FUBLWHBD .SATURDAY, AT CAPE HAY COURT HOU8K, H. J. Tniu* — Ou© Dollar a yor, payable* in ^nu.' I^J^OTti»cmUi.ubj^>l*l contract Local Notice#, 8 cent* per line. Anonym out communications will not b# l^uuwUncvaJ _ ilSVa ttI^m,.,.,.',,, . SATURDAY. DKCSM^^M^" jgjjjeiagggfe West Jersey R. R. lime Table. TRA1M* LJLAYS COURT UOL'SK AS KoLLOW* : For Pliila., Camden, Salem, Bridgeton, Vifiolaud, Millville, and way etalious, at 7.12 A. 11. and 4 .22 P. 11. FoYCap© Hay City, Bennett, and Rio Grande, 11.13 A. 11. and 5.10 P. M. Leave Philadelphia for Court lloeue at 2.00 A. M. and 3.10 P. M. " Millville for Court House on the arrival of Stages from Bridge ton, at 10.12 A.M. and 4.53 P. M. 44 Cape Mav City at 6.50 A. M. and 4.00 P. M. W. J. Sewkll, Supt. Cape May Court House P. 0. Mails for Pbilada. close at 6.45 A. M. and 4.00 P. M. Local and County mail going North closes at 6.50 A.M. Mail for Cape May City closes at 10.45. J as. McCswrfcKT, P. M. THE* CHURCHES. BAPTIST.— Hoy. I Pastor. 84rvice* every Sabbath at 10.30 A. M. and 7.00 P. M. Sabbath School at 2\ o'clock P. M. Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock. METHODIST.— Rev. P. Provost Pastor, ftervievs every Sunday morning at 101 o'clock, and in the evening at 7. 8und*y School nt 2.30 P. M. Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening at 7.30. A friend will accept thanks for Tren. ton pipers. Apples ire a favorite diet on the 7mil? beach. Go to Murphy1! at Millville for Christ* mas gifts etc., etc. Dec. 44 1. A young lady faint# 1 at the Baptist church on Sunday last. Fashionable beavor hats at Mrs. MA. Douglass1 for 45 cents. Dec. 11, 4t. Cburehes should not only be well heated but ventilated as well. 25 beautiful chroxno cards, with name, for 25 cents at the Gazkttr office. When in want of a stylish bonnet, call on Mrs. 8. R. Conover, Millville. tf. 100 pounds of old newspapers for sale at this offioe. Price, 5 cents a pound. Post Master, James McCartney, has had a new roof put on the Post Office. Friend Dory did the work. Do not forget that the ladies of Gravelly Run will hold a grand fair and festival during the Christmas holidays. 2ft beautiful chrorao cards with narao

only 10 ots. 8*nd 3 cent stamp for aainple*. James D. Godfrey, Millville, N. J. oct30,3m. Mr. Edward Hand has purchased the store property at May villa, and, we arc informed, will shortly open a general store. You will find tbt best assortment of ladies1 and children1! coats and wraps at Mrs. S. K. Conovet't 101 Lllgh %Vve%Y. JfWriTfe. tf. Mr. Frank Learning, son of Hon. R. 8. Learning, Denniaville, has gone to Virginia to lire. He will go into the raising of stock on a large scale. Miss E mma Learoiug, daughter of Dr. Coleman r . Learning, started for Florida on Tuesday of this week, intending to spend the winter in the South. Mrs. 8. R. Conover, Millvillo's popular Milliner, has now at her store, 102 High street, a new and well selected stock of millinery, trimmings, etc. tf. Our fellow townsman, E. T. Benezct, is adding a neat veranda to his handsome residence on Mechanic street. When completed it will compare favorably with any in the village. a A friend of the GiZKrn, writing from Kansas, where fevers are prevalent, says : "I never before appreciated the reality of the 'Bnekadawln' and 'Ahkoeewin1 of Longfellow's Famine, as since my stay in the West." Woodruff A Willis have just completed a new slaughter-house in rear of their popular meat market on Mechanic street. They are an enterprising firm and our people should see to it that they are well patronised. We call the attention of our readers to the new advertisement of W. D. Kd«ovt. It i* worthy (heir notice*. A

JiJ- - ■ A P- Murphy, <>f MOMlte Hm th. UrgMt .tookgf * <4ock*, j.w.lry, silverware, vaso*, muslbaT instruments, etc., south qf MiiUuUlphi*. This u just the place for (Sspe May people to secure their holiday presents at low figures. 'Deo.44w. "literary society, Programme for the Court House Lit erary Society for Friday evening, December 10, 1880. 1 st— M usic, Society . 2d — Recitation, Miss Hannah IJildreth. 3d — Debate' Question — "Should the Electoral College be abolished f 11 Affirmative, Messrs. Bundy and B. C. H«w itt. Negative, Mrstrs. Randolph and Lyons. 4 th— RBcgae. 5th— Music, Miss Learning. 6tb— Conundrums, Mr. Lyons. 7th — Essay, Mr. W. 8. Hand. 8th — Question Box, Mr. Morgan Hand. ' - . . - y 2th— Music, Society. The Society will meet at half past ssv* on o'clock, in the school-house. All are invited. Beau free. THE LITERARY. At the regular meeting of our village Literary on Friday evening Dec. 3rd the exercises were of an interesting character. Rev. P. M. Randolph offered prayer, after .which the minute* of the previous meeting were considered. A. K. Lyons was ap)x>lnted critic. A motion to alter the time of meeting was laid on the table. The first feature of the special programme was a remarkably patriotic speech by Master Clem Foster, which was greeted with applause. A spelling-bee was then organised under the leadership of Frof. Thos. Purdy. This was participated in by several outside of tho membership ; and was the cause of much merriment. Tho ranks were soon thinned out and Miss Emma Bennett was left alone, thus carrying off the prise— a dictionary. Next was an essay on "Comets," read by Mr. Morgan Hand. It wa a very interesting and highly instructive, showing plainly the composition of Miss Helen Learning. John Jenkins followed with a declamation, reflecting credit upon his teacher. The answers to the questions given were next received. Miss Bailie Norbury .road an essay upon "Hidden Treasures," which showed considerable research and thought. Mr. E. C. Hewitt rendered in an acceptable manner, a solo and the sooiety adjournod. CAPE MAY CITY ITEMS. — Cape May was clothed with white yesterday. — Winter has corao with its snow and cold west winds. — Mr. David Crowell is building a fine cottage on Lafayette St. — Knickerbocker Ice Co's. new icehouse makes s fine appearance. — Thore are about ten cottages in course of construction hereabouts. — L. Conley, a laborer, fell from the roof of Maonechoir Hall fracturing his leg and spraining his ankle. #— Conductor E. Johnson stepped on an apple skin and fell ,hurting his hip so that he is confined to his bed. —We should think everybody would go to C. II. Miller1* store for finer}'. Anna

and Jennie are nice girls and very ac- i commodating. —A schooner has just passed in with her fore-t^knosl gone and wain-mast broken off; the indications of heavy weather at sea. — Business seems to be improving at Cape May, and painting, papering, repairing and, rebuilding cottages seem to , h% Uva qC Uk* ds$ . — Along our beach front looks like a Port of Entry ; the shipping is anchor ed in front of the oity wailing for fair weather to go up the bay. -^Contractor E. R. Williams has the lumber on the ground at Ocean struct for a fine cottage, which he will orect as sbon as the weather will permit. —The D. B. k C. M. R. R. Co. are driving on the branch road to SewcU's ; Point. TbV carpenters hwre commenced work on the hotel at Sewoll's JPoint. — We shall he glad when tho visiting season is over and th# old folks and girls and boys get home and settled down, then will be tho time for surprise parties. — We miss (Vom our midst Miss Anna Hand, Miss D. iHlvis. Miss 8. Smith, Mrs. W, H. Hewitt, Mrs. 8. Richardson, , and Mrs. S. Hand, all of whom are visiting friends In different parts of the , state. —The four o'clock train from Cape May seems to have tho favorites of the f Weet Jersoy Company. Conductor Sparks has won the esteem of the public { his smile and kind wort! toevery one has l gained him great respect, hisbrakeman, F. Barnett, Messenger L. ,1 arret t, and n engineer, Samuel Chester makes up the j pwrtyI — The Y. M. C. A. in (his city is pros-

pering. It started about seven month* ago with twelve members ; to-day It has a membership of seventy, and the} have mi ted a larger room whioh th©> are fixing up for a lecture and reading room. On the fourteenth of this mouth they will have a concert and ©xhibitioi to raise a fund for a library —The 3.16 train on Monday brought a party of gentlemen who cam© to take a little recreation in th© shape of gun ning. Among the number we noticed the foljowing gentlemen Asst. Supt Hackett, A. J, Potter | Sitting Bull] Sam French, W. A. Wood, and con ductor Jack Bryant. A delegation of 20 small boys, headed by Capt. Donley, of the Caffrey Carriage Co., met the party at the depot with torches end a transparency on which was inscribed, "Welcome to Sitting Bull." They pro^ ceeded at once to Koeing's saloon. Bill. Our Washington Letter. [from Our Regular Corresponds nt.] Wa6hiko%on D. C. Dec. 4, 188(k The report of the Interior, which has just been made public is a document of great interest in respect to matters of national importance. The most important topic of general interest is, of course, the Indian question. .The central idea of the Secretary's policy is the abandonment of the reservation system and the granting of severality titles to the Indians, inalienable for about one generation. The four years of his administration have been marked by noteworthy progress in the education of Indians at a distance from th© camps, th© extension of law over tho Indians roerovation and the training of Indians in various trades and as policemen and freighters. The Secretary predicts, from present indications, that the Indian problem will be solved sooner than is generally supposed. The consolidation of the geological surveys, the reorganization of the land system, the prevention of speculative depredations on timber lands, as far as th© appropriations will permit, an increase of working efficiency und an improvement in the moral tone in the department have been affected in the la&t four years. According to the report of the Post-master-General, thore are 60,472 employees in the Pott office Deportment, hi other words, the Tost office army is more than twice as large as the army proper. And where ono person thinks of the soldier, ten persons think of the postman. The complete change wrought by modern civilization in the modes of regarding social functions has no more striking illustration than is afforded by the growth of tho postal service and the respect with which it is regarded. Superintendant of the Census Walker hat submitted bis annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. lie says that although the work of taking the tenth census is substantially complete (returns having been received from all but seven of the total number of 31,265 enumeration districts), it will probably be two or three weeks before the office will be able to "present complete statistics of the population of the country. During the month of December tables will be submitted exhibiting the population of each state and county ii} the United States, distinguished us native or foreign, white or colored, male or fei male. The Accounts of 28,410 enumerators have already boon settled, in-

volving a total of expenditure of upwards of £1,820,000. Only about 1,200 accounts remain unadjusted, and ther** is no reason to doubt that the month of December will see all the enumerators paid for their services, except only in cases whore a suspension is required for reasons unmistakably connected with some fault more Or less serious, on the ' part of the enumerator himself. ?t let?? mufygemtod >wJww.v»r by > some of the democratic members of the ' next House who are in town that their party can retain its control ofthe House of Representatives by forming a coali- ' tioti with the gr«'r n baokers, and it Is said that movements have already been instituted with that end in view. It is not believed, however, that any influential portion of the democrat io membership of the next House would favor such a proposition, and even if democratic consent was obtained it ia extremely doubtful whether a sufficient ' number of groenbaekers to control the llouae could bo induced to enter the scheme, a* probably one-lmlf of them are out-and-out republicans. With reference to the np|K»intmcnt of a chief signal officer (and thore now i seems to be some doubt as to the com- ( ! ing man], it will not in the least interfere with the projects of scientists, who 1 are determined to carry the matter to Gongro**. It is quite generally understood now that theae gentlemen failed to eecure the co-operation of the President in tho matter of transferring to ' scientific control the meteorological branch of tho service j and it is their present intention to have a bill introduced early in the session which will §*cure to them the muoh-covet*d prise. I The bill will meet w ith much opposition. The National Grange has declared in

I Trevor of elevating the bead of the Agri cultural clepftltuK' t to the dignity of a 'Mbinet official, and the tuomUrs of 'Engross who five in agricultural districts may b# depended upon to urge There is a bill pending tor this purpose m the House, hot iber© will not be ftitne, perhaps, to push it to a cotxclu •ion this winter, but the agricultural interests will doubtless urge the quae tion in the next Congress. The session of Congress beginning today will not lack for non-political subjects for work and debate. From present appearances thee© rather partisan affairs will have attention. Aside from tho appropriation bills, which are in great measure the some from year to year, it is probable the refunding bill, ( the reapportion mont, and the bill cbang- ' ing the system of acting on pension claims, will most certainly be acted on and the most lengthy discussed. A <*w words about them may not be out of r^laoa. The pension bill proposes to have ; testimony in support of claims takep as nearly as may be in the neighborhood of the claimants residence, and that it be taken before a government officer. This, it is urged, wilhdo away with the liability to fraud which is supposed to be almost unavoidable when claims are • docidcd upon Ex fartr evidence. The two objections urged against the meat* ure are first, that tho witnesses are so much scattered now that the claimant will b© unable to get them together without uirreasonabio expense to himself: and second, that the expense to government will be greater than now. The bill has been several times defeated, but 1 think will pass at the next session. The refunding bill of Hon. Fernando Wood, already before Congress, provides for a three-and -one half por cent, bond with which to retire tns seven hundred millions of five and six- per cent, bonds which the government has the option of paying next year. When Mr. Wood's bill wop presented, Secre- ' tary Sherman offered it, a? he thought a bond bearing let* than four per cent. i could not be sold at j>ar. He now thinks three-and-one-hnif per cent, enough, and Mr. Wood u said to believe three pot* cent, ample. Those who follow the .Secretary, those who follow Mr. Wood, and a third class who think th© existing bonds -can be paid most advantageously from the surplus rere1 j nue. This latter class embraces all the (ireenhackers, who object to any more i I long-time bonds, and some Republicans , { and Democrats, j The reapportionment bill will, I think, I be passed this sossion of the figures of > j population are furnished in time by \ Superintendant of th© Census Walker. More Stato Legislatures will Its in sesi ©ion nowor wHI be in time to re-district ' I their States if the reapportionment is 1 made at once, than will again be for two years, and as general Walker sensir bly says in his late report, much of the value of a Census under a rrpresentaj tive form of government, depends upon 1 ■ tho promptness with which population* i j can take advantage of gains in difierent . | sections. ' ' TOWN\SEND\S INLET ITEMS. > I — Extra meeting commenced this i | week. — Mr. Lewis Cress© has been purchasing a new phaeton. — Mr. 1). C. Middleton's child has ro covered from varioloid. — Wo are thinking of having a Christ 1 tutu tree at our church. — (Japt. Aaron Hand is making hit last trip for the winter. -—The young ladiee are talking of having a party during the holidays. — Mr. and Mrs. K. Morris liave been — ml i % 4IIIM n « e« a%« "i i is is **» v s»vv *i

to Philadelphia purchasing goods for their store. y — Miss Moll Cress© hasreturnod home from Vino land, whore she has been visiting for a short time. f Ika. ALL TIMS WAY FitOM TUCK A HOE. -^>ur schools were never in a better j condition. —Mr. I.en. Steelmsn has baled a forgo quantity of hay this fall. —The farm of Capt. T. Weeks is a model one and reflects credit upon iwC I owner. — Ret. 8. B. .Tannin occupied thepul- . pit of tho M. E. Church on Sunday last. • morning and evening. —We notice by lust week'*- Gatbttk thai you people at the Court llou*© are having a cob-fight. —The Narrow Guage R. R. talk «©• riotnlv of making icgulur connection with Tuekaboe via. of the river. — Mr. Hop© Madden has torn himself away and now has hi* letters iddressed to the Trenton Business College. —We congratulate ourselves that i than are few more efficient post IBM ters there is our respected friend T. M. . 8eoley» — The residents oT Atlantic Side complain that a party of drunken boy* make night hideout by their yells and shouts. — Ott© of the eititens of this villaf©. by name Mnlford Stcclman, lias l*ecn lodged in May's landing jail to raffed for a few weeks upon the bad treat nteni he ha* given his better half. — The principle topic in town at this writing is the grand uv»tiral and enter tainmcm to b* held in Stoelman V%con tennial Hall" on Christmas day. The affair promises to be one of great inter est. —Our worthy Methodist pastor. Rev. W. 8. Zanc, wa* taken ill on Saturday la*t, and was, in conteouenee. unable to officiate on Sunday. Bro. Zan© ha» j the sympathy of all nor cititen* in hia i affliction*. PrtTa.

im tHB i ;B ] k ' k S I I I m ■ . > \ v ■ Mm Mfcfe ■ V j.-' ■ ■ ■ v ■ V - FOR SALE AT ENOCH EDWARD'S, at wholesale prices, put up in 241b. or i bu. !>a£8, at 33 cents per bag, (without bag 31). Warranted to have from 4 to 6 qts. over-run per bushel, 81.34 per cwt. Having made arrangement with Mr. Edward*, we shall keep constantly on hand a supply of fine and coarse ground meal. Corn ground for feed, fine or coarse as desired, toll taken in weight and all benefitted by overrun. A quart of meal goes as far and does as much good as a quart of corn. Every 18 ' bu. com turns 21 to 22 bushels of meal with toll out, paying 32 to 2.50 on each grist of 18 bushels. IT WILL PAY. Parties bringing com on \\ ednesdays and Saturdays can have it ground while waiting. Pure Plymouth Rock chickens and eggs for sale. These chickens were awarded the 1st Premium at Pennsylvania State Fair in i 1879. A lot of young Pigs and Alderay heifer calves, full blood and seven-eights. :| W. D. ED SOX, One mile above C. II ., Seaside Road. Wll.4w. i JB . mi ff 0 hi fits ° t -frfc JR* ' On r ©qstosam UTtae at a duss in ■ or* wsM ^B| f ewred by our portal sriiem. Wtmdaaapfe* IR W (SB and prices on inquiry, sad forward jrxxlB HC. ordctod by tnsllorrx; rrsa. This I depart - i |H| Bkent is orRsn Lecd as w©U se tuo*4 bask*, and fr-'Mk !«■ the insures j t '.' l. v ia kS-'-PB- SB every respect. JOHN W A> AKAKCk IS rff'.TO Sr>Je^»a Pry £A Ak o y I ■ I# 1 > ■ 1 ■ o o o ©VefllHr xAnX^-T r- • *— iwvi- Jia % ii iar^iiT ; 5"

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