Thomas Mulligan was drowned in the pond at Franklin Furnace, on Christmas eve.  He and a friend started for Munson's to get a quart of whiskey, when Mulligan, who is near-sighted, walked off the steep embankment into the pond.  His companion hurried off for assistance and when it arrived he was too drunk to tell whether Mulligan had fallen into the pond or not.

    James Sander, with his wife and three children, tried to cross the Kentucky river in a skiff last Monday night near Nicolasville, Ky.  When nearing the opposite bank they missed the landing place and the skiff struck a projecting snag and upset.  Mr. Sander succeeded in getting ashore, but his wife and three little children were all drowned.  Their bodies were found next day and the mother and three children were buried in one grave.
 

Sad Suicide
    Mrs. Lizzie Shepherd, a young and comely woman, wife of John M. Shepherd, a prosperous house and sign painter, committed suicide Monday morning in a peculiar manner.  For seven weeks she had been nursing her aged mother in her pretty cottage on Linden avenue, in North Plainfield, and she lost her rest nearly every night.  For the past four weeks Mrs. Shepherd was up the greater part of each day and night, and she worried a great deal about her mother's illness.  About 10 days ago Mrs. Shepherd complained of a violent pain in her head and a gloomy feeling.  Sunday she said that he pain at the back of her head and her temples had disappeared and she chatted pleasantly.  Her husband kissed her good night at 10 o'clock and went to his room on the second floor, taking their only child, Freddie, a boy seven years old, with him.  They arose at 6 a.m.  There was a fresh loaf of bread on the kitchen table, the pitcher of milk with money in it had been left at the gate for the milkman, and Mr. Shepherd therefore thought his wife had gone to the store for meat.  On the kitchen table was this note:
    My Dear Husband and Mother:  Forgive me if you can - those gloomy feelings have again taken possession of me and I cannot put them off.  My last request is to be always kind to little Freddie.  I prefer death to going insane.  From your broken-hearted Lizzie.
    At 8 o'clock two boys, Warren Church and Bordie Drake, who were skating on Green Book, a small stream which runs through the middle of the town, saw a woman lying on her back on the ice under the Grove street bridge.  Her head was in a hole that had recently been made in the ice, which was only an inch and a half thick.
    Mr. Shepherd had been married 11 years.  His wife, who was Miss Lizzie Stevens, was the daughter of John Stevens, formerly of Hillsborough township, and was 29 years, 1 month and 24 days old.  She was of medium height, slender, and had dark borwn hair and blue eyes.  Her face was long and thin, the features regular.

A Sudden Death
    A young man named George Richey, of Broadway, Warren county, on Thursday morning was found dead behind the Methodist church yard in that village.  He was found lying on his side, and the ground around him, that had been torn up with his hands, showed the awful agony he must have suffered.  An inquest was held by Justice Muchmore, and physicians were of opinion that the man died with a fit.  He leaves a wife and three children.  He is her second husband and like the first was brought home dead unexpectedly.  -  Washington Star.

Wedded At The Side Of The Dead
    Miss Gussie McIlhaney, the youngest daughter of the late Thomas M. McIlhaney, of Stroudsburg, whose sudden death we recorded last week, was engaged to be married to the man of her choice, and her father, at the time of his death, was looking forward to a happy union of hearts in a few hours.  Wednesday last had been appointed for the wedding day, and extensive preparations made for what was intended to be a most joyous occasion to the favorite child of a most affectionate and loving parent.  The death of Mr. McIlhaney the day before the wedding would have induced most people to decide upon a postponment.  Miss McIlhaney and her affianced concluded to do otherwise.  The wedding took place at the appointed time in the room in which the dead parent lay.  -  Sussex Herald.

    Martin Reynolds, a boy twelve years old, living in Girard, Ala., was horribly burned by the explosion of a kerosene can on Sunday.  He was burned from his mouth to his feet, most of all the skin peeled off his body and he died at four o'clock Tuesday morning.
 

Marriages

    In Little York, Dec. 24, by Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, Wm. H. Cole, of Milford, and Lizzie Eckel, of Little York.

    At Clinton, Dec. 30, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, William B. Haver, of Clinton township, and Belle Bird, of Clinton.

    At the residence of Jacob Cregar, Esq., High Bridge, by Rev. C. E. Long, Albert Mitchell, of Pattenburg, to Ella L. Bunn, of High Bridge.

    Near Princeton, Dec. 24, by Rev. G. F. Love, Wesley C. Snook and Mary E. Lampey, both of Clarksville.

    At the residence of the Liscom T. Schenck, Dec. 24, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., George B. Stamets, of Ringoes, and Cora S. Williamson, of Ringoes.

    By the same, Dec. 30, William S. Hixson, of Woodsville, and Lillie Blackwell, of Ringoes.

    At Waverly, Tioga Co., N.Y., Dec. 24, at the Baptist parsonage, by the Rev. Wm. B. Cooper, Wm. B. Gerould to Annie E. Dalrymple, of Frenchtown, daughter of Wm. Hummer, of Kingwood township.

    Dec. 31, at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. Amzi L. Smith, James W. Rodenbough and Radie M. Philhower, all of Peapack, N.J.

    Dec. 30, at Jersey City, by Rev. J. B. Kugler, James W. Tice to Jennie M. Stephens, both of Jersey City.

    At the Locktown Christian parsonage, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Dec. 27, Walter S. Risler, of Kingwood township, and Laura V. Trimmer, of Franklin township.

    At the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, Flemington, Dec. 28, by the Rev. F. A. Mason, John W. Kise to Carrie Smith, both of Raritan, N.J.
 

Deaths

    In Clinton township, Dec. 26, 1885, Lucy daughter of Samuel H. Leigh, aged 24 years.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 23, 1885, James Smith, aged about 70 years.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 26, 1885, Mrs. Victoria A. Lair, in the 40th year of her age.

    Near Mount Pleasant, Dec. 20, 1885, Mrs. Jerome Hartpance, in the 70th year of her age.

    In Thomasville, Ga., on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1885, Col. Anderson D. Nelson, aged 68 years.
 

Local Department

    Mr. John Allen, of Annandale, who has been an invalid for a number of years, died on Monday morning.  He was about 45 years of age.

    Mr. Godfrey C. Stout, son of Samuel Stout, of Alexandria township, who has been in Nebraska for a few years past, has bought a farm in Kansas and will make that State his home in the future.
 

    On the morning of the 26th ult., the body of John Van Houten, the young man who had been missing for five weeks, was found in the canal, near "Hall's old saw-mill," just below the outlet locks in Lambertville, by Mr. John Kreader.  Deceased was in the 22d year of his age.  His parents resided near New Market, but he was employed at the farm of Mrs. S. B. Moore, near Moore's Station, and was on his way to his employer's place when he met his untimely death.
 

Two Golden Weddings
And Some Gossip About the Big Snow of '36
    The 50th Anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Buchanan was celebrated on Saturday, Dec. 26th, 1885, a number of their relatives and friends gathering at their home on Academy street, Flemington.  At 2 o'clock the party surrounded a well filled table of good things, after which the remainder of the day was spent in conversation about "old times," and naturally, the "big snow" of 1836 was talked over...
    Dec. 26th, 1835, was a very rainy day, but stormy elements avail little to move from their purpose hearts warm with the glow of youthful affection, and so Rev. Holloway W. Hunt performed the ceremony for Mr. Wilson Myers and Miss Eliza Dalrymple, which made them one for life.  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that event their children, grandchildren and friends to the number of 50 in all, gathered Saturday morning, the 26th, at the home where the old couple have spent most of their wedded life...
 

Clover Hill Items
    Mrs. Aaron Dilts, whose illness we spoke of in our last letter, died on the 19th ult.  She leaves behind her a husband and three children - one a babe - to mourn her loss.

    A trial took place last Monday at Bloomsbury, before Justice Hance, for the support of a child of whom Miss Emma Jumper declares John Welsh to be the father.  Two years ago, when the child was born, she swore out a warrant for the arrest of Welsh, who disappeared before it could be served.  He returned recently and the girl made application to Overseer Painter for the support of the child, who caused the arrest of Welsh.  Counsellor Wyckoff, of Asbury, appeared for the township, and Frost, of Phillipsburg, for Welsh.  After hearing the evidence the jury rendered a verdict of guilty.  Welsh has signified his intention of going to jail rather than pay a penny for support.
 
 

January 12, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 22

    There is an aged couple living in Dunellen who are now in the 55th year of their marriage life.  All of their ten children are still living.  Those of the family who reside in this State met at the house of one of the sons on New Year's day.  There were present the parents, the three children with their families, including one great grand child.  The family are scattered in six different States.  The family number in all including the sons and daughter-in-laws, 48.  The parents appear to have as good a lease of life as they did ten years ago.  Mr. I. D. Titsworth and wife are the parents referred to.  Many years ago he was a large owner of real estate in Plainfield, in 1852, having ninety-seven acres of land, now comprising Seventh and Eight streets, between Park and Plainfield avenues.  He also owned the property on which the post office now stands.

Horrible Suicide By A Maniac
    John Bodes, a mad-man, committed suicide in a horrible manner at St. Louis, last Wednesday.  While walking on the street, he drew a claspknife, and, plunging the blade into the side of his neck, tried to behead himself.  He did not succeed, and again thrust the blade into the other side of his neck and drew it  around under his chin, severing his windpipe, but, strange to say, missing the carotid artery.  He again plunged the knife into his neck and followed it up by stabbing himself in the left side and arm.  Blood streamed from the wounds to the sidewalk, and the spectators gathered around horrified.  The madman kept them at bay with his knife and then ran; pursued by the police, and did not stop until weak from the wounds.  He died in a short time.

    On Sunday morning, at Crestline, Ohio, Ella Perry, a rather good looking girl employed as dining room help at the Gibson House, gave birth to a child.  Being left alone in her room, a few hours later in the evening she arose from her bed, took the live babe and put it into the stove, burning it to death.  An offensive smell soon attracted suspicion, and her room was immediately entered.  The babe was found dead and burned to a crisp.

    It is reported that on Sunday last several Mexicans, headed by a notorious rough, named Pelon Chico, went to the store of Charles Schumir, in Hidalgo county, Texas, ten miles north of the Rio Grande, murdered Schumire and carried off several thousand dollars' worth of goods.

Haunted By His Crime
    "O, my God, I want to be hung; I deserve it, and this cursed ill luck that follows me makes life unbearable," cried a pale, slender-built and poorly clad man last Thursday in Chicago, as he leaned against the barred door of a cell at a police station and looked out at his visitor.  Invited to tell what troubled him, he said:
    "My name is William Boorne, and I was born in Westfield, N.Y., Aug. 4, 1859.  When I was a child my father died and in a short time my mother married Caleb Ornes, of Steinbert, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., where the family then moved.  My stepfather misused me.  New Year's Eve, 1873, when I was fourteen, my mother and sisters went to a dance, while I stayed home with my stepfather.  I got into a quarrel with him about his refusing to allow me some money to leave home.  He struck me, and in my rage, I picked up an axe and nearly cut his head off.  I was tried for murder and sentenced to Auburn Penitentiary for life.  Ten years of my life were spent in that prison, and then, by help of my relatives and on account of extenuating circumstances, I was released.  Since then I have made many efforts to get work, but all have failed and I am haunted by my crime."

"Baby, I've Taken Poison.
    Frederick Schluter, a rich liquor agent of New York, was three weeks ago wedded to a widow of whose first husband he was a friend.  Last Thursday Schluter entered his rooms, at 445 East 34th street, and after pouring out a glass of champagne from a bottle, and speaking to his wife, said:  "Baby will you have some wine?"  The woman declined.  Then Schluter lay down in an adjoining room.  Soon he called his wife, and when she went to him he drew her head down and whispered, "Baby, I've taken poison; but I want you to call a doctor, for I don't want to die."  Medical aid came too late, however, and Schluter died.
 

Local Department

    Mr. David Stout, of Lambertville, was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday morning last, and died in an hour's time.  He was around on Tuesday and appeared in good health.  His age was 58 years.

    On New Year's day the Lunger family had a large gathering at the residence of ex-Sheriff Goerge G. Lunger, at Norton.  The family consists of 42 persons, 38 of whom were present.  The ex-Sheriff is 71 years old, and his wife near the same age.  There are five sons and three daughters, whose combined ages aggregate 455 years.  The ex-Sheriff has also sixteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren, whose ages, when added to the above, make a total of 955 years.

    The 30th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Roberts, of this place, was celebrated on Thursday night last.  A large number of relative from a distance, and many friends here in town assembled at their residence where a very pleasant evening wa passed.
 

Killed On The Rail
    As engine No. 525, drawing a freight train, was passing through Jersey City on the 3rd inst., and explosion occurred, and a dense volume of steam and hot water was forced back over the tender, striking the front of the forward car, where William H. Crate and Edward McDonald, two brakemen, were standing.  Crate either fell or jumped from the platform and was instantly killed.  McDonald was badly scalded about the face and head, and it is thought that his injuries will prove fatal.  McDonald lives in Elizabeth, and Crate's residence was at Hoboken.  He has a mother and a brother living at Rowland's Mills, in this county.  Some years ago he worked for different farmers in Readington township.  He leaves a wife and two or three young children.

    On the morning of the 3rd inst., Miss Lizzie Baldwin, daughter of Mr. Stewart C. Baldwin, of Trenton, (formerly a resident of this county,) while suffering from mental derangement occasioned by over study before her recent graduation from one of the Trenton schools, eluded the vigilance of her parents and escaped from the house, and running to the water power, nearly a mile distant, threw herself into the water.  Her body was recovered next day...  She was engaged to be married to Mr. Jacob Parse, of Flemington, and when her body was found in the water the engagement ring was still upon her finger.  Her mother was a Miss Susan Bodine, sister to Mr. J. P. Bodine, of this place.
 

A Hackettstown Character
    Abram Larue, whose body was interred in the Bound Brook Cemetery on New Year's Day, was one of the well known characters of Hackettstown, and was called by everybody "Uncle Abe."  The Hackettstown Republican in a long extended obituary says:
    "Mr. Larue was born on June 4, 1803, at Everittstown, N.J., and learned the cabinet maker's trade with Henry Pownall, of this place, working for him until he married Mary Ann Little, sister of Robt. Little, deceased.  He then bought a farm in Allamuchy township, lived there until late in life.  He was the father of three children, Mrs. Thomas Shield, Jr., now deceased, Jackson Larue, of Elgin, Ill., and Samuel Larue, who is living in Kansas.  He has lived here for a number of years, and has kept "bachelor's hall."  He was quite active for a man of his age, and was a man of quick temper, although seldom offensive, unless plagued or bothered by on-lookers.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Miss Helen Hall, aunt to Mr. W. H. Hall, of Flemington, died at her residence in Somerville on Monday last, aged about 86 years.  She had been an invalid for nearly two years, being bed-fast most of that time.  She was buried at Readington on Thursday.

    John G. Stevens, of Trenton, President of the United Railroads of New Jersey, shot himself dead last Wednesday in his office, in the Pennsylvania Railroad Building in that city.  He was well known as a civil engineer and railroad man, and was a son of the builder of the Stevens Battery.  He was 65 years of age.  He was subject to fits of despondency.
 

Hale and Hearty at 103
    Near Boonton, in Madison township, lives Mr. James Preston, who is said to be 103 years old, and has never spent a dollar for medicine in his life.  He is hale and hearty, and not long ago walked to Amboy, a distance of eight miles from his home, and felt no ill effects from his tramp...  - New Brunswick Times.

    A terrible tragedy was enacted in the city of Paterson last Thursday.  George Holford killed his wife and then himself.  The husband and wife had recently made up after a separation of eighteen months.  Mrs. Holford was asleep in bed when her husband shot her.  No cause is assigned for the act, except his complaints that she preferred her children by her first husband to his.

    Mrs. Marie Lucht, aged 67 years, died of hydrophobia last Monday at Milwaukee, Wis., making five deaths from the disease in that city during the past two months.
 

State Items

    James Preston, of Madison township, Middlesex county, is 103 years old and never spent a dollar for midicine.

    Thomas Moran, a Pennsylvania Railroad track-walker, was found murdered last Tuesday afternoon on the canal bank between Bordentown and Trenton.  There were bullet wounds in the head and neck, and the crime is supposed to have been committed by tramps for robbery.

    Miss Hannah Brannan, aged about 16 years, residing on the Rancocas road, near Mount Holly, was burned to death early Wednesday morning at her home.  She had been out to an evening gathering, and on returning home leaned her head down and fell asleep near a stove, from which her clothing took fire.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, Dec. 19, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, John Zeh to Annie Charaker, both of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 24, by the same, George W. Peters, of Lambertville, to Katie Ohl, of West Amwell township.

    In East Amwell township, Dec. 24, by Rev. Wm. Pittman, E. Metler Conner, of Millstone, and Emma Riley, of East Amwell.

    At the Reformed parsonage, Stanton, Jan. 6, by Rev. Chas. W. Pitcher, John Shurts, Esq., of Clinton township, to Emma Dawes, of Stanton.

    Jan. 2, by Rev. E. W. Gerald, at the residence of the bride's parents, W. C. Fields, of Croton, to Susie G. Everitt, of Flemington.

    In the Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, Dec. 30, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Joseph E. Baldwin, of Paltki, Florida, to Mary Emma Jewell, of Lambertville.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 30, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Samuel K. Risler to Elizabeth Smith, both of Locktown.

    In Lambertville, Dec. 24, by Rev. C. H. Woolston, Edwin D. Limbarger, of Bound Brook, to Ella G. Higgins, of Sergeantsville.

    At the Baptist Parsonage, in Stockton, Nov. 25, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Henry Ohl, of West Amwell township, to Josephine Barron, of Centre Bridge, Pa.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Dec. 23, 1885, James Smith, aged 69 years, 10 months and 13 days.

    In Lambertville, Nov. 21, 1885, John Van Houten, aged 22 years.
 
 

January 19, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 23

Will The Will Be Broken
    The late John D. Thomas, of Draketown, Warren county, surprised the good people of that place in November 1883, by marrying a mere child - a girl of 16 years or less, his own age being upward of 50 years.  In May following a child was born and in September of the following year Thomas died, leaving a will by which the girl wife and infant were completely ignored, giving his entire estate, real and personal, to his brothers and sisters.  Under the statute a man cannot thus ignore his wife and child, and a will thus made is void.  Hon. H. W. Hunt was retained by the widow and he filed a caveat against the probating of the will.  The case was heard on Monday, when, on cross examination, the widow admitted that John D. Thomas was not the father of the laughing, cooing babe that she held in her arms, but that it was the result of illicit relations with a brother of her late husband.... - Easton Free Press.

    At Elmira, New York, when Mrs. Cora Schaschke was about to retire on Monday evening, her husband picked up an old revolver which he was positive did not contain a cartridge, and snapped it carelessly at his wife.  The pistol exploded and Mrs. Schaschke fell to the floor with a scream and an examination showed that the bullet pierced the lower part of her abdomen.  She died soon afterwards.  The couple had been married but six months.

    Ten year old Katie Erb, started from Newark last Monday night on the cars for Cheyenne, Wy., Territory.  The distance is about 2000 miles.  Tags were pinned on the little lady's cloak stating that she is traveling alone, and that conductors will please to care for her.  She is sent to her father a mechanic, at Cheyenne, because she received no proper care from her mother.  The mother of the girl is the notorious Jennie Higgins, who is serving a term of imprisonment in jail.  During her trip she will be in charge of fifteen conductors.

    Etta Vogler, aged 17 years, the daughter of Peter Vogler, a grocer, of Hoboken, was forbidden by her parents to have anything to do with John Meyer, aged 20, but on Tuesday Miss Etta disappeared and was married to Meyer in New York.
 

The Wife Of Her Former Slave
    The death at Galesburg, Ill., of a white woman, Eliza Bowen, last Tuesday, has brought out a remarkable story.  Since her residence in Galesburg, some twenty years in all, she has been the wife of a negro, black as midnight.  This woman was, before the Rebellion, the wife of Colonel Hanks, at one time an officer in the British Army, and afterwards a resident of Kentucky.  There he became possessed of a large plantation and many slaves, the man Bowen among them.  During the war he died, and his estate passed to his creditors.  His wife he put in charge of Bowen, whom he instructed to care for her.  The marriage occurred several years afterward.

    Ida Norton, the daughter of well to do parents in Cleveland, Ohio, eloped last Wednesday night with Clarence A. Barber, a dudish young colored barber, who had been employed by the girl's parents as a waiter.  The girl was heavily veiled and wore gloves during the marriage ceremony, the minister not knowing she was white until after he had made them man and wife.  The girl's mother is prostrated with grief at her foolish act.

Another Woman Who Saw Washington
    Mrs. Elizabeth Dubois, probably the oldest person in the State, died in Newburgh, N.Y., aged one hundred and ten years.  She was born a slave in Ulster county, and was freed when the emancipation law was passed in New York in 1827.  She has resided there forty years.  She saw Washington's troops and the General himself in 1783.
 

    On Monday last, Mr. Cornelius Arnett, one of the best known citizens of Hunterdon county, died at his residence in Lambertville.  Mr. Arnett was born in Buck county, Pa., in the year 1820.  When 18 years of age he went to Lambertville to learn the shoemaker's trade, and since that time had resided there.
 

State Items

    On Monday night Mary C. Packer, age 57, of Elizabeth, died suddenly.  Three hours afterward her sister Elizabeth, age 59, also died suddenly.  At 7 A.M. Tuesday, Mrs. Annie Lealsch, in the same neighborhood, also died.  They had all been watching at the bedside of a brother who died, the doctors said from pneumonia.  It is believed that deaths were caused by malignant fever.

    John Frome, of Elizabeth, is the proud father of a little daughte who came to him as a Christmas gift of 1884 and who is so tiny as to attract much attention and great interest.  The child is hardly 17 inces in height, and weighs 4 pounds and 14 ounces.   Though bright and hearty, its height and weight have not perceptibly increased since last summer and the physicians who are watching the case pronounce this fact one of the wonders of the age.
 

    A great sensation was created in Washington last Saturday afternoon by the circulation of the report that Miss Katherine Bayard, eldest daughter of Secretary of State Bayard, had been found dead in her bed.  The report was too true.  The young lady had died suddenly and peacefully from heart disease.
 

Marriages

    By Rev. G. B. Young, January 14th, Benjamin A. Dalrymple, of Kingwood township, and Emma L. Dubon, eldest daughter of Mrs. William Dubon, of Franklin township.

    Dec. 30, by Rev. M. F. Conkling, Morris R. Cook, of Mechanicsville, to Mamie, daughter of Cornelius Messler, Esq.
 

Deaths

    In Lambertville, Jan. 11, 1886, Cornelius Arnett, aged 65 years and 6 months.

    In Lambertville, January 6, 1886, Chapin Davis, son of Charles A. and Lizzie H. Davis, aged 4 years.

    In Lambertville, January 11, 1886, John Still, aged 86 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 11, 1886, James Crothers, aged 79 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 6, 1886, Daniel Stout, aged 57 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 9, 1886, Permelia Jones, aged 64 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 6, 1886, Mamie R., daughter of Samuel and Fannie Wiggins, aged 9 years.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 13, 1886, Elizabeth M., wife of Charles M. Pettee, aged 45 years.
 
 

January 26, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 24

    Kate Diamond, alias Emily De Forrest, was one of the handsomest women in New York twenty years ago.  She came from Canada, married a well known sport, Charley Diamond, and owned three large saloons downtown.  She became a drunkard.  Six week ago she threatened to drown herself because she was weary of her life of sin.  A friend directed her to the Faith Home.  She entered the mission, prayed contritely and was apparently thoroughly repentant.  A place was procured for her as janitress, but on Monday she died suddenly.  She was buried from the Faith Home, in the presence of a throng of women of the town and many repentant and reclaimed inmates of the home.

    George Foster, the most notorious burglar, highwayman and bank thief of Ohio, and for many years the leader of the "Foster gang," whose operations extended over Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania, was shot and killed on Tuesday night at Cleveland by an officer after a desperate struggle.  He escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary last October, and since then had not been seen until he turned up in Cleveland.
 

Local Department

    Mrs. Nancy McCann, a sister-in-law of Mr. John V. McCann, of Flemington, died at Washington last Monday, of pneumonia.  She was eighty years of age.  She was the widow of Thomas McCann.  About a month hence a sister of the deceased died at the age of ninety-seven years.  Another sister is still living, at the age of eighty-eight years.

    We are sorry to be compelled to chronicle today the death of Mr. Sylvester S. Robbins, for some years past ticket agent at the Flemington Railroad station.  His death occurred on Thursday evening last from consumption.  His remains will be interred this Tuesday morning with Masonic honors.

    Mr. Joseph Lair, of Delaware township, died very suddenly at his home, early Sunday morning, 17th inst., from paralysis.  At midnight his wife awakened and he showed no signs of sickness and appeared to be sleeping soundly.  Early in the morning, when she arose she found that he was dead and that his body was cold, showing that he had been dead some time.  He was quite advanced in age.

    Mr. Charles Blackwell and wife, who formerly lived near Ringoes, but now near Lawrenceville, have been sorely bereaved within the last two or three weeks by the death of two of their children, both of whom had diphtheria.  Freddie, aged 10 years, died on the 2d of January.  The other, named Anna May, aged 7 years, had been very sick, but the disease had left her and the doctor thought her out of danger.  One night a serenading party passed the house, and the music frightened her into convulsions, of which she died a few days later.

    Says the Clinton Democrat:  Mr. John Slaven, of Easton, was in town on Monday.  He is well known in this section, having bought stock here for many years.  In conversation with an old friend during his last visit here, Mr. S. said that he was 82 years of age and still felt like a boy; that he expected to attain the age of 125 years.  On Wednesday morning the sad news reached us of the death of the old drover.  While walking in Easton on Tuesday he fell and received his sudden death blow.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    James Opie, an old resident, of Raritan, died at his home early Tuesday morning.  He had been in ill health for a number of years.

    One day last week the six year old child of Seward Applegate, of New Brunswick, showed symptons of hydrophobia and before night died of the disease in its most aggravated form.
 

    The body of a colored man has been interred in the cemetery at Somerville.  It has been the custom heretofore to bury colored people in a cemetery set apart for that purpose, but with the large negro population the graveyard became full.  On the death of Albert Bergen, a colored man, a lot was obtained in the Somerville Cemetery, and his body was buried there.  Indignation is expressed by some of the lot holders, whose prejudices against the colored race are very strong.
 

State Items

    Elijah Cathcart, for many years sexton of the Bordentown Baptist Church was found dead in bed on Saturday.

    At Passaic, John Matindo, a Hungarian, on Saturday night attempted to strike his wife, but instead struck their child, aged on year, on the head, causing concussion of the brain, form which it died.

    A few weeks ago a daughter of Peter MErhoff of Ridgefield Park, was married to Charles O. Geitner, the son of a wealthy farmer, of the same place.  The wedding was a grand affair.  On Sunday the guests of the recent wedding attended the funeral of the bridegroom, he having, after the bridal tour slipped and cut his had on a nail, which resulted in lockjaw.  The young widow is bowed down with grief.

    Daniel B. Strong, the Postmaster at Matawan, died after a short illness on Sunday.  He was seventy-six years old...  Mr. Strong was born in Morristown, but the last fifty years of his life was spent in Monmouth county.

    About eighteen months ago, James Cochrane died in Elizabeth leaving his wife with three children and asnug? dying business.  Shortly after her widowhood commenced, Mrs. Cochrane met A. T. Tieman, who was then about twenty years of age and fifteen years her junior.  She placed her children in the Neward Orphan Asylum, and when freed from all incumbrances, married Tieman.  Their married life lasted only about one year, as he left for parts unknown, and, it is said, was accompanied by a comely young woman.
 

Marriages

    At Locktown Christian parsonage, Jan.21, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Jeremiah F. Johnson and Maud W. Mount, both of Delaware township.

    At the Presbyterian parsonage, Ringoes, Jan. 14, by Rev. David Wills, Jr., William H. Snyder and Mary M. Conover, both of Delaware township.

    In Trenton, Jan. 16, by Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D. D., Thomas P. Trimmer, of Chester, Pa., and Sallie E. Wilson, of Lambertville.

    At Elmire, N.Y., Dec. 26, by Rev. E. M. Mills, Frank L. Johnson, formerly of Lambertville, to Carrie E. Sherwood, of Jerusalem, Yates county, N.Y.

    At the residence of the bride's mother in Pennington, N.J., Jan. 20, by Rev. Daniel Foster, Andrew Van Syckel, of White House, Hunterdon Co., and Carrie Atchley.
 

Deaths

    In Frenchtown, Jan. 16, 1886, Catharine Rittenhouse, aged 66 years, 11 months and 29 days.

    In Kingwood township, Jan. 17, 1886, Ida Emmons, aged 26 years, 4 months and 21 days.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, Rev. C. E. Long, High Bridge, Jan. 13, 1886, Ruth E. Carlton, wife of D. H. Carpenter, of Collinsville, Conn., aged 61 years.

    Jan. 18, 1886, at the residence of Geo. Walters, in High Bridge township, Mrs. Anna Starker, aged 80 years and 3 months.
 
 

February 2, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 25

The Pike County Hermit Dead
    Austin Sheldon the celebrated hermit of the Pike county, Pa., mountains, who lived for over forty years in a wrethed hut, died last week.  He had lived for thirty years in the hut before anything of his history was known in the county....  He was a member of one of the best families of Stony Brook, Conn.  He had been a prosperous blacksmith in that place, and early in 1832 had married a most estimable young woman to whom he was warmly attached.  She died soon after marriage, and a short time after her death Austin had disappeared...  His remains will be buried in Connecticut.

    Holden Dick, an Indian, and Vicente Olivas, a Mexican, both convicted murderers, were taken out of jail at Susanville, Cal., last Tuesday night and hanged to beams in the woodshed of the Court House by a mob.

    Coleman Freeman, colored, a native Virginian, said to be 120 years old, died of old age at Windsor, Ontario, last Tuesday night.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Samuel Case, formerly a blacksmith at Centreville, who was stricken with paralysis about three years ago, and who for a year past had been confined to his bed, died on Monday night last.  He was a brother to Mr. Joseph B. Case, who lives on the hill west of Flemington.

    James Hoagland, an old and well known resident of this township, died at his residence two miles west of Flemington, on the road to Sand Brook, last Wednesday night, after a protracted illness.  Deceased was a brother to Mr. Elijah C. Hoagland, of this place.  He leaves no family, his wife having died some years ago.

    Mrs. Susan D. Hewitt, wife of Rev. J. D. Hewitt, died in Wichita, Kansas, on Jan. 6th.  Mr. Hewitt is now the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Wichita.
 

From the N.Y. World of Friday.
    Rather Fond of Marrying
        The people of Glen Gardner and those residing at Pleasant Grove and vicinity were surprised to see the following announcement in the Warren county papers of Saturday last:
    Lisk - Ader. - On the9th inst., at Phillipsburg, by Rev. J. R. Bryan, Charles Lisk, of Glen Garnder, and Julia A. Ader, of Pleasant Grove.
    The bride is a vivacious brunette of petite form and is about twenty-one years of age.  She is at present a member of the Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev. Dr. B. C. Magee is pastor.  This is not her first venture in the matrimonial line.  Nearly three years ago she was married to Matthew Sutton, of Pleasant Grove, and industrious young farmer and the sexton of Dr. Magee's church.  Two years of married life passed, and until last summer, when whispers began to be heard about Mrs. Sutton's little immoral indiscretions, no one supposed them to be aught but supremely happy.  Sutton, on hearing the stories about his wife, set out to investigate them, and receiving indubitable proof of her guilt, in which several prominent men of Pleasant Grove were implicated, by advice of friends he went West with the understaning that he would send for his wife as soon as he was permanently located.
    In the meantime, at the instance of the members of the church, Dr. Magee called on the frail sister and to him she confessed her guilt and her hope of pardon, promising in the future to do better.  At preparatory services in December 1885, the matter of expelling Mrs. Sutton from the church was brought up.  By a majority vote she was saved, the members thinking that there was more chance of reformation within the fold than outside.
    Charles Lisk, the new groom, lives at Glen Gardner.  He entered the army last summer, and was stationed with the light artillery at Newport, R.I.  The duties being too arduous for Charles, he came home.  When the Government wants him he can be found.  His chief danger, however, is not with the United States officers, as the people of Pleasant Grove threaten him with vengeance if he shows himself in that village.  Sutton wrote to friends last week that he would come for his wife soon.  It is thought that if he meets Lisk there will be music.  All the same, Mrs. Sutton, nee Ader, alias Lisk, is happy.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The Rev. Greenleaf S. Webb died on Saturday morning, 23d ult., at his home in New Brunswick, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years.  His wife died about a month ago, and he caught a severe cold at her funeral which resulted in his fatal illness.
 

    The New York Tribune of last Monday says that Aaron Culver, a fireman in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, died at Phillipsburg recently after a short illness, due to excessive drinking of cold water.
 

State Items

    A little daughter of Mr. Snyder Aldridge, of No. 188 Jewitt avenue, Jersey City, took five pills, which she found in a box in closet, mistaking them for candy.  The pills contained quinine arsenical acid and aconite.  The child died in a short time in convulsions.
 

Marriages

    Jan. 23, by Rev. A. B. Still, at the parsonage, Barton H. Butler, of Alexandria township, and Lizzie Wallace, of Still Valley, Warren Co.

    Dec. 24, at Stewartsville, N.J., by Rev. W. Thomson, Theodore Woolverton and Annetta Tompson, both of Holland township.

    At Milford, Jan. 23, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Amandus A. Kocher and Lizzie Heller, both Milford.

    At Lower Valley Manse, Dec. 23, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, Jacob C. Apgar, of Fairmount, to Lizzie C. Coleman, of Changewater.

    At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 20, by Rev. T. H. ??, Jas. H. Heater, of High Bridge township, and Mary A. Wiggins, of Clinton.

    At Lower Valley Manse, Dec. 23, by Rev. J. R. Gibson, assisted by Rev. Dr. Magie, of Pleasant Grove, Isaac Philhower, of Middle Valley, and Sarah E. Barber, of Beattystown.

    At the residence of the bride, Jan. 20, by Rev. W. H. McCormick, Ralph P. Warrington, of Clinton, to Mary C. Cramer, of High Bridge.
 

Deaths

    In Lebanon, Dec. 8, 1885, at the house of Edward O. Burrell, Mary Carkuff, aged 95 years, 9 months and 7 days.

    At Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 13, 1886, John Duckworth, in the 87th year of his age.

    In Clinton, Jan. 24, 1886, Nathan W., infant son of Joseph K. and Sallie E. Gebhardt, aged 5 months and 26 days.

    Near Midvale, Jan. 16, 1886, Cornelia M. Housel, aged 45 years.

    In Chambersburg, N.J., Jan. 28, 1886, Anna H., daughter of Joseph and Rebecca A. McClanen, in the 26th year of her age.

    At the residence of her son-in-law, A. J. Green, in Flemington, Jan. 18, 1886, Julia Ann Britton, wife of Abram Moore, aged 78 years, 3 months and 16 days.

    At Potterstown, Jan. 25, 1886, Miss Sarah Van Pelt, aged 97 years.

    At Mechanicsville, Jan. 25, 1886, Mathias Space, aged 85 years.

    In Raritan township, near Copper Hill, Jan. 31, 1886, Miss Martha H. Kuhl, in the 84th year of her age.  Funeral at the house of the deceased, on Wednesday, Feb. 3rd, at 11 o'clock A.M.
 
 

February 9, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 26

Raritan's Oldest Citizen Dead
    A few days ago David P. Kenyon, the oldest resident of Raritan, slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk, breaking his thigh and dislocating his collar bone.  He suffered greatly until Sunday evening, when he died.  Mr. Kenyon was a native of Nine Partners, Dutchess County, N.Y., and at the time of his death he was over eighty-two years of age.  In 1839 he engaged in the iron foundry business at Belvidere, where he remained until 1877, when he took up a permanent residence at Raritan.  Here he founded the Kenyon Iron Works, which he successfully operated until 1868, when he retired from business.

    Peter A. Weast, serving a three year sentence for killing his wife's betrayer, was allowed by Governor Oglesby to leave the Joliet Penitentiary and attend the funeral of his 6 year old daughter at Streator, Ill. on Sunday.

    George Kellier, a prosperous farmer, on Monday last hanged himself near South Bend, Ind.  He was often heard to complain that he had too much money and was not well enough educated to take care of it.

    At Doughlastown, N.B., on Monday, Annie Ramsey, aged 7 years, while coasting slid into the river.  Her brother Robert, aged 9 years, and Harry Hutchinson, another boy, in trying to save her, fell into the river, and all three were drowned.

    Bolling Parker, a respectable farmer of Nansemond county, Virginia, made a deadly assault with an ax upon his wife and his sister last Monday.  The latter was instantly killed and his wife fatally wounded.  Parker says he could not resist the power that prompted him to the deed.  He was lodged in jail.  He is believed to be insane.

    Mrs. Harriet Brewer died at Caldwell Station, N.C., Tuesday from burns received by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, beside which she was sitting reading a newspaper on the preceding Sunday night.

The Wages of Sin
    Annie Watson, once a noted character among the dissolute women of Philadelphia, was buried yesterday in Wilmington, where she had lived in obscurity for the past ten years.  When she left this city she was said to have been possessed of over $50,000, but her estate now is worth not more than $20,000.  Both here and in Wilmington, she became noted for her acts of charity, dispensing her money with a liberal hand among the deserving poor.  The woman had no relatives and was followed to her grave by a single carriage.  -  Philadelphia Record.

    Two brothers named Karlson sold their wheat at Bartlett, Dakota, on Monday, and started home intoxicated and lost their way at night.  One froze to death and the legs of the other will have to be amputated.
 

Local Department

    Matthew Lowry, a two year old son of editor Shrope, of the Riegelsville Standard, died at his parent's residence in Easton, on Wednesday.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Wm. M. Morgan died at his residence in Belvidere on Wednesday.  He was stricken with paralysis some weeks ago and had gradually continued to sink unitl his death.

    Dr. George M. Skillman, a popular young physician of Bound Brook, died there on Thursday last from consumption, aged about 29 years.

    John B. Stout, an old resident of Somerset county, died at his residence north of Somerville on the 24th ult., aged 78 years.  He survived his wife but one week.  She was a little over 78 years of age.
 

Accident To A Farmer's Family
    John Greymeed, a well to do farmer, aged 45 years, accompanied by his wife, aged 42 years, and his daughter Mary, aged 20 years, were on Wednesday morning returning from market when the horses drawing the sleigh became frightened, about eight miles from Winfield, Pa., and ran away.  The sleigh was upset and the occupants thrown along the fence.  Mrs. Greymeed was killed, her neck having been broken.  The daughter was terribly injured about the head and body, and phsicians state that she cannot recover.  The husband lies in an unconscious condition, and it is feared that his skull is fractured.
 

State Items

    Jacob Zorn, of Hoboken, fell dead last Thursday night a few minutes after eating his supper.  Heart disease was the casue.

    Richard Meek, a young man, died of consumption at his parent's home, Jersey City, on Monday.  His funeral was to have taken place on Wednesday.  While the undertaker was placing the remains in the casket the father of deceased fell dead.  James Meeks, the father, was sixty years old.  His sudden death is attributed to paralysis of the heart.  Both father and son will be buried together.

    George L. Warren, who was indicted a week or two ago by the Mercer county Grand Jury for bigamy, was arrested at Bristol, Pa., last Thursday and brought to Trenton.  It appears that Warren, in 1882, married Farmer Blackwell's daughter in Hopewell Township and became the father of two children.  His wife presented him with a farm, and they lived happily till last year, when Warren began to tire of the drudgery of country life. One day last fall he went to Trenton, and that was the last his wife saw of him.  When she learned soon after that he had eloped with Mary Grimes, a Trenton servant girl, she became distracted with grief, and before many weeks her friends had to send her to the State Asylum for the Insane, where she still is.  Only recently Warren and his new wife located at Bristol.

    On Sunday night last, on Brush Creek, Yell county, Arkansas, Mrs. Gilkie, 69 years old, the widow of James Gilkie, an old pioneer of that section, fired a shed a short distanct from the house, took a dose of strychnine and cooly seated herself in the middle of the building and was burned to death.

    James H. Hough, a member of the United State Secret Service detective force, shot and killed himself last Wednesday at Washington, D. C.  He had been sick and despondent lately.
 

Marriages

    In Lambertville, Jan. 18, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Edward H. Lawyer to Eliza Rooks, both of Lambertville.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Rosemont, Jan. 31, Lucy, daughter of John Huffman to Charles McCabe, of Hamilton Square, Mercer county.

    At the home of the bride, Feb. 3rd, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Bergen H. Berkaw, of Stanton, to Bessie C. Abel, of Flemington.

    At the Anderson M. E. Parsonage, Jan. 23, by Rev. S. D. Harris, Charles A. Hoffman, of Cokesbury, and Lydia A. Fisher, of Mt. Lebanon.

    At the Reformed Dutch Church Parsonage, Feb. 3, by Rev. Charles Pitcher, Charles H. Yawger to Mary Aller, both of Clinton township.
 

Deaths

    At Dreahook, Feb. 5, 1886, Peter P. Schomp, in the 72nd year of his age.

    In Clinton, Jan. 28, 1886, Julia, wife of A. D. Manning, aged 58 years, 1 month and 13 days.

    In Lambertville, Jan. 22, 1886, Henry Matthews, aged 73 years.

    In High Bridge township, Jan. 18, 1886, Mrs. Anna Starker, aged 80 years and 3 months.

    Near Stanton, Jan. 29 , 1886, Mrs. Betsy Schofield, in the 95th year of her age.
 

Death Of An Old Negro
    On Saturday, Jan. 9th, Mr. Isaac Truehart died at his residence near Mountain Grove, at the advanced age of 94 years.  He was the oldest son of Friday Truehart, who will be remembered by our older people, as one of the most exemplary of Christians.  Friday was a native of Africa, and was brought to Charleston, S.C., by the ship's Captain, who had stolen him from his native home.  He was bought by Oliver Hart of this Captain.  Mr. Hart named the African boy after Robinson Crusoe's companion, Friday.  The vicissitudes of the Revolutionary War, drove Mr. Hart from Charleston where he had been pastor of a Church, and after coming north he was soon called to the pastoral care of the First Hopewell Church - and he moved to Hopewell, bringing with him his faithful attendant, Friday.  So upright and strickly honest was Friday that Mr. Hart gave him the additional name of True, which he never sullied by any act inconsistent with the strictest honesty and faithfulness.  Mr. Hart baptized Friday into the Frist Hopewell Church, and he always honored the profession and set a worthy example for all.  He died at a very advanced age, and his funeral was preached by Elder John Boggs about 1845.  Isaac's wife, Aunt Patty, was for many years a worthy member of the same church and died at an advanced age only a few months ago...  -  Hopewell Herald.
 
 

February 16, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 27

General Hancock Dead
    Major General Winfield Scott Hancock died at 2:51 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon, at his official residence of Governor's Island.  His end was painless, and although it was not unexpected for the preceding forty-eight hours, yet death came when his wife was absent from his bedside....
 

Local Department

    Amos Crater, living near Cokesbury, was buried on Tuesday.  His estate is said to be worth $100,000.  He was over 80 years old.
 

Distressing Fatality
    An awful accident occurred near Bloomsbury last Thursday night - one that has cast an overwhelming gloom over the entire community.  Mr. Robert Kennedy, a farmer living within half a mile of the town of Bloomsbury, sent his son Henry, a bright and promising lad of about 14 years, on horseback to Stewartsville to deliver a message.  The lad never returned.  Night came on and the non-appearance of the boy caused the father much uneasiness.  He finally jumped upon another horse and rode off in the direction the boy had taken in order to ascertain what had become of him.  He had gone less than a mile from home when he saw a riderless horse standing in a field by the roadside.  He at once sen that it was his own horse - the one his son had ridden.  Now thoroughly alarmed he summoned the neighbors and a search for the missing lad began.  The only information that could be obtained of the boy's whereabouts was given by miller James Holden.  The miller said that young Henry reached the mill on his way home at about 8 o'clock.  It was dark and raining hard.  The miller advised the boy to dismount and stay over night with him, as the swollen condition of the Pohatcong creek, over which he had to pass, was unsafe....
    ...  Search for the body was continued all through that awful night and during the next day, but had not been found at our latest accounts.
    It is a little sigular that this boy's great grandfather, Robert H. Kennedy, was drowned in the same stream at nearly the same spot, some twenty years ago...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    The three year old son of L. H. S. Martin, of Franklin Plains, Sussex county, was left alone in the house a few minutes, on Sunday and when his relatives returned to the room they found his clothes in flames.  The fire was extinguished at once, but not until the child was so badly burned that he died the next day.
 

Marriages

    At the bride's house, Feb. 11, by Rev. J. Faull, Wm. B. Hartpence, of Flemington, and Annie M., daughter of the late Samuel and Mary Higgins, of Head Quarters.

    Feb. 6, at the parsonage, Reaville, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Calvin Brady, of Reaville, and Mary Jane McCormick, of Larison's Corner.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, Jan. 27, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Wm. T. Battes to Amanda Yorks, both of Stanton.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Alexandria township, Feb. 4, by Rev. J. O. Winner, of Bloomsbury, Wm. H. Nice, of Reigeisville, to Charity Robbins.

    At the Parsonage, Sergeantsville, Jan. 13, by Rev. j. Faull, Elmer E. Johnson, of Raven Rock, and Lizzie Frankfield, of Lumberville, Pa.

    At the Lutheran Parsonage, New Germantown, Jan. 23, by Rev. J. A. Krechting, George A. Lance, of Anthony, to Mary Moore, of Pottersville.

    At Penn's Neck Parsonage, Jan. 27, by Rev. G. F. Love, William T. Rogers, of Hamilton Square, N.J., and Mary A. Allen, of Dutch Neck, N.J.

    At the residence of C. B. Robison, Esq., Kingston, N.J., Feb. 11, by the same, William F. Hoagland, of Rocky Hill, N.J., and Iona Stevenson, of Kingston, N.J.
 

Deaths

    At New Germantown, Feb. 6, 1886, Amos Crater, aged 81 years and 5 days.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 2, 1886, Lizzie, daughter of John and Elizabeth Byrnes, aged 2 years and 5 months.
 

Death of Horatio Seymour
    Death continues its onward march.  Last Friday the grim monster took from life ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York.  He had been slowly failing since the summer of 1876, when he received a sunstroke.  Mr. Seymour was seventy-six years of age, and nearly thirty of these were ___ in honor in the service of the people of his native State of New York...
 
 

February 23, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 28

Death of John B. Gough
    John B. Gough, the eloquent temperance lecturer, was stricken with paralysis on Monday night last while lecturing in a church in Philadelphia.  He lingered in an unconscious condition until Thursday afternoon when death closed his career.
    The deceased was born in Sandgate, England, on August 29, 1818.  His parents were poor, and at 12 years of age he immigrated to America.  Upon his arrival at New York, he located on a farm in Oneida county, being soon joined by his mother and sister...
 

State Items

    Colonel Dudley S. Gregory, long a well known citizen of Jersey City, died Monday in the New York Hospital.

    Nelly, the seven year old daughter of Mrs. Mary Smith, a poor widow of Bordentown, has died from the burns which she received by her clothes taking fire from a stove.  The mother at the time was at work in the shirt factory.
 

    Last Wednesday afternoon, while a number of fisherman were busily engaged in the river of Carondolet, Missouri, they saw what appeared to be the body of a man floating in midstream at some distance away.  A boat was procured and the men rode out and caught the object, which proved to be a man's body encased in ice.  The body was towed ashore upon the banks.  The apearanced of the body indicated that it had probably been in the river fully two weeks.  Letters found proved beyond question that the deceased was the late Rev. Jesse B. Braly, of Nortonville, Ky., and that he had committed suicide by jumping into the river.

     A young man named Kemp, who was captured by the Indians in the far West when only four years old, and whose parents were killed at the time, has arrived at Delphi, Ind., where he has a brother and sister residing.  His first return to civilization was last October, when the band of Indians to which he belonged were captured by the troops.  He can talk but little English.

    Miss Flora Simmonson, daughter of Alfred Simmonson, an Edwardsport (Ind.) merchant who counts his fortune by the hundreds of thousands, left home Wednesday under the pretense of visiting relatives in Missouri.  Alighting from the train here she was met by David Bruner, an Edwardsport barkeeper.  The couple repaired to the parsonage of Rev. E. P. Wallon, and were married.  Miss Simmonson's father was bitterly opposed to her marriage with Bruner and will probably disown her.

    Suspicions have been entertained for several days that Peter Higgins, of Eicho township, Antrim county, Mich., had been murdered, and a search was instituted about his place, resulting in the finding of his body under a pile of manure.  George Higgins, brother of the murdered man, has been arrested, and Mrs. Peter Higgins, is under surveillance.
 

Marriages

    In Glen Gardner, Feb. 14, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Alfred E. Davis to Rose B. Hockenbury, all of Glen Gardner.

    At the residence of the bride, Feb. 10, by the Rev. D. Sassaman, Stewart Vanderbelt and Sarah Pittenger, of Holland.

    At the Presbyterian parsonage, Frenchtown, Feb. 16, by Rev. W. H. Filson, Horace G. Carty and Emma Yost, both of Frenchtown.

    At the residence of the bride's mother, Feb. 10, by Elder J. Rodenbaugh, John M. Fisher, and Emma A. Sherman, of Delaware township.

    By the same, at the Locktown Christian parsonage, Feb. 13, Christopher C. Suydam, of Sergeantsville, and Evalena Bond, of Sand Brook.

    At the M. E. Parsonage, Stanton, Feb. 13, by Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Peter Kline Gulick and S. Cassie Sheets, both of Pleasant Run.
 

Deaths

    At the residence of his grand parents, 75 Fairview avenue, Jersey City, Feb. 15, 1886, Willie R., son of Geo. B. and Amy Shrope, aged 18 years.

    At his residence in Gordon, Dark county, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1886, Uriah S. Bonham, formerly of Kingwood township, Hunterdon coutny, N.J., in the 65th year of his age.
 

Local Department

    Mose Kase, a negro half-breed, well known in and around Frenchtown several years since, we learn came to his death in Texas a few weeks ago.  His age must have been seventy years.
 

Found Dead
    On Thursday morning last Mr. Jacob Todd, of the vicinity of Rockafellow's Mills, went to the residence of Catharine Kombach, an aged woman who had for many years lived all alone in a little house near by, to see her upon business.  Meeting with no response from his knock at the door he looked in at the window.  He was the body of the woman stretched upon the floor near the stove.  He called some of the neighbors and together they entered the house only to find Miss Kombach dead.  There was no fire in the stove, and therefore the conclusion was reached that the woman had been dead for some hours.  Probably her death is due to old age.  Many years ago she worked in the family of the late Jacob Rowe, and was well known by the people about the Three Bridges vicinity.
 

Sad Bereavement
    Our whole town was in sorrow last Thursday, the occasion being the funeral of little George Rodenbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rodenbaugh, upon whom death had laid his icy hand on Monday evening, just as the shades of night were falling....
    ...  His body was laid to rest in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
    There having been a report published that Georgie died with scarlet fever we may be excused for adding as a matter of truth in correction of this report that his ailment was a kidney affection - probably Bright's disease of the kidneys.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Thomas C. Hustwaite, a farmer, aged 42 years, living about three and one-half miles west of the village of Hopewell, cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, 13th inst.  He had been suffering from depression for some time.  Ten years ago he attempted suicide in Hunterdon county, in the same way.  He leaves a wife, several children, $2000 and a sixty acre farm.

    Frank, a 12 year old son of John Bryant, of Washington, attended Sunday School on the afternoon of the 14th, apparently as well as ever he was.  After the school session he walked about town with some other boys and late in the evening his dead body was found in a field where he was used to wander.  Heart disease is given as the cause of death.
 

Henry Kennedy's Body Found
    A correspondent writes the following account of the finding of the body of young Henry Kennedy, who was drowned in the Pohatcong Creek, near Bloomsbury, on the night of 11th inst.:
...
    Only three male members of the Kennedy family have died during the past thirty years, all dying suddenly.  Judge Kennedy was drowned in the same stream, ex-Senator Kennedy, his son, fell dead in his doorway, of heart disease two years ago; and the sad fate of his grandson is a singular coincidence, and perhaps without a parallel in the history of any other family in the State.

Sudden Death
    Miss Mary A. Donnelly, daughter of John and Margaret Donnelly, residing near Milford, died on Monday evening.  Deceased of Sunday afternnoon called on the family of Mr. Thos. R. Sinclair, a short distance from her home, and on her return she was overcome by weakness and fell down in the road, where she was discovered and taken back to Mr. Sinclair's.  She lingered until Monday evening, when she passed away.  Miss Donnelly was born at Kingston, Ulster county, N.Y., July 5, 1859, and consequently was in the twenty-seventh year of her age.

    An old resident of Vineland, named Robert Hyer, died last week, and it was supposed that he left several thousand dollars.  The relatives made an examination of his effects for a will but failed to find such a document.  There was no evidence of wealth, and his heirs were greatly perplexed.  They finally requested Judge Doughty to make a thorough search of his house, on West Boulevard, near Walnut road, which he did yesterday.  The result was a great surprise to the relatives.  In an old valise in the closet were found cash and securities to the amount of $31,550.  There was $11,000 in gold, $13,000 in registered Government and $7,550 in coupon bonds.  There were also found deeds for property in Illinois valued at $20,000.  There are six heirs to the estate, a wife and five children.

    John Stein, a once wealthy furniture dealer of New York city, died in a hospital in Chicago on Saturday night, after having attempted suicide.

    Creil Thompson, a married man residing at Little Rock, Ark., had been, under pretense of being a single man, paying court to Florence, a stepdaughter of Ben Holmes, in Ashley township, Pulaski county.  The fact of Thompson being married coming to Holmes' knowledge, the latter warned him to cease his visits to Florence.  Thompson persisted and when he called on Thursday last Holmes shot and killed him.

    T. J. Beal shot and killed James Bracket, his young farm hand, at the home of the former, five miles from Madisonville, Ky., on Tuesday night.  Bracket had been charged by Mrs. Beal with attempting to kiss her.  He called her a liar and immediately the two men drew pistols.  Bracket fired first and missed and was immediately killed.
 
 

March 2, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 29

Missing Copy
 
 

March 9, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 30

    A negro known by the name of "Mingo Jack," of Eatontown, Monmouth county, was hanged by a mob of citizens on Friday night last.  He had in the afternoon of that day committed an assault upon an invalid young woman of the town after first stealing up behind her in the road and knocking her down.

    Charles McGinley, who was engineer on the Jersey Central Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was killed on Friday night week when between Treichler's Station and Sigfield's, in Pennsylvania.  Two large trees were blown down and in falling they stuck the cab of the engine.  The fireman stopped the train and McGinley was found lying unconscious on the foot board, with one hand on the lever.  McGinley was about fifty years of age and leaves a family.

    Gaston McCartney, a well to do Georgia farmer, last Wednesday while driving home his cattle became enraged at a refractory cow.  He drew a bead upon the animal with his rifle, fired and shot, instead of the cow, his nine year old son, who was in range on the other side.  The boy died instantly.
 

Local Department

    On Tuesday last the remains of Mrs. Eleanor Allen, mother of the late George A. Allen, Esq., were interred at Frenchtown.  Mrs. Allen died at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. A. G. M. Prevost, in Washington city.  Her age was about 88 years.

    A somewhat sudden and unexpected death occurred at Ringoes on the 27th ult.  Mr. Peter O. Holcombe, one of the most respected citizens, a few weeks ago was confined to his house for a few days, but soon was around again as usual.  Friday he was again taken sick and by Saturday afternoon he was dead.
 

Death of Andrew Fleming
    Andrew Fleming, an old resident of Branchburg township, died at his home in Readington on Monday night.  He was stricken with paralysis two months ago, and gradually grew weaker until the day of his death.  The Somerset Unionist Gazette, in speaking of the deceased, says:  Mr. Fleming was born in Alexandria township, Hunterdon county, Oct. 23, 1805.  At the age of eleven years he went from home to care for himself, and until he was twnety-six years old was mostly engaged working on a farm.  In 1838 he married Margaret, daughter of John Lawshe, of Unon township, Hunterdon county.  Following his marriage, in 1839, he settled in the township of Branchburg, and engaged in farming and milling at Milltown, where he rented the Van Derveer farm and mill.  In 1846 he purchased the farm upon which he resided unitl his death.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Nathan Libby, of Washington, Warren county, aged 88 years, dropped dead of dropsy of the heart, while dressing himself on Friday morning last.

    A decree of divorce has recently been entered in favor of Mrs. Kate Skinner, nee Shields, from her husband Edward Skinner.  Mrs. Skinner is a daughter of the late Thomas Shields, of Beattystown and has for years conducted a profitable bakery business at Washington.
 

State Items

    Within three days last week, Frank Lefferts, of Ann street, West Hoboken, has lost three children by diptheria.  His wife and eldest daughter also have been stricken with the same disease and their recovery is doubtful.

    John Welch, a farmer, living at Colts Neck, was run over and fatally injured by the 4 o'clock train on the Freehold and New York Railroad, Monday.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's mother, Feb. 24, by the Rev. W. W. Vanderhoff, Henry S. Yawger, of Lebanon, to Martha Brown, of Rowland's Mills.

    At the home of the bride, Feb. 25, by Rev. R. Hyde, Henry W. Brown and Mary E. Tunison, both of Locktown.

    At eh home of the bride's parents, in Carpenterville, Feb. 25, by Rev. S. D. Decker, of Frenchtown, Charles O. Snyder, of Milford, to Mary E. Hawk, of Carpenterville, N.J.

    At Sidney, Feb. 17, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Egbert M, Krymer, of Annandale, and Mary E. Smith, of Union township.

    At Clinton, Feb. 24, by the same, Jacob W. Altemus and Annie L. Bird, both of Clinton.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, near Lambertville, Feb. 25, by Rev. G. F. Love, Jacob P. Pilger to Mary M. Everett.

    At the Parsonage, Flemington, by G. S. Mott, D. D., March 2, Joseph R. Dalrymple, of Jersey City, N.J., and Altha O. Bennet, daughter of J. R. Bennet, of Little York, N.J.

    In Flemington, March 1, by Rev. F. A. Mason, Uriah Heath and Ella Force, both of Titusville.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 13, by Rev. J. A. Dilks, Peter S. Parker to Clara M. Barcroft, both of Lambertville.

    At Glen Gardner, Feb. 27, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Wilbur Wyckoff to Angie M. Woodruff, both of High Bridge.

    Feb. 18, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Theodore R. Saums, of Somerville, to Myra Coryell, of Lambertville.
 

Death

    In Bushnell, Ill., Feb. 11, 1886, ? Dilts, in the 84th year of his age.  He was formerly a resident of Hunterdon county.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 28, 1886, Joseph Akers, in the 59th year of his age.

    Near Croton, Feb. 10, 1886, Jacob Pierson, aged about 65 years.

    At White House Station, Feb. 27, 1886, Wm. P. Mitchell, aged 47 years.

    In New York city, Feb. 26, 1886, John Smith, formerly of Lambertville, aged 36 years.
 

    Five years ago Mrs. Herneman, wife of William, submitted quietly to a divorce for which he sued on the ground that she had borne no children.  William soon afterward married again, and now has two children.  About two months ago he removed to Milwaukee from Michigan, where he had divorced his first wife.  A few days later the first wife arrived in Milwaukee and begged so piteously to be near her former husband, whom she said she still loved more than life, that Mr. Herneman and his present wife took her in as housekeeper.  They are now all living under the same roof, and the former wife seems to be exceedingly grateful for her privileges and fond of her former husband's children.

    A sad and singular death occurred in a waiting room of the Northwestern Railway station at Chicago, recently.  A few days ago William V. Lewis, a teacher employed at the Indian school in Carlisle, Pa., left that city for the West, having in custody nine Indian boys, who had been attending the school and who were on their way back to the Pine Ridge Agency, D. T.  Among them was a lad called Brooks Red Eagle, who for six week had been suffering with acute consumption....  where they were to take the train for "the land of the Dakotas," when this young lad suddenly died.

A Much Married Couple
    George Savage, of this city, is under $1000 bail for his appearance at Mercer Court to answer to a charge of bigamy.  The charge is made by Delia Davis, of Wilmington, Delaware, and the case is a rather singular one.  Savage first married Fannie Beaks, of Trenton, but subsequently she secured a divorce and married Milton Neal, who will be remembered as a depot hackman.  Savage then courted Miss Davis, and in due course of time married her in Morrisville.  Some months ago, he again met his first wife, once Miss Beaks, whom he again Married.  She had secured a divorce from Neal.  On hearing of this marriage, the Wilmington wife entered complaint with Squire Abbott, of Millham, who held Savage, as stated, for Court.  -  Trenton True American.

Two Children Meet Horrible Deaths
    John Lillie, proprietor of a mill at Shamokin Hill, Pa., is the father of two twin daughters, Katie and Susie, aged six years.  They strayed into an upstairs room in the mill, where an upgright shaft was revolving, and ventured too near the machinery.  Their clothing became entangled, and they were drawn tightly around it, and whirled over the shaft.  Their bodies were frightfully lacerated.  Katie's skull was fractured and she was dead.  Her sister's arms and a leg were broken, and she lived only half an hour.
 
 

March 16, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 31

Three Notalbe Deaths
    New York, March 9 - A telegram was received in this city this morning announcing the death, at Purdy's Station, Westchester county, of ex-United States Senator Chaffee, the father-in-law of Mr. Ulysses S. Grant.  Mr. Chaffee died of acute meningitis.
    Philadelphia, Pa., March 9 - Mrs. Benjamin Harris Brewster, wife of ex-Attorney General Brewster, died at the residence of her husband in this city, this morning, after a brief illness.
    Utica, N.Y., March 9 - Mary Bleecker, widow of ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, died at the home of Mrs. Roscoe Conkling yesterday.
 

State Items

    Alfred Bloodgood, age sixty, a night gateman on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Newark, was killed by the Boston express on Wednesday morning while flagging a train.

    Thomas J. MacPherson, an old and highly respected citizen of Trenton, died at his residence there on the __ ult., in the 79th year of his age.  He was an active member of the Methodist church for over 50 years.

    On Monday morning the wife of John O'Grady, proprietor of the Columbia Hotel, gave birth to twins.  This makes twenty-two children that have been born to Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady during a married life of twenty-seven years.  Birth was given to twins three times, triplets once, and at one time there were four.  The other nine were single births.  -  Warren Democrat.
 

Mother and Daughter Guilty of Murder
    A remarkable murder trial was concluded at Birmingham, Alabama, last Tuesday.  On Jan. 28, 1884, Bennett Parsons, who lived in Jefferson County with his wife Nancy and daughter Josephine, had a family quarrel and Parsons was killed with a shotgun.  His wife and daughter were arrested...

    Mrs. Clark, of Lebanon, Ill., who was suspected of complicity in the death of Mrs. Mitchell, whose body was found in Silver creek last week, has made a confession that clears up the mystery.  She says Mrs. Mitchell's husband informed her more than a year ago that he was in love with her and wanted to get rid of his wife.  She did not encourage his attentions and told him to stay at home and take care of his family.  A couple of days after Mrs. Mitchell's disappearance she say Mitchell came to her and told her that he had smothered his wife in bed with a blanket and carried her body to the creek, where it was found.  he said he did it because he did not like her, and then asked Mrs. Clark to marry him.

Murders Attributed to a Boy
    Kansas City, Mo., March 9 - The Times, Osage Mission (Kansas) special says:  One of the most horrible murders ever known in this country was perpetrated yesterday morning near this place.  Mr. Mendell, living thirteen miles northwest of this town, was awakened about 3 o'clock by a scream.  He went to the door and was met by Willie Sells, the son of a neighbor, J. W. Sells.  The boy cried out, "Mr. Mendell, a man is at our house with a hatchet, and has hurt father and mother; I don't know how badly."  Mr. Mendell went with the boy, arousing J. L. Rice, another neighbor, on the way.  Upon approaching Sells' house they found in a bed in the north room Walter, Willie's eldest brother and bed-fellow, aged 19 years, his throat cut and the entire top of his head chopped off exposing the brain, and his left eye hanging upon his cheek.  In the south room where a light was burning, they stumbled over the prostrate form of Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost severed from his body.  Near by lay Mrs. Sells, a lady of 43 years, her head mashed and a fearful gash in her throat.  On the bed in the southeast corner of the room lay Ina, Willie's sister, aged 14 years, killed in the same manner as the others.  Lying near Mr. Sells' head was a bloody butcher knife, and on a chair a hatchet matted with hair and blood.
    There is hardly a doubt but that the boy committed the dreadful crime.

    Shortly after seven o'clock last Tuesday night, Conrad Gussler, aged 28 years, a German farm hand was shot dead by his employer, John Kreischer, at Elmont, near Springfield, L.I.  Kreischer heard a dog barking, and as chicken thieves had visited the premises several nights, he took a double barrelled fowling piece and went out to frighten the supposed thieves away.  When near the barn he saw a man whom he ordered to halt and asked his name.  The man did not reply, but started to run.  Kreishcer then raised his gun and fired both barrels, killing Gussler.

Murder and Robbery
    A horrible double murder and a robbery were committed last Monday at the farm house of John T. Everhart, near Lickingville, Pa.  A boy in the family, returning from school, found Mrs. Everhart lying on the floor with her throat cut, and her mother, Mrs. Gilfallan, in the spring-house, also with her throat cut and life extinct.  Everhart is a well to do farmer and was Overseer of the Poor.  He was absent from home at the time.
 

Marriages

    At the residence of the bride's parents, March 10, by Rev. T. H. Jacobus, Wm. W. VanDuyne, of Boonton, and Maggie Hall, of Clinton.

    In Lambertville, Feb. 17, by Rev. P. A. Studdiford, D. D., Janney W. Farlee to Minnie Ohl.

    In Philadelphia, March 4, by Rev. C. H. Thomas, John H. Fretz, M. D., of Hagersville, Pa., to Mary C. Morris, of Frenchtown.

    On March 10, at the residence of J. B. Dalrymple, by Rev. James Walden, John Vusler, of Bethlehem township, and Annie Green, of Kingwood.

    At No. 8 Wakeman ave., March 10, by Rev. C. H. Yatman, Emmanuel Hanson, of Newark, to Eliza Mayer, of East Orange.
 

Deaths

    In Bull's Island, March 6, 1886, James Colligan, aged 62 years.

    In Lambertville, March 2, 1886, Joseph Pew, aged 32 years.

    In West Amwell township, March 8, 1886, Russel Wilson, son of John H. and Kizzie Wilson, aged 2 months and 17 days.

    At Readington, March 1, 1886, Andrew Fleming, aged 80 years.

    In Stockton, March 4, 1886, Lizzie May Sillery, daughter of James and Elizabeth Sillery, aged 4 years, 10 months and 5 days.

    At Dreahook, March 7, 1886, Ellen R. Seals, wife of Henry B. Wyckoff, aged 66 years and 24 days.

    At Cherryville, Jan. 26, 1886, Nora, only daughter of Gershom and Margaret McPherson, aged 13 years and 8 months.

    In Holland, at the residence of F. M. Hager, on Wednesday, March 10, 1886, Amy J. Hager, aged about 55 years.

    In Trenton, March 8th, 1886, Sallie E., daughter of John and Abigail Riley, formerly of this county, aged about 32 years.

    At Milford, Del., Feb. 19, 1886, Melva Hegamna, aged 28 years, 7 months and 23 days, of consumption.

    Near Sand Brook, Jan. 9th, 1886, Daniel J. Moore, in the 85th year of his age.

    In Alexandria township, Feb. 28, 1886, Delila Severs, aged 87 years.

    At Copper Hill, March 14, 1886, after a lingering illness, Catharine Y. Kuhl, widow of the late Judiah Higgins Kuhl.  Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesay, March 17th, at 2 P.M., at the Presbyterian Church, Flemington, N.J.  Interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
 

Local Department

    Mr. Emley Hyde, formerly of Frenchtown, died at his home in Trenton on the 7th inst., after a long illness.  He was a native of this county, being born April 4th, 1817.

    The M. E. Church, of Kingwood, will make its pastor a Donation at the residence of Mr. David Sutton, on Wednesday, 17th inst., in the evening.  If stormy that day, the next fair day.

    A kind, christian mother, a warm hearted neighbor and friend - Mrs. Catharine Y. Kuhl, widow of the late J. Higgins Kuhl, of Cooper Hill - died at her residence on Sunday last,  after an illness of some sixe weeks.

    Helen Bunn, wife of S. H. Stevenson, and daughter of the late Leonard and Catharine Bunn, of Somerville, died at her home in Fairbault, Minn., March 4th.  Mrs. Stevenson will be remembered by many people here in Flemington, she having lived here some twenty years ago, her husband being at that time one of the firm of Stevenson & Smith, dry goods merchants.  Mr. Smith, it will be remembered, had but one arm, and was generally spoken of as "One Armed Smith."

    Edward Dalton, well known in this county as the traveling salesman for William Dolton & Co., the Trenton wholesale grocers, died at his residence in Trenton last Wednesday from pneumonia and sciatic rheumatism, aged 45 years.
 

Alexandria
    ...  Mr. Miller Hilderbrant comes from Warren county, N.J., with his recently married wife, Lucinda, locates on Mr. Theodore McPherson's farm near Cherryville.  Mr. Taylor Suydam take his young wife, Rosetta, and locates on Mr. William J. Case's farm near Quakertown, about April the first.  These two worthy young brides are sisters, both married on one day, the 2d of December last, and are daughters of Mr. Samuel Stout, Jr., of our neighborhood...
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Sarah Ten Eyck, the mother of "Little Pete," the colored boy murdered near Somerville last Fall by the inhuman Vanderveers - husband and wife - was found dead Sunday, in an outhouse at W. S. Parmelee's, Elizabeth, where she was employed.  Heart disease was the probable cause.

    James Colligan, an aged man residing at Bull's Island, died suddenly on Saturday night, 6th inst., of heart disease.  For a number of years Mr. Colligan has been in the employ of the P. RR, on the Raritan Canal feeder, and was well liked by all who knew him.

    At Bound Brook, last Monday night, while Mrs. Mary Eder, the aged mother of Philip Eder, was preparing to retire to her room at a late hour, she let fall a lighted lamp, which exploded and set fire to her clothing.  Before assistance arrived the flames had burned her face and body horribly.  She died at 6 o'clock next morning.
 
 

March 23, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 32

State Items

    A man named Joseph V. Duff, a plumber, was found hovering suspiciously over a woman on Danford avenue i the Greenville section of Jersey City early last Tuesday morning.  The man was arrested and the woman, a Mrs. Wallace, was found to be unconscious.  She died two hours after her arrival at the stationhouse.  Duff is charged with assaulting the woman.
 

    Miss Abigail Bates died on Wednesday at Scituate, Mass., aged 89 years.  She was one of the two heroines who, during the war of 1812, drove the British forces from that harbor by concealing themselves in the bushes and playing vigorously upon the fife and drum, thereby leading the enemy to believe that a large force was ready to receive them.

    Henry B. Courtney, a member of the Diamond Match Company, died in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday.  He was about 68 years of age, and came to this country from England thirty-three years ago....

    Myron Nowland, 13 years of age, while in school at New Boston, Michigan, a week ago, printed some letters in red ink on the back of his hand.  Some time after his hand and arm began to sell and convulsions set in, continuing for three days until the boy died on Thursday last.  It is believed he was poisoned by the ink.
 

Local Department

    The wife of Rev. J. Tindall, a former pastor of the Everittstown M. E. Church, died at New Providence on Wednesday of week before last.  Mr. Tindall is now pastor of the Church at Union Village.

    We regret to announce the death of Mr. John R. Salter, a well known resident of Flemington, which occurred on Tuesday evening last from pneumonia.
 

Neighborhood Notes

    Mrs. Sebring Mundy, of Bound Brook, died suddenly at the residence of her brother-in-law, in Somerville, where she was visiting on Wednesday morning.

    Mr. Gardner Inscho, who farmed "Doc" Plotts' farm near the Mt. Lebanon church, committed suicide by hanging himself on Tuesday morning about 5 o'clock.  He arose in the morning and nothing unusual in his demeanor was noticed.  He was found hanging in the barn.  No cause for the act could be assigned.  He was about 62 years old, and his family is grown up and married.  -  Washington Star.

    The Monmouth Democrat says:  John Moore Blackwell, whose death was noticed in our issue of last week, was in the 82d year of his age.  He was born in Lambertville and came to Freehold over fifty years ago, and for many years carried on the tailoring business.  His wife, who died a few years ago, was one of the original members of the Presbyterian church, organized nearly fifty years ago.  Mr. Blackwell's funeral was held on Friday afternoon and was conducted by his former pastor, Dr. Chandler.
 

Marriages

    At he house of the bride, March 13, by Rev. R. Hyde, George L. Sheets and Mary E. Stull, both of Oak Grove.

    In Lambertville, March 17, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. J. A. Dilks, Fenwick Pew to Ella Lake, all of Lambertville.

    In Stockton, March 10, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Frederic Bloom, of Locktown, to Mary D. Kerr, of Kingwood.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, Pittstown, March 11, by Rev. S. H. Jones, Peter Martin to Ella Mechlin, both of Pittstown.

    At Cokesbury M. E. Parsonage, March 13, by Rev. C. S. Snyder, Alvah Walker, of Hackettstown, to Minerva Beam, of Fairmount.
 

Deaths

    At his residence at Flemington Junction, Feb. 25, 1886, after a painful illness, Jediah S. Barton, aged 61 years, 3 months and 6 days.

    At Barbertown, March 13, 1886, Samuel Gano, aged 66 years, 8 months and 28 days.
 
 

March 30, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 33

He Married a Girl of Twelve
    Edward Massaker, Jr. of Boonton, N.J., has just been arrested in Newark.  Last January, accompanied by a girl about 12 years of age, he went to Pleasant Grove and stopped at the Massaker House.  The little girl was introduced as Ada Saunders, and it was said that she was soon to be married to Massaker, Jr.  On Jan. 21, three ministers were visited by Massaker and the girl, but when requested to perform the marriage ceremony all declined, and one of them threatened to have the man arrested for attempting to marry such a child.
    Not to be outdone, the party went to German Valley, where Rev. H. H. Collins was applied to.  He also refused to unite the couple.  He asked for the parents of the girl, when the elder Massaker is declared to have said that he was her father and that he gave his consent to the marriage.  The ceremony was then performed.  The father of the girl now proves to be John Massaker, a distant relative of his daughter's husband.  As soon as he found the couple he caused the arrest of young Massaker, and took his daughter home.  Edward Massaker, Jr., it now transpires, has another wife in State prison.

Sinks While His Wife is Watching Him
    Ezra Chapman, tender of the Erie Railroad bridge over the Hackensack River, was drowned in the open draw last on Monday night in the presence of his wife and his assistant, Wm. Cavanagh, both of whom nearly lost their lives in their heroic efforts to rescue the drowning man....

    Meyers Patterson, an employe of the electric light company at Lynchburg, Va., while repairing a lamp on Monday received a shock from the electric current, killing him instantly.  He was on a pole twenty feet from the ground.

    Adolph Goebel, aged 24 years, clerk in a tobacco factory at Baltimore, shot himself last Monday, causing instant death.

Singular Fatality In One Family
    A year ago Amos Crone, a prominent lumberman of Duboisville, Pa., while eating his dinner one day, was chocked to death by a piece of meat which lodged in his throat.  Two months later his son, Jonas was running a circular saw, when a large splinter flew off of a board.  It struck him in the throat with such force that he died in a few minutes.  On the Fourth of July Amos Crone's widow was standing at her gate.  Some boys were firing a small cannon near by.  The cannon was bursted by a heavy charge.  A small piece of it struck Mrs. Crone in the neck and severed her jugular vein.  She bled to death before a doctor could reach the house.  Recently William Trainor a stepson of the deceased man, was eating his dinner at a village tavern.  Something was said at the table which made Trainor laugh, and in doing so he sucked a piece of meat back in his throat and all efforts to dislodge it were unsuccessful.  Trainor was choked to death.

    On Tuesday morning, near Auburn, Ky., Hamp Wade, Alexander North and Henry Shaw, all colored attempted to outrage Miss Cora Day, the daughter of a prominent citizen of Auburn, as she was passing through a strip of woods.  Her cries brought assistance, and, the alarm being given, a posse followed and captured the fiends.  As they were bringing them back to jail they were met by a mob, who, taking the prisoners from the officers, strung all three up to a tree.

    Fred Gould, aged eighteen, was killed at Galveston, Texas, last Monday by the explosion of an old shraphel shell, which had been found buried near the spot where the Confederate forces had established fortifications in 1862.

    Dr. J. H. Kane, a leading physician of Wilmington, Delaware, died on Monday at Summit, N.J., while visiting his daughter.  He was born in Philadelphia in 1833.  He was a brother-in-law of Secretary Bayard and a brother of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, of Arctic renown, and attended the expedition sent in search of his brother.

    Mrs. Sarah McKenzie was accidentally kiled by her son, at their residence, near Waverly, Ind., on Tuesday.  The boy was shooting at a mark with a rifle when a ball struck the mark, glanced off and buried itself in his mother's brain.

    Henry Arnold, a grocer of Memphis Tennessee, was shot dead on Wednesday evening by Emma Norman, 21 years of age, because, after having betrayed and repeatedly promised to marry her, he married another young woman.

    Samuel Silvers, who was stricken with paralysis on Wednesday morning, died at his home, No. 126 Allen street, Trenton, on Thursday afternoon about four o'clock.  Deceased was gate tender at the Clinton street station, which position he occupied for twenty-one years.