THE DANBURY REPORTER. • : : i, ■ *i „, ■ ' : ~^TotsT- T t VOLUME 111. TUG REPORTER, PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 0A N N . C« MOSESIfi HT&WART, Editor. : PEPPER Ai SONS, Proprietort. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ova Yetir, payablo in advance, - $! 0 Six Months, - - 1 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square (ten lines or less) 1 time, $1 00 For each additional insertion, - 50 Contracts lor longer time or more space can be made in proportion to the above rate 9. Transient advertisers will he expected to remit according to these rates at the time they tend their favors. Local Notices will be chafed 50 por-cout, higher' than above ra'es. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Dol lar* per annum. ■ O. r. DAY, ALBERT JONES. DAY & JONES, Manufacturers ot SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, .J-c. No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. nol-ly W. A. TUCKER, n. O. SMITH S. B. SPRAOINB. TUCKER, 83IITII k CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS. 250 Baltimore street Baltimore, Md. 01-ljT. y WILLIAM DtVKIKH, WILLIAM It. DSVRUB, CHHISTIAN DKVUISB, Ol's., SOLOMON KIMMKLL. WILLIAM DKVIUKS k CO., Importers and Jobbers of Foreign Domestic Dry Woods and .Notions, til West Baltimore Street, (between Howard and Liberty,) BALTI -lOltR. J. W. RAXDOLPU li EXGLIB >, BOOKSELLKKS, J-T ATIONEKS, AND BLANK-BOOK MANUKACTKRKRB. 1318 Main ftreet, Richmond. A Large Stock of LA ll' IWVKS always on nol-6m hand. B. F. KIN(;, WITH JOU.NSON, 811T0X & n„ DRY GOODS. Mas. 326 and 328 Baltimore slreet; N. E. cor ner Howard, BALTIMORE MD. T. W JOHNSON, K. M. SUTTON, J. B. R. CUABBB, G. J. JOHNSON nol-ty. JNO W. HOLLAND, WITH T. A. BRY'AX k 10., Martnfacturers of FRENCH nnd AMERICAN CANDIKS, in every variety, and wholesale dealers in FRUITS. KUTS, CANNED OOODS, CI GARS, .j-c. 339 and 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. Orders from Merchants solicited. ELU ART, WIIZ k 0., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in MOTIONS, HOSIERY; GLOVES; WHITE AND f'ANCY GOODS No. 5 Hanover street; Baltimore, Md. 4« >7 II 11. MAKTINDALE, WITH WM. J C. DULANY k CO, Stationers' and Book>ellers' Ware house. BCUOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY. Stationery of all kinds. Wrapping Paper, Twines, Bonnet Boards, Paper Bliuds. 132 W. BALTI MORS ST., BALTIMORE, MD. M.S. ROBERTSON, WITH Watkins & tottrell, ImpoHers and Jobbers of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, $-C., SADDLERY GOODS, BOLTING CLOTH, GUM PACKING AND BELTING, 1807 Main Street, Biohmond, Va k7m. OPN.O., wiTH R. W, POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, •ad dealers in Paints, Oils, Dyes, Varnishes, French Window Glas a , Ac., Ho. 1305 Main St., Biohmond, Va. Prtprittors Aromatic Peruvian Hitters j- Com pound Syrup Tolu and Wild Cherry. B. J. i H. E. BEST, WITII HENRY SOWEBORiV k CO., WHOLSSALE CLOTHIERS. Sft Hanover Street, (between German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MD. ■ . tONNXBON, D- BLIMLXN*. «m r GRAVES'S WAREHOUSE, DANVILLE, VA., ■for the Bale of Leaf Tobacco. OCR ACCOMMODATIONS are unsurpass ed. Business promptly and accurately transacted. /■> Guarantee the iiiohsst market price. W. P. GRAVES. March Jl— tf W ILSOif, BVRM & CO., WHOLESALE GROCRRS AND COMMIS SION MERCHANTS, lo S Howard street, corner of Lombard; BALTIMORE. We keep constantly on hand a large and well assorted stock of Groceries—suitable lor Boathern and Weeteratr.de. We an licit ma lign met)ls of Country Produce—aucb as Uot (••; Feathers: (iinaeng; Beeswas; Wool; Dried Pratt; rura; Skins, etc. Our facilities lor do ing bnainessare such as to warrant quick Bales and prompt returns. All orders will hareour prompt attention. 43-ly. DANBURY, N. C , THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1879. EVENING. BY ADA AYR. Day's departing glory lingers ; In the We ' Her rosy Bngers Waves fare* ' 10 weary mortals, Beckons ni s nt to cross her portals. Veil of shadows softly Killing, eet rest lor all cur toiling ; Now the moou o'er tree tops peeping, Silvers edge of shadows creeping. Sparkling waters gaily dancing, Tiny wavelets upward glinting To the stars In splendor beaming : Fleecy clou.'s pale spectres seeming ; Borne by breezes slowly gliding, Now afar in shadows hiding, As I watch the skies of even, Making thus each changing seas'n. 'Mid the stillness awe inspiring Uf Thy handiwork untiring, *■" Heaven to earth approiches nearer, Friends departed seemeth dearer ; Fleeting seemeth earthly pleasures, Memory doth unlock her treasures, Long we for the early dawning Of that fair celestial morning. Senator Z. B Vance and the War. From tbe signs which discourage me uioro thuD uugbt e'«u are the utter do uioralizatiou of the people With a base of communication 500 miles io Sher uiau's rear, through our own country, not a bridge bas been burned, not a car thrown from the track, cot a uuu s.iot by the people whose oouatry he has deso lated. They seem everywhere to sub mit when our aruncs are withdrawn- What does this show 1 It shows that I have always believed, that the groat pop ular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution uf the politicians, not the people, and was fought tiiet by the natural enthusiasm uf our young men, aud has been kept going by the State and sectional pride, assisted by that bitterness of feeling produced by the cruelties and brutalities of the en einy. * * * I would fain be doing IIoW can I help to win the victory? What can Ido ? How shall I guide this suffering and much oppressed Israel that looks to uie through the tangled and bloody pathway wherein our tines have fallen? Duty called me to resist to the utmost the disruption of the Union Duty calls me now to stand by the Uo ion "to the last grasp" with truth aud loyalty. This is my oonsolation The beginning was bad. 1 had no hand iu it Should tbe eod bo bad I shall, with God'B help, bo equally blameless. From a Letter written in September, 1864. ' ' Laboii and Duty —As steady appli cation to work is the healthiest training for every individual, so is it the best dis cipline of • State. Honorable industry travels tbe same road with duty ; and Providence has cl sely linked both with happiness. The gods, says tbe poet, have placed labor aud toil en the way leading to the fclysian fields Ce.tain it is that no bread eaten by man is so sweet as that earned by bis own labor, whether bodily or uxotal. By labor the earth has been subdued, and loan redeemed from barbarism ; nor has a single step in civilization been made without it. La bor is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing; only the idler feels it to be a curse. The duty of work is writ ten on the thews and muscles of the limbs, the mechanism of the hand, the nerves and lobes of the brain—the sum of whose healthy action is satisfaction and enjoyment. In the cchoul of labor also is taught the best practical wisdom; nor it a life of mtdual employment in compatible with high mental culture Self-Help The natural wonder known as the ' "Walled Lake" is the greatest curiosity io lowa, and lowans go to far as to con tend that no State in tbe Union has anything to approach it io novelty. It is situated io Wight county, 12 miles qorth of the Dubuke and Pacifio Rail* way, 150 miles West of Dubuque City. The Lake is fium two to three feet higher than tbe earth's surface. In : souie places the wall is 10 feet high, 15 feet wide at the bottom and 5 feet on top. The stones used io its construc tion vary in weight from three tuns to 100 pounds. No one can furm an idea as to the means employed to bring them to the spot or who constructed it. The Lake occupies ground surface of 2,&0O •ores; depth of water as great as 25 fett. The wttUr is clear and culd ; soil sandy and loamy. No cne has been able tu asoertain where the water ootues | from uor where it -goe*. but la' always dear and fresh. . The R*port«r should be in every family in this County. I j TBIED AND TEMPTED. Five o'clock of a piercing February night, aud so dark already that the wea riei young workwomen in Madame Tour nay's "fashionable dress making estab lishment" moved more closely to tbe window to catch the last fading beams of light It was a small, ill ventilated apartment, shabbily furnished and ever crowded with pale, tired looking girls— but what (hen ? Madame herself rolled in a claret-colored coupe, and kept liv eried servants to wait upon her door; and who pmsed to think how her money was made ? ."0, dear i" said Grace Hoopet, with a sigh, "this Gree pattern is so puzzling and my head does ache so hard. I don t see why Mrs Wnartoo wants a dress altered that, she has worn but onco. Fine ladies are full of caprices " "Give it to me, Grace," said Kate Selwyn, authoritatively; 'Tl.l finish it, and you go home to bed, uoleas you want tj be laid up with a brain fever." "Bat what is to beojuid of your work, Katie ?" "Oh, I'll take care of t' at—it's but an hour or t vo's extra work, when all's said aud done " • Grace Hoopar hesitated a moment — she knew from sad experience how try ing was "au hour or two's extru work" when braiu, back and lingers were alike wearied out. But the pain in her head was increasing too rapidly fur much re monstrance. "It's very good of you, Katie," she aaid, meekly, "aud pet haps 1 bad better go home." Kate Selwyn nodded a pleasant "good bye" to the pale sewing girl, and began to work on Mrs Whartou s wine-colored silk dress w.th busy, skillful fingers. She was a tall, slightly uiade young rfoman of two or three and twenty, with rich brown bair wound round and round tbe back uf ber head iu heavy lustrous coils, aud large black eyes There was but litile color in her cheeks ; Madame. Tourniy's workroom had stolen her roses away long ago, but her lips were red as cut coral, and there was an arch diuiple in her rounded chin that spuke uf mirth ful teinperauieut aud i>u weary ing cheer fulness. Poor Katie !—it needed all her courage to meet tbe stern realities of life, for eveo now she was pondering within herself how it might be possible to meet the landlord's demand fur rcut already overdue. '•I cannot pay him anyway in the world," thought poor Katie j "but oh, it would be very hard to be turned out ot doors in such weather ss this. Why, what makes tbe pocket so full ? Surely Mrs Wharton must have left something in it." Kate Selwyn drew from the pocket of the wine-colored silk dress an euibroid ered luudkerchtsf; but there was some thing still remaioiug—a ten-do.lar bill! Tbe room was comparatively dark— no oue was observing (he youug beam stress, and it was the instiuct of a mo ment to slip the money into her bosom, while her ch 'eks burned and ber heart throbbed with quick, irregular pulling* "Some kind faie has seut it to me," thought Kate Selwyn. "Mrs Wharton will never miss the money—t.he has an abundance without it, and to me it is home—bread—shelter !" So Kate Selwyn worked away wit u feverish oolor, and hands that would tremble iu spite of herself. "Why, Kate, how soon you have fin ished it!" Raid one of ber ocmpauions, as sbe hurriedly folded it up and laid it on the pile ot oomph-ted dresses. "Grace Hooper would have been two hours about it I" ' It was late when Kate tied on her worsted hood and went home, through the ohill and frozen streets, the ten dol lar bill still hidden away io ber bosom ! Uome. —it was but a narrow room with out fire or light, but it was all Katie hsd 1 She undressed hurriedly and crept into her little bed; somehow she could not aay her prayera that oight. Wua it tho ten dollar bill that stood-between her and the gates (If Heaven ? Ten wysrs —it was yean> since Katie ' Selwyn UaU so much money at oao time. To.'hor it HtoiiH-i almost un told w'etffth tfrl 'apfrerat tfme* during the she started up, half fancying , that bu'glars were in tho room tTying to j abstract the precious prico 1 S'ich a I long, troubled, fever-stricken sight l ! I And when at length she arose, unrested and anrofreshed, tbe gray dawn was ! peeping through the one window ot the room. r . "I can endure it bo longer," thought Katie Selwyn. "I would rather beg tny bread from door to door, and sleep npno a bench in the market-place than bear , the brand of a thief upon my Own con- j i science ! I will take the money back as i soon as possible, and try to forget last 1 uiijht. us we forget hideous dreams !" She flitted through the street shiver- | ing as the chill breath of early dawn upon her forehead, aud nervously ! avoiding the pissing footsteps of tbe few pedestrians who were abroad at »o uti usual au hour ! Madame TournayV sleepy footman caiue to the Wurk-bell in a red-w.listed j jacket and a dingy cotton handkerchief j tied about his ambrosial curls. "'Pearsto iih you're uiiootnwon early this morning, youug wouiau," said Jubu, discontentedly. "Yes," said Katie, trembling lest John should read in her faiie the secret ot ber mission. "I want to finish something that should have been done last night' "Thero is no fire io the work-room yet." "No matter—it will soon be lighted " And Katie ran up stiirs to the chilly, descried rooiu, where clippings ot silk and worsted lay on the floor, aud chairs still stood arouud the wirk-table just where they bad been occupied tbe night before. Mi'g. Wl Jart °n's dress lay oa the pile of finished work, aud it was but the ao tiou of au lustaut to slip the ten dollar bill back iuto its place beneath the em broidered handkerchief ! Then she drew a loDg breath uf relief It was as if some hea"y burden bud been lifted from her over weighted shuulders "1 cifn breathe more freely nuw !" she murmured. "Oh, Father ! I never be uuderstood tho fijUlf'oroo ot my daily pi-ayer, 'Lead us not into temptation ' " Teu years bad passed away, ani you would not have kuown K.tie Selwyn in the fair, matronly presence of Mrs. St. George. Katie had made what the world calls "a good match." Mr. St George had seeu the pretty seamstress at his sister's bouae one night, and bad straightway fallen iu lovo with and mar ried her. So, from want and penury, Katie stepped in'o a luxurious home, and a husband's warm, true heart. "I really can't tell what has become of that money," said Mrs. St. George, thoughtfully, as she sat warming one velvet slippered foot before the fire. "1 left it on my dressing bureau this morn ing; of that I am certain, and the ohil dren have not been at homo to scatter things around." "I know where it is, mimoia," said Harry, a pretty boy of eight years old "Was it iu two bills J" "Yes—what do you know of it, my boy J" "I saw Norah biding something away under her work-box up stairs, aud I was ourious to seo what it was, uiamma, so I went and looked after she hsd goue down siairs, and there was a five aud a two dollar bill, all folded up " •'My bov, yoti are mistaken," said Mr. St. George, prouiptly. "Norah is the ' very soul of bone fty !" "Yes; but, Bruce," said bis wife, in low, earnest tune, "she may be the suul of honesty, and yet in a uuuient of sud den temptation- " She slopped short. Norah herself had entered the room witb a feather duster io ber hand. She was a pretty young Irish girl of sixteen or aeventeta years old, with large violet gray eyes, jet-black bair, aad oheeks where the soft eriaisoo glowed through ft slightly freckled surface. "I thought jrorf rang, ma'am, said No rah, with he:' eyes fixed oo tbe floor and a tell-tale flush on her forehead. Mrs. St. George fixed ber clear glance oa tbe girt'a (ace. i "No, Norah, you thought no sach thing," »he said calmly. "Go down to tbe Jiutsery —this is no tjrne for me to say what I wish." Norah retired, but she did not fco down to the nvirsery, according to Mrs. St. George's orders. She crept up stairs, in stead, to her own room, treu.blingso that ahe could hardly walk F--rN rah, from the adjoining room, had heard the whole conversation, and knew that this bev first theft was discovered. "Sure wliat will she do with tue-wit's io jail I'll be put; and my uncle Patrick #nd uay mother never'll hold up thoir he-ids again. Oh, what did I take the money for ? Sure I wish I was only dead and at rest in the old graveyard in the Counly Kerry ! It's the laudanum I got for my tuuthaohu that'll eavo'em from the disgrace and———'' Tbe vial was close at her tretouloos lips when there was a soft rustle qf ml kcu skirts iu tlie room, and a light hand was laid upon the nurse-girl's arm. « N .rab stop!" The laudanum bottle tell from Norah's unr.erved hand-she uttered a slight cry — "Mrs St. Gorge!" Aud the fair, young matron drew the Irish girl close to her arms. "Norah, you have been very wrong; but it is not yet too late to repent My child, begin life over again from to-day " Norah took the money from its hiding place, aud gave it to her mistress with hysteric eagerness. "Sore, ma'am, au' ii's like thrt angels of Heaven, you are. I'll never do the like again, and I know what evil spirit tempted me ? But you'll discharge me, um'aul t" "No, N irah, I shall still retain you in tny service, and trust you as implicitly as before—that is, if yon choose to re m tin." Norah began to sob on her koees at her mistress feet. "Oh, ma'am, if you hadn't come io j just then I should be standin' at the bar | of Heaven now, with my soul blacker than darkness I was wild, uia'am—it seemed as if I couldn't live to have | mother and uncle Patrick know I was I a—a —thiel!" Mis St. George looked pitying ia the ) girl's face. "Go down now, Norah. l'ou are for | given ; aud remember that from this mo ment your new life begins." A.id Norah covered her mistress' soft hand with kisses aud obeyed. Mrs St. George sat an instaot in her | servant's room, her hands clasped, and I her eyes gazing wistfully into vacancy. "Am I so kind ?" she murmured to herself "Nay, it is But human justice ! | I seems but)yesterday that I, too, passed through the ordeal tliat has so tried poor I Norah. I was a thief, and I repentsd | Shall I be less merciful to this poor child than God was to u»e ?" And so tbe better seed of temptation aud trial blossomed into fruit. Mrs St George had learned to "judge not lesi ; she should be judged." Resisting a Railroad Tax. | A Louisville dispatch of a recent date i gives us tho following': S-ioie years ago ciiicons of Green and Taylor Counties voted,'a tax upon theta ; selves to aid in tho construction of the Cumberland and o.'ii>s HaiUoad bearing six percent interest, pays! Its seisi-abaa ally. This interest was paid promptly up to wilhiu the last year ur two, hut do railroad^hiiS ever b>-en buik. Within ( the past year a part of tho road whieh 1 had been gradtd between Lebanon aad ! Greeosburg was leased to the Louisville ; aud Great Southern Railroad, and a pro I posai is pending to take the sense of the i people whether the lease shall he ratified This proposal so aroused the people that tbo courts have been called on to adju dicate the question, and an injunction has been obtained apainst holding the election. Tho mure lawless part of the ' people, enraged at tbe law's delays, de | termined to resist the eol!e«ck>a of any 1 more railroad tax, aaehon Monday eight Jaa 27", the barn of Luther Morria, De puty Sheriff of Oreen County, a>as barnod. with a thousand bushels of grain, i and no lees were poncd upon his practi ses reading: "C-etwe e*We«l»«g the rail road tax t* leave the eouney." •- * *• No farm can maintain iU) fertility without manure A» a standard the li t i quid aad solid excrements, of ooe horse or cow are necessary to sustain an acre under cultivation, or at least three calves, oolts, or sljeejj the acre, all /if wi'ii'h s'uiw thpit pur I'ar.'ji-'rs should keep tbroe liuns thrir pijinWrof ani- Uials or witqesjS a decline ifi theij - /aim pp'duets ' ~ VI Be muftifiil to ait the dumb animals ; no man can gib to heiveu on a note backed horse. NUMBER 39. KOMICS. / What nation produces the Q:os mar riages r—P.iscination. The grate iz fust for bread tben butter orrt' the bread, end tben sugar on the butter. The grate secret ov popularity in to make every o«e satisfied with himself tirat, Mild alter>»aiii satisfied with yu The grato mistake that most people niuktt It, that they think more of their cuqiiiiig than tbsy du ov tbeir honesty. It is estimated tliat the Dumber of ladies who cannot pass a mirror without into it average about twelve to every dozen The tinhappinefe ov this life seems principally to konsist in getting every | thin» we kan and wanting everything I we hain't got. I fiare finally cum to the konllushmi that, the brst epitsff any man kan ba» lor all pruktikul purposes is a good bank ackouuti. Am lowa farmer who had been mar ried only seven weeks, and has bad to bujr a wig, offers to bet that bis wile fan whip a pantber. "It sccuis as though I'd never get even with that grand jury," remarked a disconsolate rogne. "They never get together wiibuut bringiu' in a little till agiu' me." "i'du had better ask for in an tiers than money," said a geutleman to ■ beg gar who asked tpr alms. "I asked lor what I thought you bad most of!" was the rfply. i.en we picture the buodred or niore trunks (hat ladies travel with, we cannot help reflecting how happy it the elephant, whose wife, when on a journey, only baa one trunk. Paupers suffer less than mixers do— the man who don't ktn.w where be ingo ing to git his next dinner suffers less than the one who iz atixiius to kno how mutch it iz a going to kKim. A little b >y carrying sorce eggs lioms from the grocery, dropped them. "Did you break any 7" asked his mother, w en he told i.er of it. '-No," said the utile fellow, "but the shells en me off some of em." A p »om comaieocns, "Under the wil low's he's lying," t lie must be s tramp. 1 hey lie under all sorts of trees. One »m discovered under an axle-tree the other morning. The o#oer of the wa;on madu him wheel right 'round and Wave. , ~(• . v.My dear boy," said a mother to her son, *h ha handed round hie plat* for m re Turkey, "this is the fourth time you have been helped" "I know, mother," replied tin bo'y ; "ttit that turkey peeked ine ftnew, mid I went to rt» square with bim. v He ••(jot the turkey, j | i- ft lo djud nistdo el A doctor called on a cholera patient and prescribed. Next day found patient w*U. ...-We.il," said the Dootar t ' lb* medicine brought yuu out," , ••.V.,, sir. I didn't take it. " " "Wt.at did you t ike T* • I ate ssnerkraut and turnip Swuoe." S>> the Doctor wrote in his memoran du.ui : "Sau-rkraet awl turnip sauce good Cot • hulera." Next week another call. Irishman this time Prescribed sauerkraut and turnips Hex! day called —found Irish man dead So lie wrote opposite tike ! old memorandum : .it;, j Sauerkraut and turnips good, for a I Dutchman, but deatu to au Irishman." It is an old story, but a good one, j which tells of a very negligent, man , who was going on a visit to some friends, i His wife extorted from him h solemn i promise that he would sbanddn his usual cu toui, and put ow a clean shift every day. So he packed a doxon in his Uuok. . Wheu be eauia boms again his wife km i glad to perct ive thai be bad grown ( more fltishy; bat she was alarmed whei ! "P"n examining his trook she found j there ess not a single abirt ie k. Ha had kept his promise *o tuotuf % eieao one every day, but he always put it on over tlie others; and now he sporting around with the WBVfc- doted nl Iris baek. Some men »Ut> •*** |« wvon« have tbuii own wayk fi vg 77 ' ti'on.: "T'-M-'* ' '!J .'»■ 1 Quit —Teaph ibem mlfrcliano* teach tbeiu to make fires, teaeh thein bow to law aod split wood, teach them, ever; d»y, dry, bard, pra«tio»l common si'une, teach tbem bow to dara dockings, «V (!»*«'M or * cbym.aud be ■„ to bLaok lliujr bi*l« Mil CKfl ~0l their y|othi|> K ; teaet. tr*,,, h^w^a/ »v 4 jipiljflNtftll lIWM 0 "' «Wi. it.eui tc ».-«tbyr othea like ki W> are better than riotous living, toaoh tfietn M**} 'HfAJW- in * coino lbs turner h«.,gatp poor i bnHj#e ; tctfh «kc-jk«o|)io bive Mythin^ I t*>do witb intmi»perkM)»'it4 di*M*te young meo jor with oflrivolous rten. 'it

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