlin, in the 67th year of her age.

    In Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1880, Georgie A., wife of E. C. Stout, formerly of Lambertville, in the 29th year of her age.

    At White House Station, May 18, 1880, Peter B. Jones, aged 37 years and 11 months.
 

    On Tuesday last a fatal accident occurred at Sunnyside.  Henry Smith, a lad of sixteen, employed by Jacob D. Smith as a farm hand, was drawing wood with a mule team, when they took fright and ran away, throwing him out of the wagon and killing him instantly.  He was a son of Henry Y. Smith, of Cherryville.

    The Hunterdon Democrat of the 10th inst., refers to the age of Grace Brittain being 104 years old, and says it got its information from the best of sources and there is no doubt at all that it is authentic.  In this the Democrat, I think, is mistaken, and that her age is 101 years and 6 months.  This information is obtained from the old family Bible in the possession of William Rittenhouse, at Frenchtown, in which her name and birth is recorded.  Date of this old Bible published 1772.
 
 

    A brutal murder was discovered by the New York police on the 22nd inst.  Mrs. Johanna Breimann, the wife of a German baker, was found dead in her room on the third floor of the tenement house, No. 512, East Sixteenth street.  On the table lay a letter, written by her husband, in which he stated that he had killed her because  she was unfaithful to him.  The woman had been dead for two days...  the couple had been married only two months.

    A man, supposed to be named Patrick Doyle, who was on his way from Jersey City to Louisville, Ky., was found lying in Exchange place, Jersey City, on Tuesday night, in a drunken stupor.  He was taken to the Station House, and attended by the city Physician, who ordered his removal to the City Hospital, where he died before midnight.  Thirty dollars in gold, some change, and his baggage check were found upon his body.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Eben Davis, was killed by being struck by a train at Elizabeth on Tuesday.  There is no flagman at the crossing, the flagman at the Cherry street crossing notifying people of danger by means of an automatic signal.

    On Monday night about 7:30 o'clock, Thomas Driscoll, a lad about five years of age, living on Mill street, Paterson, fell into the canal from the wall on the west side above Murtagh's and floated down to Van Winkle street, where the body was recovered by James Nicholls, life being extinct.
 

Marriages

    May 22, by Rev. J. G. Wiliamson, James F. R. Rounsaville to Mary Lennard, both of Alexandria township.

    May 20, by Rev. B. D. Decker, John H. Holcombe, of Ringoes to Harria Stecker, of Stewartsville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, May 7, 1880, Frankie, son of James E. and Kate M. Leahy, aged 3 years.

    Near High Bridge, May 5, 1880, Rebecca Ann Hockenbury, in the 39th year of her age.

    Near Pattenburgh, May 19, 1880, Sybilla Smith, aged 23 years, 10 months and 23 days.

    In Kingwood township, May 25, 1880, Lydia Stull, aged 39 years.

    In Kingwood, May 26, 1880, Henry Stull, aged about 90 years.

    May 10, 1880, at Hamden, Samuel C. son of Chester V. and Annie Dilly, aged 6 months and 14 days.

    Near Stockton, May 1, 1880, Elizabeth White, aged 77 years and 6 months.

    Near Oak Dale, April 11, 1880, Sabella Reading, wife of Frank P. Wagoner, aged 28 years.
 

Local Department

    Judge Alexander Wurts and wife, of this place, celebrated the 49th anniversary of their marriage on Wednesday last.

    Sheriff Simon Van Liew, of Somerset county, died at his residence in Somerville, on Monday morning last, of heart disease.
 

    John F. Schenck, Jr., son of Dr. John F. Schenck, of this place, and a brother of the late J. Rutsen Schenck, died of consumption at his residence on Branch street, last Saturday morning.  He was a painter by trade and commenced the profession with us in the office of the old Hunterdon Gazette, which was at that time (1858) conducted by Alex. Suydam, now also deceased.  He leaves a wife and four children.

    Last Tuesday evening, Wellington B. Hoffman, a colored youth of about 10 years of age, for more than a year past employed at Mark Devlin's Hotel, in High Bridge, was drowned in Taylor's Mill Pond, while bathing....  Wellington was a son of Augustus Hoffman, of Clinton, and a brother of Ellis Hoffman, of Humphrey's Hotel, in this place.

    Joseph Bond, a young farmer living on "Buchanan's  Hill," near Trout's old Tavern in Delaware township, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn last Friday afternoon....
 

Ringoes Notes

    Mrs. Wilson, mother-in-law to Rev. Dr. Miller, died at the Parsonage last Friday morning.
 
 

Two Old Women Murdered
    Two old women, Mrs. John Chidsey and Mrs. Maria Swan, both widows, living alone in a little house on the outskirts of Avon, Connecticut, were found murdered on Monday morning.  Mrs. Chidsey was found upstairs on her bed, with her clothing on.  A Bible and a newspaper were by her side, as though she had been reading.  She was killed with a tailor's goose, having been struck across the forehead.  Her sister was found in the kitchen, felled with a blow from an axe.  Both were killed instantly, as one blow only was found on each.  No one is suspected, nor is there reason given for the deed.

    The late Mrs. John Brinkerhoff, who died in Jersey City a few days since, aged ninety-nine years, retained her senses up to one week of her death; could tell correctly how many grandchildren and great grandchildren she had, and all their ages.  She had lived to see her fifth generation, and held on her knee the child of the fifth.  She was buried from the Reformed Church of Hackensack, of which she was a member for sixty years.
 

Marriages

    June 3, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, John J. Kizz, of Bedminister, Somerset Co., to Susie T. Green of Flemington.

    May 26, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Charles N. Vanatta, of Phillipsburg, to Mary Farrow, of West End.

    May 8, by Rev. P. D. Day, David M. Bird to Elizabeth A. Cox, both of High Bridge.

    May 29, by the same, Amos A. Apgar to Emma J. Apgar, daughter of P. K. Apgar, Esq. all of Cokesbury.

    May 26, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, John Ulmer, of Holland, to Annie M. Edinger, of Milford.

    May 29, by Rev. S. D. Decker, James Lott to Elizabeth Hazlett, both of Asbury.

    April 5, by Rev. Joseph Porter, D. D., Prof. A. R. Lewis, of this county, to Kate C. Hoffmier, of Easton, Pa.
 

Deaths

    Near Ringoes, May 28, 1880, Joseph P. Bond, aged 25 years, 7 months and 10 days.

    At Bloomsbury, April 25, 1880, Emma Kremer, wife of George Kremer, in the 26th year of her age.

    In Milford, May 29, 1880, Mrs. Mary Robbins, aged 55 years.

    Near Readington, May 31, 1880, Abraham P. Stout, aged 47 years and 10 months.

    Near Potterstown, May 31, 1880, Stephen Dilley, aged 68 years.
 

Local Department

    Alfred Ellis, who will be remembered by many of our readers as a former conductor on the Belvidere Delaware R.R., committed suicide in Trenton, on Saturday week.  Domestic trouble was the cause.
 

    General Robert F. Stockton's daughter, Miss Anna Margarette, was married in Trenton on Wednesday to Moses T. Pyne, of New York.  Bishop Scarborough performed the ceremony.  One of the bridesmaids was Governor McClellan's daughter, Miss Belle McClellan.

    The Holcombes, whose name is legion in Lambertville and vicinity, are talking of holding a reunion this summer.  The Holcombes were among the first settlers in old Amwell township, in 1705, and own more acres of land there today than any other family.  The members of the Holcombe family, in Bradford county, Pa., held a reunion there last September.  The early records of settlers on the continent informs us that as early as 1631, Thomas Holcombe held land by deed in Boston, Mass., and in localities in that State their name, too, is legion.

    On Saturday, 29th ult, an old and respected farmer named David Hoffman, living on the Hunterdon side of the Musconetcong, was found lying in the creek apparently lifeless.  His son, who was soon on the spot, immediately drew the body out of the water and efforts were made to restore life, but without success.  Deceased had been in the habit of leading a cow to water, and it is supposed that in the animal's eagerness to drink it, had dragged Mr. Hoffman into the creek, as there were bruises on the body as if the cow had trampled on him.  Mr. H. had been feeble for some time past.

    Andrew Stull, a farmer, living about a half-mile northwest of this place, died very suddenly this (Monday) morning.  Shortly after rising he complained of feeling unwell, and his wife summoned a physician and while he was feeling the patient's pulse and inquiring about the symptoms he leaned back on his chair and expired.  He was aged about 50 years.
 

State Items

    "Aunt Polly" Ford, of Dover, was killed on Wednesday, while attempting to crawl under a coal train.  She was aged seventy-five years, and two years ago was struck by an engine and nearly killed.

    John Knox, conductor of a freight train on the Central New Jersey Railroad, was standing on the top of a boxcar on Friday afternoon, when he was struck by the New Branch bridge at Long Branch and killed instantly.

    J. R. George, conductor of the Dover express train on the D. L. & W. R. R., struck a man named Augustus Leonard with his fist on Friday evening, and shortly afterward Leonard died...
 
 

State of the Finances of Hunterdon County
    The County of Hunterdon in Account With Wm. W. Swayze, County Collector, from May 14, 1879, to May 12, 1880.
    Tewksbury Township Bridge Orders
        Samuel Sutton        $16.12
        John Sutton            $    .50

A Betrayed Girl Ends Her Life With A Razor
    Annie Coppin, a handsome girl of seventeen years at her home, 19832 Dean street, below Mifflin, in Philadelphia.  For some time past the girl had been acquainted with a man named William Condin, who keeps a butter and egg store on Mifflin street near Pallas, and who had, it appears, frequently offered her money for improper purposes.  Until Tuesday she repelled his advances, but on that day the store was closed, and the girl's mother ascertained that her daughter and Condin had been in the house alone together all day.  About 7 o'clock in the evening she returned home, and being pressed for an explanation of her conduct, admitted that Condin had at last succeeded in effecting her ruin...  Just before supper she went to her room, where her mother found her fifteen minutes later lying upon the floor with a ghastly wound in her throat, and the razor with which she inflicted the cut by her side...

Killed By A Tornado - Council Bluffs, Ia., June 11.
    A terrible tornado swept through the south-eastern part of this (Pottawattomie) county on Wednesday night...  The persons known to have been killed are Jesse Ahler, wife and two children; Willaim Pace, wife and two children killed, and another child fatally injured.  Alexander Ausler, wife and child were carried in the air nearly a hundred and fifty feet and seriously injured, the child fatally...

    Thursday was a day of violence and blood, and the record reads grimly.  John Gimpel nearly killed his wife with an iron bar, fired his house, and committed suicide.  It was discovered that young Adolph Eisman, had shot himself on his bridal night; Dr. George Lindsey, a graduate of Glasgow College, and an octogenarian, poisoned himself and died; Mrs. Eastwood kissed her two children in a Pavonia ferryboat, threw herself out of the window and was drowned; Garret Van Dien, an eighty-year-old farmer near Hohokus, hanged himself in his home; and Annie Choppin committed self-murder in Camden.
 

Marriages

    June 5, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Ira F. Mollener to Josephine Gardner, both of New Germantown.

    June 5, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Jacob T. Apgar, Jr., to Chloe L. Cramer, both of Lebanon.

    May 26, by Rev. J. Tindall, Truman Shurts to M. Alice Tiger, both of Lebanon.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, June 5, 1880, Willie, son of Jacob and Joanna Heins, aged 1 year.

    In Clinton township, June 1, 1880, Elwood Alpaugh.

    In Flemington, May 29, 1880, of consumption, John F. Schenck, Jr., aged 39 years, 10 months and 4 days.

    Near Flemington, May 9, 1880, Arnold, son of David Hauswith, aged 1 year and 1 month.  (The father and child are from Germany, and have been in this country but about six weeks.)
 

State Items

    Edward Warne, aged fourteen years, was found murdered in the woods, near Jamesburg, on Monday.

    John Brown and John H. Brown were fatally injured Tuesday at the docks of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Jersey City, by the fall of some shafting.

    Chas. Hopping of Hanover, died suddenly on Wednesday of last week from heart disease, though he had been feeble from some time, and his brother Henry died very suddenly from heart disease just as he reached his own door, on returning from his brother's funeral.

    Julie A. Swift, wife of ex-Alderman Swift, of Paterson, and the mother of John Joseph Van Houten, who was shot dead by William Dalzell at a German festival on Garret Mountain, on Sunday, May 2, on Friday began suit against Dalzell for $10,000 damages for the loss of her son.

    Johanna Shaw, a girl eight years old, was pushed into a bonfire by a mischievous boy named Haring, at Paterson, on Saturday, and was so badly burned that she died on Monday evening.

   A German named Daniel Krous, better known at Long Branch as Dutch Jake, was run over on Wednesday afternoon by a horse and wagon belonging to Squire Pitcher which he was trying to stop.  The horse stepped on Krous' head and the wheels passed over his body, injuring him severely.  He died on Saturday.
 
 

Double Murder Near Plainfield
    Smoke was noticed issuing from an upper window of a small frame house at Harris's Lane, a small settlement 5 miles from Plainfield, on the road to Bound Brook, about half-past nine o'clock last Wednesday morning.  This discovery was made by Charles Greader, who was delivering bottled beer, and had stopped to fill an order given to him by the inmates of the house on the preceding day.  With him was young man named Eagle, working on the farm adjoining.  To all appearances the house was deserted by its occupants, a man named Fischer, who owned the property, and a young man named Curtis Longus, working for him.
    Alarmed by the smoke, Greader unfastened a window from the outside, and held it open while Eagle climbed into the kitchen....  Greader squeezed through the window and ran to the top of stairs, when he was horrified to see, lying in a room opening on the stairs, the body of Fischer, with a heap of smoldering feathers around and over it.  This body lay alongside the bed, and on the bed, on the side furthest from Fischer's body, lay that of Longus, the other occupant of the house...
    The most generally believed theory is based on the rumor that there was ill feeling between Fischer and Longus, and that the former, in a fit of rage, shot the latter and then committed suicide, setting the feathers on fire in order to hide his deeds.  This explanation of the crime is supported by the fact that Fischer was intending to marry a sister of Longus.  He had never seen the woman, but had fallen in love with her picture.  This sister had lived in Germany, but arrived in this country last Thursday...
    The saddest part of the affair was the arrival of Longus's sister.  She did not know of the murder of her brother and future husband until she arrived, and seemed stupefied by grief when she learned her loss.  She buried one brother in Germany just before she started for this country.

    Bernard Connolly, founder of the Monmouth Democrat, and for many years a prominent politician and editor, was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 9th inst., at Long Branch.  Deceased was on a visit to the house of his son at the time of his death.  His sudden demise is attributed to heart disease.
 

Marriages

    May 12, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, Arthur W. Mains to Hannie Hubbard, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    At Cherryville, January 23, 1880, Mrs. Rebecca Case, wife of Jonathan Case, in the 75th year of her age.

    At Junction, June 8, 1880, Lettie Ann Johnston, wife of Peter Crotsley, aged 41 years, 7 months and 18 days.

    At Bound Brook, June 14, 1880, of typhoid fever, John R. Emery, aged 52 years.

    Near Mechanicsville, June 12, 1880, Ellen Ann Young, aged 51 years, 4 months and 12 days.

    In Sand Brook, May 29, 1880, Susie H. LaRue, aged 31 years and 6 months.
 

Local Department

    John R. Emery, the line coal agent of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, who had been quite seriously ill for some time past, died at his residence in Bloomington, Somerset county, on Thursday last.

    George Slack, keeper of the tollgate of the Alexandria Delaware Bridge Company at Frenchtown, died rather suddenly on Sunday, 13th inst.  He was the father of Ross Slack, formerly one of the editors of the Hunterdon Independent.

    Mrs. Sayre, wife of Robert H. Sayre, General Superintendent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, died Thursday morning 9th inst., at her residence in South Bethlehem, Pa., of affection of the heart.  She was ill but a few hours.  Mrs. Sayre was a niece of the late Judge Packer.
 

A Fatal Step
    Edward Grooby, a conductor on the Central Railroad, was killed at Bloomsbury on Tuesday afternoon.  His train had broken in two and he jumped off his own engine and stepped right in front of another train coming in an opposite direction.  He was thrown against his own train with great force and almost instantly killed.  He leaves a wife and three children.  He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and an active worker in the Railroad Men's Christian Association; and lived in Phillipsburg.

    Hon. George Opdycke, ex-Mayor of New York, died on Saturday week, at the age of 75 years.  Mr. Opdycke was born in Kingwood township, Hunterdon County.  Upon leaving school he commenced life as a teacher, but soon abandoned that vocation and moved to Cleveland, Ohio.  He opened a clothing store there but soon moved to New Orleans.  About 1832, he went to New York and in 1850 began the importation of dry goods..
 

State Items

    John Albut, of Phillipsburg, was instantly killed on the 6th inst., by walking off the railroad bridge in Easton, falling a distance of forty feet to the track of the road.  He was 50 years old, and leaves a large family.

    Miss Sydney Paul Gill, author of the well-known hymn "I Want to be an Angel," was buried from the house of her brother-in-law at Newark, at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning.  The remains were taken to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, for interment.

    Mr. David M. Meeker, a prominent citizen of Newark, died suddenly on Wednesday while transacting business in the City Hall.  Heart disease was the cause of his death.

    Jacob Hitchner, of Elmer, who was supposed to be lying at the point of death a few months ago, and who is in his 96th year has become convalescent and now occasionally takes exercise in walking or riding.  He is the oldest person but one in the township.  Michael Potter of Willow Grove, being one year older.
 
 

Death of Benjamin Fish
    Benjamin Fish, aged 94 years, died in Trenton last Tuesday morning.  He was the oldest railroad man in the State, having been one of the original projectors of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in 1832, and one of its active directors up to the time of its lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company...
 

State Items

    Oliver Dunn, the oldest male resident of New Brunswick, died on Saturday in the State Lunatic Asylum, to which institution he was removed about two months ago.  Mr. Dunn was born in Piscataway township, October 24, 1784 and was therefore in his 96th year.
 

Saving a Life and Losing His Own
    Charles Schneider, proprietor of a jewelry store at Newton, N.J., went to Swartswood Lake on Sunday with J. J. Case, a dentist, who has a boat house there.  While on the water with a little boy of Case, in a very small, shallow boat, the child fell overboard and Schneider sprang into the water and rescued him.  After landing the child at the boat house, and exchanging his wet clothing for a dry suit, Mr. Schneider started out alone in the same boat.  That was the last seen of him.  His boat was found nearly full of water two hours later, and an unavailing search has been going on ever since for his body.  Mr. Schneider was a German, about 33 years of age, had been married a year, and his wife is about to become a mother.  The woman's grief is very great and fears are entertained that she will not survive.  This is the first drowning accident on the lake in 14 years.

    A little girl named Kirehof was buried at Paterson, whose death came about in a singular manner....

    A boy named Lawrence McGee, aged about 12 years, went to bathe in the river at the mouth of Swan's Creek, in this city, on Saturday afternoon.  He with other boys who were in his company tried to see how far out they could wade, and in doing so McGee and another boy came to the end of a sand bank which had been carried out into the river from the mouth of the creek, and the water suddenly deepening, both of them went under.   Neither could swim but one of them managed to get to shore.  McGee drowned before he could be rescued.  An inquest was held by Coroner Horn and a verdict rendered of accidental drowning.  The boy was an orphan and had been brought up by Mr. John Bloomer.  -  Lambertville Record.
 

Marriages

    June 24, by Rev. A. Miller, Charles C. Smith to Sarah Williamson, both of Ringoes.

    June 16, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Charles Walton Eoff, of Jersey City Heights to Josie Cramer, of Junction.

    June 15, by Rev. Wm. D. Hires, Simpson B. Lyons to Kate H. Calvin, all of Frenchtown.

    June 17, by Rev. J. D. Randolph, Nelson Duckworth to Mrs. Isabella Boss, all of Milford.
 

Deaths

    Near Pattenburgh, June 21, 1880, of apoplexy, George W. Rea, aged 68 years.

    In Clinton, June 23, 1880, Rev. Horace Dayton Doolittle, Pastor of the Clinton Baptist Church, aged 73 years, 3 months and 13 days.

    In Frenchtown, June 13, 1880, Geo. Slack, aged 64 years, 11 months and 5 days.

    In Lambertville, June 19, 1880, Lawrence Magee, aged 11 years and 3 months.
 

Local Department

    Timothy Doxy, a veteran of the war of 1812, died last week in Bergen county at the age of 94.

    Jacob Smith, son of Mahlon Smith of this place, died in Belvidere on Tuesday last.  His remains were brought here for interment.  Mr. Smith removed from this place to Belvidere some fifteen years ago.
 

    A sad accident occurred at Mechanicsville on Wednesday night last.  A son of Obadiah Cole and a boy named Seals were playing what the boys call "horse."  The lines were fastened upon young Cole and Seals was the driver.  They were playing in the road when a carriage driven by a man named Snover came along and the boys fell in behind the wagon and continued to play.  Seals threw the "lines" down after awhile, and in doing so flirted them towards the wagon.  They were caught by the hind wheel and young Cole was drawn over it and dropped beneath it, it passing over his breast and injuring him so severely that his death resulted in about ten hours thereafter.  His age was 13 years.

    Geo. W. Rea, Esq., a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of our county, died from a stroke of apoplexy on Monday, while in the harvest field on his farm near Pattenburgh.  Mr. Rea was apparently in the full enjoyment of his usual robust health, and his loss so unexpectedly causes a great shock indeed in this community.  -  Clinton Democrat.

    Our town was greatly shocked to hear of the sudden and unexpected death of William Purcell, which occurred on Thursday morning last, from eryalpaian.

Rev. Horace D. Doolittle
    This true man and faithful Christian minister died at Clinton, on Wednesday night last, after a long illness, in the 74th year of his age...
 
 

State Items

    A 2-year-old child of Mr. Flower, of Riverside, on Sunday, took a draught of muriatic acid, kept for soldering, and died after lingering in agony for twelve hours.

    George Mains, a lad of ten years, of Millville, was drowned on Tuesday afternoon in a duck pond while playing with two or three companions.  It was an hour before the body was recovered.

    Fifty years ago, Mrs. Mary A Cole, left Ohio with her husband for Libertyville, this State, traveling the entire distance on foot.  She is now 77 years of age and was never inside a railroad car until Saturday, when she went to Owego to visit her daughter.

    At Ocean Par, Rufus Shippen, a boy of Camden county, who accompanied an excursion on Thursday, was drowned while bathing in the sea.  The surfmen made every effort to save him.  He sank in the sight of hundreds congregated on the beach.  The body washed ashore one hour after going down.  Shippen was seventeen years old.

    John Welsh, of Bridgeville, an employee at the Peqnest furnace, was killed by a D. L. and W. train a few days ago while on his way home from work.

    On Tuesday morning, Constantine Walters, wagon driver, residing in Riverside, was found terribly mutilated, near the railroad station, a train of cars having evidently run over him.  It is said that, not long ago, his wife and her child deserted him, and he had been much depressed in spirits in consequence.

    On Monday evening, the body of Alfred H. Smith, who has been missing from his home in Camden, since Saturday last, was found drowned in Newton creek, near the turnpike bridge.  Deceased was employed in the iron works in Gloucester City.
 

Marriages

    June 21, by Rev. C. S. Converse, John S. Nevius to Mary A. Hartley, both of West Amwell.

    June 17, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, Harmon K. Vanderbilt to Augusta Stout, both of Mt. Pleasant.

    In St. Joseph, Mo., June 16, 1880, Joseph T. Bird, of Kansas City (formerly of Flemington), to Annie Ridenbaugh, of St. Joseph.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, June 28, 1880, Patrick Colligan, aged 82 years.

    Near Sandy Ridge, June 22, 1880, Oliver Augustus, son of Lorenzo and Fanny Williams, aged 14 years, 8 months and 15 days.

    At Allertown, June 28, 1880, Wm. Hibler, aged 65 years.

    At Stanton, June 28, 1880, Asher Kinney, aged 73 years.
 

Local Department

    Rev. John Q. Van Derveer, who went from North Branch, Somerset county, to Austin, Texas, some three years ago, for his health, died on his way home, a few days ago, and was buried at sea.  His wife and child were accompanying him.

    A young lady named Apgar, living near Cokesburg, met with a horrible death, on Thursday, 24th ult.  She was picking cherries, and losing her footing fell from the tree, striking the jagged end of a limb that had been sawed off, which entered her intestines, causing death of the most painful description in a few hours.

    We regret very much to hear of the death of Captain Wm. M. Shipman, the widely known Clinton merchant, which occurred on Saturday, though from what cause we have not yet learned.
 
 

A Female Hermit Dead
    Julia Still, who for several years past has lived in a hut on the New York branch of the Shawangunk Mountains, near Matamoras, Pike county, Pa., was found dead in her bed last Wednesday by a party of fishermen...  She was never married, was of middle age, and had a good education...  She will be buried by the authorities of Greenville township, Orange county, N.Y., where she resided.

    Terrence Monahan, a junkman, was shot on Saturday evening last in his store at No. 43 Sullivan Street, New York and fatally wounded by Theresa Jackson, a colored woman, with whom he had lived for years.

    On Wednesday, while a young married man named Wollever, employed at the mica mines in Broadway, Warren county, was proceeding to his home, he was seized by an epileptic attack, and falling face downward in a branch about two feet wide, was drowned.

Killed on the Road
    Mr. Jefferson House, an old and respected citizen of Phillipsburg, met with a fatal accident on Wednesday morning last.  He was employed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Black Dan's cut for many years.  He was on the track, and in stepping out of the way of a doubling engine, stepped in front of another engine and was run over and instantly killed.  The unfortunate man was 62 years of age and leaves a wife and four grown-up children.

    Sixty years old, universally beloved and respected, died as the fool dies - this is the epitaph of Col. Shannon, of South Carolina...

    Mr. Charles Ludlam, the only survivor of a company of 200 men, who assembled at Pierce's Point, Cape May county, in 1813, to guard the shore against the incursions of the British, who lay in there fleet in Delaware Bay, is still living, at the age of 84 years, at Dennisville, Cape May county.
 

Local Department

    Elizabeth, wife of James Neal, died in Junction, on Friday afternoon, 2d inst., of typhoid fever, and was buried on Monday.  It was only about a week ago that Mr. Neal buried a 10-year-old daughter, who died from the same disease, and now another of his children is lying very low.
 

    On the 28th of February last, our friend Silas Cowdrick, of Raven Rock, set down the ages of his father and four aunts as follows:  Mrs. Mary McClain, 91 years and 10 days; Mrs. Saviah Sine, 89 years and 18 days; Mrs. Margaret Schooley, 79 years and 8 days; Mrs. Rachael Brink, 74 years and 2 days; and John Cowdrick, 72 years and 1 month, the total ages of the four sisters and brother begin 405 years and 2 months.  The elder sister, Mrs. McClain, lives in Delaware township, keeping house all alone.

    Miss Ann Capner, a sister of John H. Capner, Esq., of this place, was found dead in her bed at the residence of Mr. Capner, last Saturday morning.  It is supposed that her death was caused from heart disease.
 

Marriages

    July 4, by Rev. A. Johnson, Franklin Bright, of Lambertville, to Maggie A. Cunningham, of New Hope, Pa.

    June 30, by Rev. George H. Cleveland, Henry Creveling, of Annandale, to Tacy M. Everitt, of Belivedere.

    June 26, by Rev. John Ewing, William Y. Hackett to Jennie L. Boeman, both of Annandale.

    July 3, by the same, Daniel Spangenberg, of Riegelsville, to Adaline Mayberry, of Glen Gardner.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 23, 1880, William M. Purcell, aged 53 years.

    Near Oak Grove, July 6, 1880, Evans G. Mattison, aged 79 years, 7 months and 12 days.

    In Lambertville, July 5, 1880, Job Silvers, aged 72 years.

    In Clinton, July 3, 1880, William M. Shipman, aged 58 years, 2 months and 11 days.

    In Union township, July 4, 1880, Mrs. Mary Jones, aged 60 years.

    At Junction, June 28, 1880, Mary Anderson, aged 74 years.

    At Changewater, July 1, 1880, William Snyder, aged 76 years.

   At Junction, July 2, 1880, Elizabeth Neal, aged 35 years, 5 months and 12 days.
 
 

    At Charleston, July 9, Daniel Washington, alias Carter, a notorious negro desperado and the leader of a gang of outlaws and horse-thieves, was hanged for the murder of Allen Collins, a colored witness who had been summoned to testify against him in a horse-stealing case.

    A Cincinnati, July 9, George Allen Price (colored), who murdered Ville Black in revenge for dismissing him from employment, was hanged in the yard of the jail.

A Terrible Murder at Tappan

    The residence of Tappen, in Rockland county, N.Y., and greatly agitated over the brutal murder of Miss Hannah Brower, fifty-three years of age, on Tuesday morning, by unknown persons. The Brower residence is situated one mile north of the railway station in a spot remote from the highway, and in an old one story and attic frame farm-house. Miss Brower occupied a room on the first floor, apart from the family, and was strangled to death without being able to give an alarm. An entrance was effected to the premises through one of the windows. Two men participated in the affair, as was evinced by imprints of feet in the soft soil without. Once within the sleeping apartment, a fierce but comparatively noiseless struggle ensured. The lady was dragged out of bed, into the centre of the room and choked into insensibility; after which she was outraged and the assailants made their escape.

    Mrs. Richard Hope, the wife of a prominent citizen of New Brunswick, while in the act of taking a bath on Wednesday morning, was stricken with heart disease, and fell over into the bath tub dead. It will be remembered that Mr. Hope a number of years ago was proprietor of the County Hotel in this place. He also kept a livery stable here several years ago. His wife was a daughter of Henry Runkle, who died in 1865. She was a sister to Mrs. Susan Hoagland, of this township and also to William Runkle, of this place.

    The death of Henry Smith, of New Brunswick, in his 90th year, removes a man once as well known throughout Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon Counties, as any citizen in either. In 1825 he started a hotel on Water street and conducted the place for two years. He then bought the property at the corner of Hiram and Burnet street, and established the old Bull's Head Hotel, of which he was proprietor for nearly forty years.
 

Marriages

    June 16, by Rev. O. H. Melcher, George W. Hummer, of Kingwood, to Mary L. Conover, of Lambertville.

    June 16, by the same, John J. Lantz to Lillie B. Dalrymple, both of Frenchtown.

    July 15, by Rev. Thomas E. Gordon, Harvey Lantz to Labelle, only daughter of Adam S. Haring, both of Frenchtown.

    July 8, by P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Wm. W. Yerkes to Maggie G. Keightley, all of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, July 9, 1880, of cholera infantum, Sadie, infant daughter of William E. and Josephine Naylor, aged 7 months.

    In Lambertville, July 8, 1880, of cholera infantum, Frances W. Wolverton, aged 6 months.

    In Lambertville, July 1, 1880, of cholera infantum, Sadie F., infant daughter of Samuel and Emma Davenport, of Newark, N.J., aged 4 months.

    In Lambertville, July 10, 1880, of cholera infantum, Ida, infant daughter of Joseph E. and Laura Shaw, aged 4 months.

    In Lambertville, July 10, 1880, of cholera infantum, Ella, infant daughter of Ishmael P. and Caroline Loveland, aged 5 months.

    Near Flemington, July 6th, 1880, of consumption, Cornella Hartpence, wife of John Wesley Hanson, in the 21st year of her age.
 
 

A Triple Murder
    A frightful triple crime was committed near Lyon, N.Y., Sunday night, 18th inst. Solomon H. Easterly, a farmer, who was in good circumstances, murdered his mother-in-law and his wife, and then drowned himself. The cause was a violent quarrel with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Geer...

    Henry W. Shouse, a prominent citizen of Easton, Pa., was deliberately shot dead in Honesdale, Pa., on Friday evening, by his brother-in-law, Benjamin J. Bartree. The cause of the murder was an old dispute about some property.

    At a dance given at the house of Wm. Martin, a respected colored man, in New Albany, Ind., John Woods and another colored man got into a dispute. Martin tried to pacify them when Woods suddenly drew a revolver and shot Martin through the heart. The murderer was arrested.

    Monday night at Duckwell's grocery, six miles from Louisville, Ky., Cash Davidson, a wealthy young farmer, while drunk, tried to shoot an unoffending negro, but was hindered by Duckwell. Alexander Taylor then came in to buy a bottle of beer, and Davidson fired at him killing him instantly. He then beat another negro with the butt of the gun and drove away.
 

Marriages

    July 8, by Rev. D. T. Koser, Henry B. Kemery to Annie E. Wyker, both of Milford.
 

Deaths

    At Pottersville, July 23, 1880, Serring Potter, aged 80 years.

    At Mechanicsville, July 15th, 1880, Esther M. Green, aged 74 years.

    At White House, July 18th, 1880, Henry Weaver, aged 67 years.

    At Milford, July 14th, Elizabeth Race, aged 76 years.

    In Union township, July 19, 1880, Elizabeth Bellis, aged 86 years.

    In Lambertville, July 17, 1880, of cancer of stomach, Pierson R. Niece, aged 65 years.

    Near Sandy Ridge, July 13, 1880, Mary G., wife of Rev. Morgan Cox, aged 89 years, 11 months and 18 days.
 

Local Department

    The sudden death of Henry Weaver, of White House, from paint fever, is announced.

    It is rumored that Dr. Jennings, of Washington, Warren county, who went to the Black Hills some time ago, has been murdered and robbed.

    John Conover, of Byron, Ogle county, Illinois, formerly of Pattenburg, died at his residence in that State on July 8th. The deceased had been complaining for a long time and died with consumption.
 

    On Saturday night of week before last, Elwood Shafer was killed at Springtown by being run over by the 9 o'clock train on the Central R. R. He and another man were lying asleep on the track, and not hearing the approaching line, Shafer was killed, while the other man escaped uninjured... The deceased leaves a wife and child to mourn his loss. He resided at Springtown and was by occupation a miller. He was a son-in-law of the late George W. Rea, of Pattenburg, whose sudden death was reported a few weeks ago.
 

State Items

    Abraham Van Zandt, an octogenarian, died at his home in Washington, Middlesex county, on Friday night. Ever since boyhood he handled the reins of stage coaches, and for the past thirty years, since the establishment of the line between New Brunswick and Washington, he drove the stage, and in that period missed but one trip on account of a heavy fall of snow.
 
 

Sad Drowning Accident.
    Monday afternoon while Meyer Goldsmith, son of Michael Goldsmith, of this place, and Meyer Kramer and Levi Kramer, of New York, tow boys, about 14 years of age, were in a batteau, on the Lehigh at this place, they collided with a canal boat, which capsized the batteau and before assistance could reach the lads the Kramer boys sunk to rise no more. The Kramer boys were cousins and were visiting their uncle, Simon Rosenfelt, of this place.... - Easton Sentinel.
 

Marriages

    July 31, by Rev. R. Johns, John K. Shurts, of Neshanic, to Moykee Williamson, of Croton.

    July 24, by Elder Robertson Hyde, John Walker to Mary Large, both of Cherryville.

    July 24, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Rufus Melvin Hoffman to Ella Letitia Chandler, both of Franklin Township.

    July 22, by Rev. J. D. Randolph, Edward Lott, of Flemington, to Lizzie, youngest daughter of Isaac Taylor, of Frenchtown.

    July 24, by the same, Clayton H. Fulmer to Kate, youngest daughter of the late Peter Risler, of Frenchtown.

    July 21, by Rev. A. Van Deusen, Joseph Hampton, of Edgewood, Pa., to Amy Y. Gano, of Norton.

    July 10, by Rev. M. C. Reed, John M. Apgar to Ada Miller, both of Califon.

    July 5, by Rev. John S. Foulk, Joseph K. Cherry, of Milford, to Kate B. Savidge, of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Somerset County, Maryland, July 20, 1880, Joseph Reading, formerly of this county, aged 69? years.

    At Mount Olive, Morris county, N.J., on Monday, July 26, 1880, Rev. Samuel Sproul, in his 59th year.

    June 4, 1880, Jacob J. Philhower, in his 88th year.

    Near Flemington, June 5, 1880, Sarah Ann, wife of John B. Rockafellow, aged 59 years.

    At Cherryville, July 22, 1880, George E., son of John and Ursula Genther, aged 14 years, 6 months and 22 days.
 

Local Department

    Asher S. Housel, of Union township, widely known and esteemed as an upright Christian man, and who has served faithfully as a Chosen Freeholder and in other public offices, died on Wednesday night, after a lingering sickness.

    On Tuesday morning, Theodore Shoemaker, a carpenter, aged about 55 years, residing at Stroudsburg, and employed by the D. L. & W. R. R. Co., on the new bridge at Changewater, accidentally fell from the bridge to the ground, a distance of 49 feet, so seriously injuring himself that he died within an hour.
 

    The Rev. Samuel Sproul, pastor of the Mount Olive (Morris Co.) Baptist Church, died at that place on Monday last. Rev. Mr. Sproul is the father of Dr. O. H. Sproul, of Stockton. He was a few years ago, pastor of the Baptist Church at Sandy Ridge and subsequently at Baptisttown. He has also been pastor of the Princeton and other Baptist Churches.
 

State Items

    William Thompson, being drunk, fell off a porch and broke his neck, at Bergen Point, on Monday night. His widow notified the police saying that she supported the family by washing, while Thompson spent his time in saloons, and she had not money enough to bury him.
 
 

State Items

    Captain Thomas Tilton, of Manasquan, one of the oldest sea captains on the New Jersey coast, died suddenly on Wednesday night last. He was largely interested in coast-trading vessels and had just returned from a voyage to South America. He was 68 years old.
 

Marriages

    July 24, by Rev. M. C. Reed, Peter Bloom to Margaret Hendershot, both of New Germantown.

    July 29, by Nathan Schuyler, Esq., William F. Seals, of Morris Co., to Alletta Vients, of New Germantown.

    July 17th, by Rev. I. Poulson, Franklin P. Clossen to Anna Miller, both of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    Near Norton, July 30, 1880, Peter Wene, aged about 65 years.

    In New Germantown, August 6, 1880, William W. Sutphin, aged 35 years.

    In Flemington, July 10, 1880, Miss Ann Capner, sister of John H. Capner, in the 70th year of her age.

    In Cassville, N.J., Aug. 8, 1880, Nancy, wife of John H. Capner, of Flemington, in the 70th year of her age.
 

    Joseph H. Reading and wife expect to sail in September for Gabon, West Africa, as Missionaries. Mr. Reading is a son of P. G. Reading, of Frenchtown, and he and his wife went to the same place as Missionaries in 1875, and after about two years residence there were obliged to return to their home in Frenchtown, on account of the ill health of Mrs. R.
 
 

Marriages

    Aug. 7, by Rev. J. M. Helsley, John W. Dalrymple, of Cherryville, to Luella Bearder, of Flemington.

    July 31, by Rev. I. W. Cole, Ellis Apgar to Laura Stull, all of Baptisttown.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, August 9, 1880, Mary Bonham, aged 62 years.

    In Little York, July 30, 1880, Mrs. Elizabeth Case, aged 92 years and 4 months.

    At Mount Pleasant, Mary E. Hunt, wife of John Hunt, aged 47 years.

    At White House Station, July 31, 1880, of hemorrhage, Mrs. Mary B. Eversole, aged 78 years and 7 months.

    At Readington, August 11th, 1880, Mrs. Joseph Thompson, aged 69 years.

    In Lambertville, August 6, 1880, infant child of Amos and Anna Morgan, aged 2 days.

    In Newark, N.J., August 6, 1880, Edward Burdick, formerly of Readington, aged 46 years.

    In Alexandria township, July 31, 1880, Godfrey Hiner, aged 79 years, 11 months and 25 days.
 

Local Department

    A former resident of Bucks county, Pa., named, Miss E. W. Belville, died at Delaware City, a few days since from starvation, having fasted for 36 days.

    Isaac Thompson, a farm laborer of Peter Eckel, residing midway between Frenchtown and Milford, was found dead in the watermelon cabin of Mr. E., one morning last week.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, aged 106, died at Phillipsburg last Wednesday morning, she was born at Black Water, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1774. Her first sickness was on the Friday preceding.
 
 

Marriages

    August 10th, by James Hoff, Esq., William H. Woodruff to Carrie Bosenbury, both of Franklin township.
 

Deaths

    At Rock Mills, August 13th, 1880, Salome Hankins, widow of Daniel Hankins, aged 92 years.

    At Junction, Margaret, wife of Nathan Terriberry, of typhoid fever, in the 63d year of her age.

    At Milford, August 12th, 1880, Mrs. Catharine Dunn, aged 55 years.

    Near Milford, August 13th, 1880, Isaac Tomson, aged about 70 years.

    In Frenchtown, August 14th, 1880, of consumption, Kate Kitchen, aged 28 years.

    In Frenchtown, August 15th, 1880, of consumption, Rachael Jane, wife of John W. Pinkerton, aged about 30 years.

    In Reaville, August 8th, 1880, of consumption, Richard Hoagland, aged 48 years.
 

Local Department

    Henry Whiteneck, of Ringoes, died very suddenly last Friday morning. He had been around in apparent good health all the morning, and after eating his dinner died. It is supposed that his death was occasioned by heart disease.
 

    From the Lambertville Beacon, we learn that Benj. F. Jones, who has resided for some time past near Dilts' Corner, and formerly a resident of that city, was found dead in Aleksauken creek, near John V. C. Barber's farm, in the limits of Lambertville, about 15 minutes past 6 Thursday morning, by Harvey Harbourt. Part of the body lay in the water... Deceased leaves a wife and several children.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Emeline Winans, aged 43 years, recently died in Newark after having fasted forty-six days. She had been a rheumatic invalid for nine years.
 

    On Sunday afternoon, Miss Tillie Mateer, aged 18 years, was walking with a gentleman near Mount Joy, Lancaster county, when a spark from the latter's cigar set fire to her dress, and she became alarmed and started to run. A gentleman who was driving toward her jumped out of his carriage and wrapped a blanket around her, but she was so badly burned that she died shortly after.
 
 

    Friday night last the body was found of the supposed tramp who was recently forced into the river and drowned at Agnew Station, Pa., by a gang of railroad men, for taking a bunch of grapes from a grape vine. The body has just been identified as that of Robert Bryson, of Harrisburg, son of Robert Bryson, Sr., a wealthy retired iron manufacturer and nephew of James and Robert McCormick, tow of the wealthiest men in that State. He was also first cousin to the Hon. J. Donald Cameron's first wife. Last Spring, Mr. Bryson was almost suffocated by gas, and his mind afterwards became affected.
 

State Items

    When William T. Reed, who risides on Church street, New Brunswick, awoke on Monday morning last, he found a pillow lying on his babe's head. On removing it he discovered that the child was dead.

    Mary Jane Taylor, proprietress of the Quaker City Hotel, Atlantic City, was found dead in her bed in the room of her cottage, on Indiana avenue, on Monday morning last. Heart disease is supposed to have caused her death.
 

Marriages

    In Flemington, Aug. 25, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, William O. Roberson to Harriet F. Burkit, both of Raritan.

    In Washington, N.J., Aug. 21, by Rev. T. M. Boyd, Charles E. Creveling, of Asbury, and Amanda Gano, of Norton.

    In Newton, Pa., Aug. 19, by Rev. Lane, Edward Hall, of Frenchtown, to Sarah Moore, of New Hope, Pa.
 

Deaths

    At Cokesbury, Aug. 23, 1880, Asa Alpaugh, aged 50 years.

    In Clinton, Aug. 24, 1880, Jennie, daughter of Samuel Layton, aged about 1 year.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 10, 1880, Hannah C. Wilson, aged 62 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 14, 1880, John McEntee, aged 62 years and 3 months.

    In Lambertville, August 18, 1880, Benjamin F. Jones, aged 42 years, 4 months and 7 days.

    At New Germantown, Aug. 29, 1880, Miss Kate Waldron, aged 24 years.

    At White House Station, Aug. 19, 1880, Minnie Bell, daughter of J. T. B and Lydia Schomp, aged 2 months and 21 days.
 

    About a month ago we chronicled the death of Mrs. Richard Hope, of New Brunswick. We now announce the death of Mr. Hope, which occurred on Saturday morning last. Mr. Hope was at one time proprietor of the County Hotel, in this place, and of the Gibson House, in Milford.

    We regret to learn that Spader Quick, son of James B. Quick, of this place, died from fever in Kansas on Friday last. The young man went West last spring. His age was about 24 years.
 
 

State Items

    Mrs. Theodore Smith, of Willow street, Hoboken, was found dead on Monday. She had burst a blood vessel in her sleep, and bled to death without arousing her husband, who was asleep by her side.

    Abraham Van Houten, a Paterson somnambulist, early on Thursday morning, got out of bed and in his sleep climbed out of a window on to the roof of the kitchen extension, and fell to the stone paved alleyway. His injuries are fatal.

    Isaac Anderson, a colored resident of Mannington, Salem county, was bitten on the leg by a water snake about two years ago. Within the past few months the wound showed signs of indolent ulceration and last Monday he died of lockjaw.
 

    George C. Harward, a promising young lawyer, and his friend, Peter J. Larkin, were stabbed by three roughs in Brooklyn on Saturday night last, while protecting two women from insult. Harward was cut to the heart, and fell dead on the pavement. Larkin's wounds are not considered dangerous. Thomas Tierney, one of the assailants, was arrested near the spot. Subsequently Walter J. Best and Peter Hurley were arrested, the former as Harward's murderer, the latter as his accomplice. Harward leaves a widow and two children.

    William Crever, an ex-convict, threw himself from a third story window of the Bible House, in New York, on Wednesday afternoon, and was instantly killed.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, August 30, 1880, Mrs. Evaline Opdyke, aged about 70 years.

    In Tinicum township, Bucks county, Pa., September 2, 1880, Sarah, wife of Herbert Engle, late of this county, aged 63 years.

    Near White House Station, September 1, 1880, Mulford C., only child of George and Emma Bakehorne, aged 11 days.

    At Rowlands Mills, September 3, 1880, Joseph P. Chamberlain, aged 55 years.

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