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VOL. VI. NO. 50

COURT IS AT WORK All Civil Cases to Be tried by Judge Endicott MURDER USE ON UNDER! U •Iniilcr TwDchonI Chars* Groml Jory Vupon Briber; Alleced »t Reoenl MccUob Tbe Doormbrr term of the Cap* Mar county coaru cooreord at Court Hour* 00 Tueaday. with Jodgt* ^Treochanl aod Hildreth 00 tb* bench. Th* following grand Jury waa called:, JanuaT. Hoffman foreman. John W Gandy. Carl A. Haawtn. Frederick Crooeckrr. Kugror C. Cole. Robert Bright. Samuel SUM*. Frank W. Miller. Jam** McUodee. Albert J. Matthew*. Burgher V. Van Horn. Darld P. Creewell. Ella* W Forcom. Crawford Back. Robert Naylor. Simon Gldding. Jainrr Long. Charier A. McWllliamt. Aaron Robinron. John P. Fox. Lwwb S. St 11 well. Alfred A. Chnrck. aod Darld W. Rolan. Judge Trench*rd. charged the grand Jury aa tc the recent murder In the com - ty. 01 bribery and upon cruelty lo child reo. Upon bribery be eaid: "My attention baa been called In tbe fad that certain new*paper* of thl* count charge that in certain rectlou* of thieonoty there war bribery practiced at th. lari election. 1 do not know whether thl charge ia well or ill founded, but 1 'leant I my duty to call your attention to tb* fact that tbe cfa irge la made aod to the law upon th* aobjeex. The law b perfectly plain Tbe law of thl* atate make* brlb cry at election* In all it* radon* form*, a t* penalties therefor.

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trUrnce of bribery at election la any of Ra yarion* form*, it will, of ooorae. b. yoor doty to Hod an Indtctmev. or lodlct meat* against tbe offender or offender*

REV. BURNS ON BRIBERY Says Ungodly Nations Always Have Their Fall BAUOT BOX STUFFING I FACTOR

Rer. James Burn* preached tbe last of hit aeries of arnoonr uo national and patriotic subject* S today evening r* the Rr*t M. E. rhurch. Tbe snhjrrt was "Some Danger* Which Thieatrn Onr National Ufe." The-text wa* from laalah 1; 1W, *-lf ye bo wiUtng and obodieat ye ehall ast the good of tbe land" Mr Bnro* shawed that the continued greatness and u-efulne the Kingdom of Ja lab.depended upon the loyalty of tbe Jewish people to the Mosaic Institution*! that their dancer* lalion, lay in their otter diaregard to the plain teaching of Jehovah; that

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this subject. It u a matter of great pub lie concern. It woo Id be Tory aafortunale If the well founded suspicion goes abroad that la this county bribery obtains at

"The certain raaolt of that would U that hooeot votera. who an deprived of the tefloaoea that they rightly should pemmi from the exercise of franchise would become deg Indifferent. Indifference of hooeel Toler* 1* always govern mee would lend to the partial If not t dcatrnrtioo of civil liberty. This affairs should not be permitted to obtain. I have pointed out to you tbe remedy. Is to find Indictments for bribery e

Ju*tier Trendiard announced that all civil cases lo tbe supreme and drcoll court, would be trisd before Jodgv Kodl cott oa dales lo be axed. Jodge Hildreth announced that license matters aod erlml nal matters would be taken up next Monday. The grand jory daring ths afternoon returned an Indictment for murder against Goitarppt Dedero. for ths murder of hie brother at Borieigb Thanksgiving night. HI* case will b* began on Monday. Jano . ary 14. before Justice Traaehard.

DEATH OF YOUNG GIRL Mias Lena Stiles Passed Away Mon day Moraine Mim Lena Stiles, daughter of Mr aod Mrs Howard Stiles, of West Cape May died at bor home on Monday mornin r 6 o'clock, she being in her nineteenth year of her egr The esase of btr death Is pot dearly defined , ea she has

the Ice a boot four years ago which is to be tbe indirect t death. Miss Stiles was a vary lovable girt and of a liking disposition and bar loan will be very deeply felt by her frit and saaociap-e- She was a constant member of the Mathoaist church of Cspo May, sad a member of Mr. Lo-I-Dim's dam in tbe Union Hoaday bcho-J of Waal Chpe May. Koaera: services will be bekl to-day (Tli need* y) from tbe resides ne of her parepts, they being conducted by lbs Rev. Burn* of tbe M. K. ehorefa- Ini. meat at Cold Spring cemetery

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when a nation refuses to comply with the Jivine requirements and trample* upon 1 he priociplea of morality, nghinre* ami justice, It forfeits all diims upon heavenly guidance aud Divine protection, and D sura upon itself complete and entire dtt-

■roction.

Among tbe evils pointed oat ic great danger arising oof of the political corruption aod tbe trickery partiaanahip He said the Bible mand, and t^siSea of tbe fouadora of tbe nation was tbe bmt men should be pi seed ia office* sad positions of trust and responsibility, alas! Many of tbe office holders of cities at States and of tbe Nation, are igl ant. Incompetent, immoral. selBab and wicked, aod are a very aad commentary upon tbe intelligence and business terpriew of tbe adieus, who place them lo position "Thera is not a bank corpora I ion in tbe country that tonld place at the bead, or in tbe management of its bosioees such men aa we have jost pointed oat." said tbe speaker. Trustworthy men of experience, of large knowledge and great teas ability should be placed in pabiic positions We look for men of fines to manage banks and similar .ess enterprises, bat when it cornea mblic office,” we seem to think that any ignoramus, drunken loafer, oorrupter of morals, rote baying manioc or ballot box stufler Is good

[bt down aere in Cape May County it ia said there were over ftX marked ballots, to show debauchery We Americans aay by oar acts that tbe man wbo manages oar money in tb* beak mast be a eieaa, able, boi

wbo has aharge of oar property, a poo whom depends the protection and misty of oar home*’ the moral atmosphere in which oar children a ractioent and enforcement of Jaw « safety a no protection of the as aad the general good of the unity,need not be good norm onset, nor honorable, bat may be dishonest politicians, deemrefs aad rascals, or dreaken libertines who * the moral low nee institutions, bat Ben Arnold like ere eHUag them oat at • p**r to those

GARDNER’S BUSY DAY

New Jersey’s Representative la The House

OUR REPRESENTATIVE IS BUST

i Bill Famed to Protect I^ibcr NVem Competition by OonTtctMade Prod net*

Gardner, uf our dial riel, chairman of tbe Bona* Committee on r. had hit Innine In tbe Honee Usi Friday afternoon, under tbe fir.I call of imltteea of the session, aod before b* M tbe Soor permanently be bad >ed tbe Boom bill reported br biro at tb* tsetses loo, “to limit the effect of tbe rrcnlatloo of th* lateretAte commerce oe M wholly or In pert manufactured by cmrlet labor, lo any prison or reforms lory" Tb* bill wa* Introduoad by Mr. Hod', of Missouri, last January, and wa* n loo Jaarfi. last, by Mr. Gardner, wbo I boi tied, on h, half of bU commit. rt. and which

GRANGE IN SESSION

ALL THROUGH THE COUNTY

oU Their Tbirly-founh An- Uc.1 Topic, 0 | (jener.! | 0 . ■iial Meeting st Trenton lerest Mentioned

NEW OFFICERS WERE ELECTED

Map" RmoI.iI'idT and Wire Ttirm To President—Many Cape May

People Present

Chorus ef Creditor* i “•ring back, brii

If beak, bring bask eur Bewi te us." —Naughton in Ouluth Evening HoraTi

FRATERNITY EXTENDED

Odd Fellows to Visit House Lodfe

WILL CONFER DEGREE

Ibowt Twenty live ■

Toe Odd Fellow* of Cape May are wktegarra agent eeta to pay a visit to Hereford Lodge, of Coart Honee, on Friday evening. About twenty or twenty five will be la tbe delegation aad an enjoyable visitation i* antio-

sted.

Tbe invitation .to pay Hereford Lodge a visit waa received by the memben of Mayfipwer Lo-lge at tbe rag alar meeting last Friday evening. Tbe Court • lodge ha* eight eanidate* lor m and. it expects to make tbe occasion of eoaferrieg tbeeo degree a jrable event It tberotoee invited tbe local Odd FeUowe to joia in the work of conferring tbe degreea Tbe Invitation wee accepted aod tbe degree and a number of otbera trill make the trip. Hereford Lodge I* miking greet preparations for tbs event. The way of conferring tbe dag re** will occupy the early part of lbs evening and following

Royal Arcsaum Omoors

Tbe Cape May Royal Arcanum lodge la*t Thursday night elected officer* for enuring year. Mr. F. II. Walls, D. D. O L. of Vineland, made an i a terra tio« address, aod Mr. Sharp, Regent of Vineland Council, alao .pole briefly After the bnaincm of tbe evening bad been attended to the member* adjour-

ea/* and enjoyed a

Tbe officer* elected are a* follows Regent, J. Oarenoe Gallagher; Vine Regent, Charles 8. Newell; orator, F. W. Wolf; recording aecertary, Frank 8. Gallagher; treasurer, W. D. Vanxant; lain, Kogeoe Vansman; guide, Edward Miller; warden. Geo Koaeman;

Qty council at he merllag last Wednesday night ordered that 40 are H*hU be taken down for tbe wieter sea

. ton wive Natarally there ieeame com; lag, bat wHh the remaioiag Ughte the Iowa is lighted about aa wail a* moot towaa of evar toigar Mae the* Gape

May.

PERSONAL MENTION

Winter Visitors are Numerous About Town

TOUR NINE NIT IE'INCLUDED

Happening, of a Week Among Von BoUUvwoaad Krlenda Trraely

Mr*. Loren* 8 Hall ia rislting ■•tor, Mr*. Page, at Clayton, N. J., for month. Rev. Arthur Hess, of Janadowne, Pa., will officutle in tbe Cbnrcb of tbe Aden t on 8andavSamoel F. Hdradge will baild bimadl cottage borne on Kearney aveone,near Franklin street. . aod Mra. William K Sheppard bare bneu viiiti' g Mr. and Mr* Joseph M. Sc belle nger, at Boyeraford, Pa. Albert F. Damon, of PhiladrlpbisaDd cottager*, wa* a visitor to Cape May rer Bon lay. John Hickey ba* purchased tbe doon bud ness of tbe evtatu of tbe late ra. Margaret RtegeL on 8. Eleventh street, Philadelphia. Edward VanKea*el. onr popular m(z> chant tailor, sail* thl* weak for fiolland, where be will visit relative*, an-1 remain until March 1. ayor-elect George Hampton, of Bridgeton, was a visitor to Udfie May last Friday. He came to attend tbe funeral ot Mr*. Frrickaon. Mra. Alice VeKlaaic, wife o( Assessor Joseph P. McKiseic. aod a member of Gold Spring Grange, wa* elected worthy Pomona, at tbe State Grange meeting last Wednesday. She ia one of the best informed women to tbe State oo Grange matter*.

Ia opening tbe 4rbit* on tbe bill Mr. Gardner called attcnlioo to aonir of tb' many factrriated In bis report aa fol- • twa: Tb* bill make* a simple proposition to permit tb* States to eaula tb* v*x*>l o tori an of convict labor oomprUllot. tor Tbl* Mil dose not ee*k to Impoac an> policy upon tb* Slate*. If Kentnck' w*nu tb* biodarkwlna of tb* Mlcnceoti aba would eiill tak< It; aad U Mist broom*, boll chair* aad shoe* of tb* Ksataeky prieons. they will still have them under this MU. But if they do not want each other'.

Nil* Eskileon, a bwede,wbo created a disturbance while b«ng arrested Saturday m jrniog, was bold by Mayor Millet "'30 ba I for oourt, to answer the charge* of disorderly conduct, reaming an officer and indtiog a rkt. Tb* bearing wa* held Monday morning in Chief Farrow'* main offio*. Tbe testimony brought oat that tbe prisoner bad Mtteo aad kicked Chief Farrow wbUe bring placed under arrest, aad that It took aeraral men to lodge eafriy to jail

Tbe eaU of David BemL eerigaet of

tb* City of Cap* May. alleged amoost 4a* oa-

lighting the rity for light *ix yean ago,

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•( tb* Ullcof tbe bin. so that It now toll tb* real Import of tb* bill lo a frw word- ' Hows: "A bill to permit tbe protect km of labor and industries from tbscewi petition of ouarirt labor ami manufat

mad* by th* bureau of labor Into the oom ourrial effect of prison-mad* goods' (which report U not yet printed) the following (•oto war* ascertained: In all leather whips and whlpleebea, tear than boggy whip, fully ninety pe rat. of tee total projcotU prison mad*, aod in blacken aka whips aad cheap haad- ' per cent >t entirely

lb* ladoatry baa t

tally ninety per ceot. only special patented •napra being attempted by ootelde manuOf stove hollow wara-te* cheaper grades of kettles. aklUete. ate.—ninetynine per oral, are prieoo products, tbs la dnatry having been abandoned by tb. have become largely tb* jobber* ol prison hollow wan. aad eaddle* aod cbrapei triad** of bora* ooUara prison oorapetition

Election of officers wai tbe principal business before tbe New Jersey Btete Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in last Wednesday'* session of tbe tbirtyfoarth annual meeting in Masonic Temple, Trenton. Tbe following officers re-elected: worthy master, George W F. Gaunl, II allies Hill; worthy leer, tbaries Chalmers, Vioriand; worthy lecturer. David H Aran*, Three Bridge*; worthy itoward. John M. Wool man, Elmer; ass tteot ttevani, Henry M Loveland. Cobansey; Chap, lata, Robert M Torbet, Paterson; trea enrer, Charles Collios, Moorratowo; worthy a creterv, Henry F. Bodine; • ortbv gatekeeper, ttichard M. 11 oily, worthy Cerea. Matilda De Camp; wor ■ by Pomona. Alice G. McKUoir; worthy Flora, Ethel E. Strong; execative comail tee, C. C. Hnl«art of Monmoutl -oanty, and John T. Uox, of Hunter

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I huraday the Grange passed tbr ollowiug retolntions: Whereas, Certain events in onr nati uoal legislatite halls exhibit an increase jI Hie alarming and powerful infloeoe* of all thg great and dangeron* centralixations of corporate dominion commonly cxjjed Unst* aud tbe diareganl ol tbe right of our common people, eapeci. allv agricultural, wherein they conflict

Oownty Briefly Told_ON*a„, Paragraph* Mrntlowed KlUrel . Po , Fo, h..U,l» aaa tb, S.o#,.. .port In Cap* May county Charles Thomp•on, wbo wee a member of a party of DennUriUe banter*, killed . fl ne gray fox daring a recent bant Rwmnlon Today The seventh annual reunion of tbe Twenty-fifth Hegtsaeot, N. j. Votonl * er *' Vflieran Asaodation, “Seotted Battalion," will be hrid in tbe Poet Boom of "Joe Hooker Poet,” No. 32. *t Atlantic City today, at 10.30 o’dock Old Veteran Granted Praalnii Richard T. Uoyd, of Denni.rille, baa been granted a pennon of |I2 per month from October 17. He served in Company L. 25th. N. J. Vol . during the Civil War, entering the service on September 26, 1882, aod remaining until

June 20.1883.

-Besolved That we do hereby express

0*ri Haewin, wbo wa* recently decUrad uefeated bv Frank E. Smith for maror of Holly Beach, will contest the election. The contest may not only bring to light why tbe voting machine ‘here did not work properly, bat also open np aotae of the bribery that ia alleged to have been rampant there

both for mayor and Senator.

ally the election of a United state. Senator wbo shall not beidentided with any of these dangerous and aggressive interests and Insist upon the selection i* who shall uphold the national administration in its noble warfare npon these destructive interest* follow tbe footsteps of oar great Lin. coin Id protecting the common people Resolved. That we do hereby request ir Pomona and subordinate granges both as organizations and individually, to address directly their owr respective Senators and members of Assembly lo each ooonty of the State and urge upon thrir attention the importanoe of this subject. The members of the New Jersey State grange took a strong stand for universal education and tor political activity along the line* of improreJ legislation. At the same time It was decided to keep dose watch on all lawmakers to the end that beneficial legislation might be se-

CONTESr PAPERS FILED To be Heard Before Jodge Bndlooti Oo December 87th Attorney Lloyd, representing Tax Elector James E. Taylor, who was recently defeated by Sol Needles, former collector by 21 votes, filed contest papers ia the coanty clerk's office on rneedsy for s contest to be beard before Circuit Jodge Allen B. Endicott at Court House o.i December 27. Taylor's petition alleges that upwards of 126 rites were not ooonted in tbe first dec tion district of Gape May. owing to the

board. Those Who signed thr petition for e contest and thereby exorras their de o have Mr. Taylor elected were: K. 8. Hand, A. B. Little, Aaron \\. Hand, Virgil M D. JIarcy, Alouzo L. Leach, EMridge Joh iso i. Walter A. Lovett, J.'Harry Hughes, William F. Williams, Samuel 8. Many, Wm Porter, Joseph F real, E. H Bar to ., Mortimer ~ winii'g. D. W. Rodau a-ri L. R. Saudgran. Those who sign Mr. tavlor'* bond for «SCU to Mr. Needles in rase Mr. Taylor oee* in tbe on .test, are B. Me K Hasrihnrat and George C Craw-

Do Tew Want Thief

PAfUSRAPW CONDENSED DOWN

The will of tbe late Captain James hester, of Goshen, will be contested shortly in the Cape May coanty coorta. Lewis 8. Chester, former Qty Treasurer and postmaster of Sea Isle Qty, and a son of Captain Chester, will endeavor to have the will set tride on the grounds of undue icfloenceWben Captain Chaster died last spring be left an estate valued at over 820.000, the balk of which was willed to his only daughter, Mra. AHaretta C. Maas: nger, wife of Dr. Charles Maaringer, of OolUngewood, Camden county. Three aont, Lawn 8 , of Sea Isle City; J. MonChester. of Ocoan City, and a son reriding in the far Waal, were all bat dtrinherited. Married Twenty Five Year* Mr. aad Mrs. George T. Duke*, of Tockahoe, will celebrate their silver weeding anniversary at their home on Saturday, December 22. Elaborate preparations an being made for the obeerrance of the event, Mr. aad Mrs Dukes were married at the home of th* bnde’s parents, John and Martha McKeagne, Tockahoe, at 1 fit on the afternoon of December *2,1881, by Bev. Charles W. Hetaiey. The beet man waa Chaa. C. McKeegue and the bridesmaid was Miss Martha Dakss Tbe wedding was witnessed by a number of guests, quite a few of whom will be at the anniversary celebration. After the wedding breakfast, they went on a tour of the southern

A Oee* Of Desertion Cape May e unty can boast of some of the beet constables In the State, bat even they go wrong sometim**. In a little affray that happened at May rills recently Constable found It hlk doty to arregt one of tbe fair one'* of lHage on a oom plant from her htufor desertion. When she was taken before the Ju.tice of th* Peees, the troth of the story came oat and It found that aha had been down fo ties A. Bwein'r 306-7 Jackson at. had found so many pretty things for th* holiday* that ebe had mimed her train. Everything for the Yaletid* md here, Indodlng the moot handJapanese ware ever seen la thl* rity.