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y>- ^OUJi£¥ B iBSOWRTjmn* '*?<• J; - •ii#^..^ pKXSIplNU JvxH~If XiB^BeSS' , i "•',•! ?v * '••* ''^rni tapUBg, Court House. ^:ge^sBSffjfey^M^fefef iic. 3> Court. Hoiw,4. • v Sc'aaoawl-WilHum HilOretl.. vTwS * i c*AW'i Maurice- Boeitlcy, De»mfov3H<>. . - ,; y , j,^- ~ ^WIM$S' DIRgCTORV. J. Pa Learning, M, D., D. D.U. ' W. S. Learning, X>. p. 3. J. F.. Looming, $ Sort. DENTISTS. . OFFICE BAYS: ' CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, Tueed»y«, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. CAPE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, SOUTH SEA VILLE, Fridays. xnch61yr, W^Wvix; Physician and Surgeon, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. mchft^r. . J. B. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW. SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cars May C. H., N. J. Will be at hln offlce at Capo May City arery Saturday. mchfilyr. — ,. ..-.y - -.y > ■ ■ ■ Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY* COUNSELOR AT LAW, . . Qppxoe iv Insurance Bcildjng, MILLVILLE. N! J. Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, — 'JflLL VILLE. X. J. mcfifflvr , • L. B. CAMPBELL,

DEALER IN STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ac. High Street, 'Mjllvillb, N. J. mchfilyr — rFBfiof, Dealer in HORSES* CARRIAGES, HARNESS, &e. MAIN STREET, NEAR TIIE BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N, J, racliGlyr CAPE MAY C. H. • » > LIVERY ATTACHE®. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. L. Wheaton. mchOlyr ^ MILLVILLE MUTUAL MARINE & FIRE Com\\aw\j, MILLVILLE, N: J. Assets Jan'y. 1st , 1880 : PREMIUM NOTES, $80ft,'.M0 00. cash: assets, .... fill ,478 $1 totaj# assets, ~?j8h»7uj ffl> LIABIUTIES, Including rein* ~ •Urelice reserve llflllllllltaiofl UfflW 7#e I Inantwpce effecli^ and dtfiflr property FIRE | LIGHTNING, at lowest rate* for one, three or ten years. VERHELB, cargoes and FfctgbU, written op liberal form of policies, wltliont restrictions m to port* u»cd, or registered tonnage. -•LOSSESPromptly Adjtwted And Paid. N: RTRATTON, President. T. L. MULFORD, Sccratary0 r William Ross, Agent, rXi-4 sUv SoVto HOCftK, N. J. mobA lyr.

I | It I fe- 1 1 5 < iiixi I rF| IV i i. | ai I It J I XI : (h ' - V!' *»'i: lii t Jv, u v> i »• . Qr . V ...lli.D Uf-': 5 HOTEL, !;.■ AM} jgb >- - ' I . : , . Cape May C. H. Ths io/ig; estajjlisked Hotel fr W the ! reception of permanent and transient quests, Jwhere all attention will be given* to their comfort. William Eldridge. mchfilyri «■>« « « j A. YOURISON, i mw pyfc .v j- u mkess mm, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPPMAY €. H., N. J. - ' Please Giall and Examine Our Stock ! « - — — —— — We have on hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness , Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips. Robes , JYetSj Blankets, Valises, Trunks , Etc.,

ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. o Open Wagon Harness as low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness as low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFER. ENT STYLES AND PRICES. J&9- Call and ace before purchaalng clnewhere, mcii6iyr. A. Yonrison. J. L. STEEL, * MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' AND GENTS' • » . • FASHIONABLE ■ aid SHOES. NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. u . (* ' L . CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done. mcKOlyr. Stnrdlrant's Great Catarrh Remedy, Is the safest, most agrceahlo and erTtctmil remedy In tue world, for the cure of CATARRH i No matter from what cause or how long Htamllng, hy giving , STURDIVANT\S CATARRH REMEDY a fnlr ant! Impartial trial, you will be convinced of this fact. The medicine Is very ' fricfljtfint and can bo taken by the most delcate stomach. For sale by all druggists, uml by. HnUo way A Co., 002 Arch HL, I'll I In, tnchflly j ~ ^ V'' v 1 SURVEYOR AND i Civil Engineer, f MILLVILLE, N.J. » •Special attention paid to leveling : establishing the oycrflow lines of pro- F iw»«od ponds for mill sites, cranberry i nogs etd'j drainage works nte. Plans . made, estimates furnished and spqcifi' cations drawn for Mills, Bridges ; Waterworks and all similar cOnstHtctiojris or * works at short notice, t mchfilyr ^

~ L»'j i"io;iv i>tiy 1 „ '■•Tftfrnrr?? j ! isspMU wail One evening while reclining v my ooey-chalr, repining HI Jf.v' Over tbo lack of true religion, and the dearth ofwnnmo h«en«u. j ; . A solemn-yltiagod tody, Who wo# tu j rely op the shady .. 81do of thlrt)', entered proudly, and to pWh . f# mo did copvmcpqo: , -r# , j MI seht a poem' $bfc, tir; » ' ' ^ / ' Said Uie tmly^ixiwlngliorwr, ' - - ' "And the subject which I'd chosen, you remember, sir, waa Spring. Bnt although 1'vo scanned yobr papor, Sir, by sunlight, W and taper, -f 'I*ve discovered of that poem not a solitary thing," She was muscular and wiry, And her temtx$r sure whs flery, And I know to pucify her I would have to—flb like Am. - So I told her that her yerscs • Which were great, hod como to— bless us, We'd received Just six tyono ou "Kpring," of which we printed one. And I added, "We've decided That they'd better be divided Among the years to follow — ono on each succeeding Spring. So your work, I'm pleAsed to mention, Will receive our best uttontion In thoyearofnlnetecn-forty, when tho birds begin to sing 1" The Third Step In Intemperance . by rbv, dr. c. f. dkkx9. "Rudolph, bo ware," a "still small voice" TO recutude and truth i But then the,."sma]l voire" sounds so loud, His friend's (?) gay laugh so loud, He boldly grasps the stronger arm, And mingles with the crowd ! How pleasant is tho landlord's smile, How rubicund his ftice, And Rudolph, smiling back, remarks, "This is a Jolly place," "Billiards! alia! lei's ljuve a game, 'Twill PASS AWAY thktixe," Argues his friend, as Rudolph lights And smokes his costly "prime." His fair young Am* is Gushed with wine, Wine fires his orlu* of blue, And with a trembling, feverish hand He grasps a billiard cue ! The game Is new to him, but soon TT a». *0 Tglfl • ; -u . He drinks and plays; and plays and drinks, Nor heeds the voice within ! —Old MAGAr.ing.

A BAD RELATION ; ■ ■■ I OR, "MY UNCLK 'At TIIE CORNER." Tbero were few people around Sam Swigglo, when he first married, who would have thought it possible for him to have fallen so low as ho did syithin fire years of the day when he took unto himself a wife. Sam had a qniet j'obbing business in the building way j but being a handy man, he coiild turn his hand to almost anything, and for odd work lie had no equal near him. He was what is callod a moderato drinker, and his wife was the same. Little by little, however, they increased tli eir'con sumption of malt and alcoholic liquors, until both were -what might honestly be termed ''given to drink." Who set the example, and who was the follower, was never clearly made out. The women say Sam was the culprit, and the men charge it to his wife : but it matters not who it was, as ono was as bad na th^ othef ; nnd with tho drink, ruin set in. Moderate drinking in both cases was undoubtedly the forerunner of it nil. Difficulties ensued, and Sam got behind with his payments. Jobs were noglectod, a rival set up close by, and he lost half his trade. In his trouble he applied to his relations, and they helped him for a timo ; but poopjo got tired of assisting a dissipated man, and they fell off one by one. His wife's relatives did tho same, and at l«st they wore as good as alone in tho wbrld. One morning Sam and his wife sat at breakfast, or what would have been breakfast if there had boon anything to eatj but tho little money they had possessed went to the public-house tho day before, and as people who drank have a difficulty in obtaining credit, Sam and his wife had the prospect of | beginning the day without a meal to | sustain them. "I wonder," said Mrs. Swfggle, "who would lend us a few shillings until you can get a job or two finished." "Just what I was thinking of," replied j "but I don't see my way clear to it." "Have you tried my brother Richard?" i said Mrs. Swigglo, "He is a steady, i industrious man, and generally baa a few pound* by him." "Yes," returned 8am, "antl he means i to koep them. I asked him yesterday I to lend mo a sovereign, and ho said it i would bo robbing his wife and children,"

. Lul Ttfnnr'i WU'hlm BO. H® «i«d h«-tru wSfc -Bttt to'ftfcilt) not j ■te'ftja totting 11? MgMitr-H® Wn'Hnllfo$e Wo Wii' month Ugo » > ' 1 j . "toe fa*r wimrf ft day^i.M ' , lbffairigik, bridHnfr- *p[. "Then he rtWt iot Wt - i. .««> ifu! "Dhn't let lihn trjr It;" Mid 8am, With much fndrgnation: ' pnffi 0uTh tfte^ ' b if. Aiint MkrHia, now," . pttrtted hiB 'Wifci ' ''She lilts II good bianness, although" hip nhep Ib 'bdMU; and sho is very saving, ahd— — '»■ ■ - ' ' "No u»o trying her," Intnrpowd S*m, shortly. ♦ "Why not ?" asked Mrs, Swigglo, in surprise. "Becauso I borrowed a pound of her in August, and promised to pay it bock — ahem ! — the next day," "And may I ask what became of that sovereign !" replied his wife. "Oh, I spent it soino where — most likely at 'The King's Head,' " said Sam ; "but it's no use bothering about it. Let us see where we have a chance of finding a friend." * They ran ovef their list of -friends and acquaintances, and were compelled to admit that there was not half a chance Of borrowing money in any direction. Sam became very despondent, and his i wife j but suddenly he brightened up, r </a* . .... . — ...fctviu we* have forgotten — an uncle." "An uncle!" said Mrs. Swiggle. " "I don't remember one. Uncle Richard, and James, and William we have run over." "But I mean another sort of uncle — a general unole. There's ono at the corner — money lent, you know." "Do you mean a pawnbroker, Sam?" "Why, yes, I do," replied Sam, "and you need not look so astonished and horrified. Better people than you and 1 have been obliged to go there sometimes I ' "But wo have never done it yet, Sam,'> i -wu4--Mve. ■ 1-thmV — think I should like to be seen going there."

"I will go, then," said Sam, "and I'll take my watch first, or your brooch. Which shall it be? I want my watch , when I'm out working." "Bat you can get it out again on Saturday," urged his wife. In the end the watch went, and it was taken out on Saturday, and a month's interest paid for the use of the money for four days. Sam wore his watch up to Monday, when, money running short, in it went again, and on Friday Mrs. Swiggle's brooch went to keep it company, and alas I never returned. They remained for a whole year, and were then lost to Sam and his wife forever. Meanwhile other articles went the same road. There wore so many tilings in the house they could do without — ornaments, bits of jewelry, books, and so on; and it seemed such a nice easy way' of getting a few shillings when they were wanted, that Sam and his wife wore as pleased as if they had come into a little fortune ; and Sam got more and more idlo every day. From pawning little tilings which could bo easily carried ' free from observation, they soon como to large things ; and Mrs. Swiggle, having overcome her reserve, took to calling upon lier undo, and rather liked it, as at his ifl t ' establishment she mot with other wotnoh engaged in similar transactions, and when business was over they invariably went to a quiet public-house in handfr proximity to the pawnbroker, and had a . "friendly penn'orth together." The barman of this house was an affable young man, who did a respectable trade in the purchase of pawn-tickets from those who had learnt to look upon the recovery of their goods and chattels as hopeless. lie was agent for his father, who I kept n second-hand clotlies-shop, and the young barman was doing so well I that he hoped shortly to have a puhlici house of his own. It wns not all down-hill with the Swlgglos at first. They made occasional efforts to get out some of the things that were most wanted ; hut it was seldom done without pawning something olso they had not quite so much need of. Sam's tools were frequent visitors to that obliging rotation, and being necessaries, were invariably got out again. But ere long Sam found ho could do without this tool, and that tool, and fhey were left in to bo taken out "at some other time." Sam had a plane of great value, as

. Ui*m it OUt -tge- MllgfaiMt iwltatib?. fchift with it, arid aid hot trouble him- • pelf* about tte 'better one ' for Be v oral weeks i bot at last the old piano give in, *pd' it fcWsame accessary Ito" get tho other Jp&Ut Vc.Ol>' » :! ? .v. r,$[ tpt,{ - , Ul want'th'at ticket, Sal," said Sam. p think It is in tho old tracked tea-pot with- the rifc*." Sal looked there^uid was some time^ looking, but it was not fbirad. Ail likely 4 places were searched, but ttooulduot be mot with. Sam was in great distreaa, and without saying anything to his wife, wont over to his "unclo's" to know what lie was to do. There he learnt that tho plane had been taken out by the barman of the adjacent public-house, and over to him went Sam to know how hebecame possessed of it, and found that his wife had parted with the ticket for half a quartern of rum. Sam valued that plane, and asked if he could buy it back. "No, you can't," replied the barman, "for I sold it to a man who wont North." "Whore to 7" asked Sam, in a sort of frenzy. "Can't exactly say," was tho calm reply ; "but to Sheffield, Liverpool, or Manchester, and I think his name was Smith." ^The possibility of Sam ever Beeing 1 '' - * ♦ i . . *? f he became very angry, and on his return home high words . ensued, and for the ' first timo he struck his Wife. Mrs. Swiggle went next day to see her relation with, a black eye. Sho took a hearthrug with her, and spent the whole of the proceeds at the public-house. "I'll teach him to strike me 1" she said, as she drank with her friends, or rather 'they drank with her. "I'll clear his home for him, I will I" It is a very poor home by this timo. AH that could bo spared, and much that really necessary, hud gone to the shop at the corner, and all they brought it «v»a gtv g/jua, \jui, uir tup uuiuiaiy, - positive harm. A great many things went in and out unit Ami 4im Aft Cm h. C.»M AM.. .1 .ll.

I several and Sam's Sunday clothes . went every week for a year before they l were finally lost. The interest paid upon them would havo bought a new coat at i the very least. Bedding, furniture, and all else save ? a few worthless sticks, found their way i there at last, and tho homo of Sam Swigglo was a wreck. It may be added * that he and his wife were on tho point of fqundering too. Mrs. Swigglo was well up in all tho mysteries of pawning, of "putting in" and "taking out" and "parting," the price of tickets, the proper interest to be charged, and she arrived at tho summit of what might bo called "relative" wisdom just as she had nothing to pawn. With a character lost, a homo inconceivably wretched, und a wife lying upstairs in the agony of the morning after a heavy day's drink, Sam satin his room upon a rickety choir, and with his arm resting upon a tabic that rocked with every Bigh that escaped from his uiiserablo heart. Among other relations John had a cousin, on his wife's side, named llonry Warner — a sober, industrious man, into whose house no strong drink ever came, lie had helped Sam in the old days with his purse, and would have helped him in a. better way, for ho was a strong advocate of tho cause of temperance, if Sam would havo permitted him. lie nover met the fallen man without urging him to sign the pledge ; but Sara always looked at this idea as n childish tiling, unworthy of a man. "I can't/' ho said, "live without a littlo. It strengthens mo," "Strengthens you !" Henry would reply. "Is it not hurrying you to your grave ? That and the pawnshop will be your utter ruin, I am convinced." But on tho second count Sam could not agree with him. "Pawning," he said, "as legit imnto business. I borrow so much money on my goods, and when 1 pay tho money back I got my goods again. Nothing can be fairer." It was in vain to argue with him until absolute ruin came, and then Henry, who with the persistence of a good man had never lost sight of his unhappy relation, thought it wns time to urge his last plea in tho cause of temperance and thrift. Calling that morning at 8am's wretched lymic, ho found him sitting disconsolately idono upon the rickety chair before a rickety table, moodily

r~-~ ■' milking All eortg of odd figure«7^pon the down figure* anyhqw. I've j* bead fpr r forA ud WakjM bead for figure*, Wen instructive liking for working out calculation. He began o„ thii oocbbk* with the cost of drink, and led up to some interesting figureson the amount of interest paid by those who persiatentiy viait the pawnshop, and so worked out a certain sum which gave 6am no for amazement and dismay. They became 80 engrossed with their occupation that neither of them heard Mrs. Swiggle descend the stairs, nor heard the rustling of hor faded dress as she draw up behind them and looked over the shoulder of her husband. The five years' wretchod Ufe hod worked sad havoc with the once buxom and blooming Mrs. Swiggle, and in the place of a fresh, good-looking English matron, there was a poor, faded creature, with a blotched face, weak eyes, and trembling hands. Her dress, once neat and well -fitting, bung about her like a sack, and with patches here and rents there, looked what it was— the very picture of ruin and misery. cmCfkocf figures, and Henry Warner was employed in collecting the totals of various sums into one corner and adding them up so as to form a grand total. Mrs. Swiggle watched him with greatinteres t, wondering what had put tho pair in such a calculating mood. "What are you doing ?" Sam looked up with a start of surprise, and leaning back in his chair at the imminent risk of upsetting himself, after a short pause replied — "We have been seeing what our relation has cost us." "What relation ?" asked Sal. "Our undo ftt the cornnr," r.pl^ oam ; and Jwnry kaa worked out some* astonishing figures, I can tell you. 8it down and listen to him.

1 "What's the good of it 7" demanded his wife, querulously ; "that won't help us to got the things out, will it?" "Some," said Sam, "are gone for ever — most, I might say ; but it won't do us any harm just to look over matters, and sec what fools we haye been. Pvo no work to do, and you havo no money to spend, so it won't be wasting time." Mrs. Swiggle, with an irapatientshrng, sat down and seomod ill-disposed to listen, but ore Henry had proceeded far her attention was drawn towards what he was BAying, and in a little time she was as much absorbed in the matter as her husband. "In the first plnce." said her oousin, "1 will just say a word or two on what took you first to your near relations to beg, and then to tho outaide relation to borrow, and that was— drink." "Yes," said Mrs. Swiggle— "drink ; but Sam began it. Everybody says so." "There are one or two who sav you wore tho first to begin it," replied Sam, calmly : "butl am not going to say so. We both drink now, and that is what sent us to our uncle at tho corner. He was very kind at first, or at least wo folt so. It was great accommodation ho gave us, or so we thought ; but the end of it is, he and the public-house have got all we had worth having, nnd wo aro as good as beggars in thw — " • * v*» "IF* are "I won't deny it," return <xi Sam ; -ouw now to facts and figures. V Henry haa put them clear beforo me >nd 1 can give them to you. How much did our furniture, and so on, cost us when we were married ? "You spent seventy pounds and I twenty," replied his wife, "and there woro a few presents made us bv our friends worth ten more," "1 have put it down at a hundred," .said Sam, "as round figures help a man. Now where has that hundred pounds' worth of goods gone to ?" "Why, to tho comer," replied Mrs. Swiggle, after a moment's hesitation ; "but don't forgot you had money lent on them." "I don't forgot anything," replied Sam. "Now just listen. We pawned a score of things in our time which wo wore obliged to takeout again and again and again for use. Hero is one item, your Sunday boots. I gave six and sixpence for them originally, and we used to get eighteen pence upon them, for which we paid a halfpenny for the ticket (Continued on the fourth pais.)