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VOL XXVI. NO. II.

CAPE MAY CITY, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 14, 1897.

PRICES CENTS

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CONGRESS HALL, CAPE WAT, H. J. Built ort»rlck, slluitril on ■ blr", rltli k elrtr outlook OTtr the Ooatn, aud on Tided wilt rrrrjr romfort aud od^'-f ' ■* The room* are airy, ooejr aud charm lugly fitted ; thr culalue and aerrlce unezeeued, and there la a lorely aix acre lawn PaMrt>(er elovctor, < Irrtr Ic hella, firavclaca laundry, Ore-eecapee. aud the moa complete arrangrmenta-for 500 Gueata. Coojrraa Hall haa been recently renora ted, repainted and put In exeelleot condition. The aanltary arrangementa are the moat approred patters and are now perfect. KpWABD KNIGHT CAKE.

STOCKTON HOTEL , THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL IN THE WORLD SEASON 1897

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS ' APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTLY FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFUL LAWNS. RATES, $3 AND f 5 P£R DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK

Corner rooms anB Suites, with parlors and baths extra. Con-

certs mornings ib to 12.

ri ops evenings, 8.30.101030. Dogs not taken or

allowed on the premises.-

HORACE M. CAKE.

w _ MStrine Villa 23rd MKAhO.V Ca|ic| 9faj^ X. el. —— ~xnrj FOR ILLUSTRATED ALBUM, ADDRESS. Mrs. John M. Rogers, OWNER AND MANAGER.

* MARINE -VILLA ANNEX, Finest Location in Gape May. a. I HAVE TAKEN THE TATHAM COTTAGE IN OOJUIEClioN WITH . MARINE VILLA ANNEX, Now ready to ree- Ire -my former patron*. - 1 aball not manage the Marine Villa Uila aeaeon. Mrs. F. HALLENBECK.

NEW BRITISH SHiPS.

HOTEL COLUMBIA,

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J.

•awrated wad Improved. \r« Xmanage 111 nil.

C oBventondy Located.

MRS. S. FOSTER. Forroerly the Wyoming

‘STAB V1UU.‘ .«iub Ui luu uu tUr. H X

OCEAN, KTRUITT

' aad »

beach avehce

Directly on the Beach. Finest Rooms.

Star Villa,

"fSTHIv GHALFONTE.SF

Under liew Managerm

Appolnlmeiiu Plr*«-rlaa*. ITioroughly llr,ud -VI

CHARLES BAI.TOX. of the < on 1 Inenlal

Open all tbe Tear. olel. Prop.

HOTEL DEVON

South Lafayette 8t, Near Beach,

-» W the WtebeOg,^. Tbe Diadem, wboee* lannch baa t briefly noted In tbeceble’dlepatchea, la of four ecaaela octumonly known as the Wlobe or Andromeda trps, from which Onaa Britain hopa, for r»d resula They "*»•—» —pen of lljpOO totfaan the CAlumbli la. our largest proterted era admiralty has reoenUr on a aooond quartet of Impmred Nlobea— uely. the ArRonaul of J. 4 (j. Then ,. Clydebank; the Ariadne of the Fallfield company. GUegow, the Arapblulie of the Kaeal OooBractloo and Armnmeote rompany. Banow-ln-Fameea, the Spartlata, to be built at eoine ■orerament I" ' yard, with Maudaley. Sons A Flrld'i rlnea They ax to hara a length of 4B8 met. a beam of 0» and a molded depi' KK. with a dlaplaoeTut-nt of ll.OuO l S5Vt feet draft Tbeaa ahlpe are to hare a foreoeiUe and boat deek. biu.no poop. They will cany xteen 8 lorhrapid fire gune. twain lieaij t poundm and two lighter ones, three 8 poundera. right maxims and three torpedo which the one at the stern U .•t«r. Tbe entire armament. It will be oheerred, consists of rapid fix ..... Tk- ..... .1. _ k . . .

The chief dlffennae between tbe Diadem, Just lanncbed. and the four new xaapeex to he In Uie meohlnery. The er ere to ban tiro arts of four cylinder, triple expansion engines, two of the cylinder dtamrten bring 84 Inches and 88H Inches and two #f Inches each, with a ion <8 Inch stroke In order to eoonI (pace. Instead of haring the high ire cylinder forward, the Intermsdl-

A HAUNTED FAMILY.

lAra 1 plcnmwjoc little town I ladre « Loire, n«t fai ‘ - - - and Fontgomhauit, piece of which the e

nrlahle notoriety attached to

.. -Twenty yean ego M. end Mma Sahourault. thou a newly married eouple, who took up thrir rwddanoe PolUurs. first — --

tbe rtetims of tbe IwrmouUaua the phenomena ceasing for awhile, only to moonunenue with renewed Intensity. Id this case a girl of about IS nan of age, MUa'Braee Sahourault, enome to be thr Involuntary medium. In any -—•. 1, Is the who Is at the preaent time muUoularly perancotod. For Instanoo. when by visit to friends or re-

wbort- (he may temporarily nalda. manlfastatlons which have aooompanled M and Mma Sahourault ever since tbrir wedding day have bean vnrioua The

displacement of objects ' eurrod. but fsat — * '

d put a low pressure riylm •aohend. The engine win run at 1»0 revolutions Instead of 110. as In the Diadem, and 18.000 Indicated horsepower will be Instead of 18,600. although the mly expected to Increase from K knots. Tbe BellerUle bollcra e modlflrd a little with a view id clrouls tlon and to economy In, not appear that for eo gn these, vessels have cither raspeed or remarkable gun power.

under which forced draft Is iken Into account. But In maty bo said that our Olympia, of I tons displacement, developed 1,818 Indicated horsepower aad .(M0 knots, that tbe Colombia, one. showed 18,500 horsepower note, and that the kllnnrnpolls, 178 tons, showed-80 ■—

88.078 knots f

many rapid fire guns tbe weight rblch the new llrittsh crullers

withinaglven tli

e the 0 Inch caliber, wl

■wj our Olympia carries four 8 Inch guns, be-

-aides ten 8 Inch. *Iijaay be nddi

the admiralty, to tie built at Pnrtamooth, Devonport and Chatham. They are to be 800 feet long, or 10 feet longer than the Talbot, 84 feet In breadth, and of about 6.000 tons In displacement The elm will be to give them greeter speed, a hotter battery and larger cual currying capacity than the Talbot haa They will hare the DdlerUU hollers and are to develop 10.000 boraepowr. wlth'SO knots speed. Here also then Is a falling short of what we get with the Olympia, of rather leer displacement Tbe

present programme, to have a wood and Copper sheathing, which wlU .enable them to go without decking longer than ours.— Detroit Free Pnsu.

.•1st of literary history might bewritten on the difficulties of nov ellste ox* the titles of tbrir Inoka Not on* Is sure If be prints a story In America under a title that esomi to him absolutely arigtnatAhat earns one won't turn oat ‘ hare used It already In Knglaod. Wei call that Mr. linrsrilsiteitW-'Og ago had publish a Lx- -k in En^l ind under a dlff< ent title’ from that which he kept for America, aud jn.w N:Ux ilur^urot Sherwood. who waa aahl to be bringing out i novel on hod “Au Experiment In Egoism.' Is aunonnaod to hax rechrlstened It, before publication. "A. Puritan Bohemia' Lucas Malet had to gn through the earn operation the other day, aud tier new novel "Corlsslma." eomea out under that drwls nation only after having saSered U

finding out before they publish wbelbor thefr tlflo* have been anticipated or not. At the same tlnm, we rept ‘ ought to he a chapter written with Of the oooaalona upon which those have Involved serious cxmpllcw oomloal development— —Now York Trib

sntaKlgal si

n-snmw frwquently, esperially - — - . —*■ by Milo. Honor, and Dulaoe of all aorta Use been and an still oonstantly heard. At Yaennw a lam number of the Inhabitant* h*x> beard the sounds, which they n«a<d as supernatural, bul such storfts would son rely merit, any attention whatever If they had not been eup ported by more trustworthy testimony. M. Heymund Duplautter, a tnrrtster ■ PuHlors, having Uwruud that one of trlonda, M. Urhaln, aud eevirml other i eons living at Yxeurra had hmrd I aooounUhle sounds, i ' •

few strung nr

€APJE MAY, J. Open Bpnng. Summe;. Autumo. Baa been rauovat-d and la now firsteelaae Is 80R ri^.°^r lh ? £d.h Jersey Coast. The WINDBOR^alwaya haa eotertalued the best of Cape May’s visitors and wUl oootlnas to .MAJaPIJV, Proprietor.

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* ‘ aty; It Is an odd foot- hot one which to borne ■at by tbe testimony of tbe ponton of ‘—I qualified to •|<cak—the and spectacle handkerchief L , , oTthe gUsees U» dolhs am supposed to be useful In t butler's pantry lot this very purpose—l polishing of glass But the different temp

• tiro Perkins of Warren was |n hla Boat when the mbIou opened and bmtde him wns the blushing young lady he had married the day before. In the ■n Mr. HaB of Wmi'-

COLONIAL;

CAPE MAY, N. J.

• FULL , OCEAN VIEW. AH Modem Cobveoicnce*.-. New House. Shady Piazzas.

W. H. CHURCH.

kept burning the whole night *Vit when that was not done the lamp was lighted on the tint auund lining board. The phenom-

“0 thorriox took place In fun light

In a long, demited account of hla four vlslta u. Yseuras M Duplautlor doolaros that on tbe first uooaaton he and his friends beard six loud knocks on the stairs The nmnd night they spent under M Sabouranit's roof was a little mure Inn* erilng. After 1 30 In the morning a great deal at knocking oeeuresd on the stain, on the walls and all around, some at the blows aounilng w. be struck In the air sovtrel meters above the roof of the bousu. Then come eoratchtng at a partition wall, followed by the noise of the walking of a man In a garret above and the'pattering pf a four footed animal. Immediately tbote uneooouc table sounds wren- htsud M Duplautlrr aud his friends examined anew tbe rooms from which they snuunl to twin, but could discover nothing which could have produced them. As soon as the dour wae oproed the notsu ceased, but togan again Immediately It was olua<d after tbe tn^roctem of the room During tbe third night the uianlferteilions wen very sim-

ilar to thoae olwTv.d on the seoond. M. iKlplaullor's fourth visit they the l*ol tiers tsirrisbr and bis

friends yet more extraordinary Some Invisible hand, which from the sound might be nothing bat tune, began knocking at a partition wall as early as 10 o'clock In the evening. Tlie quodkins put by M. Doplautlcr were Invariably answered by thrwi clrar knocks and energetle scratching at the wall After that five hours elapsed without anything extraordinary occurring. But et S o'clock In the morning the wooden stairs were tumid to crack and groan under the weight at a ooloasal though Invisible (sing I Inscribing what occurred

M. Duplautlor «y, :

“We heard on each step at the stairs the nolee of Immense feet shuffle hastily down one otter the other till the lest step was rqacbiri During all the time the stairs, though they era new and strong, groaned and cracked. Then It sms the turn at the partition wall s.-|araUng tbe paxags from the rooms boding out of It which was ahaken by sudden end cncxgotlo blowa With a light, wo looked about everywhere »'e eosrobed the garret, the stalrraa- and the passage, which wen absolutely empty. During the rust of the night distant knocking was beard. The blows aeem-ri lobe struck above the bouso. “ kL .Duplauttcre eonelo^rs hla oommunlcatton with the remark that, though what be and his friends observed at Yaeures la Insignificant enmpsjvd with what the Sabourault family wl4otx onnstantly. It la

LINCOLN COULD GET ANGRY. As, Iter Example, When III. - • .lems Wex IMIxnd te. siaatna. “I hare read several Limnln annlTFrsarv speeches.’’ said Mr. Charles Frederick, ''and have been struck with tbe statement amtaiiu-d in some of tb«m to the effect that Mr. Lincoln aeldom got mad. and that w hen be did pi t bo did not allow bin,-■ If to g-1 rery mad. If thoao sp-wk- r- «pnkc from theIr personal experirune. it is all right, but my personal experieiKv w uh him one night satislled nio he cruld get up a terribly good sized case uf mad at tlmiw. “I was a hoy at the time and waa a nwweHugor for the old Ami-rienn Telegraph o.mpany, which In after voars waa abeurlad by the present ffrwtcni Union teb-grapli. Fur sereral days thstv had boon a number of ftdcgrama'fir the president from aimy officers, and among them I remem la-r two or time from General McClidlan. 1 don't ri-mi-mhig now why they did not come over Uie mUitury telegraph Inftw. Well, one night I starl.-d ox r to the White H-iuai-with a telegram that I kiiew'ueiu- from General McClellan. It was fur tbe prewIdent. "In thoao days there waa always a guard of soldiers stationed at tbe two avenue gates, as also at the other gatos, but memengrr Ixiys were generally well known, and they were admitted day or night without any question, at least to the front ting, when- another soldier guard was also stationed. Then-was always an oflloer about the door, who receipted hr- telegroma. This night, howevi-r, I saw Mr. Llnenln dining toward Uie tmter gate-, uni I thought I would personally hand him Uie telegram, which I did. Ha smiled pleasantly enough as he opened M. hul a ehaugu bit-grams?' he i-d that 1 had •od him

for the offl-

' 'Then, turning l

raid: '.Send up to Uie d«

cer In charge and. tell J telegrams come here addle.-r- d to m.v they el.ould and must be dt-livt red tome. Tell him. also.' aud by tfns time the president was vt-iyjnad. 'that if be sends any more- of my telegrams ovt-r to Mr. Stanton's house I'll drix-Inm away from here. Mr Stanton has enough telegrama of his own and aliould not have

hoy," sold Mr. that Mr. Un•y thtixiph, and

"Though I was but a Frederick, "I could m< coin was mad nil Un- wi

that, tar the moment ui .._ diaploomd with las wnrmimater, S<i-re-tary Stanton, and that he intended ex acUy what he Raid Tfaepresnii nt, then directing himself to me, (-uitiuuid: 'Boy, toll your folks Ural I must have my telegrams, and that if Ihtw jsildlirs about the doui interfere any more I’ll drive every one of them aw ay. 1 don't Want them and never did want then, about the place. * "—Washington Star. COLORADO HOTEL RULES.

giiiUeman of Carro lately returned from t brought with him a pipy rules be found postt-d in ,

Fsrriw Tbe Overland Telegraph line, which ■insets England-Wltb her gnat Indian nplra. pa mi through IVxl* and has recently been subjected loan tnterrupUon erf

at the populace, sen a terrible dram Jeeto of tbs shah,' U

- . . all. to the posts and signs of -* of tbs company. .Accordingly aU thoobpolra, wires and survey i ■ by a priest led mob. . y rain fell limned la: J». In V>te of the severe punInfilcxed by the Teheran govern.on the ringleaders, the maeere at thepopnlalloc tliroughuut Persia are firmly convinced that te-bgraph and surrey are productive of drought and invenct tbe devd. —New Y.SW Tribune.

destroyed Ir

Sat'juit react ed "by Mr. McCallTTirfra *'ren one at hla rrmstttuaata. healthy male lady " Put*lingo■nmTi°si« "" ■ubjori to freak In

The hold was tl«. BukII.-x' lb»t. at Little Cayu*e Crwk. Cola Tin- "rubs far the guidaix-c of guests" follow: " Ml gents with shisitlng ireuui or wcajuus must obori Uh ui ls-fore entering the dining reum. ' Walters ore too scarct- to be killed. "Gvnla are o quisle.I not to attract waiters' attention by throwing things hem. This is no deaf mule asylum 'Seven kinds of pie ore given with

every dtum-r.

"Tablecloths are changed every Son-

Jay.

“Our foCTl'is all of the best quality. Our milk is pure, egg* new laid, uud the bottci sj-eaks for itself. ‘ "Guests tippitig wuitns must pay funeral baietits tu nan- one slit.uld dlt> "No mure lhau aix eggs w ill Is- given each at a sitting. Any gn.vt found trying to work off shells on a neighbor will be find fp.ni the table. "Biscuita fonnd riveted together can bo opened with a chisel supplied by a waiter. The use of dynamite is strictly forbidden. "Disputes over urticlranf food must bo acultd ontaidc. "Don’t lasso flic waite rs, tscanxe the guest who can't throw the rope will biat a disadvantage! "Gents can takeoff their coats it they want to, hot they must keep on their vest*.Baltimore Sun.

A nent thexllscuxlou as «pn-d ever aUalnod by ex writers, there is a story of the fsat of a stenographer, which by long

was when that eminent Jurist, the late Judge Rlcbard'Clarkq, waa |residing In- tbe AUffnta circuit of the superior court. One of tbe must remarkable murLriala was In prognaa Tfio evidence cunfllcUng, kta the Judge was oallod upon to charge the Jury on some decidedly DOW aud interesting legal points. Now, tbs Judge was s rapid talker. • In this Instance it was very important, that every word bo qiokc should be oorrectly record-

Then Judge Clarke began. armed up to fats charge be was i, r - m . J the rate of 650 w ords a minute. Once he glenoid toward die stenographer. That worthy official 'seemed to he half sleeping hla work-and apparently writing vary f. l / r. -■ ■ are you getting «ny words down oorrectly?" asked the Judge. At this the stenographer wwinod to wake op With liulo concern be replied l •'That'S Ml right, Jndgo,'fire away. I C about 16 woids ahead of you now!"— ■htngton Pool.