THE DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME 1.
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Bam l Whit*, John A. Jaubob,
G. E. ScHKM.MAN.
WHITE & BftM/HMAN,
Wholesale dealers in
HATS, CAPB, PURS, STRAW (iOOI)S AND
LADIES' HATS.
ll*. 318 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md
H. M. LANIER,
with
B. P. BAYLBY & CO.,
importers of
CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENS
WAKE, LAMPS, Ac.
27 Hanover street, Baltimore, Md.
" E.TTTWiLSON, or N. 0.,
WITH
K. W. POWERS k CO.,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
and dealers in Paints, Oils, Dyes, Varnishes,
French Window Ac.,
Ho. 1305 tf&in St., Richmond, Va.
Proprietor! Aroma/if Peruvian Bitter! If Com
pound Syrup Tolu mid Wild Cherry.
J.W. RANDOLPH k ENGLISH,
BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, AND
BLANK-BOOR MANUKACTERERS.
1318 Main street, Rirhmond.
A Large Stock of LA W HOOKS ulicißyi on
nol-Orn hand.
A L. ELLETT, A. JUttSON tVATKINS,
OLAY DREWRY, STEPHEN B. UUOHES
A. L. ELLETT k CO.,
importeis and jobbers of
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
Nos. 10, 12 and 14 Twelfth street (between
Main and Gary)
al-ly RICHMOND, VA.
HARTIHAN & WHITEHILL,
WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, CLOTHS, CAfi-
SI MERES, JCTO.
SI and 323 Baltimore streets, Baltimore, Md.
nol-ly
O. F. DAY, ALBERT JONES.
DAY & JONES,
Manufacturers of
SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS,
TRUNKS, .j-c.
No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
nol-ly
W. A. TUCKER, R. C. SMITH
8 R. BPRAQINR.
TUCKER, SMITH & CO.,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS.
250 Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
•l-ly.
JNo W. HOLLAND
with
T. A. BRYAN k CO.,
Manufacturers of FRENCH and AMERICAN
CANDIES, in erery variety, and
wholesale dealers in
FRUITS, NUTS, CANNED GOODS, CI
GARS, .j-c.
339 and 341 Bnltimore Street, Baltimore, Md
ptt" Orders from Merchants solicited. "6^.
C. W. THORN, J E. ETCUISON
C. H. THORN & CO.,
wholesale dealers in
HATS, CAPS. STRAW GOODS, AND
LADIES' TRIMMED HATS.
1800 Main Street, Richmond, Va.
CHAS. F. UALSLKY,
with
CHAS. P. STOKES k CO.,
Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in all
kinds of
WOODEN, WILLOW AND TINWARE,
Richmond, Va
Broom, Bucket and Tinware factories, Harvie
town, Va
D. 11. STEVENSON,
MORT. W. ROQKRS, L SLINIiLUtT.
STEVENSON, ROGERS k CO.,
wholesale
BOOTB AND SHOES,
324 W. Baltimore Street, (near Howard,)
Baltimore, Md.
BSTABMSHRD 1825.
RED SOLE LEATHER.
E. LARRIBEE & SONS,
Importers and Dealers in
■BOB FINDINGS AND FRENCH CALF
SKINS.
Manufacturers of
OAK-TANNED HARNESS AND UPPER
LEATHER.
Ho. 10 South Calvert street; Baltimore, Md-
Consignments of Rough Leather solicited.
_
R. E. BEST,
with
■ENBT RONNEBORN & CO.,
WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS.
SO Hanover Street, (between German and
Lombard Streets,)
BALTIMORE, Ml).
H. SONNIBORN, B. BLIMUNE.
B. F. KING
WITH
JMNBON, SUTTON k CO
DRY GOODS.
Not. 32# and 328 Baltimore street; N. E. cor
ner Howard,
BALTIMORE MD.
T. W. JOHNSON, R. M. SUTTON, !
J. B. R. CIIABBE, fI.J. JORVBON
nol-ly.
BANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877.
SNATCHED FROM THE BRINK.
BY MAUDE A. HILTONt ?
i fa Hi
"Alioel Aliool whore are you, little
truant?" oried Harry Holmes, as be
Btralled through Squire Earl's extensive
grounds, looking light and left lor Squire
Earl's pretty daughter, his affiaucud
wii'o. a qqxM lot elonU
lie was a handsomo follow, and just
now looked especially so, with the ligty
of true lovo in his dark eyqa, and a
smile lighting up his frank, open coun
tenanco. '■*>.. Ed
Like magic, the sunile faijod, pnd the
light died out of the dark eyes, as Har
ry came across a little form, robed in
while, with brown, wavy hair falling in
careless disorder around a pair of plump,
white shoulders, and hsr fair face hid
den among the tender grass and flowers
that grew on the laised mound of earth,
against whioh she reclined.
The fairy form was shaken by dry,
tearless sobs that seemed to rend hor
very heart, and when Harry raised her
in his arms, as if she had been a little
child, he cried out in horror at the sight
of her pallid face :
''My daring !my own AUie, what is
it?" ho whispered, and very soon she
explained the cause of her grief.
For the past year her iudulgent fath
er, who w»i a confirmed invalid, had
been traveling in Europe by his physi
cian's orders. Three months ago he had
married a young girl iu England, and
written to Alice that his health was so
much improved that he hoped to be able
to bring home his bride in the summer.
Summer had oome, and instead of (he
father she loved, and the bride 9he rath
er dreaded, came a black-edged letter
froui the latter, containing the sad intel
ligence of Squire Earl's sudden death.
It was a sad blow to the motherless
child, and even the love of Harry
Holmes could not at first console her for
the loss of the father sleeping in a for
eign grave.
Mrs. Earl announced her intention of
joining hsr unknown stepdaughter at
once, and, for her dead father's sake,
Alice would try to make hor welcome
Harry was more tenderly devoted than
ever to the orphan girl, and tried to oota
sole her for the loss of her parent. She
loved him devotedly, and as weeks glided
by she tried to forget the poignancy of
her grief for his sake
At last tho young widow arrived
She was only five years older than the
gentle Alice, and as beautiful as a syren,
with great, glowing midnight eyes, and
olive complexion. She folded her hus
band's daughter in her arms at their
meeting, with a great show of affection ;
but the pure spirit of the obild seemed
to slirink with an involuntry loathing
from contact with the brilliant, beautiful
woman >f the world.
On the day of her arrival she chanced
to enter the parlor while Harry and
Alice were alone therein, and at sight
of Harry standing by one of the open
windows with an arm encircling the
waist of Alice, the beautiful widow ut
tered a faint exclamation, and withdrew
from the apartment before they bad be
come aware of her proximity. She had
grown suddenly pale, and her breath
came quick and bard, while a dangerous
gleam shot from her beautiful eyes.
As if the air of the house stifled her,
she glided out iuto the garden, and when
Harry left Alioe a few minutes later,
and was on his way to the gate, she
stepped before him like some dark spirit
in her sweeping robes of'orape, holding
out both bands to him, and looking into
his faoc with eyes that were dim with
tears.
"Harry!" "Laura!" were the simu'-
tsneous exclamations that escaped their
lips, aud Harry drew back as if to avoid
a contact with those outstretched bands,
while Laura drew closer to hint and
caught his arm in a nervous grasp.
"Oh, Harry! do you hate me so bit
terly ? Is there no memory of' the past
in your heart ? Is there no way in
whieh I can atone for my folly «nd win
yoar forgiveness ?" she sobbed, wringing
her soft white hands, and almost kneel
ing before hiui in the abandonment of
some great grief or remorse.
000 would scarcely have reoognised
the face that looked down on her as that
of Harry Holmes', it was so white and
passion-stirred, and there was such a look
of utter and withering contempt in his
dark, angry eyes.
••"fa ymi «re the syren who oaptured
the wealthy squire? Did a knowledge
df yoto* trub Character *kive him to the
gfcaire, Laura IMortne 7 How dare yon
Mvofcc memories of the past—how dare
yott me, whose life yon well nigh
those bygone days when I
was mad enough to love you ? Oat of
ntT'pMfc, WflKnan ! of I ahull forget yoar
sei, *f»d that yoo were my dead friend's
wifeuF' \
His voice was hoarse with a terrible
passion, and he raised his arm as if he
wouKl gladly have flung the beautiful
pleader from before him, and his with
ering ?lances seamed to brtro it»*o he'
heart. But she would not be repulsed ;
she crouched still lower before him, and
clung to him as a drowning wretch
would eling to tha ark of lafety.
''Be merciful ! I was so young when
I sinned, and I have repented s> bit
terly," she wailed.
He laughed loudly, a laugh that was
terrible to hear, and his voice had the
same harsh, discordant ring in it, as he
replied:
"So young when you sinned ! and yet
you had the daring of Satan, and the
cunning of a fiend. You were an or
phan, the child of one of my father's
friends who had died miserably poor. —
My father took you into hie home and
your brilliant beauty pleased him. lie
learned to love you, secpnd to myself,
j bis only child When I returned, a boy
fresh from college, 1 fell madly in love
with your syren face, and father was
I content; it was the desire of his heart
{ to see us united. Shortly after our be
trothal his health failed him, and 1 was
| seat by hiui to settle up some business
I affairs in a city fifty miles distant from
; our home I was compelled to romain
, away two months, and during that time
; bow much had happened. When we
| parted you hung around my neck and
i wept, deolaring that you would not live
I until I returned to you.
"I had not been gone a fortnight when
a low adventurer, u miserable traptzc
performer, saved you from being crushed
to death by the hoofs of a runaway
horse, and straightway you fell in love
with bim. He returned your passion,
but be was wretchedly poor, and even
for his love sake, you could not bear to
share his poverty. The devil was strong
in both your hearts, and between you
both you concocted a plan by which you
hoped to possess yourself of my father's
wealth. My poor father sank rapidly,
and when it was apparent that he had
not many days to live, he asked that I
might be sent for. You were his aman
uensix. and read all his letters. Those
that I had written for three weeks pre
vious to his death you suppressed, and
you kept back his message which would
have brought mo to his bedside. When
his hours drew to a close, and he called
piteously on the son who should have
been with him, you produced a letter
cunningly forged by your accomplice |
and bearing my name, affirming that I
had married a dancer in the city, and
would not come to my father until he
consented to receive my wife. You read
this damuing epistle to him amid a storm
of sjbs and tears, and my poor, mis
. guided father, thinking that I bad bro
ken your heart, and half maddened by
his belief that I had contracted a dis
' graceful marriage, sent for his lawyer in
hot haste and made a will leaving yon
his entire fortune, and cutting me off'
| without a single dollar. He died one
i hour after the will was signed, broken
hearted, his end hastened by your das
tardly work.
"You marriod'your low-lived adven
turer seoretly ; but, as if heaven frowned
upon your sio, your husband was killed
in a railroad accident on your wedding
day. With yoar ill-gotten wealth yoa
left the country. Where yoa went, or
what your life has been from that time
until you duped Marie into a
uurriage with you, I do not know or
care. 1 suffered—heaven knows bow
bitterly, and it seemed that all my faith
in womanhood w»s destroyed by your
baseness, until fate threw to my path the
fair young creature who has promised to
be my wife. By my own exertions I
have succeeded in making money enough
to support her in comfort, if not in loi
j ury, and with heaven's help I shall make
.her happy. I bad almost forgotten yoar
false face, Laura Karl, until yoa oame
npon uie jnst now like an evil spirit.—
' You have sinned so deeply that I cannot
I forgive you, but for the sake of the man
whose wife you were, and tho girl of
whose home you are mistress, T will be
silent as to your'past. 1 will take Alice
away as my wife at no distant day, and
then you may enjoy the wealth that you
have schemed for in peace, and, per
ohance, ensnare another victim."
He swept past the beautiful woman
without waiting for her to reply, and
when he was no longrt- in Bight, she rose
from her crouching ppature and sboolt
her clenched hand in tho direction in
which he hail gone.
"Wo shall see, Master Harry. I have
humbled myself in the dust to crave
forgiveness, and you have spurned
mo. We sball seo who shall triumph iu
the en 1 t" sho muttered; but when she
joined Alioe a few minutes later her face
was calm and smiling.
On the following day Harry came as
osual, greeting Mrs Earl with courtesy,
and, when alone with Alice, urged her
consent to an immediate marriage.—
Gentle as she was, Alice would not con
sent to this. He must wait till her year
of mourning had expired; and, since
be had pledged his word to keep Laura's
secret, he was obliged to keep silent as
to the real reason of his desire for haste
Laura was gentle and kind toward
Alioe, but the girl never overcame the
secret aversion that had entered her
heart on the first day of their meeting
| Every one spoke in highest terms of
praiso of the beautiful widow, and Harry
began to believe that she was truly re
pentant. They often met alone, and
Laura, who was now wildly infatuated
with the lover of her girlhood, tried all
her wondrous arts to win him back to
bis old allegiance; but his love for Alice
Dever wavered, and the beautiful syren
| grew desf>erate at last.
"If Alice were out of my path I would
win him," she thought, and a dark pur
; pose formed in her evil heart.
One day Harry came for bi» usual
I visit, and found that Alice and her stcp
tinaher were out walking. He inquired
*of Marie, Mrs Earl's French maid, in
wbat direction they had gone.
Mario answered readily that they had
spoken of climbing the cliffs down by
the seashore, as her mistress wanted to
sketoh a little group of islands of which
the cliffs commaodod an excellent view.
He scarcely knew why be followed tbem,
or why his feet seemed to speed over the
ruad with such unusual swiftness
The cliffs, down by the seashore, was
the gloomiest spot imaginable, and one
very seldom visited save by strolling ar
tists. As Harry drew near the cliffs an
iey chill crept over bis heart, and bis
very breath seomed to cease a 9 he saw
the two figures on one of the highest
points of rock, dimly outlined against
the bine sky.
Alice sat on the extreme edge of the
oiiff, leaning partially aver to watoh the
'waves breakipg into white foam below
her, and Laura, with an expression of
devilish triumph on her face, was gliding
behind her with oat-like tread, and hands
extended to push the unsuspecting girl
over the oliff into the depths below 1—
For one seoond, which to him was an
eternity, Harry's tongue seemed to oleave
to the roof of his mouth, and he could
•'not utter a sound; then his voioe rang
out in % terrible cry.
Aiiee sprang to her feet, just in time
to evade the murderous haod that would
-b*vs sent her to her doom ; and Laura,
who knew that Hairy would hsve no
meroy on her now, and not oaring to live
since all hope was over, uttered * wild,
despairing ory, and sprang far into the
boiling, Barging waters, wbo«e waves hid
from sight forever the fare that was as
false as it was beautiful 1
When Alice opened her sweet, brown
eyes on awaking from the deadly swoon
into which she fell on beholding this
terrible aot, she found herself in the
arms of her lover.
"Harry ! oh, heaven ! was it not ter
rible! No oarthly power could save
ber, the water is so swift-flowing acd
deep. She must have been mad. Harry,
do you think she was really mad ?"
Alice questioned, in tones of horror;
aad Harry, who had kept the seoret of
tke living Laura's past, would not betray
the dead Laura new; and, holding bis
rescued Alice elose to bis heart, he an
swered, simply:
'.'Yes, my darling; she was mad—and
death wae a hajipy release
Whims are harder to remove than
sorrows ; for time, instead of weakening,
strengthens them.
Human Failures.
Man generally is true ncitlier to him
self, his friends, nor to his God Of all
oreatiou he has made himself the sud
dest and most lamentable failarc. From
the knowledge of his own heart and
from his experience, he fears his brother
man, and turns to the rocks, the rills,
the mountains, and the forests to admire
the boauty and completeness of nature.
He finds no treachery, no selGshness, no
hatred—nothing Ontrue among the bar
monious iflaniwWes
We pity the Soul so chilled and un
like a soul that it can gartier no pleasure
from the mnsio of the rippling stream,
the roaring of the ocean's depths, the
zephyr's peri tie and mysterious touoh, or
the whirlwind's thundering voice. We
would oot wish the eye .that eould not
see the beauty of the mountain top
kissing the blue arch of heaven, and
presenting its snowy orowns to the touch
of descending sunbeams ; that could oot
behold the splendor of the valley as it
stretches out beyond the range of vishn,
with its grilden fruits and meandering
streamlets.
We do not eovet the ear whioh can
net hear the sublime eloquence of the
voioe of the Eternal in the studded sky
of evening, the lightning's vivid flash,
the thunder's muttering roar upon the
darkness, in the sunshine, upon the wa
ter, in the biado of grass and tioy peb
ble, and iudeed in til inanimate nature
which the eye beholds throughout the
vast universe.
These things were all created for our
instruction aud enjoyment. With his
advantages man should be noble, and
proud of his nobility. lie is the mon
arch of the earth, the moulder of the
soil, the shaper oi the forests, the trainer
of the beasts, tho master of the light
ning, the possessor of like intelligence
and like faculties with his God, and na
ture is subservient to his use and huppi.
uess. Soureely can he Hud a truer ex
pression af his privileges than tho words
penned to ridicule his claims :
'•For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb and spreads out every flower;
Annual for me the grupe, the rose renew,
The juice ueetxrious aud the balmy dew.
For me the mine a thousand treasures brings ;
Forms health gushosfrom uthoiismi 1 springs;
Seas roll to waft me—suns to light me .ise,
My footstaol earth, my canopy the skies,"
Equally true is it that man was in
tended (or the use of his fellow-man
His band should smooth the pillow of
his dying oomrade; his tears should
moisten the green grass upon the silent
tombs his bosom should warm the freez
ing frame of the homeless orphan ; his
words should kindle the hopes of the
despairing; his prayers should touch
the blackened heart of the hardened ;
his example should ehsrm from the mire
of wretchedness tho fallen, and eonduct
them to paths wbioh lead to happiness
and to God.
But, alas 1 he fails to do it. In the
hardness of his heart he turrit* from the
bedside of sickness and of death, by
which even the dog watches unceasingly
with unmistakable sorrow and solicitude ;
he stands with an astonishing unconcern
upou the shore, while that faithful ani
mal plunges into the water to save the
drowning ohiid. His neighbor starves
It is a pity, he exolaims, but the tomb
hides all from sight and memory. The
mother weeps in the shadow of the scaf
fold, from whioh her unfortunate ohild
bids her a sad farewell; but it is not his
child, and he turns from the scene and
forgets it.
The orphan weeps beside the tomb of
her who gave it life, who stroked its
little brow and taught it first to pray ;
bat his children have a mother, and h
does net eare to mar his own happiness
by contemplating the sorrow of the little
shattered heart which wildly throbs in
the ailenon of thai churchyard. Tho
heart may not be able to entirely sup
press its natural sympathy for the mis
fortunes of humanity, but does its ut
moat to give the least possible evidence
of its existence.
GossiriNa IDLERS —The idle levy a
very heavy tax upon the industrious
when by frivolous visitations they rob
them of their time. Such persons beg
their daily happiness from door to door,
as beggars their bread, and, like them,
sometimes meet with rebuff. A mors
gossip ought nut to wonder if we evince
signs of weariness, seeing that we are
indebted fur the honor of liis visit solely
to the cirrumstance'uf his being tired of
bis own omiipuity.
NUMBER 48
A Safe Business.
A young man from the country who
lmd recently come into possession of a
few thousand dollars, visited an uncle in
the city, an old merchant, to get his ad
vice about investing his capital in bus
iness. '-Go back to the country, young
man," said the merchant, "and invest
jour money in land. Buy a farm, settle
down on it and dj a safe business. I
have been in business hero nearly forty
years, and have accumulated a fortune,
but it has been done by fearful risk,
heavy responsibility, constant toil and
worrying anxiutiiig. A d zen times I
have been on the verge of bankruptcy,
and twice I have been sorely tempted to
lake my own life. Of ten men who
commenced business here wh n I did
only one beside myself succeeded. The
rest all failed, one after another, some
draggirg their families down to poverty
and disgrace. Take my advice. Keep
away from the city and its delusive busi
ness avenues. Quiet contentment on a
moderate competency in the country is
the best fortuno I could wish you."
This advice, from one who had made
trade a success, ought to have weighty
influence on young men who contemplate
abandoning the farm for a business life
in town. It ought to have much great
er influence than similar advice from one
who had failed of success, for obviou*
reasons The old merchant's conclu
sions are corroborated by the experience
of thousands, and by facts obtained by
investigation. A recent statement in an
eastern paper says that out of every one
thousand traders, but seven succeed. Of
one thousand one hundred and twelve
bankrupts who took the benefit of the
bankrupt law iu Massachusetts, only
fourteen were farmers, and of two thou
sand five hundred and fifty in New
Yoik, only forty-six were farmers. That
is, less than two per cent, of all bank
rupts were farmers, and over ninety-eight
per ceut. were traders. The difference
& largely increased wlien the large ex
cess of the farming population over that
of trade is considered.
Married or Single.
It is very hard to tell whether mar
ried people are happier than single ones,
or whether single ones are most blessed.
With the gout, and no one to find fault
with, bachelor is apt to envy benedict;
while, during the progress of a curtain
lecture, benedict depreciates the joys of
wedded life. It is nice to come borne
with a latch key when one pleases, and
to travel the wide world over, if one
chooses, with a false collar and a comb
byway of baggage ; but then it is also
nice to have an adoring creature always
keepiug watch over one's incomings aud
outgoings (we are speaking of men, of
course), and believing one to be—tfhat
he knows he is not—a man of mighty
intellect and Herculean strength—in
short, the authority of the world.
It is comfortable (here we speak of
the softer sex) to be able to keep one's
hair in criuipingpina all day, but yet it
is delightful to have some one who cares
how one's hair looks.
It is not agreeable to be up all night
with a baby suffering from a combina
tion oF colic and crossness; but it is en
raging to bear the airs of people with
lovely infants in skirts two yards long,
when you haven't one yourself.
Single people certainly have more
peace and quietness, but now and then
they find themselves rather too severely
let alone.
Married people rejoice in the joys of
oompanionship, but as there may bo too
much of a good thing, they, perhaps,
sometimes enVy St Simon Stylites, who
lived on top of a pillar and "had his
meals sent OD to him" in a basket.
On the whole, I should say, if poshed
otoeely for a serious oi.swer, that those
who have been tuurriod would have been
uiuoh happier if they had rcuiaiucd
single, and that those who live and die
in a state of single blessedness wculd
have been more blessed had they mar
ried.
Why, sir, tlayes' Southern policy, as
they call it, is the Democratic platform
of last November It is the utterances
and principles of the party for tho past
ten years being carried into effect. How
long do you suppose Chamberlain and
Packard would hive remained if Xilden
Irad received his tights'! Not a day,
sir. No, not even until tho inaugura
tion." It has been just a hope that they
&>u!d carry oh the old game that in
duced them to hold out as long as they
haivo.— t'ererh/ 'fur Lit.