STAR OF THE CAPE.

yol. vni.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1876.

NO. 15.

A- L- HATHES A CO.. . Mucaunamm or^iifwARit. nnrarorm. itkateea.

Sto, ( BEHT^'Si

Addm* t> Airm. r. BE&TTY

COKTRACTOR8 * BUILDERS-

WASHINGTON HOTEL!

■chakhtm ATLANTIC HOTEL, CAP* MAY CITY, N. J. jS^Sr^l

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

POTTER A MIXON, a,3T9PW*Xs-at-i./ i A mBMMwb vr.

W. P. BEDSTKOM,

CAPE MAY CITY. K

CUx Mar Coua Ib>DM. N. J. . IMwl

ATTOR NET AT LA W AN D MAS. ’ ' TfeR lit CHANCKRT. No. 16 Perry Slrfat, Oay« Mar Olr

»M-J.» . LEAKING,

BY KWJ m ctuxoxbx, q^yayaflolnA, Daod^.Soada.Morr-

SMDFIIICiFE

LDCDLLDS: A STORY OF ANCIENT ROME.

long train of Camilla, aooompaaiod by anlaring the city. The Roman aoldiera

cried : >• RaU to thee, BUansal” taonllaa, my (rued," he replied, hat wind hath blown thee to Jeni-

fer while thou tanicst inJeraaalom thon •halt bo my gneat." 'jSp bd 4J," replied Laonllns;

- - --.j V.-l I me -paeBing yrare nave ten temr J

traoea nooii thee. Rilanua"

upon thee, Hilanna. 1

Aye, and on thee. LnooUnn, bol.

whence comeet thont’

Roman waa a pronder title then to be king. But then there waa no er in Rome.'* t leat, Lncollna, I eee to wh

the gods keep un rrom carm. “The gode deetroy Urn, eaj I.’ ' Loeollas, thin ia treeem. I hare no man hear thee speak time bit•«>J- ' “ to the

‘Aye, banished I That waa that en to the imperial order. I charged with sedition, and they would hare seised my relates and rads on' to poTcrty. I, who had givan my _ aarly manhood for the glory ol <; I, who had gloried that I waa a Roman. It waa the intention of Bcjauue to crush me to the wary forth, but for once the Senate wan no. aub errient to I waa simply lined and ho dt dust of Romo fn

sought thee at Antioch, bat thon — abaeut, and 1 followed thee to Jenualem, , u dc±i

dill the tone friend thou

day* gone by."

may the god. forget Manus

Oan ha forget the happy dajw of our Tmth, Imonllua, whan we laid try I be

..... .'.i.

'•Alas I LncnUna. in iry “

™-m, . .—uu again opoo the bmikj of' - , ' ro

the Tiber; I hear the woloo of one dear-1 **‘*f“* f***' 1 ?* •*•••# 01 or than life to me, end I awaken to el- ‘““‘J- and bed been Jowly welkin £

loathe the dntiee that

fkom all I lore."

"TU iNwotifni Amelia return,

derotion, Bilanus. I saw her op the my departan; she mmmntty _ bennd prity* to the gods, daily, for

R^n«il^dllWfi£tr

1fa one ao npbla and 'rirtuoneae thy wife.'

eqnaro end on 11 broad steps leading np to the temple. he higbeet step stood a ma addraadng the people. He J, but of a noble end ingpreecnoo, while hit Yafae Ip its

ment of the Revelation in 1770, ninety-four year, had paand away; the Immigrant, from Wide had been alow

aa Whither I know not, A to the old faith.'' " Why, what said he to make eo deep

the ful Ailment of e oontra. i man agreed to amigo I another all hi. earthly ]

of (30,000. The oircumetanoce

lea are aa follows:

John P. ‘Mom., or " Doe.,” as be

■a familiarly mlln

sen of I roc ton, Ohio,

a, but wi

Aid the beer gardens about Front ‘ met. He waa drawn to that part city by hit intimacy with friendship for John If. Mueller, ~ me Vials atone man, it is supposed, he ia known to hare beoom creditor of Mr. Mueller for large X nrioofl times, nary, 1871, ho was i of his periodical "sp d one Saturday afternoon that Morris, Mueller and several other soAlices were having son Mueller made the hessfr oonld buy Morris and own him Morris acquiesced . . proviso that he ahonld gh enough money for the proprietorship. Mueller then proposed that Morris him an his worldly pniwMaiona, a, g In return to give him an annuity of (30,000 as long as ho lived. Morris, otherwise, agreed drawn up between them a duly witnessed by those present. MuelMorris (00,000, secured real estate, and to bo included transfer of real and personal pr stocks, bomb, securities, etc., hi ably thought the venture a aa: At Ml eventi, hi was to impressed ttsa advmntago to sccroe to himaeif the transactio lawyer, had h

o hia ut the one trad

day—Sunday. Aaeeoority forMnallcr'i payments Mueller wra th execute i mortgage to Morris open the whole real . (7,300, the firat iusUllmeut on Ujno, Is be paid iu. addillon at the time of the execution of the papers. Subsequent to the making of this agreement, Morris want to Ironion, and through his attorney corresponded with ' i attorney for ICntler, miking to have i terms of the contract changed in carnrrapesfn. He wanted the amotmt id aemimannally instead ol quarterly, lalao demanded additional aecnrity it end above the property whiohhe ■ to transfer to Moeller. Moelli

. with hia $7,500, intent on making Morria eoo.pt it. Morri. evaded him, however, went to Now York and embarked for Walra. wilhont aomplding the contract. He died in Wales on

to remind terity of the cause of ao many da that the year of the greet plague might never be forgotten. The sights of liondon in 1365 moat have been inch as could be realised only by those who raw them. "la this lamentation never to end?’* exclaimed Ifaeiha Steadman, aa and saw the multitude of dead bodies carried into the churchyard of SL Botolph'a, A Id gate. Martha lived in Whitechapel, and faithfully attended the lick wherever there was any hope of recovery. This morning abo was has-" tening to a phjxloiau of AUeragate for a fresh supply of medicines, snd all the way her mind wra occupied with solemn thoughts of the dire calamity *t»at had overtaken the city. Martha returned by Fetichurch street, ft ho had not scan a except a shivering woman standing in a ing a Are that was kept continually btuning at Austin Friars. As she spproached AW gate aim heard a voice speaking in accents of terror, snd followed by moans and lamentations from people in deep distress. On taming into Aldgate she raw the people from whom the noise proceeded. The street was filled, some standing, others sitting on benches, and lying on the ground, aa if smitten

With think how easily I might keep it. in it are too busy to trouble themselves about me. By .the time the plague la gone, all who know anything of this will probably be in another And so I kept the money. I rot what became of the good r. for he waa indeed a good man.

Martha became deeply interested, and

1 The day of the Lord is at hand 1" : thundered forth by a voice so powil, snd yet so terrible, that all other nds died away in sUcuoo before the ds were fully uttered. It waa the re of Solomon Bagle. Martha lifted her eyes and saw, in the midst of the people, a man stripped of clothing, but girded round the loins, and carrying burning coals on his head- “ The dsy of the Lord is at haul!" he cried again. Vengeance is to Vo executed on the children of men. The smoke of their inrqnitiee has gone up to heaven, snd

’ of God' •• • • •

re earth I" Suddenly there was uttered by several women bo-

hind the preacher. A corpse was being carried to the churchyard, and the eight of the torch that preceded it, though

_ some women already overcome

with terror. ' “ Weep and howl I"

"for the desolation

of the earth. The land monrneth In day of trouble and rebuke. Hushed

loomb," "What I” raid Martha, Mr. Jaoomb that was manager to Mr. Bates of Lombard street7" "The me," ho answered, with s faltering ague, "and our good minister was r. Steadmsn, of St Martin's, Organ.'' M.rtba Steadman heaved s deep sigh, ra silent The sink man fell back □g in his chair. She rose to help und, by means of a cordial, ho was

Steadman," said Martha, calmly, " la gone to the bosom o( God. He was nnable to leave the city for want of money, and was carried off by the plague." He sick man groaned deeply. “ Hot," continned Martha, "I am his widow, and I forgive yon, Mr. Jacomb." " It ia enough," said the sick man, snd with ~ *' ’ilo to take from his pocket the two hundred pounds and give them to Martha. This effort exhausted his strength. He fell beck in ' chair. Martha clasped hia hands in

In the United or of Welsh in

States is as follow 82,974; New York, 21,840 ; Ohio, 24, 810; Vermont, 1,350; New Jersey, 942; Maryland, 800; District of Columbia, Virginia, 100; West Virginia, 300; nessee, 200; Massachusetts, 600 ; Maine, 300; Indiana, 200; Illinois, 2,085 ; Michigan, 400 ; Wisconsin, 18,a, 1,746; Iowa. 2.265; Missouri, 2,195; Kansas, 1,760; Nebraska, 200 ; California, 2,000; Oregon and Territories, 500. tere was no Wei nil settlement in ric-s before the days of William t. Among the first settlors of Pennmis who landed in 1682 were a largo

drunkard's song. The earth ia being [ number from Wales, mostly Quake: msnmedbytho breath of the Almighty, from the vicinity of Dolgellau. Mr. Repent and tunl from your iniqnitiee, i Froude, in hia history, informs os thsl

stayed, and that God may yet

Martha Bteailman

proceeded through Aldgate towards ' In Whitechapel. She had i listen longer to Solomon Eagle's terrible denunciations of Divine wrath. Martha Steadman had got to the cirole of the congregation befot spoke to any one. She waa bent a ting homo with all her might, who attention wra arrested by a pale-faced .1 himself on his fa plague spot wra on him, and a dread had overwhelmed him. ntteringthowocdaof Job: "B

■ ' ye my friends I Have for the hand of God

hath touched ma." " Take a draught

bo tie," exclaimed " "

producing the medicine- 1 ' * it greedily; but ther ‘ ' well aa

in their native

plague spot U] on hia body.

wrath l" he repeat-

ed, with all the energy he wav able command. “Wrath, indeed," i Martha; " but the preacher whom; have just hevd is an enthoriaat. ( has, indaed, cause to be angry with «rn lessons by hia jndg-

ybt give oa tunc f

acres of Und near the city of Philadelphia, and that the immigration continued for many years, until they had several townships. Many of these wore man of means, culture, and iuHuence. Welsh churches were orgamxed, Welsh chapels were built, and Welsh

addressed large andt

In the early days of the city of Philadelphia, the Welsh language waa freely spoken in its streets and market plaeeo ; snd today, among its beat oitisens and •most cultivated scholars, there are hundreds in whose veins runs pure Welsh blood. They lave lost their language, but their Cambrian namco tell the story of their origin. In the early history of Pennsylvania we find the names of many eminent Welshmen. Among thoae were the Rev. Able Morgan, anthdr of a Welsh concordance published in. 1730 ; David Lloyd, a prominent lawyer and chief j taboo ; Ellis Pugh, a noted physician of Philadelphia, ami snthor of the firat Welsh book published in America; Thomas Lloyd, flfst governor of Pennsylvania ; Dr. Thosaa Wynn, the firat speaker of the firat Assembly ; Rowland Ellis, the celebrated Quaker ; the eminent Oadwalladen, snd others

Ever Heat Acting, turfmen having killed a pig, snd not wishing to divide with his ' rs, as wra the custom, said to (who, by the way, wra a ran of

The Uw uhder which Belknap, of the United Stales War de ' ia to be tried ia ra follows 1,781. Every member of

" Pat, if I give the neighbors who .ve given to me a piece of my pork I'll ,ve none for myself. Oan you tall me lat I am to do ?" " Bedad, air,” raid Pat, "it'a massif

" Good,” said tbs Yorkahireman, rubbing hia hands and looking at Pat. " Now tell me what I am tu do." "Faith, sir," said Fat, "sure and when the orathur is olaned just be afther hanging it l _ ivory mother's eon of them will a. and early in the morning, before ooe ia about, get pig and hide it aw that the pig was shtole." "Capital ides, Pat 1” soil the Yorkahireman. *'1*11 do it."

place of the government, or any department thereof, from any officer of the United States, for any person whatever, or for giving any such contract, office, or place to ^y person whomsoever, and every person who, directly or indirectly, offers or agrees to give, or gives or bestows, any money, property, other valuable* or tiou whatever for procuring, or ait to procure, any snch contract, office place, and every member of Gong who directly or indirectly takes, reives, or agrees to receive any moi property, or other valuable conaidera-

ir decision on any quea

might see it. The countryman anxious- getjon, vote, ly awaited the approaching night, and tion, cause,

at last retired tobed,butnot to sleep. ^ pending, or may by law, or ana Pat, under the cover of the darkness of j the Constitution, bo brought before hi the night, crept round the house and jn his official capacity or in hia place S *Tfce*astanishm t of th Y kahiie- ‘ i °* Congress, "hall bo made

hide sway the pig bnt fonnd no pig there, can bo better imagined than described. Pat came in with his “ Top o' the mornin' to ye, sir," and giving him

a knowing wink, said :

" Master, how about the pig T" " Well, Pat, the pig was stolen in

reality."

“Faith, and that ooanda just as natural as if you had lost your pig,"

said Pat, with another knowing wink. A Miserable Han. *' Hot, you blockhead, I tell you the ] NMt ^ (j, a chi pig woo stolen." _ j the most interesting object to “Faith, and the sorra a bit o' m e pi,in is a man in a dry goods at. thought you could act so well. Just ]; for hi „ vI(o ^ g,, through with her ■‘.-.a *• “ i U '* „ . t shopjdpg. Seeing her balance grace

fully

fined not more than (10,000, am such eon tract and agreement may, at the option of the President, be declared absolutely null end void, sod any member of Congress or officer convicted of a violation of this section shall, moreover,

"Bat,"

shiremou,

“Ooh!"

jor nabor

bit of it they'll get. I

now irate York-1 ig was stole::.”

■stick to it, si j 7°°' “‘J * I the floor by dutohing s

Ik dross, end fs

'k^lr to

7 B : the "sideboard." Then ho follows her

ooutu ao it so wen I I to the next department, steps

British Sky Rockets.

The mayor of Philadelphia has re- ! powder; then

eeived a letter from 0. T. Brock * Co., ; corned while his wife amiloe sweetly pyrotechnists to the Crystal Palace, a good looking clerk with hia hair parted Sydenham, England, in which the latter in the middle, but when she mildly sugpropose to provide for a display of fire- goats to him that ho may take the elovaworks upon a magnificent scale for the tor tag the fourth story, end ask Miss Centennial. The probable cost of the SlawsRi, the dressmaker, which would display will bo (15,000. Accompanying ; look best on her new elephant's breath this letter is analhor from P. Oanliffe ; silk—vegetable ivory buttons or cenOwcn, of the -British Centennial, com-; teunial bnckhoru—then ha starts for the mission, indorsing the proposition. The '■ door and mokes good time getting homo, programme provides for a salute of 100 ' And now he has had enough of shopping serial maroons, 500 colored lights, each to satisfy him s lifetime, while his wife weighing one and a half tons ; a fleet of auys oho is thankful ho kuowa what her twenty magnesium balloons, 000 rockets, ■ trials are. 200 shells, each eight inches iu diameter, DUease Contained | n him. ooattering myriads of delicately-tinted ; . ‘ .tare ; a great jewel cloud of emerald An »'> methods of conveyrad to par-tin tod stare, prodiuwd by the contagion, lajnmviitcr in the Loudischarge of fifty-five shells ; revolving den Wturp Aeoorrf, the feed of flics device*, spirals, globes, etc.; batteries ; nn. thmr prebo^dos mnstncjbouuder. 100 parachutes, with floating stars, de-! espeomily durmg thora porsending from targo rocket. ; eom-.^ot the-year whoa fl«mnstmlly memorativo device of Washington, go ; most numerous. The suUUmo indiffe-

by 100 feet in sixe ; fire-playing fountain, 100 feet high ; 100 twinkling stars; fifty rodooecoplo drums; discharge of fifty eight iueh shells, with stars representing the American colors ; twelve eagles flying to and fro ; grand design

of the occasion, 200 by 80 fe< ’ flight of 100'eight-inch shells

onsumptlon

soys this journal,

exhibited by fliee in passing from the

surface of the most that of material for is complete. Bu

' themselves are uninjured by contact w

• putrefying matter, the next article enormous ; food they rest upon may be influom id foiling : by the previous contact, and may ninety feet, surmounted by 1,000 ii “ —

menso Roman candles, and the whole

conclude with a bouquet of 20,000 col-! *ve“ become a carrier of matore ored rockets weighing a pound each. 'eminently ocpfac character. A only this, but flies pass quickly fr

,— jq another, and it

highly

r induced to undergo p

Hew York and PUUdelpkla. The evil in Now York, which 1

aouroa of so many of our ilia, both soni-1 P*™'™ ““ ‘7mum™. Uty and mimtaal, Is. as every one ** bo poison, by their ogenoy is

knows, the overcrowding of tenement bouses. In twenty-two wards a populaI lion of 865,000 are housed in 17,110

raid the man, '‘he speaks t truth. My sins have found mo out, a the wrath of God is revealed against all ! ... eyjjaVw fao

mu, "1 have nob My house is in next street, and there lie deed in it the bodies of my wife and four children. I stood by them alias they died, and when the last departed 1 lose forth to wander in the streets. Just at that mo-

Old maps of Pmrasylvui

dwellings,

ing. In oertaii

ih dwell-

“ A Okrtnlt Pack.”

On the Sawyer trial, in Plymouth, N. .. the iurv stood six for conviction

ballot;

certain of the lowest wards jl* 1 er.iaii for acquittal on the first ballot; is much grantor. Jlo pent*-' afterword there was no change, the final movement of 'the laboring clues ballot standing seven for acquittal rad

nont improvement -

can ever take place while young old, vi" and female, and different families ala thus crowded anil packed together. The great and striking contrast between the working claaoe* of New York ud Philadelphia la dne especially to the difference in the way in which the poor is housed i i the two dries, the average to the house in the “ Quaker City" being only sit Ejob-winter the poorest laboring clys-Tn New York Is red need to ths yefge of starvation; they

in the

disposition at to be a great favorits in ■ village. Ho became affianced to a „ named Mitts. In his absonoo from the province a Tnrkish pasha, powerful

five for conviction, flhat the gentleman

realised tbs weight of ra- _ resting upon them, rad were

iu 'thoir conviction, must be inferrod from the ooutonta of s note picked up iu the room, and supposed to have been written by oho of thoir number, of

which tho following is s copy:

"The trial of Mora B. Sawyer bra proved a failure; thfi Jury doe* not •gree, therefore no verdig. Tho juror is A ol»tint pack; will die before they ypold. May it please your honor Mr. Judge you hod better scad us homo."

A Costly Outfit.

Mr*. Jones, wife of the Nevada senator. A puffed tulle train was worn with an overdrew, of white satin, embroidered in white silk, studded thickly with * '"ory was arranged in Tho skirt was en

filled in with

white taBe ud garnished with bands of arubroidary similar to that used on the skirt. Her necklace of solitaire diawern on a band of black velvet abont bet fair throat; the earrings wore very large rad brilliant solitaire diamonds rad the gold bracelets were set with

Ha had the misfortune

to aaidinabi

"Well, bare ia your bill, Barry, for the tea, Berry, and I am much surprised, ra your father, th* elder Derry, would

». Barry; and if this happens again, Mok it an act of friendship to ha*

g that a man may

dan is al ways to kee ' over to keep hia word. oo of James lack, the California philanthropist, baa recovered a judgment it his father for (8,285 for sar-

icirhoui who atop h

i keep oarage dogs around , so that tho hungry poor "get a bite" may get it “Shall 1 have your hand I" said an tout to commence. " With all mf heart,” wra tho soft response. been found near Montloello, Go. Homo of the atones are very large and bril-

feed the brain, to keep up its activities. A Cornell University professor says ; " If yon got choked, drop down on all fonra rad cough." That's nice advice to a mu with a pair of (15 lavender pants The Philadelphis Press estimates that the hotels and boarding houses within reach of Philadelphia, including tho hotels of New York, can accommodate 271,274 gnosta.

going to pnlpit a bulletin board any more, that hereafter ho should not read any religious notices. It takee thirty mon a month to a a camid’a hair shawl. But lovely woi

“Max" wants to know how he may iroak through tho conventionality wh eh ompols him to leavo his girl* at hslfiast tom Give a miniator 84.50, und

nil him to put a stop to it.

the St. Louis Republican says that

n Easton

.1 greatos

with

districts. Tho amount of clni-so there during tho post year would HMDS of nearly $.>,000,000, n price of ten cento por pound.

illy, iu London, flood six cents id two shillings costa for not sending A sou to school. Ho was unable to pay it, and waa sent to jail for five days. 'A correapondout of tho Wotnan'i Journal, writing from mid-oc«vn, oaks : "Oan there bo anything more impresrive than thia infinity of spaoet" Nothing, we should say, nothing ; unless it is to walk four milos through a snowstorm to see your girl rad then find another lot- , low making lovo to her. A farmor’e wife writes sound sense to a newspspor, when she nays that m4ny of their domestic labor would find their burden lightened immensely if they rad each member of their families would but put everything they use in it* plane the moment they are done with it. One of the nioeat little arrangements for tho fireside amusement of children is a small blackboard for the sitting-room or nursery. They are cheap, and one large enough to answer the purpose can be procured for fifty or Bcrenty-fivo Then s box of chalk for twenty-

a than they di

It Is proposed to devote shout one J mired sores of ground, located near Germantown, to barracks, tents rad drill grounds for soldiers visiting tho exposition who mmy not wish to psy the regular hotel rata*, and who oan thus lire cheaply rad at the ra

grounds. Tho project ia favored by the

o pliea the Is

[hipping post in Riohmond, Ve., is described OSS person of tender heart, who execute* hie odious rad ignoble took patriotic sense of duty. Ho wu given his plaoe to prefenmoo to an enterprising ruffian who offered to do the flogging without pay, declaring that the pleasure of inflidlng the stripes would sweet young creature who has just graduated from a fashionable boarding school appealed with tender pathos to grim parent the other day i " Paw, i paw, cabu't you give Obiirlo away, rad buy me a seal-bwown blaek-and-i to match my walking suit 1“ And cause paw roared ud guffawed, and id there ware no bwown blkok-rad-as to the market, she ewied, poor girl. A miniator to a pariah to Maine, rattling to an exchange, received his nniaaal from tho parish on the ground extreme extravagance. When he ak charge of hia Book three years age

now pair of boots, which nous sum of (3.50 ; eo a ,e to .'i—’-* him on the ground of

s is how they pack butter to California: They take a sank made to fit loosely to the barrel, balf-bsnel, or other package ** the cone may be. The ' or is pteraed into litUe oblong ssrb". ■thing like those to which table rail Id. It is then packed within Ihe to the barrel, hasded up. ami Ihe pocklge is Own filled with strong, pure brine. Thus it may be carried tong dlaa-—