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 Anthes, of Delavan, Ill., had loaded his effects upon a car prior to moving his family to Dakota, the contents of the car were seized on an attachment for debt, when Anthes whipped out a pistol and shot himself dead.  He was forty years of age, and had a wife and five small children.
 

A Young Man's Terrible Crime
    A St. Louis dispatch says:  News has been received here of a terrible tradedy in Jefferson county yesterday, in which two person were killed and a third person was fatally wounded.  At the Cedar Hill Catholic Church, about twenty-five miles south of this city, as Martha McDaniel and Amiel Deverentz were coming from mass, they were met by Hiram Sueleuss, who carried a shotgun.  As he approached he shouted:  "Draw your pistol, Amiel!" but without waiting an instant, he fired, killing Deverentz on the spot.  He then discharged the second barrel at the girl, seriously, perhaps mortally wounding her.  The murderer then reloaded his gun, and by means of a forked stick, fired again, instantly killing himself.  Suelleuss was nineteen and Deverentz twenty-three years of age.  The body of the murdered man was brought this morning to South St. Louis, where his relatives reside.

    James Wood, representing himself as a traveling salesman for a New York dry goods house, and residing in New Baltimore, N.Y., registered at the Cliffwood Hotel, at Clifton, Passaic county, N.J., on May 3d.  He seemed to be possessed of a moderate amount of money, and was apparently in good spirits.  On May 10th Wood left the hotel with his board bill unpaid.  His disappearance created no alarm at first, as he had left two large Saratoga trunks and a drummer's valise behind him.  This morning the body of a man was found floating in Cliffwood creek.  Wood was a great fisherman, and was well known to the boatman, and the body was immediately identified by them as his.  It must have been in the water at least two weeks.

Four Babies At a Birth
    Ohio, is again ahead.  Last week Mrs. Marcella Boyce, who resides in Long Bottom, just across the river from Wheeling, W. Va., gave birth to four babies, two boys and two girls.  One of the boys died, but the remaining three are large and healthy.  Mr. and Mrs. Boyce were married about three years ago.  Two years ago the lady presented her husband with twins, and last season with triplets.

    Theresa McGeaghan, aged about 30, unmarried, was found drowned in the Morris canal at West Paterson, on Tuesday.

    Mr. John B. Angle, a well-to-do farmer of Blairstown township, Warren county, committed suicide on last Monday morning by hanging to an apple tree in the orchard.  Mr. Angle has been suffering from a complication of diseases for some time.  The deceased was about 72 years of age.  He had been twice married, and leaves a wife and seven children.
 

Marriages

    May 30, by Rev. Geo. Young, Edward Roberson to Frances S., daughter of Wesley Bellis, Esq., both of Kingwood.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, May 22, 1883, after a painful illness, Charlotte, wife of R. Holcombe Moore, aged 44 years, 3 months and 3 days.

    In Flemington, May 28, 1883, of consumption, Lemuel H. Phillips, aged 24 years and 7 months.

    At Stanton, May 27, 1883, Daniel Van Buren, aged 80 years.

    At Trimmer's Mills, May 13, 1883, Tillie Park, aged 21 years.

    Near Stanton, May 22, 1883, after a long and confining illness, Elizabeth, wife of Wesley Carkhuff, aged 49 years.

    In Lambertville, May 16, 1883, Anna, daughter of William N. and the late Rebecca Probasco, aged 8 years and 5 months.
 

Local Department

    The Rev. Jeremiah Sullivan, a native of this county (son of Dennis and Bridget Sullivan, formerly of Junction), who returned to this native State with health undermined during two years residence in Rome, where he completed his course of studies most  brilliantly and was ordained in the priesthood of the Catholic Church, died at Madison, Morris county, on the 15th ult., where for some eighteen months he had been Chaplain in St. Elizabeth's Convent.

    It pains us to announce the death of our young friend Lemuel H. Phillips, son of Gardner Phillips, of this town...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Charles Fisher, chief engineer of Beatty's organ works, in Washington, was killed last Thursday morning by being caught in the fly wheel of the engine.

    George Smith, a trackman on the D. L. & W. Railroad, was struck by the 4 o'clock P.M. passenger train on Wednesday, near the canal bridge, in Washington, and injured so that the died at 11 o'clock in the evening.  He was resident of Manunka Chunk, and about 25 years of age.
 

    Mr. John Swick, living near New Germantown, has had good cause to lift up his voice and weep, like Jacob of old, for he has been sorely distressed.  Three of his children have died with scarlet fever within a month past.  The oldest was 14 years of age and the youngest 11.
 
 

June 12, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 43

Found Dead
    Mr. David Bloom of White House, a man aged about 50 years, met with a sad death in the village of North Branch on Saturday evening, 2d inst.  It appears that Bloom, in company with four or five other men from White House, went down to the Branch for the purpose of fishing, and at a late hour when they got ready to go home, Bloom was missing and could not be found, so the party returned home.  At an early hour Sunday morning two or three of the party returned for the purpose of searching for the missing man, when to their horror and surprise they discovered his dead body lying at the bottom of the tail-race, between the iron bridge and mill, where it is supposed he had accidentally fallen...  -  Somerset Messenger.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Eliza Crusen, a negress, died in Trenton on Monday last, aged 103 years.  She was born of slave parents on the farm of Charles Welling, near Pennington....  At twenty-one years of age her master set her free.  She afterwards married James Crusen and removed with her husband to Lower Makefield township in Bucks county.  Her husband died fifteen years ago aged 90.  The couple had thirteen children, of whom seven are still living.

    Mrs. Peter Stryker died suddenly of heart disease, at Bound Brook, on Thursday evening, 31st ult.  Her grandchildren were preparing to celebrate the sixty-third anniversary of her marriage on Friday.

    Robert Keller, 8 years of age, son of August Keller, of Phillipsburg, was drowned in the Delaware river at that place, on Wednesday, while bathing with several comrades.
 

    A floating bottle was washed up off Spring Lake, on Friday last, containing the following:  "If this should reach shore and be found, please tell my wife, Elizabeth Maheawer, of Point Pleasant, N.J., that my vessel is sinking and we will all be lost; give my best wishes and tell the boys to take care of her."  Dated 1877.  The lost vessel was the "Ida Birdsall", of Toms River, N.J.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's mother, at Harbourton, N.J., May 29, 1883, by the Rev. S. R. Queen, Mr. Jordan Mathews, son of the Hon. George H. Mathews, of West Amwell township, Hunterdon county, N.J., to Miss Isadora Phillips, daughter of the late William Henry Phillips, of Hopewell township, Mercer county, N.J.

    In Lambertville, May 23, by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Charles W. Weller to Anna Rebecca Naylor, all of Lambertville.

    At Milford, May 30, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Eli Miller to Ida J. Crater both of Finesville, N.J.

    At Milford, May 19, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, John E. Niece, of Everittstown, to Mary E. Bodine, of Plainfield.

    At Baptisttown, June 2, by Rev. George Young, Joseph Niece, to Cornelia Hand, both of Kingwood.
 

Deaths

    June 3, 1883, in West Amwell township, at the residence of his son, Henry Shife, aged 86 years.

    Near Stanton, June 6, 1883, Joseph Sheets, aged 73 years.

    At North Branch, June 2, 1883, David Bloom, of White House Station, aged about 50 years.
 
 

June 19, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 44

State Items

    Georgie Baldwin, aged 8 years, daughter of George W. Baldwin, of Newark, died Monday morning from the effects of drinking ice water while overheated.

    Mrs. Clare, who was burned a few weeks ago at Burlington, by burning oil from a lamp thrown by her drunken husband, died from her injuries on Monday.

    Samuel Bond, colored, aged 14 years, was drowned in the creek at Salem, on Sunday afternoon.  He was standing on a bridge across the creek, watching a number of colored men and boys who were swimming, when Dennard Roberts and Peter Johnson, both young men, seized Bond and told him they were going to throw him into the water.  Bond, who is very small of his age, begged to be let alone, telling them he could not swim.  Notwithstanding this, Roberts and Johnson carried him to the middle of the bridge, and, after swinging him two or three times, threw him into the current, where the water was over twenty feet deep.  Bond sunk immediately.  His body was recovered a few hours afterward.  Johnson was arrested and helf for trial, but Roberts had left town for Philadelphia, and officers are now seeking him.
 

    John Bachman, a farmer residing in the Tumbling Run Valley, several miles from Pottsville, Pa., although almost 80 years of age, would readily pass for 50.  He has been married twice.  By his first wife he has several sons, who are married.  By the second wife, who is not 30, he is the father of three children, the youngest being only four months old.  Last Wednesday evening, accompanied by his wife and the two older children, he left the house and went to a favorite shady resort, a quarter of a mile distant, leaving the baby sleeping in the cradle.  The doors of the house were left unlocked.  A watchdog, however, remained in the yard.  Mr. Bachman, and his wife were scarcely seated in the woods when the dog appeared and kept up a continual howling, which Bachman took as a warning that all was not right at home.  The family immediately returned and were horrified to find that the babe was missing.  The parents instituted a search, which was only terminated by darkness.  No trace of the child could be found.  Although there was money and valuables in the house, nothing was distrubed.

    Thomas Culleton and Michael Hawk were instantly killed by the explosion of a rubber vulcanizer, of which they had charge at the Trenton Rubber Works, about 7 1/2 o'clock last Wednesday morning...

    On Tuesday, at Rockford, Coosa county, Ala., Jordan Corbin (colored) entered the house of Benjamin Carden and shot him while he was lying on his bed.  His wife jumped up and the negro shot her down.  Carden's son started for the door to give the alarm, when he also was shot.  All three were instantly killed.  Mr. Carden's daughter made her escape.
 

Clinton

    Mr. Elias Hope of our town, died at Morris Plains Asylum on Monday, 11th inst.  His body being brought home, the funeral services took place in the Clinton Presbyterian Church:  interment in the Bethlehem cemetery.  The deceased was 55 years of age and was never married.
 

Marriages

    June 6, by Rev. W. Tompson, Wm. C. Smith, of Bloomsbury, to Lizzie Thatcher, of Franklin township, Warren county.

    June 5, by the same, Wm. B. Emery, of Asbury, to Ida V. Hedden, of Irvington.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 13th, 1883, Charles Bartles, Esq., in the 83d year of his age.

    In Lambertville, June 10, 1883, Mary, widow of the late George Baugh, aged 86 years.

    In Alexandria township, June 3, 1883, at the residence of Lewis Salter, Mrs. Charity Souders, aged 90 years and 3 months.

    Near Stanton, June 6, 1883, Joseph Sheets, aged 70 years.
 

Local Department

    The family of George Snyder, of Trenton, formerly of Milford vicinity, have, within a few days past, lost all three of their children with diphtheria.
 

An Old Citizen Gone
    The death of Charles Bartles, Esq., at the ripe age of eighty-two years, removes from our midst a figure that has been signally conspicuous in the prominent enterprises which have tended to the advancement and general welfare of our village.  The record of his long life shows what can be accomplished by an honest, straightforward course.
    Mr. Bartles was born near New Germantown, this county, March 18, 1801....
    Mr. Bartles was twice married.  His first wife was Miss Eliza Hart, of Flemington, whom he married in 1833.  She was a sister of the late Mahlon C. Hart, well known as a former proprietor of the Union House, in this place.  Her death occurred Feb. 25, 1845.  Sep. 16, 1846, he married Miss Eliza E. Randall, of New Hartford, N.Y., a daughter of Daniel W. Randall, and niece of Mrs. Peter I. Clark, of his place.  She died March 19, 1877.  Of the first union, there survive him Dr. William H. Bartles, of Philadelphia, and Charles Bartles, Jr., of Williamsport, Pa.  The children of the second marriage are Joseph Bartles, of Williamsport, Pa., and Mrs. Maggie McCandless, of Pittsburg, Pa....
    His funeral took place on Saturday last from his late residence, where appropriate services were held.  His remains were interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John West, a wealthy and respected citizen of Liberty Corner, Somerset county, was returning from Finderne, on Saturday, 9th inst., when his horse became unmanageable and threw him into a pile of stones by the roadside.  When found he was unconscious, and died about 11 o'clock without having regained consciousness.
 

    Little Jennie Volk, a 5-year-old daughter of Mr. Samuel H. Volk, of this town, was at play with other children all day on Friday last, apparently in the best of health.  In the night she was taken with scarlet fever in the worst form, and on Sunday morning she died.
 
 

June 26, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 45

State Items

    Capt. William A. Carr died at Paterson, Monday, in his sixty-fourth year.  He was a native of Sussex county, and was a member of the New Jersey Legislature from Morris county in 1856-7, and Engrossing Clerk of the Assembly in 1857-8.
 

A Clergyman Kills A Clergyman
    A dispatch from Mansfield, La., dated June 16 says:  The Rev. B. T. Jenkins, Jr., this morning killed the Rev. J. Lane Borden, President of the Mansfield Female College.  The Rev. Mr. Borden had betrayed a young lady who was a friend of Mr. Jenkins....  Jenkins is young man, about twenty-five years of age,...

    At Versailles, Ky., last Sunday night, Ollie and Press Brown shot and killed the Town Marshal, George Freeman, while he was attempting to arrest them.  The cause of the killing was an old feud, the Browns alleging that Freeman had killed their brother, Sandy, about a year ago.

    Robert Wiedman, a boy three years old, living with his parents at No. 98 1/2 Seventh avenue, Newark, died Tuesday morning from the effects of injuries received at the hands of his playmates.

    Frederick Hill, a piano-maker at Union Hill, committed suicide Monday morning by taking a large dose of arsenic.  He had been drinking heavily of late, and the refusal of his wife to pay some liquor bills which he contracted, is believed to have prompted him to commit the rash act.  Hill was forty years of age.

    Mrs. Stratton, an old lady, of Cleveland, was so badly frightened by a clap of thunder, Sunday evening, that she fell to the floor and died almost instantly.
 

Local Department

    William A. Vought, of the firm of Vought & Killgore, druggists at Dover, died at his home on Wednesday.

    Elizabeth Hull, for many years a town charge of Kingwood township, died at the residence of William Search, on the 17th inst., aged near 90 years.  She was generally known throughout that part of the county by the name of "Old Betty."
 

Neighborhood Notes

    About 10 o'clock, Tuesday morning, while William Smith, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman on a freight train on the Belvidere Delaware Railroad, was in the act of coupling cars on the Durham switch, below Riegelsville, the coupling dropped on the track.  He stooped to pick it up and was in the act of raising his head when the cars came together and crushed it between the bumpers.  He was taken out from his perilous position and removed to the station at Riegelsville, where he was attended by a physician.  The unfortunate man breathed his last at 10:45.  He was conveyed to his home in Phillipsburg on a special train.  He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his horrible death.  He was about thirty-three years of age.
 

Marriages

    June 9, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, Israel P. Hoffman, of Rosemont, to Etta G. Wagner, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 17, 1883, Jennie, daughter of Samuel and Kate Volk, aged 6 years, 6 months and 6 days.
 
 

July 3, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 46

    Miss Lizzie Mott, of Milford, Pa., accompanied by her younger brother, Harry, went riding in her dog-cart last Monday morning.  The raising of a parasol by Miss Mott frightened the horse, which was very spirited, and it ran away.  In turning a corner the wagon struck a hitching post.  Miss Mott and her brother were both thrown against a building, and their skulls were fractured.  Miss Mott's left arm was broken so that thebone protruded.  They have been unconscious ever since the accident, and there is no hope of their recovery.
 

Local Department

    Some weeks ago we made mention of the fact that an aged gentleman named John Hartpence, of Rosemont, had falled and broken his thigh.  The shock was too great for him, and on the 22d ult, his death resulted.

    George Sutton, of Cokesburg vicinity, had an unlucky fall one night recently while fishing, in which his leg was badly injured besides hurting his spine to an extent that it is feared may prove serious.

    Mrs. Van Camp, of Lambertville, died at her residence in that city on Saturday of week before last, at the good old age of 98.  Her funeral took place from the residence of her son George Van Camp.

    Harrison Sergeant, of Bull's Island, was struck and instantly killed by a train of cars near that place last Tuesday morning.  Mr. Sergeant was walking across the track carrying a sack of flour and a basket of eggs, and did not pay any attention to the danger signal.  It is said that he had been drinking.

    The mangled body of a woman was found lying between the tracks on the Central R.R. about a mile west of White House Station, at 1 o'clock last Thursday morning. Her hips were crushed so badly that the broken thigh bones protruded several inches through the flesh.  She was carefully removed to the Station and made as confortable as possible until her death which occurred an hour later.  She retained consciousness to the last, giving her name as Spitzenburg, and her residence Newark, where she said she had a husband living.  Her age was about 35 years.
    P.S. - Since writing the above we have learned the following particulars:  The woman's name was Anna Westenburg.  She was a native of Germany and had been in this country seven years.  She left her home on Saturday of week before last, and had only just been released from the insane asylum.  Once before she wandered from home but was found by her husband, (who is a tanner and lives at No. 66 Wallace street, Newark,) and returned.  Her age was 32 years on the 27th ult.  She leaves one child aged 9 years.
 

    Last Tuesday night, Mrs. Mary Gunn, a very fleshy woman of advanced years, met with an accident that is likely to prove fatal.  Her home is near County Line, and while walking to it from North Branch, proceeding up the railroad track, she endeavored to get out of the way of an approaching train by climbing up an embankment.  In so doing she lost her foothold and fell down directly in front of the approaching train.  The engine struck her, making a deep cut in the back part of her head, and cutting off her hand.  Later information announces the death of Mrs. Gunn on the 28th ult.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    On Friday last a four-year-old daughter of Jacob Case, of Phillipsburg, showed symptons of a fever.  On Saturday morning Dr. Isaac Barber was called in and gave the child several powders, with instructions when they should be given.  In the afternoon the doctor left the prescription for medicine that is generally used in such cases and the same was taken to Gwinner's drug store to be filled.  The messenger was waited on by Edward Mosen, a young clerk, who recently came from Asbury.  The clerk, instead of filling the prescription as the note called for, gave Seidlitz powders.  Mrs. Case says she dissolved the powders and gave the child a teaspoonful.  Soon after the child was seized with convulsions and died at seven o'clock the same evening.  Much talk was indulged in and a Coroner's jury was called and heard the evidence of the parents, Gwinner, Mosen and the doctor.  They found that the child died from natural causes, but censured Mosen for carelessness and the father for not attending to the medicine.  -  Warren Democrat.
 

Marriages

    June 21, by Rev. W. E. Davis, assisted by Rev. John Scarlet, Rev. George Scarlet, of Peapack, to Helen Voorhees, of South Branch.

    June 27, by Rev. C. W. Pitcher, Edmund Newhouse, of New York City, to Luella Stiger of Lebanon.

    June 16, by Rev. W. M. Mick, George W. Horton, of Lambertville, to Amy C. Rake, of Rocktown.

    June 19, by Joseph Servis, Justice of the Peace, August Kendopp to Anna Robeck, all of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, June 26, 1883, Mrs. Sarah Peterson, aged 56 years, 11 months and 19 days.

    In Frenchtown, June 16, 1883, Mrs. Mary A., wife of Joseph Aller, aged 46 years, 5 months and 28 days.

    At Rosemont, June 22, 1883, John Hartpence, aged 80 years, 9 months and 2 days.
 
 

July 10, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 47

    At Blandford, Va., last Monday night, a difficulty occurred between Barney Jones and Woodson Dunn.  Jones accused Woodson and his brother Lewis Dunn of having induced his (Jones') wife and daughter to follow them, intimating that improper motives were underlying their action.  Words ensued, and Jones, seizing an old army musket loaded with bird shot, fired at Woodson Dunn, the charge entering the right groin, passing through the body and making a wound two inches in diameter.  Dunn cannot live.

    Professor Edward F. Grady, teacher of music in the public schools of Baltimore, was found dead lying upon the stairway of Kelley's Hotel, about daylight on the morning of the 26th ult.  Deceased was 35 years old and unmarried.  He had been instructor of music in the public schools for eight years.

    Prof. Stephen Alexander, LL. D. Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Princeton College, died on the 26th ult., at his home in Princeton.  He was aged 76 years.
 

State Items

    The body of Noah Dennis, of Harrisburg, Burlington county, was found by harvesters in a rye field on the South Pemberton road, on Tuesday, in a badly decomposed condition.  Dennis was last seen on the 9th instant in a drunken condition, when he started home through the rye field.  From the trampled condition of the grain about him it is supposed by died in a fit.  He leaves a wife and six small children.
 

    Henry F. Piaget, one of the oldest and best known jewelers and watch-markers in the country, did on Sunday night last at the New Jersey Insane Asylum, at Morris Plains, where he had been for the past three months.  He was 76 years old, and leaves a wife, six sons, and one daughter.  He was a native of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and came to America about half a century ago.  Years ago Mr. Piaget retired from business and has lived quietly on a picturesque farm at the Great Notch, near Paterson.

    At Erie, Pa., last Wednesday, Albert Kuhn, while riding in a street car, recklessly fired a pistol from a window, instantly killing Miss Mary Steiner, aged 9 years.  The girl was playing in front of her father's residence.  Frank Kuhn had an interview with his brother in jail.  He then saw his affianced and bad her goodby.  An hour later he was found dead, hanging to a beam in the basement of the store where he was employed.

    In Nashville, Tenn., last Thursday evening, William Boyd, a real estate owner, fatally shot Mrs. Birdie Patterson, the ball entering her left breast.  Boyd is about 60 years of age and had been living with Mrs. Patterson, whose husband is in New Orleans.  The cause of the deed was jealousy.  Boyd says that he was drunk and that Mrs. Patterson shot herself.

    A nine-year-old girl named Foster was run over by a train last Thursday night near Oil City, Pa., and instantly killed.  The child and her mother were walking on the track and the little one in attempting to save a kitten on the track was killed.

    A year-old child of John Darby was beheaded by the cars at Hoosick Falls, New York, last Monday.  The frantic mother saw fifty cars pass over the infant's body, and she carried away the head in one hand and the body in another to her home.

    Benjamin Doremus, a boy living in Paterson, put a lighted fire-cracker in the bunghole of an empty whisky barrel that lay in front of a saloon on Monday.  The barrel had been in the sun all day and was full of gas.  The explosion of the fire-cracker set fire to the gas and the barrel exploded with the noise of a cannon.  Pieces of it were thrown five hundred feet.  A piece of the head struck Doremus in the face, injuring him so that there is little hope of his recovery.

    Three men were found drowned in the Delaware river at Philadelphia, on Wednesday morning.  Louis Nahker, seventy years old, who lived on Ridge avenue was the first one found, near the Falls red bridge.  A man about fifty years old, tall, partly bald, with a mole on the right side of his nose, was found above Poplar street, and was taken to the Morgue.  Gabriel Lentz, seventeen years old, who lived at Pink street, was drowned while bathing in Allen's boat slip, Beach street, below Otis.

    George C. Heald, 19 years old, was drowned in Long Swamp, Sussex county, Tuesday evening.  Heald was a son of Charles G. Peal, of Cooperstown, N.Y.  Accompanied by several young men, Heald was bathing in the swamp and was taken with cramps, sinking before his companions could reach him.  The body has not yet been recovered.
 

Marriages

    June 30, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, George N. Hockenbury, of Flemington, to Ida May Hawk, of Kingwood.

    June 28, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, Wm. A. Staples, of Junction, to Mrs. Ellen M. Brundage, of Pittston, Pa.
 

Deaths

    In Delaware township, June 12, 1883, at the house of Mr. Alexander Higgins, Mrs. Mary Higgins, in the 86th year of her age.

    At Oak Grove, May 29, 1883, Nathan, son of Samuel and Emma Magargal, aged 1 year, 9 months and 15 days.

    At the residence of his parents, corner of Burnet Street and Clifton Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J., July 3, 1883, Edward Agnew Taylor, son-in-law of the late George F. Crater.

    At Locktown, July 7, 1883, of consumption, Amy, wife of Henry F. Bodine, aged 39 years, 8 months and 21 days.  Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, on Wednesday morning, July 11, at half past ten.
 

Local Department

    Charles Wolverton, a well-known citizen of Sand Brook, died with paralysis on Thursday noon last.

    Eleazer Gardner died in Philadelphia on June 13th of consumption.  Mr. Gardner was a brother of Joseph Gardner, of Glen Gardner, and was the first manufacturer of oval picture frames in the latter place, which was afterward carried on by the Gardner Company.
 

About Our Friends

    John C. Coon, Esq., one of the best known men in this town, spent the most of last week among us.  John C. is now engaged in a large jewelry establishment at York, Pa., and it was his first visit home since he went away nearly a year and a half ago.

    Mr. Theodore Thatcher, who has been visiting his folks in this place for the past trhee weeks, set out on Friday last for Los Angeles, Cal., where he is employed as railroad engineer.

   Rev. John L. Janeway, formerly the well-known and well-liked pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this place, was in town on Saturday.  Our old friend looked to be in good health, though he beings to show age.  He is now engaged in farming at Valley Forge, Pa.

    Mr. Wm. Pedrick, who removed from this town last Spring to Columbia, Pa., also visited us on Thursday last.
 

Drowned While Bathing
    About half past eight o'clock last Friday evening, John W. Hibbs, one of the drivers for Tams' pottery, who resides in Division street, Trenton, went into the canal, opposite the International Pottery, to bathe.  He did not know how to swim, and got beyond his depth.  He called out several times for help, and, although several persons were swimming near by, none heard him.  He sunk, and two boys who saw him go down gave an alarm.  A large crowd soon collected, his young wife being among the number.  The deceased is a son of Mr. Joseph Hibbs, of Ringoes, and a son-in-law of Mr. Edward Wyhousky, of Flemington.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    A young man named George Wolfe, a resident of Oxford township, Warren county, was killed at the mines of the Belvidere Iron Company, near Buttzville, a few day ago, by being crushed by falling earth and rock.  He lived but a short time after being taken out of the mine.  His age was about twenty-two years.

    Isaac Sharp, Sen., of Oxford, Warren county, was found lying on the ground dead, near a saloon in that place, last Thursday week.  Mr. Sharp had been suffering from heart disease for a number of years and it would have been supposed that his death was caused by that disease had it not been for the fact that there was a deep cut in his forehead and his pocket-book was missing.  The funeral took place at Oxford on Sunday afternoon, interment at Asbury.  Deceased was a brother of Mr. G. W. Sharp, of New Hampton.
 

Three Tragedies in Kentucky
    Conrad Graff, of Jeffersonville, Ind., became very drunk last Thursday morning at Louisville, Ky., and want to fight.  He insulted Gottlieb Waggoner, who promptly gave him a terrific blow on the temple, from the effects of which he died in a few minutes.
    At a barbecue, near Deposit Station, Ky., last Wednesday afternoon, William Middleton had a quarrel with Levi Miller, one of the managers.  Miller was cut in fourteen places and soon died.
    At a dance near Russellville, Ky., last Wednesday, James Hankins and Charles Smitzfeller engaged in a fight, in which both were shot.  Smitzfeller is wounded in the bowels, and is not expected to live.

    An entire family was killed at a railroad crossing near Cincinnati on Tuesday, while crossing the track at night.  The family was that of Henry Kracke, and they were going to their farm, seven miles from Winton Place.  Kracke, his wife and four children - John, age nineteen, Annie, sixteen; Maggie, thirteen, and Lizzie, seven - were killed.

    At Otsego Lake, Mich, last Thursday, Alexander Perry, 50 years of age, attempted to enter the house of Amos Bidwell while the young wife of the latter was alone.  He had visited the house earlier in the day, but had left after making improper overtures to her.  When Mrs. Bidwell observed him approaching again she warned him away.  Failing to regard her warning, she shot him dead with a rifle.
 
 

July 17, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 48

A Horrible Death
    A dispatch from Atlantic City says:  "The death of a young girl named Clarrissa Bounds in this place Sunday night was the means of bringing to light an awful story of inhumanity and crime in the New Jersey pineries, ten miles west of Atlantic City.  A Coroner's jury examined the scarred and burned corpse of what was a short time ago a young and beautiful girl.  The facts now know show that she was of humble parentage and wild habits, and that she left here some time for Doughty's coaling in the pine woods where a number of men burned charcoal.  Whether means were used by a white man named John Thomas and a young negro named Joseph Kelsey to entice her to their vicintiy is not known.  She had been acquainted with them and was in service in their neighborhood...

    Thomas Kenney, a boy seven years old, whose parents reside at Newark, was drowned in the Passaic Wednesday afternoon.  It appears that he went in bathing in the river near the foot of Gouverneur street, and that as he was anxious to learn to swim, a larger boy gave him a plank to support him.  The little fellow paddled about a little, when suddenly the plank turned over with him and he sank in the water.  Before assistance could be rendered he was drowned.

    Frank Oliver, of New Brunswick, while driving Saturday afternoon, 7th inst., was overtaken by the storm.  The carriage was struck by lightning, the two horses were killed and Mr. Oliver was so severely hurt that he cannot recover.

    Michael Stultz, of Erie, Pa., was working on a tall scaffolding when his little seven-year-old daughter May climbed the ladder and reached the platform unknown to her father.  She was advancing along the narrow plank to meet him when, becoming dizzy from looking down, she staggered, fell and was instantly killed on the flags, sixty feet below.
 

Local Department

    Edwin Beidelman, a prominent citizen of Frenchtown, died at his residence in that place on Monday evening last, aged 53 years.  He had been in falling health for a year or two past.  He leaves a wife and seven children.
 

Executor and Administrators of Estates

    Amos Sutton, administrator of the estate of John Sutton, deceased.  Rule to show cause - issued July 5th.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death is announced in Belvidere of Thomas T. Stewart.  The members of this family have attained remarkable age.  There were seven sons of Judge Thomas Stewart, of Warren county, who died at the age of 85.  Six of the sons died at the following ages: Robert, 83; Thomas, 95; Samuel, 69; William, 85; Jesse, 88, and James, 80, a total of 500, and an average of nearly 84.  The seventh son, John, is still living at the age of 85.  All of them lived and died in Warren county except Robert, who died at Green Bay, Wis.  John is a resident of Easton.

    On Saturday, 7th inst., Mrs. Henrietta Carhart, wife of Theodore Carhart, residing in the Third Ward, Phillipsburg, attended the funeral of the late Theodore Schug in Easton.  While in the procession she was taken with neuralgia in the head, which complaint she had been subject to for some time.  During Sunday she became seriously ill and physicians were called.  In the evening the lady was found in convulsions.  The physicians were again hastily summoned and did all they could for her.  She lingered until 2 o'clock Monday morning, when she died.

    Herman Haunerman, a German working on the farm of Mr. James Coates, Somerville, was overcome by the heat on Saturday 7th, while in the harvest field.  He managed to get to his room where he died within in an hour.
 

    Mrs. Jacob Henry, of Everittstown vicinity, was found dead in bed last Thursday morning.  Mrs. Henry had been in poor health for some time, but for a few days preceding her death she had seemed better, and her husband who occupied another bed in the same room, did not hear her complaining during the night.

What It Took To Kill Him
    James Nevins, 8 years old, lived at Bay street and Willow avenue, Clifton, Staten Island, and on Thursday morning last he helped Mr. Coffer, a liquor dealer, move.  He fell down stairs with a child's crib, which hurt him, and he went home and went to sleep.  On awakening he returned to the whiskey dealer's, where he found a demijohn of whiskey standing unwatched and drank a quantity estimated afterwards by the owner at a pint.  He then went home again and again went to bed.  Afterward he got up and went swimming.  The thermometer registered over 90 degrees, and he was prostrated by the heat.  He was taken home and put to bed.  He fell asleep and slept through the family supper hour.  On awakening he went to a neighboring orchard and ate some green apples, after which he played a short time, apparently in good health.  He went to bed at an early hour, but in the morning he was found dead.

    Thomas Waldron, a liquor-dealer, forty-five years of age, was struck by the engine of a passenger train and instantly killed while crossing the tracks of the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Trenton, last Thursday afternoon.  His sudden death prostrated his wife, who now lies insensible.
 

State Items

    A few days ago John W. Cowperthwaite, a young farmer living on the South Pemberton road, in Burlington county, ruptured himself badly while cradling grain, but he paid no attention to it, and kept on working until the symptoms became so aggravated that he was compelled to take his bed, where he died on Monday.

    Melancthon Wickerall, 32 years old, who some ten years ago was a society man in Jersey City, was found dead, on Monday, in a barn near Coven Point, Jersey City.  He became dissipated and sank rapidly in the social scale until he became a tramp.  His father was once a partner in the firm of Jewell & Co., provision dealers in New York.  He failed five years ago, and died recently in the Snake Hill Almshouse, where he was a school teacher.

    Mrs. Phebe Ann Allen, an inmate of the Faith Home, at Newark, was 102 years old on July 4th.  Fifty years ago last Fourth of July their home was burned and everything destroyed except a chest of carpenter's tools, in trying to save her husband ruptured a blood vessel and died with an hour.  Mrs. Allen has had eleven children, only one of whom is living - a daughter between 50 and 60 years of age.

    Rev. E. P. Linnell, who preached at Schooley's Mountain for ten years, says that during that time he had been called upon to attend only one funeral, and that was of person 102 years old.  There is living today upon Schooley's Mountain a colored man named John Van Syckle, who is 108 years old, and he is vigorous enough yet to do a fair day's labor.
 

Marriages

    July 12, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, John S. Dilley to Susie Alpaugh, both of Mechanicsville.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, July 9, 1883, Edwin Beidleman, aged about 53 years.

    In Lambertville, July 4, 1883, Wilson, only child of C. W. and Alice C. Rittenhouse, aged 10 months and 2 weeks.

    In Philadelphia, July 5, 1883, Mrs. Charlotte, widow of the late John V. Thatcher, formerly of Baptisttown, aged 83 years.
 
 

July 24, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 49

Death of Tom Thumb
    General Tom Thumb (Charles S. Stratton) died at his home, at Middleboro, Mass., on the 15th inst.  He was ailing for several days, but no serious result was expected.  The General was the oldest and best known curiosity in America.  He was born in Bridgeport, Conn., in January, 1832, and when ten years old was engaged by P. T. Barnum, who dubbed him "General Tom Thumb" and introduced him to the public, at the American Museum, in New York, on December 8, 1842....

    Charles D. Beach, about 45 years old, dropped dead on the street at Newton, Sussex county, Thursday night from heart disease.  He was a veteran of the late war and a respectable mechanic.  For 13 years he had been an applicant for a pension, during which time he had been frequently examined by the medical officers, and it is said, recommended for a pension, but a lack of evidence as to when his disease was contracted prevented favorable action on his case at the Pension Bureau.

    Sarah Emma Jardine, living at Little Falls, Passaic county, was sent by her parents to the post office, Monday morning.  As she did not return, search was made, and about noon her hat was found floating in the Morris canal, a short distance below the post office and soon after her body was recovered.  She was 8 years of age.  It is supposed that she walked along the canal bank, which at that place is very much exposed, picking berries, and fell in.

    Robert Morrow, aged 25, a cleak in the freight office of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, at Jersey City, and latterly living at Paterson, went, on Thursday, with a private picnic party to Clifton.  While waiting at the station during the evening for a train to Paterson, Mr. Morrow was struck by a passing freight train, and sustained such severe injuries, that he died early Friday morning.

    Edward Hyland brutally murdered his wife on the outskirts of Forretsville, in Conn., in a drunken quarrel, last Monday.  In his frenzy he broke all but three of the woman's ribs.  He body was horribly mutilated, and there was no spot on it over six inches large that was not either bruised or discolored.  The couple often quarrelled before.  Hyland was arrested.  He denies his guilt.  He is about fifty years of age and owns a farm of fifteen acres.  The deceased woman was forty-five years old.
 

Local Department

    Mr. P. S. Kugler and family, of Stockton, have removed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, where he will engage in the manufacture of spokes and handles.

    William J. Devlin, a nephew of Mr. Mark Devlin, and a young man widely and well known and esteemed, died at the Hotel in High Bridge on the 15th inst.  He had been seriously ill for a long while.  His remains were moved to his native place, New Haven, Conn., for burial.

    Mr. Andrew Stryker (or, as he was familiarly known about town "Becky" Stryker,) died at his residence near the Fair Grounds on Friday last, after a lingering illness with consumption.  Deceased was a solider in the late war.  He leaves a wife and three or four children.

    The 90th birthday of Mrs. John Warner was celebrated at her residence near Kingwood, on the 10th inst.  Mrs. Warner is enjoying good health, and helped with the baking for the occassion, of which over fifty partook of dinner.  She received a number of handsome presents; on the same day as her birth, she had been a widow forty-one years; her maiden name was Jane Lewis, and her home was in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pa.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Wm. K. Metz died suddenly Monday evening at his home in Lopatcong township, Warren county.  He had eated his supper in apparently good health and did not complain of being ill until two hours afterwards.  He went to bed and almost immediately thereafter expired.

    An infant, only a few days old, a daughter of John Colton, of New Hope, died with lockjaw one day recently.  The baby's 5-year-old brother had innocently "amused" himself a day or two previous by pushing a stick of wood down the little child's throat, causing the fatal result.

    Last Wednesday morning at about eleven o'clock, two young girls, Kitty Hunt, aged nine, and Sarah Stelger, aged fourteen, were playing around the Washington avenue bridge, in Dunellen.  The youngest girl went into the brook near the bridge and while wading around got into deep water and was drowning.  Her screams called her companion to her assistance, and the latter rushed into the water and was quickly beyond her depth.  Before other help could arrive, both of the girls drowned.  Kitty Hunt was a daughter of Track Foreman Hunt, of Dunellen, who, about a year ago, lost five other children within a few days time, by diphtheria.  Sarah Stelger was the child of a widow, living in Dunellen, and supporting a large family by her own endeavors.
 

Marriages

    July 4, by Rev. Geo. Young, Albert W. Tinsman to Mattie I. Roberson, both of Kingwood.

    July 3, by Rev. W. M. Mick, Charles C. Miller to Caroline Wyckoff, both of Lambertville.

    July 12, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Edward J. Richards, of Somerville, to Annie Hoff, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    At Clinton, July 13, 1883, Bertha, daughter of George W. and Alletta Cooper, of Raritan, N.J., aged 2 months.

    In Raritan township, July 14, 1883, Joseph B. Rockafellow, son of James S. Rockafellow, aged 21 years, 4 months and 7 days.

    Near Milford, June 30, 1883, Samuel Bloom, aged about 88 years.

    Near Milford, June 30, 1883, Mrs. Paul Apgar, aged about 88 years.

    In Lambertville, July 12, 1883, Anna H., only daughter of John D. and Maggie M. Cox, aged 7 years, 2 months and 12 days.

    At Sodus, N.Y., June 30, 1883, Thomas Fleming, formerly of Hunterdon county, aged 79 years, 3 months and 11 days.

    At Mt. Pleasant, July 2, 1883, Joseph Hoppock, in his 74th year.

    At Croton, July 3, 1883, Frederica, wife of John J. Allis, in the 50th year of her age.

    In Lambertville, July 4, 1883, Charles B., son of Patrick and Sarah C. Reilly, aged 1 year and 10 months.

    At White House Station, July 19, 1883, Annie M., wife of Fisher Pidcock, aged 37 years, 8 months and 3 days.

    At White House Station, July 21, 1883, Theodore Polhemus, in the 68th year of his age.  Funeral at the White House Reformed Church, Tuesday, July 24th, at 10 o'clock A.M.
 
 

July 31, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 50

    A few days ago Daniel T. Hughes of New York, employed a plumber named Garland, of Seabright.  While working in a gas machine belonging to Mr. Burrows, Garland became stupefied by inhaling the gasoline. He was taken from the tank insensible, and Dr. Kimble, of Eatontown, was summoned.  Every effort was made to restore the man to consciousness, but he died in a short time.

    Louis Holman, aged 12 years, of New Brunswick, while visiting in the country, near Somerville, on Friday, was standing near the barn watching a huge hay fork, worked by a block and fall, unloading a load of hay.  The fork ascended once or twice with a huge mass of hay, swinging into the loft window with comparative ease.  Holman had hold of the guiderope, and when it came out of the window on its third descent, the rope broke and the heavy iron fork fell with crushing effect on the boy, striking his head and some of the prongs entering his body.  He was picked up in a dying condition and carried into the house of his relative, where he died early Sunday morning.

    William Fithian, aged about 40 years, recently employed as a driller in the yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Camden, was instantly killed about half-past five o'clock on Sunday morning, while uncoupling a train at the center.  He was formerly a blacksmith.
 

State Items

    Abram Masker, a farm laborer on the McAlpin farm, near Morristown, was gored by an infuriated bull Wednesday morning and died of his injuries.

    Ann McLean, of Paterson, has instituted a suit of divorce from her husband, Peter, alleging, among other things, that he has thrown a lighted lamp at her:..
 

    Chas. Fisherman, a patient at the Second Hospital for the Insane, at Rochester, Minn., committed suicide last Sunday morning by jumping into the furnace in the boiler room.  The fireman there did not recognize him a patient, and before he could stop him he had been burned to death.

    In attempting to save the life of a woman who was walking on the track of the Long Island Railroad, at Woodside, L.I., last Sunday night, Deputy Sheriff Quinn was knocked down and killed by the locomotive.
 

Marriages

    July 25, by the Rev. W. E. Wright, William H. Worth, of Bordentown, to Lizzie H. Coryell, of Lambertville.

    July 21, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Peter L. Apgar, of Farmersville, to Georgie Beavers, of Pottersville.
 

Deaths

    Near Pleasant Run, July 23, 1883, Lizzie, daughter of John Newton Sharp, aged about 18 years.

    Near Allertown, July 27, 1883, from consumption, Isaac Alpaugh, aged about 22 years.

    July 29, 1883, Mrs. Elmer Runyon, formerly Anie Vansyckel, daughter of Aaron Van Syckel.  Relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral at the Lebanon Church on Friday, August 3, at 11 o'clock A.M.
 

    Mrs. Lucretia Hise, of Milford, will be one hundred years old on the 17th day of August.  We would suggest that Mrs. Corcoran, of Flemington, who will be 104 years old on her next birthday, go up to Milford on the 17th proximo and take tea with Mrs. Hise.  Afterwards Mrs. C. and show Milford how to dance the Irish reel she learned when she was a little girl on the old sod.

    John Pierman, the boy who killed young Theodore Parker in Lambertville, some two years ago, by stabbing him with a knife, and who was sentenced to the State Prison therefor for five years, died in that institution on Monday night, of consumption.

    On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Delilah Woolverton, widow of the late Levi Woolverton, residing near Croton, started from her home toward sunset to call upon her near neighbor, Mr. Peter H. Baker.  Perhaps half an hour after Mrs. Woolverton started, Mr. Baker had occassion to go into one of his fields to fix a piece of fence he had noticed the cattle had broken.  In going through a narrow path leading through a thicket, Mr. Baker discovered the dead body of Mrs. Woolverton lying upon the ground near the path....  She was aged about 60 years.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    George Proctor, of Princeton, a carpenter by trade and an Englishman by birth, aged about 42 years, has been missing from his home now over four months.  He has a wife and six little children.  He is about five feet ten inches in height, and has black hair and moustache, dark complexion and weighs very nearly two hundren prounds.

    Peter Van Dervoot, a well-known colored man who drove one of Anderson's coal wagons, died Wednesday morning of lockjaw.  About two weeks ago, when jumping off his wagon in the coal yard, Van Dervoot stepped on a rusty nail and ran it into his foot.  He carelessly neglected to do anything for it until too late.  He leaves a wife and five children, who, by their father's death, are in needy circumstances.  -  Somerset Gaz.
 
 

August 7, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 51

 Sad Scenes at Long Branch
    Since the season opened at Long Branch nothing happened up to the 30th ult. to deaden its gaiety.  That day the Coroner had to hold an inquest on the body of the first victim of drowning this season.  He had also a sad office of viewing the body of a hero who lost his life in saving the lives of others.  Mr. Pollock, of Mobile, with his family, resided between East End and North Long Branch in a picturesque cottage.  Accompanied by two of his sons and his eleven-year-old daughter, Mr. Pollock went in for a bath near the hot salt-water bath.  Mr. Pollock, who was an expert swimmer, had breasted the current and was returning, when a squall came up, driving most of the bathers out of the water.  Among them were Mr. Pollock's three children - 12, 14, and 17 years of age - who hastened out.  Standing on the beach, they heard their father's cry for aid and saw him sink.  Mr. Pollock's body has not been found.
    The hero who lost his life was William Hampton, a young merchant.  He attempted to stop a runaway horse on Ocean Boulevard.  The animal, which attached to a carriage containing a lady and three children, became frightened and bolted.  Young Hampton sprang for it as it turned toward the railing of the United State Hotel.  Catching the bridle he missed his grip, and when the animal freed himself from the wrecked vehicle Hampton, bruised and cut, lay bundled up in the boulevard.  He lived only for a few moments.
    A suicide took place at the Minturn House, at Bay Head, on the morning of the 30th ult.  The suicide was Mr. Job C. Little, of Baltimore.  He came here about ten days ago.  On Saturday night a lady arrived at the hotel and registered as Mary C. Little.  Mr. Little had a room assigned for her, and told the clerk that the lady was his sister.  The lady departed on the early train in the morning.  Mr. Little paid her bill and accompanied her in a carriage to the train.  He returned and shot himself through the head with a bullet from a large pistol.

Suicide Of The Spanish Minister
    Senior Don Francisco Barca, Spanish Minister to the United States since April 1881, shot himself to death in a chamber of the Albemarle Hotel, at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, New York, shortly after daybreak Sunday....

Fatal Fall From a Train
    The first accident to a passenger on the new West Shore and Buffalo railroad occurred on Monday last.  George Weller, of Burnside, on the Ontario and Western branch of the West Shore road, took a train at West Point to go to his home.  When about one mile north of West Point he left his seat to go into the smoking car.  As he stepped upon the platform the train, in rounding a curve, gave a lurch and threw him off, and his head striking a rock, he was instantly killed.  His body rolled into the river, but was recovered in the afternoon.  He was about 26 years of age and the support of his mother.

    John Brixius, aged 21 years, attempted to kill his uncle, also named John Brixius, while the latter was returning from work, Tuesday evening, to his home, No. 27 Malvern street, Newark.  He fired two shots at him from a revolver.  One of the shots took effect in his head and the other in his neck.  Neither will prove fatal.  Young Brixius then fled to a pond, jumped in, shot himself in the forehead, and died...
 

State Items

    Lewis Hampton, a young man 23 years old, in attempting to stop a runaway team, Saturday night, in front of the United State Hotel at Long Branch, was struck in the breast by the tongue of the wagon, from the effects of which he died twenty minutes afterward on the hotel piazza.

    The wife of Ivins Johnson, a laboring man living in the neighborhood of Germantown, about two miles east of Toms River village, gave birth to three female children on Wednesday last.  Mrs. Johnson is about 38 years of age, and was already the mother of five children previous to this triplicate addition to her family.

    In the yard attached to the Camden County Asylum at Blackwoodstown, is the grave of a man who lived in three centuries.  A common stone slab marks his resting place, on which is inscribed the name of T. Seeds, who was born in 1697 and died in 1806.  The asylum is built in the old potters' field which was formerly connected with the alms-house.
 

Deaths

    July 29, 1883, at the residence of her parents, near Lebanon, Anna, wife of Elmer E. Runyon, and eldest daughter of Andrew and Lydia Vansickle, aged 31 years, 1 month and 24 days.

    At Centreville, July 27, 1883, Jacob K. Brokaw, aged 47 years.
 

    On the afternoon of the 28th ult., a man named William K. Stout, of Delaware township, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn upon his lot about one mile east of Locktown.  He was in poor financial circumstances, and sometime ago he contracted a disease which, through neglect, incapacitated him from work.  He was aged about 60 years and leaves a wife and several children.

    A young man named Stephen L. Swayze, of Chester, was drowned in Lake Hopatcong Sunday morning, 29th ult...  Deceased was a brother of Mrs. James Mattison, of this place, and was well known here.  He formerly kept a store at White House Station.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Charles Miller, a tramp, was knocked off the railroad bridge across the river at Phillipsburg, on Tuesday evening, by a Lehigh Valley train.  He fell in about two feet of water on the New Jersey side of the channel and was instantly killed.  He was about 35 years of age.

    Peter Mosher, living near Waterloo, visited Stanhope on the 24th, ult., and after imbibing freely started for home.  He took the D. L. & W. track, and was run over and beheaded by a passing train.

    Thomas Hallpine, a young married man, recently a resident of New Hope, met with a sudden death on Friday morning last.  He was harnessing a mule at the stables of the "Stavely farm," in Solebury, Pa., when the animal kicked and struck him over the heart.  He fell, gave a groan or two and expired.
 
 

August 14, 1883, Forty-Fifth Volume, No. 52

Gored To Death By A Bull
    Ex-Sheriff Thompson, of Monmouth county, is the owner of noted cattle stock, which he keeps on his farm near Atlantic Highlands.  Among them is a bull which has for a long time been a source of great trouble to the farm hands.  On Saturday morning, 4th inst., Richard Canary, for many years in the employ of the ex-Sheriff, attempted to drive the bull in the stable.  It turned upon him, and after chasing Canary around the barnyard caught him just as he had reached the fence, the bull's horns entering his left leg below the calf and ripping it open to the hip.  At the same time it hurled Canary into the air.  Another workman ran up to help Canary, when the bull caught him and threw him over the fence.  A third farm hand came to the rescue with a pitchfork, when the bull made for him; but he ran the fork into him, causing the animal to turn and seek shelter in the stables.  Canary died on Sunday in great agony.

    A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says:  A shocking affair happened at Deep Creek, eight miles from his city, last Monday night.  Mr. John R. Simmons, a justice of the peace and prominent citizen of the county, shot his wife and then killed himself.  It seems that the couple had been at variance with each other all day, and about nine o'clock the bickering culminated in an open quarrel and an assault by Simmons on his wife, during which he drew a pistol of the "bull-dog" pattern and shot her in the neck.  As she turned to run away from him she fell, with a shriek, upon the floor, and Simmons, thinking he had killed her, placed the still smoking weapon on his right temple and fired, killing himself almost instantly.  Physicians were promptly summoned to the aid of Mrs. Simmon, but she cannot live.

    News has reached Grand Forks, Dak. of the murder of George Inksher, a widely known farmer of that county, on Sunday.  He was herding his cattle, when they became mixed up a passing herd.  In trying to separate them, he got in trouble with the owners of the passing herd who riddled his body with bullets.

    John Garrett, a farmer living near Dayton, Ohio, left his home last Monday morning and returned in the evening under the influence of liquor, and murdered his wife with a hatchet...

    A man named Baker, living on Hurricane creek, near the village of Hurricane, in Saline county, Ark., last Saturday murdered his daughter by splitting her skull with an axe.  The cause of the deed was that the girl intended to marry a young man whom her father disliked.  Immediately after the murder the neighbors of Baker constituted themselves as a vigilance committee and proceeded to his house.  They entered and after a brief struggle, succeeded in making the murderer a prisoner.  They took him outside and hanged him to his own door post.  After he was dead they went to their several homes without cutting the body down.

    Mrs. Sarah Grace Thompson, who has for a number of years kept the boarding house No. 80 Columbia Heights, New York city, arose last Tuesday morning and partook of what she supposed was mineral water.  The bottle, however, contained carbolic acid, and Mrs. Thompson swallowed a considerable quantity before she discovered her mistake.  In terrible agony she ran to a drug store in the neighborhood.  Several physicians were summoned immediately but the unfortunate woman died within two hours.
 

Local Department

    The death of Mrs. George W. Cook, formerly of Stanton, is announced.  She died at her residence in Newark last week, and was buried at Stanton on Friday.

    A brakeman named Miller, on a freight train of the Central road, was killed at Bloomsbury last Wednesday.  He was on top of a car turning the brake when the chain broke and he fell between the cars to the ground and was cut clean in two.  He was a young man and lived in Jersey City.
 

A Terrible Accident
    Last Saturday morning a 15-year-old son of the late Whitfield D. Carhart, deceased, living near High Bridge, attempted to climb upon a moving coal train on the Central Railroad.  In so doing he slipped and fell upon the track, the train passing over his leg, mangling it in a horrible manner.  The leg was amputated, and an earnest effort made to save the lad's life, but it was of no avail.  On Sunday he died.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    On Monday morning Josiah Kirkenall, of Phillipsburg, was instantly killed, while crossing the track on his way to work as wiper at the Central Railroad Round-house.  He was an ex-soldier, and lost one leg some time ago in a railroad accident.  He belonged to the Pennsylvania Reserves, and leaves a wife and two grown children.

    The sudden and entirely unexpected death of Mr. James Wood, of Peapack, is announced.  His death resulted from an attack of palsy.

    Abram King, a resident of Martinsville, Somerset county, died suddenly near that place on Friday, 3rd inst.  He was alone at the time and it is supposed that apoplexy was the cause.  The deceased was about 50 years of age and was well-known.
 

Marriages

    July 8, by Rev. G. F. Love, Andrew B. Hummer to Maria L. Ruppell, both of Locktown.

    August 1, by Rev. E .W. Long, Daniel Fleming, of Fairmount, to Carrie Philhower, of Middle Valley.
 

Deaths

    Near Locktown, July 24, 1883, of consumption, John P. Dalrymple, aged 28 years.

    In Newark, August 7, 1883, Martha, wife of George W. Cook, and daughter of the late Oliver H. Ewing, aged 49 years.
 
 

August 21, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 1

    Jesse Town and his wife, of Stowe, Vt., with Mrs. Stockwell, of St. Albans, while driving last Thursday were thrown from their carriage.  Mrs. Town died of the injuries she received.  Mr. Town is not expected to live, and Mrs. Stockwell's injuries are very serious.

Calmly Viewing Death
    A strange account is given of the death of Dr. Frank L. Rea, assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, which occurred there on Friday last, from malignant facial carbuncle....
 

State Items

    William A. Stephens, of the Sharp House, at Lake Hopatcong, who was injured about two months ago by running a piece of glass in his foot, which resulted in blood poisoning, and who underwent three amputations; first on a toe; then of one-half of the foot from the instep, and lastly of the leg below the knee, died last week.
 

    Mrs. Mary Lynch died in Scranton last Friday at the age of 110.  She was born in this county in March, 1774, so says some of our exchanges, but we have been unable to find any person that ever knew such a person.  Her father, Jacob Bunsick, served in the Revolution, and her husband, to whom she was married in 1800, was a soldier in 1812.  Her parents were among the early settlers of New Jersey.  Mrs. Lynch and family moved to Pennsylvania in 1840.  Of her eight children, four are living, the youngest being about 74 years old. - Sussex Register.

    About midnight last Wednesday, Henry L. Young, general agent in Cincinnati of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, shot himself at his office, 113 Vine street.  He died at 3 o'clock on Thursday morning in the hospital.  He had been seen in an intoxicated condition just before the shooting.  A letter was found on his person, purporting to be from a cousin, threatening Young for improper relation with the writer's wife.

Suicide Of The Wife Of Senator Allison
    Mrs. A. B. Allison, wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Mississippi river at Dubuque, on Sunday night last.  She left home on Sunday afternoon, taking a "gossamer" under her arm, and her body was found Monday morning...  The unfortunate lady was the niece and adopted daughter of the late Senator Grimes; she had been ten years married but was childless...

    Probably the oldest married couple in this State are Peter Bogart and wife, of Downsville, Delaware county.  They are almost of an age to a day, being in their 96th year.  They were married nearly seventy-six years ago, and at the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of their marriage there were present descendants to the fifth generation.  A sister of Mr. Bogart lives with couple.  She is strong and hearty in her 79th year.  Mrs. Bogart is in excellent health, but her husband is physically feeble.  -  Albany Journal.

    A sad drowning accident occurred in the river near Herbertville, Monmouth county, on Tuesday morning last.  One person was drowned, and four other narrowly escaped drowning.  Mrs. John Barr, of Philadelphia, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Ellen Barr, her son, Willie Barr, aged 12, Miss Annie Little and Theodore Little, a boy aged 9, were out in a boat crabbing, near the bridge.  The boat capsized, precipitating the whole party, none of whom could swim, into the water.  Near by were Joseph and Schenk Henderson, setting some fish-poles.  They hastened to the rescue of the drowning people, who were safely brought to shore with the exception of Willie Barr.

    Moses James, who was working in a sawmill in Newberry county, S.C., met with a horrible death Wednesday.  While a log was being placed in position for sawing he jumped upon the carriage to ride.  His foot slipped and he fell upon the saw, which was going at full speed.  The saw struck him between the mouth and nose, and cut the top of his head off, scattering his brains in every direction.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. Frederick Miller, former resident of Somerville, died suddenly of apoplexy while sitting in a chair at his residence in Metuchin, on Tuesday.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 15, by Rev. C. H. Traver, Harry F. Ward to Margaret Warman, both of Lebanon township.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of his son, near Clinton, Aug. 13, 1883, John Carr, of Kingwood township, aged about 70 years.

    In Clinton, August 14, 1883, Aaron Dunham, aged 83 years, 7 months and 26 days.

    In Clinton, August 15, 1883, Miss Sybella Eichman, aged about 58 years.

    At Pleasant Run, August 15, 1883, Helena Johnson, wife of Holloway Cole, aged 35 years.

    In Frenchtown, August 15, 1883, Mrs. Anna Yost, in the 39th year of her age.
 
 

August 28, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 2

    Judge Jeremiah S. Black's death at the age of 73 years removes from us one of the most distinguished jurists and statesmen of the country.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Abraham Gardner, who resided on the Pinacle farm, east of Bloomsbury, for many years, and moved to Washington in April, was instantly killed, on Saturday, 18th inst., by being struck by an engine on the Morris & Essex Railroad.

    A daughter of Mr. Harvey Dean, of this place, aged about 16 years, died with dysentery on Thursday last.  She was a modest, pleasant-mannered young lady, and her death is generally lamented.

    Mrs. Thomas Gray, an aged lady, was buried in the Presbyterian grave-yard on Thursday last.  She was a former resident of this town, but some years past had been living with a son at Pennington.  Her husband, the late Thomas Gray, butcher, died some 15 years ago.  Mrs. Gray was a very fine woman.  Her age was 87 years.

    On Friday afternoon last while a man named Thomas Hornett was at work in the Twining Stone Quarry, at Prallsville, a large stone fell from its place while he was stooping in the act of fastening a chain around another stone which was to be taken out of the way, catching him about the middle, crushing his body in a terrible manner.  Our latest reports from Stockton on Saturday were to the effect that the physicians pronounced his injuries fatal.
 

A Sad Fatality
    As the noon train on the Flemington Railroad was nearing Barber's Station last Tuesday, engineer Cooley saw a man on the track walking toward the train.  He promptly blew the whistle as loud as the alarm could be sounded, and brakeman Schenk immediately put on the brake as tight as it was possible to get them.  The man paid no attention to the warning note of the whistle but kept on the track.  The train could not be stopped in time to avoid striking him and he was hurled to one side of the track.  As soon as the train could be brought to a halt engineer Cooley reversed his engine and ran back to where the man was lying, finding him in a unconscious condition and terribly injured.  He was put on the train and conveyed to the station, and Dr. Larison, Dr. Robbins and the Railroad Company's physician summoned.  The unfortunate mad proved to be Mr. Peter Fisher, a well-known and highly respected farmer living near Ringoes....  It is evident that his mind was slightly impaired.  Whether he deliberately walked upon the track for the purpose of committing suicide, or whether his mind had no controlling influence in the matter at all is known only to his Maker.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    A passenger fell off an excursion train on the Lehigh Valley road as it was passing through New Market on Wednesday night of last week.  He fell on a stone under the bridge where his body was found on Thursday morning.  He was missed from the train by his brother between Neshanic and Three Bridges, and the night was occupied in searching for him along the road, and his remains were found, as noticed above, the next morning.  He lived in Jeansville, Pa., and his name was Thomas Hean.

    Mr. Jas. Bennett, an aged man who lived alone, near Middlebush, was taken with a chill a few days ago.  Dr. Fisher of Bound Brook was called and administered treatment, and Bennett was supposed to be improving.  A few days afterward a neighbor called to see him and found him dead in bed.

    George N. Lear, steward of the Bucks County (Pa.) almshouse, died suddenly a few days ago.  He had been unwell for a few days but nothing serious was apprehended.
 

    Henry Gaughen, for many years a resident of Lambertville, died after a painful illness on Saturday last.  About one and a half years ago, Mr. Gaughen was affected with a large tumor under his right arm-pit.  He paid a visit to St. Michael's Hospital, at Newark, and had it removed with apparent success, but a few months later another large tumor made its appearance in the same place.  This was removed also at the same hospital, but it was only a question of a few months, after that time, that other tumors made their appearance and these were the final cause of Mr. G.'s death.

    Wyckoff C. Van Clees, aged 23, a farmer from near Freehold, was drowned on Friday at Como, the new resort south of Ocean Beach.

    John and Michael Fischer, of Newark, thought they had lots of time to drive across the track ahead of the locomotive.  John escaped with a few scratches.  Michael died.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 20, by G. C. Angle, Esq., Alfred Seals, of High Bridge, to Mary F. Fulper, of Bethlehem township.

    Aug. 18, by Rev. D. T. Koser, William B. Weaver, of Frenchtown, to Sadie T. Allen, of Frankford, Pa.

    Aug. 11, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, John Weber to Eva K. Bangert, both of Lambertville.

    Aug. 13, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Charles A. Mills, of Kingwood, to Mary E. Mills, of Bucks county, Pa.
 

Deaths

    At Sunnyside, Aug. 24, 1883, Lizzie, wife of Charles Haughawout, aged 35 years.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 21, 1883, Ely K. S., son of Joseph E. and Lizzie A. Bayard, aged 2 years and 10 months.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 14, 1883, Henry Gaughin, aged 57 years.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 18, 1883, Patrick A., son of Patrick and Sarah Reilly, aged 5 months and 4 days.

    In High Bridge township, Aug. 18, 1883, Matilda, widow of the late William Briggs, aged 70 years, 3 months and 2 days.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 13, 1883, Miss Matilda Burroughs, in the 71st year of her age.

    In Lambertville, Aug. 12, 1883, Rebecca A., wife of Henry B. Seese, aged about 40 years.

    At Lebanon, July 9, 1883, Cordelia, widow of James Mahaffey, aged 81 years, 7 months and 20 days.

    At the residence of her son, Oliver B. Gray, in Pennington, N.J., Aug. 20, 1883, Mary B. Gray, widow of the late Thomas Gray, in the 87th year of her age.
 
 

September 4, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 3

    One of the saddest affairs to occur in a long time is reported from Orange township, Finlay county, Ohio.  Miss Alice, the charming daughter of John Montgomery, Esq., was courted by the beaux of all that section, but was won by a bright, industrious young man named Will Swank, who had long been devoted to her.  Their engagement was known, and arrangements for the wedding were in progress when young Swank was suddenly taken ill.  The symptoms of that fatal malady, quick consumption, were early developed and his fate was sealed.  Miss Alice was just convalescent from an attack of measles and insisted on seeing her lover, as he continually talked of her when occasionally delirious and asked about her in rational intervals.  On her way home she was caught in a drenching rain, which resulted in pneumonia being developed.  The two young people now talked only of death, and repeatedly asked to be buried side by side.  The first of the week he breathed his last and the next day Miss Alice followed him.

Killed By A Playmate
    At 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, Walter S. Scribner, the 11-year-old son of Sylvester Scribner of Plainfield, was found on the banks of Stony Brook, near his father's residence, fatally wounded, evidently by the discharge of a gun.  He was still conscious when found, but so weak from the loss of blood as to be unable to tell who shot him or how it was done.  There was no gun or pistol near him.  He died at 8 o'clock without having spoken a word....

Eaten By Rats
    A Milwaukee dispatch says:  A terrible case of destitution was discovered her today by the police.  Last night Mrs. Sophia Holzel, aged thirty-seven years, died at her home, located in the rear of No. 580 Fourth street.  The neighbors notified the authorities this morning.  Officer Frellson, of the Associated Charities, visited the premises, a filthy hovel, and witnessed a sickening spectacle.  The dead woman lay partially nude, and six large rats were devouring the body.  The vermin had eaten away one side of her face and both eyes.  Two little children of the dead woman were huddled in the same room nearly starved.  The husband and father was found laying in front of the place grossly intoxicated.  Frellson says there is no doubt that Mrs. Holzel starved to death.

    Sarah Kavanaugh, aged twenty, daughter of Julia Kavanaugh, died at Long Branch last Monday under horrible circumstances.  Recently the notorious Kavanaugh house was entered by the police and the mother and daughter were sentenced to imprisonment.  Sarah Kavanaugh, however, escaped arrest, and entered on a life of debauchery which ended in her being prostrated with sickness on Wednesday last.  She lay on a palette of straw in one of the rooms of the house until she died entirely alone.  The girl's death must have been caused as much by starvation as by anything else.

    A dispatch from Macon, Mo., says: George Stewart shot and killed Walter Tracy.  The murder grew out of a refusal on Tracy's part to live with Stewart's sister, whom Stewart compelled Tracy to marry a few weeks ago.
 

Marriages

    At Flemington, August 30th, 1883, by Rev. J. C. Allen, of First Baptist Church, Elizabeth, John Collyer to Ella M. Potts, both of Elizabeth, N.J.

    Sept. 1, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, James W. Fisher, of Ringoes, to Emma H. Hassel, of Flemington.

    Aug. 11, by Rev. William F. Sheppard, John Bray to Phoebe A. Johnson, all of Lumberville, Pa.

    Aug. 21, by Rev. I. M. Patterson, Lewis Hanson to Annie Goll, both of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Stockton, Aug. 25, 1883, Thomas Hornett, of Lambertville, aged 57 years.
 
 

September 11, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 4

State Items

    Joseph Loveland, of Salem, aged 77 years, and Miss Addie Johnson, of Bridgeton, aged 47 were married on Thursday.
 

    A terrible drowning accident occurred last Tuesday afternoon on the Genessee River, near the rapids, three miles from Rochester, N.Y., whereby three girls lost their lives.  The names of the unfortunate ones are Annie Schuey, of John street; her cousin, Libby Simmons, and Lulu Havlin, of Bartlett street.  The three girls, who are about seventeen years old, hired a boat at two o'clock for a row on the river.  At 3:30 they were seen to change seats and in doing so capsized the boat.

    Carrie Waldmayer and Amelia Weaver, of Philadelphia, aged respectively nineteen and twenty-one years, who were visiting Sebastian Zimmerman, in New Brunswick, were drowned in the Raritan river last Wednesday night.  They were strolling along the beach, when Miss Waldmayer slipped from the rocks and fell into the water.  Miss Weaver endeavored to rescue her companion but both were drowned.

    M. S. Teller, druggist at Sandy Hill, N.J., shot himself in the head last Wednesday night at his home.  There are no hopes of his recovery.  The pistol used by Teller is a thirty-two calibre weapon, and is the same one used by his father who committed suicide over a year ago.

    At Hazelhurst, Miss., Wednesday, Charles Hart, 17 years of age, shot and fatally wounded A. W. Burnett, a prominent lawyer.

    The wife and young daughter of John Opela, a farmer near Alton, Ill., were missed on Tuesday last.  After considerable search their bodies were found in a small shed a few rods from the house, firmly tied together by their necks with a rope.  There is nothing to show whether they were killed by a tramp or the deed was done by the mother.

    Edward Stabler died at Sandy Springs, Montgomery county, Md., on Tuesday night, in the same house in which he was born, in September 1794.  He was appointed postmaster in 1830 and held the office up to the time of his death.
 

Marriages

    Aug. 29, by Rev. W. J. Henderson, Marshall F. Apgar, of High Bridge, to Katie Hoffman, of White House.

    Aug. 2, by Rev. J. L. Hayes, Wm. H. Suydam, of Readington, to Sallie Blackburn, of Clinton.

    Sept. 2, by the same, Allen J. Queen to Cora J. Brown, all of Glen Gardner.

    Aug. 22, by Rev. G. F. Love, G. W. A. Lyons to M. A. Chamberlain, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of her son, Mr. Israel B. Higgins, near Plainville, Somerset county, August 20, 1883, Anna Higgins, in the 97th year of her age.

    In Flemington, Aug. 23, 1883, Susan B., daughter of Harvey and Rebecca A. Dean, aged 15 years, 5 months and 9 days.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 2, 1883, Phineas T. Ely, aged 25 years.

    In Clinton, Aug. 31, 1883, Willis Ader, aged 20 years.

    In Clinton, Sept. 5, 1883, Charlie Watson, son of Dr. G. W. and Sarah J. Everett, aged 5 years and 9 months.

    In West Amwell township, Sept. 2, 1883, Catharine Gray, aged 58 years.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Chauncy Ellis, an old former resident of Lambertville, was found dead in his bed in Trenton, on last Friday night.

    Mr. Elwood Kay, a well-known former resident of Lambertville, died in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday afternoon, 2d inst., aged 62 years.  He was taken sick on the Wednesday previous with congestion of the brain.

    An old and well-known resident of this place, Mr. George Bloomer, was buried on Wednesday last, he having died on Sunday from enlargement of the liver.  Deceased was a native of Ireland.
 

2360 Smiths
    The blast of horns and the roll of drums floated on Wednesday over the ancient New Jersey homestead of Peter Zachariah Smith, which is six miles from any railroad station, and on the outskirts of the primitive village of Peapack, which boasts a post-office and a stage coach resembling a Chinese junk....  The descendants of John Smith, of Holland, who settled in New Jersey in 1743, had met to celebrate him and the prosperity of his numerous posterity....
 

Neighborhood Notes

    James Smith, a resident of the stone quarry, Oxford township, Warren county, died quite suddenly, a few evenings since.  He was taken with fits, after having been out fishing.  Jim was well-known in Belvidere, he having only removed from there a few months ago.

    Miss Mary Colby, a writer of poems, sketches and stories for the weekly papers, died on Monday in Phillipsburg, aged about 35 years.  she had for years been taking morphine for a spinal trouble, and recently she began to drink to excess.  She staggered into a store on Monday and died.  She had been in destitute circumstances for some time, and was about to be admitted to the almshouse.

    Mrs. Edward Gebhardt died suddenly at her residence in Phillipsburg, on Friday evening.  She was about thirty-five years of age, and had been married some nineteen years.  Nine children with her husband survive her.  The cause of her death was heart disease.
 
 

September 18, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 5

    Thomas Malone, a five-year-old boy, at Jersey City, was playing about a bonfire Tuesday night near his home.  After the fire had dwindled down to a bed of coals boys began to jump over it.  Young Malone tripped and fell into the fire.  He was burned in a terrible manner about the legs and abdomen.  He died a few hours later after suffering the most intense agony.  The mother, who lies in a critical condition, is as yet ignorant of her little boy's sad fate.

    William Marwood, who has been the public hangman in England since C..craft resigned in 1874, died on Tuesday morning of last week.  He was about sixty years of age.

    Patrick Brennan, of Newburg, became a father for the twenty-third time on Sunday, when a fourteen pound boy was born unto him.  Mr. Brennan, who is an Irishman by birth, is 65 or 66 years old.  He has been twice married, 9 of his children being by his first wife and 14 by the present Mrs. Brennan.

    Hugh J. Hastings, the owner of the New York Commerical Advertiser, died last Wednesday night at his summer home near Long Branch.  For nearly forty years Mr. Hastings has been a conspicious figure in New York newspaper and politics.  Born in Ireland sixty-three years ago, he acquired a fortune by hard work.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. John Gulick, a most respected citizen of Somerville, died very suddenly at about 7 o'clock Friday morning, of week before last, near the railroad crossing, opposite the residence of Mr. F. Losier, in East Somerville.  He was 80 years of age.
 

Marriages

    At Raritan, Sept. 11, by Rev. T. E. Vassar, D. D., Louis O. Reger to Marietta, daughter of Richard Opie, and granddaughter of Christopher Dilts, both of Raritan.

    Sept. 1, by Rev. Addis Albro, Samuel Willson, Jr., of Quakertown, to Lucetta Stout, of Everittstown.

    Sept. 8, by Rev. G. S. Mott, D. D., Theodore A. Mount to Mary A., daughter of John H. Buchanan, both of Flemington.

    June 9, by Rev. J. W. Henderson, Aaron T. Apgar to Minnie Strouble, both of High Bridge.
 

Deaths

    In Milford, Aug. 23, 1883, of consumption, Joseph S., son of Mrs. Amy I. Smith, in the 16th year of his age.

    At the residence of his son, in Lambertville, Sept. 11, 1883, Ira Johnson, aged 78 years, 5 months and 5 days.

    In Clinton, Sept. 9, 1883, George Rodenbough, aged 81 years, 1 month and 3 days.

    In Clinton, Sept. 8, 1883, Sarah Louisa Rodenbough, aged 35 years, 10 months and 8 days.
 
 

September 25, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 6

    A terrible and mysterious tragedy is reported from Pottsville, Pa.  William Runyan and his wife were found dead in bed last Friday morning at their home in Millville, Columbia county, four miles from Bloomsburg, with their throats cut from ear to ear.  William Runyan, aged twenty-four, was a prominent citizen and the owner of one of the finest farms in that valley, upon which he built a residence on the occasion of his marriage, which took place last February...

    Daniel Fields, who died at Oak Grove, Del., on Sunday night, was a noted Democrat in Maryland.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 13, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Phineas K. McCatharn, of Cokesbury, to Charlotte Apgar, of High Bridge.

    Sept. 8, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., J. Ellis Robinson, of Milford, to Leah G. Moore, of Lambertville.

    Sept. 8, by Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Ludris E. Brady, of Hopewell, to Lucy Danbury, of Lambertville.

    Sept. 22, at the Presbyterian parsonage, Flemington, Lewis K. Smith to Margaret J., daughter of Samuel B. Soden, both of Harlingen, Somerset Co.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Sept. 13, 1883, Charles S. Parker, in the 22d year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 7, 1883, Anna Horan, aged 57 years.

    At Locktown, Aug. 26, 1883, of consumption, Laura, wife of Hiram Hockenbury, aged 20 years.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 17, 1883, James D. Stryker, in the 84th year of his age.

    In Frenchtown, Sept. 12, 1883, Samuel, son of John Yost, aged 28 days.

    Near High Bridge, Sept. 14, 1883, Mrs. Nahum Apgar, aged 16 years, 6 months and 7 days.

    Near Pleasant Run, Sept. 12, 1883, George Smith, aged 70 years.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Whitfield Young, of New Hampton, died on the 14th inst., from injuries received while plowing.  The plow jumped out of the furrow and struck him in the side.  He leaves a wife and two children.

    David Chamberlain, an old resident of Hunterdon county, was buried at the Methodist cemetery in Asbury last week.  Mr. Chamberlain held many public offices, in his time, and was always held in high esteem by those who knew him.  He died at the residence of his daughter, at Montclair, Essex county.

    James D. Stryker, an aged and well known citizen of Lambertville, died at his residence there on Monday last.  Mr. Stryker was born near Pittstown, in this county, in the year 1800.  He went to Lambertville in April 1826, and engaged in the business of a general country store with his brother, the late Samuel D. Stryker, which business they continued until April 1848, when they dissolved partnership and retired.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Thomas Bulger, a brakeman on a gravel train, met with a distressing accident about 7 o'clock Thursday morning, by which he has lost his life.  He was on his train in the gravel pit, south of Somerville, when he slippped and fell under a car.  The wheels passed over his left leg just below the hip, and mangled it.  He was also bruised internally.  He died about noon, leaving a widow and four children.
 

Quakertown

    The golden wedding of ex-Assemblyman Theodore Probasco, was celebrated on Friday the 14th, by a large number of relatives and friends.
 

State Items

    Deborah Embly died near Allentown last week, at the age of 108 years.  Her great age is authenticated by records in the Miller family, and she was without doubt the oldest person living in the county, if not the State.  She was of mixed African and Indian blood.

    George H. Bangs, General Superintendent of Pinkerton's Detective Agencies, died on Thursday morning at his home in Roselle.  His death was sudden and altogether unexpected, and is supposed to have been caused by heart disease.  He was forty-nine years of age, and leaves a wife and two children.
 

    On Saturday night, Mrs. Sigmund Fisher, of South Easton, endeavored to light a fire with coal oil.  While so doing the oil ignited and the can exploded, firing Mrs. Fisher's clothing.  She ran into the yard screaming for aid, and was assisted by neighbors, but the flames were not extinguished until her flesh was burned in a most horrible manner, and she was a mass of bruises from head to foot.  She died in a few hours and leaves a husband and five children, the eldest being aged 8 years.
 
 

October 2, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 7

    Samuel Johnson, 20 years old, of Rocky Mount, N.C., on Sunday night fatally shot Julia Katharige, his sweetheart.  The girl died Monday afternoon.  The murderer became enraged, upon calling on the girl Sunday night, to find a rival with her.  After the latter's departure, Johnson upbraided her for receiving the visitor's attention.  She gave him to understand she was free to accept as many suitors as she saw fit.  The girl's independence enraged Johnson, and he pulled out a revolver and shot her through the chest.

    A tragedy occurred a few miles from Grafton, W. Va., last Monday ngiht which has cast a gloom over the entire community.  About 9 o'clock Mr. B. G. Mouniz, a prominent citizen of West Grafton, was startled by hearing a noise in the front yard, and, having been somewhat annoyed of late by petty thieving, he grasped a revolver and rushed out.  On reaching the door he noticed the dim outline of a man's form in the yard, and, raising his pistol, he fired.  The man dropped without a groan.  The report drew the members of the family to the scene, and on approaching the prostrate body, Mr. Mouniz was horrified to find that he had shot his own son.  The ball had entered the left eye.

    At Waterbury, Conn., last Wednesday night, John Calvin and wife were arrested for drunkeness.  The husband in desperation cut his throat with a razor, dying from the effects of the wound.  His wife was sent to jail for sixty days.
 

Local Department

    Miss Sallie Wilson, of Clinton vicinity, has just passed her 101st birthday.

    Mr. John Hilliard, a highly respected farmer living near Croton, fell out of his hay mow last Saturday evening, striking his head with such force as to cause his death on Sunday morning.  He had gone to the mow for the purpose of throwing down some hay and fell through the poles.  He was aged about 55 years.

    Last Friday morning, about 10 o'clock, Elizabeth Dean, aged about 85 years, who resided in part of the dwelling house of Jos. D. Larason, in Kingwood township, near Frenchtown, was found dead.  She had made a cord out of a corset string and tied it to a bed post and put it around her neck, where her body was found as above stated.  She was never married.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Cornelius Horan, 15 years of age, left his home at Raritan, Somerset county, about three week ago, since which time his parents have no information concerning him.

    John M. Young, a brakeman on the Central Railroad, was caught between the bumpers of two cars which he was about to couple, on Saturday, at Phillipsburg.  His left thigh was so badly mangled as to render amputation necessary; but the shock was so great that he died early Saturday evening.
 

    A man named David Shurts, aged about 70 years, committed suicide by hanging on Thursday evening last.  About a week ago he came to Rowland's Mills to live with his son, John Shurts.  On Thursday John and his wife attended the Fair, and upon their return were horrified to find the body of the father suspended from a rafter in the barn.
 

State Items

    John Simons, a veteran of the war of 1812 and of the Mexican war, died near Red Lion, Burlington, county, on Friday, aged 94 years and 10 months.

    On Monday morning a young child of William Johnson, residing near Three Tons or Hedding, Burlington county, fell into a tub of water and was drowned.
 

    Thomas Bear, of Jefferson county, Pa., went out hunting.  Not returning home a search was made for him.  His headless body was found in the woods.  His head and portions of his breast and shoulders were found in the brush twenty-five feet away from the body.  A short distance beyond where the body lay a large had been felled.  The trunk was chopped only half in two, and was split up for several feet.  It is supposed that Bear was chopping down the tree to secure a racoon which he had treed, when the trunk split in falling and one-half of it flying up struck him in the breast with such violence as to tear his head and shoulders from his body and hurl them to the spot where they were found.

    At Fairfield, Wm. Bates, aged fifteen, on Friday afternoon, fatally shot a companion, Ward Smith, with a double-barrelled shot gun.  The boys were palying with the gun in the kitchen of the house of W. D. Baum, the employer of Bates....  The victim lived about about an hour.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 26, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Claudius R. P. Abbott, of White House Station, to M. Ella Hunt, of Lebanon.

    Sept. 27, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., in Flemington, E. Irvin Smith, Esq. to Marie L. Cooper, daughter of General Nathan A. Cooper, both of Chester.

    Sept. 27, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., George M. Holcombe, Jr., to Sallie Case, both of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    At Mechanicsville, Sept. 27, 1883, Dorothy, wife of John P. VanSyckel, aged 50 years.
 
 

October 9, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 8

State Items

    Miss Hannah Stokes, who died at Moorestown, Burlington county, last week at the age of 82 years, was the first person vaccinated in this State, the operation being performed by her father, Dr. Joseph Stokes, who placed her in bed with a small pox patient to show the people his faith in vaccination.

    William Squires, aged 27, a Paterson machinist, was walking alongside the track of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad on Sunday morning, accompanied by his dog.  The dog got on the track, and was in danger of being run over, and in attempt to save the animal he was struck by an express train and thrown a considerable distance; the dog being being struck and killed.  Squires was removed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died.  The deceased man leaves a wife, to whom he was recently married.

    Michael Connell, aged 47 years, of Chatham, Morris county, while driving through Market street, Newark, Monday morning, with a truck upon which was loaded a piece of heavy paper-making machinery, by a sudden jolt was thrown from his seat.  By some means he was entangled in the lines and dragged along for fifteen or twenty feet in front of the wheel, and it passed directly over his body at the pit of his stomach.  He died in St. Michael's Hospital in a few minutes after being received.
 

    James Noxen, of Randolph, N.Y., a young unmarried man, is lying at death's door with two bullets in his head.  He cannot recover.  On Saturday night, Noxen, in company with two friends, called at the house of Minnie Helms and were died admission, as they were intoxicated.  Minnie Helms slammed the door in their faces and ran to her room for a revolver.  The men began to kick on the door and it suddenly gave in with a crash.  Noxen was the first to enter.  Minnie Helms fired two shots, both of which lodged in Noxen's head.
 

Marriages

    Sept. 29, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Joseph H. Servis, of Delaware township, to Ella H. Slack, of Kingwood township.

    Sept. 29, by Rev. T. S. Griffith, Enoch H. Gary, of Raritan township, to Ella H. Sipler, of Franklin township.

    Oct. 3, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, John Wilson to Alice C. Wood.

    Sept. 29, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Henry H. Black to Alice Hammerstone, both of Nockamixon, Bucks county, Pa.

    Sept. 22, by Rev. Gilbert Lane, Henry S. Van Doren, of Three Bridges, to Sarah E. Suydam, of New Germantown.

    Sept. 26, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Peter C. Brown to Leane Castner, both of New Hampton.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Oct. 1, 1883, Johanna Foley, aged 28 years.

    In Bloomsbury, Sept. 29, 1883, Mrs. Mary Staats, widow of the late John Staats, in the 66th year of her age.
 

To Whom It May Concern
    Notice is hereby given that my wife, Annie E. Rea, had left my bed and board against my will and I will not pay any debts which she may contact in my name so long as she continues to absent herself from my home.   Runkle Rea, Oct. 9, 1883, Ringoes, N.J.
 

    Last Wednesday afternoon, about 4:30 o'clock, Mr. Josiah N. Cole, of Pleasant Run, in passing around a barrack on his farm was greatly shocked to see a human body suspended from one of the rafters by a rope.  The body proved to be that of George Allegar, a man aged about 60 years, who had worked for Mr. Cole for the past 8 years.  For a year past Mr. Allegar had been in a melancholy state of mind, and at last he closed a life of misery by hanging himself.  He was buried on Saturday by Undertaker Theo. Van Fleet.  Deceased was a sober, industrious man.

    Miss Johanna Foley, a young lady of Lambertville, residing on Swan street, died very suddenly on Monday last.  She had an attack of hemorrhages of the lungs and died before the physician could arrive.
 
 

October 16, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 9

    William Sheffield, who was one of the early pioneers of the Maumee Valley, Ohio, killed himself on Wednesday night.  He has been senior partner for a number of years in the banking house of Sheffield & Horton, at Napoleon, Ohio.  Sheffield left the bank at about 4 o'clock Wednesday evening, apparently in his usual spirits, and went home.  No one was in the house except the servant girl.  Sheffield entered his dining room, removed his coat, and took his revolver out of a bureau drawer.  He then unbuttoned his vest and laid down on the lounge; placing the revolver over his heart he fired, and immediately expired.  HIs wife and daughter, who had been out of town, heard the report of the pistol as they entered the yard.  They supposed it came from a neighbor's premises, but upon entering the house found the dining room filled with smoke and the lifeless form of Mr. Sheffield.  There is no known case for the suicide.
 

    A Lebanon, Ohio, despatch says:  While Frank Hopping, a four-year-old boy, was playing with his dog on the public highway today, he was attacked by a drove of thirty hogs and literally eaten alive.  His cries brought assistance and the brutes were driven away.  The child's clothing was entirely torn from his body.  Part of the scalp was torn away and one of the animal's tusks entered his cheek and broke out two back teeth.  The sufferer died in great agony an hour after being rescued.

    John Chisholm was put upon trial last week before Judge Depue in the Essex County Court, at Newark, for the murder of his wife.  Chisholm is a young man of twenty-six.  He had been reckless and careless and had not lived with his wife for some time previous to her death.  On the afternoon of Saturday, June 23, he went to her mother's house, where she was stopping, found her sewing at a window, and, referring to a warrant that he been issued for his arrest, said: "You want to have me arrested again, do you?  I'll fix you."  With these words he drew a pistol and shot her dead...
 

Marriages

    Oct. 11, by Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, Willis Risler, of Raven Rock, to Jennie M., daughter of William Pettit, of Centre Bridge, Pa.

    Oct. 11, by Rev. George Young, Orvill C. Merrell, of Alexandria, to Emma I., daughter of John Hoff, Esq., of Kingwood.

    Oct. 10, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, William C. Hackett, of Mt. Pleasant, to Amy C. Stout, of Everittstown.

    Oct. 4, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Charles F. Hoff to Annie King, both of Kingwood township.

    Oct. 5, by Rev. R. Hyde, George W. Shepherd to Nancy Hann, both of Croton.

    Oct. 6, by Rev. Jas. Walden, Oscar Barcroft, of Kingwood, to Mrs. S. Stahler, of Frenchtown.

    Oct. 10, by Rev. H. M. Voorhees, Isaiah Fisher, of Fairmount, to Annie Diltz, of German Valley.

    Oct. 4, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Willet Van Horn, of Philadelphia, to Beulah Williamson, of Lambertville.

    In Lamberville, Sept. 29, by Rev. W. M. Mick, George Tomlinson to Rose Anna Horton.
 

Deaths

    At Stanton, Oct. 11th, 1883, Mary Ann Smith, aged 82 years.

    At Readington, Oct. 10, 1883, John C. Lane, aged about 60 years.

    In Lambertville, Oct. 4, 1883, of scarlet fever and diphtheria, Amy Mildred, eldest daughter of Harry A. and Amy C. Calhoun, aged 5 years, 4 months and 24 days.

    In Lambertville, Sept. 30, 1883, Edwin A., only son of John D. and Almena Margerum, aged 7 years and 4 months.

    In Lambertville, Oct. 4, 1883, Daniel Nertney, aged 70 years.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Martha Meyers, the aged mother of Mr. Henry Meyers, of Kingwood township, while visiting at the house of a Mrs. Burns, in Pennsylvania, was taken sick and died on the 3rd inst.
 
 

October 23, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 10

Two Notorious Men Killed - New York, Oct. 16
    The saloon kept by the notorious "Shang" Draper was the scene of a bloody affray this morning that resulted in the killing of two of the worst criminals in the city, John Irving, of Patchen avenue burglary notoriety, and "Jack" Walsh, alias John the "Mick," one of the accomplices in the robbery of Jacob Ruffert's bank messenger two years ago.  Each shot the other dead at the same moment....

    David H. Risbey, aged twenty-five years, killed himself on Friday in New York by taking morphine.  He had been bad, and five years ago he became notorious.  He was in the milk business and became enamored of Miss Jessie Hunt, a young woman who lived in Harlem.  He compelled her to go with him to a minister by threatening to cut her throat, and they were married.  She never lived with him, however, and about two years later she secured a divorce...

    A Grand Junction, Col., despatch says: A year ago the wife of H. A. Herrick, a well-to-do ranchman of this county, left Herrick afterwards obtained a divorce, and married Margaret Thompson.  The first Mrs. Herrick returned a short time ago, and, meeting Herrick and his wife, shot and instantly killed the woman.  The murderess was admitted to bail, and began proceedings to recover some of Herrick's property.  Last Monday afternoon, while the sheriff and Mrs. Herrick were at the ranch looking up cattle, Herrick shot and killed Mrs. Herrick and then gave himself up to the sheriff.
 

Marriages

    Oct. 17, by Rev. H. M. Voorhees, George Swackhamer to Mamie Stryker, both of White House Station.

    Oct. 16, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, Barton Huffman, of Reaville, to Rebecca Reed, of Wertsville.

    Sept. 26, by Rev. John Scarlet, George A. Biehl, of Unionville, to Sarah A. Nash, of Montgomery.

    Oct. 10, by Rev. W. J. Purrington, assisted by Rev. C. S. Conkling, George M. Evans, of Roanoke, Va., to Mary Frances, daughter of Hon. John Kugler, of Kingwood.

    Oct. 17, by Rev. G. S. Mott, D. D., Lawrence S. Mott, of Trenton, to Mary B. Stitt, of New York.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, Oct. 16, 1883, Mrs. Ann Moore, wife of Reading Moore, in the 71st year of her age.

    In Delaware township, Sept. 29, 1883, George Romine, infant son of John M. and Emeline Wilson, aged 8 months.

    In Kingwood township, Oct. 6, 1883, Henry C. Demott, aged 39 years, 11 months and 12 days.

    In Clinton, Oct. 16, 1883, H. Louise, daughter of George B. and Sarah Blasher, aged 7 years, 4 months and 23 days.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Reading Moore, whose serious illness was noted in our last week's issue, died on Tuesday afternoon, without having recovered consciousness after she was stricken with paralysis.

    We are pained to announce the death of Mrs. Lillie Potts, the young wife of Mr. William Potts, of this place, which occurred on Tuesday evening last.  Deceased had been in feeble health for two or three years past.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Somerset county mourns the death of the young wife of Sheriff Lewis A. Thompson.  Her maiden name was Sarah M. Dunham, and she was a native of Pottersville.  Her death was caused by a tumor of the chest.  Her age was only 35 years.

    Mamie Gordon, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a colored barber at Trenton, was reprimanded by her school teacher a few days ago for passing an obscene ballad among the scholars.  The teacher also threatened to notify her parents of her misconduct.  This worried the girl, and she told her brother she would kill herself.  She left the house last Friday evening and her parents searched for her all night without success.  The next morning her body was found in the river at the foot of Fair street.  She undoubtedly committed suicide.

    An item which we glean from the New York City papers of Wednesday is of interest to Mrs. Huldah Young, widow of Jacob Young, late of Harmony.  Her father, Dr. William Miller, who lived near New York City, died in 1879, leaving a widow, his second wife, and four children by his first wife, one of which is Mrs. Young.  Shortly after his second marriage he adopted Ella May Miller, and at his death left his entire property to his widow.  The widow died in 1880, leaving her entire property to the adopted daughter, who died in 1882.  Shortly after the death of Mrs. Miller, proceedings were instituted before the Queens County Surrogate by the children of the first wife to obtain the estate, and Tuesday it was equally divided among them.  We have no knowledge of the amount of the estate, but much or little it will be acceptable to Mrs. Young, who has had quite a vexatious life since the death of her husband, who, as our readers will remember, was foully murdered at his home one night a few years ago, which deed has ever since been shrouded in mystery.  Mrs. Young now lives at Belvidere. - Warren Democrat.
 

Bloomsbury Items

    Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Etta, daughter of Dr. J. H. Lindaberry, to Mr. Chester Smith, on Wednesday, Nov. 7th, at 2 o'clock, in the Presbyterian Church.
 

Changewater and Vicinity

    Mr. Peter Castner, Sen., was 75 years of age last Thursday, and to celebrate this event his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren assembled at his house.  As many of the descendants are living west they were not all out.  Mr. Castner has 13 children (3 dead), 55 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren, or about 100 in all.
 

State Items

    An unknown Frenchman and a boy named William King, who were employed on Bertrand's Island, at Lake Hopatcong, were fishing on the lake on Saturday, when their boat filled with water and capsized.  They climbed on the boat, and after waiting awhile for assistance, determined to swim ashore.  They both plunged in, and were seen no more alive.  The water was not more than five feet deep where they were drowned.

    William Nelson, an old man of sixty years, who was brutally assaulted and robbed last Sunday night, while returning from church at Branchville, near Long Branch, has since died.
 
 

October 30, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 11

    Little Silver a few miles from Red Bank, was on Sunday the scene of one of the strangest weddings on record.  The keeper of Port Au Peck drawbridge, near Pleasure bay, is William Berlin, who, although 65 years of age, had already lad three blushing brides to the altar and survived them all.  Of late he had been paying court to a Mrs. Lane, a comely widow of middle age residing at Oceanport.  As the day approached which was set for William's fourth entanglement the bridge keeper found he could not obtain a substitute to attend the duties of bridge-tender while the ceremony was performed.  A meeting was arranged to be held on the Port Au Peck drawbridge on Sunday evening.  A clergyman was procured from Long Branch, and during the intervals that Mr. Berlin was not occupied in opening and closing the draw to permit vessels on the Shrewsbury to pass through, the solemn words were spoken that made Drawbridge Keeper Berlin and Mrs. Lane one.  An impromptu lunch was afterward served on the bridge.  -  Ocean County (N.J.) Democrat.
 

State Items

    William A. Clymer, aged 16 years, of Bound Brook, was killed, and David Kutzler and James Knox were badly injured, on Saturday, by the bursting of a pulley-wheel at the Drinkhouse machine shops, at Phillipsburg, Warren county.

    John Schenois, a young German, unmarried, living with his widowed mother, whose only support he was at Echo Lake, in the upper part of Passaic county, was loading his gun on Sunday afternoon in his room.  In leaning over his bureau to get his powder flask to fill the second barrel, the hammer caught on a drawer and the gun was discharged, blowing the top of the young man's head completely off.

    Mrs. William Post, wife of a carpenter living at Passaic City, left home Monday afternoon for a brief absence, and locked in her two children, a boy of 4 and a girl of 6 years.  About 2:30 o'clock the house was discovered to be on fire.  The firemen were summoned, who soon extinguished the flames; but on entering the building they found the little boy dead and the girl so badly burned that she is not expected to live.  It is supposed the children were playing with matches and set fire to the bed.
 

Marriages

    Oct. 27, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, William B. Bowne, of Sandy Ridge, to Belle M. Potts, of Quakertown.

    Oct. 24, by Geo. S. Mott., D. D., William G. Jones to Mrs. Mary Ramsey, both of Flemington.

    Oct. 25, by the same, William B. Price to Lillie Warman, both of Flemington.

    Oct. 20, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, David L. Alpaugh to Laura M. Apgar, both of Cokesbury.

    Oct. 20, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Joseph G. Sutton, of Tewksbury township, to Amy H. Anderson, of Clinton township.

    By Rev. Addis Albro, Forman H. Potts, of Quakertown, to Sarah Isabella Rittenhouse, of Everittstown.

    Oct. 17, by Rev. G. Read, Arthur Whiteley, of New Hope, Pa., to Lizzie Sebold, of Lambertville.

    Oct. 16, by Rev. George W. Tomson, John A. Hulsizer, of Bloomsbury, to Lizzie Cline, of Asbury.

    Oct. 13, by Rev. H. M. Voorhees, Talmadge Clawson, of Hackettstown, to Mrs. Lizzie Lutes, of Fairmount.

    Oct. 24, by Rev. George E. Horr, William F. Skillman, of Three Bridges, to Maggie V., daughter of Jonathan Higgins, of South Branch.
 

Deaths

    At Locktown, Oct. 18, 1883, Susan, wife of John Closson, aged 73 years, 2 months and 17 days.

    In Flemington, Oct. 16, 1883, Lillie B., wife of William Potts, aged 26 years, 9 months and 25 days.

    In West Amwell township, Oct. 6, 1883, Frederick Sailor, aged 85 years.
 

Local Department

    Josiah George, a merchant residing on the Pennsylvania side of the bridge over the river from Milford, died suddenly on Monday of last week.

    Mrs. Jacob Schlapfer, of this place, died very unexpectedly on Thursday morning last from neuralgia around the heart.  She the mother of a large family of children who will greatly miss her.

    On Wednesday last, at Lambertville, Miss Emma Coryell, daughter of Martin Coryell, was married to Salvanius Ayres, Jr., a banker of Leadville, Colorado.  The ceremonies were held in the Presbyterian Church and were very imposing.  There were six bridesmaids and six groomsmen, besides two little lady attendants and the ushers.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Spencer Updike, of Mount Rose, Mercer county, hung himself last Saturday afternoon, in the upper story of his wheelwright shop.  Various reasons are surmised as to why he committed the rash act but the most reasonable on is that he was financially embarrassed.

    At Roycefield, Somerset county, on Sunday, Henry H. Garretson, who had been in his usual good health, had just finished his breakfast and moved back from the table, and was about to take a chew of tobacco, remarking that it was about time to be getting ready for church, when suddenly he fell back in his chair and died without a struggle.  Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

    A grandchild of Joakin Gulick, of Mechanicsville, whose parents reside in Paterson, was run over by the cars at that place on Saturday of week before last, and had its legs both cut off.  It died soon after.  Its body was brought to Readington for interment.  The child was aged about 7 years.

    Mrs. George Beam, a widow living near Califon, was run over and killed by the 10 o'clock freight train on Wednesday of week before last.  She was walking on the track in company of her daughter, and, after the first section of the train had passed, she stepped in front of the other section, and thus met her death.  She leaves several children to mourn her loss.
 

Three Bridges

    Mrs. John Rowland, Esq., of Neshanic and Miss Rebecca Mattison, of this place, were united in the bonds of matrimony last Wednesday evening by Rev. E. Birdsell.
 

Clinton

    A little daughter of George Blasher died of a tumor last week.  Aged about 3 years.
 
 

November 6, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 12

    Kiefert Stiefel's tannery, in the upper part of Allegheny City, Pa., was the scene of a terrible affair last Tuesday morning, two men sacrificing their lives in an unsuccessful attempt to save that of a fellow workman.  The firm have been digging a well to be used as a vat, and on Tuesday morning, C. Dickson, an employee went down to measure the depth of the water, when he was overcome by foul air.  Ferdinand Schrader and Charles Shultz, who were working near by, heard his cries, and Schrader descended into the well to assist him, but no sooner reached bottom than the fatal choke-damp rendered him insensible.  Schultz then followed, but was also overcome.  Ropes were then procured and fastened around the bodies.  Solomon Bamberger and Rhinehart Remson were lowered into the death trap.  With difficulty they tied the insensible men to ropes and all were hauled up.  Dickson, Schrader and Schultz were dead, and Bamberger and Remson were unconscious, and with restoratives were revived and able to go home.  Dickson was a single man, and the other two were married.
 

State Items

    Whitfield Bowlby, of Washington, got up about two o'clock on Thursday morning, and taking his gun, told his wife that he was going to shoot a dog whose howling prevented him from sleeping.  Going to the door, he placed the gun to the side of his head and pulled the trigger.  His head was blown almost entirely from his shoulders.  Bowlby was a confirmed drunkard and had just been on a four-weeks' spree.  It is expected that he was insane from the effects of liquor.
 

    Randolph Haines was lodged in Woodbury jail on Wednesday, upon a charge of having killed his wife in a quarrel over a game of croquet...

    Daring Miller, age thirty-one, of Gouglersville, Pa., went gunning last Friday and did not return.  Search was made for him the next morning, and he was found dead from a gunshot in the abdomen in the woods a mile from his home.  His gun was found 300 yards from the body, and how he received the shot remains a mystery.

    A Waupun, Wis., dispatch says:  S. J. Hudson, of Belvidere, Ill., who came here recently with two children, in search of his runaway wife, found her dressed in man's attire, and calling herself Frank Dubois.  She was living with Gertrude Fuller, having been married to her early last Spring by the Rev. H. L. Morrison, at the home of the bride's mother.  Many persons thought that "Frank Dubois" had many characteristics of a woman.  Under the name she had solicited jobs of painting and was making sufficient money to support them both.

    William Crease, a blacksmith, undertook to remove a shoe from the foot of a lame colt in the stable of James C. Beach at Bloomsfield, last Thursday, when he was crowded against the wall by the animal and his forehead fractured by a kick.  The colt was then taken to a blacksmith's shop, and C. L. Ward attempted to perform the job, when the vicious animal threw him down and broke his leg.  Crease's injuries are probably fatal, and Ward's are serious, as he is 64 years old.
 

Marriages

    Oct. 31, at the residence of S. B. Mann, 310 West 30th St., N.Y. City, by Rev. Henry Mottet, of Holy Communion Church, Dr. John H. Ewing, of Flemington, to Zoulie Sullivan, of N.Y. City.

    Oct. 31, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Alexander Muff Haseltine to Sarah E. Buck, both of Stockton.
 

Deaths

    At Locktown, Oct. 18, 1883, Susan, wife of John Closson, aged 63 years, 2 months and 17 days.

    In West Amwell township, Oct. 28, 1883, Elizabeth Johnson, aged 58 years.
 

Local Department

    Jesse B. Shipman, of Easton, died on Thursday last, aged 72.  He once ran the stage line from Easton to White House.  He was proprietor of the omnibus system in Easton, and owned the largest livery in the place.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. C. Van Duyn, Kingston's Postmaster and well known merchant, died on Monday afternoon of last week after a lingering illness, at his residence, aged 63 years.  He leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters.  Capt. Van Duyn has been a resident of Kingston for many years and was greatly respected by all.  -  Somerset Messenger.
 

    William Cuff, a colored man, who died at Plainfield last week, is believed to have been 113 years of age.  He has been well known in Plainfield ever since the oldest inhabitant can remember, and his reputation of being over 100 years old has never been successfully disputed.  Of late years he has been helpless physically, but his death occurred from bronchitis, and not from old age.
 
 

November 13, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 13

    Ex-Senator Theodore F. Randolph died suddenly at his residence in Morristown last Wednesday morning.  His death is attributed to heart disease.  Mr. Randolph was born at New Brunswick, June 24, 1826...
 

State Items

    Peter Sheehan, 45 years old, while driving across the track at Tyler Park, Monday afternoon, was struck by a passenger train.  The horse and driver were instantly killed.

    Samuel Gabriel, of Spottswood, Middlesex county, attended church at Old Bridge on Sunday evening, with some friends, and after services boarded a passing coal train to return home.  In jumping from the train in Spottswood, Gabriel fell against the platform, breaking his left thigh and severely injuring his spine.  He cannot recover.
 

    John Kaunch, who married an orphan girl in Hungry years ago, came to this country in 1879 and went to Minnesota.  His wife and children, tired of waiting for him, came to this country, arriving in Philadelphia on Oct. 18, and came to New York on Friday.  Kaunch was telegraphed to send money to pay the passage of his family to the West.  In reply he said to send the children but not the mother, as he had another wife.  The discarded wife went back to Philadelphia.
 

Marriages

    In Trenton, Nov. 7, by Rev. J. H. Harpster, Mervin B. Alpaugh, of Clinton, to Emma Luella Cougle, of Hamden.

    In Bloomsbury, Nov. 7, by Rev. John C. Clyde, Chester Smith to Etta Lindaberry, all of Bloomsbury.

    At Valley, Nov. 1, by Rev. John C. Clyde, Albert McCleary to Carrie F. Groves, both of Valley.

    At Croton parsonage, Oct. 20, by Rev. G. F. Love, Israel Poulson Shepherd, of Sergeantsville, to Arabella Besson, of Croton.
 

Deaths

    At Copper Hill, Nov. 9, 1883, Wm. H. Johnson, Surrogate of Hunterdon County, aged 53 years.

    In Flemington, Oct. 29, 1883, Eleanore V., daughter of Wilson F. and Georgianna Fulper, aged 6 months.

    In Readington, Nov. 1883, Mrs. Margaret Quimby, widow of Dr. Josiah Quimby, in the 95th year of her age.

    Near High Bridge, Nov. 3, 1883, Rachel S., daughter of George W. and Mary Honness, aged 27 years, 8 months and 14 days.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Thatcher died at his home in Phillipsburg, last Tuesday, after a few day's illness, his aliment being a nervous affection.  He was thirty-five years old at the time of his death.  A wife and two children are left to mourn his loss.  He served one term in the Phillipsburg Common Council.  For several years past he has been yard-master for the Belvidere Delaware Railroad down at the grade.

    Mr. Stephen Wever died very suddenly at his residence in South Branch, on Friday morning, Nov. 2.  On the preceding day, accompanied by his wife, he went to visit friends at Readington, and while at dinner he was taken very ill.  From that time he grew gradually worse, and at 3 o'clock his spirit took its flight.  His death, no doubt, was caused by internal injuries received recently from two severe falls.
 

Bloomsbury Items

    On Wednesday, at 2 o'clock, Miss Etta, daughter of Dr. J. S. Lindaberry, was married to Mr. Chester H. Smith.  The wedding took place in the Presbyterian Church, and the ceremony was performed by Rev. J. C. Clyde.  The bride was dressed in white satin, and the bridesmaids, Miss Ella Van Riper and Miss Clara Hall, wore blue satin.
 
 

November 20, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 14

Items of News

    George Shaw, living near Cleveland, Ohio, killed his wife and six children on Wednesday night last.

    F. H. Stark, advance agent of the John F. Ward Comedy Company, shot and killed R. D. Allan, manager of the same company, in a theater at Vicksburg, last Wednesday night.

    Harriet Hankins and child, colored, were found dead in bed together at their home in Lexington, Ky., last Wednesday morning.  It is supposed they died from starvation and cold.

    Mrs. John Shepherd, residing in Huntington township, Luzerne county, Pa., feeling ill, arose from her bed and went to a sideboard to get a bottle containing Jamaica ginger.  Instead of the ginger she got hold of a bottle containing poison, and took a large dose.  Two hours afterwards she was a corpse.
 

    At Chattanooga, Tenn., Miss Fannie Hilbury, a young lady, aged 18, met with a terrible death.  Her clothes caught fire while she was standing too near an open grate and she rushed out into the street completely enveloped in flames, screaming frantically for assistance.  Her mother, an aged lady went to her rescue but her efforts were fruitless, and her daughter was burned to death.  Mrs. Hilbury was badly burned while endeavoring to save her daughter, and may not recover.
 

Local Department

    George Crout, of Croton, started on Monday for Burlington, Kansas, where he will settle with his family.  He has relatives living there.

    Mr. Mershon Roberson, well known in this county, died of lung fever, at the residence of his son in Chicago, a few days ago.  The remains were brought to Frenchtown for interment, last Thursday.

    George Fisher, a young man of Anthony, met with an accident on Friday of week before last, which in a day or two later resulted in his death.  He was out gunning, and while standing on a stump re-loading an empty barrel of his gun it slipped, striking the hammer on the stump and discharging the loaded barrel into his bowels.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miss Josephine Compton, of the Delaware Water Gap, who some four years ago fell over the Bushkill Falls, a distance of 106 feet, and was badly injured, was united in marriage last week, to Mr. George B. Conover, of Philadelphia.

    Gussie F. Cyphers, the youngest daughter of Philip H. Cyphers, of Port Colden, was so badly burned by her dress coming in contact with some hot coals dumped by an engine on the railroad track near her father's house, that she died the same day.

    Mr. Samuel J. Pooley, aged 79 years, who for the past 35 years has resided on a farm between Mt. Horeb and Liberty Corner, was found dead in his bed.  His death resulted from natural causes.  Mr. Pooley was a bachelor, a native of New York city, and for a number of years an active member of Tammany Hall.
 

State Items

    Dr. Jonathan B. Sweet, a well-known herb doctor of Newark, died on Friday.  He was a member of the Sweet family noted for their skill in bone-setting.

    Mr. and Mrs. Isaac H. Hall, of Branchburg township, Somerset county, celebrated their golden wedding on November 2d, at their residence in the township.  On the 3d instant, Mr. and Mrs. John Rinehart, of Pottersville, celebrated the fifty-third anniversary of their marriage.
 

Marriages

    On Nov. 15, at the residence of the bride's mother, at Milford, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, James C. Robbins, of Philadelphia, to Mattie J. Eckel, of Milford.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Nov. 14, by Rev. John Scarlet, Elisha W. Brewer, of Ringoes, to Henrietta V. Runkle, of Mount Airy.

    At Asbury, Oct. 31, by the Rev. Geo. W. Toulson, William H. Drake to Margaret Henry.

    At Dunellen, N.J., Nov. 3, by Rev. Alex. Miller, Elias C. Neighbor, of Califon, to Lizzie E. Cole, of Dunellen.

    Near Pleasant Run, November 4, 1883, by Rev. John G. Smock, Levi Kline to Laura, eldest daughter of John K. Dalley, all of Pleasant Run.
 

Deaths

    At Pottersville, Nov. 11, 1883, of typhoid fever, Warren Ammerman, aged 17 years.

    Nov. 9, 1883, at White House Station, youngest child of George and Sarah Barton, aged 4 months.

    In Mount Pleasant, Oct. 22, 1883, John, youngest son of Mrs. Hannah M. Bloom, in the twelfth year of his age.

    Near Sand Brook, Nov. 5, 1883, Joseph W., son of Sylvester and Elizabeth Pittenger, aged 15 years and 5 days.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 8, 1883, Bridget McDermott, aged 55 years.

    At the residence of N. D. Williams, in Frenchtown, Nov. 15, 1883, Mrs. N. D. Gillmore, aged 65 years.

    In Hastings, Iowa, Nov. 3, 1883, James S. Rockafellow in the 26th year of his age.  Mr. R. was a grandson of W. S. Rockafellow of this town, and was born in this township.
 
 

November 27, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 15

    A tornado struck Melbourne, the county seat of Izard county, Ark., last Wednesday morning.  Ex-Sheriff John Hinkle and his wife and two children were killed and Mrs. Henry S. Hinkle was crippled.

    James Eddy, of Newark, while in getting into his wagon at Newark on Monday, became entangled in the lines and was thrown to the ground.  The horse, became frightened, started off, and Mr. Eddy was dragged along on the ground, until his head came violently in contact with the curbstone fracturing his skull.  He was removed to St. Michael's Hospital, where he died in half an hour.  Mr. Eddy was 45 years old and leaves a wife and four children.

    Captain Frederick Roth, aged 89 years last July died early Tuesday morning at his residence in Camden.  He was a native of Alsace, Germany, and when a small boy, in 1803, came with his parents to this country as "redemptioners," the family being sold for sixty guineas to the highest bidder, according to the custom of the times.  Young Roth was bought by William Cooper, who owned Cooper's Ferry, and worked upon the ferry...

    In Washington city last Tuesday, Charles R. Arnold was struck by his son-in-law, Harold Watson, and knocked down an open cellarway.  His skull was fractured by the fall, and he died in ten minutes.  Watson, who is 25 years of age, and is employed in the Bureau of Engravings and Printing, came to Washington from Texas about eighteen months ago.  He then said his name was Adam Johnson.  Becoming acquainted with Miss Ella Arnold, a daughter of the man he killed, he, it is alleged, seduced her under promise of marriage, and shortly thereafter left Washington.  Mr. Arnold followed him from city to city in induce him to return and marry the girl, but without success.  Eight months ago, however, Watson returned and married Miss Arnold under his real name, but immediately afterwards left her, and has not since lived with her...

    Ten years ago a prosperous farmer named David Dowling, living near Milltown, Middlesex county, mysteriously disappeared.  Although a diligent search was made for him, his whereabouts was not discovered.  It was supposed that he went to New York and was robbed and murdered.  On Sunday his son Charles was digging in an old well to clear it of the accumulated
rubbish of years, when he found the disjointed bones of a skeleton.  The flesh was entirely gone and the remains had evidently been there a long while.  There can be no doubt that the skeleton is that of the missing farmer, and it is supposed that on returning home late at night from New York he stumbled into the well, which was uncovered.

    Peter Lewis, residing for a number of years near Waverly, N.Y., while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. George Shanegerg, of Minisink, Orange county, on Monday, of last week, committed suicide by taking morphine...  Mr. Lewis was about 75 years of age and was a former citizen of Wantage, Sussex county, where he raised a large family of children.
 

State Items

    Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Messler celebrated their golden wedding on Friday, at Griggstown, Somerset county.

    Mr. and Mrs. D. Polhemus Stryker celebrated their golden wedding at Somerville, on Tuesday last.  There were eight children, twenty-four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren present, only one grandchild in the direct descent being absent.  The occasion was made doubly memorable by the christening of three of the little ones, one of them being a grandchild of the oldest daughter.  Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Hoagland, who stood up with the bride and groom fifty years ago, were present; they themselves having been married forty-nine years.

    On of the most horrible accidents that has ever occurred in the history of the Oxford Works occurred at the nail mill a few day since, in which Charles Rader, a boss nailer at the factory, lost his life...
 

Killed By A Grape Seed
    A Kingston, N.Y., despatch says:  William A. Portugee, a baker of this city, died here yesterday under circumstances which left the attending physician much in doubt as to the cause of death.  A post-mortem examination was made this morning, which resulted in the discovery of a grape seed in one of the intestines.  It had become lodged there, a sac had been formed about it, and subsequently and abscess.  This had finally broken and inflammation of the adjacent parts ensued, which resulted in death.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 21, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, at the residence of the bride's father, John Wilson Haver, of Clinton township, to Lillie Bonnell, of Union township.

    At Frenchtown, Nov. 21, by Rev. N. S. Aller, George K. La Rue, of Pattenburg, to Lucy B. Rounsaville, of Milford.

    Nov. 15, at the bride's home, in Glen Gardner, by Rev. J. L. Hayes, Jeremiah Skinner to Mary Galaway.

    At New Germantown, Nov. 15, by Wm. Craig, Esq., Edward Mullener, of Lamington, to Harriet Gardner, of Fairmount.

    Nov. 14, at Clover Hill, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, Cicero H. Higgins, of Ringoes, to Anna M. Polhemus, of Clover Hill.

    At Frenchtown, Oct. 31, by Rev. N. S. Aller, Howard S. Alpaugh, of Jersey City, to Isabella, daughter of Wesley Burd, Esq., of Union.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 3, by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford, John H. Race, of New Hope, Pa., to Martha Rooks, of Lambertville.

    At the home of the bride, on the 21st of Nov., by Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, Peter V. Johnson, of South Branch, and Eliza Wyckoff, of White House.

    Nov. 14, at Clover Hill, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, John C. Polhemus to Kate Nevius, all of Clover Hill.

    At the residence of Jacob E. Cole, Pleasant Run, on the 21st of Nov., by Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, Garret P. Van Doren, of Three Bridges, to Matilda Cole, of Pleasant Run.

    Nov. 14, by Rev. I. Poulson, Alexander German, of Newtown, Pa., to Annie Hoppock, of Titusville, N.J.

    At Croton, parsonage, Nov. 22, by Rev. G. F. Love, C. C. Tunison to C. V. Johnson, both of Flemington.

    Nov. 10, at the residence of the bride's parents, in Everittstown, by Rev. Addis Albro, John W. Yawger, of Lebanon, to Emma J. Tinsman, daughter of Jno. L. Tinsman, Esq.
 

Deaths

    At White House, Nov. 22, 1883, Annie, daughter of J. V. F. Wyckoff, aged 23 years.

    Nov. 9, 1883, at White House Station, youngest child of George and Eliza Bartow, aged 4 months.

    Near Everittstown, Nov. 17, 1883, Mary J. Curtis, aged about 19 years.

    In Kingwood township, Nov. 19, 1883, Sarah M. Allen, aged 20 years, 6 months and 5 days.

    Near Bethlehem, Nov. 22, 1883, Catharine Hibler, aged about 74 years.
 

Local Department

    Joseph Hockenberry, aged 73 years, was struck by a Central Railroad coal train at Phillipsburg on Friday night and instantly killed.  Only a short time ago a son of the deceased was dragged to death by a runaway horse, and a few months before another son was killed on the rail.
 

Death Of An Aged Lady
    Mrs. Catharine Corcoran, mother of Mr. Patrick Corcoran, of this place, and of whose great age this paper has often spoken, died at the residence of her son on Thursday afternoon last, after an illness of about five weeks...
    Mrs. Corcoran was aged 104 years, 9 months and 22 days.  She was born in Kings County, Ireland.  Her husband died in 1843 in the old country, and along about the year 1847 she emigrated to America.  She was the mother of five children all of whom came to this country many years ago.

Probable Infanticide
    The body of a new-born infant was found in a water closet near the Central depot at High Bridge, on Monday evening, which had been deposited there by a woman that evening and discovered by the ticket agent.  The woman got on a Central train and left it at Hampton Junction and went to Washington.  A Coroner's jury was empaneled on Tuesday, and Wednesday it brought in the following finding: "The jurors, according to the evidence, find that the child found in the water closet at High Bridge station, November 19th was of premature birth; that it was the issue of one Mrs. Lanning, of Califon, N.J., and was left there by her."  Mrs. Lanning is now at the residence of Mrs. Bryant, her sister, at Washington.  -  Warren Democrat.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Weckesser, a hard-working and industrious farmer near Mount Bethel, Somerset county, was killed during Monday afternoon last in a manner that will probably always remain a mystery.  He was found under his wagon in a field where he was working, with his skull crushed.  It is supposed that he fell from the wagon and was kicked or stepped on by the horse.  He was about 45 years of age, and leaves a family.

    Henry Dilts, an old gentleman and a well known farmer, aged about 73 years, who lived a short distance north of the mountain and near the line of Hillsborough and Amwell townships, in Somerset county, died very suddenly on last Thursday morning.

    A three-weeks-old son of Philip and Bridget Mooney of Raritan was accidently smothered to death on the night of the 15th.  It slept in the bed with the mother and another child, and was found to be dead early next morning.
 

Bloomsbury Items

    Mr. Frank Apgar, Theodore Melick's genial clerk, will be married on Thanksgiving Day to Miss Sadie Williamson, the accomplished daughter of Mr. James Williamson.
 
 

December 4, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 16

A New Jersey Horror
    Several horrible murders were reported at length in the daily papers last week - cold-blooded, brutal murders.  One of them is located in this State.  On Saturday afternoon, the 24th ult., Miss Phebe Jane Paullin, the 17-year-old daughter of David Paullin, a shoemaker, living at Roseland, was sent to Orange to make some purchases.  As she did not return home that evening her parents were not alarmed, as she had informed them if she was delayed after nightfall she would remain at the residence of Mr. Anderson, who lived near the first mountain, a short distance from Orange.
    It is believed that while on her way to Mr. Anderson's house, after having been delayed in Orange longer than she expected, she was either followed by a ruffian from Orange, or else that she met a tramp, and that she was seized and throttled on the road.  She had apparently made a stout resistance, which maddened her assailant so that he stabbed her, and when she became weak from loss of blood and too exhausted in her efforts to defend herself, he dragged her to a clump of bushes and assaulted her.
    There was no evidence that she was strong enough to struggle much at the bushes, and it is thought that the ruffian, after accomplishing his purpose, seeing that she was so badly wounded, resolved to kill her, so that in case he was arrested he could not be identified.
    Her murdered had employed a very dull knife in killing her.  There was a frightful gash in her white neck and two wounds on the right side...
 

    Sojourner Truth died at Battle Creek, Michigan, Monday.  She was born in the South and was well known throughout the United States as a lecturer.  She has been resting from her lecture tour at Grand Haven, Mich., her place of residence.  Although more than a century old she had a degree of physical and mental vigor which very few women of her age could boast.  She claimed that she was 110 years old.

    Mrs. Ralph Stout, aged 78 years, died at five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at her residence in New Brunswick, from an acute attack of pneumonia after a week's illness.  She was attended by Dr. Williamson.  The deceased was the widow of the late Ralph Stout, who for many years conducted the pottery business on the site where the First M. E. Church is now erected.  Her daughter, Emily, and son, Theodore R., survive her.

    Miss Hanson, the belle of Maple Park, Ill., hanged herself in a corn crib on Wednesday last, because her lover was addicted to whiskey and her father would not let her marry him.
 

Local Department
 
    It is reported that Isaac M. Swope, of Milford, has eloped with Mrs. Lavina Schamp of Bridgeton, Pa.  Swope and the woman have been on intimate terms for a number of years past.  He is aged about 59 years and Mrs. Schamp is only 40 and is described as a very handsome woman.  Some years ago Mr. Swope was a member of the Board of Freeholders.  The Milford Leader says:  "Not being content with the amount of cash he had realized from the sale of his effects, his wife informs us that he had abstracted the contents of a small savings bank belonging to his daughter.  He also took with him a gold watch belonging to his daughter, which was given her by her deceased mother.  Where the parties now are is not known and but few seem to care.  Swope has been married three times and is the father of several children.  His deserted wife is a lady respected by all who know her."

Pensioners of Hunterdon County
    The following is a list of the pensioners of Hunterdon county, recently published by the Government.  We give the names, places of residence and amounts received per month.  There have been several pensions granted during the few months succeeding the issue of this list:
    Baptisttown - Catharine Ann Sutton, $8.00
    Califon - Wesley Sutton, $2.00
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Samuel Reynolds, a veteran of the war of 1812, and a former Surrogate of Somerset county, died at his home in Mendham, Nov. 4th.
 

State Items

    In Newark, on Saturday, Robert Martin, for the murder of his wife and babe, and James B. Graves, for the murder of a boy lamp-lighter, named Eddie Soden, were sentenced to be hanged on the 5th of January next.  The murders were committed two years ago.

    A noted Newark burglar named George Williams, who was serving a ten years' term for breaking and entering a New York gentlemen's country residence, in July 1881, died at the State Prison on Wednesday.  Typhoid fever was the cause of death.

    Lizzie Berry, a handsome young woman of 22 years and living with her family on the Polifly road, near Hackensack, started Monday morning in company with her brother for New York to witness the parade.  At the Hackensack station of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad she stopped to visit the post office and in attempting to recross the track in front of the 9:12 A.M. train she was knocked down by the engin and cut to pieces.
 

    About noon last Friday, Mrs. Riall, a married woman, living on Biddle street, Baltimore, cut the throats of her two girl children, aged respectively four years and eighteen months, and then cut her own throat.  Both of the children soon died, and the mother yet alive, is not expected to live.  Domestic infelicity has for some time preyed upon her mind.  Mrs. Riall is about twenty-eight years old.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's mother, in Philadelphia, Nov. 13, Edward Y. Taylor, of High Bridge, to Mrs. Harriet Rockhill, of Pittstown.

    By G. S. Mott, D. D., Nov. 28th, at Ringoes, William V. Ramsey, of Flemington and Augusta F. Hunt, daughter of Mr. Jonathan A. Hunt, of Ringoes.

    On Nov. 21, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, of Clover Hill, Joseph S. Chamberlain to Helen Frances Higgins, both of Wertsville.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 22, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. W. M. Mick, Edson S. Smith, of Brooklyn, N.Y., to Annie E. Horton, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, Nov. 22, 1883, Mary Ann Rose, aged about 70 years.

    In Flemington, Nov. 22, 1883, Mrs. Catharine Corcoran, aged 104 years, 9 months and 22 days.
 
 

December 11, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 17

    Mrs. Mary Hyde, aged sixty years, who lived as a recluse for years and died alone a day or two since from a combination of asthma want of nourishment and drink, claimed to be a niece of the Duke of Argyll and cousin of the Marquis of Lorne.  A separation from the Clan Campbell, to which she belonged, was caused by marrying below her station.  Her husband was murdered by Indians on an overland trip to California thirty-five years ago.

    The saddest household we have heard of in a long time is that of Mr. Theodore Woodard, who lives near Mendham in Morris county.  About two weeks ago he lost three of his children, out of a family of five, by scarlet fever and black diphtheria.  Two of the children that died were daughters, one a young lady twenty years of age.  These both died on the same day - Monday - and on the following Thursday a son died - three within four days.  The whole family including father and mother were sick of the disease at the same time, but all except the three mentioned have now about recovered.

    Near Anderson, on Wednesday evening, John J. Johnson was shot by Coleman Hawkins and dangerously wounded.  After the shooting, Hawkins returned home and shot himself, dying instantly.  Both were wealthy farmers.  The trouble arose about a ditch between the farms.
 

Marriages

    Nov. 28, by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, ?rank Apgar and Sadie E. Williamson, both of Bloomsbury.

    Nov. 21, at the parsonage, German Valley, by the Rev. H. M. Voorhees, Gilbert C. Melick and Annie K. Fleming, both of Lebanon.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 29, by Rev. W. M. Mick, W. S. Orem, of Philadelphia, to Mary A. Butterfoss, of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 15, by Rev. W. P. C., Strickland, Thatcher Heath, of Lambertville, and Josephine Stillwill of Titusville, N.J.

    Nov. 29, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, Stacy G. Sherman, of Kingwood, and Mary B. Wagner, of Flemington.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, Clover Hill, Dec. 5, by Rev. M. N. Oliver, Bergen D. Yawger, of Neshanic, to Mary V., daughter of the late John L. Case.

    Nov. 29, at M. E. Parsonage, Cokesbury, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, David K. Apgar, of Cokesbury, to Mattie E. Alpaugh, of Mountainville.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 28, by Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Mahlon Schanck and Kate L. Wilmot, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 28, by Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Burt P. Speery, of Hamilton, N.Y., and Martha C. Johnson, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    In Sergeantsville, Dec. 2d, 1883, at the residence of her son Henry T. Quirk, Mrs. Rhoda Quirk, in her 94th year.

    Dec. 1, 1883, at his residence in Clinton township, Jonathan Dawes, aged 76 years.

    Dec. 3, 1883, at Stanton, Laura, wife of Luther Stryker, in her 22d year.

    Near Mechanicsville, Dec. 5, 1883, Olivann, wife of Aaron L. Stout, aged 69 years.
 

Local Department

    Samuel C. Bowlby, an old and respected citizen of Newark, died at his home in that city last Monday week.  He was born near New Hampton in 1801.  He was afterward a resident of Warren county for fifty years.

    Hon. Jonathan Dawes died on the 1st inst., at his residence in Clinton township.  He had filled many offices in his township, and in 1841 and 1842 was a member of the General Assembly.  His age was 76 years.

    Mrs. Cornelius P. Hoffman, who lives with her son Mr. Aaron Hoffman, near Rowland's Mills, a few days ago celebrated her 99th birthday.  She has lived in her present home for seventy-five years, and although always a great reader, has never yet had to use spectales.  She has three children, six grandchild and eleven great-grandchildren.
 

    Bridget Connors, aged twenty, in Sussex street, Jersey City, was sitting on the window sill in the third story of the building cleaning the window, when she lost her balance and fell.  One of the pickets of an iron fence pentrated her head and death was instantaneous.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    William Kellogg, the well known bridge builder of the Lehigh Valley Road, died at his residence in South Easton on Saturday a week ago.  He was foreman in building the first railroad bridge across the Delaware at Phillipsburg, and also built the second bridge.  He was taken with malaria some two weeks since.  His age was 76 years.
 
 

December 18, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 18

State Items

    Mrs. Elias Taylor, of Stillwell's Corner, Monmouth county, was accidently struck on the head with a tub in the hands of a member of the family, a few days ago.  Her injury was considered trifling but the blow occassioned the formation of a clot of blood on the brain, and she died in great pain on Friday.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Albus, son of ex-Councilman Albus, of Phillipsburg, was killed at Jersey City on Tuesday night.  He was brakeman on the Easton and Amboy freight train and was struck by a freight car and instantly killed.  He was twenty-three years old and had been on the road about two years.

    Peter J. Stryker, aged 82, died of paralysis at Blawenburgh, Somerset county, where he has always lived, on the 8th inst.

    Mr. Peter L. Hoagland, of Griggstown, Somerset county, was found dead in bed on Thursday morning, the 6th inst.  Mr. H. was about 70 years of age.  His disease was paralysis.

    Mrs. Joseph Bowlby dropped dead in her home at South Asbury on Wednesday morning.  her husband and a large family of children, are sadly bereaved by her sudden death.  Mrs. Bowlby was about 70 years of age, and had borne and raised sixteen children.  Her mother, Mrs. Melroy, is yet living and is 100 years of age.
 

    Mrs. Elizabeth Lauderback, aged 104 years, died on Sunday of last week at the residence of her son-in-law, Captain Jonathan Pierson, in Camden county, near Sicklertown.  She was born in 1779 in Salem county, but has resided in Camden county since 1849.  She was the mother of twelve children, two of whom are still living.  Her funeral took place Wednesday from her son-in-law's residence in Camden county.
 

Marriages

    Dec. 12, by Rev. John B. Kugler, William Bowlby, of Junction, to Mrs. Lydia A. Rousavell, of New Hampton.

    Dec. 1, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Andrew V. Alpaugh, of Potterstown, to Mary E. Robinson, of Fairmount.

    Nov. 28, by Rev. F. A. Bisbee, Wm. S. Smith, of Milford, to Ida V. Butterworth, of Philadelphia.

    Nov. 29, by Rev. J. Y. Dobbins, Mr. O. C. Wright, of Milford, to Annie M. Howell, of Trenton, N.J.

    At Norton, Dec. 2, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Wm. Rinehart to Georgianna Srope, all of Hunterdon county.

    Dec. 8, at Norton, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Whitfield Barris, of Norton, to Lizzie J. Case, of Cherryville.

    At Fairmount, Dec. 1, by Rev. E. W. Long, Henry Todd and Sarah E. Farley, both of Pottersville.

    Dec. 8, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Charles W. Danbery, of Harbourton, to Carrie L. Wendland, of Wertsville.

    At the home of the bride, Dec. 5, by Rev. Fred Bloom, Elijah H. Hoffman to Anna T. Apgar, both of Morris Co., N.J.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Clover Hill, Dec. 12, Arthur L. Sutphin, of Wertsville, to Mary J., daughter of Garret J. Schenck.

    Nov. 24, at Caura, Ohio, by Rev. Isaac Waymire, E. E. Ellsworth Stryker, of Flemington, N.J., to Mrs. Mary E. Wright, of Caura, Miama county, Ohio.

    In Flemington, at the residence of the bride's parents, Dec. 12, by the Rev. T. E. Gordon, of Rahway, N.J., George F. Frey, of Philadelphia, to Georgie A., youngest daughter of James Housel, Esq.
 

Deaths

    In Alexandria township, Dec. 10, 1883, Elizabeth, wife of Elias Rupell, aged about 53 years.

    In Milford, Dec. 8, 1883, Beniah Gano, in the 78th year of his age.

    Dec. 11, 1883, in Flemington, Mrs. Annie M. Holcombe, aged 39 years, 3 months and 26 days.

    Dec. 6, 1883, at the Trenton Insane Asylum, Asher Shafer, aged 76 years, 6 months and 14 days.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 28, 1883, Mrs. Margaret Malone, wife of the late John Malone, in the 78th year of her age.
 

Local Department

    On the afternoon of the 7th inst, the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Johnson was celebrated at their residence in Lambertville.

    John O'Hara, of Landsdown, has been laid up for the past month with a sprained ankle.  A few days ago he received the sad news by telegraph that his brother Edward had been killed in Montana.

    Death is of such frequent occurrence among us that we scarcely notice the passing bell which tells us that one from our midst has gone on that long journey from which there is no return.  Sorrowing hearts are around us, yet regarding such events as our heritage, with a look or perhaps a word of sympathy, we commend the mourners to Him who alone can comfort in such an hour, and the grave and memory alike close over one who a short time previous mingled with us in the busy scenes of life.  On Tuesday last death took for its victim Mrs. Anna Holcombe, widow of James Holcombe, who died some ten years ago.  She was a sister to Mr. Wm. H. Force, and her death occurred at his Hotel in this place.

    We regret to announce the death of Philip Case, a native of this town, and a brother to John Case, the carpenter, and Joseph B. Case, the railroad engineer.  The sad event occurred on Wednesday last at his residence in Centreville, Hudson county.  Deceased was a carpenter by trade, and removed from this place some twelve or fifteen years ago.  His death resulted from a attack of pneumonia, we understand.
 

A Scrap of History
    Mr. John Case, one of our Flemington boss carpenters, is something of an antiquarian.  At his residence of Bonnell street he has a very large collection of articles - enough to keep one engaged the better part of a day in looking over and examining.  Without stopping just now to run over the list, we wish to speak of a cane which has a history.  It is one presented to Phillip Case, the grandfather of John, by old Commodore Vanderbilt, more than 70 years ago.  Phillip Case, as some of our older readers may remember, was a tanner by trade.  His tannery was situated at the old Copper Mines, just west of town.  He died more than 50 years ago, and the business was continued by his son Joseph Case, the father of John....
 
 

December 25, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 19

    Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, died in Washington on Sunday, 16th inst.  Mr. Haskell was born in Springfield, Vt., March 23, 1842 but removed in 1855 to Kansas.  A complication of kidney and lung disease caused his death.

    In the case of Rose E. Keiser, whose death occurred a few days ago in the room of one R. E. Dunn, at the Windsor hotel in New York city, the coroner's jury has returned a verdict of death by suicide.

    Joseph Poole, hanged Tuesday morning in Dublin, was convicted of having killed John Kenny on the morning of July 4th, 1882.  Kenny was suspected of giving information as to the Phoenix Park assassins.
 

News Notes

    In Morgan county, Kentucky, on Monday, two brothers named De Busk, working in a field, became involved in a dispute, when the older, aged 14, shot his brother, killing him.

    Theodore Hoffman, who killed Zifo Marks, a peddler, near Port Chester, N.Y., having been denied a new trail, was on Tuesday, at White Plains, re-sentenced to be hanged on January 25.

    Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, one of the most noted authorities on insanity and mental disease, who for forty-three years was Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, more commonly known as "Kirkbride's Asylum," is dead.  He was born near Morrisville, Pa., and was in his 75th year.

    A man named John Bonner, residing in Rockville, Ind., locked his wife out of doors because she refused to supply him with money to continue a drunk.  She went to the woods with her children, and while building a fire her clothers ignited and she was burned to death.
 

State Items

    Thomas Gibbs, the husband of Alice McGee, of Camden and of Jennie Serviss, of Washington, Middlesex county has been convicted of bigamy in the Middlesex County Court and sentenced to the State Prison for five years.

    Rev. Edward Davis Fendall, a prominent Baptist clergyman, formally of New Jersey, died on Thursday at his residence, No. 4807 Penn street, Frankford.  Mr. Fendall was clerk of the New Jersey Baptist Association from 1854 to his death.

    Borie Gainer, of Austin, Texas, went to Hackettstown, a few weeks ago, to be married.  Soon after his arrival he was prostrated with malarial fever and died on Saturday.

    Luke Brady, a quick, active lad of 16 years, living at Paterson, has been employed for the past six weeks in the Ivanhoe Paper Mill.  About 5 o'clock on Monday morning his clothing was caught in the rolls, and in an instant he was crushed to death, being shockingly mangled.

    John Thomas, of Flocktown, Warren county, after resisting the wiles of the fair sex for sixty years, has succumbed, and on Thanksgiving day was married to Miss Selinda Howell, of the same town, who is not yet 15.
 

A Mysterious Death
    The death of James Mendham, which occurred on Tuesday morning at his residence, Fifty-first street and Paschall avenue, is attributed by Dr. William C. Goodno? to a tin tobacco tag, which it is claimed, the dead man swallowed while eating his lunch a week ago last Monday.  Mendham was 48 years old, and employed as a machinist at No. 4307 Lancaster avenue....
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's mother, in Keyport, Monmouth county, New Jersey, on the 20th inst., by Rev. C. S. Conkling, of Stockton, N.J., Hon. Baltes Pickel, of Trenton, to Mrs. Anna E. Holcombe.

    At Gloucester City, N.J., Nov. 10, by the Rev. H. M. Brown, Henry Matthews, of Lambertville, to Almira Simpson, of Gloucester City.

    At Lambertville, Dec. 15, by the Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Cornelius Myers and Mary E. McCourt, both of Lambertville.

    Dec. 19, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, George Whitenack, of Ringoes, to Lizzie C. Sutphin, of Wertsville.
 

Deaths

    Near Mt. Pleasant, Dec. 13, 1883, Mrs. Catharine Snyder, widow of John Snyder, aged 85 years, 5 months and 9 days.

    Near Lambertville, Dec. 18, 1883, Edward A., infant son of George M. and Kate H. Johnson, aged 3 months.

    In Clinton, Dec. 2, 1883, Mary Sigler, relict of Peter Sigler, aged 80 years and 26 days.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 17, 1883, John Masterson, aged 67 years.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. James Eichlin, living near Milford, upon awakening Wednesday morning found her child, aged about six months, dead by her side.

    Betsy Carkhuff, a woman aged about 43 years, was found dead in bed at the residence of Mr. Henry I. Yawger, near Stanton, last Thursday.  She was employed by Mr. Yawger as a domestic.  Heart disease is attributed as the cause of her death.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Arthur G. Smith, of Belvidere, has sold his drug store to the Faust Brothers and has removed his family to Ellenville, N.Y., where he is engaged in the drug business.

    John Huff, aged about forty, of Phillipsburg, was found dead in his bed Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock...  The deceased was an employee of the Lehigh Valley Road and unmarried. -  Warren Democrat.