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Poland and (Sounfg. "Til tout li Hellco." TU public sic informed UM Her. W. L. Jooa. of C»pc M.j Ooort Hook, will feltar |ke uoqael to hi. popular Lecture entitled "My Trip Through Mexico" ou the Baptist etiureli, tbi. city. -Admission tor adalls IS era'.. Children 10 e«U. • Lecture to oommcncr at half-pan »ne; psoerod* for the benefit of the church. Hie Prohibition lMs are baring a hard time of it in the weal. For every cep | tbay take forward, tbe? aoam to atap two back. Not long ago they succeeded in getting a coaslitutiooal amendment prohibiting the manufacture oraaleof intoxicating liquora adopted by the people of Iowa, but their aoccem in thai reaper: baa been nullified by the court* In . Fanaa. rlnrlr r Got. Be Jnbn'a regime, an amendment forerer aboliablog the manufacture and aale of liquor, aimilar to that propoaed to he anbmittnd to the people of tbi. Stale, bad been engrafted upon the conatitution by a email majority of the popular rote, and the political rereiulloa of Norember la«t waa intended ( to empbaaite the diaappointment and dia- ( satisfaction of a majority of the people at , the working, of the amendment. In hi. message to the legislature, the new gor. ernor, himaelf a strong temperance man, recommend! that the queatioo. whether or not the policy of prohibition .hail be continued, be eutmiined to a rtae of the people. The routes «f the late terorr ( defeat of the Kaoaat jqoblbitiontou anindicated In the message. Among the bad practical ooosoqOVocea which reanitr 1 from prohibition in Kansas, Gor. Click enumeratea the following: Direreion of emigration from the atatc: engendering of , atrife bt neighborhood. I oorrate in litigation : clandestine uae of inbixicaiiDC liqnora in elob rooom. and in the booaee of , the people; drinking lo exceaa. caused by the purcbaae of liquor in quantity, and lore to the caoae of temperance of good and aineere temperance people thrnogb the meddieenmr interference by anthoritlea with the habit, and established cnatomi of many worthy and uaeful citterns. We , commend tbe above to tboae gentlemen In thia city who are aittlng up nigbu In order to get in all the work .pnaaible on the propoaed oonatitutiunal amendment - Soperioteadenl Harem, of tbe Life Baring Station, along the New Jersey ocaat, reached Chpe May CUy Satnrday in bia capacity of pay-master. He registerCd at tbe Cbalfonte •• nraal. hit burinere with the crews in thia ricinity detaining blm orer until Mdnday. Ha visit waa a weloome one, this being tbe Brat installment of their aalary the men bare receired ainee they went on dnly in September. During bia aUy Mr. Harena look Oceanian to rxprere bia aeoae of obligation to the Warg for the Hand it ba. taken in oppodttnn to tbe propoaed measure lo transfer the managemeot of tbe Life Baring Serrice to tbe Nary Department. He fee!« ibat to tbe preaa generally the aerrioe owce its rnry exluenoe, ai erery attack made •a it, ho been met and tbe inatlgitora aeni to tbe rear, la conf oaioo. Tbe superiulcndent U JuatlOed in tbioking that to take . aerrloe tfcat baa been brought to iu prraenl efficient atandard by tbe hardy men who pair - three bract... lo all kind. ..f weather, and hand it orar to the care ->f unwlre poltcy.aod one which ahould only raault in orippUag the aerrioe for year, to come. That it wHl newer be permitted so long a. the great popular edooalir--tbe [rare— i» orpoaed in it, be to assured

Mnnicipal pohtire to beginning lo warm , up In earned, and the prospects are faror- , able for an onuaually exciting rpring elee- , tins. Four candidate, for mayor are to , be In the field eure. and a atrmlght-out announced Ifa a liuie premature, how. i erer, to figure on tbe p rotable mult, but • there to tbto about it. and we hare no i breUancy in placing It on record, that no < ticket, no matter what tbe character of • tbi men on it may be, that to ran in the i internal of Intemperate temperance and in ' oppoaltioo to tbe licensing of botch and bar-room, in tbto city can be elected. It i is simply out of tbe qoewkio, and the ■ sooner some of our people arrive at thi» ' umiluahni tbe better U wlfi.be for tbi teeeau of tbe place and iu Inbahilatits Petitions hare been widely dsmhted in tbto tad other communities through tbe Utate to be preeented to tbe Legists i tun sow in aesaiao, preying that body u. propeae and agree to a Gnostitutimal i .meodment to tbe State Constitution, to be uihsaltlril to the people for approval and fad u re and aale, or keeping for sale, a> a leverage, of any diatilled or fermented liquor whatever, within tbe Jurisdiction Tbe Proridence Preu. commenting on relating to the aalarice paid to school leachrat, say*: "He to on tbe rigid track in hi. euggwekm that teacbera in the lower grade* should be better paid." And ao aay all wbo bare giren educational mattare obaamUun. Tbe notion that any one can leads* yrimmy whoef to a febcy. Three ia no mere exacaing wrefc than that of training tbi Huh cbiMree. Dabnquen: ux -payers in tbe lowtariupa are reminded of tbe fact that all tana" remaining unpaid by tbe firat of Mnbruas^ara resumed to the County Clerk, and become. Hen on tbe real relate upon which tbe tax to doe. Tboae wt»> desire to aava cum and aho to avoid After a faithful arrrice of npwarda of twestty yean as superintendent of tbe Boaday-scbool aw netted with tbe Preabytenro oboscb, Uu-eiiy. Mr. Jcrepb Q. ,te- WIIHama, i reign wi that poaitioe Sunday toat, wbec Mr Samnd it. Scire was deried by a rote of tbe actio. -1 to supply lb. reamer. Mr. fame. M- E Hllthath Jon. D Otaig. 44 Jtcbo street. to *8*1 for the Sew How. raring Machine wbtcC bre aerer bean kne-e to drop a

Six of ihr Dclaw.ro piioto who j cruising in tbe Bayard, Thursday of tart | ! week, are out in a card ia tbe Wilmington I paper, in which they claim to hare badly i beaten the Gape May boat, K. C. Knight, t in a race to pot a pilot oo board tbe atremer Zetland of tbe lied Star Line. ■ Tbey Male that at 12:80 9. m., tbey : lighted the ateamcr 00 their wratber bow, and immediately hauled Sheet, aft and - railed directly lor lier by the wind Tbe Knight, tbey ray, raw that tbe Bayard ru coming out beat and began to writ her colon for tbe Kramer to haul up 1 acroaa tbe Bayard • bow and girc tbe f Knight tbe preference. But the ateamcr 1 kept la her couree and tbe mull was that 1 tbe Bayard put ber man, T. B- Bcbellcn1 get, on board as ber pilot. Tbey also " claim that in tbe sail back to tbe Lightship the Bayard distanced ber Cajw May rival two and half mite* We hare an . Idea when wc bear from the Knighli 1 crew that tbii version of tbe Mary will be somgwbsl modified, if not very much changed. Colonel Sawyer has an idea that a dairy, in tbto ricinity, conld be made a 1 paying InKltuUoo and at tbe aame time J prove a great accommodation lot be boleia ' He baa been revolving in bis mind what be should do with tbe farm property of ' his np tbe road, and it has occurred to bim ' that a project of tbe kind referred to would ' V Jus', tbe thing. He bas not allogather made up bto mind on tbe aubject, but tbe ' probability to that be will give it a trial ' Tbe vineyard. In tbe planting ; and cultivation of which bto former ten 1 ant. Dr. Ramadell, expended ao much ' money and time, be liaa found an expen- ' aire as well as unprofitable feature, and bas in eocseqoeooe decided to oproot. Should the Colonel eventually embark in the dairy buainrea, and wc hope be may, ' be might find it profitable to get tbe experience of bto friend Captain Jamea C. Bennett, wbo for one or two araaont ■ waa cxtenairrly engaged in that Interest ' Mr. Tom Ludlam, one of Ibe pioorti Kttlera of Sea Isle City, gave bto old • friends of tbe Want office a pleasant sur- - prise Monday by dropping in to pay lii> ■ reapecU and leave us tbe lalrat guralp from ■ bto island home. There are aome aUtcea 1 new baQdinga now under contract, and 1 tbe praapcet for a busy apriog ia decided1 ly encouraging. A Mr. Holland, From • A Market, Philadelphia, baa arranggd f"A 1 putting np a fifty-room bouae tbto yrar, ' and 01 ber hotels are projacted. One of ' the later; bouaea Marled to that of Mr. 1 Henry Corson, of tbe Bayside.and will be I a lianritomt- improvement. Tbe protection • of the beach front to a matter . thai at pmrnl ia engaging tbe attention of the , authorities, and tbto tbey propane doing 1 though It be necranry lo adopt tbe aame speciea of bulwark aa protects Cape Hay', beach drive from Ocean street to Broad ! *»T- ' Tbe term of Lawyer lloaglaod, ol Bridgetoo, aa Proaecutor of tbe Pleas for ibis oounty, expires Ibis winter, and ll'r mire than likely that a new man will U nominated for tbe position by tbe Governor, wbo bas tbe appointing power, tubJed to tbe approval of Stale Senate. r Three namea arc already mentiooed in connection wilh vacancy . and tbe chancc- • are that one of tlicm will aecure the ap- ' poinlsnenU Tbe gentlemen named are : Waller A. Burrow., of Moont Holly ; 1 Juoaa Miller, of Camden, Km of Senator " Miller, and Herbert W. Edmunda, Cape ■ May City. 0 A moat anctraaful aeriea of religious 1 -m-eiiDga bas been in progress several f »«ka in the Talieroacle M. E. ehurcii, t Cold Spriog. Tbe meetings _are beld r nightly, and have been, with occaaional o intermission on account of Morms, since o tbe holiday a Tbe pastor, Rev. E. C. - Hancock, to laboring faithfully, and U I. raupb encouraged by tbe reaultt of bia ministration ao far. Upwards of fifty

have been forward alnoe the begin- • nlng of tbe meetings, and on Thursday night last aome thrity were aeeking rair. rion u penitents at tbe altar at one time 11 "Number 8" of W. K. VanOBder's ,'| auggeativa little pnblication. The primmer, to in circulation, and a moat useful reference it to sore to prove to Cape May h agrieulturtots sad truckers. Its pages are j specially devoted to the quotation of n prices of all tbe atandard field and garden n aeeda, bqt tbe aatooiabing feature of tbe publication to that tbe figures given ere g actually lower than the catalogued prices , of the growers and yrboleiwle dealers j tlremselvea Take a oapy of The Prum- . rare and compare them. [ The Marks Brotbos (Pbiladelpbia) Uve at length arranged for complteaoe with tbe proristoca of tlie ordinance requiring ° property osrnere to pave Iboir aidnwalti. mod have contracted lo 1 are the sidewalks along Ibeir low front fig 00 Ocean 1 a: reel and south aide of Columbia avenue laid with atooe flagging. Tbto to a much ' needed Improvement, and one tbey Mwuld ' have been compelled to make two years aga J We lake pleaaure lo calling tbe atlcstlon of partira Iniarmad to tbe Uetthat I Mr. Aoguatua Rerye, proprietor of tbe c celebrated Pea Shore Tena Ootta and .• Brick Worka, Qamden, bas commenced ' tbe manufacture of flre^iridu, and to now t prepared to fill all orders with protnptora. « which bto Cape May friends and customers may baoor bim with. Section Foreman Jamea Derera. South Srarille, drove tbe first railroad spike , ' driven In Cape May connty. He was al»> t 1 one vt tbe firat to re^rad 10 die call to arms at tba beginning of tbe tola rebellion, , j and waa among tbe brave boys wbo re- , , oeived tbe attack of tbe rough, and "plug , , ugllea- of Baltimore- , ' Hr. Jamea Miller, of Green Creek, an 1 - old friend of tbe Wan, area 00 Urn U- ' c laad Wednesday in company with Mr. ] i June. H. BcbaBengcT, of tbe same rilI. Wga- Ttosto ai iiliiili the ' • Wavxappredura, and we aball be glad t to bare it repeated at oflea as tbey please. ; e These an a few low lose (till remaining 1 1- within the corporate limits which should |. receive tbe ettantion of Use authorities, y That ia the. vidnity of the Jackson y Board of Health Monday, and an order b iranedjjr toe immediate fining. Mr. George P. Stein fiach.ed BaWmnre, is proprietor of . the toy and fancy baxau, a under the Wava offioe. pUd bto Cua May friends a ttsyrtoe ririt . frw day.

; LOCAL CHIT-CHAT. 3 folela i'ersou.l rrtrrS Geaeral. i [ A public bank and ball are aadly needed ' e , It is aafeet nut 10 kill game in tbi. Stale ( " at preaent. Learning's pond to the popular resort ( J Tike stock in tbe new scries of the ' rl Boildleg Aaaxiatioo. , Fancy boriery matches all tbe varied millinery .bade. now. - s It bas been a meny winter for farm r folks wbo have sleighs. t Ravages of the late flood tide are sail risible at Atlantic City. , Deniznt'a pier looks none tbe worse for tbe winter's Morms so f.r. ' Tbe Wave to tbe only paper printed ' , wholly in Cape May City. , Tbe Washington House ha. been doing ! e a comfortable winter burinera. , Venus I. a resplendent right- in Ibo ^ The actual com of -lopping a train is ' s raid to be from 80 lo GO ccots. 1 We have beard of one or two renters J ■ being down after boarding bouua. 1 Our real estate axent. are receiving nu- ( . mcrous inquiries relative to cottagca. ( 1 Mumps have been prevalent of laic , f among tbe javcnilra Jn tbe Cape dtotrict. ' 1 Tbe icr cut in thia neighborhood the ^ i prevent week will average 4} and 5 inches, ' r Painla, <-ita end glass at regular market ; quotation, at N. C. Price's, I'errr street. ( I Tbe qwcial term of court on the Mc- ^ ; Gatsi-Moooey ease to drawn for tbe fourth . week in May. 1 Extra meetings bare been In progras in - tbe Method iat church, this city, since the i week of prayer. There Kk» been a heavy cutting in the b I tot of tboae holding "annual." over the ? , Weet Jersey road. e Councilman Johnson's new cottage op- ■ pnrite Congrera Hall to now almost ready ° s for tbe furniture. I The Vasoes, of this city, are practicing economy this yrar— therefore no supper f or public installation. ' I Ate arrivals at the Cbalfonte were , - Ju lge Hamburger. Col. Cbaa Dnffy and " - Henry Van Beil, Pbiladelpbia. ' Latest grocery quotations are lo be found j » by ooosulliog Stilly Hand's business an- ^ > Douocement in another column. I Ex- Assemblyman Wm. T. Stevens ba« ' annonnced bto intention of being e candi- ' dale for the mayoralty in March next. , * Mr. Samuel Wiley's cosy liule cottage ( . on Decatur street baa been flntohed aeveral ' weeks, and bto family are alreedv occupy- ( ■ ing it- t r fl700 worth of boots and sboea fur winII tcr wear JuM received at Johnson's old ( h ratablisbed store, Washingtoo Mrret, opf porite Ocean. , I Nearly one hundred and fifty shares j ' have already been subscribed in the new * series of Mock ulw being issued by our ( - local Saving Fund loHitutioo. This bas been unprofitable week to our | rarp-rotera and olbermeebaoics. tbe wca- , iher interfering five days out 'of six with ' uoariy ail improvement operation. t ' Tbe six-foot reflector for tbe M. E. , ' church bas been received to replace tbe t me now in uae. which waa found 10 be ' tuadcquale to furnub tbe needed light. , ~ The greenhouses of Fred. Horner are " refreshingly attractive at this arasoti • ' , ' 'be year, and give renewed evidence of *" the enterprise and care of their guod-oa- , 1 luted proprietor. In our mention of tbe installation of the * officers of Poat "70" at/Jape May Court * House last week we miucd tbe name of , ■be Quartermaster, comrade John Abram., , „ tbe one-armed veteran. Commander I.yoos and comrade J. Aai Tosnlis,', of I'OM "70" acoompanled tbe Id comrade* of PuM "40" to the State cnaj cam patent of tbe Department beld at -r Trenton Tbureday and yesterday. j_ Mr. Jama Lraming bas been busy tbe la present week filling ice bouses by contract it for diOpsattt parties, the bulk of the beat ice ly cot in tbto vicinity craning from bto pond a. a abort distance from tbe Island.

Rev. TheopbHus •rice, Jr., of Tucker- t0 ton. preached according 10 announcement u in tbe Bapttot cburrl. last Sabbatb morn- lt ing and evening. He will alio occupy the nntc pulpit at to-morrow's services. „ It Is by order of the 'powers that be that a hu.inaa paaaea of ail kinds, Including hnteto, will not be issued by the WeM Railroad Company thia year. This role baa also gone into cfioct on the three railroads to Atlantic City. Mr. Wm. Farrow, W. M. of Cape is- j. Lodge, No. 80, this city, bas been s attending tbe annul session of tbe Grand of thia state at Trenton tbe preaent t week. He to accompanied by bia Junior Deacon, Bro- PhD. Eornlg _ We bear it -Mated that Mr. J. J. Burtetgb, chief operator in the W. J. R. It- > office. Camrtrn, has been appointed Train Master, vice S. O. Malin, transferred. Mr. Burleigh is a young man, and very o popular with all lite employees of tbe road. Aa compared with our sister resort up L tbe coast, the thermometer at Cape May u has Mood tbe. present winter from 8 toB . dgreea higher, and yet some people claim that Atlantic Cby's climate ia milder at , this anion nf tbe year tbqp Cape May'a B Jama* V. Lafferty, the enterprising founder eodmanegerot the recently di-vrl- T oped and rigorous young settlement of South Atlantic City, visited Cape May a and tbe probability ia that we . may ace more at bim before the opening £ The Pilotage Hill. t The Harrisburg eorrevpoodent of the *■ KarU American writes Wednesday last 1 pilot law: "To-morrow morning tire r House Committee 00 Municipal Corpora- 1 tioos will consider Perth's i'ilolage bill, and w-Ul hear both aidea-tbe vemei own- 1 : era and tbe pilots . A delegation ol pilots * have aarrived, while tbe following com- ' : miuet rat the part ct rbe Veawl Tlwnera and Captains' AasocislioA are here: Frank- 1 Smith, Joel Couk, Jamoe B. Baymore, 1 ■ Tbomaa Winamore, George A. Colloo. ; ' . Jamci Wiltoo. Char Ira lawi.nre and]' [ Henry R. Edmunds, aobcilor Tbe bill I a- read in place appears to be aoooptabie to both aides, wilb tbe exception of one " [ clause, which exempts from pilotage 1 1 American vessels bound tor tbe WeM In- ' . dim. sod which are loaded exeJnovely 1 , with coal. The object** to tbto is tint ; . very few American vessels go out to this ' i deal malum loaded solely with coal, the . ' general practice being 10 lake two-tfiirds coal and the rest ah-sik* or, other lighter Muff. It It tbe desire of both the owner* , and tbe pilots to allow tbe law aa it now 1 reads on this subject to stand.' 1 We are indebted 10 1 be pokHshan of tbe i i

Pleasaut Sarprlse. Despite 1 be extra chaiimeaa of ttoeouiioot aimoaphare it wocld have btvn bud ' find a imife cheerlol. jolly party oi t young people than were congregated on t the porch of Hie residence of our eaiectiHd | townsman, ex-Mayor Williams, on Moo- ■ day evening last, somewhere about the ( of eight o'clock. And tbey were not , expected gursU either. Tbe object of tin t invaatoc was to give the bead of the boor t a surprise viait, the participators therein ■ being teachers and acholara in the Presby- , ten an Sunday school, tbe aupcriotcodesiey f of wbicb. Sir. Williams bad only retu- t qoiabed the day before. It was an ntpr.miptu affair, and be^J-leo out of the l "happy thought" thai to tbelr late super- 1 inlendenl was owing a debt of grateful t remembrance for his maqy years of fsilh- t ful Service; which tbey thus wished to, t show was not likely. In be soon forgotten, i The success of aucb visits depend to a ccr- I tain extent on tjic cqtnplelcDeas of the sur. 1 jitiae, god no one- could look aq Hie . tuippy , exprcsion of the worthy host and dmiU for , ment at aucb an army of invaders. Ac- t ccpting bis bospitabk invitation to enter, every one was at onoc made to feci at , tome, and the order of exercises, ondt-r , tbe leaderabip of the librarian of the school, „ Mr. Jas. B. Btites, assisted by Councilman t Johnson, was opened without further aire- c many. Games of the most comical snd r novel dcacription were inaugurated, inter- 1 apenxd with music, and without any at- t being made to shape the course of 1 the entertainment, everybody enjoyed MicmK'lrea to tbeir hearts' content.— 1 Later in the evening refreshments, which j bad been provided by Ibc self-invited , guests, were served in abundance, and j made 10 disappear with promptness and despatch. Among the smiling faces prcs- j ent our reporter recognised those of I'ss- j tor Shields and wife. Councilman Johnson and wife, S. R. Btites and daughter, Mr. ( and Mra.'J. B. Blitea, Mrs Susie Ludlam, , James M. E. HUdrelh, Mis. Itboda Scbeilengcr. Miss Eutma Btitea, Miss Maggie 1 DuBois, Miss Annie Johnson, Miss Alice , Brown, Misses Edith and Deliic Essen, 1 Dr. Kennedy. Mrs. J. E Mecray, 1 Jr., Albert Johnson, Joseph Scbellcogvr, 1 Miss Jennie Wales, Mias Ella Taylor, , Fred- Johnson, Mr. Moore, Miss Ware, [ and others. t What Ibc ooaalps arc ttagtns. J That economy in tunning a Bore or bo- , U'l La sometimes carried 10 a ruinoUs terTbal there win be many changes of | management at the seaside hotels next rbxt tberc is a strong likelilmod of the J Hall property changing hand-. That tbe Cape May City Land Com- ( pany is a little alow in breaking ground ^ improremenu. That the small courtesies sweeten life, ( the greater enotilc it. Thai troubles are not half so hard 10 ( when you bare some ohe to share them wilh you. t That the company now owning and conlroillng the beach tract between Mad!- j aveone and Se wells Point needs a lit- ^ tie more vitality. ( That the erection of aucb buildings as ( that lately blown down on tbe Mount . Vernon track will be a detriment rather j than a benefit lo tbe place. That it will be a mistake which our lem- . pcrance people will rue to introduce the license question into our municipal affairs. That the next Urn the public is ap- ' • pealed to in Ibc interest of tbe cause ot , ' temperance it will not be by meant of an . anonymous publication. Tbal there is need of a law making it ' a libel to call a man dishonest wbo fails ' and makes money by Ibc operation. That the only satisfaction in bring left 1 by the Cars is that you have a good opportunity to watch tbe wonderful power of Tbal there will be four candidates in e ibafrdd. thto-frtc'ng charter election, for 1 the mayoralty. inc mayoralty.

That if tome people would only.atlend tbelr neighbors iota it would be a bleated thing for the community. , That the guests of the other evening °" wouldn't mind attending an installation * entertainment onoc a month of I'oat No. pl -40-" _ it Mr. and Mrs. John A. English, of PhU- J adclphia, have been visiting Mrs. Engparents, CapL and Mrs. Jesse Hand, Dennis. In cilic* it used to be tbe custom to ring bell if a child was lori, but juK what should be done In a country village like when the bell itself is lost, is ^ Last June a box of canned fruit consigned to CapL H. M. Carroll, went astray I the road, and it eras only very recently v that the discovery was made that 1 Cape May merchant received and opened c box by —'i*1" and tbe matter baa a Just been amicably adjusted. Tbe frieoda of CapL E. Douglass will t pleased to learn of a steady improve- I ment In bto health. He is looking better sod gaining strength. lie waa nblc if) -J visit Millriiie a few; day* since. i CapL Ed. Nickeraon arrived amuog bto r old Denniavillc friends on Tuesday, look- ( well, and evidently glad to be ooce t CapL Edward Williams also reached home 00 Tuesday evening, accompanied i by Mias Annie Cailtoo, a charming young f lady ot Perth Amboy, wbo is visiting bis t sister, Miss Mile Williams. We are aim wt inclined lo extend tbe oongratalalory ■ band in advance. 1 II. B. Stiles is home oo a bi ief respite 1 from business a few-days while tilings are 1 alack, which is usually tbe case i mined- I lately after the holidays. Moving lime is appvuaebiag, and there . will be considerable changing of homes. 1 as usual. Many such changes are juiadc 1 wilh no beneficial results whatever, but 1 ! ruiU^ Monea_<^loa{_jfl_juU jnntnd. gathering no uwi. Revival services are lo progress in the M. E church, Booth Dennis. Rev. Mr. ia laboring rarncstly for tbe bonding up of Christ's kingdom in this portion ot I the religious world. Oar friends should ant forget tbe donalion visit arranged to be made lo tbe resiI deoce of Bro. Elder oo Saturday evening. For all kinds n( ilry goods, trimmings, ' laces, and notiuna of every description, go I LV tbe oid reliable More of Mrs. R. T. Brown, 80 Wgshiogton asms. Hsr Mock . wholesale istehlirimjcBis, sad naid for . Upon a cash basis- Customer* aii invited to call, rmntnr and price fur tbcsuselvra. ■

■k strong practical sermon from GaL S: was preached lo tbe M. E church, of j Cape May City, on Sabbath evening ton c by tbe pastor. Tbe congregation was t large and attentive^ We notice the polite [ a'tentioB given to M ranger* as a delight- f ful feature of tbe service. Tbe church a pririlagrs of those wbo have permanent I at our summer capitol are all that need be desired, and generally Jbe people r appreciative, giving the gospel a libeT- c a! support. In abort Cape May will I compare, in thia respect, with 1 the most favored places. I On Saturday afternoon last a bright" ( of twenty-five small misses made c the home of J. S. Garrison. Cape May -ing^wiih Joy and gladness, in marked c contrast with tbe dismal moist streets of c , the town. Tlic girls on their way, clithri i water-proof wraps from bead to fool- t looked like young Arctic explorers. In c h i-kcta carried by tbcm-igerc orange*^ [ rakfs and raliir'wadias astotab ehillitw. - delight m. Evidently our ybung friends, i arc not lo close the feaive seasoo within c tbe limits of tbe holidays. t A comely maiden of thirty plus sum- 1 met* sent lis an autograph album in which 1 were asked to write something pretty and poetical. Deal Wavx, wc did our 1 but now bate one leas our roll t of speaking acquaintances. The next request of Ibc kind wc shall Jcnftot the 1 aerviceis of • friend wbo can manufac- 1 ' stanzas to order and of tbe popular 1 styles. Send in your albums, please. 1 An effort will be made to build a Presbyterian church at Sea We City. As there 1 is no house of worship there tbe project J sir mid receive tbe hearty support of the 1 borough. Instrumental music is out of place In a | purely devotional service— for instance a I or praise meeting. Activity in building prevails at Rio i Grande. Severaf atructurea are going up 1 the sugaf mill. Our landlady is of tbe opinion tbal a I can't lie trusted to find bis bat or 1 anything else two minutes after be lays it i aside. Generally loo much room in our 1 houses for men. Put everything a bachehas in a trunk and be will experience I no difficulty in locating bis effects, but let 1 bim get married and set up house keeping. | then his troubles begin. "Mariar, where 1 my shirt collars," "Dang it. now, my Sunday bat is mislaid." "Where in the ; Boy are my traps anyway," andso on. t All brqause there is too much space. I On Monday morning before tbe up train left Seaville Ballon, a Miss Nancy sort ot I a chap carrying marine glasses by a strap I - over bto shoulder and putfiag on nautili alia generally, accused tbe efflrtoni alarion ! agent of the place with neglect concerning , ' telegram. Tbe insulting manner of tbe | mariner provoked tbe operator who with a few well chosen words of ■ stalwart English sent the fedow to grass. "Served bim right" was the general ver- 1 ' dicL < Tbe bigta tide ot last week was nearly , the death of "Boby" Ibc tender of the U. K. drawbridge ovcrvLudlam's thorough- 1 fare near Sea Isle City. Tbe water rising over tbe meadows be thought to mike his escape to Ibc island, but tumbled into a ' ditch from wbicb be got out half drowned. 1 bis way back lo the waicb bouse 1 ' by tbe bridge, the storm tide drove bim by 1 degrees lo tbe joists under the roof where ' ■ be pqrebod for several hours, or lid the ' waters subsided >0 that be coulil reach a more comfortable locality. ! Revival services arc in progress at the Trinity M. E church, Bccalcy't Point. ; 1 Tbe Interest in llicm is nightly increasing, t and high hope* are entertained that many ( conversions will follow the present efforts. 1 Conversation overheard at tbe seaside j t between two children wbo were playing on tbe sands together: Soiad boy to little I girl ; "Do you wish 10 be my wife?" lit- j Be giri, after reflection: "Yes." Smad ; boy: "Then pull off my boots." Trenton seems to be tbe objective point at present wilb our dtixcni wbo have tbe , time and means to make tbe pilgrimage to Kmc anu means to uiaac sue ptigiiui*ftc

our Slate capitol. Tbe favored location of Cape May City ^ it shown to large advantage by tbe results of the late storm wbicb shook np and washed things about quite lively at other T aloeg the coast There are thirty-seven Sunday acbouls „ Cape May county. . Member* of the Cannon Lodge, F. & A. South Seaside, were disappointed in ^ the weather last Saturday evening. So the •upper prepared by Comrade Lyons bad ^ to be "put off." Tbe fraternity, with their wives, will try it again. TackabM. ° Mrs Eva Taylor and liule daughter „ are visiting Mrs. Brooks at South r Seaville. 1 Miss Mary Button to visiting relative! at a Creek and Dorchester tbe preaent c week. r Mia Hannah Whcaton returned home 1 oc Monday from an extended visit in Phil- I adclphia, Baltimore and other cities. i Mr* Kphralm Stede. accompanied by t her young friend Mias Lupton, of Bridge- 1 returned borne on Wednesday. 1 Scbooster Can 6. Van Gilder , Captain c Andrew Stetdman, arrived in New York i HKh inaL, tfhere Mi* Steelman 1 met tier husband on Monday. Anson C. 1 Camp attoo went on to take a mate's poai- t thru ou the vessel. This wlU be bto Aral ' trip away from bto handsome young bride. 1 Some of our young people think malt- t contributions in a young lady's ante- 1 graph album, and forging another's signs- < to not the proper thing lo do. 1 The public road lietween Woodbine t station and Tuctabnc, always known aa i the wnevt road In tbe county, to, if poari- ! blr. worse than ever. There may be some 1 1 tvasou for negtocting tbia rnau, but on fine 1 yet bden able to discover it. I Master AI. Dare, clerk In Dr. B. T. < 1 Abbotfa -drug atnrc, to cue of" <Wr nvwt | am bit iuat youth* Among other credit- 1 t able things be bat taken tip Uie study of ] telegraphy. . fir rjr. K Champhw, formerly nf this neighborhood, to laid to have invented a system by which passengers on trains are 1 . notified of tbe name* of stations wbicb < r tbe train to approaching. : 1 The skating ponds of tbto town are not 1 very quovenient for the young todies and . gentlemen. That known as Big Pond is - situated about half a mile east of tbe viL . Uge in tbe woods, another. Porch's Mill Pood lies about one mile in tbe other di- , reriioo. t^ > Tbe revival »crvkm still continue in the • M. E Church. One conversion is re- [ ported. f The young people's association, which l to really a church aid aodrly, will give a ' festival entertainment 00 Washington's 1 birthday. The Goran City Comet Band - t will furnish music lor the occasion.

A gradomt revival to reported to be in pgugreM at the Gravelly run M. E . P choreb, Rev. W. J. Snout. |«iur. Six- *• ty-threc have an far been forward for ; " and forty-nine Lave already pro- 1 *1 ftsacd conversion, this number including 11 several heads of families, besides" a gootl 6 prop *tloo of young men and women, d We are p'teaaed to bear such favorable * irt> of tbe growth and development or tbe business interests of Sea isle CUy. j »' As an indication the baker of the Island. * Kackler, bas been obliged to en- ' * the capacity of bto txskcry to met ; '■ ' the demands of bto increasing circle of li customer* » Captain II. L. TutUr. Superintendent * of the L'nioa, Oyster Company, of Bal'.i- : * returned lo Ibc Bay View House', | " Point, Monday la«. Owing 10 ; to the- ice ia the lay the com pauy bas ba n j " obliged tit sus|tcnd i's operations for 4hc . 1 present. 1 TisejvqwrtstriBnf tbr riftee Ires been " - thejatl few days by the arrival . c of four youag emigranls-thres of .the ! it Dumber being girl* We congratulate Hie - S ltappy parents.— the mammas |iartku- , a l*riy. ,ti E P. Hand and CapL IE T. Smith j t: among the depai turns "fuesdsy for in Mr. and Mr* Weeks, a ripe old couple 1 u residing here, suited Cape May this week, j p Weeks not having been L. that point | i since before ber marriage, aome forty, j t year* ago. p CapL Philip Shields, Mr. Fidler Hand t and wife, and Isaac Hand, of Gravelly a were called to tbe Island on busi- r : ness Wednesday. ' Mias Wbeaton, one of Tockaboe's fair 0 gem*.baa been visiting relatives here, re- k turning lo ber home Wednesday. * E 1*. Hand has got in a supply of five- h now perfectly bappy. » Meaars. T. Stanch ill and Matt. Hand, «' two of our popular and moat experienced c mechanics, arc cngsged at their avocation 0 other fields— the former at Vioeland, c the totter bring at work at Sea Isle City. I Considerable sickness to about, especial- I ' ly among the small children. Three ol I comrade Shimp'a family are down with the 11 prevalent ailment, but are gradually ' mending. 1 With pleasure we note tbe fact of Sir. • B. Learning's improvement in bnltb, though M as yet in a condition to attend | professional duties. Ao aged colotcd iDmatc of the county j named "Joan," died Tbureday of j • Sir* L. E SUrcy, daughter of Captain t 1 Si .SUrcy, Diss Creek, left home Tbnrr- j ; diV to resu ne lier duties in Philadcl- i ' Ph> j On the morning of the 2Jth Inst, track- , ' walker & W. Smith found part of a car- c wheel flange north of Court House sta- 1 - the car it belonged lo having reached Cape Stay, wbcre it left the track the J same day. r Dr. John Wiley left for Baltimore on a r short visit Touraday. It. S. J , The following program was presented ( for the entertainment and edification of 1 the jncmhe-re and friends of the Literary • . at iu regular meeting .last evening in Ibc , school house - 1 * BreiranK*»fa 1 1 '""".iiiatu ' S. Rrattuts Wet. a We.Lt J * t otal M rate C*a* Poster A eCkarr 1 I « ttaarp-suooirr IL Cootett* Wdter. . j • I madia* . Leslie llaa.-. ' I It. rtiaaaffiaws '."."j"'.""". tUg*» uewni :* ^Baverus^Jasstiant * ' , it lot Howe *. Cooper. . IX Wtoarrelt Ira aurama. 1. Tatter * oteero . ; t* Brptslol Crtuc. ' j The experience of the past week or so has effectively demonstrated the mistake i route overly officious people made in pre- ° j venting the county from accepting through Ibo Board ot Free-holder* the

road opened about four years ago over ' Island creek, a continuation of EL mita street, and designed to connect wilb „ Columbia avenue in Lower township. K road was opcood through tbe private enterprise of Messrs. E Johnson, A. L. £ and one or two o!bers,and necess- * itated at the same time the building of a « bridge over tbe creek. To continue tbe I road to tbe proposed terminus in the » township it was found necemary to make .. application tertbe court* in order to have „ it surveyed and properly laid out This J the projectors attended to. The survey- t were duly appointed and performed { the duty assigned them, the expense there- « ol being borne by the gentlemen above referred to. Tbe cori ol tbe enterprise them ao far had been near 8300. Tbe ; aurveyota made a favorable report to the ; court, and tbe matter waa In due process • referred to a committee of the Freet but wbo, through prejudice or , - ignorance, allowed themselves 10 be in- ' flueoced by tbe misrepresentations of cer- ' tain busybodles wbo, for selfish purpose* i - did trot want the propoaed road opened or . accepted by the county. These individuals 1 claimed that Ibc road waa not needed: that f I U it sens* thrown open -to-Uw pwWio to - 1 would lake all the travel from the other . roads further off, etc., and possibly affect 1 - the business of aorocbudy's store, etc. I Tbe consequence was tire Brard of Freereftued lo net in tbe matter, and - the road bas not boeo opened as intended. - But tbal bas not prevented the poblljraac - ot Ibc portion v«*tlch was built and graded, the strangest part of it all being that ' : tbe parlies wbo were chiefly instrumental s influencing tbe oomraltlee of Free- - bolder* are tbe very ones wbo have been e and are to-day the moat benefitted in its' e unfinished though tbe road be. And those, Mr. Editor, are the circumstances . wbicb have lead to. Uie embargo bring t placed about a week ago upon ail ice wig- _ ous hailing from the Learning 1'ood. Some j f people have thought it was lisnl lines, but toe my |>art 1 think It nerved tbeoi right. Jtwrtc*. a Lust.— a i'lain Grid Iiiog Saturday e evening last. Tim finder srill ob'dge the b owner and receive a recompense by leaving it at Ware's stationery More, next peat *1°®"■•Lsatea' Tonic." L The' Great Female Remedy to prepared I „ by lite Women's Medical IoMilute of Buffalo, N. Y:; and todbrir favorite preaeriplion fc* lad ins who are suffning front any weaknroa or cnmptalnta common lo tbe t« sex. lt isrold bydrogjttouat 81-OOper laxtie. Ladies can obtain advice freeBead •'■"■p for names of itxac wbo have I to cared. • SiStt ' * °°~ m *** 'utZto™

The lull reerntly introduced in the Legislature in the inlet est : of the pilots of tbe Bay and River Drtaj revises the present rates of pilotage | and provide* for certain vxemptiisiafrosn j tbe obligatiooi to pay pilotage, etc- It fixes Ibc rates for piloting vessels up and down tbe river Delaware aa follow*— vestels drawing twrlve feet and under, i 81-87 for vvery iuilf foot; over twrlve fert | and op to fifteen, 82 Oft over fifteen fa-t | and up lo eighteen, 82 S3 : over eightoen i and up to twenty feet. $2^70: over twenty i 88.73 toe every half foot. In addi, j to thcac rate* plkits will also receive , three dpitor* per day. whenever detained by {• any maslcT.owoer or consignee, or by ice. • I increase of 10 per cent- over tbe rati* j above quoted are allowed when tbe veare! ' : si.iken at any point c*« of Five Fnth- j j Bank iitghl-sltip or north of Hsrefunl ; j Iuelit House, or aoutH of Fen wick j I ..gilt House: and a dalunion of j contiug vessel to firat sptkin by tbe pilot I i i inside of a Mraigbt line drawn from Gate I ; Mae Light to Cape lienlopen Light. Yes- | ' eels are not compelled to Ukc pilots shoold , tbey decline to doao, and are exempt from ] tbp duty of paying for services which arc ! not rendered. Vessels going to lite Breakwatrr for ordets and not proceeding up the Delaware Bay, are obliged to take pilots, if spoken outside of tlie Cape Ughtkouse Iwaring southwest, ployed in and brewed f-r the routing trade will lie obliged lo taks a pilot or be subjected to payment of pilotage in case of refusal to receive aurh pilot, except ships or vessels under register bound to tbe States or Territories on tbe Pacific ocean. The also provides that a pilot bringing a vessel into the port of Philadelphia, shall sin- next troves the port. All ships and Mt-ainen from or bound to foreign ports. , except American vessels solely bden wilh coal mined in the United States, will be obliged to receive a piioL No additional , charge will bcrcaflcr*be made f-»r winter j pilotage. The closing section of the bill , provides for * reduction of tbe number of j pilot* and limiting it to sixty. So that ' after the apprentices now indentured will served tbelr term of six year* no new licenses will be issued to pilots for Tbe Ncw^York'tfitora finds no reason to thai the "electric light can be made a cbrap substitute for gas as a general ilIt says: "Neither here nor in miter years of experiment and investigation by a ymltllude of inventora and physicist* and after the concentration of scientific thought on tbe problem, ha»Ni4Dcre oven matte more tnan very slight progress in adapting tbe electric t" ordinary doaicKic and husincas , uses, or, In other word*, in enabling it to , compete ^successfully and ^generally vuth comparison with that lie-Id by our illuminating gas- It lias not proved itself a competitor of which tlie gaa uianulactB- | have any pres*nt occasion to be in It lias not lessened .tbe consump- J lion of tbelr product, nor has it cut down thrir profit* Tbey are making more gas than ever, and the demand for it to greater than ever, and that simply ft* illumlna2Harrird. iirf. KWAIh',-*r<*U.I anting. Jsnwrj SStS. 1WX, Joi.stitstt ire: it jtsw ilfu- ^avrrli5rmrnts. ^

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