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VOLUME XXillJ.

CAPE BAY CITY, NEW JERSEt, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2C, 1888.

WHOLE NUMBER 1739.

msBSnfj CAPE MAY CITY, N.'J., / HKKR T KDWtnrp\ ndBOUr and rrrpriiMr. HKSRY W. BAUD, BdUar. II 00 a Tmt Strictly la Advices- • i.jo * r»i« im not rin u tDTinn. Xntm tonal tarda. JLBAMING * BLACK, ATTOBNEY8-AT-LAW, CAMDPr, w. j. m-j £)B J. r. LB AMINO A BOH, dbhtTbtb omea Dim lira Hit cot. Oar. Basks* ul cow sum*. TmMij aoaa anil W«m«*day altarOira Ml r COOT Hocil-TBarUiy. ud sugirra Marti 1 1 mam. f AME8 M. K. HILDBETH^ attorneyIat-law SOLICITOR. RABTSB AMD gXAXINBR IM CHANCERY. Ottj'tf WssSISflon StTMt, Cape MIT pKNNDf^TON T. HILDRETH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW AMD SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, I at MARKET Mr- CAMDEN, N. J. nSrwarSy"0* " C*P< "" °°°" Inatoras «wda. A B. LITTLE, ntAOTICAL PAINTER AND GLAZIER, CAME MAT CITY. W. J. I OalmurMMlil B. jqhnaos's atnre^ 1 O. GILE, HOUSE, BIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER, CAPE MAT CITT, M. J. BimUTM TURN USB ED. qUBBOGATE'S OFFICE, BCRROOATE OF THJ^GOUHTT OF CAP* •< 111 ofloa u dp HI) cocrt Boom, an _<rT| TOBBDAT |A|IDi'SArUBJAT^| u lom-tf Rarronir BiATCBoSSpi'iiioiim TACHT KIZTCKBS, POCKET CUTLEKT, BRAM AND COPPER WIRE. ALmCEI^CIIR^IO^FKAMBB, One ma at rood VIOLIN STRINGS nuioioy reaMpi or *u y-are etna. J. s. GARRISON. m a n woiiumce *»- caps M.y s. j. ■^TASHINGTON HOTEL, SEVENTH AND CH&BTNCT STREET.-", . PBILADBLPRU, FA. ••-9* P«f B»», JOHN TRACT. FsoerMWr. ELBTATOR AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. <m-r j

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The Up* and Downs of a Church, a ClUxen* and- yIsHoti who may pass ' Ih rough Fruiklln aireet between Washand iAfayetle. cannot but fafl to ' notice and admtlfe the neat church build- j lug on the South side of that thorough- ' fare, used by our colored fellow cltUcns c as place of public worship. The history ' of this building is an eventful one, it having been erected in 1818 as the first ° M. E. church of_ this city- When it Von replaced by the present structure of that denomination,' the colored people of the 1 A. M. E. church bought and used it as " ! a place of worship till a few months ago ' j when by a turn of Fortunes' wheel it ' poised to the control of the M. E. church. I the Extension society of that organiza- * , tion hAving'advanccd the cosh" to meet a debt upon it which was sapping Its life, within a- few years the building " has been ranch improved and beautified, sum aggregating $1800 having been ° expended for this purpose. The roof * wos'nmde new, wi idows enlarged, pews *' of modern style pnt in, walls frescoed and the exterior of the house handsome- " ly painted, and grounds about it neatly ^ cleaned np, and graded. To do all this " required hearty co-operation of the * membership which there was till a year * so ago when there arcse trouble in the flock of which the public, no doubt, has been cognizant. But before we talk ' About that, wc wish to tell how bard " and faithfully the young people and old ' had worked to put cash into the treasury meet the expenses ofthc improvement spirit of the society. There were concerts, festivals, - and entertainments ex- ^ tending through all the years of the toil. ' No 090 ever refusing to do' what was ' pos-ihle jo be done, the groat object he- c ing an eye-to-eye, hand-io-hand campaign to keep the church's cash box getting empty while the demands wore so great upon it. And so the ^ work went on, job after job was completed, till (be old building finally ~ emerged Irom the hands of the artificers, " the neat structure which (toes so much " croditjto the taste and liberality of the 11 colored people of this city. But there " was all the while nn under current of * trouble, which finally came to the surface and of that we shall now speak if " you will have the patience to hear the p story briefly told: So for back as the summer of "84 the ° colored M. E. church of Cold Spring, a "Camp" on the "Gas House field" " the purpose of raising money to buy the Rosenbaum property on Lafay- " ette street, and to erect a building upon " Rev. T. M. Hubbard was tlie Shop. " of this flock, known as the .Vt. 9 Zion. The pastor of the A. M. E. 1 church, that's the Franklin street organization, bearing of the Intention of the ML Zion peoplo tent Henry Z. Wilkins, trustee, to Philadelphia ami olTcrcd = the owner of the coveted land $500 more than his rivals. This wns accepted. f the result being to greatly involve his j church lnj dett, so much! so that the grounds hod to bo >j|d, A. L. Hayncs ' becoming the buyer. Mr. Wilkins, no ^ longer a trustee, turned kicker, claiming the new board of the A. M. E. church bad no right to sell the prnpe tyVlthont his consent. The terms of payment for the lot were, that the Interest should be " paid the first year and a mortgage on the enlire church property given to sc- ' cure i he purchase money. The land was further encumbered by the cost, $250. of a fence. While the contending ' factions Wire wrangling over the sale of the lot the bill, $2-50, of Charles contractor, was neglected. He ( suit for payment not seeing to get his money in any other way. ^ The church property was sold to meet it, & Mr. Vance becoming the purchaser, the sum paid being the amount of the bill J1 subject to a mortgage of $1500. He ( now the sole ajwncr, and bad what ^ fetcpeople acquire a church on. his hsnd^ It seems that last April Rev. J. II. J Bean was sent lo the clinrch as its pastor. For some reason Mr. Vance objected to him on the gsncrai ground that ho was not the right man for the place. Mr. Bean held the fort for one c Sunday but after the evening service ^ those of the flock who were in- ^ clined to support him lo follow their pastor in the street which all did except seven or eight persons. Mr. Vance ' made on offort to get the people of the ' congregation to aid in paying off the claim against the church held by Chat. Shaw for labor, but thry decided they did not want the church and it might go. For two weeks the church was without a pastor, the seceding flock, as 1 will be remembered, worshipping over Hand's Central Market and in ether places. The members of the M. E. church Anally took ppasession and held , services for four months when tbey offered to give np lo the runaways, they again declining. Bui letMr.TlOdley, itbe preeent pastor tell something of bis connection with this church: "At the do*e of the year ceding April 88, 87, 1 left Cape May for Conference with no idea of returning as pastor. 1 had served the people the heat way that I knew for two year*. During that lime I tried to walk just at my Bible directed, teaching both small and great aa far as ability allowed, how Christiana ought to live. While 1 waa at Conference the New Jersey African Methodist Episcopal denomination sect a preacher to take charge of the people of that connection in this dty. Before this the church edifice had been sold by the Sheriff and bought by Mr. Vance, then one of their own members, Elder Coffey bade me • come to Cope May and there remain until 1 beard from him, and "also that 1 should assist In the church cm Sunday, ~ which 1 did, as I could do no better. The » following week I saw some the members •i who left the churoh and asked them if they expected lo return, the answer was [J in the negative. It wot a sorrowful „ lime with me, I had never met with such trials before; I hod seemingly loai ~ all my friends. On the following Tuesiii dty my prealdtng elder came to see shout resting the cfiurch. I tried to 5 have him sead some one elae but to no

avail. He asked if the people who left it wished to return, the answer waa • "They say they do noL" He then en- , tcred on agreement to lease the property | for. one year with the option of baying , i! when the vear expired. After all was fixod invito law office of Mr. Edmunds. , the Elder "turned lo mo and said , "Brother Tindiey, I now appoint you , preacher in charge of this' church." I had^not moved a finger toward gelling the church, I had not thought of such a j thing, but what co^ld I say, the peoplo , who knew all about it. and were aware , that I had nolhiug to do with their leav. | ing, but charged me with it all. Tbey said , mat I had been working it up for two j Were it necessary I could show j | the matter juat to the reverse. It was ' ; the 17th day of May, I cannot soon for. gel it, I spent thd entire evening in | prayer, I slept not scarcely during the , night. I bad not a bouse to live in or a , single member to look to for a piece of , bread, but thank Heaven I did noljsuffcr, , God gave me bread. I was the object of hatred in the eyes of the people, es- , peoially th'»e who left the church, not shut their eyes to facts however much against |thcm. While I was so much ' hated by some^of my own color, 1 found j kindness among a number of white friends who hrlpg(l us with their prayers while I con remember anything. Op the 21st of August 1887. the good Dr. A. J. Kynett came down to see and . help us on. He said plainly that we , could not buy it if tbcv, at any tirno before we -purchased, cxprcsseed a desire , to repossess it. Wc never heard, offl. , daily, such a desire expressed, therefore t we proceeded to buy. By obtaining aid from the Methodist Episcopal church in ( this city, through tho kindness of the . pastor, Rev. Mr. Manchester, and; from the board of church extension which granted us by domitinn and loan $1500. title was given on our behalf. Too , much credit cannot be given the while people of this city for the great kindness ' which they have nol foiled lo show toward us since wc have been lb this place. Prejudice on the part of those who do pathway a little rough. It has robbed us of joy and given us pain. We weep . often with few earthly comforts, but wc knowjthat weeping will ocly last for a night and joy will come In the morning. Wc arc not talking to belter our condition merely, but wc are trying to show what is true. We may not be heard with any degree of favor but wc bow to truth is prc-cminenL" Around Kazcroon are many beautiful orange gardens, and In one of these, a tragedy which will bring home to my readers the stale of the criminal law in Persia. Two villagers quarreled, and the other on the head with his spade. was no homicidal intention, bill the injured man died. The Koran claims on eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, anil the Koran is the penal code us well the bible of an orthodox Moslem stato; but blood-money may be, and almost always is, accepted as satisfaction by the relations of the deceased. The father of this vallagcr, however, declined to receive money, and insisted on the offen. der's death. Tho Governor, in doubt, referred the case to his superior at Shiraz, who after the usual referencs to the mollahs (or high priests), replied that the law of God must be carried Into effect. TMb somewhat oracular auswer left matters, was doubilcss Its intention, still to the discretion of the Governor ; and he, to get out of the difficulty, gave his ex ecutioners a holiday, and told the father of the deceased that in their absence he could not carry the law Into effect. The father replied that this was no obstacle, for he would himself carry out the law. Had he thrice refused triple the legal blood-money, and should his son's murderer go free > • After this there was nothing more to said. The unfortunate homicide, wilh the fatalisms of Mussulman, sal down beneath an orange trco while his enemy brought two farreshrs of the governor to dig his grave. On their orrival the victim sat still while the father of the man he slew in the heat of passion | judiciously cut his tbroaL A horrible t story, that 1 would not believe but that I had it from sources that left no doubt of lit truth, r > A New War Inventloiy ' Daniel Drawbaugh, of EGerly's Mills, ' this county, an inventor who claims to 1 have Invented the telephone, is working " out something new. He hss now an in- ' venti m which he declares will be most • useful in time of war on land and sea. 1 It consists of an electrical contrivance by meant of which the presence of large 1 bodies of troops on land or ships on waL '' er can be detected williiti a dbtance of 1 ten m'Uea. A genera] oLJhe army with 1 this new contrivance In els tent con tell c In its peculiar motion if the enemy is '' near and the comihandor of a wscxnssel * can alto tell the appioach of any vessel, " hostile or otherwise, the resistance or c the water to the approaching vessel '' causing sufficient friction to establish a e enrrent that will cauae the indicator to D sound the alarm. — t'arlUti (Pa.) Herald. A They were doing a little love making r between the acts. '' Just as the'euruiu" went up be called lier bis angel. "Say," said a man in the next seat '• back, "couldn't you get your angel to c wear her wings somewhere besides on "» her hat?" if • — Mrs. , Smith (to Mr*. Joaea' servant j girl)— What do you want ? h Servant Glri— Mrs. Jones sends her il regards, and says would you be so kind a. as to count your children and see If you K haven't got one too many, as oar Kitty hasn't come home, and school has been to oat two hours.

The Keeper * Story. " 1 ' Our island readers may nol know that ' the whole ofthc coast is guarded by the Life Saving Service, whose sta- 1 ■ tions are erected along the dangerous 1 parts of the shore, at Intervals of nOt than three or four miles. During * night from September until May, j ' patrol is kept up by the crews of these ' n along the whole stormy coast. , i 1 A visitor, one November night, at a j & station on tho New Jersey shore, J *> questioned Kendall the keeper of crew, j y as to the heroism of bis men. He had | >1 been a surfman for many years. The | •' fight with storm and sea in winter | r ss much as the plaining of wood I' 1 is to a carpenter. o "Heroism? We don't coll our work «l bythst name," ho said, drily. "The «' ! know what they've got to do, and S they don't shirk iL They've got to be fi tough, cool aands, and to know the wa c "Do the passengers of shipwrecked a vessels usually show courage ? " 8 "More than you'd expect. Women U that shriek about a mouse or snake on it shore keep quiet often when the ship's t' goin' down. They usually object to the * life-car. It's on air-tight shell. In which u eight or ten people can be shut up. It's b swung on a cable," and dragged through ft tlie sea on shore. Women sometimes u prefer to drown to goin' in IL" a Just then the keeper went out to meet tl the patrol, who was coming through it the driving storm along the beach. He c received the tokens which they exchange t! with the men from the next station. 1; watched the next men as they set out. Ii and tbon came bock. ' » "Tuc coolest hand I ever saw in a a shipwreck," he said, lighting his pipe, Ii "was little BUI Fletcher." tl "That's so," growled the dripping » men who were crowding about the fire, c "Bill was a sickly clisp. He wanted b to follow the water like all the other k Fletchers. But something ailed his hip - ' and hack. lie was always crooked and o glV out. Twice he says to me, 'Cs/c.' c ' he says, 'I wish I could be of some use o in the world.' lie had that kind of a o 1 spirit, like boilin' water, in his crippled n • little body, 8 "Well. John Fletcher, his brother, o ' owned the "Maria" which run for lum- ' her down In North Carolina. One j ' voyage ho took his wife an' his two r children an' Bill along. Comln' home \ 1 the "Maria" run on this bar here one I ' stormy night, and was wrecked. It r was so dark that we fired tlie line six I limes before we got it to lier. When e the cable was made fast. 1 went out on c the breeches-buoy. The schooner was > goin' to pieces to-) fast, 'twan't no use I tryin' to fetch the car. She had parted » ' amidships, an' John Fletcher, on' Bill, ' | an' the kids, an' three women was there i on her huU at the sturu. ' "I signalled the crew to fetch tho life- t boat. The sea was running' tremendous, i ! and the night was black as ink. I j | thought the men would never reach us alive, but old Dan was sf the starn, no' l | he fetched her. We got the women in- t to the boat, an' the children, on' then < John took holt of the cripple to lift him I ' an' they both law it ' "No," said Bill, 'you've got a wife an' i children, I'm no use to anybody.' No. « John gripped him, and dragged him. ' . chongin' compliments. But Bill slipped ] from him like an eel, an' ran back of the t , most. When I went after him, the sea i was woshin' over the deck, an' I thought I it was empty. I crowded John aboard I the life-boat, and they all got safe to I shore. I went book in the breeches- ( When morning came wc went out < agen, an' there was BUI tied to the mast I quite dead. There was a look on his i face as if God htd given him something to do, an' he done iL I , "D'ye know", that on dark nights an, i high seas that I almost always think of i the noble spirit shown by that poor lit cripple. "Twos a mighty good example he set most of us. We shall nover forJ get him. Well, good-night, sir," and strapping on his lantern, he set out on H Ills pal rol along the edge of the thundering surf. — Youth't Companion. r Tho Doctor s Fee. 1 An eminent doctor, who had *aved the life of a lady, a personal friend, was ased his charge. He said he generally 1 allowed his patient friends to remunerate him as tbey thought befitting. "But don't you often'get disappointed { on those terms ? " she Inquired. '0 "I may say, never." "As you are easily pleased, here," " and she playfully gave him her empty ( hand, whUe In the other was concealed a check for a handsome sum. j "How easily I could have taken you t in I " she added, producing the check. "But you only have succeeded in I drawing me out," be said, declining to ^ relinquish her hand. "Don't Insult mc U with a check ; I am most generously rct warded." j I'erliapa the understood the doctor's I difficulty and wished lo help him out of it ; at any rate, the giving of her band j led him to offef- her hearL— *V. Y. Sun. Thrift yVoung Men. ® "There is nol a elty in tho Union where the young men bank as they do in the Quaker City," said an experienced receiving teller of a Chestnut street bank d day this week. "I don't know as it is a fad, but if so lt il is certainly a commendable ond," he continued, after handing a young gentleman back his book. "Wehevemany scores of men who range in years between 17 and 83 who bank from $5 to $80 slat most weekly here, snd other banks paymore attention to thlg department than er we do. My experience In other cities is id that the jjgpositors in saving and other >u bahk's are largely big business man, ty women, elderly working men, or very en aged men, wilfi*"6ffl few young men as depositor*."—./*** Ifftu.

Lincoln on tho Night of HIS Election, In the Janusry Century Is described tho secret history' of tho formation of CabineL We quote the opening paragraphs: "There is distinguished authority for the statement that the I statement that the work of framing the new Cabinet was mainly performed on I the evening of the presidential election, j the polls were closed on the 6th J of November (so Mr. Lincoln related a | or two later), the superintendent of | telegraph at Springfield invited him to came and remain in his office and read the dispatchea as they should come in. He accepted the offer; and, reporthimself in due time at the telegraph office, from which all other visitors were excluded at 9 o'clock, awaited the resuit of the result of the eventful day. Soon the telegrams came thick and fast, from the neighboring precincts and counties; then from the great Western cities, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and-Onally from the capitals of doubtful Indiana, Ohio. Pennsylvania, and Empire State of New York. Here this little room, in the company of or three silent operatore moving about their4nysterions!y clicking instruments, and recording with imperturbagravity the swlfwhrobblng messages ncsr snd for, Mr. Lincoln read the reports as they came in, first in vague and fragmentary dribblets, and later in the rising and swelling stream of cheernews. There was never a nicer or closer calculator of political probabilithan himself. He was emphatically at borne among election figures. All political life he had scanned tables of returns with ss much care and accuras he analyzed and scrutinized maxof government or platforms of parNow, as formerly, he wss familiar with all the turning-points in contested counties and 'close9 districts, and knew heart tho value of each and evoyy loss or gain and its relation to the crand result. In past yean, at the close of many a hot campaign he had searched out the comforts of victory from a discouraging and adverse-looking column of figures, or correctly read the fatal of defeat In some fragmentary announcement from a precinct or county. Silently, as they were transcribed, the operators handed | him tho messages, which he laid on his knee while he adhis spectacles, and then read and re-read several times wilh deliberation, had not long to wait for indications. a Scattering beginning, made up of encouraging local fragments, the hopeful news rose to almost uninterrupted tidings of victory. Soon a shower of congratulatory telegrams fell from the wires, and while bis partisans and friends all parts of the country were thus shaking bands with him 'by lightning' the result, he could hear the shouts and speeches of bis Springfield followers gathered In tlie great hall of the State across the street, ond fairly makthat building shake with their rejoinings. "Of course his first emotions were those of s kindling pleasure and pride at the sweeping completeness of his sucBut this wss only s momentary glow. He was indeed Presidentelect; bill with that consciousness there fell him the appaling shadow of his mighty task and responsibility. It seemed as if he suddenly bore the whole world upon his shoulders, and could not shake it off; and sitting there in the yet early watches of the night, he read the stUl-comlng telegrams in a sort of abscnLmlndcd mechanical routine, while 'inner man' took up the cruahlng burden of his country's troubles, and traced out the laborious path Of coming duties. 'When I finally bade my friends good-night and left that room,' said Lincoln, 'I had substantially completed tho framework of tny Cabinet as it now exists.' "If the grouping and combining of the new President's intended councilor* occur^d at that time, it is no less true that some of them were selected at a much earlier date. In the mean time ■ no one was informed of his intentions in • this regard. For a full month after the I election he gave no intimation whatever i of his purpose." Life In Llbby Prison. In those boxes received through the lines, says an old soldier In tho Attain California, were many things besides ? eatables; different kinds of musical in1 xtruments, enough to compriso a full e band, were sent to different ones. so we had a fine one, which discoursed sweet ] music. We hod s first class minstrel company, also s dramatic company of no mean dimensions. Thay were so " proficient that many times the Confedr erate officers would attend, and every i night the streets of Richmond were crowded with peoplo who came to listen to our band. We also gave large and 1 select bops, made so because there were no ladles present. Our minstrel show □ took immensely, and one waa forced to 0 go al three or four P. M., In order to get in. What lltUe we had to cook was - done In one large room. One end was - used by Chlckamauga and the other by offlccre of the Potomac army. We used little tin cans to boil oar rice in, and wonld raise up the lid of the stove a llt1 tie, so that the flame would shoot np; 1 then you could see some fifty or sixty . little cans all over the stove, their owneis standing around, eagerly watching their staff of life as it boiled. We easily detected a new can. Sometimes officers a from tbo Potomoc end of the room.their a stoves being hill, would sneak a can on j ours. We would knock It clean across the room- You may think this unkind, bat, had we Infringed ou their otove, they would nave done the same thing. c Wonderful Cures, i. W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Retail Druggists of Rome, Go., say: ' We have been selling Dr. King's New n Discovery, Electric Bitters snd Buckl- len's Am ca Salve for four yean. Have v never bondledrcmcdie* (bat sell as well, _ or give such univenfid satisfaction. , There have been some wonderful cores '• effected by these medicines in this city. :r Severs] case* of pronounced Oonsttmpa tion have been rntirely cured by use of ' a few bottles of Dr. King's New Dis- ' eovery, taken in connection with Elects trie Bitters. We guarantee them always. Bold by Harcy & Mecrey. 1