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VOLUME I.

CAPE ©BY COURT HOUSE,, NEW ijtiOEYrBATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1880.

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■ '£' colfon tiyscnrnxi SaitKirMfilltoxa H. Beneiet. iamlntv^colwwtuh Jolljtt WlioV,' M D., Ciuft Hoikw. County Ulkh* — Jonathan Hand. ^-Morgan Hand. Proskcutob PlRas — Jiune* H. liougland, Bridgeton. Sraaoo.itb — tVmara Ilildrotli. Co. Ecr'T. Pimmo Instruction — Br. Maurice Boesley, Dcnn:*villc. JUDICIARY . Presiding Judge — Hon. Alfrod Reed- i Lay Juduiw — Jot*. £. Hughes, Cape ^ 1 Mmj eLtp : 1L Diverty, Beuui*ville; Sonieis CI (landy. Tuokahoe. Con htm* ion kr nritrlut Fund — Dr.C. F. Learning, Court House. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ~ : J. F. Loaning, M. 1)., IX I). 8. W. M. Loamlng, D. D. 8. J. a Ft Eefvrn.ii i si,- $ Son. DENTISTS. OFFICE BAYS: * CAPE MAY COUKT HOUSE, Tuesdays, Wodnoaday*, mid tiotordays. j, c%„?il.cnv' SOUTH SEAVILLE, Fridays.' mohOlyr. Physician and Surgeon, CAPE MAY COUKT HOUSE, N. J. ,\ C^SSl/)K AT LAW, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, CJapk May C. II., N. J. a*- Will beat bin offlee at Cape May City every Saturday. * , #l«r- i:d 18'>.n ,.3-, *.'> • Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW, Apkjcb in Insurancb Buildino, MILLVILLE. N. J. # Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner , ] Iioh Strakt, Bklow Pink, MILllfltLE, N. j. mohClvT j ( ^ C\ r l. b. campbell, • — ' i V. . v DKAI.KK IX STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY. CLASSWAR^ Ac., Ac. Ilinn Sth*k*, Miixviixk, N. J. mchiilvt J. P".~ BRICK," Dealer in HORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. MAIS htkket, skar the bridge, MILf.VILLE, H. }. mchfilyr wwrnwrn* itfmns MU unu &ma, *\ ^ - j | J* pj ^ CAPE MAY C. H. it 4 » j MYKItV ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, • V For Sale «' "-1 " 11 L. \V II EATON". juchftlvr^ ^ „.y. MILLVILLE MUTUAL MARINE & FIRE Vv\.%WfLVWC<L CoNW^O.\\\\, MII.I.Vll.T.K, V. J. Assets Jan'y. 1st, IS 80 : premium not»4, on. CA8H **• toy.il iuwirg ,7»K1 | * LJABtLfTJKH. Including relaturnnoe reaorrts, «... «•- oInsurance effected on Form Buildings and other property against litis hy FJR E C LIGHT.V1.VG, at lowest rate* for one, thre^or teif yekrs ma to porta used, or reflate rod tonnage. .-W H8E*~ Promptly Adjoslod ritd PiM* X.HTRATTON, pwfl^nt. r. L. MUIaFORP, tteoroury. William Ross, Agent. CA rt? MAY ODVrtr N. I. jtioh^Tyr.

UNION HOTEL. * ' ' • Cape May C. H. 4 % , i/# a . ». 1 y ^ 4.. * 4 Ths 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. mcli61yr. A. YOURflSON, IBS HI, r And dealer w READY-MADE HARDENS, CAPE MA* C. 3., N. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock ! ■ We hare on hand a good awortmont of lleady-made Harness , Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips , Robes, Nets, Blankets, I alises, Trunks, Etc., ALL OP WHICH WE ARE SELLING A1Y CASH PRICES. ^ O Oj>en Wagon TIarneM or low as $ 8 00 ! Carriage Jljurne** as low ax 10 (X) AND MANY OTHEKK OF BIFFEKENT HTYLES AND PRICES. mj-Call and nve before purchnxltiK elaewherc, ...wn, A. Yourison. j. l. " ryty % -••• | MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' AiVD GEMS' FASHIONABLE BOOTS iii MS, ! ' , : . . V »" msai lo ». , ,;N'S BAKERY , Iff. SB I cl • ^ V - i <■ CAPE MAY C. H. Sopairing neatly and carefhlly done. f % * xuchOlyr. " - - - StnrdlYanf'R Great Catarrli Reuiwly, In the oafeut, mmtf ngrt-ealde and olTactual remedy In tbv world. ft»r U'e cure of TATA HUH. No matter tmm what cauw or how long HtnndliiKt bv giving STITRDIYASrs CATARRH REMEDY m fair nnd Impartial trial, vim will bo t-<m-vlneod of tbl* Diet, The medlelBa In ver\pltMiKiuii and can bo D*ki-n by the mont clelIckU' sioiniich. fVw KAti bv all dru«t«t»», anfl byH olio way «W2 Aren St., Phlla. ntcbUly r. li. IIoWF.LI., SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J. Koeoial attention paid to lavaling; fNtanliahing the overflow line* of |>roi>o*od \*ntA* for mill aitea. cranberry [>ogN etc ; drainage works oto. Flay -made, eNtlnnitca furnlxhod and auedftcHtione drawn for MiUa, Bridges ] Water workf and all nimilar oonHtructiotu or workawi short notice, mehfll.yr

POETRY. It May Be Your Turn Next Judc« not loo hanhly, ob, nay fTUrad, UX hlin, your X«-Uow-umau, liul druw tliy veil ut charity A« kindly a » you can. ?< . He oooaWui tailed an fcmieat bad, ibuot v aprv IgaM ve*adII c Mtepp#?d from out the narrow wayIt may be your tarn next. Falntlna upon the rival highway A HUffedug aoul doth Hr| Go a launch bla wound* and quoneh tiU thimt • ->■ .torque him Idly by, God will not brook the swift excuse, The tliouKhtien, vain pretext ; A fellow mortal blten the doalrIt may be your turn next. You beard one day a ulnglo word Axalnat a iMjiaon'a name ; Oh bear It n(K from dyor to door To further hurt hi* fame. If you're the inan yon claim to be, 1 tern ember, tbecrttu* text, To "Hi»eak no Evil," ffue of (hi*e— sit}' be your turn nek L The world 1* bad enough wo own, Aua aU.ll may need uidre light, Yet, with true loari to all may we llelp In the cause of IUght, Lift up the Nlnful uud the weak, The soul by care perplexed, Well knowing that to drink the gall It may beyoabtufn next. Education in New Jersey. Intkrxotiko Facts from the Statb St.* I'KRl N' Tt N DEN T'b HeI'OKT. • In his report for the current year the Hon. E. A. Apgar, State Superintendent of Public Ini»u uclioii, has abandoned the bclttoii track and furnished a historical sketch of the development of the New Jersey Public School system fn rn the earliest, isolated experiment* in touching to its present completely orgwnsed plan of free public instruction. The history of the last fifty years form* tho hulk of this sketch. Up to 1829 the school legislation of the State had been fragmentary and ineffective, but with the act of that year educational effort UcgAU.to uvsUltfe iutO| a m - ■ in und« the labors of such men as President Maclean, of Princeton, the Rev. Ilobei-t Baird and Bishop DoAns. How the system was developed under successive enactments until its machinery was gradually comjmcted and perfected into its preterit simple and manageable shape forms a most instructive chapter in the educational history of the country. Quite to Interesting as this more reoent history is t)»e record of the ejtrlier : educational effort in the State. As loqg ago as 1829, when Tvu4'v YitMa settling New York nnd the u<yaocnt portions of New Jersey, the colon into, were enjoined under tho West India ' ^^pany'* charter "in the ipwediee^ ••• .

A. nnc* „ *bey migm supp^.. a minister and achoolmahter." Engieneri fSteenhuvscn was the first schoolmaster who taught in New Jersey. He arrived in this country in 1659, but did not begin his* regular work untU three years later. A school house was built for him in 1664 on the site of what ifc now School No. 11, Bergen avenue, Jersey Uitv Heights. It ought to be added that the amazing production of Dutch art in the shape of a brass rooster, who epi*>scM his proudly protuberant breast to the wind above the cupoln oi No. 11, is the identical fowl which originally | nr^ached on the roof of the Stcenhuyien i Acauwiiy. It was stipulated in the first charter of Bergen, granted in 4768 by Sir Philip Carteret, Governor of the Province of Now Jersey, "that nil 1 j*ersons should contribute according to their estates r.nd pro|>ortions of land for the keeping of a free school for JtJre education of youth." Only four vearlater, when some of the settlers in out lying hamlets questioned tho right ot the Town of Bergen to levy contribution* ; upon them for supporting a school at an inconvenient distauoe, it was decided by the magistrates that "all should pay ' tlieir share for the support of the [ I precentor1 and schoolmaster. ' The other Dutch settlement* in the State wore not behind Bergen in real Gullnem Bertholf, who presided over Uu congregation of Aeqiiackanouk and ) IfaokenMkrk in 169H, was by virtue or his schoolmaster as well as Zikkkn i troostkr (consoler of the sick) and in the early records of almost every con gregation the achocfl holds a place of . almost equal honor with the church. . - The Presbyterians and Congregation! lists who settled In. the Town of Newark " brought with them tcwchers to well a* ] preachers. At a b>wn meeting held r just 100 years bcf«wc Ihe Declaration ol Independence the Townsmen were ] empowered "to soo U tlioy can find a j

competent number of scholar* and accommodations for a schoolmaster/' And at the very next town meeting the 'following instructions were voted: "The town hath consented that the Townsmen shall perfect the bargain with Iho school Blaster for thig year upon oondition that he will oome for year and do hi* faithful, honest and true endeavor to teach the children or servants of thorn who have subscribed, the reading and writing of English, and also of Arithmetic, if they desire it, as much as they are cajmbie to learn and he o*{ table to teach thom within the comi>ass of this year." In Woodbridge 100 acres of the public laud were set apart for school support, and in 1691, after Joine* Fullerton, the first schoolmaster, had retired, John Bciacker was employed on trial for six months, under the stipulation "tliat he should be constant and faithful in that employ as a Schoolmaster ought to be, and that he shall be I engaged to attend the school this winter time until nine o'clock at night." For this exhausting service Mr. Boacker was to receive £13, which seems to have been fuir average wages, inasmuch as John Browne^of Amboy,his successor received £24 for a year's salary. Of course the Quaker pioneers of West Jersey did not suffer education to languish, tor It was k parr ur mm religion. Fenwick's settlement in Tklem opened a school at once, which has been maintained without interruption to the present day. The people of Burlington were eminently progressive in this respect, and in 1683 an island in the Delaware' opposite the town, and the revenue de.rived from the rent or sale of the land, were set apart for the education of children in the ai^oining settlements. This was the first school fund established in the Province, and it is doubtful if anv other settlement in America was in advance of Burlington. .As far back as 1667, George fox advised his brothern in New Jersey to establish - boarding Rckwb for 4iy<mng u»n genius in low circumstances," and the Shackelwell School was founded about this time "for the teaching of whatsoever things were civil and useful ill creation." All this would seem to indicate that an interest in popular education unusual for those days was manifested by the original settlors in the Jerseys, where two first-cluss colleges were soon to be founded, ami yet the preamble of the first general school law enacted by the General Assembly of East Jersey, at Perth Amb-r ^2, r_.^ ~ a-n™**; "Whereas, the cultivating of learning and good manners tends greatly to the good and benefit of mankind, which hath hitherto been much neglected I • »»: " ^ < '» V~ -» M f)i« I

Uttig« - . too sevendv for they were sa*»nv«a . i unu prompt C'JZr ♦bin verx law proved, for it ostablialied the princi- j , pie of taxing property for the sup]»ort of public schools, and it was abreast ol the foremost legislation on this sulyect in America. — ^ ♦ • A BRAKEMAN AT CHURCH. On the road once more, with Lebanon fading away in the distance, the fat jwiKsenger drumming" idly on tho window pane, tho cross i»assenger sound asleep and the tall, thin passenger reading "Gen. Grant's Tour Around the World," and wondering why "Green's August Flower" should be printed al»ovo the doors of "A Buddhist Temple at Benares." To me comes the brakeman. and seating himself on the arm of the sent says: "I went to church, yesterday." "Yes?" I said, with that interesting inflection thatr asks for mqre. "What church did yon attend?"' "Which do you-gui**s?" he asked. "Some union mission church !" 1 haz- . nrded. "Now," he said, "I don't like to run on these branch roads very much. I don't often go to church, and when 1 do, I want to run on the main line, where your run is regular and you go on schedule time, and don't have to wait on connections. 1 don't like to run on a branch. Good enough, but 1 don't j like it." . | "Episcopal?" 1 guessed. "Limited express," lie said, "all palace cars and . two dollars extra for seat, fast time, and only stop at the big station*. Nice line, but too expensive fbr a brakeman. All train men in unij term, conductor's punch and tantorn silver plated, and no train-boy* allowed. The passengers are allowed to talk back at the conductor, and it makes tbem too free and easy. No, 1 t stand the

palaoe our*. Rich road, though. Don't often boor of a vaoaivar being appointed for that line, dome mighty nk* people travel on it, too." "Uuiv«rMdi»t?" I "Broad gauge," said the brakeman ; "does too much complimentary buinoa* Everybody travels on a peas. Conductor doesn't get a fare once in 50 milesStops at all flag stations -and won't run into anything but a union depot. Mo smoking ear on the train. Train order* are rather vague through, and the train ibsu don't get ahmg wall with tU 1 (tamenger*. No, I don't go to tb<* Univemaliet, though I know some awfully good men who run on that road." "Presbyterian Y'- 1 -asked. "Narrow gauge, eh ?" said the brakeman, "pretty track, straight ee a rule ; tunnel right through a mountain rather than go around it ; spirit level grade ; ]ioaeengers have to show their tickets liefore they get on the train. Mighty strict road, bat the oars are a litth narrow, have to ait one in a seat and n» room in the aisle to danoe. Then there it no stop-over tickets allowed ; got to go straight through to the otation you *re ticketed for, or you can't get on ; at all. When the car's full no extra coaches, cart built at the shops to hold just so many, and nobody else allowed on. B.r. you don't hear of an accident on that road. It's run right up to the rules." "Maybe you joined the Free Thinkers?" 1 said. (iScrub road," said the brakeman ; "dirt road-bed and no ballast, no time card and no train-dispatchers. All trains run wild, and every engineer makes his own time, just as he pleases. Smoke if you went to ; kind of s go-as-you-please road. Too many aide tracks, and every switch wide open all the time, with the switchman sound asleep and the target lain]) dead out. Get on as you please and get off when von want to. Don't have to show your tickets, and the ' iwft>iUUw im'I Iiia|im 1 lift 111 ll II Ij" 1 I \ but a.nuee the passengers. No, sir, I was offered a ]*as>. but I don't like the line. I don't like to travel on a rood that has no terminus. Don't you know, sir, I asked a division superintendent where the road run to, and he said he didn't know. 1 asked hint if the general superintendent oould tell me, and he said he didn't believe they had a general superintendent, and if they had, he didn't know anything more about the road than the passengers. 1 asked him it* r*»«tnv-vd to, and he said Nobody.' 1 asked the oonuuv.. . ue got his orders frotn, and he didn't take orders from any living man or dead. And when 1 uriced the engineer who be I -->♦ t-; ' •» f -«1 l»i?'d lib* to

* ^ tnav train w «ua *»*aiself, or he'd run it into the ditch. Now, you see, sir, Fm a railroad man, «n2-l to run on a road that ha* no tiiuc, nnd moke* no connections, runs nowhere, and ha> no superintendent. It may bo all right, but I've railroaded too long to under stand it," "May lie you went to the Congregational church?" I said. "Popular road," said the brakeman. ; "an old rond, too ; one of the oldest in the country. Good road-bed and comfortable cars. Well managed road, j too; directors don't interfere witli j division superintendent* and train orders. Road's mighty j»opular, but it V pretty independent, too. Yes. didn't one of the division superintendents down east discontinue one of the ©ld<*t stations on this line two or thtee year* ago? But it's a mighty pleasant road to travel on. Always lias Mtch a splendid class oT passengers." "Did you trrthe Methodist?" T said. "Now yoflv'e shouting," lie said with some enthusiasm. "Nice road. eh?J Fast time and plenty ol possengei* Engine earn* a power of *team. and don't you forget it ; steam gauge *how* j a hundred and enough \11 the time. Lively road uhen the conductor shout* 4all aboard, you can hear him to the next xtation. Kver>* light shines like a heal4i|h(. Stop-over checks aro given on all through ticket* ; |*ajwengor < an drop off the train as often as In* likes, do the station two or three dayand hop on the next revival train that cornea along. v Good, wWoeotW, ootuponionahle conductors ; ain't a road in the country where the past -tiger* fee 1 more at home. No passe* ; every passen ger pay* full tariff rat«w fbr his ticket Wesley an liomw air brake on all train*, too: pretty safe road, but I didn t ride over It yesterday." "Perhaps you tried the Hoptiit ?" 1

ga rased oooa mm* . "Aii, La i raid Um broke man . dbe'« a dan>v t isn't *he? River road ; bemuAil curves j rweep around mnything to keep rloee to the river ; but it4* all steel rail nnd rock bellast, single track el! the way^and not 'a side track from the round bouse to the terminus. Takes a hasp of water to run it, t|joug|i ; doable tanks at ♦ very station, and there j*i/t an. r^pne iu the shops that con pull a pound or run a mile with lee* than L»v gauges. these river roaib ahrnys 4c ; river on one -ide and bilk on the other and It's a - teady climb up the grade all the way till the run ends where the fountainbead of the river begins. Yes, six, I'lltake the river road every time for a lovely trip : sure connection* and agiood lime, and no prairie dust frying in at the windows. And, yesterday, when the conductor came around for the tickets «ith alitUe basket punch, I didn't oak ^ liim to pass me. but I paid my tee like a little man — twenty -five cents for on hour's run and a litiie concert hy the inraengers t browed is. I tell jrou, Pilgrim, you take the river road whan you want—" But just here the long whistle from the engine announced a station and the hroaiuuon hurried to the door, shouting Tsmsnnn ? an tram nana bv auiffc ) >etween here end 1 ndisnspoln 1"— - Bubuxotox Hawxxyb. A TEST RECORD FOR DAIRY COWS. For some time past both the breeder* and the purchasers of pure-bred, herd-book-recorded, dairy cows, have been convinced that something more is required to give substantial evidence of value than the bare pedigree of an animal entered in a herd-hook. A lew experts, who know the whole history of tha beat animals, may have been able to judge of the poniible merits of a portion lor animal by her pedigree, but to the large majority of purrhasera, the record I than^the Tiiei^y^ia^ cattle-men brand upon We frank* of their cows. Mystery is always impressive. And though some people like to be mystified, the larger number of dairymen, who hare kept pnre-bred animals, have been greatly dissatisfied with the uncertainties of the herd-books. Recently some fret* in connection with the shipment to the west, and sale there of some cow* recorded in the Jersey Cattle Club Register, have opened tho evra of the purchasers of «»a*kr*d cattle, rar mmifj «««r heen assured by the best authority that although A cow may have liaen reoorded in the regirter, and her pedigree may he perfect, yet she may possibly bo "a worthless brute." ' W— ' W®

~ i V , . proiou..L. res]*ect for 44a mm cord," has greatly helped the impression that - ^ — « T yve | the pedigree a meaning and a value ; and that this need is a bsoobu of itt rtiRMixcK of the cows entered in the herd-hook, it i* aiip]*osed by some well-known and influential gentlemen to establish a system of teat* of purebred cows, to the end that their character. quality and value may be associated in the record with their pedigree. Then, any uninitiated purchaser even, ' may be able to know as much "from perusal of the record as any expert, :ind a cow's ge neology will be accompanied by an authenticated statement of tho accomplishments of her progenitors. This is all that is needed to make j a record perfect, and is a happy con i ©option — AtttBtcak AcRicrLTrtisr. FRANKLIN CURKD. fedlMy Was btxHight ont the following interesting reminiscent: When Beiyamin Franklin Was a lad he began to study philosophy, and *orai became fond of applying Ie*%hn1cal names to common objects. One ex^ening. when he bad. mentioned to his father that he bad swallowed some acephalous mollusks. the old man was much alarwnxi and suddenly muting him. called loudly for liMp. Mrs. Franklin come with warm water, and the old man rushes! in with the garden pump. They ferced half a gallon down Beivjamin's throat, then held him by the heel* over the edge of the porch and shook htm, while the old man wed, "if we don't get them things out of Btuinie he w ill be piaenod F When they were out, and Bei\jamin explained that the articles referred to were oyster*, his frther fondled him fer an hour with a trunk strap for tearing the family. Ever afterward FranklinV langn«»g«' wot marvvloutly simjd© and explicu.