ffljjjN NOTICff i Spfgpr iw U»M tun r. » J. »., K. ' raMjauaalbMMial mTw , -SimiSx ^S ; f oj^r V *'iTT£ ro: 2* 1 igpaissKe ; Churoh Notleea. i Services In the Methodist Eplacopx! I church on Washington atreeL above • Ocean, on October U. Prayer and ex perleoot noting *19*. m., beld in the I chapel. A fall attendance U requested ' unto Ihte the Out service of the day. I Preaching *1 10.80 a. m.. by the potior, 1 •ubjeet. -The Menace that Jaaua give* Sunday tchool *1 9.90 p. m. Tbe .uper- I talendent would be pleated to tee a full I attendance of teeebara and acholara. I Pretexting at 7.80 p. m., subject, "Am I I my Brother** Keeper." Eeery one In riled and a waloocne for all. The Idea that educattou consists In , merely training the mind should be ellm- , looted from those baring charge of our , public school system. There la the body and the moral nature to train at , well. It Is a tariout defect t# tbe tystam of our public education that this la , not mm fully recognised by those bar. . lag Its control It hat been well said , that the work ef most lire* la largely physical, and ought to be strongly moral, If It shall be effectually and use- , fully mental. The taoral and physical j part of our young people's tchool edu. ration, if not Ignored la only patronised , at a good thing, with no time to attend to them. There la plenty of advice given ill the domain of such grant subjects , of Instruction, but than the matter ] barely end*. What la now naedad, are • strong men and women, with rduoated { powers of mind, body and aoul so to speak. Mo lopsided training trill satis fy this age of development. The mental | education of our boy* ami girt* should , receive Just aa much attention as the . physical andno more. ^ I There are thorn wh# hare asaimllaterl Iba Idea that the pa- ty In some myater. ' loo* way owes to them whatever of sue- i peer It may have achieved In the dim pesf, and If they should tor only a little while cease their patronage a reoelver would hare to be appointed, that the whole of It* buatneaa might be aeuled. There art other* who have educated l-iemeelve* to the fooUah belief that they an vrtaer and more fitting to repreeeni the dear people than their fellowa, hence *" If they are not called upon to ^manage and pave Ih* way for the defeat of thoec whoa the public had the trrmerlty to aaLoci as standard bearers. It la hoped by patriotic Republicans (bat the squabble of coonlv politicians for place on the bohat to be supported at the esaulag election will not eellpee the Motional candidate*. Bo far' as may be tHaeoveed by listening to the current talk, some work needs lobe done by the way of letting the public know that the candidate# for the great offices of President and Vice-President of the United Ktatea are respectively General Den)amin Hamaon and Levi P. Morton. A little effort In this direction will be timely. II Is noticed by pilot* and tea eaptkiu. that the weather since the blizzard ot last March ha* not been settled. There I* a fuooeeeton of anrprim which keep those who obaarre atmoapherioal events wondering what win come next. A few day* ago, U reload from a dear sky and on the asm* evening the lightning gleam, ed from a doodles* horinoa. Leatweek U was unusually cold for the seaaon.and atnoe then It ha* bean odder. II is a m*Ue» ef peculation if thU old earth o! ours lent getting tilted off It* nrual bilflve aaloona ought to bp pnongh to quench the tmndng thirst ef Gape May 's drinking population. Jnethow the privileges are worth 8500 each In a town like this la a hard problem to ad re. Booh a tax cm any other form of basinet* would wipe K out effectually. There must be big profile In the content* of the beer glass Lai us think a moment, It took sixty person* aa alga era to thea* five petition* before they could be legally granted. Them are a good many people yet to be converted to the tamper, •nee refong ponpapL

That odor of bilge water and aulpfcn. rotted hydrogen which la wafted over the town when the wind la la the right direction aad Uw Me is out undoubtedly ' eomeq bom that sink of naatlaeas. Cape < I aland creek.. The subject la not a ' pleasant one, but It's battmtaattr It up ^ the batter. Mow while work is acarce ; it may bademtat lam capasm than at I Many people have wtmtknd what la > ried aTuw: ma'.r. track ot *11 vessels of ' warln leanloke When the Dutch Admiral Van Trornp boiatad * broom af lb* lop of the maat of hit veroel to lndieatable Ideation 10 *w«p the English from the sea, the English admiral hoisted a bonawblp, tadkottaf U. Wmdloa to

PERSONAL. I Paator Ioadis hold* aervioro at Wert ! Cape May cbspel oft' every Wedaeaday Ospt. Richard Ildtnea of the Court ' House has been sp-ndlng a few days | , with Ope May friend*. Lrooard Brown. Esq.. addressed tha I Cape May public Monday evening on the subject of National Prohibition- J Bert Porter Is a rising yoong artist I He win certainly achieve success K he I goes on In his present line of studies. ! Manager dolt, of the Ebbetl, a life- i , long Democrat, aeys he will vote for Harrison and Morton and protection i Rev. A. B. McCnrdy preached from Pastor Mancheeter"! pulpit last Sunday I , evening to a congregation that filled ibe ■ church. ' , Colonel Geo. 0- Mtith. of Avalon, ■ was at the Cape on- Wednesday attend- t log Ibe wedding of his niece, M m Jen- • nle Smith. " , Mayor J. Henry K Intends baa been ' abaent from Cape May the larger part of 1 , l lie week attending to bustocea la Mew > York. He la expected home this even. I Nelson 0- Dougiaro. the suceeaaful 1 Utah operator in miaaa, was at tha Caps a lew day* ago. He la placing some of 1 I the atock of the "Bingham" among Cape , May investors. John L. S. Bebellenger a lad of fifteen i bad his hand badly lacerated on a day 1 i ot last week by the bursting of a gun. . la the son of Daniel Bcbelleoger, of ' Creek. ■ Ex-Pastor McCurdy had a big audi. ' . enc* last Sunday night- He will always . welcomed at Gape May. Some way ' I work among his own peopla has . been hedged about with grave dlffieul- ' [ ties. I Mrr. Elder Hand is attending, this 1 week, the annual meeting of the W. C. T. U. at Paaaaic. She will, when her 1 1 duties are completed with the Union, ' spend a few days with friends in Cans- - ' den and Philadelphia 1 1 Dr. R T. Abbott, a prominent phyaL 1 elan of Took shoe. Tuesday wedded M!m 1 ' Allelic Corson, of Palermo, daughter of I 1 the late Captain Sylvester Corson, and - win spend their honeymoon in Walking- ' 1 ton. and Richmond. Vs. 1 ' We learn by the cover of September ' TabU Talk that Mlro T.llle May Forney i ' baa associated herself with the editorial : 1 staff of the magazine. Aa a sparkling, • vivacious, gossipy writer, Miss Forney 1 ' few equals In the Una of her work. 1 1 John W. Forney. »d, was born at Mare • Island, Cel., on September 80. He Is 1 1 the son of Colonel James Forney, who I ' Is In command of Ibe marines at Mare 1 The youngster was born on bla 1 1 grand lather's birthday, and baa been ' ' given his name. Mrs. Mnndenhell of Beech avenue bee I 1 been entertaining a large compiny of < 1 Wilmington friends during the = week peat A very pleasant time was bsd in doing up the Cape in one of 1 I Uayne's big ooache*. The party left for homo on Tueaday. ] Harry Doollttle. we are pleaaed to note 1 J la out again after bla late prostration. Ho has been successfully treated by our : well known local medical cleetriclan.Mr. 1 p M. Hand. From a bed of belplnaaneM J The proof of the efficacy -of tho elect n- 1 eel treatment Is very apparent In Mr. * Mrs. Ellen Hall baa recently returned I „ from a pleasant visit at the Philadelphia n home of her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Lent. While there she secured a position for her ton Matthhw In a leading business home. Her many friends are glad to tee ber beck again, particularly, It la * said, Ibe one who Uvea In the neighbor. I hood of Bebellenger'* Landing. She and j Mr*. I). F. Crowell made us a delightful e call on Monday. y John E. Loeabaugh, E. Buck holts. It George Hayser, W. E. Mote*, JoW. c Beatty, G. P. Lamont, John G. Borne, C Hugh Cham, J. H. Gilford, H. Bardaley, L gentlemen interested In the Mb Vernon ,1 Land Company were at Cape May this „ woek oo business. They, with Samuel * Cooper.rtleo. Cummlngs and wife, C. D. Richie. G. K. Mcllwaln. Wm. R Whipple anil Mia* Jane McKlnley regitis lered at the Ebbetb ,1 Mr. Henry Young, Jr., of Beealey-a c Point, died on Thursday last of consumpP tlon He was ono of the solid men of hi* u part of tb* county. His bat public act „ was to cast hb vote on the lith of Sep. a tember last for no lloenae, a very right. out deed, end one befitting the closing k days of hb life. Hb funeral took place d last Thursday, being largely attended , by relatives and friends. Mr. Young yt leaves a large family to mourn hb loaa. j Our esteemed friend, John M. Campbell, Surveyor of tb* Port of Philadelphia, will toon bad to the hymeneal al10 ter the beautiful aad gifted" Mba Drib 'a Rohan, of Philadelphia. Mba polian r- spent apart of the Ute season at Cape ia May, a guest of Congress Hall, where, a became of her modest winsome ways, Id she gained* boat of admirer*. Mr- Campm bell b a moat companionable gentleman, tr occupying a leading place In PUIladclik phb society. Wa hope to soon ehronlre ole the pleasing Intelligence that the day ly ha* been fixed for the celebration of the o- nuploab of theee excellent young peor- pie. TbeT will embark upon the matrimonial sea with a g-amf army ol wall withers, the Wiv* etaff among them.

| Teacher1* Institute at Vlnatqpd. f Early lest April a meeting of the Aaeo. j , elation of Oounty Superintendents was , called at Trenton ft* the pnrpoge of de- , Ublng plans whereby teacher-* lnatl- I , lutes might be rendered more effective. , , Aa e Step In thai direction It was deold- i , od that two or more eountie* Join, and It , i was arranged that Cap* May and Oum- . beriand connllea htdd a Joint Institute at I ; yiuebod, Ibe moat acrwarible point for , tha purpose, pb October IS, 18 and IT. | Care ha* been taken to secure amlmmt ] , imttnetors. and an excellent program . has been arranged. Among the lnstruc- , t tore are the following i Geo. E. Little, , , Washington, D. C.i Dr. Phillip., Pa. . I Normal School : Edward Brooks, A. M, . Philad'a-; Mb* I^Ha Partridge. Rook- , lya, K. T.1 Mba Seiah Fawcett, S. Y. j City ; Che*. W. Jacobus, New Brans. > wick ; William N. Ralringer, Newark ; I R C. Gregory, Trenton , 8tata 8operi». a Undent Ohaa. W- Fuller, Jenny City i s (hn. R Weill. New York Cltv. Lecture* wIH be given by Geo. R Little, Cxd. Ohaa. W. Fuller. Bar. Dr. J. Uem0 en* and Mba Mary V. Dennis. Inatrach lion will be given to primary work, school management. " Ho* to TM> »l above a wide range of thought for J those who attend the Institute omnot fall r to ha brought about. Rv^ Oape May 1 teacher b roquesUvl and oonfideotly ex « ptxXMl to attend. The Institute wUl be beld In Cosmopolitan Hail. • pamnn The beek f ,14. are ^.31 <8- :

SALTS. t Parboil the Sicker and broil IL J r South Carolina grants no divorces. Free- trade will not do for Americana, t Tha Baptist church b again without a ' ^' one dude eqdel to four when he b ^ i Joeeph Hand b Cap* May's practical 1 '"iter were but six clear day. duriag ' - September last. Some basks slyly photograph su-pie- ^ r Buck wheal cakea hare started In thab 1 dyspeptic career. ' i Red dram still snap at the bait of the ' • fisherman. : A salt oodfish and rubber overcoat will keep a man dry. Sunday School officer, will -please 1 . send bi their reports. Cape May county b to be ■ political 1 ground thb fall. 1 i Without big worda how eouSl some r people say small things. ' Joseph Brook* has closed hM market < . the winter season only. ' Barney Kama eaya he win vou the 1 I ticket thb fall. , Front and field abow by their clung- > [ tag huea tbe effete of froatMcssrs. Hand' A Ware are busy at ■ work upon several building, i Revere! of our citizens are looking over ' • the Ml Holly fair thb week. ' It ban old fact that coal beds are fur- ' r nlshed with petroleum springs. 1 Cape May has four beneficial eocktlev, all of which seems to flonrbl). ' , Oi tober b thought by many to be the ] , moat lovely month of the year , Texan* are always polite to the man ' who carries a gun. end can shoot i C. H. MUlar closed hU Cape May bus- ' , last Thursday for the season. Indian summer will soon be upon us. 1 ■ b a moat delightful period of the year. • Officer Hlckey b reported aa being 1 expert at catching birds with a crab " For a story of not more than 8,000 1 , words, Frank Stockton b said to receive 1 f I A middle name doesn't do as much for . a man as the man does for the middle r One day's newspaper and magazine r mall In the New York poelofflce weighed | 184 tons. It b said that a person who b In the ' , habit of carrying a cane never losses an umbrella. 1 , Gunners need to remember |that the , objections of last yrer to tresspass are 1 , good this. , Cape May yards and lawns have a , spring look, being dotted with yellow ' , dandelions. 1 The flickers are between. two- fires, the , of the amateurs and the slung shots 1 f of the boys. , Cold Spring turkeys are taking on , Thanksgiving day flesh. Borne of them I might do now. [ The pilot boat James Henry Edmunds 1 baa Just bad a new suit of mils bent for 1 , the winter blizzards. The improvements on the Stockton r Hotel are going on under the direction 1 of Coo tractor Blerera. , Our county Democratic fellow < Itizeus elect delegates to their ootinty Conven- 1 . lion on Saturday next. A double wedding was celebrated at Schuyler, Neb., reccnll). the brides beI tag mother and daughter, s "I wtn got myhoitaellthrographed thb . spring," said Mre. Dewberry, "lb so r much cheaper than paint." a A report reachee us that one of the 0 twelve signers to a recently granted 11- , quor Hcenae wa* n woman I Chester, the photographer, will rej main until the middle of October at hb 1 Gallery foot of Ocean atreeL fit Messrs. Casacdy and Hand will start i. In with the construction of Wm Kaaen'a . new taooo cottage In a few days. It can acaroely be poaelblc that the . handsome Blockings worn by ladles are o only fro exhibition oo a clothe* line, a Temple College, Philadelphia, for d working men. Rev. R H. ConweU, pre*I. dent, opened blely wl'h 819 students. I. The annual meeting of the Oape May i. County Sunday School Association take* place at West Creek, October 81 lb and ■ 35lh. V Our Democratic friends are casting Is about for the material to build up a u ticket to be supported at the November k balloting. u " 1 cannot praise Hood's Barsnperllb g hall enough." says a mother whoae son, e almost blind with scrofula, was cured d by thb medicine. g An editor advising bis contributors •ays : " Brevity always gete to the >. froot." Not if It happens to be doing 1. duty as a rabbit's tall. L Fishing Creek b about to bund a new la 81000 school house. Contractors should u note the advertisement of building com. c mil tee printed In plaoe. s. Perrons who may be In need of ready i, made clothing, furnishing goods and nts f. lions wfll find full supplies at the >"eei. dies' Htnrea la thb eily. 1. The demand for tonnage In our large ,y be the course of still further reviving w work in Oape May's ship yards, n. The trouble with a concert hall linger 1. who vraiUea, " I cannot alng the old J1 songs " b that shs doesn't succeed any better with the new tmea—Ex. 1 " uuea.— M. y

A man who had been endeavoring to gel rid of hb milkman without the usual ' formality of paying hb bill mid that he 1 only trying the new milk-shake. The estate of the Ute Thomas H. J - Williamson has proven solvent. The > administrator. Ltlbura H. Townaend, paying doUar for dollar of all otahna > against 1L An Egg Harbor Menhaden steamer " I been, during the week, drawing a c i purse nat ahodt Cold Spring Inlet. A ' ■ catch of mackerel b reported to 1 t been made. » ' Cape May "IB now enjoy a kind of a ' - prolonged picnic. The tune wlU be 1 , spent In talking over probabilities of - what may happen when the longlookod ( ■ fqr something turns up, Republican' delegation meetings held , • abduOh* county on last Saturday re- , turn® those who are said to be In favor , i of Walter a Learning for Senate and , James J. Doqh for Amamglf, , Pereona who are ta the habit of hurling atones from eliug* wUl do woB to '' heed the notio* given them by the May- I " or'* proclamation, forbidding the pree- ' tloe under penalty of the Uw. u A newspaper which pretends to he a ,, (rue nswapaper is morally bound L.glve I the newt, end falling to do K, br the I withholding of fact* la In the position of „ the grocer.who tanda hb tugar or rocks ii Kb<»«~ . Oape May and Cumberland conntlea , units' tali public school taaohar's tnrii. _ lute beginning on Monday next, tha 18th and closing on Thursday, Ute 18th. The public schoob of the city and county x, will be doand lathe meantime, ta WamO^e lUy 1- token that there b any b-inem We in L theltoroughJnstal-yeaaenL That gohl * this lucaUtg. nty Hs theee are not s i

There are some dangerous places for ' walker* an Jaekeea street, star Cape Island d ridge. A gentleman got a b fall there oo a day of laat week that * , quite crippled hiifi. Tbeee man traps y need looking after. . Will Township Secretarial of Caps May County Sunday School Association Q I send ta their reports to the county See- K retary at an early date aa possible. The r , annuel meeting is at West Oeek oo Ibe 0 ' 14lh and 25lh Inst. " n RepuWicans of Cape May C.ty and vicinity wffl bold a ratification meeting j . at the rooms of the Union Clob oeTuee- „ dav . evening next, and also make ar- „ ( One day b pretty much like another j, this fall. '1 be Idle go out on the atreeL {l I iook'op aad down and then settle upon b tome bandy box, holding It firmly ta ,j I place wblle^he big questions of the day „ talked over and aeuled. b When there b a fight taking plroe. it 0 b the duly of a police officer to atop c ! It. Why bit that an 'officer, in a recent „ squabble, I t Ibe affair go on without 0 , .iatesference, but on the coulrerv, seemed to be the backer of the Ug feL d ■ J0'"' n Isaac H. Smith. F Sidney Townaend, c t Joseph Hand (Jeweler), Dr. B. A. Ken- q nedy aad Jtaeph Freaa were elected ta „ r delegates on Saturday evening last to a the County Repulliccn convention „ . which meets at Court House next Balurday. h | Cape IsDnd creek needs a regular he- j, role conne of hygienic treatment. It 4 , moat be rborough when undertaken. D i offense Ibe way it exists. Better fill v nn, then let ft ecsl er In poisonous p . odora any longer. p Two mrc were discussing the wonders j . of modarn a> lence "lx>ok at aatron. ,, . omy, now ; men have learned the dla- , . to the stars, and with t e epcctro- , scope they have even found out the sub- , stance they sre made of." "Y ea," said f ) other, "but strangest of all to me is how t . they found out all their names." j ' An asaceam nt la due in the L O. H. ' oo the 80th Inst. , Aaeeaameut No. 18, In the A. O. U. W., , w01 be due on the »th Inst. , The A. O. U. W. will build a lodge , room of their own some day. Tbe Fraternal Circle charter member, •bip now numbers sixty, and Increasing. Tbe membership of tbe A. O. U. W. y I renrhaa the graod total of 910,000 ta the United Ftatee. , Tbe Iron HaU will Initiate throe new , candldatea at their next meeting. Thb ( excellent order b growing ta number a. . The members ol F. A A. M. Justly j feel proud of their lodge'room. It haa ( recently been fitted up In the moat ar- , tlatlc manner. , The order of I. 0. H. b going along i amoolhly, tbe officers are becoming ac- ( , customed to their several positions, and r everything indicates the success ot the ^ new organization. Throe members will ( , be InlUaled at the meeting on Friday, j , evening. Let every "Hep" be present, aa a good time b anticipated. , Tbe new order of the Fraternal Circle eeenu to lead the procession of beneficial societies of the Cape, considering tbe , lime 11 bas been before tbe people. Tbe ( lodge will organize with over sixty membeta. I'otlaU wUl be sent to all notify- , tag tbem of tbe date of organization. All persona desiring to become charter memben should hand ta their names not later ( t than Saturday evening. W Entertainment I Entertainment I J - A Literary aad Musical entertainment | a will be given by Mbaea AlletU Haynes | and Bertha Bebellenger, of Cape May: , t In the Memorial Baptist Church, of South , a DennlrriUa, New Jersey, upon Balunlay , evening. October 13th :188ft. General t arimis'.ion, IS rt*.; Children, 10 da.; Re- , e served seats, 85 eta. Don't fail to be , pre*ent" -V 1 I It b not a pleasant sight to aee matrons j picking cranberries to help along the t y family expense*. Ib a labor for which , t they should be excuaed. As a matter , of fact tbe berries should not be touched by anybody till the roily heavy dews at a evaporated from the great and vines. The foundation of many a bad spell of r sickness bas been laid by cranberry plck- ' People should not be deed veil. The j D'Esta pocple are at National Hall giving performance* advertising a patent , medicine. They take especial pains to m say on their drculara that It b free : but should you attempt to enter the ball a small volee says, " We charge ten ocnts r admbsion to-nlghL" They are paid to d advert be the medicine. U The Wsvm's county corroepomleoce |s now very complete. H reaches about J; every oarm of the county. Jf you wbh ' to know what's going on, tbe proper thing to do b to hare your nam* added to tha subscription list, and get a week. _ ly letter which will tell yon of all that's K worth tbe telling. *1 per year ta ad- ' Or. UmuUv rwilnr Orlnhsr t.ttli at "

, 8 p. m., Br. Wm. Porter will comment* a singing class (or adult* at tbe Chapel, 1 Cape May. Term* 88.80 for 18 I" . lessons ta advance. Al-o on the same date at A8Q p. m., he will commence a ™ staging class for children at the same w pbc*. Terms, 10 cents per Iceeoa, pey- ; able at each amnion. J Professor Wm. Porter is organising a " class ta vocal music. Those who may r wbh lo Join ft should make early appll- * , cation lo him. Ui» tafrnj are very roa- ™ aonable. By Christmas enough ot our bright lads could awaken aa Interest aa glee dub under Mr. Porter's tuition. » W* hop* to hear of a large class being „ , fonMd- ■ { The Isdpw b served by the carrier to ^ subscribers In Cape May thb winter for „ the Phlladalphb pnoe, twalve cents per n 1 weak. Pereona wishing to subscribe to p " Pmkik Latfr aa* do so by sending n ' their orders, b» postal card or otbegwbe, , 1 to Wm. G. friead, partbr, *5 Wedtln^ p tooslreet. F a A Dssnocrarttc primary meeting will ' bdd at the Ctty HaU on Saturday , eveolag next. 18th InaL, at 780 o'clock, ° to elwct fire delegate* ^JheOottnty (IonvtmllOL whisk wiH be held at tbe Court " ; House on Tlbhdai morning next, 18th, ' „ at 10.80 o'clock. " ^ After twenty-five yean ol servVc with t the East Uka >ot«en mm, Bridgeton. , qacretary aad 'i'reaaurec Charlro S. FHh- j J bn bas redgned. He was* large stock- f 5" bolder ta the company. He vrtll be Secretary and Treeaurer of the Cumber- " land Mattm Fire Isnnaoe Company. Remember that W. R Caewtard will I give yasu the saner lnxoranco upon your 1 horro. Write him at Cape May C. H. m d hs^ta^r^Sl^dT hou*"

Not Washington Territory ? The fefkrwtag communlcatlor. has received from a Oape May man who haa caught the went coast fever. let him tail hb own story. ed.] At the preroot time' thorn of our poo- j pie who contemplate taking the advice , of Greely and "Go WeaL" generallv stop somewhere In tha Mississippi valley or to California as the vertihto El Dorado haves of of earthly ease, comfort and W. T. la considerably farther north than \ famous watering places, but suffers nothing by comparison of dl- _ males. Our ordinary November weather corresponds ta temperature with tbe j tbe mountains colder weathar may be . but tha maln'pert of the territory much wanner generally speaking, i New Jersey. During tbe winter months they bare mora rata than we, their rummers are never aodjrnalo cause .apprehension for the season's The climate there b milder and mora even than ours and much more , conducive to coaltaoed good health. The country b new and largely un- , developed thus affording numerous op. portnaitiM for ambitious young Amort- , to profit by ib rapid Improvement. The territory will undoubtedly be admilted to the sisterhood of states within few years at most when the advantages now gained will be still more valuable. , Tbe mineral resource* are apparently j 1 Immense quantities of and coal being found together with almost all other uaefd and valuable metals ta paying quantities. Borne dcw , manufactories are being started by en- ( lerpristag men tbe snecero of which only proven how wide the field in thb line j really extends. Tho people are actually , Deed of more factories and are willing . encourage them, small capital being , sufficient for a commencement. ( Tbe North Pacific R. R now girea points easL Seventy days from Tacoma Boston being time rtqulred A trans- , line of steamers has also twen cs- , lablbhed giving direct freight and taste* and rice district*— and the Islands of , The fishing industry is now only in infancy ; large returns are obtained, while the cod fisheries are much more extensive than those of the Atlantic and require Iron hardship on part of tbe fishermen in taking them. The life of the sailor there b easier generally than on the Atlantic coast for the Pacific b pecuIhrly free from storms and wages higher In agricultural productions tbe country is simply unexcelled, for while some of Its frails msy not be so Urge as those of Southern California tbey are better la quality, and bad here will produce as much money's worth to the acre is that of the Utter named plaoe. Potatoes grow larger crops than Cape May by about three times. Oats grow from 4 to 5 feet high and from !» to | as high aa 30 and 33 bushels from s tree at one crop. t The timber Is wonderful, even more so than some of those famous giants of | California. A friend of the writer cut one tree between 385 and 350 feet in height but not of such enormous girth as those of Calif irnb. Numbers of ' trees range from 850 to 800 feet in height, 50,000 shingles having been cut from one tree by the person above mcn- . Honed who also saw 17,000 feet of lumber gotten from one log, 14,000 feet no1 1 being an unusual yield from the single 1 log, the average tree, however, will not l cut ax much though the aame party -has 1 cut In hb own timber 35 cords of Are- ' wood for market from one stomp. 1 Wages are hlger here than Ih the east. ' and living oxpcuaca not correspondingly • ro. Carpenters wages from 88 to 88.50 day, and ordinary unskilled labor, 81.50 and meals. Tbe Chinamen are

not giving serious trouble. In Tacoma ' and Burtoundlngbuunlry they all had no- ' lice to leave by a certain day and not a ' Chinee b to be found in the county now 1 nor for two years past. In fact more Chinamen are baring our shores now ' than are arriving here. Tbe Italians are here in small numbers receiving ' white men for aame work. The negro 1 b here ta limited numbers only and are * In fair circumstances w hen found. In- 1 dlani do some kinds of work but are ' generally shiftless living principally on | tbe fisheries from which they have difficulty In realising fiom 400 to 500 per 1 ' day ta Mason while some of them are 1 really wall situated financially speaking. ' Scarcity and high prion* of the necea- ' si ties sre unfounded regarding thb territory and wages an really better, 1 * with the business opportunities very ' . largely ta favor of tbe man who gees to Washington and keeps hb eyes open. ' We would not have any person think the rail to success b limply that to ' Washington Territory and then wait * for something to turnup, but remember b particularly so In the western land of |t temptations and eternal vigilance Is the

however, that an earnest effort there U more likely to give a quick return than i In the crowded past, while nature too, is moat pertalnly ta favor of the more t Thb territory wants men of brains and men not afraid of work to step into t the ranks and recruit the host of earn- t est. honest economical men now making their fortune* by careful and Intelligent , attention tq their own business. Then , once mora we would aak, If going west at all. Why not Washington Territory ( • Camden b today manufacturing a ! of all-wool ckuh tag material that U regarded by the trade ai superior to the same grades of English aad Scotch good*. The duly taken from these for. 1 eign etuflh would break up the' New Jer- j sey factory, throw hundreds of men'out of employment, and reanlt ta glytag the ' manufacturer ( monopoly of Ihr I market. He could then, -In colluaiup 1 with hb American coadjutor, pnl the i ' price of Mefoodt Just about where he pleased. I; Speaking of there American ' ' of Eleven ih A Chrotnut streets, 1'hlto delphb, uses I** In Ita tapdaomesuit- ^ Inge he makes. There b at present a < ' large saving Is buying these good* Instead of the more costly chevoilj of for, ' sign manufacture, llrnry jmtos. Ue'uovelut, asked an ' girl In Ixmdop not kjogego If . • there was not a rim in thb ooualry eal- ■ led the Potomac. "Oh. yea," she *n- ' sward ; " and 1 should have thought ' you knew ah about, because there b a pl.e* on H rolled Mount Vetann. whey a man named Washington qoct lived, you ase sdre to have have board him. 1 yon know, because hb father was an ' KngUshmae." Thb weal* have been ' quite witty on her pari U h*i hi-p -j had been a little mote accurate. ' Tha Cumberland County Conru. now - ta sroslim. will be called upon to act lot the first Umv In a dry county upon flvs

-Sbbouf the Soimtg. ' MnntavtUa, P R W. James b quits Indisposed. . Irish A Whealoo, wheelwrights and j blacksmiths, an bring rapidly pushed a 1 with work. \ Mba Jo. B. Carroll b enjoying a visit . ' to ha sister, Mrs. David Hemphill, In ' Philadelphia. d It b rumored again thai wa are to have # a new hotel for certain to be pat up by ' Squire Mackey Williams. „ 1 We have reason to believe that thb g ; will be a hard season on game by the j number of new guns and dogs bring (| ' brought Into town. 8 Mba Clar* James teems to be Improv- 1 I lag slowly. She go** out for abort ,, drives occasionally, which she very ' much enjoys, after bring abut up for „ : <"rer*J~r: ; d I . Rlcs Grande. P ' Mre. Ireland b convalescent. " 1 People In Rio Grands have no use for ^ ' free trade. ( Tho*. Conoo will remove to Anglcsea . next Monday. Rio Grande has been well represented ' at Mount Holly fair thb week. c The station la dally visited by local ' politicians and office-seekers of ' parties. ~ n 1 We are advised that Mrs. Silas H. Shaw will soon by in a full atock of |, ' fall dress and millinery goods. It b said that cranberry pickers com- . 1 pbln of being unjustly compelled to ! pick thirty-all quarts for a bushel, and ( ' that* number have already refused to - do so and have left the bog. [ The Railroad Company has greatly , '■ the station surroundings by i r spreading several carloads of gravel ' for the repairs of the old station or the | erection of a new one. 1 Jo>cph R Livezey, of Clarksboro, * came down on Thursday of laat week to , Among the visitors this week we noe ticed Mra. Lydb A. Smith, Mrs. llannah , ' Candy and Wallace Marplc and mother ( Waller, youngest son of Geo. Clouting, , 3 died last Wednesday after a very short ■ at the Baptist Church on Saturday , J "m^u rumor says we are to have an ' " prove a reality. r Rev. L. A. Boarmoro gave quite an Interesting address to the young en Bune roads." He pictured the paths leading 1 setting them In a way lo be clearly un1 derxtood by all. South Dennis, e Did the woman find ba hen. * John Rlgglns, an aged citizen of this o place, was buried in the Union Cemetery 't on Friday. g Mrs. Maggie Buran of Tuckahoe spent * laat Monday with her aunt. Mrs. Linda Jefferson. 0 Adolph Edwards spew Saturday and " Lewis Edwards. h era, eight old maids and three old bach- ' clora in thb little town of oars. ° Owing to tbe rainy weather on Saturit day evening, Miss Anule Mlckeraon postI- poned her tale until Tuesday evening >l Don't fall to be present at the Literary 1° and Musical entertainment to be held iu 1 the Memorial Baptist church on Batur- >» dsy evening of thb week. Miss Emily B. Eldredgc haa gone to West Cape May to accept position In the !• gold beating factory, and one of our y young men wears a long face.

rive rock fishing operations. " P The Ute cold snap has done much domagc to tho Lima bean crop. 'J The personal property of the late John Fox will be told on Tueaday next. " The late lndian-pa IcnLraedlcine-sho* took many a dollar from thb locality. Borne of our people are helping to fill the family purac by picking cranberries. r Dies Creek b the natural home of about the bear oysters that grow^n these r Our people are now trying b> secure r what U left of the salt bay crop worlb * the getting. Bnnday-aohool workers are getting ready to take In the County Association ■ meeting an the 84th and 85th insL There seems to he some doubt about " the Creek whether a National Repuhll- c ran ticket haa been made so much leas is beard of It than who shall get the noml- 1 nations for Bute Senator and Assembly. » Fishing Creek. I Misses Ada Bhaw snd^AlwIUl* Mat- , thews are away on vtaft. Fisherman contemplate setting their ( pounds soon for fall fishing. — ^ , Ground will soon be broken for the , erection of our new school houH. S. M. Foster b away, engaged In paint- , log Wbwton'a Hotel at the Court House. , H. R. Ilallo well, of Cape Ma, , was in thb neighborhood recently on a fishing - cxpedltloo. Cranberry grower* art Jubilant over , the prospect of remunerative prices for ( their crop thb season. Our achpol seems to be progressing , admirably under the able manegemcnt , of Miss Corson as principal, Edward Morton b a most th trough . farmer and Mr. Ulldrelh will do well to , retain khn aa tenant on hb Fisnlng , Creek farm. , Mr. Qauglaaa. ot Was Creek, president , ' of the Plaoer Gold Mining Co., of Utah, 1 and "tvul Garrison have canvassed the | : neighborhood for people to tike stock ; , ' number of sharps have been taken. Rgteratjurfr I Farmers are quite busy gathering i their fall crop. Ed. Row made a abort visit to MU1i ville the last of the week. W. R. yaaGllder is teaming quite , proficient on the " bike." A very interesting sermon was prescb> I ed Bunday morning In tbe M. E. churabUncle Ed. Y°9» «P«n P»« of . yfee| at Ocean Ctty rblUQg bbsoe John. Tfce Red Ren wlirhpid 5 loiir.l ta tbe hell Wednesday evening the 17 taet. 1 MbaSb Camp and Haggle Tibbie I spent Bunday with Mba Bailie A. Van " Glider. Mrs. Tboe. Huff, who haa been spend. ' tag a few weeks here with relatives, rt- ' turned to bp, home at FrankltavUle on P Monday. - It b said that Ibe W J. R. It Co. * talk of forming Woodbine and Ml Pleasant stations Into one to be lopgttd at Fidler's nm. A polhlun signed by a largy nuasba here baa been sent to tbe Co. asking for the removal of Woodbine and He* Isle Junction to ML Pleasant, making one general station. The people from Tuckahoe, Dennbnlb and Peters burg could then trap, th* express trains. Tbe distance also b much shorter and

Opt. Parker B. Burke wro under tha ' parental roof on Monday. Tbe M. E. Sunday Behool b peactfc- ] for Good Tiding"* day. The Revs. Bllderback ami Edsrardr, J were ta town on Monday last. J. W. Grace b adding another part lo J store, making room for more goods Mr. Sylvester Bishop, vtfe and chil- ' of Wast Creek, spent Sunday last " at the home of Chas C ombs. Don't forget to attend the entertain- * meat ta the Memorial Baptist church. C Dermis, thb Saturday evening Wo noticed Mrs. E F. Wealcott. Chil- , Wcstoutt wife and son. Mra Newell | 8. Coraon and daughtar, and Paoy , of South Renville, ta town Tt: friends of J. Smith Tosrnaeud will find him at 81« Arch street, I>hlla. c where he will be pleaaed to supply them with a fiill line of house furniihlng goods. Itev. Mr. Maxwell, of Camden, Del , will deliver a lecture in the Raptht Church. Goshen, on Tueaday evening. Oct. 83d Proceeds for the benefit of the "■ church. Admission, adults, 35 cents, I children, IS cents. H Dr. P. M. Way la a man full of bust _ E/T. Coleman came from Bayriile Evert It Jcrrell caiuc home lately to " stay the winter. Mr. Rlltenbousc wu In the place a >" few da; a lately, stopping at J. L. 'c Smith's. Dr. P. M. Way is hating his cranber- " tiro picked. Tbep are worth 83 37 per b L F. Jcrrell went lo Petersburg In •' did net succeed In getting any. * Miss Ray Anneley goes home to Den- * Mlta Maggie Nl. hereon has gone, in ' ' I IT I al I ' 830. " It is a haa that the captain feels ' their military home in Texas. They • wHI arrive next Friday morning about I 8 o'do- k. Just a week's Journey They t win be greatly missed by their friends. ^ 1 day- He went out on Saturday after. ' caught a blue fleli and lor a few minutes " fellow*. Moving UU |~..itlon be caught : " a black fish. Going back to the first , piece of the Mack fish in a very few i ^ minutes he had thirty.Rcvcn fine blue , " fish with only two or three baits, lie i draw them In. He put tbe Une Letween , c Tnetlsh pimped almost tn his boat, the ,r water seeming alive Willi tbem. lie b

The Hereford hold l» being newly paintcl. W. 8. Learning Is the peoples choke '«;.nTr;.re, are very plentiful 11.11. Mills and son are engaged In painting the new county alms house. People who make It a habit to deface potters had better be careful or tlicy will be caught. The Middle Township Republican. Club meets at Odd Fellows hall every Mouday evening. W. 8. Crawford will give you the safest Insurance, either upon your houso live stock. Write him for rates. Steward Bay re of the county alms who has been indisposed for Frank f.udlam has given the W. J. R. the right of way to pbee the Y on his property. It Is understood that work will soon he resumed. Tbe W. J. It. It. Co. have placed new cars on tho Anglcaea branch, adding miieh to the appearance of tho train, as 1 well as to the oomfort of the pnbllc. The Dr. W. 8. Learning cornet band are thoroughly organized and will furnbh some good music during tho cam1 paign, at the headquarters of the Middle : Township Harrison and Morton Club. John, Samuel n nd Howard Douglass, and Chas. Foster caught ahout 5,000 pounds of mackerel last Thursday, near Seven Mile boacli: Other fishermen met I with quite good success at the same The Pawnee Indian Medicine Com1 pany who have been giving nightly en. ' at (yhi Fellows hall, left ' for tkpe May on Mouday. While here they dbpoacd of large quantities of ' medicine. At the Middle Township Republican • urday evening, the following delegates were elected: E I- Rosa, A- Cooper, D. Goff, A. J. Tomlin, R. P. Thompson T. A. Holmes and O. Kldrcdgc. . A beautiful plush album was offered by tbe Pawnee Indian medicine com- . pony as % prise for I he most popular lady present on 8aturdsy evening, to be . voted for by tbe male portion of tho audience. Miss Lours Ssyre receiving i 54 votes received the prixW" Some unknown person cut the hall yards to th* flag pole* on which the . Harrison sad Moiton flag b holitexl, on , Thnraday evening last. Itbrafetoiay . thai If tbe name of the person commiL . lug thb act was made known. It would J be made very unpleasant for him, as even bis own political party woold not , uphold him ta hb dirty work. Advertisement for Proposals. ° School district No. 83, Fishing Creek, , Cape May county, will receive sealed proposals for th* erection of * tchool d house ta said dhtrlcL Plans and spec- * of Dank I Bebellenger. district Clerk. The bu hllng commltteo reserve the . right Id regret any or an proposal*. All ' proposals should be sent to tbe district , clerk, oa nt before Use I7th Inst. JaMka H.'Ebfaw, "1 ~ rscnaxd Mamixwa, ., rt Cxnta Swxw, : i"'0- - UsxxiUjajiuxws, ^

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iu a crab net. pi B. F. Ladou lis* Iwen ilolng good p| work on the airecta and lola here. He fo Capt. Henry Bmllb and crew went .ml ffi wee k sod selected their building lob i," and a ill have fire Ibouiand dollar cot. <1 The while tents of the photographers ir the bjordwalk louk« h little lonesome it it reported that Dr. Geo. Urquhar1 . I* preparing lo move to Philadelphia. n tow the famllv but Wish them all lue- " P IT A tfing of men are still working on G "■ aide next lo the thoroughfare. The bunk. II still looks busy along there. r A mule, a po r, heart broken, sorrow- v I kind of carriage thai stands near the * wharf, apparently watting forth* arrival ! Avalon. How many eouMbe ^carted 1 i I exaniinatlon wouhl be Iwld In a fortnight. . cwSl'".n'p,,,l!rr.' 'me "K, i r .heul.l n-commend a ymr'. preparation waa able to remember and giv7 the gl*t t therefore read IJghlfoot, Proctor, liar- ' nine papers. The present Bishop ol Ediu burg know, the facia, for be lent me the books. iTttUltaUy yours. ^ CoU. Exon. Oxon., Hept. 1888. To Prof. A. Loisotte. ' The annual meeting of Uic Block- . holders of the Mount Vernon Land Com II pany of Cape May. will 1k> held at the >' office of the Company, No. 38 Washington street. Cape Hay, on Friday. No8 vcmber 3J; 1888, al 3 o'clock p. iu., fur 8 the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and the transaction of such " other business a* may be brought before r the meeting. 8. Battosutv, Bcc'y. I. It should be a tubjeel for thankfulk of this campaign. There Is n.. doubt Notice la hereby given that Charles d II. Olivet of tbe City end County of r. Capo May. New Jrrsey, huh this day raasle an assignment to the subscriber 3' of his estate for the equal benefit of his le creditors, and that the said creditors must exhibit tbelr respective claims, , under oath or affirmation, within Ibe ' term ot three months. " HZUKSKT W. Eoursiw. tt ' Cape May, N. J. et Dated July 18th, 1888. John T. Craig will clean and repair sewing machines. Also repair and tune organs and pianos. Organs and sewing . Machines for sak- on reasonable' terms, also supplies A 8M sewing machine •e for 885 msy be had at this agency. Call ,.f or address (>oatal. No. 8 Decatur fet.ncxt to Dr. Mec ray's Drug Store. o4 6t n For "ITaJrv^— A six-roomed dwelling house In West Capo May. Possession £ren al once. Apply of C- H. Oliver, Washington street. Capo May. 3t Snt 3kdvfrtisnnrnts. : ^AKlK® i POWDER £ Absolutely Pure. fiiiSS WrtMR.", ri

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