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DEVOTED TO. THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. ■ " 1 ■ » 11 " ■■*■■■

*■ " • VOLUME I.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NEW JERSEY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1881.

NUMBER] 51. ; — . • *

COUNTY DIR. ECTOR Y." JUDICIARY. Pkiwidino jud<jb— - lion. alfr^rced,^ lay jcdoas— joa. & Hughes, Cup* may city i jesse 1£. Diverty, Dtmmsvillej Soiuer a c. Gaudy, Tuokahoo. commimion'k* surplus fchd— j. b. Huffman, Court House. sheriff — William h. Bonozot. couxtr Col irctoe— -David t. Smith, Court House. Couktt Clerk — Jonathan Hand. Deputy 41 — - Morgan Hand. PaoesouroR Pleas— James r. HoagCo. sup't. public Instruction — Dr. Maurice Beealey, Donniaville. , Ml/SIlfNSS DIRECTORY* Br. Tlieo. €. WhealoH. * ' 1 ; * 4T 1 SI ^ ' , ' U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAVILLE. N. a 1] Soldiers who aro ruptured can be supppjd with trusson, free of charge. Apply to above. OctJSy j. f, Learn la*, u. d., d. d. 8, w. h. Leaminc, d. d. 8. J. F. Learning, 8f Son. DENTISTS. office days t cape may court house, Thursdays and Saturdays. CAP* MAY *CITY, Tuesdays, and wednesdays. SOUTH SEAVILLE, Fridays, mchtilyr. yow^ miiy, Physician and Surgeon, cap* may court house. n. j. mahalyr. J. b. Huffman, COUNSELOR AT LAW, supreme court commissioner, AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Cam may c. ii., n.j. w Will be at bis office at Gape may City ev««®r Baturday mcbolyr. Jas. H. Nixon, AJTTORNKY ACOUNSKLOR.AT LAW", Optics iv Insurance BciLdino, _ - MILLVILLE, N. J. . 'Mrs. S. R. Conover, Fashionable Milliner, hjom Street, Below Pinb, MILLVILLE. N. J. niolifilvr . ' LT B. CAMPBELL, dkalerin STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES, TINWARE, CUTLERY, GLASSWARE, Ac., Ac. hlflu street, millvili.r, n, j. jjichfllyr j L F MICK, Dealor in bosses, CARRIAGES; harness, Ac. main btrket, near tite bridge, MILLVILLE, N. J. mchftlyr in mi CAPE MAY C. H. . — «■+■«■ M LIVKRY ATTACHED. Horses always on hand, For Sale or Exchange. L. Wh eaton. mchfllyr cape may city, cape may c. ii MARBLE VVORKS. MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES. Iron and Galvanized Fencing and all kind' of Marble Covaringfl for graven. All order* will receive prompt attention bj tolngraph or letter. Flag for curbing work done at tho shortest notice, 0*11 and see. a discount made on all fwk at the yard. l, t. kvtmitrv, proprietor. »

UNION HOTEL, Cape May C. H. - - <••>>» >ssi i w. . i . im >.n «lwii i0 — 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. mchfilyr. A- yqurison, mess urn, and dealer in READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAI f. II., Hi. Please Call and Examine Our Stock I Wc have on hand a good aaaortment of Heady-made Harness , Collars , Bridles, Saddles, Whips, Robes, | Nets , Blankets, Valises, Trunks, Etc., all of which we are selling at low ca8h prices. o Open wagon Harness a* lovr as •$ 8 00 Carriage ilarnc** as low ha 10 00 and many others of different styles akd priobs. zq- oa-i 1 and bo* before pureharinc abwwljcre, wcW]yr. A. Yourison. j. !l steel, * manufacturer of LABIfiS' AKB gents' * • * FASHIONABLE DRf SHOES, gents' button calf gaiters only $3.50. next to the "gazette" ofptce. CAPE MAY C. h. Repairing neatly and carefully done. mch61yr. . i oilmore a co., law and collection house, f Street, Washington, d, c, Make Collection*, Negotiate Lonna ; and attend to all business confided to them. Land seme, Soldier's Additional Homestead Right*, and land Warrants bought and rojfl. It. L. Howell, SURVEYOR and Civil Engineer, millville, x, j, . Special attention paid to leveling; establishing the overflow lines of proposed ponds .for mill sites, cranberry nog* etc : drainage works etc. Plana nnnde, estimates furnished and snocifl. cation* drawn for Mills, jfrldgo* i Waterworks and all eimilar con*trnction* or j works at short noti**, ' mchOlyr

p0etr y. The Vesper Bell . Riug on, rlna on, twcel vesper ball, From out your luty tower; Your silvery accent* seem to t«ll How sHcrcd Is the hour. Ring for the day U almost done ; And now, while llcavcn> blessings fall. Bo gently, so softly, over all, As If In auswor to your cull. Sweet vesper bell, ring on ! llow wclroti\&wer« your tones, swcet_b«ll, 1 Une week ago to-day ! Hlncc tlieu how many a sad farewell fond.llp* have learned to snv • How many a soul to He* votiTias gone To win tlie fadeless diadem ! ; Bud heart* arc left ; oh ! now tor Uiem | In tones of sweetest requlom, * Ring, vesper bell, ring on • ^ And when again, sweet v©si»er bell, ) The day of rest shell come ; Who knoweth If lie still wlTl dwell Here, In au earthly home? How many a tusk, will then he done! Oh! may God keep us In his care; May l.|e, Himself, our souls prepare! * Sweet bell, you warn us to beware, Ring on! Ring on! King on! _ — ftcititiNr.::. ASTRONOMICAL. ~ - - l • telebcupic contemplation op the moon, jupiter, vknub and mar*. Tho Providence "Journal,11 in a recent issue hayb : Tho planetary aspect of the evening sky has not been so beautiful for many years, and the show is now approaching its culmination. The heavens were glorious to behold during the evenings of the last week. ' The moon, commencing with the 2d, paid her respects on successive evenings to Venus, Jupiter and Mars, and, excepting on one evening, there were no clouds to mar tho exceptional henuty of the scene. No observers could lift their eyes to tho golden mysteries enshrined above without being impressed with the exceeding loveliness of the shining throng. Sunday evvuing, however, carried off the palm for the remarkable clearness of the sky, the purity of the atmosphere and the unruffled serenity of the elemental conditions. the night was one dour to tho hoart of astronomers. At 0.30 the celestial arch presented a charming picture, the tri^ of planctH glowing in tho woht ; the moon, one day, past the first quarter, shining from the zenith with the clustering Pleiudes not far away, Orion with | his gl;ttcring brilliants filling tho eastern sky with sparkling light, and tho matchless giriutf shining in the southeast. The telescopic view of separate portions of tho picture was superb beyond expression. Venus, when the far-seeing eye of tho instrument was turned upon her, was an object of dazzling brightness, nearly tho siz* of the moon, her disk half-enlightened, as our luminary looks at her Inst quarter. jupiter was splendidly brilliant, his belts radiant in prismatic hues, his great red spot visible, and his moons attending their giant "chief, two on one side mui ! two on tho other. Saturn's peerless ringed orb, with his belts and three moon*, was tho next study. The telescope was then turned to tho moon, a portion of the terminator or boundary between the brigh^ end shaded portions being brought- into the field. With a high power she seemed so near that one by rnaching out might almost touch her surface. There i* nothing in astronomy moro impressive than the utter desolation and death that reign on the chulk-liko surface of this dead planet. There aro no cloud* to diversify tho sky, no twilight to prolong the day, no sound to break the eternal silence. Immense craters, deep fissures, rounded hillocks, and tho scars of mighty commotions are all that remain of regions that were probably habitable liko tho earth in times gone hv. The view on the terminator was the most interesting. Instead of the unbroken line of light that marks its appearance to tho naked eye, tho moon's rough edge was formed of branching horns of radiant light, like tho nntlcra of stng or huge formations of coral. There were the summits of lunar mountains, light- j ed up by the sun, which was just rising to this part.of the moon. Tho bright mountain peaks were wierd and won- j dcrful, as well as beautiful, though their j only admirers were obsorvors 240,000 i miles away. A Nice Point in Grammar . The tjyo young heirs, who had boon j taking their first lessons in grammar, disputed long and earnestly over a question, and at last agreed to decide it by arbitration, selecting tho head of the 1 family ns arbiter, with full power to ^ ' sen*! for persons and papers. fhlo old

mini was greasing his boots before the . kitchen sioye. . ^ - "Father," said the elder heir, "is it proper to sny *we is rich,1 or 'pre am rich V 11 The old man worked carefully down into the hollow of his boots under the instep, remaining a long time in thoughtful meditlon, and slowly replied ; "Well, I should say it would com o nigher to the truth to say wo hain't rich/1 The young heirs, when they came to think what a hard litae they hadworryt ing pennies out of their paternal relative, thought it might be that way too. And the old man kept on anointing his boots with the extract of hog. — ^ » » Color In Gardens. The PoroiniLiTiEs of HonTicrtTraE — Groimno the JIion-CoLoaiD Plants, Etc.. Mr. s. b. Parsons thus writes in "Harper1® Magazine" for March : Within a fow years this taste for bright colors in t plants lias reached America, and the Centennial grounds showed our people , what could be done with masses of colens, geraniums, arundos, cannas, and other high-colored plants. Yet even these, beautiful as they arc in their prime, cause for half the sum- * mer a colorless, disagreeable blot on tho r lawn. Planted in June, they rarely * cover tho ground until August, and for * the intervening time the bed in which they are planted is a mass of almost ' naked earth. Before the middle of October they succumb to the frost, and ' then for eight months more they do * nothing to hide the bear earth in which they are planted. Eight months of ug- ' j liness is too high a price for two months 1 i of beauty. Yes these bedding plants ' ' have become the fashion, and (ash ion is uncompromising in its demands. The gardeners naturally encourage people to buy thorn, because tlicv bring a good prico and are easily propagated. Thus the continued use of oxotic plants for bedding is likely to incroaso rather than diminish, unless tho taste ifi subjected to rigorous criticism. The only remedy * is for men and women of true taste to in*i«t on a bettor example upon their own premises and among, thoir friends. 1 Tliey should not inveigh against color, but should persistently demand from their gardeners permanent plant* of 1 color which would be beautiful for a large part or for the whole of tho year. Few things are finer than n bed or ! border of ivy contrasted with a border ! of the dwarf Eunvmus Radican?. Thon there is a sort of ivy with white and green variegation, and tho periwinkle, ; | with its pale blue (lowers crowning dark j evergreen leave*. The golden vow and 1 j the procumbent yew, both evergreens, j one with a rich dark foliage, and the ! other with a lustro of burnished gold, ! can be planted in masses, and kept 1 down to six or twolvo inches. They can , ulso be pruned into globe*, ovals pytatnida, columns, or any desired form. The Biota elzc.antismma, bronze in winter and golden in summer, and the ' Retin'ospora a urea, with a golden fob : iage all the year, can bn treated in the same w;vy. Then there is a vav legated rctinospora — fii.ukra aurka — like en evergreen fountain tipped with gold, ! which can servo as a centre for a flat | bed. Tho Rrtinospora onn'sa nana 1 makes a low mass or tufted green of great beauty, Thuja vkrvainkana aum: a is another mass of gold and greon. ! The evergreen thorn can he kept low i Tor boddinc, *» can also the glossy rich 1 broad-leaved Maiioni a aquikoli a. l1! ok a i iiunsoNiuA makes a hluo-tinted moss, j and the common hemlock, with its ! white-tipped variety, can ho kept low 1 in a bed with as smooth ft surface a* on » a hedge. The Azalea amckna, with it* dark foliago and brilliant pink flower*, ami the Dofhnr cxkorum, unsurpassed i in tho fragrance or its flowers, and both hardy, make most exquisite bed*. Tho CotON easter mtcroi'r yl1.a would also | ho vary effective,* Those i have named ! are overgreons, but there ate many do- * oiduou* plants which can ho used in the , same way. The purple-leaved haieland * the.purplo berberry are aljnost as dark ! as a purple beech. The Japan quince can hs kept low, and a hod of its crimson flower* would surpass any ooleus. The new varieties of clematis — jackvanh and others-— with their tints of hiue, crimson , and white, would bo simply superb. And then come tha grand flowers, fawn and orange, of the bin noma uhandifuv ha, blooming freely for many week*. ; In truth, all tho vine* can be trented a* j j as bedding-plant*, if the knife be.ju- j diciouily used, I think that one of tha '

» most striking things 1 have seen was a common honeysuckle groyn in a flat L - bed, the edges neatly trimmed, and the i j whole surface covered with flowers. 1 saw another honeysuckle trained to a i < stake four feet high, and then allowed ' to fall over, making a mound four feet • high and Ave feet in diameter. Few know the capabilities of climbing plants > ! for great variety of form — for flat Led*, r for mounds, for columns, for arches, for ooruices, for sides of buildings, or for > any other form that taste can devise. i I have applied my remarks to flat • i bods in order to show that permanent . i hardy plants with leaves and flowers of i high color could very properly take the i place of the present fashionable masses of coleus, geraniums, etc. I would by no means liuxit the use of these plants - to flat beds. True taste requires variety, j t and these masses could be made to assumc various shapes and heights. Even in the foliage of large trees there is suf- j ficient variety of tint to make a lawn j seem like a largo picture. • Anecdotes of the Stage. i ■ ■ John McCullough, the tragedian, has ' been talking with a Cleveland "Herald" j reporter about the stage and plays in general. He thinks "Virginius" a great play, ennobling and elevating in , its influence, but "Othello" and. "King Lear11 are the grandest plays on the stage. "I don't believe that in any [ language in any country any author has ^ ever written such plays as those. Mind p you, they are a great deal harder to [ play than those of any other class. A* , they are godlike in their conceptions, l the actor must be godlike to play them, and feel them and moke them move — . to feci and talk and act them a* Shakes- . pcaro has given him an opportunity to do. Mr. McCullough told a pleasant story of Forrest, which was a* follows ; Forrest was playing Richard, when Catesbv came in to summon him. The actor was so struck with Forrest's manner, look and tone, demanding, "Who goes, there ?" that he could only stammer out, " 'Tis I, my lord, the early i village cock,11 while the other words, ( "has thrive done salutation to the morn," stuck in his throat. "Forrest got the laugh of the audience on hfs side by responding. "Thou why the deuce don't vou crow ?" * - - ' i ~ Fun in a Grocery. Tliero is an old woman on Catharine streot, who delights to find a case that all tho doctors have failed to cure, and j then go to work with herb* and roots | and strange things and try to effect at ; ; least an improvement. A tew days ago ; ! she got hold of a girl with a stiff neck, j ! and she offered an old negro, named j Uncle Tom Kelly, fifty cent* to go to ; the woods and bring her a hornet's nest, i This was to lie steeped in vinegar and j applied to the .neck. The old man i i spent several day* along the H olden 1 road, and yesterday morning he secured j hi* prize and brought it home in a bask- | I et. When ho reached the Central Mar- | kot ho had a few little purchase* to ! make, and, after getting some ten at a | j" grocery, he placed his basket on a bar- ( » re! v>e»T vhe mnA \x> Vw>V ' I for a beef hone. It was a dull day for trade. Tho pro- ■ : cor sat by the stove nibbing bis bald 1 hend. * His clerk stood at the desk balancing up account*, and throe or four I j men lounged around talking about the j ! new party that is to bo founded on the | the ruin* of l>emocracy. It was n *c- i rono hour. Oke hundred and fifty j j hornets had gqne to roost, in that nest j ! for tho winter. The genial atmosphere i began to limber thorn up« — One old vet- , •j eran opened mbbeck his legs ) and oaid it was tho shortest winter he had ever known in all hi* hornet days. ! A second shook off hi* lethargy and i seconded the motion, and in five min- •• utos the whole nest was alive and its owners wore retfiy to sail out ami investigate. You don't have to hit a hornet with a broad side of an nxa to make him mail. He1* mad all ovar all j the time, and he doesn't care n picayune j whether he tackles a humming bird or ; an elephant. Tho grocer wa* telling one of the men j that he and General Grant were bova ' i together, when he gave a sudden atari j 1 of surprise. This followed by other , atarta, Then he jumped over a barrel i of sugar and yelled lik# a Fawner, i Some smiled, thinking he was after a , funny climax ; but it was only a minute J before ft solemn old farmer jumped three • ' feet high and came down to roll oveh a | j job lot washboard*. Than tha clerk j . ducked his head ami made a rush for

j the do or. He didn't get ib ore. On* of j the other tssen, who bod been looking ; up and down to oee what could be the j matter, fait suddenly colled upon to go ' home. He *a* going at the rate of forty ■ miles an hour when he collided with the clerk, and tbey both rolled on the floor, : There was no use to tell the people in the afcore to move cm. Tbey couldn't J stay to save 'cm. They all felt that tha rent was too high, and that they must vacate the prcmiaea. A yell orer by the cheese box was answered by a war* whoop from the show-case. A howl from the kerosene barrel near the back | door was answered by a wild gesture ; around the show window. The crowd went out together. Unde ' Tom was just coining In with bit beef ) bone. When a larger body zneeta a smaller one the larger body knocks it | into the middle of next week. The old man laid around in the slush until every • body had stepped on him all they wantj ed to, and ihsn he oat up and asked ; j "Hev dey got de fiah all out yii F Some of the hornets tailed oat doors ; to faLl by the wayside, and others waited j around on the top of barrels and baskets ' and jars to be alaughtered. It wot half an hour before the last one was disposed of, and thon Uncle Tom walked in, picked up the neat and oaid : "Mebbe dis will cure de iliffhees in dat gal's neck, just de some, but I tell you l'xe got banged, an1 bumped, an' sot down on till it will take a hull medical college all winter long to get me so I kin jump off a street kyor.t1 — Unknown Pa rax. Making Window Glass - ' m While in Bridgeton, N. J., says Burdette, I went to see them make window glaiw, and to my amazement, they didn't make a flat piece of glees and then saw it out in the proper sizes. Oh, no. A man just biew a great glass cylinder, five feat long, or more, and about 8 inches in diameter. Then he just bit off the end of the cylinder, split the other piece and there was your window glass, ready to be broken i up in proper aizca. If you don't be- ' lieve it, you can go and see. You will j sec the man start in with a wad of gloat ! on the end of a long hollow iron rod. He stands at the edge of a long deep pit, and as he blows, he swingi the rod like a pendulum. To and fro it goes, and the wad of gloss at thtfend is a cylinder of crystal, growing with every puff of the vigorous breath, growing : uniformly, sliapely, faultlessly, swinging to and fro ail the time. How the blower keeps from hitting the plank he stands i upon i* a mystery to me j I could hit | it every time, I "know, or at^least as j long as the cylinder lasted. It is comj pleted at lost, and he lay* it on a rack, ! beside many other cylinders. Then a ! boy bands him a smaller wad of glass ! on the end of an iron bar. The work- ; man takes the bar in hi* left hand, with a pair of pincers he draws the molten i glass out into a long thread, with a deft znoTeraent he just wimps that red hot string once around the end of thecylin- ; dor : then he take* off the string, ali most immediately, hits the closed end j Then a man takes a hor of iron, bested red hot at one end. He passes this hot iron along the inside of the cylinder, and it splits from end to end. Into an : oven he goca, a great furnace of an oven with a revolving floor on which" | it laid this cylinder of gln&s. The inl tense heat softens it ; a* it passes one ■ door m the furnace, a workman with a | great iron bar pats the delicate glass i softly apart until it lies out on the floor ; nearly flat and as it comes round to the next window, a man with a block of wood affixed to a long iron handle, i reaches in and irons the glass smoothly out, when it i* ready, after certain cooling process, for the cutter, and you see it just as I told you. -—A neighbor with a coffee cup in .her hand called in on Uncle Moss remarking, "Uncle Mo**, 1 wants to borry a cup ob parched coffee form you for break flu* till to-morrow." "Go right to de box on tie shaf and hep yoursef." The neighbor did ns requested, but dis* covered the box to be as empty as the head of a legislator, "Uncle Moso, dar'i no parched coffee in dis heah box." "Doe* yer Know why dar ain't rta coflee in dat ar box ?" "No; 1 doesn't know mifihr about it." "Par ainst no coffee in dnt or box.," said the old man solemnly, "bekaie dat ar om de returned coffee box, Ef yer hud hrung ail de eoflbe yer borrowed last year hit would be plum hll"-4liirfjwr Nxwa.