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CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1876.

NO. 7.

BUSIHEBS CAED8.

■MAC B. HKITn, Macebfnt T«Uor A DmI.t in Furnlihinf Goods.

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WASHINGTON HOTEL!

ATLANTIC HOTEL, cap* may crrr,». j. l WAT1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

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PERO U-ROU j

THE BELI0W8-HENDEE.

■ of tho ▼.Vrioas srticlos

of Earopr, of whioh, sided bj ny genetoos friesd, I took Advantage to make s bold speculation, wldch, if it fallod, vonld agsin plunge me into mlaeiy and porraty. bnt if euoooesful. would at least • while my

marriage became the subject of aal conversation; for, from the seel union ‘ bar convent, Aaron continued 1 lunoe my friends and myself. int of addreae and caution , ' *U the persecution against on; but it

ur marriage should

Aurora pleaded tbatc L e MDoOed. Umabl

lady highly esteemed for her exoellenoe and noble birth, warmly support- '—. while her father and hla friends dl their inflnaooe, and made every

ame of which would indeed have fallen upon the eagnvera. but by which I alone should be the aad and heartbroken sufferer. They even laughed at

ATTORnET AT LAW AN DM ASTIR Iff CHANCERY. NaB Parry treat, cap. May city, ffaw ». 1. r. LEAMINO, DENTIST.

) dud how completely Aurora's pride eoame her greatest poniehmen throng i the publicity to which it sul jeeted her. Bnt their merriment oonl not delay the course of justice. An 01 d« was tames] for my arrest, which only aseaped through the obscurity i which I lived. The day of trial arrived. Aaron dl mended a guard to attend bee to the tribunal, by which our marriage waa be'declared either null or valid. 8 ■arvd there in all the brilliancy had any trial drawn together ao large a of people; and her counsel

equally ms at the expensed Aurora. My own wishes, confirmed by the advise of my frieuds, determined Lyons and transfer my fu •» mj us

lion, and there I oonld employ my capital to greater advantage. Here your friend, the poor hello wa-mender, with one hundred thousand franca, and the credit of hit kind benefactors at Lyons, established a commercial house, which succeeded beyond hia utmost hopea ; and for five yean I wi " ' *

fortune, >1 though my me witneee that I have

ling departure from Lyons. He spoke of the extent of my i and inquired of the abbess

as ao happy

aential service toons of the first a of that city. Hia gratitude induced him to urge me strongly to visit him ; ted by an irrepreeaiblo desire to breathe again the tame air with my beloved Aurora. I wont with my own equipage and servants, in the beat style ; time my luxury waa not ~ being the fruits of my or ' ill happy and secure of its duration? Eren my old friends, th scarcely recognised me; so nothing to fear from cast Without appearing to evince too great an interest in the subject, I spoke ' the celebrated trial which had caused ntement throughout the city,

five yean before, and made i

qoiriea about Ann

id her family, as

ty. I years

I that her father died r

before, leaving hia affairs ii condition that Aurora was alqoet penni-

; the same time that, independently of the general interest she had inspired, her oondnet had been and

They observed, also, that the bel‘lad never disturbed hex attempted to reclaii rights of which he had been deprived. ’ could not listen to this recital withthe deepest emotion. Daring my yean’ residence in the capital, my thoughts bad been inonaoau ly occupied - s to acquire a fortune, in the regaining the sole object of my labors. But my return to Lyons, and lbs nnfeigned admiration of them “Poke of Aurora, revived with inoi the love which I had cherish for her. Tho foi my adored wife was forever press felt how utterly worthless would bo the fortune I had so labored acquire, should she refuse to ah ith me. And my child I alas I - iver to strain him to my heart I to enjoy hia infantile caresses, or ( perirnce those paternal feelings which imaginsllon pictured to me in such

-bould prevent me from meetln) At my dtiiirs, cue of the engnvt -cadded all her father's creditors, whom ( immediately, paid, and at the lime exerted myself to recover things which I knew lunw habit had d which I waa aure abe must regret My friend, the banker, bad spoken at

uncertainty, ran toward me. Oh, my friend, you may imagine what were my when I first received the sweet of my child! I covered his > with kimes. I could restrain myself no longer, bnt seising him in my ’ ‘brew myself at the feet of my hold your child! Tour son pleads for hia fathsr! Will you forrer suffer pride to triumph over aftaoWhile I pronounced these words, in a deeply agitated roioe, Aurora, taken by surprise, seemed reedy to ■ "• gaaed alternately upon me and my ion, who clasped her knees sa if to implore pardon for hla father. At length ' which the child,

hia plain-

replied by throwing herself into my ’ now not," she aaid, " wbethk again to deceive me, bnt your child pleads too strongly ii favor) henceforth, I am yours foi She pressed me to her heart, end for seme momenta we were Incapable of uttering a word. Our happinesa, the ca child, the tears of friend, and the solemn infinenoe of lace, all served to increase our e children," aaid the abbess, going upon nv with an aye glistening with will, I arc at, each fulfill your duty. Mr. la too ain cere to. prove a traitor, and matema love is too powerful in the bosom of An ■ora to suffer her again to become th, riotim of a foolish pride. May this mlon, so touchingly renewed in my ireeenoe, be more happy than the first; and may you long enjoy that felioity

HydophobU from the Bite ef ■ I Henry Murray was a laborer of so habits and healthy constitution, the night of October 10, 1875, while , iugs in the sub orbs of Brooklyn,!

The animal sprang his fire and bit him on the nose, than a slight scratch, ho paid no at lion to it. Tho wound soon healed, few days ago he felt a pain in hia n ant no thought of tho encounter with

he had taken a cold. All that night he complained of a headache, and of feeling languid and the next day waa quite ill, although he eon tinned at hia work. On the next morning his mpirmtion bolabored, and he swallowed with ilty, laying that hia throat seemed to bo closing against him. ' His friends became alarmed at tl Dr. John D. Sullivan tells the following story of the 1 waa called in and found hu but -looking quite well. Hut, while talking to him, he auddeuly jerked up, all his muscles going into a spasm. After telling moot hia difficulty in drink- * called for a glass of water and 1 it to him. Aa bo took it his id only with tlist ingat-

onth-

r excited asked hit

his throat contracted violently, together i all the muscles of hia body. The cles were affected, but the spasms ■ Herrons. After that was over he seemed as well as over in his life, except '' st he felt a roraucss in hia forehead, ■aid. At that time 1 knew nothing ont tho cot bite, and not liking to ghten him with any questions, 1 took ■ father and mqther into another d asked them if be had been bit! any animal. They aaid no, except previously, when he hac slightly bitten by a dog. While talking with hia father, his mother went back, however, and questioned him oi id he mentioned the spoken of n tho only

the sympt

coal shell and the

yat. of the latter of which there are two TOie London Times nays: Tho is shollow brass rusting, repre- > small lump of coal, about five mg by.three inches wide and twe and one-half inohea deep. At each end is a hole for clearing

their direct as by their indirect nsc. ey were probably intended to be oqn among tbs coal in the bonkers, and with it shorolcd into the furnaces of steam reasel. There they would explode under the boiler, and would prok ably by such mcuus cause the loaa of esc!. It is possible that the in-

cargoes. The coal shells were evidently ; carefully molded from a lump of coal, and when blacked readily deceive the "rata," of which there are two'

The Satisfied Lover.

" My dear boy,"

narrative which touched her most sensibly waa the payment of her father's debt, and my successful anilcavors to from the hands of the creditors Idea which had been dear from her childhood. My friend celebrated our reunion by a brilliant fete. Nr to hia bouse was ono which, although not Urge, wsa delightfully situated; and believing, from an accidental expremion. that it would lie agreeable to

symptoms were fully developed, I id him about it, and he aaid that * Uat two or three days ho had I

□t the spot, i

t any discoloration. I asw him again, and

f hia symptoms having become more ‘ ' > in e rery way, in spite of the re I had applied, I aonght a conaultawith another physician, and called r. Pilcher. I had administered rca with some quinine. Hie quinine 1 gave him thinking ho might not has recovered from an attack of malari fever ho had had some tune before. When Dr. Pilcher arrived, the «ym|

' lough the

species is intended to operate iron ships ; thoother upon wooden i

Tho •• iron ship rat" .

of iron known as " Kentledge," wl baa a hole bored into it in which is placed tubular boring tool containing an acid. On the top of the boring tool is a lever, with a weight at its outer end, and this

work to and fro borixontally cut out of the top of the Keut-

ledgfi. Tho lever is, of course, carefully boxed in, and the surface of the iron re stored. A confederate is required, who will place the machine in tho right poaition—that is, with the bottom of the boring tool downward and on tho iron

vessel. Being so placed, tho

rolling of the ship censes tho lever to move backward and forward and tho end of tho tool to cut into the ship's pUtcs, the action being promoted by tbo acid and by a alight pressure given to the boring tool oy a spring. The terrible recess may bo somewhat slow, but is

sty sure.

The wooden ship rat is a more comlex machine, and possibly more ingenious. It co mi lets of a box, in which aro placed a pair oi vortical cylindcra, one j

at each end of tho box, and spaced about ! ' Think twice ‘ tho two, ia a horizontal cylinder, haring aaid Fred, a a piston working in it, tho rod passing —always did 1 through a stuffing box. Tha outer cud married in thn of the pinion tod works a ratchet drill or lows, how I u» auger, tha auger being weighted. The era, I mean, n rertical cylinders are each half filled the yonnger u

After a two years' sheer Europe, I dropped int old friend Fred Jolie. artist in tho illumiiiating off graceful adornmenta quaint letterings st s moment's noFaet is, Fred couldn't do anything that required time and thought hia inspirations conic suddenly and gi Ho waa at work when I entered, ant nuch engrossed that he'did not heai ; ao I took the liberty bom of ok ipanionship, and glanced over hii in exquisite photograph of a young 1 very pretty girl lay upon the desk, 1 Fred was rapidly sketching one ol fanciful borders—in which Cupid in ions disguises and not disguised a! all, floating loco veils, and orange buds id blossoms formed no inoonaidorable

share—sround it.

Hallo! Fred," aaid I, Hallo! yonrself," retorted he. "Wait nstant tUl I twine those honeysuckles id this bowYmd arrow, and 111 look

ipon of tha boy-

block j god was properly festooned, and then Fred, springing from his chair with an exclamation of surprise, seised my hand and shook it until my Tory shoulder

back | How well you look !—bearded like a parti. And what do you think of that!" pointing to the picture. I oxaminol it. A tall, slender blonde, with fluffy lair hair, large, well-opened eyes—blue, I supposed—slightly aquiline nose, pouring lips, arch expression. " Altogether charming," wa

verdict,

You're right," shouted Fred,

osi d-o-g. Well, at the sight of alum boring infant spark kindle* grown-up flams, beside which my pssinon for Evaduo ‘paled its ineffectual • fire,' I asked her to-be mine. She laughed; promised to-give mo an answer to-night. I'm aure it trill bo 'yea,' and I'm the hap—I say, old chap, I hope you've got plenty to eat, for I've the combined appetites of at least flve-and-forty of the very primest wildest*." Saturday brought me an invitation to Fred's wedding, written in hia moat acratrly style mi the beck of a tailor's bin, and pleasingly illustrated with a design representing Fred himself, with his hands tied behind his back, standing

beneath a baiter.

» night, nine o'clock. Only a lends to be present The dear girl wishes it to be as quiet as possible, being the shyest, most shrinking, aa weU aa the prettiest little creature in the

world."

"WeU," said I to myself, "love is lot only bUnd, bnt stone blind. Rosalie ' struck mo as being anything rat 'vhy;' and the idea of oIHing her little,' when she must weigh a hundred iml sixty at tho very least, ia absurdity itself, and could never have emanated cm any brain but Fred'*" Sunday evening found ms at tho door walked softly up thoaiilo to my destined lest, tbo wedding party ranged themelvee bekro the altar. Bosalio must indeed be a shrinking mature," I ejaculated, aa my eyes fell ipon the figure of tho bride, “if she las shrunk to that size since tho evening Fred dragged me into her presence;" idal veil feU gracefully around irm, and the wreath of orange just touched tho shoulder of

o pole—Tha telegraph

named hia first

three boys America, United Slates apd Christopher Columbus, and a new comer

be has called Centennial.

The daughter of a Michigan banker ia aaid to be singing in a Lafayette (Ind.) beer saloon, because shbXpiarried con-

trary to her father's wish**

The people of San Francisco show a growing fondness for reading. Over twenty thousand books have been stolen from tho'Mercantile library in one year. TandorbUt University at NashviUo now has 300 students in its medical department, 160 in the literary, thirty in the theological, and twanly in the law. Lot ns carefully observe those good and endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is fjnltyjud imitating whqt is ox-

yon every day with tho re forget that worsted," jtn her tho pretty girl who to

ed counter where you got the last. According to a very ancient English rhymester, when Christmas falls on Bat nrday the winter shall be full of great tempests, that shall slay both man and beast; fruit and com shall fail greatly,

people perish.

mention t*

great, and ri

r night before last—Sunday; re with her on the spot. She * ia picture to-day—Tuesday, oposo to her to-morrow—Wednesday and hope to many hei ' '

iek is out."

" Isn't that rather a rash asked. " ' Look before ■ Many in haste and repent

id to pity 'em l-*-the iort the sisters; checked by raibcrs of the family, and

thought the steam bath

that oould help him. However, were no facQitiea for it there, and when I went to the police station ft —ibulanor, intending to take him to the ■IBittlilllljWMrtr be had, || haostlon. There was, daring his low talc, more or less spasmodic he muscles end a continual a ion of foam—" sputum " we aronld call t—in hia mouth, which Boomed to choke

i him wfaso he tried i throw him into the sj . afraid of any fluid, bi - low it, the attempt

it of hia throat he would be all He became delirioua, and

with w horizontal cylinder by pipea, each hav- j ncra ou Sundays, with prospective ing its own pipe leading to tho end oi j father-in-law glaring over the roost, and tho horizontal cylinder ncarcat to it ! prospective mother in law smiling over The consequence is that as the ship rolls j tho pudding. No, no; not any lor zir. the water alternately quite and returns 11 meet a woman, and in an hour I know to tbo vertical cylinders, and, acting lirat j her os well as 1 would in years' aeon one side of the piston and then on tho i quaiutance—perhaps better. Why, then, other, communicates a reciprocating should I beaitate to make love to and

ia converted into a rotary moth

weighted'anger, anil in time a . bored through the planking of tho ship, which gradually fills and may he loot ba'ore the seat of the leak is discovered. Provision is made for tho release of th< rager directly the hole baa been bored

silently drops through into tho i

Thus tho hole ia not plugged by tbc

auger ami the ends of villauy defeated. Should the hole bo dl id t|ie box be examined there’

vices for giving effect to on foulest offenses against society. How to Save. the Ledger to ia to begin with t begin at once. ! poverty to riches who scorned in small things, and oonld comprehend the value of a single o< dollar, ia a wise and noble thing f him to do. Haring thna actually saved 1

your old pipe—it's on tho top deck there, ucatly enveloped in i —and toll mo how you lelt tho boys in Franco, Germany and Rome.'' Ou Thursday evening, hurrying homo to dinner, whom should I run again or,. more properly speaking, who shot run against me. but the irrepressible

Fred !

I scanned him a moment. Bine neel tie, gray kids, no cigar, and a bouquet. *e done it!" replied he, le by the arm, and harrying me along, n spite of myself, in a contrary diroe Jed to my chops and ato sauce. " I've done it, and I'm happiest fellow in the world. You ' t bo introduced to her. I'm only to stop a moment to give her.these flowers; then after dinner, which lU take with yon, if you'll ask n-.-,». H goto sue tho lovely Neilaun in Juliet ■ Oh, would I were a glove upon tha' "—By

lashes, ol

pealed forth the "wedding march." Fred, with his head erect, and hia bride 'on his arm, turned toward tho church She was neither blonde nor bnrnctte.

ca hall hidden by long dark nut hair worn in abort childnmall straight nose, a tiny

rosebud mouth, and a sweat shy smile. Fred oanght my astonished look as ‘ passed, and at that momtet a dozen two girl friends stopped the bride to most smother her in kisses. "It's all right, old fellow," bo aaid, hurrii “ Rosalie loves another, and Effio—ii shea darling 1—met her at Newport

1— Good-bye. IT1 expl

irgioia City CAronicfc

ictures erected by tbo city: Between fights u industrious si *

the Chinamc

Just now ho is turning his el building, and like bis flghtinf

if far enough to occupy a third of the rordway. The front clovaliou (height five foci) is composed of of stono picked up a neighborhood. The ono window is rmed of three oil cans—two upright id tbo other bud acroa " ' 'Tbe roof of this edifleo—w! frontage of about twenty-fit depth of thirty or more—would make handsome playground for a school, ; ia perfectly fiat and composed Tl ini ll > nil ill the reporter himself up to fqor, is divided little d< saloon, with earthen floor and o n window, The place is shortly be opened as a restaurant, provided tbe police don't interfere, which the do. Tho idea of fitilixlng oil building material has been eagerly seized by other Celestials, and the consequence mere us fire-proof slumtii-s. The tilled with earth and piled

ragh anc^triflca as l out of^consider!

red into a parlor, where a lady a ■at*- ! before tbe piano. She slowly i volved as-we approached her, pud, good hearens! it ins not Eradnc. This lady large, finely formed brunette, with -bright, almost .bold, dark eyre,

bis shaven head to dig a trench rect the water of the street down tl

and many A Venn*

place of an, ostrich

Ilia fai

1 buy h

a plume

she killed tbo wolf that onoe awitchm^tbat tail at mosquitoes. An ohl aalt, when naked how ho felt during a boveregain which he encountered at sea, uud during which tbo ship was in great peril, replied, in all sincerity and simplicity : "Why, I thought, what will tho poor fellows on shore do now 1" " Tho boy at tbe bead of tbo claas will state what were the dark ages of the world." Boy hesitates. •• Next, Master Briggs, can you tell mo what the

re before spectacles w*

place?" asked a lady of a girl whom oho " Very well, thank yon." answered thn girl. "lam glad to hear it," said the lady. " Your employer is a very nice lady, and you cannot do too much for tho innocent reply. Hot Springs, Ark., keeps np ita round of nniqnc amusement* The local paper thus advisoa its readers: Go up to tha park to-day and witness the bear rob tbe

Hlrange Death,

y, England, there largo and fashionable aaaemblag j t readings by Mr. Hnaeey, an elocutionist, and occupying one of tbe front is a fine, portly gentleman, i ilisbury. While ono of tho fine lections—" Tho Death of Paul Dombey"—jras being read, Mr. Hussey noticed that Mr. Salisbnryws him fixedly, in .a peculiar sitting bolt upright. Toward * the second pert tho ooncinding word. Tennyson's "May Queen" were being spoken, when, at the references to death, Mr. Hnaeey glanced toward Mr. Salisbury, and observed him in tho same posture, hia arms folded his breast, and hia gaae still Tha reader stopped, and tha _ around Mr. Salisbury, seeing his death■":o hne, instinctively retreated. Two quickly arrjVed. and examining

quainted with the 1 bird. There will also be skating iu the evening. An unwilling juryman recently ex-u-od himself from servioe by a letter, f which tbo following is a literal copy: Sir—As I am a Fanrlnor and my leugwich Danich I am not ottol oompitint of io Englieh lengwieb to be a Jewry man id my oontloua da not allow, mo to an. An answer rcl obUght." Thirty years ago or more a clock in a neighboring city boro the following appropriate inscription on it:

is parts of Germany o lined during the on •wa of poplars, or of branches of which latter bend beneath tbe weight of the fruit. A. fine of three - ia tha penalty for plucking the benefit of their foresight in making shade trees ml id profitable. The giving of scholarships at Amherst lie on*a more eriti ' ' AH who apply f* including what they ea gifts, and all their no tuition, furl, room rent, hooka, all incidental expense* They must also pledge themselves not to expend anything for tobacco, liquors, bi

»t extravagant conocita who may, daring e> . twenty-four hours, bo -icon at regular times standing about the railroad depots in Louiivillo. For several months past ho has believed himself to bo the general finpcrlntcndent of Iho railroads leading into the dty. In his madness there la method He bee (be schedule of every railroad committed to memory, and is on time with thn arrival and departure of every train at the various depots in tho city.. At 3:30 r, k. he is st the Shortliue depot to see that the Cincinnati train gets off all right; a few ir inn tee later he is at the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis a*«l Ohio and Miosiarippi depot, and thenoe ho goes " ' Nashville depot, thna making the