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CAPE MAY CITY. 111URSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 21. 1890.

PRICE 3 CENTS.

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REAL ESTATE BROKER, Life and Fire Ineuranee. Hrrrnu ud A .t>ufy Aramr. Owen City. H.J. G ARRISON'S Ko. m W.aeiXITO* 8TAUT. lleAdiiUArten for SUfloearj, Blank Hooka. Tollrt 1‘aper. Flaliloic Taoklr. Tohwa, Mlealurc Uoata, Seaalda KorrlUra, etc., eta J. W. Lu.rU'. rablk«tlnn«Jor Rale • J. 8. (JAKK1SOX. Act tit. K nickerbocker U VERY'STABLES (Bear ol Kalckrrtwcate Ice OOeu, WaaOIXOTOB, ABOTE OcKAX SritAAT. BtfAKDINU HOUSES A SPECIALTY. ■t of Carrtafea. wltlf •-ITrr., ran be ube Parttoa. KacurWILUAM BEBEKTIIAL. Proprietor.

Artists’ Materials Drawing and PnlntlnK OutflU for Outdoor Sketcbioj. Hxr 4*0 piPBK noma mtrauLS. F. Weber & Co., Il» Cbratnst KL, PHILADELPHIA. Ordeni b. Ball proBpU,

HOTELM AND tOTTACFN pjNITED STATES HOTEL. Cotuca Lar<iCTTt *»r> Jacaao* Sniaar.. T^!L!r2 < ?2fy,]i?| l ,^i*"'?iiii r i„ t i, lrmt . afigagagw. JYKKXTOX VILLA. Open for the Season. and InipraTed.— I lie Bench. MILS. J. A. MTERH T^piU-EB COTTAGE No. 4 I'r.Kkv Street. Newly Painted an Maa. M. W riTHE BRUNSWICK,

JAMES 8. BTITE8. * piSR AVKKVE INN. Onr> all THE Tear CtmaL LociTloa. /Vr Arrau/, mar W—UnfUA titrttt, Wltkln twe ralnut-. nl the Itearh and Puat ’ "■ j.STAUfS. fpiIE ALDINE, Dac.mi Snurr, Saaa Baara CAPE MAT. N J.

THE WEST END,

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ORIGINALITY.

all thin** cuoddered. I redan lack'# j Look* ac" ajpwd Mr. Bitta. mibUy 1

■'Wal.“remaned Partliiar. “after I had drifted ahiwt all orer the wdat, I finally rtruck thi* inn nr the autr an' artUed down, a few mile* tomb nr yen- on a claim jinin' tbr one that Ike Blur took o|> iirxt ilar. I lowed that out that on the fl.it land, with little to ateal an' a|r |mrently tmL.ly to |.-«ter. I imjht aurt

o' live down my InckT

He went oil to tell bow Mr. Bine and huo-.ll liad erudltlK^eir khan tv amae

the <U^inK y /Uue «/ the

“Xinetren year, ago today,'' said Inapector Bynwa—“I ahall nerer forget that day'a duty. I waa ordered orer to the Oraagnuen'k headqoarten from my precinct at daybreak—I waa captain of the Twtnty-fimt then—and took every one at my men along except old Sergt. Davenport and a doorman. We expected trouble, and I had a lot of hand grenade. heaped by the aerund atory Rlndnwa in the old atatiun honae in Thirty-

hTOC KTON IIOTIX, CAPE .MAY. J. Cape May In mild September. Important conaideraiiona for btalib. G a to tape May latter part of Augu.t and September; finekt bathing and aafeal IhbtL known. 1'ure apring water in general u»e, natural drainage Into Uie creek in rear of lalaud. Special rate ol *3 per d.y alter Augu.t ttd to Se|dembcr 13-A. Orrateat iMSltl.-givtog rewort on the Atlantic CoaaL The Summer CapiUl of the Natron. Application for room., if made before the 2.1th loat., mill result In ou.urpai*ed .modatw F. THEO. B ALTON, Proprietor.

The buck board and steady going pouiew of Mr Jackhou Bitt.. late of l.ioudeM New Chicago, rounded a bend in the tim-l»-r ruadn ue■men; after a man. mrmnted on a racking horw. entered it from a rideway which pilucJ the main road a

little beyond the bend.

The recking of the t.]U>-atrian'k steed i waa kept from bo-uining monotonona by j a tendency upon the part of the racker to stuiulde at thrriigbtest provocation, and hi* rider. a> hi- weakly rrvereed the horse ' at the sound at the bnckUord'a ap|>roarh ' and came recking toward it. looked aa if a pomstenoe in that uxsle of traveling ! might speedily result in shakin

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ATTORNET-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR. MASTER AND EXAM1XER IN CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. JAMES M. E. HILDRETH, COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW BouctTuaMarrxaAExaMiasaiaCa.acxar

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omoe at So. 4 Ocean Sir -eg _ Cara Mar Citt. K.J. " * TTERBBHT W. EDMUNDS. ^ COUNSELLOR AT LAW. HOLtCITOK AND MASTKB IN CHANCERY.

Directly on the Beach.

George E. Klingler, Proprietor. ^ K 0 /

WRINCOWH Milk and Cream Depot, 48 JACKSON STREET.

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JJK1SS' GALLERY,

J. W. EACA N, MANSION HOUSE BAKERY Na 7 Mansion St., Car* Mat. All klada ol rieaeh aa4 Vienna Hrcad and RolU. alau a toU luw of Biie Cake, and Pastry

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A. KENNEDY, M. D., RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,

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TAMES MECRAY, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN. OFFICE-—Pernt st.. orr. Ooaoaxaa HstJCAPE MAY CITY. O0et Haun: Pram t m » o'eloak A. X_ amt P.M-.aadimvP.M.

•y M. D. MARCT, M. D., * EEKXDENT PHYSICIAN UNCEUM. Otbce—Pblladelpbla efearaiacy, Ooraw Oeeaa . Btraei and Columbia Araeiac. Raainxacx—No. Ti WasaiMrox Stuxxt, CAPE MAY. N.J. upca Houn.-Fnm t to« A-M i* to 4 F. M.

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THE WINDSOR. CAPE MAY', N. J>j Twelfth Heaacn—1890. Capacity COO. I>ocaticn unsuitatKd. OneLlcrkfroi be New Depot. Nearest Home to :fce Pnrf. Strictly rirvt tlsra Id all Itaappoin nenta. WALTER W. GREEN, of PhlUdeluhla. Praortetne.

THE OHIOLE, Foot of Perry Street, CAPE HAY, N. A. C. 7. WILLIAMS, PROPRIETOR

cent ilbirai, and his month had a di»-i-unragi-d droop at the corners. Hi- l»-ggcl to riiare the backboard scat rPith Mr. Bitte. rapiiU-inrating the excuse that be was in dnugt-r of being unable to long keep his joint* together it forced h* continue the victim of the reck. “A feller.- he mid presently, with a mournful tone that Was almost a sigh — “a feller must save himself all be kin— 'apeciallv when lack’s agin him." He bad fastened the rai-ker behind *ke bui-ktMiaril and crawle.1 onto the seal with an “L'm—ahr of relief. The two mm < xrluuige<l tba civilhiea of '■poming tlie time o' <Uy." and Mr. Bitts. having done all that courtesy demanded of him. was ready to resume the attack ti|«m the chaotic schemes with which he hadlsin wrestling before the appearance of the other. “When luck Vagin him." his passenger .repeated righfullv, “as it is agin mer “I reckon so." agreed Mr. Bitt*. encouraging hu! little the evident desire of the other to indulge in reminiacciteing. Mr. Jackaon Bitts. late of New Chicago, was iutcrwti-d more in Junction City and the financial benefit be expected to derive from the place tliau in the woes at the man beside him. He had approached New Chicago rix month* Iwfore with tin- ume wrestling with schemes that now tore him. The boom at that settlement hail wared and waned, and Mr. Hitts liad foiled to enrich hiniH-U; but with the ever springing hope that animates the true boomer, he was now on his way to Junction Qly. I filled with still gre-ater confidence than be liad entertained upon approaching R was decided and announced that the Dakota and Gulf railway wonld cresi* the Transcontinental railway at a certain point where there was not little of nature's liandiwnrk to be seen. The rood bed of the Transcontinental, a shanty on the line between two homestead claims, an apology for a fence, another for a stable—that was about all there was to be seen. Thi* wo* at noon. A little later the agent* of the two railroads and one of , the pruprietora of the alianty on the line betwii-n th.- claims were actively at work with a gang of men, and liefore 10 o'clock of the following day the entire section hod been staked off in streets and

lots.

At noon tbc sole of lot* Is-gan, and be- ' fore night noinr hod been sold. By sun- j act half a dozen slum tie* hod been “slapped up," and Junction City began to be. The rapidity with which the news of ; the new born boom traveled was a*ton- j iahing. The next day the building of houses and the coming of inhabitants began in good earnest. Shanties sprang up. Others came on wheeled truck* fresu deserted claims and more or li-ss cxrturless settlements. Tents were jilentiful. There appeared what out of courtesy were called store*. There, too. was a "hotel," the “accommodation*" of which wero little short at awful, and a saloon where wa* dispruard liquid comfort mostly of the “Battleox" , brand A dlt.i ini n tlu- initial number of The ' Junction City Pioneer was sprang upon the settlement by an enterprising gentleman who had prcvTtrariy founded Tba Sumner Pioneer anil The New Pari* Pioneer. There were also many other evidences of the daring and activity that a ' new born boom develop*. Bitts' poaenger wriggled about on the •eat of the backboard and sighed again. “Luck's bc'n agin me ever" since 1 kin remember." he ventured presently. “Namg'* Partlow—Oracle Partlow." He paused to note the effect of this

the part of the cabin

on hi* ^Wn homestead, tint, making a cniMp")iretcuse of complying with the requirement* of the homestead law demanding a I ■lace of residence on each

claim.

Then, before they had got more «b»u fairly aettL-d. the Traiw-iaitinmtal railway Jint in an apimrance, .-utting their chum* in twain, and remunerating their j

owurrs Irat scantily therefor.

No serious mtsfnrtuur had overtaken Mr. Partlow. however, but hi* aevtu-tom-'l ill luck mauifisted itself often enough to keep him in mind of the fact 1 that man i« of few darsand fall of troo- j

hi"-

The only c.wp.—etued by the partnen ; choked to death .«i alm-et the but of [ their turnips: the chinch bug* made : merry with their diniHiragrd looking j wheat, and a train on the Tranacouti- i m-ntal so frighleneil the team of hones that Blue and Partlow owned jointly that they ran away with a borrowed mowing machine and Mr. Partlow. ruining the former and endangering the life of the latter. But all this wa* nothing more than be exprrt<*l, he said stghfally. and it waa therefore met m-ith Uv oming resignation by Mr. Partlow. But Mr. Blue, lea* familiar with misfortune, begun to look with susjdeiia upn his |iortner os a aurt of modern and degenerate Jonah. '■Sl)imldti't wonder." commented Mr. Bin*. It had been but lately that Partlow, ' though feeling physically out of ahaiie, : aa he exjiressed it. had ridden to New j Chicago on on errand of no interest t<* ns, and while returning had become Weak, ill and delirious and. aa he learned ' aftiTward. hod lieen found wandering aimlessly aU.nt at a romdderablr distance from tbr way be aboald hare par*ned, and fanhfullv_fgtlmi- l by hi* old

doors and pelt any mob that uroald try to enter. Old Dare wa* as good as on arm}- when it come to sticking. He jnst sat on that pile of hand grenade* and K.

waited.

“Hr hod a good long wait, if we didn't. Those who walked in that Moody procession from the Eighth avenue headquarter* of the Orangemen to the old Haymorket in the Bowery will be apt to remember it to their dying day. I can bear the crowd yell now when tlu- militiamen began to shoot right and left. From the rear, from the housetops, it rained brickbats and hot lead. A hundred moot hare been killed before the end of that mafch'of terror and death. “It was 8 o'clock tba next morning before we gut bock to our atatiun. It wa* aa dark and still as the grave. A* window in the second atory waa slowly and cautiously opened and old Dave

“You will, ehr came from upstairs in shrill tune*, and in the window appeared the old sergeant, fighting mad. with a hand grenade in each fist and an armful

■r there will brmur-

'-Stand back there! c drr. Back. I aay." We hod tome all the long and bloody way. fighting every inch of it. without a thought of showing the white feather. Every mother's son of ns wuu]4 have lieen killed twice over rather than turn tail. Bnt we ran then. Before old Dave, with his armful of hand grenade*, the army that hod saved a city from sacking scattered and fled. The sergeant was left to bold the fort alone until we coaxed him from shelter into com pre-

Mr. Bitt* uttered an "nh-hah" of aaoent. and withdrew within his shell. "Yep." continued Mr. Partlow with pathetic pride. “I reckon I'm the unInckiest man 'twixt this on' anywhnr*. Tve b’eo mighty nigh everything but plumb killed." "That's bad," commented Mr. Bitta,

“Urn—ah! you.bet!"pursued Mr. Partlow, warming up. 'Tve be'n shot by a deputy shrr'f for a hawse thief. I’ve be'n Mowed nearly out uv the county by a cyclone. I’ve stood on a bar I with a rope around my Deck, waitin' for a vigilantes committte to decide whether I wo* the feller they wanted or not. an’ I was toned on' feathered once by mistake. I’ve be'n held np by road agents an' robbed nr my last three dollars. I've be'n chaaed by a crazy man. My wife ran away with a man who owed me, on' who was reckoned by me to be sure pay. A well caved in on me once, an' kept me buried far forty hours with a half inch crack to breathe through. Pre had the rbeumatix off an' on for ten yean, an* the ager right smart nr the time. An’,

He was ready to prognosticate more HI lock for the fnture. Pmmptol by what he liad believed a premonition, ho bad, Is-fure leaving the double claim. given Mr. Blue a laboriously executed document resembling a power of attorney, giving him anthority over hi* claim during hi* abatzirc. And now it would not snrpriso him much, lie cunfimsl. to find that Bine, concluding that he had feloniously run away with the racking horse, bod indulged in some retaliatory measure. He could not see bow Bine could avoid entertaining on uncomplimentary opinion of bint, at the very lno*t. “The claim* air jest over Itrynnd the timber thar," he continued; “an' I wouldn't be surprised if" His farther foreboding* were inter-rupt-d by the appearance of a little ■quad of 1 Kir*.turn, who came galloping toward them out of the timber, just

ahead.

' That * Ike in front. The rest air stranger* to me," be said, gloomily. ••Wonder what's upT “Ike, what"— he began, as the horsemen reached the bocktuard. “Shut np!" broke in Ur. Bine. "We've gut a surprise for you!" * Partlow doubled np a little closer on the seat of the backboard. They were half way through the timber before he sjioke again. “Wonder what they're np tor he mattend to Bitta “Mebby they're gain'to bong me. or snmpV! Say. Ike. I hain't done nnlhV an’ ” “Shut up!" broke in the gentleman ad-

dressed.

'■Jest my reg’lar lack," sighed Partlow. “Bat I hain't done nnth’n'!" A* they emerged from the timber be looked up to see the familiar outline* of the shanty, on the line between the two Instead he. wide eyed and open mouth'd, beheld new born, bustling, booming Junction City, with it* already respectable showing of boom and tents. There ajipcarrd activity everywhere— men harrying hither and thither, more shanties and tent* springing np, a building ju*t rolling in on ti ocka, a new depot rising skyward—IQ abort, the springing np of a prairie "city." “ W'y—w 'y—I —how—where" Mr. Partlow threatened to collapse. “It's jnrt nr the surprise.*' grinned Ike Bine. “Y'au on - me own half nr the town. Morn a thonsand dollar*' worth nv lot* sold already, an' more a-goin' all the time. Prices ruin' every minute. Well be rich men yet, Ork, ale feller!" “I—my lock" “Ha* changed at last. 1 found out whrtt you wo* very soon after you was taken sick, but aa ypo wa'n't in any great danger I reckoned on not lettin' yon know anything about this till I could apring it on you all at once." “1—1 cant believe it!" faltered Partlow. r— “Oh. it's all truer . •'Rich—lucl^ changed—1 can't be 11 era my aense*!" said Partlow, slowly. “I reckon I’m hirin' my mind or anntp'n’r He rose to step down from the buckboard. and weak from hi*recent illness and the excitement fell forward to the “Hi* arm i* broken in tsro places," was the verdict of the doctor who hod arrived at the settlement in good time to be called to the cabin whither Partlow had been carried. The sufferer uttered what sounded like c sigh of relief. •■Things air all right yet,*” be said, Weakly. “I hain't login' my mind, after all. Pm still Oracle Partlow!"—Torn P. Morgan in Philadelphia Saturday Night

ket far all the old piwtagr stomps sent to it. Nearly everybody far and near acquaintrel with the fact sends to the a*yInm Id* or her second hand stamp*, and for the information of those who are ignorant a firvnUri* bound calling for the cuntribntiou of stamis and also rntting-'-* forth the uses to which they are applied. Rare stamps of coarse go to dealers or collector*, while the commoner sarta ore applied to decorative purposes, being used to ornament screens, shades, etc., and even, so says the circular, to pafirr room*. The circular does not say how the American green stamp of the past can hr tued fur decoration. Over a million of stamps were received by thcjflBtitation from all over the world in DW. and a considerably larger number in 1HH9, The stamp* are assorted by the children and pat np in packages of 30 or 100 each. Those collected in 1888 were sold fur 1.800 francs, or 8240, and those of DM9 for $M0. This money goes further in Switzerland than here. Person*, therefore, who want to pot their old postage stamp* where they will do the most good should send them to M. J. Xougier. directenr de I'Anle do* Billed e*. Loclc, Switzerland.—Ex-

Lawyer J. F. Haskell, of Lowell, ha* a

4-year-old son who is os bright aa half a dozen Silver dollar* and who has an audacious sense at humor that may be worth money to him when he get* into politic*. One of his latest experiment* is

the talk of the family jnst now. “If I pat this tin auldier and horse into that bowl of mill/ momma'll Uck n '

it, y<

ently

Mamma a* promptly “licked" him for doing it. By gash," he said delightedly, os he the visitor from the acetic of

ing the sense of pain, “she licked me fur tite Auldier. but they didn't find the horse. "—Boston Globe.

Uriat mill* occupy a prominent posicoudition is transferred from the animal* to the steam engine, and the nervous energy which would be used for the purpose can be directed to the organa which aarimiiate the nourishment and transform it into flesh and botte. In the case of hones which are kept bray in the day it is almost imperative that a part at the mechanical work of crushing or cutting their food should be done for them, or else they have not sufficient time left for rest. One has only to examine a sample of beans or moixa to realise what an expenditure of power i* needed to grind them up In an animal's mouth.—New York Commercial Adver-

A curious calculation of the amount of food consumed in a lifetime of seventy yean ha* recently been made by M. Soyer, a French savant, now cboLaf the Reform club of London. Aipoak other things M. Boyer asy* that the average epicure of three aeon and ten will have oonzamed 80 oxen. 800 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs. 30 pigs. 2,200 fowls, 1,000 fish of different kind*. 80,000 oysters, 3.473 pounds of vegetables, as pound* of better, 24.000 egga and 4 ton* of bread, besides several hogsheads of wine, of food ^rii/wwgh baUlttk timrt of 40 too*.—8t LotAl Republic.