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DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF CAPE MAY COUNTY.

VOLUME I. rr,. „ ■ , ,r

CAPE MAY COURT .HOUSE, MEW JERSEY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1881.

NUMBER 45. - J 1 ' —

COUNTY DIRECTORY. JUDICIARY. Pbiiidwo Uott. Alfred Reed. Lay Judge* — Jot. K. Hughes, Cape May olty j Jetue H. Diirerty, Dauoisvillej Sewers C, Gaudy, Tuckahoc. ** ^ ' 9 » P oommimiohrk SCRPLUJ Fc*P — J. B. Huffman, Court Houso. §*emfv— WilJijisi If. Beneiet. Cophty Colleotok— David T. Smith, Court House. - Oo*Ty Cliire— Jonathan Hand. Dipcrv 41 — Korean Maud* Probsoctor Plea* — Vauiet R. Hoegload, Bridgeton. flURKooaTa — William Hildreth. Co. .Sot»'v, Public Instruction —Dr. Kaurloa Beoaley, Douuisville. BUSINESS ~ DIRECTORY. . Br. Tlieo. C. Wheatoii. U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SSAVILLR, N. J .— Sfi^ All Soldiers who are ruptured oan be supplied with trusses, free of ehargo. Apply to above. . Ovl&j j. r. iAmUi, m. d., d. p. b. w. h. lwunlng, s, d. s. J. F. Learning, § Son. DENTISTS. OFFICE DAYS t CAP! KAY COURTHOUSE, Thursdays and Saturdays. CAPS KAY CITY, Tueedayt, and Wednesdays. BOUTH SJSAVILLB, Friday*. »«h61yr. Physician and burgeon, CAPS MAY OOURT HOUSE, N. J. ttohftljrr. J. B. Huffman, * COUNSELOR AT LAW. MJPREMB OOURT COMMISSIONER, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cap* Hat C. H., N. J. 8^ Will b« at hit ocllee av gap* maj chty •very Maturday. mchdiyr. J& 8. H. Nixon, ATTORNEY k OOUN8KLOR AT LAW, Ones i*. Insurance Building, MILLVILLE, N. J. PI 1 || ■ , _ - Mrs. S. R. Conovcr, J fashionable Milliner, HIOIK Strsst, Bklow PJME, HILLVILLE, N. J. mchOlyr L. B. CAMPBELL, dealer in «TOVM, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASi WARE, Ac., Ac. Hioh Street,. Millvillb, N. J. oebfilyr irvrmm, * Dealer in &QE6U. CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Ac. 1lain 8trext, near the bridge, KILLYILLE, N. J. mchOlyr mmm

CAPE EftAY G. H. ■ t » 9 LIVERY ATTACHED. ♦ Horses always on hand, J V • j -. : j „ For Sale er Exchange. L. WH EATON. mohfllyr CAPE MAY CITY, CAPE MAY C. II MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. MP" Iron and Galvani*©d Fencing and all kind* of Marble Coverings for grave*. All orders will receive prompt attention by telegraph or lettor. Flag for curbing work done at the shortcut notice. Call and see. A discount made on all wwk ky ailing at the yard. L T. S?rm*nr, 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. mobfilyr. A. YOURISON, mess im, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNHS8, CAPE MAY C. H., SI. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock! Wc hayo on hand a good aaaorUnent of Heady-made Harness , Collars , Bridles, Saddles, Wliips, Roles, Nets , Blankets , Valises, Trunks, Etc., ALL OF WHICH WI ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. Open Wagon Uarnoee as low as $ 8 00 Carriage Harness ae low as 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND NRIO08. 45?- 0*11 and **o bsforii pareJuwiBc otetwberd, n^iyr. A. Yourison. tiSo IL» ©T^EIL? MANUFACTURER OF LAMES' km CENTS' a FASHIONABLE IIS ill S10SS, GENTSf buttok calf (t alters ONLY $8.50.

} NEXT TO THE "GAZETTE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done, mch61yr. GILMORE «fe CO., LAW AND COLLECTION HOUSE, 2ft6 F Stroot, Wnebingtont D. C. Moke Collections, Negotiate Loans nnd attend to all businoBv confided to them. Land Scatr, Soldier'* Additional Homestead Right*, nnd Land Warrants bought and sold. R. L. Howei.L, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J. Bneclftl Attention paid to lnveling; eatAnlifihing tlie overflow lines of proposed ponds for null aitea, cranberry hog* etc drain ago works etc. Plana raado, estimntes furninhod and apociflcations drawn lor Mills, Bridge* ; Waterwork* nnd nil ahnitnr oonstrnction* or works at short noaioa. mahBlyr %

POETR Y , " A Sterling Old Poem . Who shall Judge man from hi* manner* t Who »k(U! know him by hi* droit Pauper* may he At for prince*, Prince* At for«omothlng lea*. Crumpled *hlrt and dirty Jacket May boclothe the gtorioui* ore Of tbo deepest thought* and feellngi — Batlu Yc*t con do no more. Thero are streams of crystal nectar Ever flowing out pf stone ; There are purple bed* and golden, llldduu, crushed, and overthrown. God, who oount* by soul*, not dresses, Love* and prospers you and me, While ho values throne the highest Put as pebbles In the sea. Man upraised above his fellows. Oft forgets his fellows then ; Masters— rulers— lords, remember That your meanest hinds are in en 1 Men of Jubor, men of feeling, Men of thought, and men of fame, Claiming equal rights to suuthlne in a man's ennobling name. There are foarn -embroidered oceans ; There are little wood-clad rills ; There are feeble Inch-high sappUngs ; There are cedars on the. hills. God, who counts by souls, not stations, Loves and prosper* you and my ; For to him all vain distinctions Are as pebbles in tbo sea. Tolling bands alono are builder* Of a nation's wealth and fame, Titled laziness Is pensioned, Fed and fattened on tho same ; By the sweat of others' forehead*, Living only to rejoice, While the poor man'* outraged feeling Vainly lifts Its fecbled voice. Truth and Justice are eternal, Born with loveliness and light ; Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there Is a sunny right. God, whose world-wide voice is singing Boundless love to you and me, Links oppression with It* titles But a* pebble* in the sea. "Mother's Fool." 41 'Tls plain to mo," said the fanner's wife, "These boys will moke their mark In life ; Thoy never were made to handlo a hoe, And at once to colloge they ought to go. Yes, John and Henry, 'tis clear to me, Groat men In this world arc sure to be ; But Tom, bo's little above a foolSo John and Henry must go to school." "Now, really, wlfs," quoth farmer Brown, As he cots his mug or elder down, "Tom don* more work In a day for me Than l>oth of his brothers do In three. Book learntn* will nover plant beans or corn, Nor hoe potatoes, sure as you'ro born— Nor mend a rod of broken fenct ; For xny part give mo common sense." But hit wife the roost was hound to rule, And so "tho boys" were sonl to school ; While Tom, of course, wa* left behind, For bis mother said he had no mind. Five years at school the students spent, Than each one Into business went. John learned to play the flute and Addle, And parted?hl« hair (of course) lu the middle; Though his brother looked rather higher than ho, And hung out his Hhlngle— "XI. Brown, M. D." Me&nwhlU', at home, tholr brother Tom Had taken a "notion" Into his head, Though he said not a word, but trimmed hi* trees, And boed his corn and sowed hU pons ; But somehow, either by "hook or crook," Ho managed to read full many a book. Well, the war broke out, and "Captain Tom," To battle a hundred soldiers lot! ; And when the enemy's flag went down, Came marching home as "General Brown." But he wont to work on the farm again, Vlnniod hi* torn and sowed his grain, Repaired the house and broken fence, And people said he had "common souse." Now common sense wh* rather rare, And the State-house needed a portion there ; 8o our "family dunce" moved iuto town, And peoplo called him "Governor Brown And hi* brothers, that went to tb* city to school, Came home lo 11 vo with "mother's fool."

"POOR JACK." A KKETt'IX DY I£. <4IT 18 AN ANCIENT N AKIN EE." Poor Jack wan a man, or, at least that which was left of him when I know kira teamed to indicate that ho had once been one. What with every form of dissipation and exposure had reduced his body to n poor old shapeless hulk, ready to go to pieces at any emergency. Jack could not for the life of him tell just 'hi* native place, but thought- he might ho by birth a Russian Finn, lie had a largo capacity for grum lilonco after his kind, but when his tongue wan onoc ict in motion, it wagged freely, i There was a tradition on board tho "Lackawanna" that our horo had, in his ; youth, boon handsome, and agile a* a ; cat, which wa* no doubt the truth. His . whole life had been an eventful one, and on several occasion* during a cruise of more than two year* ho related to mo many a yarn of marvelous proportions. I leave tho patient rondor to judge of only a few incidents in tho life of one whom to know was to love in spite of many fault*. Ho told me that ho had been flogged with the "eatj" jammed n

out of all bikiipo by a huge gun fetching w away in a gale, pinning him against the bulwark* ; crushed almost into a man i by a fall from tho mail-royal-yard of a iine-of-battle-ahip; nearly .drowned half-a-dozen timet ; frozen in the Arctic Ocean \ roasted in the tropics, a* if in the mouth ofafurnace; heat and pound-, ed almost to death in many a drunken fight j *hip- wrecked and nearly starved; had the Btnall-pcx and yulluw-faver ; scurvy and all other disease* that fall to the lot of human beings. He did not know anything about his early life, tbo first tiling he romembcTed was being on board a ship, where he got frequent rope's-endings for trifling fault*, in the good old style. On one ship his surname was Smith, on another Brown and on a third Jonce. The Lackawauna** books had him down as Jack Thompson, gunner's mate. Ho had drank tubs of grog in the British Navy ; fed on jerked beef and garlic in the Brazilian j sour wine and jack-ass-chceso in the Spanish and was obliged on one occasion to eat rice with chopsticks as a hand oifboarda rascally Chinese junk. On this latter craft he was nearly smothered in a fight with tho Malay pirates ; In the Straits of Sunda by a villainou* Luscar hawling a "stink pot" on board. In the war with \ Mexico Jack was struck with a splinter at the bombardment of Vera Cruzj wounded on the Mississippi under Admiral Farragut •, decorated at Fort Fisher for gallant conduct before the enemy, and finally he turned up on the U. S . S. Lackawanna a* gunner's mate. About all tho work that was roquired of him in thi* capacity being to keep one of the 11 inch pivot guns in good condition. Jack rubbed his favorite, duy and night ; you could see your face in it at any time. Woe to the unlucky inferior that left oven finger marks upon this pet of the old sea dog. When not polishing the gun and swearing at some imaginary or possible insult, his mind was studying out ways and means to get his now stopped grog. He did not care a fig about the quality, tho quantity was of more importance. On one occasion some shellac had been dissolved in alcohol for applying to tho ship's decks boiow the • water lino. Tho mass was a stiff varnish. Jack got a sniff of the alcohol, and ferreted out the locality where it was being proparod.and, notwithstanding a vigilant marine was on guard over the stuff he managed to get at it, and drink a large pot of the vilo compound. The doctors *aid it would probably kill him but tho only inconvenience he mani- : fested was it made liiin go to sleep, from ! which ho wakened in good condition ! for more. Jack told mo a yarn about ' swallowing a snake, when attached to tho "Congress" frigato on tho coast of Brazil in 1836. It seomed that a launch was sent offshore with breakers to water the ship. Our hero formed one of the crew. The water was taken from a mountain stream, which was alive with snakes j nnd toads. The men would satisfy their i j longing* for water by lying down and drinking from tho running water. Unfcrtunatoly for Jack, a largo snake saw tho huge opening in his face and was innocently drawn in, a* much astonished, no doubt, as our friend. Now wli&t was to be done ; first they filled him with whisky, which had no more effect than to make tho impviaone-d raakv \ wriggle in a very uncomfortable way. When thi launch got along side tho

doctor* took tho case in hand, stuffing , the poor victim with drug* till he was ■ nearly poisonod to death. After the ! doctor gave tho caso up, an old salt took j it in hand, putting the patient through ; a course of heroic treatment which rc- J suited in entire success. Advantage ! was taken of tho snake4* well known ! love of milk to ontico him to como to tho front and get a sip. Jack was first triced up under tho for© stay by the j heel*, a tripping lice was then rigged I to his lower pair, and the pan set underneath. A watch was now set with orders to pull on th© lino tho moment any thing unusual was seen in tho neighborhood of the milk pan, after a wlulo a triangular head was cautiously thrust out and j a pair of glittering eyes peered about in an inquiring manner ; quicker than j you could say Jack Robinson up went ] the tripping line and tho snake's head ' was caught between Jack'* teeth, the ( success of this experiment was the wonder and admiration of all on boaVd. | The patient declared he had felt no in- j convenience than a constant sensation of hunger and the wriggling of the ser- ! pent. This old salt related the story in • all of it* details and no doubt but he f" thought it true. The good old soul was ebarlUbl* to a fhdlt. His money if not I

| gotten by the land shark* and privateers | the first day after being paid oft would j be generously divided among bis needy | friends on shore. He declared that the | sea was man's natural bom# and that the land was only made to run ships ashore upon. Jack was fully entitled to a home in the Naval Asylum and it was his deeign to apply for admission in that snug harbor for worn-out sailors, had he readied the U. 5. again. One j morning after the Boatswain's call of j "all bands up hammocks" while the ship was at the island of Kauaii, it was noticed that the hammock occupied by the old aalt was still hanging in its place, usual whon hammocks were down. A rough shako from the master-at-arms brought no reply from the apparently sleeping sailor, upon a closer examine- j tion it was found that Jack was dead. A higher authority had called him to muster, one which knew no refusal. The doctor said it was a wonder how a body so near worn out lived so long. Said the chief Surgeon, "he had no lirer, heart or lung to speak of." You see they cut him up a bit for the benefit of soicnce. This was the last service that he over rendered to his fellow mortals. Upon a point of land jutting out ) into the Pacific ocaau, with the ever beating waves of this great sea sounding his requiem, we laid Jack to rost. A voll*y ovor him gtavtf, snU a KiesHauug look at tho spot where we buried hira and he was left. Peaco to his ashes. His life had been an eventful one, but now he was at rest no more storms, or fights was he to encounter, but through the ages be will sleep until the angel shall summon the dead to cozne forth. I hope it will be well with my old friend at the last. "Yet shall poor Jack find pleasant weather, When He who all command* Sbsll give to call life's crew together. The word to pipe all hand*. Thu* death, who Kings and tan# despatches In vain Jack's life bos doffed. Faithful below he did bis duly : But now he'* gone aloft." Notes From Washington. The advance guard of the Salvation Army, which has boon sent on to tlii* city to iqy out the land SBcortain if it would be advisable for the commander- j in-chief and hiB forces, who arc now j carrying on a warfare in Philadelphia, to come hero, completed their work j yesterday and returned to Baltimore. The advance guard is not formidable in | appoarnnce, but attracts attention by , the red band fastened around their j hats, bearing the name of tho org&nizs- j | tion upon it in gi't letters. Tho ad- i j vancc guard expect to come back here 1 : again in tho oarly part of January and bogin an active campaign. Weaver j and Sparks will bo looked after. Tho inauguration ceremonies are likely to bo the most elaborate of any that hav© preceded them. Tho military display will be very large, and the j effort to procure a representation of tbo : volunteer and mRiti* organizations of every State, and each one of the large cites, is likely to bo wholly successful. Accommodation* and quarters ha* already been arranged for over 15',000 men belonging to military and political organizations. Washington society hut hardly as yet assumed its winter activity. It i* the. L * • I general statement thai there 'ha* aeY do in been *o little interest manifested as is tho chso up to the present stage of

i tho current season. After tho holidays | ovcNrsbing is expected to bcctue more j j Kvoly. — ^ A Remedy for the Peach-borer , Besides hunting up tho worm* and ' killing thorn, the following wash is re- ! commended by M. B. Bateham of ! PninetviUo, 0., to keep off the parent moth : For an orchard of say 5U0 bear- | ing poach trees we buy a pint of crudo carbolic acid, coating not over twentyfive cents, or half at much of the refined ; then take a gallon of soft soap and thin it with hot water, stirring in tho acid and letting it stand over night, or longer ; then Oud •ight gallons of cold, soft water, and stir, W# have ten gallons of the liquid ready for us©. Nome peach -growers use a little more and other* lass of the acid, Tha proportion stated i* strong enough, and if much stronger, wonld.b© likely to it\iure tho ' tho trees. The wavh should be thor- ! ougbly applied with a swab or bruah around the base of each tree, taking pain* to hav© it enter all crovioe*. The j parent moths seldom appear ha fore the j hot weather at about the last of June, j nnd I have never aocn one derailing eggs in thi* climate before the first of j July. Hence w* find this the hast f

a™* to ***h> ** »i ar:',ei off the moth* by iu odor, Mid iwUaUy bill* »ny tUt m*y„ha v«= hwti do- - poaiiad. For the apple-bnrar apply tho wash about the fim of Jane. It i* equally affective for both, and when made about half the strength Mined, is a good wash for the prevention of mil- . dew on grapevine* and fruit trees, -and no doubt has some tendency to prevent blight. ■ § ^ ' j Experience and Incident*. AN OLD tco rCMXAX A rXAYEX' An aged Scot -mm, many yean ago* was on his way to a meeting of tha people of God, held in a tent, or soms »uch temporary structure. Tha old pilgrim J was poor and partly deaf, but he trusted in the Lord whom he served and rejoiced in his kind providence. On his way to the meeting he fell in with a Christian brother, a younger man bound on the same errand, and they traveled, on together. When they had nearly reached the place of meeting it was proposed that they turn aside behind the hedge, ahd haVe a little meeting. They did so, and the old man, who had learned in every thing to let his requests be made known unto God, presented his case in language like the following ; "X«V»U| JO Ut ... it wl vuvi>^.u titOi X Ul deaf, and I want a seat on the first bench if ye can let me haYe it* so that 1 can hear tbi* word. And ye see that my toes are sticking through my shoes, and I don't think it ia much to your credit to have your children's toes sticking through their shoes, and therefore I want ye to get me a pair of new one:. And ye ken 1 hoe nae siller, and I want to stay there during the meeting, and therefore I want you to get me a place to stay." When the old man had finished his quaint petition, and they Lad started onr his younger brother gently suggested to him that he thought his prayer was rather free in its forms of expression, and hardly as reverential as seemed proper to him in approaching the Supreme Being. But the old man did not accept the imputation of irreverence. "He's my father," said he, "and I'm well acquainted with him, and beVwell ' acquainted with me. and I take great j liberties with kim." So they went on to the meeting together. The old man ! stood fcr a white in the rear of the congregation, making an ear truicpet with his hand to catch word*, until some cnc near the pulpit noticed him, and beckoning him forward gave him a good soat upon the front bem-h. During tho prayer the old man knelt down, and after ha rose, a ladv who had noticed hii shoes said to him, "Are those the best shoes you have ?" "Yes," said he, 4*but I expect tny Father will get ma a new pair very soon." "Coma with me after the meeting," Mid the lady, 4land I will give you a new pair." Tho service closed, and be went with hor to her house. "Shall you stay during the meeting?" said the good woman a* they went along. "1 would, but I'm a stranger in tha ' place, sr. a' f i\sve nae sill*?. " 4%\Vell," she **id. you will be perfect' y t 1 V a.

ly welcome to make your at our • house during the meeting." I The old man thanked the Lord that I he had given him ail the three thing* ho had asked for ; and while his younger brother's reverence for tho Lord was 1 right and propei\ it is pcwible that he might have learned that there is a reverence that reaches higher than tha form* and eo liven tiooaljjuot^of human taste, and whionSiiad*" the raNievet to come boldly to the throne of jraee to | find nil needed help in evcryHrying ! hour. • ♦ I St\f- Denial in Children. Children aheuld be more frequently put in the way of self-denial %nd selfsacrifice, Each good deed they do commit* them to the love of the good, and to trust in the good. Take them with you at times Into the bouse* of the I poof, so thai they may rce for themselve* ; study carefully also and discuss : wiih thetn the lives of the illustrious martyr* — the great examples of vscfidne*i in history. So when ynu rouse in t them a desire to be like them in fidelii ty of principle you kindle a generous epark of enthusiasm which will ennoble I and beautify their lives.—-' Fnoncavn* ' Anti