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R. CURTIS ROBINSON,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1895. Entered at the Post Office at Ocean City, N. J. as second class mail matter.

TIDE TABLE. SEPTEMBER | High water | AM | PM | Low water | AM | PM | Sun | A M 1 Sunday | 5.43 | 3.41 | 11.35 | - - | 5.28 | 2 Monday | 6.22 | 6.28 | 0.04 | 12.21 | 5.25 | 3 Tuesday | 7.00 | 7.13 | 0.46 | 1.05 | 5.30 | 4 Wednesday | 7.39 | 7.55 | 1.26 | 1.40 | 5.31 | 5 Thursday | 8.16 | 8.31 | 2.03 | 2.27 | 5.31 | 6 Friday | 8.50 | 9.08 | 2.05 | 2.27 | 5.32 | 7 Saturday | 9.25 | 9.44 | 3.10 | 3.37 | 5.33 | 8 Sunday | 10.05 | 10.21 | 3.46 | 4.16 | 5.34 | 9 Monday | 10.46 | 11.03 | 4.25 | 5.02 | 5.35 | 10 Tuesday | 11.38 | 11.48 | 5.04 | 5.50 | 5.35 | 11 Wednesday | - - | 12.22 | 5.51 | 6.41 | 5.37 | 12 Thursday | 0.39 | 1.15 | 6.47 | 7.37 | 5.38 | 13 Friday | 1.38 | 2.14 | 7.47 | 8.35 | 5.39 | 14 Saturday | 2.41 | 3.12 | 8.53 | 9.14 | 5.40 | 15 Sunday | 3.44 | 4.14 | 2.57 | 10.33 | 5.41 | 16 Monday | 4.45 | 5.13 | 10.50 | 11.30 | 5.42 | 17 Tuesday | 5.43 | 6.00 | 11.57 | - - | 5.43 | 18 Wednesday | 6.40 | 7.07 | 0.23 | 12.54 | 5.44 | 19 Thursday | 7.34 | 8.08 | 1.19 | 1.49 | 5.45 |

20 Friday | 8.28 | 8.38 | 2.15 | 2.45 | 5.46 | 21 Saturday | 9.21 | 9.53 | 3.08 | 3.38 | 5.47 | 22 Sunday | 10.11 | 10.48 | 4.00 | 4.32 | 5.48 | 5.24 | 5.49 | 24 Tuesday | 11.54 | - - | 5.49 | 6.16 | 5.50 | 25 Wednesday | 0.37 | 12.41 | 6.22 | 7.10 | 5.50 | 26 Thursday | 1.33 | 1.34 | 7.25 | 8.03 | 5.51 | 23 Monday | 11.01 | 11.42 | 4.48 |27 Friday | 2.27 | 2.30 | 8.21 | 8.58 | 5.52 | 28 Saturday | 3.22 | 3.27 | 9.20 | 9.50 | 5.53 | 29 Sunday | 4.13 | 4.24 | 10.18 | 10.41 | 5.54 | 30 Monday | 5.00 | 5.12 | 11.13 | 11.31 | 5.56

CAPE MAY COUNTY NOTES. Items Plucked Here and There by Our Correspondents. ANGLESEA. Daniel Ludlam, of Green Creek, and Taylor N. Henry, of this place, were arrested Monday by Game Warden Hilton for having gray squirrels in their possession unlawfully. They were taken before Mayor Hweitt and were fined $20 each and costs.

TUCKAHOE.

Ward Stille and friend visited Ocean City on Sunday.

Mahlon Homan, of English Creek, spent Sunday with Captain Enoch Ingersoll.

Miss Julia Adams, of this place, has entered the training school for nurses at Blockley alms house, Philadelphia, where she will take a two years' course.

Mrs. Clark's mother, who resides at

Cape May, has been quite sick at her

daughter's residence in this place.

A force of Italians commenced Mon-

day to pick cranberries at this place.

The Italians are said to be much more successful pickers than our own people.

It is said there will be another wedding here soon.

CAPE MAY CITY.

White Hall, the 12-year-old son of Real Estate Agent L. M. Hall, sustained a fracture of the skull Friday after-

noon by being accidentally struck on the head with a brick while looking at an altercation among schoolmates.

The contract for the Casino, which is to be similar to those at Newport and Narragansett, has been awarded to Allen B. Rorke, of Philadelphia. A tenement house ownwed by A. L. Haynes was destroyed by fire on Saturday; loss, $600.

An executive committee composed of John H. Sloan, chairman; George G.

Mercer, Frank Willing Leach, John F. Craig, Alfred C. Thomas, Thomas Robb and Robert H. Beattie, was appointed by the non-resident property owners at a meeting at the Stockton Saturday night. The committee will assist the local authorities in securing a new city charter. The body of an unknown drowned man was taken to the Coroner's office Sunday evening for identification. That afternoon Trolley Conductor Grant Vanneman and Gripman Andrew Bohn, while making the run to Sewell Point,t discovered in the surf, near the old Government Life Saving Station, a man apparently struggling for his life. They went to the rescue, but, when drawn to the beach, he proved to be lifeless, and all efforts to resuscitate him proved futile, and it is supposed to be a case of suicide. The body was well dressed in blue serge, neat underclothing, gaiter shoes; height, 5 feet 7 inches; weight, 150 pounds.

CORSON & WARE. COACHES--A good thing to push along--our Baby Coaches. CARPETS--Brussels from 50c a yard upward. Ingrains from 25c a yard upward.

MATTINGS--

A window full; look at them.

COUCHES--

Good ones at $3.95. Better, in corduroy, $6.95 and $7.95.

BEDROOM SUITS--Solid Oak, $10.00. CORSON & WARE, 222 High Street, Millville, N. J.

THERE are nine candidates for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Cape May county, but all the townships have

not been heard from yet.

THE voters will remember that a Republican Legislature gave them the right to select their County Judges and that a Democratic Supreme Court re-

pealed the law.

THAT Republican House of Representatives will begin work three months hence. It won't be able to do any wise legislating all alone by itself, but it will stop all foolish legislating by the

Democrats.

THE Republican State Convention today will be the most interesting gathering of the kind held in New Jersey since the organization of the party. The indications are that it will be a harmonious meeting and nominate the next Governor. THE trial of the bargain hunter is over the land, and straw hats, shirt waists, yellow shoes, and other hot vacation goods are being sold at half and a quarter the prices asked for them a month ago. Now is the time for those whose souls are staunch enough to endure outward apparel which is not in the very latest mode in the matter of materials, to secure an economical outfit for the summer of 1896.

A MAN named Lewis, of Montreal, has been convicted and incarcerated in jail for using profanity on the public highway. In the course of a dispute with his servant he damned him, and at last became so enraged that while standing in front of the Post Office, he cursed and swore unmercifully for about a half hour. An officer appeared on the scene, arrested him and he was held for trial, charged with "swearing on the public highway." The Judge before whom the case was tried, sentenced Lewis to sixty days' imprisonment. This is one of the laws of our statute books that should be more frequently enforced. The cursing habit is one that no gentleman will indulge in. It is against both religion and law and is wicked, irreverant, vulgar and disgusting. Cursing is a penal offence when public. The man who curses any body is guilty of misdemeanor, and when he does it before witnesses, is liable to be sent to jail. If the police and other law officers would make a few examples right here in Jersey the moral atmosphere that surrounds us would certainly be improved.

A DEFUNCT CRUSADE.

It seems that Atlantic City doesn't want to be reformed. At least the Grand Jury of Atlantic county has ignored the bills of indictment against the amusement people and hotel keepers at the seaside resort who were accused of maintaining disorderly houses. That settles it, then; the saloons may open wide their doors on Sunday, the merry-go-rounds will cavort freely as of yore, ye frolicsome shell game seduce the guileless excursonist, and the Cairo maidens (?) go through their dance unhampered by the minions of the law. Everything will go except the good things which the sports will continue to push along. Mayor Stoy has had his labors for his pains. After all, this result was not unexpected. From the beginning of the crusade it has been apparent, strangely enough, that the Mayor has not had the support of all the people, and without this he could not hope to be successful. Happily, the season is at an end, and the trouble is over for another year at least.--North

American.

He Settled Cheaply. Sheriff Smith E. Johnson, of Atlantic county, Thursday settled a suit for $20,000 damages instituted against him by Thomas McMackin, of Gloucester, by paying the plaintiff $200. McMackin about a year ago was a witness in a case to come before the county courts. He was held in bail to await the convening of the session, and, failing to secure the necessary surety, was sent to the county prison. He was placed in the same department of the prison as the defendants awaiting trial and received the same fare. Upon his release he brought suit against the sheriff, charging him with violating a State statue [sic], which provides that witnesses shall be kept apart from the regular prisoners and shall receive better fare.

Dissenting Opinion on the Elec-

tive Judiciary Act.

Justice Magie, who sat in the branch of the Supreme Court at the June term with Justices Van Syckel and Lippincott, during the argument on the constitutionality of the Voorhees Elective Judiciary law, which legislates 60 lay and law judges of the various counties out of office, Monday filed his dissenting opinion, in which he flatly declares the law constitutional and discusses the opinion of his associates, declaring the law unconstitutional, at some length. The case came before Court on the application of Judge Schalk, of Essex, who prayed for a writ of mandamus restraining County Clerk Wrightson from placing the name of any nominee for County Judge on the official ballot. The Justice maintains that the constitutional provision expressly empowering the Legislature to alter and abolish the inferior Court of Common Pleas clears away all doubt as to the lawmakers' power in the premises, despite the ambiguous clause conveying this power and also providing for the appointment of such judges by the Governor.

"The power to abolish the courts is clearly placed with the Legislature," he says, "and if the Court is abolished

or its powers and jurisdiction transferred to another Court, the power to appoint would fail, because there would no longer be any Court of Common Pleas to which to appoint judges." The Justice discusses at length whether or not the inferior Court of Common Pleas is an "inferior" Court within the meaning of the Constitution, and pertinently asks that if it is not an inferior C ourt why are the records of that Court and causes listed for that Court marked "Inferior Court of Common Pleas?"

ATLANTIC COUNTY COURTS. Double the Number of Bills Ever Returned Before. The Atlantic County Grand Jury finished its labors Thursday, after three days' sitting, the longest in the history of the county. Seventy-six true bills, double the number ever returned before, were found, and fifty complaints were ignored. Among the bills found was one against W. E. Morgan, alias Morse, and a half-dozen other names, who was arrested for the theft of $1200 worth of diamonds from a woman guest at the Hotel Majestic, Atlantic City, one of the boldest robberies on record. Morgan claimed to be a Chicago saloon-keeper, and the day before the convening of Court, a man claiming to be a Chicago attorney and representing Morgan's friends went to May's Landing, had the prisoner taken to Atlantic City and released under $1500 bail. The fellow's identification had been so complete, and the evidence against him so strong that many persons believed that he had shaken the dust of New Jersey from his feet forever. After the Grand Jury returned the bill Thursday, Morgan was called upon to plead. He failed to answer. His bail was forfeited and a few hours afterward his bondsman, Somers Woolbert, paid County Clerk Evans the $1500. The whole transaction has excited a deal of comment. Another indicted man whose bail was forfeited because of his non-appearance was Dell Nestor, an actor, who was indicted for assault upon a domestic at one of the Atlantic City hotels during the summer. He was accused of having climbed through the window of her room at night. His bail was $1000. The war that has been waged at Atlantic City all summer against the proprietors of the amusements along the boardwalk, and the latter against prominent saloonkeepers for keeping open on Sunday, has been of no avail. No indictments were found, and the troubles of the past few weeks will not be aired in the Court and the Sunday selling abolished, as the reform people

expected.

Eight indictments were found against Samuel Valentine, two for atrocious assault and attempt to kill Deputy Sheriff L. H. Ashley, when attempting to escape from jail three weeks ago, and six for burglary. Valentine just came out of State Prison after a ten-year term. William Johnson, another would-be jail breaker, was also indicted for at-

tempt to kill the Deputy.

Citizens of Egg Harbor City sent a long petition to the Grand Jury complaining against the Committee of Hamilton township, of which May's Landing is the principal town, asking that it be compelled to improve the main road between those two places, claiming that the road is in a deplorable condition. No action was taken. On Friday Appeal Court business was first taken up and judgment below was confirmed in the matter of Atlantic Shooting the Chutes Company, appellant, vs. Jacob N. Winer, appellee, a suit for commission. Cas No. 15--John G. Shreve vs. John T. French, on contract, was settled, also case No. 12--H. H. Smith vs. Lewis Earle, on contract. In the appeal case of Abner Price vs. Charles H. Steelman and Alpha S. De Lissa vs. Charles E. Pile and David Horton decision was reserved. Five criminal cases were disposed of. Thomas Decerbo and Michael Marinella, defendants in petty assault and battery cases, plead guilty. Small fines were imposed. William Thomas, another assault and battery defendant, was acquitted. A verdict of acquittal was found by the jury in the case of Solomon Pollard, of Washington, charged with grand larceny. Pollard, an old white-haired colored man, was alleged to be guilty of entering the dressing room of Charles Kelly, at Wall's bathing establishment, Atlantic City, and stealing a gold watch and a purse containing almost $11. The defense was that the evidence was purely circumstantial, and as the old man produced a number of witnesses to testify his good character he was speedily acquitted. An examination of the case of the State vs. Mollie Barnes, charged with assault and battery upon Susan Young, colored, proved that it had been a free fight in Shell alley, and that if anything, the defendant got the worst of it. A verdict of not guilty was found. In the case of State vs. Frank Riely and James Sooy, indicted for petit larceny, Prosecutor Perry entered a rule of noll prosse, there being no evidence of a crime having been committed. Thomas Bailey, who pleaded guilty to petit larceny, at the Music Hall, Atlantic City, was sentenced to one month in the county jail and costs, to date from time of commitment. On Monday, Samuel Valentine, who was indicted on several counts of breaking and entering Mrs. Sarah Ward's cottage on Illinois avenue, and assaulting Mrs. Ward and her aged mother, Mrs. Uffington, and assault with attempt to kill upon Deputy Sheriff Ashley some weeks ago, when a general jail delivery was attempted, was tried and convicted of simple assault only. Harry Singleton, charged with abducting the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wall, and assault and battery upon Deputy Sheriff Ashley in attempting to break jail, was tried and convicted on the latter count. William Johnson, who, besides being indicted for fornication, was further indicted by the Grand Jury for assaulting Deputy Sheriff Ashley and attempting to break jail, was convicted on the latter count.

HOTEL BRIGHTON, R. R. SOOY, Proprietor. SEVENTH AND OCEAN AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE.

DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH.

WM. LAKE, C. E.,

REAL ESTATE AGENT. Surveying, Conveyancing, Commissioner of Deeds, Notary Public, Master in Chancery, Secretary Ocean City Building and Loan Association. Lots for sale or exchange. Houses to rent, furnished or unfurnished. Deeds, Bonds, Mortgages, Wills and Contracts carefully drawn. Abstracts of titles carefully prepared. Experience of more than twenty-five years. Office--Sixth street and Asbury avenue. P. O. Box 225. WM. LAKE.

Atlantic County Prohibition

Convention.

The County Convention of the Prohibitionists was held in Atlantic City Thursday, and nominations were made as follows: --For Senator, James B. Adams, of Elwood; for Assemblyman, William S. Schenck, of May's Landing; for County Clerk, Wilbur R. Tilton, of Hammonton; for Coroner, John A. Ireland, of Atlantic City. Gubernatorial Candidate Wilbur was present and made an address, and the State and National platforms of the party were endorsed.

Part of a Town Seized. A decision recently rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the interest of John Hunter, ex-Tax Received of Philadelphia, will make many families homeless at May's Landing, the county seat of Atlantic county. Hunter five years ago leased of Charles R. Colwell, the owner of an extensive tract of land surrounding the county seat, 1500 acres from which to cut timber and dig clay. The lease specified that in the event of Colwell disposing of the land he should pay to Hunter the sum of $10,000. The portion Hunter leased extends into the town of May's Landing, and much of the land was valuable. The lease was to run to September 21, 1895.

About one year after the lease was made Colwell sold nearly all of the large tract of land in and around May's Landing, and including the part he had leased to Hunter, to the Industrial Land and Development Company, a syndicate of New Yorkers, with Peter Garahan at the head. The company sold nearly 1000 lots, largely in the tract leased by Hunter. In the fall of 1893 a new company, in which E. M. Fulton, of the late National Cordage Trust, was heavily interested, came into possession of the land, and erected a $100,000 brick plant, a shoe factory costing $25,000, an excursion house and a number of houses. William Clark Rowe, a New York lawyer, who is secretary of the land company, also built forty-three houses as a private speculation. The company paid Hunter $2000, and he released the shoe factory, the brick works and the houses of the company.

He had in the meantime instituted suit against the parties who had trespassed upon his lease, and won his case in the United States Supreme Court. He immediately took steps to secure possession of all the land which he had not released under his agreement with the land company. These included a large number of lots purchased by private parties, mostly poor people, who had invested all their savings to secure a home, and also the forty houses erected by Rowe.

Last Wednesday, United States Marshal Pfeiffer, of Camden, armed with a writ, went to May's Landing

with Henry Watts, partner and manager for Hunter. The Marshal took possession of the entire 1500 acres, with the exception of those released, and served notice of ejectment on the occupants of the land in dispute. The news of the Marshal's visit was soon known all over the little town, and the excitement was intense.

Among the properties whose purchasers are to be ejected are two fine stores on the main street of the town, owned by A. C. Sharp and W. J. Rice. Captain Sheppard S. Hudson and Lewis E. Jeffries are interseted through mort-

gages they hold on some of the properties. The May's Landing Building and Loan Association is heavily interested in mortgages on houses erected by William Fenny, J. M. Hopkins, Bazil Kaznecki and R. R. Corson on the land the Court has decided belongs

to Hunter for four years more, dating

from the time the decision rendered in Hunter's favor was filed.

A Camden building and loan association is similarly interested to the

amount of $7000. Among the heaviest

sufferers are the poor people who purchased lots and invested all their savings in the erection of a house. Many

of the unimproved lots in the tract are

owned by Philadelphians who brought

for speculative purposes.

It is also stated that the estate of William Post, of New York, which

holds a mortgage for $150,000 against

the land company, which has recently

passed into the hands of a Receiver, will be seriously embarrassed. The latter mortgage is now being foreclosed. J. M. Hopkins, an aged tenant on the disputed tract, fell unconscious when the notice of ejectment was served upon him, and it is feared will become insane.

WANAMAKER'S. PHILADELPHIA, September 16, 1895. Dress Goods the Dry Goods Test--There are few really great retail Dry Goods stores in the world. Paris has two, possibly three. London has none that will compare favorably with those in Paris. The ideal store has not appeared in New York. Philadelphia has Wanamaker's. Public judgment seals this as the great success in American retailing. We accept the verdict and justify it by appeal to the perennial stock of Dress Goods. Years ago we made the standard. The most complete Dress Goods stock in America. No variation, no declension in quantity or variety, has since been tolerated. The collection is always unique perfection. The richest and most costly, the simplest and cheapest stuffs have equal care. Our whole Dress Goods stock is managed by an eminent chief with a corps of especially trained assistants. One studies Black Goods, another High Class Novelties, another Cottons, another Cloths; others the various classes that sub-divide the vast collection. Immense selling makes great buying possible. Great buying makes vast selling certain. We and our Public--the Mutual Benefit Merchandise Association. Broad gauge trading respects worthy competition and square rivalry. It has equal contempt for vulgar assumption and flippant statement. "Mere bulk does not secure elegance, vast quantity degrades style," are harmless sneers against our Dress Goods. Conditions in our Dress Goods business make us afford the largest care to elegant detail. Exclusive attention creates exclusive selection, secures styles positively confined to our stock. Our exclusives are strictly the first choice of all markets. To pursue this point any farther may seem ungracious. This business grows always by its own lift. The New Salon for Gown Stuffs--Cabinet makers mosaic floor makers, upholsters are out. Paris Dress Stuffs are in. Crystal cases, scores of tables, brilliant light, ample room are under tribute to display the Paris and Berlin collection of the latest things in the best Dress Goods. There is sure recompense for your journey to Wanamaker's.

There is absolute satisfaction for you in dealing through our mail order department. JOHN WANAMAKER.

Y. CORSON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, AND LICENSED AUCTIONEER, No. 721 Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. Properties for sale. Boarding houses and cottages for rent in all parts of the city. Correspondence solicited.

THE OCEAN CITY REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.

W. E. MASSEY & CO.,

Real Estate and Insurance Agents.

Lots for sale or exchange. Houses to rent. Deeds, bonds or mortgages

drawn. Loans negotiated. A number of bargains in lots. W. E. MASSEY & CO. 811 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J. Next to the Post-office. P. O. Box, 335

Resolution of Sympathy for Bro. John Wallace, Jr. WHEREAS: Inasmuchc as the Great Spirit saw fit to call his devoted, faithful and beloved wife to her home above: We, the brethren, of the Improved Order of Red Men, of Tuckahoe Tribe, No. 129, wish to publicly express our

deepest condolence and heartfely sympathy to Brother Wallace in his great sorrow, and extend to him our hearts and hands.

OTIS S. MADDEN, WALTER L. YERKES, JOHN L. BUZBY,

Committee.

Dissolution of Partnership.

The firm of Smith & Thorn, plumbers, has been dissolved by mutual consent,

and the business hereafter will be conducted by Henry A. W. Smith, who will give his personal attention to the business, and as he has been a master plumber for the past fifteen years, he feels that his experience and knowledge will enable him to give his cutomers [sic] the best of service. The late firm, the first of its kind in Ocean City, has been in existence since the spring of 1892, and has done some good work in this city. Mr. Smith, with his family, expects to become a permanent resident of this city about the first of October, thus concentrating all his interests here.

Money to loan on Bond and Mort-

gage. Apply at 744 Asbury avenue.

Samuel Carhart, contracting painter and glazier. Estimates furnished. Jobbing attended to. 950 Asbury avenue.

Painting, graining and sign work neatly done. B. R. Smith & Sons, 1046

Asbury avenue.

Joseph G. Champion, ARCHITECT,

CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and specifications fur-

nished.

Terms reasonable. WEST AVE. AND EIGHTH ST., Ocean City, N. J.

J. S. RUSH, HOUSE and SIGN PAINTER,

Ornamental work of all kinds done at the lowest cash prices.

Residence and Office:

Eleventh Street and Central Avenue, Ocean City

R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Real Estate and Insurance, Nos. 744-46 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Money to loan on Bond and Mortgage.

E. B. LAKE, Superintendent of

OCEAN CITY ASSOCIATION

From its organization, and also

REAL ESTATE AGENT.

Has thousands of Building Lots for sale at various prices. Some very

Cheap and located in all parts of Ocean City.

Now is the time to purchase property before the second railroad comes, as

then property will greatly advance.

I have a good many Inquiries for Property between 6th and 12th streets. Anyone having property for sale might do well to give me their prices.

All persons desiring to Buy, or Sell, or Exchange property, would do well

before closing any transaction to call on or address E. B. LAKE, Association Office, No. 601 Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J.

HAVE YOU TRIED CHEW'S Cough and Consumption REMEDY?

If not, procure a bottle at once and give it a trial. It cures all Chronic and Lingering Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis, Inflammation and Weakness of the Lungs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat and Soreness in the Chest.

PREPARED BY J. W. CHEW, Manufacturer and Proprietor. On sale at Abbott's Pharmacy, Seventh street and Asbury avenue, Ocean City, N. J.

B. INGERSOLL & CO., UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS, OCEAN CITY, N. J. We are fully prepared to take charge of Camden, Philadelphia and local funerals, being in touch with one of the best Undertakers of the former city.

E. CLINTON & CO.,

Manufacturers and Importers of BRUSHES, 1008 MARKET, and 8 S. TENTH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.