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COUNTY DIRECTORY. \ May city j Jeasa H. Divert?, 5ouiiu?il{«i Burner. C. Gaudy, TuttkaW ' : 1 » i ■ ■ ■ Commissioner Surplus Eujffr—J* B. Huffman, Court House. 0MJBiirM — W illiavi H. Bonezot, CouKTir Collector— David T. Smith, Court ffotifre, Cocktv Clbrk— Jonattat Hand* Dmpctt " — Morgan Hand. Prosecutor Pleas— James K. Hoagk*d, Bridgoton. Borxooatb — William Hildreth* Co. Hup'V. .Public Instruction -^Dr. Maurice Beesley, Donnisvillc. BUSINESS DIRECTORY . Br. Theo. C Wheaton. U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAVILLE, H.J. All 8oldiers who are. ruptured Hr.^ ' 1 can bo supplied with truss-, •a, free of charge. Apply to above. ' Octay #; JM**xaJng,tt. D.. D. D. 8. W, 8. Learning, D. I>. S. J. F. Learning, fy Son ♦ DENTISTS* OFFICE DATS: CAPE MAY COURTHOUSE, Thursday* and Saturdays. CAPE MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. : . . •OUTH SEAVILLE, Fridays. mchOlyr. wwh vtil'e.y, Physician and Surgeon, Ci.Pl MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. mchdlyr. J. B. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW. H7PEEMB COURT COMMISSIONER, • AKD MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cim MAT C. H., N. J. MT-vriH beat W# omoa ai oape May City rrev 8atarday. mch6Iyr. Jas. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, Qmofl in Ixsubaxcb Builoiko, MILLV1LLE, N. J. .Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, High Street, Bblow Pins, MILLVILLE, N. J. ■achSIyr " L. B. CAMPBELL, DEAI.KR IN SYOVBS HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ao. HlOR StBWT, MlLLYILUa, N. J. wuihfllyr J. P. BRICK, Dealer in MORSES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. KAIN BTKKJCT, NEAR THE BIUIX3K, MILLVILLE, N. J. wchGlyr an house, CAPE MAY C. H. » LIVERY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. # • ■ * ' L. wlieaton. mchftlyr CAPE MAY CITY, CAPE MAY C. II MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. •Mr Iron and Galvanised Fencing end all kind* of Marble Covering* for grave*. AU ordere will receive prompt attention by telegraph or letter. Flag for curbing work done at the ihorteat notice. Call and »ee. 4. discount mado on all wark by nailing at the yard. t. T. ExTmiriv, Pj;opri»tor,

U N TO N 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. mch61?r« AYOUR.SOH, IBB Mm, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. PleaBe Call and Examine Our Stock! We have on hand a good awortment of Ready-made Harness , Collars , Bridle s, Saddles, Whips , Robes , Wets, RJankets, Valises , Trunks , lite., ALL OF WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. o « Open Wagon Harness as low as $ $ 00 Carriage Harness *« low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND PRICES. *3^ Call and see before pure baaing elsewhere, miwiyr. A. Yourison. .J. L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' AND CENTS' FASHIONABLE BUS ui SB GENTS' BUTTON CALF GAITERS ONLY $3.50. NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done, mchfilyr. 4 GILMORE & CO., LAW AND COLLECTION HOUSE, 2fl6 F Street, Washington, D. C, Make Collections, Negotiato Loans and attend to all business confided to them. Land Scrit, Soldier's Additional Homestead Rights, and Land Warrants bought and sold. R. L. Howell, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N.J. Special attention paid " to leveling ; 1 establishing the ovortiow lines of proCed potuis for mill altos, cranl»erry js ote ; drainage works Ote, Plans made, estimates furnished and snooifll cations drawn for Mills, Bridges ; Water* works and all similar constructions or works at short notice, » 'j nvrhftlyr 4

~ POETRY ; My Rights. BV 8u8ak ooolibob. Yes, God has made me a woman, Aud I am content to be Just what he meant, not reach lay out For other things, since Ho Who knows me best and loves mo most has ordered this for me. A woman, to live mf life out In quiet, womanly ways, Hearing the fsr-oiT battle, Seeing as thjpugh a hero The crowding, struggling world of men fight through thslr busy days. I am not stronger valiant, I would not Jolu the fight Or Jostle with crowds In the highways To sully my garments white; But I have my rights as a woman, end here I claim my right. The right to a life of my ownNot merely a casual bit Of somebody olse's life, flung out That, taking hold of It, I may stand as a cipher does after a numeral writ. I do not ask for a ballot ; Though very life wore at stake, J would plead for the nobler Justice That men for manhood's sake Should give ungrudgingly, nor wltbold till I must fight and take. The fleet foot and the feeble foot lioth seek the self-same goal, t The weakest soldier's name is writ On tho great army-roll, And God, who mode man's body strong, mado too the woman:* soul. — N. Y. Observer. California Letter. Sax Francisco, Cal., Dbc. 4Tn, 1880. california and its futl'rk. In reviewing the records of California, and its history, although wo have the facts of the past to guide us in judging tho future, it is somewhat difficult to form a very definite idea of what the future will be, and its possibilities. Very few have any adequate conception of the causes and changes, going on, that are building up our city and State ' with a rapidity that the individual spectator doos not realize. ' When tho gold* soekers from many countries pitched ! their touts on the hillsides, and came to skim the surface of California for her 1 what advantages it might have as a permanent place of residence ; they knew nz little of California ns thcy*did of Central Africa, and by very slow and progressive steps have they attained their present knowledge of tiio country, and in many respects aro comparatively ignorant "of the vast territory stretching out from tho Gulf of California to' Behring Straits along the shore of tho Pacific Ocean. Very few even dream of what this beautiful country will become in importance when fully populated by tho white races; and so it is, also with tho city of San Francisco, few are aware of its growing greatness with the passing months ana years ; already it is one of the great cities of modern civilization, on tho vast shores of the great Pacific, and second only to New York, in tho cities of our Republic, as a central depot of trado and commerce. As regards its geographical position, and its natural resources from inland communications, both by water and railroads, with a vast extent of country, it has nothing to fear from any other city in rivalry, cither with those existing at tho present or that may be in the future. The great overland railroad has aided greatly in its prosperity, and these advantages gained under such circumstances, we may form some idea what it may bo wlicn "competition with other £rcut trans-continental railroad liuos is in active oporation. „ , > .-Lon th^ end of a long peninsula, lias the ocean j on its west sid*, tho Golden Gate on its I north, and its great bay of interior ! waters on its eastern boundary. Already it is stretching out itn long arms of streets and blocks of buildings westward to tho Pacific, and in tho next ton years will have covered the peninsula "and he extending to tho south the only direction in whicn it can increase. Situated somewhat like New York, on a long, narrow atrip of land surrounded by water, it can only increase in one diroction, to the south. Evorv interval of ten years brings to us marked and great changes in tho growth of the city, \ and the inhabitant who does not con- j stantly visit all parts of it, after a year ' or two, finds himself lost in thoso parts newly built Up. When in those days the steamers will pass through tho Golden Gate, our prosen t barren sandy hills will he no longer visible, but when the Cliff-house is in sight tlio great city will be seen, crowning the hills and all tho shores around the bay. This is not theory or speculation of what is possible, but simply depicting the future from* what we know in thk past and pkksknt. Yet notwithstanding this probable growing great•noHs \n prosperity and population ol our city and State, wa may read that' some of "our wealthy citizens are seeking more profitable investments in the old cities of the Atlantic States. 00 au A ooal dealer of this city received a large cargo of Scotch coal a few days ago, ami immediately notified the retail > dealers that Its price would be $14 per 1 ton — an advance of $1. Another wholesale dealer received a cnYgo of M est

Hartljr, and it xs presumed that the retail price on that kind of coal will also be advanced. This rise in the price of fuel was prepared for, in anticipation of a scarcity of coal, but several cargo** having arrived, there is now no fear of a scarcity, but the, price of coal goes up all the same. The amount of the matter is, the wholesale dealers intended to make a rise, and the feared scarcity was seized upon as an excuse for making greater profits. BUSINESS. Our citizens, as a rule, in both Ban Francisco and throughout the interior of the *State, have been striving to hold too much real estate. In this city thousands of lots have been retained for speculative purposes, the owners not considering that taxes and interest were eating them up. There is any quantity of land about the city which cannot be improved before it falls into the band* of the laboring people. These lota are of little jraluc, except to the working classes ; but, if they were the owners, portions would soon bd occupied with cottages. Again, agricultural lands have been held in the same way for speculation, but they are not increasing in value, while taxes and interest money are eating them up. Speculators will discover ere long that unimproved land s and vacant city lots are not the beet 1 property to bold in a State where taxes are as excessive as in California. roomers. Thero is probably not a city in the world, covering no more ground than San Francisco, that has half as many inhabitants. Hero there aro very few except those who are well to door wealthy, who own their own houses, or even any. , Many of the small retail merchants, j nearly all the clerks, mechanics, and ; laborers, live in funyshed rooms. Tho j writer of this is acquainted with many of theso establishments, ranging from ten roomB up to an hundred, and each room, or two rooms, shelters a family. Some of these houses are arranged with a large kitchen fitted with range for cooking, and a great number of small At lAnlr*»Hi r.Yt- til A 11«A r% f roomers, tho proprietor of tho house furnishes fuel, dishes, and one servant to keep them in order, and the roomers j in the house may do their own cooking. ! The dining room is fitted up with a large number of -small tables and plenty \ of chairs, free from the use of the patrons of the house. I recollect being judge ut an election a year or so ago, and we had near seventy-five voters j from one of thest houses, and it not a hotel. marketing In San Frunoisco is not conducted any nearer liko other American cities than aro tho other departments of living. First tho market houses are not public property, but a private speculation of a ! property owner, and the stalls are rented | for what he can got by the owner, or his j agent. As a consequence, many parts ( of tho city, distant from theso markethouses, are supplied with their meats by small meat stalls, located in their » • neighborhood. At one place you may got freah or corned boef and pork, at another, fresh or corned beef and mutton. In tho m$rJ^et .house you can generally get i anything you want in the shape of meats, ; fish, vegetable, or dairy produce, though i if you live at a distance from the market1 houses you may got your meats from tho small stalls, and your fruit and ^oge tables, either from tho corner grocery, the fritit store, or the peddler, the peddler Is a peculiar institution. With one horse and a wagon one will supply you with butter, ohoeae, honey ami eggs ; anothor carries only potatoes and onions, and ho will soil you t*n cents worth or a sack full, another will sell you all the j cakes, or waffles you want for your breakfast, baked right at your door in his wagon, and hot. This institution is known a* tho "Flying Bakery." tlik fruit store. ^ There is another institution pretty generally scattered throughout the city, known as the fruit store. This is in most cases such an affair as would bo known in other places as green-grocers, and keep fruits of all kinds and green vegetables in their season, and the season of some greon vegetables is nearly all tho year. Strawberries, lettuce. r*d- ! ishes and many others, every month, imhiorakts. Persons wishing to coma here to hotter their condition, should not attempt to do so without sufficient fbnds to keep the pot boiling for at least a year or two, as nil departments of lftl»or aro very

largely overrun. Mechanics, liber or* of all kinds, clerks, etc., in large numbers, are out of employment, k few weeks ago one of the morning papers here wishing an additional clerk, inserted an advertisement in their paper calling for one, appointing 8 o'clock, A. „ M.y as the time for application. Long before the hour named arrived, the side-walk, and then the street, began to ; fill up with people, and by eight the j street was almost impassible, and these j were all applicants for that vacant clerk- | •hip, all impecunious, and all desirous of the place. In the printing business, in which fewer numbers are required j than in any other trade, there are many | more here than can earn a living. "Go I at something else,1' says some one ; but J that is easier said than done, for every- I | thing else is as badly o? ersupplied as the printing business, and proprietors of printing offices are taking advantage of this overplus and are reducing wages. j i A few weeks ago a large printing firm | of this city had the printing of the Great \ . Register ; it was thought by some before ) : they commenced work that they would 1 be unable to get printer* enough, but i when they were ready they were able ; to put on one hundred and twenty, who j were otherwise unemployed, and turned j away many more. And all other classes } of labor are as much overstocked as those above mentioned. Thus, as 1 said before, persons should not come here with merely money enough to pay their passage ; better stay where you : are- acquainted with the people and | their manner of doing business. bummers, cak-caKERS akd hay-bunkers. There are classes of poverty-stricken ] humanity in San Francisco which are i possibly unknown to most of the Eastern 1 cities. I mean the can -can era and hay- « bunkers. The can-canera arc so-called from the fact that there may be aieen late at night and early in the morning , with an old tin can or cup, going from one beer barrel to another, and draining ; the drees and stale beer from the kegs i emptied and placed «outside .during the j < night; upoh this they are supposed to | on, theso men, with many others who 1 get their subsistence some other way, repair to wharves where hay is being un- i loaded from hay schooners and other 1 j craft that bring it to market, curl down j in some cozy corner among the bales of ; ; hav for a night's lodging, or until dis- i turbed by a policeman. These are all hay -bunkers, some are can-caners, some free lunch fiends, and some beg from door to door. If my friend the immigrant wishes to become one of those, let ; him come hore without money enough to support himself two or three year*, and will soon be a "California angel" (suicide) or he will be enrolled in the ranks of the bummers, can-caners and liny -bunkers, with no means of either ! improving his condition or of gelling away from here. Yours etc., IV. Yf. S. » » — i— Nuts. ' tiir ntt trade — peanuts — snkt.lbask*— » ch bstn uts w v ln uts prcans porbujx nuts— where totsy coke from and all about tuf.m. Though nuts have been an important ' ' article of commerce from the time of j. j Abraham, at least, there is to-day but ! one house in the United States which , : deals exclusively in these delicacies, and that is on Delaware avenue, in | Philadelphia. In other cities tho nut i trade is made a subordinate branch of houses which deal in foreign fruits. Tho Philadelphia firm was the first to perceive the rapidity with which the trade whs growing and the advisability of giving it undivided attention. The result justified anticipation. Though but a year and a half old, the house already does a business which may b* estimated from the fact of its handling 100,000 bushels of peanuts a year, and othe^ nuts in proportion. A "Bulletin" reporter, who dropped into the establishment yesterday, had to thread his way through an accumulation of wares | strongly suggestive of a nightmare after i a Christmas dinner. Barrels of shellbarks, bags of chestnuts and boxes of Jordan almonds lined the entrance ; in the recedes of the store huge bags of peanuts w«mh> piled up to the ceiling ; a row of bins, invitingly displayed, shew* | ed accumulations of fillwts almonds 1 and English walnuts ; barrels of walnut kernels, temptingly open to the > hand, stood hard by, and the resources , I 6f a whole forest seemed to have been - gathered in that dark warehouse.

'1 ^istf but refresh pwmi, tStt k p*r hops m Thouik it k ' d matter in ayarybody'z mouth, there k a good desl of inform*lion about the peanut which is noi matter of common knowledge. Not very long ago the sign, "Fresh Roasted California Peanuts, '' was conspicuous on m li hung over a pile of tha fruit Wm*£L evidently belonged to the aristocracy o# the peanut tribe. Great, long, treble and quadruple j mated fellows, their very appearance suggested that they could have grown in a land ef no lew magnificent ideas than California j and their appearance suggested their name, for their actual home was in Tennessee. Though, not the beat flavored of their class, they fulfilled on important mission in "bearing" the market, and reducing the retail price from ten cents a pint to five cents a quart. The peanut business has developed rapid! v since the war *n<i is still growing. The annual consumption now is enormous. The beet ones come from Virgins*, North Carolina and Tennessee, They can be raised in Pennsylvania, but the fair promise of the shell is apt to disappoint the grower with a hollow mockery instead of the luscious kernel he expects. The soil here is too rich ; peanuts thrive beet in a poor, sandy loam, where excessive nutrition does not tempt to wild luxuriance ofgrowth. As 4 before mentioned, the Tennessee peanuts are large and many Jemtod, The Virginia nut* ore small, have bat two kernels in a pod, but are of good flavor mad axe airway* <-o.U. Tk»y -anmatimea sold as "African peanuts but in reality there are no African peanuts imported now, though during the war the high price of five dollars a bushel induced the importation of a few cargoes. A new variety called the Spanish peanut is highly valued by confectioners on account of its superior flavor, and sells readily for one-third more than the ordinary kinds. The bast peanut candy u made from this nut, which, * notwithstanding its foreign title, is also grown in Virginia. SBKLUAKO. The mention of shellbarks recall* boyexperiences of froatr wanderings . in hickory '•bottoms/' with necks aching and eyes strained from long looking at nut-laden branches waving a dieeour aging distance skyward, on the summits of tall, shaggy trunks which offered about a* much facility for climbing as a • UiiFOT jJuOMu and of winter evenings beside the kitchen hearth, hammer in hand and upturned flat-iron on lap, cracking afaeilbarkb for the girls. The boyhood day* are gone, but the ahellbarki remain, and the bulk of the supply cornea^ from 1 — where do you suppose. O, Philadelphia reader 7 From no farther away ! than your next neighbors, in Montgomery county. That county sends you a thousand bushels for every one that comes frotn elsewhere. Some shell - harks corno from the New England States, and some from Ohio, but they are small and thick -shelled ; a cross between the genuine shsllbark and the "hog-nut," despised by country boys. This, by the way, is the off-year for shellbarks. They grow in alternate years, like apple*, and while cheetnuts, aeorns and other mast were abundant in the woods this fall, shellbarks? were a total failure. And this is the reason why you wUi find -very few shellbork candies in ycur mixed caramels this winter, CHESTNUTS. Where do chestnuts grow 7 In the • woods. Yes ; but we in the city tee very few of them.. The squirrels end blue-jays harvest most of the forest crop, and they vend none to market. B«»sidea, the chestnut, more than any other nut, is improved by cultivation > u$k % C«ST\*yw pwA. Nv ood cVvU - r v I are small and few on the tree, and are 1 ven apt to be mouldy or wormv. The • tree must have air and light and room to spread itseli, before you can m*k it to i produce five or six bushels of large, wholesome nuts. It grows rapidly. ! reaching a prolific hearing size in about « twenty years, and many farmers now have their chestnut orchards, which pay as well as their apple orchards, if not better. Cultivation improves the siza ©tAhe nut, but at the expense of it* qualjrty, and the mam mouth specimens we eiee on the street corners are almost as Pennsylvania takestho fir*t\daee a? n producer of chestnut*. Virginia a good many, but they are Vnialler than the Pennsylvania nut. Italy sends eoma very large ones, though most of the ex- ; tra "sized nuts come from Pennsylvania, ' too. The Italian nut appear* to Be a | distinct variety, and incapable of propagation here; at least, experiments with it have resulted in trees which grew but bore no fruit. yuk black walxrv. Next in order comes the black walnut, and here too, Pennsylvania takes a ■ prominent place. The walnut-ahaded ! lane* and roadside tree* of her thrifty farmers. wh^Jike to make even their shade trees "pay," send thousands of i bushels to tickle the palates of the great city. AY eat Virginia, however, crowds the Keystone State pretty dose lv in her exports of black walnuts, and has developed a new industry in con* • | nection therewith, Negro labor it t | cheap in that State, and children's | labor i* cheap everywhere ; so hundreds 1 of black families make a living in the walnut eeaaon by going out ana gather