The County Gazette. » #%> * Mf >fjr <w^ Wn m . mf mf flMX ALFRED COOPER, EDITOR. Saturday, july sT uS5x It b with genuine pleasure that wo call the attention of the tax-payers at' this district, to the road between the Court House and Gravelly Run, recently graded and put in excellent condition by Road Overseer Ed P. Hand. As our readers no doubt well know, this road has been one of the worst in the oounty for some years pest and during tho time Mr. Hand baa been in office he haa com pitted the grading of about three miles down from Main street, and wo under stand that he haa used no more money with which to do thb excellent piece of work than some of the other overseers hare need in doing nothing — at least nothing that will bear inspection. The above mentioned road is now uniformly thirty feet in width and beautifully rounded-up so that there will be none of that sliding and slipping — from side to side— of wagons that is so oommon upon some of our oounty roads which have been graded in the last three years. One thing that tends to make us apprecis te the excellent work of Mr. Hand is the miserable work done in some of the other districts, especially upon that much talked of piece of road * above the stone bridgo, which by the way, is in the ~ * pgfcjH «iu e^b-

jpe*i Jmps * March next, when in all probability it will be attended to. On Saturday last R. D. Wood's Sons, of Millville gave their employees a free excursion to Atlantic City, over the W. J. A A. Railroad. Thb generous action upon the part of the manufacturers was certainly worthy of a better result. Every man, woman, and child who accepted thb invitation was in honor bound to behave in a respectful manner the same as if they had received the hospitality of their employers at their residence in Philadelphia, and they no doubt would have done so— for there is that inate feeling of the fitness of things, in almost every person, that prompts to right action upon such an oocaaion — had there been no discordant, peace destroying, fiot making element taken on board. Men, otherwise peaceably inclined, were standing in the cars striking down every person who came near, be ho friend or foe ; men quarreling, fighting, cursing, drawing knives upon each other, women and children screaming in their fright, some crawLing under the seats to escape the knocks and kicks of the brutes, it was pandemonium let loose. All the bottled iropa of hia Satanic Majesty escaped and were busy as they could be doing their master's work. Upon some of the cars every sober man. be he minister or layman, had to do special police duty, and some of the sober men appealed to the train men to be left in the woods, along the road, or anywhere to get out of that crowd. We are thankful to say thai all the oars were not so, and then we ask, why should any of them be so? What mado temporary demons of peaceable men. what erased the brain of intelligent men and caused all thb trouble 7 Just what always does it. We ask, who is responsponsible? Isn't an ounce of preventkm worth a pound of cure 7 Sup pose Atlantic City had been in the state of Main — the*e people would have come home orderly, happy and civilized as when they went.

Robert Raikea was not the first person who conceived tho idea of giving •pecial religious instruction to the young, but he was the first who succeed* ed in perfecting a successful organization. In the early ages of the Christian Church, the young, and elders, too, not familiar with the doctrine, were given special instruction on .Sundays. Martin Lather, too, jn 1527 opened schools on Sunday for the instruction of such children and youth who "could not attend the day schools, in the art of reading, y that they might thereby be better able to read the Holy Script! ires.'* Something like the schools of the present day were found among the early German settlers of Pennsylvania, but their system was a purely local one, and it remained for another to establish a system which had perpetuity. Robert Raikes, born at 01 one*. England, in the year 1735, was the son [ of a printer and publisher, and inherit- 1 ed from his hither the proprietorship of a Tory paper, the Glouceater joubhal. The son was his worthy successor, though his energy was perhaps more apparent , in other directions. He aimed to make his paper respectable and a helper of morality, and won for it general approval. He was liberally educated and zealously and intelligently religious. He at-

tended oliurch on Sunday and was also generally praeeni at the early morning Acrvioe in the cathedral ou week days. Ho was generously benevolent and par tioularly interested in tho poor and suf faring, not excepting the criminals, who were in part at least the authors of their own sufferings. He acted and wrote in aid of the cause which so inspired John Howard, and the improvement in prison discipline which characterised the closing years of the eighteenth century is to be ascribed to Raikea as well as hia better known coadjutor. He had long been familiar with tho wanu and woes of the poor, and iu 1780 began to be struck with tlic necessity of doing something for their children. A walk through one of the lowest districts in the neighborhood of a pin factory impressed upon him with fearfril vividness the degradation and demoralisation of the boys and girls. Sunday was the worst day among young and old. The adults were given to drunkenness and debauchery, while the youth were unoommon ly precocious in thieving and in imitating the vices of their elders. To begin his work, he hired four intelligent Christian women at low wages to instruct the neglected children on Sundays, and by appealing to the clergy interested them in his work. The Bible was read, instead of secular text-books, so that in learning to read the pupils might imbibe religious truths. He thus wrote of his undertaking : — I went around to remonstrate with numbers of the poor on the melancholy consequences that must ensue from u fata] neglect of their children's morals. 1 prevailed with some, and others soon followed ; children were to come soon after 10 in tho morning and stay until 2. TWsv were *ben te — *- ^ x *

, -O u, /- l in repeating the catechism till half-past 5, and then to be dismissed with an injunction to go home without making a 1 noise, and by no means to play in the ' .tract." Long before his death, indeed as early as '87, a Sunday-school Society was formed in London, with several Bishops and the well-known evangelical champion Henry Thornton among its supporters. Among its Brat acts was the admission of Robert Raikes to honorary membership. 8eldom has any movement spread more rapidly. It was in November, 1783, that Raikes first published in the Jocrxal an account of his success, and by 1786, 250,000 children were receiving Sunday-school instruction in the British Empire. In tho same year the Methodist Bishop, Asbury^ brought the institution to the United States. A Sunday or First Day School Society had been founded in Philadelphia in 1791, with the Episcopal Bishop White at its head. Isabella Graham and her daughter, Mrs. Bethune, who had traveled in Europe an thus learned about Raikes' school, set up three at their own expense in New York, between 1801 and 1804, but it was not until 1809 that a school was founded in connection with a church at Pittsburg. About this last year teachers began to work for love of the cause and without pay in our own country, the pay system holding out in England for some time later. » • » On account of tho malarial fever at Princeton college, the commencement excerciso* were held in a neighboring Church. Dr. McCosh in his annual address, in referring to the J 6 young men said : "We submit to the trial as a dispensation sent to chasten and to humble us." The Phila. Evening Telegraph in commenting upon tho above in an article beaded "Rough on Providenco" says : — It seems scarcely fair to Providence to make Frovidence responsible for choked soil-pipes and death -dealing wells, the construction and supervision of which aro not in the hands of Provi-

dence, but in the hands of Dr. McCosh and his associates at Princeton College. If at sea the man at the wheel leaves his post, or fails to notice the movement of the needle in the compass right under his eyes, and the ship drives npon the rocks, or if there is a switch carelessly left misplaced or a drftw in the bridge rceklwwly left wide open when the train is thundering towards either, it is not usual for intelligent, just men to call the disaster and maiming and killing which follow, a dispensation of Providence. Fools and knaves and scoffer* may arraign Providence when they are rightly punished for their folly or sin, but it is not well for the wise and good, like I>r. McCosh, to proclaim to the world that the well which he and his associates built and maintained, bcncnth the feet of the amiable and promising yotmv men of Princeton, and which he < am*. M 4 permitted to choke i up and exhale the poisons of disease and death among these young men should bo considered a dispensation of Providence. It was nothing ?f the sort, and Providence had nothing to do with it. The eight amiable arid promising voting men of Princeton College who died of tho typhoid fever, and the other eight who yet linger between life and death, owe their fate to men and to earthly causes, to neglect and careless

Ineaaof those essential law* of health ! which, if understood and observed anywhere by anybody, should be understood and observed at a greet educational institution which proclaims itself the temple of science, and by those who claim to be scientist*. He in a few beautiful words acquits himself of ^1 responsibility , MUi without a moment's hesitation place* it all upou Providence. It will not do j it it not satisfactory j it will not bo satisfacfory to parents who think of sending their children to Princeton. Thty do not believe, no sensible person dees, that Providence is in any way charged or under bond to look to the proper drainage of that institution. Let Providence bear the burdens which belong to Providenoe, and let the authorities of Prinoeton bear those which belong to them. For the Gazette. agricultural. conducted by index. The American Agriculturist in speaking of vermin among poultry, says: "Lice may be destroyed by white washing tho house with lime wash, mixed with carbolic acid. Fleas may be destroyed by thoroughly greasing the roosts. Clean straw should be supplied to the nests." The size of cows is a matter of fancy, but all things considered, a medium size will meet the requirements of the farmer more profitably than either an overgrown one or a dwarf body. At the present price of butter, milk is the mast desirable consideration ; therefore good milkers should be sought after, without so mnch refr*»en^ •- gize or stvfe, #d- • 'frv.--

^ ^ B." we often find slabaideu, r»iViA/«idd, rough, ungainly looking cows the very best, for milk and butter, of any in the dairy. An English gardener writes: "never weed a crop in which a hoe can boused, not so much for the sake of destroying weeds, which must be the case, if the hoeing be well done, as for increasing the porosity of the soil, to allow the air and water to penetrato through it. Oftentimes there is more benefit derived by crops, from keeping them well hoed, than there is from the manure applied. Weeds or no weeds, 1 keep stirring the soil, well knowing from practice, the very beneficial effects it has." The above advice should be strictly adhered to in extreme drouth, like the one we are passing through. A factory for the manufacture of sugnr from beets, haa been in operation in Maine the past year, and from the report ot tho company it is not altogether a pecuniary sucoess. Of course, it is attended with difficulties and expenses that may be overcome in the future, and prove itself to be a very profitable product of this country. The cost of budding and fixtures is not less than $200,000. Adding to this the cost of the beet at five dollais a ton, wear and tear of machinery ; with tho interest on the capital employed, and it leaves but a imall margin for profits. The sugnr Hold from 6| to 9| cents ^pr pound, the molasses at 20 cents per gallon. Tho nales of sugar, molasses, pulp etc. were $111,000, expenses of manufacturing $102,000. Allowing ten per cent for waar of machinery which is about $6j>X» it leaves less than $3,000 gain. No salaries allowed Superintendents, *nd the farmers think the price too low for tho beet. The pulp is sold for $1.80per ton and from the experiments made, it is considered worth nearly as much for fodder as it was before the sugnr was extracted. If this be true, it will be an im]>ortant item in making up the losses and gaina of both parties. Probably no soil in the U. 8. is better adapted to tho growing of the" sugar

beet than our own oounty of Cape May, and it is an industry, if successful, tli&t the farmers would do well to consider. It will be borne in mind, that the factory of which wo have s|»oken is on a very largo and expensive scale, having recoived a bounty from the State. It would not require a largo amount of capitaLto test its value here and if sueccssful, would be an important additi(^i to the many valuable productions of tl|e •oil of South Jersey. $ '» $ NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. V III. axa1.ysrs of i.and plaster. This substance has boon very extensively used in New-Jersey as a fertilizer. It was formerly thought to be almost indisponsiblo for producing a good crop of clover. It is not so much used for that purpose now, though employed to some extent, but is found beneficial in hastening the germination of seeds, in promoting the growth of young corn and pntatoes. It is much used on composts for absorbing or decomposing gases and for hastening the decay of coarse momiroa. The supply of plaster for this State ' omet mostly from Central New- York or from Nova ftcotia. That from NewYork is commonly of a grayish color, and besides the •ulphete of lime end

Piwo plantar i. ooupoaod of- ^ IAnie . ................. ....... |2.6 per cent. Mulphurle acid........ SUB « Watsr ^...80.9 •• " HXL0 r - When the plaster is beutod a little above the temperature of boiling water, it gives off the water that was combined with it, and is then known as boiled plaster or plaster of Paris. This is the plaster which seta and becomes atone again when it is thoroughly wot with water, and is used for making plaster casts, cornices, hard finished wails, Ac. In addition to the chemical names of calciuo) sulphate and sulphate of lime it is also called gypsum. As a mineral it is known as alabaster and sclenito, and when found as it is sometimes without water in it) it is called anhydrite. It is so soft as to be scratched with the finger nail; and it dissolves slightly in cold water, about one pound of it dissolving in sixty gallons of water. Plaster for farmer's use is to be found in all our markets. The following samples have been sent to the Station for analysis and they are tha kinds most commonly sold, The comparative value of these samples is calculated very nearly by assuming tliut pure boiled plaster is worth $10 a ton or a half-cent a pound. This price would iruiko tho value of the specimens to be as |et down in the table. (X) (8.) (4.) (5.) (25.) Sulphuric Add, 44.61 29.52 45.14 45.06 66.47 Lime' 31.U 20.66 81.59 31.56 39.03 %lphate of Ll2ne,7&88 50.18 76.78 70.64 96.0:i - ■ 1

. . * ►-* *■ ( Vuluc per IMS, 87 » 6Ui v o, 766 969 Selling price, 68 00 7 00 9 00 8 10 (2.) Sent by 8. L. Burrough, of Merchant ville, from stock of Fitzgeiald A Co., Cam dan. -.Its brand is Pure Nova Scotia La yd Plaster ; and its price $8 per ton. (3.) Sept by I. W. Nicholson, of Camden. Cayuga Plaster Co., Union Springs, N. Y% Delivered at Haddonfield, by car-load, at $7 a ton. The analysis accompanying this plaster gate its per centago pure gypsum as 80.78 per cent. (4.) Sent by William C. Nicholson, of Haddonfield. Brand, Land Plaster. From stock of Taylor Bros., Camden. Price, $9 per ton. (5.) Sent by Hon, E. Burrough, Merchantville, Brand French's Land Plaster. From stock of French, Richards A Co., of Philadelphia. Price not given. (25.) Sent by Samuel L. Burrough, Merchantville. Brand Nova Scotia Land Plaster. From stock of W. Fitzgerald. Price $8.10 per ton. Of these specimens, 2, 4, and 5 are samples of Nova Scotia Plaster, 3 is a sample of plaster from central New York, and 25 is a sample of boiled plaster or plaster of Paris. Their values in the table are estimated by considering the sulphate of lime as the only substance desired by the farmer in buyidg it. Tho Cayuga plaster is perhaps worth ;i little more than this estimate, on account of other substances in it, and the l>oilcd plaster may not be worth so much as estimated on acconnt of its liability to set if it should be wet before tho time for using it. The dressing used for an acre is very small, from 100 to 300 pounds. This may be the reason that the poorer pinster gives as good results as the best. But if so the dressing may well be diminished in amount. Geo. H. Cook, Director. UP SHORE NOTES. One day last week there was an auction sale of village lota at Ocean City.

One lot, I am told, run up to $000, another to $300, and the lowest it is said is held at $75 instead of $25 as they sold at the start of the enterprise. It is expected thai 27 bouses will be put up by the expiration of noxt month. We regard it as fortunate for the company to have secured the services of so energetio a business man as Rev. Ezra Lake. The Camp Meeting is announced in the "New Jersey Methodist" to begin Aug. 0th, and I predict for thorn a good meeting. During the last ten years there have been mode many improvements on the Up Shore Road, which it gives us pleasure to note, and give credit for. The most important one hah been the improvement of the roads ; instond of plodding along through sand as of yore they now, with some exceptional pieces, almost equal the excellent roads of the West. Our Supervisor, Mr. Swing, haa made an excellent road in the vicinity of Ocean View. Another improvement which is well worthy imitation is the taking down of some old overgrown rail fences, plowing up the ground and thoroughly subduing it, preparatory to rebuilding it at some future time. Wild carrots, and old delapidated fences and buildings are alw xy* unsightly. R,

of th^OA/) ttk ^ 1 oonattler^rr^ mm •> . thorough! , devoted to our < uutv'* int t to J ^ <1 I think 1 am doing the other journals on injustice in pronouncing its local deportment superior to that of any paper published in the oounty. A Subscribes. Notice ! To Tboee holding Policies in the Millville Mutual Marine A Fire Insurance Company* Your Insurance la as food to-day as any in•uruueo can be -bclnt protected by our Inaar•noe OQj**~*nd from the rt-*pou*lbllity on the premium note*. the luw allows no escape. The polirien of the company must remain K«HKi uuill the court of chancery fixes a time for rc*|»onRl bl I My to reu«e by surrender of priiuium notes. This we believe now we •ball escape, but id any event a tuple notloe of such order, must and *hull be given. To ilione who ure thiukin# of re-inauring In other c ompanies we sav that such u course la o(ulioUiera to be avoided. By so doing, you raise a grave question as to whether hoth In•u ranee* are not rendered votd—and you still remain liable for tho ussooamcnt In the Mlllvllle Mutual. F. L. MULFORD, 8ee>y. Millville, N. J., June 25ih, 1880. sheriff's sale. By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery, Stale of New Jersey, I will expose to sale at Public Vendue, on Saturday, the $1 Day of July A.D. 1880, at the hour of 2 o'clock P.M. on said day, at the store of Joseph E. Hughea «k Son, in the City of Cape May, in the oounty of Cape May, and State* of New Jersey as aforesaid, All those tracts of land situate in the City of Cape May, county of Cape May, State of New Jersey, bounded and described as • a* ^ • 0

, r - v.— . corner of Jacat-vJ and Lafayette streets and thence — J — binding by lands of heirs of Matthew Whillden deceased and Christopher S. Magrath's land, North sixty-six degrees and fifteen minutes east, eighty-two and eight tenth* feet to late Fotteral's line now Abigail Shoppards; thence — 2 — thereby south twentyfive degree* and twenty minutes east, twenty-five feet to *aid James H. Edmunds' other land ; thence — 3 — thereby south sixty-six degrees and fifteen minutes west, eighty -two and eight-tenths feet to said line of Jackson street; thence — 4 — along the same north twenty -five degree* and twenty minutes west, twen-ty-five feet to the place of beginning, containing two thousand and seventy square feet of land, be the same more or less. The second lot, Beginning at a point in the north-east line of Jackson street, which point is also the southerly corner of R. D. Edmunds A Son's land, and thence — 1 — north-cast wardly binding by *aid R. D. Edmunds A Son's land, eighty-two and eight-tenth* feet to the south-east line of Abigail Sheppard's land ; thence — 2 — -thereby south-ea*t-aardly by twenty-nine feet to corner of Jane B. Newell 'a land ; thence — 3 — south -west wardly binding thereby eighty two and eight-tenths feet to said line of Jackson street ; thence— 4 — along said line of Jackson street north-westwardly twenty -nine feet to the place of beginning. containing two thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight square feet of land*be the same more or less; being the Bame two lots of land Jane B. Newell conveyed the first to the said Richard D. Edmunds and J. Henry Edmunds by deed dated October 20th 1873, of record in the Clerk's Office of Cape May county in book 37 of Deed*, page 601 ; the second to J. Ilenry Edmunds, by deed dated November 9tb, 1876, of record in said office in book 41 of Deeds page 544. Seized as the property of Henry R. Edmunds, ct al Defendants, and taken in execution at the suit of Samuel Cooper, Complainant, and to be sold by WILLIAM H. BEN EZET, Dated, May 26 1 880. Sheriff. Bergen A Bergen, SoPrs- P. F "\^o\.vee. o ^ At a meeting of the Directors of the MILLVILLE MUTUAL MARINE and FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, held on June 21st, 1880, the following resolution was adopted : i

Resolved, That an assessment of ten per cent, on those premium notes hold by the MILLVILLE MUTUAL MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, in which the face of the note is ten times the amount of the cash premiums paid, [exclusive of policy and survoy,] which are known as single notes, and one of 5 per cent, on those in which the face of the note i* twenty times the amount of cash premium paid, known as double notes, be and is hereby ordered by the Directors for the purpose of paying losses and reinsuring our outstanding annual risks in pursuanoe of the requirements of the Secretary of State, and the order of the Chancellor. This assessment will be payable on or before AUGU8T 16TH. A meeting of the Policy Holders will he held in Wilson's Hall , Millville, "JvvVx^ \%\, at 11 A.^M., to which all are invited, and at which time a frill, frank statement of the condition of the Company and the causes lending thereto, will be made, and the opinion of the Stockholders nought as to the beet means to protect their interest*. jun263w. F. L. MULFORD, Secretary.

Kss-* I RANKLIN HAND. mviffir iiu, Best Assortment, Largest Stock Lowest Prices of »nj Store tout* of Millville i* John E. White's, "H. 5. *'*»*"« Pnnto bought before the advance. 1000 Yard* Heavy Shirting bought before the advance. 1000 Yards Brown and Blooebed Muslin bought before the advance. 500 Y ards Dress Goods bought before the advance. 500 Gallon* N. 0. Molasses bought before the advance. Coal Oil, Standard, test, only ten ct*. per Gallon. Head-light Oil, 150 test, only eighteen ct*. per Gallon. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF WeA*, Ca\\t., W Wo-YAwj-OLte, Wovx.*, VmA, Gmtv, Sec. always on hand

v Goods delivered free of charge. john. w. young, KlBiAID, DEHIUSYILLE, H. j. meh63mo. d) A /^\ /\A MONTH ruaranteed. $12 a VL J I U I i*y nt homt mods by the Irv/IV M VI l^a«lriou*. Capital notreqairwe will start yoa. Men, women, boys aud girl* make money fciUr at work for us than at any thing alee. . TIIP work Ih light and pleasant, and neb as anyone can k'o right at. Thoee who are wise who see this notice will send us their tuldroese* at once and bee for themselves. Costly Outfit and terms free. Now I* tb© time. Those already at work are lay ins up large sums of money. Address TKUb ftCO., A gusto, Maine. may29,!y. DO YOU WANT • a handsome black cashmere at the old price, and 25 cents on the dollar cheaper than if I had to purchase them at the recent advance 7 If so send to TOM LUDLAM and GET SAMPLES and you will be surprised at the low price* he will give you on them. Do you wish to purchase a new dress in either COTTON, WOOL, SILK or other fabric 7 send to Tom Ludlam for samples and see what he will send % you. Do you intend having LISLE THREAD KID GLOVES? Tom Ludlam has the finest assortment in this section of the county. All tha

new style "SvvWow*, WoWverv^, V<XY<X%o\.«, NEW SPRING SHAWLS, "Bo\ "Ve'vVvw^,*, the very latest. Corsets from 25 ct*. to $2.00, and in feet the newest, cheapest, and best assorted dry goods stock in Millville. I have three times as many goods to select from as any store in our City, and I allow no man to undersell me. Just received an elegant line of ladies' All WOOL SUITINGS, st 25 cents per yard. New line all wool 56 in. cloaking. 300 dot. children's bordered handkarcheife at 8 eta. each. 3000 prn. child's colored hose at 8 eta. Send for samples and prieaa for comparison. Tom Ludlam, MILLVILLE. N. T, spr*4W.