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?■'' -'I • ~ JUDICIARY.*' • •• ■ = * FftWiDiHo JutwH-Hpt,. Alfred lieod, . **toj JupoRs— r-Jos.; E. Hughe*, Cap* Stay cUjr j Jeaw H. Di^erty," Peiinwille; dome** 0. Gaudy, Tudkahoo. * ' -V';" ' 1 . f ^ e • O>¥iii0»iohjbu Surplus *j; Hufiiiau, Court Hoiwer . J^RRlr*— -William H. Bonezet. coumtt collbutor — David T. Slliitb, Court uoum. County CiRKR^Jonathar. Hand, Dkputy 44 —^Morgan Hand. FiwwOwi Fuue—jAiaos It. Hoagirndfoth. <"Co; qiflp. Instruction — i>r, Maurio* T^^USIN^S Y: #r. Tlieo. C. Wheaton. IL S.* Pension Examining Surgeon. SOUTH SEAV1LLE, N.J. <p obargo. i Apply to above. CF-.. ,.. QctSSy J. F. XAaml&g, M. D., D,i>. MJs/S/f (/' W. a. limine, D. p. s. J*. JT. Learning* Sr- Son. ,lr? DENTISTS.;.- ■ OFFICE DAYS t CHPEifA YUOUltT LTD USE, Thursdays and Saturdays. °AP« .J^AY OTflf Tuosda,y., a»d Wednesdays. ' • > SOUTH SEAVILLE, Friday.. ' mefifilyr. • r 30\\^ wvveTxT Physician, and Surgeon , (jape may OOUHT HOUSE. N. j. ■"■wMiyr. ... ,. ' j. B. Huffman, 00unsei.0k at law, m7peemje ouukt oom m i8si on er, akdm-fyper in'chancery, cvb mat C. h., N. J. fiSr Will bo at hid ofttco at Cape May dtr wey 8*tarU*jr pichdlyr.

Jas. H. Nixon,. aitornby a counselor at law, opfccb ik ik*uraxob bcildiva, . millville, n. j. Mrs. S. R: Conrfvet, Fashionable Milliner , Hion stilkrt, Bmlutt pt*bj • " .'XILLVILLK. Jt.^J. taehfllyr ' l. b. campbell, PEALKRIN wovb6, heaters, ranges, tin- • * ""WARE, CUTLERY, OL^SSWARK, Ac., ico. ' z- . J&iw flrjpibr, N^ j. „ m*U61yr J. P. BRUk, Dealer in »0IMKS, CARBIAOES, JIATtVESS, Ao. MAIN STREET, NEAR THE bhiix.ic,* millvillb, n. j. mcbClyr

"lErW EL i/iV CAPE MAY. C. H. .*•' • '■ ■ ■ 1 » ■.'■* ' ' / / injERY AITACJIED. Halves alway? on hand, For Sale er Evchauge. L. WnE<VTON. mohfilyr (TTFK MAY CITY, CAPK MAY~ic MARBLE WORKS. monuments and tombstones. Iron An<< OMvanlzodf Foncing and all kW(U of Marblp On vtjrirrg.y fo r grny o s , All ordera will remvo prompt ajEtoYiuon by t^logKph or letter, Flag for curbing work done at the iliortest notice. Ca 11 and neo, A dUcoimt ma<lo on nil ,«r#jrklV Calling at tlie yard, *' 1<. T, Hjfrhiitis, Pr(*pTitiU*r.

U NIO N HOTEL, i .' .•!.«•'- 7 • . ' i *• Cape May C. H. _ , 0 v . ^ ^fehis Jong Established Hotel is still open for the reception of permanent and transient guests, where all attention will be given to their comfort. - I i 1 ^William Eldridge. xncbClyr. — - .. — ^ '' A. YOURISON, Iims BEES, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE HARNESS, CAPE MAY C. M.j Si. J. Please Call and Examine Our Stock! >. We have on hand a good assortment of Ready-made Harness , 1 Collars , Bridles Sad- « dies , Whips, Robes , ! JYets, Blankets, Va- j

Uses,' Trunks, Etc., ALL OK WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT LOW CASH PRICES. - o 0)>0u Wagon ILtrmxai as low u $ S 00 Carriage Hern em ns low om 10 00 AND MANY OTHERS OF DIFFEK- • ENT STY L»S AND PRIORS. «3-Oftll and nm before purehfiaing aMov^Hiore, ...Mirr, A. Yourison. J. L. STEEL, MANUFACTURER OF r,AB!ES' AS® WiSTS' v r . A 4 A • fashionable • ' ....

BOOTS ml SEOES, GENTS' BUTTON CALF GAITEltH ONLY $3.50. NEXT TO THE "GA7.ETfE" OFFICE. CAPE MAY C. H. Repairing neatly and oarafully done." mchfllyr. J a n.NroB e f/co', LAW and collection house, -fiO F Street, Washington, rlL C. Make Colloctiana, Negotiate Loan 8 and attend to nil bu»inoRH ennhd^l to them. L'anp Scrip, SoldiorS Additional Hometiead Rights, and Lax d Warrant* bought and Bold. R. L. Howei.I, SURVEYOR AND Civil Engineer, MILLVILLK, N. J. Stxmial attention paid to lovoling ; establishing the Overflow lino* of phonosed pond* for mill Ritoa, oranbeiry bog* oto ^ drainagp work* etc. Plans made, eMtimatoH furnished and specific cations drawn Mills, Bridges^ Waterworks nnd all similar oonstrrtctionB or \vork* at abort notice, mehfllfT ^ i

. , , - POETR Y. -»r-"-> ra,. i>_, v%i w.^ A Character Sketch. The mult betunzd pensive, ev<n «ui4 As If by <-(»iiAclonceprb kr-ii - But wb'»h t bey catas to «hhrc hU woes, 1 He r&lssd obJtoctIonj»L:kicJccd. The. eat cams up to sympatblM, * With mew and gentle. purr \ Al«s 1 s he-go k fjlhlu |iU reach. When— flddlustrlugsajud fur. ^ The do*, 1n plc>-, noared htm to Alleviate hU care ; He tried to paas around hlm unce, U' JJui— sauaof • meat and hair. And John, the honest farmer boy * Who htvd the beast lo charge • Triad recklessly to harness hliu— HU funeral was large. Oh, trifling were the cause* which Hi* flexljejjtgg uiifurloil j Aod nitty were the quadrupeds J That sought uuother world. He never did a decent thing ; He wuu't worth a ducat ; He kicked and kicked until he died. And tlieu ho kicked the buekoL Icie-Bouiid Vessels. tok ficskxs at tub dkiakwatkr. * a nird*8 rrt vlgw from capk beklopxk liobt nuusk— mi.vai wnit'h rave coke uxdjnt the notic* of tub - "OLDKliT inharitant for tdk first -tike. - lr ' . ■ ■ a 1 He ice at the Breakwater herer presented such a picture ns it does now. Lowes and the aurrouncling countr); are liko Polar-land. The bleak, snow-bound shore of the Delaware coast as far up as the mouth of the bay and as far down as Kehoboth merges into a lx>undless X ortliern sea. As far as the sight .can reach from the top of Cape Ilenlopen Lighthouse over the gray waste of ocean there is nothing to bo scon but the glinting, corruicating surface of the shingle-like layers of ico as they lie beneath the cold glare of the sun. Looking eastward the dark outlino of Cape May Point is discorned, so fnint and dim that it looka liko a strip of the sky, end between this and Lewes an unbroken field of ice Joins the '8t Atok of Now ~ J ersey and 'Delaware together as com pactly, for the time being, as though

there had never been an inexorable dividing element of ten mile* breadth be- ! tweon them. Two miles from shore the black lino of the breakwater, so stupendous and imposing, in picture, rises up small and insignificant by comparison with tho huge rock-like structures of ice around it. Up its rocky sides men ' and boys are climbing with » reckloss . disposition for roving from ship to ship j and adventuring seaward so far that ! j they finally becomo small black specks, hardly discernible bv a glass from the shore. To the right and to the left sea- j men are soon marching over tho ice in ' long trains, two abreast, each pair carry- j ing something between them by means ! of a stout stick. They are tho crews of • tho various vessels carrying water from ! the shore to supply their respective i tanks. All day Monday and during i yesterday they wore busy at* this work, for their vessels have been frozen up i tight as the roots of a live oak tree for ! one wofck to-day, anil their most sorio.tis \ inconvenience is tho running out of 1 " ",v muinii^ uui VI

water. During tho cold weather It was obtain t-d with A Captain's WlrE AND CIIILliRKV. The experience in some instances on the part of captain or crows lmve been thrilling. The severest ease of hardnhip recorded was in the case of tho captain of the British bark CaruioU. On board this vessel, in addition to tbe^. captain and crew, wero the captain's wlfo and three children. On Friday night last tho bark, with other vessel*, was anchored In tho harbor, whon tho vast field* of moving ice caused her to veor around and she finally began to drag her anchor. "Other vessels also began moving. The greatest consternation ensued. Some of thorn lay close to the breakwater and any moment might dush against it, spring a leak and go down, Tho ice was coming with tromondous force against them. Presently tho Carniola sprung a loak. Her crew were kopt busy all the flight pumping, j Meantime the commotion ceased and the ice began to ftiMS together. But the leak in tho vessel's hull continued. It was intensely cold, and the wife and ehildren of tho captain begun to suffer bo that at daylight ho took them off the vessel and, with two children in his arms and his wife following with the youngest one, only nine months old, they started for Lewes. They walked two miles over the ice, in tho teeth of one of the coldest breete* known there this winter, ami reach od tho Vorden • House, nearly frozen, about fi o'clock in I - . , , » »* ^

J tho roormhg, wherirfh'e proprietor, Mr. L F«U, kindly WifiTsSjssid carad for them.' Tho ok^tkilT ithsn returned to his vessel, which has ever since remained In tho tamo position. 1 A CAJKK1VAL OF SUiri. Meantime other vessels which have been swinging eiound.and battling with the ice had likewise been going through a rough experience/ Ail day Thursday and Friday they were dragging, vrlth their signals df distress flying. They wanted .tugs. The tugs were wedged in and bould do no good. Tho vessels kept on. dragging. The breakwater loofntd up like a Soy 11a on-one side and the ie.e-breaker like a Cbarybdi* on the other. .Besides these there were tho unmanageable vessels close to each other and liable at any moincut to swing around and strike. ; Crews and captains were almost ppwerle*s and could only stand with bated brcatb, awaiting tho expected shock?.' They were coming. First the British rhip^Eyereststruck the Norwogian bark Deadota and knocked off her jib-boom. The Deadota in turn dragged on to the ice-breaker and struck hard ice and there froie in, without any damage to herself, and lay in that position, without being a Wo to budge an inch, until Mouday. Meanwhile the Everest, having lost her jib-boom, swung her stern around, etruck.it against the ice-breaker lightly and likewise preempted a position there, to remain for tho remainder of the week. Next the Government Fourteen -Foot Bank light ship dragged down from the railroad pier against the breakwater and likewise lay there until Monday, when, as has already been stated, she was pulled off by the tugs Pioneer and BraxIL At the same time the light ship began to drag out the two pilots-boats, T. F. Bayard and E. C. Knight, began to drag with her. ice-boat No. 3 came to the rescue, and, taking the pilot-boats by the caff * of the nock, brought them back near ' the pier, where they lay until yesterday. 1 These wore not all. The ships New City * ttri NftYftTM dimjgwl tnui tmuU inlu-r and the latter was badly cut by tho ice ' and began to leak. The above ice-boat *

towed her into the harbor, where for i the past five days, her crow liave had to keep pumping her constantly. The New City then oncountorod the Italian bark Francoschino S., which a moment later sheered off with hor jib-boom missing. Work for the ship-builders is j promised in abundanco by these vessels, j The Russian bark Dag mi re next dragj ged down close to the break water, and was badly cut by the ice and began to leak. The American bark Casco fell in line a moment lator, and was also soon j in n condition that required the oper- , at ion of her pumps and rendered her a : subject >r repair*. She was shortly I followed by the D. J. Foley, Warner j A Merritt's fruit line. Tho Foley was j out by the ice nnd began to leak. In her case the occurrence was providential, as it afterward proved. fc>he was loaded < with coal for tho West India*. When ! she got damaged her only desire was to \ got rid of that con! nnd get to Now \ ork for repairs. Freezing up liko tho rest she found a ready markot for her i . . >>

} | coal in the many needy vessels which, there, ran out of their supply. She left, after supplying all the tugs and other vessels that needed fuel, for New York vesterday. , now ves.sbi.s nail rnito$att. There was every expectation yesterday at Lewes that tho ice would break 1 up and go out. All that i* wanting, m the words of old residents, is a stiff j bveozo from the land; this will drive it j out, no matter how cold the weather. Yet tho wind all day yesterday blew persistently to tho contrary. A large excursion, numbering nearly a thousand persons, came down from Harrington and intermediate stations. Tho warm weather affected it not in the least. The sea for miles out was full of )x>ople walking unconcernedly over its .ware*. Tide* *com to have been outwitted for once. Tho ice this time appear* to have j complete control over them, for there | i» not the slightest agitation on itn j smooth glacial surface. Now and then a large steam-vessel, liko tho IVnnsyl- | van la on Monday, appears ahd with all tho force ,of their powerful engine* working at their best, plow through tho ico, like a great battering-ram through a resisting wall. But no sooner doet tho huge bulk of the vessel jmss than the narrow, tuiyieHik* opening close* again and the ioo comes together again na fast as ever. It freezes quickly and a small-sized tug coming in tho track of a large vessel an hour later would be 1 % -

.unable to make iu way u maided* There are about thirty -five reesela in ifro K*rbor now mad the break-up xnay occur M any time.^-BaiLa, Times, Fx»*9ril,13$i, Tk* fhtties of A IdffUlaloK The Limekiln Cliib Committee on J udiriary. ifho haXl been asked to investigate and report on the query from j Toledo, What is the duty * of 'members of the State Legislature 1 repotted as follows : • ; - Fiafcr. To take a free pea* from ebery railroad in de State. D*s put* hkn in a posishun to wote agin railroad monopolies an' subsidies. " v Sbtomd. To be absent as often an' as mochas he kin, an* to draw his salary [ wid promptness and dispatch. Third. To posh frew bills farorin1 da I interests of himself an' friends. Fourth. To spin out de sessions as I long as possible in order to draw de salary. Fiith. To let no occasion pass widout makin' a speech, anf to have every one of dese speeches printed an' sent home to an anxhus constituency. Tho report was accepted and filed, and Brother Gardner complimented the Chairman on bis research and Intelligence. \ - " - 4 » i * Sugar Culture in New Jersey. At the commencement of the present Legislative session Senator Miller of Cape Mar, introduced a bill to encourage the manufacture of sugar in New Jersey, providing for the payment of a bounty of fifty cents for every ton of beets, sorghum, amber or other sugar cane. The bill passed the Senate after being amended by increasing the bounty to one dollar, and limiting the time 1 for such payments to fire years. Sena- < tor Taylor, of Mercer, who, for many , years, was a successful wholesale grocer and knows something about sugar, advocated the measure as one calculated to advanco the vital interests of the Ktate. He said t.h*t «rj» ara nn» i«m. 1 porting about $100,000,000 worth of suannually, and that there is no staple n... - . .. . . %

we import that pays the producer so handoomely. It has been fully demonstrated that tho soil of South Jersey is adapted to the .growing of sorghum and other canes. In fuct, it can be grown profitably wherever Indian corn is raised, and of late several species of tho sorghum plant has been introduced, and which it is shown will yield a* much cane per j acre and fully ns rich in saccharine a* the famous Louisiana plant, and which by new and recently discovered processes can he converted -into chrystali*ed sugar, so as to fairly profit the producer and manufacturer. U was Fhown in a recent issue of a New (Means paper that tho average product of cane on their best lands was twenty tons to the acre, from which was manufactured an average of twenty -two hundred pounds . of sugar and on© hundred and twenty gallon* of molo§*es ; and 4hat the average cost per acre to manufacture the same into sugar was $60 ; the market value of the product at that time being 1 . .Son.* >\/v a » •

equal to $236.00 per acre, thereby showing a clear profit lo the producer of $1-6.00 per acre. It might br aakoiCif tb\s industry promises to become profitable, and j shows such largo result* where it is *1j ready established, why a bounty should ; bs offered for its production. Mr. Taylor explained at length the reason b why the bounty of fifty cents per ton to the ; producer should be increased to at j lwist one dollar, and showed by reliable estimates that it cost* al*out as much to produce a ton of cane as it does to manufaoiuro it - into sugar, and a* a ton of cane i> said to produce 110 pounds of sugar, the manufacturer ' would receive $1.10 bounty as against j $1.00 to the producer. Another reason why the bounty should be increased to .the grower is that he lias littl© or no . oontrol over the cost of hi* product, he f cannot dictate the cost of his labor and j | fertilizers, while we can safely trust 1 j the average manufacturer to look after ! | his own interests in the price he will I pay for the cane. The agricultural inJ terests of our .State are languishing and drooping in competition with the ferfortile plains of the far West, A hun dred thousand miles of railway gridironing the continent have brought u» in competition with virgin soil which may be had at the price of asking. The production of grain in New Jersey • is no longer profitable, and the time has arrived when our agricultural 1n< f dustry must take new directions. If the cane should be raised in any j a ♦ s V

conoiderabla quantity,, fU^ -h«l M - would rapidly spring «*p all over Jersey 'and the " ogriculturiet '"find va borne market for byproduct, withiucb compefisatsozi lie -to reudc' jfrrrniig onofc mote highly poofiudde, while Abe iucraoaed raine giveu to th«wsin4s of acres of now idle laods wovid repay %o J the Blate Treoaurr many fold the cott of the bounty offered to stimuiaU tin new industry*— <Cajci>BJr Cocrtt Cocr1jul The Stocktetf * PrcJU*. The Stockton Hotel,^ «- Urtained ftrT&7 gueaU laai year, a dacreoae of and the groat earning* f •' wart $85,630, a decrees© of #17, 429. The expenses were #6^^2L a eaving of 1 $4,3^7, and the net earnings after aH ( expenses ware $3,016, a decreeee of | $13,762. The Company derided to make no further addition to the property, as it would require a larger outlay than was thought prudent at the time. The Company will however, erect in the spring a new bouse tor a bjHiardroom and a ten-pin alley with sixiy-on* single rooms on the floor above at a cost of about $12,(K)0.— Personal cmd P&iticol. — The story that Mr. Hayes will go abroad at the end of his term is untrue. —General Garfield "will not co to Washington until the week of the inauguration. —Pale, invalid women should not wear diamonds nor flashing jewelry ornament Mi —There is some talk in St. Louis of starting a new Republican orgat^ with Mr. Schorr as its political editor. —In making "pure ground cofiee,'' the rule in Boston is to mix one bushel cf beans and one of roasted peanuts with on* -bushel ot - cheap coffee. The package is then labelled "None purer — beware of iifr flattens." 1 * - m Pilacarptn u» Diphtheria. Last woek fifty -two children died in Brooklyn of diphtheria. Sad reports of

similar mortality come from other quarters. It is oar duty to call the especial attention of American physicians to the extraordinary fuccoss which is now reported in Germany, in this disease, from the striate or vjiocarpik. It is given in ordinary do^s, internally, and a large number of case* have been reported by different physicians wherein j the result* were astonishingly good. As soon as the pilocarpi n exercises its specific effect on the salivary glands, the false membrane detaches, the inflamatory phenomena disappear,, and improvement begins. We particularly request our readers to try this treatment and report their resalts, whether good or bad.— jMrmcal and Surgical Reporter. — 5n»nator Bruce of Miasiaelppa says * that, while in Italy three years ago, he went into a barber's shop at Fisk to have his hair dretaed, lT©4 kno^r," says Mr. Bruce, in describing the incident, ""that the hair of my peculiar 'race, color and previous condition 6f

, Berrttude" h very singular ; the longer : it get#, the & gwwa jamXV out-thinks every conception of curiosity . Thore was just enough of the black race dashed with the white to furnish my barber such a specimen of wool aa he had never seen before. He toiled with it, and was puxrijd. After *unI ning the comb through it h© would j prow it down with his hand, hot it | wouldn't slay down ; it persisted in | jumping up like a jack in a box. lie went out and called in another barber, who stood over rr.y wool, wondering. Finally he got his aciteor*, clipped it ; off to Buit himself, and carefully wrap* j pod up the fleece for prseervation *# j the great©# t curiosity he had ever seen, j I could not speak Italian nor he Bugi li*h. so he must wonder 4e~day what • manner of man 1 am." — ♦ — A brkie who no* married the other day received by way of wedding presents 19 napkin ringa, and she wants to know if that isn't discouraging. She says that it argues that she is going to hare a very large family, or that in the not diafrnt fiuuro she will open a boatvli ng'h oi»e , • — The new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannic** in an article devoted to the agricultural resources of North America, estimates that this continent can feed the population of the globe. But the farmers of the future w5U need to be thriftier manager* than the average former* of to-day to do it.