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cape may court house, hew jersey, 8aturday, december 25, 1880.

NUMBER 43. . • > r- " '

COUNTY DIRECTORY. JUDICIARY. " ?»d,iu.NU J c mi bi- —lion. Alfred Rood. La* Julhjuj- 12, Hughe*, Caj>« May city ; Je*s# H. Diverty, D vuuLvillc; Burners C, Gaudy, Tuckahoe. 9. • • COMMISSIONER Sl'RPLCS Fl\\D~ J. B. Huffman, Court Howie. Biisiff — William 11. Benezet. County Collector — David T. tiiaith, Court House. (.Bounty Clkex — Jonathan. IfauJ, DirvTY 44 -—Morgan Hand. Prosecutor Flhas — J amen R. Hoaglaud, Bridgeton. 8 oxr.ouj.tu — William Ilildreth. Co. Bur1*. Public INSTRUCTION — I>r. Maurice Beeatey, Dermisvilie. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Br. Theo. C. Wheatou. U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAVILLE. N.J. •ft- All Soldiers who are ruptured fS'' can be supplied with trusses. free of charge. Apply to above, • ,• OcUjly J. F. Lwuuln#, M. D., D. D. 8. W. M. Learning, D. 1>. 8. J. F. Learning , A Son. DENTISTSOFFICE HAYS: CAPIM AY COURT UOU8E, Thursdays and Saturdays. CAPS MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and -W *duesd*ys. BOUTU SEAVILLK, Fridays. mobOlyr. iOWH Physician and Surgeon, CAPE MAY COURT' HOUSE, N. J. j

mehfilyr. j. b. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, •UPREMJ COURT COMMISSIONER, AH JJ MASTER IN CHANCERY, - Cam May C. II., N. J. S^-Wlll b«at h ia ofll<vo a.1 On po Mny City I ©•very Saturday. mchGIyr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, Optic a in Ivsuoaxc* Bi'tLbixo, MILLVILLE. N. J, Mrs. S. R. Conover, I Fashionable Milliner, ! HIOR Strret, BELOW PIXX, MILLVrtLE, X. J. inch 61 vr L/b. CAMPBELL, DEALKU IN STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Aq. If ion Street, Millvillr, N. J. mchftlyr L P. BRICK, ~ Dealer in HOttftKft, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ae. MAIN RTRKBT, NELVR TTIR BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, N. J. mohftlyr mm «, cape may c. h. » » « LIVKRY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. L , Whf.aton. ,roohfi!yr CAPE MAY (ITY.V'APE MAY C. II MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. tBF Iron and Qslfinitod Fencing and all kinds of Marble Covering* for grave*, All orders wilj receive prompt attention by telegraph or letter. Flag for curbing work done at the shortest notice. Call and see. A discount mndo on all work by calling at the yard. L, T. ExTinKisf, Proprietor.

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. mchfllyr. A. YOURISON, BUDS! MM, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HAMESS, CAPE MAY C. B„ N. J. Please Call and Rxamine Our Stock 1

: Wo have on hand a good assortment of Heady -made Harness , Collars , Bridles , Sad- | dies, Whips, Robes , Nets , Blankets , Valises, Trunks, Etc., ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. Open Wagon Harness iw low as $ 8 00 Carriage ilarncea m low as 10 00 i ANI) MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND HllflM. *9~ Cull and see before purehoaiag •RMwhere, moh61yr. A. YoUriSOIl. J. L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF ; LADIES' AND 41EJVT8' FASHIONABLE BOOTS d SBOES. ... % v * 1 GENTS' BCTT01T CALF GAITERS ONLY $3.50. NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and earn fully done. a mchfllyr. Now Squeal I The subscribers have just received a large lot of young Chester Whites & Jersey Red pigs , which they offer for sale at their Meat Market on Mechanic Street, at very reasonable prices . WOODRUFF* WILLIS. novl3 tf. r l. How km.,, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J. Special attention paid to leveling; fHtahl falling the overflow lines of proponed pond* for mill sites, cranberry nogs ei to | drainage works etc. Flnni made, estimates furnished and sneeifirntioiii drawn for Mill*, Bridge*; Waterwork* and all similar eon k 1 rue t ion* or work* at rhort notice, mohftlyr

POETRY. The Closing Year. JIY UKOROK D. K'KKNTICK. ,Tla uiltlnlght'a holy hour— and illenco now la brooding llko a gcnUc spirit o'er • Tlieailll and puUolaM world. Hark! on tha wludt The boll'e deep tone* are swelling— 'Hi the knell Of thp depart 04 year. No funeral train la sweeping past; yet on thectream and wood, With molancholy light, the inoonboam* reel Like a pale, spoUeas Mhroud ; the air is stirred An by a mourner's sigh, and on yon clcud That Uoatsso still and placidly through heaven The spirit* of the seasons seems to standYoung Spring, bright Bummer, Autumn's Solemn form And Winter with Its aged locks— and breathe, In mournfitl cadences that come abroad Uke the hir wind-harp's wild and touehlng wall, A melancholy dirge o'er the dead year, Gone from the earth forever. Tie a time Por memory and for tears. Within the deep, Still chainberx of the heart a spectre dim, Whose tones are like the wizard's voice ofTlme Heard from the tomb of ages, points Its cold And solomn finger to the beautiful ' And holy visions that have passed away, And lell no shadow of their loveliness On tho dread waste of life. That spectre lifts Tbo coffin lid of Hoiks and Joy and Love; And, bending mournfully above the pale, HwecL forinM that slumber there, scatters dead flowers O'er what lias passed to nothlngnosa. The year Has gone, and wtth It ninny a glorious throng OfhupjiY dreams. Its mark Is on ©ach brow, Its shtulowsln each heart. In Its swift course It waved Its sceptre o'er the beautiful— And they are not. It laid Its pallid hand t"l*on the strong man— and the haughty form In fallen, and the flashing eye Is dim. It trod tho hall of revelry, were thronged The bright and Joyous— and the tearful wall Of Htrlcken one is heard where first tho song And reckless shout resounded. . * •. • . Electoral College History . TI10 machinery of tbo Eloctoral Col-

lege hns Almost from tho very beginning of the government proved itself to be cumbrous, inefficient and dangerouB. In the case of General Washington it workod admirably for tho reason that the emergency had not arisen in which its many defects could bo made manifest. It was not until the election of • J oSoroon an'l S lira 4 1 1 n 4 pnKila r\C 4 system became apparent, and from that . time to tho present there has been a constant struggle to simplify, perfect or abolish it altogether. The establishment of the Electoral College was tho result of a compromise, and, liko all compromises, it has failed to giro satisfaction. In the convention thatframod tho Constitution there was scurcely any question on which a widor diversity of opinion existed or upon which it was found more difficult to come to an agreement. Two parties confronted one another. The ono distrusted the people in so grave a matter as the selection of « Chief Magistrate and was unwilling to roly upon their judgement and discretion. The idea of this party was that tho better and safer method would be to have the States to elect the President and so remove the question as far as possible from the caprice, of popular pasaion and tho intrigues of demagogues. The country at thft time was in its infancy. Popular government was an untried experiment. The State's rights element controlled in tho i . councils that laid the foundations of tjic Union. Dr. Franklin and Mr. Mad ison, Mr. Morris and Mr. Dickinson, of DoUwarc, held precisely tho opposite view*. They were willing to entrust the people with tho fullest powers possible, but tbo majority of tho convention decided otherwise, and the Eloctoral Colleges were interposed as a barrior between the pcoplo and the Executive. But before tho present system war adopted various plans wore under consideration, Tho suggestion that the peoplo and not the National Legislature should choose the President received only on# vote, that of Pennsylvania. Then came the proposition to chooso the Executive by tho National Legislature. It was at first unanimously adopted, but tho vote was subsequently reconsidered and it was derided that the National Executive should be sleeted j by ^electors to bo chosen by tho State Legislatures. But this wo* not the end of the struggle. A subsequent proposition that tho President should bo appointed by Congress received tho affirmative votes of seven States and the negative votes of throe. Thoti followed tho report of a special committee of eleven, to whom tho whole subject had been roforrcd, whereupon another ehargo was made. This committee brought forward a plan for appointing electors in each State and for choosing and counting the . votes for President apd Vice PrcsqdvnL It em-

braced a provision for an election by th# Senate in certain contingencies. Finally the claus# providing for the appointment of electors by each StAte was adopted by the votes of New Hampshire, Massachusetts! Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. North and South Carolina cast their votes in the negative. Tho provision devolving the election upon the House of Representatives instead of the Senate was adopted by a vote of seven States to thrift. This is briefly the history of the Electoral College as we have it to-day. Down to 3 K24 the electors were chosen in many of the States by the Legislatures. With the question of their sel#etioi: tho people had praotically nothing whatever to do. Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New York and Vermont followed this practice up to the yoar above mentioned, but at the present time the electors ore chosen in everj* State in the Union by the people — that is, so Far as the people can choose anybody. They are practically chosen by the gentleman who control the machine, and all tho latitude the people are allowed is to vote for one of the sets of electors the managers of the numerous machines may see fit to present to them. In the mutations of our politics the theory of tho Electoral College lias been departed from and its practical operation, as we have it to-day, U vicious in tho extreme. The Electoral College is a sort of constitutional dynamite initio, which, as w© saw* in 1876, may explode at any time. The part of patriotism is to get rid of it. — Ppila. Times.

Amusing Incident . There was quite a scene in Galveston court-houso tho other dky. A young lawyer had just finished an impassioned appeal, and droppod, as he thought, into liia chair, but missed the chair. As he struck the floor there was an explosion, as if a young cannon had exploded, creating much excitement. Tho prevailing opinion was that a pistol hnd exploded in his hip pocket, but, upon raising him up it was found tbav he had flattened out a beautiful silk hat. It seems that an old but reckless member of the bar was to bl&mo for the explosion. When the younger lawyer was about to sit down, tho elder pulled the chair away, but he had forgotten that his own silk hat wan under that : very chair. The elder lawyer laughed boisterously until he identified the mutilated hat as his own, and than he smiled such a sickly smilo, that had it been photographed and sent to tho Houston Board of Health they would have beon fully justified in quarantining at once. He aaya that is no way for a I man to try on a hat, anyhow. — galveston news. ♦ » ♦ Prepare For an Ice House Now . Ifthoro is any farmer without that modern necessity, an ico house, he ought not to let another season pass without providing one. The cost of filling each year is trifling after the house is once provided, and the first cost of this is not great. Tho 44 American Agriculturist" for December describes one that hold twenty tons of ice, and the estimated cost is only $20. Tho houso is bmlt entirely above ground, aiut is simply a square building twelve feet each way and oight feet to tho eaves. The base is eight by eight inch hewn or sawed timber, laid oithor on nstono foundation j or on corner posts set in tho ground, and filled up underneath with stone laid in mortar or bnnked with earth. A similar frame answors for plates at tho top, and they are supported by four corner posts 8 foot long, and oight by 8 inches in siie, and 2 by 8 inch studding as near together as may bo, and on one end is a door. The outside is covered with perpendicular inch boards, and the cracks battened. Inch boards laid horizontally on the inside leave a space of oight inches all around, which is fill oil closely with sawdust. The -floor consists of boards laid on cobblo stones. The roof is made with pitch enough to readily , carry ofT the rain, and is simply covered j with inch boards and battened, and an j opening left in the middle of the ridge | for ventillation is covered by a cap raised five or six inches above the opening. When the house is ready to fill, five or six inches in depth of straw and sawdust arc placed on the board floor, and the ieo is packed a# closely as possible in tho contra, leaving a spiice of five or six inches all around the outside. As fast ns the ice is packed pieces of board can be placed back of tho door to keep tbo sawdust there, Tho ice is packed

somewhat above the plates, and it covered with a foot of sawdust. This leaves a cubical maas of ice about nine feet eaoh way, with something over a foot of sawdust all around it* The maas of ioe will weigh about Iwenty tons, and if carefully put up, so as to secure perfect drainage at the bottom and perfect ventilation at the top, with as little contact with the air at the side* a* careful packing will admit, it will keep perfectly and b# a constant source of profit and pleasure. A Luckless Tramp . Some time ago a tramp got into the fire box of a stationary engine that was being shipped on a flat car to the Paci fie coast. By some freak of misfortune to him a careful brakoman closed the furnace door on him and the solitary picknicker woe alone with his conscience and a few friends that had come along with him to represent the National Bug Bureau. At first he thought it vras a joke, and lie laugliod a smothered, hysterical laugh, but as the hours dragged on and he didn't know whether it was the Fourth of July or eternity, he concluded to attract the attraction of the outside world, so he pounded on the inside of his cage till his arms ached. He might as well have tried to get out of a fire and burglar proof safo with a oorkscrow. One day, through curiosity, a railroad boy opened the door of the engine and looked in. The broad sole of an old boot was turned up at the door, and the brakeman took hold of it And snatched it out. It was followed by an attenuated piece of humanity, that rattled around on tho car like an old

umbrella, Tho bystanders reviewed him and asked him if ho didn't feel hungry. He said h# did feel a kind of goneness in tho gastric regions. An old man, who was then acting treasurer of the Irish Relief Fund, took the job. .Of filling him un. Thai, ix tlx* MAiAn why Ireland missed funds for several months, at a time when she needed it worst. — Denver Tribuxb. Eye Memory . Look steadily at a bright object, keep the eyes immovably on it for a short timo, and then close them. An image of the object remains ; it becomes, in fact, visible to the closed eyes. The vividness and duration of such * impression vary considerably with different individuals, and the power of retaining them may be cultivated. Besides this sort of retinal imago thus impressod, there is another kind of visual image that may be- obtained by an offort of memory. Certain adepts at mental arithmetic use th# "mind's ey#" as a substitute for slate and pencil by holding in visual memory pictures of tho figures upon which they are operating, and those of their results. In my youthful days 1 was acquainted with »n oceentric old man, who then lived at Kilburn Priory, where ho surrounded j himself with curious old furniture reputed to hav# originally belonged to CardiuuA. WoWv*. •- T — told, he bequeathed to the queen at his j death, lie was then the celebrated but now forgotten "Memory Thompson," who in his early days was a town traveler (for a brewery, if I remember j rightly) and who trained himself to the performance of wonderful feats of eye memory. He could closo his eyes and picluro within himself a panorama of Oxford street, and other parts of London, in which picture every inscription ovor overy shop was so perfect and reliable that he could describe and certify to tho names and occupations of the shop-keeping inhabitants or all the houses of these streets at certain dates, when postoffice directories were not as they now are. Although Memory Thompson is forgotten, his special faculty is just receiving some attention ; it is proposed to specially cultivate it in elementary schools by plaung objects b#- j ; fore th# pupils fur a given time, then i taking them away and requiring the i pupil to draw them. That such a faculty exists and may be of groat service is unquestionable. Systematic efforts to educate it, if successful, will do good service to tho rising generation ; and, oven should the proposed training afford smaller results than its projectors anticipate, the experiments, if carefully made and registered, cannot fail to improve our knowledge of mental physiol-

A Lesson for Scandal Mongers . Bishop Oorrigan tells an anecdote of Saint Philip Neri, which ought to have a wide circulation. It is thus : When Saint Philip Neri, who is the Patron Saint of Rome, was alive in the flesh there, a certain woman who was very much addicted to the vice of scandal telling, want to confession to hinL She wore a little woolen^ handkerchief about her neck, and the good saint told her as a penano# for her sin she should take that handkerchief and part it thread by thread on her way home, and drop the thread# in the street* a# she walked, and on the morrow return to him for further instruction. The street# of Rome have no sidewalk# except very few, and people have to walk in the middle of the street. When it i# muddy there it is very muddy, and there is no dodging it. The woman returned to Saint Philip at the time appointed, and reported that she had performed the penance, laid upon her. "Now," said th# good pastor, ^ "ge back and pick up the threads again." "But, father," she exclaimed, "that is impossible. They are all trampled in the mud and I can not do it." "And yet, my child," said the good man, "you have been in the habit of picking your neighbor's character and reputation to pieces thread by thread. How are you to restore them when you hav© thrown the threads in the mud and it is impossible to find them ?" ♦ » ♦ Increased Sight . Professor Benjamin C. Merrill is generally conceded to be one of the foremost scientific men of Milwaukee, Hitherto he has confined his researches

to tho field of eloctricity rather Uian to that of optics, and it was not supposed that the world would be indebted to km for tho most important discovery in connection with the eye that his ever yet been made. Professor Merrill has long been of the method of supplying _ tVt A dftfuUAnr.v_n.f i>vfl x*xm+* ■«— » — months ago he undertook to ascertain if there was any way by which we could bo able to dispense with artificial lenses. It is a well ascertained fact that persons who are nearsighted, or, in other- words, can only see such objects as are near to them, have the ball of th© eye globular and protuberant, while those, whoso vision enablel them to sec objects at a long distance from them have the eye flattened and sunken. The obvioii* explanation of this fact is the theory that when the eye is flattened the lenses are compressed, and thus focal distance is increased, while the opposite effect follows the too great rotundity of the eye. Acting in accordance with this theory, Professor Merrill conceived the plan of increasing the power of tho eye, not by using artificial glass lenses, but by im- * proving the natural lenses. He designed an instrument, consisting of two small metallic disks, each pierced with an extremely small hole, and connected by a light steol band. These disks are to | bo placed one directly over the centre of each eve, while the steel Kind, pawing around the head, holds thein in made that it can | be shortened or lengthened by turning a thumbscrew, and, oi course' just in > proportion ** it is shortened the disks press against the eyes and flatten them. The inventor tried his instrument upon himself before exhibiting it to antone. He found that when the disks were put in position and the screw ws* gradually turned his power of seeing distant objects steadily increased, A very slight increase of pressure on tho eyes gave a very marked increase of visual power. Ho made experiments both by day and night, and in every case with marked success, lie found that in tho daytime ho could Toad the Times at a distance of twenty rods by giving the, screw two complete turns, and at night he Vould l>oreeivc the moons of Jupiter and tho ring of Saturn with six turn* of the screw. Up to this i point, the operation of the instrument was quit© painless, but any attempt to give greater eye-power was attended with a sharp pain in the eyes and a daixling light, which rendered all objects invisible. Professor Merrill has calculated, however, that six turns of the thumb screw give bis eyes a power equal to that of a refracting teleecep© of forty -two foet focal distance, and that, in fact, there is no telescope in existence which has anything like the power of his eyes when they nave been properly adjusted by the help of hit now iuMrumonl. 4