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VOL. VII.

CAPE MAY CITY, IjT. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEE 13. 1875.

NO. 44.

BUSINESS CARDS.

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Qgi>Tt:LS.

WtSHINGTON HOTEL! •rrmrtf ard mmmrr mrmmwn.

PHILADELPHIA PA

McMakin’g

ATEANTIC HOTEL, CAP® MAT, K. J.,

l«Mt that'a vhmt i . ■anoy, olcTtir, lormbls girin—o»U and no ckrabt thoj'ro right, though can’t go ao hr as to sgreo with th« whan the; doclaro a man owning to Bro-and-fortj jaara and a doaen whits baira dsctdsdtj nnanbls” and “fearfnUj

ray."

Howerer, an old bf bed, and I must oonfeas, if to acquire ■ *

POTTER A NIXON, ATTb j ' r ' LAW ’ W-WIII attend Ui« Owrla of Cap. Us).

JOHN It. UCmtAR, * >mey and Counaallor at Lam ceps May Court Houao, 1

ATTORNEY AT LAW AND MAS-

TER IN CHANCERY.

No.* patty War, Cap. UajOlty. Raw

WH. T. STEVEN*, [IHBIONEit Or DEEDS A! VETANCEIt,

SBWFiwiSr7 MASTER EM OHANCERT, Convwya racing, Doada, Bonda.Mort-

KEARNEY'S FHTH> EXTRACT BUG HU I.u»«5r*«rtiy» BRIO HT.XS PISS ASX,

KEURNEYSEXT.BUCNU

PIYE AND A RALE—PATCHED,

d inaewing that patch in, dainty; tha fact that tha the patch aractly matched that of the

Then I imagined her pond with her hands—decidedly grmce- * ' and altogether very attnctiso. I’ll wager aha ainga, plays, and danoea well,” I aaid to myaelf, ' would not patch her glore, o iotwear'kida.’" I must find her! AD rery well to eay, bat how to find erl A '* personal," if it met her eoft brown eyea, wooU frighten ao modoat a creature, and aha would he likely to hide herself inatoad of allowing heraelfto be found.

By Jore I where hare my'waa.been f '11 aee what Mrs. Midget aaya ;' ’

bar aide and a heap of stockings in Her There, my dear Mrs. Midget, ia tha glore. Yon will aee at once that it ia all my fancy pointed it;’’ and I placed it in

the landlady V little hand.

. Orer went the big work-baajeet floor, an Mrs. Midget, throwing herself

paroxysm of laughter,

ahanrdly

objection lo the title.

In tha find plana, my home

i a rery aenae of the word, although tthoot a mother, or oeeo a motherin1 oardipy, and i hero oempM Joij ib« poet year, a enito of remarkaldy pleaaont

the front window* looking on a

. . irk, and the back on a garden near going osar too, her al made delightful by two fine old pcech fcrt kicking wildly in the tree*,* hoary graperine, and a swodt Went, until Iliad restonid ‘"ngwiataria. The latter haaeiimbod ' '

. windows, and twining in and out of the elate of the ihnttore, effectually prerohtt my dosing them. Iipt gi' : ‘

’ i recompense great fragrant *

Theae cheerful rooms are part and . aroel of Mrs. Midget's boarding bonne. No, I am wrong. Mis. ttidgat-Mr. Midget wae loat it sea fife years ago— doc* ,not keep a boarding house, bat ' ikes a few select boarders, of whom she Wondntfhlly comfortable the “few •elect" find it in Mrs. Midget's shady,

one.

her cheoka. As I thought ao I detected the frag ran oe of rose apparantly Mnanaing from kijldol oT thread I held In my umd, and remembered the glore. •• Did yon drop the glore, Mrs. MidFtfai -

Inrariably sy, •• Isn’t aha awful conning t—ao lure in her ways and speech for anal roe thing, and ao pretty, with her iright blue eyea and yellow hair I” " it Maria, I can't dirine why, pro>

(Cbarlca, as near aa they oonld get ’ you're beginning to talk Hka a girl ad at your time of life too I" And I didn't feel ai all insnited ; forifaUgi-la talk as w*U aa my niaeea, I cnaide Oharlcy'a remark rather a oomplimeu 'tfelLMWgd knows how to fnrnish

abore reproach, bread and pie* marreln of onKnary skill, and tea and coffee— - .ally ocAAMMlea. ir Mrs. Midget herself, f a woman that I feel like-tangti. SMSECiaa** 1 ''

gems total! bom lb* real thing. The modus oprrandi of the ikfflfnl ehemiat, ■aya a Pari* correspondent, ia of

bling. M- I*e Due, the Parisian chemist, who baa grown famous in a day, has deroted yean of study to hia object. I am told that he deroted nine yean of time and two hundred thousand franca of hia wife's fortune to tha charcoal diamond burincea, but like hnndroda of others

Switaeriand, by a prooeaa of hia own lie hardened this, until of ilaalf it would nearly cut glass and would not abow a ’r on its anrfaoe. Then he constructed a battery ainiiiar to that used by the oopper and nickel plate workers.

„ . he die-mond-plated tha quart*, just aa the type — infacturor ooppor-plataa hia metal, or hia iron. With this difference, and in course, lies M. Ls Duo's secret, the quartz abeorba the coating ao that it is impoaaible for the oonnoiarour eren to toll where the quart* begins or the diaond ends. The chemist upon his first anooraa took a valuable diamond and one of hia manufactured articles to a well known broker in TalnaUee, and his quart* diadoeidrd the moat valuable of tha two. Whan told of the real state of broker would not believe it, and declared that nothing on rwth would make him beliovo that the quart* waa net a diamond of pure water. In the midst of tbe-aneoeas which has crowned M. Do Doe's efforts Domes an affliction terrible in itself. Hia wife, the daughter of a Paris merchant of good family, baa been

of the rmecrwi of the quart*, diamond became known, the poor woman laughter, followed by a yiohyateriea, and tho next day

"No," replied a]

of ihf Khl^'^dL* 11 '" ^"aT” horn nature has sought to for lack of other diariua iiy giva perfect hand, qjyi gnuidmothstill wears five and a half, though nplcxion haa.fiad acd hair departed. Yon know—lYn nors ofl.Hi

Wkat It Coats. The RVwess of Now York sn aa a daily rebgioua paper. Sol ■go the World waa started on I barn* bnt passed into ot

<’l»1

- ^ ' - -TOCT „. m „ b.ma.u;.«Tmii(t4y,fro«qaPla»d>, MUgeL fbag u,tra * bt o ' * ““ it2Sta

“Nona here for you. Colonel," ■ wered tho man The oohmal wi

are received and distributed, and when informed'that there was no letter him be exclaimed: 'Didn't I pay my .fifty cent* with tho

log’ shanty on th Tha third mail euno in and he was o d, two revolvers in hia belt and e bowie-knife run- down behind hi I'OoUar. Ary letter for Colonel Pink t" he ir qnired of the postmaster. No, colonel—nothing for yon," ar

“But there’s none for you,” replied ro man. “ I’d be glad if “ Don't talk to mo!" roared tho ooluoL “ Isn't this a poet-office t" "Tea.” “Well, what'a a poet-offioe fnr 1" “ Yea, and where'a my mail I Wbat'd pay fnr if I haint goiu' to git any letirsf" The pbatmanter waa trrieg to explain, hen the Oolonel took tho whole mail in is paw and walked off, eaying that no rowd of men could humbug him. He wouldn't giro tho lettara np, bnt ho liad jood traits about him, and I was shea “ Paradise " turned out and tity of tho United Btatce pishd ruU-e. might have shot him through tho _ , and then nrgiud with and onlight-, emxl him.--.V'. QuarTl Kao flood.

r*« a fat man, almost aa wide aa the oorridor door, and aa he came out of the newsboys whispered: What a sinker he'd make for a fish I” Your name la Rufus Jackson, is itl"

Bufas Jackson," wlieeaed the fat man in reply. And yon hail from Milwaukee I" Why, yaa—certainly. Lived there |wcMy-oight yeara." “ And yon ware drunk last night I" " No, air—no, air—I deny the charge totum. Never wae more astonished my Ufa, air. Perhaps yon hare taken e for aomo one alee." " Perhaps I have, Mr. Jackson, but if you weren't drank how oame yon to be lying flat ua tho walk, hat in the gutter, dial in th# street, and your feet spread overt And whan an officer raised yon up, Mr. Jackson, yon plainly and distinctly exclaimed: ' Zont g'wnvan’ lemme Tone I'll knock 'er bead off I' Would a sober man make such a' ra-

I waa bora of honest parent*, and my life baa bean one long epoch of reapaotabilily. I am fat. I'd give the world to bs lean, bnt I can't be. I can’t ran. Other man can skip and gambol, while I reap. loan'taing. I can’t whiatie. I am enthnaiaatln politician, bnt I boiler for the candidates on my , If I try in my voie*_marely 1 a sound like wind sobbing gb a corrugated stovepipe elbow. This aalhnu ia killing me by inches. • ador aayn that I may Uve to sea arriaa ooms again, bnt beyond that I dare not hope. Last night aa I

and if the officer* had not found me I should likely have bean robbed 'and in dead greatly obliged, . my remark™ without

bore the

list of these who would pay fifty oauta weakly, collected the first installment and hired a half-breed to act aa mail-carrier. Everything worked ail right, and " Paradise” would have been ' appy bnt for a giant miner called Oolonel Pick." He uaa down for fifty mta per week with tha rest of ua, end

at looking wistfully at her playwhon they went out with their on, but who never brought any . The child wan always nmU 7 but plainly clad, and one of the closest of atudente in school hours. The odd action of. the Child’s lasted for some rhon, one day, the teacher noticed he little thing had apparently brought her dinner. The noon hour and the children took their bench si and went out to eat it, tho little girl referred to alone remaining in om with- her dinner wrapped up er on the desk before her. Tho teacher advanced to the child and asked why she didn't go out to eat with the i, at tho same time putting out her hand toward the package on tho desk. Quick aa thought the girl clasped her

tefl, please I It's only blocks I"

dinner to bring, and too prond to reveal the poverty of her family, the child had carefully wrapped up a number of email blocks in paper and brought tho pack-

' preeenttbe appearance of a lunch.

An Army of Tramps, i the New York Sun. It is eetithat there are now wandering in the Middle and Now England States one hundred 'thousand tramps. By some, opportunities should enable them is regarded a\an under-estimate. It is, or, almost impoaaible to be noon* The vagabond habits of the chum do cloee knowledge of their numbers, and it is preferable for the pur-

umnd I red vagrants are enongb to awaki in all human and intelligent minda, feeling of intense commiseration. Me then this, tho gravest sppreheusinnsoi coming tile influence upon tho wi vagabonds, impelled *

twenty-five the United Stale* at tha peace in 1763; no oentora smaller villages in tho Eastern Btotes imported their goods directly from England ; as, indeed, it was the custom in part* of the Sonth (or flic planter* of a district to receive their annual supplies from tho old oonntriea and aend back their tobacco and other commodities In tbs name vessel Social distinctions were >w. Certain families, bare and there, had a pre-omineuoe conceded to theifi, whlefc rather grew out

i acknowledged lingly and accepted without pride, ere waa alow growth and steady •its. Take the colony of Connecticut example. •Three 'WyUytiaee of the u family ware Secretaries of Slate in eraatoa all the time bum 1799 to 0, and the yniddle one of the three Bitty-one ytrira. On« member of

of many civic virtaea, waa nhnoat a no aaity. Mon wore free, and felt themIvc* to be equal, but marks of reaped we voluntarily rendered to peruana in public stations. When on Sunday tbs

il they had paaaad through

The City frf Tripartite. A correspondent writing from Sonth marioassys: The greater port of Vriparaiao ia built on the face of a hill, ' hills, that rise quite audder -behind the bouses in tho mi ; for, though it bM originally be gnat hillaida, the frequent . as have an rest and riven it it has baopoe root and divided art* In attempting' IN n itlcula^bouae on the soaroMffio take the ri ing leading from the ahora, wise, after a quarter of an ho —_ you may find yourself a< panted Qw house you wish to roach by a iw valley ; and, -though withi (brow of it, unable to get at it without another

’Don't

; slid di

n* Ctrl at Heme. Suppose he does not oome. The old father dies, and the shop or the poteioee fail, and the brother takes to drir ’

born to be a wife and mother, -bnt nobody wants to many her. She takes •took of herself ; her capital ia frightfully small io carry into tho market. Her brother was educated to earn his bread and butter; beside the education, he had physical strength, the habit of friction with theerdwd, something which ha tilmaeil cans " cneex. ner eaaemahing, Turkish embroidery, pressed ferns, all go for nothing, when she comes to pnt a money value on her acquirements ; tho ebanoea are that her knowledge of literature or mnaic ia too general to fit her to teach. H she should teach, her salary, ox elusive of board, would

n trade, and tho probability is has not a particle ot either.

visited the penitentiary at Albany, ea aa follows: In the ahoe shopsthe manufacture ot ohoea, by contract, being the principal industry carried on bare—we find about five hundred men work. From one hundred to one hundred and fifty men are in each room, the constant supervision of a vigilooper. They do not have task as in other'prisons, but are expected to labor steadily about ten hours Here we first begin to appreciate the working of the system. These men seem mere human machine*, ao thoroughly hare tney been subjsoted to din- ' no. Not one of them dares permit . Their eyea are Lent downward i their work, their lips are closed, - hands ore busy. Even when the table baa been complete he does not venture to look up or oak for more, or

has five min ho must not with aught c

agent—soils ehromos, ail' she has to “pnah her way, ’' sif at first shrinking from, ever touch or word. Perhaps aft

is in big yel ont aa book silver-poliab.

to her brother by natnre^and gains o\ — the deatrabio “ cheek,"—most pitiable and woofnl of uJl snooeeaeo. Thorp are many trades, the lighter handicrafts, and above all etching, wood engraving, and lithography, with which, if she had been taught, she could have earned ho

occupy himself i wretched i Ate prisons:

who have no employment are pormilted beguflo their leisure by reading, tho bffikation of some little knick-k at they may sell to visitors, or in ark for the contractors, for which they receive pay- In tho penitentiary nothing of the kind in allowed. The prisoner nat feel thst during hia incarceration rty or more convict* emerge from ! tho shops and passes under charge of ropers along the smooth Intnmea (ward tho door of the oell hall. They march at a alow pace, with locked step, single file; each man’s left hand oust his breast, his right upon the snider of the one in front, all in cnee. The file leader leans backward against the one behind him, tbat close

iro Nelly se io tilings a

stamp when,

UhVcUd the.

■ point of view

^enormous centipede. At the j ho wilfthlnk of more things connected toward a keeper stationed there, j mention in two hours, may bo identified. One by one j n uow aty,. of kid glove is striped , sullen, or expressionless faces - f, om the ends of the Ougera to the wrist; t of the sunlight. One by one 0 | thorn are declared to bo hid- > swallowed up in the gloomy eml ^ „ ( or example those combining ao iron doors clanking and tho; y„Uuw and slate colors with black boltsBhootiugintophiceiifter each. They I stripes ; those in two shades of fawn are ““ i—i—.* -•■- r—- 1 | considered tho best combinatiouB. of these ugly : honest reputation ia within tho lactly a* this . [liae h of ,01 men; they obtain it by ao-

by doing thoir duty.

dioanta, but from o fear that their uumbora And depredations will increase greatly, ns tho requirements of their ox* - are inenwsod by the severity of or anticipate crowded almshouses; officials look forward gloomily to thronged jails, overburdened courts, and repression of orimo; charitable people in private life resign thomsoives tho prospect of their liberality being xed to the utmost for tho mere preeer,tion of the lives of their fellow cree-

ls Adult

ply New

HomsUod plains. Those who ore well Informed concerning the level lands of Long Inland, know that, aside always plentiful water supply oen involved in myatary, ig that the water found waa s:

York city

; more than aqoartor by the Now road; an eighth by the Harlem; by tho Hudaon River and the Now Jersey Midland. The farmoni on thcac roads were glad to have their milk ested. The watering is rarely done at he farm. Just where it is done is, of curse, one of the most difficult things o ascertain. If, for instance, it is perormod on a ferryboat crossing tho Hud ou iu the dim gray of tho morning, the tans which hold water that is to h dded have that water colored wit tnoagh milk to conceal the fraud at tl ime. Bat after the adulterated fluid >as reached the store* and minor depots rum which it ia retailed, its condition -osily detected by means of the lac* neter. Tho scale of this lustrum or nna from *oro to 120. If pltmged in inre water it sinks to aero; if pnt in firstate milk at a temperature of sixty deg. t rises to 120; if anch milk is mixed it equal parts wiih water, tho lactometer

and others that, as elsewhere oonmon, mo from springs having their source other spring™ in other lands. Bnt tne beat informed remained satisfied and inquisitive in regard tc ' ven distinguished geologist* fait

•et that even tha amis of the levels far to the i of Hempstead plains, showed, the most chrefnl analysis made by distinguished agricultural chemists, pre- ' r the same ingredients and in the proportions as tho black and dertnliy fertile soil of the Wei ‘ It i* now claimed, and wilhont a show of authority, "that canoed simply by a subterranean river— sheet of water flowing eoothwmrd

*U vsy p — D a lorg aeries of trials c here New York milk is

te officials of tl

the

healthy

attar how fed, whose milk when cooled sixty deg. marked lees than 100 with the lactometer. Carefully made trials drew » remarkable nailMmlty inatrnmont only shows the de* the milk; if thickened with aomo snbstanoe H might to the standard height after watering; bnt tho chemical examination of three hnndred samples of city milk has failed indicate tint chalk or aheep'a brains anything else hi

is been ont in the mountains, tend

Th# books advise a fire to awe them into keeping a respectin' distance while' yon slumber. File on tha well-dried pine which are strewn over tho ground. They wfli burn till a few hour* of dawn, and although the restless tread of

i* soft turf u _ lie down to pleasant dreams," though after a long day’* jsui)t the dreams very fortunately are apt to prove truant. But

fiery eyee gleaming o

" aide* at the victim whom the red g flames alone protect from being torn to pieces do not fill the brain with

of the fire bad expired, and although th* lyatdiqMnaf ~

Mates wqro: I saddled my

A MANSION OF SILENCE.

im on his bench and look patient ailenoo until the nstructor Bees fit to give mployment. Whether he

bote lin

e, the

He rode to town, and drove tweli Why don't Sweden have to broad for cattle I Because ahe or Stock-holm. Fcebhmena, either in planta or a .Vila poraAitic disease, whether ■al or vecetabieOTigin. Thirty-five tribes eootrurase «. perimens of industry to the Inc coition at Muagokoo, I. T.

A big or

w is set down for

nillion bushels being the estimate. Parisians are introducing tho Oriental aabiqn of staffing furniture'with aromaio herbs, which fill tho sir with ogree-

lIiIo perfume.

It costa fifty dollars to slap a Clove-

loal of money, b lea! of month. An Eugliah er

ipany baa purchased a

large tract of land iu Russell county, Kansas, near tho Victoria colony, for

agricultural purpose*.

A spendthrift says that he has lived beyond hia mrans so long that now he

There's nothing eo wonderful about nalleahle glass that can bo hammered. iruk.cn, though be has kept puneh-in-it

Thiers oo ^'ectnd eJ '

uf tho day. until i

ployed in it Although ix

II nil the e

rigid diaoipiiuo that prevails in tho shoo ' and the perfection of its enforoo-

■cu the women do uol dare talk or

look np at visitors. One woman here, i '' ' Rash, is a cariosity. She belongs

in Albany, and lias served pretty all the time during the lost past t< cars in the penitentiary, She has on convicted of any othr -

than drunkenness, and is not at liberty Genohdly she is oont to the institntio

t six months' sentences, so that sh anogra to have two spree* every yeai

life on week days in the penitentiary

tho same all th* year round. On St iya there ia a little change. Then t male prisonent are first marched the chapel hall and slowed in I

gallery, where they can neither aee I

ih up into the body of Uie hall, njjoea to hia plane in alien oe, and ajkeeper'a eye watches tho movements ' oe dnriug the aervioe. After e, convicts may read in their xl one of about 2,500 volume*. Twice a week there ia on evening school, ider direction of the chaplain, for such the prisoners as desire to attend, anil ve merited that privilege by their

conduct.

1! This kind of n

1 1 neither brilliant nor startling, but it is A hatter trying to fit a small boy with cap, said, after having bad him try ou to that waa nbont an inch too large for a head : " How does that fit yon I" Oh I" aaya the little four-yrau-old.

no better tonic than cheerfnl-

riy^aU "petty ! generally sot down as bonnet, contented.

The wi

ol the building,

odomr

The inmates a

i's cells ar

er, generally of

low class, and are in on abort aentenoea, that they probably lack that sense Led reaidenoo enjoyed by Um fen nviet™ at Sing Sing, and oonaequer re laas about making their oella

happy. Twig tho gentle mosquito, ae song ia heard moat while your blood ia being diligently andmalicioaaly Traveler™ in Brittany find a queer item _l their hotel bills—" bedbug poison." If they grumble the landlord shrugs his shoulders and. regrets tbat be did not w tbat montueur would prefer that insects should not be poisoned at I haven't eaten a mouthful in two days," said a tramp, " and my wife end o children are starving at homo." would give you eomething," tho philanthropist replied, “but I have ' “ring smaller than a flvo-doilor note." will change it lor yon,” said the ' lady leaving one of the summer re* hotels, was charged for an entire china toilet set, only one piece of Aich she hod broken.. She paid tho bill and, pleading the excuse of having forgotten something, returned to tho room and ke each and every article of the set ' Sir,” said Mr. Mogruder, addressMr. Mncgnffln at the boarding houaa net table the other day, “ do yon incline to favor tho theory of contract!ou

" If," aaid Mr. Mao* guffin, “you refer fa

in statistic*. They count now that dur ing the war therifoomeiuto France l.OOo,000 Gormans, but there were only 100,-

Battallon.

The Paducah (Ky.) Herald prints otiee which roods : “ AD the ox Oot federate soldiers iu the district ore can eatly requested to meet at Mayfleldbrlnging with him two day Wo learn that it ta decided that they will go into camp at Mayfield and make preparations for organizing a battalion, to be officered by Oroaland, Cobb, Baadle, and others, for tha pur^tbsajif attending in a body the Centesi- “ Philadelphia. ' '

time will certainly be the res oil jbject of the gathering is non-political in its character, and is intended simply u re-union of old comrades, for the purpose of renewing and strengthening the bonds of friendship formed during the terrible days of the war."

Own Mx m-snnvAjcT*.—M istreas (open-

ing postbag): "Four' you again to-day, Mary

had the pony by the star light. Be- stand il" Mary: "Wall, ma'am, I a Ih* (ua peeped ovs* th* pma ought to have give you notlci, but I >g*d UBa ou th* east aid* at Gold badvurttaad. You as* how good aarak I bad ridden fifteen milaa. | vsnta la sought aftaa."-JhaaoA.

Gennajp in ten fired away fi months and never hit any one, tenth fellow never fired but one

them as they ring the door-balL Daughters needn't look; maidens in love have bnt one eye, and most of tho time not

shuffling his feet. While indulging in tide pastime, one Sunday,-ho was told that it wae wrong to do ao on the Sab bath. " Oh, bnt this is the milk train was hia rejoinder, that being the only train through the town on that day. One of the remnrkable men of the

Ool Bethea. Ha is a lawyer, bnt has had only one oane in hia life. It waa hi* tint and last. Tha ease involved a largo amount of property, and hia fee de-