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THE DANBURY REPORTER VOLUME IV. TIIE REPORTER. PUBLISHED WBEKI.Y AT DAN BURY, N . C . MOSES I STEWAIiT, Editor. PEPPER f- SONS, Proprietor». RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, payablo in advance, » $2 0 Six Months, - - - 100 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square (ten lines or less) 1 lime, $1 00 For each additional insertion, - 50 Contracts for longer time or more space can be made In proportion to the above rates. Transient advertisers will be ixpoeiud to remit according to these rates at (be iw» 1'- —fiCUd-lfes'LSZSflfc Jm ' S *- ' Local Notices will be charged 50 per £>nt. higher than above rates. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Dol lars per annum. O. P. DAY, ALBERT JONES. DAY & JONES, Manufacturers ol BADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, Jo. No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. nol-ly W: A. TUCKER, H. 0. SJJITN S. B. BPRAOINS. TUGKKR, SMITH & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS. 260 Baltimore street Baltimore, Md. tol-ly. M. S. ROBERTSON, WITH Wiilkins k rot!roll, Importers and Jobbers ot HARDWARE, CUTLERY, #c., SADDLERY GOODS, BOLTING CLOTH, GUM PACKING AND BELTING, J. 307 Main Btroet, Richmond, Va E. M. WILSON, OF N.C., WITH R. W. POWERS k CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, and dealers in Paints, Oils, Dyes, Varnishes, French Window Glbs*, 4c., No. 1305 Main St., Richmond, Va. Proprietors Aromatic Peruvian Bitters ij* Com pound Syrup Tolu and Wild Cherry. . B. F. KINO, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON k CO., DRY GOODS. *M. 326 and 328 Baltimore street; N. E. cor ner Howard, BALTIMORE MD. ® W JOHNSON, R. M. SUTTON, J. B. R. ORABBB, Q.J. JOUNSON. nol-ly. jTw. RANIWLPU k ENGLIS I, BOOKSELLERS, KTATIONERS, AND BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTURERS. 1318 Main street, Richmond. A Large. Stock of LA \V BOOKS always on no I-6m hand. It. J. A R. E. BEST, WITH HENRT SONNEBORN & CO., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. 20 Hanover Street, (botween German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MD. H. SONNEBON, B. BLIMLINE. 47-ly ELUART, WITZ & r O., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in OTIONS; HOSIERY; GLOVES; WHITE AND FANCY GOODS No. 5 Hanover street; Baltimore, Md. 46 ly To Inventors and Mechanics, PATENTS and how to obtain them. Pamphlets of 00 pages free, upon receipt of Stamps for Postage. Address GILMORE, SMITH & Co., Solicitors of Patents, Box 31, Washington, D. C. N. H. MARTINDALE, WITH WM. J. C. DULANY & CO., Htationers' and Booksellers' Ware house. SCHOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY. Stationery of all kinds. Wrapping Paper, flyines, Bonnet Boards, Paper Blinds. 332 W. BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, MD. B. B. OI.INN, J. W. GLENN, Danbury, N, C. Reidsville, N. C GLENN & GLENN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Danbury and Reidsville, N. C WILL PRACTICE in the counties of Stokes, Rockingham, Guilford, Cas well and Forsythe. Business promptly at tended to. Collections a specialty. February 4th, 1878. tf. J£o. W. HOLLAND, WITII ' T. A. BB¥AN k CO., Manufacturers of FRENCH and AMERICAN OANDIKS, in every variety, and wholesale dealers in FRUITS, NUTS, CANNED GOODB, CI GARS, #o. 339 and 341 Baltimore Btreet, Baltimore, Md. JW* Orders from Merchants solicited. "Sat WJtLUM DIVBIM, WILLIAM B. DEVBIRS, OUBIimN DtVBIBS, of 3., SOLOMON KIMMELL. WILLIAM DEVRIES & CO., Importers and Jobbers of Foretga and Doaestic Dry Goods and Notions, 312 West Baltimore Btreet, (between Howard and Liberty,) BALTIMORE. This paper will be forwarded to any ad dress for one year on receiptot 1 Dollar and Fifty Cents in advance. '■Oill PITILESS SEA." BY CATHARINE ALLAN. I hear the roaring of the sen, All night, all night, so ceaselessly. With sullen plunge, and angry boom, It tells it's tale of death and doom. I Bleep and dream, but still is there Its undertone of dark despair. 1 Of drowning children, hopeless cries, 1 And vain appeals to stony skies. So sweet his smile, so dear his face, > Yon snatched him to your dread embrace, j.- i The breeze blew soft, bright shone the sun —He was my last, my only ono. > p j*' ; " *\ta'rc;is i, nr. ' PINE BUR IIS. Henry Ward Beeclier is sixty years old. Tulmngc has a "call" of 820,000 a year to remain in London. The mail is carried from Now York to Now Orleans in 55 hours and 55 j minutes. He was a good man. We all knew it, I though he never kept it in a show caso near tho front door.— LaQcrty. The cost to Russia of the war with j Turkey amounted to $750,000,000 and j tho deaths in the Ilgssian army number ed 200,000. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the census, thinks that the coming enumer ation will show a population of 48,000,- I 000 in tliis country. If any one tells you that a mountain has changed its place, belicyo it; but if any one says that a man has changed bis character, believe it not. 1 Don't fail to possess and evince com mon sense. "Book" knowledge is val uable, 'tis true, but the prico of com mon sense is far above rubies. , Capt. Eads has notified the govern ment that the jetties at the mouth of . the Missippi are complete, and the re quired depth of water secured. A gang of seventy-five tramps en oatnped in a country town of New York bas been proving on the surrounding farmers, and defyiug the few local con stables. Mrs John T. Morris has a straw trunk that was rnado in 1720, and has i been in her family ever since. She • prizes it very highly. It is in a good state of preservation. A Missouri house took firo at night, > and the first alarm came from an old shot gun hanging on the wall. It got red hot and boomed away and the family had time to save themselves. Much religious exciment has been aroused in the rural portions of New York ovor the alleged cure of a bed ( ridden paralytio by means of prayer, after physicians had declared her case hopeless. It is said that Jim Blaine, of Maine, will shortly visit Black Mountain and Mt. Mitchell in this State. When he stands on lop of them he will be nearer ; heaven than ho ever will be again, if ho mend not his ways -Greensboro Patriot. Gov Colquitt, of Georgia, lately preached in Atlanta's most fashionable church, and his oolored coachman, in oonsequenco of the gallery being olosed, . was permitted to sit in a front pow. f This was tho first time suoh a thing ever happened in that city. „ Emanuel Rose and Wm. Rogers, brothers in-law, quarrolled over a game of draw pokor at Old Fort last woek and settled it by a fisticuff in which Rose whipped out a long knife and ripped open Roggers, who died instantly. Rose is now meditating over it in jail. KINGSTON, N. Y , July 25—A ter ( rific hail storm in Ulster County yester day did great damage to crops, destroyed • fruit trees, and caused losses to the ex tent of $20,000. Several buildings wore struok by lightning. The Charlotte Observer tells how a calf got ohoked in Iredell and was re lieved in ex'remU. A lad caught the f calf, threw it down with its neck across . a log, and then took a hammer and - mashed the apple, causing immediato relief. An inebriated individual sat down on an open barrel of hard pitoh in Balti more and fell asleep. When be awoke I tbe heat of his body had softened the surface of the mass cafficiently to stiok him fast, and it was neoessary to cut the " seat of his troweers oat before he oould be released. j- A woman wanted to remove • tree , from her lot in • oemetcry at Spring field, Mus , to make room for a monu meot, but the authorities refused per mission. She went home and prayed j that the Lord would take the tree away, and within a few hours a tornado blew j it ovor. The samo wind did great dam age throughout Massachusetts, and - killed many persons, yet the woman j firmly believes it was sent in answer to her prayer. DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1879. A Countryman in Wall Street. Not many mouths ago a ruan pretty well known on the Comstook went East to sell a mine lying in tlie Pyramid Dis trict. Lie had a map of the claim and its underground workings all done up nicely in pink and blue ink, and it was as tino a piece of draughting as one oould wish to see lie took his maps, I traps and samples of ore to New York, 1 and began to 'lay' tor a customer. Pre sently he fell in with a manipulator, who wanted to get him a customer on com mission "Now, look here, old man," says the Wall-strooter, "you aro from ! fv%ada, ar.\ prcfcmbly a -- tho ways of the street. You will meet some awful sharp men hero, and you must manage to bo a trifle shnrper, or you oan't do anything. Let me mauage i this thing, and givo me all I can gel over §5,000 for the mine." The Novadan agreed, and the New ! Yorker took him into a room and began to givo him some confidential advice. "Now, here's the way to mauage this thing. Of course, if you have a roaliy good mine, it wou't bo at all out of tho j j way to make it look big. Now, take this j map; it's a good map, but it uiu't big enough. We must show up socio more , ore. I'll get an artist to put in some I extra ore bodies—just scatter them | through the mine like plums in a pud- ■ ding—and that'll half sell it. Tho buyors will be sure to disoovur these oro bodies afterward all the same." "This don't look to me to be hardly square," said the Novadan, with a deep religious expression. "1 want to sell my mine on its merits. I never sold a thing in my life on false representation, and I'm too old to begin now." "Now don't get riled, old fellow. You are not supposed to know what I do. Give me the maps and the ore, and let me attend to tho business. You oan't be too tricky when you sell a mine." After considerable persuasion, the miue owuer turned over his maps and oro samples to tho Wall streeter, and that astute operator went on his way. His first step was to get an assay of the samples, and they showed up 81;500 to the ton. This sot the New York chap thinking, and he went back to his Neva da friend and asked him how high tho samples would run to the ton. "Well, I hardly want to say," replied tho Nevada inuocent. "I guess them samples you havo got now are good for 835 or §lO a ton. Of course, I just took an average from different parts of tho mine. I don't believe in picked samples. Suoh frauds are bound to oome out sooner or later, and as I've got more mines to sell, I concluded to act pretty square and get a good reputation for business on the street." The New Yorker drew his conclusions and thought it would be a sharp thing to take that mino in himself. "I've found a customer, old fellow," he said, and eagerly drew a check for SIO,OOO, professing to have found a customer and made a neat turn on oouimission. "Bring along some more mines and let mo sell 'em for you," he addod. "You seo I have facilities which you have not. We'll go around and fix up the deeds." . The Neyadan took the check, folded it up, and remarkod: "Now, I hope you've sold that mine on the square and not got too muoh for it. It's worth SIO,OOO as a fair speculation " The two men parted for good two days | afterward, and the New Yorker came ! out last week with some experts to visit tho rich property he had so shrewdly acquired. Arriving at Pyramid, he asked for the Gold Run Consolidated. I "No Buch a mine," was tho reply that he got everywhere. "Great Caesar! I've' bought the claim and paid 810,000 for ; it." Got bit, sure. A man showed me a map. Here it is," and the Yorker pulled out tho map whioh he bad re ceived from the seller. A orowd of Pyr amiders gathered around and langbod uproariously. "That's Old Sawyer's work. Oh, he's a smart one." Just then Old Sawyer, the foremost oitizen of the district, and as innocent an old mine owner as the ooat ever pro duced, came up and looked over the map "It ain't oorreot, old hoss," he said, addressing the Now Yorker, "too many oro bodies put in." "Hut there's no shaft, no maohinery, no mine !" roared tho man from Wall street. "Well," re plied Old Sawyor, reflectively, "I don't seo how you can scour. The fellows who bought it are the ones to kick. You got a handsome commission you know." "But tho samples ran up to §1,500!" "Salted." "I'm swindled !" "Don't you know you said a man couldn't bo too tricky in sellin' a mine on Wall street 1" inquired Old Sawyer; and only a true Christian, such as reared in Pyr amid District, can understand tho feeling •of pious elation which Brother Sawyer experienced as the gentleman from Wall street, accompanied by his experts, drove furiously off for Reno, blasting the blossoming sagebush along tho routo with tbeir fiery languag?.— Nevada Vhronicle. What it is Coating Us. According to the oeosus and the iu- I ternal revenue reports, tho evil result of drinking intoxicating liquors may be summed up as follows : It is cosling our people a yearly ex penditure of over 01,500,000,000, all of which might be spent fur far rnuro use ful pprposoci. It is making yearly 130,000 conGi uied | drunkards. It is sending yearly about 150,000 ' persons tu drunkards' graves), and re ducing to want and beggary 200,000 I children. It is sending to prisons 100,000 per sons, and in causing a large proportion of the loss of life on land and sua. It is contorting millions upon millions of bushels of grain, whioh God has given as food to preserve life, iuto vile stuff that deutroys life. It is endangering tho fair and rich in heritance lcit us by our fathers, and fixing a foul blot on tho fair name of America. The above sum of money would pay off our national debt in two years, or it would furnish to the starving poor 220,- 000,000 barrels of flour at $7 a barrel It would build 50,000 miles of rail road at §30,000 per mile. It would send a Bible to every luhab itant of the globe. It would build 150,000 dwelling houses or churches at 810,000 each. It would furnish 150,000,000 suits ol clothing at 810 each. There are 140,000 saloons in the couutry against 128,000 schools, and 54,000 churches. Manufacturers and sellers of strong drinks, 560,000 —twelvt times the number of olergymen, foui times that of teachers, nearly double al the lawyers, pbysiciauß, teachers and ministers combined. In a word, if'intoxieating liquors were abolished entirely from our land, orirnes poverty, and misery of all kinds would almost cease.— Baptist Weekly. RICH VEIN OP Corrioi AT OIU: KNOB. —On the 16th July a very rich body of copper ore was out into at Ore Kuob Mines in a new shaft 210 feet deep. It is the best, body of ore over found at the mines or in the South and will be a source of great profit to the company. The vein is 16 to 18 feot wido and the oro essays as high us 33 per cent. A person uninformed as to tho extent of the operations at Ore Knob will be surprised to know that things are earriod on in such an ex tensive scale. The company pay out upon their pay roll more than ouc thou sand dollars daily, and now that such a rich and extensive body of oro has been reached will enlargo its works upon a more extended soale. Pew persons are aware of the fact that a narrow gauge railroad is now be ing built from Greensboro, N. C., to Ore { Knob. Three hundred hands, convicts, | are now engaged upon the work, and it will be pushed rapidly to oompletion. Ore Knob is not intended to be the ter minus of the road, but it will beextend od on to the line of tho A. M. & O. road, and will tap it at Marion or some point near town. If we only go to work at the proper time and in the right way Marion will be tho plaoe for its termina* tion.— Patriot and llerald. How TO COVER THE SICK. —Novei use anything but light blankets as t oovering for the Bick. Th ) heavy, im pervious counterpane itt bad, for th reason that it keeps the exhalation! from the pores of the sick person, whih the blanket allows them to pass through Woak persons are invariably distressoi by a groat weight of bed clothes, whicl often prevents tbem from getting an; sound sleep whatever. Great Enterprises in Contemplation ! Iu order to aolvo the myslories of tho ' dark oontinent aud open up Africa to 1 commerce and*civiliaalion, it is proponed ! by tho English government to flood the Western part of tho Sahara from tho j Atlantic, and by tho French govern- j mcnt from the Mediterranean, and then ; run a canal 100 miles to Timbuctoo, the great commercial metropolis of Central Afrioa, situated oil the Nige*, a naviga ble river of 3,500 mi!r:s in length. The western part of the Sahara is 200 feet below the lovel of tho Atlantic, and was formerly the bed of tho ocean. Ttio commerce of tho world wonld be i # • "7 revolutionized by the cutting of a phip- j canal across tho Istjnuos of Dar : en. This work WM diaeuwed at an Interna tional Conference iu Paris Ir.st May. It is estimated that the shortest line (a lit l lo over thirty PI iIon) from the Bay of j Sao Bias to tho Pacific byway of tho j Bayamo River would oost not more j £100,000,000. This canal would sa\o 1 to ocean ships 16,000 miles of navigi- j lion around South America. The exhaustlesa forces of uaiuro, now ! wasted, may bo utilized ia the near ! future, and produce the most wondorfu' ! changes ia the industries of the world, j A wind of three miles per hour exerts I a pressure of 38 hundredths of a pound | per square foot; and a wind of twenty- ! five miloa a hour, a pressure of two and I 642 thousandths pounds per square foot. ! Not only lor ship-propulsion, but also on i land may this force be of the greatest j service. Iu Hollaud there aro 12,000 1 wind mills averaging 8 horse-power taoh. ! In the region of the trado-winda aud of j land and sea beezos, regular supplies of this force may bo obtained ; aud from | the variable winds of the temperate j zones, incalculable power may bo stored j up, by being made to coil a spring oj j raise heavy weights or water into eleva- i tod reservoirs, and iu other WP.VU, and then giveu out again as needed for use. J The force of the tides, ebbing aud flowing twice daily, has been employed in machinery, and may be further util ized to an indefinite extent. Tho wator-power of tbo rivers of the ! world has hardly begun to be has been ascertained that mochanloa! power may be transmitted to groat dis j tances by electrioily. The Falls of Ma- ; gara reproseut 56,000 horse power. It I has been proved that this power can bo J convoyed to the distance of 500 miles or more by means of a copper cable, half : an inch thick. The sun ra'oes ernrv miaute an aver- J ago of uot less than two thousand mil lion tons of water to a height of three j and a half milos, the menu altiiudo of; tho clouds. According to the experr j ments of Edison and Monehot, it is cer- j tain that this tremendous power can be utilized in moving machinery. The sun-eugiae is composed of three distinct parts, the working, mechanism, ami steam-generator, and the concentrating apparatus. Every one hundred square feet of surface ia the concentrating ap ptratU'i for all latitudes between 45° uorth and 45° south, furnishes at least one horse-power. By iho eua-cngino, it is probable that the tropical rogiocs o' the earth will some day deiive suoh I benefits from their unlimited command j of motive power aa to vastly overbalance j their climatic advantages ; and that the ! barren deserts of the world will literally ; rejoice and blossom as the rose. "Who 18 it that when years are gone by, we remember with the purest grati- ! tudc and pleasure? Not the learned, or j the olever, or tho rich, or the powerful, ihat we may havo known iu our passage , through life ; but those who havo had j the force of character to prefer the future to tho present —the good of oth- ' ers to tbeir own pleasure. These it is : who leave a mark in tho world, more j really lasting than Pyramid or Temple, ' because it is a mark that outlasts this life, and will be found in tho life to come."— Dean Stanley. HALIFAX, July 20.—Tho government | steamer Glenton arrived here at 9, p. \ ui., from Sable Island with 79 persons j from the wrecked stesmer State of Vir | ginia, being all the passengers on beard of her and the firemen. The wreck j had not gone to pieces when the Glen ton left Cupt. Moody and bis crew remained on the island to endoavor to save property. The vessel is filled with water, but if fine weather continues, some of the cargo miy be saved ir: a damaged sli>i . NUMBER 9. Eaiso tho St tndard. Public faith in ji> 'j trials has bee« | gradually dying tu America. Of old thcro was an ...hum rcvereoee foe a system that socuicd to a man whom ! li/o, liberty or property was -at stake, a fnir trial by twelve good, loyal and God fearing men. But a system of adjudi cation which ia perhaps as good is itself S3 any system of human origin has bccomo to be distrusted and is rendered odious. It is not necessary to search with a microscope for the cause of ilk if bad state of things It has come to be thu>) from an entire want of any atand * £*'- jjf fh?.' vter,.in'o!licence or taiw of ! moral obligation that should qualify a man to eit in judgment as a juror. S* | much o" tho refuse of society—the I loafer and bummer element—has found iti way into the jury-box that "good i DSCR and true" avoid the duty they owe | to tho public iu all possible cases. The ] ovil is therefore intensifying itself, and 1 if some radical change is not made by j the Courts; and some standard of char acter insisted upon, the whole system of j tail! by jury will go to the dogs, as it ' ought to, But we insist upon it Chat fault u not io tho system'at all, but J oisly in the loose and almost criminal way it io conducted. No weak man, no .itupid man, no dishonest man, should ! ever, by any combination of cirowui j stances, find a seat in the jury box. J With such an exclusion verdicts would oommsnd respect, for tlicy would almost j universally bo right. But to secure th« I clans of men the laws haye to pra | vide for onrollirg a3 eligible to jury duty only tho foremost citizens of the i State; and the Judges of our oourta must learn to exorcise a healthy discre- I tion that will prevent the packing of * ! jury in any particular interest Business. What does the Bible say about laying up moocy aud stopping its circulation ? I>o you recollect what it says ? We pre sumo you know. Holding back money is the heighth of ignorance 03 well as a direot- way through which to ruin a country. Never let your money lay idle j and rust. Put it in the hands of those j who know how to handle it, that is if you : haven't got senso enough to manage it i yourself. Five per cent, per annum is I live dollars a year more than it now j P a y a - Think of it, and let it out to some responsible party, and lot it be doing some good. We know of thou j sands of dollars that is packed away ia | 6tokes county doing the owners no good jat all. Never will we havo money ia j circulation while tho "money hawks" | live. How can business prosper amidßt j Euch a state of affairs? If the poor class had tLc morcy they would start it on its way rcjoioiisg. Wa hope this article will make money lovers so mad that they will all spend every dollar they're got i "a cwonty-foui hours. A lady dropping her handkerchief in Winter street the other day, Landißuian'a i quick eye caught tho flutter of the dainty thing as it fell to tho walk. Quick i aa thought he had pounced upon it, and | with doffed hut .aud sweftest smile he ; approached the unknown fair one with, ; "Madame, your hand— " He got no j further. It was only Mrs. L., disguised !in another new suit. Seizing the earn brio as a cat would a mouse, she gave j Land'Sman a look eloquent of scorn i aud contempt, remarking, "Don't stand j thcro grinning like a sick monkey, John Laudisnian; und you'd better put on j your hat before you get oold. People at your time of life, and bald at that, I should bo careful how they oxposo them j selves." Strange that some women oan , not bear to have their husbands gallai t j to the Bex. WAS IT INSTINOT ? —A farmer in Ohio was annoyed by his sheep gotting into a field of grain ; each time ho drove them | out ho was unsuccessful in fiuding an openiug through which they got in, tha , fence being too high, he thought, for them to jump over, so he concluded to watch them, and, to his astonishment, he saw a largo buck leave the flock and place himself by tho side of the fence, then one after another of his companions run up to him, leaped upon his back, and ; over the fence iuto the field ; the buok was the only one in the flock who could got over without tue assistance of a "foot | stool." I« this not more thau instinct 1 Have not animals a language of their ' owe !