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January 3, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 20

Marriages

Dec. 24, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Charles T. Warman to Esther A. Robinson.

Dec. 29, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, George H. Plume, of Caldwell, Essex county, to Mary A. Apgar, eldest daughter of Captain P. K. Apgar, of Cokesburg.

Dec. 28, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Augustus Studdiford Pidcock, of West Amwell township, to Mary R. Vannoy, of Titusville, N.J.

Dec. 24, by Rev. A. M. Harris, Holloway S. Osmun, of Pittstown, to Mattie M. Nixon, of Asbury.

Deaths

Near Barley Sheaf, Dec. 24, 1881, Asher Painter, at an advanced age.

In Lambertville, Dec. 14, 1881, George M. Hill, aged 19 years and 4 months.

At Bates City, Mo., Dec. 8, 1881, of typhoid malaria, Anna, wife of Jonas L. Hann, formerly of this county, aged 32 years and 4 months.

Local Department

J. M. Keifer, of Lambertville, a purchasing agent for the Lambertville Spoke Manufacturing Co., died at Front Royal, Va., a few days ago.

Wm. S. Hartpence, a native of Hunterdon county, died last week in Easton, where he has long been a prominent citizen. He was about 73 years of age.

John H. Murray, the circus man, died at his residence in New York on Tuesday last. He gave a circus performance in this town and at other places in our county last Septmeber. He was aged about 50 years.

Mr. Abijah Rittenhouse, known as a school teacher in this town some fifteen years ago, died in the far West recently, we understand, but the cause of his death is not announced. He had for some years past been employed in the Government Survey.

A few days ago Runyon Agar, living near Naughrightville, Morris county, was engaged in hauling rocks and dumping them into a deep hole, when one of the rocks slid into the hole and caught him in such a manner as to horribly crush him. He died the following day.

Lewis H. Rowe, a milkman, living in East Orange, committed suicide on Saturday by taking a dose of laudanum. He was found lying in his barn early in the morning with the bottle of laudanum lying beside him.

State Items

Edward Connors, of No. 11 Exchange place, Jersey City, while intoxicated on Tuesday, jumped out of a window on the fifth floor and was instantly killed.

Four children of Wiliam Luke, near Bloomingdale, have died within two weeks of what is called "black diphtheria," and the fifth and last child is lying very ill with the same disease.

The three children of John H. Hennegan, of No. 330 Washington stree, Newark, have died within the last week of scarlet fever. They were aged respectively 2, 6, and 8 years.

In the Burlington County Jail, a mother and daughter were recently serving a sentence for disorderly conduct when news came to them that the husband and father, Francis Harmon, had been suffocated while asleep on the edge of a lime kiln.

January 10, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 21

Martin Bradley, aged 65 years, was killed at Burlington Junction, on Sunday evening while attempting to cross the track in front of a Pennsylvania Railroad train.

Marriages

Dec. 31, by Rev. George Young, Albert T. Stover, of Point Pleasant, Pa., to Lucy W., daughter of Asa Kugler, of Kingwood.

Dec. 31, by Elder R. Hyde, William Pegg, of Locktown, to Belle Snyder, of Everittstown.

Dec. 24, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Jos. W. Hummer, of Raritan, N.J., to Susie L. Case, of Raritan township, this county.

Dec. 31, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Wells Amerman, of Chester, to Cora E. Apgar, of Califon.

Jan. 2, by G. S. Mott, D. D., Samuel L. Hall to Marian R. Bowman, both of Brownsburg, Pa.

Dec. 31, by Rev. R. Johns, John B. Stone, of Flemington, to Maggie Bloom, of Pittstown.

Dec. 28, by Rev. C. H. Asay, John W. Horn to Frances H. Wilson, both of West Amwell.

Deaths

In Flemington, Jan. 4, 1882, Mrs. Sarah Polhemus, aged 83 years, 4 months and 12 days.

In Chancery of New Jersey
    To Armida Creamer
        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 Harmon H. Creamer is petitioner and you, Armida Creamer, are defendant, you are required to appear, plead, answer or demur to the petition of the said petitioner on or before the First day of March next, or the said petition will be taken as confessed against you.
        The said petition is filed against you for a divorce from the bond of matrimony.
                                                                Voorhee's & Large
                                                                Solicitors of Complainant
            Dec. 29, 1881

Col. John Donahoe, the well known railroad contractor, died in Philadelphia on Monday last, while on his way home from Ohio, where he had been engaged for a year past building a railroad. He had been complaining for a couple of months. His age was about 58 years. His funeral took place from his residence in this town on Friday last. He leaves a wife and several small children.

Miss Chloe Ann Violet, who began a fast sixty days ago in Alexandria, Va., under an insane delusion that God had commanded her to commit suicide by fasting, died last Wednesday night, Jan. 4th.

State Items

Mrs. Mary Dodd, a widow, was killed on Tuesday, near Bloomfield, Essex county, by falling down stairs and breaking her neck.

Thomas Fields, 9 years of age, of Medford, was fatally kicked by a horse that his father took from the barn to show to a purchaser. His chin was crushed in by the hoof.

Mrs. Benedict Schlesenbeck has been taken to the County Jail at Morristown, charged with administering strychnine to her husband at Dover on Friday with fatal result.

A daughter of Mr. Edward Kohlmann, a tanner of Belvidere, eloped with an Italian, a few days ago, and was married in New York. Mr. Kohlmann has since visited them, and reports them as doing well.

While Joseph Bennett, of Hightstown, in company with a relative, was hurrying to the bedside of a dying relative on Tuesday last, the horse attached to the wagon in which he was riding ran away, throwing both occupants out and killing Mr. Bennett.

Solomon Groscupp, a peddler, was murdered and robbed at Baker's Basin, Mercer county, March 10, 1874, and up to within a few days there have been no clues to the murderer. A man who formerly living in the vicinity died at Manasquan on Friday last, and just previous to his death confessed that he, and others unknown, committed the murder.

Clement C. Clay, formerly a U.S. Senator from Alabama, died at Huntsville in that State on Tuesday, in the 63rd year of his age...

Miss Emily Ogden, daughter of B. M. Ogden of Elizabeth, N.J., was burned to death on Monday by the explosion of a kerosene lamp which she was filling....

January 17, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 22

Death of Two Noted Politicians and Lawyers
Richard Henry Dana, the noted lawyer, author and politician, died in Rome, Italy, on Saturday last, in the 66th year of his age....
Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton, one of the New York Stalwart leaders, died at his home in New York City, on Saturday, in the 64th year of his age...

Robbed and Murdered
Sunday night a shocking murder was committed at Sodus Point, thirty miles west of Oswego, N.Y. James Hall, a colored man who formerly lived in Oswego, occupied as a saloon a small building set on spiles over the water of Sodus Bay, which he put there to evade the State law against selling liquor on Sunday, claiming that the State had no jurisdiction over the waters of the bay. Sunday Hall was in Lyons. he drove over to Newark and took the evening train for home. At about 11:30 his saloon was discovered on fire, and it was soon burned down. Monday morning Hall's body was found in the water, under the place where the saloon stood, with his head and legs burned off...

Patrick Daly was employed as a hod-carrier on a building in Brooklyn, which was being erected by the builders, Bernard and Frank Schoof, in July, 1877. A brick fell from the scaffolding of the fourth floor of the building and struck Daly on the head, fractured his skull, and finally caused his death. His wife brought suit against the builders, and the jury on Tuesday morning rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for $2,500.

State Items

Ex-Sheriff J. W. Acken was fatally injured one day last week by a fall from a ladder at his home in Binghamton. He was Sheriff of Middlesex county twenty years ago, and was 65 years of age.

Dr. William E. Butler, a staff officer of General Jackson, in the war of 1812, died at Jackson, Tenn., a few days ago, aged ninety-two years....

Ringoes Notes

Mr. and Mrs. J. Reading celebrated their 25th anniversary - or silver wedding - last Tuesday night.

A friend from Millstone informs us that diphtheria is prevalent in that city: Mr. John J. Marsh has lost four children by this dread disease. Dec. 31st, David, aged teh years and a twin sister, Minnie, on Jan. 9th. On Jan. 4th John died, aged 8 years and Jan. 2nd, Charlie, aged 6 years.... - Somerset Unionist.

Mr. Charles Phillips, a hard-working tailor of Newark, has lost three children by diphtheria, aged respectively three, nine and seventeen years, within twenty-four hours of each other, the last one dying on Wednesday evening.

Marriages

Jan. 11, by Rev. I. S. Foulk, assisted by Rev. C. S. Conkling, Spencer L. Dilts, of Sergeantsville, to Jennie Brink, eldest daughter of William Brink, of Stockton.

Dec. 14, by Rev. T. S. Griffiths, John D. Case, of Franklin township, to Anna M. Williamson, of Raritan township.

Jan. 4, by Rev. H. G. Garner, Jacob S. Van Liew, of Wertsville, to Martha E. Ewing, of Hopewell.

Dec. 29, by Rev. E. W. Long, Willard Apgar, of White Hall, to Grettie Bell Philhower, of Middle Valley.

Dec. 24, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Samuel H. Gaddes, of Smithtown, Pa., to Elenora Black, of Milford.

Dec. 28, by Rev. N. S. Aller, assisted by S. W. Roe, D. D., Henry A. Aller, of Lebanon, to Tillie Y. Rockafellar, of Stanton.

Deaths

At Lebanon, Dec. 6, 1881, Mary Gilbaugh, in the 91st year of her age.

Near Camden, N.J., Jan. 6, 1882, Elizabeth Roberson, wife of Rev. Abraham K. Street, formerly of Hunterdon county, aged 66 years.

At Aspen, Col., Dec. 14, 1881, Professor Abijah Rittenhouse, of Spartansburg, Pa. Prof. Rittenhouse was born in Hunterdon county, and was well and familiarly known here. He leaves a widow and three children.

January 24, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 23

A Father's Ghastly Crime
The town of Lancaster, Ky., was last Wednesday morning shocked by the reception of the news of the most horrible tragedy that has ever taken place in Garrard county, or indeed in the State of Kentucky.
About seven o'clock a negro came to town bringing the information that James R. Wilmot, a farmer, living about two miles and a half from Lancaster, near the Danville turnpike, had murdered his wife, mother, and two daughters and then hanged himself. Squire R. Boyle, acting as Coroner, immediately went to the scene of the tragedy, accompanied by a large number of people. On his arrival he found, still untouched, the lifeless body of James R. Wilmot hanging in his barn, the dead bodies of Elizabeth Wilmot, his mother, aged eighty-nine years, Mattie and Mary Wilmont, his daughters, aged about 19 and 15, lying in their beds with one awful cut across the neck and breast of each, made by blows from a sharp new axe found lying on the floor of the room, and also the body of Elizabeth Wilmot, his wife, lying on her face on the floor, with three or four horrible gashes in her head and back, made by the same axe...

Samuel Keggan, a young man living at Hackettstown, a brakeman on a coal train running between Washington and Port Morris, was instantly killed at Port Colden, one mile east of Washington, at 7:40 o'clock Wednesday morning...

Kate Manton, a girl fourteen years of age, known as the "Belle of the Slums," died suddenly on Tuesday last in St. Mary street, Philadelphia, one of the dirtiest streets in the city, under circumstances which indicated poisoning. The autopsy, however, shows that death was due to mani a potu, the child having absorbed large quantities of liquor of late.

Marriages

Jan. 11, at the residence of the bride's mother, Phila. Pa., by the Rev. Clearfield Park, Chas. S. Thatcher to Clara Gardner.

Jan. 7, by Rev. Chas. E. Walton, Ralph Teets to Maria Cook, both of Franklin township.

Jan. 3, by Rev. W. D. Roberts, John G. Garrish, of Lambertville, to Katie B. Evans, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Dec. 24, by Rev. S. B. Best, John Simons, of Lambertville, to Ruthie A. Knowles, of Brownsburg, Bucks county, Pa.

Deaths

In Delaware township, Jan. 15, 1882, Theodore S., son of B. A. Holcombe, aged 10 years and 6 months.

In Valley Falls, Rensselaer county, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1882, James Sproat, formerly of Lambertville, in the 29th year of his age.

In Lambertville, Dec. 18, 1881, Wm. Ent, Jr., aged 22 years.

Local Department

The report we last week published that a twin son of Mr. B. Anderson Holcombe, of Delaware township had been kicked by a horse and killed proved too true. The lad was leading the horse to water at the time, and was struck by the horse's hoof just above the right temple. His age was about 11 years.

Charles Lehr, a somewhat dissipated young man of Bloomsbury, was killed near Asbury station on the 12th inst. A track walker on the Central Railroad found his remains lying horribly mangled between the rails, and his identity could only be established by his clothing. He had been in the habit of stealing rides on the coal trains, and it is supposed that he fell from the cars while under the influence of liquor, two whiskey bottles being found beside his remains.

Mrs. Sarah Ann Van Fleet, a widow woman, is suffering from small-pox in its worst form. At the time she was taken with the disease she was living with Mr. Hummer, the station agent at Stanton, and it is said that she contracted it from a lady visitor at Mr. Hummer's who had, as was afterwards discovered, a mild touch of varioloid. As soon as it was ascertained that Mrs. Van Fleet had the small-pox she was removed to an unoccupied house on the farm of her father, Mr. Housel Leigh, up in the Round Valley, where the best care possible is given her. There is said to be little hope of her recovery.

Rev. Fletcher Lummis, a retired M. E. preacher, fell down at the corner of Elm street and Railroad avenue, Newark, Friday evening, 12th inst., and died soon after....

We are sorry to state that Mr. Thomas S. Ranson, of East Somerville, a hard working mechanic, has lost three children by scarlet fever within the past three weeks. The only remaining one is now sick with the same disease and is not expected to recover. - Somerset Messenger.

State Items

Ex-Sheriff Garret G. Voorhees, formerly of New Brunswick, died at Millbrook, Dutchess county, N.Y., of paralysis, on Wednesday morning.

Joseph F. Osmen, while preparing blast in a slate cut, near Newton, Sussex county, on Monday, lost both eyes by a premature explosion, and will probably die.

James R. Saurging, aged 40, while hitching a team of mules to a farm wagon at New Brunswick, on Thursday, was kicked in the head by one of the animals and instantly killed.

Geo. P. Doughty, conductor of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and son of Senator Eugene S. Doughty, of Somerset, died at his father's residence, of Bright's disease, on Sunday last, and was buried on Wednesday last, with his brother conductors as bearers and pall-bearers.

Patrick McGinnis, who was Comptroller of Paterson from 1868 to 1872, died at his residence near that city on Sunday, aged 80 years.

January 31, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 24

Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, a very prominent member of the Democratic party and a well-known New York lawyer, died rather suddenly with Bright's disease of the Kidneys, on Monday last in the 58th year of his age.... Mr. Potter leaves an invalid wife, two sons and three daughters.

A dispatch from Clinton, Mo., says the house of George C. Smith at Lewis, five miles north of St. Louis, was burned at three o'clock last Thursday morning and five of the inmates perished, namely: Elizabeth Smith, aged 17; Rachel, aged 13; Ella, aged 6; Theodore, aged 16, and the mother, aged 43.

Marriages

Jan. 4, by Rev. T. E. Gordon, Charles North, of Lanesburg, Mass., to Lissie Case, of Alexandria township.

Jan. 18, by Rev. A. I. Martine, Theodore Van Doren, of Readington, to Sarah Ann Carkhuff, of Stanton.

Deaths

In New York City, Jan. 10, 1882, Margaret Stout, widow of the late William Poulson, formerly of this county, in the 81st year of her age.

In Newark, Jan. 9, 1882, Margaret Hoff, relict of Joseph Hoff, formerly of Readington township, aged 69 years.

Jan. 19, 1882, near Pittstown, after a lingering illness, David Brewer, in the 72d year of his age.

In Clinton, Jan. 19, 1882, Mrs. Elizabeth Shafer, in the 81st year of her age.

In Newtown, Bucks county, Pa., Jan. 1, 1882, Mrs. Rachel Longshore, widow of the last Jacob R. Longshore, in her 85th year.

Local Department

Mrs. Abram Johnson, of Mechanicsville, always spoken of as Aunt Polly, died on Monday evening, after a long illness, aged 90 years.

Rev. Garret Vanhorn, formerly of the M. E. Conference, and some years ago stationed at Flemington and afterwards at Clinton, died at Middletown, New York, on Thursday.

State Items

Mrs. Cramer, aged 94, died on Wednesday, at Marshallville, near Tuckerton, at the residence of her granddaughter.

Edward Fleming, son of Wm. Fleming, of Raritan, employed by one of the elevated railroads of New York City, jumped from a rear car near a coal chute, and was caught between the switch-tower and platform. Several of his ribs were broken and his scalp badly cut. He survived three days.

Will Gardner, of Camden, the young man who was bitten by a dog supposed to be rabid, in August last, and who it was thought was in a dying condition on Monday evening, has since died from the effects of the bite...

Mrs. Mary Shann, died at Rocky Hill, Somerset county, on Thursday morning last, aged 94 years. She was a resident of that county for more than fifty years and a good portion of the time doing business in Somerville, where she is well and favorably known.

February 7, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 25

Coroner Reed, of Newark, began an inquest on Wednesday last, in the case of Lena Fritz, a cook employed in Charles Maurer's hotel at Montclair, who was burned to death in the destruction of the hotel by fire on January 19th.

Major A. B. Valentine, father of the late Park Valentine, who was killed with his young wife at Spuyten Duyvil, is quite overcome by the disaster.

State Items

Mrs. Agnes Alcorn was sentenced at Elizabeth, on Monday, to the State prison for three years, for causing her husband's death by putting rat-poison in his food.

Flora Waters, aged 48 years, known as the "Lady of the Rounders," because of her cleanliness and abstinence from profanity, died at the Hudson county jail on Friday, from drink and exposure. She will be buried in a casket furnished by the jailer's wife.

Wm. Lanning, an industrious, sober, quite young married man residing on Scotts Mountain, was instantly killed last Friday morning at Oxford, by falling under the wheels of two loaded ore cars, which he was taking from the mines to the blast furnace.

Marriages

Jan. 19, by Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Willis R. Doyle, of Trenton, to M. Louisa Large, of Lambertville.

Jan. 25, by the same, William R. Stevenson to Georgianna Cole, both of Oakdale.

Jan. 25, by the same, George O. Phillips, of Trenton, to Kate Smith, of Lambertville.

Deaths

In Lambertville, Jan. 30, 1882, John Lambert, aged 92 years.

In Lambertville, Jan. 31, 1882, Mrs. Sarah Probasco, relict of Jacob Probasco, aged 72 years.

In Stockton, Jan. 29, 1882, Willie, son of James and Elizabeth Sillery, aged 5 years and 21 days.

Near Barley Sheaf, Feb. 2, 1882, Mrs. Nancy Snyder, aged 82 years.

Near Pleasant Run, Jan. 31, 1882, Peter D. Fonner, aged 55 years, 10 months and 20 days.

Near Lebanon, Jan. 31, 1882, Mrs. Mahala Young, aged 63 years.

In Frenchtown, Jan. 26, 1882, Ann Elizabeth, wife of John R. West, aged 40 years, 7 months and 25 days.

In Flemington, Jan. 30, 1882, Lester Lovel, aged 1 year and 8 months.

Local Department

A six-year-old daughter of Henry Miller, of Mansfield, Warren county, fell of a bed, broke her neck and died instantly, a few days ago.

Two of Lambertville's oldest citizens died last week. Mr. John Lambert died on Monday evening, in the 92 year of his age. He had been a member of the State Legislature, and Mayor of his city. On Tuesday, Mrs. Sarah Probasco, aged 72 died.

James Snyder, of Harmony, Hunterdon County, was killed by his son-in-law, named Daily, one day last week. Said to be an unprovoked assault. - So says the Philadelphia Record of Thursday. There is no such place in Hunterdon as Harmony. There is such a township in Warren.

Mr. John S. Tinsman, aged 58, living about one mile and a half west of Milford, was struck by an engin while walking on the Central Railroad track near Bloomsbury, on Saturday afternoon, 28th ult., and injured so severely that his death ensued a few hours later... The deceased leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his loss.

Peter Ray, the oldest employe in Lorillard's tobacco factory in Jersey City, died on Saturday evening at his home, 192 South Second street, Williamsburgh. He was a mulatto and had served the Lorillard's during four generations of that family. He said he was 107 years old. His property is estimated at from $50,000 to $100,000.

February 14, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 26

Mrs. Jacob A. Fritts, who has been an invalid for several years, died at her residence on Sunday evening last... - Somerset Messenger.

Mrs. Rhoda Skillman, wife of William H. Skillman, a well-to-do farmer on Rocky Hill, was stricken with her first attack of paralysis while transacting some business at the Princeton Savings bank. She ws kindly cared for at the residence of Mr. William E. Burke, where she lay in an unconscious condition since Monday last, till Thursday morning when she breathed her last. Mrs. Skillman was about sixty years of age.

On Monday, Mrs. Fink, aged 30 years, of Jersey City, while crossing West street from the Hoboken ferry with her child in her arms, was run down by a heavy truck, her child being killed and herself probably fatally injured. The driver, Anthony Clair, was arrested.

Waco, Tex., February 8 - On Tuesday night Major D. W. Washburn, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Construction of the Southwestern system of railroads, in company with Mr. Stoll, Mr. Coleman's superintendent of track-laying; Mrs. Stoll and their son George was returning from Temple to the end of the track. Major Washburn was impatient to reach the next siding north to meet his coach and engine and took a hand-car with Mr. and Mrs. Stoll and their son, and in turning a curve 500 yards north of the starting point was run into by a material train and knocked senseless. His left arm was crushed and the back of his head fearfully injured. He was brought to Waco, where he died at 5 A.M., this morning, remaining unconscious to the last. Mr. and Mrs. Stoll and their son were killed outright.
Matawan, N.J., February 8 - Mr. Stoll and wife were formerly residents of Morristown, N.J. Mrs. Stoll was a daughter of A. A. Vance, editor of the Jerseyman.

Marriages

Feb. 8, by Rev. Charles E. Walton, Henry E. Piell, of Kingwood, to Anna West, of Raritan.

Jan. 26, by Rev. S. V. Roe, D. D., at Annandale, Henry H. Sharp, Esq. to Chrissie A. Krymer, youngest daughter of Jacob M. Krymer, Esq.

Deaths

Near Cherryville, Jan. 22, 1882, Lewis P. Egbert, aged about 28 years.

Near Readington, Feb. 8, 1882, Willie B., youngest son of John T. and Rachel Cox, aged 7 months.

Near Ringoes, Feb. 7, 1882, Mrs. Nancy Hope, in the 77th year of her age.

In Sterling, Ill., Jan. 24, 1882, Elder Samuel Cronce, aged 63 years.

In Alexandria township, Jan. 29, 1882, Mrs. Hannah Huffsinger, aged about 79 years.

In Union township, Jan. 23, 1882, Priseilla, wife of Thomas Mechling, aged 69 years.

In Stockton, Feb. 8, 1882, Catharine C. M., wife of the Rev. C. S. Conkling, in the 65th year of her age.

At West End, Feb. 6, 1882, Mary, daughter of Peter and Emma Moyle, aged 1 year and 10 months.

Local Department

The wife of Rev. C. S. Conkling, of Stockton, died suddenly and rather unexpectedly of a congestive chill, last Tuesday evening. She had not been in right good health for a number of years past. She the mother of E. P. Conkling, Esq., of this place, and ws considered a woman of noble character.

The Lambertville Record says that Uncle Billy Anderson, last one of New Hope's colored citizens, died of old age on Thursday of last week.

Early last Thursday morning Alfred Lambert committed suicide by shooting himself in a woodshed on his farm near Harbourtown... The Trenton True American of Friday has the following particulars of the sad affair: .... He was about 58 years of age and leaves a wife and five children.

On Thursday afternoon, 2d inst., Jacob Johnson, an aged citizen of West Amwell township, died suddenly of heart disease.... He was 69 years old.

Poisoned By A Horse Doctor
John Jerolemon, of Peapack, Somerset county, died Wednesday night of last week of arsenical poisoning, the drug having been prescribed by a horse doctor, Van Zandt, for the cure of a cancer on Mr. Jerolemon's hand, and it was applied externally...

State Items

John McDonald, of New York, went into a Jersey City saloon on Saturday night, and, throwning himself into a chair expired almost immediately. He had been suffering some time past from heart disease.

Nathaniel Morris, aged 71 years, who acted as drum major for the 8th, and 33d New Jersey regiments for for the 43d New York, during the war, was killed in Newark on Sunday night by slipping upon the ice and breaking his neck. He had been a drummer for over 60 years.

February 21, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 27

Thomas Briley of Jarrettsville, Md., died in a most singular manner. He had occasioned to enter a blacksmith shop, and, finding the door locked and it proprietor absent, crawled in through the window. When the blacksmith entered the shop the next morning Briley was found hanging head downward from the window sill, his foot having caught on a nail. He was still sensible, but died soon after being released.

Run Down In A Tunnel
A shocking accident occurred about noon on Monday in the tunnel of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad between Union depot and Pennsylvania avenue station in Baltimore, by which five men were instantly killed... The names od the killed are David Grier, Timothy Kennedy, James Irven, Edward Birmingham, and Patrick McGraff, all of whom leave families.

The Washington (Warren County,) Review says: An infant child of Mrs. Reeder Smith was smothered to death in its mother's arms, Saturday afternoon. Smith and his wife were returning home from a visit to friends and while driving along the road she drew the wrappings closely around her babe to protect it from the cold. When she arrived home and took the wrappings off she was horrified to find that her child was dead.

Mrs. Mary Ann Pickel, widow of the late Adrian H. Pickel, of White House Station, died rather unexpectedly at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. H. J. Williams, in Somerville, on Sunday afternoon, 12th inst... She was in the 67th year of her age.

On the evening of the 7th inst., the children, grand-children and neighbors of our old friend and patron, Mr. Thomas Lake, of Locktown vicinity, met at his house to give him a grand surprise on his birthday, he having rounded out 82 years on that day.

Some weeks ago, a young boy named Wolverton, living with Mr. Bacorn, at Copper Hill, cut his foot to the bone with a saw tooth. About nine days afterward the lad was seized with lockjaw, and Drs. Hart and Robbins were called to attend him. Although his jaws were set and there seemed no hope for him, the Doctors have brought him through the dangerous point, and he is now in a fair way of recovery. [Late reports says that young Wolverton has since died from his injuries.]

On Firday afternoon of week before last, Mr. Jacob Roberson, living half a mile from Quakertown, started from home to walk to that village. When about half way there he was suddenly stricked with palsy and fell unconscious. He was taken to his home, where he died at 3 o'clock the next morning. He was something over 70 years of age.

Some Stray Bits Of Gossip

Wilkes Case, an old resident of Bethlehem township, dropped from his chair, dead, on Friday of week before last. Heart disease was the cause.

A Child Dies of Grief
A most extraordinary death was brought to the notice of the New York police last Tuesday. Early in the morning, Thomas Walsh, a little boy aged 5 years, of No. 234 East 37th street, gave up the ghost after a short illness from heart disease brought on by nothing else, Dr. Flannery of No. 217 Ease 45th street says, than intense grief at the loss of his little sister, May. May died three days ago in the arms of her father, a master cooper, employed in the large brewery....

Killed For Snowballing
On February 1, at noon, as the hands were leaving Horner Brothers' large carpet mill, at Fifth street and Lehigh avenue, half a dozen lads snowballed them, directing at John Schowthowffer, the dyer, a German, a particularly heavy fire. He warned his tormentors not to repeat the attack, but at noon the next day they pelted him again. Schowthowffer took a jagged piece of sandstone from his pocket and struck George W. Dawick, fifteen years old, of 3841 Haver street, on the back of the head, producing a depressed fracture of the skull, which resulted fatally on Friday night.... Philadelphia Times.

Marriages

Feb. 16, at the residence of G. W. Bateman, by Rev. R. Johns, James Anderson, of East Amwell, to Lucilla Bateman, of Delaware township.

At the same time and place by the same, Howard M. Titus, of Harbortown, to Margaret Bellis, of Delaware township.

In Flemington, Feb. 18, 1882, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Ira H. Van Ness and Charity Cook, all of Flemington.

Feb. 15, by Rev. N. S. Aller, Lewis E. Apgar, of Alexandria, to Mary A. Trimmer, of Sergeantsville.

Jan. 25, by P. A. Studdiford, D. D., John W. Naylor, of Delaware township, to Mary D. Fauss, of Kingwood township.

Feb. 11, by Rev. I. N. Hill, David P. Barrass, of Clinton, to Amarilla Hiner, of Kingwood.

Deaths

In Delaware township, Feb. 4, 1882, Mrs. Sarah Bray, aged about 86 years.

In Lambertville, Feb. 2, 1882, Margaret Conway, aged 73 years.

In Milford, Feb. 2, 1882, Emma Erwin, aged about 25 years.

In Titusville, Mercer county, Feb. 5, 1882, William H. Heath, formerly of Lambertville, aged 36 years.

Near Sergeantsville, Feb. 6, 1882, Emley Heath, aged about 45 years.

In Baptisttown, Feb. 7, 1882, George E., son of the late John Q. Stout, aged 2 years, 6 months and 25 days.

Near Mechanicsville, Feb. 13, 1882, Michael Sweeny, aged 63 years.

Near Stanton, Feb. 13, 1882, the wife of John Yorks, aged 63 years.

In Flemington, Feb. 7, 1882, of diabetes, Freddie R. Tunison, aged 8 years, 4 months and 9 days.

February 28, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 28

At a barn raising on the plantation of Major Dews, in Rowan, N.C., last Wednesday, John Held and Peter Joseph, two of the workmen on the building, got into a quarrel. Held threw an axe at Joseph, the keen blade splitting his head in two, and killing him instantly. As Held threw the axe he lost his foothold, and fell from the building, breaking his neck. Three men were on the ground at the time - Jas. Gephas, Richard Willey and Ned Bloodgood - raising a heavy log. Gephas became so much excited at the tragedy that he lost his hold on the log and it fell, crushing Willey to death.

The Sprague Divorce
Twenty years ago, William Sprague was one of the most conspicuous and respected men of the nation. He was young, immensely rich; had won the Governorship of his Republican State, as the Democratic candidate, against sweeping Republican tide of 1860; ... The final consummation was reached in the Providence court on Monday, when Judge Durfee called the case of "Kate Chase Sprague vs. William Sprague," and proposed to proceed to trial. Then it was that both sides recoiled from their own lives, and it was amicably agreed that the divorce should be declared for desertion; the the daughter should remain with the mother and the son with his father, and that the question of alimony should be a subject for future consideration. - Phila. Times.

Local Department

Mrs. Cornell, widow of Rev. F. F. Cornell, died at her residence between Somerville and Raritan on Monday night. She was stricken with paralysis about two weeks ago. He family consisted of five children.

Henry Beers, seventy-eight years old, a farmer, residing between Belvidere and Oxford, some time ago left his home and nothing was heard of his whereabouts until Monday afternoon, when he was found dead in the woods near his home. The cause of his death has not yet been ascertained.

A farmer named John Hoffman, aged 80 years, living in Kingwood township, near Raven Rock, was found dead in his barn on Sunday morning 19th inst. He had been missed by his family for about two hours. There is no doubt that his death was caused by paralysis.

R. Van Horn, Jr., editor of the Washington (Warren county) Star, died of heart disease, about four o'clock on Wednesday morning, 22d inst., at the age of 24.

John Gano, a well-to-do farmer, living near Swayze's mines, Union township, and familiarly known as "Uncle Johnny," left his house on Sunday morning to do the usual chores about the barn. Some two hours later his family found him dead, hanging by his neck to a rope. He had been acting rather strangely of late, and it is supposed that during a fit of temporary insanity he committed suicide.

We are sorry to learn through a letter received by Mr. Thomas D. Roche, of this place, that an old Hunterdon County man - Mr. Francis Rittenhouse - who removed from Kingwood township to Oakland, North Caroline, a few years ago, has had hard luck...

Ringoes Notes

Theodore Hill, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been spending a week with his parents in Ringoes.

S. Holcombe Blackwell, son of Benjamin Blackwell, deceased, died at the residence of his mother, in Ringoes, last Thursday morning of consumption.

In 1836, Aaron Burr died on Staten Island and was buried in the historic cemetery on Witherspoon street, Princeton. James Wurts, who dug and filled in the grave of that great statesman, had been living in comparative obscurity, near Princeton Junction for years. It was scarcely a month since that the State and some of the metropolitian exchanges noticed this fact. On Saturday, 18th inst., Wurts, who had attained the age of 76 years, died at his residence, a short distance from Princeton Junction.

State Items

Lewis Raub, a brakeman on the New Jersey Central road, was on Wednesday knocked off a car at Fanwood by a bridge under which the train was passing and killed.

Marriages

Feb. 21, by the Rev. L. C. Sheip, Howard Craven, of Philadelphia, Pa., to M. Alice Scheetz, of Doylestown, Pa.

Feb. 18, by Rev. T. Heilig, Godfrey F. Zearfoss to Laura Landis, both of Easton, Pa.

In Frenchtown, Feb. 18, 1882, by Rev. Jacob Rodenbaugh, Willie C. Williams to Cora B. Wiliams.

Feb. 18, by Rev. Frank E. Miller, Andrew Walters to Mrs. Marsena C. B. Hazen, both of Junction.

Deaths

Near White House Station, Feb. 24, 1882, of scarlet fever, Florence Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Henry M. and Lillian Voorhees, aged 3 years and 7 months.

At Potterstown, Feb. 23, 1882, Lillie May Briggs, aged 3 months.

In Ringoes, Feb. 23, 1882, S. Holcombe Blackwell, aged 40 years, 1 month and 27 days.

In Reaville, Feb. 16, 1882, Aaron Trimmer, of apoplexy, in the 65th year of his age.

March 7, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 29

The second wife of Daniel Webster, Caroline Bayard Le Roy, died Sunday night at the Leroy House, New Rochelle. Mr. Webster's first wife, Grace Fletcher, died in January 1828. Mr. Webster a year later married on the two daughters of Herman Le Roy, formerly a well known merchant of New York. Mrs. Webster was 82 years old, when she died, and for twenty years past had been living quietly with her relatives in New Rochelle.

Local Department

Michael Everly, the man whom we spoke of last week as a victim of smallpox at Midvale, died on Wednesday last.

A German peddler named Francis Wenzel, took the train at Junction for Washington last Thursday, and in getting out of the car at the latter place, fell upon the track, injuring himself so badly that he died on Saturday.

On Tuesday morning last, the wife of Mr. J. Howard Holcombe, of Lambertville, died very suddenly and unexpectedly. Mrs. Holcombe was subject to violent headaches, and on the morning in question did not arise with her husband, owing to an attack of the headache, and asked him to have the hired girl make her a cup of tea and bring it to her. This was done and upon the girl going to Mrs. Holcombe's room with the tea she found her mistress dead. She was about 30 years of age. Her maiden name was Margaret Wood, a daughter of the late Joseph W. Wood, of Reaville.

A few weeks ago a boy named Wolverton, of Copper Hill, cut his foot or hand to the bone with a saw tooth. About nine days after lockjaw set in, from which he died last week.
The above item has visited nearly every printing office in the county and worked itself before the public. It is high time it was squelched. That boy Wolverton can sit up to the table and cut more hash than any other lad of his weight within gunshot of Copper Hill. If his jaws were locked he could not do that, and if he had died as advertised he wouldn't want to. For such is the influence of death.

Killed by Gas
    Richard H. Stryker, who was a resident of Jefferson City, Iowa, came to this county, his former home, about New Year's to visit his mother, Mrs. Maria Stryker, of Neshanic. Since that time he has been more or less in this locality among friends.
    On Monday morning, he left Neshanic, intending to start for his home in Iowa on Tuesday. He went to bed at the Bridge Hotel, in Chatham street, New York, on Monday, at 11 P.M. Yesterday morning there was a smell of gas in the hall, and the door of his room, which was locked, was forced. The room was full of gas, and he had been dead a number of hours. There was no reason to suspect suicide. There was $100 in his purse.
    He was about 38 years of age, unmarried and had resided in the West some 12 years. His body was brought to Neshanic for interment. - Somerset Gazette.

Judge Lathrop Dead
Francis S. Lathrop, receiver of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, died at 9 o'clock last Friday night at his home in Madison, N.J. He suffered from a complication of aliments, including disease of the heart, which is said by the physicians to have been the immediate cause of his death.
Mr. Lathrop was born at Springfield, Mass., and was 75 years of age...

State Items

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Craig, of Waterford township, Camden county, lost three children by diphtheria, between February 14th and 21st.

Last summer a tramp named Clark, applied to Mrs. P. W. Sage of Keyport, for food and work which were supplied him. He remained in her employ, and lately was married to his employer. He is said to be connected with some of the best families about Freehold.

Marriages

Feb. 28, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, Gilbert Emmons to Rebecca Cole, both of Peapack, N.J.

Feb. 15, by Rev. T. S. Long, Caleb W. Rush to Mary L. Hamlen, all of Bloomsbury.

Feb. 19, by Rev. W. C. Nelson, Clarence T. Vincent, of Clinton, to Ada S. Burnett, of Franklin, N.J.

Feb. 22, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Charles F. Conover to Annie E. Bowers, all of Lambertville.

Feb. 23, by the same, Asher Williamson to Mary A. Everett, all of Lambertville.

Feb. 22, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Thomas D. Sebring, of Somerset county, to Anna J. Rockafellow, of Raritan township, Hunterdon county.

Feb. 22, by Rev. J. Tindall, Richard S. Lanning, of Trenton, N.J., to Etta V. Salter, of Alexandria township, Hunterdon county.

Feb. 23, by Rev. C. D. Nott, Nathan Shurtz, of Frenchtown, to Martha V. Hummer, of Washington, N.J.

Deaths

Near Wertsville, March 1, 1882, James Reading Fisher, son of James S. and S. Jennie Fisher, aged 5 years and 10 months.

At the hotel of John Corson, in Clinton, Feb. 25, 1882, Sarah, relict of the late Mitchell Loder, aged 86 years.

In Clinton, Feb. 24, 1882, Emily Caroline, wife of William W. Conover, aged 51 years, 2 months and 19 days.

Near Sergeantsville, Feb. 1, 1882, Nancy Hartpence, wife of Jacob Suydam, aged 55 years, 3 months and 15 days.

In Flemington, March 2, 1882, Mrs. Eliza R., wife of William C. Bellis, aged 62 years, 3 months and 13 days.

March 14, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 30

A Frightful Death
John Munday, aged seventeen years, a driver at the Lehigh coal and navigation company's No. 11 breaker, near Lansford, Carbon county met with a terrible death on Saturday. He was driving a mule on the breaker trestling just before dinner and jumped on the mule's back to ride part way. The rattling of the dinner can, which he carried on his arm, frightened the mule so that it ran away. In attempting to jump off the mule Munday's foot caught in the traces and he was dragged over the sills and railroad track, a distance of a quarter of a mile, crushing his head so terribly that his brains were scattered over the road. The unfortunate young man's remains were picked up and conveyed to his home at Gearytown.

Mr. Nelson W. Gardner, of North Plainfield, went to New York as usual on Monday. Upon his return he complained of feeling unwell and went up stairs to bed. Shortly afterward his wife went up to see him and found him in a convulsion. Medical aid was at once summoned but before a physician could reach the house the man was dead. Coroner Wagoner was called and made inquiry with regard to the case, but deemed an inquest unnecessary. Mr. Gardner was a man about 45 years of age and highly respected as a valuable citizen. He was treasurer of the First Baptist church of Plainfield.

Jennie Winterose eloped with John C. Miller at Little Rock, Ark., and when her parents upbraided her for marrying against their wishes, she declared that she had done it for their sake; that Miller treatened to kill them if she did not become his wife. Mr. Winterose deemed his daughter's excuse frivolous, and compelled her to return home. That night Miller came to the house and shot him.

Asa Briggs died a few days ago at Shutesbury, Mass. Conscious of his approaching end, he desired that a certain minister living in a neighboring town should attend his burial services, giving as a reason: "They say he's a good hand at a funeral, and I'l like to hear him just once."

Local Department

Mr. John Seals, an old Hunterdon county man, writes us from Elida, Illinois.

A very sad accident occurred week before last, near Neshanic. A daughter of Mr. Edward Murphy was visiting at her home from Three Bridges with a child about 4 years of age, and as some one was removing a pan of boiling fish from the stove the child being, unnoticed, in the way, caused the upsetting of the pan and the boiling water fell upon the back part of its head and down its spine causing death, after some hours of suffering.

J. C. Swayze, of Union Square Hotel, died very suddenly Friday morning at 11 o'clock. He was out riding the previous afternoon and was apparently unusually well. When he retired at 9 o'clock, he complained of a slight difficulty in the region of his heart and seemed to be very tired. During the night his wife was awakened by his loud snoring and found him unconscious. She called for help, and medical aid was summoned, but he never rallied, and so passed quietly away. The cause of his death is believed to have been congestion of the brain. Deceased came of an excellent family, and was born and brought up in Chester... His wife was the daughter of Jacob D. Trimmer, and she has the sincere sympathy of the community. At the time of his death the deceased was about forty-eight years of age. - Phillipsburg Democrat.

Talk About People

We had a call on Monday last from our old friend and former employer, Mr. Adam Bellis, editor fo the Warren Journal. The visits of Mr. Bellis to Flemington have been few and far between of late years. He came this time to attend the funeral of a sister-in-law, Mrs. William C. Bellis.

We saw a familiar face upon our streets on day last week - that of Mr. John S. Emery, who a number of years ago conducted the store now occupied by Messrs. richars and Sutphin. Mr. Emery is at present engaged in the mercantile business in Topeka, Kansas.

Mr. T. Benton Abel, a son of ex-Sheriff Abel, of Union township, called to see us last Monday and left a two dollar bill to renew his subscription to the Democrat. This is a pleasant little trick our young friend plays upon us every year. He is now engaged as traveling salesman for a large wholesale mouring goods house in New York.

Miss Mary Skillman, of Harlingen, Somerset county, who was nearly eighty-four years old, attended church in her usual good health last Sunday. After the service was over she walked home, and upon reaching the gate began to feel badly. She was unable to enter the house without assistance, and immediately became unconscious. Lingering in that state until 9:20 Monday morning, she died of apoplexy.

A telegram from New Albany, Pa., reached White House Station last Wednesday evening, conveying the sad intelligence to Mr. Minard Pickel of the death of his son who was killed by a falling scaffold, while building a shed at his home in New Albany to which he had just moved from Towanda, Pa. We did not learn his first name, but he was about 40 years of age, and leaves a wife and three children. His body was sent to White House for burial.

State Items

Charles McCracken, aged sixty-nine committed suicide at Uniontown, Warren county, last Wednesday, by hanging himself in his barn. He had been a boatman on the Morris Canal for forty-three years, and had considerable property. It is believed that the suicide was caused by the prospective loss of $1,800 that the deceased had invested in property in Phillipsburg.

Marriages

Feb. 11, 1882, by Rev. I. Poulson, Daniel M. Case, of Delaware township, to Ella N. Hann, of Franklin township.

March 8, by Rev. A. B. Still, Richard W. Iliff to Mary E. Fine, both of Hunterdon county.

Deaths

In Lambertville, March 7, 1882, Mrs. Elizabeth Schleigh, aged 44 years.

March 21, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 31

The Spring Elections
    Election for township officers were held throughout Hunterdon last Tuesday.
        Tewksbury
            Judge of Election - Paul Sutton

A sister of Edward Hannegan, once United States Senator and Minister to Russia, died lately in an Indiana poorhouse. She had been reared in luxury, but a complete loss of relatives and property reduced her to pauperism.

Marriages

March 16, by Rev. A. B. Still, Joseph Gano, Jr., to Alice Shafer, both of Pattenburg.

March 14, by Rev. R. Johns, Joseph Roe to Mary Elizabeth Stryker all of Flemington.

Deaths

At Rosemont, March 15, 1882, Ann Bonham, in the 92d year of her age.

In Flemington, March 14, 1882, Mitchell H., son of Joseph H. and Margaret Higgins, aged 19 years, 7 months and 2 days.

At the residence of Mr. John Kershow, near Flemington, March 14, 1882, Mrs. Ann Campbell, relict of Rev. Joseph Campbell, in the 93d year of her age.

In Lambertville, Feb. 22, 1882, Mrs. Louisa Grant, aged 68 years and 5 months.

In Lambertville, Feb. 28, 1882, Margaret A. L. Holcombe, wife of Howard Holcombe, aged 32 years, 10 months and 6 days.

In Frenchtown, March 8, 1882, William Myers, aged about 17 years.

Local Department

Dr. I. M. Severns, who a few years ago conducted a drug store in Lambertville, died February 22d at San Francisco, Cal.

George, only son of our County Collector, William Swayze, died on Monday morning of typhoid fever, contracted while at school at Hackettstown. He was 18 years of age.

Mrs. Mary Wyckoff, an old colored woman, recently died near Pottersville, in the 95th year of her age. She was formerly a slave of James Goltry, of Liberty Corner.

An old gentleman named Jacob Snyder, aged 88 years, living with his son, Mr. John M. Snyder, near Baptisttown, died on the 12th inst., from the effects of injuries received by a fall a few days previously.

Mrs. Maria Tomlinson, mother of our lamented friend Charles Tomlinson, deceased, late editor and proprietor of this journal, died at the residence of George Tomlinson, in Frenchtown, on Thursday morning last, at the age of 84 years. She was a very find old lady. Her husband, Francis Tomlinson, died in 1854, aged 60 years. Some forty years ago he kept the store and hotel at Kingwood.

Mrs. Campbell, a very old woman well-known to many of the older residents of this vicinity, died at the residence of Mr. John Kershow, near this place, last Tuesday. Had the woman lived until July next she would have celebrated her 93d birthday. Mrs. Campbell was twice married and twice windowed. Her first husband was Joseph Chamberlin, who nearly sixty years ago kept a small dry goods store in a building which stood on the exact spot now occupied by Mr. A. Parker's jewelry store. He is said to have done what was considered in those days a big business, though neither his store nor his stock would compare with any of the little country stores anywhere in the county at this time. He died 57 years ago. Her second husband was Rev. Jos. Campbell, but where his pastorial field was located we do not know.

Talk About People

Mr. Harmon B. Philhower, of this place, makes a vendue this Wednesday, intending to sell out his personal property and remove to Ohio, where he has two daughters living.

P. H. Swallow, who twenty-five years ago left Lambertville for the West, has returned to that city and will make it his future home.

The King of Terrors has visited the family of Mr. Joseph H. Higgins, our well-known druggist, since our last issue, and caused a sore bereavement by the removal from the happy circle of one of the twin sons, Mitchell Higgins. the young man developed a case of scarlet fever of the most malignant type on Friday of week before last, and in spite of the best medical skill and the tenderest care, his death resulted at about 12 o'clock last Monday night...

Somerset County Notes

A farmer living near Liberty Corner, by the name of Andrew W. Bird, was killed in Jersey City on Monday morning, by being struck by a locomotive in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, while passing from one platform to another.

March 28, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 32

Mr. and Mrs. Bower of Jeffersonfille, Ind., were divorced. Mr. Bower, who had been the compainant, went to the woman with an offer of marriage. She consented with pretened gladness, and there was a gay wedding, immediately after which she disappeared with $1,600 taken from the bridegroom's pocket.

The only will of the late Judge Francis S. Lathrop which the heirs have been able to find is one made by him 47 years ago. There are no codicils to it, and the three subscribing witnesses are dead. There were two executors, who are dead, and Mrs. Lathrop, who still survives, is alone left to carry out its provisions. The Judge was just about to take passage for Europe in a sailing vessel when he made it. It was known that there is a will of muych later date, with at least one condicil made recently, but no trace of either can be found. The old will, made half a century ago, was taken to the Morris county surrogate's office a few days ago, that the heirs might be instructed as to what course to pursue in the matter. the latest reports say that the last named will has been found and proved.

Local Department

Mrs. Hannah Hardy, the oldest white-person in Somerset county, died at her residence, near Bernardsville, on Thursday, March 9, aged 106 years.

Michael Smith, of Lambertville, was killed last week, while working on the new railroad near Peerskill, N.Y. A large stone fell from an embankment killing him instantly.

John Messler, Esq., of Blairstown, Warren county, lost his wife, Ann Bergen, on the 9th inst., and on the 16th, seven days afterwards, he himself died. She was in her 85th year, he in his 88th. He had been Justice of the Peace for more than 31 years consecutively before his death. They lived together in matrimony 67 years.

Aaron Saxion, a vetern of the war of 1812, died at his residence in Readington township, last Friday morning, in the 90th year of his age. For more than sixty years the deceased lived on the lot where he died, farming and blacksmithing.

Noah T. Stout, an old resident of Hopewell township, Mercer county, was found dead Wednesday morning on the bank of Stony Brook... It is supposed that heart disease was the cause of his death.

Thomas B. Fidler, Esq., an old an highly esteemed citizen of Lambertville, died on Thursday evening, 16th inst., of paralysis, after a sickness of some days. Mr. Fidler in early life was a school teacher, but about the time of the building of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad he became connected with the engineer corps, and remained in that department until some time after the lease of the road to the Penna. R. R. Co.

Nancy Bell, colored, of New Brunswick, while on a drunken carousal at her home Sunday night, fell on her her ten month old child and killed it. She left the city before her arrest could be effected.

State Items

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van Horn, of Swartswood, Sussex county, were afflicted last week with the loss of three of their children by scarlet fever. Two of them were buried on Saturday and the third on Sunday. A fourth child is very ill, but is expected to recover.

Early on Sunday morning, while returning from a dance at Wheeling, W. Va., Frank Davis, aged 18, was shot and killed by Wilber Mulligan, aged 17, who lay in wait for Davis as the latter was escorting two girls, one of whom Mulligan desired to accompany. The murderer is in jail.

Marriages

March 15, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, George Wagoner to Ella, daughter of John C. Merrell, all of Raritan township.

Feb. 22, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Thomas S. Hill, of Mendham, to Maggie J. Sutton, of Fairmount.

Feb. 25, by the same, Harmon H. Sutton, of Fairmount, to Mary J. Farley, of Pottersville.

March 18, 1882, by the Rev. D. T. Koser, Albert B. Duryea, of Lambertville, to Maggie Heavener, of Lower Tinicum, Bucks county, Pa.

March 16, by Rev. I. N. Hill, Andrew Sheets to Nellie Teats, both of Clinton.

Feb. 9, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Richard P. Wolverton, of Cokesburg, to Maggie E. Hortroum, of Mountainville.

Deaths

In Lambertville, March 16, 1882, Thomas B. Fidler, in his 69th year.

In Lambertville, March 19, 1882, Edith May, daughter of James and Catharine Moore, aged 2 years and 6 months.

At his residence in Annandale, Jan. 3, 1882, John J. Anderson, aged 73 years, 5 months and 20 days.

Near Croton, March 15, 1882, Elizabeth, wife of Sidney L. Bush, aged 59 years, 1 month and 5 days.

In Kingwood township, March 9, 1882, Susan, wife of Joseph Pickel, aged 70 years, 6 months and 3 days.

In Kingwood township, March 12, 1882, Jacob Snyder, aged 88 years.

In Frenchtown, March 16, 1882, Maria Tomlinson, in the 83d year of her age.

Near Headquarters, Feb. 24, 1882, George W. Carrell, aged 43 years and 29 days.

At Dreahook, March 24, 1882, Aaron Saxion, aged 90 years.

April 4, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 33

Cornelius J. Vanderbelt, brother of William H., shot himself in New York on Sunday, while suffering from sickness. He died within an hour.

Alexander C. Wingate, of Lexington, Ky., was shot in the breast and killed at a quarter past three o'clock on the morning of the 29th ult., on the Ohio and Mississippi train, between Sparksville and Medora, Ind. His assassin was an unknown man, who was crazed by drink and had no provocation for the shooting.

A Sad Death
Miss Mary V. Mattison, who is a sister of Dr. J. V. Mattison, died at her mother's residence on Church street, Washington, N.J., at five o'clock last Thursday morning. The cause of her death might be laid to nervous debility... The morning on which she closed her eyes to the scenes of this strange life, was that of her fiftieth birthday. - Washington Star.

Jacob W. Kerr, a well-known citizen of Washington, D. C., and until recently paying teller of the Bank of the Republic, committed suicide on March 29th, by shooting himself through the breast with a shotgun in his room at his residence...

State Items

Wright Robins, aged fifty-six, a prominent New JerseyDemocratic politician, died in Metuchen Wednesday. He was at one time President of the State Senate.

Henry McFarlan, for many years a prominent iron manufacturer at Dover, Morris county, and a Director of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, died at his Winter residence in New York, Monday, aged about 75 years.

Abram McMurtrie, one of the oldest and most enterprising citizens of Warren county, died at his residence near Belvidere, last Thursday morning, after a short illness. He was born on the famr where he died in the year 1806. He was a currier by trade, but for many years has been engaged in the lunber and milling business at Belvidere, and always took a very active part in every enterprise that would promote the interest of the town of Belvidere.

Jackson J. Hicks, a Georgia maker of moonshine whiskey, was recently killed by revenue raiders, who represented him as a desperado who went heavily armed and belonged to an organized gang of law-breakers.

Local Department

Mr. Jacob Cyphers, for many years clerk and operator in the Hampton machine shops, died of fever in Ogden, Utah, some weeks since.

Mr. Peter Brown, a young man, formerly a student in the office of Hon. John T. Bird, died at the residence of Mr. Tunis V. M. Cox, in Readington, on Sunday, 26th ult., with consumption.

Dover may well be termed the wickedest town in New Jersey. Another elopment has just occurred there, Daniel Degan running off with Jeanette Ford, a fair but frail miss of 17. Degan is a married man.

Sudden Death of an Old Man
Last Wednesday morning a sudden death occurred near Ringoes. Mr. Jeremiah Young, of that place, in company with Messrs. Levi Housel and Hiram Hoffman, started from Mr. John Holcombe's with a cow and calf which they intended to drive over to Ringoes. The calf ran into a field by the way-side, and Mr. Young climbed over the fence to drive it back into the road. While thus engaged he suddenly fell upon his face and upon his companions going to his assistance he was found to be dead. He was aged 72 years. For sometime previous to his death, he had remarked to various persons that his end was near and that it would come suddenly. The prophecy was fulfilled.
About twenty years ago he lost a brother in a similar manner. His name was George Young.

What Folks Are Doing

Mrs. George F. Crater has broken up house keeping here and removed to Goshen, New York.

Mr. H. B. Philhower set out with his family for his new home in Ohio last week.

Rev. I. Poulson, of Ringoes, last Tuesday removed to Dublin, Pa., were he has a Church.

Mr. Lem. A. Marshall leaves Cherryville this (Monday) morning for Morrisville, Bucks County, Pa., where he has a farm.

Rev. A. B. Francis, of Locktown, formerly pastor of the Christian Church at that place, will remove the present week to Pleasant Valley, Va. Mr. Francis is a native of that State.

Mr. John A. Dilts, having sold his property in this place, both real and personal, on Monday set out with his family for Kansas City, which place he has a great liking for.

Talk About People

Miss Kate Vandaveer, of Chesapeake City, Md., is spending a few weeks with her uncle, M.r W. B. G. Price, in this place.

Long Lived
Catharine Bodine, widow of the late Benjamin Bodine, died Monday, March 27, at her residence near Stockton, in the 90th year of her age. Her husband died three years since, in the 88th year. This locality, like all the goodly region of the Delaware Valley and the adjoining rising ground on either side of the Delaware river, is noted for the longevity of its people generally. Two near neighbors of the deceased, Simon Myers and Catharine McLane, are aged respectively 83 years. Catharine Dilts died there a few years ago, lacking a week of 94 years and she had a son, who is still living, who has enjoyed married life 61 years and does as good a day's work as many at 40 years, and he is now 86.

A Few Somerset County Notes

Mrs. Mary Peterson, widow of the late Peter Peterson, of Neshanic, died on Monday last, aged 90 years and 3 months. She was born, grew up, married and always lived in that neighborhood.

Mrs. Holmes, wife of David Holmes, of Somerville, having been declared insane by Dr. H. G. Wagoner, she was removed to the Asylum at Trenton, on Saturday, by order of the Board of Freeholders.

Mrs. Isaac L. Pittenger, of Somerville, died quite suddenly at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Bergen Voorhees, near Beaville, while there on a visit.

Marriages

March 25, by Rev. W. J. Henderson, Byron T. Pickle, of New Germantown, to Ella Sutton, of Califon.

Deaths

In High Bridge, Feb. 25, 1882, James F. Fritts, aged 43 years, 2 months and 19 days, after an illness of one week from pleuro-pneumonia.

At Mechanicsville, March 29, 1882, Cornelius Ten Eyck, aged 85 years.

At the residence of T. V. M. Cox, in Readington, March 26, 1882, Peter Brown, aged 28 years.

In Newtown, Pa., March 17, 1882, Amelia, wife of Alexander German, formerly of New Jersey, aged 66 years.

Near Flemington, April 2, 1882, Mrs. Samuel L. Leigh, aged 77 years. Funeral in the Flemington Baptist Church Thursday afternoon, 6th inst., at 1 o'clock.

In Flemington, March 30, 1882, Alla Apgar, child of George W. and Sarah Apgar, aged 11 weeks.

In Flemington, March 23, 1882, Court W. Updike, aged 64 years, 4 months and 20 days.

April11, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 34

Jesse James, the Bandit Killed
A St. Joseph, Mo., dispatch, dated April 3d, says: A great sensation was created in this city this morning by the announcement that Jesse James, the notorious bandit and train robber, had been shot and killed here....

John Ball, Postmaster at Stapleton, Staten Island, was found dead in the street early Sunday morning. He had fallen in an apoplectic fit and expired.

During a furious storm of rain and wind in Berks county, on Sunday afternoon a week, George Shelthorne and family, being out riding, took shelter, with several others, in a shed on the Angelica farm, two miles from Reading. A large water reservior, about 90 feet high, was blown in upon the shed, crushing it into ruins. Shelthorn, his daughter Rosa, and John Crouse were taken out dead; Mrs. Shelthorn was fatally injured, and Chas. Shelthorn and George R. Frill were also injured, but not mortally.

The house and store of Joseph Yerger, Postmaster, near Antonia, Jefferson county, Missouri, were fired by an incendiary on Thursday night. As the family rushed from the burning building, Yerger was shot dead by an assassin concealed in a shed on the opposite side of the street.

State Items

A sad case of family affliction is reported at Montclair. William T. King has within three weeks lost his wife, his son, aged six years, and a daughter, aged twenty months.

During the thunder storm on Sunday, the 2d inst., Newton Wallen, aged 22 years, son of J. D. Wallen, ex-Mayor of Millville, while at the home of a friend near Millville, was instantly killed by lightning.

Henry Burroughts, Peter Fogel and Isaac Larue, living near Titusville, went to Trenton on Saturday evening, April 1, and after becoming intoxicated, started for a drive through the city. On their route they passed through a street ending at the canal feeder, and there being no bridge at that point, the whole party plunged into the water, which is about eight feet deep. Larue, who was driving, succeeded in saving himself and the horses but Fogel and Burroughs were drowned.

Mary Smith, a colored woman, died in 155th street, New York city, between Courtlandt and Elton avenues, on Tuesday, at the age, according to the certificate of her physician, Dr. McElroy, of 107 years, 2 months and 23 days. She was born in Virginia, and had lived fifty-four years in New York city. Her disease was old age.

Marriages

March 15, by Rev. J. W. Barrett, Edward B. Vanhorn to Terissa R. Niece, all of Kingwood.

Deaths

In Lambertville, March 31, 1882, Susie May, youngest child of Thomas and Lydia A. Arkers, aged 18 days.

In Lambertville, April 5, 1882, at the residence of Mr. J. W. Hunt, Mrs. Jane Hart, relict of the late Josiah Hart, in her 87th year.

Near Clinton, March 31, 1882, John Alpaugh, aged 82 years.

In Ringoes, March 29, 1882, Jeremiah Young, aged 72 years.

At White House Station, April 7, 1882, Minnie Clickenger, aged 69 years and 7 months.

Local Department

Mr. John Bosenbury and wife, of New Germantown, have been married for nearly fifty years. Their golden wedding will be celebrated soon. Mr. Bosenbury is the eldest brother of Senator Eli Bosenbury, of Clinton.

One of Mr. Michael Uhler's canal boat Captains - John Codington by name - was drowned near Frenchtown on Wednesday by falling from a bridge into the raging canal. The home of his parents is at Middletown, New York.

_Ancel St. John, Esq., many years ago a prominent citizen of Lambertville, died at Plainfield, on the 1st of April, in the 83d year of his age, and his remains were interred in the family burial lot in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lambertville. Mr. St. John, while a resident of Lambertville, was President of the old "New Hope Delaware Bridge Bank," an institution which unfortunately failed while under his charge, but with which failure he had little, if any responsiblity.

A Few Somerset County Notes

Hon. Elisha B. Wood, ex-Senator from Somerset county, died at his home at Flaggtown, on Sunday, 2d inst. He had been sick about a week with pneumonia. He was about sixty-seven years of age.

Last Sunday morning, William Van Nostrand, a colored lad about 19 years old, in the employ of Mr. Joseph Rappelyea, who lives along the Delaware and Raritan canal, below Bound Brook, while playing in a row boat, tumbled overboard and was drowned before any assistance could reach him.

A Few More Movings

Daniel Bowlby, of Clinton, has gone to Chicago with the view of engaging in business there.

On the morning of the 1st inst., the dead body of James Murphy was found among some terra cotta pipes in the yard of O. O. Bowman's Terra Cotta Works, Trenton....

Rev. Jacob Bray, the oldest Baptist clergyman in Maine, died at Bridgeton, in that State, Wednesday, March 29th, aged eighty-eight years. He had been in the ministry fifty years.

April 18, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 35

State Items

William Danvenport, aged 25 years, of Montague, Sussex county, was burned to death Monday by his clothes taking fire while asleep in front of the fireplace.

Mrs. Hannah Hardy, the oldest white woman in that section, died at her residence, near Bernardsville, a few days since, aged 106 years.

Local Department

Miss Maggie Sheehan, of Bethlehem township, a bright and pleasant young woman, who has lately been employed in the family of J. K. Hoffman, in Clinton, died on Sunday, from illness which resulted from vaccination, as we learn from the Democrat.

An old and highly respected citizen of White House, Mr. John G. Pidcock, father of ex-Senator Pidcock, has passed away. The old gentleman was stricken with paralysis on the 7th inst., from which he failed to rally. He died on Thursday last. Mr. Pidcock was for many years overseer of the poor of Readington township.

Sudden Death
The city of Lambertville and surrounding country was greatly shocked on Saturday afternoon last to hear of the death of Dr. T. H. Studdiford, which occurred at his residence about 4 o'clock. The Doctor was in Philadelphia on Thursday and while there was taken with pneumonia. The attack baffled the best medical skill. He was an excellent physician, and a very popular citizen. His age was about 38 years.

A Few Somerset County Notes

Miss Sarah Nevius, of Blawenburg, aged about eighty years, died a few days ago. She has been an invalid and has had the consumption for at least thirty-five years.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hartwick celebrated their golden wedding near Blawenburg on the 4th inst. About 100 guests were present - among whom were the bridesmaid and groomsman of 50 years ago (Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gibson of Tenmile Run.)

Talk About People

Rev. J. M. Helsley, of Ringoes, intends moving to the western part of Nevada in a short time.

A. P. Brink and wife, of Frenchtown, have left for Iowa City, Iowa, which place they will make their future home.

Our friend Mr. Hermann Dahn, Flemington's popular teacher, has gone to Cleveland, Ohio, to engage in business.

Marriages

April 18th, at Sandy Ridge, by Rev. M. B. Laning, Henry Van Dolah, of Newark, to Rachel Rittenhouse, of Sandy Ridge.

April 8, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, James N. Shafer, of Three Bridges, to Rachel A. Castner, of Flemington.

April 3, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Theodore K. Todd to Mattie Fields, all of Lambertville.

Deaths

At White House, April 13th, 1882, John G. Pidcock, in the 73d year of his age.

Near Baptisttown, April 9th, 1882, Permelia, wife of Sylvester Bloom, aged 66 years, 2 months and 24 days.

In Lambertville, April 3, 1882, Mary O'Rouke, aged 55 years.

In Lambertville, April 8, 1882, Mary Connell, aged 83 years.

In Lambertville, April 11, 1882, Mary Francis Clancey, aged 22 years.

Near Pottersville, March 21, 1882, Eliza Groff, wife of Christian Fisher, aged 78 years.

In Bethlehem, April 9, 1882, Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Sheehan, aged about 20 years.

At White House Station, April 11, 1882, Michael Higgins, aged 22 years.

April 25, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 36

Missing two pages from this edition.

May 2, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 37

Rebecca Moore, who died at Mullica Hill recently, was the last of a family remarkable for longevity. There were two brothers and seven sisters and they died after reaching the ages of 77, 78, 82, 87, 81, 81, 86, 87, 87, respectively. Rebecca was the last one to die, being 87 years of age. The father and mother of the family lived to be 87 and 76 years respectively. The father had three brothers and the four together had forty-one children.

Brutal Murder In Trenton
On Sunday monring last Alexander Noble was found lying in an alley in Trenton, covered with blood and bruises and with a deep gash in his cheek. He said his injuries were inflicted by Martin Mernan, of Allen street....
Noble died in his cell on Monday morning.

State Items

John O'Neil is in the Morris county jail on a charge of manslaughter, in causing the death of his wife by neglecting or refusing to provide food and clothing for her. His wife was a paralytic, and died of exposure and starvation. O'Neil was angry because of her refusal to sign a deed for the sale of a house and lot of land which he owned at Madison.

John McAnally, eldest son of ex-Sheriff Bernard McAnally, of Jersey City, with his wife, their three children and his mother, were all striken down with the black small pox, and removed to the hospital at Snake Hill about ten days ago. The three children died last week, and Mr. McAnally died on Monday. His mother is not expected to recover but his wife is thought to be convalescent.

Karl Helfeldt, 63 years of age, a journeyman tailor in Hoboken, took a pistol from a bureau drawer before going to bed on Saturday night and told his wife that he intended to kill her before morning. She managed to get out of the room and barricaded herself in a hall bedroom. Helfeldt tried the door several times during the night but could not get in, and at about 7 o'clock Sunday morning, after drinking a large glass of liquor and again trying the door of the room in which his wife took refuge, he went into the kitchen and shot himself dead. Helfeldt leaves three sons and two daughters, all married, in New York.

Marriages

April 22, by the Rev. J. L. Hayes, Joseph W. Everett to Mrs. Lavina S. Rinehart.

By the same, at the same time, John B. Everett to Arvilda A. Rinehart, daughter of the above named bride, all of Hampton Junction.

April 15, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, James Connet to Emeline Freeman, all of Little York.

April 19, by the Rev. Abiel Leonard, John Lilly, of Lambertville, to Lavilla Smith, of Atchison, Kansas.

Deaths

Near Flemington, April 27, 1882, Judiah Higgins, Jr., aged about 62 years.

At Copper Hill, April 23, 1882, Henry T. Field, aged about 45 years.

Near Copper Hill, April 17, 1882, Lawrence Van Derveer Davis, M. D., aged 76 years, 11 months and 17 days.

At Lebanon, April 27, 1882, of consumption, John Smith, aged 33 years.

At Pleasant Run, April 27, 1882, Catharine, wife of Elijah Sheets, aged 61 years.

Local Department

John L. Larison, of Alexandria township, died very suddenly last Sunday morning week. He was in Frenchtown on the evening before, in apparent good health.

From Locktown the unwelcome news is heralded that Mr. Issac Smith has lost one of his best cows, and that Mr. Isaiah Sutton is suffering from a hand made sore by an unlucky cut.

The sad intelligence reaches us from Ringoes that Miss Cora Blackwell, a prepossessing young lady of that vicinity died at Hightstown with scarlet fever while on visit to her brother.

The death of Mrs. Elijah Sheets, of Pleasant Run, last Thursday morning, shocked the whole neighborhood by its suddenness. She arose from a hearty breakfast to walk into another room when she fell to the floor a corpse, from heart disease.

Talk About People

The papers of Columbus and Macon, Ga., give extended reports of the marriage of John C. Van Syckel, of Macon (son of Dr. S. Van Syckel of Clinton) with Miss M. H. Acee, of Columbus.

Rev. J. M. Helsley, for some years past the able pastor of the Ringoes Baptist Church, last week set out for Wadsworth, Nevada, his new field of labor.

A letter received in Ringoes last week from Rev. C. S. Converse, late of that place but now located at Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, brought glad tidings that he was enjoying good health.

A Few Somerset County Notes

The Grand Jury of Somerset county have indicted Peter S. Van Zandt, for manslaughter in having, as charged, caused the death of John Jerolaman by administering and ointment containing arsenic to a sore on his hand.

A little girl named Cooper, about five years old, who was living with Mr. Elliott at Mount Horeb, had her clothes caught on fire a few days ago and was so severely burned that she died from the injuries sustained.

May 9, 1882, Forty-Fourth Volume, No. 38

Buried After Years of Waiting
A strange burial took place at Palmyra, on the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a short distance from Bordentown on last Tuesday, when the bodies of three children who had been dead a number of years were laid to rest in the cemetery in that village. Some twenty years ago a child of Henry Coy died, and the father, being unwilling to have the child buried, had the remains sealed up in a bronze casket, which he stored away in a room in his house. A year later two more of his children died, and they were put in caskets and disposed of as the first one was. All attempts to induce the father to have the bodies buried failed. In all his travels through the country the bodies were taken with the family. He at one time lived at Camden, where he manufactured surgical instruments, and had been a resident of Philadelphia and other places. He finally settled one and a half miles from Palmyra, where he died recently at the age of sixty one years. He was a very eccentric man, and was unwilling to make the acquaintance of any one living near him. It is stated that he would sit for hours in the room with the caskets, and seemed to take pleasure in being with them. - State Gazette.

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