A terrible death by burning occurred at Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday night.  Patrick O'Neill, while lighting the gasoline street lamps in the outskirts of Louisville, overturned a lamp, and the burning fluid poured down, completely saturating his clothes and covering the horse he was riding with a sheet of fire.  The terrified animal ran down the street at the top of its speed, and finally, in turning a sharp corner, threw its rider.  His entire body to the waist was burned to a crisp and the back of his horse was literally cooked.

    One afternoon last week, while Samuel Shuman, a farmer, living at Mainville, Pa., on the Catawissa Railroad, was carrying fence posts from the woods near his farm he slipped and fell, striking his head on the ice, rupturing a blood vessel.  Ten minutes later his son passed that way and found his father lying in a pool of blood.  Rousing the dying man up the son screamed for help, but before assistance came he expired in the arms of his son.  The deceased was fifty years old and leaves four motherless children.

 Choked By a Slate Pencil
    A dispatch from Wilkesbarre last Wednesday says:  This afternoon a woman named Gannon, residing on Pringle Hill, came to Dr. Doyle's office, bringing with her a child which she said had swallowed a piece of slate-pencil.  The child was half suffocated and suffering with spasms.  The physician, after examining the child, said that the only way to save the child was to cut open the throat and extract the pencil.  The mother, however, refused to allow the operation to be performed before the arrival of her husband, who had been sent for.  He did not arrive until two-hours later, and within a few minutes after his arrival the child expired.
 

State Items

    Solomon Crammer, the oldest trapper of Port Norris, Cumberland county, was accidently killed on Saturday, while gunning for muskrats.  He was sitting in his boat, and, on attempting to draw his gun toward him, both barrels were discharged, and the contents entered his side.  A companion went to his assistance but he died almost instantly.  He leaves a wife and four children in destitute circumstances.
 

    In May, 1881, five children of F. H. Nehrbas, of San Lorenzo, Alameda county, were returning home from a May day picnic in a light wagon, and when they reached the crossing of the Central Pacific Railroad the vehicle was struck by a locomotive and all the inmates were killed.  The father of the children sued the railroad company for damages....  The jury awared $10,800 damages to plaintiff, and defendant took an appeal.  The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgement, hold that "in view of the rule of damages prevailing here we cannot be reasonable expected to hold that for such a loss as the plaintiff in his case sustained, the amount awarded him by the jury was excessive." - (San Francisco Bulletin, Dec. 19)

    A shocking accident occurred at Canasteota, N.Y., last Tuesday morning.  While George W. Gates was engaged in putting up a hanging-lamp in Miss Imogene Lewis' house, and while he was standing on a step-ladder about four feet high, a revolver which he carried in his inside dresscoat pocket fell to the floor and exploded, the ball passing through Miss Lewis' neck.  She expired in a few minutes....  The couple were to have been married on New Year's day..
 

Marriages

    Dec. 27, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Charles Christopher C. Gary, of Raritan township, to Hattie Runkle, of Franklin township.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. J. W. Smouse, Wilmot Quinby, of Lumberville, Pa., to Kate Johnson, of Raven Rock.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. C. E. Walton, Charles T. Wilson, of Franklin, to Emma Miller, of Pittstown.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. A. B. Still, Charles B. Trimmer, of New York City, to Allie B. Apgar, of Glen Gardner.

    At Croton, Dec. 25, by Rev. G. F. Love, Peter S. Hockenbury to Mattie S. Wolverton.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. Fisher Wilson, Charles E. Holeman, of Mercer county, to Jennie Cole, of Hunterdon Co.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. Charles W. Pitcher, Edward R. Perkins, of Boston, Mass., to Clara A. Rittenhouse, of Stanton.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Frank A. Van Hart, of New Hope, Pa., to Mary Gallagher, of Lambertville.

    Dec. 13, by Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Robert A. Montgomery, of Lambertville, to Alma S. Hunt, of Milford.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. Garbutt Read, William L. Peters, of Lambertville, to Ella Cunningham, of New Hope, Pa.

    Dec. 21, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, J. E. Bowne to Harriet P. Hunt, both of Sandy Ridge.

    Dec. 19, by Rev. John Scarlet, Rev. C. S. Converse, of Rawlins, Wyoming, to Charity H. Burd, of Ringoes.

    Dec. 20, by Rev. G. H. Winans, John W. Van Horn to Lizzie R. Hann, both of Flemington.

    Dec. 21, by G. S. Mott, D. D., John W. Hibbs, of Ringoes, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Edward Wyhusky, of Flemington.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, Winfield Case, of Reaville, to Rebecca S. Strimple, of Clover Hill.

    Dec. 20, by Rev. N. S. Aller, C. Frank Keller, Philadelphia, to Jennie Taylor, of Frenchtown.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. I. N. HIll, Elwood P. Hoppock, Flemington, to Ella P. Stetser, of Clinton.

    Dec. 14, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Peter S. Shrop to Mary U. Swayze, all of Pattenburg.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. Edward G. Read, Henry C. Clark, of Newark, N.J., to Kate A Dilts, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Baptisttown, Dec. 28, 1882, Jennie R., only daughter of Augustus and Ettia Green, aged 7 years, 4 months and 22 days.

    Dec. 25, 1882, Mrs. Sarah Wert, wife of Peter Wert, of Ithica, Ohio, in the 71st year of her age.  Deceased was a native of Hunterdon county.

    At Mechanicsville, Dec. 24, 1882, Christine, wife of Jacob S. Wearts, aged 58 years.

    In Flemington, Dec. 8, 1882, George J. Nevius, aged 9 years, 11 months and 21 days.
 
 

January 9, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 21

    Jonas Hefner and Alfred Sigman quarrelled about one cent; near Newton, North Carolina, last Friday morning.  During a fight that followed Hefner drove a knife into Sigman's head, two inches of the blade breaking off and remaining in the wound.  Sigman will die.

    Mrs. Stillwell, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, wife of Jay V. Stillwell, employed on the Chicago, Burlington and Quncy Railroad, last Monday made a confession on her death bed of three murders.  She is at the house of relatives in Knox county, O.  The first was Benjamin Swegart her first husband, whom she says she killed in Maryville, Mo., in March, 1877, with the aid of her mother and brother.  The second was a stranger whom the same parties killed for her money while stopping at a boarding house.  The third was her own daughter, aged fourteen years, whom she strangled in the presence of her mother at Rulo, Nebraska, in May 1880.  She is dying of consumption.

    Joshua Gifford, aged 80, living at South Granby, N.Y., killed his wife, aged 40, on Wednesday night with a stove poker.  The cause of the quarrel appears to have been the disparity of their age.

    Last Thursday afternoon, at Mahoney City, Pa., while Edward Oliver, an interesting 8-year-old son of James Oliver, a prominent coal operator, was playing with a number of other children.  He swallowed an ivory collar button, and before medical aid could be obtained the little fellow was choked to death.
 

State Items

    A son of James Sheldon, of Millville, while skating recently, fell with such force on the ice as to bring on an attack of brain fever, from which he died on Monday.

    Charles H. Kuehnemond, a Hoboken butcher, fell down stairs on Monday night and broke his neck.  His oldest son was accidently killed about a year ago while gunning.

    Dr. Morgan committed suicide by taking poison, at Salem, on Saturday.  He had been drinking and his wife threatened to leave him unless he reformed, when he replied that he would save her that trouble, and went to his office, drank the poison, and was dead before relief could be rendered.  He was about 35 years of age.
 

Local Department

    John Wolverton, a member of the Select Council of Philadelphia, died at his residence in that city on the 25th of last month, of paralysis.  He was at one time a resident of Milford.

    Death lurks unseen even in candy.  Charles Young, a bright little boy of about 7 years of age, son of Mr. Frank K. Young, of Bloomsbury, died on the last day of the old year, supposed from poisoning in the coloring of a lot of candy which had been presented him at a Holiday entertainment, and of which he had freely eaten a few days before.  Several other children in the village have been ill, and the same cause is suspected.
 

Some Bits of Gossip

    Lower Valley is about to lose one of its valued young men, we learn - Henry M. Neighbour, son of Mr. L. D. Neighbour.  He is said to be going to live in the Great West.

    Joseph C. Rea, formerly of Pattenburg, but for the past twenty years a resident of the far West, is on a visit to his friends and relatives in this county.  His present place of residence is Brenner, Kansas.
 

    Mrs. John Merrell, an aged resident of this vicinity, died on Wednesday last.  The week before Christmas Mrs. Merrell got up in the night for some purpose and in going down stairs fell to the bottom, hurting herself severely.  This injury was followed by an attack of pleurisy which resulted in her death.
 

Vicinity Notes

    On Thursday last Charles Foley, and wife, who kept a liquor saloon at Oxford, Warren county, quarreled while intoxicated, and Foley struck his wife with a blunt instrument and then threw her down stairs.  Mrs. Foley was unconscious until Saturday, when she died.

    James Black, a farmer near Trenton, Princeton pike, fell dead at his gate on Friday from heart disease.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 3, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, John Bodine to Carrie B. Angleman, both of Chester township, Morris Co.

    Jan. 3, by Rev. John Scarlett, assisted by Rev. J. P. W. Blattengerger, Joseph Van Marter to Mary Y. Fisher, all of East Amwell.

    Dec. 30, by Rev. Geo. Young, John G. Higgins, of Bristol, Pa., to Ella N. Shaffer, of Point Pleasant, Pa.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Wm. H. Servis, of Trenton, to Jessie T. Shepherd, of Sergeantsville.

    Dec. 21, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, J. Lewis Coryell, of Lambertville, to Mrs. Lydia A. Allen, of Shelbyville, Illinois.

    Dec. 28, by Rev. A. B. Still, Wm. E. Myres to Eva C. Hawk, both of Bethlehem township.

    Jan. 2, by Rev. Charles E. Walton, George W. Race, of Mount Pleasant, to S. Lizzie Kitchen, of Quakertown.
 

Deaths

    In Readington, Dec. 27, 1882, Lewis W. Runk, son of the late Hon. John Runk.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 29, 1882, Ellen McConnell, aged 55 years.
 

Some Queer Suicides

    After seven weeks of married life, Mrs. Clara Nelson, of Titusville, drowned herself.

    "Baby's death takes my breath away," said the wife of John Wagoner, of Cincinnati, and then she cut her throat.

    A dose of grounded glass ened the life of L. W. Anderson, of Winona.  He left four children. His wife had deserted him.

    Sampson Atkins, a farmer near Circleville, Ohio, hung himself because he was compelled to move off a farm on which he had lived since childhood.

    Rosa Notte, of Cuminsville, Ohio, after being deserted by a yound man whom she hoped to marry, deliberately lay down in front of a railroad train and was beheaded.

    Before committing suicide, Miss Eva Wehle, of Cincinnati, said she would take her pet Spitz dog with her, and so she hanged him, and then swallowed poison and died near the dog's body.

    Felix Everarts, of San Francisco, loaded a pistol with power and then poured in a charge of water, the two being separted by a thick wad.  He blew the top of his skull off with this singular charge.

    "I got bad because pa would not let me keep company with Monroe Lovan, and took strychnine to kill me.  Bury me with my brown dress on," were the last words of Miss Sarah Young, of Willow Springs, Mo.

    Henry Hellmann, of Brooklyn, Iowa, got out of bed, climbed upon a barrel, swung a rope over a rafter, tied it about his neck, shouted "Good-bye" to his wife, and kicking away the barrel, was soon hanging dead.

    Henry Sauerbrie, of Chillicothe, most shamefully abused his daughter from marrying a farm-hand, and she took laudanum.  As she was supposed to be dying, her father went to the side of her bed and blew his brains out.

    Rheumatic pains caused James A. Wilson, of De Witt county, Ill., to commit suicide.  He fixed a strap to a rafter in his stable, climbed on the back of a horse, put his neck in the noose, and then drove the horse from under him.

    George H. Van Dyke, of Auburn, an old man with wife and grown-up children, became infatuated with a girl named Nellie Lippincott.  When he told her his love she laughted at him, whereupon he drew a pistol and shot himself through the head.

    As Mary Wharton, of Lebanon, O., stitched industriously, on a black velvet dress, she remarked, "This is the last dress I shall ever make, and I shall wear it as a shroud."  Just as it was finished she died from the effects of a dose of strychnine, and the dress was used as she said it would be.
 

Choked By Turkey
    While a group of revelers were laughing and cracking jokes in the saloon of James Dagney, on Wayne avenue, Germantown, Pa., on Christmas afternoon, John Lawless, 72 years of age, entered from an adjoining room.  He was eating a piece of turkey given him by Mrs. Dagney.  The old man was evidently enjoying the morsel.  He did not take part in the conversation but stood in the rear portion of the room.  Suddenly he was seen to gasp for breath.  He grasped at the wall for support and then fell forward on the floor.  Mr. Dagney ran from behind the bar with a glass of water, a porting of which he dashed into the old man's face to revive him.  Medical assistance was summoned, but before the physician arrived the vital spark had left the sufferer's body.  Upon examination a piece of the turkey was found sticking tight in his throat, which had strangled him.  The body was removed to Twenty-second Ward Poor house, of which Lawless had been an inmate for the past year.

    Samuel Keed, of Philadephia, who was in very confortable circumstances, has been attending the sick bed of his wife for two days past.  The remarkable attachment of the husband and wife for each other was the subject of comment among the neighbors.  Keed was 70 years of age and his wife was 65.  On Tuesday morning, while Keed was taking a little rest on the sofa, his wife died, and learning the news, when he awoke, he calmly turned on his side, and in a few minutes was a corpse.
 
 

January 16, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 22

State Items

    Mary Phebe Buzby, a white woman, the wife of Frank Buzby, an employe of the American Dredging Company of Camden, has left her husband and three children and eloped with a negro named Charles Smith.

    Clark Newman, a lawyer, was arrested on Tuesday in Asbury Park, on a charge of conspiracy and dropped dead of heart disease immediately after his arrest.
 

Terrible Disaster
    The Newhall House, a three-story brick building, at the corner of Michigan street and Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis., was burned to the ground on Tuesday morning.  The fire was discovered at 4 A.M.  In less than half an hour the whole building, long designated "a death trap," was enveloped in flames....
    Mrs. John Gilbert, of the Minnie Palmer Troupe, married only two days ago, was burned to death in sight of the multitude.  She was a Miss Sutton, of Chicago.
 

Marriages

    At New Germantown, Jan. 1, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Edward Park to Adelaide K. Melick, daughter of James Melick.

    Dec. 30, by Rev. J. H. Smock, Henry S. Dalley, of Pleasant Run to Anna Gertrude Felmley, of White House.

    Jan. 4, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Wm. Burrell, of Califon, to Mary A. Laning, of Glen Gardner.
 

Deaths

    At Mechanicsville, Jan. 13, 1883, Charles Hall, aged about 78 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 10, 1883, Horace, son of James and Gertrude Throne, aged 2 years, 11 months and 17 days.
 

Local Department

    If Mrs. Lucretia  Hice, of Milford, lives until next August, she will celebrate her 100th birthday.

    Mr. Nathan Allen, aged 67, died very suddenly of heart disease, on Thursday morning of last week, at his residence in Neshanic.

    At Pottersville on New Year's morning, Mrs. Mary Wortman, relict of Captain Peter Wortman, was found dead in her bed.  The deceased was in the 86th year of her age, and leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss.

    The death is announced of Squire Charles W. Angel, at Highland Falls, N.Y., on Wednesday morning last.  Deceased was a former resident of Lambertville, where he held the office of Justice of the Peace for twelve years.

    The Lambertville Record says: Henry Guillick, an aged colored man, who lived at the "Rocks," about one and a half miles from this city, was found dead in his cabin one day last week.  He had evidently been dead for some days when found, as his dog, which had been housed up with him, had begun to eat his flesh from hunger.  Guillick claimed to be 112 years old.  Seven years ago, he gave his aged as 96.

    Wm. H. Metler died at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, on Saturday morning, 7th inst.  His death occurred from consumption, with which disease Mr. Metler had for a long time suffered.  Deceased was a native of Hunterdon county, but has long lived in Phillipsburg, where he carried on the butchering business up to the time of his first illness, about two years ago.

    Mr. Wilson Trauger, a young married man of Milford, met with a horrible accident on Monday last, and one which cost him his life.  He was employed in the grist mill of Messrs. W. & E. Thomas, and while reaching over some revolving wheels for the purpose of oiling them, his coat was caught by the cogs.  In struggling to free himself, his right arm above the elbow was caught and drawn through the murderous cogs, crushing the bones as though they were egg shells, and mangling the flesh in a shocking manner.  His right ear was also torn off by the cogs.  Dr. Geo. Ribble rendered prompt aid, and although the young man bore his terrible injuries in a heroic way and made a noble struggle for life, he was too badly hurt to live and death came to him on Tuesday night.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Two veterans of the war of 1812 are living in Hope township, Warren county, John A. Prime, aged 97 years and Benjamin Bell, aged 97.

    On Saturday night last, Mr. Thos. Adams, of Raritan, died very suddenly.  At about 10 o'clock he retired in apparently good health, but at 9:30 he sprang from the bed and motioned to his wife to open the window;  he received no relief and died in a short time.  He had been troubled with asthma for a long time.
 
 

January 23, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 23

State Items

    James Hopper, of Old Hook, Bergen county, died on Friday, 93 years old.  He used to delight in working by moonlight and often was seen moving about in his fields on light nights.
 

A Dead Man's Gold
    The cause of the death of the hermit miser, Austin Risley, who was found dead in his barn near Aurora, Ohio, recently, is as mysterious as ever.  The worn and dirty clothing which had been cut from the body of the miser, was thrown carelessly into one corner of the dilapidated house and avoided by every one who through curiosity entered the home.  On Wednesday a neighbor took it upon himself to search this little pile of apparent rubbish.  The result of the search was astonishing.  Stored away in the pockets in wallets of various descriptions, in stocking legs, and in the lining of the old coat was the sum of $15, 027.
 

Local Department

    Mr. William Hoppock has sold his house and lot in Stockton, and it is reported that he will remove to Illinois in the Spring.
 

Changewater and Vicinity

    Lilly, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Smith, a bright little girl of three years, living near Changewater, was taken on Tuesday night, January 9th, with inflammation of the bowels, and was corpse the next day.

Croton and Vicinity

    Mr. W. Krewson and wife are very sorely afflicted in the deaths of their only two children from diphtheria.  A sweet babe, four weeks old, died on the 16th, and a bright and beautiful boy, about four years and a quarter old, died on the 19th, leaving the hearts and home of their parents so sad and lonely.

    Mrs. Susanna Alpaugh, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Storr, at Croton, died very suddenly on Saturday, January 6th, in her 85th year.

    Mrs. Joseph Wilson, of Oak Grove, was taken suddenly sick on Monday, January 8th, and died Wednesday the 10th, aged about 52 years.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Robert Hampton, an old and respected colored man, died at Fox Hill, Morris county, on the 7th inst., in the 98th year of his age.  He was formerly a slave in the possession of the Hampton family, who lived near Somerville.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 17, by Rev. I. N. Vansant, assisted by Revs. John Shields, N. S. Aller and D. M. Mathews, Isaac B. Anderson, of Mount Pleasant, to Katie H. Thatcher, of Frenchtown.

    Jan. 17, by Rev. T. S. Griffith, J. Dawes Stryker, of Stanton, to Sarah E. Compton, of Sunnyside.

    Jan. 18, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, John W. Hann to Emma J. Niece, both of Kingwood.

    Jan. 6, by the same, John Fauss to Sallie L. Fisher, both of Lambertville.

    Jan. 11, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, Joseph F. DeHart, of Clinton, Laura Rounsaville, of Milford.

    In St. John's Church, Lambertville, by Rev. B. H. Ter Woert, Thomas Bulger, of Stockton, to Bridget Lynch, of Lambertville.

    Jan. 18, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, John M. Losey, Esq., to Sarah F. Powers, both of Dover, N.J.
 

Deaths

    Near Mount Salem Church, Jan. 11, 1883, William, son of Abraham and Annie Pittenger, aged 7 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 7, 1883, Philip Connell, aged 82 years.

    In Kingwood township, Jan. 4, 1883, Mrs. Annie Opdyke, aged 61 years.

    In Stockton, Jan. 15, 1883, May W., daughter of Thomas R. and Sarah E. Snook, aged 6 years and 10 months.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 10, 1883, Lucia, daughter of Thomas and Katie Crawley, aged 7 months.

    In Clinton, Jan. 14, 1883, William A. Hope, aged 67 years, 3 months and 4 days.

    At Croton, Jan. 6, 1883, Mrs. Susanna Alpaugh, aged 58 years.

    At Oak Grove, Jan. 10, 1883, Mrs. Josiah Wilson, aged 52 years.

    Near Croton, Jan. 16, 1883, Amos Krewson, aged 1 month.

    Near Croton, Jan. 19, 1883, Edgar Raymond Krewson, aged 4 years, 2 months and 26 days.
 
 

January 30, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 24

    Uncle John Raymon died in Scranton, Pa., a few days ago, aged 88 years.  In 1828 he built the first mile of railroad track that was ever laid in America from actual commercial business.  This was on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's road between Honesdale and the coal mines of Carbondale.

    Last Tuesday the wife of John Zimbrick, a laborer, of Milwaukee, Wis., killed her three children, the oldest of whom was 7 years of age, and the youngest 18 months, literally cutting them to pieces and disemboweling them.
 

State Items

    Ann Welsh, aged 19, employed as a domestic in the family of Mr. Bennett, at Jersey City, fell dead on Sunday morning while standing before a mirror arranging her hair.  Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause.

    Nearly every article of clothing belonging to the late Mrs. Maria Appleby, who died at Morristown, aged 105 years, was found to contain rolls of bank bills.  A pair of shoes in her bureau were filled with coin.  Nearly, $8,000 was found.
 

Marriages

    At Unionville, N.J., Jan. 20, by Rev. Fisher Wilson, Jacob K. Schanck to Henrietta Dalrymple.

    At Chambersburg, (Trenton), Dec. 23, 1882, by Rev. C. F. Garrison, Theodore S. Bray, to Clara Heston, both of Kingwood township, this county.

    Jan. 18, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Samuel G. Gano, of Alexandria township, to Mary E. Watters, of Franklin township.

    Jan. 6, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, Thomas H. Larison, of Flemington, to Lizzie Holcome, of West Amwell township, grand-daughter of John S. Drake, Esq.

    Jan. 24, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, at the residence of the bride's father, near Lambertville, Joseph K. Leigh to Elma Hunt, both of Mercer county, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At Pleasant Run, Jan. 25, 1883, Margaret, wife of Cornelius Sheets, aged 51 years, 7 months and 20 days.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 23, 1883, of consumption, Philip Barron, in the 44th year of his age.

    In Mercer county, Jan. 20, 1883, Mrs. Margaret Bainbridge Hunt, widow of Elisha Hunt, deceased, in the 87th year of her age.  Mrs. Hunt was the mother of five children - four sons and a daughter - all of whom survive her.  She leaves twelve grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren.  Our townsman, John B. Hunt, is one of the grandchildren.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Susan Housel, step-mother of Mr. Theo. Housel, of Delaware township, while eating her dinner last Tuesday fell back in her chair and died in five minutes.  She was 87 years old, and was considered to be a remarkably healthy lady for one so aged.

    Charles W. Altemus, for many years Post Master at Clinton, in this county, died at his residence there, last Saturday morning.
 

Some Bits of Gossip

    Mr. Garret S. Bellis, who removed from Stockton, this county, to Littleton, North Carolina, some years ago, spent the past week in this vicinity visiting his many friends and relatives.

    George D. Orner, a native of Lambertville, is now one of the leading citizens of Kansas, and has twice been elected to the Legislature of that State.  His father, George B. Orner, was lessee of the "Upper Grist Mill," in Lambertville, some forty years ago.

    James Sutphin, formerly of Reaville, is visiting in this vicinity.  He removed to the far West some twenty-six years ago, and this is his first visit to Hunterdon county since.  He is now living in Duluth, on the western shore of Lake Superior.
 

Changewater and Vicinity

    Two golden weddings in Washington last week.  Mr. J. V. Creveling's on Monday and Mr. Peter Wandling's on Wednesday.

    Miss Laura Anderson, formerly of this place, died at her home in Buttsville, last Wednesday, of scarlet fever, contracted at the funeral of Lilly Smith.  Her remains were interred in the Spruce Run graveyard on Friday last.
 
 

February 6, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 25

    On the evening of January 26, James Guthrie, a wealthy planter of Halifax, Va., was married to Miss Hulda Martin, the daughter of a prominent citizen of that county. The wedding was attended by the people in the community and everything passed off merrily.  The young married people failing to make their appearance at breakfast next morning, inquiry was made concerning them.  The bride of a few hours soon appeared, wringing her hands in wild despair.  She stated that her husband was dead, and that she found him a corpse upon waking in the morning.  It seems that sometime during the night the bridegroom had died of an affection of the heart.
 

Some Bits of Gossip

    Mr. George D. Schomp and family, of Three Bridges, will remove to the West about the first of March, he having purchased a farm in the State of Illinois.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Cornelius Vansickle, living near Libertyville, Sussex county, while drawing manure out of his barn yard last week, acidentally slipped and fell on a stake in the sled and sustained injuries from which he died.
 

    Last Monday George Coleman, a butcher of Long Branch, received a severe beating while at Tinton Falls, from the effects of which he has just died...
 

Marriages

    At Unionville, N.J., Jan. 20, by Rev. Fisher Wilson, Jacob K. Schanck, of Flemington, to Henrietta Dalrymple, of Ringoes.

    Jan. 6, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, Thomas H. Larison, of Flemington, to Lizzie Holcombe, of West Amwell township, grand-daughter of John S. Drake, Esq.

    Jan. 27, by Rev. Jacob Rodenbaugh, John T. Hummer to Sarah Fauss, both of Delaware township.

    Jan. 25, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Albert Bush, of New Hope, Pa., to Anna M. Taylor, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    At Jersey City, Jan. 28, 1883, Charles H. Archer, M.D., of West Milford, N.J., aged 41 years and 3 days.

    Near Everittstown, Jan. 22, 1883, Hannah A., wife of Barney Duffey, aged 37 years.

    In Flemington, Jan. 25, 1883, of diphtheria, Freddie, son of Peter C. and Annie Warman, aged 1 year and 5 months.

    In Flemington, Jan. 3, 1883, Watson L., son of John F. S. and Rachel M. Smith, aged 8 years and 2 months.

    In Flemington, Jan. 8, 1883, Mattie L., daughter of John F. S. and Rachel M. Smith, aged 5 years.

    Suddenly, at Stanton Station, Feb., 3, 1883, Mary, widow of Isaac McCloughan, aged 53 years.  Funeral from the house of her son-in-law, L. C. Potts, on Tuesday morning at 10 1/2 o'clock.
 
 

February 13, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 26

    David L. Townsend, aged nine years and James E. Burdge, aged 12, left their homes in Farmingdale on Sunday, to go fishing.  Night came and no children appeared, causing much anxiety and in the morning a number of citizens were busily engaged in looking for them.  After a search they were found in a marl hole, in about 16 feet of water, upon the premises of the Furman estate, where John McCluskey lived.  It is supposed that one of them fell in, and the other, in trying to help him out, fell in also.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Keturah Case, the aged widow of Joseph Case, deceased, who some forty years ago conducted a tannery on the farm now occupied by David B. Boss, about a half mile north of Flemington, on the Klineville road, died at the residence of her son, John B. Case, on Bonnell street, last Thursday night, after long suffering, aged 84 years.

    The death of Mr. J. H. Voorhees, of Vliet's Mills, near White House, is announced.  A year of so ago his head was injured by a fall or kick from a horse, and has since complained several times of his head.  A few weeks since he became suddenly deranged and had to taken to the Asylum at Trenton.  A few days later he died.
 

Quakertown

    Dr. Abel has sold out his residence and his practice, a fact which the scribe is very sorry to record.  For twenty-five years he has lived among us.  We learn that the Doctor will remove to Providence, Rhode Island.
 

Clinton

    Louisa, a small daughter of Lambert Smith, died on Tuesday of membranous croup.
 

    We find the following despatch in the New York Sun of last Saturday.  It is dated at Somerville, Feb. 9th:  "Miss Philhower, of Peapack, N.J., on whose complaint Jacob Gebhardt was lately arrested, was married on Monday night by the Rev. F. Bloom of the Peapack Methodist Church.  The couple came to Somerville on Tuesday, and from here went to New York.
    The name of the groom is said to be Davis.  He is well-to-do, and lives near Chester, Pa.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Charley Case, the well known hostler of the Warren House, Belvidere, died suddenly on Wednesday forenoon last...  He came to Belvidere from New Hope, Pennsylvania.  -  Warren Journal.
 

    Anderson Horner died in Trenton on Monday morning.  Mr. Horner was born in Kingwood township, near Baptisttown, and married first Mary, daughter of Peter Slout, and then Sarah, daughter of the late Thomas C. Taylor, of this place, who survives him.  He one time kept the hotel in Baptisttown, and was a merchant at Locktown, Baptisttown, Frenchtown, and Raven Rock, from where he removed about twenty-five years ago to Trenton, and was engaged in the mercantile trade there until his health admonished him to retire from active business. -  Frenchtown Star.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 31, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, at the house of J. N. Ramsey, Lebanon, Martin Apgar to Caroline Trumpor.

    Feb. 3, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, John N. F. Storr to Martha J. Trimmer, both of Croton.

    Feb. 3, at Ringoes, by Rev. Fisher Wilson, Charles C. Cronce to Kate A. Wert.

    Feb. 6, by Rev. C. H. Asay, John H. Runyan, of Unionville, to Anna B. Fisher, of Oakdale.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Jan. 30, 1883, Ella Mangan, aged 6 months.

    Near Stanton, Feb. 10, 1883, Nicholas, son of Frederick and Lena Brown, aged about 6 years.
 
 

February 20, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 27

    Rev. George F. Bronson, pastor of a Congregational Church in La Salle, Ill., fell dead last Wednesday night at the feet of a couple he was marrying.  He had just pronounced them husband and wife.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 14, by Rev. George Young, Wilson T. Rittenhouse, of Kingwood, to Emma Burd, daughter of J. S. Burd, Esq., of Franklin.

    Feb. 7 by the Rev. Fred Bloom, John A. McCollum to Sallie H. Stevens, both of Peapack, N.J.

    Feb. 15, by G. S. Mott, D. D., George Henry Smith, of Rockmills, to Margaretta Hulse, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, Feb. 11, 1883, Mansfield Hummer, aged 71 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 5, 1883, Ella C., daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Todd, aged 7 years and 2 months.
 

Administrator's Sale of Valuable Personal Property
    The subscribers, Administrators of the estate of William B. Sutton, deceased, will sell at Public Sale, at the late residence of said deceased, in Kingwood township, one mile west of Locktown, on Wednesday, February 28, 1883, the following Personal Property, to wit: ...
                                                        William C. Barrick,
                                                        James R. Sutton,
        H. F. Bodine, Auc'r.                                 Administrators.
        Feb. 20, 1883
 

Local Department

    Mr. John Finley, a native of Clinton, where his mother still resides, died at Williamsport, Pa., on the 28th ult.
 
 

February 27, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 28

    Percy F. Crisp, a lad of nine years, whose parents live in Trenton, died there of diphtheria last Tuesday, was in every respect a most wonderful child....

    Robert A. Packer, eldest son of the late Hon. Asa Packer, died at his winter residence in Florida, on Tuesday.  He was President of the Pennsylvania and New York Railroad and Canal Company and a member of the board of directors of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.  He leaves a wife and one child who were with him in Florida.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Merritt, of Rockaway, is reported to have given birth to triplets last week, two girls and a boy.

    Henry Smith, sexton of the Morris Plains Presbyterian Church, died on Monday of last week from the effects of a heavy stroke of a hammer upon his thumb while driving a nail.

    Within the past six months the family of Mr. Koman, of Westwood, Bergen county, has been severely afflicted.  First his father died, then his wife, closely followed by the death of a child, and quite recently another child was badly scalded.  During the same period, Mr. Koman lost a cow and two horeses.

    A son of Benjamin Justice, about twelve years of age, was skating near Hawk's bridge, Salem county, a few days ago, and keeping his skates strapped on tight for several hours, the blood stopped circulating, and both feet were very badly frozen.  He is now lying in a precarious condition.  The physicians have no hope of his recovery.
 

Jenny and Sandy
    Eighteen years ago Miss Jennie Andrews and Mr. Alexander McGregor, of Macon, Ga., were engaged to be married.  But they had a lovers' tiff and separated.  She married Mr. Charles Ross and went to Texas, and he married, it matters not whom.  In five years Ross died and the widow returned to Macon, and after some time married Mr. Lavarre.  Seven years later Lavarre was killed.  In the meantime McGregor had become a widower.  Within the past month he chanced to meet in the street of Macon the sweetheart of eighteen years ago, and though they had not met for years the recognition was mutual.  The old flame was rekindled and on Sunday morning of last week the Rev. J. W. Burke was called upon to perform the marriage ceremony.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 5, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, E. H. Dea Kyne, of Chester, Pa., to Emma J. Philhower, of Peapack, N.J.

    Feb. 17, by Rev. Geo. Young, Stacy B. Niece to Mattie B., daughter of Aaron Dalrymple, both of Kingwood.

    Feb. 15, by Henry S. Trimmer, Esq., Jacob S. Rink, of Linden, to Samantha Bartow, of Franklin township.

    Feb. 17, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Wm. R. Stout to Ida J. Cooper, both of Lambertville.

    Feb. 15, by Rev. J. W. Barrett, W. W. Case to Miss E. M. Blackwell, all of Kingwood.

    Feb. 21, by Rev. G. F. Love, John Marshall, of Rosemont, to Lizzie Bloom, of Bethlehem.

    Feb. 22, by the same, W. R. Conover, of Raritan, to Caroline Stout, of Baptisttown.

    Feb. 22, by the same, Joseph L. Chamberlain, of Hagerstown, Maryland, to Mary B. Robbins, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    In Stockton, Jan. 27, 1883, George F., beloved son of John S. and Sarah Hockenbury, in the 21st year of his age.

    In Jersey City, Feb. 21, 1883, George A. Poulson, aged 39 years, 5 months and 13 days.

    At Baptisttown, Feb. 18, 1883, Lizzie G., daughter of Jonathan and Mary Emma Sutton, aged 6 months and 1 day.

    In Union township, Mitchell Co., Iowa, Feb. 11, 1883, at the residence of her son-in-law, H. C. Boyd, Mrs. Laura Abbott, widow of Abraham Abbott, formerly of West Amwell, this county, aged 76 years, 3 months and 21 days.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 15, 1883, Mrs. Cassandra H. Ashbrook, aged 48 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 16, 1883, Freddie L. R., son of Asher and Mary Jane Coryell, aged 4 years.

    At Stanton, Feb. 17, 1883, Thomas Yorks, aged 95 years, 10 months and 9 days.

    Near Sidney, Feb. 22, 1883, Mary Jane Lowe, wife of Charles Yawger, aged 26 years.

    In Clinton, Feb. 18, 1883, Idalette H., infant daughter of David and Amerillia Barrass, aged 2 months and 17 days.

    In Danville, Ky, Jan. 24, 1883, Rev. Robert W. Landis, D. D., aged 74 years and 12 days.  Dr. Landis was formerly pastor of the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in this county.
 

Local Department

    We are sorry to be compelled to record the death of our friend George A. Poulson, which sad event occurred at his residence in Jersey City last Wednesday noon, from consumption.  Mr. Poulson will be remembered as a merchant in this town some fifteen or eighteen years ago, he being associated with John B. Alpaugh...

    Raymond Dehart, a young man who spent his boyhood in this town, but for the past ten years a favorite employee of Sharpless & Co., in Philadelphia, died in Florida on the 27th of last month, aged about 25 years.  He was son of John V. N. Dehart, formerly of this town, and a grandson of the late Jacob Philhower, of Croton.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Gilbert Lemon, of Marshall's Corner, is happy over triplets - all girls.  There'll be music when all three cry at once.  -  Hopewell Herald.

    George Washington, an Englishman, aged 45 years, who, with his wife, had charge of one of the departments in the Boonton Silk Factory, has eloped with Annie Duffy, an Irish girl, aged 20 years, who was employed in the same department.  His wife followed his as far as Boston, but there lost track of him and his partner.

    "Jimmy" Markey, an inmate of the Sussex County Poor House, fell down a fight of stairs in the Poor House building on Tuesday of last week and fractured his skull, causing his death in a short time.  He was about 45 years of age.
 
 

March 6, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 29

Marriages

    Feb. 21, by Rev. F. Bloom, George F. Philhower to Ella A. Apgar, both near Peapack.

    Feb. 21, by Rev. Wm. M. Trumbower, Stewart L. Cole to Sophia T. Schooley, both of Bloomsbury.

    Feb. 24, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Samuel Gamble, of Trenton, to Emma F. Akers, of Lambertville.

    Feb. 21, by Rev. John H. Smock, William L. Brown, of Pluckamin, to Mary E. Young, of Three Bridges.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton, Feb. 24, 1883, Mary Ann, wife of John O'Hara, aged 26 years and 2 months.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 18, 1883, Peter Guillick, aged 59 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 21, 1883, John Lee, aged 69 years and 8 months.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 22, 1883, John Sebold, in the 89th year of his age.

    At Pittstown, Feb. 15, 1883, of typhoid fever, Sigler E. Stires, in the 21st year of his age.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Samuel Lewis, of Frenchtown, who attempted suicide by cutting her throat, some two weeks ago, died from the effects of the wounds inflicted, at one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last.

    Mr. H. W. Johnson, an old resident of Milford, several years ago quite prominent as an auctioneer in that section of the county, died at his residence in Milford last Wednesday afternoon.

    One of the oldest, if not the oldest citizen of this vicinity, Mr. Isaac Britton Conover, died at his residence in the suburbs of this place, last Wednesday morning.  Had Mr. Conover lived until the 4th day of next July he would have seen his 89th birthday.  Previous to the year 1856 he owned and occupied the farm near Larison's Corner now belonging to Mr. James S. Rockafellow, where he lived many years.
 

Some Bits of Gossip

    Mr. J. D. Van Liew, of Three Bridges, is about removing with his family to Iowa.

    Mr. B. W. Ellicott, who has been on here for the past four or five weeks settling up his business, expects to start with his wife for his new home at Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, some time this week.
 

    A correspondent sends us an account of the remarkable vigor possessed by Mrs. Ann Blue, who died on Mount Lucas, Mercer county, on the 4th of February last at the age of 83 years.  She was the widow of the late William Blue.  The old lady did all her own housework, and for over twenty-two years worked for her only son, Robert Blue....

    One of our oldest subscribers and best friends, Mr. Charles Wilson, died at his residence near Ringoes last Saturday morning, after a brief illness.
 

Vicinity Notes

    The widow of the late Dr. Tunison, of Somerville, died on Wednesday, at an advanced age.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Clickener, aged 75, of Raritan, Somerset county, arose at 6 on Monday morning, as well as usual, and by 7 she was dead.

    Prime Beckman (colored) died very suddenly last week, at Neshanic, of apoplexy.  He was interred on the township farm at the expense of the township.
 

An Eccentric MAn
    Mr. Howell, father of a peculiar family, was born in 1790 on Fox Hill near the present home of his surviving child.  He served his country faithfully in the war of 1812, and from that time till his death about three years ago, was on the pension roll among the heroes who had offered their lives on the altar of their country.  He married one of the fair daughters of Fox Hill, Betsy Pace by name, daughter of Michael Pace.  Three children was the result of the union, one of whom is still living....  He was a great sufferer from rheumatism during the latter part of his life.  His wife followed him to the grave in a few months, and all their property was left to two daughters during their lifetime, and afterward to a grandson, Isaac H. Howell.  Last fall death again visited the family and one of the sisters was taken, and her property was left to a surviving daughter, a damsel over whose head the frost of sixty winters have passed.... Hackettstowns Gazette.
 
 

March 13, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 30

    Mrs. Mary White, residing at No. 450 Royden street, Camden, died Tuesday morning after a short illness.  She was born in 1776, in Amsterdam, Holland, and consequently is now 107 years of age.  She had, up to within a short time ago, a wierd recollection of the crowning of a King in Amsterdam, in 1791, being one of the girls selected to pass before the King with floral offerings.  Her husband, William White, served on the ship Constitution during the war of 1812.

Death of Alexander H. Stephens
    The following is a brief sketch of the career of Governor A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, who died at his residence near Crawfordsville, Ga., about 2 o'clock last Sunday morning, after a lingering illness of many years:...
 

Some Bits of Gossip

    Miss Jennie Sutton has taken charge of the school at Oak Summit.  You see we keep posted on the movements of our pretty "school marms."
 

An Awful Accident
    Last Friday morning an awful accident occurred between Weston and Finderne, Somerset county, by which two men were instantly killed and two others badly wounded.  A carriage containing ex-Sheriff Peter A. Voorhees, Peter Cortelyou, John Bodine and Abraham Voorhees started from Franklin Park for Somerville, and at about 10:20 o'clock, while crossing the track of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at the point above named, the carriage was run into by a regular passenger train, which was some ten minutes behind time, killing the two Voorhee's instantly, as well as both horses, and inflicting injuries upon Mr. Bodine, which may yet prove fatal.
 

Vicinity Notes

    Five years ago two boys, Alvin Martin and Jacob Vliet, aged about 17 years, left their home at Beattystown, Warren county, for parts unknown.  About a week ago, Martin returned home.  He had been living in Texas.  He said he left Vliet in Baltimore on the way South, and he had never seen him since.

    About three years ago a brother of Mr. Peter Struve died in Melbourne, Australia, leaving an estate which he bequeathered to his nephews and nieces.  The two children of Mr. Struve came in for their share, which was supposed to be about two thousand dollars each.  On Monday Mr. S. received word that the legacies paid to the other children in Germany amounted to over three thousand dollars.

    Edward Smith, of Phillipsburg, while at work on a stone bridge at Sunbury, Pa., on Friday, fell through a trestling and was instantly killed.  Smith was a mason by trade.
 

State Items

    John Dennis, a laboring man about 25 years old, living at Columbus, about five miles from Bordentown, went to a wood pile near the house Wednesday afternoon, and after making for himself a rough seat, took a double barreled shotgun, put the muzzle to his mouth and pushed the trigger with a stick, blowing the whole top of his head off.  The deceased was subject to fits of insanity.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 28, by Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Charles L. Gimson to Lizzie Gonine, both of Lambertville.

    Feb. 24, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Charles B. Cook to Ella G. Case, both of Lambertville.

    At the Church of Our Father, Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 21, by Rev. George W. Cutter, Leon P. Kuhl, of New York City, to Clara G., daughter of Mrs. Laura D. Sternberg.
 

Deaths

    In Trenton, N.J., March 7, 1883, William H. Games, formerly of this place, in the 34th year of his age.

    In Flemington, Feb. 28, 1883, Isaac B. Conover, in his 89th year.

    In Lambertville, March 6, 1883, Eva, daughter of Charles A. and Mary E. H. Slack, aged 5 weeks.
 
 

March 20, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 31

    The death of General James H. Simpson from pneumonia, at St. Paul, Miss., is announced.  He was a native of New Jersey and entered West Point in 1828...

    The Hon. L. Q. C. Elmer died at his residence in Bridgeton, Cumberland county, on Sunday, in his 91st year.  He was a son of General Ebenezer Elmer, M.D...
 

State Items

    A roll of fifty dollars, in bank bills, was found in some linen among the effects of Mrs. Josiah Schenck, who died recently at East Millstone, Middlesex county.

    Henry Carl, a Newark teamster, jumped from his wagon on Monday and ran along beside the vehicle to keep himself warm.  The horese started on a trot, and in attempting to check them Carl was thrown down and run over, receiving injuries which caused his death in about an hour.
 

Local Department

    Elias V. Creger, a farmer residing at Lower Valley, Lebanon township, died on Friday of blood disease, contracted from a sore leg of long standing.

    Mr. Noah Hixson, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of East Amwell, died on Friday last, in the 84th year of his age.

    Robert Schenk, an old colored man of this place, died at his residence on the 3rd inst., aged about 80 years.
 

The Township Elections.
    Elections for township officers were held last Tuesday.
        Tewkesbury
            Judge of Election - Paul Sutton
 

Marriages

    Feb. 5, by Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton, William H. Andrews, Jr., of Philadelphia, to Lida R. Bray, of Lambertville.

    March 6, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, assisted by Rev. C. S. Conkling, William H. Fisher, of Phoenixville, Pa., to Parmelia B. Sharp, of Stockton.

    March 10, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, George H. Roberts to Wilhelmina Langeneck, both of Franklin township.

    March 10, by Rev. T. S. Griffiths, George F. Brown to Clara M. Walker, both of Raritan township.

    March 15, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Henry S. Van Dike, of Trenton, to Annie, daughter of Paul K. Hoffman, Esq., of Flemington.

    March 14th, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. I. N. Vansant, assisted by Rev. D. M. Mathews, Mr. Joseph Poulson to Miss Ida A. Burgstresser, both of Frenchtown, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In East Amwell township, March 16, 1883, Noah Hixon, aged 83 years and 2 months.

    In Delaware township, March 4, 1883, William F. Bowen, aged 48 years and 9 months.

    Near Lambertville, March 12, 1883, Laura Gordon Ent, daughter of William and Emma Ent, aged 7 years.
 
 

March 27, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 32

State Items

    Chancellor Runyon has annulled the marriage of Miss Jennie E. Gregory, of Jersey City, and Gideon B. Green, who, although playing the part of a zealous church member, has been discovered to be a defaulter and to have another wife in Texas.

    John Ruston, who recently passed his hundredth birthday, voted at the recent town election at Madison, Morris county.

    Harriet Martin, a little colored girl about six years old, was left in charge of her infant sister, at New Brunswick, on Monday, while her mother was absent at a neighbor's.  After putting the infant to sleep, Harriet attempted to roast an apple on the stove, when her clothing took fire and she was burned to death.

    Mrs. Jane A. West, aged 65 years, died at White Hill last Sunday, exactly nine years to a day after the death of her husband, and, as is alleged, in conformity with a prediction made by her deceased husband at the time of his death.  She laid in an unconscious state several days preceding her death.

    The village of New Durham, Hudson county, is excited over the death of Thomas G. Greenleaf, a young farmer of that place, who died in great agony after taking some pills prescribed for tape-worm by an herb doctress named Mrs. McMinimy.  Regular doctors pronounced it a case of vegetable poisoning.  The doctress refused to say what the pills were made of.

    Charles Thomas, aged about fourteen years, died at Gloucester City, on Thursday, of fright....
 

    Alexander Jefferson, who murdered Henry Hicks and Mrs. Emma Jackson in Brooklyn and who was convicted of murder in the first degree, was on Thursday sentenced to be hanged on Friday, May 11.

    George W. Conkling, Jr., of Reno, Nevada, shot and killed William H. Haverstick in New York last Monday.  The murdered man had been living with Conkling's sister, a married woman, and he objected to her going away with her brother who had come to New York to induce her to give up her illict intercourse with Haverstick.
 

Marriages

    March 15, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, George Fink, Jr., to Hettie Stryker, all of Flemington.

    March 9, by Ira Higgins, Justice of the Peace, Charles Lewis, of Somerset county, to Mrs. Elizabeth Crocker, of East Amwell.

    March 21, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Stillford Clawson to Ella E. Abbott, both of Barley Sheaf.

    March 19, by Rev. Cornelius S. Conkling, Philip Gulick, Esq., of Clinton, to Mary Y. Leech, eldest daughter of Isaac N. Leech, of Lambertville.

    March 14, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Lougepe Cramer, of Cokesbury, to Livery Apgar, of Mountainville.

    March 21, by Rev. George F. Love, Amos H. Lovett, of Tullytown, Pa., to Lizzie Grose, of Locktown.

    March 17, by the same, Theodore W. Cronce to Laura Curtis, both of this county.

    March 13, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Albert H. Snook, of Harborton, to Ella M. Wilson, of Lambertville.

    March 15, by the same, Thomas H. Lugar to Fannie S. Mathews, all of Lambertville.

    March 21, by Rev. F. Bloom, William D. Overton, of Bayport, Long Island, to Anna A. Winget, of Peapack, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At Glen Gardner, Feb. 18, 1883, Charlie, son of Eugene and Annie H. Cowell, aged 3 months, 3 weeks and 4 days.

    Near Flemington, Feb. 25, 1883, Lewis R., youngest child of John G. and Mary E. Hulse, aged 7 months.
 

Local Department

    The anniversary of the seventy-fourth birthday of Mrs. Benjamin W. Alpaugh took place at her residence at Little York on the 14th inst.  There were forty-nine of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren present.

    A young man named Jesse J. Hornbaker, who lived with his uncle, Mr. James Dalrymple, some two miles north of Everittstown, died from lock-jaw on Sunday, 18th inst.  About three weeks previously the young man cut his foot with an axe while working in the woods.  He was about 22 years of age.
 

Vicinity Notes

    William Snook, of Hopewell, dropped dead on Thursday of week before last, while working at the stone crusher, a short distance west of the town.  Apoplexy was the cause of his death.

    Henry Van Doren, a son of Wm. J. Van Doren, of Somerville, who went West a few years ago, fell from a scaffold recently, and was so badly injured that he died the next day.
 
 

April 3, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 33

    Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster General of the United States, died at Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Saturday 24th ult., at the age of 67.  He was born and educated, in Maine, and removed to Wisconsin in 1845.  He served one term in the United State Senate.

A Wife's Desperation
    Jealousy of her husband unquestionably caused Mrs. Thomas Parks, of Herkimer, N.Y., to murder her two children and herself in Herkimer, Monday night.  The children died in a few hours.  A bottle of laudanum and one of chloroform were found under her pillow....  She sent the servant to a neighbor to say she wanted to see her, and then, lying in bed with her children, aged respectively two months and five years, she shot each in the head and then shot herself.

    Tuesday morning Dr. Lane was called in to attend Mrs. Alice Snyder, residing in the northwestern portion of the Philadelphia.  He had been treating her for pneumonia, but when he arrived, she was unable to speak, though she seemed to be endeavoring to tear off her clothing.  She died shortly afterwards, and when the doctor examined the body he found that there were cuts in the breast, the largest of which was covered by a porous plaster.  John Snyder, her husband, was promptly arrested and a penknife covered with blood, was found in his possession.

    Near Gratz, Owen county, Ky., Monday afternoon, while several children were playing hide and seek, a son of Dan Creswell crawled into a straw stack, and a younger boy, unable to find him, set fire to the straw.  When found, the child, who was only five years of age, was burned to a crisp.
 

State Items

    William Warman, was crushed to the earth and instantly killed by a falling tree on Wednesday, near Washington, Warren county.
 

Local Department

    Death did its awful work most relentlessly in the family of Mr. Ezekiel Williams, in this town, last Friday.  Two of his children, bright little girls of about three and five years of age respectively, were taken by the grim monster, the eldest on Friday morning and the youngest on Friday night.  Their disease was something like diphthereic croup, we understand.

    Last Tuesday morning, at about 9 o'clock, Jacob K. Fretz and John Yost were driving their wagons toward Byram station, on the Bel. Del. division, to load with feed.  About a mile below Point Pleasant, in descending Caffrey's hill, Fretz was about to get down off his wagon to put on the brake.  He fill under the wheel, which passed over him, and he died of his injuries in about one hour.  He had charge of a four horse team, and the wagon was a heavy one.  He was aged thirty-five years, and a miller by trade.
 

Within Gun-Shot of Home

    Aunt Nancy Voorhees, colored, 93 years old, walked from New Brunswick nine miles on Sunday, to attend the funeral of her old mistress, the widow of Judge J. V. D. Hoagland.

    Sarah Miller (colored), one of the witnesses convicted of perjury in the Somerset courts 2 years ago, for testifying in the attempted Owen murder case at Liberty Corner, and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in State Prison, died in that institution about a week ago.

    George Washington Duke, who had lived for sixty years in a little hut in the woods near Easton, died in the almshouse recently from the effects of a fall on the ice while out gathering wood.
 

Marriages

    March 24, by Rev. C. E. Walton, Benjamin Egbert, of Raritan township, to Martha A. Stevenson, of Franklin township.

    March 22, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Samuel L. Holcombe, of West Amwell, to Mary E. Gregg, of Lambertville.

    March 24, by John H. Horn, Esq., Robert Littleton to Ida Reaimer, both of West Amwell.

    Feb. 24, by Rev. J. W. Barrett, William H. Reading to Emma L. Wilson, both of Delaware township.

    March 27, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., George E. Runkle to Caroline E. Phillips, both of Flemington.

    March 17, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, Henry H. Hawk to Mary M. Harrison, both of Hughesville.

    March 25, by the same, Abraham W. Smith to Elsie A. Sidders, all of Bloomsbury.
 

Deaths

    Near Locktown, March 10, 1883, Thomas Lake, in the 84th year of his age.

    In Alexandria township, March 16, 1883, William Philkill, aged about 76 years.

    Near New London, Conn., March 26, 1883, Elisha T. Chapell, in the 84th year of his age.  Father of Rev. F. L. Chapell of Flemington.
 
 

April 10, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 34

About Peter Cooper
    Last Wednesday morning Peter Cooper, the philanthropist and millionaire, died at his residence in New York City....

    The way of the transgessor is hard.  Last February Mrs. Caroline Dewell, wife of a Baptist minister, who had died eight weeks before, eloped from Honesdale, Pa., with Edward C. Simpson, a worthless fellow.  Mrs. Dewell sold her house and personal effects, and, after putting her four children to bed one night, went away.  On Thursday morning of week before last she appeared at Honesdale, having walked all night through the wilderness, and sought her home, only to find it occupied by others, and her children, who had been cared for by the town authorities, gone...

Perished In Flames
    A nergo cabin near the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, Tenn., was burned at noon last Thursday.  Two children of Harden Hughes, colored, aged respectively five and two years, were burned to death.
    John A. Wilson, and his wife and two daughters were burned to death in a house three miles from Hartwick, Otsego county, N.Y., last Thursday morning.

    Patrick Taaffe, who had been employed in Peter Cooper's glue factory in Brooklyn, heard of the death of the latter, from whom he had received many kindnesses, he quit work despondent and went to his home near the factory.  He told his sister of Mr. Cooper's death and said that he was broken hearted.  He refused to go to bed, and insisted, in spite of his own poor health, in sitting up all night in his chair.  On Thursday morning he was found dead.
 

State Items

    Dr. A. O. Stiles, a well-known physician of Warren county, died at his residence in Harmony on the 27th ult.  He had a very large country practice, and nearly always traveled on horseback when visiting his patients.

    Miss Florence Couplin, of Hamburgh, Sussex county, is missing.  She started on a visit to Unionville, N.Y., aobut four weeks ago, and nothing has been heard of her since she purchased a ticket at the railroad station.  She is about 22 years of age.

    The three-year-old daughter of James Lyons of South Newton, Sussex county, was scalded so badly on Saturday last, that she died in a few hours.
 

    Charles Resh, aged 60 years, was instantly killed by the fall of an elevator at the new County Almshouse, in Lancaster, Pa., on Monday.  He had been an inmate of the institution for twelve years and worked at carpentering.  Recently he drew a pension and, having a wife and child, rented a house in Philadelphia, into which he had intended to move on Tuesday...
 

Marriages

    March 29, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. J. Rodenbaugh, Charles E. Stahler to Cynthia C. Kline.

    April 5, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, C. F. Hopewell to Ida Harsel, all of Flemington.

    March 24, by J. W. Henderson, Esq., Jacob Emmons to Alice Ort, both of Clinton.
 

Deaths

    In Lebanon, March 28, 1883, George Henry, aged 89 years and 28 days.

    In Raritan, April 1, 1883, John McLain, aged 42 years, formerly of White House Station.

    At Rowland's Mills, March 30, 1883, John Brown, aged 12 years.

    At Potterstown, March 31, 1883, Mrs. Sarah Todd, aged 70 years.

    At High Bridge, April 5, 1883, Samuel Warman, aged 78 years.

    At Pleasant Run, March 22, 1883, infant child of Levi and Alletta Cole, aged 4 weeks.

    In Lambertville, March 30, 1883, Robert Grace, aged 60 years.

    In Lambertville, March 30, 1883, Lizzie Mangan, aged 22 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, March 28, 1883, Margaret Ennis, aged 37 years.

    In Flemington, on Friday, March 30, 1883, Anna Gertrude, daughter of Ezekiel and Anna P. Williams, aged 4 years, 7 months and 26 days.

    In Flemington, on Friday, March 30, 1883, Della, daughter of Ezekiel and Anna P. Williams, aged 2 years, 7 months and 13 days.
 

    A young man by the name of Warren Barrigan was instantly killed on Sunday afternoon, April 1, at the east end of the Pattenburg tunnel....  The poor boy's father is an inmate of the Soldier's Home in Newark.  His mother resides in Pattenburg, and was doing her best to rear the deceased and three other children.
 

Within Gun-Shot of Home

    Dr. William H. Brown, of Bound Brook, dropped dead in his wagon, while driving between Martinville and Mt. Horeb, on Thursday afternoon.

    Many former visitors at the Roaring Rocks will remember Andrew Polhemus, a very talkative old colored man, who lived there.  He died on Monday morning, the 26th ult.

    Peter J. Donney, a fireman on the High Bridge Branch Railroad, met with a violent death on the 22d ult., by being thrown from a running train while rounding a curve near German Valley....  He leaves a wife and three small children.

    Theodore Potter, of Wantage township, Sussex county, while cutting wood on the 13th of March, cut his thumb through the nail into the bone.  The wound was properly dressed, but blood poisoning followed, resulting in his death ten days later. He was a son of Mr. Jesse Potter, and was 26 years of age.
 

Five Little Items From Changewater

    Mr. Robert Vusler died at his house last week of paralysis.  He was about seventy years of age.
 
 

April 17, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 35

    Mrs. Ross Howard, the nineteen-year-old wife of William Howard, a young engineer, living at No. 106 West Sixteenth street, New York, killed her three-weeks-old child, Elsie P. Howard Wednesday night, under very painful circumstances.  The mother is an inmate of Bellevue Hospital, raving mad.  Mrs. Howard has been ill since the birth of her child, and was frequently delirious from fever....
 

State Items

    Mrs. Charlotte Ross, of Madison, Morris county; her son-in-law, Francis Pierson, and her grandson, Dr. Henry C. King, all died within six days.
 

    "Aunt" Polly Hatch, died at Manchester, N.H., Friday aged 105 years.  She was the oldest person in New Hampshire, and probably in New England.
 

Marriages

    April 7, by Rev. M. Herr, J. B. Hunt, of Annandale, to Phoebe E. Abbott, of White House.
 

Deaths

    March 26, 1883, at the residence of Asa Cronce, near Rosemont, Margaret Reading, in the 96th year of her age.

    At Mechanicsville, April 9, 1883, Jacob Neff, aged 63 years.

    In Delaware township, March 31, 1883, Harry, son of Gardner and Emeline Naylor, aged 10 months.

    At Milltown, Kingwood township, March 31, 1883, Sarah, relict of the late Reuben Kugler, aged 73 years.

    In Lambertville, April 9, 1883, Mrs. Elizabeth Sproat, in the 71st year of her age.
 

Local Department

    Rev. J. P. Dailey, who occupied the pulpit of our M.E. Church in 1864, '65, '66, died after a brief illness last week.

    George Booz, a son of Dr. John Booz, deceased, formerly of this place, died at his home in Orange, N.J., one day last week, from consumption.
 
 

Within Gun-Shot of Home

    Henry Garretson, of Franklin Park, Somerset county, living on a farm between the two Mr. Voorhees', whose sudden and sad deaths by a railroad accident we recently recorded, died on Tuesday morning, without scarcely any warning, of heart disease.

    The widow of the late John J. Van Derveer, who has been long a patient sufferer, died on Sunday evening last in Somerville.

    Mr. Henry Whitenack of Somerville has received from the Chancellor a final decree of divorce from his wife, Martha Whitenack, which has for a long time been in litigation.
 
 

April 24, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 36

Treglown Hanged - Morristown, N.J., April 18.
    Treglown, the murderer of Minnie Chegwin, was hanged in the rear of the jail at 10:20 o'clock this morning....

A Duel With Knives
    The following is the story of the doubly fatal fight with knives between Henry Emil Johnson, a Finn, and James Donnelly, a young man, last Monday night in San Francisco, Cal.  The battle was the result of an old feud that took place in a saloon in Stockton....  Donnelly was twenty-three years old and married.  Johnson leaves a widow and two children.  Both were under the influence of liquor.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Jane Davis, of Shiloh, Cumberland county, aged 85 years, died from strangulation at the breakfast table on Monday morning.

    The death is announced at Somerville of William U. Underdonk, aged 67 years.  He was for years a Common Pleas Judge.  The cause of his death was paralysis.

    Charles Sutton, of Cape May, has a dog which he sends once a week, with letters tied to his neck, to his son, twenty-five miles distance, and returns next day with the answer.

    Rev. William Pitcher, who for more than twenty-five years was pastor of the church at South Branch, Somerset county, died of pneumonia at Greenwich, N.Y., on Thursday last, at the age of 73 years.  He resigned his charge at South Branch about three years ago, on account of failing health.

    Mrs. Ann Cornish, a colored woman, died at her home at Milford, Camden county, a day or two since, at the reputed age of 100 years.  John Cornish, her husband, who is still living, is said to be 105 years old.

    Elizabeth Hodson, widow of the late William Hodson, celebrated her one hundredth birthday at Columbus, Burlington county, on the 10th instant.
 

    The daughter of ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped with her father's coachman four years ago, has obtained a divorce.  She has not been living with her husband for some time past.  The alleged reason for her divorce was abandonment.  There is one child.

    Thomas H. Blythe died in San Francisco last week, leaving an estate of $4,000,000.  No wil has been found, and three different women have put in claims each __ that she is the decedent's widow.
 

Marriages

    April 14, by Rev. A. B. Still, James Dalrymple to Mary B. Hyde, both of Alexandria township.

    April 7, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, Peter Shepherd, of Lambertville, to Larie A. Allen, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    Near Readington, April 16, 1883, of apoplexy, Isaac Dilley, aged 77 years.

    In Franklin township, March 23, 1883, after a lingering illness, Servis Trimmer, aged 71 years, 5 months and 17 days.
 

Local Department

    Benjamin Mathews, boiler inspector, of the Belvidere Division, died at his residence in Lambertville, on Sunday, of pneumonia.

    Mr. Henry Schultz, an old and well respected citizen of Lambertville, has removed to Frankford, Pa., where he and his daughter will live with a son who has resided there for a number of years.

    Marion Higgins, a son of Nathaniel Higgins of Ringoes vicinity, set out for Arkansas a few days ago, with a view of settling in that State if he does not get homesick.

    Isaac Dilley, an old resident of Readington, died at his residence last Monday, aged about 77 years.

    The Presbyterian grave yard in this place is slowly but surely being deserted.  A great many bodies are being removed to Prospect Hill Cemetery.  Six were taken up last Wednesday and others are to follow soon.  The old Presbyterian yard has always been an exceedingly wet, springy piece of ground, and was never fit for a burial place.  We saw some of the graves opened last Wednesday, and the remains of a number of children that had been buried upwards of forty years taken up.  In those days they did not put the coffin into good strong cases as they do at this day.  The bare coffin was deposited in the grave and a single plank placed over it.  All the graves were full of water, and the coffins greatly decayed.  Those buried later, say twenty years ago, were found in cases, and these were in good condition.
 

Within Gun-Shot of Home

    Bessie, aged 55 years, beloved wife of George Philip Heymann, died very suddenly at her home, near Pluckamin, last Thursday night.  Mr. H. is employed on the Cornell farm.  Mr. H. was plowing near the house, and hearing his wife scream he ran and found her in the road, but unable to arise.  She was carried in the house, but died before midnight, of heart disease, it is supposed.  -  Somerset Messenger.

    John Stiger, aged ninety years, a resident of Hunterdon county, has been thrown upon this county, and will be brought to the Alms House in this county, as soon as he is able to be removed.  Many years ago, Mr. Stiger lived on the road between this Town and Fredon?, and was the owner of three farms.  What makes the case more distressing is the fact that he has several children, who are also well blessed with this world's goods.  -  Sussex Herald.

    Last Friday morning Miss Margaret Cain was found dead in her bed at the residence of her brother, James H. Cain, near Somerville.  Heart disease is the cause supposed.
 

    A Reading, Pa., dispatch of Thursday says:  Miss Dora Heels, 17 years of age, died her today of a rupture of a blood vessel, brought about in a very peculiar manner...
 
 

May 1, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 37

State Items

    Lawrence O'Neil, of Plainfield, has lost three daughters within three weeks, of typhoid pneumonia.

    A few days ago at Rutherford, Bergen county, a little daughter of Luther Axford, two and a half years old, climbed up to the mantlepiece, in her mother's absence from the room, and set her clothes on fire with a match.  She was severely burned and died the following day.
 

    George W. Demarest, a wealthy resident of Passaic City, was killed by the accident on the Long Branch division of the Central Railroad of New Jersey last summer, when the train ran off the bridge over Parker's Creek.  His relatives brought suit for $100,000 damages in the Passaic County Court at Paterson, and the trail was on for two days.  After a short deliberation the jury brought in a verdict of $30,000.

    Eliza Pinkston, the famous Louisiana witness in the electoral controversy of 1876-77, has died in jail at Canton, Miss., where she was serving a term for larceny.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    William Badgeley, twelve years old, who resided with his parents in Springfield, Union county, hanged himself on Monday...
 

Marriages

    April 26, by Rev. C. E. Walton, Frederick L. Vreeland to Elmira G. Depuy, both of Staten Island, N.Y.
 

Deaths

    In Union township, of typhoid pneumonia, Daniel Bellis, in the 65th year of his age.

    In Reaville, April 11, 1883, Mary Ann, wife of William Brown, in the 50th year of  her age.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Nelson Brown is the happiest man in Bloomsbury.  The cause for all his joy lies in the fact that he last week became the father of a seventeen-and-three-quarter-pound boy.

    Mr. Watson B. Cherry left Flemington for Wellington, Kansas, last Tuesday, he having entirely recovered from the serious sickness which brought his home some months ago.  Friend Cherry is engaged in the hardware business out there in "bleeding" Kansas.
 

    One of the oldest residents of Delaware township, Mr. William Fulper, was laid to rest in the cemetery of the German Baptist Church, near Sergeantsville, last Tuesday.  He was in the 93d year of his age and lived all his years in the township of Delaware.
 

Changewater and Junction

    Mrs. Dr. Herrick's father was buried in the State of Maine the same day that her husband, the Dr., was interred at Washington.
 

    Michael Bowden, formerly of Lambertville, was arrested in Chester, Pa., one day last week and locked in the jail there on the charge of bigamy.  Bowden, it is alleged, married Miss Maggie Palmer, of South Chester, on the 8th of August, 1876, and until within the past week she supposed that she was his legitimate wife.  Domestic difficulties, growing out of his frequent visits to a Philadelphia woman, recently led to an investigation into his past life, which resulted in the discovery that his legal wife was living in New York city.  It appears that he had married Miss Annie Murphy at St. Peter's Cathedral, in New York, in 1870, and afterwards lived with her at Lambertville, where he was employed as a painter.  In 1875 he deserted her and went to Chester.  There he met Miss Palmer and married her in 1876.  Three children are the fruit of his marriage.
 
 

May 8, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 38

Death of Charles Chauncery Burr
    Charles Chauncey Burr died at his home in West Hoboken, N.J., on Wednesday, of congestion of the brain....

Casualties

    The house of William Jackson, at Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin, was burned and his little daughters, Olive and Bertha, perished in the flames.
    James McGrath, who, with a young woman, was poisoned by the inhalation of illuminating gas in the room of a hotel in Scranton, Pa., last Monday night, died.  The young woman, whose identity is in doubt, was in a dying condition.
    The wire rope of the elevator of the Burden Blast Furnace, at Troy, New York, broke, and Edward McCabe and William Scott were caught by the rope and thrown down the elevator shaft, a distance of 60 feet.  McCabe died soon after, and Scott is in a critical condition.
    Charles Tyler, one of the men injured by the explosion in the Keystone Colliery at Ashland, Pa., last Monday, died on Tuesday night.
    Ten gravel cars were thrown from the Old Colony Railroad track at New Bedford Wednesday by a stone on the rails and a brakeman named Peckham was fatally injured.

    As the gateman at the Newark avenue crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City was closing the gate last Friday at the approach of a train at 7:30 P.M., Mrs. Jane Anthony dashed under it, and attempted to run across.  She became frightened and Switchman Lawrence O'Brien went to her aid, but before he could help her the train struck them both.  The woman was instantly killed, and O'Brien died in a few minutes....  O'Brien was thirty-eight years old, and lived with his wife.

    At Farmingdale, Monmouth county, last Saturday, the workmen engaged in removing the remains from an old graveyard to the cemetery, on opening the graves of a father and daughter, the woman buried thirty years and the man twenty-seven, found but a few soft fragments of the woman's skeleton and nothing of the coffin, but the coffin of the man was in good preservation, the skeleton perfect, and even the gray hair was preserved.  The two lay side by side.  It is difficult to assign a reason for this singular difference in the state of preservation.

    At Middletown, Ohil, on Thursday last, the little daughter of John O'Connell, living on the bank of the Hydraulic Canal, fell into the water, and was discovered by her father and mother in the last drowning struggles.  The father, who was unable to swim, jumped in to save the child, and was drowned.  His wife, who in turn, made a frantic effort to save her husband, was drowned as well.

    William Jacobus, aged sixteen years, in attempting to cross the Passaic, just above Dundee Dam, last Wednesday, in a scow, was capsized and swept to the mouth of the dam.  All efforts to rescue him proved fruitless, and he finally, after four hours' exposure, perished from cold, in the presence of his parents and brothers and sisters on the shore, together with many other spectators.

    Harry Smith, of St. Johnsbury, N.Y., shot and instantly killed himself at Jamestown, N.Y., on Saturday.  He came there to be married to a young lady from his former home, but she refused to fulfill her promise.
 

Local Department

    One of the oldest citizens of Lebanon, Mrs. Jacob H. Hoffman, mother of our County Superintendent, departed this life on Saturday, April 28.  The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Roe, and took place at the Church on Monday, the 30th.

    On Friday morning, 27th ult., Edward Hildebrant, living near New Germantown, while rolling a piece of ground for oats, accidentally fell off the roller and directly behind the horses.  One of them kicked him three times, knocking him senseless.  He was injured on the forehead, over the right lung, and in his right side.  The unfortunate man now lies in a critical condition.
 

Obituary
    Died on Wednesday morning, April 25, at the Township House of Hillsborough, Henry Schenck (colored), well known throughout Somerset and Hunterdon counties as "Uncle Harry" Schenck.  He was born September 16, 1801, as a slave of Dr. Henry Schenck, whose residence was two miles west of Neshanic, near the South Branch of the Raritan.  He lived with him for 14 years, until he moved to New Brunswick, N.J., and after an interval of some 7 or 8 years, during which he lived a part of the time at Harlingen, and a part with the Van Deripe family near Neshanic, he went to live with Dr. Jacob R. Schenck, son of Dr. Henry.  He was liberated from slavery by him.  May 23, 1823, he married Lucy Van Liew, a servant of the father of Dominie John Van Liew, who was for many years the pastor of the Readington Church.  She was a year younger than he, and survives him.  They were the first colored couple married by Dr. Gabriel Ludlow, of Neshanic.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The wife of ex-Sheriff John J. Van Kirk, Warren county, died at her home in Columbia on the 15th ult., aged 80 years.  She and her husband were joined in wedlock 62 years ago.

    The Bound Brook Chronicle says:  Last week we announced the death and double funeral of the wife and daughter of Mr. Wm. Fisher, on Friday afternoon.  We now have to record the fact that on that evening, Mrs. Lowrey, another daughter, died, and was buried on Sunday afternoon beside her mother and sister.  She leaves two little daughters to mourn her death.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Julia Walsh, aged 75 years, was fatally burned on Monday, at her residence in Newark, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, which she suddenly turned up to light some kindling wood.  She was found in dying condition.

    Charles Manning, an Albino, died near Eatontown on Thursday of last week.  He and his brother Peter, who survives him, were perfectly white, out of a family of six or eight who were black.  At one time they were with Barnum, and also with other exhibitions and museums.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, April 26, 1883, Mary, wife of James O. Bellis, in the 35th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, April 27, 1883, Michael Murray, aged 54 years.

    In Lambertville, April 18, 1883, Ann Donehow, aged about 40 years.

    In Lambertville, April 29, 1883, Elizabeth Stayback, aged 70 years.

    In Lambertville, April 27, 1883, Amy R. Lewis, aged 41 years.

    At White House Station, April 30, 1883, Michael Higgins, aged 63 years.

    In New York, April 27, 1883, Sallie A. Quick, daughter of the late Gideon Quick, formerly of Flemington.
 

Murders In Morris County
    The following is a brief history of the murders committed in Morris county, as gleaned from the Dover Iron Era:
    In 1833 a man named Le Blanc, who worked for Samuel Sayre at Morristown, murdered Mr. Sayre and his wife and a servant girl....  On the trial it was learned that he delayed the murder two weeks in hopes that the daughters, who were visiting in Newton, would return.  He was hanged Friday, Sept. 6th, 1833.
    In February, 1837, a colored girl working for Mr. Robt. Hight near Chester, killed her mistress.  Mrs. Hight was about 70 years of age and was engaged in reading her Bible, when the colored girl became enraged at Mrs. H. ordering her to prepare the dinner...  The girl was executed in May 1837.
    On the 18th of October 1859, Isaac H. Gordon, was murdered between Boonton and Montville, while on his way home to the former place.  He had $50 in his possession and was murdered by Geo. Acker, who was in his company the night of the murder, drinking.  Acker was hung March 29th, 1860.
    On the 23d of November 1864, Peter J. Cucuel murdered his wife...  He was hanged Friday, Nov. 24th, 1865.
    On the 7th of November 1872, Luigi Lusignani murdered his wife Johanna Mossi at Dover... He was executed Thursday, May 15th, 1873.
 
 

May 15, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 39

A Midnight Burial
    A sad story comes from Ancora, a little village on the line of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, in Camden county.  A six-year-old daughter of Edward Fowler, a prominent resident of Ancora, was taken sick a week ago with smallpox.  The father became alarmed and sent for the wife, who had been separated from him for over five years, to return to her home and nurse her child.  The mother had only a short time before recovered from an attack of smallpox.  She came to the bedside of her suffering daughter, and there did all that a fond mother could.  The disease assumed a complicated form, and Dr. Junkey, of Hammonton, it is said, was telegraphed for, but for some unknown reason failed to respond to the summons...  On Wednesday night the child died.  As there was not an undertaker within several miles the parents set at work to prepare the body for burial themselves...  By the pale light of the moon the coffin was lowered into the grave...
 

State Items

    Last Sunday evening as Dr. Powers, of Oxford, was returning home from a visit to some patients, he was suddenly stricken with heart disease and dropped dead in the road, where he was found a short time after.  The Doctor was 45 years of age.
 

    Jonathan Ingham, one of the most prominent citizens of Salem, died in the city on Friday last, aged seventy years.  He was a son of Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson, and who in his day exerted a wide influence in the politics of the country.
 

Marriages

    May 3, by Rev. W. M. Mick, George C. Pedrick, of Flemington, to Jennie Hunt, of Lambertville.

    May 9, by Rev. I. N. Hill, F. R. Williamson, of Flemington, to Rachel Pierson, of Cherryville.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, May 5, 1883, at the residence of Garret L. Peer, Joseph B. Roberson, aged 70 years.

    Near Ringoes, April 25, 1883, Jeremiah Reading, aged 67 years and 19 days.

    May 6, 1883, Hannah Prall, widow of Abraham Prall, aged 70 years, 1 month and 14 days.

    In West Amwell, April 27, 1883, Hannah Phillips, aged 84 years.

    At Stanton, May 8, 1883, Phoebe, wife of Josiah Harsel, aged 52 years, 10 months and 9 days.
 

Local Department

    E. Tannewald, some years ago a clothing dealer in this town, died at his home in Easton last Wednesday, from rheumatism of the heart.

    Mr. George W. Rowland, of Junction, who has been in the employ of the Central Railroad Company for many years, died after an illness of about ten days, last Saturday.  Deceased was familiarly known as "Daddy" Rowland, and he was universally liked and respected.
 

A Few Gossipy Paragraphs

    Mr. Charles Rink, of Readington township, has emigrated to Oswego, Ill.  Mr. Rink has lived there before, coming back to Jersey last Fall.  He is a mason by trade, and at one time worked for Mr. John A. Dilts, in this town.  Mr. Dilts, it will be remembered, is now carrying on business in Kansas City.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Jacob Petty, aged 80 years, a resident of Karrville, while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Smith Skinner, in Washington, was taken sick with measles on Wednesday and died Monday afternoon of last week.
 

    Mr. Aaron Hoagland, a farmer living about a mile south of this town, was taken suddenly ill on Sunday morning last and called for the services of a physician.  He appeared to be suffering with colic.  In the afternoon the physician again called when Mr. Hoagland considered himself so much better that he told the Doctor that he need not call again.  This (Monday) morning he was found dead in his bed.  Mr. Hoagland was well advanced in years.

    Lawrence Ward, a former resident of Hackettstown, shot and killed his wife last Sunday, at their residence between that city and Stanhope.  Ward and his wife frequently quarreled, and the murder is the result of one of their quarrels.

    Mrs. Jesse R. Grant, mother of General U. S. Grant, died at her home in Jersey City last Friday.
 
 

May 22, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 40

A Terrible Accident
    Mrs. Maria C. Stoddard, aged 30, wife of the Rev. E. L. Stoddard, D. D., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Summit avenue, Jersey City Heights, was almost instantly killed Monday morning by the accidental discharge of a revolver.  She fell into the arms of her husband, who was standing near, and quickly lapsed into unconsciousness...
 

State Items

    John Rice, a veteran of the Seminole war in Florida, and who was wounded two or three times in the Mexican war, died at Paterson on Wednesday, aged 70 years.

    The wife of Thomas Parson, of Dividing Creek, Cumberland county, fell dead while preparing dinner, on Wednesday.  She was 52 years old.

    William Shaw, well known to old turfmen as the proprietor of the old Union trotting course, Long Island, when it was one of headquarters of the sport, died Monday evening of paralysis, at Finderne, Somerset county.

    Judah Hersh, of East Jersey and Second streets, Elizabeth, has reached the advanced age of one hundred and one years.  He was born in Bohemia, in 1782.
 

Marriages

    At the Parsonage of the M.E. Church in Flemington, May 16th, 1883, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, Wm. L. Juilard, of Flemington, to Emma A. Hann, of Sergeantsville.

    May 12th, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, S. D. Lowe, of Reaville, to Lizzie Sergeant, of Sand Brook.
 

Deaths

    At Oak Grove, May 12, 1883, Peter Stenabaugh, aged 88 years.

    Near Mt. Airy, May 14, Ann Elizabeth, wife of Wm. F. Holcombe, in the 52d year of her age.

    In Lambertville, May 10, 1883, Patrick Cairnes, aged 44 years.

    At Dreahook, May 16, 1883, Lucy, wife of Allen Connet, aged 74 years.

    Near Flemington, May 14, 1883, Aaron C. Hoagland, aged 77 years and 7 months.
 

Local Department

    Mortimer Dye, a young man well-known in this town, died at the residence of his sister, Mrs. J. T. Ellis, last Thursday, from consumption.  He came on from New York only the day before.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death of the estimable daughter of the late John T. Van Derveer, of North Branch, is announced at the early age of 28.  She was a sister to Rev. John Q. Van Derveer, who died at sea in 1881, and was highly beloved by those who knew her.
 
 

May 29, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 41

    Lydia Pickham is no more.  She died last week in the sixty-fourth year of her age.  She began her patent medicine business in a tea-kettle, but through the kindness of the newspapers in sounding her praises for a small consideration, she built up a business of three or four hundred thousand dollars a year.

    George Johnson, son of Bradish Johnson, of New York, died at the Arlington House, Ark, last Tuesday.  He awoke during the night before and got up to get a drink from the pitcher, the mouth of which was broken.  The pitcher fell and severed the femoral artery.  He was found pulseless and speechless in his blood, and died during the day.

    Mrs. R. J. McMille, of Lindenville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, while suffering from a fit of temporary insanity, drowned her two children, aged two and six years, last Tuesday, in a well forty-five feet deep, and then took poison herself.  There is no hope of her recovery.

Death of Bishop Peck
    Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck, D. D., a prominent Methodist divine, died at his residence in Syracuse, N.Y., from an attack of pneumonia, on Thursday, May 17.  He was born April 14, 1811, and has been a Methodist minister for fifty-four years, and Bishop since 1872....

    Monroe Matthews, aged 72 years, a respectable citizen of Afton, four miles from Morristown, hung himself in his barn on Monday afternoon.  Mr. Matthews lost a son two years ago, since which time he has been subject to fits of despondency, and a close watch has been kept on him by his family.  He asked his wife for arsenic on Sunday with which to poison himself.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. R. Holcombe Moore, who had been suffering from a tumor for the past year, and who submitted to a dangerous surgical operation for its removal some two weeks ago, died at her residence on Mine street last Tuesday evening.  Mrs. Moore was a very fine woman, and her death is universally mourned, but by none more than her husband of only a little more than two years.

    An item was published in this paper a few weeks since, stating that information was wanted of Solomon Lake, who left Ringoes about 40 years ago.  Mr. Williamson, Postmaster at Ringoes, has received a letter from Nathan Robbins, of Hamilton Square, Mercer county, in which he says: "Solomon Lake came to our place perhaps 40 years ago, married and lived within a few miles of us, at different places, until he died, May 12, 1879.  He left a widow with some children."

    Some thirty or thirty-five years ago, Mr. Lewis Runkle removed from Flemington to the State of Ohio, where he engaged in farming.  His father's name was Henry Runkle, and some of our older readers will remember him as a farmer who lived many years on the property now owned and occupied by Mr. Josiah Britton, near Klinesville.  From the Buckeye Blade, a paper published at West Liberty, Ohio, we learn that Mr. Lewis Runkle has just met with misfortune...

    Mrs. Sarah Ann Taylor, of Frenchtown, visited her daughter in Lambertville on Friday, 18th inst.  Soon after her arrival she was strickened with paralysis which resulted in her death early next morning.  She was the widow of the late Thomas C. Taylor, of Frenchtown, with whom she moved from Baptisttown to that place in 1854.  She was born July 22, 1802, and consequently was aged 80 years, 9 months and 27 days.  She was a sister of James D. Stryker, of Lambertville, the late Larason Stryker, of Pittstown, and a sister to the widow of ex-Mayor George Opdyke, of New York City.  She leaves a son and six daughters....  In her will she gave the Christian Church of Frenchtown the proceeds of twenty shares of Bank Stock of the Union National Bank of Frenchtown.
 

State Items

    A warning to peanut-eaters:  Jacob Stabb, aged 17 years, died on Sunday morning, at Elizabeth, from the effects of eating a quantity of peanuts and bananas on Wednesday.

    Ephraim F. Washburn, a well-known citizen of Trenton, was struck by the 8:20 express from Philadelphia, in Morrisville, at 9 o'clock last Monday morning.  He was thrown from the track into a creek and his head was severed from his body.  Mr. Washburn had resided in Trenton and vicinity for about eight years.
 

Killed by the Lightning
    Two little boys named Pipkin, living near Newbern, North Carolina, were struck by lightning on Monday and instantly killed while they were playing in a tree.
 
 

June 5, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 42

Freaks of Lightning

    Alice Carr of Cuba, Mo., was killed by lightning.  Her clothing and the walls of the room were set on fire.

    As John Lowder of Eureka, Ill., was tying a horse in his stable, lightning struck them, killing the horse and giving Lowder such a shock that he died in a few days.

    The three little daughters of Jacob Morowiz of Winona, Minn., were playing in the street under an umbrella during a thunder storm.  A stroke of lightning killed two of them and paralyzed the third.
 

Eccentric Suicides

    Because his mother lent his horse to his brother against his will, Henan Hegley, aged twenty-two of Millerville, Ohio, took a fatal dose of morphine.

    R. F. Gibbs, once a circus clown, of Fort Worth, Tex., killed himself by swallowing a decoction of laudanum, arsenic, morphine and sulphate of zinc.

    The family of Peter R. Selover, an old farmer of Owasco, N.Y., persuaded him to leave the farm and move to town.  He became so homesick that he hanged himself.

    Solon Engel, of Tangipahea, La., made his will, staked off the ground where he wished to be buried in his garden, carried a box to the place, seated himself upon it, put the muzzle of gun in his mouth, and pushing the trigger with the ramrod, was instantly killed.

    After John