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* DEVOTED TO TEE GENERAL INTERESTS OF CAPE MAY COUNTY.

VOLUME I.

cape may court house, mew jersey, saturday, july 3, 1880.

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cotfHTY DIB EC mar. | _ Z JUDICIARY . JoM»-Hon. Alfred R*«d. Lay Jinxum— Jo*. fi. Hughes, Gape May city ; Jbm H. Diverty, DtanUviil*, feme* gGaody,T^*aho<y -1 COMMiaWONRa SiMFLCS FUND — J. B. Huffman* Court Hou»o Cochtt Collsctoa— David T. Smith, Court House. Oops.tr Clirk — Jonathan Head. Defctt " — Morgan Hand. F*u3Bct.TOM Pljuj — Jaui«# n. Hoeg Wad, Bridge ton. 6 uaa^toAte— William Hiidrwth. Co. tor't. Pueew Instruction— Dr. Maurice Beesley, Donnierille. BUSINESS DIMMCTORT. 4. P. Lsemluc, JLD..D.D.8, " W. a iMl&t D. D. 8. J. F. Learning , &>». DENTISTS. OFFICK DAYS: CAPS MAT COURT HOUSE, Tu<*d*y., Wednesdays, and Saturdays. CAFE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and W edneedays. . v *► »■ Physician and Surgeon, CAPE MAT COURT HOUSE, N. J. mchfilyr. j. b. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Csra Mat C. Hm N. J. 49- Will be at his office at Cape May City tftry Saturday. mcWIyr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW, OvriCB Lit INSURANCE Bcildrto, MILLVILLE, N. J. j Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner , Hum St a est. Below Pi km, MILLVILLE, N. J. mch6Iyr L. B. CAMPBELL, DEALER IN 8T0VIS, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ac. High Strut, Millville, N. J. mch61yr l P. IRI(k. Dealer in HORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. HAUt OTREET^YEAR THE BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N. J. mchfilyr EM HOUSE, CAPE MAY C. H. LIVERY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. L. Wheaton. mchfilyr MILLVILLE j MUTUAL MARINE & FIRE MTLLVTLLE, N. Jt Assets Jariy. 1st, 1880 : PREMIUM W»L M«,«o oo. CASH amkiv — „r. MMW as. TOTAL AfMHB, — AOeVBMtt. UABIIJTIEfl, Inrludlng reineu ranee reeerro, 77. o» Insurance effected on Farm Buildings and other property against I oeo by FIRE 9 LIGHTNING, at lowest ratee for one, three or ten years. VE9IEU9, Ctnon md PrHxbts, written on literal form of poiirlm, wHfiottc r<«irtctleu* ee to parte need, or messier*} tonnage. ..LOSSES" Prompt!, lHJwrted iW PmM. ft. KTRATTW, PrMldrat. P. L, MTTLFORP, Beeretary, William Rom, Agent, r*n mat ownrr hguhe. n. /. mm 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. mohSlyr. — — »• <*■ fiJUlAbM MAUI, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock! * We have on hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness , Collars, Bridles , *SWd/es, TFAejp#, . Robes , Blankets , Fa- /&£>, Trunks , J£fc., ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. 0 Open Wagon Harness as low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness as low as 10 00 AND MANY 0TUER8 OF DIFFERENT STYLES, AND PRICES. 49- Call and see before purchasing elsewhere. mcb61yr. A. Yourison. J. L STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' AND GEMS' FASHIONABLE boots isi sis, GENTS' BUTTON CALF GAITERS ONLY $3.50. NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. m CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done, mchfilyr. StarfttYMnt'8 Great Catarrh Remedy, In the safest, most agreeable and effectual remedy In tne world, for tin? cure of CATAKItif . No matter from what chuso or how king Handing, by giving MTURDITA5TS CATARRH REMEDY a fair and Irtipartlal trial, you will l»e convinced of this thru The medicine la very pleaaant and can ho taken by the most (leifeat* stomach. For sale by nil r! rugglate, and by Hoi loway A Co., drJ ArcnKt., Phi la. mebflly R. L. HOWEIJ, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, K. J. Special attention paid to leveling; establishing the overflow lines of pro posed ponds for mill sites, cranberry bog* eto r drainage work* etc. Plain made, estimates furnished and speclflcations drawn for Mills, Bridges ; Waterworks and all similar constructions or works at short ootioe. ffiehfllyr

POETR Y. TWO. T'J ' imona We two will stand in the shadow here, To see the bride ae she passes by ; Ring soft autl low, rlag loud and dear. Ye chiming belU that swing on high ! Look ! look ! she oomee! The air grows sweet With the fragrant breath of the orange blooms, And the flowers she treads beneath her fbet Die In a flood of rare perftimes I She comes! she oomee! The happy bells With their joyous clamor All the air. While the great organ dies and swells, Soaring to trembling heights or prayer ! Oh ! rare are her robes of silken sheen, (enow. And the pearls that gleaxu on her bosom's But rarer the grace of her royal mien, (glow. Her hair's fine gold, and her cheek's young Dainty and fisJr as a folded rose, Fresh as a violet dewy sweet. Chaste as a Illy, she hardly knows That there are rough paths for other feet. For love hath shielded her; honor kept Watch beside her by night and day ; And evil out foom her eight had crept. Trailing Its slow length for away. 'i ® 'W:' *sj\ ^ .-.AC-- . * " S" 5-T- - j te* i— * Imi rlo, . am *c hana u. .ho shadow bore, While for above us the gay bells swing, I catch the gleam of a happy tear! The pageant Is over. Come with me To the other side of the town, I pray, Ere the sun goes down In the darkening sea. And the nigm foils around us, thill and gray. In the dim church porch an bout ago, We watched the bride's fair foot to see; Now life has a sadder sight to show, A darker picture for you and me. No need to seek for the shadow hers; There are shadows lurking everywhere ; These streets In the brightest day are drear, And black as the blackness of despair. But this Is the house. Take heed my friend, The stairs are rotten, the way is dim ; And up the flights as we still ascend, Creep stealthy phantoms dark and grim. Enter this chamber. Day by day. Alone In this chill and ghostly room, A child— a woman— which Is It, pray ?— Despairingly waits for tho hour of doom ! Ah ! as she wrings licr hands so pale. No gleam of a wedding ring you sec ; There Is nothing to tell. You know the taleGod help her now in her misery I I daro not judge her. I only know That leve was to her a sin and a snare. While to the bride of an hour ago It hrooghtull blessings Its hands could bear I 1 only know that to one It came Laden with joy, and honor, and peace ; Its gifts to the other were woe and shame, And a burning pain that shall never cease 1 t only know that tho soul of one Has been a pearl In a golden rose; That of the other a pobble thrown Idly down in 1 way-side place. Where all day long strange footsteps trod. And the bold, bright sun drank up the dew! Yet I Kith were women. O righteous God, Tbou only canst Judge between the two! —Julia C. R. Dorr. Secrets of the Printing Office. One Class of Men Who Wire Never Known to Betray Professional Confidence. Printers havo never, xve think, received due appreciation for the honorable confidence which they have preserved in regard to the secrets with which they havo necessarily been entrusted. Such a case as this often happens. An article in a newspaper or magazine makes what is called a "sensation." It is entirely anonymous, and public curiosity is excited to the utmost to discover the name of its author. The writer may be a cabinet minister, a high official, a courtier, or any of the thousand and one persons who, if ho wero suspected of writing for the press, would at once loose his position, his office — perhaps his reputation. On the other hand the writer may bo a struggling author, a hard working journalist, or a mere literary amateur. In any case ins secret is preserved ; his anonymity is safe as long as it is confined to the ! printers. Some years ago there was a great stir made about a book entitled "Ecce Homo." It was a clever work, and had an unexampled success. "Who is the author?" was the question on everybody's lips. Some score of persons were named, and they repudiated their participation in it. All sorts of conjections wero hazarded, and no doubt large sums would have been paid hy several con doctors of journals fbr •►*. J/* mation as to the name of tho author. Yet that name was known to a master printer, his overseer, and at least to some of the compositors, but It was never revealed, When the name wafpublished it was not through the instrumentality of the printers, but entirely independent of them. They had faithfully kept the secret. Going back a few years, the author ship of the "Waverly Novels" may he referred to is a remarkable incident of

literary history. Sir Walter Scott's authorship, although known by twenty persons, including a number of printers, was so well concealed that the great novelist oould not, even in his matchless vooabulary, find word* of praise suffi citnt to express the sense of hi* grateful aekuowledgmout and wondering admi ration for the matchless fidelity with which the mystery had been preserved. There is another specie* of secrecy — mat relating to the careful supervision d confidential public documents, book* jointed for secret societies and the auch<'.ahip of article* or pamphlets, a* already referred tcr which ha* been most honorably maintained. When treaties are prematurely published in newspapers the copy is obtained from some leaky or venal official, and not from any of the printers who eet up or work off the original. A case of thit> kind occurred a year or two ago, wherein a convention between this country and another power was revealed to one of the evening newspapers. In the foreign • • - w * ; 1 • liw*-*- v»— * - w . I one vt ».aich would perhaps in these days of journalistic competition, be worth a few hundred pounds. . But such a dereliction of duty ha* never yet occurred; it was a clerk, and not a compositor, who betrayed his trust. Most honorable to the profession is the story of Harding, the printer, who bravely bore imprironment rather 4 than reveal the authorship of the celebrated "Drapier" letters. Tho printer sat in his cell calmly refusing the entreaties of his friends to divulge the name of the writer, Dean Swift, a church magnate, and a great wit, who dressed himself in the disguise of a low Irish peasant, and sat by, listening to the noble refusal and the tender importunities, only anxious that no word or glance from the unfortunate printer should reveal tho secret. Swift was bent solely upon securing his own safety at the expense of the printer ; he cowered before the legal danger which Harding nobly confronted. The world has unequally allotted the meed of fame to the two combatants. The wit and'the printer both fosght the battle for the liberty of tho prpss, until the sense of an outraged OCftnmunity released tho typographer from the peril so nobly encountered. A thousand other instances of similar fidelity has been exhibited. In short, it 1* a part of the professional honor of a printer not to disclose, either wantonly or from venal motives, the secrets of any office in which he is employed. This is Also tho allegiance which printers pay to their chief, in not divulging important intelligence. In cases a compositor is necessarily entrusted with an item of news which wot Id bo negotiable immediately, and woi|h pounds to him. Seldom or never is tl^re a betrayal of trust in this way. Th«i examination papers printed so extenlively in London, are of the most trctn-ndous importance to certain classes, who would pay almost any sum to obtain the roughest proof the night before. An instance of this kind occurred quite recently. "A printer was got at," and promised a considerable amount of money for a rough proof. What whs hii course of action ? He simply informed the authorities, and tho tempter was punished. It was another and a creditable example of how well and honorably kept are the secrets of the print ing office— London Printer and Stationer. — 1» ♦ Saving Life . A valued co temporary has this to say of ;he recent Sound disaster : ' Every terrible disaster, like that of Friday night on the Sound, adds something to the general safety of the traveling public. There is scarcely one of the precautions against accident that are now in common use hut is the result of somebody's mutilation or death. What the outcome of this latest horror will he, of course cannot bo foreseen, but in some wav it will undoubtedly bean add , .» .. ..ho patronize the great steamships. It is only when such a crash comes, and passengers by the hundred are roused Irom sleep to face a terrible death hy burning or drowning, that the real worth of wortlilessness of a steamer'* appliances for safety becomoa clearly known. There were deficiencies on the Narragansett that almost amount to criminal neglect on tbe part of her own ore. "Life boats," so called, there were, but the plugs that slone msde them of

any use were in several cases missing] having been taken out long before to i>ermit the rain-water to run off, and not replaced. The davits from whieb they hung were rusty from long disuse, and failed to work properly. Some of the boats had no oars, even I Life-boats hanging from a steamer's davits are supposed to have their chief value in times of aocident — and then | they are wanted instantly. A five minutes' delay in making them ready may mean the loss of score* of lives. Strictly enforced laws should compel a lroqucnj inspection of the lif«H«wring apparatus on board all vessels which carry passengers, and tbe crews should have regular and thorough practice in J getting out tbe boats, and doing all tbe ; work which a sudden emergency do- I mauds. A rigorous and oonstant di*- | cipline marks the difference, sometimes, between cowardly ruffians, like some of the N arragan sett's crew, and trustworthy , heorio seaman, like many who have compelled the world's admiration in u- peril. w. • *3 W . . by an indignant public. If criminal carelessness is proven against any of the offi cere concerned in the management of either of the colliding boats, their punishment should be swift and <sure. And -whatever of additional security for travelers our law-makers can compel by action in relation to matters which were here entiroly ignored or carelessly attended to, ought to be brought about by wise and intelligent legal enactment at the oar li est possible moment." How Nutmegs Grow. Nutmegs grow on small trees which look like small pear trees, and are generally over twenty feet high. The flowers are very much like tbe lily of the valley. They are pale and very fragrant. The nutmeg is the seed of the fruit, and mace is the thin covering over this toed. The fruit is about as large as a peach. When ripe it breaks open and shows the little nut inside. Tho trees grow on the islands of Asia and in tropical America. They bear fruit for seventy or eighty years, having ripe fruit upon them at all seasons. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Presidential Question. A lime kiln club reflection. "De odder nite, as I was ready to blow de candle out an' crawl inter bed, a delogashun of cull'd men arrove to tell me dat de Chicago convenshun bad bin nominated," said the president as the triangle called the meeting to order. "In a short time de dimecrats will nominate dar' convenshun, an' den a second delogashun will come whoopin' along to wake up the dog, track de front steps An' break de news. Why do they come to me wid sich news ? Why should day go to any cull'd man who aims his daily bread by tho frickshun of hi* elbows ? Git an honest man inter pollytricks if you wAnt to make a rascal of him ; git a laborin' man to whoopin' for some candydate if you want to fill de poo' houses. What does any man in dis club kecr who am nominated or who am' lectod ? If de 'publicans git it de price of block in' stoves remains de samo. If do dimecrats git it, de price of whitc-wushin' won't move up or down a peg. We may whoop an' yelp an' fight an' poll a woto dat weighs a pound, but when do' tater* am gone next winter who is to fill up de bin I When do wood am out who will buy mo' ? When d© flour-bar'l Am empty will de president fill it ? De cull'd man. take him a* lie wo* bo'n, hasn't nnv great amount of brains to spar'. Doan' let us, darfore, now dat we know ,nuff to take car' of ourselves, bccomo fools to benefit anybody. Let, em fight it out. De ken try i* gwine to stay right hoah, no matter which side wins. I >nc hour among de garden- truck will do mo' fur you nex | winter dan a week of whoopin' fur somebody who doan' know ye an' wouldn't speak to you if he did. Pollytick* buy* be^r, but it won't buy bread. Candy dates pat ye on de back to-day, an' tell ye to-morrow to go to de poo' -house. J doan' purtend to say how ye shall vote, but de cull'd man who has any sons© will stick to his rnbbago* an' let dc whoopin* be whooped up by sicb folks as in joy goin' bar-footed in Jinuary."— Fkee Press. Mr. Van derhi It's new house on Fifth avenue, New York, when computed will contain paintings worth $073, U00. Ha is a vary laiy man who, in respond ing to a note from a friend who asked to be eicuaed, said, "IXQQU."

Teaching a Fins Art. r Teaching is a fine art. Okdy tftoM of us who hold the doctrine are true art*ta or will ever make any enduring mark on our pupils or command reaped far work. But the teat of the true artist ie the showing that to him the neoeesity oontained in his art is above all other necessities and to that he puist be true I if he fail everywhere also. But how many of us do not give the "few baa more of mu&ia" to please the public when the "iron and alcle don't move very easy ? How aboq> public examinations and exhibitions and petcianlagaa and statistics ? How about drilling pupils on, to them, perfectly useless things in order to make a show ? How about training them to read Poo's "Raven," or j Wolsey's "Speech to Cromwell', before a wonderetruek audience, when we know perfectly well that they can't raad at tight any page of common English without blundering so that it is no pleasure to hear them ? How about handi»*» their writing-books as a- % - ^ * - *v ■» • r or* . p, the essays they reaaat the exhibitions which are supposed to oontain their own thoughts expressed in their own English ? Hew about the time *peat in preparation for abow which ought to be apent in honest work ? Oh, fellow-toachers, if we as a profession are a butt for every one's joke— if we do not find ourselves recognized as a profession, if to bo a school-teacher in the eyes of the phvrieian is to be a person ignorant of the simplest facts of physiology, whose fault is it ? Do we ourselves treat our work as an art ( Do we hold ourselves firmly opposed to all sham of whatever sort, wherever the pressure may come from, snd every day and all day lend oar efforts to only what is best for the full and healthy raentsd, physical and moral good of the pupil ? or do we yield to the demand for i(a few more bars of musio, sir," and prova to the public or tbe committee who asks it, that we are merely subservient tools, snd that no more to as than to them is there such a thing as an art of teaching ? If we want others to respect our work we must respect it ourselves. It is of no use for us to cry "Teaching is an art," when our every act shows that it is to us no art and that we will do whatever is required of us in order to retain our places. If we do not hold the place we ought to hold as s profession it is our own fault — tho fault of our time-serving, and the "few more bare of music" which we complacently order for the sake of the show. Honesty pure and simple, not because it is the best policy, but because our art dom'ands it ; fidelity te the principles of that art ; a flinging away of all shams — a refusal to do any work which is for show — these we must have as a profession and then we shall not need to command respect for we shall find ourselves surrounded by it.— American jorrnal ofEdi-cation. Flashes from the Salem Sunbeam. — Forgiveness and a smile are beat re* vengc. — Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he himself sets the example. —Repentance without amendment is like continual pumping in a ship with* out stopping the leaks. — The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the .Eolion harp, to await tne inspiration of the passing breeze. — All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth ; they grow round about it, and for tbe most part deriva iheir strength for such contiguity. — T'rido is like the beautiful acacia that lifts its head proudly above ita neighboring plants, forgetting that it, too, like them, has its root in the dirt. —If you have a friend who loves you, who has studied your interest and happiness, defended you when persecuted and troubled, be sure to sustain him in his adversity. * — Every man jmi in his own life follies enough ; in his own mind, troubla enough ; in his own fortunes, evil enough, without being curious after the affairs of others. Hollywood Park, the pride of Long Branch, has been almost devastated of its beantifril lawns by the army worm, forty acree being destroyed In three days. The worms moved in multitudes toward tha sea, taking possession of the piarsas of the hotels. The dnves were also Meek with them.