A Woman Worth $75,000 Found Dead
    Mrs. Eliza Baldwin, aged 72, the wife of Henry Baldwin, or more familiarly known as "Uncle Harry" Baldwin, was found dead on Monday in her house at Lake Mahopac, Westchester county, N.Y.  She had been for years somewhat erratic, and her husband was unable to live with her...

    Monday morning Charles Knoll and George Bauer, of Newark, went to Linden to hunt rabbits.  At that place they were joined by a number of others, and all started out through the woods in quest of game.  Near Peck's woods they separated, and shortly after Knoll heard the report of a gun, and following the direction of the sound was horrified to find Bauer lying dead on the ground and the entire left side of his head blown away.  The unfortunate man had evidently stooped to get under a fence and, while in that position, in some manner the gun had been discharged with fatal effect.

    Pleasant Anderson was hung by eight masked men on Monday night, near the town of Blakesburg, Iowa.  He was tried and acquitted of the murder of Christopher McAllister, but this mob believed him guilty and hanged him.  Anderson protested his innocence to the last.

    Sheriff Terry was shot and killed by Emmitt Butler on Sunday last, at Helena, Karnes county, Texas.  Butler, while attempting to escape, was killed by an unknown person in the crowd.   Terry was a prominent stockman.

    Leopold Von Zechen was found dead in his apartments at Baltimore last Tuesday, having been suffocated by gas from a coal oil stove.

    Ruth Gill, the little daughter of John Gill, a prominent grocer at Cleveland, O., was accidentally shot and killed on Wednesday by a 5 year-old companion named Walter Grosshar.  They were playing with a revolver.
 

Local Department

    Dory Sutton, of Sergeantsville, successfully worked out the egg problem published in this paper last week.  Dory is a good boy, and may take a seat among the big girls.

    Miss Maria Cherry, of Kingwood township, while visiting Mr. Howard Hunt's family, in Lambertville, was taken with an attack of apoplexy, and died on Monday morning last.  She was in her seventy-eighth year.

    Mr. Acker Moore, of Sand Brook, died at his residence on Tuesday last in the 80th year of his age.

    Ralph Teets died in New York last Tuesday, aged 71.  Mr. Teets was troubled for many years with heart disease.  On tuesday he attended to his business as usual.  On returning home at night he was seized with the old heart trouble and died in a short time.  He was born at Milford, Dec. 1, 1813.

    Mr. Isaac G. Marsh, an old resident of this town and vicinity, died at his residence on Main street last Tuesday night, after a weeks' unconsciousness from an attack of apoplexy.

    On the morning of the 23rd ult., William Crouse, of Holland, was found dead in bed, he having gone there the preceeding evening well as usual.  Deceased was an old steersman of rafts on the Delaware.  He was 82 years, 8 months and 8 days old when died died; was twice married, surviving his second wife about ten years; was the father of twelve children, and thirty-two grandchildren.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Alfred Martin, one of the oldest residents of the vicinity of Bound Brook, dropped dead there in the depot of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad on Monday.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Emmons, of Bernard's township, Somerset county, recently celebrated her 100th year.  She has outlived two husbands and is still possessed of surprising physical vigor.  Her home has always been among the hills of Morris county and that part of Somerset county adjoining.
 

State Items

    Theodore Rodgers, a Perth Amboy saloon keeper, has been arrested on a charge of having, a few days ago, struck his daughter with a chair, and inflicting injuries which caused her death.

    A brakeman named Clark was standing on the rear of a locomotive tank on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Perth Amboy, on Monday, when by the sudden starting of the engine he was thrown under the wheels, and instantly killed.  Clark lived at Ashley, Pa., to which place the remains were sent for interment.

    A ten-year-old daughter of William Rodda, of Port Oram, Morris county, fell into a open pit near the Hurd mine, on the 23d inst., and was drowned...

    Benjaimin Messenger, aged sixty-five years, a veteran of the late war, was found dead in bed, on Monday, at Preakness...
 

    A brakeman named Mason was fatally injured near Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday night by being struck on the head with a stone thrown by a tramp.  He was found lying insensible on the top of a car when the train reached New Britain and was cared for at that place.
 

Marriages

     At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Dec. 27th, 1884, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Ellis Burket, of Barbertown, and Amy Barcroft of the same place, all of Hunterdon county, New Jersey.

    At Sand Brook, N.J., Dec. 31st, by Elder Charles W. Moore, Judson Rose to Catharine Gethard, all of Lambertville, N.J.

    Dec. 25th, 1884, by Rev. A. B. Still, Isaac Thomas, of Junction, and Elizabeth Mary Moyle, of Bethlehem township, both of Hunterdon Co., N.J.

    Dec. 31st, 1884, by Rev. W. A. Smith, at the Parsonage in Junction, N.J., Charles E. Cougle, of Port Murray, N.J., and Mary E. Henry, of Henryville, Monroe, Co., Pa.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 21, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Thomas Taylor Hully to Matilda Suydam, both of Delaware township.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 24, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Edward Souders to Mary P. Taylor, both of Lambertville.

    Dec. 23, at Lambertville, by Rev. C. H. Woolston, Wm. Ramsey to Rachel Johnson, both of Lambertville.

    At Stockton, Dec. 31, by the Rev. C. S. Conkling, John Edinger to Anna Mary Ulmer, all of Stockton.

    Dec. 25, at the residence of the bride's uncle, Martin Rinehart, Esq., by Rev. W. Schmitz, of Pottersville, Wm. E. Davis, of Morristown, to Alice H. Welsh.

    At the Parsonage, Dec. 24, by Rev. W. Schmitz, of Pottersville, Wm. S. Swackhamer, of German Valley, to Minerva Schuyler, of Fairmount.

    At White House, Dec. 20, by Rev. M. Herr, James A. Shanger, of Newark, to Mary E. Conner, of White House.

    At the home of the bride, on the 31st of December, by Rev. Charles W. Pitcher, Godfrey C. Stout, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to Catharine E. Fulper, of Rowland's Mills.

    At the Parsonage of the Reformed Church, Stanton, by Rev. Charles W. Pitcher, on the 31st of Dec., Anthony Harsel to Mary K. Craft, both of Stanton, N.J.
 

Deaths

    Died, in Flemington, on Tuesday evening, December 30, 1884, Isaac G. Marsh, in the 67th year of his age.

    At New London, Conn., Jan. 1, 1885, Mrs. Harriet Chapell Brown, aged 90 years and 3 months.

    Died in Delaware township, on Tuesday morning, Dec. 30, 1884, Acker Moore, in the 80th year of his age.

    In Delaware township, Dec. 11, 1884, Elizabeth A. Van Dolah, aged 76 years and 3 months.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 15, 1884, Robert M. Dilts, aged 3 years, 2 months and 18 days.

    In Baptisttown, Dec. 25, 1884, Francis Roberson, in the 93rd year of his age.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 26, 1884, Esther Liverton, aged 84 years and 22 days.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 29, 1884, Maria Cherry, aged 77 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 27, 1884, Arthur Gordon Petrie, aged 1 year and 3 months.

    Dec. 30, 1884, at Mechanicsville, infant child of Joseph and Rosa Latourette.
 
 

January 13, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 22

    Enoch Bellis, a farmer residing near Warrington, in Warren county, died Tuesday morning, aged 74 years.  He came to his death in a singular manner.  His kitchen door was an old fashioned double one.  On New Year's morning he was standing near it, the upper part being half open, when his large dog jumped over the lower part, striking the upper part with great force and throwing it against Mr. Bellis so hard that it knocked him down against the stove, dislocating his shoulder and breaking his thigh.

A Centenerian Veteran Dead
    Charles Burch, aged 106 years, died recently at Lowellville, Ohio.  He was born in a soldiers' camp in England and becoming a British regular he helped fight the Americans in 1812.  Returning home he marched against Napoleon, was wounded in the hip at Waterloo, making him a cripple, and he has ever since been a British pensioner.  His pension always came in gold, and during the war the old man sold it, getting at one time 260 for it.  He came to America in 1851.  He had two sons in the Union Army during the civil war, and one of them died and his name is on the soldier's monument at Youngstown, Ohio.  The other is at the Soldier's Home at Dayton.

    Miss Ella McChesney, the daughter of Mayor Colgrove, of Corry, Pa., died at New Orleans, under most distressing circumstances.  She, with some friends, was visiting the New Orleans Exposition, and by some means was separated from them and could not be found.  The case was given to the police, and after two days search they found her in an out-of-the-way place and unable to gvie a clear account of what happened.  It seems that she was drugged by supposed friends, who left her where the police found the body.  She was in a pitiable condition and lived only a short time.

    James Donaldson, an engineer, living at Paterson, has been employed for some time past at the Laflin & Rand power works, at Mountain View.  On Saturday he crawled into the boiler of his engine for the purpose of cleaning it out, and almost immediately was overpowered by the foul air.  He shouted for help and struggled with all his failing strength to climb out through the manhole, but was too weak to extricate himself from the horrible trap.  At length some of the men, hearing strange sounds issuing from the boiler, went and looked in and found Donaldson lying unconsious within.  He was rescued as soon as possible, and everything that could be done was tried to restore him to consciousness, but in vain, as he died five hours after.  He was 46 years old, and leaves a widow and seven children.

    Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, pastor of St. Ann's on the Heights, an Episcopal Church, died in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, from the effects of blood poisoning...  He leaves a wife and eight children.  Mrs. Schenck is the sister of Senator Pendleton, of Ohio.
 

    The funeral services of Miss Laura Reisch was held at the Presbyterian Church on Thursday afternoon last.  Miss Reisch was a daughter of James Reisch, who moved to this village last summer, and who is in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.  She was a great lover of music, and before her removal to Flemington she and her sister were salaried members of the choir of a Church in Jersey City....  As the sun was setting they laid her to rest in Prospect Hill Cemetery.  She had been afllicated a long time with a pulmonary affliction, and died on January 5th.

Burned To Death
    A sad accident occurred last Thursday evening at the house of Mr. John Snyder, near Baptisttown, resulting in the death of Mrs. Asa Hockenbury.  This lady has been in poor health for the last two or three months and has at intervals shown signs of mental aberration...
At about milking time on Thursday night Mrs. Snyder went out to the barn to attend to that duty, leaving Mrs. Hockenbury in the house to set the tea table, she requesting so to do.  In a short time thereafter Mrs. Snyder was startled by a sharp cry of distress and looking in the direction of the house saw Mrs. Hockenbury running toward her, her clothing all in a blaze...
Mr. Snyder was at the barn attending to his stock, and hearing the outcry made by the two women hurried out and after some difficulty succeeded in putting out the fire, but not before Mrs. Hockenbury was so badly burned that her death resulted about 12 o'clock that night.  Her maided name was Lavina Slater.  She leaves a husband and two children.

Old Naturalization Papers
    Probably the oldest naturalization papers in Trenton are in the hands of Miss Kate Leonard, of 414 Ferry street.  They were taken out by her deceased grandfather, Thomas Leonard, February 9th, 1822, at Flemington, Hunterdon county, Mercer not having been created at the time.  The papers include Mr. Leonard's notice of intention given at the "Hunterdon County Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the term of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen."  It is ther stated that the applicant left Ireland August 23d, 1809 and reached New York October 31st, following.  He was therefore about nine weeks on the ocean - rather a contrast with the fast passages of today.  The certificate of naturalization is made out by "J. T. Blackwell, per curiam," and is accompanied by the affidavit of one John Wilson, that Leonard had been a resident of the United States since 1814.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Thomas Titus, son of ex-Mayor Titus, of Hackettstown, was engaged in the White Hall mill a few days ago, when he was caught in a belt and drawn into the cogs of a corn sheller.  His injuries wer so severe that he died shortly after being removed to his father's house.  He was about 50 years of age.

    The New Brunswick News recently contained a portrait of Mrs. Arintha Bellis, the oldest lady in that city, where she has resided since 1832.  She was born near Clinton, Hunterdon county, May 16, 1786.  Her maided name was Smith, and at the age of 17 she married Peter Bellis.  She was a sister of "Uncle Henry" Smith, who kept the old Bull's Head Hotel in New Brunswick, years ago.

    Patrick Doyle, with three other miners, was buried under a mass of debris, which fell upon them on Friday night, while working in the Richard Mine, in Morris county.  Doyle was killed, while Patrick Burke and John Williams were severely bruised.  Doyle was about 35 years of age, and having recently lost his wife, sent to Ireland for his aged parents to come and live with him.  They arrived only a few days before the accident.

    Isaac Allen, one of the oldest residents of Mercer county, and who resided in Hamilton township, left home on New Year's day to call on a friend Rue, who lives near Sandtown.  He did not return on Thursday night.  Friday afternoon the body was found frozen stiff.  The physicians think Mr. Allen was taken ill with an apoplectic fit on his way home and fell by the roadside.

    Thomas Welsh, a tailor, aged 32 years, of Plainfield, was run over and killed by a train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, near Plainfield station, Saturday evening...
 

Marriages

    At Hope, Warren county, Dec. 24, by Rev. A. H. Belles, Edwin J. West, of Lebanon, Hunterdon county, and Tillie M. Cooke, of Hope.

    At the residence of the bride's sister, at Milford, Dec. 31, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, assisted by Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Wm. H. Shaw, of Trenton, and Lizzie V. B. Ulmer, of Milford.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 25, by the Rev. John Scarlet, William Smith Riley, of Bridgeton, Pa., to Ella, daughter of William Case, of Ringoes, N.J.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 31, by Rev. John Scarlet, Horace L. Parks, of Sergeantsville, to Marilla Matthews, of Ringoes.

    At Ringoes, N.J., Jan. 3, by the Rev. John Scarlet, Alfred William Zeihle, of Hopewell township, to Eva Goddard, of Ringoes, N.J.

    At the Parsonage, Clover Hill, Dec. 18, by Rev. N. I. M. Bogert, George Latourette, of Readington, and Maggie N. Sutphin, of Clover Hill.

    At Mechanicsville, Dec. 31, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, David O. Hoagland, of Readington, and Emma A. Hall, of White House.

    At the residence of John Green, Mechanicsville, Dec. 31, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, George W. Waldron, of Lebanon, and Emma J. Cole, of White House.

    Dec. 24, at the Christian Parsonage, Milford, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, John Moffat, of Durham township, Bucks Co., Pa., to Sarah J. Foos, of Holland.

    At the Parsonage, Dec. 27, by Rev. F. R. S. Hunsicker, D. D., Elmer Ellsworth Bowlby, of Junction, and Cynthia Y. Hagaman, of North Branch.

    Jan. 1, at the bride's parents, by Rev. C. H. Winans, William K. McCathern, of Cokesbury, and Irene, daughter of Isaiah Apgar, of New Germantown.

    Jan. 3, at the Asbury Methodist Parsonage, by Rev. Isaac Thomas, Edward C. Zimmerman, of Pattenburg, and Mrs. Jennie M. Bosenbury, of West End.

    Jan. 1, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Daniel Muller to Lina Muller, both of Stockton.

    At Washington, D. C., Jan. 1, by Rev. Frank H. Burdick, Rev. Harrison Clarke, of Mt. Airy, Hunterdon county, to May Barnes.

    At the home of the bride's parents, Jan. 8, by Rev. Amzi L. Smith, Willard K. Crosson, of Sand Brook, N.J., Sarah A. Stenner, of Sergeantsville, N.J.

    By Rev. C. Clark, Jr., at Quakertown, Emma J. Roberts to Taylor S. Cook, all of Pittstown, this county.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of Samuel C. Stevenson, near Quakertown, Dec. 30, 1884, Rebecca Large, aged 90 years, 11 months and 8 days.

    In Kingwood township, Dec. 27, 1884, Mahala Lodor, aged 72 years, 3 months and 22 days.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 6, 1885, Ella, wife of Evan Dalrymple, aged 25 years and 11 days.

    Near Glen Gardner, Jan. 6, 1885, Margaret, daughter of Joseph Peoplesdorph, aged about 18 years.

    At White House, Dec. 31, 1884, Abram Van Horn, aged 80 years.

    In Delaware township, Dec. 24, 1884, Angie, wife of Peter N. Todd, aged 50 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 2, 1885, John E. Kelly, aged 33 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 1, 1885, Mrs. Eliza Large, in her 85th year.
 
 

January 20, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 23

    Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax dropped dead last Tuesday forenoon at the Omaha depot in Mankato, Minnesota....  Mr. Colfax was born in New York city, March 23d, 1823, and removed to Indiana in 1838....

    The veteran Captain Isaiah Rynders, died of apoplexy at his residence, No. 310 West Twenty-third street, New York, early Tuesday morning.  He was stricken in University place, near, Washington square, about 9:15 o'clock on Monday evening, and was immediately taken home in a carriage.
 

State Items

    A one-year-old child of John Churchill, living at South River, died recently while in laughing hysterics.

    Garret S. Van Blarcom, a prominent citizen of Sussex county, was killed by the paymaster's train of the Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad, on Tuesday at Sparta.  He was crossing the track there when the train struck his wagon, throwning him several feet in the air and killing the horses.  The train men were from the main line and did not give any signal.  Deceased was a wealthy farmer.

    Clayton Cramer, who is a man with a rather remarkable history, died at Medford on Saturday, aged 75 years.  In 1838 he murdered Hosea Moore, at Fox Chase, while intoxicated.  Moore said he was under the Lord's protection and defied anyone to hurt him.  Cramer waited until he fell asleep and then beat his brains out with a hammer.  He was tried and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but, after serving seventeen years in prison, was pardoned, and returned to Medford, where he has since led an exemplary life and accumulated considerable property.

    A brutal robbery and murder is reported from Scottdale, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.  Two brother named Adam and Christopher Reck are proprietors of the Vance House at that place.  Adam sleeps in the second story of an adjoining building, the lower story of which is used a general store.  About midnight Christopher, hearing a noise in Adam's room started on a tour of investigation.  Just as he entered the store-room, he was captured by two burglars dressed in Indian costume with their faces painted red, who pounced upon him and beat him unmercifully.  The cries of his wife aroused the neighbors and the robbers fled.  Adam was found in an unconscious state, bound and gagged.  His skull was crushed and his ribs were kicked loose from the vertebra.

    In 1863 Henry Grieves, of Lumpkin county, Ga., abandoned his wife and six children.  The mother was compelled to work in the fields for her support.  Five of the children died from want, followed by the grief-burdened mother.  On Saturday a stranger arrived in Dahlonega and announced himself as Grieves and sought out his living son.  He states that he went to Ohio under an assumed name, married and raised a large family and has accumulated $50,000.  His second wife having died recently, his return was for the purpose of making such reparation as he could.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. George W. Freeland, of Milford, died suddenly on Friday last.  She was taken with apoplexy at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and died at 7 o'clock in the evening.

    Mrs. Charles Tomlinson, for over fifty years a resident of Bloomsbury, died in that place on the 6th inst., aged 80 years.

    Stephen H. Brown, Esq., formerly of Junction, and a prominent Democratic politician, while in this county, died suddenly in Binghamton, N.Y., on the 20th ult.  Bright's disease was the cause.

    We are sorry to record the death of Peter Hoagland, son of the late Aaron C. Hoagland, which occurred at his residence in this place on Sunday, from congestion of the brain.

    A friend from Frenchtown informs us that the venerable Moses Roberson, of Kingwood township, was born January 30, 1799, and became of age in 1820, in time for the Presidental election.  He case his first vote for James Munroe, and voted three times for General Jackson.

    Mr. Andrew Larison, an old and highly respected citizen of West Amwell, died on Monday last, aged 82 years.
 

    Mr. William Scarborough, of Lambertville, died on Tuesday afternoon last from heart disease, in the 81st year of his age...  His funeral took place from the residence of his son-in-law, L. H. Sergeant, Esq., on Friday afternoon.

    Philip G. Reading, an old and prominent citizen of Frenchtown, died at that place on Tuesday last, aged 68 years.  In the early history of Frenchtown, he was an active business man, having been engaged in the lumber, spoke, handle and mercantile business...  He leaves a widow, six sons and one daughter.
 

    The Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Connet, of Readington, was celebrated on Saturday, the 10th inst.  The occasion was of much rejoicing, and one which the very worthy couple greatly appreciated...
    There were many unusual and pleasant freatures connected with this anniversary...  During the fifty years of their married life nine children had been born to them.  Of these, the first two died when young, within a short time of each other.  The others, with the exception of the youngest, who remains at home, have separated from the parental fireside and established homes for themselves - one in Iowa, one in Western New York, and the rest in New Jersey....
    Samuel Connet is one of three brothers, and all three of these, with their wives, lived to see the semi-centennial of their bridal years, and all of them celebrated the event.

    McEvers Forman, a well known citizen of Easton, died at that place last Sunday, at the age of seventy-nine.  He had a paralytic stroke in December, from which he did not recover.  He was born in Pittstown, this county, and removed to Easton in 1822.

    A bright little son of Station Agent Gerhart, of Clinton, aged 10 years, died at Mauch Chunk, Pa.., on the 11th inst., from an attack of diphtheretic sore throat followed by typhoid fever.  He had gone to Mauch Chunk to visit his grandparents.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The wife of Jesse Snyder, jeweler, died at Phillipsburg after a short illness, aged 26.  The couple were married on Thanksgiving in the presence of a church filled with friends.  The bride, Miss Mollie Stewart, was one of the most popular young ladies of the place, and none seemed better suited to enjoy life.  Shortly after their return from the wedding tour Mr. Snyder was prostrated and is now almost at death's door with consumption.  The wife nursed him until she was stricken down and called away by death.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 14th, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., in Elemington, Hervey Kuhl, of Copper Hill, and Arabelle Hill, of Flemington, daughter of the late John Hill.

    Jan. 14, at the home of the bride's mother, near Flemington, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, George M. Prall, of Somerville, and Malvina Wert.

    At the Locktown Christian Parsonage, Jan. 7, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, Joseph Barrick, of Baptisttown, to Kizzie Arnwine of the same place.

    At Cokesbury, Dec. 31, by Rec. C. R. Snyder, Wm. J. Apgar, of Mountainville, to Mary E. Lindabury, of Apgar's Corner.

    At the residence of Mr. D. L. Alpaugh, Jan. 1, by Rev. C. R. Snyder, Robert H. Apgar, of Mountainville, to Sevilla Robinson, of Pottersville.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 3, by the Rev. J. A. Dilks, Max Garrish, of New Hope, to Annie L. Bennett, of Junction.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, January 13th, 1885, J. Russel, son of John C. and Deborah P. Sergeant, aged 9 months and 15 days.

    In Holland township, January 12, 1885, of heart disease, Abigal, wife of George Echlin, in the 77th year of her age.

    In Delaware township, Jan. 12, 1885, Andrew J. Larison, aged 82 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 13, 1885, William Scarborough, aged 81 years and 11 months.

    In Trenton, Jan. 8, 1885, George A. Kohl, grandson of the late Capt. Geo. A. Kohl, of Lambertville, in the 33d year of his age.

    In Delaware township, Jan. 13, 1885, J. Burroughs Mathews, aged 44 years.

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 13, 1885, Philip G. Reading, aged 68 years and 2 months.

    At the residence of her son, E. W. Bellis, near Flemington, Jan. 8, 1885, Mrs. Ann Bellis, aged 72 years and 2 months.

    At the residence of Ellen Polhemus, White House, Jan. 9, 1885, John Van Buren, aged 88 years and 10 months.
 
 

January 27, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 24

    Nicholas Van Horn, a well to do farmer, and widower, of Habershaw, Georgia, the father of two children over thirty years of age, was married to Miss Ivey, a child of twelve.  During the ceremony the child began to sob, when the old man patted her on the head in a fatherly manner, and wiped her tears with his big bandana.

    George H. Fox, a young man of rather hard character, who has just returned from the West, was arrested at Rockford, Ill., last Friday for the murder of John Holliday at Chemung last Thursday night.  Holliday was the husband of Fox's aunt.  Fox went to Chemung to visit her Thursday night.  She told him that Holliday had beaten and abused her, and was the father of her daughter's child by a former husband.  Fox then fell upon Holliday, beating him horribly with chairs and clubs so that he died, and then lay down and slept the night through in the same room with the corpse.

    The sudden death of Capt. M. J. Farrell, of New Orleans, last Friday night was caused by a mistake in filling a prescription.  Instead of one ounce of water and twenty-four drops of aconite, as ordered, the druggist put in one ounce of aconite.  A dose of this was administered to Mr. Farrell and he expired shortly afterwards.  A warrant has been issued charging Melchert, the druggist, with involuntary manslaughter.

    A. M. Hammer, aged 53 years, proprietor of a small grocery store four miles north of Colliersville, Tenn., was shot and killed last Friday by unknown persons.  Subsequently Jesse Jones and Pan Drumright, both colored, were made by a mob to lynch them.  Both the prisoners were wounded, but were safely landed to jail at Colliersville.

    Miss Matilda Chase, aged 63 years, daughter of the late Chief Justice Chase, of Maryland, and living at Annapolis, while sitting in her night clothes before and open grate fire, reading her Bible, fell asleep.  Her clothing was ignited by the fire and she was so seriously burned, that she died in a few hours.
 

Local Department

    David Crater, of Fairmount, was found dead in his bed on Tuesday morning, Jan. 6.  He is supposed to have died with heart disease.  The deceased was 76 years of age and had seemed to be ususually well just previous to his death.

    Says the Clinton Democrat: Early last Sunday morning, Mrs. William H. Corson, of High Bridge, died very suddenly.  She retired about 10 o'clock on Saturday night in her usual healt.  At 2 o'clock she aroused her husband, who immediately went to another room for some medicine, and upon his return she was breathing her last.

    Mr. Wm. B. Scott, a prominent New York banker until last May when his firm collapsed, died at St. Augustine, Florida, on the 16th inst.  He was born in Hunterdon county in 1813,and went to New York while yet a boy, securing a situation as clerk in dry goods house.  In 1848 he embarked in the banking business and for about thirty-seven years his firm, W. B. Scott & Co., was considered one of the solidest in the country.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Isaac Shields, who for thirty-one years had been a collector in the employ of the Morris Canal Company, at Port Delaware, Warren county, died at his home in Phillipsburg, Tuesday night, aged 63 years.

    Last week we mentioned the death of Mrs. Mollie Snyder, daughter of Josiah Stewart, and the serious illness of her husband, Jesse Snyder.  The wife was buried last Friday, and while the cortege was returning from the grave, the husband expired.  They were married Thanksgiving eve, were young with bright prospects.  He was taken with typhoid fever, which she also contracted while waiting on him.  He rallied while she died, and her death caused him to relapse and fellow her.  -  Phillipsburg Democrat.
 

Clover Hill Items

    It is a little late for New Year presents, but Henry Case just received his on the 13th ult., and Scudder, the mail carrier, on the following day.  They were both in the shape of a boy baby.
 

Marriages

    On the 31st of Dec. 1884, at the residence of Mr. Franklin S. Terry, Fernwood, Montgomery Co., Pa., by Elder P. G. Lester, of Va., James P. RIsler to Katie Stout, all of Locktown, N.J.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, Jan. 17, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Philip H. Apgar, of Cokesbury to Eretta A. Rinehart of Vliettown.

    At the home of the bride, in Hamden, Jan. 17, by Rev. S. D. Decker, David E. Bellis, to Otellia M. Swayze, both of Hamden.

    At the residence of the bridge, Dec. 24, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Hezekiah Philhower to Emeline Thomas, all of Califon.

    In Flemington, Jan. 17, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Charles H. Roberts, of Flemington, and Maggie Nailor, of Asbury.

    In the First Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, Jan. 15, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., assisted by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D. D., James S. Studdiford, to Mary, daughter of Charles A. Skillman, Esq.

    At Ringoes, Jan. 10, by Rev. John Scarlet, Simpson Stout Agin, of Ringoes, and Jennie Maria Murphy, of Wertsville.

    At Ringoes, Jan. 17, by Rev. John Scarlet, Alanzo V. Emery, of South Branch, N.J., and Sarah S., daughter of Nathaniel Shepherd, of Ringoes.
 

Deaths

    In Flemington, January 18th, 1885, Peter R. Hoagland, aged 51 years, 2 months and 18 days.

    At New Germantown, Jan. 14, 1885, Rachel, wife of Urias Alpaugh, aged 48 years.

    Died at her home, near Stanton, on the 20th of Jan. 1885, Mrs. Maria Lunger, aged 81 years and 3 months.

    In Franklin township, Jan. 17, 1885, John Leonard, aged 69 years and 18 days.
 
 

February 3, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 25

    Mrs. Mary S. Dooley, of Winterset, Iowa, who had been deserted by her husband, on last Tuesday administered opium to her 5 year old son, her 12 year old daughter and herself.  All died except the girl, who will recover.

Cincinnati, January 28
    At an early hour this morning four men were found in a sleigh in the western part of this city but one of whom was able to speak. One was dead and the other two so drunk and so nearly frozen as to be unconscious.  The dead man's name was Peter Gerber.

    William Houck, of near Reading, Pa., died last Wednesday aged seventy-seven.  He had foretold his death, although he was never sick...

    John Francis Quarles, the well known colored lawyer, died last Wednesday at Flushing, L.I., from pneumonia, aged 38 years.
 

Killed and Burned Her Husband
    William Druse, a farmer in moderate circumstances, living in the town of Warrn, Herkimer County, three miles from Richfield Spring, N.Y., has been missing for a month.  He had had frequent quarrels with his wife, and for several days it was rumored that his wife had murdered him, cut and burned the body and placed the bones in a swamp.  An axe, owned by Druse, was found rolled in paper at the bottom of Weatherbee's pond, on Saturday last.  A nephew of Mrs. Druse, named Gates, aged 18 was "squeezed" by the neighbors and confessed that she had shot her husband while he (Gates) and her son were out of the house.  Upon Gates' return, Mrs. Druse put a rope around his neck and compelled him to fire into the body.  The remains of the murdered man were then burned and the bones which remained were buried.  The odor of burning flesh was noticed in the vicinity of Druse's house December 18.  It is said that the woman has admitted her guilt.  Mrs. Druse has a brother in New York.
 

Local Department

    A 14 year old daughter of John O'Brien of Raritan (formerly of High Bridge) was buried in the Clinton Catholic burying grounds on Tuesday.

    Eli C. Cook, of whose illness and expected death we spoke in our last issue, died at his residence in this place on Wednesday morning.  His age was about 36 years.  Mr. Cook was a nephew of the late Eli Camp, of Copper Hill, with whom he learned the brush-making business.  He leaves a wife and three children.  His funeral took place on Saturday last, and was marked by impressive Masonic services.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Some years ago, Mr. W. C. Van Doren removed from Washington, Warren county, to Virginia, and word has just been received from him that he lost a little son a few days ago from scarlet fever, and that another son is sick with the same distressing disease.  Before Mr. Van Doren removed from Washington he lost two little boys in one day from scarlet fever.

    Mrs. Thomas Winsor, of Bound Brook, received a letter Monay morning from her husband, who has been in Texas for sometime.  He said he was enjoying excellent health.  The letter was written a week before its arrival.  Monday night Mrs. W. got a telegram saying her husband was ill; a few hours later came another announcing his death.  No particulars were learned.  Mr. W. went South in October last.
 

State Items

    Dr. Charles Ellis, a leading physician of Burlington, is dead at the age of 74 years.

    Isaac Shields, Town Treasurer of Phillipsburg, for eight years, died Wednesday, of apoplexy, aged sixty-three.

    John Swartsweller and David Lanning, who lived near Stillwater, Sussex county, were felling trees in the woods, on Friday last, when they were both struck by a branch from a falling tree.  Mr. Lanning was badly hurt about the head, and died on Saturday.  Mr Swartsweller was also injured about the head, and had an arm broken, and it is feared that he will die.

    Last Tuesday, while the one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Compton, of Port Norris, was sitting at the dinner table she suddenly gave a piercing scream which brought her mother to her side.  Just back of the right ear a spider had bitten the baby.  The mother killed the spider - a big, black one.  The baby suffered a great deal from the bite, and Tuesday afternoon was taken so sick that the family physician was summoned.  The doctor did what he could to alleviate the sufferings of the little one, but she grew rapidly worse and on Thursday she died.

    A few weeks ago Charles Alberson and wife, of No. 5 Commerce street, Newark, started on a trip South.  They left at home their little adopted son, Charles Alberson Roth, aged 7.  While they were gone the little fellow wrote them a very affecting letter, imploring them to return at once, as he felt very lonely.  He said he cried for them nearly all the time, and did not think he could stand it unless they came back at once.  The latter shortened their visit, but they arrived home only to find the lad dead, he having contracted malignant scarlet fever a few days after writing the letter to his adopted parents.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Jan. 31, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, James M. Beldon to Kate B. Riley, all of Flemington.

    At Bloomsbury, N.J., Jan. 28, by Rev. John C. Clyde, John M. Van Nortwick and Louisa K. Gardner, all of Bloomsbury.

    Jan. 24, 1885, by Rev. A. B. Still, George W. Dalrymple and Emma Johnston, both of Union township, Hunterdon Co., N.J.

    At the Lower Valley Parsonage, Jan. 24, 1885, by the Rev. Jas. R. Gibson, William E. Sutton, of New Germantown, to Lydia A. Apgar, of Cokesbury.

    Jan. 22, at the home of the bride's father, by Rev. W. H. Williamson, of Tappan, N.Y., Daniel F. Beatty to Emma H. Barnes, daughter of Lewis Barnes, Esq., of Somerville.

    Dec. 31, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, John Broughton to Sarah Beynon, all of Junction, formerly of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 22, by Rev. C. R. Suydam, Leonard W. Dorland, of High Bridge, to Laura D. Alpaugh, of Tewksbury township.
 

Deaths

    Near Wertsville, Jan. 15, 1885, Julia E., daughter of Lewis and Annie Sutphin, aged 18 years, 1 week and 4 days.

    At White House, Jan. 28, 1885, Edna, daughter of S. K. and Mary Large, aged 8 months and 25 days.
 
 

February 10, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 26

A Female Hermit
    Sally Ketner, a moutain hermit, died at Bernville, near Reading, Pa., on the 1st inst., in the 84th year of her age.  She lived in a small hut for forty-eight years, situated about midway on the road from Bernville to Shattleville, and owned thirty acres of ground...
 

Local Department

    Mr. Jacob H. Todd, a prominent business man of Middletown, New York, died in that village Friday afternoon, Jan. 23d, aged 70 years.  He was born at New Germantown, Hunterdon county.  In 1840, he married Maria Bockover, of Beemerville, Sussex county, and a short time later engaged in the tanning business at Stockholm.  He also afterward carried on the same business at Beemerville and Swartswood.  From the later place he removed to Middletown in 1869.

    The death of Miss Sarah Wilson, of Sidney, this county, at the age of over 102 years is announced in today's paper.  Of the personal history of this woman we know nothing, but that she lived to a great age, nearly double the common allotment of mankind, goes without saying.

    Mr. John Sutton, of Hopewell, died at the residence of Mrs. Fisher, (his daughter,) near Ringoes last Monday.  He was in the 84th year of his age.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Solomon McIntyre, colored, an aged and respected resident of Belvidere, is dead in the 78th year of his age.  He had been ill a number of weeks.  The deceased was one of the survivors of the ill-fated steamboat, Alfred Thomas, whose boiler exploded at Easton, March 4, 1861.

    There were three deaths from diphtheria in Pluckamin week before last.  Mr. James Alpaugh lost both of his children, a girl and boy, aged 8 and 5, within four or five days of each other; and Mr. S. K. Hoffman his only child, a girl, aged 7.

    Frank, son of Mr. Edward Barrass, of Somerville, died Monday morning, from an injury received by falling on a stake while climbing a fence near his home, East Main street, on Saturday.  Frank was a bright, ambitious youth, in his 14th year. -  Messenger.
 

State Items

    George Brooks, a brakeman on the West Jersey Railroad, was run over while drilling a freight train at May's Landing last Wednesday both legs being cut off.  He died a few hours afterward.
 

Marriages

    At the Parsonage, Everittstown, Jan. 24, by Rev. H. Jones, Hiram S. Opdyke to Maggie A. Jones, both of Quakertown.

    Jan. 21, by Rev. D. T. Koser, at Riegelsville, Pa., John S. Deemer, of Monroe, Pa., and Annie A. Hagar, of Holland.

    At the Sandy Ridge Parsonage, Jan. 31, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, Elwood Slack and Mary Besson, all of Bucks Co., Pa.

    Dec. 31, at the bride's home, by Rev. John Hart, James Lawrence Hall, to Mary A., daughter of Richard Lowe, Esq., of Neshanic.

    Jan. 28, at the bride's home, by Rev. John Hart, Peter Vroom, of Branchburgh, to Annie M. Mahoney, daughter of John Mahoney, Esq., of Three Bridges.

    At Spruce Run Parsonage, Jan. 31, by Rev. C. H. Traver, Harvey Davis, of Chester, and Kate Apgar, of Glen Gardner.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 27, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D.,  Israel H. Hunt, of Camden, N.J., and Flora C., daughter of Jacob Sliffer, of Lambertville.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 27, by Rev. Garbutt Read, Edward L. Hart, of Titusville, N.J., to Carrie E. Everingham, of Lambertville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Easton, Jan. 22, by Rev. H. M. Kieffer, Wm. H. Johnson, Esq., of Lebanon, N.J., and Jennie M. Able.
 

Deaths

    At Glen Gardner, Feb. 2, 1885, Mary, wife of John Kyle, aged 36 years.  (Deceased was a resident of White House Staton, and died while visiting her sister in Glen Garnder.  About two weeks ago Mrs. Kyle buried her baby aged about nine months.)

    At Sidney, Feb. 6, 1885, Miss Sarah Wilson, aged 102 years, 3 months and 9 days.  (Her funeral services will occur today, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock.)

    Died in Raritan township, on Sunday, February 8th, 1885, Aaron P. Hoffman, in 71st year of his age.  (Funeral services at his residence, Wednesday 11th, at 10 1/2 o'clock A.M.  Burial at the Bethlehem Presbyterian church grounds.)

    Feb. 1, 1885, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lambert B. Kline, at Three Bridges, Dinah S. Foster, aged 89 years and 6 months.

    In Kingwood township, Jan. 30, 1885, John Vandolah, aged 81 years.
 
 

February 17, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 27

    Joshua S. Day, one of the firm of Naar, Day & Naar, of the Trenton True American, died on Monday of last week in the 57th year of his age.  Mr. Day was born in New York, and had been part proprietor and business manager of the True American for 18 years.  Moses D. Naar, the senior partner and editor of the paper, died a month ago, Jan. 10th.

    Frank Bonham, the eldest son of a widow living on a farm near Radical, Kan., on his return home last week after three days absence, found his mother, brother and sister murdered, and to all appearance they had been dead a day or two.

    William Dudgeon, living near Hammondsville, Hart county, Ky., owing to grief over the death of his wife and child, committed suicide on Tuesday by cutting his throat.

    Ed Green, a drug clerk, shot and killed Howard Martin at Cuba, Mo., on Wednesday night for assaulting him because he refused to sell liquor to Martin who was drunk.

    B. F. Warren, recently a Texas ranger and lately in the employ of the State as a detective and who had become a witness against fence cutters in Runnells county, Texas, while sitting in the office of the Central Hotel, at Sweetwater, Texas, on Tuesday night, was shot dead by some unknown person in the street.

    Alexander Jones, the mail carrier from Grant's Pass to Wilderville, Mrs. George Gibson and two children and a young man named McClung were drowned last Thursday near Ashland, Oregon.
 

Local Department

    Word reaches Flemington that Mr. Watson B. Cherry, who left this place for Wellington, Kansas, some three years ago, is dead.  He was son of the late Thomas Cherry.  For some time past Watson had been a sufferer from a large tumor in his breast and no doubt this was the cause of his death.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The family of Mr. Abraham Huff, near Middlebush, Somerset county, are deeply afflicted.  In October last their youngest son, a young man about 20 years of age died at the hospital in Philadelphia, where he had gone to be treated for the disease from which he was suffering.  He was buried at Neshanic, where the family formerly resided.  At that time his only sister, Carrie, a young lady about 17 years of age, was sick at her uncle's at Neshanic, and died there on Wednesday.  The disease of both was consumption, combined with kidney trouble.
 

Marriages

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 5, by Rev. Jacob Rodenbaugh, Augustus W. Britton to Emma Jane, oldest daughter of Charles Kline, all of Frenchtown.

    At the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, Flemington, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, Feb. 3, Samuel B. Stenner, of Sergeantsville, and Kate Suydam, of Cherryville.
 

Deaths

    In Bethlehem township, Feb. 6, 1885, Alexander Case, aged about 60 years.

    In Clinton, Feb. 10, 1885, Emma, daughter of James and Augusta Wyckoff, aged 3 years and 3 months.

    Near Sand Brook, Delaware township, Feb. 10, 1885, John A. Moore, in the 42nd year of his age.

    At Lebanon, Nov. 25, 1884, Mrs. Mary R. Hoffman, wife of David K. Hoffman, aged about 59 years.

    In Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1885, Henry J. Stevens, of West Point, Nebraska, formerly of this county, aged about 71 years.

    At Lebanon, Feb. 2, 1885, Mrs. Catharine Hoffman, wife of Timothy P. Hoffman, aged about 39 years.
 
 

February 24, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 28

Frozen To Death
    About three miles from Gardner's Camp, Michigan, last Monday, a party of lumbermen found John Johnson lying in the snow unable to rise, both legs frozen from the feet to the knees and both hands frozen.  The snow was beaten down for several feet in circumference in his endeavors to rise.  He was taken home and has since died.
    The nude body of man found near Hunter's Point, L.I., last Monday, was identified as that of Herman Rue, a German.  The man's clothing was found in the woods near by, and it is supposed that while suffering from delirium tremens he stripped himself and jumped down the embankment, twenty feet in height, at the base of which his body was found, and was frozen to death.
    Henry Lewis was found frozen to death last Tuesday about five miles below Prince George Court House, Virginia.  It is supposed that while intoxicated he laid down in the snow on the side of the road, as a whisky bottle was found on his person.
    George Schenck, a fireman, and Isaac Ivens, a sawyer, aged 50 years, both residents of May's Landing, N.J., but employed at Abbott's mills, walked from their homes to Egg Harbor City on Saturday 14th inst., a distance of nine miles.  Late in the afternoon they started to return in a blinding northeast snow storm.  When half the distance had been traveled Ivens collapsed and shortly afterward sank in the snow.  Schenck then took him in his arms, and partly carrying and partly dragging him over the snow made slow progress until he lost his way, and then took the abandoned Egg Harbor City Railroad and endeavored to reach his home.  On arriving at Bugketchem Swamp, about two miles away, Schenck was so much exhausted that he could go no further with Ivens, and after a consultation it was decided that Schenck should go on ahead and send assistance to his unfortunate companion....  Schenck soon lost his way, and blinded by the snow and bewildered, tramped through the forest until 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he reached home much exhausted.  A searching party several hours after found Ivens frozen to death.  He leaves a wife and four children.  The snow was twenty-one inches deep.

    In Hawkins County, Tennessee, a few days ago, James Reynold put kerosene oil on the heads of his three children, aged two, four and six years respectively, to kill vermin.  Two of the children died within two hours and but for the timely arrival of a physician the other would have died also.

    Mrs. Dinah Beekman, colored, at one time a slave for Benjamin Beekman, recently died at the house of John Voorhees, at South Branch, Somerset county, in the 98th year of her age.  She spent the best part of her life on the farm lately occupied by Bloomfield Beekman, above Raritan.
 

Local Department

    A four year old son of J. N. Naughright, of High Bridge, fell into a pail of boiling water on Monday afternoon and was so badly scalded that his recovery is doubtful.

    Mr. Jeremiah H. Wright, residing near Everittstown, was attacked by pneumonia on the 6th and died on the 11th inst.  Mr. Wright was a resident of Clinton for several years, and was highly respected by its citizens.  He was about 70 years of age.

    We are sorry to be compelled to announce the death of ex-Judge Sylvester H. Smith, of Bethlehem township, at his residence at West End, on Monday last...  He was born in 1821.  A widow and eight children survive him.
 

    Mr. Harmon Reed, of Branchville, Somerset county, held a vendue last Thursday.  Auctioneer Hope, of Somerville, had sold everything excepting a fine Shepherd dog.  The dog was brought in sight and the auctioneer had succeeded in getting him bid up to about six dollars.  Just then, Mr. Reed stepped forward and said: "Gentlemen, that dog is worth more money than that; I have reserved one bid on him, and I now offer hine dollars and fifty -" and just at this juncture, before he had finished his bid, he dropped dead.  It is supposed that heart disease was the cause of his sudden death, hastened by the excitement of the day.  He was a son of Mr. Joseph Reed, and his age was about 40 years.

    An awful accident happened in this town about 4 o'clock last Monday afternoon.  Richard P. Jackson, a colored man, aged 40 years, employed as porter at the Union Hotel, in company with "Bronse" Stryker proceeded to shovel off the snow...  Suddenly his feet slipped and he fell to the flagstone pavement thirty feet below, striking upon his face and killing him instantly...  His remains were taken to Clinton where he leaves a small family.

    John Walbert, an old and wealthy citizen of Frenchtown, died at that place last Friday morning.
 

Neighborhoon Notes

    On a recent Tuesday, Carrie, wife of Samuel Burgstresser, proprietor of the Erwinna Hotel, at Erwinnna, Buck county, Pa., fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck.  She died a few minutes after, and before a physician arrived.  She was a very stout woman and weighed over 200 pounds.
 

Quakertown
    The Prsiding Elder preached in the M.E. Church on the 15th.  On the same day, Wm. Hampton, long a resident of this vicinity, but lately of the neighborhood of Baptisttown, was buried here.  Funeral by Rev. C. Clark.  Ralph Dalyrmple died at his home near Pittstown, of inflammatory rheumatism, on the 14th.  Funeral on Wednesday.
 

State Items

    Annie McLaughlin, 15 years old, dropped dead of paralysis of the heart, in the Caledonian Skating Rink, at Newark, Tuesday night.

    J. T. Browne, of Sandytown, Suxxex county, has lost his wife and two daughters by death within the past two months.  Mr. Browne and his only remaining child are very sick.

    Miss Ida McCraken fell in the skating rink at Hackettstown, a few days ago, and was run into by another skater, whose skates struck her in the side.  Her death occurred on Tuesday, from the injury.
 

Marriages

    At Lumberville, Pa., Feb. 12, by Rev. William F. Sheppard, William W. Fisher, of Kingwood, and Mary J. Durling, of Lumberville, Pa.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Feb. 18, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Charles H. Rittenhouse and Nettie, daughter of Gabriel H. Slater, all of Flemington.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 12, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, John R. Holcombe, of Mt. Airy, to Sallie S. Larison, of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 14, by Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D. D., Jordan Scheetz, of New Hope, Pa., and Flora Caffey, of Lambertville.

    Feb. 14, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. C. R. Snyder, Alvah Alpaugh of Cokesbury, to Jemima Alpaugh of Tewksbury township.

    At Lower Valley Parsonage, Feb. 7, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Charles Hoffman of Califon, to Fannie Beem, of Middle Valley.

    On Thursday morning, Feb. 19, at the residence of the bride's parents, Bridgeville, Sussex Co., Del., by Eld. E. Rittenhouse, John W. Green, of Lambertville, N.J., to Tillie M., daughter of George Trout of the former place.
 

Deaths

    In Somerset county, Feb. 19, 1885, Mrs. Eliza Quick, in the 74th year of her age.

    In Alexandria township, Feb. 11, 1885, J. H. Wright, aged 71 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 13, 1885, John Erbe, aged 71 years and 5 months.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 12, 1885, Mary Frances Yost, aged 29 years, 1 month and 12 days.

    In New Orleans, La., Feb. 13, 1885, Robert S. Coryell, son of Alexander and Susan Coryell, of Lambertville, in the 40th year of his age.

    In Kingwood township, Feb. 11, 1885, Wm. W. Hampton, aged 58 years.

    In Franklin township, Feb. 15, 1885, Ralph Dalrymple, aged 49 years and 6 months.
 

    Martin Blanchard, who died at Bloomingdale, Morris county, last month, was the father of thirty-six children.  He was married at the age of 14, and his first child, a daughter, was born when he was 15.  Before he was 17 he was the father of twins - Abner and Aaron - both of whom are now living in Morris county, at the age of 77.  His wife died in 1859, after having borne him nineteen children.  Soon afterward he married again, and had eleven children by his second wife.  Blanchard's oldest grandchild was born before he was 30 years old, and this granchild now has three grandchildren who are married and have children.  During the war, when Blanchard was 73 years old, he said that he enough male descendants of his own, including those who married into his family, to make a company of one hundred able bodied men.

One Hundred and Sixteen
    A Wilmington, Illinois, dispatch says: "Auntie Wilmore," as she was familiarly called, or Nancy Cass Wilmore, as her real name is said to have been, died in this city, Wednesday, at the age of 116 years.  She was undoubtedly the oldest person in this State, if not in the United States.  Her early history was not clear to her until on her deathbed, when her whole life seemed to pass in review before her, and a person who was present wrote down her history as she related it.  She was born about the year 1769 in North Carolina.  Her father, Samuel Cass, then removed to Shakertown, Ky.  Her mother, whose maiden name was Sally Wales, died at the age of 30, leaving nine children.  Her father soon married Nettie Taylor, by whom he had seven children.  Of the 16 children all were boys except Nancy.  Her father lived in Kentucky, for eight or nine years, and then removed to Alabama, though she remained in Kentucky, living with a family named Andrews, and married as her first husband a man named Keeney.

    John F. Krebs, a railroad section hand at Hicksville, L.I., died last Wednesday from the effects of blood poisoning.  He was wounded in the hand accidentally a few day ago, and the wound afterward came in contact with a portion of his clothing which contained some dye-stuff.
 
 

March 3, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 29

    Robert Logan, a member of the Illinois Legislature fell at the head of the House stairs last Thursday as he was on his way to the chamber, and died in a few minutes....

    Dr. Christopher C. Graham died at Louisville, Kentucky, in his 101st year.  He was an associate of Daniel Boone.
 

Some News Notes

    Samuel Graffton, Marshal of Forest, O., fell while skating at a roller skating rink, driving the point of a sewing machine oil can, which he carried in his hip pocket, into his hip.  He died in a short time.

    The boiler in the saw mill of Hein & Merton, at Finksburg, Md., exploded last Tuesday killing Samuel Rick, foreman, aged 22 year, and Edward Twigg, aged 23 years, both of Flintstone, Md., and badly injuring Owen Gallia, of Williamsport.

    Mrs. Margaret Vieweg, aged 73 years, was so badly burned last Tuesday at Baltimore that she died last evening.  She was sitting with her feet on the front of the stove when her clothing took fire, and before help could be had her limbs and body were fearfully burned.
 

Hunterdon County Surrogate Office.
    Order To Limit Creditors - Upon the application of Joseph M. Phillips, Executor of the estate of John Sutton, deceased....
 

Local Department

    A man named John Hassel died last week at Bloomsbury from a tumor in his stomach and one in his breast.

    George McFarren, aged 72 years, died suddenly of apoplexy, on Sunday morning, at his residcnce in Lambertville.  He got up as usual, at an early hour, but soon after felt badly and said to his family that he would not live an hour and expired just at that time.

    Those who remember Mr. George Wall, who kept the Hotel at Wertsville some twelve or fifteen years ago, will regret to hear that he is dead.  For the past four years, Mr. Wall had lived in Jersey City, being employed in a mill at Williamsburgh, on Long Island.  He was buried on the 21st ult.
 

Reaville
    Henry S. Peterson, Esq., died Saturday evening Feb. 21.  Squire Peterson had been sick for some time; his complaint was consumption;  his death was very sudden, and quite unexpected.  He was buried from the Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday, the 25th.  He leaves a widow and two children.  He was 32 years old.
 

Our Old Folks
    In Lambertville and vicinity there are a great many people who have passed their fourscore years, and several have gone far beyond.
    Mr. John W. Larison and Maria, his wife, now living near this city, expect to celebrate the sixty-fourth anniversary of their marriage before the bloom of Spring is over.  "Uncle John," as he is generally called, kept the public house at Larison's Corner, the next stopping place beyond Ringoes, in the early part of this century, when stages ran between Philadelphia and New York, before railroads were built.
    John Dilts, Sr., of this city, in his 89th year, is seen daily on the streets, walking about like younger men.  He and his wife Rachel, who is equally as active, will celebrate their sixty-fourth marriage anniversary the 12th of next June.
    Phoebe Ann Parker lives on Buttonwood street, in this city, with her son-in-law, Mr. Hueston Naylor.  She is in her 95th year.  She lived on Coryell street, near the river bank, in 1813-14 and tells us how Captain Lambert Hoppock, a few yards above, at the rendezvous, recruited a company of volunteers that joined the American forces near Lake Erie soon after.  But the brave Captain was killed shortly after their arrival at the seat of war.
    Mrs. Samuel R. Huselton lives on North Main street, in this city, in her 94th year.  She was born in Warren county, but has lived mainly in our city.
    Catharine Craft lives with her grandchildren here, in her 96th year, and can work indoors and out, and converses freely, and makes many things that are admired by her numerous friends.  She, it will be remembered, voted for Jefferson for President at his second election, as it was then lawful for her sex to vote at the age of 18 years.  -  Lambert Record.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The death of Judge John M. Garretson, of Ten Mile Run, Somerset county, is announced.  He had been complaining for some time of a kidney trouble.  His age was 51 years.

    John Small, a colored lad in the employ of Lewis H. Mosher, was drowned on the meadows near Griggstown, Somerset county, one day last week.  He was skating at the time, and ventured upon the thin ice covering a "run" caused by the backwater.

    Abner Lemming, a Pennington farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself last Wednesday afternoon...
 

State Items

    James Elliott, of Jamesburg, died a few days ago from blood poisoning, which was caused from a wound he received during the rebellion.

    James Bill, residing at North Mullica Hill, Gloucester county, about half past six o'clock Tuesday night, while endeavoring to guide a wagon heavily laden with lumber down a hill, caught his foot in a chain and fell under the wheels, receiving injuries from which he died in a short time.  He leaves a wife and four children.

    Mrs. Johnston, an elderly lady, who was on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Demarest, of Pamrapo, Hudson county, was shot and instantly killed Monday evening by a niece whose brother was packing a valise preparatory to a trip West, and had laid upon an adjoining table and old fashioned revolver. While toying with the weapon the young girl asked her brother if it was loaded, but before she received an answer the weapon exploded, the bullet penetrating Mrs. Johnston's brain...

    Asa F. Randolph, the eldest of the old Virginia Randolph family, died on Wednesday, aged ninety-two, on property which was granted to his ancestors by the British Government in 1621, at Randolphsville.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, at Ringoes, Feb. 21, by the Rev. John Scarlet, Judson M. Warrick, of Princeton, to Ida M. Burgess, of Ringoes.

    At the home of the bride's mother at Flemington Junction, Feb. 26, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, John Boyd and Martha Britton.

    At the residence of the bride's sister, in Flemington, Feb. 25, by Rev. S. B. Rooney, George Vanness and Rebecca Warman, all of Flemington.

    Feb. 18, at the Parsonage, Reaville, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Aaron T. Post and Susie M. Cronce, both of Flemington.

    In New Hope, Pa., Jan. 24, by Rev. Garbutt Read, Melton Black to Ruth Wilson, both of Lambertville.

    Feb. 24, 1885, by Rev. I. Poulson, J. Baker Poulson to Jennie Shepherd, both of Delaware township.

    In Newark, Feb. 18, by Rev. Messrs. W. K. Preston and R. E. Stewart, Rev. Jas. Richard Gibson, of Califon, to Lillie E. R. Cairus, of Newark.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Feb. 19. 1885, Louis Guillick, aged 14 years.

    In West Amwell township, Feb. 21, 1885, Anna Margaret Doughty, daughter of Charles and Mary E. Doughty, aged 3 years.

    At his residence between Flemington and Croton, on the 12th day of November, 1884, Andrew Walker, in the 75th year of his age.

    Near Milford, Feb. 19, 1885, Lina Stryker, aged 14 years and 8 months.

    In Frenchtown, Feb. 20, 1885, John Walbert, aged 74 years, 1 month and 4 days.

    In Princeton, N.J., Feb. 20, 1885, Dr. Andrew J. Blackwell, in the 39th year of his age.

    At White House Station, Feb. 20, 1885, Mary Robinson, wife of John E. Seals, aged _5 years and 21 days.
 
 

March 10, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 30

Some News Notes

    Henry Wachel committed suicide last Monday, at Cleveland, O., by shooting through grief at the death of a 15 year old daughter.

    B. F. Avery founder and head of the great Avery Plow Manufactory, of Louisville, Ky., died there last Tuesday, aged 84 years.

    W. R. Lemmon, 22 years old, a student at the Missouri Medical College, killed himself on Monday, at St. Louis, because he failed to pass the final examination.

    The boiler of the elevator of the R. T. Davis Mill Company, at St. Joseph, Mo., exploded last Monday, and Joseph Link, who was a quarter of a mile distant, was struck by a piece of the iron and fatally injured.

    August Curth was arrested last week at Chicago, charged with having made a criminal assault upon Helena Koadst, 7 years old, on February 21, and from the effects of which the child died on Sunday.

    Joseph Merrill, of Coshocton, O., was married the other night.  Serenaders visited him and shot through the window, near his bed.  He died next day from the effects of fright.
 

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 Wednesday, the Sixth day of May, A. D., 1885, in the term of April, 1885, at ten o'clock in the forenoon for settlement and allowance:
    4.  The final account of Catharine Sutton and Amos Sutton, Administrators of John Sutton, deceased.
 

Local Department

    Mr. William Berkaw, of North Branch an account of whose injuries by being gored by a bull we gave last week, died on the 1st inst.  He was brother of Mrs. John Ramsey, of Flemington.

    A man named Patrick Breen, was killed by being struck by a train on the Lehigh Valley, R.R., at Neshanic, last Saturday morning.  He was formerly employed on a gravel train on the South Branch, R. R., but had latterly been section boss on the Lehigh Valley at Neshanic.  His age was about 60 years.
 

A Sad Accident
    A terrible misfortune befel the family of Mr. John Kell, of Baptisttown, last Monday evening, resulting in the death of one of his bright little daughters, aged 3 years....
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miller Ramsey, of North Branch, dropped dead in his barn on Monday.  The cause of his death was heart disease.

    Mrs. Butler, who has her home with her son, Mr. J. C. Butler, in Phillipsburg, for some months, was found dead in her bed Sunday morning.  She took a cold some days ago while attending a funeral, but was not thought to be dangerously ill.  She was nearly eighty years of age.
 

Copper Hill
    With many regrets we announce the death of John Conover, which occurred at the residence of David Conover, last Monday morning.
 

State Items

    William Voorhees, of Monmouth Junction, was thrown from his wagon, on Monday, by the running away of his horses.  He fell against a pile of bean poles, one of which pierced his body, and he is not expected to live.  A brother, Martain Voorhees, was killed on the railroad at Dean's Station, last week, and two other members of the family have been accidently injured during the past week.
 

Marriages

    Feb. 28, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, H. F. Bodine and Mary D. Horne, all of Delaware township, Hutnerdon county.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 4, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, William Stothoff to Emma A. Hill, all of Flemington.

    At the Presbyterian Parsonage, Flemington, N.J., by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., March 3, Jos. B. Crate and Mary E. Anderson, granddaughter of Elisha Runkle, all of Sunnyside, Hunterdon Co.

    At Sandy Ridge Parsonage, Feb. 28, by Rev. M. B. Lanning, Charles B. Case, of Sergeantsville, and Sadie Shepherd, of Sand Brook.

    At Ringoes, Feb. 28, by Rev. John Scarlet, Abram P. Stryker, of Trenton, N.J., and Ella Hartpence, of Copper Hill.
 

Deaths

    Feb. 28, 1884 (1885?), at Annandale, Nicholas P. Wyckoff, aged 74 years.

    At Reaville, Feb. 21, 1885, Henry S. Peterson, aged 32 years.

    Near Rosemont, Feb. 21, 1885, Laura V., daughter of Lewis and Emma G. Case, aged 3 weeks and 1 day.

    In Lambertville, March 2, 1885, Lavina Stout, aged 33 years.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 23, 1885, George McFerren, aged 72 years.

    In Lambertville, March 4, 1885, J. Johnson Lair, in the 49th year of his age.

    In Lambertville, March 1, 1885, Mrs. Anna Huselton, widow of the late Samuel Huselton, aged 94 years, 1 month and 12 days.

    In Lambertville, March 3, 1885, S. Smith Huselton, son of Samuel and Anna Huselton, aged 67 years, 8 months and 24 days.

    At her residence near Cokesbury, Jan. 29, 1885, Mrs. Eleanor V. Lance, aged 79 years and 11 months.
 
 

March 17, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 31

    Andrew Woods, colored, died at New Orleans last Wednesday, aged 110 years.  He had been the body servant of General Lafayette.

    Jacob Frey committed suicide last Wednesday at the grave of his wife in Toledo, Ohio, through despondency caused by her death.

    C. F. Riggin, aged 66 years, shot and killed his wife and then himself on Monday night, at Lanington, Ill., as both lay in bed, because he had recently lost $900 by a bank failure.
 

State Items

    The body of the man killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad at North Elizabeth on Tuesday night, has been identified as that of Thomas Walton, of Jersey City.

    While excavating the ruins of Janeway & Co.'s wall paper factory, at New Brunswick, burned in the great fire of Feb. 7, the remains of Patrick Dougherty were discovered.  Only a few charred bones were found.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, N.J., March 5, 1885, by the Rev. C. H. Woolston, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Mr. Mervin McCoy, of Trenton, N.J., and Miss Hattie Harrison, of Lambertville.

    March 5th, 1885, by Rev. A. B. Still, Benjamin F. Vogel and Urena P. Rodenbaugh, both of Clinton.

    March 7, 1885, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Wm. J. Banks, of Washington, N.J., to Isabella Hight, of Bethlehem, N.J.

    March 12, by Rev. S. D. Decker, David S. Servis, of Reaville, to Martie E. Walton, of Clinton.

    March 10, by Rev. A. Dean, William C. Wharton, of Keyport, to Carrie Apgar, of High Bridge.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 7, 1885, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, Aaron B. Henry and Martha S. Hendershot, both of White House Station.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of his son-in-law Richard Bowden, at Prallsville, on Wednesday, March 11th, 1885, William Seals, formerly of Raritan township, aged about 76 years.

    At White House Station, March 11, 1885, Elizabeth Hall, aged 92 years.

    In Lambertville, March 7, 1885, Lewis C. Rice, M. D., aged 49 years and 4 months.

    In West Amwell township, March 9, 1885, John E. Casey, son of John and Honora Casey, aged 3 months.

    In Baptisttown, Feb. 28, 1885, Cornelia, wife of Mahlon Fisher, aged 41 years and 10 months.

    In Holland, March 7, 1885, Michael Fraley, aged 85 years.

    In Lambertville, March 2, 1885, Lavina Stout, aged 23 years.
 

Local Department

    Kingwood reports the death of two old and highly respected residents - Mr. Joseph Smith, aged 81 years and Mrs. Mary Johnson, widow of the late George Johnson, aged 82 years.

    Mrs. Anna Huselton died of apoplexy, at Lambertville, on the 1st inst., and three days afterward, her son, Samuel Smith Huselton, was sticken with the same disease, and died two days later, at the age of 68.  Mrs. Huselton was in her 95th year.

    Dr. L. C. Rice, of Lambertville, died very suddenly from apoplexy, at his residence on the 7th inst.  About 5 o'clock he went out of one of the rooms where his wife was seated, to get his eye glasses, as he wished to read a newspaper.  He got the glasses and stopped at the palor door, looked in and said a few words to his daughter, and turning, fell to the floor.  He was found to be unconscious and died in about an hour.  Dr. Rice removed to Lambertville from Centre Hill, Pa., several years ago.   He had previously served in the late war as a surgeon.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Frederick Orthman, of Vienna, Warren county, went into his house the other day after a walk and in a few minutes fell from his chair dead.

    James Berge, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman, was killed by the overhead bridge at East Orange last Saturday.  His head came in contact with the bridge and the force of the blow broke his neck.  He leaves a wife and three children.

    The dead body of Michael McLaughlin was found near the railroad track at Kingston, Somerset county, one day last week.  Investigation showed that he had fallen into the ditch, and being too weak from disease to rise had died before he was discovered.
 
 

March 24, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 32

Killed By Roller Skating
    A couple of weeks ago there was a six days' race on roller skates in New York.  One of the half dozen men engaged in the contest made 1090 miles, and was declared the victor.  The following from a New York paper tells the fate of one of the racers:
    One of the contestants in the recent six days' roller skating match at Madison Square Garden, Joseph Cohen, has forfieted his life for his experience.  He was a dry goods clerk, but being out of employment entered the roller skating race in order to earn money for the support of his wife and child.  Cohen was in no condition to endure the strain of such a trial, and after the first day went around the track in such a disabled condition that the managers once or twice ordered him off.  The agreement, however, was that every man who stayed on the track twelve hours each day would get $50 for his labor at the finish, and this inducement kept Cohen hobbling along.  When he went for his money on the following Monday, however, it was refused him.  This so discouraged him that on Wednesday he was too sick to go around and took to his bed.  He kept brooding over his troubles until last Monday morning, when he died - worn out from physical and mental exhaustion.

    On Tuesday last Charles B. Cook, aged 29 years, baggage master on the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell from a car at Port Deposit, and two wheels of the car passed over his leg, horribly mangling it.  He died on Thursday.

    Louis Hubbell, an insane man, living northeast of Fort Wayne, Ind., on Wednesday shot and killed his wife and then blew out his own brains.
 

State Items

    Mrs. Durant, wife of Rev. Wm. Durant, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Morristown, died suddenly Wednesday morning after an illness of only a few hours duration.

    Miss Mercy Ann Sutton, aged about 82 years, of Stelton, fell while descending the stairs from the upper part of the house, on Sunday morning between nine and ten o'clock, and within three hours thereafter was dead.  It is supposed her skull was fractured by the fall.  She was living with her aunt, Sarah Smith, and other relatives, in the residence of Dunham Runyon, Esq., and at the time of her fatal fall was suffering somewhat from the effects of a dislocated shoulder received a while before by falling on the ice.
 

    Says the Bound Brook Chronicle: News has just been received here of the death by suicide of David R. Ross at Jerseyville, Ill., on Monday morning.  The deceased was the son of James Ross, who about fifty years ago had a blacksmith shop in Bound Brook where James Brady's house now stands.  Afterward James Ross moved to Greenbrook and then took his wife and children, among whom was David, in a one horse wagon out to Illinois and located near Jerseyville, where he gradually became a large land owner.  He left David in good circumstances but he of late is said to have been financially embarrassed, and ended his life on Monday by shooting his brains out with a gun.  He was in this vicinity last fall with his mother.

    A woman of the town named Mrs. D. M. Britton, whose husband is a gambler, was found dead in her room at St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday night, with Harry W. Kellogg, a former merchant of Neilsonville, Wis., who was also dead.  Kellogg leaves a wife and five children.  A man named Bergstrom has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered the couple.
 

Another Ocean County Murder
    Mrs. Elizabeth Brown was found dead near a charcoal pit at Cassville, eight miles from Lakewood, on Friday.  She was last seen alive with her husband and William Hendrickson on Thursday night.  The men had been drinking and went to coal pit with the woman.  Late at night Brown went home, leaving his wife with Hendrickson.  In the morning Hendrickson appeared at Brown's house, and when asked where Mrs. Brown was said he guessed she was frozen to death.  When the body was found it presented the appearance of having been foully dealt with...  It was decided to arrest Hendrickson and hold him for murder.

    In the Newark Insane Asylum last Tuesday Herman Fuchs, a patient, murdered William Mulcahey, another patient, by crushing his skull with a spittoon.

    Louis Bachus was Thursday at Chicago sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for killing Theodore Lay, a teamster, two months ago.  Lay was the alleged seducer of Bachus' 15 year old daughter, and refused to marry her.

    Frederick Nixdorf committed suicide in the Lancaster Pennsylvania Jail on Wednesday by disemboweling himself with a broken bottle.  He was suffering from delirium tremens, and leaves a wife and six children.
 

Local Department

    Mr. William Cummings, of New York, son-in-law of Mr. Peter F. Hoffman, of Annandale, died week before last, after some three days sickness from pneumonia.

    Moses Roberson, a highly respected citizen of Kingwood, died at his residence near Frenchtown, on Monday morning, aged about 80 years.  Mr. Roberson was one of the oldest residents, having resided in the vicinity his entire lifetime.

    Miss Rettie Lowe, who lived with her widowed mother at Reaville, was found dead in bed last Saturday morning.  She had for some time past been subject to attacks of heart paroxysms, during which she always suffered terribly.  She had one of these attacks on Friday.  Her funeral will take place this (Tuesday) morning, at 11 o'clock.

    The 25th anniversary of the marriage of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of Quakertown, was celebrated on Wednesday last.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Henry M. Abbott, of Hopewell, died on Tuesday from injuries received by falling from a barn recently.

    Postmaster H. V. D. Voorhees, of Hopewell, died suddenly on Tuesday of last week, of lung disease.  He was Postmaster for about thirteen years, and for ten years of that time never missed changing the mail but once.  He was in fifty-fifth year of his age.

    James, a son of William Allen, died at Baskingridge, Sunday evening, after a few days' illness.  He came home a week previous, suffering from a carbuncle.  He was a young man of 22 years.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 14th, by Rev. W. Tunison, Joseph W. Ader, of Clinton, and Maggie Groff, of Washington.

    At the Bethlehem Baptist Parsonage, March 15, by Rev. A. B. Still, Jacob H. Budd, of Clinton, and Flora F. Fritts, of Stockton.
 

Deaths

    In Kingwood township, March 16th, 1885, Moses Roberson, aged 86 years, 1 month and 14 days.

    At Annandale, March 16, 1885, Emma Apgar, aged 28 years.

    In Clinton, March 14, 1885, Hattie, daughter of Wesley Hoffman, aged 5 months.

    In Flemington, March 13, 1885, Mary Choyce, in the 71st year of her age.

    At Sergeantsville, March 14, 1885, George T. Bush, aged about 35 years.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, D. B. Case, near Baptisttown, Dec. 27, 1884, Mahala Lodore, aged 75 years, 2 months and 22 days.

    In Lambertville, March 13, 1885, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Paxson, in the 81st year of her age.

    At her residence in Delaware township, Hunterdon county, N.J., March 3, 1885, Mrs. Mary K. Johnson, relict of George Johnson, Sr., aged 82 years, 7 months and 13 days.

    In Kingwood, March 3, 1885, Florence, daughter of Watson and Amy Rittenhouse, aged 1 year and 4 months.

    In Kingwood, March 5, 1885, Joseph Smith, aged 82 years.
 
 

March 31, 1885, Forty-Seventh Volume, No. 33

    William Shields, who was appointed Postmaster of Westchester, Pa., by President Arthur on March 3d, comiited suicide last Tuesday morning by drowning himself.
 

Murdered By His Slave
    Twenty-three years ago Almond F. Ellington, a well to do farmer living near Rice's Depot, in Prince Edward County, Va., disappeared, and the only trace of him that could be discovered was his hat floating on a mill pond in the neighborhood of his house.  Seven years later a negro, while poking in a pile of decayed logs on the Ellington farm in search of a fugitive rabbit, discovered a skeleton, which was identified as that of the missing man by means of a rign and gold plugs in his teeth.
    A few weeks ago, on the southern border of Texas, a gentleman overheard three negroes talking.  One of them, in relating his history to his companions, said he had murdered a man in Prince Edward County, Va., early in the war.  His knowledge of these particulars induced the gentleman to write to the Clerk of Prince Edward County about the matter.  An investigation followed and as its result the negro, Crawford Jeter, a runaway slave of Ellington, is under arrest and enroute to Prince Edward County to be tried for the murder of his master in 1862.

    James Bond, a farmer, of Walker county, Georgia, together with his son, was drowned in Cane creek, last Monday.  Bond had been at the mill and was returning on horseback.  His little son was riding behind him, and when they reached the creek they found it greatly swollen.  Bond attempted to ford it, but his horse was swept off by the current, and the animal and both its riders were drowned.

    Captain James Dalton, a pioneer, aged fifty-seven, died at Montague, Michigan Sunday, of cancer in the mouth, identical in nature with the cancer now afflicting General Grant.

Bodies Found Under The Ice
    A Brookville, Pa., dispatch says:  In the early part of last month Charles W. Lucky was skating on the North Branch, three miles above this place, with Silas Gale.  The ice suddenly gave way beneath them and they both disappeared.  A search of three days was made for their bodies but they could not be found...
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 25, by Rev. T. C. Young, of Mt. Olive, N.J., Stephen A. Titus, of Hopewell, N.J., and Anna T. Bond, youngest daughter of David F. Bond, of Ringoes.

    At Flemington, March 26, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, George W. Hill, of Flemington, and Mary C. Bloom, of Locktown.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Franklin township, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, James R. Sutton, of Locktown, and Anna E. Bidewell, of Franklin township.

    By the same, at the Locktown Christian Parsonage, March 21, Sidney L. Bush, of Franklin township, and Celinda Snyder, of Baptisttown, all of Hunterdon county.

    At the Parsonage, Everittstown, March 21, by the Rev. S. H. Jones, Nathaniel Sinclair, of Frenchtown, to Maggie Dalrymple, of Everittstown.

    By Rev. C. Clark, assisted by Rev. S. D. Decker and Rev. C. S. Conkling, in the M. E. Church at Quakertown, Annie M. Clark, eldest daughter of the officiating clergyman, to George W. Hessey, of Boonton, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Glen Gardner, March 20, 1885, Mary M. Collins, aged 18 years, 3 months and 10 days.

    Near Mt. Pleasant, March 20, 1885, Mrs. Agnes Race, in the 61st year of her age.

    In Boston, Mass., March 21, 1885, Edgar H. Trout, son of John Trout, aged 22 years.

    In Lambertville, March 22, 1885, Bridget Smith, aged 72 years.

    In East Amwell township, March 15, 1885, Horace Horn, aged 43 years, 6 months and 12 days.

    In Flemington, on Sunday, March 15, 1885, Mrs. Anna M. Wilson, wife of J. C. Wilson, aged 35 years and 15 days.

    March 20, 1885, at Three Bridges, Mary Ettia Van Doren, aged 10 years and 6 months.

    Near White House, March 24, 1885, Ann Sutphin, wife of John I. Regar, aged 67 years, 11 months and 19 days.