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lll'JIlllSiWA H VOLUME I.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NEW JEI8EY, SATURDAY, JUNE 26,1880.

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xis_aat*x --zrzL* -; — COUNTY DJRECTORY. j JUDICIARY. PUSJPINO JlTDC» — lion. Altrod Heed, lar Judoms— Jo«. E. Hughes, Cupe May city : J**s© H. Dtvsrty, Pcimi^ville; •omsrs C. Gandy, Toe kahoq. i f|£ ■ ■ ■ ■■ »■» i Co*Mi»iONEt SaagLQi Fung— J. B. Hufftaon, Court House. Sbebi vr — William H. Beneiet. County Collector — David T. Smith, Court House. County Clkee — J onathar. Hand. Djiptjy u — Morgan Hand. PmoAKcuYON Ple*a—J antes B. Boag land, Bridgetou. h . SuajtcMiATit — W illiam Hildratli. Co. Spv't. Pcauc r.vsTsucTJOH— Dr. Meuride Beetuejr, Dennisvlllc. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. jTr. L^lnirir D., D. D. 0. W. B. Laamiu#, T>. D. 8. J. F. Learning, Sf Son. DENTISTS. OFFICE DAYS? . CAPE MAY COUHT HOUSE, Tne*d*y», Wednesday!. and Saturdays. CAPE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. IOUTH 8EAVILLR - %M| 2M «ut» n i j i« »;wni * « Physician find Surgeon, CAPE MAY OOVJtT HOUSE, H. J. _ J. B. Huffman, 'COUNSELOR AT DAW. 8UPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cape Mat C. II., N. J. 4D» Will be at bis office at Gape May City every Saturday. mchfilyr. Ja9. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, Ones in InItnawcn Buildiyo, MILLV1LLE, N. J. Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, Hion 8T*b*T, Below PI**, M1LLV1LLE, N. J. ineh61yr L. B. CAMPBELL, DEALER IN arrovis, heaters, ranges, tin WARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ac. High Street, Millvillr, N. J. mch61yr J. P. BRIClC Dealer in MORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. MAIN STREET. NEAR THE BRIDGE. MILLV1LLE, N. J. mchftlyr DMD' Ml CAPE MAY C. H. ■■ • * ♦ LIVERY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. L. Wheaton. sachGlyr MILLVILLE MUTUAL MARINE &. FIRE WitYatvtt MILLVILLF, N. J. a Assets Jan'y. 1st , 1880 : PREMIUM NOTBB, JM8J* 00. CAfcU A8SETB, lM,47fi W. TOTAL ARRET!, ,8W4.718 M. UABfLITIKR, Including rein■ur&noe reserve, ......................f I 77. o ■ Insurance effected on Farm Building* and other property again It loos by FIRE 8 LIGHTNING, at lowest rates for one, three or ten years. VER8EI*. CaitOM and Freight*, written on liberal form of poilclet, without rsatrlotfoa* aa to porta used, or registered ton u««^ mm LOSSES— Promptly tut! PaW. N. RTRATTON, Pmbleot V, U MTTLTORD, Reeretary. William Rots, Agent OA MW+r r^trfrr MOU1E, If. J. makfi lyr.

UNION HOTEL, Cape May C. H. This 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. mehfilyr. A. YOURISON, ■iniiniiMfl AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock t Wo 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. — o Open Wagon Harness as low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness an low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES. AND PRICES. 4^ Call and see before purchasing elsewhere, mch61yr< A. Yourison. J. L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' AND G EATS' FASHIONABLE Ml and SIS, GENTS' BUTTON CALF GAITERS ONLY $3.50. NEXT TO THE 1 •GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. K Repairing neatly and carefully done. mchOlyr. SturdlranUs Great Catarrh Remedy, is the Mifost, rnoKl agreeable and effectual remedy In the world, for the cure of CATA HRII. No matter from what cause or how long standing, by giving STURDIYANT'H CATARRH REMEDY a fulr and Imivartlal trial, you will be eonv|nce<l of tHIa fact. The medicine \n very rileaennt and can l>e taken hy the moat deloate iitomach. For sale by oil drugglM*, and by Holloway AOo.,092 AronHt., Thlla. inchSly R. L. Howell, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N.J. Special attention paid to leveling} establishing the overflow lines of propoeod ponds for mill sites, cranberry oogs etox drainage works etc. Flans wade, estimates fbrnlshad find snaoifi. nation* drawn far Mills, Bridges ; Waterworks and all similar constructions or works at «b#rt 1 m^hfllyr

POETRY. The Twelfth Step— The Reform. ay uv. dk. c. r. dckmjw CUH1HTMAA EVE Wtui, months, and years bars past and gone, Blnce Rodman Russet nobly won, In battling for the good and fight, A victory over appetite. And now, beside fats ooay hearth, On Christmas Eve, where ali is mirth And joy, without a note of strife, He sits beside his happy wife. Their children too, reclaimed by iova, Now here, now there, about them move, And chid rent children 'round them play On this, the eve of Christmas Day. 8 The little ones. In childish glee, Receive their presents from the tree, Then quickly seek the old folks' side. For Grandma's kiss, and Grandpa's ride. Oh ! what a contrast to the time When sad intemperance brought on crime. And want, and wretchedness; ah! when Young Rodman's house was like aden. All hall, all hall, sweet Christmas Eva Around their heads thy blessings weave, And may each stricken family * rictory I * jr Jit * asnncTSD. The church was dim and silent With the bush before the prayer, Only the solemn trembling OC ta* organ stirred the alt ; Without, the sweet, still sunshine, W t'hln, the holy calm, Where priest and people waited For the swelling of the psalm. 81ow!y the door swung open, And a little baby girl, Brown-eyed, with brown hair foiling 1 u many a wavy curl. With so t cheeks flushing hotly, fthy glances downward thrown, And small hands clasped before her. Blood in the aisle alone. Btood half abashed, half frightened, Unknowing whore to go, While like a wind-rocked flower, The form swayed to and fro ; And the changing color flattered In the little tioubled face. As from side to side she wavered With a mute, Imploring grace. II Yt1 fnT t innminl : — What wonder thai we smiled, By such a strange, sweet picture From holy thooghts beguiled? When op rose some one softly, And many an eye grew dim, As through the tender silence He bore the child with him. And I— I wondered (losing The sermon and the prayer) If when sometime I enter The "many mansions" folr. And stand abashed and drooping In the portals' golden glow, Our God will send an angel To show mo where to go ! —Julia C. It. Dobs. 7 he Shadow of the Negro. The history of negro slavery, extending from its beginning in Portugal over a period of four hundred years, and involving the exportation by violenoo from their African homos of forty millions of men, women and children, is one of exceeding and unimaginable bitterness. It is too late to criminate those who were responsible for beginning the slave trade, and for perpetuating the system of bondage that grew out of it. Many of them were conscientious, Christian men, who worked without a thought of the wrong they were doing. Some of them, as we know, really believed they were benefiting the negro, by bringing him out of a condition of barbarism into the enlightening and purifying influences of Christianity. For many years negro slavery prevailed in this country, and greatly modified the institutions and the civilisation of a large portion of it. It became, at last, the exciting cause of the greatest civil war known in the history of the world ; and when that war brought abolition, it gave to the black race in America not only freedom but citisenskip. The question as to what all these centuries of wrong and of servitude have done for the nogro is not a difficult one to answer, but what they have done for the enslaving race is not so evident without an examination. The black man has been a menial so long that ho has lost, in a great degree, his sense of manhood and his power to assert it. The negro carries within him the sense that his blood is tainted — that he is something less , a man, in consequence of the blackness of his skin. He may be whitened out, so that only the most practised eye can detect a trace of the African in him, but the consciousness of the poscasion of this trace haunta him like the memory of a crime, and to charge it upon him i» to alutse him and oever him with a bum ing shame. The readiness of the negro in all the State# to be content with men ia) offices in the service ef tha white

map, comes undoubtedly from the foot that such offices relieve him from all atttfgoftiam. They put him in a position free from the pretension to equality, where he i# at peaoe. We hear it aaid that the negro ia a natural menial,— a natural servant, — but the truth ia that if the negro were only relieved from the burden of contempt in which his blood is hsld, his special adaptation to menial work would disappear at once. The harm that slavery did to the white man was one that touched him internally and externally, at moat im | 1» i-tant point*. It vitiated his sense of right and wrong. Through its appeal to his interests, it made a system based in inhumanity and standing and work ii g in direct contravention of the Gold en Rule, seem to be a humane and Christian institution,1 to be maintained by argument, by appeal to the authority of the Bible, and by the sword. This, of course, was an immeasurable harm, frorp which only a slow recovery can be reached. Another evil result of slaver}' to the white man was the disgrace that labor through its long year- of a * *- anu who ioua upon it as something that belongs only to a servile class. Any people that, for any cause, have lost the sense of the supreme respectability of labor) — any people that, for any cause, bare come to regard an unproductive idleness as desirable and respectable, have met with an immeasurable misfortune. The shadow of the negro not only rests upon the white man's sense of right, not only on the white man's idea of labor, but upon his* love of fair play. There is something most unmanly in tb« disposition to deny any man who has not harmed us a f&ir chance in the world. Are we, all over this nation, giving the negro a fair chance ? It was not his fault that he was born to slavery. It was not his act that released liim from it. Notwithstanding all his years of servitude and wrong, he did not revolt when his opportunity came, but bor# his yoke with patsewwr -until it wm» lifted from his shoulders. He did not wrest from unwilling hands his boon of citizensbip. Now, however, as we look into our hearts, we find that political rights were eonfened upon him rather from an abstract senBe of justice than for any love of the negro, or any equal place that we have made for him in our hparts and heads as he stands by our side. The North, to-day. is true to the negro rather in its convictions than in its sympathies. It never in its heart admitted the negro to equality with the white man. It may consent to see the white man beaten by the negro in a walking-match at Gilmoro*s Garden, but at West Point the smallest measure of African blood places its possessor under the crudest and most implacable social ban. So long as this fact exists — so long as the Northern white man utterly excludes the negro from his social sym)vath.es, and refuses to give liim a fair chance in the world to secure respectability and influence, it poorly becomes him to rail at his Southern brothers who do the same thing, and arc only a little logical abd extreme in their expressions of con tempt. The shadow of the negro ties upon the North as upon the South. It has obscured or blotted out our love of fair play. We do not give the negro a chance. It was recently stated in one of our mctroitolitan pulpits, by a minister of wide experience and observation, that he had never hourtl in any country , bettor speeches made than wore recently ! ffiude in this city by four colored men. who spoke on behalf of the freed men. He gave them the highest place in all the powers and qualities that go into the making of eloquence. At Hampton, the negro is proving himself to he not only nvwt susceptible to cultivation, but to be )K>*aos*ed of a high spirit of selfdevotion, Under the charm of this most useful institution the African uoaac* to bo a "nigger," and achieves a self-respect ami a sense of manhood that i prepare him for the great missionary work of elevating his race. It cannot be disputed that the great obstacle that stands to day in the way of the negro the white man, North and South I The white man in this country is not i yet ready to troat the oegm as a man. The prejudice of race is still dominant in every part of the land. We are quite ready in New York City to invito Indiana in paiut and feathers into social ci roles, from which the niqfro is shut out by a social Inlbrdirt aa irreversible a* the laws of the Modes and Persians. If the negro is a man, let us give him the chance of a man; the powers and

privileges of a maa It is not fou canary fur us to give him our daughtesa in marriage, althoqgh he has given a good many of his daughters to us, as ail no j letiodoni and quadroondotn abundantly testify. It is not nacieaarjr Cor as to make an ostentatious show of oar eon version to just and humane ideas in re gard to him. We should like to see th« time when the proacher to whom we have alluded would feel at liberty to invite one of the** orators whom he praised to occupy his pulpit, and when i •ad Mm at home thorn Whan thh time arrives, in the coming of the millennium, all other relations between the two races may be safely left to adjust themselves.-- Schisms* A Popular Error in Teaching. The gradual development of a child's mind is a phenomenon so wonderful and so beautiful that any mother, father or teacher, with eyes to see, must take unmeasured delight in observing it. Our systema of teaching and our schrx.1 v . ► »* . • 0- — * « ho- . - the authors of these books have not I been trained, observing teachers. It is almost universally believed that the brain in childhood should be kept beck, while the body, or the muscular and digestive part, is developed. Having thus laid the foundation of a sound body, , we may then proceed to build upon it a sound mind. This division of structure and growth all physiologists know has no foundation in naturs. During growth active exercise is essential to a hardy, healthy structure. The years ; of the growth of brain are those in which it is most susceptible to training, and in those years the exercise of training . is most necessary. Wc see that activity is absolutely necessary to strong, healthy j development of tho physical organism. Analogy would teach us the same with regard to what we call the mental organism. Tha mind is not something outside of the body, requiring an opposite process to promote its growth. A healthy condition of the brain can bs fostered by active exercise, the same as in the development of the rest of the body. If the doctor should say that the legs must not be exercised in creeping, walkj ing, running, nor the arms in pulling, in climbing, throwing, nor the body by lifting, nor the lungs by breathing before they get fully grown and strong, all would see the folly of it ; and yet we accept this unnatural, foolish rule for the brain. They know that this disuse would dwarf and disease the body, and should it not give us an inkling of the degree to which our minds have, been dwarfed and to the inferiority of intellect to what we would be, had the same common sense rules been applied to our mental development. In all living things the growth is first at the head, and in restraining and postponing the growth of the brain we are working in opfKwition to natural laws. The time when the brain is growing is the time when it most needs development by exercise, and the time when il takes impressions the most readily and firmly. Education ran begin at an earlier age; can progress faster; can be ; divested of all that in earlier years at school is eo confining, irksome and unhealthy to children, and can bo carried on without injury and to a much higher degree during the school age. ^ By teaching word® and things tlrst and not the alphatat — hy observing objects around them, and tlieir relations i to each other, their nature and use*, children may be as far advanced at six years of age n* thev are now at nine, have a much baiter foundation for acquiring knowledge and self-culture. We believe our present system of teach- * ing cuts off at least three or four years j of our live* ; and this time we can never recover. — Ex. The Lime- Kiln (7bh. "What 1 was gwinr to remark," began the old man as ths calcium light at the lower end or the hall shone full on : his clean shirt and garnet necktie, "am to de cfieck dat yon can't depend on a man till you her gone ober a mill-dam ! in de same l»o*t wid him, an, clnm it am safer to keep the doalit locked. 1 am led to dii refleckshun by de faok dat 1 about some time ago a strange nigger knocked at my humble doah. He wiv a meek and humble-look in' man. an' he tolc me a story of woe an' mtsfortun' dat almost broke my Heart 1 took i

ktin fas. I fti ati* wataihd Ida asi* Tpl ad for him. Y^»| ^ay wbilt 1 was out looks* fur* jot lig ho. ha soifid W ole w nana a a*' tnods off wid ah *jr bad nuff of Mntf, bat to Ml Wsa flnto a fam'tj dat bad wurmad fail faoofa, elotfaod fait book oa' fiUod faiic up «nd bacon and 'lot—, us Matfaui' dot I ou't got ober right m>oc. I go right on tro.be' follm*, mm* as **>, 'tween me a*1 rich people a* can't aai two meals a day an' pay a hundred cents on a doMar. W# will near enter into da reg'lar conoordanoe of da in.' " The secretary announced the reoep^ cion of a latter from the Mswdaueetta Horticultural Soaatj, ashing the elnb how long it took tafTy seed to sprat and mature, and whether they produced a vine or a shrub. "'Deed I doea 'seedy feel posted on 1 is," .nnrorod Rot. Penstock m fao voce. "I wont to indoor, o*k, if do honorable Presdont of do club nober fle sprertnm Of -gibfat tm taflyr and de talk bout 'taffy on a string? " "Brudder Penstock,'' obeerved the President in a low voioe, "on mo dan one oocashun die char bet had to tall you to go it slow. Dar am do doubt dat you know a heap, but dar am sebsral matters left ober dat you hab not yit surrounded/' * uAm it possible dat de char doan know wat taffy imf the Reverrnd. Brudder Fen stock, replied the President. dis char does know wet taffy am. 1 He has been acquainted wid da artocle * for ober fo'ty yea's. Dis char km refer you to over ten different spades ob de goods, all warranted not te fade m de sired infonnethun axed fur a few minutes ago well take it ? if net, you bad better sot down an' git ready losing alto wid de nex song by de Glee Club. "I want to gib dis club some advice." said Brother Gardner, as the Penstock was shut off. "To die for one's kentry am glorious, but to lire to plant beans and set out onions and raise latere am bet tab still. 1 I want to say now an* heah, befo de polytioal campaign opens, dat any member j of dis dub who neglects his garden ter hurrah fur any candydate or help along any boom will be walked up heah paw- - erful sudden ! Po lytic* nebber yit put a dollar in any honest man's pocket, nor added an honest loaf of bread to any laborin man's cupboard. De offit-hunt er who witl shake hands wid you en' buy vile whiskey fur your stomach will to-morrow pass you coklly by an1 see vou want for breed. L*t Vm alone. Let dem do de hurrahin. de boomin, de march in an' de drinkin, an1 you'll have a bcttali look in coat on r er back an' more respect fur yerself under yer wests. Daft ali jist now, hut 1 shell ! keep de sutjick in pickle fur a furder oocashun-" — Fait Press. b Charecal and its Uses. Charcoal, laid fiat while cold, on a bum , causes the pain to abate imme diately ; by leaving it on for an hour ths burn seems almost healed when the : burn is superficial. And charcoal is valuable for many other purposes. Tainted meat, surrounded with it, is sweetened ; strew n over heaps of deeompnaed pelts, or over dead animals, it % prevents any unpleasant odor. Foul water is purified by it. It is a great dis- , in tecum, and sweetens offensive air if placed in shallow trays around apart - menfik It is so very porous in its "minute interior," it absorb* and eondcjiM* gases most rapidly. One cubic ^ inch of fresh charcoal will absorb nearly one hundred inches of gaseous ammonia iTiarooal forms an unrivaled poultice for malignant wounds and sores, often corroding away dead flesh, reducing il I to one-quarter in six hour*, in case* of n hat we call proud flesh it is invalueable. It gives no disagreeable odor, oomxles no metal, hurts no texture, in jure* no color, is a simple and safe sweetener and disinfectant. A tee spoonful of charcoal, in half a rlasj- of water, often relieves a sick Head soke c it absorbs the gnoses and relieves the distended stomach pressing against lb# nerves, which extend from the storaach to the head It otter refiere* eonsti fat ion, or heartburn —CatMs OMH ' tkwaiaa.