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DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF CAPE MA Y COUNTY . -rw ■■■■■■ 1 - k - . - ■ - ^

VOLUME I.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, MEW JERSEY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1881.

NUMBER 46.

*" COUNTY DIRECTORY. \ JUDICIARY. Psasruixa Judub — lion. Alfred Heed. L at Julhjbs — Jos. E. Hughes, Cat >* *Uy city j J«*se U. Diverty, DsnnLvills; lesssrs C. Untidy, Tuckahoe. r r OoMMtattoNKa Scupujs Fund— J. 2. Huffman, Court Houis. lutirr — William 11. Benoxet. Covxtt Collector — David T. Smith, Court House. County Cibrk — Jonathan Hand. Dart? tj 41 — Morgan Hand. Frosroutor ^Plsas — Jained E. Hoagkind, Bridgeton. Uobbooitb — William Hildroth. Co. 8cr'*, {jjufel? jNSTaqcTioiL—Dr. Maurice BeesleyjtDontiisville. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ©y. Theo. C. Wheaton. U. 8. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAYILLE, H.J. Qafcr k 11 Soldiers who are ruptured Mr can bo supblftd with trussus, I to* of char go. Apply to above. 9 Octtty J. V. M D., D. D. B. W. k. Learning D. D. B. /- E. Learning, $- Son. DENTISTS. OFFICE DAYSt CAPS MAY COU EX HOUSE, Thursday. and Saturday n CAP! MAY CITY, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. •. SOUTH SEAVILL!; Fridays mcbdiyr. SOW!* "Wri/aY, Physician and Surgeon, CAPS MAY OODHT H0U8B, K. J. tttohflly r. _______ J, B. Huffman, COUN8ELO! AT LAW, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER, AMD MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cam Mar C. H., N. J. *9* Will tMOtMo oiflco at Oap* May Otty •^tcf tkwriAj. mchdlyr. Jas. H. Nixon, . ATTORNEY A OOUHSRLOR AT LAW, QCTICB IN Issueamos BUILPINC, . MILLVILLE, N. J. Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, Hion Stjlbbt, BELOW PINS, . MILLVILLB, N. J. mobfllyr L. B. CAMPBELL, DEALER IN WOVHS, HEATERS, HANOES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, OL ASSWARE, &o., Ao. HlOJi SvaBBT, MILLVILUI, N. J. ■oohftlyr J. f. mm, Dealer in llftlH, CABKUQI9, HARNESS, **• MAIM BTRttMT, MIfiAR THE BRIDGE, MILLVILLE, ». J. aaohdlyr in ®p CAPE MAY C. H. • ♦ — » LIVERY ATTACHE©. Horses always on hand, For Sale er Exchange. . L. "Wheaton. »ch61yr CAPE MAY CITY, CAPE MAY C, H MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS ' - and TOMBSTONES. Iron and Galvanised Fencing and all kinds of Marble Coverings for graves. All orders will receive prompt attention by telegraph or letter. Flag for curb, ing work done at the shortest notice. (All and see. A discount made on all w*«k by oalling at the yard. * 1L T. to»nm nr, Pr«prfot*n\

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. xnchfilyr. ~A. YOURISON, MlilSS IEEE, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HAEIESS, CAPE HAY €. 0., N. Please Call and Examine Our Stock! We have oa hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness, Collars , Bridles, Saddles, Whips, Robes, Nets, Blankets, Valises, Trunks, JEte., ALL OF WHICH WiS A HE BELLING at LOW CA8JI PRICES. — — o Open Wagon liar new as low w $ 8 00 Carriage Harness a* low a. 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND PfilOKS. flfir Ooll nod km* before purthMUg el*. where, w«M)yr. A. YOUI'ISOII. i. L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF LAW' km 'GENTS' FASHIONABLE BUS d SB, 'gaiters i okl7 $3.50. next to the "gazette" office. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and carefully done, mchfilyr. GTLMORE A CO., LAW AND COLLECTION HOUSE, 2flf> F Street, Washington, D. C. Make Collection*, Nogotiato Loan, and attend to all business confided to them. Land Scmr, Soldier'. Additional Homestead Rights, nnd Land Warrants bought and sold, r. l. Howell, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLE, N. J. Special attention paid to leveling ; establishing tho overflow lines of pro. fjosod ponds for mill Kites, cranberry >ogK etc i drainage works etc. Plans rando, estimates furnished and sneoiti. cations drawn for Mills, Bridges ; Waterworks and a)) similar constructions or works at short wot***. wwa&flTw ^ v

P OETR Y. The River of Time. O River of Time 1 the Jong ago thou werl but a rippling rill, And the dulcet rhyme of thy crystal flow was sweet as wind-harp's trill ; That song ol Joy Uko a lullaby on tho air rose soft and low, As thy ripples spod from their fountain-head and flashed in the morning's glow; White Earth's fair queen, In radiant sheen, flower-crowned by augcl hands, The beau tlous grace of her mirrored faos oft scan nod in thy golden sands ; And thedroaiuy moon, in night's mystionoon, when her full, round orb shone bright, Gazed down with pride on the silvery tido, pale shimmering in her light, While' the primal stars in thetr glided cars rolled on through tho azure height— Pair, glittering gems, bright diadems high sot on the brow of Night. O River of Time! thy stream has swelled through the conturled lapse of yearsHas grown and swelled since of old it welled from Us fount 'mid the starry spheres, Till now, broad and deep, with majestic swesp, like the roll of an inland sea, That stream, first a rill, turns God's mighty mill on its course to eternity ! Ob, metVtlnks I hear, rising high and clear on the ghostly midnight wind, Ths surge and the roar of thy waves evermore, and the rush of the flood behind, And the shrieks of the lost on thy bosom tossed, like -wrecks on the ocean waves, Drifting out to sea, O River, with thse, far away from the land of grave*! O River of Time! from the days of yore flowing on to tho billowy sea, Bring us back once more from thesllent shore the friends who have flown with thee, The myriad host of tho lovod and lost— tho hearts thai were fond— ah, me! Tho beauty and bloom in the grave's dark womb— the spirits that wander freo Prom sin's dark slime in that wondrous clime— bright land of the ransomed souls. When Death's .cold shadow never falls, nor death-bell sadly tolls. Ah, in vain wo crave; for thy ebbless wave, when it passoth tho grave's dark bourne. While its freight of souls, as It seaward rolls, never can nor will return I O River of Time! flawing solemnly on, with the wrecks of our hopes and droams— On, evermore on, to the great Unknown, where the rapturing vision gleams, And tho white souls float in space, as tho mote on summer's lrradianl beams— Oh ! swollen thy flood with the priceless blood ' which over aud aye doth well From human souIb slain on Life's buttle-plain by the ambushed hosts of hell ; Sin's Juggernaut rolls over prostrate souls thick strewn on the flt.ld of strife, While thy mystic tide with their blood is dyed— rod blood from tho battle of life! O River of Time! in tho dim, dark past, full many and many a year, Thou'st left thy fount on that sacred mount, long lost to both "sage" and "seer;" No human eye, on tho years sped by, has ever beheld, i ween, That mystic mount, or that crystal fount, ull bright In Its virgin sheen, 8Jaoe the And twain fell, 'ncath tho tempter's spell, amid Aden's flowery bowers, When earth was young, ere yet unsprung tho thorns among t ho flowers; When thy limpid*; ream in the morning gleam reflected the Heavenly towors, And Paradise rang with the silvery clang of the harps of seraphic powers ; For Earth, at lis birth, in lis child-like mirth, flower-gemmed uud green and fair, Careering through space. In emulous race with tho stars aud the splritsof air, Was nighcr, I weeu, to tho angelic scene, than this Earth of ours to-day. With its deep, dork crime, O River of Time— Imsorrow and sin grown gray ! T. O'l). ()' Oalugiian. — m. ■ ■ i For the Gaiuttb. Cape Hay County—Us Advantages. I. We, tho people that compose this great American nation, arc peculiarly adapted #o our local position on this mundane sphere. Wo aro a restless, roving, enterprising, wide-awake poople, well suited to tho task allotted to us. | In less than a century we have expanded, from tho little narrow belt of thirteen Btates which composed our nation, and spread ourselves over a continent. Wo have bound that continent together with bands of iron and bteel, bridged our mighty waters, covered our inland seas and rivers with a fleet whoso ton- ; nago far oxcocds that of our oceanic j fleets ; and still this restless enterpris- ; ing spirit rules. We have tunneled tho mountains, and dug from barren hills, mineral vroalth that would have astonished ,4Cresus.M More men of moderate moans have grown to bo millionaires in this nation during the present century than over ) before in any nation or in any age. We hrtYe bored into mother earth in a few j spots and the oil wealth flows out in i quantities limited only hv our abiitv to manufacture receptacles to contain it. In a hundred othor ways this enterprise has boon rewarded. But we are tho samo restless people yet, and pi obably shall bo until every gulch and gully has been searched for its hidden treasure, * It was but a few years ago that all the great north-west, beyond tho Mississippi river was in undisputed possession of the Indians, and it was a question which required the terlous consid-

eration of the hardy pioneers who tattled Iowa and Minnesota if agriculture oould be made profitable there. Would it pay to transport . wheat and eorn to the seaboard, east or south ? But today wo find thoee states prosperous and wealthy ; they are sending their agricultural products to Europe, and are underselling the English farmer in his own market. We mujt now go hundreds of miles beyond the Mississippi river to reach the centre of our nation. Still the tido of immigration flows westward, and yet there is room. To tbe laboring classes of Europe, who can never become tho owners of land there, it offers a grand asylum. It is the safety-valve of our large cities ; when business depressions like the ono we have lately passed through, comes upon tho nation, throwing thousands upon thousands out of employment, the most enterprising of tho laborers go west and settle upon tho "Homesteads" that the Government offers, thus relieving the cities of their surplus labor. They then become producers and purchasers, thereby increasing tho manufacturing and commercial interests of the nation and also relieve tho laboring classes they leave behind: But I would advise our young men not to become infatuated with the west. Fortunes must be rnado there tho samo as elsewhere, by energetic toil with brain or muscle ; *by prudence, economy, and tho principle sticr-to-it firmly engrafted upon tho character. These principles will giro you a competence anywhere in this nation, and you may fool assured that rich men are not the happiest men,, In my travels through cape 1£ay county I have noticed its advantages as an agricultural section, and wondered why its young men could be induced to go * to tho far west when their prospects at homo were much greater than tho.ir probabilities of success could be in the' western states. 1 will venture the assertion that any young man who will enter upon tho task, with tho same energy and determination to succacd that he must display to be successful at the west, will accomplish more towards establishing himself as an independent fanner, and becomo the owner of a good homestead, capable of maintaining him sol and family in u less time than* he could do the samo by cither going to the far west and taking up lund under the "Homestead Act," or by going in debt for a farm in the settled portions ; for f on the peninsula which forms Capo May j county thero are all the necessary cle- i men is for making a rich agricultural j country — and in abundant quantities. Nature has indeed been lavish with the treasure placed at your disposal. The natural meadows — producing salt grass j — which almost surround your county i are a source of wealth inoro profitable than tho average gold or ailver mine. It is a sure investment, it never fails in its dividend, and it could he made far more profitable than it is if managed with the samo skill and economy that the western mines must be to give any dividends at all. Hay is one of the first great necessities of the farmer — he must ( havo it for his working teams and stock, j If one would take the trouble to look J over the statistical returns, of incomes I from farmers in tho Eastern* states he would be astonished to «eo how overwhelmingly greater was the farmer's income fYom grass, directly or indirectly, than from all other products put^ together. In sorao parte of Capo May and other counties of this state the salt grass is so j I plentiful that it is very lightly prized. ! I This will not always bo so, and he will j | be wise who boginsasystematic improve- j men t of those natural meadows. 1 know I that much liriie and money has been j expended in dykeing some portions of ; them and tha|t the muskrat and high | tides have undone many an expensive j ; job, but 1 believe a systematic plan of . j ditching has rarely, if ever, been prac- j ! ticed, Those meadows can be verv V j j much improved by ditching without the I groat risk that is attached to dykeing, j Salt meadows which I owned before 1 came into this state 1 improved by ditching and thoy paid mo far batter than ; any other agricultural labor 1 have ever had done. The natural water fnumeti or j lowest places across the meadows should , be opened— and straightened if not too expensive — then ditches should be dug in parallel lines and at right -angles to those natural courses, they should be dug straight in order to use the farm machinery to better advantage. The j distant* apart and width of diteh**

' should be according to the character of ! the meadows, and of which the owner j bhould be able to judge \ if not, experience will aoon teach. I have sometime* dug ditch£ no wider than a common spade, from eighteen inches to two feet deep where the meadows were sufficiently firm not to prese in and fill it up immediately ; and as tho "black grass41 came in with its tougher sod the tops of the ditch pressed together but the j^assagc for water kept open below. It will not always do this, it will pay | better to dig wide ditches if the muck that is taken out is Used as an absorbent in the pig pen, bora -yard, or the manure pile, for too much of the best of the 1 manure goes to waste, which the muck ; would absorb and retain. 1 used twentyfour hundred loads of such muck and can speak from experience. In addition to the hay from natural meadows, the millions of loads of muck which can be used as an absorbent, tbe abundance of sea cabbage and sea weed* which accumulate on the shores, the muscles, crabe and fish-manures which are within easy reach of the people ; the abundance of shells to furnish the lime necessary, and j the easy access to the best markets of ! the nation, Cape May county should become a rsarscT cards*. I have spoken of the agricultural prospects first, for, notwithstanding we are becoming a great manufacturing and commercial nation, eighty per cent, of all our exports are agricultural products. But Cape May county is also very favoably situated for those who do not choose an agricultural life ; its oyster business and fisheries have always been as profitable as the average business of the nation. The familiarity of its inhabitants with thexea have made them the best of sailors and ship-masters, who com•mand respect wherever they go. With a choice of occupation at home, with their own friends and relatives around them, why should the young men of the Gape leave a certainty for an uncertainty ? "The rolling stone gathers no raose," is an old, but true adage. 1 have seen letters which corroborate what your California corre*j>ondent, "W. \V. S.," has written under the head of 44 Immigrants," and there arc enough in all the western cities to ! fill tho easy places. Its true there is always aoon AT THE Tor of all professions or occupations, but it is a rugged road to climb, its difficulties i will yield only to a determined will, j Whatever the occupation ayouag man may choose or wherever he may locate I himself, ho should enter uj>on it with ! a determination to excel. Strike the word can't out of his vocabulary and t let that business be his principal study ■ j until he is master of it. Let his as^ocij ationi be with those who will reflect : honor, and whose habits will tend to ; strengthen his iuotto of "Onward and Upward", and success will crown his efforts. Youa> Truly, Wm. Roberts. ASTRONOMICAL. SOIIETB'.NQ AliOl'T THE YLANSTS I* JANUARY. ' f The "Providence Journai" in a re- I cent issue nays »?r titer is evening ! star, and takes the firat place among tho planetary brotherhood during the month, on account of the disturbing elements in action on his cloud-surfaco, that seem to show a direct relation be- ' i ween him and the sun, while the in- ! fluonce of tho increased attraction is alj so manifest in magnetic and electrical phenomena on the earth. The huge | rift and dark a|>oU oa Jupiter present } nearly the same aspect a& they did in | November. The sun just now is in a ' ] more quiescent condition, his bright | face being marred by few black blernishet, though at one time during the ; I month, sun spots were observed said to I be large enough to be seen by the naked I eye. ITwo or three' plunets like our* i might be dropped Into those hug© caverns without leaving any more trace : than a hall dropped into the ocean. We giv# the foots without drawing conclusions, for the influence of the planet" upon each other and u|*on the sun is a , department of astronomical science that is atiU in its infancy. Fact must be , piled upon fact and observation upon observation for genorntions to come before wise astronomers will dare to assert that the fascinating theory is an established truth. Meantime, heedlosa of j terrestrial interest-, Jupiter purtnea bis

j shining course, being now juat over the j meridian at 6 o'clock, and aetting at midnight. At the end of tbe month ha mu about half-past la& o'clock. V a * it is evening star, and is bewitch - ingly beautiful as she hang* for three hours after sunset in the western ekjr. She will continue through tbe month to oscillate on her eastern path, receading farther from the sun, approaching the tha earth, and increasing in sise and | brightness. For three months to come j the western evening aky will preeent a grand scenic performance, in which Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will be tha principal actors. Venus will approach i Jupiter and Saturn ; Jupiter and Salttm will approach each other ; and tha in* ; creasing proximity will be plainly per* i ceptible. Th'ts is a gala season on plan* j story annals, and this is the time to watch their brilliant movements. Be* fore the pageant cioeet, Venus will meet and pass Jupiter, and afterwards pay her court to Saturn in the same way. Then Supiter and Saturn will be close together, and pais each other just as they come into conjunction with the sun, and the grand panorama of tingle, double and triple conjunctions will not doee until next May, when Venus comes* into inferior conjunction with the sun and her reign as evening star closes. Fortunately these events are scattered over a period of about five months, and observers for December can give attention to tbe approach of the brilliant planetary trio as they move in harmonious accord over tbe celestial pathway. Venus sets now about B o'clock; at the end of the month not far from 9 o'clock. Saturn is evening star, and reaches the quadrature, or half-way house between -opposition and conjunction, on the 12th. He is then exactly on the meridian at 6 o'clock, and sets at midnight. He, as well as his giant brother, is receding from the earth and approaching the sun, although he still retains an unusual brilliancy from bit approach to perihelion, his increasing northern de clination and the wider opening of his rings. The lessening distance between Saturn and Jupiter is a noteworthy point during the month. This planet now sets at 1 o'clock ; at the end of tbe month about 11 o'clock. mars is morning star, traveling slowly from the sun, and approaching the time when his brighter phase will attract at* tention from observers, lie anticipate* the sun about an hour and a half, and may be easilv recognised in the morning sky by his ruddy light. He rie*» now about 6 o'clock ; at the end of the month about quarter before six. Urakcs is morning star and is coming towards us, but there is nothing in his movements of special interest to observers. lie rise* now about 10 oViock in t the evening ; at the end of the month f about b. Mercury morning star until the 25thP ; when he comes into superior cosyuction i with the sun, passes to his eastern side And becomes evening star. He rises at this time about half }aa*t six o'clock in the morning : at the end of the month he sets about half ]»**: 6 in the evening. The January moon fulls on the 15th, j having commenced her course on the ; last day of the old year. She will form I a succession of beautiful tableaux, in | connection with the grand trio of plan- : el* that will reign in the western evenI ing akv. Osi the 3rd ahe will appear as a »»h in i ug crescent, with Yexiui lor her attendant ; on the fith with increasing brightness *he will pay bar court to Jupiter; on the 7th, just after ahe has_ v > Lv. :7 . widl ; seen in exjunction with Saturn. She : will jvass near Neptune on the 5th, and I near Urrnus on the 19lh, while in her waning phase she will form a brilliant picture with Mars for a companion on tbe morning of the 27th. But beautiful and varied a* arv tbe many phases of the moon, thewa whr» really "xleaire to study the star* are willing to see her sink below ths horizon, for it u only on a moonless *nght that the glory of the ■taw \i revealed, and the telescope grasps/the secrets that lie hidden in ths depths of space. I iBteiiwiib I It is said the Mormo^ leaders tnanb . test quite a feeling ot uneasinw at the ! prospecti of a more decided national j policy toward the infamous curee of polygamy. Why not rignalia* the year I 1#S! as the one in which ths dire evil shall be exterminated 7 It is not a partisan question, but one in which the : whole country is concerned, ami it is ! the plain duty of Congress to take immediate step* to wipe out the dire evil * not mere red tape investigations, but one invincible determination to wipe out the withering blight, root and branch. The time for notion is now. The way to handle it without gloves. Tbe means to be used, whatever may be necessary. The party %to do it is ths general government, without fear or favor, Oa*t out the foul stain and redeem the land from the odium under which U rests. Action, immediate, ; virorou* action is what is wanted. Will it be d >ne b — Mllimt* RsrW'tCAW.