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VOLUME XXXII. ' ; - ■ , . . 'l=

CAPE MAT CITY. NEW JERSEY. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1886. ... 1 1". 11 -— ~r

WHOLE NUMBER, 1679.

O APE MAT OTTY, IV. J. "T. x«>. 9rxm .tmoxr. 91.50 •year in Advance.' S rotrtsUwal Cards. pj P. DOUGLASS, ATTORNE Y AT-LA W SOLICITOR IN CHANCKRY ' *H c*r»M*T our ALTER A BARROWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W SOLICITOR IN CHANCKRT, ' Morvr Boll*. N. J. LKAJDNG &8QN, DENTISTS i um MirCocsrHncsa—1 TSotvlaji and Bat- < r«U>«. ^>rtj ftasviLia— PrMsrs. I JAMES M. E. H1LDRETH, , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW •OIJCITOR. MAKTR1I AND MAM INCH IN , (T/WCKRY. ■ --net «t No. 4* Washington Street. Co w M»7 ■>:>. I.J. _ nte-l, , JTJERBERT W. EDMUNDS, ' ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W oLicrroa ano mastkr in ohanckrt, COpo Moy CllJ, N. J. 011-7 \ oaat coon Home. Towoioj. »na m<ior». lEitfrtg Cardi. PTNOS B. WILLIAMS, ARCHITECT AND BUILDER. WILL MAKI DRAWIN08. AND SITrRRINPNWD OR CONTRACT. 1 "PPICR-41 Wooainfioo St.. C»p« Nor. *J. A fl. LITTLE, /V.. l PRACTICAL PAINTER AND GLAZIER, "HOP-Oomui Strom next AretteltoaM. OAPR NAY CITY, N. J. Or Aon moj M left ot K. Johnson1! ottiro^^ ;

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CHAS. NEEDLES. gflffSttffMl. pOLLEGIATE, COMMERCIAL " V_y . AND MILITARY INSTITUTE. N ew Conn.. Preseretnry to Collet* . ihe scientific School* ond "Bobomo. wit* o bcoromo rtep*rini«nl ond AinplA *rrea*eaiem* for Sot«SDSL ao*' *"■' ^ INOTITUTB * riRIDOItrOX, NBW jbbsky. ONm. onn™i rduomlTOl odwutm J SmT SHi - SKiscaps °Tl* K° StAHK. A. M-. Tnnapoi. p I THE LUDni«a,SCHOOt Of BUSIIESJ s "VTEW JERSEY STATE NORMAL Aim MODEL SCHOOLS. iy TRENTON. , NonuAl ts-nooi. »1W lor LAd:«A.Aud 11(0 for ^urm™™mp«tor ^ironttEmToollRo deportu ""aEctttttMn, " IS POR ' FwY«m Ha aan Bws, KEia. Pa a itmUMfmmPittladdpBiA Alod prvwoo'tR mtwij "P""*- "1°,™™ r" Mo IxmfESuxs: SdatiiTSiin Itetl At Medio Arodetntr^ore now in on

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ONE DEEP DREAM. BY KYB.YS laonrx.. ( . fWell, good-bye. Mr. SUmtley; I hope wo shall meet you again." And ihe ' young lady gives him a departing slant csdcc also includes the "mil. slim girl 1 standing at the opposite side of ihe IerT-•■Good-bye," says Stantlcy. shortly I entugh. •And who is this new friend of Mr. ( Stmtley'o?" inquires the first speaker of | Stanley's Iriend as they go down the bnjid stairway together, in the wake of ■ tba young lady's mamma. "She made mq think of one of thoee Howell's or Jaqes heroines, don't, you know. One i of those rapturous — contalnodly rapturooy—New Eu^and girls in search of Gtiopenn culture." "Well, 1 think Hint's what she is. Haunts the galleries with passionate fervor and reverence. Is traveling about this Wicked old continent, apparently, as only that sort o! a New England girl could. Is stared at in consequence. And is ns unconscious of the same and as cool as nn Arctic moonbeam." "An Arctic mnonbrfiinl That is very MeantimiwRtSWley has crossed once j to Prudence Chantey's side. Tbfy are in the Plnakcthek at Munieli The j streets outside arc filled Willi the soft | drizzle of a summer rain, the large room* with a subdued gray light. Occasionally I i ^foreign tramps through, guide-lmok in ; ' Mhrouded in waterproof and with ga- j loahes deadening tlie sound of her steps, i Borne such Interruption occurs again now. Stantlcy waits and then says: • •Weil. Prudence?" And the old-fash-ioned name is very sweet 10 his lips and thiidn how well it suits her blot, fair) llic dead light i f her calm gray eye*. And there is a world of pleading, of passionate traders*"'. 1 h® .pUn™ |(. j, [ '"Please don't -av unylhlng more. We j have been all over the ground." | "No! Wo are lo go over it again it j

not now, then later'. 1 sliall go back if j you go. I warn you 1 shall follow you. | Does this sound brutal ? 1 don't want It ' to. I moan to bo very patient. Islmll. not press you. lint ns long as you say | there Is no one else " "No! There isnreone else." and her ; voice falters a little. "No one else that • I -lhat I' should care for." «fwr* fs; face. So supple and pliable one would think Iter; yet on Stantley's liot mood there llaslieS a consciousness "that the suppleness, the pliability may be as those of a flue steal blade. "It could not lw." she murmurs srtftly. It— I do not think it would be right. My people— we are different from yours. I could not turn my back on them. He makes an attempt at Interruption, but she hurries on. "Noj hear me out. I cannot see that it would now be right. If ever it should seem to he so "If ever it should seem to be so?" he repeats eagerly. "Would you send for me? No! I cannAt trust you to do thaL If it is time you want," his hopes soaring ■ high once more, as lovers' will after depression. 1 will give it to you, hard as it is. May I come to you again, at your homo, in si* months? Prudence, anShe paused a moment. She raised her eyes with another look of appeal. . "in a year!" alie said at last. " "Prudence:" "No; not before," she went "n, apeak'a ing quichly, In a tone of deep troubio: "I could not know before. I "» mtlsttliiak. I must lie.'' flnalt, faint *« as the pink on the inside of a shell, crept £ up under her fair skin. "1 must pray.' ». ,hc added, rcarccly above a whisper. "Well!" be cave one long breath; then he drew tier hand, without resistance from % h::r, through l.is. arm. ami. they wenl i down together, out of the gallery an.. deserted rireeta. No out into the bread No

knew them. He could walk on by her me side amf feel the touch of her fingers cn : hla. sleeve, and look down Into bcrdovc- bn like eyes and trick hla fancy with rain int imaginings that she was already lite wife. ch! that he had simc right In her. If any . one had told Sianltey a year before thn he would so love a-llulo. country-bred no . . ilihic would have seemoil too prepMtnrous even to be amusing. lie St had never been very amenable to the influence of women. If be had an admir- ki ation for "any type, it had been for U.e ca 1 dashing the assured, the richly colored, th Jlut he reallzetL nothing of all that now. w Nothing is so Irretrievably loat ...lost iurpression. ^ ™ Tbefa had been a high wind blowing - I nil day but towaril the close of tlwab c ^ trees stood out l.lesk and clear ^ r against a gray sky. The winds had beatm down the last remaining foliage and willed and dry yellow mftptehavre sad russet oak leave* strewed the v.llngc ; rtre*. Before Kendall, tbe ^ " figure*. guUllevsof .uspendcra, ' S ^od regeTTand conversed in deaul- « tory tones. . , A voung man went by on tho other ^ side of the street. He might h*Te been « not pli-uaat to took at n^w. g (S. mr«icW M 1 lll JTl TIT" nap,: who hail mild Mue | *2 I ein. Nra» ot the vthers vrete prepared i ;

"No. sir," takip.g up the thread of the conversation where it.bad been' dropped; "the question about a proteftive tarilt ^ But here another interruption orcirrrel le in the tuiex|tccted form dr a well-dressed , nt stranger who was coming from the' di- • . recfion .of tlie station. Arriving in from I . of the group he asked some dircclinnaas ■ , to his way. adding that he had not been able to get a conveyance- , "Wall, t'alnl very fur," said the young i man with the mild blue eyes, and be ac- t r companled Ihe stranger to tlie corncrand I ,c "Wonder what ho wants up there." he ruminated, coming hack to hi* corapan- < k ion*. , ^ The first of the two men bad now lB reached a gate before a large white I r_ house. It stood n little out of thevil. i ,f lage, and it had not iucxtensiyr grounds 1 about it. Liko Its owner, the house 1 might once have been pleasant to look . at. It was now shut up in one part and 1 ;t the pamt war iwrimg on in sprnsue* all 3 over it. It looked desolate in the la'e rl gray light.' Its ehecriessness sceninl to ' weed-grown path with a sullen jaw. and « going nrqund to the side of the house. ' I dropped down upon llic steps of a porch i e there. The feeling in hi* knees anil bis ' y j head seemed Unmake rest temporarily I l0 j preferable to locomotion. . ' [, | Viocea could be heard within. Tim i u Voire of a woman, a cracked voice at- I 1 1 until to a key of perpetual recrimina- I „ | lion, the Joyless voice of querulous old I nj "Didn't 1 bear a step? I HRmglit sure < u j I heard a »tcp. Ilul my ear* mr failin' i „ j goln'. What's tbe use of livin' to fetch j up in the poorhousc? Once we liad what i j we wanted and my poor boy wan'l wlial ' lr j a woman's, too, ikft^oung, Ihongh with i I all the freshness and lightness of youth «. with a curious note of pain in it. H I more would Nat if he had not been driv. I ' j en lo the bad." 1 r "I did not care for bim," with Ihe I

I away. I only cared for hint as a cousin, i 1 1 oa I thought he eared for me." I I, ' "You knew be cared for you different i y| and your goin'-thafs wl^l drove him i i off ! And the money sjicnt in travelin' old age." f ou .'AU%s!fl YVgYTtflF laA'pI'sun"!?- 'Are j you comfoi table?" j "Comfortable! Comfortable! " mutlerc cd the quaverftg voice. ,. But Sal had'enough of this gray talk for his coming home and arose in his r might and stumbled up the steps. V "Who's there? Is it Nat? Go see!" 'i quavered the old voioa breathlessly c again. it But already the door bad been flung 1 open and a tall form in black had swept t. out upon the porch with the lamplight behind it. The young woman laid a ie I, and on the man's unsteady shoulder, ar 1 'Say. leave me al-lone, wii! you?" But ,L at the last step he stumbled once more ig and his drunken weight fell against her e- shoulder. as "A quick atcp came up the path, a man ar baited in the dusk, n- "Miss Chantey!" Without removing her sustaining arm* or she tent a face that hftil turned to stone toward the foot of the porch. Tho surprise had steadied Nat for n moment. He straightened himself and reeled in- With ,k. one sweep of her hand hack of her Pru- «. donee had caught the lamp from the tnI ble just Inside the door and held It aloft, inl The light gtreamcd down on Stutlry'a :pt upturned, questioning face; a face that f changed slowly as it looked into hers.' • l'rudencel" len But was this Prudence? am Tics sad-browed woman in ho r straight ent black dress. wiUi herjialr brqaltcd ba.k ind from her temples. >uc "Did you not get my tetter?" tbe "Did not get ruj re,«.. ru-

mored her white lips to say. ' VYonr letter? What letter? No!" He i brought tlie words out slowly with an • indefinable premonition creeping like a chill through bis vein*. Slie puj Sowii Qielamp back of her. "Come in," She said. Bhe U qui.t now? quieter even than before. • This is my aunt, Mrs. Chanley. Mr. SunUey, and-my husband." Stantley aat down automatically- He he bad no business there. But it upon him in a doll sort of a way he could not go at once. The old woman turned to her danghtet-in-law: ions tone*, "what did you amy the gentleman's name woe? Is he a friend of y0"™met him abroad," said Prudence while and erect In bcr chair. Nat, only half sobered, glared with an occasional furtive acowl at Stantley and did not open bis lips. "Ah! You nset^btm abroad did ypo. Mr. Stand ev, 'twas a mistake of Prmlehee ever to go abroad." Tbe old woman loaned forward on bcr -aSSWl always together ;«lnce they were ? would many, taintt right for otw to go away with itoUonA oL wasting better ' heraalf andwlbthvL ' NoW.-ialtf",'':. £ J Not even before thc.auanger couldthe Hold woman fortewr spmktag le ened 'nice. And Prudence (bante; Id I and Stantley stood. »P at the same mo Imeut. "Oood-bya"

He did not put out his band. She did ' Dot offer hers: All wai raid. And Suntley went out and down the weed-grown I park, now quire, dark. And when he got upon the lonely road, with the. dim village lights ahead, he stood still and in j the stillness of the autumn niglit, there > the sound of a short, hard laugh. Some months later a young lady, tripping out of a g i rillumira a l.mctropolthrow a word ami *tnile at a liWn. broa n, man passing in tlie cptwd. "Why, that was Mr. Bttnlley !" claimed to her companion. "Did yon notice? Let me see." she ruminated. "Why. tlu* is the first time I've seen since that (lay in Munich. I wonder what became of the young llowells and James girls he seemed so smitten with ? you remember ?" "Yes. Pretty creature. Have n..t the idea." nitu wvj.iuu. wcreitm in umrvswu. Stantley has never married. He is a solitary man. Some people think him surly. ' He has little to say at any time, and he goes his own way. Whether he in lonely, snllen musings, came to suspicion of the whole truth -whether the strange Inspirations of brooding night watches he guessed some of the purport of that lost tetter, some of the divined that Iter cousies moral fall bad laid at her door, and, without love, her conscience had compelled her to repair the Imaginary wrong by marrying him— whether, in 'short, Stantley ever nw the story of Prudence Cbanlcy's its w hole, it* real light— who shall say ? No word ever passed between tbem e. Ami. unless enlightened by some such mysterious divination of the soul the end of Ids one deep dream remained to him to the last a problem without a Lincoln and tha "Clary'a Grove Public opinion at New Salem was , formed by a crowd of ruffianly voting fellows who were called the "Clary's Grove. Boys." Once or twice a week i they descended upon tlie tillage and . passed the day in drinking, fighting and brutal horse-play. If a stranger appeared ! in the place ho was likely to suffer a -

rude initiation into tho social.ltfe of New ( Balem at tlie- band* of these jovial *av- , ; age*. Sometimes he was nailed up into j i a hogshead and roiled down hill, some- • > times he was insulted into a fight and - then mauled black and blue ; for despite , r their pretentions to cliivilary they had . no scruples about fair play or any such ; ; J'dTilig'i jnrdln. " Ifft appearnnco'dliTnot Invite insolence ; his reputation fur , . airenctli and activity was a greater protection to him than bin inoffensive good - nature. But the loud admiration of . . Off ill gave them umbragin ^lt ^ led to* • formal banter to a wrestling match. j Lincoln was greatly averse to all this "Woollng and pulling," as he called it. - But Offut's indiscretion had ^ made ^it t Jack Armstrong, the leading bully of a the gang, was selected to throw him. and expected an easy victory. But he ,1 soon found himself in different hand* e from -any he had heretofore engaged r with. Seeing lii coulil not manage the tail stranger, bis friends swarmed in. and n by kicking and tripping nearly succeeded in getting I-incoln down. At this, a* has been said of an .thor hero, "the splr. I* It of Odin entered into him," and putting ic forth hla whole strength. lie held the r. pride of dory's Grovs in his arms like a [e child, and almost choked the exuberant h i'e out of him. For a moment a general u_ field seemed Inevitable; but Lincoln. ». .landing undismayed with his back t. to the wall, looked so formidable in his d finite* that an lioni'st admiration took at the place Of momentary fury, and his .nit tat ion was over. As to Armstrong, he was Lincoln's friend and sworn brother as soon as he recovered the use of his lit larynx, and the bond thu* strangely ere ,k atetl lasted through life. Lincoln had n i further occasion to fight his own batllC l!f Th/two friends, although his ch .mplon. The two p

re widely different, were helpful to each a other afterwards In many ways, and « , Lincoln made ample amends for tho lib r c tv his hands had taken with Jack's. „ throat, by saving, in a memorable tnal. t ; hi« son's neck from the baiter. » Tlie incident, trival and vulgar t , may seem, was of great importance in , Lincoln's life. His behavior In this ig- I t noble scuffle did the work for years for t him. in giving him the position he rer quired in the community where hU lot j was cast Br became from that moment i- ^ ^ own. The t. verdict of Clary's Grove was taMjBMW had ever broke into the aettlemraL" * lie did not have to be constantly scuffling »o guard hia self-respect, and at the same n ,ime he gamed the good «U1 of ,d ter sort by hh evident paaceablcrfesa arti Integrity — December Ointurf. HI»Appgrtt«. ESSSSst fit ». ft* «» MM. -r*4iV»M»Wf- . ■he [ Lp, coming wlsh.s HMHAteMto-" ^ " ^ t \ %

Why Le* Fought at Gettysburg, J In an article in the Ocntury for Re- - cember. General Henry J. Hhnl, who 11 cntnmartded all the Ctiimi artillery In the e bxttTe writes as folluw.'?^ "It had .not 1 been Ganeral I-ee's intention to deliver a s unless attacked, but he uow found himself by the mere force of circumstance* " committed to one. If it innst take place - tlie sooner tho belter, nis army was ' now nearly all on the ground, and delay, • whilst it could not improve his own l-isition, would certainly better that of hia antagonist. Lougstreet, Indeed, urged - General Leo Instead of attacking to turn 1 McaiL's left, and by iutcrposing between - him and Washington, and threatcninghis 1 communications, to force bim to attack ' the Confederate army in position ; but ' General Lec probably saw that Meade ■ would be under no such necessity; would have no great difficulty lo obtaining supB plies, and— disregarding the clamor . :»U«mssrti ft&wsMs » Ixw to maintain in the open country. ' no cotild not advance on Baltimore or , Washington with Meade in his rear, nor e could his army subsist itself in a hostile 3 region which would soon swarm with r additional enemies. His communications S could be cut off, fur his recdmmcndal ion " lo assemble even a small army at Cule pepper to cover them and aid him hail i not been complied with. I "A battle was a necessity ti? Lec, and a defeat would be more dlsaitrous to f burg than at any point eaat of It- With r the defile of the South Mountain range a close in his rear, which could be easily a held by a small force, a safe retreat through the Cumberland Valley was as. e these panes, would bo practically on the I banks of the I'otomac, at a point already d prepared for crossing. Any position east of Gettysburg would doprlvo him of these advantages. It is more probable that General Lee was Influenced by cool e calculation of this nature than hv hot blood, or that the opening success of a ' chance bstllo had thrown him off Ids S balance- Whatever his reasons, he ilr8 elded to accept thejgage of battle offen d ^ by Meade, anil to attack as soon as d practicable. Kwcll had made arrange. d mcnts to take possession of Gulp's Hill d In the early morning, and his troops were under arms for the purpose by the

time General Meade had finished tho moonlight Inspection of his lines, when it was ascertained by a reconnoitcring party sent out by Johnson, that the hill was occupied and its defenders on Ihe pateli from General Sykea to General Slocum, Uint the Fifth. Coras, tv a a nn.tho - Hill. Johnson thereupon deferred hia ' attack and awaited Swell's instructions. "Ucneral tec had, however, during ' the night determined to attack the Federa! left with Longstrcet's corps, ond •' now instructed la well, *° aoon as he i heard Longstroet's guns, to make a ttivcralon in his favor, to be converted. If ' opportunity offered, into a rsal attack." Only ft Step. When catarrh lias progressed to a cer. r tain extent, It is only a step to that terribly fatal disease, consumption. If you have • catarrfi. even slightly, rt is o trrriblr mh- ■ tnlci to allow It to continue it* course un- . checked. If you will only read, you will i And conclusive reasons why you should take Hood's 8arsaparil!a for catarrh, in '' tlie statements of many people who have 1 been completely ctjred of this disease in 1 it* most severe forms. Bend for book „ containing abundant evidence, to C. I. Hood A Co. , proprietors of Hood s Sar~# * MabbqHftWaa7 -Found any salt r'ftsked a Detroiter it of a man who was drilling a hole on hi* I. "No." k "Anv oil?" is "No." k "Natural gas f" c . "Maybo you are drilling for fun ?". •r "Maybo I am, stranger, and mebbe is I'm diggln' to git thct of this farm to a b stock company. If you know mora id about it than I do I'll resign." SavaoHII Life. 89 Mr. D. L Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, cb I, v.. savs he was. for many years, badly

' Diabetes j the pains were almost couvulalons. He tricl Electric Bitters and got relief from first bottle and after taking si* bottles, was entirely cured, and had gained In flesh eighteen pounds. Says he positively believes ho would died, nad it not been for the relief afforded by Electric BUtera. Bold at fifty cents a bottle by Dr. H. A. Kennedy. Bound to Come. "It's got to comet" said the solemn ; man, solemnly straining awsy at the handle of a door. "What has got lo come?" excitedly , asked a dftxen bystander#, rushing op. I "Chnstmaa!" aald the solemn man, ■ solemnly lotting go the door handle. . And the bystanders rushed down. again ' " Parker's Tonte kept lp a home I * ie seri tine! to kecpslcknosoout. tsed discreet. it. It bbiMa up the health. No wise Diother will' be without It Tbe Mlf-oacrlfioe of boxers is really 1 something wonderful. There are very fcW who woffld hot prefer U»eir opponc enta to liare the newest, softest and be*! ? glove*, white they would put up them selves with ftta ■old' hhrdpftlr-'1 " The famUyof Hon. W. B. Htdie Judgi : of the Jefferaon County, Ky„ Lourt usee tjt. Jacobs Oil with ■signal success. u What>^_dUterac« between tw, s tfioeiiy young ladles and one wide ssvaki one, saaWd near one another hi chtireh The two clow ttelr eyes' and the oh 4c „ yea Utoir clothes. " ; S jS/Sp