State Items

    Benjamin F. Pine, formerly Mayor of Beverly, died at Boulder, Colorado, a few days since.

    Two vagrants, named Barney Duffy and John Mahoney, on Christmas night went to sleep upon a bed of warm cinders, at Peterson, when Duffy was overcome by the gas, and Mahoney, obtaining help, took him to a hospital in the vicinity. Mahoney then returned to the cinders and was found there on Sunday morning dead, and burned to a crisp.

    It is stated that Martha Terhune, a spinster, 59 years old, of Lodi, lived eleven weeks on scarcely nothing, and forty-nine days on nothing. She died a few days ago from the effects of her long fast. She is said to have lived off her fat, and weighed at the time of her death 226 pounds. She drank a little water only during her fast.

A Double Tragedy
    On Sunday night, December 26th, an atrocious murder was committed at Bethlehem, Pa., by Joseph Snyder, who brutally murdered Jacob Geogle and wife with an axe while they were asleep. The murderer was boarding with Mr. G., who informed him on Saturday that he must pay his board and leave the house. He had frequently made improper advances toward Alice, the daughter of Mr. Geogle, aged 16. Snyder informed a neighbor of the murder and afterward disappeared; after diligent search he was found in a barn. A crowd put a rope around his neck and dragged him to a tree. He was then hung by the neck till he died.
 

Marriages

    Dec. 23, by Rev. John B. Kugler, Simon W. Nunn, of Port Colden, to Anna I., only daughter of Wm. Miller, Esq., of New Hampton.

    Dec. 22, by Rev. c. e. Walton, George Hawk, of Bloomsbury, to Gussie Anderson, of Cherryville.

    Dec. 1, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Welling B. Mathews, of Harvard, Nebraska, to Annie C. Stout, of Lambertville.

    Nov. 17, by S. W. Roe, D. D., Aller McGloughan to Susan Frances Sharp.

    Dec. 18, by the same, at the home of the bride's parents, John Craft to Sarah Melick.

    Dec. 22, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Ellis B. Hoffman to Mary H. Snyder, all of Hunterdon county.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, John W. Higgins, of Ringoes, to Sarah R. Housel, of Reaville.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Henry Huselton, of Junction, to Maggie Rupell, of Franklin township.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. J. Tindall, Chester S. Lott, of Allertown, to Mary E. Smith, of High Bridge.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, John T. Apgar, of Cokesbury, to Kate T. Potter, of Mountainville.

    Dec. 22, by Rev. P. D. Day, Charles M. Apgar, of Cokesbury, to Zettia E., daughter of John M. Apgar, Esq., of Lebanon.

    Dec. 15, by Rev. A. M. Harris, James T. Smith, of West End, to Alice Hamlin, daughter of Wm. Hamlin, of Phillipsburg.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. M. C. Reed, Smith H. Vandervere, of Mendham, to Mary H. Philhower, of New Germantown.

    Dec. 25, by J. B. Mathis, Jacob Slater to Dora Castner, both of Hunterdon county.

    At the same time, by the same, John C. Lunger to Emma Stillwill, both of Hunterdon county.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. John Ewing, Abram Sherrer, of New Hampton, to Mary E. Rinehart, of Junction.
 

Deaths

    Near Sergeantsville, Dec. 5, 1880, Andrew Stenner, aged 24 years, 6 months, and 6 days.

    At Morristown, N.J., Dec. 31, 1880, Mrs. Catharine Hoffman, mother of the late George F. Crater, aged 86 years, lacking one day.

    In West Amwell township, Dec. 26, 1880, Anna Shehan, aged 75 years.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 24, 1880, Mrs. Mary Rake, in her 78th year.

    At the residence of her son, in New York, Dec. 17, 1880, Mrs. Sarah Ann Wagner, formerly of Baptisttown.

    At Glen Gardner, Dec. 21, 1880, Jennie, wife of Joseph H. Gardner and daughter of Joseph B. Fritts, Esq., aged 36 years.

    In Flemington, Dec. 21, 1880, Elias S. Holloway, aged 21 years, 5 months and 6 days.
 

Local Department

    The little village of Bloomsbury, in Hunterdon county, was known as Johnson's Iron Works, one hundred and twenty-five years ago.

    Mrs. Anna Shehan died very suddenly on Sunday morning last, at the residence of Timothy Cornells, in West Amwell township, of heart disease. Mrs. Shehan was about 75 years old.
 

    Aaron Hagaman, an aged colored man, one of the few remaining people who were formerly held as slaves in this State, died in East Amwell township on the 13th inst. He was freed some years ago, and for a long time had been supported by the township, being unable to work. There is one old slave yet in East Amwell township - Sylvia Duboyce, who lives on the mountain. She is supposed to be about 100 years of age, and is yet quite active.
 

    Dr. George Smillie, a surgeon dentist of Plainfield, was found last Thursday morning frozen to death on one of the streets in Washington Park, North Plainfield. He left the residence of Dr. John Campbell, at 11 o'clock Wednesday night to return home, and was apparently struck by apoplexy when about 150 yards from the house, and fell in the snow.

Fratricide
    A Utica, N.Y. dispatch, dated Christmas, says: Henry Ostrander, aged 29, shot and kileed his brother, George Lyman Ostrander, aged 26, at their home near Camden, in his county, today. Henry was jealous because his little sister was caressing his brother, and he spit tobacco juice in her face. George warned him to stop, when Henry shot him instantly.

Death Of John C. Rafferty
    Col. John C. Rafferty departed this life on the last day of the year 1880, the second after his birth day, at 7 o'clock in the morning. He was sixty-four years old.
    He went from his rooms to his supper the night before and returned as well apparently as he had been for some weeks past. His son, Ogden, who had been absent for a short time, came back to hind his father entirely overcome by the paralysis with which he had been attacked about eighteen months previous, and which during all that time threatened dissolution.
    Col. Rafferty's father was William Rafferty, D. D., who was born in Ireland, educated in Glasgow, entered the ministry as a Episcopalian, removed to America, married Miss Chandler of Orange county, N.Y., abode for a time at Woodbury, Gloucester county, N.J., was called to the Presidency of St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., at which place he died while John was of tender years.
    John was born at Woodbury, was early taken charge of by his maternal relatives, was prepared for college at Pittsfield, Mass., graduated at Yale in 1835, attended a law course at Cambridge, while the distinguished jurists Story and Greenlief occupied and filled professorships in that celebrated school. He read law in the office of O. W. Ogden, in New York city, and was there admitted to the bar in 1838. In June 1841, he married Laura E. Ogden whose father was made Marshal of N.J., by Jefferson and was continued in that office until 1831. His home from thence until 1862, was on the premises known as "Burnett's property," near New Germantown, when his four children, two sons and tow daughters were born….
 
 

January 11, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 21

A Young Wife Murdered
    On Sunday evening, Jan. 2, Anton Kloefel shot his wife at the residence of her parents, about three miles from Weissport, Carbon county, Pa. The couple were spending the holidays at the wife's home. The family were engaged in singing songs and hymns, Kloefel and his wife taking the principal part in the evening pastime. Kloefel requested his wife to sing a certain song, which she declined to do. He thereupon seized a shot-gun, took deliberate aim, and fired, the shot taking effect in the left eye, penetrating the brain and causing instant death… Mrs. Kloefel would have been 19 years old on Monday last. The murderer is a clerk in a bakery on Broadway, New York City. He is about six feet tall, and quite good looking. The couple had been married about four months.

    John Livingston, an aged colored man, died on Friday at Branchport, Monmouth county. He was formerly a slave. He was brought up in the Newbold family, who lived in the neighborhood and is supposed to have been over 100 years old. He himself claimed to be 107. An aged citizen of the place, who is 94 remembers Livingston as a man when he was a mere boy… He died suddenly, being found dead in an outhouse adjoining his dwelling.

    The boiler explosion at the Allentown Rolling Mill, Pa., last Thursday night was more disastrous than at first supposed. Eight employees in the mill have died from their injuries from the explosion, viz: Frank Gallagher, Patrick McGee, Dennis McGee, Charles McCloskey, Hugh Hernity, James Roardy and Cornelius Feury. These, with James Shanks, killed instantly, make nine men dead and three others are expected to die.

    A fatal sleighing accident occurred at Parkerdale, N.J., Monday, in which Mrs. Mary Chadwick, a widow lady, lost her life. Mrs. Chadwick was out sleighing, accompanied by her brother, when a heavy sleigh, carelessly driven by an intoxicated man named Herring, came into collision with Mrs. Chadwick's sleigh, killing one of the team. The lady was so severely injured that she survived but a few moments.

    Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, a colored woman, died in Cheltenham, one of the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo., on New Year's Day, aged 115 years. She weighed 400 pounds. Mrs. Cooper was the mother of twenty-five children, the youngest of whom is 62 years old. He husband is 101 years old, and is still living.
 

State Items

    Walter S. Lippincott, of Woodstown, died lately of an injury received years ago while playing base ball.

    A colored woman died in Camden last week said to be 112 years old. She was able to thread a needle a few hours before she died.

    Another splendid Jersey woman, the mother of ex-Attorney General Robert Gilchrist, died at Jersey City Thursday aged about 80 years.

    Isaac Bird died at Morristown on Wednesday, aged eighty-one years. Nine years ago he was reported dead, and had the privilege of reading a complimentary obituary in the local paper.
 

    The decree of absolute divorce granted by Judge Gilbert, in Brooklyn in the suit of Mrs. Sarah Jessie Shaffer against Charles H. Shaffer, was the result of an interesting suit, both parties to which, as infants legally, were represented by their guardians…

    It is only a few months over one hundred years since John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of this State died. He departed his life in December 1780. On the 28th of February, 1881, it will be just a century since Richard Stockton, another of the signers of that immortal declaration died.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 1, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, Hiram H. Hockenbury to Laura G. Conover, all of Delaware township.

    At Tioga, Pa., by Rev. A. T. Dotterer, Dec. 19, 1880, George Hollan, of Philadelphia, to Mary A. Hartpence, formerly of Flemington.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. I. Poulson, Samuel Kitchen to Lizzie Johnson, all of Delaware township.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, George W. Hoff to Jennie A. Ross, both of Alexandria township.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, Johnson Warford, of Milford, to Anna Bonham, of Frenchtown.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. Wm. D. Hires, James R. Vansyckel, of Pattenburgh, to Emma J. Meyers, of Frenchtown.

    Jan. 5, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Wm. J. Pearson, of Lahaska, Pa., to Eleanor Ely Moon, of Lambertville.

    Dec. 18, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Thomas V. Wambaugh, of Harbourtown, N.J., to Caroline R. Wiley, of West Amwell township.

    Dec. 25, by the same, Cornelius W. Rittenhouse to Alice W. Cooley, of Lambertville.

    Jan. 1, by the same, Alfred Horten, to Mary E. Lake, both of West Amwell township.

    Dec. 29, by Rev. I. G. Reed, Smith Ely to Laura M. G. Dobbins, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    Near Flemington, Jan. 4th, 1881, Luella, wife of John W. Dalrymple, and daughter of Cyrenus Bearder, aged 18 years.

    At Flemington, Jan. 7, 1881, William D. Allen, in the 29th year of his age. Friends are invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday, January 11, at 2 o'clock P.M., from the family residence, Flemington.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Elizabeth Kershaw was buried at Readington last Tuesday, at the advanced age of 96 years.

    John B. Anderson, an old resident of Trenton, died on last Thursday afternoon, aged 75 years. He was born in Mt. Airy, in this county, and took up his residence in Trenton while yet a boy. He was a hatter by trade.

    Frank Lammens and Mrs. Mierhoefer were hanged at Newark on Thursday last for the murder of John Mierhoefer, husband of the woman. The murder was committed Oct. 9th, 1879.
 

    On Monday morning last, while Henry Johnson, a Central brakeman, was uncoupling the engine in the upper end of the Central yard, in Phillipsburg, he fell from the tank and several cars passed over him, horribly mashing both legs. He died the same afternoon. He was the son of Wesley Johnson, and the main support of his aged parents.

    It is much sorrow that we announce the fatal termination, on Friday noon last, of the disease which for more than a year has afflicted our young fellow townsman, Wm. D. Allen, Esq. Deceased was a son of the late Geo. A. Allen, and like his father, was a lawyer by profession. He was aged about 29 years, finely educated, and until attacked by that distressing torment (diabetes), gave every promise of ornamenting the legal profession.

    John Stull, a farmer living near Baptisttown, met with a horrible accident on Friday of week before last. He was intending to kill a beef and went up in a hay mow to get some unused poles with which to hold it in position while dressing, and on getting down jumped upon a broken fork-handle which was standing upright in a lower mow and was unperceived by him, which penetrated his body about nine inches, injuring him in a terrible manner. He was removed to the house and a physician summoned, but he was injured beyond medical aid. He lingered till about 6:30 o'clock last Tuesday morning, when death relieved him of his suffering. He was about 41 years of age, and he has been a widower since May last, and leaves five children to mourn his loss.
 

Ringoes Notes

    The wife of John Dalrymple, a bride of only a few months, was buried at Rosemont last Friday. The sermon was preached by Rev. Helsely.
 
 

January 18, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 22

A Sad Affair
    During a temporary aberration of the mind Miss Mary Wikoff, of Easton, Pa., aged 35, left her home on Sunday morning and was not seen since until her body was recovered from the waters of the Bushkill, near the cemetery bridge, on Monday.  She arose during the night, dressed herself and left her room without waking the housekeeper, who slept with her.  Before retiring she complained of pain in her head.  Miss Wikoff belonged to one of the best families in Easton.  She was the daughter of the late Dr. Isaac Wikoff and sister of Major Charles Wikoff United State Army.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 1, by Rev. C. H. Asay, J. Edward Blackwell to Belle Wilson, all of West Amwell.

    Jan. 8, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Warren Kressler, of Fineville, to Rebecca A. Teets, of Milford.

    Jan. 6, by Rev. T. E. Davis, Austin E. Sutton, of German Valley, to Edna M. Vescelius, of Fairmount.
 

Deaths

    In Union township, Dec. 17, 1880, Mrs. Catharine A. Hyde, in the 79th year of her age.

    In New York city, Jan. 6, 1881, Lewis Drake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hughes, aged 9 months.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 10, 1881, Maria D. C. Goodfellow, wife of Charles Goodfellow, aged 42 years and 9 months.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 2, 1881, at the residence of Charles M. Goodfellow, Julia Ann Riley, aged 85 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 2, 1881, Catharine T. Mathews, wife of Miles Mathews, aged 38 years and 6 months.

    Near Flemington, Jan. 10, 1881, Mahlon Higgins, aged 72 years, 11 months and 14 days.

    At Newark, Jan. 2, 1881, Wm. W. Hartpence, aged 36 years, 3 months and 10 days.
 

    About 11 o'clock on Thursday night, as Patrick Carrill, of Phillipsburg, was coasting down Hudson street he steered his sleigh into a tree while going at a rapid rate.  He struck his head and body very violently against the tree, causing internal injuries, from which he died on Friday.  He was 18 years old.

    Last Thursday evening as the Philadelphia express train, which leaves New York at 4:30, was passing Skillman station, it struck and killed John H. Voorhees, throwing him about thirty yards.  It seems the man was about crossing the track, and, of course, was not aware of the coming train.  The deceased was a single man, about fifty years of age, and lived in the neighborhood with his mother and a brother.

    Rev. Morgan Cox died at his residence near Sergeantsville, on the 9th inst., at the advanced age of about 82 years....  His funeral services were held on Thursday morning at Sandy Ridge, his remains being interred in the grave yard at that place, where his wife was buried only a few months since.
 

State Items

    Henry A. Fielder, son of a Hanover banker, who would have inherited $750,000 had he lived another year, died of smallpox at Snake Hill Hospital, in Hudson county, on Sunday.  The money is deposited with a New York banker.

    A little four-year-old daughter of Albert Perry, the boot and shoe maker of Plainfield, was on Tuesday suddenly thrown off a sled drawn by some playmates, and struck the back of her head so violently that she died in ten minutes after the accident.
 
 

January 25, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 23

    An old lady, named Mrs. Anthony Orsborne, residing between Hope and Delaware Station, in Warren county, met with a frightful death on Thursday last.  Early in the morning she took a bed quilt, saturated it with kerosene oil, and then going to an outhouse, wrapped the quilt about her and set it on fire....  She was about sixty years of age, and is supposed to have been insane at the time of committing the act.

Explosion in Passaic City
    The hood of the crown plate of a boiler in Waton's bleachery in Passaic City, N.J., blew off with a loud report at noon Saturday, filling the engineroom with steam.  The windows were blown out, but the building which contained the engine was only slightly damaged.  Owen Garland, one of the fireman, was instantly killed by being struck by the hood.  He was married and had a wife and seven children.

    On a fine farm near the village of Brick House lives one of the oldest citizens in Sussex county.  The Hon. Isaac Bonnell, was born in the vicinity of Dingman's, Pike Co., Pa., on the 8th day of April, 1790, and therefore is now in his 91st year.  His father, James Bonnell, served as a Captain in the War of the Revolution, in which he achieved no little distinction...  Captain Bonnell died in 1814.
 

    Wm. R. Risler, of this township, died at his residence about two miles north of Flemington, on Tuesday night last.

    Mrs. A. w. Crevling, wife of the enterprising merchant at Washington, Warren county, died at her home on Saturday night, 15th inst., after a very brief illness, in the 55th year of her age.  Deceased was taken suddenly ill while on a visit to friends in Jersey City, and while on her way home was taken off the cars at Dover, where she had become too much indisposed to continue her journey.  She rallied long enough the next day to reach her home,  when she was taken to her bed, from which she never after arose.

Samuel Evans
    It becomes our painful cuty to report the death of Justice Samuel Evans, which took place at his residence, corner of West State and Willow streets, on Saturday night.
    Mr. Evans was the oldest surviving male resident of Trenton.  He was born February 22, 1792, and was consequently in his 89th year.  He was a son of Lewis Evans, who kept a store in the old building opposite the Mercer County Court House, when that portion of the city was Nottingham township, Burlington county, and here it was that the subject of this sketch was born...  He married June 3d, 1813, and lived with his wife over a half a century, celebrating their golden wedding in 1863.  Ten children, the result of that union, lived to reach the age of man and womanhood, but, now only four survive...  Deceased was the father of George A. Evans, Esq., of Flemington.

    John W. Baer, the "Buckeye Blacksmith," who was well known in this section years ago, died in Philadelphia on Wednesday of week before last.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 7, by Rev. R. H. Ter Woert, Patrick Murray to Mary Colligan, all of Lambertville.

    Jan. 12, by Rev. W. M. Mick, George L. Heath to Katie Stout, all of Lambertville.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. John S. Foulk, George P. Queen, of Philadelphia, Pa., to Lottie Gordon, of Flemington.

    On Saturday, Jan. 1st, by Rev. A. Hiller, Willard Apgar, of Middle Valley, and Mary Webb, of German Valley.

    At Lebanon, Jan. 8, by Rev. Dr. Megle, John Davis and Elizabeth Lance, both of Lebanon.

    Jan. 5, by Rev. S. W. Roe, Wm. H. Emery, of Omaha, Neb., to Mary C. Vansicke, of Lebanon.

    Jan. 12, by Rev. C. H. Pool, Jacob H. Tiger, of Chester, to Lillie G. Apgar, of Califon.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Jan. 14, 1881, Laura Shaw, wife of Joseph E. Shaw, aged 34 years.

    Near Flemington, Jan. 18, 1881, William R. Risler, in the 68th? year of his age.
 

State Items

    Hon. Silas De Witt, a member of the New Jersey Legislature for three consecutive years from Warren county, was united in marriage on Friday afternoon with Miss Ella, daughter of John Riegle, Esq., at the residence of the bride's parents in Riegelsville.
 
 

February 1, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 24

    Mr. Jesse D. Bright, who was expelled from the United States Senate in 1861 for disloyality, died last Wednesday at his home in Indianapolis, Ind.  Sixteen years ago Mr. Bright was stricken with paralysis in New York and has been an almost helpless invalid ever since.  Among his surviving children is R. J. Bright, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate.

A Strange Cause of Death
    A St. Louis dispatch says: Archibald Gibson, second lieutenant in the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, a son of Charles Gibson, a prominent lawyer, died on Wednesday.  Lieutenant Gibson died of inflammation of the brain, believed to be the result of circumstances which occurred while he was at West Point.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 20, by Rev. Dr. Hall, James Nelson Craft, of East Amwell township, to Mary, daughter of Rudolph Ruhlman, of Trenton.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, Wm. Drake to Arabella Moore, both of Junction.

    Jan. 22, by the same, Wm. E. Walters, of Califon, to Esther A. Hawk, of Glen Gardner.

    Jan. 22, by Rev. J. B. Mathis, Jacob Groff to Rebecca Lanning, both of Hunterdon county.

    Jna. 24, by Rev. P. D. Day, Peter Philhower to Arabella Wean, both of Califon.
 

Deaths

    At Junction, Jan. 20, 1881, Mary E. Shafer, aged 45 years.

    At the residence of Asa H. Niece, in Kingwood township, Jan. 12, 1881, Mrs. Mary Sine, aged about 90 years.

    In Clinton, Jan. 18, 1881, Freddie, son of Samuel and Nancy Lane, aged 4 years.

    In Holland township, Jan. 8, 1881, Ann Hart, wife of Peter Hart, aged 60 years, 5 months and 19 days.

    At Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 16, 1881, Mrs. Orphia Runyon, aged 73 years.

    At New Germantown, Jan. 22, 1881, Elizabeth, wife of the late Firman Henry, aged 30 years, 5 months and 26 days.
 

State Items

    George Evans, colored, residing near Haddenfield, died a few days since at the age of 103.

    Barclay Haines, a well known business man and resident of Hainesport, Burlington county, died on Sunday, aged seventy years.
 
 

February 8, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 25

A Child's Frightful Death
    Ella Mitchell, aged three years, daughter of Alexander and Anne Elizabeth Mitchell, living at 943 Lamberton street, Trenton, was burned to death at five o'clock last Wednesday afternoon.  The child was left in the kitchen with a young babe which lay in a crib, while the mother visited a neighbor....

    A fatal case of poisoning from wearing colored stockings has just come to light in Port Jervis, New York.  Gertrude, the six-year-old daughter of A. G. Thornton of that village, a little over a month ago wore a pair of stockings colored in brown and old gold.  The day being warm, she perspired freely.  Soon afterward unmistakable symptoms of poisoning appeared, and Dr. Sol. Vanetten was called.  He said the illness was undoubtedly caused by poison absorbed by the coloring matter in the stockings.  She suffered the most intense pain, and at times her screams could be heard some distance from the house.  She died on Sunday afternoon, after an illness of thirty-nine days.

    In Chicago, last Tuesday night, a sensational suicide was committed in a saloon.  Joseph Stearns, a workman in the Brunswick Billiard Factory, entered the saloon and ordered a glass of beer.  Taking it to a table he drank it quietly, and then drawing a short pocket knife he opened it and ran his thumb coolly along its keen edge, but without causing any apprehension among the people in the saloon.  Letting his head drop back, with one slash he cut his throat from ear to ear, the blood spurting over the table before him, filling his empty glass which he had just drained.

    Henry Lane, the oldest person in Indiana, died last Wednesday, aged according to his claim, which was pretty clearly established, 123 years.  He was a body servant to General Mercer during the American Revolution, and claimed that at the time of the great fire in Richmond he had passed his majority.  He came to Mt. Vernon in 1831, in company with the well-known pioneer, Baker Plummer, in the capacity of hostler.

    A certificate of the death of Mrs. Sally Hunter, aged 115 years, has been received at the Health Office in Washington.  Mrs. Hunter, it is alleged, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., in 1776, belonged to the Washington estate, and was one of the servants manumitted by Gen. Washington's will.

    Washington F. Harbaugh, dentist and city Councilman, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide, in Piqua. O., on Saturday, Jan. 29.  He was about 39 years of age.  The tragedy was the sequel of a quarrel with his wife.

    Daniel O'Brien, once a prosperous citizen of Scranton, Pa., died on Saturday a week ago, at the extreme age of 111.  He was known throughout the region as "Uncle Dan," and was acquainted with nearly all the inhabitants of Scranton from a date twenty years after its settlement.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 27, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Augustus Skinner, of Junction to Mary C. Yard, of Flemington.

    Jan. 27, by Rev. C. E. Walton, Samuel W. Manning, of Mt. Pleasant, to Lydia W. Hoppock, of Pattenburg.

    Jan. 29, by Rev. M. C. Reed, Henry Trimmer, of Lebanon, to Anna G. Schuyler, of Fairmount.

    Jan. 27, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Gideon B. Brewer to Harriet P. Johnson, all of Delaware township.

    Feb. 2, by the same, Alton D. Spoor, late of Bucks county, Pa., to Abbie C. Vanderbilt, of Baptisttown.

    Jan. 22, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, Randolph Huffman to Annie E. Van Doren, both of Morris county.

    Feb. 2, by Rev. T. C. Young, Wm. Lauderdale, of West Amwell township, to Eleanor Carkhuff, of Jonesbury.

    Jan. 26, by Rev. J. M. Helsley, George W. Cherry, of Delaware township, to Rebecca A. Hortman, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    Near Sand Brook, Feb. 1st, 1881, Hartwell, infant son of George W. and Margaret C. Holcombe, aged 7 weeks and 4 days.

    Near Baptisttown, Jan. 22nd, 1881, Mary Olive Roberson, daughter of John and Maria Roberson, aged 1 year and 7 months.

    Near Quakertown, January 9, 1881, Harry G., son of Jacob and Frances A. West, aged 2 years, 8 months and 22 days.

    Jan. 9, 1881, George Wesley Baker, aged 46 years, 7 months and 23 days.

    Near Copper Hill, Dec. 18, 1880, Ann Hartpence, wife of John Hartpence, aged 82 years and 17 days.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 1, 1881, Miss Sarah Frances Brink, aged 28 years, 5 months and 5 days.

    On Sunday morning, Feb. 6, 1881, Dr. John F. Schenk, in the 82d year of his age.  Funeral services on Thursday afternoon, 10th inst., at 2 o'clock from his late residence in Flemington, N.J.

    April 1, 1880, Margaret C. Johnson, wife of John H. Baker, aged 50 years, 1 month and 19 days.
 

Local Department

    An old colored woman named Katie Jackson, died at White House last Tuesday.  She died one day short of a hundred years old.
 

    Mrs. David M. Voorhees, of Somerville, died suddenly on Tuesday evening.  She appeared to be in good health all day and in the evening was about passing from one room to another when she fell to the floor.  Heart disease was the supposed cause.

    The many friends of Dr. John F. Schenk will learn with sorrow of his decease at the age of nearly 82 years.  His death occurred on Sunday morning last at his residence in this town.

    Ralph Dilts, a locomotive engineer on the B. D. Division of the Penna. R. R., and for many years a resident of Lambertville, died at his father's house, in Stockton, on last Saturday morning week.  Deceased was a brother to Andrew R. Dilts, of this place.

    Arthur Holmes, the ten-year-old son of Benjamin P. Holmes, died at this house in Summitt, in this State, on Friday of hydrophoia.
 

State Items

    James Hurley, a laborer, living at No. 82 Willow street, Hoboken, slipped on the sidewalk near his house on Sunday evening, and, falling on his head, fractured his skull and died almost immediately.

    While several workmen were engaged in cutting ice Monday on the Branch Brook, in Newark, John Rupp, one of the number, slipped and fell upon an ice hook, which tore open his abdomen.  He died in half an hour.  He leaves a wife and several children.

    Daniel Parry died at Paterson on Thursday of a broken heart.  An autopsy was made and a rupture a quarter of an inch long was discovered in the heart, and through this the blood oozed into the sack that envelopes that organ, until the sack was full and clogged, and the heart could not beat.
 
 

February 15, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 26

Marriages

    Feb. 3, by Rev. A. B. Still, Melvin Eick to Sidie G. Bird, both of Hunterdon county.

    Feb. 5, by Rev. R. Hyde, William Anderson, of Franklin township, to Mary Hassel, of Raritan.

    Feb. 9, at the residence of the bride's father, in Flemington, by Rev. H. M. Voorhees, assisted by G. S. Mott, D. D., William A. Cotter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to Annie R., daughter of John N. Voorhees, Esq.

    Feb. 2, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, Wm. Johnson to Emma J. Sine, of Sergeantsville.

    Feb. 5, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Wm. C. Thompson to Jennie A. Aten, both of Milford.
 

Deaths

    In Trenton, Feb. 5, 1881, Gershom Rusling, in the 86th year of his age.

    At Stanton, Feb. 2, 1881, Peter A. Johnson, aged 81 years.
 

Obituary
    Gershom Rusling, who died in this city on the 5th instant, was a gentleman quite extensively known in the State in New Jersey.  He was the brother of two quite eminent Methodist preachers, Joseph and Sedgwick...   Mr. Rusling was the father of General James F. Rusling, and was born in New York city, September 1, 1795, of English parentage.  Soon after his birth his parents moved to Warren county, N.J., where in due time Gershom settled in Washington, N.J., and for twenty years was the leading merchant and business man of that section of the country.  In 1845 he came to Trenton and purchased a farm on the White Horse Road, which is now a part of Chambersburg.... - True American.

Public Sale of Personal Property
    The subscriber, having engaged in other business, will sell at Public Sale on the farm formerly known as the "Jonas Sutton Farm," near Sand Brook, on Saturday, February 26th, 1881, his entire Stock and Farming Utensils, viz: ...   S. J. King
 

Local Department

    Four children of W. C. Naylor, now of Trenton, formerly of Lambertville, have died within fifteen months.  One was buried there on Wednesday morning.

    Mrs. Eleanor Mathews, of Mt. Airy, the mother of Assemblyman George H. Mathews, died on the 4th inst., of enlargement of the heart.  She was in the 76th year of her age.

    Mrs. Harriet Campbell (colored) aged about 90 years, was found dead on Tuesday morning of week before last, in her house near Lebanon.  She had apparently risen is the night to warm herself by the stove.
 

State Items

    Edward S. Moffat, and wife, of Dover, have been most terribly afflicted by the loss of three children in sixteen days, by that terrible malady diphtheria.

    Steward Gardner, carpenter of the Central railroad of New Jersey, while superintending some repairs on the drawbridge crossing the Raritan river on Thursday evening, stepped on a tie that was not fastened and was thrown from the bridge.  His injuries are pronounced fatal.  Gardner is forty-five years of age and has a wife and two children.
 
 

February 22, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 27

    Hon. Fernando Wood, member of Congress from New York, died at Hot Springs, Ark., at 10 o'clock last Sunday night.  Fernando Wood was born of Quaker parents in Philadelphia in 1812, and was, therefore, at his death in this sixty-nineth year...  He was twice married.

    Andrew Smith, of Hawley, Pa., aged 30 years, has just met his death in a most painful manner.  While drawing logs from the woods the sleigh struck an obstruction in the road and the whole load of heavy logs was overturned on him.  Death was instantaneous and when found he was crushed perfectly flat, the entire load having lodged on top of his body...  He leaves a family.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 15, by Rev. C. S. Converse, George G. Hartpence to Ida A. Brewer, both of Ringoes.

    Feb. 10, by Rev. W. J. Henderson, Aaron B. Solmon, of Mt. Oliver, to Carrie Trimmer, of Lower Valley.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Feb. 13, 1881, George W. Bowers, aged 19 years and 2 months.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 5, 1881, Susan B. Everitt, aged 91 years and 5 months.

    Near Ringoes, Jan. 29, 1881, Martha, wife of William F. Dilts, in her 41st year.

    At Mt. Airy, Feb. 4, 1881, Mrs. Eleanor Matthews, aged 74 years.

    In Clinton, Feb. 7, 1881, Mrs. John Race, aged 80 years and 6 months.

    In Flemington, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1881, Mrs. Charity Higgins, wife of Judiah Higgins, in the 78th year of her age.
 

    Isaac Apgar, a highly esteemed farmer of Lebanon, died with hydrophobia, on Thursday of week before last.  He was bitten on the hand some time aog by a rabid dog, and on Wednesday was taking his meat out of the brine, preparatory for smoking, when he was seized with convulsions, and died the next day.

Sudden Death
    On Tuesday last, Jacob S. Manners, an old resident of Wertsville, was in Flemington in his usual good health.  Upon his return home in the evening he suddenly fell dead, it is supposed from heart disease.  He was aged about 70 years.
    On the same day, Henry H. Fisher, of Sergeantsville, was seen upon our streets, hale and hearty for a man of 80 years.  On Wednesday morning, upon arising and while walking down stairs he fell a corpse when at or near the bottom of the stairs.

Death of Hon. Alexander Wurts
    On Wednesday last, at noon, Judge Alexander Wurts died at his residence in this place, after an illness of only a day or two.  No disease was manifest in his case, but a general breaking down or wearing out of the body.
    Mr. Wurts was born in Flandes, Morris county, N.J., in 1799.  His father was John Wurts, an iron manufacturer of that county.  At the death of his father, which occurred while Alexander was quite young, he went to Philadelphia and prepared himself for College....
    Over 50 years ago, Mr. Wurts married Miss Catharine Bonnell, daughter of Alexander Bonnell, and a sister of the late Major A. V. Bonnell.  This lady proved a faithful help-mate and their married life was a happy one.  She survives him.  No children were ever born to them.
 

State Items

    Mr. John Meehan, one of the Board of Commissioners of Somerville, died very suddenly, of pneumonia, a few days ago.  He was very much respected by all who knew him, and his loss is felt by the community.
 
 

March 1, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 28

    Senator Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, died at his residence in Washington City, one day last week.

    Mrs. Mercer Beasley, Jr., a daughter of ex-Comptroller Stockton, died at Trenton Friday.  She leaves three children.
 

Local Department

    The name of the lad who was killed by the cars near High Bridge on Saturday week, was Crotsley, son of Andrew Crotsley, of Glen Gardner.  His age was 14 years.

    In our obituary upon the death of Hon. Alex. Werts, last week, we said that his wife's maiden name was Catharine Bonnel.  This was an error.  It was Mary Bonnell.

    James E. Leigh, aged seventy-eight years, a well-to-do farmer, who lived near Cedar Grove, near Princeton, hanged himself Tuesday.  He had been suffering from cancer in the mouth.

    The body of Thomas Shields, the boy who was swept away with the bridge at Raritan during the prevalence of the late freshet and breakup and drowned, has been recovered about four miles below the scene of the disaster.

    Marmaduke Watson, for years a hotel keeper in Philadelphia, and well-known to people in this county, died in that city on the 13th inst., at the advanced age of 82 years.  His remains were interred at Solebury, Pa.

    Mrs. Lavina R. McVey, widow of James McVey, of Bull's Island, died suddenly at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Jonathan O. Stout, in Lambertville, on Thursday of week before last.  Her disease was paralysis of the heart.  She was sick but two hours.
 

    Another sudden death we have to record this week.  Last Monday afternoon, John W. Forker, son of Wilson Forker, of this place, complained of a violent pain in his right side.  About 6 o'clock he started for home after reaching which he sat down and ate a hearty supper, though still complaining of the pain in his side.  After the meal was finished he laid down upon a lounge and was soon after taken with a fit.  Two other such attacks followed, the last one coming about 8 o'clock and from which his death ensued.  His age was about 42 years.  He lost his wife and child some years ago.  For more than a year he had complained of the pain in his side.  The immediate cause of his death was neuralgia of the heart.
 

Ringoes Notes

    John William Bellis, a highly respected citizen of East Amwell township, died from jaundice on Sunday, 20th ult.  For the long period of forty-two years, Mr. Bellis and his wife were members of the Church at Larson's Corner, and always occupied the same seat in the church.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 17, by Rev. Israel Poulson, Dr. George L. Romine, of Lambertsville, to Kate E. Bellis, of Ringoes.

    Feb. 23, by the Rev. H. G. Williams, William Lawrence of Philadelphia, Pa., to Gussie Lake, of Lambertville.

    Feb. 19, by Rev. W. M. Mick, W. H. Wambaugh, of Titusville, to Emma A. Murphy, of Lambertville.

    Feb. 10, by Rev. John Ewing, Peter T. Anderson, of Flemington, to Ellen A. Miers, of Clinton.

    Feb. 14, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, Fred. D. Miller to Matilda J. Cox, both of High Bridge.
 

Deaths

    Near Wertsville, Feb. 19, 1881, John W. Bellis, in the 71st year of his age.

    Feb. 9, 1881, at the residence of her son, Jehiel Hassel, in Flemington, Mrs. Jane Hassel, aged 87 years and 9 months.

    In Flemington, Feb. 9, 1881, Josie, son of Jehiel and Annie Hassel, aged 8 months and 13 days.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 19, 1881, James Risbon, aged 46 years.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 23, 1881, Henry Cane, aged 45 years.

    Suddenly, in Lambertville, Feb. 17, 1881, of paralysis of the heart, Lavina R. McVey, aged 73 years.

    In New York City, Feb. 11, 1881, William A. Hart, formerly of Glen Gardner, aged 27? years.

    Near Glen Gardner, Feb. 19, 1881, Charles E. Crotsley, aged 14 years.
 
 

March 8, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 29

Marriages

    Feb. 15, by the Rev. R. Johns, Charles H. Roberts to Mary A. Phillips, both of Flemington.

    Feb. 26, by the same, George W. Sheppard to Margaret Buchanan, both of Flemington.

    March 8, by Rev. G. S. Mott, D. D., Horace Moore to Ida, daughter of the late Cornelius J. Garabrant, all of Flemington.

    Feb. 5, by Rev. G. F. Love, Stephen B. Gulick to Emerales Pittenger, both of Baptisttown.

    Feb. 24, by the same, J. W. Hockenbury to Melissa Robbins, of Croton.

    Feb. 24, by Rev. B. J. Mulligan, assisted by Rev. Fathers O'Neill, Sheppard, Brennan and Brady, James F. Mulligan, of Clinton, to MaryE. Sullivan, of Lebanon township.

    Feb. 26, by Rev. P. D. Day, Wm. L. Lance, of New Germantown, to Jennie E. Auble, of Fairmount.
 

Deaths

    In Ringoes, March 4, 1881, Theodore J. Young, in the 64th year of his age.

    At Stewartsville, Warren county, Feb. 25, 1881, Georgianna, only daughter of Mahlon Bonnell, formerly of this county, in the 15th year of her age.

    At Washington, Warren county, Feb. 26, 1881, Wellington Bird, in the 61st year of his age.  Mr. Bird was a native of Hunterdon and well known here.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 20, 1881, Mrs. Elizabeth Gross, aged 80 years and 6 days.

    In Kingwood, Feb. 21, 1881, Richard Rounsavell, aged about 72 years.

    At Baptisttown, Feb. 23, 1881, Sarah, wife of John Slater, aged about 34 years.

    In Franklin township, Jan. 9, 1881, Harvey G., son of Jacob C. and Frances A. West, aged 2 years, 10 months and 24 days.

    In Flemington, Feb. 28, 1881, Mrs. Sarah Coon, relict of the late Thomas Coon, formerly of Newton, in the 76th year of her age.

    At White House Station, March 1, 1881, Caroline, wife of David Teeter, aged 53 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 27, 1881, Alexander Coryell, Esq., aged 82 years.
 

    Rev. Samuel Nightingale, many years a minister of the Baptist denomination, with charges in Buck and Montgomery counties, died yesterday of old age, at his residence, Tenth street, above Chestnut, aged eighty-nine years...  The deceased was the father of the late Dr. H. B. Nightingale, who was the editor of this paper from July 1866 to July 1867.
 

Frenchtown Items

    Deliah, wife of Samuel Slater, and mother of Capt. Wm. H. Slater, of Washington, D.C., and Gabriel H. Slater, of Flemington, died very suddenly on Wednesday last, aged 82 years.
 

Ringoes Notes

    Theodore J. Young, the well known proprietor of our Hotel for many years past, died on Friday afternoon last.  Some six months ago, Mr. Young had an attack of apoplexy from which he never recovered.

    Our much esteemed friedn, Datis Reed, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Mr. Hoff, of Three Bridges, left for Oswego, Ill., last Tuesday.  We wish him success in his new field, but we shall miss him.
 

Death of Mr. John H. Lyon
    Mr. John H. Lyon died at his residence at Lyons, Somerset county, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.  He had suffered from several years with rheumatism, and was severely attacked with it some months ago.  Recently he suffered also from pneumonia and gastric fever, which cut him off...

    Last Friday afternoon, T. A. Brooks,  the foreman carpenter of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was killed in Trenton, by being run over by a train of cars.  He was walking on the track and in stepping out for an approaching train was struck by one coming the other way.
 

State Items

    Isaac Edge, a leading resident of Jersey City, was sticken with paralysis on Sunday evening and died that night.  He was one of the well known manufacturers of fireworks.

    P. W. Strader, ex-member of congress from the First Ohio District, died at Ashtabula, O., last Tuesday.  Mr. Strader was a native of Warren county in this State.
 
 

March 15, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 30

    In Jackson county, Georgia, on Thursday, Jesse Cook, accompanied by his fourteen-year-old daughter, went into the woods to split rails.  Cook told his daughter that if she did not split as many rails as he did for the day's work he would kill her.  After a hard day's work the daughter, on counting her pile of rails, ascertained that she had not split quite so many as her father.  Fearing the unmerciful punishment to which she had frequently been subjected, she did not go home.  Her father hunter her up and flailed her so unmercifully with a rail that she died soon afterward.  Cook attempted to escape, but was placed in jail.
 

State Items

    William Lauerbach, the son of the proprietor of the American Hotel at Belvidere, committed suicide on Wednesday night by hanging himself in the cellar of his home.  He leaves a wife and one child.  No cause is assigned for the act, except that liquor had affected his brain.

    The conductor of the coal train who neglected to close the switch at Westfield last Thursday morning, thereby causing the accident by which Engineer Kinsman was killed and two other persons were injured, has been place under arrest, having voluntarily surrendered himself.

    Mr. Joel Robinson, died at Ewing's Neck, Cumberland county, recently, aged 79 years.  Mr. Robinson had been married 56 years, lived in the house in which he died 55 years.  He was a Justice of the Peace 56 years, assessor of his township 46 years and postmaster 31 years.  He was also Associate Judge in the Cumberland county court one term.  A year before his death he was appointed Notary Public.  While Justice of the Peace he married 224 couples.

    The dead body of a man was found in a snow bank near Newton on Thursday.  The corpse is believed to be that of Theodore Moses, who, several days ago, escaped from the Sussex County Poor House.  The body was almost naked and was taken to the County House for burial.
 

Marriages

    March 2, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, James Ogden Hughes to Lydia Lambert Van Syckle, both of Clinton.

    March 3, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, George Griggs, of Flemington, to Mary Emma Sheppard, of Sergeantsville.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. A. Dean, W. B. Hardy to Mrs. Frances C. H. Williams, all of High Bridge.

    Jan. 1, by the same, George Apgar, of Lower Valley, to Emma T. Neighbor, of High Bridge.

    Feb. 16, by the same, Judson S. Hoffman, of Lebanon, to Jennie E. James, of High Bridge.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, Feb. 21, 1881, John W. Forker, aged 41 years and 3 months.

    Near Rosemont, Feb. 22, 1881, Elias Fell, in the 82d year of his age.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 28, 1881, Mrs. Ruth Alpaugh, aged about 76 years.

    In Frenchtown, March 2, 1881, Mrs. Delilah Slater, aged 82 years, 1 month and 8 days.

    In Lambertville, March 6, 1881, Gervas Bernard, son of Gervas and Caroline H. Ely, aged 3 months and 11 days.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 27, 1881, Edward N., son of Amos S. and Josephine Johnson, aged 3 months.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 14, 1881, Velma G., daughter of Embly D. and Emma R. Baldwin, aged 6 months and 3 days.

    In Clinton, March 3, 1881, Peter A. Apgar, aged about 83 years.

    In Clinton, March 3, 1881, John Wiggins, aged about 73 years.

    In Philadelphia, March 3, 1881, William Humphrey, in the 49th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    Lizzie Compton, aged 7 years, died on Thursday last, at Paterson, from excessive rope jumping.
 

    Ambrose Barcroft, who was buried at Rosemont the other day, was at the time of his death about 88 years old, over sixty of which were passed at his old place near Rosemont...  He died at the residence of his son, Dr. J. W. Barcroft, near Yorkana, York County, Pennsylvania, and it was fitting that he sould be brought back and buried where he passed the days of his boyhood.

Mr. Potts in Affliction
    Hon. F. A. Potts on Wednesday received a calbe dispatch announcing the death of his son, Henry Brevoert Potts, at Naples, Italy, the day previous, of Rowan fever...  The same dispatch stated that another son, Frederic A. Potts, Jr., was lying seriously ill, and fears are entertained he may not recover.  Young Harry Potts, aged nineteen, last Summer went with his brother, two years older, to Germany, with a view of taking a three years' university course.  Recently, in order to escape the rigors of the Berlin climate, they went to Italy, and there seem to have been suddenly overtaken by the disease to which one has already fallen a victim...
 

The Spring Elections
    The following is the results of the election in full:
        Tewksbury Township
            Judge of Election - Paul Sutton
 

    "Indian Jim," or James Jacobs, a famous hunter of the Seneca tribe, was found dead in the woods of Potter County, Pa., the other day by a party of hunters.  He was eighty years old and it is supposed he died of heart disease...
 
 

March 22, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 31

Marriages

    Feb. 9, by Rev. J. Tindall, Peter Welsh, of North Branch, to M. Isabel Huffman, of High Bridge.

    March 12, by the same, Daniel Fleming, of Fairmount, to Mrs. Hannah Henderson, of High Bridge.

    March 11, by Rev. S. K. Doolittle, F. R. Duckworth, of High Bridge, to Rebecca C. Crotsley, of Glen Gardner.

     March 12, by Rev. N. S. Aller, William H. Hunt, Esq., of New York City, to Jessie Jennings Scott, of Mount Pleasant.

    March 9, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, Joseph Rounsaville to Anna Mayers, both of Kingwood.

    On March 15th, at the house of the bride's father, by the Rev. John Hart, Claudis R. P. Fisher, M. D., of Neshanic, to Mary L., daughter of Thos. C. Stryker, Esq., of Frankfort, N.J.
 

Deaths

    Near Locktown, March 15, 1881, James Slack, aged about 88 years.

    In Frenchtown, March 9, 1881, of pneumonia, Henry, infant son of John Yost, aged 11 months.

    In Baptisttown, March 10, 1881, Frank, child of Wilson and Lavinia Housel, aged 2 years and 3 months.

    Near New Germantown, March 11, 1881, after a painful illness of more than twenty years, William Vliet, in the 66th year of his age.

    At Naples, Italy, March 8, 1881, of typhoid pneumonia, Harry Brevoort, son of Frederic A., and Sarah Brevoort Potts, aged 19 years.

    At Jersey City, March 6, 1881, Matilda, wife of John S. Sloan, and daughter of Nathan Hoffman, of Lebanon, aged about 27 years.

    At Dreahook, on Sunday, March 13, 1881, of diphtheria, Eddie Allegar, aged 10 years.

    At Dreahook, on Monday, March 14, 1881, of diphtheria, J. Newton Allegar, aged about 4 years.  Both of these children were sons of George Allegar.  They were buried on Tuesday in one grave, at Readington, by Undertaker Theodore Van Fleet.  Mr. Allegar has lost a wife and three children within the past three years.
 

Local Department

    A man named Blackwell, who a few years ago kept the store at Neshanic, lost his life at Bound Brook on Friday evening by being run over by a train of cars.

    Two more of our Flemington young men - John Higgins, son of Joseph H. Higgins, and Theodore, son of William S. Large - left town on Monday last to engage in business in the West.  Kansas City was their objective point.
 

Horrible Suicide
    On Thursday afternoon last, Lemuel Gearhart, a single man aged about 50 years, who resided at Lebanon with his mother, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a cavalry horse pistol.  The top of his head was completely blown off, scattering his brains all over the bedroom in which he committed the horrible deed.  He had been melancholy for a few days previous, brought about by the announcement of his mother, who kept house for him, that she was going in a short time to live with a married daughter.

    A "surprise party" made a visit to our friend Fred. Bartleman, of this place, last Thursday night.  The party consisted of about forty Odd Fellows and their wives.  Mr. Bartleman is about to remove to Florida, and the party was made to give him a parting "shake up."

Death of Jesse Wright Morrell
    A man somewhat noted in his way, recently died in the Alexandria township almshouse.  We have no means of knowing his age, but we think he had passed three score years and ten.  Born in the township where he died, the son of a crazy woman who wandered through the northern part of the county many years ago, Jesse W. Morrell inherited an active, shattered intellect.  In a fit of passion, some thirty years ago, he hit a boy an unlucky blow and killed him....  He died Tuesday, March 15, 1881.
 

Ringoes Items

    One of the saddest and most sudden deaths which have occurred in our vicinity, is that of the death of Mrs. Elisha Brewer, which happened last Saturday night about midnight.  Mr. and Mrs. Brewer were a young married couple and had intended beginning house-keeping in the spring, they have rented the farm of Mrs. James Fisher.
 

State Items

    Mrs. William Clark, of Sandyston township, Sussex county, laboring under depression caused by an apoplectic stroke, drowned herself on Tuesday in a millpond.  She was 40 years of age, the mother of three children and wife of a wealthy farmer.

    John Bird, an employee of the Morris and Essex Railroad, was struck by the bumpers of an engine at Port Colden on Saturday, and knocked against a cinder bank.  He fell back against the cars and was dragged some distance, his legs being badly mashed.  He died the same night.

    Mr. Benjamin Olds, the celebrated book publisher, of Newark, died in that city on Tuesday, aged 92 years.  Fifty years ago he became famous as the publisher of "The English Reader" and "The Farmer's Almanac."  He was for many years a director in the Mechanics' National Bank of Newark.
 

    Twenty-seven years ago, Albert Paine, a young stone mason of Woonsocket, R.I., disappeared mysteriously, leaving a wife and son.  The wife used every effort to ascertain his whereabouts, and failing she went into mourning.  After seven years had passed she married Andrew B. Cole, of Woonsocket.  A few days ago Paine suddenly reappeared.  He says that he passed the twenty-seven years on a New Hampshire farm, to which he will return, leaving his former wife in possession of her second husband.
 
 

March 29, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 32

    Mrs. Donaw Putnam, of Amsterdam, N.Y., about fifty years of age, died last Thursday evening from a strange cause.  It seems that about a week previous she purchased a pair of yellow cotton stocking.  The next day, while putting wood in the stove, she stuck a sliver into her finger.  Her daughter pulled the silver out, whereupon her mother proceeded to wash the stockings which she had recently purchased.  Poison from the dye with which the stockings were colored entered into her system, and her arm commenced to swell.  A physician was called, who did everything possible to stay the effects of the poison, but in vain, and Thursday night the woman died.
 

Marriages

    March 17, by Rev. H. G. Williams, George H. Ryan, to Lizzie Lake, daughter of Joseph B. Lake, Esq., of Lambertville.

    March 16, by the same, George A. Everitt, of Stockton, to Adella Stryker, of Tumble Station, Kingwood township.
 

Deaths

    In Pittstown, March 18, 1881, Larison Stryker, Sen., aged 83 years, 9 months and 11 days.

    In Lambertville, March 11, 1881, Mary Curtain, aged 38 years and 9 months.

    In Frenchtown, March 20, 1881, Mrs. Sarah Blackwell, aged about 79 years.

    In Uion township, March 22, 1881, Sarah M., daughter of John Burd, aged 16 years.

    Near Headquarters, March 19, 1881, John Hice, aged 78 years, 11 months and 11 days.
 

Local Department

    There are now about 547 graves in the Frenchtown Cemetery, which was laid out in 1857.  I. F. Tomson was the first person buried there, and Jacob Rousaville the second.
 

    William H. Blackwell, seventy-six years old, who lived with his sons, in Brooklyn, was killed at the railway station in Plainfield, Friday night.  Mr. Blackwell was a retired merchant of Neshanic, N.J., and on Tuesday last left home in Brooklyn to visit some friends in Neshanic....

Choked To Death By An Oyster
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says: A strange accident happened last week in Jackson, Miss.  Thomas J. Wharton, Jr., Deputy United States Revenue Collector, son of Judge T. J. Wharton, of that place, and W. H. Bailey, son of the late Judge Bailey, of Canton, entered a restaurant, and Wharton called for raw oysters.  Soon after the table had been spread Wharton, holding up a large oyster on his fork's prongs, good naturally remarked: "This is the kind of oyster Walker Brooks choked to death on."   "Well, Tom, I hope that one will not hurt you," as pleasantly replied Mr. Bailey, and scarcely had these words escaped his lips when, without other converse, he arose and walked to a back entrance.  A waiter standing near the door cried out in alarm: "The gentlemen is choking!"  Wharton jumped up and ran to him, and after trying all the conventional remedies of relief known to him without avail, rushed wildly into the street in search of a physician.  Before his return, however, Bailey's life had passed beyond the recall of human skill.

United in Death
    A singular occurrence is reported from Lake View, N.J., last Wednesday morning, Anthony Hughes, who for many years was engaged in business in Paterson, resided there.  Some days ago he was taken ill, and despite the best of medical attendance failed.  Suddenly on Wednesday he seemed to improve, but as surprisingly sand and died.  The announcement of his death was made to his wife a few minutes after his demise.  She had been ill and the shock caused her death about two minutes after he had expired.  They will be buried together.
 
 

April 5, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 33

Eaten Alive by Trichinae
    Startling discoveries have been made in Hoboken in the post-mortem examination of Mrs. Adolph Bonhols.  It was found that she had been literally eaten alive by trichinae, from the effects of which she died on Sunday evening, 27th ult.  She and her husband were both taken sick shortly after eating some raw ham....

A Family Broken Up
    A very distressing case has just come to light.  Nicholas Ott, a German residing near Spaulding Hill, three miles from Oswego, N.Y., in the town of Tioga, a few weeks ago, was the father of eight children, but death has reduced the number to three.  Seven weeks ago, Mrs. Ott was taken down with the measels, and during this illness gave birth to a son - the child having the same disease when born.  It is said the children seldom, if ever, live when born under such circumstances, but the child and mother recovered.  The remainder of the family took the measles and were all down with them at one time.  The school in that district was closed for two weeks on account of the prevalence of the disease in that neighborhood.  One of the children, Sarah by name, was attacked with diphtheria, of which she died on Freb. 28th.  Four more of the children, including the baby, was taken with the same disease, all resulting fatally.  They were all buried in one grave, in the German Hill cemetery.  Two more of the children are dangerously ill.

    The Utica Herald says:  Molly Hardin, aged about 75, died at the Little Falls county house last week.  Her remains were brought to this village on Saturday for burial.  During the late civil war, her son, Richard, was killed.  Since then she has daily called at the Post Office for a letter from "My Dickey," and was, of course, as regularly disappointed...
 

Marriages

    March 26, by Rev. J. J. Summervell, Charles G. Melick, of Holland township, to Isabella Rawlings, of Milford.

    March 26, by the same, Anderson Hawk, of Holland township, to S. Lizzie Rittenhouse, of Alexandria township.

    March 17, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, John H. B. Opdyke, of Franklin, to Annie Gano, of Kingwood.

    March 30, by Rev. G. S. Mott, D. D., Howard Fleming, of New York, to Dora K. Boeman, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    At Sand Brook, March 28, 1881, Abraham Conover, aged 88 years, 11 months and 19 days.

    At the residence of Mrs. W. M. Shipman, in Clinton, March 28, 1881, Marshall Hunt, Esq., of Newton, N.J., aged 61 years.

    In Lambertville, March 23, 1881, Patrick O'Brien, aged 68 years.

    In Flemington, April 2d, 1881, Abraham Fulper, aged about 66 years.

    Near Flemington, April 1st, 1881, Elizabeth, widow of the late Peter C. Kuhl, aged about 43 years.
 

    We regret to announce the sudden death of our old friend and patron, Abram Conover, of Sand Brook, which occurred on Monday morning last.  Mr. Conover was but a few days short of 89 years of age.  The old gentleman had been complaining a few days before his death, and on Monday morning took his horse to the blacksmith shop at Sand Brook to have him shod.  While this work was being done he died in an out-house on the premises.
    Mr. Conover had been a resident of Sand Brook for sisty-eight year lacking a few days.  He has now living nine children, thirty-two grand-children, and thirty-seven great grand-children.  His father was a soldier of the Revolution.

    Abraham Fulper, for many years proprietor of the Flemington Tile Works, died suddenly at his residence in this place last Saturday afternoon, aged about 66 years.  He had been a sufferer from an afflection of the heart for several years past, and it was owing to this that he relinquished the pottery and tile works to his sons.  "Uncle Abe" as he was familiarly called, was an honorable, just man, and good citizen.

    Albert C. Bogart celebrated his 100th birthday in Paterson on Monday of last week.  He was born at Spring Valley, Bergen county, N.J., March 28th, 1781, and was married to Sarah Duryea, May 8, 1801.  They had 12 children, seven of whom are alive, and in all have had 185 descendants, but there have been 45 deaths in the family, and only 140 of its members dined with him on Monday.

    Theodore Sharp, a well known feed dealer of Newark, committed suicide on Thursday, by hanging himself in his stable.  He was 40 years of age and leaves a widow and two children.  He was a native of this county, and a brother of the late Asa Sharp, of Lebanon.
 
 

April 12, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 34

    Alvin Bronson, died on Sunday in Oswego, New York, in the 98th year of his age.  During the war of 1812 he had charge of the Government stores in Oswego, and threw them into the river to prevent their capture by the British, and act for which he was imprisoned.  He subsequently served two terms in the state Senate.

A Desperado Lynched by Vigilants
    Reddy McDonald, the had musician of a dance house at Sidney, Nebraska, and a noted cut-throat, was taken from the county jail at an early hour on Sunday morning by vigilants and hanged to a tree in the Court House yard...

    George Moran, who for twenty years past has been a night watchman on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, between Ten Mile Lock and Griggstown, was missing Saturday night.  As he did not turn up Sunday morning the Millstone basin was dragged, but without success.  At 5 P.M. the day walker discovered the body lying with its head in the stream over which is built the culvert near Van Duyn's Bridge.  He had evidently miscalculated the distance in jumping across, and falling, was knocked senseless and drowned.  His cigar was in his mouth, which was just below the water surface, and his lantern was tightly clutched in his hand.

Shot By Her Brother
    A Sunbury Pa., dispatch says:  Sunbury is in a state of excitment over the deliberate murder by a young boy of his sister.  Miss Lottie Hoover was an attractive girl of seventeen.  Her brother, George, is but fourteen.  Their mother, Mrs. Hoover, is a widow.  The family were seated at dinner when an altercation arose in which George became greatly enraged at his sister.  It appears that he boy was late and his sister reproved him for it.  He took his seat at the table and the difficulty continuing, he got up, and remarking, "I'll fix you," passed into a back apartment.  His mother, who was at the table, fearing the boy meant harm, got up and locked the door.  The boy secured a shotgun and going out the back way a little later came around to the front door, which he opened, and without a work of warning deliberately shot his sister....
 

Deaths

    At Sand Brook, March 28, 1881, William Hice, in the 90th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, March 31, 1881, Miss Jannette M. Gordon, in the 81st year of her age.

    In Lambertville, April 2, 1881, Barney Eagan, aged 80 years.

    In South Amboy, April 2, 1881, Garret Hogan, formerly of Lambertville, aged 35 years.

    In Brooklyn, April 2, 1881, of consumption, Alexander Joseph Burnett, formerly of Lambertville, aged 26 years.

    At Mt. Healthy, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Jan. 27, 1881, Charles W. Rudebock, formerly of this county, aged 57 years.

    At the same place, April 23, 1881, Susan, wife of Charles Rudebock, aged 48 years.
 

    Theodore Sharp, who committed suicide in Newark on Tuesday, 29th ult., was a nephew and not a brother of the late Asa Sharp, of Lebanon, as we last week erroneously stated.

    Barney Agan, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Lambertville, was found dead in his bed on Saturday morning, 2d inst.  He had been in feeble health for a year or more but upon retiring the previous night it was not noticed that he was any worse than usual.  He was about 86 years of age, fifty years of his life having been passed in Lambertville.  His wife died of small pox in 1863.
 

Small Bits of Gossip

    William Hice, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Delaware township, died on the 28th ult., aged about 90 years.  His uncle, John Hice, died a few days before at the age of 78 years (?).  The latter also lived in Delaware township.

    Henry Husselton, of Junction, died very suddenly on Saturday night, 2d inst.  He was at his ordinary buisness on Friday.

    Garret Hogan, of Lambertville, fell through a trestle work at South Amboy on Sunday night, 3d inst., and was killed.  He had for some time been engaged in running a coal barge between Amboy and Bridgeport, Conn.
 

    Under date of April 5, our friend Samuel Van Syckel, fromerly of this place, writes from his present home in Columbiana, Ohio, as follows:  "It is very cold here, and we have the deepest snow of the season."

Killed At The Baker Mine
    James Meagher, at the Baker Mine, Mine Hill, met with a terrible death last Monday night while descending one of the new shafts.  His brother was just below him and he was either in the act of getting upon the ladder, or was within a few rounds of the top, when from some cause, probably by slipping, he lost his hold and plunged down the shaft....  He was twenty-two years of age, unmarried, and by the exercise of many good qualities had made himself a general favorite among those with whom he assoicated.  - Iron Era
 
 

April 19, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 35

State Items

    Thomas J. Skillman, a well to do farmer of Rocky Hill, died suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, of heart disease, at the age of 71 years.  For many years Mr. Skillman kept a country store, and was the leading merchant of the village.  He leaves a widow, one son and a daughter.  He was highly respected and had been a lifetime resident of Somerset county.

    A very sad accident occurred at Milltown, Somerset county, on Thursday last.  As Mr. Syphers and a lad about 14 years of age (whom he took from an orphan asylum) were engaged in cutting an old cherry tree, the wind began to blow very had and caused the tree to fall before they were aware of it, and it fell upon the lad, mashing his skull, killing him instantly.
 

Marriages

    At Spruce Run, by Rev. C. H. Traver, April 9, W. B. Stevenson, of High Bridge, to Lillie Crater, of Glen Gardner.

    By the same, April 12, David N. Tigar, of White Hall, to Jennie S. Smith, of Glen Gardner.

    March 26, by Rev. I. Poulson, David M. Sutton, of Kingwood, to Mary E. Stiner, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, April 14th, 1881, Miss Elizabeth Choyce, aged about 70 years.

    March 20, Harriet V. H. Brewer, aged 23 years, wife of Elisah Brewer, near Ringoes.

    March 29, 1881, at Ti?kawah, Ill., (late of Califon, this county) Essie, wife of Aaron Farley, aged about 25 years.

    At Glen Gardner, March 25, 1881, Mrs. Mary A. Cregar, aged 32 years.

    At Glen Gardner, April 2, Julia Foose, aged 16 years.

    At Glen Gardner, April 10, Rachael A. Castner, aged 21 years.
 

Local Department

    On Sunday afternoon, 7th inst., Mrs. Henry Ohl, living near Lambertville, died very suddenly.  She went to lie down to rest as was her usual custom, when she gave some symptons of alarm and died immediately.  She had been in feeble health for several years, but most of the time was able to be about.
 

    Death has been busy in our town and vicinity during the week past.  On Wednesday evening, a child of William Prie, the mason, aged about two years, died.  On Thursday morning an aged maiden lady, Miss Elizabeth Choyce, departed life after some months of fearful suffering with asthma and heart disease.  On Friday our old friend and patron, Samuel G. Schomp, a farmer living about two miles east of town died after a brief illness, and on Saturday morning an old gentleman named C. T. Stout, who made this town his home a few weeks ago, followed the others to their long home.
 
 

April 26, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 36

State Items

    A three-year old child of Robert Roh, of Seabright, fell from a chair on Tuesday of last week, inflicting a wound on its head severe enough to cause death a few days after.

    Miss Josephine Gulick, of Port Murray, a maiden fair to see and but eighteen summers old, eloped with a married man of that place on Monday, April 11th.  The pair started in the direction of New York in the evening train as coolly as though such a thing were an everyday occurrence.

Hydrophobia In New Brunswick
    Lawrence Leis, Jr., a lad of 12, died in New Brunswick Friday morning of hydrophobia, resulting from a dog's bite...

    Jerome Wilson, brother of a New York physician, and of Henry Wilson, proprietor of the Honesdale Citizen, left Carbondale, Penna., fourteen years ago, and nothing was heard of him until his return there on Sunday last.  He was given up as dead several years ago by all except his wife, who believed him still living.  A daughter, who was two years old when he left, has since grown to womanhood.  Wilson, it appears, spent the years of his absence among the Indians in the wilds of Texas, and has made a fortune.

    Gershom C. Sergeant, a well-known and highly respected farmer living between this place and Cooper Hill, died at an early hour Sunday morning, aged about 76 years.
 

 Marriages

    April 2, by Rev. A. L. Armstrong, William A. Barlow, of Cranbury township, Middlesex Co., to Rebecca Hartpence, of Flemington.

    April 9, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, George Sheets, of Pleasant Run, to Jennie Smith, of Rowland's Mills.
 

Deaths

    At Pleasant Run, April 18, 1881, John E. Dalley, aged 71 years, brother of Peter S. Dalley, late Surrogate.

    Near New Germantown, April 17, 1881, William Parks, aged 26 years.

    Near Flemington, April 14, 1881, Samuel G. Schamp, aged 78 years, 2 months and 12 days.

    In Union township, April 20, 1881, Joseph Taylor, aged 75 years.
 

    Mary Breit, of Honesdale, Pa., left her 15-month old child in a room alone while she went on an errand.  When she returned the child was dead in a tub of water.
 
 

May 3, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 37

State Items

    Samuel T. Leeds, ex-Sheriff of Burlington county, died in Bordentown on Saturday night, in the 61st year of his age.

    Mr. John H. Sweasy and his wife Rachel M. Sweasy, old and respected residents of Newark, died within twenty-four hours of each other on Saturday and Sunday night.  They had lived happily together for more than fifty years and each was seventy-two years old at the time of death.

    Justice of the Peace Robert G. Van Duyn, of Bound Brook, met with a sudden death on Tuesday afternoon.  He had been attending court at Somerville and took the 3:35 train for his home.  When near Bound Brook he was seen to fall backwards in his seat, and shortly after being removed from the car expired.  He was about sixty years of age and leaves a widow.

    Two old settlers of Chicago have passed away.  Mark Beaubien, who went West in 1826 and achieved fame as a tavern keeper, died last week, in the 80th year of his age.  He was the father of twenty-six children.  David McKee, who went to Chicago in 1822 as a blacksmith for the United States troops, who were then the only whites on the spot, died at Aurora on Saturday, in his 80th year.
 

Marriages

    April 23, by Rev. I. Poulson, Sidney M. Bush, of Franklin township, to Lizzie Dilts, of Clinton township.

    April 21, by Rev. C. E. Walton, Philip S. Case to Frances H. Hoffman, both of Franklin township.

    April 27, at Christ Church, New York City, by Rev. Dr. Shipman, John L. Jones, Jr., of Flemington, to Carrie V. Alger, of New York.

    April 13, by Rev. R. Johns, John F. G. Kinney to Kate F. Book, all of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    At Clinton, April 12, 1881, Elisha Stout, aged 81 years.

    In Frenchtown, April 22, 1881, Edward H. Hinkle, aged 73 years, 9 months and 16 days.

    Near Flemington, April 24, 1881, Gershom C. Sergeant, aged about 76 years.

    In Lambertville, April 18, 1881, Sarah P. Lanning, aged 81 years.

    In Lambertville, April 24, 1881, Charles H. Slack, aged 2 months and 27 days.

    In Lambertville, April 26, 1881, Benjamin Carrell, aged 71 years.

    At New Hampton, April 21, 1881, Jacob K. Sheppard, aged 35 years.

    Near Mountainville, April 13, 1881, Eve Ann, wife of David P. Apgar, aged 71 years, 3 months and 17 days.
 
 

May 10, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 38

State Items

    Howard Webb, a child, was fatally injured at Toms River on Tuesday by falling down stairs in its parents' residence.  The back was broken and the skull crushed.
 

    There was a singular occurrence in Easton the other day.  Mrs. Peifer, 80 years of age, died.  Her especial pet for ten years had been a lag dog.  Just after her death the dog jumped on the bed and licked her hand.  Finding no response, he crawled under the bed and died in half an hour.
 

Marriages

    May 3, at the Bethlehem Baptist Parsonage, by Rev. A. B. Still, Clarkson R. Johnston to Helena Waidmann, both of Junction.

    In Lambertville, April 30th, by Rev. W. M. Mick, William R. Green to Mary A. Barkley, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In High Bridge, May 3, 1881, Mary M., wife of James Devlin, aged about 28 years.

    At Pleasant Run, April 30th, 1881, Mrs. George D. Biggs.

    At the residence of Dennis Carkhuff, near Flemington, May 3, 1881, Annie, daughter of John Burns, aged 3 years, 9 months and 10 days.
 

Local Department

    Joachim Gulick, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of New Germantown, died at his home a short time ago, aged 96, his wife having died about a year ago, 94 years of age.  Mr. and Mrs. Gulick were born, respectively, February 1785 and January 1787.

    Mr. John Everett, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Hillsborough township, Somerset county, died suddenly on Friday night last.  He went to bed in his usual health and when his wife awoke on Saturday morning she found him cold, and at once screamed for assistance.  Life was found to be extinct.  It is supposed that he died from rheumatism around the heart.  He leaves a widow and five children, all of whom are married.
 

Ringoes Notes

    William Ege, a former resident of Ringoes, but now of Michigan, is here on a visit.  He is looking well.
 
 

May 17, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 39

State Items

    A boat contained ten young men sank in the Passaic River, near Newark on Tuesday afternoon.  Luke Welsh, and E. S. Chisholm, both of East Newark, were drowned.
 

Marriages

    May 5, by Rev. C. H. Asay, David Hanson, of Flemington, to Fannie C., daughter of Elish H. Holcombe, of Mt. Airy.

    April 30, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Jacob Wert, of Wertsville, to Hannah E. Vanderveer, of Clover Hill.

    April 30, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Wm. R. Green to Mary Barkley, all of Lambertville.

    April 28, by Rev. N. S. Aller, Cornelius G. Aller, of Sidney, to Hannah A. Snyder, of Allertown.

    April 27, by Rev. J. H. Smock, J. Newton Shurts, of Readington, to Cornelia Schomp, of Pleasant Run.

    May 9, by Rev. I. N. Hill,  Aldus J. Winger to Sarah C. Hann, all of Clinton.
 

Deaths

    At Paris, France, May 8, 1881, of typhoid pneumonia, George H. Potts, Jr., eldest son of Frederic A. and Sarah Brevoort Potts, in the 23rd years of his age.

    Near Sergeantsville, April 28, 1881, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, aged 54 years.
 

Local Department

    The wife of William Hughes, living on Buttonwood street in Lambertville, died very suddenly from heart disease, on Monday morning.  She had been sick and had only a few moments before taken some medicine.  Her attendant left her for a few moments, and upon returning found her lying on her face in bed dead.

    David Dunham, Esq., an old and well-known citizen of our town, died on Wednesday afternoon last, after an illness of some four or five weeks.  At the time of his death, Mr. Dunham held the office of Justice of the Peace, and was also Assessor for the township.  Deceased was aged about 68 years.
 

All Sorts of Paragraphs

    Jesse Flummerfelt, for twenty-nine years boss carpenter on the upper end of Bel. Div. died at his residence in Phillipsburg on Saturday, aged about 73 years.  The funeral took place on Wednesday, interment at Lambertville.
 
 

May 24, 1881, Forty Third Volume, No. 40

    Annie Myrtle, a girl thirteen years of age, died from the effects of jumping the rope at Racine, Wis., on Friday last.  She jumped 102 times, which so injured her brain and other internal organs that she was a terrible sufferer until relieved by death.