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VOLUME I.

CAPE MAY COURT MOUSE, MEW JER8E /, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1080. — ^ r „ — m ■ ■ - «

NUMBER 6.

•surrogate — William ttildroth. Co. Sup'?, Public Instruction— Dr Maurice Beosley, Dcnnizvillo. JVDICUBY. PMStDiKo Juouf—Hoik Alfrad Ram). Roman cT Good^ TockiSoe. ** COMMISSIONER S URPLUS FUM»— Dr.C. F. Looming, Court Hou.*e. ♦, BUSINESS DIRECTORY. J. r. M,tk. tx p. a. W. a. Loaminf, D. D. B. ?/. uF. Learning , $• £ot&. DENTISTS. OFFICE DAYS: CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, Tuesday., Wednesday*. And Saturdayn. CAPE MAY CITY, Tueadaya, and Wednesday*. SOUTH SEA VILCS, Friday*. mch61yr. . ~ LOWtt Y, Physician and Surgeon, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. mehdl/T. J. B. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Caps Mat C. H., N. J. 8^- Will be at his office at Cape May City every Saturday. mchfllyr. Jas. H. Nixon, . ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, Office in Insurance Building, MILLVILLE, N. J. Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, Hioit Strrlt, Below Pine, MILLVILLE, N. J. mchfllvr L. B. CAMPBELL, DKAIJER IN RTOVB8, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, CLASSV ARE, Ac., Ac. Ilion Street, Mii.ltillb, N. J. mch6Iyr 1 J P. BRICK, Dealer in i HORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. MAIN STREET, NEAR THE BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N. J. mchfllyr^ UMMD iflllUM, CAPE MAY C. H. ] i » > LIVERY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, j For Sale or Exchange. L. Wheaton. mchflly? . MILLVILLE mutual marine & fire Cowv\\a^, MILLVILLE, FLi. * Assets Jan'y. 1st f 1880 : * PREMIUM NOTES, 00. CABfl ABBETB,... _.. f TOTAL ARRET*, a.A.< -JjEJJff " jLIABriJTIBR, Including rela- F wnuicfi reeerve,...- , ft 17,885 77. O Insurance effected mi Farm BuildingAnd other property against Inaa by FIRE 9 LIGHTNING, \ at lowest ratea for one, three or ten year® VWWTU/I, rarroca and Frelftits, written mv liberal form of pollclea, without reatHctlonn a a to porta mod, or rrflitered tonnaco. Promptly Adjusted and Paid. N. MTRATTON, President i p. L MTXLFORD, Secretary. n William Rots, Agent, • cape mat cotrwr houbb, it. j. * ■achd fyr,

In ion ' i HOTEL, Cape May C. H. ' f 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. mchfilyr. A. YOURISON, 1MB WD, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. H.. IV. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock! We hare on hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness , Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips , Robes , Nets, Blankets , Valises, Trunks , Etc., . all of which we are selling ' at low cash prices. Open Wagon Harness as low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness as low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND PRICES. S9»ChiI and so© before purchasing elsewhere, mcheiyr. A. Yourison. • STEEL, MANUFACTURER Ut V • LADIES' AND GENTS' FASHIONABLE BOOTS d SIS, SBXT TO THB "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done, mcbfllyr. I rant's Great Catarrh Remedy, Is the anfust, most agreouhle and effectual remedy In the world. fr»r the cure of CATA Rltll. No matter from what cauae or hoT . a standing, by giving JS CATARRH REMEDY a fair and impartial 1, yon will be convinced of this fiiet. Th^ nindlclnu Ik very fdbaaaitl an<l CAM br !ak< n by the nuwt delrate Ktoinarh. For sale by nil dnurglHtN, and by Hollowly AOo^OOS ArehBL, Phi la. meh61y r. l. howkll, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J, Special attention paid to leveling; establishing the overflow lines of proposed ponds for mill sites, cranberry nogs etc; drainage worka etc. Plan* made, estimate* flirnished *nd speciflcation* drawn for Mills, Bridges ; waterworks and aU similar ounstrnotiens or works at short notice, mchfllyf'

1 l poetry. The First Step in Intemperance. HBV. a F. DBBKS. "My son, my darling soa," The weeping mother said, "You go lo seek your lortnae, To nobly earn your bread. Biiun baee oompanlons— look not on The wine when It Is red." Bo Rodman leaves his home, A pure and noble lad I The promise U> hie mother given, HU heart, wae light and glad. Ue'U keep no evil company. To make hie best Mend ead I Eventful wae the day, He made OK b New Year's call, And a harming was the lady, That held his heart In thrall, Bhe moved In "best society," Was queen of fete or ball. "You'll pledge ms In one glass," Bald she with a graceful air. "How can I well refhse," thought be, "The wine from one so fhlrT TimoKcid"— Ah! 'twas the first sad step To sorrow and despair I —Old MAG ALIKE. S • The Burglar and the Editor. A burglar climbed into an editor's roomNeedy and poor was he— And he saw in the dim uncertain gloom, With legs as long as the stem of a broom. A pair of trousers. "I'll Just frees* to 'em," He chuckled with fiendish glee. He lifted thera up from the back of the chair; Lightly they hung on his arm ; They were tho editor's only pair, Thinner than gossamer everywhere ; Oh, but the knees were worn and bare, Good clothes— when the weather Is warm. All over the room he searched In vain ; There was no more to find ; There was no sign of sordid gain, No passing drops from a golden rain, Only the wealth of the sleeper's brain, The peace of the editor's mind. He turned his hack on that happy home. Thoughtfully hefting those pants ; Out oft lie window he cautiously dome; He emptied the pockets— a broken comb, A stub of a pencil, a manuscript poem. Answered his searching glance, He started ; the tears flashed Into bis eyes ; He leonodfup against the fenoe; s lMkAfaitsUs. ckLuLaaurarls* _ Hoflenod his ffcee : he stifled bis cries ; He looked at his swag and measured 1U sts a. Value— about nine cents. ^ ^ • Into his pockets, his own, he went, And he dragged out a ten dollar bill ; And he hastily crammed It, every cent, Into the editor's pocket, and bent Tho trousers Into a wad and sent Them over tho wlndow-sllL Then on to a wealthier house he sped, " Twas charity well bestowed," He said to himself*, and when night had fled And the editor rose from his virtuous bed, And found tho money, he whistled and said: "Well, I am weentlally blowod." — burlikoton hawtcbt*. perils of the deep a tot age of continual danger and varied advrnturb — winds and icrdrros DECKS weighted down with icr and rigging frozen cp — arctic wrath br. The westerly gales that have swept . i*u^for t)ie last fow days seen i to have made an especial vAiwin %,J W. steamship Gordon Castle, Waring, master, from Shanghai on January 12 to thia port, arriving yesterday. She entered the harbor encased in an armoT of ice from six to eight inches thick on her aides and from 10 to 16 inohes thick on her decks. Her rigging was as columns of crystal from the lower yards to the deck, And a railing of iron bara that form the bulwarks was banked up with ice so that a wall protected the decks from being swept by the seas. The light running rigging of the ship was encased in a thick coat, so that it would not go through tho blocks, and the ship's bell was in a lump of ioe, So release it from which an immersion in an immense tub of boiling water was necessary. " The warm sun of yesterday, the work of tho ooolie crew and no end of hot water from tho ship's boilers partly reliovod the ship of her frigid burden, but the salt water of which the ice was made leaves its saline particle* clinging to paint and rigging, so that even now the vessel is white, while her lower rigging and deck furniture arc speckled and gray with salt. Her entire appearance indicates the terrible struggle she has had with the wind and sea. The sails, oast loose to dry, hang in tatters, and the great anchor* on the bows may even now be only dimly seen, their shape and presence being almost < undiscemable in their coating of frosen sea water. Says Capt. Waring, pointing i to them, "Had we wanted to anchor we 1 couldn't have done it. We ooukln'l have got the anchors off tho bowa, Thank God I we had no call for our ground tackle, or I don't know what would have happened." AIL RiNDa or WRATima. (-apt. Waring, whose faoe, like that of all his offloer* and orew, is raw and sore

from the effects of the aal7 spray flung upon them by the sea, tells the following story of the voyage : "We left Shanghai jnst aa the first snow storm of the season was beginning. We congratulated ourselves on getting warmer weather soon, and our passage was a pleasant one through the tropics. We touched at Amoy, Hong Kong, at Singapore, and arrived at Port Said February 4. We entered the canal in a rain storm, which was followed by a fog that shut down so thick that we were lost to view at a distance from Port Said of only a few miles. This was an unprecedented thing, but it is all of a piece with the rain storms with which the region of the canal has been visited during the past few years. We had a pleasant voyage through the Mediterranean sea, coaled at Gibraltar and sailed in good weather for New York on the 6th of March. On the 10th our bad weather commenced. It blew in squalls and gusts, with a heavy sea. At^noon of the 11th, in latitude 36° north, latitude 28° west, it was calm. At sunset tne ' -4 was blowing a gale from the west, back*. — a from westoouth-west to north-northwest and nkver stopping. This was kept up until the 19th, when had theheariest gale. We were the in latitude 36°, j longitude 58°. At nocy It was calm ; at midnight there was a hurricane. We had on a close reefed wbioh we tried to take in, and after clewing the yard down we tried to get the sail on to the yard, but couldn't, all hands working to do it, but in vain. It blew all to shreds, as you see it now. The wind ohanged to southwest that night and still blew a hurricane. The seas made a clean breach over the ship, floating the cabin and taking eVerything off tho decks. The crew were kept busy trying to secure things. The winch was swept off. Two great hawsers on the saloon cabin were carried c t and six Chinese sailors were knocked Sown and seriously KumL I UL RHCl (1 ■ I I irtSl M— -Ml Ml . cold we made shift o get along with some comfort, and vhen the gale died out a bit, we thoug it there was only plain sailing beforo ^ , The barometer presented some rather serious readings at times. On the ' 9tn, at noon, for instance, it read 30 0, at midnight it was 29.50, and at 4 o' ock of the morning of the next day !t was 29.30, a fall nearly of one inch in 16 hours. Then it began to rise slower. All that we could do was to keep the ship's head on to the sea and 1 -op the going slowly. THB MOST ABBIOUSOALB. ^ ' ,Al|«r was on tho 24tli, however. The w.— ^ down to 20° below sero and a norSvesfbr hi©., with the violence of a hurricane. By that time we were nr***v •- ind<»- *he I lee of the coast Ul , havv. . been even worse. As quick as a sea struck the ship it broke into bits of icv | ^ raj , he flying substance of which cui our faces, as you see. The water wouldn't run off. It froze on the ship's decks so fast that in a few hours' it was several inches deep. Every sea that came aboard of us — and we wore just plunging into thom — left much of itself in solid ice encrusting the ship. It was impos sible to go forward, for the ship's head was for the most part uncior water, and for a matter of that the decks aft were not as dry as piano timber. There was so much ioe on the ship that it visibly affoctod bat and made her leggy. The spars and rigginggot thicker and thicker until the ensign halyards were as thick as the jibstay, and the jibstay was of the dimensions of the foremast The forward bridge had a ton of ice frozen to it, and the smokestack and steam escapes were like icetxfrgs. Things were dubious but the vessel is a good sea boat and she stood it well. We got out a barrel of salt and tried to get it on tho ioo on dock, hoping it would work it off; but the salt wus washed away, and when we turned on hot water from the boiler it had scarcely any effect. Finally we sighted the Highland lights, and presently got a pilot and came inside. I never want to mako another voyage like it." IN COM PANT WITH AN lCWIlNfc". Rcarcely loss terrible was the voyage of the Belgian steamer Ferdinand Van dor Taelan, Capt, Gattoor, with fruit from up tho straits. She arrived almost simultaneously with the Gordon Castle. She was in company with a great iceberg in latitude 44, longitude 49, on the 19th. Oapt. Cattoor makes the following report : "We had bad weather for several day* before the 18th, and tho barometer fell more rapidly than I have ever seen it do Infill e. On the afternoon of the 18th we fell in with floating ice, in which there were a good many large chunks,

I «k&6 of them so large that the vessel ! tr«nk>tedMRh» (truck tfaam. We .lowed i the engines, hoping to run through the i floes, but it only got thicker by dark, * and we laid to for the night. It was very • dark, and the thennoftieter Miing > rapidly. I suspected the presence of ; large quantities of ioe, but i was not prepared for the sight that awaited me 1 at daybreak. It was very clear and oold, the thermotnter ranging down to 20 below sero. Just near us and . apparently lowering over decks was a tremendous iceberg. i measured Its i dimensions out of the water with a sextant and made it out 300 feet high, about 1,000 feet long and 400 feet through. It was shaped not unlike a church. At one end was a great jflnnadc towering up to the height. Then there was a ridge about 200 feet from the water, extending to the other end of the berg, which was capped by another spire. From one side a wing ran out which had also a pinnacle upon it. The north side of the berg i did not see, but I judged it was a plain surface. The berg was of dear blue ice at the top. xparkled like a great blue diamond, i Although there was a heavy swell runling it did not move the berg at all was so large. Well, I didn't spare a. d> time in looking at It, 1 oau assure you It was so oold that I became afraid i hould b© forced to keep company wiv. berg, so I sheered off to the southward. ~ of the ioe. By 1 o'clock the uerg pe»**u of sight in the blue horiaon. I noticed one thing about it— the seas dashed up against it and seemed to change from water to ioe as they struck and remained like arms hanging on to the larger body. Not the least singular thing was the rising of the thermometer as we passed away. When we were nearest the berg it was at the lowest, at 30 below seio. At 12 o'dock, when we were 20 miles off, it stood at zero, and an hour later, cury was 10 above. 1 don't want to keep company with such customers." "Did you have any other incidents or the voyage f 1 "Ayo, U<ir ~ -IJ/I. we had a heavy gale on the 20th and on the 23d passed h vessel bottom up. She was about 60 or 70 feet long, wooden, bottom painted green. W%couldn't tell anything else about her. Altogether we had a terrible voyage." The British steamer Banzani, also fro*- " Mediterranean, experienced about the same weather. Like the Gordon Castle she got the full beuefit of the oold weather and got an armor of not bo much of it as the CmnatMiij,.— A*. Y. IIkrald. " n It was out of the cloud that the del ' nge came, yet it is upon it that the bow is set • is a thing of dark ness, yet God chooses it for the place where ho bends the arch of light ! Such is the way of our God. He knows that we need the cloud, and that a bright sky without a speck or shadow would not suit us in our passage to the Kingdom. • Therfore he draws the cloud above us, not once in a life-time, but many times. But lest the gloom should appall us, ho braids the cloud with sunshine, nay, makes it the object which gleams to our eye with the very fairest hues of heaven. Yes, it is not merely light after the darkness has fled away. That wc shall one day know — hem fully ! But it is light in darkness; light beaming out of a ray produced by that darkness ! Water from the rock ; wells from the siMd ; light from the very cloud that darkens ; life in the very midst of death 1 This is the marvel, this is the joy. Peace in trouble, Gladness in sorrow ; nay, peaeo and gladness produced by the very tribulation itself; pence and gladness which nothing but that tribulation could have produced ! Such i> the deep love of God ; and such is the way in which Ho makes all things work together for the good rt> us. — hobativ? Bonab. a touching picture . While I was lecturing at Washington 1 saw a lady with an intelligent, pretty face and blight, eloquent eyes that were rarely lifted toward the speaker, and than for only a flash of time. The) were bent upon her husband's hand* almost constantly. Brilliant and ao complishcd, a few years ago, the had gone down into the world of voiceless silence, and now all the music and all the speech that come* into her life

1 j comes through the tender devotion of I her husband ; and as 1 j watched i him telling off the lecture on hit nimble , hngarh, while her eager ey* glanced from them to his sympathetic face. J t — • pretty jactcre d^oOoo. Tbey r w®r« ao young, to h«Te thk aloud ebmdow I the morning skies of their lives, but i as 1 glanced from the voiocdess wife to i her husband I thought how beautiful > the sunlight of kit devotion was, tweak > radiance. This discipline of att^d upon suffering is a good thing for a ma. . It rounds out his liie ; ii develops his manlier, nobler qualities ; it his heart brave and tender strong as a woman's.— Brsnarr*. A MODERN IDEA. There is a much easier and safoi way of making money without sending your capital along that western route popularly supposed to be taken by the course of empire. It is a way, we admit, father monopolised, just at present, by the citizens of Connecticut ; but we see no reason why it should not be open to the impecunious of other states. The scheme is simple. Get yourself acrusori of murder — wUe-mnrdswia the be**- variety but you are free to indulge your privan » taste. It may be a iitti* difficult, a first, to turn yourself into a fimt-claas ** object of suspicion ; but persistent purchases of poison will do it a pound of — - 4- ur» as to ooincide with a deetn m tfae _muiy, must in the end secure you the hixurv of a murder trial. Then, if you will only expend your capital judiciously in the production of efficient, argumentative experts, you are certain to secure a disagreement of the jury — perhaps even in a couple of trials. The experiment is attended with no danger whatever ; except to the jurymen, who may die during Gin I:U — Of course, however, you must take care not to be acquitted. The circumstances must tell strongly against you. In the end, you get yourself let out On bail^nd turn immediately to the nearest lecture human wWe vou will find no difficultv in securing an engagement, at auxu-.. terms, to meander thr>*ugh the country with your lecture, entitled "Evidential Circumstances, or : There's Many a Slip Twixt the Noose and the Neck." Do not fail to provide yourself with a good stock of your own photographs, to be sold at the close of yotfr lecture. If you haven't killed your wife, take her with you, and enlist the sympathies of your audience by giving her a good notice, and telling thi ^ *r guiding star, your sustaining stay, uiu vets o* i*'4*-1 e> . ' a ^np •. . ^ of the wife may be sold ; also the-" your alleged victim. Diagrams of the alleged neigh oorhood in which the alleged murder was committed, sketches of the implements alleged to have been used, and samples of the alleged chemical analyses put up by the alleged exl>erts, are strong side-show attractions ; and a neat working-model of the gallows 9 on which you were in alleged danger of being hung inay be used with pleasing effect to heighten the general interest of the entertainment. It is a splendid way to win gold and notoriety — hard on the lectures on Art and Science and Morality *, but a big and truly modern idea, all the same. — Pres. THE MISSING SAW- MILL The other day T. G. met an old friend, who was formerly a prosporous young lumberman up Norths but whose bad habits of drinking resulted as they often do, though he ha* since reformed and is trying to do better. "How arc you V said T. G. "l^retty well, thank you, but INre just t>eon to a doctor to have him look at my throat. "What's the mattoi T" "Well, the doctor couldn't give ma any encouragement. At least he couldn't find what 1 wanted him to find." "What did you expect to find f" "1 asked him to look down «ty throat for the saw-mill and farm that had gone down there," l "And did he sec- anything of it T" "No, but he advised me if I ever got another mill to run it by water." — Fana tress. A medical journal has discovered that mental or |4tya«eal labor before or after eating is one of the most exciting causa* of dyspepsia. This must be the reason why ao many people otyect to working l»etwoon meals.