VOL, XXI. NO. 42.

CAPE MAY CITY. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 19, 1892

ATTORXKYN.

J-AMES M. E. HILDRETH, COUN8ELLOR-AT-LAW ftOLK'ITOa.Ml.TXkft Kx.mikbk im Cmamckkt

NU1 AKV PUBUC.

Office .1 No. I Ocean Btt -et,

Cara Mat CiTT. N.J.

SPICER LEAMINO, ATTORNEy-AT-LAW

BOLICtTOK AND MAHTCB IN CliANCEKY

47 Waabikotoh Stheet, Cape Mat Cm, N. J.

TOK O.YLY

...... Japanese Store

IW CAPE MAY

IMPORTING DIRECT FROM JAPAN. Cups and Saucers, Genuine Japanese hand- - decorated after dinner Cups and Saucers

larkabl)- Low Price*. 15c, 18c, 20c nj. l.. ft 00

PRICE 3 CENTS.

J. s

jy^OROAN HAND, Atturnet and Couk*eixoe-at-Law. Solioitor, M*»Ur aod Examiner Ui CbaMarj, Suprame Court Commiaeluoer *ud Notary Public. Cape Mat Court Houir. N J. "TMijIxaile Public BulMloca ) *

MIKCELLAYKOIH. JAMES J. DOAK.

CARPENTER AND BUILDER.

114 WaOiluciou st.

K"

\l»o auullicr lot of I.acijue

Screen. S’a.nc :

T.SANZO.

II.

K. DOUULABB,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR, MASTER AND EXAMINER IN CHANCERY OP THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

PHYKICIAJVM.

J a v, k.~ MBCRAY. M. i). Rial IIKKT PltT»«|AR. UPnCE-rsRRT 8t., oil-. CoMlkxax HaI

CAM! MAY CITY.

O0M i/u«ra—Kiiun > to » o'clock A. I

UOAKDJM; dOKBES A SPECIALTY.

Il at all Hour* lor Private Parties. Excu , etc., at moderate cUar*w WILLIAM IIEBENTI1AL. Proprietor.

. TO COTTAGERS Fop Kbor HcpHirinc, thor oURhly ami Boatly a one. briuir youi | work to THOS. H. TAYLOR, tbe pop ular aboemaker, Decatur Ktrcel, nec.mil shop from Marry A M.cray'a dniK *tore. 1 'hartea moderate.

, NTOC'ICTOX MOTJKIa, THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL IS THE MOKLD. ' aiNl M-MIce iinvuipavved BATES-1340. *| and K. VS erkly rates lot twi i.t. Mo, *14 *1'.. l.'ai.Vs, |ht «ri‘k. acrordiD* to lucalloii. buiies a oil l ai MU. tioura |UI<>> P I,,rcl - Orchestra playamornlu* concern F. TUKO. WALTON. I’roprl

14 P.M. and IT Niuht. at

. sldrnre. No. t Norik St

^ M. I). MARCY. M. D., * HEM DENT PHYSICIAN SINCE OFFICE—rhllsdelpkla Pbarmary, Cur.Ocean . St and and Columbia Are. UtaliiKaca—No.TI WAkUIKOToa Srai m CAPE MAY. N.J. Offia J/ovrs pTum k to 9 A M ; I to |

TIILLIl'S, M. D.,

i<: h

KESI DENT

U0ME0PATUIC PHT8HIAX, Cor. Ocean and Uu(hca SUreU, CAPE MAY CITY. opac Hours. TL>rA.M..llo3 P.M. 4 In TP.) JQR. ANNA M. HAND, (Office u( I be late Dr. Kennedy ) C or. Waibixutok amp Decatur Sts. CAPE MAY CITY, M. J. Office IIoitra: Until 10 A. V. From 3 to 4 r. M. •• T to » " Kaainaaoa—Tbe Devon.Bo. Lafayette St. r^R. WALTER a LEAMINO,

DENTIST,

Device—Cor. Udobes and Ocean Sir. Cape Mat Cm, N. J. In Attendance Daily.

^^f^icafQarben Fairmount Park, PHILADELPHIA.

-M ild Beasts, Birds and Itcplllea.—Inlrmllng and Instnirllir Admlaalon, 20 ctn.; Children, 10.

""KN EVEKY DAY.

Slreel Car and (mjuent iralm

lb). A

except July

DROP YOUR BUCKET WHERE YOU ARE -Oh, ship aboy!" ran* out tbe cry; -Oh. give u. water or we die.A voice came over tbe waters far. -Just drop your bucket where you are." And then they dipped and drank their fill Of water fresh from mead and LIU;

iw they sailed upon

The broad m

>uth of

•e Amaxon.

To drop our buc-kcta w.

in streams and Inland springs.

A HI CYCLE GHOST.

•up of cyclists Were aented around tbe lire In tbe comfortable inn of Poll Prldd, In North Wales Tbeir talk was of tbrilling experience* on the wheel, and just as the interest was beginning to flag Tom liodkin asked If any one of tbe cornpane bad ev er aren a gli«t upon a bicycle.

en," said llodkli

Don't laugh, gi

quietly, "I sawotu.

“Tbe thing happened In thl* wav. begin at tbe beginning Dick Naggaa

*ulining neck ami neck fo irl whom I shall call Sop

Bylea.

"«pble *

flirt..11

dainfully i might lie.

ns a tormenting little witch. Itb both of ua In a thoroughly of thosv foolish tvmonat ranees desperately in love will some re on In aucb provoking cir.be would only toss her dahit r and, elevating her slightly se. shrug her shoulders dis-

•T Dick

■r Dick

HOT KIM AMD COTTAUKH.

U :

NITED STATES HOTEL.

o Jacksor HTHcrrs.

NrwI^y renovated and reklted

:»d t-r »e.-n : *2 per day. 11. B BEEVES, Proprietor.

BTATl US dellghUully cool sad airy. only sixty feet from the surf. MRS. C. E. MUNROE.

YOKING.

NOl’TH LAFAYETTE NT.

W

HOTETj IjAFAYKTTK CJLPK MAT-. N. J.. 4 JOHN TRACY A CO., - Owners and Proprietor*. Directly on the Reach. Comi'lctc in every department. Thoroughly vated and aopplied with tbe latest improved pasaenger elevator. lattas John Tract, Manager.

HOTEL, CHALFONTE, Howard atreet and Sewell avenue. Cape May, N. .I. Open all the year. Gas Electric Bella. Accommodation* firat-claaa. H. W. SAWYER, Proprietor.

a»d no per week. ■ BN. A. FOSTER.

lOLUNb COTTAGE,

Whisky and other Br ■boles Whm. Family Trad* r. COLLINS. Proprietor.

HE ALDINE,

T“.

CATVS BTBEBT, NBAS BSACN AvaSDR,

CAPE MAY. N J.

Taao McaLLaa. Proprietor. Pirst-claaa Cuisine Lota*, ala Booau.

B'

•BEXTOX VILLA.

Open for the Season. i Beeck. Fine PImemb

p>IER AVENUE INN. lira* all tbi Teak. Caaraa l Locatiob Pier .4r*»uc. uear Wathington fitmt.

ilsble lAcUUIesfuc

■•! .--.A.l

A T K. WJ

A D, TBt M IS.

West Jersey Cabinet, Cor. Grant and North Its..

(Dppotiu Depot)

CAPE MAY CITY. K. J.

Hotel* Oriole

L. PHIL. KOENIC, Proi-rietou. All Kooins Face Ocean. Devtlrd and Son Shell frabw Steamed Crabs a Specialty. Ckfe Sitadlied.

FREE EYE exam(NATION.

EYE SPECIALIST Will be In CAPE MAY, M0.M1AY A TUESDAY, AlH 2i A 30 32 Washington 8t., 2d Floor.

Iroia 8JU A. M. to M'. M

sons who have headache, or whose eyes XU.Ing disconifort shmilu call upon ou

anU U,C J " ul receive iDlelllKeiu am

amine your'eyes' R° CHAIICE to ex deml is guaranteed to be Euutacmry*” “ QUEEN d.CO.,

Ocullats and Optleiann, IOIO Cuektsctbt..Pmu

yi^-IJST JERSEY RAILROAD. riMK TAULK IN KPFBCT JUNE St, law

•Parlor Car attached.

Trains will leave Cape May a* lollowa for

PUILADKLPHIA:

»: ‘JK *• M .ACCOMMODATlONAlops al i-*„ 1 .. * U'ter mediate stations, connects al

: beat ol

s tbe

o say.i

friends, although . _

rivals. We hiul Iwcn chums for cral years, lalging in tbe same •digs' 1 getting on together capitally. 'When w* discovered that we were both x lessly go- e ever Sojildo-WeTiad a long k over tbe matter, and the Ulwhol of It s that we shook hands over a falragrcnt to go in for her, each of ua. fairly 1 squarely, and let the last man win. thcr taking any mean a.) vantage of the

Things Went on Very nil nibs. 1 often met Dick

-hunt six ding hack

.uhurhan cut-

said ate didn't mind, as she was going oc a visit to a friend la Wicklow for a week, i "I wa* discussing breakfast one morning ! a week afterward, glancing over the newspaper now and then a* I feasted, when i suddenly my eye caught the heading— 'Fala] Accident to a Dublin Gentleman.' “1 Immediately looked at the Item, and to my horror found that It related to my unhappy friend Dick. He had jumped out of a railway carriage while the train wa* In motion, got jammed between it and

the platform, and was killed.

"Tbe news upset me a good deal, although 1 could not help feeling that It cleared the ground for file In one Important direction. Still. 1 was very much attached to poor Dick, and I couldn't bring myself to rS.lt Sophie for a couple of days after I had heard the aad tidings. In order

x break them to her.

“The year was fast getting into the sere —* yellow leaf, brown October had

nd its (sometimes) lovc-

| FIRST SHOT OF THE WAR.

by tbe Men Who rife* It.

Major Wade Hampton Gibbrs. a nromlncm citizen of Columbia. S. C.. may be put up.® record lor having made the following statement regarding the firing of the first

shot of the war;

"On the night of April II Captain George N. Jamt-s, who commanded the artillery company stationed at Fort Johnson, wax

ight iu ly moonlight nights, and

these—a glorious one It w aa—that I started off. with an equally balanced admlxtre of grief and hopeful elation at my 'Urt, for the bower of my Sophie-in y « n Sophie, a* I fondly hoped soon to call mow —to unfold my grewsome tale. "I hail got about half way toward my

-atinalion, when

of the

-urred to me .

nsr a match and hare a quirt nothing Weed, as nothing could ceping w ith the peaceful quiet '• No sooner thought of tlian and I w as In the act of remount-

ing with pipe aglow. When my eye caught

'cr coming in the same

considerable distance

sight of a

behind.

•'TTils circumstance caused me no emotion iu jiartirular, and I forgot all about It I sped on afresh. I slackened my tune spin out the distance until I had finished my pipe, and w-iLsdrawing on easily toward

' i Aomc instinct or other . backward down the roa-l

again.

"The Other traveler had gained upon m< with amazing celerity. He was now not more than forty or fifty yard* behind. -WI..I . wonderful resemblance be bore

- eto my dead friend, Dick' .Hiked white in the ghostly

that db ..

His ganneuti

■light.

Dick, wl.et

riding all 1

summer, had w orn a suit of white flannel, as the stranger s seemed to be. And It am pcared to me. as I pAused, thumlerstrirken ami trembling, for a moment in my ride that his form was exactly Hurt of my dead friend! *

-.-sriUon, y,.t now ( ur - *o the ground of my nut chine, under iu infiueme. I U-gan to corse usly for a womanish fool, up with the celerity of fullv ts I set my steel steed .if Start, anil U-gan to race

awesome stranger,

a Mu.uk log pace for aomc

help turning my

how far

me. hut I

rad backward again soon. —,

bad left Mm behind.

still:

“He

delphlaaliju! *7.00 i-! 4 .-*!!

O i)F, *’ M.—Expreax. Connects at Court House for AnalesrA. WlluwooU and Holly HcAcb ; at Sex Isle JunCUuD for Sc* ’i® Lit). Ocean City. Avalon. 1‘eerinom and itone Harbor, and al New field I.m Atlantic Jty, and Somers rolut, at W.KidUury fur Sacra. arrives at Philadelphia 6 10 P. H. 4.45 li^sSBES""' “ .YOO Etliif.'SqSSS.ql'iSS: SViiK' ieSSKS' m AA r M —Millville AeeommodaUno. .. '.vy nalurday only, arrivmi at MUlvlUe

: such visits should he exactly cqm thcr, -s .Ve always laugh.d goo.1 humorc.ll cacti other when we met thus, cha each other about our prospect* of sue and went off and had a drink; so you We were honorable chum*. "for some mouths w'c led this aor life, and nothing could possibly he n satisfactory to cither Dick or me—un

deed, we accepted the of beatific cherrfuluesa

e contingency I ami made the 1*

hut that was quite

-r father

i vlrt.

-and he

Bylea rejoiAd

oo uumeroua to panic of rigid honesty. Hi

iu—and they

d never got int. Buy in bis life, he used to boast, aud he

United people who di.L

‘The old matt seemed to have au impar1 sort of liking for both Dick and me He didn't object to our imylug our ndm danghtcr, hut seemed to be ourselves, to find ot.t which of best—perhaps with equal uii>,

dry

any r

civilly, and chat taxi to

e. he alwaj

s in Lis

ther ami t

arkets and the Hi "Dick and my , joymeiit of a moalt .■nough for hi. _ •ravagaut turn; hut hardly enough ft me. for my tastes were mure luxurious.

"Hart Dick'.

Ul) it

e that

->I>0TEL‘ DEVOP,^ SOUTH LAFAYETTE ST. Near Rallroaal Station, Beaeh A Post Ofliee. The Devon has been recently enlarged and improved. Culslcc first class. •10 AND tl2 PER WEEK adL YEAR HOUSE MRS. T. R. BROOKS.

OA.RROLL V n T a A Jackson Wrcct, near the Beach. CAPE MAT, N. J. Delightful location. Everything Firrt-claaa. Cloee to Ocean Pier. MRS. P. U RICHARDSON.

Brancli. at SewOeld lor AUaa«fto™r..«YJlKivt!JSgSr " ‘5.00 u.. l !ilSKS4 , ,'“ff'!,;LSS llullgjleacb. and at Woodbury lur halei arnvrfpt nuiadelpfita T-3) P. M. 4 )C P. M .—Accommodation and Exci

t Dick riding h

"Pile evening I

from Stepanida-, a! visits, as I was going out to take his He jumped t.ff 1,i\ bicycle and cairn to me iu a slate of great |K-rturljutiui

cry 41 ove

I have to go away for <‘s a maiden aunt o: In llomhurg. ami she ■c why you sltould. my her do J perceive wl dreadfully agitated.'

drlphia at anu P. M. ;?,oo& Pe*rnxMit a .d Ktony Harbor. I'h. eaol,.hl. .l,r. o o

t Court l Molly 1 1 \

balurtuys ooly. M^P.M AnrAta.rt.rion^ turned. 1

Accommodation, ..10 A. R. ExcunloaT.lO AJi. PkllaAaipklaJB^LyJxsgty. A BalU-

IL|. RROAD STAS ST BTATIOS «iL i.uTidir i i .1*1. Ri“u jr?Limtt^d ‘iS. C J*. V esUbule Parlor Cars, Vestibule CoachDmlar Oar) 1X0, X«B. iAI.tUT, 647. TAB r. S-..*® 4 UtNuIgM- Ooogresaioaxl Limited of las Car 4 U a. m. take local train

IU* A

. I-SO, 7 JO. • JO, * AL 444. "At r. aad 1 Baltimore only, 4JM and 11 JO r. a.

A. O. DAYTON. J.S. WOOD,

lasertateodaet Oanl Pan

" I don't.

a 1 tick)- dog!

fortune.’

" 'Don't sec il." lie crux in astonishment ‘Whitt

" ‘Don't trouble your head about t iwered. •She'll get along just as

So|ihie to do in

I'm at

,, . * few yard* behind. 1 .wild not distinguish his face. Imt the fig ure and the way in which It sat Hie ma-

chine were the same as Dick'a.

"Again 1 spurted madly. Growl headsof cold sweat burst out ufion my temples and an icy feeling crept through 'my frame, even to the marrow- of my hone*, despite the heat Into which the exercise had thrown me. My terror lent toe strength. I must gj-t away from this horrible phantom, even though my heart should snap in the effort. I tore along the road now like a maniac. "I was just turning the corner of the rustic hue which led up to Sophie's bower when my machine came plump against a form doing the sake from the lane aide of the angle. The consequence waadiaas

trous to both traveler*.

“Machine and myself threw, a duublt somersault over the Usly of the pedestrian. \\ hen we both regained our feet I thought I should turn into stone when I encountered the Gorgon I ike eye of my intended

father-in-law.

" 'Hang it. man!' he shouted, as t he rccuguiuxl me and found his “what the dickens are ye staring at i„e ,o,. instead of apologizing for nearly killing me! One would think y. ' •

ghost.' " I ha.

of my poor dead friend Dick; a

instructed to have a ahcll exploded at half past 41® the next morning, which was to be the signal for a general hombardmeuL I. as first lieutenant in command of the battery of KMuch mortars, waa intrusted with this duty. Our mortars were loaded and trained, one with a full charge, directly t® the fortress, the other, according toinstructious. to explode high in ths air and wide of the mark, only «a a signal. Corporal Welch with one lanyard In hand and I with the other anxiously awaiting the moment and watching our timepiece*. A* the hand marked the half hour the shell was thrown high in the air. a beautiful sight, a* tbe whole line could be traced by the hurtling fuse. Immediately our mine wa* sprung to destroy a house which interfered w nh our view, aud then the guu which was trained upon the fort, and was intended fur business, was discharged all

within one minute.

Lieutenant Henry I-Farley, with Captain James, commaml.x! a second battery of mortars, and Lieutenant Haync a delachraent of reserves. These are absolute fact*, and the two shell* from my battery were the two first of the siege. Lieutenant Meade, who wa* in Fort Sumter, informed me that the- swotd shell fell in the fort." Major Gibbe* was graduated from West point iu the class of 1M0. He bad been as signed to duty in a regiment serving ou the frontier, and at the beginning of the on agitation he wa* ou furlough visiting his home iu Columbia and making preparation to join his command. When South Carolina finally seceded he resigned hi* commission in the I'nlUxlSfate* army and cast hisfortunea with UieCoufederacy. After the fall of Numterbe served throughout t he war iu t he Virginia cani|iaigns. waa terribly Wounded at Petersburg aud syrrendend with la-e at Appomattox. Major Gibl.es w-as postmaster at Columbia uuder Cleveland, and is now an extensive dealer In agricultural and other machinery.—St.

Louis CloU-Democrat.

There is no government in the drllifird torl^l, except possibly Russia, which 1* .<d to some extent under thr domination of popular opinion. The present emperor M Germany is the moat virile monarch in Europe, hut he dare not oppoac too grievously the will of hi* sul.je.-ts. If there 1s any written Instrument of government powerful U-yutid alt other laws. It is our own constitution; for It is the rule of action prescrllaxl by the people for the guidance and control of their agents. lint the history of the federal |«.wer *!.ow* that

the roust it ul

11* the pow

atlluti.® has i Vs will.

popular opinion,

xsl Iu Uie w ay of the court will ebangr its

of the const imt

it'i'he white 11* cottier of the lane of tV- dazzling m

figure bad arrived at the lane, full In the ghastly glare .light. It dismounted

or the ghost uf my it was a horrible, ion long enough Id if seven pounds U-u .1. the tailor, of b hs-U o'clock Uy to iuiitc you

mind if the p.oplc

’ ' necessary for popular

the breaking or flexion

n; Ur 1» only necessary

It should approve what has bccudour. The purchases of Isruisiana and Alaska, and the many instances of executive and legislative acts during the war of the re hellion that were clearly beyond the constitutional grant* of power, arc cases in point which will occur to any one who is at all familiar with our constitutional history.—Henry laxunis Nelson In Harper's

An Ethiopian In Abyssinia will tell you without a blush that he is uerreaarlly washed at birth, cleans himself on hi* marriage mom aud hopes to he washed after death; that ODCC every Tear he dips himself iu the river on the festival of 8t. John tbe Baptist, and regularly every morning he wet* the end of his toga with the moisture from his mouth aud freshens up his eyexc Whenever be feel* his hide harsh and uneumftrtable he annulets himself Of a morning one may see the jeut.ease dortx- of a town stalking with body erect and with alwut a pound of butler stuck on their heads, gradually melting under the Increasing I sneer of the sun. The men rnay look a shade cleaner occasionally, caused nut by any act of their own. hut through thr accident of being for hour* lu a rain

sx-itr* daily;

■n then the odo

«tbe a

cclleu

re insomnia 1s to bandWhief be-

.lay dreau

ild Ilyin

h all

enraged money lender who

penny, and hade in y face at the cottage,

ratified this decision, aid married a pawn .hi pie of months before,

third spouse under the sod in Glas • ud I am left here.alone with my

faithful bicycle.”

.-it you—jo. advantage of my ; your promh

lK*ed.‘

w by my arrangements

affected by J.n.r maiden aunt's proceedings. The old lady is not going to , '• 'But don't jpu see, Tom, that my ah-H-nce would be ‘giving you an unfair adrantoge* You're too humwahlt-a fellow. 1 know, to avail yourself of in' “ ‘Look here, Dlei*.' I said at length, after he had gone on iu this strain for

to oblige you. .I'll again for a fortnight.

k hytl

It you're not. the bargai

“'Do you give me your word ou that, Tom.' he asked, brightening up. ' “'Ido.’ I returned, 'you may haunt me when you die if I break il Now be off. 1 '

hands and parted, and when

beloved Sophie 1 Informed her

'•ugh the Italian

.ho..o.,..». „r “little shade." Toe r rcuch. German. Sjuudsh and other* give it a distinctive name, such os “parapluie," “rv-gcnschirn." and "paragnaa.” "CmhrolU"and “parasol” are etymologieally precisely the same thing, hut custom has given them the distinctions that we under aland to day.-dotfalcrand Furnisher.

Mr Was lte.ll, Fishing.

Friend —Where is your husband'

. Hostess—He u off on a trout fishing trip.

■■Dh. yes. I've hearth such stories before, low do you know he is really fishing*" "I have proof. He sent me some fiah.” “Huh! Fish can he bought iu market.'' “' ri “ 'L The) were such miser-

ooes no market would

York Weekly.

Moon Worship I. Very Old. We find that mono w orship is as widespread a* the human race Itself, and 0* old as the first dawn of intelligence. We can ■util lu origin 1* lost In

able Itlfl.

bandage the . _

:iriug. The compress srems lodrive be Mood from tb* eye* abd so to r. at Isast, to temporarily relieve that fci-ling so often experienced by in mmiacs of trylhg to see in the dark. Persons of a wakeful habit are often greatly annoyed by the strain on the eyes consequent upon th* effort to ace something lu the darkness by which they are surrounded. The handkerchief prevents this and more than one sufferer from insomnia has been surprised to find that after bandaging hi* eyes he can go to sleep a« easily as a three-year-old chlld.-Xew York

Journal.

Two n.ei

mM. «

one Is listened I

all. the other stirs to every flirer our heing. ami our Souls thrill responsive to bis lightR*t touch. It is not what w-e hear, nor I* It graceful pose or elegant dirtiou. It is •“"hirig comprehensive or tangible, bnt au invisible, mysterious force, which we acknowledge and yield to even against our convictions ami reason. This strange attribute is not her. -diary nor con it he oo i.aln-d. —Detroit Free Press.

A patent by a woman will he sbeciolly

grateful to many turn. It is a earring machine and 1* a small Instrument in silver that is fastened to the aide of the platter,

which nu adjustable fork Is attached, i this the fowl is spitted, and warr.nt.xl dislodges] on the tablecloth ur in

's lap. m

tempts of il

t thr wild al York Time*.

The prite of thr ruby is much higher chan that of the yellow Cape diamond, but if the lot Irr is dyed deep ruby red It will Ix-cofue a ruby illomoud of a fire not possessed by even the best ruby, and such a Jewel will excite the admiration of all lovers of jewels and command a high price. Tbfc fraud is at present worked lu Europe for all It is worth.—Jewelers'Circular.

Hui