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DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF CAPE MAY COUNTY.

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..... , ■ — COUNTY DIRECTORY. ! JUDICIARY. J PtMlDlMO Jcooa — Hon. Alfrod Reed, \ luxr J odors— Jos. E. Hughea, C Apt May city } Jesse H. Dlverty, Donuisville; Sosasr* C. Gaudy, Tuckohoo. 0 » » . . OOKMIMIOVBE Sc*l»LV* FllKJ>— J. Huffman, Court House. I SliBBirv — William H. Benoxct. i Cooxrr CoLLBCToa— DAvid T. Smith, Court House. | County Clhhk — Jonathan Hand. i Difvty " JS igjiorian Hand. Fkoshoutox Plras— -Jauie* R. HoagUindj Bridgeton. I BuaaooATi — William Hildretb. Co. Sop't. Public Ikstrcctiox— Dr. Maurice Besaley, Donnbville. • I - BUSINESS DIRECTORY . Br. Tfceo. €. Wheaton. U. 8. Pension Examining Surgeon, SOUTH SXAVILLS, N.J. ML A 11 Soldiers who aro ruptured I supplied with truss- ! **. frts of charge. Apply to above. Oet2Sy 1, V. L^JoJag, U. D. , D. D. ft, W. S. Learning, P. P. fl. J. F. Learning, Sj Son. DENTIST^. OFFICE DATS t CAP! MAY COURTHOUSE, Thursdays and Saturdays. CAP1 MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesday!. SOUTH 8EAYIJ-L*, Fridays, mehfilyr, 10 WU "WYLTS.Y, Physician and Surgeon, CAPITA AY COURT HOUSE, N. J. achilyr. j. b. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT RAW, SUPREME COURT OOMMI88IONER, AND MABTER IN CHANCERY, Cafi MAT C.-ffrr J. mr' will St athW esnea al Oape May C*ty every AeiardLay. nachfllyr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY 400UNSELOR AT LAW, Owioa iv IvtucAVoa Bdiloivo, MILLVILLE, N. J.

Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, \ Mio h 6*hjst, Bblow Pino, ! MILLVILLE, N. J. mmkllyr _ L, B. CAMPBELL, | DEALER IS j SCO YES, HEATERS, RANGES, TIN- j WARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ao. Hick Snu>, Millyilu, N. J. xadbfilyr ■ TpTbbick, Dealer in j H+SSH, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. MAIN ITKHT, NEAR TH S BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N. J. | mohftlyr mm i® CAPE MAY C. H. mi . ■'■■>#> — livery ATTACH EI). Horses always on hand, .ijj' a I Fsr Sale or Exchange. L. Wheaton.! mohfilyr CAPE HAY CITY, CAFE MAY C. H MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. j®- Iron. and Galvanised Fencing and all kinds of Marble Coverings for graves. AH orders will receive prompt attention by telegraph or letter. Flag for curbing work done at the shortost notice, Call and see. A discount nmdo on all werk by calling at the yard, t. T. BaTwiciw, Proprietor.

UNION ' ' innSuAra ) . i '?!WwS3' I HOTEL, Cape May C. H. I ► • This long established HoI tel is still open for the I reception of permanent and transient guests, where all attention will be given to their comfort. William Eldridge. I mchClyr. ~JL YOURISON, IMS Mm, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. I., Ji. J. I Please Call and Examine Our Stock! We hare on hand a good assortment of \ Ready-made Harness, Collars , Bridles , Saddles, Whips, Hobes, Nets, Blankets , Valises, Trunks, Etc., ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. j -"T-0 Open Wagon Harnees as low as $ 8 00

| Carriage Harness as low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERI ENT stYU58 AND PRIORS. I 69" Call r-nd bo/oro parehaainc elsewhere, A. Yourison. I if | j. l steel, MANUFACTURER OF LAfiSS' AS» 6EOTS' FASHIONABLE n ml SHOES, G35TS5 BUTTON CAI.F GA1TKBB | ON' LI $8.50. NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and oarefully done, mchftlyr. Now Squeal ! i The subscriber* have just received a large lot of young Chester Whites & Jersey Red pigs, which they offer for sale atiheir Moat.Marhet on Mechanic Street, at very reasonable prices . WOODRUFF A WILLIS. novl3 tf. r. l. Howell, SURVEYOR AND Civil,1," Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J. Specifd attention paid to leveling} establishing thn ovortlow line* of pro« posed ponds for mill site*, eranhorry bog* etc t vdrainagc work* oto, .Plan* made, oRtimateH fkimishetl and Rpueification* drawn for Mills, Bridges } Waterwork* and all friniilar constructions or I work* at short notice, mshftlyr

r ' POETR Y. Does Farming Pay? Naow I tell yew, t' fin' whul farming pays, Jeel couyo clua hum; study yer neighbor's ways. Look et— we wun't be pus'nal— call him Black; Vo fence, no critters, nothln'-dreflbl slack I Huntln' an' flshln* w'lle tilings go t( rack ; A iporliuT farmer's baouu' l' be— a iuack. An' thon there's White; he's one o' yer stiddy kin'; Looks aout ahead, an' never runs behln'; Follows his plaough. peerdoocet oorn 'a* latere. He don't resk nothin' 'llh them speck lk atBAIL Gold up or daown, he hain't no call t' worry ; They wun't git red of hlx'n In a hurry. No, no, While's keerftil; Tarns us suthln', rally ; Wun't drive a boss t* death he hopes t'sell y«; But drives a bargain pooty keen I tell ye. Qre«n— wonder ef ye know wut'sallln* GreonT He works like biases, fUres I have seen ; No better farm 'n' hls!n in gaughconlc, Er savln'r wife from Kersnop to Hustonlo; Sober s a deacou on a Sab ba' -day— L'an't tell rye from Jamalker, so they say ; Stays to his hum ; lives low. Wut hinders, naow, Thot Green c-a-n-'t git a llvln* et th' plaough? Wa'al we've Led dealln'i some; Til tell ye, ih • n— Nojedgment, more'n asettln' Brnhmar hen, An' Ihet's the nub on't. Ef ye plan he doos, Yer poor et Las'ru* wut-1 wherever he wur. Don't know Brown much, ner mean ter-^ grumpy feller I All His hard cider couldn't make him meller; But they du say he's savin* up at las', Bupplyln' village folks with gurdlti sais ; llo'd orter lay some by, fer yer may bet He don't fbol much on't ofl*t' pay a bobt— * Owes me tbree shillln'. Wa'al It ain't no gre't. Le's look ot Grey ; wust thing 'baout Grey is —books ; Grey reads t* much, 'n* keers t' much fer lookh ; Believes In putting plcturs'up in haousei. An' puts on airs, 'n' dassn't wear patched traouses; Ef 'twan't fer money ler him, goodness knows He might bo naow a-wearin' poor-'aouse clo'es. Wa'al, nut thot I've gut.any thin' agin 'Ira, On'y I du say they ain't nutbln' tx Mm ; No dicker In 'Jm, sartln— not a hooter. C-a-n'-t swop *n* mako a cent— a cent o* pooter. •* 8ech fanners scarcely make the salt they're vatlu,; They 'pear t' think thet hag'lln's'r bad ex cbeatin'; Mebby It Is ; ef thot'* the way I* Agger, We'd ciphered aout aour Jail a leetle bigger ; ' High Bberinr Root he'd Jlst rel'ice t* du It, na, wa'al wa'al, It takes alljkln's o' folks, abac lit, ) T' make a warld. I've gueascd the reason

aout. Time wux I wished some on 'em had'nt come Till artcr I wut borned, an' dead, I vum. Ye see, these puzzlin1 p'lnts I understan' Scuccthey made cb'lce o* mo for Hr.loc'man, Can't all on us bo rulers— sakes alive 1 Twun't work t* hev all king bees In a hive. Duhg 'em an' cultivate 'em et ye will, The's a'.luz some small tatcrs In a hill, An', p'Int 'o fao', yer small-p'tator men Will kin' o' wOrk,t',th' bottom uv the ben, Naow lo's go back t' Guilder farm onco more. We worked ten year much like w© did afore. Wo gut a fam'ly, not by no means small, An' crops an'ibarns grow fntter ov'ry fall, Tho wldder ler us— kin' o' suddin shock, Bh# lef poor Manner all her harlcm stock, It went up t' one-ton, 'n* then I sol' It; One-thirty t»ence-a Too X didn't hoi* It* Them Yorkers cojnc In thick, 'n* huow lan' rlsl They air some good, I toll ye wut it Is, Rich s'U t' secb chaps ain't no consequence, Nor ain't olean crops, nor ain't a ntno-rall fence, Wut tickles them In traouts 'n* shutlin lots, Nice air, rod clouds, 'n' awful stghily spots; Yer poorest pastur' hill where wind Is ha'sh XJore'n likely In tho one thet takes tbclr sash. 1 But now them days come on wut I ecbed my prldo ; Manner got off tho hooks, an' up an' died. Thet wax a durn hard blow, I Jes clean lost The smartest holp 1 ever come acrost. I vow I thought I'd rather 'twould lia' ben My twenty head o' fattln' stcor. But then Hhe'd gut the young una pooty well along ; Tho h'use-work ura'n't u-prossln' quite s' slroug; Aour Jane could cook for men, *n' wait upon •cm, 'N' 811ns hoo his row 'lib any on 'era ; Might ha' hen wins ; but this 'ero loss, yes see, Wus suthln more 'an money aout t' me. I sot gro't store hy hor; It's kin' o' queer, . My farrn-work kep* some back'ard all thet year ; I foun', too, long afore the grave wus sodded, Jane couldn't make secb puddln's sz her ma did. Yls, mor'n tlireo months I tuk on like all natur'; But 't wa'n't no nse; I knew thot soon er later I'd got f make the best on't, I did so, An married Lyddy Runnels, cr. ye know. Bho ain't like Hunncr wus, but he* good 1 p'lnts, An' doos her work up slick, hut can't break J'lnts, An' stop np leaks; *n' so the farm don't pay Not nigh so strong es't did In Manner's day, T* show ye, naow, she's bed some posies come, An' wastes her val'able time u-tondln em, Naow blows that don t bring frntr, to mv idee, Air wuthlcs*, even If ye git em free, An so I tell her; dnn t du any good ; Bbe d crnowd my onions with em el she could; I haln t a dsoubt shed oh use a p«sy bed Afore a patch o' solid kebbogo bead. Wusst on U l«, my gal* 1'arn Srtsr herI

C-a-n-t goto meotln, 'n' o-a-n-t hardly stir, t Jthout admlrln buthik, I declare, | Thet aln t no airthly oaount to cut or wear. Sech conducts sinful 'u» thets wut I say, Live clut, an lay by far » ruiny day. Yls, brother farmers, Its tho good of way, t Worklu an savin, thet makes farm in pay. —Henry B. Goooaue, In HAUrzut Maoa- • xijik. 1 Li. ^ 1 , ( Two Lives Lost. j "Going, going, gone I" 1 The auctioneer wu a fine looking young man, and melody of his rich, * 4eep voice called in many a passer-by ( from the *Bide- walk. We are too late ai<he has made his lost tale for the day, 3 and is ju*t leaving th^ store. We can follow him however, and eee whither he 1 goes so hastily. He soon turns from the busy thoroughfare into a quiet street J and, after walking several blocks, as- 1 cends the stepe of a somber building, on the door of which is a large brass plate, | bearing this legend; "Young Ladies' Boarding School." Not at all abashed by this impressive notice, he jingles the door-bell and serenely awaits a response. Being ushered into the parlor, he asks to see the principal, who presently rustles into the room. "Mr. Clianning, I am truly delighted to see you. Miss Mary has been really alarmed about you." "Quite unnecessary, I assure you, Mrs. Lake. 8urely one of my vigorous frame should not cause any overwhelming anxiety. You don't notice any signs of a decline, do you ?" "No, I am glad to say I do not ; yet I cannot .chide your sister for feeling a little uneasy when she does not hear from you for more than a week, and your boarding house only a few squares away. Soon after Mrs. Lake's departure, Mary Cbanning entered the room, and continued the lecture on her brother's long absence. "Well, well, Man-," sAid ho at last, "I have just received a call to go over to J , and sell out a large lot of dry goods, and 1 hope to make a neat little sum before I returfi. I shall be gone about three weoks." "I should not feel your absence, so keenly Norton, if you would only bo so gracious as to drop me a line occasionally, to lot me know that you aro in , good health. It is not at all pleasant to never get a glimpse of a home face — 1 the only one that is loft me now."

There was just a dash of tears in her blue eyes as she said this and her brother, fearing b calamitous end tothe interview, hastened to add afew comforting remarks, and by dint of some extravagant promises of future correspondence, averted the threatened spell." "By the time I got back from J he continued, "ypur course of study in this school will be completed, and then I propose that we spend the vacation at Aunt Martha's, in complianco wiih her long-standing invitation. We will just run wild in those glorious hills. How I long for a breath of the fresh, country air 1 Walter Thorp tells me thal-.he will le up in that vicinity about that time and the amount of boat-riding and fishing and orudite conversation that will bo carried on thon will atone for all these shortcomings of mine. I think, when I return to the city, I shall at once open a law office, and quit my present YyoaVnes* SOT JROOVY" "1 hope you will," said Mary. "I know you are not partial to it, and I manage to have some leisure time to study. Besides it is an excellent drill in oratory. You ought to hear me arguo a case with an obdurate bidder. "It is getting dark," said Norton, "and I have to mako some preparations for my departure to-morrow so, good-by, I will write moro^frequently in tho future." Mary stood watching him irom the window, and as hi* manly form disnppeared.in the gathering dusk, her eyes filled with tears of prido. "How noble he is I lie i* tho very prince of brothers." Norton, meanwhile, was thinking of her. They were orphans, and *he had that unbounded faith in hi* strong, independent nature which an affectionate child fools in its father. He noticed how her cheek flushed at the name of Walter Thorpe. "Walter was an excellent fellow," he thought ; "1 know of no one I should prefer to him for a brother-in-law." His thoughts were interrupted by the alarm of fire. He fell in with the crowd that always springs, like magic, into life at the dread cry, and *oon reached the burning building. It was one of those wooden tenement houses, cud \ \ t

the fire had made such headway before it was observed that the building w*a already reduoed to a shall. "There is somebody in that thirdstory window,4 ' shouted a man, and instantly the gas* af the crowd waa fixed upon the form of a Utile girl that leaned far out in vain search for aome means of escape. A ladder waa hastily placed against the wall,£but it was sev* eral feet too short. "Drop from tho window," the y cried ; but the bewildered child ociuld not comprehend. "A man could stand on the topmost round and reach her," said one. "Too late," was the reply. "That wall could not support a* man's weight." Norton's lips paled, and his heart grew sick, at he heard the wretched child thus left to its fate. "What if Mary should some day be deserted in this way 1" he thought. "Oh, I cannot see her die without making an effort to save her." Hastily muffling his face in his coat, he darted up the ladder. Half way up he heard a warning crack, and ere he could retrace bis steps, the wall and part of the roof fell and he was buried in the ruins. The child, being higher up than he was, fell directly in the center of the flames and perished. The firemen, who had just arrived, managed to fight their way to whete Norton lay, and dragged him to the street. "He is dead," said one. "No, he has only fainted." "6tand back and give him air," said another, pressing forward as closely as possible. No one was able to identify him, so his crippled and senseless form was carted off to the city hospital. * # • • • • "Little girl, is this Fifteenth street ?" The child screamed in terror, and ran across a vacant lot. The man staggered against a lamp post and groaned : "Oh, God, am 1 so hideous T" Ten years had passed since Norton Channing had come \>ut of that city hospital cruelly deformed by that terrible fall into the fire. During all theao long years he had lived the life of avagabond. His one aim had been to keep from bis sister the knowledge of his misfortune. He knew that she was living on Fifteenth atreet. His eves had been dimmed in the flames, and he could see distinctly but a short dis-

tance. Yet he hod a vague hope that he might look upon his sister's face without recognising him. A hot fevor waa burning in his veins, and he felt he was sick unto death. "Mary musn't know," he muttered, feebly : "it would make her unhappy to bear of my misery. Better she should think me dead, as 1 soon shall be. No Mary musn't know." As he staggered on, he came to the gate which tho child he had addressed had loft open, ns she ran through into the house. She was now in the arms of her mother, who had been attracted to tho door by the scream*, and was now giving j.n excitable narration of her escape from a drunken man. "Thoro ho is now, mamma." Norton Clianning supported himself against tho fence, and turned his disfigurod countenanco toward tliq mother and lior child/ "I would not harm you. little cm* fat all tho world," he said brokenly. Tho mother's cbeek paled at the sound of that deop voice, and she said "Who are you, sir?" It was his sister's voice, and a great fear took hold upon him. "She musn't know. Mary musn't know." Ho mad© an effort to move away from the fence, but hi* legs tottered under him, end he fell sennelees to the : pavement. They carried him tenderly into the house, and summoned a physician. "He cannot live," was the verdict. "II is constitution was shattered by an accident ten year* ago this evening- 1 remember distinctly ; it was the first surgical examination I attended after beginning tho study of medicine. 1 have often seen him wandering about the streets *inco. 1 wonder that he has survived so long ; he must have often suffered from hunger." "Walter it must be Norton," said Mary, trembling violently, it is just ten years ago that he left tne so mysteriously. He must have been that unknown man we saw mentioned in the papers ni having been ii\jur<Ki while trying to save an inmate of u burning tenement house." There was no lack of kindness now.

| The aching head wae*l#nderiy propped up on pillows, and the favored temples bathed. After,"* faw hours* the blurred 7 "Ye., Norton/ "Mary musn't know. She (must be hnppjr. God blew hor." "Ob, Norton," Huj, whiln *>b. of anguicb nonrtjr cbokod ■ "wby did you not come to me T" "8b. mightn't b*re fcn«w» »•, y« know," he went on, not heeding her Perhaps I am not quite right in my mind now. I aometimee think I muet be mad ; but Mary musn't knew." After a little while he grew more flighty, and imagined himself once more at his auctioneer's desk. "How much for this bundle of hopes, gentlemen 7 No flaws in any of them. Th© hopes of a young man just starting in life— none others superior. How much for the lot 7 No bids ? Too much of the article in market already. Give us something else. Ah, here is a remnant ? Come, bid up, gentlemen. Start it at anything !" "Nobody wants it," added mournfully, and then suddenly, the poor, disfigured face brightened, hecried "What's that? A bid? Ah, going, going, gone." The tired head fell back heavily as the remnant was taken by the highest Bidder. « Soiling Stock. i .. A writer, in e reoent number of the , Milch Zwttjxo, on the danger to German agriculture from foreign competition, says that his own experience of fifty years has taught him that regular soiling of cattle is beat for the farmer and for his fields, bringing in greater profit and maintaining the fertility of th© land at a higher point— that twice as much fodder can be produced on a given surface when the forage plant is allowed to grow as a cultivated crop . and reach a certain degree of maturity, » than when, as in pasture, it is continually cropped off and trodden down, t He believes as do all the best German i writers on the subject, that the most b successful system of agriculture in the ■ long run is that in which a large quan1 iity of stock is kept and led well, and a . careful rotation of erops it followed, in

which the same crop is never put twice in succession on the tame land. The soiling system makes it easier to carry out the cecond part of this programme, and th© greator variety of crops that can be raised on a long rotation provide* a greater variety of fodder for the stock, so that these two features of the best modern agricultural practice work admirably together. The soiling system provides a more uniform ratio in respeet to quantity, and avoids much loss of manure. It may be pretty safely affirmed that the dropping* of cattle in the pasture are more than half wasted -by drying in the sun, or by too strong doting with manure in isolated spots here and there. Where land is cheap and abundaut, and cannot be profitably cultivated and carried up to a high degree of fertility, pasturage over a large portion of th© farm may be allowable, but when high farming pays, pasture land \4 a poor investment, and may eat up a large pari of \be prvhte from the cultivated fields, ASTRONOMICAL. all a ■oct ¥5i r lanxtsin pecxmbxr. The Providence "Journal" of December 1 say* : Venus it evening star, and easily win* the plac© of honor among the starry host that studs the December sky. Almost as soon as the sun ainks below the horiton, *h© makes her appearance in the twilight's mellow glow, shining with a soft golden lustre peculiarly her own, and looking so bewitchingly fair that no observer wonder* that the early astronomer* saw in her the godd©** of love and beauty enthroned ; in th© heavens. She i* still receding i (Vom the sun, oscillating on her eastern j path, like a golden bead atrung on an I invisible wire. The proof of this i* eas- | ily seen, for she seta later every evening. and increases in rise and brightness ; her increasing slay above the horiion behvg caused by her greater distance eastward from tbe tuu, and her increasing sits and brightn*» by her consequent approach to tbe earth. The apparent movement of thi* planet i* so alow that she can be easily followed in her course. It must be remembered that the ia now traveling from het suj (Continued on fanrlh r**©-l