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CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1874.

NO. 4.

. rd^Ks prim srS^'iSvsrL: liortM M tbs place and rirenmst paled to Dadley.^He looked carelnliy

Jndley, helped by

UmbeJ »p and looked S nob of the adjacentknaae., as always In the crowded, old, ritiee, aood eloae together, and

robbed, tia Uwfnl apoU of war," < pend Elliot!; •• and if they be oa King’a aide, they will eonnt it neh it haa helped hie poor eemnte in their

need."

One and of the Itne waa faatei

onrelr aronnd the chimney, the waa thrown o*er the walk •' Oo yon

EDlott," urged Dodley. »y for me, but hasten <U-

•ust

And ewy tU ahtht; Deni do .enow.

bat n knife or a daeger, and Id bear aae up,” aaidDndito thane b

tie away.

The ooidier went to the edge of the wall, running hia hand along the ro— He tooted ite .Length by two or th pnlla, and then committed himaelt h ■t for the deaoenL Hand-orer-h and went down, braring hia feet again, t — wall. The cord twang looae, and Dadley, watching abora, knew *- : -

buod was safe on solid , great clock in tbs city atro A sentinel cried " AU'a waU

> ant* to

weba. D off from the panoet. A mi wna free, aland-'. • in the open with hi. face toward. Loodon.

his ooapnel to the

Bat Dudley

again, and aai among hia fellow-prison-eta, helpless but not hopeless. ReTolring many things in his mind, 'and 1 ‘’'iff all adm^haafdnd n steel iraeee wont by Ooraet Hodgetta, a yo f min^who had fought beside him

rney ee. on. wa,.- uer, t did not fancy a jo.kney of

milas on foot.

“ proposed a riait to iba atablaa of of the near-lying farms. Passing through th. field, with that intent, they fooad can horse graaing, already aaddled and bridl.-d ; no nnoanal thing troabled Umen, when no man what moment he might need to ride for hia own life, or for the good o* the cause he espoused. The animal Elliott took, Dudley going on to the stable, where he eooa prorided himself with a spirited staed. He rode dewn to be Serern, where e he rirer brought him in foil -he sleeping dtp. He toned in hia saddle tofook. _ The moon can «

ninated steeple id windows that

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Ike mil Off tn OMb As brntltm

poblJkm) a «BUt as .irlhH erdw^i. neetred torthdrdmsoelinaaaat.andaMUpwaMiu o< tU amaragm I. Md. ss raqairad 1st Is*. W. y. iTbEXOMAS. EdUor ndFtorrtMer.

of Major Audio of who was hanged by I CBiT^SC!

_ s

held in Waetnfamier ComW.’New York, about 1780, waa written by an " - witness " a man ^io looked on an

detected, tried end executed.

Two thing! elicited in behalf of Major Andre nnaaaal sympathy. Pint, hia

youth, for he waa oaljtwaal of age when be wna hang ; i

, sad second, manly, personal

sssus to ala bring arrested a. a spy, be bad mingled in

aririocnUlc circles of colonial aoriely, and had, prior to the bracking ont of the Rerolution, been the petand " 1 of ear Amerieen belles. The u-

stions he bed farmed rendered him of the moat popular young Eugli.h-

i in all the Coloni e.

I das tliat time, ” says the narrator, t artificer in Oohmcl Jednthun Iwin’a regiment, a part' of which - stationed within a short dlatanoo of the apot where Andre suffered. One of our men (I bdiere his name wna Armstrong) being one of the oldest, end best workmen at hia trade in the regiment, waa selected to make his oofflo, which he performed, and painted black, agreeably to the custom, in thoee time*. At this time Andre waa confined in whet i Dutch Church, e .mall g With only one doer, and six sentinels. When the ited for hia execution arj I beliere, waa lo'doefc * guard of three hundred

tree attains i fair and regular thicknen ; for the re wood, like the seqnoia, swells at tl base, near the ground. Theee tow prefer steep hill-sides, and grow - extremely rough and broken ro... — * thrir great height makes it nt to fell them oarefnllv, lest I u with such an er —

fstrA

forests and at the mills ta are wasted for erery fo sent to market To mark the direction line on which the tree is to fall, the chopper usually drirea a stake into the [round a hundred or a hundred and uty feet from the base of the tree, and t is actually common to make the tree fall npoa this stake, so straight do these redwoods stand, and so aocurate is the skill of the cutters. To fall s tree eight feet in diameter is counted a day's work When such s tree begins to — -**-*- sharp crack ;

Germans are liked as ... timber. The choppers I waa told on Sunday—and all hand* >" logging camp work twelre hour rj. The gorernment ha* lately >me Tory strict in preaerring the I er on Congress land, which was for_ieriy eat si random, and by anybody who ehosa. Government agents watch the loggers, and if these are anywl a fht cutting timber on OongTeea r rafts are aeiied and sold. At p

Caaat 4* Chamber*. The moet prominent men in Ft perhaps in Europe, just now, says 0-A Wttott, tithe Count'd* ( bold. There is another person. said, who claims to bo the legitimate Count Under these circumstance* the I^Jj^bjj.bmtorie facte will probably be Louis XYIIL bad no boo. The. consequently would pass, at hia c to hia brother Charles. Ho hat. ■ona. The eldest, Duke d’Angouleme, married the only daughter of I XVL, the unfortunate princess suffered so dreadfully in her captivity in the temple. They had no cbfldnm. The second son. the Duke do Berri, married the Princess Caroline, of Naples. The first two_children died in infancy. a daughter, afteree, the bourbon

—« j —e firing of artillery. This subject, if not entirely new, is of great importance, and ahonld be thoroughly investigated by the government, Our Western domain, to say nothing of the vast desert wastes -• other portions of the earth, deman irrigation. General Grant called att< ' an to this necessity in his recent Mi_ ge. Mr. Powers'theory is deduced .id thirty battles that by copious rains. He claims that about mrty per cent of all battles or bombardments of importance are folloded

bin the first twenty-' heavy firing. A cal

ssafS'.iKi

o number of rainy n there are no bat-

3 -two per cent, thin that * ! —

'18. ■ lillery

be obtained.

About ninety *per lea are foUowed by it forty-eight hours

jeroent of the heavy All great battles in which much —a followed by

mg the thesi

,—» .. . —0 Duchess,

plunged s poniard to the hilt in his - u - T n tue darkness tire -esssain fled,

speedily arrested. The Duke

felt only a violent blow. Bringing his

' ind to his side, he found the d t cried ont. So sudden had the i

-Jen that the carriage, in which he had placed the Dnohera, was just beginning to move. The Duchess heard the dying 3 of her husband. With a shriek she I used is

ed upon the driver to stop. Leap, gagomenta other thin the carnage, eho caught the winch much artillery her arms. He had just drawn goDorelly followed by heavy wnahinw fron^tlie won a* , ” 00d "* 1 firi-g doe. 7 not Si gnshing from the wound. rain. Rains follow battles m ‘I am dead!’said the Duke. -Send the spring and summer bu «G»P*i*J*- Come, dearest, let me die ; autumn and winter. Rains •-

the heavy firing re rain is twentyRain following mncli artillerr is great battles, in

grace the most intelligent of o fore*. I will give an insUnnoe that happened lately. One day a i dressed woman, apparently of the b< class, entered the house of a aowca money-lender in Hyderabad. She s< od to he in the moat dire distress, crying bitterly. She informed the sow~t that her husband waa a mi ' id that he had embarked his stocking a shop ; that the abop-keer bad agreed together * LI — ■ I they had snooeeded that now he was lyiu, under a load of debt his pitiless creditors, helping him that she roordingly brought them iping that the so wear won sr such a sum on them si

iffieient to liber ion produced hr

rings, ear-rings, pearl neeklaoee—ai parontly worth several thousand rt pees, and entreated him to land her tw thousand rupees on them without d< lay. Ho accordingly, having first testo the gold setting, mod found them c pure gold, judged the jewels to be als

. ..jd thought

^ ^od thing ont of the trsnt

; the shop and disapwoar shortly afterwards ow those jewels to a rlaiting him, and was

a living. " By George " in Canada, and 1

a considerable mortality ai

by Iris kleptomaniac A flash of lightning was recent measured by a French scientist, si ' mud to be ten and a half miles long. An owl lately flew into a house Jacksonville, FIs., and attacked tl lady thereof, biting her severely on tl

s. hss been a i A Oo. n attempt to

r the legiala r f ord d tlw

8L Halo, Fret

By a recent fire in Stockholm, in Swmlen^sixteen ballet girls wore burned ~ hilled by jumping ti Isdy offers to bet thst fashionable girl in Cin. would rather stay f

s pair r

single-bt

A Chicago lawyer

_ logos for being called

iy«ter, Webster forgot to mention word, and now the lawyers are pnr.lonra of Uie Mississippi Oranges, in

it Slate, have promised tc

Postmaster Ruins King, o

carefully, which sa yet he had not done. He had eonolnded at the time ho made the bargain thai, as the gold settings were undoubtedly of pure metal, the stones also would be genuine. He acted according to his friend't advice, and

.... j ,.«» oo« oniy in uua country ana in to-' then discovered, to bis horror, that

10 ,“ n Adjoining room but in the dry season in Mexico, they were all only clover imitotiona.

medical attendance noon arrived. Heavy rains follow great batUes fought worth nothing. There was only the , r — expressed to the Duehees the ln umee of drought. The rains follow- 1 pom. worm a&mt Ate), for oomfo.t. H- I every white family naming into their , 1 “ >l T™’" I ing battles are g. nerally accompanied j bail been swindled cleverly ont of flf- reaper live counties wjTh forty acres of No, said the dying Duke, with thunder and lightning. The the-1 teen hundred rupees. land rent free fer five years.

‘ “““f 4 i 60 ?™ 3 ' _P*«. <l»Rger*a« ory „( nun generally seoepted by phi-1 The only th itered to the hilt Caroline, are yon . losophere is that it is prodneed by the to do waa to i . union of two bodies of air, one of which | hands of the i

fldcr than the other, and both satn- J taring the

dying mam The Duke then cailed his infant daughter. She was si brought in aaleop. He placed ' upon her head and said: “ Po may you be lees unfortunate

rest of your family."

One of the physicians, M. endeavored to restore cireu.

sacking the wound, “What are yon doing? exclaimed the Duke. "For God's sake stop; perhaps the dagger was poisoned." The chief physician, Dupnytren, as a last resource, ondeavored to enlarge the wound, thatthe J plain hoi blood might flow externally. The | mix witi Duke, his hand already clammy with j them. 1 the damp of death, ola-ped convulsive ly the band of the Dochess as ho bon

tno painful operation.

‘‘Spare me farther pain," said ho. Then, tenderly caressing hia wife, hi added, “ Caroline, take care of yountel! , for the sake of the,infant yon hear in \ anuet your bosom.” Hia father, then Gonnt i latent d'Artois, snbsoqnently Charles X., end I brother, the Duke d’Angon- . —A arrived, with other members

of the royal family.

In faint and dying aeeenta tH* TVin-Jf

inquired : ■' Who ia

_ - • v -fjjb j could see mm to inquire motives. Perhaps it is some m I have unconsciously in- — Vould that 1 might live long ally jngh to ask the king to pardon him. [ hum Promise O’* lev fat),** oecmise me I

my broil

of that n _. Increasing difficulty of respiration warned the Prince that hia last hour was at hand.' A few words, in whinsssrtsis e Dueheesl^Soon after, Ulegitimrte children, who were ^ to hmi in London, when the fatnHe had ever recognised these children, d they had been tenderly eared for both bim and his amiable

New and Then,

The difference between the way Congressmen live in Washington now and flve-and-twenty years ago. I* graphically told by Maj. Ben Perloy Poore “ Flve-and-twenty years ago there wer seldom oter five-and-twenty Congreacmen woo brought their wives to Washington and kept them there daring the sessiou. Up to about that time tire Senators and Representatives usually lived here in what they called ‘measea’ From half a dozen to fifteen congenial ipirita noa'd take rooms at some board-ing-house, wi'h the understanding that oo one else waa to be admitted, and ” party teas formed a fami’ - circle, many of Press ' messes ’ no ladles w tolerated, while in others the chief

wife of some Bent

s, who was virtually queen of the establishment. - Waa i be wondered at that so many Congressmen need to rites the evenings In ‘ fighting tbe tiger at some of the oomfortabls gaming-bella on the avenre o Tala at tbs gorgsonaly-flttsd n t ion a vety immoral city, and m . ittei'eet failed to preserve the from temptation. Nowadays matters have changed. There are to'n ’Washington forty-five Senators :t seventy-two, and one hundred ix Bepressatativi dred and thirty-five.

Congressmen keep ihted by the social of home, while the otaere hotels or boarding-honsea, agreeable eiroles are fo ' - *■—*— -nd twent also here daughters who [go into society; —mica by female rela- , nd thirty hgve • them children too young to go out the onoceaaora of men who naad to . balls, or ith their idsi' ' Pune Taut.—A scrap of - ‘hia wins was overheard m a Hows buainsaar ■' Dull I Awfully dull I” “ Doing any advertising?” “No ; look ’em all out a month a* " How long an * '

After we ! the Trimountain wo nsa religious servioes every day—one day in English, one day in French ; and all the rescue!! officers of the Yille du Havre and the passengers we -e regularly present. No v ords cud render the meek and snbmisuvo attitude of the ladies nftei the eatas.rophe. The poor mothei whoso four children had gone down, almost dead with cold and fatigue, told mo, when we met on the Loch P "The Lord hod given me those tittle ones ; he takes them awa witi aubmit to his will." It will comfort the numerous friends of the unfortunate and bereaved paasen-

ro of tho i

The Island of Cuba.

Tho number of inhabitants in Cuba, says a New York paper, is about r —" lion and a quarter. Tbe Creoles ber 570,000 ; the Spanish, 105,000 : the *—i colored persona, 172^000; and

colored slaves, STS,

rly hated

! oTe/aOO^OBO bogs-

i uolly exported ted States—or

1 1,041.055 be

Statistics heads of molasses

from Cuba to the United

ninety-seven per

of that article ; ana u,irsx,eo

mgsr ; and that daring the , tho purchases made there by the United Slates amounted to over 887,000,X», or eighty-five per cent, of the exports of the island. By way of red proeating this trade after the Spanish

fashion, the * —

every barrel of American !

In oonaeqnenoo of this policy, Cnba’i balaaoq,ofL " ‘ *

lo against 55,000,000.

A Flash of Lightning,

ind fled for help to neighbors. On their return they found he had out his

own throat

In the Territorial Legislature of New and the committees on Indian Affairs The speeches are made in Spanish, and all proceedings in both Houses are conducted through the medium of that language. The bills are drawn up in English and translated into Spanish. Tbe clerks of the Legislature net as in- -

terpreters.

A curious mode of fiah hatching is said to be foUowed in China. Having oclleotod the necessary spawn from tbe water's edge, tho fishermen place a ocrwhich ia sealed np with wax and put under a aitting hen. After some dayc they break the egg and empty the fey into water well warmed l>y the aim, and there nurse them until they are sufficiently strong to be turned into a Inks or The editor of Jfoore's Mural speaks f meadows which have not been plowd in 20 yean, and yet they yield not only heavy but first quality hay ; they u —' '—ays been pastured in early —, fed eloae, and occasionally harrowed and top-dressed with fine, well-rotted manure. Other meadows ire mentioned which have not been plowed In half a century, a dressing of lime onoe in five years' maintaining

Mr. Frederick W. £ Troy /Vcm, nt and distributed from Deoember 12, 1872, to December 12, 1878^8,284,288 a— - ‘ •'

„ 812 working days, gives

10,888 etna per day, averaging in round ' numbers 10,000 per day) with a little margin of 114,102. The highest number set on any one day was 17,485. For thirty-eight days Ur. Schneider act 12,000 oma per day, and for five weeks averaged 70,000 per week. For thirty-four weeks he set 60,000 ema. Tho matter

general nature, and outside of

.of the London

journal published in England, relates the following curious fact: “A man in hia neighborhood had three daughters'. Wishing for a son, he made a solemn vow that, if his next child ahonld bo a girl, he would never apeak to ber. The next child proved to be a son, as be * ad, but. curiously enough, ho would r apeak to hia father, although hi thirty-five years with him. He always talked freely with hie mother and sis ten, but with no one else until after the death of hie father, when he talked resdUjr with everyone. He was called