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residence of Joel G. Lane in Wayne-street
CONVICTION FOR MURDER. Charles Smith was
tried at Trenton, on Wednesday, for the murder
of Joseph Dowcrs and was found guilty in the
second degree. During the trial the Court room
was densely crowded, and great interest mani
tested as to the result of the trial.
THE New JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL So
cIETY.-The annual meeting of the New Jersey
State Agricultural Society will be held in the
city of Trenton on Tuesday, the 18th day Of
January inst, at which time all who may feel in
terested in the location of the Annual Exhibi-
ton, and in the futnre prosperity of the Institu
ton, are requested to attend. Proposals for
locations stating the facilities that will be offered
to the Society will be received by the Secretary,
VIM. NJ. Force, OH or before the 18th inst
The Annual Communication of the r. W.
Grand Lodge of the State of New Jersey of the
Order of Free Masons, was held at the Odd
Fellows Hall, corner of Greene and Hanover
streets, Trenton, on Tuesday, January, 18th, at
10 A. M.
WHY cannot the grape be cultivated in New
Jersey Surely our soil and climate is more ia
make our own time, and have Grape Growers
Convention all our own, if we had the enterprise
to do it,
New Jersey has twenty representatives in the
service of the Government, in it's various depart
ments, at Washington,
IT is intended to lay road from the new
Weehawken ferry to Hackensack, affording Ber-
gen CO. a shorter route to New York
THIRTEEN persons were baptized by immersion
in the Delaware at Trenton, on Sunday, by Rev.
0. T. Walker, hole being cut through the
ice.
THE next annual session of the New Jersey
NJ. D. Conference will be held at Mount Holly,
commencing March 23d. Bishop Ames viii pre-
side.
Mr. j. Hatfield Frazee, forme1y Secretary of
the New Jersey State Agricultural Society, has
been elected the Vice President from New Jer-
sey of the u S. Agricultural Society.
A DAUGHTER of Mfr. VIM. Brown, aged years,
residing in Howell township, Monmouth County,
was so severely burned by her clothes taking fire
from fluid lamp, as to cause her death.
Nathaniel J. Bird alias Dr., Hunter, convict
ed in Camden, in 1858, of bigamy, and sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment, was liberated from the
State Prison few days since, pardon having
been granted by the Court in November
last.
A child, two years old, was burned to death,
and another aged four years, so much injured
that it cannot recover, in Newark, on last Tues
day.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEWARK, n IA
fire broke out at two o'clock, Monday morning,
in the livery stable, No. William street, kept
by Matthias Clintock, which together with ano-
ther stable adjoining, kept by John Matlock, was
totally destroyed The fire had gained consider
able Roadway before the alarm was struck from
the Tower, and owing to the infammabe nature
of the material, burnt with great rapidity. The
buildings were Frame and both stables were oc-
cupied by a large number of horses, many of
which, however, belonged to private parties
Most of the horses were got out safely as well as
nearly all the carriages, but we learn that at
least four horses were burnt, together with q
quantity of harness, provender, &C.
Mr.. Alfred Vail, a proprietor of. the Morse
telegraph invention and one of the oldest tele-
graph operators and electricians in the world,
died at Morristown n j., on the 18th inst
Mr.. Vail was the first operator in Baltimore
when the line extended only from Washington to
Baltimore
The editor of the Paterson Register, who had
been indicted for libel by the Grand Jury of
Passaic county, for printing the name of an Ex-
else Judge of that county in connection with the
picture of jackass has been tried and found
"not guilty"
1t is stated that the old title deeds to an i'm
mense amount of property in the city of New
York, and in Ulster county, in that State, has
been discovered. The estate is valued at thirty
millions of dollars, and the heirs are said to reside
in New York and New Jersey. Among the
number it is said is Suits, of the Hightstown
Record
A NEGRO, by the name of Jack, died in the
Poor House at Redfeld few days ago. Jack