John Howard, a farmer about sixty years old, was driving in West Rutland, N.Y., Monday evening when his horse took fright and ran away.  The horse followed the track of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company just ahead of the up passenger train due at Rutland about 9 o'clock P.M.  Following the track nearly a mile the horse fell through a small bridge, throwing the driver ahead.  The train was rounding a curve close behind and ran into the wreck, demolished the vehicle, threw the horse from the track and tore the driver to pieces.

    A singular accident, resulting in the death of George Case, a young man living near Peotone, Ill., occurred on Christmas.  Case went out to hunt and carried his gun cocked.  When he had reached the woods he stopped and rested the butt of his gun on the ground, with the muzzle pointed at his head.  He called his dog, which ran to him, and climbing up with his fore paws on his master's breast, pressed the trigger with one of his hind feet.  The gun was discharged and instantly killed Case.
 

News Notes

    John Walton shot and killed Henry Sechler on the street at Breadstown, Ill., on Monday afternoon.  The murder grew out of a charge that the former had seduced Sechler's wife.

    James Wingfield, eighteen years old, stabbed and killed Browning Hinck at Sligo Furnace, near Salem, Mo., on Sunday evening.

    John Lange, a farmer, living near East Saginaw, Mich., was fatally stabbed by a neighbor named Blimpke, on Monday evening, during a quarrel.

    Mr. Edwin Chase Ingersoll, a well-known member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, died Monday at St. Elizabeth's Asylum for the Insane, aged about 40 years.

    Michael Forrest, a stevedore, fell into the hold of the steamship City of Columbus last Wednesday night at Savannah, Ga., and was killed.

    Mrs. Martha Staves died suddenly on Sunday morning, without a struggle, in her church pew in Moriah, N.Y., while the congregation was singing.

    Dr. Beatty, Coroner of Lambton, Ont., while holding an inquest Wednesday on the body of Mrs. Gibbs, who was murdered on Saturday, died suddenly.

    A family named Boss, consisting of husband, wife and several children, was drowned during a freshet in Hardis Creek, near Madison, Ind., on Sunday night.

    At Red Hill S.C., Wednesday, John Agnell was stabbed to death by James Hamilton, and Agnell's father had a cheekbone fractured and an arm broken.  The trouble resulted from a family feud between Hamilton and the Agnells.
 

Fatal Avalanche
    A dispatch to the Tribune from Ouray, Col., says:  News had been received in Ouray of an horrible accident at the Virginius Mine....  On Friday afternoon a huge mass of snow started from the top of the range and swelled into an avalanche as it descended...  Five were taken out alive, but badly crushed, and may died.  Six others were found dead.  Their names are Tomas Murvan, Joseph Fitzgerald, Robert Frazer, W. H. Carmichael, Armstong and William H. Sheidler.  Most of them leave families.

    Many old soldiers will be pained to learn that General Thomas L. Kane, who was Colonel of the famous regiment of Pennsylvania's "Bucktails" is no more.  He died at his residence in Philadelphia, on Wednesday.  He was a brother of the renowned Arctic Explorer, Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U.S.N., and died at the age of sixty-one years.
 

Local Department

    Miss Julia Bartles, a sister of the late Charles Bartles, died on Thursday last at the residence of George B. Stothoff, near this place, aged about 82 years.  She had made her home at Mr. Stothoff's for the past forty-six years.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. John Nichol, an aged and highly respected resident of Belvidere, died on Thursday last, aged 82 years.  She had been declining for a number of months.

    "Old Aunt" Rachel Stryker, a greatly respected, colored resident of Princeton, has died from injuries received by breaking through the platform of a well on a farm near there a few days ago, and falling a distance of nearly forty feet....  She was seventy-four years old.

    Mr. John Pendergrass, aged 24, a well known young man of Bound Brook, was killed by the cars while on his way from Somerville to that place Christmas night.
 

State Items

    On Friday last Mr. Peter M. Case, of Andover township, Sussex county was fatally injured by being kicked in the face and head by a horse.  He was at the residence of his son-in-law, Wm. Iliff, and hearing some disturbance in the stable, went out and found one of the animals down across the pole.  In attempting to assist it he received the injury from which he died on Christmas morning.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 25, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, John Golden, of Woodsville, Mercer county, to Carrie H. Rockafellow, of Raritan township.

    Dec. 20, by Rev. W. H. Filson, Elijah Rockafellow, of Alexandria township, and Mary T. Johnson, of Everittstown.

    Dec. 24, at the M. E. Parsonage, Cokesbury, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Cassius M. Apgar, of High Bridge, and Miss Henrietta Eick, of Potterstown.

    Nov. 7, by Rev. Miller, Hadorum M. Warford, of Milford, to Rebecca G. Smith, of Philadelphia.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Dec. 18 by the Rev. S. R. Queen, Aber H. Hunt and Ella Larowe, both of Harbourton, New Jersey.

    At Bloomsbury, Dec. 26, by Rev. John C. Clyde, Chester M. Case, of Valley, to Lucy Kels, of Clinton.

    Dec. 25, at the Parsonage of the Baptist Church, Ringoes, by the Rev. Fisher Wilson, Eli Hamilton, to Mary F. Housel, all of New Jersey.
 

Deaths

    In West Amwell township, Dec. 19, 1883, Jonathan L. Phillips, aged 73 years.

    Dec. 20, 1883, opposite Frenchtown, Mrs. P. M. Magee, aged about 40 years.

    In Holland, Dec. 19, 1883, Howard, son of James Eckel, aged 5 months and 10 days.

    Died, Dec. 13, 1883, on Everitt's Hill, near Flemington, Charles B. Eick, aged 23 years, 3 months and 5 days.
 
 

January 8, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 21

Two Murderers Hanged at Newark
    Newark, N.J., January 3.  -  Robert Martin, 53 years old, was hanged this morning at 10:26 o'clock, for the murder of his wife and baby on June 15, 1881.  James H. Graves was also hanged for the murder of Eddie Soden...

    A correspondent writes to us:  A notable company was seated at the table of Mrs. Gorman, near Glendale, Ohio, on Thursday, Dec. 13 last, consisting of five generations, viz: Mrs. Gorman's mother, Mrs. Larue, aged 91 years; Mrs. Gorman, aged 68; her daughter, Mrs. Hoffman, aged 50; her granddaughter, Mrs. Cruser, aged 30, and her great granddaughter, Jessica Cruser, aged 3.  There were present also the mother-in-law of Mrs. Hoffman, aged 83 and the mother-in-law of Mrs. Cruser, aged 52, making five grandmothers present.  In her youthful days Mrs. Larue emigrated with her husband from Scotch Plains, then Somerset county, N.J., to the then far West, and settled in the wilds of Hamilton county, Ohio, a dozen miles from what has become Cincinnati, where she and her descendants have since resided.  Her living descendants now number 99, exclusive of persons marrying into the family; they consist of 6 children, 24 grandchildren, 61 great-grandchildren and 8 great great-grandchildren. N.Y. Observer.

    Henry Hane, a well-to-do German, of San Antonio, Texas, in a drunken and jealous frenzy, on Monday night attempted to brain his wife with an axe.  He cut two fearful gashes in her cheek and arm.  He then went into the kitchen and blew his own brains out.

    John C. Marsh, a lawyer, and his wife, James Boylin, and Reese Blair, were poisoned by eating eggs on Sunday morning at Beaver Dam, Union county, N.C.  Marsh died, but the others are supposed to be out of danger.

    T. H. Weathersby, Sheriff of Madison county, Miss., died at Jackson, on Sunday from hydrophobia.  He had been bitten by a rabid dog two months ago.

    While Henry James and his wife, at Morillton, Ark., were visiting at a neighbor's last Monday, their house was destroyed by fire.  One child was burned to death and another fatally injured.

    A report reached Easton New Year's day that Ephraim Bartholomew, a well-to-do farmer in the adjoining township of Moore, was found dead with this throat cut and his clothing saturated with coal oil and on fire.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Samuel Buchanan, an old citizen of Franklin township, died on Sunday, aged about 72 years.  He was the father of ex-Judge James Buchanan, of Trenton.

    Mr. John D. Hall, well known to many of our readers, a native of Readington, who several years ago removed West, died suddenly while attending church at Oswego, Ill., on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 16, of heart disease.

    John O. Heath died at the residence of his father, Moses Heath, in Kingwood township, on Monday morning last week, aged about 40 years.  At the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in the army.  He was in the service but a short time.  His mind became effected and remained so from that time to his death.
 

An Old Homestead
    Near Quakertown there is a farm that has been in the same family for 153 years.  It was bought in 1730 by Samuel Wilson, a descendant of the first owner by that name, and a member of the same society.  During all these years it has never passed out of the Wilson name and most of the time its owner has been named Samuel.  Originally it contained 600 acres, but it has been reduced by sale and division to about 120.  Much of the original tract is still owned by the Wilsons.  The stone house was built in 1735, and is still in use, it quaint design, its low, wide doors, and its general air of inconvenience contrasting strangely with modern homes.

    Deputy Surrogate George F. Hanson last Tuesday acted the part of a sensible man by taking unto himself a partner in the person of Miss Carrie B. Holcombe, daughter of Capt. Elisha E. Holcombe, of Mt. Airy.

    Ira C. Harvey, an attorney-at-law, and for a couple of years past employed in the office of Voorhees & Gotter, in this place, died on Thursday morning last from consumption.

    Golden wedding has just been celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. John Todd, of New Germantown.  Not a death had occurred in their family during their fifty years of married life, and all of their nine children were present.  After the congratulations to the older couple, their daughter Laura was married to Mr. S. D. Gillespie, of Bound Brook.  A son in business in Iowa had not been at home before in twenty years, and another boy had come from Colorado.  - Clinton Democrat.

    A week ago last Friday one of our citizens, Mr. William H. Larue, was taken sick with erysipelas.  He continued to grow worse (the disease finally striking his brain,) until Saturday evening last, when death came to his relief.  Mr. Larue removed from Sand Brook to this place last Spring.
 

State Items

    John Tibbett, a young man who died in the Cumberland county almshouse, one day last week, was the last of a family of seven, who have died within tow years.

    At Hackettstown the death is announced of Obadiah Allen, in his 85th year.  He was one of the oldest citizens of the town, and for twenty-three years had been totally blind.  Mr. Allen was the father of fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls, the greatest number of whom are living.  His grandchildren number thirty-eight and his great-grandchildren twenty-one.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's father, at Weldon, Iowa, Dec. 27, by Rev. Allen Judd, Abram S. Case, of Three Bridges, to Mattie W., daughter of J. D. Van Liew.

    At Fairmount, Dec. 28, by Rev. E. W. Long, Elias B. Conover to Julia A Jaquish, both of Fairmount.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 1, by Elder Charles W. Moore, William Cripps, of Sand Brook, to Martha Buchanan, daughter of Peter Buchanan, of Sergeantsville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Mount Airy, Jan. 1, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, George F. Hanson, of Flemington, to Carrie B., daughter of Elisha E. Holcombe, Esq.

    In Mount Pleasant, Dec. 25, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, Charles S. Hoppock, of Pattenburg, to Emma L. Keephart, of Mount Pleasant.

    At Fairmount, Dec. 22, by Rev. E. W. Long, Joseph D. Philhower to Sarah A. Barker, both of Potterstown.

    Dec. 27, by Rev. D. R. Foster, George M. Pidcock, of White House Station, Minnie Atchley, of Pennington.

    Jan. 2, by Rev. I. M. Patterson, assisted by Rev. Dr. P. A. Studdiford, of Lambertville, Thomas C. Detwiler, of Williamsport, Pa., to Frances Thomas, of Milford.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 22, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, James Lyon to Annie Watt, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 13, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, Peter C. Young to Ella Blackwell, all of Ringoes.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 1, by the Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, William M. Cooper and Susie C. Burk, both of Lambertville.

    At Glen Cove, Long Island, Dec. 25, by Rev. John F. Williamson, Geo. S. Warne, of Lambertville, to Mary Weeks, of Westfield, N.J.

    At Kingwood, Dec. 25th, by Rev. C. A. Wambough, Samuel W. Britton and Emma J. Sanford.

    At Kingwood, Dec. 26th by Rev. C. A. Wambough, Edward W. Niece and Ella W. Wolverton.

    Dec. 5, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, Elijah Hoffman, of Mendham, to Annie Apgar, of Peapack.

    In Mount Pleasant, Dec. 27, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, James D. Hoppock, and Cornelia Britton, both of Mount Pleasant.

    Dec. 29, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, Thomas E. Philhower to Emma J. Orts, both of Cokesbury.

    Dec. 29, at Clinton, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Clark Sheets to Susan Suydam, both of Stanton.

    In High Bridge, Dec. 22, by Rev. A. Dean, Charles Wyhouskey, of Flemington, to Anne Fritz, of High Bridge.

    Jan. 1, by Elder W. J. Purington, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. James Alpaugh, of Trenton, to Hulda, daughter of John Kugler, of Kingwood township.

    Jan. 1, by Elder Rodenbaugh, Fredrick Bidewell, of Franklin township and Vivian Horn, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, Jan. 3, 1884, Ira C. Harvey, Esq., aged 45 years, 6 months and 20 days.

    In Barbertown, Dec. 29, 1883, Mrs. Butterfoss, wife of Augustus Butterfoss.

    In West Amwell township, Dec. 19, 1883, Jonathan L. Phillips, aged 73 years.

    In Milford, Dec. 30, 1883, George, son of Peter and Emma Sinclair, aged about 6 years.

    In Kingwood township, Dec. 30, 1883, Mrs. Richard J. Vanselous, aged 25 years, 8 months and 20 days.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 23, 1883, John, son of Isaac and Mary Scarborough, aged 6 years and 8 months.

    Near Flemington, Dec. 26, 1883, Julia A. Bartles, aged 80 years, 5 months and 26 days.

    At his home near Landsdown, Dec. 29, 1883, Samuel R. Buchanan, aged 72 years.

    Died at his residence, in Flemington, Jan. 5, 1884, William H. Larue, aged about 67 years.
 
 

January 15, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 22

News Notes

    Joe Wander, fireman on the fast midnight train from New York to Buffalo, was blown from the tender and killed near Dale last Wednesday night during the storm.

    Francis York, of Lockport, N.Y., aged twenty-five, employed in the construction of the Junction Railroad, while going to his boarding house last Wednesday night was caught in a snow-drift at Skunk Hollow and frozen to death.

    John H. Thatcher, aged 13 years, an imbecile through spinal disease, set fire to his bed clothing at his home, in Central Falls, R.I., on Wednesday night, and was so badly burned that he died Thursday.

    E. D. Atchison, a desperate character, was taken from the Monterey (Va.) Jail on Monday night and hanged by a mob.  His body was then riddled with bullets.  Atchison was incarcerated for stabbing Sidney Ruckman, a prominent citizen, who still lives.

    Hampton Bird and eight members of his family, at Kaufman, Texas, were taken violently ill on New Year's eve night with strong symptoms of poisoning.  Tuesday Mr. Bird and two of his daughters died, and the others are in a precarious condition.

A Sussex County Sensation
    The little village of Hamburg, Sussex county, twelve miles from Newton, has been in excitement during the week over the discovery that Barton E. Rude, a rich young farmer of that village, had eloped with a pretty, rosy checked schoolmarm named Miss Ward.  The young lady taught school at Rudeville, a small hamlet near Hamburg, last fall and boarded in Rude's family...  It is believed that the couple are living in Jersey City.  Mrs. Rude is left with five little children to care for.
 

Public Sale of Personal Property
    The subscriber will sell at Public Vendue, at her residence on the road heading from Locktown to Kingwood, one half mile from the former place, on Wednesday, January 23, 1884, at 10 o'clock A.M., sharp, the following Personal Property, to wit:.....  Attendance and conditions at sale by Hannah Sutton
 

Local Department

    Very few people can boast of a great great grandparent.  Miss Ada, daughter of Dr. Nelson, of Neshanic, has a great great grandfather living.  This venerable personage is Mr. Kuhl Dilts, of Clover Hill.  Mr. D. is 98 years old, and is one of the oldest inhabitants of the county of Hunterdon.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Isaiah Hartless, a colored man, who for some years past has been noted as the most successful fisherman in Belvidere, died on Sunday night and was buried Tuesday.

    Samuel Gulick, a well-to-do farmer, committed suicide Wednesday morning by hanging himself to a rafter in his barn at Easton.  He was unmarried and lived with his brother.  His aged mother lived in Belvidere, and is greatly prostrated by the sad affair.
 

State Items

    Rev. Robert F. Young, who for twenty-two years has been in charge of the Haddonfield Baptist Church, died on Saturday evening after an illness of several weeks.

    Sherman Sysdyke, eighteen years old, a convict from Sussex county, committed suicide in his cell in the State Prison by hanging himself to the bed with a sheet.  He tried to kill himself in a similar way in the Newton jail several months ago.

    The dead body of Isaac L. Stinler was found in the cistern of Isaac N. Devoe, at Summit, Union county, on Sunday morning.  It is thought that Stinler committed suicide while suffering from mental depression resulting from excessive use of intoxicants.

    Samuel Bower aged seventy years, one of the oldest farmers in Monmouth county, hanged himself last Monday, at his home near Farmingdale, while laboring under temporary insanity.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Flemington, Jan. 10, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Henry Hoppock, of Headquarters, to Angelina, daughter of J. W. Yard.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. A. B. Still, Alonzo Fisher, of Mansfield township, Warren Co., Laura V. Hagerman of Bethlehem township, Hunterdon Co.

    Dec. 26, by Rev. C. H. Traver, David Fritts, of High Bridge, to Alice Stevenson, of Glen Gardner.

    Nov. 29, by Rev. C. H. Traver, David P. Hill, of Glen Gardner, to Mary O'Brien, of White Hall.

    Jan. 5, by Rev. I. N. Van Zandt, Whitfield Hockenbury, of Pittstown, to Amanda Harris, of Little York.

    In Pleasant Valley, N.J., at the house of Richard Hunt, uncle of the bride, December 26, by the Rev. S. R. Queen, John E. Mathews, of Trenton, and Ella M. Phillips, Pleasant Valley.

    At Titusville, N.J., December 30, by the Rev. S. R. Queen, Frederic Loew and Augusta Kleeberg, both of Trenton, N.J.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Titusville, N.J., January 3, by the Rev. S. R. Queen, Lyman Leavitt Brewer and Leila Mathews, both of Titusville.

    Jan. 10, by the Rev. Fisher Wilson, Cyrus V. Case, of Titusville, N.J., to Sarah M. Buchanan, of Sand Brook.

    Dec. 29, at the M. E. Parsonage, in Peapack, by Rev. Fred. Bloom, Wm. Todd to Nora Ella Woods, both of Somerset Co.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Stanton, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Jan. 9, Geo. C. Higgins to Annie M. Biggs, both of Readington.
 

Deaths

    In High Bridge, Jan. 4, 1884, Catharine, relict of the late John Struble, aged about 55 years.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 4, 1884, Mrs. Hannah Hoffman, aged 74 years, 9 months and 5 days.

    Near Brownsburg, Pa., Dec. 25, 1883, Thomas Lawless, formerly of Lambertville, in the 87th year of his age.
 
 

January 22, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 23

    Charles Delmonico, one of the noted family of restaurateurs in New York, who had been missing for a week, was found dead on the Orange Mountain on Monday.

    Mrs. James Durant, aged seventy, and James O. Smith, aged eighty, were married in Branford, Conn., on Thursday.  The couple had been engaged fifty or sixty years ago, and the wedding day had been announced: but before it arrived, they quarreled and separated.  Mr. Smith went to the western part of New York State and settled.  A few months ago he returned to Branford on a visit and met his early love.
 

News Notes

    John Elfers, who shot Dan Haggerty because the latter would not pay him 50 cents which he owed him was hanged last Tuesday at Walla Walla, W.T.

    George Murgatroyd, a commercial traveler from New York, committed suicide Tuesday at the Woodruff House, Watertown, N.Y., while temporary insane from his losses at gambling.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of bride's parents, Jan. 16, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, George W. Hockenbury, of Delaware township and Mary Ent of the same.

    At the same time and place, by the same, John C. Snyder, of Kingwood township and Melinda Ent. of Delaware township.

    Jan. 12, at the M. E. Parsonage, Cokesbury, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, M. B. Apgar, of Lebanon, to Annie C. Apgar of Cokesbury.

    Dec. 29, at Norton, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Miller Alpaugh, of Bethlehem, to Annie M. Duckworth, of Union.

    Jan. 9, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. W. E. Davis, Martin B. Hoffman, of Califon, to Ann Louisa Ramsey, daughter of James C. Ramsey, of Potterstown.

    In Trenton, Jan. 17, by Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, Jefferson B. Serivs, of Montgomery, Somerset Co., to Minerva, daughter of Joseph B. Leigh, of Clinton.

    At Quakertown, Jan. 1, by Rev. C. Clark, Judson L. Baldwin, of Sidney, to Alice A. Hann, of Pittstown.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Jan. 9, 1884, Harry B. Trauger, aged 4 years, 7 months and 9 days.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 15, 1884, Ellen O'Brien, aged 58 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 11, 1884, Tunis T. Kroesen, aged 88 years.

    Near Hamden, Jan. 1884, John Grandin, aged 96 years.

    Nov. 26, 1883, at Lebanon, Mrs. Lydia Sharp, wife of David B. Sharp.

    At Annandale, Jan. 18, 1884, Arthur E., son of Phillip and Emma Prugh, aged 5 months.

    At his residence, in Kingwood township, Jan. 14, 1884, Wesley Bellis, aged 69 years, 1 month and 13 days.
 

Local Department

    John Grandin, father of Dr. J. F. Grandin, died on Sunday morning last, at this residence near Hamden.  He was one of the oldest as well as the wealthiest citizens of our county.

    Two children of Dr. O. H. Sproul, of Stockton, died suddenly of membranous croup about a week ago.  Their ages were respectively 5 and 7, and they died within three days of each other.

    Tunis Ten Eyck Kreusen, the oldest resident and the oldest man in Lambertville, died there on the 12th inst.  He was aged 87 years and 11 months, and had lived there ever since he was about 3 years of age.  His father was Dr. Kreusen, who settled in Lambertville in 1804, and who was the first physician ever located in the town, which was at the time known by the name of Georgetown.
 

Death of Ex-Sheriff Bellis
    The death of Ex-Sheriff Wesley Bellis, at his residence near Baptisttown, last Monday morning, caused wide-spread sorrow, for he was a man who had a host of warm friends.  His death was very sudden and was caused by apoplexy, it being his third attack....  He had been twice married and leaves a family of children.  His age was about 62 years.
 
 

January 29, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 24

A Young Mother's Sad Death
    Neighbors went to the house of James Adams, a farm tenant, eight miles south of Bloomington, Ill., last Tuesday, and found Adams on the floor by the empty stove, sick and speechless with cold.  In bed near by was his young wife, frozen to death and a babe only four or five days old trying to draw sustenance from its dead mother.

    Cato J. Jenks, aged 23 years, a merchant of Apex, Wake county, N.C., has deserted his sick wife and three little children and eloped with Varina Pearson, the thirteen-year-old daughter of his clerk.

    Mr. Luther Childs, of New Jersey and Miss Ida Asten, were united in the bonds of matrimony on the 17th at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Mason Asten, No. 288 Lexington avenue.  The Rev. John Brewster and William Steele of German Valley, N.J., officiated...

    Miss Emma Hockwait, of Dayton, while dressing for her brother's wedding, fell on the floor and died almost instantly.  The news reached the bridal party while they were awaiting her arrival in the church.  The marriage ceremony was pronounced, but amid tears.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 12, by Rev. E. W. Long, Harvey Fleming, of Fairmount, and Elmira R. Hildebrant, of Hacklebarny.

    Jan. 19, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Harrison R. Bosenbury, of Annandale, and Lydia Edmunds, of Flemington.

    Jan. 17, by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, John G. Micke, of Lambertville, to Josephine Snyder, of Titusville.

    Jan. 23, by Rev. A. B. Still, Frank Eichlin to Emma Fritts, both of Bethlehem township.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Jan. 29, 1884, William E. Stryker, aged 46 years.

    Jan. 21, 1884, Charles Buckman Knowles, in the 80th year of his age.

    Near Stockton, Jan. 2, 1884, Thomas Sharp, aged 76 years, 1 month and 28 days.

    At Rowland's Mills, Jan. 21, 1884, Hamilton Gary, aged 21 years.
 

Local Department

    John Kinney, the well-known flagman on the Central Railroad at White House Station, died Tuesday morning, after an illness of only a few hours.  He had been a faithful employee of the Railroad Company for 33 years.

    William Norton, formerly of Belvidere, died in New York City on the 15th inst.  Mr. Norton was for a number of years Court Crier, which position he resigned; he also at one time was member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders, and High Constable of the town of Belvidere.

    Mr. Wm. E. Stryker, of Lambertville, (son of the late James D. Stryker) died rather suddenly early last Sunday morning week, from paralysis, which attacked him the day before.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    On Wednesday of this week, Prosecutor of the Pleas Smith, of Warren county, will be united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Davis, daughter of Mr. Samuel V. Davis, proprietor of the Lee House, of Phillipsburg.  The wedding will be at the bride's home and in the presence of relatives and immediate friends.
 

    Mr. Isaac Holcombe, a well-known resident of Lambertville, died on Friday last.  He had for a number of years past kept a stationery store in that city.  His age was about 65 years, and he was never married.
 

State Items

    Ann L. Kinsey, of Burlington, died on Saturday.  On Sunday evening her only brother, James Kinsey, died suddenly, having complained of felling unwell only a few moments before.  Rheumatic affection of the heart was the cause of his death.  Brother and sister were buried together at noon on Monday.
 
 

February 5, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 25

    Mrs. Henrietta T. Chadwick, a beautiful woman, 30 years of age, the wife of traveling man named Frank Chadwick, committed suicide on Wednesday night in a room on State street, Chicago, where she had been living with a man whom the police assume to be Dyre T. Randell.  The parents of the deceased live in New York.
 

News Notes

    Willis Hall on Monday deliberately shot and killed James Cherry, a farmer living at Jones Creek, six miles from Carthage, Mo.  Cherry's son and daughter witnessed the shooting.

    In a lonely spot on the East Bay shore, twenty-five miles from Galveston, on Sunday evening, a hunter named Lewis Mecomb, while eating supper in a lonely cabin owned by Mrs. Barrows, with whom he boarded, was shot and instantly killed by an unknown person.  Mrs. Barrows recently separated from her husband, who is still living in the vicinity.

    One of the Oriental Powder Company's mills at Windham, Me., was blown up last Wednesday and an employee named McKinney was killed.

    A passenger train on the Michigan Central Railroad on Tuesday at Toledo, Ohio, struck a buggy containing J. G. Lewis and Miss Nora McIntyre.  The latter was killed and the former was severely injured.

    At Wyandotte, Kan., on Monday evening Mrs. Jacob Hartmann, aged 67 years, while alone at her residence, was assaulted by a unknown person, beaten and robbed.  She died on Thursday.
 

    Wendell Phillips, the great New England agitator, died in Boston on Saturday evening last, of heart disease, aged 73 years.  He was the last of the Boston School of anti Slavery agitators.
 

Talk About People

    Mr. Hanson, late druggist of Bloomsbury, has gone to San Francisco, Cal., in which place it is learned he will engage in the same business.

    Mr. Henry S. Kroesen, of Lambertville, will start for Cordovia, Ill., in a week or two, it being his intention of settling there.

    Isaac Backer, of Bergen Point, formerly of White House, died on Wednesday of last week, aged 41 years.

    W. S. Tinsman, of Quakertown, started last week for Greenwood, Neb., where he expects to make his future home.
 

From Alexandria Township

    Mr. Jeremiah Hoff, an old and respected citizen of our township, died at his residence near St. Thomas' Church on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 20th.  Mr. Isaac J. Snyder died at his residence near Mount Pleasant, Jan. 23rd.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Within two years the family of the widow Stoll, living near Coleville, Sussex county, has been seriously afflicted.  In that time eleven deaths have occurred in her house, the last case being that of her son, a year old, of cholera infantum, on Monday, 21st.  Most of the other cases were consumptives.

    We greatly regret to learn that Mr. Jacob Rynearson, employed in the Somerset County Bank, dropped dead while sweeping out the banking rooms, last Monday morning.  He was a brother to Mr. A. Q. Rynearson, the station agent, at Three Bridges.
 

From Conkling's Mills

    Hamilton J. Gary, a young man of this place, was buried on the 23d ult.  His death is mourned by many outside of his family.
 

Wedding in Cherryville - Cherryville, N.J., Jan. 30, 1884
    The residence of Freeholder Whitfield Henry was elegantly illuminated this evening, the occasion being the marriage of his oldest daughter Francis, to John J. Volk, both of this place.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. Clark, Jr., of Quakertown, assisted by Rev. D. Halleron, of Newark.  Seventy invited guests attended the ceremony, several of whom were from New York, New Hope, Pa., and other points...
 

State Items

    Miss Lizzie Albus, of Phillipsburg, N.J., was fatally injured by cars, at South Easton, on Sunday.

    John P. Eastlack, of Cooper Hill, near Woodbury, being unable to sleep on Friday night, took a dose of morphine.  In the morning he was found dead in his bed, having taken an overdose of the drug.
 

Marriages

    At the Neshanic Parsonage, Jan. 15, by Rev. John Hart, Calvin C. Hoagland, of Raritan township, Hunterdon county, to Josephine D., daughter of William H. B. Opdycke, of Neshanic, Somerset county.

    At High Bridge, Jan. 19, by Rev. J. Mead, Samuel Rodenbough, of Clinton, to Annie Slater, of Union township.

    In Mount Pleasant, Jan. 24, by Horace D. Sassaman, Ephraim Simonton, of Frenchtown, to Mary Isabella, daughter of John A. Van Syckle, of Mount Pleasant.

    In Clinton, Jan. 18, by Rev. I. N. Hill, Jacob Tiger, of High Bridge, to Arminda Pittenger, of Clinton.

    At Cherryville, Jan. 30, by Rev. C. Clark, Jr., assisted by Rev. D. Halloran, of Newark, John J. Volk, to Frank, daughter of Freeholder Whitfield Henry.
 

Deaths

    At Centreville, Jan. 25, 1884, Jane Dilts, wife of Jacob Todd, aged 67 years and 4 months.

    Near Milford, Jan. 23, 1884, Enoch Mettler, aged 69 years, 6 months and 19 days.

    Near Byram Station, Jan. 21, 1884, Mrs. Malinda Bowe, wife of James Bowe, aged 30 years, 1 month and 14 days.

    In Pittstown, Jan. 25, 1884, Sylvester B. Dalrymple, aged about 42 years.

    Near Pittstown, Jan. 20, 1884, Jeremiah Hoff, aged 73 years, 10 months and 23 days.

    In Quakertown, Jan. 25, 1884, Sarah Ann Holcombe, aged 66 years, 6 months and 2 days.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 25, 1884, Isaac S. Holcombe, aged about 65 years.

    At White House Station, Jan. 22, 1884, John P. Kinney, aged 67 years.

    At Bayonne, Jan. 25, 1884, Isaac Simmons, aged 52 years and 2 months.  Interment at White House.

    Near Mount Pleasant, Jan. 23, 1884, Isaac J. Snyder, aged about 40 years.

    In Stockton, Jan. 22, 1884, Anna Kearnes, aged 6 months.

    At Rowland's Mills, Jan. 21, 1884, Hamilton J. Gary, son of Elizabeth Gary, aged 21 years, 3 months and 6 days.
 

Peculiar Accidents

    James Robinson, of Allen county, Ind., slipped and fell while feeding a drove of hogs.  The hogs attacked and killed him.

    John Lewis, of Sabin, Minn., tied a calf to a post that supported a granary, under which he was at work.  The calf pulled the post out and the granary fell upon Lewis, crushing him to death.

    Claud Saunders and a friend were playing ball in Hertford, N.C., standing twenty feet apart.  Saunders threw the ball and the other struck at it with a cypress pole four feet long.  The pole broke in the centre and one end struck Saunders in the eye, penetrated the brain and killed him.
 
 

February 12, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 26

News Notes

    Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, was killed by robbers near Culiacan, Mex., last Tuesday.

    A ruffian named Say, while intoxicated, fatally shot Postmaster Shuler, of Union City, Mich., on Monday night, without provocation.

    The wife and little daughter of Morgan Martin, a farmer, living four miles from Gallipolis, O., were burned to death in their dwelling on Saturday.

    Conrad Hope, aged 50 years, was shot and mortally wounded by Henry Ferguson, at New Orleans, last Monday, during a difficulty about business matters.

    At Homer, N.Y., a family quarrel Tuesday resulted in James E. Lines, a carriage trimmer, shooting his wife twice and himself through the head with fatal results.

    At St. Louis, last Tuesday, W. T. Newry, colored, arrested on suspicion a few days ago, has confessed that he killed Henry Depugh and another negro named Ross and then set fire to their house in March last near Alton, Ill.

    Jeff Rogers, colored, who outraged and brutally stabbed Mrs. Striblin, in the northern part of Chambers county, Ala., was forcibly taken from the Lafayette Jail on Saturday night and hanged to a tree.

    Late last Monday evening six men attempted to leave an oyster schooner in the harbor at Baltimore, and had proceeded but a short distance when the yawlboat capsized.  Joseph Roth, aged 25 years, and an unknown man, aged 28 years, were drowned.

    The dwelling of William Morrison, in Pocahontas county, W. Va., was burned on Monday night.  Morrison and his wife escaped with four of their children, who were sleeping in the room with them, but two others, girls aged 7 and 11 years, who were sleeping in another room, were burned to death.

    Mrs. Mary Lewis, about fifty-five years old, was brutally murdered at the residence of Charles Twitchell, at North Bridgeport, about midnight last Monday night.  Shortly after 11 o'clock three men, James Blake, George Butler and John Bishop, living in the north part of town, while under the influence of drink called at Twitchell's house.  Twitchell and his wife were drunk in bed, and Mrs. Lewis was in the kitchen.  The three ruffians went to the bedroom and attempted to assault Mrs. Twitchell.  Mrs. Lewis hearing her cries for assistance, went into the room to interfere, when one of the men seized a shotgun standing in the room and shot her in the neck under the left ear severing the jugular vein.  She died almost instantly.
 

Marriages

    At Glen Gardner, Jan. 31, by Rev. J. W. Lake, Theodore F. Ross to Sophia M. Hughes, both of New Hampton.

    At Spruce Run, Jan. 28, by Rev. C. H. Traver, Solomon Hawk, of Asbury, to Susanna Hawk, of Glen Gardner.

    Near Mount Pleasant, Feb. 2, 1884, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, David G. Krymer, Jr., to Ella S. Lare, both of Annandale.

    Feb. 2, in Round Valley, by Rev. R. Van Amburgh, George L. Reager, of Tewksbury, to Catharine Conover, of Clinton.

    Jan. 29, by Rev. C. H. Traver, Peter Weller, of Warren Co., to Emeline Stevenson, of High Bridge.

    At Bloomsbury, Feb. 7, by Rev. John C. Clyde, James E. Dilts and Mary Saylor, all of Bloomsbury.
 

Deaths

    In Somerville, Feb. 1, 1884, of consumption, Letitia Burk, wife of Wm. W. Young, aged 72 years and 11 months.

    In Ringoes, Jan. 30, 1884, Charles J., only child of George L. and Martha Dilts, aged 1 year, 1 month and 15 days.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 3, 1884, Gabriel Stryker, aged about 25 years.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 4, 1884, John D. Hoff, aged 65 years, 7 months and 3 days.

    In Flemington, Jan. 31, 1884, Mrs. Mary McLoughlin, in the 80th year of her age.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. John N. Golden, a daughter of Mr. C. Farlee Fisher, of Ringoes, died at her home in Hopewell, Mercer county, on Sunday evening, 3d inst.  Her age was about 45 years.  She outlived her only daughter, Katie, just one year.

    Mr. and Mrs.  Denice Van Liew celebrated their gold wedding at Neshanic one day recently.  Among the guests were two who witnessed the marriage.
 

    Mrs. Young, wife of Wm. W. Young, died last Friday night after a lingering illness, borne with Christian resignation.  She was of a Hunterdon family (her maiden name being Letitia Burk,) and came to this place with her husband in 1859.  Her age was 72 years and 11 months.  -  Somerset Messenger.
 

Gossip About Our Friends

    Mr. and Mrs. William Tinsman have gone from Kingwood to Cass county, Neb., where they are to take up their abode.
 

A Sad Fatality
    Last Thursday morning, Mr. William K. Voorhees, an old man residing at Bound Brook, went out along the railroad track to gather coal, as had been his custom for years past.  While thus engaged a short distance from the depot, he was struck by a car which was being drilled on to a side track, and killed...   He leaves an aged widow and a grown up family.
 

Changewater

    Aaron Lewis, a young man of Anderson, died very suddenly last Saturday.  He had been out walking and returning to the house, he sat down in a chair.  Some one asked him a question and receiving no answer they went to him and found him dead.  He was suffering with consumption.
 

State Items

    Emily Mills, aged 20 years, while going to church on Sunday night, was struck at Milton avenue crossing, Rahway, by the 6:45 westbound Cincinnati express on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and instantly killed.  Her head was completely severed from her body, the latter being horribly mangled.  Another train passing east at the same time bewildered her.  Her brother and two sisters, who were with her, were unhurt.

One Hundred and Sixteen Years
    In near proximity to Princeton resides a colored woman named Silvia Dubois, who, if she lived to the 5th of March next will be 116 years old.  She was born a slave on Sourland Mountain.  In early life she went with her owner to Great Bend, on the Susquehanna river.  They were the first settlers of this place so noted both in the past and at the present time.  Having whipped her mistress, and being presented with her freedom therefore, by her master, she returned to the scenes of her childhood.
    She is large, and was, and still is, for her age, a woman of prodigious strength.  Within a year she has ridden to Lambertville, where she had her photograph taken; and has walked to Harlingen, a distance from her home of four miles, which she accomplished in about two hours.  She has had six children.  One of them, Rachel, now lives in Princeton.  Silvia lives at Cedar Summit, a little back and west of Blawenburg on the mountain, with one of her daughters, Elizabeth, herself nearly eighty years of age...
 
 

February 19, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 27

Local Department

    An awful accident occurred on Saturday of week before last in Gardner's woods, near Perryville.  Mr. Henry Duckworth and two other men were sawing down a tree, and when it fell it struck against another tree, breaking off a limb, which struck Mr. Duckworth on the head, crushing his skull and killing him instantly.  The deceased leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss.  He was about 50 years of age.

    We regret to announce the death, from apoplexy, of Mr. Opdycke Arnwine, of Baptisttown, on the 9th inst.  He was aged about 75 years.  He leaves a second wife and several children.  He was born and always lived in the township of Kingwood.  In 1843-44 he was one of the Chosen Freeholders and at the time of his death the oldest ex-member in that township.  He was the father of John C. Arnwine, merchant at Baptisttown.

    In August last, Joseph Case, a son of Mr. John Q. Case, of Cherryville, died in St. Joseph, Missouri, from an attack of typhoid fever.  Owing to the warm weather and the contagious nature of the disease, his father was not allowed to bring the remains on to the old home in Hunterdon for interment, and consequently a temporary interment at St. Joseph was made.  Mr. Case went on some weeks ago and made arrangements for removing the body of his boy, and on the first of the month the remains of Joseph were brought home and laid in their final resting place amid the scenes of his boyhood, and where in life his feet had often trod.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. C. L. Schultz, a highly respected citizen of Kingston, Somerset county, died suddenly at his wholesale milk depot in New York on Monday last, it is supposed of heart disease.

    Mrs. Catherine Ann Staats, a much respected lady, 65 years of age, died Friday from the effects of a fall about a month before.  She lived with her son, Jeremiah Staats, in Bloomington, Somerset county.

    James N. Van Zandt, of Somerville, died suddenly last Thursday afternoon.  Tuesday night he complained of having difficulty in breathing, and on the day of his death he had four spasms, dying in the last one.  The doctor was unable to say what was the immediate cause of death.  He was a brother of Peter S. Van Zandt, V.S.
 

Gossip About Our Friends

    Mr. David Altemus left Clinton last week for Plaquemine, La., where his brother is engaged in business.

    Mr. Jacob Spangenburg, the accommodating boot and shoe dealer, will hereafter pay more attention than ever to children's foot wear.  His wife presented him with a fine little boy last week.

    Messrs. Albert S. Riley, late of Pennington, (son of Squire W. S. Riley, of this place,) and Wm. Gray, son of Joseph H. Gray, the restaurateur, have gone to Kansas City with a view of settling there permanently.

    Mr. T. E. Louder and family, of Lambertville, are about to remove to Florida with the intention of remaining there.  Mr. Louder has sold out his boot and shoe business to John F. Pew and Son.
 

    Edward Park, teacher of the public school at New Germantown, suffered most excruciating pains in his abdomen for four months.  He could get no relief from medicines, and decided to have an operation performed.  Week before last, Dr. Field, of Plainfield, assisted by Dr. Apgar, of New Germantown, found in the appendix verformes and abscess formed around a decayed watermelon seed.  The seed was removed, and it was thought that the operation would restore him to health.  For a few days he improved, but on Sunday, 10th inst., he died.
 

State Items

    Mayor A. H. Nichols, of Beverly, died on Monday, from the effects of the amputation of a toe.  He was also Postmaster and executor of several estates.

    One day last week Charles Beatty, and son, of Mt. Bethel, Warren county, went to saw down a tree in which was hanging a large loose limb.  They sat down to saw, and the son looking up saw the limb dropping and called to his father who was sitting directly under it, but before he could change his position the falling limb struck him on the head, killing him instantly.  Mr. Beatty was a well-to-do and highly respected farmer.

    From the Red Bank Standard:  On last Friday morning the wife of Richard Lawlis, gave birth to what is probably the smallest specimen of humanity in existence.  It weighed at birth only one pound, and could easily be placed under an ordinary lamp chimney.  The little fellow is well developed, plump and seemingly healthy in all respects.  Mrs. Lawlis four years ago had a daughter which when born weighed only 2 1/2 mounds, but who is now and has been from her birth, perfectly healthy.

    Jacob Jordan and two companions from Karrsville came to Hackettstown on Wednesday for the purpose of having a good time.  They were around town most of the day and succeeded in getting pretty drunk.  They made an attempt to catch the three o'clock train for their homes but failed.  They sat around the depot for some time, and an incoming coal train brought forth the announcement from young Jordan that he intended jumping on and going to Port Morris and that he would return and join them in the evening.  His companions warned him of the danger, but liquor had dethroned reason and he made the attempt but missed his hold and went down, the wheel passing over his arm and crushing his head.  He breathed when picked up but expired in a few minutes.  He was but a boy, scarcely eighteen years of age, if we are correctly informed, and was recently employed at the Oxford furnace. Hackettstown Gazette.
 
 

February 26, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 28

    News comes from Freeport, Ill., of the hanging by a mob near Denver, Col., of Eli Madlong, formerly a resident of Freeport.  It seems that Madlong pretended to be a physician, although he had no medical education.  He prescribed medicine for one of his patients which resulted in the patience's death.  The victim's friends organized a vigilance committee and hanged the Doctor.

    At Muskegon, Mich., last Tuesday morning, Mrs. Korun Larason, charged with poisoning John Guild, was found guilty of murder in the first degree.  Her husband is awaiting trial on the same charge.  Guild was 60 years old.  He deeded a farm to Mrs. Larason on condition that she should furnish him a home during the remainder of his life.  He died suddenly on August 1 last, and a post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that death was caused by a dose of "Rough on Rats," and the crime was imputed to the Larasons.

    Two men, Wallace Brookman and Richard Craig, were found dead in a room at the Ashland House, Lexington, Kentucky, last Saturday morning.  They stopped at the house about midnight in a drunken condition and called for a bed or two.  They retired at once, and it is supposed blew out the gas.  The condition of the men when they were found was horrible.  They had both tried to sleep on a small cot.  When discovered Craig was lying with his body on the bed with his feet on the floor.  On his face was depicted the most intense agony.  The other man was doubled up with his head and feet on the floor as though trying to crawl.  Wallace lived at Midway, Ky., and Craig was a resident of Lexington.
 

Marriages

    At Stockton, Feb. 16, by Rev. C. S. Conkling, John B. Brink to Alviretta, daughter of Wilson H. Snyder.

    Feb. 20, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., at the Presbyterian Parsonage, Flemington, Harry B. DeKay, of Hancock, Delaware Co., N.Y., and Mary D. Hoagland, of Clover Hill.

    At New Hope, Pa., Feb. 10, by the Rev. Garbutt Read, Robert R. Smith, Jr., of Reaville, to Gertie V. D. Case, of Three Bridges.

    In Easton, Pa., Feb. 12, by Rev. Charles H. Thomas, Rev. William Lawrence, of Philadelphia, to Mrs. Caroline Mensch, of Belvidere, formerly of lambertville.

    At New Germantown, Jan. 5, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, William C. Robinson, of New Germantown, and Sally F. Milligan, of Bethlehem.

    At New Germantown, Feb. 20, by Rev. J. E. Hancock, Alvah L. Alpaugh and Nora McCrea, all of New Germantown.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Feb. 17, 1884, Andrew Y. Scarborough, aged 4 years.

    At Jersey City, Feb. 18, 1884, Mrs. Harriet Fisher, widow of Manning F. Fisher, in her 55th year.

    At "Fair View," High Bridge, Feb. 19, 1884, Annie, daughter of Gen. Geo. W. and Mary K. Taylor.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 16, 1884, Minnie May, daughter of Charles P. and Martha D. Wright, aged 8 months and 5 days.

    In Clinton, Feb. 14, 1884, William Maxwell, aged 70 years and 7 days.

    At White House Station, Feb. 23, 1884, Patrick Gilroy, aged 58 years.
 

Local Department

    William Maxwell, an old and honored resident of Clinton, died Thursday last.  He had reached the allotted age of man - three score and ten.  The funeral was held last Saturday at the Stone Church.

    Mrs. Lucretia Hise died at Milford, on Sunday night, 17th inst., aged one hundred years and four months.  She had spent the greater part of her life there.  She leaves a large progeny, among them being twenty great grand children and eighteen great great children.
 

Married Fifty Years Ago
    On February 14, 1829, John M. Voorhees and Theadosia Alpaugh, his intended bride, a bright brunette of eighteen, then both living in the interior of Hunterdon county, drove to the parsons and were married.  They are still living at Frenchtown, enjoying life and health, except the infirmities incident ot their age.  Mr. Voorhees has held many offices of trust in this State.  His family antecedents are of the Revolutionary stock and date back among the early settler of New Jersey - his father having been a military officer in the War of 1812.  Three children have been born to them, two sons and one daughter.  William, the eldest, now dead, was a lawyer of Jersey City; Charles A., is a practicing physician in Philadelphia (formerly residing and practicing in Easton), and Margarette, the youngest, is a teacher in this State.

A Strange Case
    Thursday afternoon a resident of Annandale, Hunterdon county, named Jefferson Callahan, arrived on the Bound Brook Railroad, at Trenton Junction with his family, the youngest member of which was a fine, bright, healthy looking child of a month old.  On the cars a strange thing occurred, considering the age of the infant - its nose began to bleed very copiously, and the mother, becoming alarmed, stopped the hemorrhage by plugging up the nostrils.  They proceeded to Birmingham, to the house of a friend, about a mile distant, the child being wrapped up to protect it from the raw, cold air.  On arriving at the house the child's face was found to be almost black, and before it could be laid on a bed it gasped its last.  Dr. W. S. Lalor, the County Physician, was summoned, and found that the cause of death was congestion of the brain, probably caused by the jolting on the cars of the Phila. and Reading Railroad.  Had the child's nose been allowed to bleed it is probable its life would have been save.  -  Trenton True American.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mr. J. Smalley, of Bound Brook, died from consumption at his residence last Friday.

    William Dunn died in Plainfield last Sunday at the age of 75 years.  Mr. Dunn learned the tailoring business of Abraham Runyon, the Chancellor's father, in Bound Brook, and was successful merchant in Plainfield for many years.
 

State Items

    Six weeks ago a son was born to Mrs. Mary Lawlis, the wife of Richard Lawlis, of East Red Bank, which weighed exactly one pound.  It died suddenly on Sunday last, having caught cold from being frequently shown.  It was the twelfth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawlis.  A girl baby born two years ago weighed two pounds.  It weights but nine pounds now.
 
 

March 4, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 29

    Two negro roustabouts named John Fields, and John Long, quarreled in the latter's house last Friday, at St. Louis, and Long, stabbed Fields, killing him instantly.  The murderer accused Fields of intimacy with his wife.
 

State Items

    William Vail, of Newmarket, Middlesex county, hanged himself in his barn on Sunday afternoon.  He was 35 years of age.  The cause for his act was his wife's separation from him, owing to his vicious habits.

    While Dr. Newell, of Millville, was fishing in wood's pond on Tuesday, his hook became fastened to something heavy, which, upon being dragged to the surface, proved to be the body of Edward K. Hampton, the young man who had been missing for several weeks.  He was drowned while skating.

    Henry Anthiel, of Trenton, and a coal train brakeman, was killed at Coalport at nine o'clock last Wednesday night.  A train of cars was being drilled and he was standing between one of them and the engine.  Upon the separation of the cars from the engine he fell through to the ground, and the engine backing ran over him, mangling his body terribly.  His head was severed from the body and his legs and arms were cut through.  He was almost instantly killed.  He was 35 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
 

News Notes

    Robert Braighead, a well-to-do farmer, residing near Fulton, Mo., was called from his house on Tuesday night by a stranger who pretended to require assistance with a heavy-laden wagon, and was shot and killed.

    Thomas B. Marsh, a prominent business man of Girardville, Pa., left his store last Tuesday morning and returning to his home, entered his bedroom alone.  Ten minutes later he cut his throat with a razor.  When found by his horror-stricken wife he was lying in a pool of blood on the bedroom floor.  He lived two hours after committing the deed.  Despondency over business failures is the cause assigned.

    Last Wednesday afternoon, the 25-year-old daughter of John Allen, a colored hostler of Trenton, stabbed herself fatally with a table-knife.  She had been suffering with lung trouble but had not been in low spirits...
 

Death of a Noted Man
    Captain Henry King, a well-known sea captain of Camden, N.J., died at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Middleton, of Camden, Friday, at the age of ninety-four years.  About three weeks ago his wife, to whom he had been married sixty-seven years, died, since which time he gradually failed in health.  Capt. King's life was an eventful one....
 

Marriages

    Feb. 23, by Rev. A. B. Still, Wm. H. Bowlby, Jr., and Sarah C. Hacket, both of Bethlehem township.

    In Hopewell, Feb. 20, by Rev. R. P. Johnson, L. Howard Holcombe, of Lambertville, to Mary J. Phillips of Hopewell.

    By Rev. C. Clark, Feb. 23, at Quakertown, Thomas Hill, of Copper Hill, to Amanda W. Yates, of Pittstown.
 

Death

    In Trenton, Feb. 20, 1883 (probably should be 1884), Sarah A. Cummings, formerly of Lambertville, aged 68 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 23, 1884, Mrs. Eliza Slack, aged 76 years, 6 months and 6 days.

    At Hopewell, N.J., Feb. 18, 1884, Mrs. Jane Cook, widow of Samuel Cook, in the 71st year of her age.
 

Notice is Hereby Given,
    That the following accounts will be presented to the Orphans' Court to be held at the Court House, in Flemington, in and for the county of Hunterdon, on Monday, the Fifth day of May, A. D., 1884, in the term of April 1884, at ten o'clock in the forenoon for settlement and allowance:
    11.  William C. Barrack and James R. Sutton, Administrators of William B. Sutton, deceased.
 

Weary Of Life
    This community was greatly shocked last Friday morning to hear of the suicide of John Hockenbury, son of Wm. H. Hockenbury, of Barley Sheaf.  Deceased was aged about 40 years, and lived upon a lot near Pyatt's Corner, not far from the old Boar's Head Tavern.  He arose on Friday morning at his usual hour, and after joking some with his wife went out to the barn to do up his morning work.  About fifteen minutes later his wife went out to milk the cows, and upon entering the barn was horrified to find her husband hanging by the neck to a ladder leading to the hay mow...  He leaves no children.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Five of the oldest persons of one father and mother are yet living within four mile of each other.  They are Mr. Jeremiah Hageman, Miss Ida Hageman, Mrs. Hannah French and Mrs. Mary Whitlock, all living between Rock Mills and Neshanic, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stout, living near Skillman station - four sisters and one brother.  The youngest is over 75; the oldest 83.
 
 

March 11, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 30

Local Department

    Mr. Charles Carhart, of Annandale, died on Monday.  He was an old resident of that vicinity, but for many years has been disabled by partial blindness.
 

Obituary
    On Tuesday evening last one of the oldest and most widely known citizens of our county, Miller Kline, Esq., died at his residence in Flemington, aged 76 years and six months, to a day.  For many years previous to 1859, when deceased removed to Flemington, he carried on the farming and mercantile business at Klinesville, a small place two miles north of Flemington, and which derived its name from him....  Mr. Kline leaves a wife (who is a sister to Mr. Ogden Roberson,) and eight grown-up children...
    On Thursday morning at a about 1:30 o'clock Mrs. Ogden Roberson, of this place, breathed her last.  Deceased had been in rather poor health for some time past, but the immediate cause of her death was a severe attack of pneumonia, we learn...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The first house erected where the village of Deckertown now stands, was built in the year 1734, by Peter Decker, son of John Decker, who crossed the mountain, and founded the township of Wantage.
 

Gossip About Our Friends

    Mr. James S. Fisher, who last Fall went from Reaville to Sierra City, California, writes back that he is well pleased with his situation and the country.  His health is good, and he has added several pounds to his fighting weight.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 21, by Rev. D. T. Koser, John T. Lippencott to Annie B. Rapp, both of Holland.

    Near Croton, March 1, by Rev. G. F. Love, W. S. Warren, of Baptisttown, to Katie K. Saams, of Croton.

    By the Rev. T. S. Griffiths, at the residence of the bride's father, March 5, Geo. A. Castner, of Reading township, to Mary Storms, of Raritan township.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, March 4, 1884, Miller Kline, Esq., aged 76 years and 6 months.

    In Frenchtown, on Friday, Feb. 29 ,1884, Jennie R., daughter of C. H. and Kate Fulmer, aged about 4 years.

    In Somerville, March 3, 1884, Mrs. Fanny, widow of the late Charles G. Wilson, aged 79 years.

    At Ringoes, January 3, 1884, Melville, youngest son of Levanus and Annie Myers, aged 5 months and 21 days.
 
 

March 18, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 31

State Items

    Gottlieb Huber, of Asbury, Gloucester county, lost three children from scarlet fever on Saturday and Sunday.

    R. M. Hockenberry, a clothing merchant of Morristown, last of Hackettstown, died Saturday from blood-poisoning, caused by injuries received by falling a few weeks ago.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, March 12, by Rev. E. K. Smith, Charles W. Sutterly, of Trenton, to Mrs. Anna M. Bush, of Lambertville.

    At Stockton, March 11, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, John S. Sparling and Georgie Anna Cobb, both of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    In Trenton, March 4, 1884, Nettie, daughter of Charles and Jane Todd, formerly of Lambertville, aged 15 years.

    Near Pleasant Run, March 10, 1884, Margeret E. Conkling, aged 48 years and 2 months.
 

Local Department

    William Sliker, a former resident of Clinton, died last Saturday week, in a Newark hospital, where he was being treated for brain affection.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Oliver Dunster, an old resident of Bernardsville, Somerset county, and his wife will soon celebrate their golden wedding.
 
 

March 25, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 32

    George W. Vaters, of Vineland, had not been seen by any of his neighbors for about a month.  He lived alone on the outskirts of the town.  A few days ago his door was forced opened, and the missing man was found lying at the foot of his cellar stairs, dead....  Vaters has a wife living in England, and a son somewhere in this country, but their addresses are unknown.
 

News Notes

    Late on Saturday night C. Crinsur, a prominent planter, was killed in affray by Captain L. M. Cobb, at Camden, Ark.

    Charles Walters, a ragpicker, last Monday, at Louisville, Ky., killed a boy named Thomas Freeman with a stone for making fun of him.

    J. Parker and Joe Baker shot and killed each other on Saturday, at Blackjack Grove, Texas, the result of an old feud between them.

    The death of Mrs. Annie Key Turner, daughter of Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star Spangle Banner," is announced to have occurred at Mare Island, California.

    Jonathan Brown, tinner, 55 years old, on Monday last, at Baltimore, fell thirty feet and was killed, by the breaking of a rope by which he was suspended in examining some spouting.

    Hiram M. Richmond, 26 years old, a lawyer, of Meadville, Pa., committed suicide last Monday at New York, by shooting himself in his room at the Metropolitan Hotel.  When found by his uncle, James L. Morris, he was dead.  It is said that long suffering from dyspepsia had unsettled his mind.

    At Embree Station, Texas, Monday, Tom Warren, a half witted negro, heretofore supposed to be harmless, shot and instantly killed Clabe Brown, colored, and fatally wounded Brown's wife.

    A special from Brainerd, Minn., dated March 19th says: Last night a freight train came in dragging by a brake rod the mangled remains of John Green, of Gull River.  There was trail of blood along the track extending back a distance of four miles.  It is supposed Mr. Green fell between the cars.  He leaves a wife and two children.
 

The Oldest Man In Indiana
    A special dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal announces the death of Pierre Cottee, the oldest man in Indian, on a farm 3 miles from Vincennes.  Mr. Cottee, was 115 years old, and has been a resident of Vincennes township since his birth.
 

    Harry, a 12-year-old son of Edward H. Turner, of St. Paul, Minn., last Tuesday became angered at the reproof by his mother, snatched up a revolver and shot himself through the heart.
 

State Items

    Kate Doyle, a domestic in the family of John H. Kelly, at New Brunswick, was found dead in bed, Wednesday morning, last having been suffocated by gas.

    Michael Cushing fell into a coal chute, Tuesday afternoon, last at Bayonne, and was instantly killed.  His wife, who is an invalid, upon being informed of his death, sank into unconsciousness and it is not expected that she will survive the shock.

    William Baker, of Millville, has been committed to the Cumberland County Jail to answer the charge of bigamy.  He married Ruth Johnson in 1872, and on the 2d instant went through a similar ceremony with a girl named Godfrey.

    A little colored boy named Frank Colling, aged nearly four years, and living on the farm of Joseph F. Kay, near Woodbury, was killed on Sunday afternoon last while playing at his home...
 

Marriages

    March 15, at the Parsonage, Reaville, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Andrew R. Holcombe, of Reaville, to Clara Rebecca Fink, of Wertsville.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., March 20, Theodore M. Book, of Cooper Hill, and Maggie Jordy, daughter of Jacob Jordy, of Flemington.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, March 6th, 1884, Sarah, wife of Ogden Roberson, aged 64 years, 5 months, and 13 days.

    In Delaware township, March 8, 1884, Mrs. Laura Cronce, aged 19 years, 11 months and 6 days.

    At St. Louis, Mo., March 5, 1884, Albert Van Syckel, formerly of Milford.

    In Frenchtown, March 13, 1884, Charles P. Wright, in the 46th year of his age.

    In Trenton, on the 15th ult., of scarlet fever, Harry; also, on the 16th ult., Willie R., children of Augustus and Henrietta Van Fleet, aged 5 years and 3 months and 4 months and 8 days.

    At Quakertown, March 12, 1884, Miss Mary Dilts, in her 72nd year.

    In Jersey City, Sunday, March 23, 1884, of spinal meningitis, Kate Marian, daughter of Jacob Q. and Eliza H. Thompson, formerly of Flemington, aged about 11 years.
 

Local Department

    The mother of Mr. H. F. Bodine, a lady 78 years old, died very suddenly of apoplexy at her home at Sandbrook, on Thursday morning of week before last.  On Wednesday she had been on a visit, and attended a church service in the evening previous to her unexpected death.

    The people of Fleming deeply sympathize with Postmaster William Hill in the death of his wife, which occurred at her residence in this place last Friday night.  Mrs. Hill had been suffering all winter with rheumatism in its worst form.

    Susan Hager, a colored woman of Bloomsbury, aged 84 years, is dead.  "Aunt Suke" as she was familiarly called was a slave for about twenty-five yeers, being purchased by Colonel Robbins for the sum of $100, when she was five years old.  At the time of her marriage her master gave her her freedom.  "Aunt Suke" nursed all the children of the late Colonel of which Mrs. Smith, widow of Spencer C. Smith, was one, and is a resident of Bloomsbury.  Since the death of her father and husband, Mrs. S. has always seen that "Aunt Suke" was well cared for and it was a great pleasure for the old lady to spend a few days with Mrs. Smith and her family.  Colonel Robbins, Mrs. Smith's father, fought during the War of 1812, and had command of the forces at Sandy Hook where a British fleet attempted to land.  A reef there is known as Robbins Reef, in honor of the brave officer.  He died eighteen years ago at the ripe old age of 93 years.
 

    Mr. Mark Devlin, for many years past proprietor of the High Bridge Hotel, died there last Thursday night.  Mr. Devlin was widely known and very generally respected.  He had been in bad health for a year or more past.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Matthew Williamson, a Somerville butcher and at one time proprietor of the County Hotel there, died on Thursday last, aged 60 years.

    The death of Abram S. Hall, aged 25 years, a Somerville grocery clerk, is announced.  Two or three weeks ago he was seized with hemorrhages which resulted in his death about a week ago.

    Mrs. Hoagland, wife of John M. Hoagland, one of the former proprietors of the Raritan Hotel, was buried in Readington Monday.
 

Golden Wedding
    Mr. George H. Holcombe and wife, of Lambertville, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage on the 19th inst...
 

Changewater

    John Thomas, infant son of Jacob Thomas, was buried at Spruce Run last Saturday, the services being held at the Chapel here, and the sermon preached by Rev. J. Matthis.
 
 

April 1, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 33

State Items

    James LaRue, aged 60, was sitting with his family on Sunday evening, at Paterson, when he was taken with bleeding at the nose.  a few minutes afterwards he fell to the floor, dead.
 

    Samuel P. Burt, one of the wealthiest citizens of Milwaukee, was married on Thursday night to a young woman named Elizabeth Thompson, who was, until quite recently, a servant in the family of the gentleman, who is now her husband....
 

Marriages

    March 26, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, James Connolly to Emma Reamer, all of Flemington.

    At the Central House, Riegelsville, Pa., by Geo. W. Fackenthall, Justice of the Peace, Lewis Hartzell, of Mt. Joy, Hunterdon county, to Alice Rapp, of Riegelsville, Pa.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, March 21, 1884, Mary Ettie Martindell, wife of S. F. Martindell, aged 36 years.

    In Jersey City, Sunday, March 23, 1884, of spinal meningitis, Kate Marian, daughter of Jacob Q. and Eliza H. Thompson, formerly of Flemington, aged 8 years, 11 months and 11 days.
 

Local Department

    Mr. James Wilson, an old resident of Quakertown, died suddenly on the morning of the 22d ult.  He retired in apparent good health on the previous evening.  His age was 72 years, and his death resulted from paralysis.

    Ex-Senator Henry R. Kennedy, of Bloomsbury, died suddenly, Wednesday night, of heart disease.  He was taken ill at his son's house, and upon being assisted to his own home fell dead in the doorway.  He was a wealthy land owner, being the possessor of over 1000 acres.  His age was seventy years.
 

    The death of Rev. Thomas Swain, D. D., a former pastor of the Flemington Baptist Church, is announced.  His death occurred at his residence in Philadelphia, from heart disease, on Monday night last.  He was 67 years of age and a native of Pemberton, N.J.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miss Lizzie Umstead, a popular young lady of Washington, died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Jacob Snyder, in that borough, on Tuesday of week before last.  Deceased had suffered from rheumatism for about five weeks, and during the last week of her illness experienced the most acute pain.

    L. M. Osmun, M.D., one of Phillipsburg's well known and prominent citizens, died last Thursday afternoon, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Dr. A. W. Lee, after a short illness.  Dr. Osmun was the son of Joseph Osmun and was born at Independence, Warren county, November 2d, 1835.  When he was 13 years old his parents moved to Virginia.  He studied medicine and graduated from the National Medical College in Washington, D.C. in 1860.  In 1865 he came to Phillipsburg, where he has since resided.
 

Changewater

    The funeral services of Michael Banghart were held in Spruce Run Church and not Glen Gardner as we erroneously stated last week.

    Morris Fritts, of White Hall, aged 96 years, was buried at Spruce Run last Friday.

    Mary Francis, colored, of Changewater, was buried last Saturday afternoon.  She was 80 years of age.
 

    Last Sunday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, Lettie Ann, the wife of Solomon Peterson (colored) was drowned in the Delaware Division Canal, in New Hope...   She was about 76 years old...  -  Lambertville Record.
 

Copper Hill
    Copper Hill, March 29, 1884.

    Mr. Augustus Hill, who has been running an engine in his father's mill for the last three years, left for the West on Wednesday.  Success to you, Gus.
 
 

April 8, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 34

State Items

    Since Saturday four children of John Carpenter, of Newark, have died from diphtheira.  Their ages were 7, 5, 3, and 2 years, respectively.

    Bridget Caldwell, was killed at Newark, on Tuesday evening, by falling from the Fillmore street bridge of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.  She was standing on the edge of the bridge to avoid a passing train, when a gust of wind blew her off, and she fell into the street below.

    George Dey, a driver, was found dead Tuesday morning in a barn in the rear of his dwelling, No. 248 Hamilton avenue, Trenton.  It is reported that he went on a spree with two boon companions, the night before, and entered the barn to sleep off the effects of his debauch.  Death was due to that exposure.  He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and some children.
 

    At Fairview, Ky., on Tuesday, John W. Gibson, a young rough, walked into a grocery and fired two pistol balls into the breast of John McCoy, killing him.  No reason is assigned for the deed.

A Horrible Death
    Mrs. Catharine Bailey, who lived with her husband in a house owned by Daniel and Frazee Lee, at Two Bridges on the road from Plainfield to Rahway, was burned to death about two o'clock Tuesday morning.   The unfortunate woman who was about 50 years of age, had been at work all day Monday and after returning home in the evening had drank very heavily.  While in an intoxicated condition she apparently upset a lighted lamp on a table alongside of which she was sitting, and the burning oil flowing over her clothing wrapped her in flames.  She was horribly furned from her knees up, and died almost immediately.

    Monday night at twelve o'clock a masked mob surrounded the jail at Dallas, Gaston county, N.C., overpowered the jailer and took out a negro named Erwin McCullough.  They carried him to a tree half a mile distance and hanged him.  One week ago, McCullough shot and instantly killed Thomas Wilson, a prominent young man of Gaston.  The murder was coldblooded and unprovoked.
 

Marriages

    April 2, at Sidney, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Jacob Pickle, of Stanton, and Mary B. Johnson, of Quakertown.
 

Deaths

    Near Head Quarters, March 27, 1884, Mrs. Sarah Hice, aged 82 years and 8 months.

    At Quarkertown, March 14, 1884, at the residence of E.B. Suydam, Christopher C. S. Suydam, of Kingwood, aged 48 years.

    Near Lamington, March 29, 1884, Mrs. Abbie Vliet, aged 43 years.

    In Frenchtown, March 31, 1884, John Stillwell, aged 83 years, 11 months and 20 days.

    At his residence near Bloomsbury, March 26, 1884, Hon. Henry R. Kennedy, in the 70th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    John Stillwell, for twenty years past a resident of Frenchtown, died there on Monday last aged 80 years.  Some years ago he was extensively engaged in the coal business.

    Mr. Aaron H. Stover, an old resident of Milford and a man well known throughout the County, died on the 30th ult. from an illness of long duration.  He was 60 years of age.  For a period of nearly 30 years he held the olffice of Justice of the Peace.

    The Washington (Warren county) Star says:  "City Counsellor Wm. A. Stryker has obtained from the Chancellor of New Jersey a decree in favor of Jennie (Castner) Hunt of Washington, dissolving her marriage to Theodore Hunt of Flemington.  Miss Castner has just married again."
 

Neighborhood Notes

    By an unlucky jump last Tuesday, Albert Sutton, a Somerville boy, fell and broke his wrist.

    Dr. James C. Fitch, one of Warren county's oldest residents, died at his home in Hope on Saturday, 22d ult.  He was a native of New York city, where he was born November 7, 1791.  He removed to Hope and began the practice of medicine there in 1827.

    Miss Mary L. Stiger, daughter of John S. Stiger, of Mendham, and niece of Wm. Hillard, Esq., of Peapack, died very suddenly on Monday.  She was seized in the night with vomiting and in a short time died.  She was about 30 years of age and engaged to be married.

    Mrs. Abby R. Vliet, wife of Wm. B. Vliet, near Lamington, injured her head last Friday against the door.  Nothing serious was thought of it at the time, but the next afternoon she died from the effects of the injury.  She leaves a husband and five children.  Her maiden name was Abby Kline. [She was a sister of Mr. John S. Kline, of Flemington and Mr. Peter Kline, of Pleasant Run.]
 

    Mrs. Ellen Voorhees, wife of John Z. Voorhees, died Friday, March 21, 1884, at 6:40 A.M., at her home in Raritan, Illinois, of bronchial affection and blood poison.  The deceased was born in Hunterdon county, December 21, 1833, her maiden name being Tharp, a daughter of Peter Tharp, who died a few years ago.  In 1854 she moved with her parents from New Jersey to Illinois and was married to John Z. Voorhees also from New Jersey.  Mr. Voorhees, when a Jerseyman, left Hillsborough township, Somerset county.
 
 

April 15, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 35

    Douglass Packer, one of the best known freight conductors on the Lehigh Valley Railraod, met his death last Thursday morning near Slatington.  Packer left the caboose for the forward part of the train.  His absence alarmed.  Search was made and he was found dead on a car loaded with lumber, his head terribly crushed.  Packer was 35 years of age and leaves a family at Mauch Chuck.

    Daniel Hawn, the insane man who has been kept in solitary confinement by his brother since 1823, at Huntingdon, Pa., died last Wednesday, aged eighty-four years.  The maniac was one of five or six brothers who when young men worked together on their father's farm.  His malady is said to have been caused by drinking from a stream while overheated in the harvest field.
 

Marriages

    March 27, at the M. E. parsonage, Lumberville, Bucks county, by Rev. W. F. Sheppard, U.S. Grant Van Horn, of Rock Ridge, Hunterdon county, to Jennie Leffever, of Raven Rock, Hunterdon county.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., at the Presbyterian parsonage, Flemington, April 10, Charles M. Lacey and Mary B. Saam, daughter of George Saam, all of Croton.

    In Lambertville, March 31, by the Rev. W. M. Mick, George W. Kroesen to Mrs. Hattie Hammer, both of Lambertville.

    April 5, by J. H. Demott, Justice, John B. Godown to Martha Jane Hassell.

    At Stockton, April 9, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, George Larison and Ettie Sanders, both of Stockton.

    At the Sandy Ridge parsonage, April 5, by Rev. M. B. Laning, Samuel F. Gary, of Flemington, and Hannah H. Higgins, of Delaware township.
 

Deaths

    At Phillipsburg, April 3, 1884, George Kohl Flummerfelt, aged 26 years.

    In Savannah, Georgia, March 26, 1884, Vivian P., daughter of James B. and Mary H. Horn, aged 5 months and 14 days. formerly of Lambertville.

    At White House, April 8th, 1884, Aaron Thompson Trimmer, aged 2 years and 4 months, only child of Emma A. and Elijas W. Trimmer.

    At Jersey City, April 10, 1884, John Vandaveer, formerly of White House, aged 21 years, son of Henry Vandaveer.
 

Local Department

    The wife of Mr. Hezekiah Rounsaville, one of our Flemington blacksmiths, died after a brief illness last Wednesday night, at her residence in Reaville.  She was a very fine woman, beloved by all who knew her.  Mr. R. only removed to Reaville from this place about two weeks ago.

    Dr. Richard H. Coryell, a native of Lambertville, died in Philadelphia on the 4th inst., at the age of 66 years.  He leaves a widow and four children.
 

    Elmer Smith, son of the late Isaac Smith, of this place, died at the residence of his mother, in Newark, last Friday morning, from consumption.  Deceased will be remembered as a clerk in the Flemington post office during the time his uncle, N. G. Smith, Esq., was postmaster here.  He removed to Newark with his mother some three years ago.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Lewis, who died at Franklin Furnace on the 31st of March, is said to have been 104 years of age.  He was born in Ireland in 1780, and came to this country after reaching manhood, residing many years near Scranton.  Since 1869 he has resided with his grandson John Loomis, at Franklin.

    John Dillman was hanged at Easton last Tuesday morning for the murder of his wife...
 

Changewater

    Mr. Hazen, aged about 50, living near here, died last Saturday morning of consumption.  He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss.
 
 

April 22, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 36

Obsequies of a Queen
    Dayton, Ohio, April 15, 1884 = Grannie Jeffers, the Queen of the gypsies in the United States, who died at Greenfield, Tenn., on March 10, was buried here today....
 

State Items

    A little three-year-old son of George L. Broomhall, of Riverside, Paterson was left alone in the bathroom on Saturday.  The hot water only was running into the bathtub, and the little fellow clambered up to turn off the faucet, when he fell into the scalding water, receiving injuries that resulted in his death a few hours afterward.

    D. K. Smith, a man about 50 years of age, fell off a raft in the canal, opposite Princeton, on Tuesday afternoon, and was drowned.  He was the captain of the raft and had come from Bordentown.  a fellow workman told County Physician Lalor that Smith was intoxicated from the time he left home.
 

Marriages

    At Pattenburg, April 7, by Rev. W. V. Voorhees, John C. Ruple, of Alexandria, to Mary O'Heron, of Pattenburg.
 

Deaths

    At Bloomsbury, April 13, 1884, John C. Smith, aged 47 years.

    At the residence of her husband, near Manchaca Station, Travis county, Texas, Feb. 26, 1884, Mrs. J. P. Moore.

    At his residence, near Manchaca Station, Travis county, Texas, March 29, 1884, Dr. Wm. J. Moore.  Dr. William J. Moore was a native of this State, and was engaged in the practice of medicine before removing to Texas.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Mary Anderson, of Frenchtown, died suddenly last Wednesday morning from an attack of paralysis.  The attack came upon her as she was dressing herself, and her death occurred at 11 o'clock.  Her age was 65 years.

    Col. John J. Cladek, who organized the 35th Regiment N.J. Volunteers in this place in '63, died at his home in Rahway a couple of weeks ago.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    John Vanderbilt died at his home in Asbury on Tuesday of last week, rather suddenly, although he had suffered two or three years from rheumatism and other complaints.  He was in his 69th year of age.
 

    Miss Alice Bevoort, eldest daughter of Hon. Frederic A. Potts, was married last Wednesday afternoon to Mr. Robert Macla Bull, at Zion P. E. Church, Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street, New York.  The ceremony was performed by Bishop Starkey, at half-past three o'clock.
 
 

April 29, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 37

A Father's Horrible Crime
    A Waynesboro, Ga., dispatch says: Edward Dowse, who is held in jail charged with the murder of his five children, has confessed his guilt.  He states that his children kept accumulating upon him, while his ability to support them diminished.  The children were, according to the custom among Southern field hands, locked in the cabins while the parents were at work.  At ten o'clock in the morning he felt an uncontrollable desire to rid himself of his burden, and pretending to his wife that he wanted some necessary article in the cabin, he mounted a mule and went there.  Opening the door, he closed it behind him.  He attacked the youngest with an axe and killed it meanwhile the others had hold of him by the legs, beseeching him to spare the child.  Turning from his dead victim he grasped two other children, one in each hand, and beat their heads against each other until they became unconscious.  With an axe he then killed them.  The two remaining children had sought refuge under the bed.  Reaching them he killed them also, and left the five dead bodies on the floor.  Closing the door, he returned to work, giving no sign of the bloody work in which he had been engaged.  It was the absence of an explanation of the tragedy more than anything else which led to his arrest.
 

News Notes

    Cornelius Schugrue has been arrested at Chicago on the charge of murdering his hostler, Samuel Atkinson, last February.

    The body of Nathan E. Fish was found in the East River Tuesday.  Dynamite cartridges were found in his room in a New York hotel, and he is believed to have belonged to a dynamite band.

    Near Irving, Ky., last Saturday, Joe Flynn and Bill Hale, two desperadoes, engaged in a shooting affray, and Flynn shot Hale through the heart; but before the latter fell he shot Flynn twice, from the effects of which he died in a few hours.

    At Macon, Ga., last Wednesday, Jesse Gunn shot and killed his father, Willis Gunn.  The father was a widower and he and his son courted the same young woman.  The son married her two weeks ago and the father sent him work that he would kill him...

    Charles Frike, an aged German and an old resident of Waukegan, Ill., murdered his second wife on Sunday night by beating her brains out with a club.  The deed was discovered last Tuesday by a passing neighbor, whom Frike called in.  he acknowledged the killing, saying they had quarreled all day Sunday over the dispositon of some property.  Frike is very feeble, being unable to leave his bed, and will probably not live to be tried.

    A row boat containing five persons - Jacob Kiefer and his son Caleb, George Hilliker and his wife, and Nathaniel Wright - was run down off Verplank's Point, New York, some time last Tuesday night by an unknown vessel and all in her were lost.  The party all lived at Verplank's Point.

    John Coyle was hanged at Gettysburg, Pa., last Tuesday morning.  He was about thirty years old and lived with his parents in York County, opposite Marietta.  His principal occupation was tending the ferry.  Emily Myers, eighteen years old, was employed in the family as a domestic.  She is said to have been more than ordinary good looking.  On May 30, 1881, Mrs. Coyle called Emily early to milk the cows.  The girl went out to do so, and some time afterwards, Mrs. Coyle hearing a noise, went out on the porch and called for her.  There was no answer from the direction of the stables, but her son John came down stairs and told his mother that he had killed Emily, shooting her first and afterwards himself....
 

State Items

    Charles Fisher, a prosperous farmer at Waterford, Camden county, asked his wife for a razor last Wednesday night to shave himself.  After getting possession of the weapon, he went to the barn, tied a rope around his neck and gashed his throat with the razor.  His wife suspecting something wrong followed him and cut the would be suicide down.  The doctors say he will die.

    Sadie Doughty, aged 6 years, was drowned in an old well at Paterson, on Tuesday.  She had attended school during the day and at the close of the session went for a walk and to look for wild flowers.  In her rambles she fell into the well, which was open and entirely unprotected.  Her body was not found until next day, and it was at first thought she had been kidnapped.
 

Falling Dead In The Ring
    Julian Martinette, an old circus clown employed with Sells Brothers; circus, fell dead, at Salineville, Ohio, while endeavoring to amuse a tent full of people with coarse jokes and antics...
His death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease, resulting from over excitment.  He was sixty-three years of age and was at one time proprietor of the Martinette and Ravel Pantomine Company.  He had been with Sells Brothers for one week only.  He lived in Baltimore and leaves a family in that city.

A Reminiscence
    The Deckertown Independence says that Dr. Fitch, of Hope, Warren county, is dead, at the advanced age of 91 years.  He was the oldest physician in the State of New Jersey...

    A dispatch from Annapolis states that Sophia Johnson has been arrested near there for causing the death of May Snowden, aged twelve, an adopted child.  The child disappeared last January.  Edward Duvall, while gunning a few days ago, discovered the child's remains in a thicket.  He identified them by her clothing.  A confession on the part of Sophia Johnson's son led to arrest...
 

Local Department

    Morris Dilts, a former resident of White House, was found dead in bed at the house of his son ... Ricefield , last Saturday morning.  His death is attributed to heart disease.

    Paul K. Dilts, an old man of 96 years, died at his home near Clover Hill on Wednesday last.  We think he was born in this township, near Copper Hill, and once lived at Quakertown, removing from that place many years ago to Clover Hill.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Peter G. Nevius, of Pleasant Plains, Somerset county, died on the 16th inst., aged 84.  he had been afflicted with palsy for four years.  He was a farmer by occupation, and a brother of the late J. S. Nevius.

    On Saturday evening, 19th inst., Oscar Smith, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman on the Valley Railroad, while stepping from a freight car to the engine, at Glendon, missed and fell under the wheels of the engine, which crushed his leg.  He was taken to St. Luke's Hospital where the injured limb was amputated.  He died last Wednesday.
 

Ringoes Items

    The only child of Mr. Theodore Higgins died on Saturday morning with scarlet fever.  It had the disease in its most violent form.  Its age was about 4 years.
 

    William Smith, a well-to-do farmer of Rensselaer Falls, N.Y., aged 50 years, killed his wife with an ax last Friday evening.  Smith is thought to be insane.

    John Henderson, colored, was hanged and his body riddled with bullets at Bolivar, Miss., on Thursday, by Mr. Davis and neighbors, for assaulting Davis' daughter, from the effects of which she will die.

    David M. Pelton, President of the Cleveland Pump Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, was caught by a circular saw last Thursday and literally cut in two.  Pelton was fifty-three years old and leaves a large family.
 

Marriages

    April 10, by the Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Charles A. Price, of Trenton, to Leah W. Moore, of Lambertville.
 

Deaths

    At White House, April 26, 1884, Charles L. Tetter, aged 32 years.

    At Dunellen, April 24, 1884, Wesley B. Sutton, aged 22 years and 6 months.

    At his son's residence near Neschanic, April 19, 1884, Allanson Chamberlain, aged 82 years and 1 month.

    At Mt. Pleasant, April 16, 1884, Mrs. Mary Anderson, of Frenchtown, aged 65 years and 18 days.
 
 

May 6, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 38

News Notes

    Robert Buner became violently insane at Bloomington, Ill., on Monday and beat his sister fatally with a club.

    Isaac Jacobson, a carpet cleaner, deliberately shot and killed George Bedell, the proprietor of a carpet cleaning establishment at Chicago, Tuesday morning because the latter refused to pay Jacobson a dollar which the murderer claimed Bedell owned him.

    Margaret Cohen, 53 years of age, who had been employed by Father Feilly, at Wilmington, Del., for thirty-six years, while washing the outside of a second story window on Monday fell from a porch roof to the ground, a distance of ten feet, and died soon afterward.

    Cicero Jellerson has confessed that he murdered his father at Audubon, Ia., and implicates his brother-in-law, John A. Smith and Joel J. Wilson.
 

Crimes of a Crazed Mother
    On Saturday morning last Mrs. Amelia Barnet, wife of David Barnet, of Phillipsburg, N.J., opposite Easton, locked the doors of her house threw her son Willie, aged 2 years and 6 months on the bed and cut his throat with a razor.  She then seized her 5-month-old child and served it in the same way, and then gave an alarm and as the neighbors rushed in, drew the razor across her own throat and threw herself on the bed beside her children.  Willie, the elder boy, died in ten minutes. The younger child and mother are both mortally wounded.  The Barnet family came to Phillipsburg from Pittsburgh, Pa., several months ago, but the husband and father was only in limited employment and it is believed that the wife and mother became crazed on this account...  Mrs. Barnet is aged twenty-five years.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Israel Woodward, of this place, died on Thursday night last after several weeks terrible suffering from rheumatism or something akin to it.  On the Sunday previous his physicians amputated one of his legs in hopes of saving his life, but the experiment was unsuccessful.

    Gen. Emerson Opdycke died at his home in New York, on the 25th ult., from acute peritonitis, resulting from a wound accidentally received while cleaning a pistol.  He was born on Jan. 7, 1830, in  the Western Reserve of Ohio.  His ancestors went to Ohio from Hunterdon county, and were descendants of Gysbert Opdycke, one of the earliest settlers in New York.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Catharine Van Horn, widow of Cornelius M. Williamson, died suddenly at her residence in Somerville about 11 o'clock Wednesday forenoon.  She was about the house as usual, when she all at once went to the bed and falling on it died with scarcely a gasp.

    Last Thursday week Edward Mershon, aged 78, a well known resident of Woodsville, after eating dinner, and while walking over to his farm near by, had an attack of apoplexy and died instantly.

    A dispatch from Deckertown, N.J., last Thursday afternoon says: The village of Beemerville, near Deckertown, was greatly excited this morning over the elopement of a white school girl, Miss Amanda Ayers, of Beemerville, and a daughter of C. D. Ayers, with a negro of that place named Henry Adams.  The girl is about 14 years of age.  She has always heretofore been of good reputation.

    Miss Kitty Arlington, daughter of Richard Arlington, residing in Sussex county, near the Delaware, about three miles from Port Jervis, eloped last week with a sewing machine agent.  Mr. Arlington is a widower, and Kitty kept house for him....
 

Marriages

    At the Frenchtown, M. E. parsonage, April 24, by Rev. I. N. Vansant, Albert E. Lanning to Mary H. Wilson, both of Frenchtown.
 

Deaths

    In Ringoes, April 26, 1884, Martha D., only child of Theodore Y. and Victoria Higgins, aged 2 years, 3 weeks and 4 days.

    In Vineland, April 26, 1884, Joseph Elton, formerly of Flemington, aged 80 years.

    In Lambertville, April 13, 1884, Mary A. Farley, aged 26 years.

    In Lambertville, April 17, 1884, Elizabeth Lear, aged 96 years.

    At Dunnellen, April 24, 1884, Wesley B. Sutton, aged 22 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, April 15, 1884, Mrs. Anna R. Weller, wife of Charles W. Weller, aged 18 years and 3 months.
 
 

May 13, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 39

     Ham Patterson, colored, residing at Hatton Post Office, Culloway county, Missouri, was taken from his bed on Saturday night and killed by a mob of twenty citizens of the place, because he had circulated scandalous reports about several ladies of the place.
 

State Items

    James Ba..en, of Basking Ridge, has recently lost three of his children with scarlet fever.  They were 2, 4 and 6 years old.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Near Lena, Park county, Indiana, Monday, J. D. White was shot dead by Samuel Jackson at the latter's residence.  Both were drunk.

    John Good, a farmer near Morgantown, O., was fatally wounded on Sunday night by a mounted assassin, who fired through a bedroom window.  Good was asleep at the time beside his wife.

    George Jackson, a colored farm hand in the employ of Joseph Kirby, near Easton, Md., last Tuesday made an assault with a club upon his employer, when Mr. Kirby dealt a blow which killed Jackson.

    George Osborn, toll collector at Portage Lake bridge, Kalamazoo, Mich., was shot dead on Sunday night while collecting toll.  Osborn leaves seven children.

    T. H. Proctor, a merchant, of Denver, Lincoln county, N.C., was called to the door of his residence by a man named Doc Thompson, and fatally shot.  The cause alleged was an old grudge.  Thompson was arrested.

    Mrs. Harrison Reed, a most estimable lady living near Waughtown, N.C., was murdered on Monday by Henry Swain, but his cause for committing the deed is unknown.  Mrs. Reed's throat was cut with a butcher knife, and she was terribly beaten over the head with an axe.
 

Charley Ford, One of the Assassins of Jesse James Commits Suicide
    Charley Ford committed suicide last Tuesday morning at Richmond, Mo.  He was suffering from consumption and had been taking morphine for a long time to allay the pain of another disease...
 

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