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THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME IV. THE REPORTER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT DAN BURY, N . C . PEI'PER (■' SONS, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. RATES OK SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, payable in advance, $1 50 Six Months, - - 1 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square (ten lines or less) 1 time, $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 expected to remit according to tbese rates at the time they send their favors. Local Notices will be charged 50 per cent, higher than above ra'es. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Cel lars per annum.* ' ' O. P. DAY, ALBERT JONES. DAY & JONES, Manufacturers oi SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, J-c. No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. nol-ly B. F. KING, WITH Joll\So\, BUTTOX & 09., DRY GOODS. Nos. 27 and 29 South Sharp Street., BALTIMORE MO. T. W JOHNSON, TT." M. SUTTON- J. K. L(. CTTABBE, O J.JOHNSON, 001-l v 11. H. MARTINDALE. WITH VVM. J. C. 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WILSON, OK N.C., WITH R. W. POWER* * CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, end dealers in Paints, Oils, Dyes, Varnishes, French Window Glas", Ac., No. 1806 Main St., Riohmond, Va/ Proprietor« Aromatic Peruvian Bitters $ Com pound Syrujf Tolu and Wild Cherry. • Tmtfc. S. U. St'KAUINS. TPCKKR, BMIIH & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS. 260 Baltimore street Baltimore, Md. tol-ly. A SARCASM OF FATE. A very elegant looking letter lay in little Mary Velsor'a hands—a letter tiat b >re a delieious perfume of letter addressed in a fine flowing hand and ti e envelope of wbich was stamped with an iutrieate monogram, that unlet* Mary had known, she could never have deciphered as Mrs Paul St Eustace Carrisoourt's initials. The girl's small, pretty hands grew just ■ trifle cold end trembling »s she took up tho letter to op#s it, because so much, oh, so muoh, depended upon what was in the letter; because it either meant a new, independent life, in which she would out only earn her own living but very materially assist in taking off re of the dear boys of five and seven, or it doomed her to the old tiresome routine, out of which Mary felt at times she must fly. Mrs. Velsor looked up from a stock ing she was darning, and said nothing, seeing the nervous glow in Mary's eyes. Then with a little, half-desperate laugh, the girl tore open tbe thick satin envel ope "It's almost like an ice cold plunge bath, but here goes, maintua !" She hurriedly read the short, friend ly note, and from the quick tears that gathered in her eyes, and the smiles that parted her lips, aud the flush that bluomcd like fresh ron a on her cheeks> it was quite plain that the news was go-id news. Then she dashed the letter on tbe floor and rushed over to her mother, and kissed her, laughing and cryiug at the same time. "Oh ! mamma I Mrs Carriscourt has given me the positioo, and Bhe wants me to come immediately—to morrow ! Juet think ! Five hundred dollms a year, and she assures me I must make myself perfectly at borne in her bouse; and she says I am to have a room to myself, aud to eat wit'u Pauline and Pauletta, in tbe nureery. Ob, mamma, it will be just glorious ! Aren't you glad, delighted '!'• H>r blue eyts were dancing, and ber cheeks glowing like a rose leaf. Mr*. V eianr\ sweet, sad vo ce was in such odd contrast to her cbilu's erger, animated tones "How can I be delighted (0 have you go away from me, dear 1 Besides, lam so afraid you will not realize your vivid anticipations Tbe outside world, wbie'u seems to you so rose colored and golden, will not be what you think." ' Oh, mamma, what a Job's comforter you would be! But how can I help b 'ing bappy—perfectly happy, except bo>ng away from you —in New York, in a magnificent house, among people of wealth and distinction, aod with these two sweet children my only care ? Ma ma, I will ride with them, and I am to make myself perfectly at home, the let ter says, and you remember what a charming lady we thought Mrs. Carris court was, when she was visiting Doctor Mansfield last summer." Mrs. Velsor sighed softly It seemed so cruel to pour the chill water of disap pointment on Mary's bright hopes "Well, dear, perhaps I am growing cynioal as I grow older. Certainly you dest rved a fair fate, aud now, lo descend to matters of earth earthy suppose you see if the beans are boiling dry." The third day thereafter—a day fra grant with the so ell of frost in tbe air —a day when the leaves sailed siowlyi stately down through the tender, golden atmosphere, aod the bush of mid Octo ber was over all the earth and sky, Mary Velsor went away from the little oottage where she wag born and had lived, into tho world waiting to receive her—all her girlish hopes on gladdest wings, all her rosiest dreams bursting in fondest reali zation. It was a splendid plaoe, Mrs. Paul SI. Euataoe Carr scuurt'e palatial reaidenoe on Fifth avenue—a house tbat seemed to Mary's fancy like a translated bit of a fairy story, with its profusion of flow ers and lace draperies, its luxuries and elegance, of whioh she had ocver dreamed, aod of whose uses she was equally ignorant. Mrs. Carriscourt received her with a charaiing gractowsness and patted her on the shoulder, and told her she hoped she would not let herfldlf get homesick and installed her in her beautiful little rooui, with its pink and diab ingrain carpet and chestnut suit, and dimity curtains at the windows. DAN BURY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880. Then Mary made some trifling little alterations in her toilette, and proceed) d to take literal a Ivantage ol Mrs. Car riscourt's invitation to make herself at home in the great, beautiful parlors be low, where she mad'j a charmingly sweet, quaint lit;io pictures, as she sat nestled in a huge silken chair, the color of the roses on her cheeks, and at which Miss Cleona Carriscourt looked in astonished, imperious disdain, and Mr Geoffrey Fletcher in undisguised admiration, us the two entered the room, al the farthest entrance. "By Jove, what a lovely girl! Who is she, Mtss" Carriscouit 1" he asked in a tone of unusual interest. Cleonu's black eyes looked unutteM ble anger from Mary to Mrs Carriscourt "What on earth is she doing here mamma, is she crazy ?" Uer sharp, cutting ton-} was distinctly heard, as she intended it should be, by Mary, who flushed painfully as she rose, venturing just one glance at the haughty beauty's face, aud Mr Fletoher's eager, admiring eyes, whose boldness startled her. "l am sorry to have made such a mis take. I thought that Mrs. Carriscouit meant that I was to sit here a little while. Pleuse excuse me ; I will not 00111 c again." Her voioe was sweet, and just a little nervous, and she instantly crossed (be ro>ui, fullowed by Cleona's cold, cutting words, every one of wbicb brought a sharp thrill of mortification and pain to her. ''Be careful you make no more such mistakes, girl. Your piace is among the hired help, and not in the parlor. Be good enough to reuieuiber that " And even G ;offrey Fletcher's callous heart gave a thrill of sympathy at sight of the soarlet pain on tbe sweet, young face. Once safe in her room, poor little Mary fought and conquered her first battle with fate. "I'll not be cru-hcd by my first expe rien e," Bhe deoitled, resolutely, an hour or so after, when her breast yet beared with convulsive sighs, aud he ejee were all swollen from crying. "I will not give it up and rush home to mamma— uiy first impulse. I will endeavor to construe people less liuerqlly, and keep tny place." But there came a flush lo her cheeks that all her brave philosophizing could not control, at the memory of Cleona Carri-c hurt's cool ii solence. 4 'l d not bave spoken so to a dog," tj said, as she repressed tbe bitter tears that sprang in wounded indigna tion to her blue eyes. After that there was no shadow of an opportunity given by Mury for Mrs. Carriscourt or Cleona to lay any blame to her charge. She performed her duties as no gov erness had ever performed them, and the twins progressed to ibeir mother's com plete satisfaction. Mary never was seen in (ho rooms of the family, but lived entirely to herself, taking her solitary little walks when the day's duties were ended, and disciplin ing heiself into an unconsciously unself ish, brave, patient woman. Her letters home were bright and cheerful—until one day Mrs. Velsor was horrified to learn that her darling was dangi r >usly ill, that the fever had come suddenly upon her, and that in fear and selfishness, Mrs Paul St Kus tace Carriscourt had insisted that the raving girl be taken from her bouse to the hospital. •'lt will kill her to u»"ve her," Dr Lethbridge bad remonstrate! indignant- "What nonsense, mamma!'' Cltonora retorted, looking fiercely at the physi cian. "It will not hart her to be moved nearly as much as it will for us to keep her here. Bhe is nothing bnt the ohil dren's governess; she bad better die, even, than to risk all our lives any lon ger. You will olease superintend ber removal to day," she added imperiously, to Dr. Lethbridge. lie looked ooldly, almost furiously, at Miss Usrriacourt's face as aha spoke Then he bofted, and answered quietly : "I beg to ajeree with you This poor, suffering child had better die than re main ouiong »uoh innuman people " And Dr. Leithbridge personally su perintend, d Mary's transfer—not to the hospital, but to his own house, where his lovely, white hatred mother and his sister opened their hearts to the girl, and nursed her back to health and strength, and—the sweetest happiness that ever came to a girl's heart, for Hugh L.thbiidge asked h:r to be bis wife. And the memory of those brief days was bidden away beneath the glad sun shine of her beautiful new life, and Miiry iu her new houic was proud and honored , and beloved as a queen The years passed—as years have a ; trick uf passing—bringing their burdens of joy ar.d sorrow, arid to Huuh Leth bridge and his wife there were only land content to mark their flight. Three dear children hail come to them, and matron Mary wat even f.iirer m.d sweeter than the maiden hod been, fur | she had been bemfi l ed by the stnu dis | cipline of esrlicr days. ' Aud as the jears went by I)r. Lft'h . bridge grew lamou* and rich, until there I were no comforts or luxuries he was ob liged to refuse to his wile or family— j and one of those coveted luxuries w>i* a | resident governess at tbe bume of the children. "I remember my own governess days | so well, deur," Mary said one day to I er husband, when they were discussing the j fca-iibility of securing one "1 feel as if I never oould be kind enough to any ne in such a position in my house. And je ; all the happiness of my life resulted i'rom ' my position in Mrs Carriecourt's family." | And she looked the great unulteruble love she had for him, and Dr Lethbridge kissed her lovely upturned face tenderly. '•Then I wilj take this widow lady. I whom Allison recommended, shall I. | Mary 1 He says she is of good family, | and in very reduced circumstances. Her husband was a miserable, drunken fellow, j uud she has to support both herself and | her invalid mother. It would be a ; charity, I suppose ; but, of course, we must also look to our own interests " But the decision was to employ the widow lady Allison, so confidently re | commended, and a day or so afterward ; an interview was orranped. It ww just at tlie duak of * winter's after ! noon that Ihe >e vant announced to Dr Leth bridge and his wife that a lady wished to see j them in the parlor—lhe lady whom Mr. Alii son had sent—and Mary and her husband j went down to meet her—tall, pale, bearing the unmistakably traces of m ! sery and sor . row on her face—Cleon 1 Cari iscoart. Mary gave a little exclamation of astonish ment. "'s It possible?" Miss Carriscourt " Sue interrupted, quietly . "Mis'. Fletcher-Mrs. t'eoff.-ey Fletcher I And jou are little Mary Velsor I had no i idea—l had forgotten Doctor Lethbridge's I name—of coutse, I cannot have the position. It would h irdly be natural that you should wish lo befriend me." Mrs Fletcher turned toward the door, her pale fate piteous, her voice hitter at:d wailing. Doctor Lethbridge looked sternly after her ; but Mary shot him an appealing g an e bclore she stopped toward the departing woman "Wait— jmt a moment, please! 1 WMS so surprised, Mrs. FMcher. Pray sit down, you are in trouble, and if we can be of any setviee, I know the doctor will be glad to assist you " Sirs. H tc' e.'s lips quivered a second, as she turned her pitiful e.ies on Mary's sweet face "I am in need of work, but I do not expect it of jon. You can only despise me and hold me in hatred and contempt f or what I did to you. But that or eomcthiug else has couie home lo me " I do not hate or despise ypu Mrs Fletcher. God has been too good to me for that. Stay ! Doctor Lethbridge will indorse my forgive nesfl, I am sure, and we will make you as happy as we can. We will forget all that was unpleasant and start anew. Do stay and teach my little girls, dear Mrs Fletcher " And Cleona sat down, overcome with pas sionate tears, while the doctor, with an indul gent smile, and a nod of the head to Mary, left the two women alone uuder the strange circuni!.tam-e8 into wbich the sarcasm uf fate bad led them. A SHOWER or BUGS —There have been io oiher places showers ol lrogs, fish and flesh, but it remained fur Wake | to come to the front with a thower of ; bugs A gentleman living about three miles south of the city stepped to the door of hi* house about daybreak jester day, and was startled to see the Bir filled j with objeota descending io showers, but j softly and lightly, like snow flakes. He atoi ped down and saw that they were bugs, of a dull gray oolor, and a little | less iu site than a grain or corn. They fell thickly and as aooo as they struck , the ground began to crawl about io a very sprightly manner They fell on , the houße, in the yard, everywhere, and it really looked like a plague of insects A brisk breese was blowing at the time, , from the eastwaid, and this seeuied to t have'borne the iosects with it. They continued to fall steadily but slowly from daybreak until the sun ruse, and then the shower oeased. The poultry mad» a good use of the feast spread before them, aud gathered in as many ol the bugs as they oould The gootleman who ob served the phenomenon says that he known the saute thing to occur before, but the shower did not c >iitii>oe quite so loot: a time Within a spuce ot a few yards there were hundred.*, perhaps thou sands, ef the insects — Raleigh Observer RESOURCES OF THE STATE. UKVKI.OVKD AND UNDKVRLOPKD MINKItAL WEALTH OF NOIITtI CAROLINA Hit Excellency T ./ Jnrvii, Governor of North Carolina SIR : —With yo U approval I accepted an invitation to visit P.ttsWg last week to prou ote an ctiterpri>e of muoh interest to North Carolina. You are acquainted with the character and drift of the cor renpiitideiiee bitwe n the Ftale Geologist and jiirties in (hut city in reftieure to a narrow gauge ruilway, csllid the ' Pitts burg S lUihcrn." Tnis road is projected and pat tlj built, and runsdue s >uth, with the view of penetrating the middle coal und iron region of the V irgiuias and the iron and copper region of western N' >rth Carolina 1' tho course, first, of the va'ley of the Monongitheln to i's source, then of the Greenbrier toils con fluence ui h the New Hirer, where :t meets the narrow gauge ro.d no.* build iug up the valley >f that river towards Wjtheville and Ore Knob. Through the courtesy of Mr W L N., 'holt-oil, Tci; ographer of ihe Uuited States I'osi 1 fli e Department, I obtained the sheet uf the I'ustoffice De; arttnent maps ol this and the intervening States to |\ no sylvauiu, and mounting the&e in a wa'l map MX Ictt square, I was able to lay diwn und pris.'nt in er.e view the entire line of the piopnsed road and its connec tions, and to 1 Oite the lines of the nur- row gauge system of roatls of this State which converge upon the same ol jeciive point, Ore Knob, in Ashe coun y, viz : Chester and Lenoir (uraded to ihe latter point, 110 uiiles, and fini.-hed half way); the Cape Fear aud Yadkiu Valley road, with its teruiiuus at I'utterson ; the Dan River road, pointing in the samediiec tion, and the Cranberry and Patterson road Along ih so several line.- were alu.i laid >{own (he ranges of iron, coppi rond fold orcK from the great bf>i■ o. Cran berry and the 11 an Mountain. through the deposits of Ashe, Watauga and (laid well to the extended ranges of the King's Mountain belt, of the ereni hi nd of the j Yadkin and the baurutown Mountain* pud of the Guilford and R okitighau Mnj Hotcbkiss, the distinguished civil ! | engineer and geographer of Virginia, and myself addressed the Chamber of ' Commerce of the city of PittsLu-g on the subject of the praeticubility and ad visabi ity of the proposed road /rum ; their point of view and in the two fold 4 aspect of its probable success as a busi ness enterprise on account of its feasibi lity in a physical and enuirieei ing sense, and of the various and ahundant sources of freight; and (2) )l i s bearing, imiue diate and immenie, on the great aud growing indu-tries of the city and region After Major Hotehkiss had conducted the audience, composed of representative , bu i less uien and capitalists, in his graph.o and masterly way, (with which, i happily, very many N >rth Carolinians ] are fauii iir). through the successive coal • bed''of the A lleghanies and the Kanawha { and the riduplicated iron ore beds of the folded aud crumpled and faulted and o*er-'urned strata ot the great i a'ley and its mountain waitings on bofl. s dig t ey were shown, by uieaos of the imp above j described, how this Slate would be reached by the completion of 'he several section of the njrrow gauge road now I ail ing along the course ol New R ver, 'jutering it in Ashe county, aud p*s ing, byway of Ore Knob and Gap Creek, to Cook's Gap in the Blue Ridge, aud so on to Patterson, meeting here at their junc ii"o the two great arum of the narrow gauge system of this State, a third arm making off at some point on New River in the direction of Dan Hi ver Valley and Danville, thus bi inging the Pittsburtr 1 Southern it:to immediate communication with many ol the greatest iron ore ranges | of the State Attentioa was called to I the fact that, on leaving the Valley of [ Virginiaandcrossiogthe Iron (or Smoky) | fountain into the uj p.;r valley of New River, near the North Carolina border, i tie older geological formations are en | countered, iu which the high grade , Bessemer ores are eouimouly found, aud to the number, localities,-magnitude and , chemical purity of the magnetic and heuietite deposits along these Several) routes on both sides of the Blue Ridge aud of the Bu»oky Mountains, in Ashe and Watauga aud Mitchell, on the head waters of the Yadkiu, on this side and in Caldwell, and of the King's Mountain ores exteuding from the southeru border | of the Staie to the Western North Caro lina Railroad in Catawba, and from the great bend of the Yadkin, hyihe Ararat River and the Pilot Mountain to Danbury in Stokos ; and lastly, of tho Guilford and Rookinghau thirty mile range of ; titanic magnetic heu.ctites, ot absolute purity, and producing the very beat iron j known under proper furnace manage ment, And this region of ahundant and pure ores was shown to be within 40" miles of I'ittshurg by the course of the Pittsburg Southern Kailway the coil- i mictions it will meet southward, a oonsi- i NUMBER 47 derable part of which is completed or under contraot. Yoor Excellency wil 1 appreciate the importance Of these fact-i to the business of that city, and their interest to North Carolina from the fol lowing statement, viz : That the Balti more atid Ohio Railroad is now delivt-i ir»n under a *ingle contract, 500.000 ton ol itoo ore from Africa, and that 4i 000 tons are to he brought out the p e eent year from the west coast of Kng land; that a single blast furnace and that one of the smallest capacity which 1 visited, was consuming weekly over l 200 tons of ore, and that the total c ip'ieity of the fumaoes here is 500,000 tins f pig iron, requiring 1.000,000 tons o' ore per annum and over 608 oar load* of coke daily ; that there are 800 pud dling furnaces and 85 rolling mills in operation, and that the annual ooosuoip linn of iron of all sorts, in the various mills and manufactories is equivalent to more than COO,1)00 tons of pig, or more than one third of th« product of tbu United Statts A single Bessemer steel establishment—the Edgar Thompson is pn ducing nearly 500 tons of steel daily, and making about one Bessemer nil a minute through the whole 24 hours which is cq'iivilent to four miles rrf rail w iy a day; and other furDaoei m I s and are building continually. And 1 fount! at the furnaces of this one establishment (and by the coutte6y of the superioten- '••nt brought away samples, which your will find in the tnuseum a'ntigsido of onß of the same quality from uiany places in North Carolina), iro-' ores from Africa, Spain, England, Ireland, Missouri, Lak.j Superior and ."South Virginia, but not a ton frjOi North Carolina Here, within a distance far li'H (he of the Slam, is an abso lutely inn l vjstible depobit of the bent nre, in exigence—iron ore, which lays three continents under contributions to -upply it; ilut is. North Carolina is practically lurthcr off than the whole h-e "'th nf the Atlantic, and this notwith sl indt"g t•:c fact (hat the State has bot-n f r tw.) goi eritions "damming rivers, dicing CH ii ils aud building railroads, f r 'he express purpose of developing its resources of raw materials aud getting it eui to market or into firms of value. There are those who tbink that North t'ari'lina npends too uiuch in nmkitig known her material resources ; Lut these enterprising and intelligent people of Pitt b'irg, who ure scouring the planet I r raw materials fur their euunt'esi inau- j ufactories. h«d scarcely bear.l of tlieru And 1 hive only instanced one iudus- I 'ry ol lb in busy and pushing city J j ' Uihl that (hey make here more thau ' half of all the glassware product J in j the United S'ates, and s me of the raw material is brought from a great distance; fur exaainle, at present from the middle of M issaohusetis And a neighboring inwii i>f six thousand people devotes it sell wholly to the manufacture of porce lain aod stoneware, keeping filly furnaces in Mag' a d loading ten to twelve oars a •lay with their products and they draw hr kaolins, quartzes and feldspars from >1 over the continent, with, of courso. one ex ep'i n, from Delaware, Maryland Maine and Middle Missouri and Indiana, &a &e And yet there are no two States h■( can show so fine, or so large, or so many veins ol kaolin and feldspar as North Carolina Even the Indians ' packed" it from the Smoky Mountains to thi- coast. and exported it to England under t' e name of "unaka," (their word for uhite. and for that chain of rnoun t iins in which it was lound), b f re North Carolina was even a province. The Pittsburg Southern will penetrate the region of these deposits. The various manufactories of wood consume mora than 50 000,000 feet annua'ly, which is drawn largely from the forests of Cinada and Lake Superior ; so that this railway would give a high value to every acre of the now useless abundance and luxuri ance of the 10 000 square miles of primeval forests ol the mountain coun tries, aod would ultimately develop num berless manufactories thioughout the region The single item of barrel staves for the city of Pittsburg (where 6 000,- 000 barrels of oil were refined last year) would enrich half a dozen couutieb. And they manufacture half as u-uch ootton rs the whole of this State. Aud yet. although we are nearest to them of all the cotton States, we do not furnish them a single hale. The proposed road would soon chauge all that, and by facili tating the transport of the staple, would rapidly enlarge the demand, and, what is more important, would bring these en. terpri.'ing capitalists Into contact with the sii| erior facilities which tliis Stale offers for this industry in its abundance of raw material aud of cheap labor and water power, and favoring climate I have named only a few of the leading manufacturing industries of this thriving iiy and icgi HI, selecting those for which we might be furnishing the raw material, 'e .St Tie iggrcg ite in money's worth f ihe m itinf.K tnrod products of thin t i igle cuy tar exceeds ibat i>f our whole State. And wl.»t we ueed, in order to develop our wonderfully vark'd »nd abounding, bill hi'heito unavailable re sources and laeilitiie for such ptodtie tions, is just this sort of direct and mi med ate and oheip oouiuiunieation iviih the aicuuiu aud Capital and skill and [i ONCLUDS.I U.N loyßl'H .