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DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1879.
Thanksgiving at the White House.
It was originally that at the
.ioformal meeting of the Cabinet, which
took place at the White House on
thanksgiving evening, all the prominent
leaders of tbe Republican p«rly should
be present. Tbe idea of . the meeting
originated with Mr. Hayes, who re
marked to Seorctary Thompson on Sun
day last that there was a great deal of
good in the old-fashioned Methodist
"experience meetings." "Let us," he
continued, "have a meeting of our lead
ing Republican frietds on thanksgiving
day, and let each one relate his personal
reasons for thankfulness. We can have
a little tea and toast, and we might fiirig
a hymn or two. I have no doubt that
such a meeting would be a gathering to
gether of such as might attend it, and
would be found very pleasant by those
who might take pleasure in such a
meeting."
The invitations were duly sent out,
but, with the exception of four members
of the Cabinet, the invited guests de
clined to be present. Mr. Blaine wrote
that, in view of the Maine election, he
was not as yet quite sure that he bad
anything to be thankful for. Moreover
be felt pained at tbe want of gratitude
toward that great soldier, General Grant (
which was shown by those heartless
people who wished to drag him from his
well-earned repose and force him to re
sume the burden of tbe Presidency.
His blood boiled at the thought of such
an outrage, and until he ctuld be sure
tbat it would not be consummated, he
must decline to join in any premature
giving cf ihauks Mr. Conkling an
swered the President's invitation with a
good deal of irritation. "I permitted,'
he wrote, "the administration to support
uiy candidate in New York State, and
in view of tbe proper humility manifes
ted by the President and his chief ad
visers in tbe mutter, I might have for
given tbeiu had they secured for my
candidate an overwhelming majority.
As it is, I decline to countenance the
man Hayes by accepting his invitation
Never will I support an administration
which folds its hands whilo a ruthless
pol.cy renders it unsafe for a
Republican statesman to enter the State
uf Rhode li'and My self respect will
compel me to have an attack of malarial
fever on thi.nk»giving evening, which
will confine me to my house. General
Grant and several other invited guests
hiso sent polite declinations, and Mr
Evarta and several other Cabinet officers
were obliged to plead a previous engage
ment.
Thanksgiving evening arrived, and at
9 o'clock Mr Hayes and Messrs. Thomp
son, Sherman, Schurz and Key asseui
bled in the President's private office.
The table groaned under a tempting
banquet of tea, toast, both wet and dry,
baked apples, and oheese, and after a
remark from the President to the effect
tbat on this night of the year lie felt it
to be right to indulge to a greater ex
tent than usual ic feasting, the guests
busily piled their spoons When the
sapper was ended, the meeting was called
to order by the President, who oponed
the exeroises by giving his personal ex
perience. Mr. Hayee remarked tbat for
himself he oould say that he felt truly
thankful. His administration bad been
endorsed in the most enthusiastic man
ner by the crops. The patriotic cotton
of the South, the intelligent grain of
tbe West, had rallied around him, and
the pigs of oar common country from
Maine to California had filled our smoke
houses with ham and bacon, and bound
North and South together with the soft
and pleasing links of sausage. He fur
ther said that he had been warmly wel
comed at soores of agricultural fairs, and
that it bad really touched bis heart to
notioe how the patriotio instincts of the
people rendered them blind to tbe ohama
of mammoth pumpkins, and doat at the
voice of priie mules, when the opportn
nity to gate on the President offered
itself. His term of office was now
drawing to a close, and wonld, in all
human probability, end before very long.
He had saved a little money, and he
shoold return with • heart full of thank
fulness to his quiet country home.
Mr. Thompson next addressed the
meeting. He expressed great gratitude
that not one of the men of-war belonging
to the government had fallen to pieces
during tbe past year, and attributed this
io a great degree. W hfa happy thooght
of Calking their scams with the patent
eemeot called strateoa Fie had felt a
little disappoiuted at his inability to
bring a frigate up the Mississippi River,
but he had devised a plan of Sunday
school excursions by whioh Western
boys could be brought to the Atlantic
coast and familiarized with the eight of
ships and oaDstans and backataya to
main-top-gallant halyards, whereby they
could be led to enter the Navy. ''But,"
pursued Mr. Thompson, "white I am
sincerely thankful, I am alarmed at the
progress of Roman Catholicism. In this
country io 1878, 16 persons embraced
thatjaith. Io 1870, 32 petrous have
beeu reported to mo. Thus Itome
doubles her strength yearly, and if 1
bad a slate I could ens ly show that in a
few years there will be over 3,000,000
llomanists in this country." So saying,
Mr. Thompson sat down io great dejec
tion. Mr. Sohurz tried to cheer bim
up by asserting that there was no dan
ger. "Do llomaogattolick Churge gan*
not suoceed in a free gountry," said he,
"aud yustto cheer you up, I will blay
somedings on tbo biano."
Mr. Key hurriedly arose to forestall
Mr. Schurz's musical purpose, and as the
bottle of Kentucky cough mixture in
his coat tail pocket cliuked merrily
against the back of bis chair, he read a
statement that since his order concern
ing the proper direction of letters was
issued, 3,217,609 letters had been do
pi.sited iu the post offices of the oouotry,
of whioh 511 were properly directed and
were therefore sent to their destinations,
while the remuindcr were forwarded to
the dead letter effice The great suo
oess of his order filled him with delight
lle was grateful for many things. He
was a rebel, but had been led to repent
He was originally a rather dull man,
hut Mr. Hayes had oonviuced bim he
was a great American humorist. But,
while he was thankful for these things,
he was especially thankful that he had
taught the American people that unless
a letter was properly addressed it muu
go to the dead letter office.
Mr. Sobuiz again rose and remarked
that be would blay somedings. but tbe
President begged bim to wait one mo
ment until Brother Sherman should tell
his experience. Mr. Sherman, however,
beggod to be excused. He said that at
present he did not thiuk it wise to com
mit himself regarding thankfulness. He
trusted he should never speak so irrev
erently and iuexcusably as his honored
and loved friend, Mr. Blaine, bad writ
ten, but, nevertheless, he should wait a
few months before taking a decided
stand either in favor of or in opposition
to thankfulness. He was perfectly clear,
however, that tbe solid South should
not be permitted to gain by the shot gun
what they bad lost by tbe rifle, and was
fully aud fearlessly committed to this
sentiment.
No other speeches were made. Mr.
Sohurz was grieved to find that, with
rare forethought, Mrs. Haves had looked
tbe piano and taken away tbe key, and
refused the President's invitation to
have another cup of tea and make a
moral night of it However, tbe meet
ing was on the whole, a great success,
and Mr. Hayos afterward remarked that
it had been as enjoyable as a first class
agricultural fair
■' ' ■■-«»«» ' " *»
THH OLD RKD CKNT —As the old
Amerioan "red cent' has now passed out
of use, and, except rarely, out of sight,
like the 'old oaken bucket,' its history is
a matter of sufficient interest for preser
vation. The cent was first proposed by
Robert Morris, the great financier of the
revolution, and was named by Jefferson
two years after. It began to make its ap
pearance from the mint in 1792. It
bore the head of Washington on one side
and thirteen links on the other. The
Frenoh revolution soon created a rage of
Frenoh ideas io America, whioh put on
the cent instead of the bead of Wash
ington the bead of the Ooddess of Lib
erty —a .Freneb Liberty—with neck
thrust forward and flowing locks. The
obain on the reverse side was displaced
by the olive wreath of peace ; but the
Frenoh Liberty was short lived, and so
was her portrait on our cent. The next
head or figure that sucoeeded this—the
staid classio dame with a fillet around her
hair—came into fashion about thirty or
forty years ago, and her finely ohiseled
Grecian features havo been but slightly
altered by tbe lapse of time.
Why Not Make Grant President
For Life?
CORNELL roa CHAIRMAN or TUB REPUBLI
CAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—lt is proposed
Up make Grant Captain-General, With
flfty thousand a year to spend for the
res, of his days. Why not, while about
«, make him President for life, and
(pus oblige tbe Rings and corporations
Biat hold a mortgage on Is is political es
yte, and are in no hurry to forcolo-ie it?
Quo would be about as proper as the
t>ier and if we have come to the pas-
whon either can be permittei, there is
Ude tp choose between them. After all,
It is but the dif? ft nee of a name, for if
the people have fallen into such a condi
tioa of degradation as to aocept passively
one or the other alternative, it is very
clear the sword has already become mas
ter, a»d free government is but an
empty show.
We want to see riho is the mem' or of
Congress willing to take tl e responsi
bility o' offering a proposition to buy off
Grant as a candidate, by an euormous
pension to be saddled on the backs of
overloaded taxpayers. If the Republi
cans desire to take him up as their
choioe, and to stake the issues of a third
term and the restoration of Grantism on
the Presidential campaign, let them show
their bauds boldly. The test cannot be
made too soon, and it. had better come
now, when there is young blood and pat
riotio spirit among us, rather than here
after, when wealth, and luxury, and
pomp shall have demoralized opinion,
and prepared the way for what is now
only threatened.
By ail means let us, once for all, settle
this question, and decide whether a mil
itary despotism can be erected on the
ruins of the republic, in the first century
of its existenoe. Grant is exactly the
man to represent the fallen state of the
party, whose managers are now pressing
him to the front with prepared ovations
The Grant machine, of which Mr. Conk
ling turns the crank, has elected a Gov
ernor in New York by a large minority
of the popular vote. But twenty thou
sand young Republican scratchers, with
brains in their heads and ballots in their
hands, have served notioe what tbey will
do next year. Tbis year these soratchers
were little more than a political infant
school, learning their first lesson of or
ganization. But they have shown them
selves precooious'youths, and in 1880 the
graybeards will have to look to their
laurels. Mr. Conkling carried Cornell
over the beads of the best advisers on
bis side, and made Evarts and Sherman
and Hayes eat humble pie, and sing
praises to the candidate whom they bad
rejected as Naval Officer, because of his
alleged unworthiness.
That triamph has not humbled the
Senator's spirit. He is in no mood for
concession, and therefore demands that
Cornell shall go to the Chairni mship of
the National Republican Committee, or,
failing him, that another martyr of
Hayesism, in the person of Gen. Arthur,
shall head the list. There is no conceal
ment about this design of this move oa
the chess board. It means Grant as the
nominee If eircumstanoes should throw
Grant oat of tbe competition, why then
Mr Conkling will to his esuto
as residuary legatee. Tbis is the New
York hand in the game, and the partners
may play better for knowing it.—A'cic
York Sun.
BRIEFS.
The new bridge over Dan River at
Danville is finished. Many of the
farmers near Danville have already
burned plant beds Five families who
reoently embraced the Mormon faith in
this State, have gone to Utah. Tbe
Virginia Legislature assembled on the
26th of November. The South Caro
lina Legislature is now in session.
Danville's tobaooo market is said to bo
booming. A sobool teaoher killed a
little girl in Nirwioh, Cmu , on the 2fi
of November, by purposely Hhutting a
door against her bead Mexico is
having some fun in going through tbe
manunl of arms. She is using a littlo
powder also. Asheville has a tobacco
warehouse One of the murderers of
Joseph Rober, in Pa , has been sentenced
to be banged. Marriage between the
negroes and whites has been declared
valid by the U S. Supreme Court, —
Have you beard the Railroad boom in ,
Stokes 1 3O people left Rowan for
Texas reoently.
The Southern Baptists have appro-
Sriated $27,000 for a chapel at Rome,
taly.
A Story for Children.
When Mr. Joho Wjg e of this flity was
loet in his balWoo, called "The Path
fiitder," several weeks ago, the news'
papers printed many aocounts of trips
made into the air—-some by wise men
and some by fooli*b ones. A lady who
lives in the town of Centralis, in the
State of Illinois, said nothing until all
the rest were through talking. Then,
one day last week, she told the editor of
the St. Louie Republican to look ioto
the number of the Republican that was
printed on the 21st of Septen ber, 1858.
The editor looked and fouud an account
ot how two little children to>'k a trip in
j a balloon all by the uiselves. Oil that
day an aorooaot or siilifr of tbe air
named Brooks, G'kd Lis a!r ship with
I g»s on • farm of a Air. Harvey, who
lived noar Ceutiaiia Ho expected to
sail up in the aftern ion. About nonn
time Mr. Harvey pu! liix two children
into the basket of the balloon just to
please them, and not thinking for a mo
ment of any danger The balloon w»s
lied to a tree by ropes All at once a
gust of wind broke end the'
balloon shot op in the sky with nobody 1
but the two childreo in the basket. Mr
Harvey WSB wild with grief, und shouted
aloud, "They're lost, they're lost!" All
the neighbors ran to the spot to see ihi
balloon drifting off to the north and
more than a mile high. One of the
children was s girl—Nt-ttio, eight years
old, and the other was ber little brother,
Willie, four years old. Hoth cried when
they found themselves leaving the ground
and going on a very, very strange jour
ney indeed. Nettie looked over the
edge of the basket and saw ber father
wringing bis hands away below. Soon
the people looked to ber smaller than
babies, and the houses like toy houses
She and Willie were going up, up, up
all the time "I expect we are going to
Heaven, Willie," said Nettie Willie
thought it was very eold in Heaven,
then, for the higher they went the oalder
it grew Nettie wrapped Willie iu h>r
apron and held his head in her lap until
he cried himself fast asleep Then Net
tie folded LT bands and waited. She
said : •'! think we must be near tbe
gate now." She meant the gale of
Heaven that she bad heard about in
Sunday Sebool. Bat 'Nettie fell asleep
too. When she awoke she fouod that
some strange man was lilting ber from
the basket Tbe strange man was a
firmer in Northern I linois who had seen
a balloon drifting low down aeross the
field The rope WM dragging, and so he
caught it and landed the ohildren safely.
The balloon had floaie4.»l night. Net
tie and Willie's father soon learned that
they had been found, and took them
home two days afterwards Nettie is
now a woman, and the very same oofi
who told tbe Republican to look in
its files lor tbe story
A Rooster Living With Ita Head
Cut Off.
Mirtin Ryan, agent, telegraph opera
tor and switch tender at the junetinn of
the C , H and D, M. and U- and C C 1
C. aid I. railroads at the C., II and D
crossing, near Mill creek bridge, opposite
the I and C engine house, has a cuti
osity in the fowl kingdom that it well
worth seeing, and has been seen by
hundreds of persons On Monday morn
ing last, Ryan's brothei out tbe heads off
of two roosters, at his place, near tbe
crossing, and expeoted that of course
tbe fowls would be dead in a few minutes
and ready for the pot. What was his
surprise, after untying the strings from
the chickens' legs, a hour and a half
afterward to see one of them get op and
jumpuaround. It *as taken into the
bouse, and ten hours after the head was
cnt off it attempted to orow, and did
make a noise like a fowl trying to crow..
Mr. llyan has preserved this curiosity in
the feathered kingdom, and it has been
seen by several hundreds of people since
it has been decapitated. It is now fed
by meaua of a spoon, and the food is
poured down the oesophagus through the
opening. It does not appear to suffer
any paiii, and the digestion ot the food
is ferfeot. The rooster was about ait
months old when its bead was out off
and was raised by Mr Ryan himself
frorn a chicken. The fowl, even sow as
it is with its head oat off, tries to imi
tate a chicken with all ita functions com
plete. It sticks ita neck under Its wing*
and tries to sleep like other ohickens,
and whet the food is offered to it, it
reaches out for it in a very natural man
ner The ourioaity may be seen at John
Drnry's place of business, No. 420 West
Fifth street, Mr Ryan having decided
to preserve it for exhibition.— Cincinnati
Commercial, Nov 18fc,
NUMBER 27.
A Trip on the Milky Way.
* * * Wo rode horseback all around
the island of Hawaii (the orooked road,
uaking the distance two hundred miles),
and enjoyed the journey Tory much. Wc
were more than a week making- the trip,
because our Kanaka horsis would not go
by a house or a hut without stopping—
whip and spur oould not alter their
minds about it, and so we finally found
that it economized time to let thcui have
their way. UJK>H inquiry the mystery
was explained : the oaUvus are aueh
thoroughgoing gossips that they
piss a house without stopping to awap
news, and consequently their horses learn
to regard that sort of thing as as essen.
ti»i-f»art aM'j^ril'AnS#- 10 ''''' * n *
his Pilvtitiou not with
out it. Iljwcver, at a former crisis of
:>iy life I had once taken an aristocrats
y.,ung ludy out driving, behind a horse
that hud just retired from along and
honorable career as the moving impulse
of a milk wagon, and so this present
experience awoke a reminiscent sadness
jti me in place of the exasperation more
natural to the occasion. I remembered
how helpless I was that day, and how
humiliated; how ashamed I was of ha ving
intimated to the girl that I had always
owned the horse and was accustomed t >
grandeur; how hard I tried to appear
easy, and even vivacious, under Buffering
that was consuming my vitals ; how de
cidly and uiuliciously the girl smiled,
and kept on smiling, while my .hot blushes
baked themselves into permaneot blood
pudding in my face ; how the horse am
bled from one side of the street to the
other and waited complacently before
every third house two minutes and a
quarter while I belabored bis back and
reviled him in my heart; how I tried to
, keep him from turning corners, and
| failed; how I moved heaven and earth
, to get him out of town, and did not BUO
, ceed ; how Ueuaversed the entire settle
i
meat and delivered imaginary milk at. a
. h uodrt'd and sixty two different domiciles,
and how he finally brought up at a dairy
depot and refused to budge further,
thus rounding and completing the re
vealmciit of what the plebeian service of
his life had been; how, in eloquent
silence, I walked the girl home, and
how, when I took leave of her, her
parting remark scorched my soul, and
appeared to blister me all over; she said
that my horse was a fine, oapable animal,
and I must have taken great comfort in
him ia my tin*-—but that if I would
take along some miik tickets next time,
and appear to deliver tbem at the various
halting places, it might expedite his
movements a little. There was a cool
ness between us after that.
IINMIMSCKKCC OF GRANT.— Strictly
fresh reiniuiecenoe of General Grant:
Whun a boy in Ohio, or somewhere else,
Gram drove a milk wagon, bis
customers was a oulorcd family. As be
drove up one day to the domicile of bis
oolored patron, he bethought him to
have a liule fun at the expense of a
pickauiny that was making mud pies in
the door yard, addressed it :
"You, Ephraham, take dat chalk out
ob jo' eye L l '
Ephrahatn's aother happened to be
just around the corner of the house
hoeing the watermelons, and hastening
around in front, she almost yelled in her
indignation : _____
"See heah, honey, yea hab all you
kia 'tend to if you take dat chalk out
ob yo' milk !"
At Sterling Villey, New York, on
Thu'sday, a girl aged ten, daughter of
one of the proprietor* of the gnat mill
of that plaoe, was playing about the mill,
when her hair, which hangfc long, lux
uriant tresses dawn her back, waa caught
in an upright shaft revolving sixty timea
a minute. Her father heard her pieroing
scream*, and on looking around waa hor
rified in beholding hia gijl lying on the
floor, the entire aealp and one aide of
her face torn off. jßurgeoqa replaced
the scalp and dressed the wound, but
recovery ie doubtful.
A negro was asked if. he knew the
nature of an oath, t\> «biah he replied :
"Oh, yea, boea, for sartio. My ole mar
sera 'atructed me in all dem tings."
"Well," asked the judge, "what la your
notion of an oatb ?" "Why, bosa, it's jea
dia: If I onoe tells a lie, I'm to atiok to
it olean t'rough to de end."