SEA | IsLE PioXNEER | T. £. LUDLAM, Local Editor, woamen wel e 50 A NEAR. carts,. Lo work on ""* L . LaNDIS. «- We now have the first class barber | ahop,. li is a great convenience | indeed. -Geo. Jackson now occupies iis cotsage on Landis uvenue, Cor. Swain St. -Lost : — A gold searf pie: engraved with name "August" ; uder will please «leave at post office. -A little son of De. C. T. Smith fell into the cistern one day recently ; aud, but for the timely arrival of Mr. Buck and Dr. Humphrey», he would have undoubtedly been drowned. — *~ .-The recent rains have improved the streets wonderfully, the loam put on having packed nicely. -The family of E. T. Duncan arrived on Monday. — Soon all the cottages will be filled and we will have fairly launch ed into another season. -Capt. C, B. Grumley is engaged in building on Sheil street. -Mr, John Gegan is erecting a band: some and showy sign on his Philadel | phia House. -Mr. John M. Moore, of Clayton, | this State, pays Sea Isle City frequent | visits. Ho is becoming interested in real estate in Cape May County. -Hon,. P. P. Baker commences another cottage this week,. | Mr. &. i» ao enterprising man and is doing much to build up Sea Isle, -Mesars. Shick and Bossler succeed ed in taking ten sheepshead, of large size, one day recently, and the beauty of the matter lays in the faet tnat they kindly remember their less fortunate friends. They have our thanks for a fine specimen. ** . «We should like to see the ground * of the Railroad Company | decorate with flowers, the same as at other . points. . -The excursion hotel is a nice place -- from which to view the surrounding country: | In clear days UVcean City may be seen quite plainly. -Although the season for building is most past at other points, there is no diminution in the amount of freigh: arriving here daily. --We hive had many inquiries in re , gard. to cost of side walks: the plifigk . _._Aor the curb onets 4 cents a running foot that is a foot ia-length-putting down spikes and stakes is worth 3 conts n foot, making 7 cents for the curb. ‘Ih gravel sosts $200 to $2.25 delivered on "tho lots, 2 cars are required ford lots} fil ng up with sand depends on thé nature of the ground. Seme places ~ need no filling, others do. -Mr. Lindis has shown great gener: weity in changing lots for the church!. His liberality is fully appreciated, and we think he will oot regret the change aftet mecing a tasty building thereou. | Aningeme itn ite ote amarmtonmendie d . SEA ISLE CITY. IDT % "A. ible i*Un" Wednesday | last, ~ having. missed the train. to: Atlantic City, Lwent instemd to Soa Ble City, ne very definite idea of where it was or wlint it was like. L know that about two years ngo it was projpcted by Landis, of Vineland, N.Y., aml 1

length of the Lslana and one block back from the shore line. The streets thus far laid out and graded are broud ave hues, planted with shade trees, cedars, @tc., étc. Home of the building conditions in the deeds under which lots are sold are such as promise to make the city. not only beggtiful but healthful. There is to be no contamination of the soil from cemspoots. | The drainage bas been care fully planned beforehand. HMousehoidera are required to provide water proof receptacles for refuse matter to be removed by the city authorities, The houses are required to be set back from the street line a certain distance and to be elevated above the grade, and these regulations insure an open, welburrang ed and woolssome city by the sea. UI the bundred or more houses and hotels now erected 1 did not see one that was mot of a good class, and some of them | are quite costly, The thoroughfares and | inlet« «fford the same opportunities tor | fishing and crabbing to be ubtsined at | Atlantic City, and, altogether, Sea Isle | City gives every promise of becoming | a most attractive seaside resort, particu larly for quiet coltagers. The hotels are goo, and even this carly in the season, I found no difficulty in getting | a well served dinner. j What pleased me most sbout the | place was that Lodlum‘s Island has | been taken in its virgin purity, and, by | wise forethought, secured against con | tamination of its soil. . There is no. rea» | son why it should not alw=ys remain us | healthful as now, noty ithatanding a | great increase of its population. The | railroad is aheady paying expenses, and [ I have no doubt will make money when all of the existing cottages are occupied tor the suminer. e ee The Mount Holly Hermit. a mezazlnzs j A curious aittle pamphlet of ninety. | four pages, {each page of which | meas ures three inches in rength sod two and a quarter inches in width) in the Pluda. Library (Logaman | Division,). Ploladu., would interest many of our readers, It is entitled "The Hermit, or an recount of Francis Adams, Joseph Phyle, a me | tive of Switzerland, who lived without the use of fire for upwards of twenty two years, in a »moall cave, in the imnidst of a wood, near Mount Holly, in Bur lington couny, New Jersey, atl was | found dead therein in the year 1780. In | a series of letters from Baltus: Hiltyhimer to Melchoir Muller, &o., &o., New Jersey, published by Jorn Atkinson, 1811. This man was smpposed to be a French soldier, a ucserter from the army in Ainerica, and afficted with some mbar ration of the mind. | In the early part of the year 1756, he was noticea »« wan dering about the neigh borhood between Mount Hally and Burlington, solicsting | alms and sleeping in the open air, with out regard to the tempencure of the nights. (- fis first habitation was made on the farm of Lot Ridgeway and consisted of rails leaned against a stack and covered with hay, | He was there found by some workmen on the farm, whose surprise was only equaled by this cli grin in suspecting they had come to remove the covering of his house. Not spesking the English language be could not make them understond his purpase, and at onee left for rome safer place 16 retroat, He next took up his abode in a piece of woodland owned by Joseph Burr, near the road from Mount Holly to Burlington, some «ix miles from where he was first discovered; two miles from the laner named towa, — Herebe duga cave in the ground under the side of a large oak tree, which has been blown up by the roots, and there lived the ain der of his days. | The care was @verai: feet brdow the surface of the ground and was large enough for him to lie at fult length. It way reached by a small fam by par and protected from the n by a bark roof, — About forty; rods from his dweiling was a.4@¥#ing | from ‘which be supplied hig with water. To this spring he made a straight and aemooth path, where he walked for exertlie, frequently at might. He depended entirely upon those living near him for his food, nnd by reason of his unfortunate condition and | quiet and inoffensive deportment there was nodack, | Hoelined his cave with cast off clothing, giren him "by the people, which kept out the am and eold And niade him comfortnble, 16 a degree, except that an accouxt of ita size he al way slept in .a "the

ly Tt a some articles of clothing or food, on all pecesiops che | refused 40 rot ceive money. | The winter of 1780. was a severe one, and he soffered much from the cold, and his supplies were taken to him through thy snow, by men or horses. | On ono of there visits he was found dead in his care, from where his body was taken und decently buried. Nothing was ever known al his his tory, more than that revealed to Judge Reyd in his interview ; yet meny | theo ried existed during bi« secluded life: in that | miserable "hovel ; none however based upon mwsertion of his own, or. the reliable knowledge of others. Pl ree gee s o Malicious Types, sows or vie qures vreisos THat accb DKESTALLY G41 TNXTO THR Siw apibrers. 1 A recent bsae of (the | Broakiyn . "Union‘ gives among others the follow. ing example of curious type graphical | blundir« : La the report of the wedding of an esteemed Brooklyn clergy man the fol lowing sppeated i "Tie weuding took place ander sus}rciots ( auspicious) Cir cumstances." A Rohemisn wrote an article entitled | "How Miss Hosmer Got — Her Start," sud the careless printer set it ap "How , Misa Ho«mer Gut Her Shirt." Our West an editor was ated for lihel, in buving published that a certain Mr. Harrison war a well known housebreak vr. — The defems> of the editor was that he wrote horeelreaker," whion sue the occupation of the pintiff; but the suit was a protracted ane und cost the de fendiaad thousanas of dollars. In another instioiwe a heading was mude to bead "Shaymg the Queen," in stead of »Nhoving the Queer." An obituary notice was made to my that the deceused, wn ectimable Clret bin lady, — bad "goue to free: eternal roast," Dur.ng election time | a — New | York I ( ( | sheet wished to «ay something about. "the bard and persevering work of our reporters;" but when it appeared in print it read i "the bard anal permaver . ing work of our rereaters. An English paper once stated that the | Ru«son — Goner«l | Back motfiomey sas | found dead with a ~ long: word {sword j in his mouth, The result of a buttle hetween the Union and Confederate | troops | was | chromeled thus: "The enemy | wits ne pulsed with proat bamliter («Leaghter ;." "The decased‘s property is divided in four part«," wrote the reporter of a Sun rogate‘s Court, the printer set it up "The deceased proprietor is divided in four parts," Another English newspaper informed its readars thort "A pany carriage was parsing mlong New Bond street, Bath, when turning into Noerthgute «treet, it fell down and broke both of it« legs." R cordmg some stesplechase doing» at Monaghan, Iretand, the Irish "Tim «=" said :i -"A very nice clav‘« sport was capried on over an excellent course, all grass, over the lands of Mr. Henderson, whose hospitality | ®as on‘ounded. It consisted of two walls, two bank drep-, a water sut and tso hurdles," Telling of a man who lost his life in a riot, a | Belfast (Ireland) poper ended the story with : "They fired (xo. shots at lum ; the first «hot killed bim, but the second was not fatal." But a man.named Taife was made of tougher material, for "ue was run down by a passenger train and dulled ; he was injured in a similar way a year ago." In 1850, Horace Greeley, in answer to an invitwtion from the Albany Trpo graptrical Union to be present at a bin quet given by them at Ntanwix Hall in their city, to the Printers‘ Internation: al Usion, suggeted the follow ng as a suitable toast for the occasion, | "To the Press: Endowed wich brain of light ping and | muscles of steam, may it speedily drown the roor of battle, ilfamine the haunts of bigotry: and shatter the thrones of despotism." After a groat deat of- trouble the chairmun read it as follows; "To the opprassed-England must bow to Irs land, and must bear her «shame ; nught the fidelity of all ngos is the best miw sion of the friends of liberty. and will shake the thrones af ef ideapotisam. " Where Diphtheria Occurs. nrar erenom reaver, It it I# MORR OP A DH — BASE OF THE VILLAGE THAX OF THX CTT, ‘The mortality statisties collected 1/ lie pote wih mead is tie mint ¥ points with regard tribut m frie well nie wngiie The number of Joaths due due reported as to theone n in: Io: Maia) 18,649; Goes i ML ; sa ai frend giving a ha tow pio:

A Noble Monstrosity. Four Earls of Strathmore have seat~ thomselyes in ancestral siate at West minster, and yet all the while the real Earl, the eldest of the family, bndden in the vast old feudal palace at tilamis. | He died only last year, »ged Y. years, and he was a monster. He stood 8 feet in height. | His head and the upper part of his body resembled that or s toad. | His skin — was | marked with black and white blotches and bi« | not | He his could ayes | were hands were webbed. speak, nor hear, but bright, but wild. ed signs of reason, and in order avoid Iqgnd difficalues and pain{ul reve lations this horror was bidden in n building erected on purpose. | Mis jail was alive ; He never even: show | to ; ers were paid handsome apnuitiex to | keep mlont. | As each carl succeeded to the estate he was taken to see thik ter | rifle creature, and it is said that one of these gentlemen almost lost lids: peasen in bebobding the loatbsome and gigon tic horror, | Past year the poor Wretch died and the secret has come out, ow ing to difficulties concerning the dispose} of his remain». | The extraopdmary of it all is that tne. whereabouts of the monster Karl was kept so wonderfully part ; quiet, and also that be lived fo such an | advanced age, RARE OPPORTUNITY ose FARM FOR SALE 1 conn eeu; This farm contains mbout 90 ACRES, and is provided with First- Class Buildings.‘ It i» Jocated on the road which lead« to ! THE PUBLIC LANDING, near South Seaville, and i= ove of the finest sites on the coast, One half the purchase money may he oN — MORTGAGE. Apply to vither This. Tewneend, South | Seavillo, or William Townsend on the | preniines, 40%. tim A BROTTSFORD HoUSE, o A. WILKINSON, Proprietor, — Opeth loth. \tnisient board. (J. Maiswinkrs | Ise Cream, Confectioners , and Uhoine Megurs, Board by the day or week. | Cor. Landis Avenue and Paris Street, Sea Isle City, N. J. June Permmnent and 13 Sift t8, 615 Im KEA ISLE TTY, N. J Fine Groceries Fruits, Vegetables, etc., U # Fino Cigars & Tobacco, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, COAL, &c. POST OFFICE BUILDING. It sSEa — ViEw — HousE, Cor. Marine Ave, and Hart«on St., SEA ISLE CITY, N Everything new. 6 15 3m THOMAS NEWALL, Proprietor Paper Hanger. + bwonmetat L Cemtracts taken and etimates nished. — AH jobs done in the most workmanlike manner. Woodbine Cottage, PARIS STREET, t CHAS, PALMER, Master Carpenter and Builder, ~ SEA I8LE CITY, N. J. Hard wood and fancy work, a special ty. | Plans and specifications furnished. 615 tin ‘MANSION HOUSE, Ocean front; near Albion street, Conducted on the European Plan. i. Meals at all hours ; — 28 roomy ; B A TH HO USES /_ . for ghints Attached ; TERMS REASONABLE. Pavinion.| SEA ISLE CITY. H WwWIIITNEY & CO., Elegant piswas 11; feet wide, 65 feet long, awd facing the | | ocean ; | bath houses attached. Fine | bathing, | gunning med fishing. Terms reasotrdble, wuEO. W. ouO\ Es, House Painter, Grainer and | fur |

SEA ISLE city ‘provement Company t FoR SALE Rix per cent. interest ; payable semisunnuwally ; anal perpect security,. Apply to . 1c C. K. LANDIS, 402 LOCUST ST., Phiitadtetpina, LOT F or saLk SEA iste CITY! foss R do, aa A Ariadne St., is offered for sale for $213.00, CASH, providing tmhen doing neXt 30 dare, Budding e€pulauon expires Jan. 2, ‘M4. Enquire of THOS E. LUDLAM, Agent, Sea lsle City ; Cir, SoS MeCHESNEY, The Oner, Mall lim . New Jor«oy, Sea [Je, Pity, lune 1, i~~ 3. dol, 4 WENDEL‘s SEA ISLE CITY PHARMACY, Cor. Landre Ave., & Coral St., One Square below Post Office. A full s«ortment of Orugs, Chemicals, Perfumery, Pomades, Draggist‘s Sundrics, etc. Dr. D. B. Orway, wo. dm Manager. 18 on SALE s A A la rge number of wWCCDEN TANKS, inning in eaparity from: 1,000 to 10,000 gal‘s. Address, 6. W. MIDDLETON, 129 Walnut — Street, Philada. 58, Im. | ~-Ssthee. pout Running NEW HOME

SEA ISLE CITY, Ludiam Island, N. J. nennmms coe ENGINEZ®Z3 REPORT. a hm iniiiencouge toe ccaran. Bea {ale City is located on the Atlam _ tic Ucean, on Ludiam Island, on the soast of New Jersey, 39° 27" N. lattitude, and 74° 42° E. longitude, 60 milessoutheast from Philadelpbis, and 64) miles by rail. — lt ds 18 miles morth-eust from Cape Muy, and shout the seme die tance from Atlantic City, The mean temperature of Ludiami I«land does not vary much from that of | Atlantic City, which is 62° F. The humidity of. the atmosphere is \aimilar to that of Atlantic City, being equally dry and sal ubsious. It is well located for both a winter and summer — resort, ob account of its climatic advat« tages. The Island is 6} miles in length, and varies from } to 1} miles in width, ex» terding from Comon‘s Inlet, on the north, to Townsend‘s inlet, on the — south, and is surrounded by the Atlan tic Ocean, Ludiem Bay and a navagoble channel Called the ‘i boroughfare, fur niwhing excellent advantages for fish» ing, sailing and stiliwater bathing. A beach 150 feet wide extends the entire length of the lslund, genfly shelving, of very bard, close-packed sand, affording a fine nature! drive: for more than 6 miles, and unususl frcilities for walking and bathing, which are not excelled, by any watering place on the coast. — In walking, or driving, indentation is made upon the send, affording, in this respeet, a striking contrast to many other beaches, where the sand is loose and treacherous. The advantages the beach affords fos bathing, are excellent, thero being no undersgow perceptible, and in this re spect peculiar The bottom descends so gradually, that sbhyHiow water ex tends a grout distance from the shore. In bathing, no ropes are: required, and {it te safe for women and children. It is wfliciently north of Delaware Bay to be entirely free from the mud of the bay, ind bathing can always be bad in sean, clear water. The "fast land" of the Islend consists ~ of low hills and ridges, with level por noms of sand, which are found by actaal survey to vary from 2 feet to 27 feet, the highest in elevation, above, high water. The meadow lands are never ever flowed by high water, except by storm ~ tides, which are of rare occurrence. . ulation ; such as you propose un The abundance of gewe and fish in the vicinity has made the lsland for years a favorite resort of sportemen, The inland bay, known aa Ladiam Bay, affords sate still water bathing. baving a gently shelving shore, ard also safe yrchting, and abounds in fish, oysters, crabs, elsms, &c. One tion of it is only 1200 fret from the sou beach, so that on one side eurf-bathing can be had, and upon the other side stili- water bathing. The site selected for Sea Isle City r on the morthern belf of, the Island ; extending to the centre and then south wardly. It will haye a frontage on the Atlan tic of three miles, and extend inland to Ludiam Bay and the Thoreughfare, wlong which i is practicable, and it is proposed % lay out and construct a carringo drive for the distance of more than two miles. It is proposed to protect the City from bigh tide, by a substantial sea wall on the two sides most exposed, und by embankments on the | remaming sides, which ean be done ata moderate expense, considering the economical and other advantages, Absolute security will thus be obtained against encroachments the sea, that bave occasioned much damage at Cupe «May, Atlantico City, Monmouth Beach. Manbattart , and other places. — No other seaside resort at the present ime To O protetion that % or thi The Island is uninhabited ; there being no houses on it exoept two Gov» ernment Stations, and no ceas-pools; the way is clear for carrying into operaAmon a thorough system of mipltary te supervision of an efficient and experi- | enced amnitary engineer. The Island can be very com nected with the Weat Jersey R. R, by a short branch road from 4} to miles in length, there being but a narrow Thoroughfare to cross with a A Government Light-bouse should be \ eftablished on this Island, as numerous wrecks hove occurred on is, and by a Hitle expense on the part of govern ES gen