THE DANBURY REPORTER, VOLUME V. TUG REPORTER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT DAN N . C . PEPPER & SONS, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, payable in advance, $1 50 Bix Months, • • • 100 RATES OF ADVERTISING. On* Square (ten lines or less) I 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 these rates at the time they c «ad their favors. Local Notices will be charged 50 per cent, higher than above ra es. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Pol. lars per annum. O. r. DAY, ALBERT JONES DAY & JONES, Manufacturers of BADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, j-c- No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md nol-ly B. F. KINO, WITH JOHNSON, M i lON & CO., DRY GOODS. No*. J7 and ii'J South.".harp Street., BALTIMORE Ml). T. W JOIINSON, R. M. SUTTON, f. ■. R. CRAUBB, a. J. JOIINSONi uol-ly. H. 11. MA.RTINDALE, WITH WM. J. 0. DULANY k CO., tftatlouers' aud Booksellers' Ware house. SCHOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY. Stationery of all kinds. Wrapping I'aper, Twines, Bonnet Boards, Paper Blinds. 132 W. BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, MD B. J. k R. 15. BEST, WITII UEKKf SOJiNEBORJI fc €O., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. iO Hanover Street, (between Oerman and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MO. H. BONNEBON, B. BLIMLINE 47-1 y 0. WATKINS. \ j W. S ROBERTSON O. L. COTTKfcLL. / \ A. S. WATKINS. NN KINS, COJ I i£l:Li & co., Importers aud Jobber* of HARD WARE, 1807 Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. Agents for Fairbanks'* Standard Scales, aud Anker Brand Boiling Cloth. August 26, 1830. JNO. W. HOLLAND, WITH T. A. BRYAN L O., Manufacturers ol FRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIKS, iu every variety, and wholesale dealers ill FRUITS, NUTS, CANNKD GOODS, CI GARS, .f-c. St and 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. Order* from Merchants solicited. WILLIAM nivalis, WILLIAM H. DKYRIJtS, OSRISTIAU DSYRIES, of S., SOLOMON KIUSILL* WILLIAM DEVIUEB & CO., Issporters and Jobbers of Foreiffa aud Domestic Dry Goods ana >ll West Baltimore Street,(between Howard and Liberty,) BALI'UORE. J. W. MENEFEE, WITH PEARRE B HOT HE US & CO. Issporter* and Jobbers of Dry Good*. MEN'S WEAR A SPECIALTY. Has. 8 and 4 Hanover Street, Augusts , 'Bo—lsm. BALTIMORE. BOSIRT W. POWERS. EDGAR D. TAYLO . R W POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers in PAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHES, French and American WINDOW OLAtsS, PUTTY, &C., CIGARS, SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO A SPECIALTY. 1305 Main St., Bichmond, Va. August 26 tim J. W. RANDOLPH & ENGLISiI, BOOKSELLERS, KTATIONERS, AN BLANK-BOOK MANUf AOTEIIERJj. 1318 Mainrtreet, Richmond. A Largt Stock of LA W BOOKS alwayi on ■•l-6sa hand. J. E. ABBOTT, OF N 0., with WINCO, ELLETT & CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, TBUNKB, &0. Prsmpt attention paid to orders, and satis faction gauranteed. pW Virginia Slate Prison Qoodt a tptcutUy March, 6. SSTABUSirEO 1844. 8. T. DAVIS —with— T.J.MACRUDER&CO., Manufacturer* and Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES AND BROGA.N'S, No. 31 Sharp Street, Baltimore Md. August 141 879. TIIE IIIS TOR Y OF LIFE. I saw an infant in its mother's arms, And left it deeping. Years passed—l saw u girl with woman's { charms, In sorrow weeping. Year* passed -I saw a mother with h*r child, And o'er it languish. Years brought me back—yet through her tears she smiled, In deeper augui h. I left her—years htd vanished—T returned, And stood before her; A lamp beside the childless widow burned, Oriel's mantle o'er her. In tears I found her whom I left in tears, On God relyiug ; And I returned in alter years, And toond her dying. An infant first, and theu» maiden fair— A wife, a mother— And then a childless widow in despair— Thus met a brother. And this we meet on earth, and thus we part, To meet, oh, never I Till death beholds the spirit leave the heart, To live forever. Eleven Years a Rum-Seller. "I have seen a mao take his first glass of liquor in uiy place who afterward filled a suicide's grave. I have Been uiau after man, wealthy and educated, come into my place who now cannot buy bis dinner." This was the beginning of an address o!' S. Stacy before the Cadet* of Tetii perunce, uiere lads, who sat clothed in their bright regalia of blue and red in loog rays on the settees in Frauklin Hall, in South Brooklyn, yesterday af ternoon. The meeting was held uuder the auspices of the Sons of Temperance, and it bad been announced that Mr. Stacy, having jsiv*n up his drinking place iu Sixth avenue, New York, would give his personal experience. '•For eleven years 1 sold liquor," he said, "I had one of the handsomest sa loons in New York. Some said it was the best saloon in the city. If it was the best, (Jod help the poorest. I can recall twenty customers, etch worth from SIOO,OOO to 55U0,000, and only two of thenj now ate able to buy din ners for themselves To you Cadets of Temperance, I would advise that you rather take a glass of prussio acid than a glass of liquor. If you must die, it is better to die at once. If a Gospel friend ever takes you by the arm and seeks to restrain you from drinking, don't turn and say to him : "'I know what I am doing. Be kind enough to n.iud your own busi ness.' "I've seen young men stand at my bar with the blue ribbon on the lapels of their coais drunk. 'No, no,' these young men would say, 'l've taken the pledge. I'm obliged to you all the same,' they bad no business there. (Mr. Stacy raised his voice.) That was not their place. Liquor is at deanly enmity with a blue ribbon. Pretty Boon it would bo 'Well I'll take a glass of cider.' I knew I knew—l knew what that glass of cider meant "The rum seller is a good fellow. He's liberal with his money He's jo vial. When a customer cuters his door he says : 'Helfo, Johnny ; where havo you been these two or three days T' But he's calculating all (he time how much money the customer has iu his pocket aud how much of it he can put in bis till. "In all tay eleven years behind the bar I can recall only one agreeable thiog. A young lady oauie to me and said : "I wish you would not give fsthar anything mors to drink ' I laugh ed as ruaisellers are accustomed to do in such eases, but she persisted, aud finally I promised I wouldn't let him have a drink. I don't know what possessed me, but I promised. When the father cam* in be walked up to the bar smiling and said : 'Weil I guess I'll take a drink ' 'No, sir, not here,' "aid I 'What ?' said he. I repeated what I bad said and also ordered my barkeeper never to let him have a driuk on pain of dismissal. The result was a quarrel, and I threw hint out into the street. He was a smaller mao than I There was a strug gle outside the door, but as he rolled over the curb at the edge of tho side walk be seemed to lose all ol bis strength. Looking up to me, be said : " 'Here I am in the getter, and turn ed out of • rum shop !" "That man to day is a member of Dr. Armitage'e eburoh."~y! V. Sun. DANUUHY, N. €., THURSDAY. JUNK 2, 1881. How Indians Return Calls. A party of Sioux lodiatis were guests at a leading Milwaukee hotel, and the J ladies had a great deal of ummeiuent , with theui, studying their customs. That is, they all did except ons lady ! Tho ladies called upon the Indians and i the savages returned the calls almost be- ■ fore tho ladies got to their rooms. Ooe lady called on a chief and then went to her room and retired, and pretty eoou theie was a knock at Iter door and sho tumid that it was the chief. Sho told him to uomc iu the uioruing. The lady unlocks her door in tho morning so the porter can coniq in and build a fire be fore she gets up. Sha heard a knock iti the morning, und supposing it was the porter sho Baid, "Cuuio iu " Tho door opened, and in walked Mr. Indian. She took one look at him and pulled the bed clothes over her head Ho sat down on the side of the bed and said, 'How?" Well, she was so scareu that sho didn't know "How" from Aduni. She said to him in the bos' Sioux that sho could command, "Please goou Mr. Indian, go away until I got up," but he didn't s> em tu be in a hurry He picked up pieces of her weiriug apparel from the floor, different articles that he didn't sectn to know anything about where thoy wore worn, and mads comments on them in the Sioux tongue The stockings seemed to paralyzti his untutored mind ths most. They wero thoee long, ninety digrees-iu tho shade stockings, and they were too much fur his feeble intellect. Ha held thom up by the toes and said, ''Ugh !' The lady trembled and wished ha would go away. He seemed to take great delight in examining ths hair on the bu reau, and looked at tbo lady as mujb as to say,'' Poor girl; some hostile tribo bis made war on the pale face and taken many scalps " Finally she happened to thiuk of the bell, and she rung it as though the house wa« on fire, and pretty soon the porter came aud invited ths Indian to go downstairs and takes drink. The lady lockjd that boor too quiok, and she will never leave it open again when there are Indians in town. -She says her hair—on the bureau—fairly turned gray Irorn ,/right — Milwaukee ( Wis ) Sun. A Girl in Demand. Ths girl after whom any Dumber of marrying men are looking bas been dis covered again. Iu ether days Bhc has written a book or developed a phenom enal voice, or shot a number of dollars' worth uf wild animals, or done some thing else that secured local fame and coasiderable money, l'his time she has plsnltd, cultivated, harvested and Sold three hundred aud fifty bushels of wheat . It is needless to say that a number of young fellows are wildly in love with that girl, and the list of suitors will rap idly increase a* tho record of her achieve ment makes the rounds of the press i A great deal is said about w men who i marry merely for the sake ol being sup : ported, but they are no more numerous ■ than men who loug for wives who will do work enough to supply their iiusbaud with bread and butter, cigar? and drinks. | There are unen in New York who would [ borrow their friend's lust dollar rather , than do a days work in a wheat field, yet would willingly endow this ludiaua | girl with half ol their worldly debts sud do it with the best plain gold ring that i could be bought on credit. They would also, as soon as the wheat urop was bar -1 vested, find business calling them to : New York and keeping them there as long as the money lasted *r an advunce | oould ha secured on their next orop.— N. Y. Herald. The State board of Education met in Raleigh on 9tb iost., aud resumed con sideration of the selootion and reoorn i uiendalioQ of books for ass in the pub lic schools. The session was a lengthy on* and a deoisioo was not reached un til nightfall We letrn from the Newt j Observer that the following ars ths books | recommended : Websters' Spoiler, ! Holmes' Readers; Maury's tisograpbies; i Sauford's Arithmetic; Harvey's Elemen tary Grammar and Composition ; Read & Kellogg's Higher Lessons; Read & Keilogg's Graded Lessons; Goodrich's Ptctoiial Chiidreu's First History; Holmes' History for intermediates ; A. U. Stephens' History for Higher Classes; Miioboll's Map iJiAwing; Worcester's Dictionary. The lollowing copy books were chusea : Reynolds, Paysoo, Dun ton & Soribner's Eclectic, Appleton's and Ellsworth's. Land of the 3ky Slandered. '•Wcßtero North Carolina is next to worthless for most purposes of agricul ture, because of its mountains, llut its mineral wealth is oertainly most irn- ; portant. — Norfolk (Fa ) Ledger. Wo ascribe the above to a want of proper information concurning Western North Carolina, and not to a disposition to slnuder thnt fertile and most desirable section. No sectioo of the State, nor ol the Socth, is belter adapted 'or agricul tural purposes than is Western Carolina, to the Teuuesaee line from the centre of the Stale For tobacco, corn, w-leat, oat*, buckwheat, clover, all the fruits, ! especially ifjfplos, It Is unrtirpa>«ed in tire \ United States; cabbages and all grasses are unexcelled— valleys and mountains all yielding equally mcl!—while the Southern portion produces pood cotton eveu in the localities of the Ulue Ridge mountains. Add to this its large min eral productions of pold, copper, iron, mica, marble, und others ; and its valua ble timber, water power*, and splendid drinking water, its healthful climate and grand mountain scenery—reuders it : the most attractive and delightful coun try on caith for unrivalled prosperity arid happiness. Aud uow reader, let us inform you I that this charming region includes the beautiful and flourishing little city of | Slatesvillc. — Statesville American. Why It Pays to Head. One's physical frame —his body, bis muscles, his feet, his hands—is only a j living machiuc. It is his mind, coutroll ing and directing that machine, that gives it power and effioaey. The suc cessful use of tho body dspands wholly upon the mind—upon its ability to di i rect the will. If one ties his arm in a sling it becomes weak and finally powor i less. Keep it in active extroise, and it ; acquires vigor snd strength, and it is ! disciplined to use this strength as desir ed, just as one's mind, by activs exer cise' in thinking, reasoning, studying, observing, acquires vigor, strength, power of conceatraiicn and direction. Plainly, then, the man who exercises his mind in reading and thinking gives it greater power and efficiency, and greater ability to direct the efforts of the physical frame—his work—to better results than he can who merely or mainly uses his muscles. If a man reads a book or paper, even one be knows to be erroneous, it helps him by the effort to combat tho errors. The combat invigorates bis mind. Of si! men the farmer, the cultivator, ne«ds to read mors to strengthen bis i reasoning power*, so that tbey will help j out and make more effective bis hard | toil. i A Question for the Astrologers. To THE EDITOR OP THE SUN— Sir : Will you, or Bonis of your readers, in form IUO what position the stars were in at 6:30 A M , Sept. 28, 1862, and 6:30 A M , Deo. 17, 1854, and if they were in a favorable position for position for the persons boru on those days. CONSTANT READER. Yoa will have to apply to the astrolo i gers. Ths astronomers can give you | the position occupied by any of the stars ' at the times mentioned, or you can find ! out so much for yourself by the aid ol a ; planisphere, but as to tho influences of the stars upon the livos of men, the sooner you dismiss that superstition the better. Oae of the great discoveries of > man is that this little rocky ball, the . strth, together with its sister worlds, and the great BUS himself, constitute only a speck in the universe, and it is farcical to suppose that the business ol the unghty congregation of suns and world* tilling the heaven* is to furnish horoscopes for babiss — N. Y Sun. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.—The fine sifting of coal ashes are excellent fur soouring knives with. Common lyc of wood ashes will soften hard putty in a few minutsi. Drive two Urge nails through two spools, as far apart as your broom-han dle is thick, and hang your broom on, I brush up to keep it straight. A lump of bread about the size of a billiard ball, tied up in a linen bag and placed ic the pot in whioh greens are boiling, will absoib tho gasees whioh often times sand such an uuploasaut odor to the regions above. Take a uew flower pot, wash it clean, wrap in a wet cloth and est over butter; will keep it as hard as if on iae. Milk, if put into an earthen can, or even a tin one, will keep sweet for a long time if well wrapped in a wet cloth. I'retful Words. Why be so severe in dealing with the faults of those at home while wc excuse anything friends or acquaintances may do? The laws of politeness should be binding at hwme as well as abroad. We enjoy seeing our husbands and wives polite to our neighbors, only let us be sure to praotice our good manners at home. There are husbands who would 1 hasten to assure a neighbor's wife, who j had, in her haste, burned her biscuits, that tucy "greatly enjoyed them when ; they ware so nice und brown," who j would never think that their own wives needed the same consideration. No mau can be a gentleman, though ever so gen- 1 ial abroad, who is a tyrant or habitual j fault finder at bomj ; and no woman is a real lady who is not a lady at home in i her morning wrapocr, as well as in silk in her neighbor's parlor. Oae member ; of a family who begins the day with fretful words and harsh tones, is gener ally enough to S|,oil the happiness and temper of the whole for the day. Not all who hear the impatient word give the angry answer, for many choose to suffer in siier.ee; but every such word ma«es somebody's heart aclio ; and, ua a rule, it is sjtnebody whom we love and j would do anything for, exoept to keep back the unkind, sarcastic word. Then do not let us m~.ke ourselves and others j miserable by being fretful at home. Sunset Sign 3. Ths following paragraph, says the New Orleaus Dtmncrat , appeared in the last monthly weather review issued by the bureau at Washington : "The characteristics of the sky at sunset, cs indicative of fair or foul weather for the succeeding twenty-four hours, have been observe I at all signal service stations. Reports froai 144 sta tions show 4.441 observations to have \ been made, of which 20 were doubtful ; : of tbe remainder, 4,412 or 48 4 percent were followed by the expected weather " It attracted tbe attention of a repor ter oi the Democrat, and awakened a desire to learn the "characteristics," and in search ol the information wo called upon Scigesnt L Danne, signal officer al this port, and fr 'i him obtained tbo following signs for foretalliog the weath er of the next 24 hours: A deep, ongry red at sunset foretells rain Light red indicates fair weather. A yellow sky at sunset also indicates ! fair weather, unless there are numerous i clouds of a deep yellow, when thunder storms may be expected A green sun set indicates fair weather Heavy banus j of clouds iu the west at sunset foretell : rain. Rapid changes of the color of cluud* at 6ucset indicate rain. When the upper clouds move in a di- I lection different from that ot the wind | thin blowing, indicate a change of wind When the outlines of cumulus clouds are sharp, it indicates dry atmosphere, and therefore presages fins weather. Suull inky clouds foretell rain. A light scud driving across hazy clouds indicates j wind and rain. Remarkable clearness of the atmos phero near the horizon and an unusual ' twinkling of the stars, arc indications ol 1 approaching rain. Dew and fog are in -1 dicalions ol fine weather. Gone By. The days sre gone in which a spade 1 might be called a spade; now, every \ thing's in a name. Clerks do not wish to be styled clerks, pure and simple, but to ba set fmth as "with" Messrs So aud So. Bar-keepers demand to be cousi dewd "in ths wine business," and drivers i of L«ger Boer Wagons, to bs styled "in L the Brewery Business." No doubt by i the same token venders of matohes ask [ to be enumerated as "lumber merchants," and bricklayers, we are assured, con stantly request to be written down as "mason aud builder." Circus rtdera and negro minstrels pretty universally ask to be catalogued us iu "the dramatic profes sion." Commercial travelers are found to bo variously entreated as "importers" and "jobbers." The dashing if some what diaphanous disguise whereby deal ers in faro banks and blacklegs generally are proue to describe themselves as "sporting men" is uot, we believe, allow ed in the census, although between it und the foregoing the difference ill por baps only one of degree. A close personal friend of Conklinj; gives the ulterior design ot Mr. Conk ling in his present move. He says ths Seuator will oome back, not us a Repub lican, but on ths new issue of opposition. He will oocupy an independent position i and will not go henceforth into ths R« ! publican caucus He and Piatt will I hold the balance ol power—not Mahone. He anticipates a break in ths psrty thinks he socs the beginning of the end. He is shaping his oourss so that in tho ultimate break up of the party he will be the loader uf ths nsw issue, anti-mon opoly. For part we don't think he will get back. NUMBER 49' llow to Manage Him. Husbands, my dear ladies, can be coaxed to da almost anything; but it will not do tn drive them. II the wife is fond of her own way, the husband is t>!erably certain to bo similarly inclined, and mutual misery is the result. There should he but one will with a married couple who arc truly mated, and that should be tlio will of—both. To those wlio know the sweet authority of lore, this will uot seem like a paradox. We have known couples—•not so many aa we could wish—both of whom could truth fully say, after a dozen or twenty year*' walking of tbe long path together, tbat thev had had their own way, because the neoessary mutual yielding had been dune so cheerfully and so wholly that hot the o«« way iflmalncd. J'he worst of husbands —provided ho is not dissi pated, of coursa—can be managed if you, hi-t wit'o, can keep hiui iu love with you When that can be dono, all the rest foliows. How it can be done we d"> not know ; you ought to, if you know what he loved you for in the first place. Wo do not uiean simply faithful, and provident and kind, but genuinely lov ing Few mortals can withstand the power of lauhful, loving devotion. — Exchange The number of bones in the human body ii 250 The average number of teeth it thirty two. If men knew ail that women think they would bo twenty times uioro auda cious. It' women know what mon think, thsy would be twenty times more coquet tish. The most remarkable run evor made on as American railroad was tbat from Detroit to Victoria, a distance of 229 miles, iu 235 minutes running time. It a special train with Vanderbill's I private car, carrying a party of railroad magnates. A Ilockford (Me.) girl had her corset i torn oil'by a stroke of lightniug, and was uuinjared, but a young man who \ called to borrow a book had his right | arm shattered and a piece of corset-steel blown into his liver lie said he didn't know she was loaded. It was their first night aboard steam er. "At last," he said tenderly, "wo all alone out upon the deep waters of the dark blue sea, and your heart will always baat fur me as it has beat in the past?" \Mv heart's all right," she answered, languidly, "out my stomach feels awful. A Milwaukee girl suffering from lock jaw, was left alone with a mouse by a shrewd physician, and sfio coogrived to t open her moulh enough to tive a yell that made the crockery iu the china closet nttle. In the year ISSO America issaed sev enty patents to women. And not one ot these was an indicator to be attached to a bedpost to show if there i 9 a man under the bed. And yet think how much getting down on hands and kneei such a thing would save women.—Bos ton P.st It is not pleasant to have the barber's apprentice practicing upon you, lay open your cheek with a two-inch gash, and thcu follow tlio cut with the cheery remark, ' Skin's very tender, sir." It is not pleasant. We don't know what it is, but it isn't pleasant. — Burlington llaiclceye. North Carolina has twenty iron fur naces. mills, &c, representing a capital of §60,000. There is no reason why it should not be sixty times that suui. Iron ores abound iu many of our count ies and the iron busiu ;ts ouiht to bo aa important industry of the (state. — WU miugron Star. A young lady at an Oshkosh temper ance meeting said : "Brothran and en ters, cider is a necessity to cue aad I must Save it If it is decided that we are nut to drink cider, I shall eat apples and get some younc men to squeeze me, for T can't live without the juioc of tbe ; apple." "You ain't taking any stock in wo man's love, tb ?" "No," he auswored, despondently, "it'sall flummery." "Veiy ; strange," added his friend. "You didn't me to talk that way." "Perhaps not," , ho replied, "but I've been married noar ly two years, and thero are four pair of irousora lunging up in my eloset waiting to be patched, and not a stitch taken in them yet." Why will not grass grow under our trees? M. Paul Bert has shown that greon light ninder the development of plants. Plants enclosed in a green glass frame wither nud die as though they were in darkness. M Kegnard finds that plants specially require ths red rsys It sunlight is deprived of tho red rays tho plants soon cease to thrive A newsboy went into a oiirar store on Otlveston avenue and asked for a five cent cigar, upon rcceiveing whieb he bit | off the end and lit it throwing down k lead niokel. "Look here ! it ain't good," said tho tobajoonist,examining tbe niok el. "I kaow it, but I'll smok-j it, any how," responded tbe newsboy —Gulvet i ton Neva

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