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T\Xv^r TKI IJPCBgKr ""SATURDAY, MAY 8TH.. I8S0, ^^sssaHssssaasssa-s-sss— — sa== Dry. Dusty. Lilac*. Drum. , - • . .. :»••- • •• • -'. -T - flfiT? J> - ,-,. h-- ImUhiiflL •■• ■ ■ '••>$. .•* - •"*?}' • s^tT"1 * v" tt ' %* ^ ' ,*X ■'• vs «' Plenty of company, . Eleven Teach era absent It made the chickens tremble. v- i*a^H ^ •. ' A . j. "."*/?"■ • **k» V - • Pasteboard window shutters are the latest v •% The oaks are putting on their mantles of green. Look out for strawberries In about three weeks. A few more trees on Mechanic street need trimming. Bro. Gwynne we appreciate your favor of the 5th inst. So far May has resembled itself more than April did. Rhubarb pies now grace the tables of tha "first families." Potato bugs are beginning* to emerge from their boroughs. The new board of Freeholders will organise on Wednesday. Gape May City is to have a strawberry festival next week. Another week draws to a close with its record of pleasures and sorrows. It is time for mothers to forbid their ' young hopefuls robbing bird's nests. The board of Chosen Freeholders will i meet at the court house on Tuesday } next, ( - W ■ ■■! i ■< . — — I ■! I I I I I I ■ HI ' lln.».n. ,i

»n3gwLimur-wr — TBrarejr*--and return thanks. We shall use next week.. Orders for job work are rushing in. Good work and low prices is what is the j matter. We can fully appreciate Judge Reed's complaint against the ventilation of the -court house. The . fire on Monday burned over I 289 acres of land belonging to Dr. Wiley. Whose turn next? Now that the Institute is- over wo hare settled down to the hum-drum of every day lif^again; Musquitoes have already mode their j appearance. They hum familiarly about one's :.<*£>, as of yore^ Vineland has an orange tree, not ever four feet high, and showing fortyfive large, ripe oranges.

We received a call from John Holmes, Esq., the efficient Collector of Dennis Township, on Tuesday last. TVenty-seven car loads of Eastern ice weighing 400 tons passed through here last week for Cape May City. The time for holding the Seaville ! Fair hn» been changed from September 9th and 10th to the 10th and 16th. There ia a "boom" at Cape May, the remit of which is several weddings. Don't let it strike the Court House. Much loafing in stores seriously affects j trad4. Ladies are unwilling to enter a place of business when full of men. Dandelions can bloom, fish horns can toot, hand organs can play — but let us ' have no spring opening of any new puzzles. Watch the early potatoes closely. De- [ Mtroy as many of the old potato bugs as I possible, and do not allow the larva) to hatch. To morrow is the "day of all the week the best." Iflttlo boys should put on i their solemn looks and attend the j church of their fathers. Dr. J. F. Learning represents this township in the State Republican Con- j venfcion. The Republicans could not j have made a better choice. We have received a new advertise* ment from Capt, Jar-man dealer in clothing at Millville. it came too late ! for this issue but will appear next week. , Look out for it, Mr. Ludlam Hand is building a fine new dwelling next to- his store on Mechanic Hi, Mr. Hand is an enterprising merchant and should not foil to 1 advertise In the Gazrttk.

f \jKif onoira will uQik In civiiiif hcuha ' tWngMU* in Urn Una. ' ^ The Baptist Association refused on 1 SSSXT' 10 Rio^cS? » Thwe ^TSTg^t dj of haul j fooling about the matter. During the week ending Friday, May " 7th, there was shipped from the Court , House Station, West Jersey railroad, 339 bbls, clams, and 24 bbls. of oystem. We are indebted to R. Shiqip for these figures, By new law in this 8tate, parties indulging In horse racing tor money are liable to a fine of $100 and imprisonment for six months, and owners of property allowing the same to be used for suoh purposes are amenable to a fine of $1, 000 and imprisonment for one year. She had a pretty diploma tied with pink ribbon, from one of our best young ladies1 colleges. In conversing with a he had detailed the dangers a$d delights of riding on a locomotive, ah.© completely upset his opinion of independent education of the sexes by inquiring : "How do they steer locomotives, any how?"

At the May term of the Cumberland county Courts, convened on Tuesday last, applications for licenses at Cedar ville Dividing Creek and Port Elizabeth, were received. That from the latter place 'was granted, but strong remonstrances were presented from Cedurville and Dividing Creek and, the court laid them over for argument on Monday next. It is not generaLJy known that the act of May 25th, 1874, defining Decoration Day, provides that when said holiday falls on Sunday that the preceeding day shall be deemed and kept as the legal holiday. This is the only exception to all the holidays of the year. Those having obligations maturing on the 29th and 30th will have to give them attention on the 28th of May. A property in Cedarville, formerly belonging to Jefferson Lore, and sold under mortgage to Capt. Slieppnrd Marts, not long since, was burned to the ground at 12 o'clock last Tuesday night. It is said that the fire hi the house and that in the barn were both started about the some time, in the lower part of each and is supposed lo be the work of an incendiary. It was insured in the ^ ■ 1 1 W . « T ^ * - - 1 ■ ■■ ■■■■■'■■ I ..."

*1000. • » I j CAPE MAY CITY ITEMS. Our city is all life and beauty. New street lamps area success. Piloting is good and the "boys" are happy. The Delaware House is open for the season. Jas. Stites has the handsomest span of Greys. Our worthy Sheriff and wife are visitI ing here. i White-wailiing, painting, and housecleaning. Allison Nailor of Washington, D. C., is with us.

Joe Mixner runs the fast line on i I Saturdays. i ^ Freights are heavy. Mostly lumber, and furniture. j J. P. Brick of Millville, was in town on Tuesday laat. I Mr. Mulliner has been painting his j cottage ou York Ave. Friend Koenig is suffering with an attack of rheumatism. The Knickerbocker Ice Co. have been filling their houses this week. Mr. Everly^of Iho Continental Hotel, Phila., was down on Tuesday. I * A. P. Hildreth Is to procure board for the workmen on the, iron pier. Our doctors have to drive up county for practice. Too healthy here. City Recorder Thompson's cottage is looking gay in its new coat of puint. The Y. M. C. A. have rented rooms, I by the post office, for reading purposes. Cape May needs a new freight and passenger depot at foot of Jackson street. Mr. John H. Hughes has the contract for cementing the Light House Tower. Mrs. A, Jorman, our assistant telegraph operator, is now in Phila, on n visit. We hope it will soon be the board walk's turn to ho cleared of the sand that covers It, Tbo conduct in the gallery of the M. , E. church on Tuesday evening lost was anything but good. The new iron pier company is here, i I

Th&v have tlia mnar* nl >n**rl *rm K*dy to begiu wo*. Mrs. A.J. Parker's new millinery is opened for the season, with Miss Kate Megrath as chief clerk, I. P. Hughes, the pllo(, 1b making improvement in the wuy of enlarging his cottage on Washington street. We are looking forward to the time when that party oomes off. It is to be a rug tearing and sewing and your correspondent has been favored with an invitation. An excellent entertainment was given in the M. E. church on Tuesday evening laatf which netted thq church about$35. The programme was very fine and we would be glad to notice some of the most pleasing features, if we had the space. We are indebted to the Rev. Mr. North for the programme. X. ♦ e f TUCKAHOE ITEMS. T i ,i Fire again. May party on Saturday last. No robberies — but lota get as far as the window and peek. ' No run- aw av s — but lota of horses that baulk. Which is the best ?

Our citizens are cleaning up, trimming up,and apuding up around their homes. I Your correspondent caq not but admire the reply of "Zadok" to "Spectator." j The "Star" tells us of a can of peaches I twelve years old and in a perfect state of preservation. s ' The dam on the cranberry bog of Rev. E, H. Durell was carried away a few days since. j Dr. Abbott and his fair wife made their first appearance at church on Sunday morning week. The people of Tuckahoe, Middletown, and Petersburg were thrown into a terrible state of excitement and alarm Monday afternoon by the threatened destruction of their homes and property by one of the worst forest fires that ever swept through this section of country. The great fires of last spring, though they may have covered a more extensive acreage, tvere not near so alarming to the people. The fire had its start on the line of the West Jersey Railroad, about 11 o'clock Monday morning, though ]

■ I. *i ... r ■ .. i ..... .i — — >■■■»". is'not definitely known. The wind blew a gale from the south, and by 2 o'clock, in spite ofthe efforts of railroad employes and others to check it, had crossed the intervening sjwice of six miles, and destroying some of the finest oak and pino lumber in this county, as well as a largo tract of valuable cedar in its path, burned to the very edge of the villages above mentioned. 'Business was almost entirely suspended, every available man being out to combat the flames. So alarmed were the people that numbers of fumilies removed their goods and vuluable-t acros3 Tuckahoe river to places of safety. The public school building here, a fine two-story structure, was in imminent <langer, the (ire sweeping through a fine grove on the school-house lot clear to the building.

Tiio fire ladders of the town were placed upon it, ancl the almost superhuman efforts of a forco of men it was saved from destruction. Had this building burned, it would have been impossible to save the town. While men fought the enemy, women were praying and children crying. Numerous dwellings and burns took fire, but so far as known but one building 'was entirely destroyed. All fencing along the north side of the village was burned up. Thud. Van Gilder, of Petersburg, lost a large amount of cord wood, 200 cords of which were standing in one tier. Numerous hairbreadth escapes from death by suffocation ami by fire are reported by the men coming In from tho i roods. Tho fine property of Peter B. Ifoff, at HofFs Mill, was entirely surrounded, end a large force of men were on duty there the whole afternoon. ,IIo loses heavily in timber and swamp cedar. ^ Delta. MILLVILLE NOTES. J r The cotton mill hands are still out. Scarlet fever is still very bad in this city. Peter G, Ludlam Esq., is improved in health. A. If. Jarman is doing well in the clothing line. Another new bicyclo upon the Btrcets to day. Next. v Tho handsome new meat market on High street is ncaring completion. The eccentric John Parent died very suddenly on Wednesday evening, Mr. Lucius E. Godfrey, formerly of Millville, but novr of Dorchester, is very i ill. - i

( — ■ ■ ■■ i JW wintering Tn „ ProUbl* home >g*io in a few wwk». n Dr. 1. B* Mulford of Camden, has been spending a few days Ili'MiUville. We are sorry to say he has been suffering ' from chills. i l understand that Leonberger, that notorious ex-preacher, was indicted by the Grand Jury on Tuesday last *or * j keeping a disorderly house. i The fire ofSjunday last caught between Manumuskin and Memyitioo, on the railroad, and burned all on- the South { I -side of 8ohoener landing road to the * I fields at Cumberland frirnace. * j > Mr. William P. Mooro, Assquor in the Lfiret ward of this city, died on Wednesday morning at-1 o'olook. Funeral on . Friday morning at_J^ o'clock. His iatjb^r died about three months since. COMMUNICATIONS. C. H., Mat 3rd., 1880. I Mr. Editok i — Will you allow mespaoe j in your columns to speak of a trip to the I' new sea-side resort, Ocean City, better known as Peck's Beach ? We left Bcesley's Point, in the handsome yacht owned and sailed by our friend Mr. Barrows, at 1 o'clock, and by two wo were at our destination having had a delightful sail. We first saw the life j saving crew whioh wus just leaving their posts after having faithfully attended to the duties required of them during the past winter. This beach is quite level as compared with others along our coast, and will, without a ' doubt, become a famous resort. A great deal of work has already been done and the ring of the woodman's ax is heard blending with the carpenters hammer and saw. Old I I ocean too furnished music for ears as I I we sfrolled along the sttand looking at the wreck* and portions of wrecks which lie. partly burried in the sand. The spire3 of that noted resort, Atlantic City, were plainly visible in the distance. After spending some time in picking up shells and curiosities we bid farewell to Ocean City, and although the wind was blowing' from tho North-west, the boat was so skillfully managed, that we soon reached the main land. We must say we were well pleased with our first trip to Ocean City. Timothv Tuojiuttox, » ; | State News. I I Tlie Republican Club, of Millville, at present numbers 310, and the roll is , — «— V..V lull La

■ p >■ .. ■>■— Mg| . ' 1 The Cumberland County Sunday School Convention will hold its semiannual session at Bridgeton, on the 19th of May. The thousand mile coupon tickets of the West- Jersey Railroad are immensely popular with the traveling public of j South Jersey. It will tAke the people of New Jersey some time to become familiar with "Lakewood," tho new name for Bricksburg, Ocean county. j De Witt C. Hemingway, of Newfield, was arrested in Philadelphia recently, on a charge of obtaining furniture under false pretenses. Tho Democracy of Millvillo have or-

ganized a John T. Bird Club, of which Dr. J. S. Whitaker is Presidents The attendance at the organization was due hundred. The Hotel, being erected at Ifnrvey's Cedars, by Messrs Newell & Iiidgewny, will bo completed by the middle of this month. Harvey's Cedars is situated about G miles south of Barnegat Inlet. Under a recent act of the Legislature, Pojirds of Health will*be established in every city, town nnd township throughout the State, and grent precaution will be taken to lessen all diseases. Two new schooners nro woll under way at Russet's shipyard, Leesburg, One for Capt. T. Vangilder, of Mauricetown, and another for John Russel. Capt. Vangildor's .vessel is 125 feet keel. 9^ feet depth of hold, f>.} feet between decks nnd 35 feet wide. She will carry 800 tons when completed. Mr. Russel's schooner is designed for the river trade. Her dimensions nre : keel, 65 feet; depth of hold, 6} feet ; width, 28 feet; length over all, 80 feet. Mr. Russel has also contracted for building another vessel to carry 600 tons. Tho Fortescue Excursion and Hotel Company, consisting of Lyman. B. Cole, George II. Bates, Williani Allan, and W, B. Johnson, have commenced to mnko improvements at this summer resort. Messrs. Allan and Johnson were at Fortoscuo on Wednesday, viewing the i land. A fine daheing pnvillion, two * stories high nnd 30x80 feet is to be erected immediately. It is too late to make any alterations to the hotel this Reason but next year will witness a great i change. It bus not yet boon decided I what boat will bo pfacod on the line from Philadelphia to Fortescue, but it is thought that the Crystal Wave, an Eastern steamer will bo put on. She Is a first-class nxeursion boat and contains 52 splendid staterooms,

'CASH BUYERS. • - .... - ' -Da4 • •/ : « • • " - s . 'A 4, 5% ' r 'yvyij : WILSON & CO., Under Wilton's Hall, it the Place to bay RELIABLE clothing ! HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS &c., &c. 0 NO GOODS MISREPRESENTED TO MAKE SALES. Points in Favor of dealing with WIIS0N k (X>. We buy direct from Reliable Manufacturer s. We buy no Shoddy Goods. W 3 are under no expense for Rent or Clsrh Mire. WE GIVE ALL THESE ADVANTAGES TO OUR CUSTOMERS. WILSON & CO., MILLVILLE, N. J. mch27tf. A LARGE REWARD, . Will be paid to any one in Sonth Jersey who ean find clothing as cheap as can be bought at

j No. 12, 14, and 16 High Street, MILLVILLE, NT. J. t — — FORTY GOOD UNION CASSIMERE SUITS FOR MEN, - t 5 00 EIGHTY GOOD ALL WOOL SUITS, 10 00 - NINETY SUITS FOR BOYS, - $150 to 5 00 THIRTY-NINE CHILDRENS' SUITS, - - - . • . 76 CTS. to 4 50 We also keep the largest line of Boots , Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Mats, Caps, Umbrellas, Oil and Rubber Clothing. Cloths , and | Cassimeres, "* OF ANY PLACE SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA. No rent, no interest, but clerks well paid. We have engagr* v- — * - Johnson, formerly of Johnson A Son to manage our Custom partment, which is a guarantee that all will be as represented. We have also engaged W. Scott Calkins, well known in South Jersey as one of the best and most stylish cutter in the State, to manage our Clothing Custom 'department. Our stock of CLOTHS A CASSTMERES far exceeds, our previous' efforts. Orders received by mail or stage will receive prompt attention. We also send instructions for self measurement and samples of cloth when requested. mch63m. A. J. Steelman. THE "GAZETTE" office is prepared to do all kinds OF JOB PROTIJTG, in the most approved manner and at very reason- * able rates. ILL IE ASK IS ! TRIAL. Give m z