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^»«*TT OurM-^ik^a^H^d. LkM J Brulf^lfiD Sc'aaiMATft— William Hildrath. Oft. Sirr"*. Pcmuo Inm-roctioA— Dr. Maurioe Beaaley * Donnfcvill*. JUDICIARY. PaMn>nv« Jomm — Hon. Alfrad Reed. Lar Judges— Joe. E Hughe* Capo Sftmrn <c! Oan^T^4 kal^1 ^snBi*T 1 ■ — IN I I I A" — 1 11

BUSIRESS DIRECTORY. , S J. F. LmUag, M. IX, aiKA W. ft. beaming. D, D. a /, jF. Learning, Sr Son. f DENTISTS. * OFFICE DATH: CAPS MAY COURT HOUSE, Tueadayt, Wednesdays, and Saturday*. CAPE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. fiOUTH SKA VILLE, Friday*. , mchfilyr. ibw^ wvv&xT Physician and Surgeon, CAP* MAY COURT UOUSS, X. J. mchfilyr. J. B. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, •CTREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IX CHANCERY, Cam MAT C. IL, X. J. ar-wtll b*et his oAee at Oape May City every Aaturday. 1 mcb61yr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORN *Y A COUNSELOR AT LAW, OxVtCB IN I*SCRAX<Jl BciLDIXO, MILLVILLE, N. J. Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner , + Hioh 8trbrt, Below Pin% MILLVILLE, N. J. mahClyr L. B. CAMPBELL, DEA.LEK JN ETOVKB, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., A*. Hmn Stebst, Millvillb, N J. mciift lyr i. p. brick Dealer in HORSES, CARRIAGES* HARNESS, Ac. M ATM BTRKET, NEAR THE BIUIMJK, MILLV1LLE, N. J. wa^tyr Rr L. Howell, surveyor AND - /Civil Engineer, / MILLVILLE, I W. 1 muMIjr ^ I fttnrtfi rant's Great Catarrh Remedy, to the *at**t. moot agreeable ami effectual rwnndy in ih* world. for the cure of CATA RMB. No metier from what cause or bow loog. sUuadlug; by <1 vin* ^ . . STTR 1)1 VAST'S CATARRH RE*E!*T a Our and Impartial trial, you w1U be nonwlorcd oi this fort. The m^Mclne la very plfweaot and ran be taken by thn moat delicate -tomadi. For sale by all druttlria, and hy Holloway aco^FMATenHL, Pblla. mrhal y MILLVILLE , MUTUAL MARINE A FIRE mg.lviuaF, if. y. Assets Jan'y . 1st , 1880 : PREMIUM NOTEK, >iU tW>jp<A GABlf yJNVrX.<..~.Hi..u..».>>ii'Mi IWjfll ftToTAL HMTTNi - yHar,7]K w, UABILITIPy, InHftdlnt rMa•nrauee reeerre,...- $1J7,IWi 77. 0 ' Insurance effoetod on Farm Building* and oihor property agahmt low by FIRE | LIGHTNING, •t low MR* ratAi Ar oifo, thrA* or l#» ,•»*, VBWI5I/1, f-arfrna an«l Frelftite, written on Obf^ral f^vn of pnllr.ua* wlthon? r»atrirtlor»a M to pnria need, or refGlerad t/rnnafe • -LOSSES*- >> ^FrawpUy tdJiKted and FaM^ N. BTRATTON, Prartdanf. r L MTLFrmP, ftwretary. William Rota, Agent, (IAFE MAT COVET MM * <1 MKM Tyf. f

-■■■ ■ j ^3# :y f Nb I I SB HOTEL, Cape May C. H. * The long established Hotel is still open for the reception of permanent and transient guests, where all attention will be given to their comfort. William Eldridge. mchClyr. ~ A. YOURISON, BBS Mim, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE NAY C. H., N. J. a Please Call and Examine Our Stock! i " • We hare on hand a good Bnortment of Ready-made Harness , Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips , Robes , iV<?fr, Blankets , J «- • ft to, Trunks , fiYr., 1 ALL OF WniCH WE ARE SELLING AT I/)W CAaSII PRICKS. - ■■ -o ■■ ■ Open Wagon Harnrae aa low aa | ft 00 Carriage Hameea aa low m 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND PRICES. NOT- Call and befuro purr baaing elaawhere, «W1„. A. Yourison. JL L. STEEL, " MANUFAmrRER OF LADll^' AYS CENTS' I FASHIONABLE BOOTS ni m NEXT TO WITEATON'S BAKRRY, CAPE MAY C. n. Repairing nofttly and carefully dfyne. mehfllyr. HEREFORD HI, I CAPE MAY C. H. ; I.IVERY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, L For Sale or Exchange. L, WflFATON. mnhftlyr

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la the Lett Pew. ftba alia bant o'er with wrinkled (hoe, Poor and forlornly old ; ao met , HmooUia the sharp «a* U* of bar form, I/oof buflreunl by llfa'a alow storm. ▲11 alaa around Is flue aad fal r ; The stained light folia, a golden glair, In seaming mockery ou har loose, gray hair. The preacher, faultlessly arrayed, Tells how our hearts afar have strayed* And how all souls should be couteut with thoaa fofod frhmjngs QMrt h m eoftk And one, of all Uiat yvlfcpUeed throng, Hangs on hU words nor deems them long. And humbly thinks only her heart Is wrong. Bhe meekly mumbles o'er the hymn, Her eyue with age and tear-drops dim : What can their gay world hold for her— This worn and weary worshiper T Now, rustling down the alsleiln pride. They lose bright smllee on o very side, Nor does she know the hurts such folr locks hide. And still she site, with tear wet-foce, As leath to leave that sacred place ; The orgau, with quick thunders riven. Lift* her sad, trembling soul to heaven ; rthe feels a sense ef blissful rest. Her bony hand* across her breast fths clasps, and lowly sighs; "God knoweth best i" One day, within somo grander gate Where kings and ministers must watt, While sho Import humbly for a low place Far fTo in the dear Lord1* aliiainR fooe, Above the chant of hoavonly gholr These words may sound, with gractaun tire; "Wall done, good, folthfbl servant, oome up'hlgher !'* — M. A. WXKSLOV lit Oood C*oMPa*Y.

A Subecriber'a Soliloquy. To pay, or not to pay, that Is the qnestloD— Whether 'tis better for me to rofttse To taku a local paper, and deprive ' My foinlly fron» n-oding all U»e news. Or pay up pnimptly what the printer asks. And, by such payment, cheer htm ? No pay, no paperThen no more shall I be posted on the news And local hups throughout the town, And dlvnrv topics— 'tis a connumatlon That 1 long have feared. To pay, or stop T To stop ! pcrebanco to lose ay* there's the rub ; For In that ejop no interest do I take In any of tlr affair* which move the town, And such a shnffling off of all that's good Most make me pause. There's the rcspeol m.imm-m — cu— ^ uiaiiY h for those Who come down wltnTheTfow. >■;* ,. > > , - TqwUIr MB" that little bill." For who would bear The po luted sqnlbs and pungont pArngrnph Which far too off reflect upon the man Who foils to settle the subscription bill ; I'll baste me now unto the editor. And with my nurse plethoric In my hand. Will settle up 111 Bill, one year from date. By paying to him from my ready cash The sum which Is his due. From our regular Correspondent. HIS REMNISCENCES OF THE "KENTUCKY ELEPHANT." Pniuk., March 3rd., IftftO. Whilst the wind* blow, and the snow* snow : Whilst the coaster ooasteth, and the skater nk&tetb, and the slejgher ulayeth — the heart of his roey cheeked company, the great unseen majority of struggling humanity lendotb but a passive ear to the lugubrious moaning* of ioe-laden Boreas, or the merry jiugle of the bells, or to the soul-stirring music of thT»A other hiljjls— I mean the gay laughter of those dear girls who find it so delightfully easy to go downward, | downward on their sleds, that they t never, never grow weary, but yot so very , tedious to ascend agpin that they must needs call on their gallant Hercules or Apollo to lend a supporting arm in the re-ascent. Yes I ye hanpy worshipers at the chilly shrine of the hoary king, ye are, after all, but a harmless minority, in spite of your far-ringing mirthful voices : and the vast

absent majority, whilst ye rejoice, rejoices outwardly with you, y<^ in secret still but sighs for more of the sunshine of the temperate past, weary of contemplating the cold perplexities and disappointnienta of to day. Thus meditatively gating into the cheery embers of the. newly erected, old fashioned fire-place rrluvivous, 1 wonder if the present ''winter of our discon tent" shall ever again beootne as of old a glorious summer in the days vet to he, and while I wonder, lo J how dim grows the light without the window — the light of the present— -and bow faintly too fall the voices from the street below— the voices of to-day ; yet how brightly glows the log in the fireplace, like the light of the past which it would fain commemorate -, and how many, and changing too, are the shapes that appear there as I peer languidly Into the playing coals. ' and wonder, and wish, and wait. "A dream of fair women a panorama of some long forgotten scene; a picture of what might have been ; and then too, mlawl s stronger and more teal picture of what hath been ; three I sitooee*iv« ly read from tht» book and volume of my brain, with the nourishing light of those embers Ih the chimney, each dream or each picture bringing, m It flashes into Vividness again, some cherished treasure ofita own, upon which I fain would dwell. , But among all these we will now linger upon but one of such pictures, and one indeed which seems to bear more than its share of those bright hues of the past. It was my ''day In the earth," in the summer of IB — - . It matters not pre ci«aly whan, and 1 dread anachronism. I was gsaing from the window of the ■ Nashville Kipfrw as w» sped southward over thft wwnderoualy beautiful moun

tains of the region, and through these 1 woodlands where, as yet, th« charm* of < Nature had suffered but little by the inroads of art,— where the sturdy trunks < of long, years of umnoletfted growth, —twined about with creeper and ivy — I and the long unbroken reaches of forest wore a boperal aspect, only to the rftet less seeker after tne new. Suddenly turning from the window to my pro teiu companion db voyaob — a young, ooetlc** pioneer, with an open, uonest free, and wearing a brace of pistola at liia belt, — I askea if any deer fre <|ucnted the wooda we were then passing. uThe only deera, I reckon, in this yer woods" he replied with a prolonged tit tor at the profundity oFhla own wit, A<aiv them *1*1 led d-double-e-r." It was evident that he meant "dear." Observing that his rules of orthography had become somewhat perverted. 1 should certainly have asked him I nad spelling bees been then inaugurate*!] to attend regularly, but as it was, 1 tried j hard to too the joke, sin i led, and was, you may know, well pleased, shortly after, to find myself at Bowling Green, where our railwuy oar was to be exchanged for a mountain stag*. Having made this change after lunching, wo wore soon jogging over the limestone hills, whose hollow rumblings as wo traversed them, with now and then a glimpse into some dark entrance to the lower torreatial regions, made the Alladin and Alciphron of our boyhood seem almost a coming reality. The latest arrivals were many, and it required three coaches to convey ua to the Gave Hotel, seven miles distant. The one of these in wlnoli I was fortunate enough to be a passenger, contained nine others; two ladies in black, a charming young brunette from New Orleans, her brother and oousin, a Pennsylvania^ Mr. H. and his friend from Louisville, with my own friend and self from Philadelphia. With such a cosmopolitan comjmny and the choering excitement of a mountain thunder storm to hasten friendships, bring our beat aides foremost, and. too, our best cloaks and shawls about tne tender shoulders •f the fair ones exposed to the storm, you may be assured that, despite the muddy roads, the forded streams, the slow half fed horses, and the utter indifference of their unambitious drivefr, we did not think the seven miles over long, when amid the glow of a dripping forest sunset, we brought up at the long, Ipw^-^iyed inn^ nestling on a ^ ' - Sftokried ^ * from a continuous journey, we two partook of a hearty six o'clock, coontFy dinner, and were soon after lulled into dreams of home by the dulcet strains from the Becoming ballroom. At a seasonable hour we were nil again together at break last, the , programme arranged, a suitable guide secured, sud, after donning our particolored costumes provided for a visit to the lower regions — red significantly predominant. by the way — wo united our forces with some others who were also in readiness to take a day l>elow. and with this muster of some forty ladies and gentlemen, (including two youthful attendants, • bringing up the war with a suspiciously cumbersome basket.) we descended a steep declivity through ' a picturesque woo*!, crossed a rustic bridge, and presently reached an abrupt ' ledge of rock jutting out from the bill side. iftr *T si i.JM Ji-J* ' ' IfcLEJiM It was a warm Angust morning, but as each member of our party stepped , down from this shelf to the ground a few feet below, an exclamation of surprise was heard. In that one slop the temperature had seemingly changed ; some thirty degrees. Not the change however, thought some of us, which > recollections of the Inferno would lead us to anticipate. It was "the air from Heaven" rather than "the blast from 11 ,H one would* naturally expect. ■ But whither comes this breath from : below? Turning toward the hillside

a great vawning cavity appears toward which a stony path tends downward. At the lower side of this dark mouth of mother north, enclosed by frame work, (doubtless to protect her majesty's throat from unauthorised intruders) was a small door through which we passed single file, each member of the party receiving from the guide, on entering, a small pendant lard-oil lstn]v— ■ one n inseperahle companion on such a jour ney , and remember, all ye who may chance to follow tho same path, the parable of the five Virgins. Those who have seen or read of one cave must naturally think they are fa miliar with all of such wonders, for it seems an indispensible condition that each newly discovered cavern must receive the old familiar list of fanciftal and mythological titlea. Places however, a* well am people, are not often as like a* their names ; km passant, for this last let us be thnnkful ! Tho Rotunda of the Kentucky wonder, is, ax dit, directly under the dining room of the hotel. A surveyor's compass only could prove it however, for, on reaching it and obeying the guide's request to be silent, one sound only is audible to the straining ear, and that, you will never guess, an do not try. At intervals of half a aecond, from some unattainable recesses of the walls, oomea the found of dropping water, "The water-clock," says the guide. We listen I — and meditate! Here has doiotloM. This il Horolqfue of eternity" continued to measure tne lapse of years from time unknown j vet I doubt not Hit some vnndnl Y at) Be* Brill coine in ge »d time, (a* he did to a sacred 1 torn! abroad not long since, and, on beini told by the priest, of the centuries through whteh thft tarred candU has

bur nod unextinguished, aaui, "never ; oul ? puff-— then iW out now I" and, 1 with equal disregard for nature's won- i dew, and full oithe irimv of Amerioaxi enterprise, will spend perhatw *ome i hundreds or thousands in oheeking the 1 tick of this unw indable clock. When I wee a little boy. (1 aay little • because 1 am now only a big one.) 1 once i found in an old deeorted hay-loft in my father'* barn, a broken corn mill which on being turned, ceaaed not to furnish craokea corn to the grinder ; and though I never remember seeing any corn put into the hopper, which was largo— at least it seemed ao to me then — neither overcame patienoe at length— I know not at what length in days — not many I imagine— end! demolished my mill, to find alas! nothing within. May such be the fate of every man who ever permits curiosity to take the life of the conventional hen of the golden eggs. But to return to our cave. Onward through the bracing air of 52° with our long, picturesque line of fellow travellers; the light of their waving lamps illumining the cavern's depths into aver changing fantastic «hMix-t, and the strange wierd echo* of the blending voices striking a cord in the ear and heart that had never before been touched. Onward, through hall* and imaginary castles, along steep and narrow passages, and over stone beset paths, we journey - ed at a rapid paoe till, like the traveller of old, our way was barred before us ; and by w bat ? Our gospel guide enlight • ons us. " This, gentlemen and ladies, is the 'Dead boa' — pssa it LuckJ" and. a murmur of, "the Dead 8ea." echoed along the line till it was lost in the distance. On the special peculiarities of this last of these remarkable sheets of water whose name is legion, I scaroaly need dwell, scattered as they arc over the whole globe, save to remark that this particular "I)eftd Sea" is not salt ; a fact probably owing to the absence of the Jachrymal god*, in a region where there was, as vet, but little of human woe to weep for. Crowing thence over the 44 Bridge of Sighs" with many a side-long glance into the sombre recesses of its fathomleaa pit, and mauy an unbidden ahudder for the "one more unfortunate" "gone to her death," we shortly after asoended by a flight of hewn steps into that diatrussing]/ narrow defile in the rocka known as " the Fat Man's Misery," the - , ■ « v I ^ i I ■ » misery to the lean corpulent visitor who overtoils six feet in his bat, than to those blest ones who have been fortunate enough to turn the scales at two hundred, and become thereby members of that enviable body, the " Fat Man's Club." A short walk down the hill, after extricating one'* self from the "misery," brings the explorer to the rugged and romantic margin of the "Echo River," and a happily named river it is, surely. 1 remember, upon reaching its brink, turning to look backward, up the steep eubterraneau bill, at the long irregular line of gaily attired travellers as they came tripping toward me, their flickering light* making each to Bland out in strong contrast with the wild surrounding. gloom ; and I now well recall the few never to be forgtten moments which followed, when the brief pau*o of jierfect wondering silence, as we all brnnghl.»|> atAhe shore, was so strangely broketi by a sound which came booming Along the placid surface of this melancholy river. Was it the sighing of the wind ? No ! we were far beneath the influence of superterra n can breath. Was it sinainff? It so, surely unlike any music I had ever before heard. Our whole party stood noiseless, while again and again came the re-echoing strains, "eo strangely, sadly sweet." Then light broke upon us and our mystery. Around a bend in the vaulted river [now do not be disappointedl a singing fisherman— of eyeless fish a ... . * . ...) .. . A 1. a .]..*.!• 1 1.4

— was bourne toward the dark tide, and soon "hove to" his little bateau at our feet. With no little good humor at the oddities of this accomodating " Charon" of our dark river (60 feet in depth,) we embarked for tho op|»o*ite shore, our fair company tho while making the narrow limit* of our arehed heaven resound again with the eweet strains of " Annie of the Vale," and " oft in the stilly night." The marvelous eflbeUof this natural -echo, it is ndt in my power to describe. The conventional "River styx" (of the Jarley'a waxwork fame,) the identical netnlle which Cleopatra plied for Anthony's sake, tho " last rose of summer" petrified with its countless petals against the vault of The cave, ; Echo hall, where every step brought a suggestion of even a lower, or if it might 1 be a darker region of sorrow ; all theso passed in order and we at lost found the toot of the " Rocky Mountains" and the terminus of the so-called long route, nine miles distant front the entrance. A heart? lunch in " Washington Hall" after our four hour* journey, put us in readiness to start in search of tho upper world Again, and at half paat six, after eighteen ntllea of suhteranean exploration, we emerged from the darkness of the nether world, to look with a new. and heretofore unrelished, charm upon the glory of a summer sunset on earth. Discretion should have said " Go Home," hut alas, insatiate man I thou wilt not rest, but with surfeit ; and the voire of the fiend eries still in thy ear, "P be be who first cries hold, enough 1" On the following day, therefore, we set out on the short route with a small party of eight, in which wo found the notable sprightlinees and rivaeify of the i 4 v

attraction of which was of oouraa, the bride, whose tender steps were a ana sUsnt Bourco of deW ^to jgy pftHy, ss the happy groom, whose sole remarks tender speeches would oome an ooea sional inaudible response Yon can imagine the feelings of the heartless batchelora of our party, who, Athenian like, had oome to see some niw thing Tne next important halting plaoe T recall was thn immense Si ftf <Wbar,Jl certainly one of the graaUwt marvel* of the Cave. The guide here left us for a time, by some narrow passage, all lights were ordered to be extinguished, and the darkness as well as the total ailenoe. in which the beatiof of the heart was ' the only sensitive impression, became truly painful. In a few moments we again heard the distant voioe of the gnide. We looked and behold I slowly, from afar, came a visible glow over the vault overhead. Wc appeared indeed to be looking into the true heavens where the countless stars, the milky -way included, were aa plainly to be seen that it was soaroely posoible to realise the deceptions. Y at this phenomenon, is, I believe, the simple result of small crystal! ne incrustations upon the oeiling of the oavern. Such are tbe tares that nature hath strewn in all her fields. " The 4 Bridal Chamber,' " celled the vnina nf the guide, aftor another ail ana promenade, " where." he continued "•even couples have been united in the holy bonds of wedlock," Close to this apartment — as too often the case, alas 1 — we found the u Devil's arm chaw." After a brief rest in hie mqjeaty's copious seaL we again started mouth ward. But 1 have alreadv prevailed upon your patienoe in cold description too long. In an hour more my mysterious wanderings in the "Kentucky Elephant" -ware but a dream of the peat — a dream which, like all thinaa have been, can never again be made reality, for, even were I to return tb the mystic shores of " Echo Bivftt" to day, 1 should doubtless now only speak, as speaks the noble hero of the " Rivulet" "Thou cbaaxest sot* bat I mm pbf dw ** m Bluce first thy pleasant DanH I ran«e<I. Bat to th* «tr*ng*r let m* «»y, ,4V> Uk* — ' ' X Nomad." ♦ ♦ ♦ ■■ ANECDOTES OF OLD PREA CHEEK There were some remarkable oddities in the Scottish ministry in the days of old. Mr. Kennedy, in Tub Dart or Oca Fathers in Rosmshirb, recites, with admiration, the life of Mr. Sage, the pas tor of the kirk of Lochcarron. Hefound his parish in a state of extreme depravity and he made friends with the strongest man in the parish. " Now, Rory," he aaid, " I'm the minister, and you must be my elder, and we inuvt see to it that all the people attend church, observe the Saboatn, and conduct themselves Eroperly." So it seems to be true that etwecn them they dragged the idlers into the church, locked the door, and returned to catch more ; then the minister mounted the pulpit. Rory atood »t tbe door with his cudgel, and theser vices proceeded. Mr Kennedy aaye one of the earliest sermon* was blessed to the conversion of Rory : and the whole parish, beneath the "Mr. Sage'* pastorate, became remarkable for its orthodoxy of doctrine and behavior. This is a story like that of our William Grimshaw, of Haworth, who used to go out on the Sabbath morning through his long neglected pariah, and literally compel the people to come into the church. Before long it was a new place, and the minister was as much loved as he had bean first feared and then respected.

Mr. Shanks, of Jed burgh, was greatly perplexed by a text ; be could make nothing of it ; so, late at night, he started off to Selkirk, a distance of fifteen miles, to take counsel Upon it with his friend Dr. Lawson, Ho arrived at 1 in the morning ; he had to knock mainr timet at the xnanse boforo he was heard. At last a servant appeared, askinx who he was, and what in the name of all dw orders could have brought him at that hour oi 'tho night. The perploxod in sistod on seeing Dr. Lawson. Ho had been in bed hours since. "1 must tee him. however," said he, "and you must bdla my horse until 1 come down." lie knew tho way to the Doctor's bedroom. lie knocked, and entered in the j dark. He told his brother minister hi* errand. Lawson entered into tho difficulty of tbe situation, and, although in a somewhat dreamy state, he commenced an exegesis upon the text in question, showed the bearing of thereon text, re ferved to the parallel passage*, , and cleared up the whole subject to his friend's HHtisriu-lion, who thanked Dr. Lawson, bade him good morning, and then mounting hi* horse, rode okek through the night to Jcdhurgh. In the morning at about 5, Dr. Lawson awoke. 44 My dear," he said to Mrs. Laweotn "I have had a very singular and un pleasant dream. 1 dreamed that Mr. Shank*, good man. came all the way up from Jedburgh to consult with me about a text tnat trouble*! him." " It was ao dream.'1 said Mr Lawson ; "Mr. Shanks was here, hi this very room, and 1 bad to listen to alt that yo* and he had to aay," ■ * * ♦ ■ - Denver," aays the Tmisnra of thai town, is without doubt, destined is ha > i the art centre ef the fhr W eat, i ♦ i