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ALFRED OOOPBB, EDITOR. ^^^UKDAY, MAY 29, 1—0. Tree^^ excellent muilo rendered el the Baptist Church on Sunday evening last. end * in think that our Baptiat friend* here •good teisod to be proud of their choir. — + # 0 A number of the leading mini* lew of Near York ttty here published an appeal, to their brethren of all denomination*, to make Sunday, May 30th a day for .pegpgg toGoo that ha will direct the the dblihifations of the nominating eanrentionl, of both political partiea, in • 4 the right direction. Thk it certainly a novo! idea and if, we believe, unprecedented, but for all thai, it is a atep in the right direction, and wa hope the suggestion will be acted upon by ministers throughout the country. Poet Master McChrtoey has presented us with a copy of the first issue of the "Star." It i* a small three oolumn folio just one quarter the sire of the Gsxstti. In his salutatory the editor said we should "woo settlers, that they may locate in our midst, purchase lands, build houses, plant orchards, erect factories, and add to the general beauty u>« . ~ C»pe I.Und, Lon, Branch or Atlantic City ret "the water *m ju»t a. wet." In its advertising columns we notice the names of our neighbor John L. Steel. Mr. Smith Hand and Mr. B. F. Bushnell of Dennkville. Any of our readers who can communicate to us the present whereabouts of H. Carlton Cbeever,who published the above paper, will oonfer a great favor upon the editor of this P*P«rOn Friday last the frequenters of Third 8treet, Philadelphia, were thrown into a state of excitement second only to that caused by the feihire of Jay Cook A Co. The cause of all this commotion was the report that the Reading Coal and Iron Co. had failed. Close upon this came the news that the Reading Railroad had also suspended payment. The crash was a shock to the business | wuiM, Tmti ttnmi w\ia W% I movements of these companies were but little surprised at the collapse. It has been a long struggle and as the hard times were passed and business prospects grew brighter it was hoped that the railroad company would be able to sustain itself in spite of the terrible pressure which the Coal and Iron Co. brought to bear upon it; and in the last annual report, the management laid particular stress upon the points in its favor } but the boom in iron did not hold out, and consequently the "smash up" oould not be averted any longer. The aggregate of the checks first protested was about $400,000 but before night the amount of the defalcation was over one million of dollars. Before the crash Reading stock was selling at 23), before the day was ended it had fallen to 15, and on Saturday morning it opened at 10. The road was incorporated in 1833, with power to construct a linn from Philadelphia to Reading, a distance of 58 miles. In 1858 it began to absorb lateral roads and continued so to do until at the present time It oontroln over 1,774 miles of rail. Just what will be done In the case has not, up to the present writing, been decided, but the probability is that a receiver will be appointed to take charge of tho road. But it is really to be hoped that if this is » dongv President ffowan will^not be t^e it would seem like "picking out the ospUin of a stranded vessel to repair the damage his own lack of skill had dono." The Philadelphia "Evening Telegraph" of the 22nd inst has this to say in regard to the bill, now before Congress, appropriating money for the sup port of the Life Having Servioe : "Tho service has proven lUelf a most neoessary adjunct of the Government, and is by far the most humane one supported by it. With the increasing numbers of its stations, and persons smployed in manning tliem, there is need of large appropriations, and tha contingent ex penses for repairs, additional supplies, etc., must necessarily become greater year by year. There should be no sHntedness in the appropriations „ to support this institution, and there should be nodelay or hesitancy in making them. The slaUM to pension widows and orphans of life-aaving crews lost in the performance of duty Is one eminently requiring prompt approval and enactment. But it should be changed so a* to oover thtrplirta and orphansof those already sacrificed to the service. No Government has a right to support a service calling for daily risk of life on

Tie pqrt of thus, engaged STSTSBj : through the sacrifice of their Uvea ; **i this Government should be the lest to refuse this justice. The great oottn trigs of Europe here civil pension Uata, and so should this. No metier whet may be •eld about its opening the road for ell sorts of claims, ths justice remains the same, and the United States should not dare bo anything but jest. Let ths bears to imposition be as difficult ss possible, but it should not be tolerated for a day i that we should, a* a nation, employ a t set of men dependent on daily labor for I the daily support of their families, at ths i risk of their Lives, to save life, and yet . give them no assuranoe of provision for those dependent upon them in case of thair being sacrificed to Government ' philanthropy."

, ■ ■■ ■ e w » CORN IN DRILLS OR HILLS. The question a* to which Is the meet profitable, the planting of oorn in hills or in drills, is still discussed, and we notioed last season a number of fields drilled that produced well. Apparently ( there U much saved by the drilling system, as it only requires that the land should be marked out one way, and the corn dropped along the furrow and covered with the plow. There is undoubtedly good economy of time by this plan, and, if the plants be properly thinned, much more corn to the acre results than when planted In hills in the usual way. Three or four stalks in ons hill necessitates a struggle for food. These /our plants do not do so well thus struggling together in hills every four feet apart, as A* r.-»- * as in the other ; but each . one being isolated yields more than when there are four together in the bill. If this were all there would be no question about the value of this system ; but we have looked into both methods carefully and have noted that the drill systen, though taking less labor at first to plant, takes more labor to keep clean. In the hill culture it is necessary to have considerable hand labor to keep weeds out of the hill until the corn get* large enough to take care of itself; but the drill system gives us three or four times the number of hills to look after. Indeed, every stalk is a hill. Thus the manual labor is nearly quadrupled. After all said about the profits of farming it is not so much the crops which are produced, or the prices which the produce brings which make our profits. Labor— human labor — is the gTCat arawbacK as to wn si we can make from our land ; and as a general thing those systems prove in tho long run the most profitable which' produce the best crops by the least amount of hand-labor. In this mooted question of drilling or hilling corn there is no doubt but an acre of the former will yield more than an acre of the lattery but it costs more hand labor than the other, and there fore does not pay as well. We have seen it carefully tested and know whereof we speak. When hand labor can be had for twenty or thirty cent* a day, we may have another opinion. — Gxrmantown Tblsoraph.

A LARGE BUSINESS. The Great Art Publishing House of GeorgeStinson A Co., of Portland, Maine, moves steadily on the even tenor of its way, apparently not feeling the dull times. During the year 1878 they sold over Four Million pictures of all descriptions. They publish eTery description of fine pictures, and the prices range from ten cents upwards to twenty dollars per oopy. Their correspondence for this largo business is immense ; they receive, on an average, over one thousand letters per day. We have just received copies of four very fine steel engravings, which they have just brought out. The plates were engraved in London, at an expense of four thousand pounds sterling, or twenty thousand dollars, to which great sum must be added the customs duty of twenty-five per cent oh account of their being imported Into the United States. These ongravings are after paintings by great modern masters of art, and the artist* who engraved the plates stand In the front rank of the world's renowned engravers. It is believed, and generally conceded, that these engravings are among the finest works of art brought out *>y ; American publishers. This enterprising firm, though many yean in the Art Publishing business, have not grown old and un progressive, but on the other hand make improvement and progress year by year, giving the people better and better pictures for the same or less money. They may, wo feel sure, fairly claim to stand very high in the Art Publishing business in America. We can only understand the oolossal propor tions their trade haa assumed by remembering that this is a great and mighty nation of nearly fifty million people. We cannot better illustrate the magnitude, of their business than toitate ths amount of money paid by them for postage stamps during ths years 1876, 1877, and 1878. Wa have the figures direct from the flrin, or w# should think

paid h posuge .tamps 4* *mpb lafgus $>J,(XA),0q They employ agents everywhere uiicugLoui ths United States and Dominion of Pan ad i for the sale of their pictures by subscription ; wp call alien lion to ihtjr advertisement for agent* in another oolumn. These who need piss sent, profitable work, should correspond with them. Besides paying tha large amounts of postage stated above, thair express and freight bills ere enormous— only small orders are east by mail, the larger being sent by express and freight. American homes should be mads beautiful by refined works of art^od prices for really meritorious pictures are now so low that there oan be no excuse for the walls to remain gloomy, unadorned and cheerless. American homes should be made beautiful, and the tendency of this will be to make more refined and beeutlftil the lives of ell dwellers therein.

A PROPHECY. : 1 Mr. Henry G. Vennor comes forward t again with his direful prophecies of storms, heat, cold, etc. His letter is dated at Montreal, May 18, and in it he says:— "I believe that June will be an intensely hot month, on the whole, but the end of the present month, and probably the '1st of Juge,' will be falllike, with frost* again. July will be a terrible month for storms, with terms of intense heat, but another fall-like relapse, with frosts, will, in all likelihood, wt * V- " *■ « must claim uw verification n.y diction relative to 'a cold wave, with frosts over a large portion of the United States between tho 10th and the 15th of May.1 The relapse towards the close of the present month will be more severe than that just past."

NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EX PERIMENT STATION. I. The Directors of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station met at Rutgers College Library on Monday, the 17th inst. In reporting on the work of the Station, Prof. Cook mentioned that on a recent visit to the farm' of the late Chalk ley Albcrtson, near Haddonfield, his attention was called to a deposit of "poison marl." This marl destroyed all vegetation when applied in the ordinary way as a top-dressing for crops. He wa* also informed that piles of the marl witWiii tiao uetn lying wv «.<4- -r—j n j to the weather for some years, were now covered with a luxuriant growth of cranberries. A visit to the locality showed the cranberry plants with the fruit still on them in April, and that the plant* were healthy and vigorous. On digging into the earth on which they grew, it was found to be of a rusty red color for four or five inches down, and from that on, downwards, to be dark colored and almost black. It was composed mainly of sand with a very little loam in it. It had a strong inky taste and was decidedly acid to the tongue m well as to chemical tests. Two samples of the earth were taken for analysis, one from near the surface in which the roots of the cranberry were growing, and the other from about thirteen inches beneath the surface, and below where any roots wore seen. The analyses which were made only to find the amount of sulphate of iron in the earth resulted as follows vii SurfWce earth contains 0.038 per cent, sulphuric acid. Earth thirteen inches down contains 0.028 per cent, sulphuric acid. This acid is com- ' bined with iron forming the common crystal ised green vitrei, or copperas, and what is known to chemist* as proto-sul-phateof iron and as ferrous -*ul ph ate. The surface layer on an acre contains in the first six inches of depth 1,875 pounds of this ferrous sulphate, and the lower layer for the same area and thickness contains 1,381 pounds of the same substance. It is quite certain that many of the bogs in which cranberries thrive contain sulphate of iron, and it will be , an interesting question, for this reason, • to ascertain whether all the good cran berry bogs are acid from the presence of that substance or from some organic acid. And also to tarertain whether those bogs where the cranberry fails most completely, are not lacking irv; this acid property. A soil oontaining the smalleet trace of acid will cause blue litmus paper, if moistened, to turn red the moment the paper touches it. [To those who wish to try the experiment, some of the lit mus paper will be sent from the Sta fion.J For the purpose of testing ths fhet as to whether sulphate of iron will cause the cranberry plants to grow more vigorously, it is recommended to make experiments. Take five pounds of sulphate of iron and dissolve it in otic hundred gallons of water and use this in repeated sprinklings on a square rod of cranberry bog. It may be that lew than this will be sufficient, and one pound in twenty gallons of water may l>e used on a square rod, ahd this be repeated as often ss it L appears to be needed.

*sa t hts. imi.uL+iQ IU.OMP kg* br*JJ OJ< Hit vtrgt of ; since tho temporary foll-Wk u the r iron trade, and Oft# speody deckle* of I the W hiteker Dickoieoo jury case* hut just a* things were pronounced to - U progressing fieallhilj though loot* ' cautiously toward f&ie long coveted our hopes, in which, even the lamentable oarburixation of your Jersey Umber is ss nothing is the consternation and regret which It awakens among iu victims. ,W« were passing along the street cm Friday afternoon last, calmly erecting - our castles or rvruao, when we were quickly bailed by the startling salutation What do you think of all thi* talk on ths street r 'Talk about whatT we aeked in ' ignorance. "Failure of the Reading companies," wa* the bland reply. "Ha I Ha t Co be sore, very sad," we Mud, laughing it off as a joke, as we really believed it to be, and passed on. r.^pa fep moment* the inquiry we* by another friepu, and the. , joke then became a hapless truth ; the l>au. i.g Ooii] and Iron company had indeed failed; and on the following morning we were nog more surprised, of course, to learn that the Reading R. R. company had shared the fate of the weak and helpless man in the fatal grasp of a drowning comrade. Once more then, is the battle "lost and won," between the Bulls and Bears of the market of the post few week* of fluctuation, and while the looser* depart, with empty balances and firm resolutions — which they will never keepnever more to gamble in stocks, the yet unscathed adventurers of more mean* than judgement, step up with the cry— now. for some days, expect to bene eu ample provision of material for the columns of the Press, in the replication*, rejoinders, and sur- rejoinders, which must inevitably- follow. While one dog is down, another must be up and bristling — such is the way of I this world— and the thriving, exuberant j Pennsylvania Railroad, with its substantial iron limbs reaching into the very core of our own city, as well as into the salt-marshy limit* of your own favor - ed state, is now the lord of the pit. The kind invitation extended to your correspondent to revisit the fire-tried land* of 6outh Jersey, at thi* auspicious season, when the gallixripper, bereft of all vegetable shelter by the fire*, is savagely athirst for human blood ; though received with the cordiality 4* \ claim*, must, he fearu, be laid on the table, uptil he can forget that adage — more salutary than it i* welcome, often. • in our memoir— that "discretion k the better part of valor." While patience is a virtue, it may, when over-cultivated become a fatal vioe — for instance in tb» case ot~one with such a sensitive epi 'dermis, exposed to a Jersey army, a* that of your Nomad. For the Gaxxttk. THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT. Those who stayed home from the Baptist church on Sunday morning last missed a rare treat. I suppose some were absent on account of the rain, but it strikes me that all should have shown their thankfulness by attending God's House. The Rev. Mr. Helling* of Lock port, N. Y. preached a most eloquent j ►errnon from the above text. It wa* all that the most fastidious could with for. lli* manner wa* earnest, quiet and re fined. He spoke the most perfect English, and that without notes. As 1 listened to his heartfelt uttevanoes. portraying scenes so vividly that we teemed ourselves to be actual witnesses to them a, silence came over the audience and I fully believe the Master was there, the Spirit hovering o'er us, in lore, and 1 trust influencing us all to send relief to those poor creature* who sit in darkness. It is by our prayers and our money that we can tell them that the Master oare* for them in hi* infinite mercy. visitor For the Gaivttr. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THUMBS The "Exchange" is not alone in judging woman's character by her hand, for we have frequently seen such statement*, but stand ready to oontradicttbem very decidedly ; and we always wonder if there is not a similar key to manV character. Two examples we have in mind iust now utterly at variance with the ideas advanced. The first is a woman with the "square hand and small j thumb" — eaid to make a good and gentle j house-wife. She is s young lady of the | highest social qualities, educated and refined, and one who con make a man feel about the site of a gnat, In her presence ; small indeed, and should he venture a i hiti one stroke of her thnmb would send him back to mother earth. True, this young woman is a good bouse keeper, but should you chance to see her in the kitohen, her face would bare * striking resemblance to that of her father when "stocks are down," and her voice a pitiful whine. Call you such i he good and gentle house- wife pattern ? The other is a woman with the "targe palm, cone shaped fingers and small thumb; susceptible to tenderness, read ily flattered, easily talked out of Anything, and readily managed." The first quulity given is correct, as she is affectionate, but the three latter are far from her characteristic*. Seeing through flattery at once, though at time* yield ing to it* plearen Uy deceptive influence To talk her out of anything k more than one evening's work and as for the managing— we sympathise sincerely with the man who takes the contract, wishing him success while we look com olaoently down on the two dear fhithfal hands ever ready to" make our own lifr happy and comfortable. Where k the oooario* for suggesting the holding o« handaT He k a very boahfril lover In deed who must reeort to a •Seise" In order to gain the hand he wishes to "examine ' We thifrk the number limited who hove any difficulty in this hue. . bvsoako {

bewte^n nliadelphla mud N**' i York. Tk* timet* AUoatttOt* W the oonvemepfo-ktt*t«d depot of the r 7T ' , ^ r company, at the foot of Mark* street, a

MARRIED. \ • } . 1 h TO V N ! ■- >*J " ►y.i • * i s.-4 v i* ESEfcod. X>/. • rlS- 1AO r>*W Wj r-*' i |t- * f 1 $1 jy*. y.T <.» Ji.ru J JOeoroor Mtm Amj eouatg. TOWKSETD-In Loatt, April to, 2to. Cape. laaUli Towassud. la Uu Mveatys&sssffym.** w~ * ROD AN— At Gape May ON*, May *to, IN . Harry Q *oq of David a LkStf Rod in, *S*d 2 year*. * mo*, aad 24 day*. TA5?«7ii2X5Si3B SS.0"- * °"ssa%s: agc.tjtt.'fe fouu^ ^hay<a, chai^btcr oj AUred ood REYNOLDS— On the Ait ln*t„ at Or reeldeoo* of her atoiher. Mia. Isaac Whiluoa y«u^^mJ<Ztae: * •*** * Kim Eft— At the residence of Tbo*. Roceman, in Cape May, on the 23rd ins:.. Amanda Klaher In the 2i*l year of berate.' Interred at the Calvary fiaptist CeaMUy. O 0 Pry Goods Pry -6ood>. Be sure you are right and then go ahead. But do not pay advance prices on Dry Goods until you have called on aeon, No. 112 High Street, Millville. X. J. Anticipating a risetc the market, we have our Store Full «f Goods, bought and to be add a* THE OLD PRICES, not-with-ctatidlBf the Met that eome roods have advanced fully » per cent. An Elegant Line qf Black Cashmere. Silks, Satin, Velvet, Dress Goods, Shawls, ! Skirts, Hosiery, Corsets, Gloves, Ribbons, ! TIBS, FLANNELS AND MUSLIN, WHITE GOODS, LACKS, NOTIONS, ZEPHYRS, FRINGES, EMBROIDERI ES, Etc., Etc Full Line Men's and Bog's Cassimem. Simple* Chcerf.Uj Seat hj MelL C. Ti. No. 112 Hicr Strut, Millvillo, N. J. mchfiSm. THE FIAEST STORE Best Assortment, Largest Stock AND Lowest Prices of any Store eoeth of Millville k John E. White's, TVtww.v%vy'v>At, "H. I. 3^500 Yard* latest style Prints bought before the advance. 1000 Yards Heavy 8hirting bought j before the advance. 1000 Yards Brown and Bleached Mus ! •lin bought before the advance. 500 Yards Dress Goods bought before ! the advance. 500 Gellohs N. 0. Molasses bought Wore the adranoe. Ooel Oil, Standard, test, only ten eta. per Gallon. Head-light Oil, 150 last, only eighteen eta. per Gallon A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF HcA*, Ccv^A, Wardw-turt., Y\©wr, Vut, CXrtvvxv, . always en hand No Force Trade. One Price to All. Goods delivered free of chatge. JOHN. W. YOUNG. Manager DERRTSnua, W. J. I mcMlma. 1 * '

I \A ■ /i Will f ai t> ||Ut# tv.l> m K I - - . . X uU, Co. of Caps May, MM of Now JereJy, to wits AT tra 0T34K* r. &, ALL THE FOLLOW**© MHKB*> ' IT- "■ RmwpcrciiiuK mooey will bernBiiW^iTsMh *ot tbo day cfwala. Tb* bill of sale will be ^ wttk abiiTt*m^?w.*at the hour or seia. ** % Richard W. Godfrey, 1 Franck L Godfrey. ( ChM*' &vPcn^nTl ■■ ■■ wrnrnrm s^SSSSSS^F£ gvrii^ta:. TbMirbosit vhivtmtN lb* eoUcw V 111 M*n«j u» their addrewaw a& oo aeato* frr/°r Sow ajwiffssssa,— i^sar DO YOU WANT a handsome black cashmere at the old prior, and 25 cents cm the dollar cheaper then if I hod to purchase them at the recent advance ? If so send to TOM LUDLAM GET SAMPLES and you will be surprised eft the lew prices he will give you on them. Do you wish to purchase e new dram in either (OTTOY WOOL SILfc or other fabric ? send to Tom Ludlam for samples and see what he will tend you. Do you intend having LISLE THREAD KID GLOVES? To® Ludltttt Km the iwt Maortaaant in thi* Motion of tha coentj. All Dm »«• Mr)* . Dr«u Yvvro*o\v \EW SPR1H SIAWI8. Hon the very latest. Owrets from 25 eta. to $2.00. and in foot the newest, cheapest, end best assorted dry goods stock in Millville I have three times as many goods to select from as any store in our C5tr, and I allow no man to undersell me. Juet received an efogant 0^ 9 Mi in. cloaking 500 doe childrerb bordered hanflheccheifr at 8 eta. each. W00 pre. child's colored bees aft 8 eta. Send for temples and prices for oornTox Ludlam, MILLVILLE N- J. •fr WW '