OAPK MAY OUMAJS WAVK, THURSDAY", MARCH IB, l»7t ^ ^

CAPE KAY OCEAS WAVE CfTY AND COUNTY Tim wmi qtJOTATitwi Tha valnc of stock la the Cape lb; "wring rood and Building Association fur tba present month la m foUown:4th •' 14 " 80.79 Mb. " t " 8.88 TUB Oo-OnutATivi. AMOCIATIOI: lit. aerie*. 17 month* old. WS.SC tod. " 14 " - 56.50 ML » 8 •' 88.08 4th. " 2 " 7.50 THE Kibctios.— tm Twwdo^ly in* tlx annual election of our dty officers reached 1U eri.ia, »nd .snoe the rraolt ha* bran mad* known our p*op>« breathe — and batloera man nra raabUd to dtroio mom attention to iMmnWll'l nfnoitiono. Nesrrbefore in the iooaU of Cope May history did then wan to be oo much ot Imik. or »o many r— "•**'— lor municipal hooon. Th* Mayoralty woi contested for by four candidate*, the Recordership by three, the ofllca of Ameaaor and Collector by three each, and *o on through the minor pallium. From "reriy dawn"' until "dewy ere," the mom earnaet supporter* of the rartoae candidates wen bually at work. Along the alreeta. in crowded bar.rooma. lo tba ridnlly of the polio, •jS-WtsSESS : with only ban and there an Individual Who had uken advantage of the great , administration queatiou suppoecd lo he Inroleed In the content to ge. on the , ou tilde of a quantity of "Jereey light- , nlog" and brewed cockroaches. 1 here . waa a gnat deal of loud talking indulged To around the polle, and one could bear ou crery aide all Mb of porvnoatkation aa to tlte reault. But despite all the jabbering the hoowl hard-working, upright and useful -l.i llu. twItntetinT nara-worxtng. upturn-. an <m>u citlxene went quietly to the box. •y

1 xvlng Brat managed to obtain poaaee•loo? am of the twenty Ibouaand tlckrta which were printed, droppedto their bnaineae or Indulged In a chat with aome of the "knowing onm" aa ""one ruKtkmat ajq* and to be m, TWttrwwMs Uckela aa much aa poealblc. lo fact thU wa. carried to each an exteut Uiat in counting off, the judgea found it a pretty uitBcull talk, and much delay era* in c-ioaequroc* ooca dooed. Night at length put a Mop to the *rntrt>ing und voting, and tbu ;«>lliwere declared clewed. Then came tb. counting off, while friend and foe. gr.lbared round, noma Inaide and aome outalda, "to aee which way the wind waa Wow log At mld-olglit the afluhic clerk, Mr. a IL SUlaa anuaanred the rerdict blow aorrowfhHy awny. while their triumphant opponeuU gave vent lo their feelings In aboule and cbe-n. "tflcfa l> Joeeph Won,' 75'J. Q William., 70 K.1L Thompson, Ofi'W. IV Miller. 70 W. EldreJgu.* 184 Ed. a Taylor. 109 T. B. HttgCra, 46; CtlDMCIL. M Smith." 190 W. T. atrvras'in M. Bmrdwood'lM E. II. Phillip*. 117 To. Maaou. 105: Rob. rt Kin. 67 J. 8. Kennedy. 54 4. ft helVmger. 54 E. Joho- 178 Geo. 8 Ware. 101 A. P. IT .dhMSOJcote UeOoUum So H. a swain, 571 OOLUKTOC. Unary Hand,* 140, Isaac H. Smith. 5*. .lame. Learning, 31' citoiEX rnratoLDKii. J. a Ware.' 198 J Schellcngef 801 W. W. Ware, 78 J. a lawch. 01 aowttretoanw or ArrnAL. J. E. Mecrey,* 800 A.'Carretooo,' l«u lieu. Hlldreth,*189 Mat: hew 11.11, 120 J. W. Blake. 117 J. 8. bellenger, Ho W.W. MraHekMOFD. W. Hereon, 101 a Shields, 8S'D. P. Moore. 32 Jamce CrowsfltUW. hcbcltcnscr. 78 Deonie Shields, (0 T. J. lay re,' 107-2. a Hughes, 73 Wm. F. lfevlU.30 cokxtable . J, dm Stuart.* 133A.G. BroB*U*lI0 133' A. G. Bennett, *110

Jaare.Doak, 85* Stellwdl. 70 • W. 8 Ware,' 102 Frrnci. t arr, 64 V,A. M. Irey. 481 Col* vc il Mnrr^— A _»(wdal T. a °Haghca Meters prraraL-M, -re. Hughe., Kreredr. Luillam, More., Thomp- •"«, JuMreOOCl Ware. 18* reading of tht nloutaa of tha iaat meeting waa *%C|)«or the meal lug waa stated to be (w Mm purpoee of ducting a Judge <«Khctloo, a rac.incy hare occurred It uroaaqnsnrs ol the unto thai (dk iaat yeS? Council"^' m proceoreSjUl Uw recant appdn^ Now BU^STxitt 1-rioe la .

g I mam rentnno or Taeimnn. j ^ After we h^gem,la^«^ wtitilaat | | ment naadcTu apprefanoe?hrou*ti the medium of poaun dletribulcd through I the elly:— : Tba clllao af C«pr Kq Cur wkaata la- ~ j laeagH la Wn . aai 10 Punuant to thia Inlereatlng appeal ~ our people tureied out ou tha evening 10 ln"qoeMion;wlth noe aceurd crowding M and aoiroundlng the .tructurc known M aa the City Halt The room waa rlr18 many packed, and the window, were IB fllka with the coonlcnanoe. of anxloua ,. liatancia who were Unable to find asceaa through the iegilimaU entrance 5 Id front. Prectadr at 8 o cb-ek the „ meeting waa calkal to order, by ° decking hit honor. Mayor Milter, ci.air0 man, and C. S. Magralb, Secretary. . The chairman having annonnoed I lie 1 meeting re ady to proceed to the con- . ildaratioo at euch mailer, aa would ' properly come before U. a motion was ° offered, restricting the epenkera to ten _ minute. „ Mr. Tbompaou objected on the ground that the time would be altogether too limitod for anything like ' an Impartial review of matter, in ] which aome of tboae present were very , J deeply interested. An amendment, making the time , " filleen minute waa, after aome oblec- , , lion, agreed In, but not bcllire: a dlvl- . .ion on the queallon waa relied, which , rraulted lo giving it about ten major- , > lty- i * Mr. I. H. Swain opened the dl.ru.- j ; lion In n apvech of aome forty minutea. . Including lowrniptlooa. in which be , • ooodrmnnl lu rather flirtibte taoguag* ( the effidal actiotu of the majority or j I the council then lo power, liewiihrd , ! tboae preaent to under. land that Ik i L did not .peak in the Internet or any , ' party air clique, neither did he propore I to ndvorete or deprirete the advanoe- , ment of any nerioo. Tboy were a warethat he had liecu a|ip>ioted, by cfiun- c ' rll, at no aoUctlaOon of hia, to render 1 assistance In the wtHomenl of tlw c ' finance, of the City. The duilc. thu. „ ' Imposed upon him be proccodcd In perform according to the l*»t of bla ability. After examining the Tren- ., ' aurer'e and Collector'. accounU, Ik ; waa giren lo under. land that hU r, services were, not wanted by certain c official., and a. becfuulng a gvnllciuau „ and gviillcmau

x' and aa a matter of courae. be had re- •: tired from the auditing committee. - f Subsequently, the Floanoe CommllS le^areport appeared In the IVavb. and ho waa deeply chagrined to find " that hi. name had been added thereto MWhfl?'mih°tbIi'SuMUte^ bo had ^ bren unable to obtain the knowledge 5 Of the parties In power, and on th -m he , could not throw much light. Tbogeu- " tlemau (ben look up the "report" as printed, giving each account a general '}, review a. to 1U correctneea or the cou- " trary. The Treasurer a account be pro2 nouncod correct; thcCollcctor'. lie also S found Indupliably- correct aa fkr a. he J' hadexamlned. Tberealufthenccoun a "* thai appeared under the bend of the * Finance Committee 'a report he ha/1 , no opportunity ol exginiuing. Mr. *■ Swain then referred to the pu bill bed 7 report ofthe Committee who audited ^ the account, of H. B Thorn pjon, ~ chairman of the Committee on I'ro7" lection of Property and Highway.— umler whoae managemnil (lie public Impronmenta. coinmeiieed In I860, were conducted. Mr Thompeon. bo Mated, had auhmiltod to him the pay'0 rolls, vonchere, and all other docuro menu appertaining to tlw buaiovat of the committee, which bu had ox,o amino! Mid found t" he correct. Tliat there was oothlng which could lead hlmtn suppaee theraa e8brt had bren made to coaceal any action of the 15 Conugittee; and thai a balance of 17 833U as comprnaation fur actual aer17 vices rendered remained In Ur. Thomp 14 ann-a hands. Tbi. amount waa below, j If anything, that paid to other parties , ,, engaged re conducting U* improveUI- III- for the city. TINS Speaker then pruewded to reml , >5 the published .Uteinrut of AUermiiu ; tVare'i account with the City. This , eliowvd a baUn/r of 3*21, but whether, on the Debit or Credit .ide he conhl not tell. He thought It must bo aonte new method af (Mlllng accounU by which a debt could be deducted from a '1 larger one. There wa. here an effort U >1 cooccaliu/nl ;ilc aaarrtrel that Mr. Ware lutd drawn sundry order. w on the Trecuurer of which there was m no proper record preserved. That Ik /-. had received out of Ihe City Treasury the sum of 8220 for w hich there waa ih> voucher setting forth for what |>ur>1 now the money waa applied, it was H evident, however, that the money had been appropriated an remuneration for • 1 rer vices. Mr. Swain here read ana or two aectiooe from the dMr charte r In reference in the dutiei of certain official.. which provide among other Is thing, that no member of council aha 1 1 be appointed by that body to any portdoo through which ho would be en10 tilled In receive cnmprmatloo f-w arrtlilcn in receive enmprnaauou v-r ~t-

| rices. It waa a general rule he claimed, 1 that where a |«rra<m acc<-|>U a public truat without pay, lie abuuld perform ; all dullca ap|Krtaiuiug thereto without expecting In lerein- c-an|*naatlon fi-r euch aswricea - no honcM man wuulil think af doing Otherwise. He now paaae/1 <«i to the Recorder - Mr. T. B. Hughe-, who occupied a , hunt aeat. and Immediately onp-wite the epcaker. Mr. II ugh. a he remarked. had received (540. from the City tor which bo can ebon no voucher.; , l*id him for wrviree on vnrtoua com-mi-.lrea -which wa. in direct violation coiumltteea had not cuoBm-d tlrniwires to the printed order h/oka, but had wen ma/te them from blank J»ia» Mute- put their heads togeihar and drew a hundred dollar order la fcvor of rech other. In bctaonoarfupuliwa had oeruta parttew b ootae that tbry wimld draw orffm from any •■orderbook" (bay could come acr.oa. He had ^rdrftiM^exktencs^ofj. poUre tain any lidioge uf tu probable wbvreaboute^ jof the amount drawn from kept, saenpt aa far ae the Treasurer'. » book, showed. For tire peat year a. H (« r .latcmrut of the Finance Commh- | taw the expemre. of the city amounted i- to 885.00U. He -lit ha, I b,come af tola large sum? The place : was email, lu .tm-is limited, and rfany Sad.^Miw U^y^'i^md i but ,hc ,h<** froo,;l plioTble tohl^ Tber™hcte"mi!tS I k *«■ ao bafoggled with iuddeotal g3BB5gSMLr«sa| '■ hi. remark, with a hope that then " waa aoore one pnweui wu-> would be i i ^ ™,odi,to" ofi J" Mr. B It. Thmnpeou a-ldiwred lhc " mreteag In defease ofuimMf and cdESaSSKS!

U ; having their reapeetirt! duUre to ate tend to in aufaKin tending tha improve. >t | menu. The money waa furnished by b- t the W- J. B. B. Company on the « hoadi ofthe city. The pay-rolls were h made out by hit colleagued, Meaara. Ilugiir-s and Blakr. and wbea money waa required they would draw order* _ iu hia name. Ilia accounU had been a audited, aa hod been already slated, J HJ-m B; Swain, tearing in his « peom Incurred while uufotaslug the ',! duties devolving upon him. Restated that Mr. 8w*ln had been appointed by j catncil to audit bla accaanU and 'hose j| of .uch c-mmittece aa bad bad tin i rore" ^JfohmSrtrtad UrtWted' Mr" hwain to remain a ith tha Financr ' Committee and aMi.t them la retting . out their annual .utemnot. one of lu mcmbere bring unavoidably abaenl . lire the dty at the time. The * Mayor had drdim-d, however, to eelIk- with Mr. Swain. Aa tu the other ' expenditure, which appear In the publiahed report, er-ry item oould be aatUkwtorily explained by referriug to ' the Treasurer a booka. Thoa the ' i/ulkvi waa represented In the report ' a. baring c-wt 8330U for the present 1 year, whera. the actual cuM was 1 at/out 825U0. including the anmmer and winter expenses, the dlSereocc ! waa accounted for from the fact that a number ol the prerluoe year's order. 1 were not prorated for pnjm-ut uutll | within the hut year. So that the cum of the p-lico force for 1880 waa really between 830 W and fBOuO — agafu.t ! 42500 for 1870. The public school ' waa set down at 8712 In the ' report; but that waa merely the amount ordered by coundi to make up deficit In the regular annual appropriation. The Item "miaceUaueous" amounting to aome 87000, they should remember Included thu various expertsea attending the purehaae of Ihe fire engine and apparatus, the building for the same, etc., which alone would foot up aovvral thuueaud dotcouncil ou tails which are preserved on file, and can be examined by the public. Mr. Hughes stated that be bad received lite amount with which he waa charged //oly an. orders pasw-d by the council for eervioes ou various com- , milled, covering a period of two 1 Dr. Kennedy presumed that those , present were aware of the object for i which the meeting was calkal, but the i real question, at Uaue were to be de- i ridrd at the balioi-box on Tuesday i '' next. Ho waa one of the unfortunate i

■' members of the council, and alto hap- i ~ pened to bo on the Finance C unniii- i 7 tec Mr. 8waln, be eiid, had made a ■ mla-rtalcment lu oascrting that be waa '' aptwinted to examloe the accounts of i ° U.C officere ofthe dty. He was mere- | bore of the Finance C'ouimlltee, In x f au/Uting the accounts nf Ur. B. R. e 10 Thoinps-ni and those of the cummit- *' tees baring the authority lo draw c orders. Mr. Swain had mcutloond t 2 certain order, drawn In favor of Mr. i " Ilughe. and Alderman Ware, hut he 1 * did not Itemlan them at be abuuld " hare done. Hu. eupp-wed that Mr. t ™ Swain had taken exception to a re- i 0 mark made by 'the Treneurer In hia , hearing, that, while his booka were J J always open to public Inspection, no , one but tnc member, of the Finance Committee had lite right to examine 2 them. It waa even published in a local Journal, whicli purinrted to krop '• the public posted on passing eveola, 1 " that Mr. Swain bad been discharged troiu rerring ou aoommittee to which c ' he had been appointed by council.— - There waa nu ground for audi a mis- t " repreaculalioo, as Mr. Swain bimtell' Mr. Thompson explained the cir- 1 rumslanou altrudinz the manner in winch the Ftnaucuil Report appeared r J in the Wat*. That d-mna-nt and Uic report of the oommltloc on which ■ Mr. hwaln served were handed by V him to (he cterk at a meeting of coun- r ' dl; were read and ordered to ho pub-li-h.-d. Uufortunau-lv, however, lawh ■ ' I reports had been published oue over . * I the Other, so that at a casual glance It -Isft'ctswsrSiJrt. ■ . lite wbrreohoutt of tha order-book be ! l-njiiig lo the Police Committee, and sucgested that prrhapa hia honor the I * ! Mavor might be able to fornlah the « ; I dr.lrrd InfonnaUnu. It waa a book of ! no .mall Importance, but the Finance c '' C-unmitter while In Kaslon, were no- | ' able to ferret It out. Mr. Swain a.k-d Dr. Kennedy , } where mcmbere of eoundl g-it the , authority for drawing orders foe ecr- " vices, without oven praaenUng their * bills t-i council for appovnl? | J, Dr. Kennedy replied that such pro- t ' vision was mailt by certain ordinance. " pounl by council for the purpose of , - facilitating hurtnraa; but that at the ) ? time of their approval ho waa opposed | 1 t/ihem ' Mayor MHU-r mkl llial he found on , referring to the report of the Finance . " CuranmM for lt»W that tlm cost of th.- , '• police force waa $4500 and In 187 " upwanlt of 83800. Mr. Hughes, hr lb-Might w.miSI he able m give the dr- J «in-d information ro.|>rvtenx 'ha 'I'o- 1 Ihw Order-Book." • 2" 1 >r. Uecray, (City Treasurerj, slated Mecrey, Treasurer;,

' that be had |svld a targe number of th ; police order, iu 1670 bearing the date m ' of the previous vrar. In 1W9 the VI ' police oal over 8.5000. and that too ' without the expense of night watch- u 1 men during the winter, which we have had for 1870. D Mr. Hughea declared be hadn't laid ' ryes ou thu Folire order Book for over _ ' a year— and did not know where It h ' Hon. TV". Of. Ware followed in an 1 able, off-hand .porch, of conciliatory „ • character which was rathurtaalioallv J ' reco/vpd for the mo-Ung. lie eald he ' 1 had bdr ja»t retunied from ihe city ™ and wax not acquainted with the '• ' avowed object of the gathering, save ' what be waa able to infer from lbs ta ' i remarks of the gentlemen who hs/l ih ' i already addreeae/l them. Taking all D 1 things Into cvaMldentkm he sraa coo- B " ' fldvnt Ui it had it »g bora on the eve J j of an Median, no in-viing of the kln-l w ; - would have been held. If they were |t 1 an anhted together with a view of ar- (a f riving at aome Kfinlie and .allatacfry - I ••{ puhltc affair*, it Waa right and own- ' ueinlahle; but If Ibey bad rennc tev ' gel her for the purpose of exiting vim- ' c i»-retiooa, and mraaatioos at each u *■ other, it wuuld have bean far better . " uut lo have nwt at alL lie then re- . 0 ferred to tbc appointment of Mr R • B. Swain to audit wo© Mints of certain r • ..UI i*lv corrohiraiing lb-- autemrau " • already made by Mr. Thorn pa. in and ■" Dr. Kennedy, In referena- to that © J transaction. It had heeu rnmoml » h that members of rouucll ware default- it ' I te rm iu var-ous sum. of moory. Hia rt J friend Mr T! Mm peon had been tlaB- li *' ; dcruuslr accuard of iutriug mia-apprv>- >1 II : priaust some riben hundred dollars of ir 1; 1 the nubile money for which be could p show no viHiclicr. To Mr. Swain was f aaalgmd the duty of auditing hia acSJ | counia, and the result ofthe iurtwiiga- U , turn bad exhibited a verv dilferrat il pliaae, aa had been staled by Mr b v ; Swain. Oilier officials of the city had 0 "j their aetioo. remdemned and 'their - • ' reputations maligned or caricatured. H Tlw CuDeetoc-a aod Treaaurer-* ac- f J- lcouut. had burn examined by romps- il lent men aud pr. mounted to b : cor , a R ' reed. Yet be wa. pained to eve a die- n HEfTSrSrTJKSUj! L 1 ^r-— ; ■

It- 1 taking which bad been pronounced at w- Uk lime practicable bj tba Uty tafr5y reyor, Mr. Swain. lie thought Itvfiry x and brand the officer* of the city aa defy flutters and squanderers of Ihe pobfic re money. It footed luiplctottt this d, tag ! Vt priw'toan efeSS™" In fact is he had an opinion that there waa a X- "darkey incur-where In the woodpile." m Admitting that the council had cowid mitred mistakes - and where waa there >J a legislative body that has net 8M *0 to at one time or another?— their ctty to- . ; s^yVK'^'ESte'i' r. debtedovee was upwards of ffiO.fiCD. 1 oe hut lis aaeeta reducnl that to 838.000. ig We bad almnrt wiped nut Its war del*, I u while the adjoining township still ] < it ! owed aa high aa 814.000 ou iu war > K hoods, lie would ask them what had t- the expenditure of all thia done for tha >r dty within the put few -rear**— ' l>- Would they take the eanae amount aod I t- have their city placed where it waa \ ,o three yean ago? [Cries of no! no.! • k oollll Within that time over a rallrt Uoo dollars bad hero expended in toil proteutenta. A great cry waa raised ' is ah-ut the taxea. The present rate < r of city taxation was 81.40; and why? J XI Because the rata relaSHibrd the pre- I ceding year waa fixed at flve-dghthaof « a one per cent— Jurtthree-rtghtha lower ' II than H ought to be. Every srartble • It man admitted that feet. He objected « y to thU Indiscriminate aaaault on the > It characters ofthe dty offloen. H waa • il ungeneroua and calcufeted to injure ' c not only the Individual but ato the « e dty ileelt Excx-pUng our pilot* nnoe \ 0 of them lived by the Inhabitant! of tbe l - place, hut by pwiple from abroad and ■ « ' they ought to remember thai such mis- ! J 1 representations going to Philadelphia f ■ and elsewhere would only prove Injur- " - inn. in the interests of the community • 0 " Mrfswaln remarked that Mr. Ware ^ - had the faculty of shielding some and 1 attacking others at the asnw time.— :" 1 lie bad accused htm of being mixed up s with thepoo.tructioo of Urach Avenue ^ and that ho approved of iu Me sraa " • simply employed by the Board of Com- J1 i inlMionere lokurvev th. work, but had '• i nothing further to do with It. On tbo ■ c intrary be had used every effort lo > restrain the commission in tbejr ex- >' prudlng so much moncr in the ptorp- •' i culion of the work. It waa not pro- P - liable that the meeting would hare been j» i raited were It not on tha ova of an aloe- vi ■ Uoo. Iu object waa for the purpoee of « ■electing honest men for their govern- " mrau A majority of the pree.nl "

members of council bad pro rod thera■elvea dlahooeal— or elta diahoocat acta would not have been commit tod. Mr. Warecxpreeaed himself satisfied ' that he bad been informed why the meeting waa called. It explained to him very estiifectorily the feet or yxrtatu gentkmen being candid* wa for Mr. Thompson remarked that thu ordinances referred to by one or two of I tlK gentkmen sulhorUing rarious coininitteca to draw their Utah orders, bucn repealed at his I^Hplion. A moUon to adjourn wJHRadu wbcu Uk incvling broke up amid ijousiderabis j -iee and food talking. And so ended -iiiu of the "great local errata'- of 1871. Local Brevities. TIk days and nights are now about Aunual mretiug of Couucfl on Saturday evening next I', aches, gentle reader, are going to I be plenty next summer. Look out for shower, about Uicse days, says the almanac. FrighfoUy scarce— money; whilst empty promises are plenty. Farmers la this vicinity were planting their peas hut week. The fermere are bard at it-geUlug ready for spring operation*. I'hll. Sheridan arrived at Coogreas on Saturday last, after an absence of MVrral (reeks. The whistle of the Bnlldeis' Stesun Mill is as punctual aa the Weal Jereey Railroad regulator. Now is the time for some ooe to tell what he knows about pni-PMa-Jtlpkia Star. Pete who? In consequence of the great focal excitement of Friday evening the I.yceum waa not in' session. Sympt -ras of that universally prevalent disease, the spring lever, made tbelr appearance ra Tuesday. A musical Mend thinks thai the first pte-co of music performed by Adam must have heeu " Warbling, at Eve.'" ■ If you want lo please a newspaper learn Mk art of making a etorv short before calling upon The acl Incorporating the Gape May C/iunty Agricultural ana Horticultural Sa-irty passed In the Legislators last Our real relate agents were extremely busy on Saturday, an/1 a number of lotugea were rented for the summer. From llltera to twenty thousand From fifteen twenty tfionsan/l

tickets were required to meet the demands of some two hundred and eighty I voters Iaat Tuesday. c Our reader* may tank out for an interesting event in the character of a ' grand wedding— to come off on the * Island tome time next month. \ The wratber at present la an usually ; capneioue, and -i.teiehnuld th-nvlbre The Odd Fellowt are talktag of adding another story to their Hall on i Franklin Street, for their own special 1 with a view of liavinx the prreent i lyxlge room for rentlug. i Two of Cape May's vial tore are • talked of for the Mayoralty in Phila- « delphla— John M. Mortoo. Esq., by the < and M. Hail Stanton, I by the Bepnblieana. Ws devote much of our spare this ' week to the. proceedings ol the meetof hut Friday evening, from the j thai lire Interest therein manifralod of a general and moat intense Mr. S. B. Lodlam. the practical | painter and drowsier, low hreti doing , an excMtealburtneradBring the winter, | fiodelt hi his advantage to ad vertis/-. Anv sf our reader* wiehin* good work hi# liae axaontad at abort notice. ; ran see hhn at hi* o-w tbop In rear of hi. residence on North Street. , When will the people of (."ape May county get awakened to the gnat Drcrssity of good reads? Can weOot induce nra ihe rare* tea. of ooe town- , committee to interest themselves this important matter? "Agitate" should be the motto with crery compUahed. Tux microscope shows the color uf hair to a deimaitiou of pigment in substance When the hair gtaoda enfeebled, tbi. nixmenl &IU. after another Ihe hairs become white, ur fell oat, producing baldnv... is easy to prevent bat hard cure. Arm's Ju^a V^ttcm stops ! 1. " | — l /PffetLe, Spriugvilie, N T. ;

; ■=!!=- Pare war Covst ■eves, kie it. tm- : T.a. r SS' MtmrOmm Warn: i The people of this ancient end quiet . village wore thrown Into a great state t of escitctaea', oo Thureday eveniug, l 9th inek, by tha mem at Faccmire ' aod. Garrison . two or the geng ran- . fined ta the county jail, upon a riia rm ! fCHWfe. aberiff visited tire . jallonTuceday last, and found the priel ooers all secuia, aad no elferta being . made by them t» ssrape. From tb. , statement of ooe of lbs gang, who is , still In JalL it appears FacraUre, ftxMn , tbc but vtait at lire sheriff, begau to | j carrr into effect a scheme of -v-xp. , - . He took the movable plate from Uk I beating store, and burned a hole I through the floor) by the use of a email . crow-bar, and his baud. Ire luoxxikd i In dtagtagdowa under thu jail wall. I and up under th/- Jail yard, arririug 1 ; into the open air jasl as the watchman waa earning ou duty, at about nine P. . M. The surprise of thb functionary ba tatter imagined than dcscritxxl, i when, aa he was coming through the yard, he raw a man pop up out of the ■ . ground, like the harfcqum In a panto- ■ minis, over the fence, and out ol sight lo a moment. ' The alarm was given, | at once; bat not before another pris- : oner made hie way out (if the tuuncl, 1 and over the fancn following the first ! feat aa bis legs would carry him. — Tha village waa jM^full^arorari, beyond description. Tbc famous villagers wore determined that if word. : and plans would accomplish anything I there should be no want of them, "bend for tbc aberiff. " said one. "Ttlegrmpb to Camdep I" a 'id aatconff "Send out i remarked another; and finally sfitnc ladies who were present, remarked that ; "everything haid happened Just aa they expected,'' "why do they n.it go and culch them?" thu- gratlcuiuu ■bowed by hia acta that be wu not utiafled with plana, be sent for the sheriff dispatched rocascngers to different places, notifying countable* and the people in all directions lug With the speed of thieves, far away from hia woroy pursurero. lie departed in a very airy ooatnmc, leaving behind him nearly all his clothes, a chisel, a file and some other tool, that honest man oould tunic. These were found in the tuuncl; as time wouid not allow him to dcliay his dc- ; nurture, for Uk Duroow- of carrvius otr — „. the

,t ; t'w working tools of his office. It la raid Faeemire break fax Uxl ut j his liomc on Friday mornings and , 3i then quietly kit for parts unknown.. There Is no eoe at all aaiualtflcU „r with the county Jail, who nmufcrtsauy ,r ! surprise at this escape. It has long brru known that the place Is entirely K | inadequate to keep safely the most orif dlnary prisoners. Old offenders like u Faccmire und Garrison, with a koow ,, ■ ledg of all the maclitnerv and tricks ol tbc craft, need notatay "in confinement u i any longer than they can dig out. It I SI* persons routined 'in « -ruoot, with d ; • wooden tfoor oue lech and n half if I tolclt,-heriug the, together with dally j communication with friends, would 1 I not be apt to Stay in confinement, pre'"'ding tbry had a desire to gain their j freedom. . When will (hose "Rip Van Win » kk-s," who comprise Uic Board of Fro - holders, see to It that the prison i- , , r- made secure? The responsibility lu a I gre at measure la with them, thai aueli ;0 1 a man a» Faeemire is ftee — a terror to the whole community. Gentlc-ium have you no time to attend to the pullie? Must all the energies ofyour mind- i : be engrossed In forming plans for the 1 11 ' next political campaign that you are . so negligent ol so Important a matter I- 1 as the security of criminals? ' - Tba prisoners uow in jail are in irons g and chained to the floor. No blame Is ' attached to the jailor, watchman or I jdrald rrapertfttlly neemt tbo fol- " lowing record and atatcrarMs as my quarterly report ending March 3rd ax o requited by law of this 9«ate; which i- report. 1 hereby certl/Jr. has been careftilly made out fkom tbc records coo■I taloed lo the several School registers „ of the PubUe School, IHslrirt No. "27. Cape May City. » 7 . IS xa'Sc'u.rai^fcwb*^... * S "a - i* ss'Sdnlf wvtisse..-"-" .'"-. ■ ra ®' 5° Vl'iH-"" *3 ta !S:3X2i:^fe. i A. L Hatkxs. PrtodpaL Tns Pi ,« The rfUt siMtete nf Tna CLAM.— chief article i

game that la in oar market bow is the f clam, aod^maj therefore be considered ■ A gnat deal might be written about > the clam, if ooe could only think what i to snite; in feci, that is a great draw- | back in treating any enbjacL For the ■ of many who reside inland, and are not Intimate with Ihe peculiar odor of •fists' and 'porgy chum,' we - will addrera a few remarks: : The dam rertdea near the water, on j the nra is et shore. We don't feel at , liberty to say aa lo how he came ] there, aa we were never quite sure oo that point ourselves. H e never heard of oue being born or of dying a natural death; bat If they grew tough with age, wo have eaten some that qmat ; been near tiro thousand years < old. V lewing them with an artist's ( - 3iX2S&1££.b~i&,£?. , good oedc for a stand-up collar. They I are built a good deal like an old-bah-loued oval anoff-bnx, aod opra similar. ' They vary in atae from a diver three . ceul piece to a buckwheat cake. They arc very aectaded; wo never knew ooe : to go away from home. 'Tie safe to 1 ooe anywhere without bitching. - If we were lo have a picture of a clam, ' we abuuld prefer a profile view, aa he I fouka fuller in the bee that srax.— ' They are frugal and boacal, and do all ttalr business threngh the bank. , The clam is huated aa the potato If. ! with a hoe. and aa aa article of food, > . they can't be rxoonerMn their tine.— . 1 To pre lis re tbem few the tank— Firat. I obtain the clams; 8d, retnov* their oot- . side wrapper, Uut Is peel them (never . use a raaur); .3d, cat off the bead Just . below the shoulder blade; 4th, wash wcM in clean water (wlw»,-c soap) and you have tbem reedy lo cook. When - f a data is undressed it resembles aptn e . of chamob leather, aod some people , pretend that they prefer Hie leather to the clam aa an article of fond, hut we Iran toward the clam. The amount ureeasorj for a meal depend- uo the i number uf raters. A large number of . duns are enough few several prupK . aod vice- versa. By /ibaerviug tinI rule vou rrill alwavs he able to provta* I In any tasty. A New 1 nrk clam la do , Bore'to to compared to -on of own . than a s-v.-n • thirty I.mmI is lo a coun . trefoil sen pi. The fovuwr rat. Ilka a „ laua wood ehlp. and a only goo. ut I In hunting Ihe darn always go at low l-; watereclacyuu cau'l^buy^r. 7'hijt

iTtrw. THE C1TKSHS if CAPS BAY COUHTY i -i mmm M9H|| j WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT j BENEZET & BROTHER « HAVE Jl'ST RECEIVED THE LAHGFXT HTOCK OF ' COOKING, BED ROOM AND PARLOR STOVES EVER HERETOFORE OFFERED IX THE COUNTY. ' Tliey are now offering No. 7 Cooking Stoves As Low as Eighteen Dollars, Complete, Which is as Law as the lamest cither iu city or country, (g H tr PARTICULAR ATTENTION GIVEN TO A* >1 /« HEATER AND RANGE WORK. Tin Roofing: Executed at Ihe shortest nulla- in any part uf (he Couutv. ul

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