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THE DANBURY REPORTER-POST. VOLUME XIV. Reporter and Post. PUBMtHED WEEKLY AT DANBURY, N. C. PKPPER k SONS, Pubs, ie Props BATHS or •I'DSM'KimOM I CM Tur, paaabla In artranca •'■JJ •ll Month* * ■ATM or ADVERTISmei «aa Iquar* lira llaa. or !•«•) 1 tima, tl 00 ftriub additional luiwrttoiij -® 0 Cualncta tor loan*' tIM or mora .part an U« It awarding to thert ratal at I*o ttaia th *r will b. charged 50 par eanl. hl*kar U " ka laaartad at Tan Dollar. ImTTtk ' PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ROBERT D. GILMER, Attorney and Counsellor, MT. AIRY, N. c. Practices in the courts of Sumy, Stokes, Yadkm and Alleghany. W. F. CARTER, jiTTom/fMr-dir-lix w. MT. AlllY, SUItRY CO., N. C PraettoM wharavevhisservices ara wanted R. L. HA YMORE, ATTORNEY-AT LAW Mt Airy. N. O* Sp«dal attention given to tho collection ot claims. I— l2m B. F. RING, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON Sf CO., DRY GOODS, >aa. r aad tt Saatfc S&»rp. Street, r. w. aoHrnon, it. u. BCTUOM. J, m. K. QRABBB, O. J. JOUNBON. ». DAT, ALBERT JO.NKB. 3Z>AY 3C JOAE&P manufacturers of ■ABDLERY, HARNESS, COLLAUM, TUTOR I •. *34 W. Baltimore »tm>t, Baltimore, J/d. W. A. Tacker, H. C.Smith, B.S. ttpragglm Tucker» Smith k Co*' ftfa*ttfaclKrhr» A wholetalo Dealwain MO6TS, snogs, HATS ASD CAPS. y*. tto Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Jfd. R. J. * rt. E. HBST; WITH Henry Sonneborn s• Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. M AiMT*r (between German A SUO BALTIMORE MD. ■. MHBEBOBN, B. BI.IHLINB «.watkiks."7 r7wA?K , i t N T s ON ' #. L. COTTRKLL, A.S.WAIKINS. Watkins. Cottrell * Co.. Importers aad Jobber* of HARDWARE. 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, rJ. Anab Car Falrbanki UUndard Bcalaa, an Aaber Rraad Bolting Cloth. 0(«yA«n Putney, L. B Blair W. 11. MILKS, WITH STEPHENPUTNE Y$ CO. Wholesale dealers in Boots, Shoes, and, Trunks, 1-219 Mam Street, fcpl Ul4m. RICHMOND, VA. J. R. ABBOTT, OF « 0., with WHIG#, EJ.LETT & CBCMP, RICHMOND, VA., Whslesals Dealers la BOOTS, BHOKB, TRUNKS, &C. tmmpl atuntion paid to orders, and satis tastiss gaaraaterd. ptf rafuu* Site friw* U—dt * tfiaaUy ■arah, t. ■ ~siiaai rr rowsaa. aaaaa D. TITU> . a W. POWERS k CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers In PAWTS, OILS, DISS, TARKISHSS, French and American WINDOW OLAttS, PUTTY, AC. BMOKINO AND CHEWING 01 OARS, TOBACCO A BPBCIALTT IMA Main St., Blohmond, Va£ Aaiasttßl* — J. L. C. BIRD, WITH W. D. KYLE & Co., iRPCirrKRS Aim jonnicits or HARDWARE. Cutlery. I RON, NAILS and CARRCAOR GOODS No. 9 Ooveroor Street, BICUMOND.VA. SUBSCKI.BE FOR Your County Paper, -=The ReDorter and Postn t 1 * * I # OF THE PKOPLEt POU THP PKOPLK ; OF THK PKOI'MCf KOH THE PEOPLE! OV THK PEOPLE! FOK THE PEOPLE ! OF THE PEOPLE ! Foil THE PEOPLC I ONLY $1.50 A YEAR! SUBSCRIBE ROW It is your duty to aid your county paper. Wo propose publishing a good family paper, and solicit from our friends and from the Democratic party in Stokoti and adjoining counties a li beral support. Make up clubs for us. Now go to work, and aid an enterprise devoted to vour beat interests. Head the following NOTICES OV THE PHEBS : The RKPORTKK AND POST is sound in pnlioy and politics, and deeerves a libe ral support.— Reidsville Weekly. Tho Danbury RKPOHTBR AND I'OST bcgiuH its thirteenth year. It is a good paper and deserves to live long and live well.— Daily Workman. The Daubury KKPOHTER AND POST oelebiates its twelfth anniversary, and with pardonable pride refers to its suo cess, whioh it deserves.—JVetos and Ob server. The Banbury REPORTER AND POST is twelve years old. It is a good paper and should bo well patronixed by the people of Stokes. It certaiuly desorves it.- Salem Press. For twelvo long years the Banbury REPORTER AND POST has been roughing it, and still manages to ride tho waves of tho journalistic sea. We hopo that it wiU have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just passed its I2th anniversary and under the efficient management of broth er Duggins cannot fail to incrcaso in popularity with the people of S Sokes and adjoining counties.— Winston Sentinel. The editorials on political topics are timely and to the point, and the general amke up of every page shows plainly the oxeroise of much care and pains taking. Long may it live and flourish under the present management. — Moun tain Voice. The Banbury REPORTER AND POST has entered the thirteenth year of its ex istence, and we congratulate it upoD the prosperity that is manifested through its columns. To us it is more than an ac quaintance, and we rogard it almost as a kinsman. — Leaksville Gazette. The Banbury REPORTER AND POST last week celebrated its twelfth anniver aary. It is a strong and reliable paper editorially, it ia a good local and gener al newspaper and in all respeots a credit to its town and section. It ought to bo well patronued.— Statesville Landmark. Tho Banbury REPORTER AND POST has just entered its 13th year. We were one of the orew that launched tho RE PORTER, and feel > djep interest in its welfare, and hope that she may drift on ward with a dear sky and a smooth sui face for as many moro years— Casvell News. The Banbniy REPORTER AND POST has oelebrated its I2th anniversary. The paper is sound in policy and politics, and deserves the hearty support of the people of Stokes. It is an excellent weekly and we hope to soo it flourish in the future as nover before.— Winston Leader. The Banbnry REPORTER AND POST oame out last week with a long editorial, entitled, "Our Twelth Anniversary" and reviews its past history in a very entertaining way. Go on Bro, Pepper in your good work; you get up one ot if not the best country paper in North Carolina.— Kernersmile Jftwi. That valued exchange, published in Banbury, N. 0., the REPORTER AND POST, has entered upon its I2th anni versary. Long may it live ty call the attention of the outside world to a coun ty whioh is as rioh, we suppose, in min erals as any in tba State of North Car olina, and to battle for oorreot pclitioei measures. -Danville Timet. ">OTIII>'G SUCCBKDM L.IICK HUCCEWH." DANBURY,-N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1885. HOW TO LIVE shoald ne lira that a very hour May fall as fells tlie natural flower, 'A self-reviving thing of power; That every thought and every deed May bold within itself a seed Of future good and future ueed, Esteeming sorrow, wlioec suiploy Is to de/Blop, not destroy, ( Far oottorthann hanim joy. In a Bottle. It was a bcautifu day in midsummer, and the half-a-hundrcd-odd cabin pas sengers on the good steamship Nantic were listlessly lounging about the deck. They were alieady nine days out from Liverpool, and owing to au ui.fortunate accident, which had occurred early or the voyage, only half the distance to thoir port of destination had been ac complished. The accident had been attended with no danger to the precious human freight, but the monotony of the voyago was be coming unbearable, and tho passongers were beginning to grumble. Every artifice had been resorted to to relieve the tedium of the Blowly moving days, and now they wcro literally at their wits' end. Charades mock trials, skettles, and amateur theatricals, had in turn been resorted to, but now, with their faces turned longingly toward home, they lounged about the deck, and bemoaned their sad fate. A particularly discontented group leaned against the port-rail, amidship, uomposed of two youug ladies, showily dressed, two young men who looked rather jaunty in their semi-sailor dress, a stout, red-facod, coarse-looking man, and an equally stout, rod-fneed, and coarse-looking woman. The two latter were called "pappa" and "mamma" by the simpering youug ladies, and deferentially addressed as Mr. and Mrs. Galo by the young men in semi'sailor dress. Thev were venting their indignation against the steamship, and the combina tion of untoward circuuistanoes that bad delayed their voyage. Standing a little apart from the group was a slim, pale-faced girl, in a dress of quiet-gray, unrelieved save at the throat, where a bit of oherry-colored ribbon was gathered into a prim bow. This was Elsie Annabel, and she was maid and companion to the Misses Gale, who wore named respectively Agnes and Eunice. Sb« took no part in the conversation, but tbere was a sad and wistful look in tho gray eyes, as she turned her face toward the wostorn horizon. 'I»'« outrageous !' cried Papa Gale. 'Shameful!' echoed his wife. 'lt's killing me !' sighed Miss Eunice. '1 am really faint with ennui!' chir ruped Mias Agnes. •It's deucedly unfortunate " chorused tho young men. 'lf something would only happen!' oontinued Agnes. 'I tell you what V cried the elder of the young men, addressing Miss Eunice, in particular. 'Well V interrogated that young lady, with a listless attempt at interest. •Let's writo letters to our friends, en oloso them in bottles, and throw them overboard. They're no doubt consider ably worried over our long absenoe, and as it's impossible to tap the cable and telegraph them a message, we'll make old ocean's waves our letter carrier !' 'Pshaw, Rob !' retorted Miss Eunioe, shrug-grog her shoulders. llow senti mental you aro ! As though a letter put into a bottle and thrown into the sea would ever reach anywhere !' •I've road somewheio,' said Rob Car rington, 'that ship-wreokod sailors often send messages to their friends that way. We're about as bad as shipwrecked, why can't we ?' 1 'Let's ask the captain !' said Eunioo; and she walked toward that offioer, who was moodily pacing up and down the bridge. The others followed. 'Yes, Miss,' answered the oaptain, when Eunice had asked him about the possibility of the bottles being washed ashore. 'l've no doubt they'll eaoh land somewhere. The steward will furnish you with bottles if you desire to make tho experiment.' There was something novel in the idea, and every empty bottle on ship board was soon brought on deck. Everybody, young md old, began to j writo letters—everybody exoept Elsie i Annabel. No waiting kindred anxiously expect- ' ed her return, and the only real friend she had ever had, handsome Gny Clial- i mors, was lost to her. Two years before she had engaged herself to the young artist, bnt thoy had quarreled, and separated in angor, as lovers will. She was too proud to ask his forgive ness, and ho was too stubborn to ask hors. Gradually they ha>i drifted apart and finally lost nil other. • Elsie sighed as these thoughts of tho past surged through her ininj, and she sighed—a bitter, quivering sigh. l'apa Gale was a rich pork inerchaut, and, iu his rough way, was kind to her. He paid bor liberally lor the service she rendered in polishing up tbo some what neglected educations of hi, two daughters, but they were selfish and ca pricious, and her lot was not, by any means, a happy one. The steamship's deck now rang with joyous laughter and merry jest, as the passengers prepared the messages that they confidently hoped would be wafted shoreward. All sorts of letters wero written, read over laughingly, placed in their frail re ceptacles, and oast into the sea. Even the sailors became interested in tho experiment, and sent out messages to waiting friends or anxious sweet hearts, in dear America. 'Havo you written yeur message yet, Miss Annabel ?' asked Agnes Gale, halting (or a moment beside her maid, as she leaned oyer the rail and watched tho tightly corked bottles as they hobbled I up and down. 'My message V cried Elsie, with a ] guilty start, for she had just been think ing of Guy Chalmers. 'Ah—eh—real ly—l havo no ono to write to!' 'No one ?' persisted Agnes. 'No" was the low answer,andF.lsio's eyes dropped. •That's too bad I'-jpid Ajaes, om miseratiQgly. 'Everybody is sending out a message. If I wcro you I'd just write something and send it off at ran dom. Yon could sign your name and address, antl perhaps someone would find it who'd be anxious to know who you are and would write. That would be romantic " 'l've no taste for romance ?' answered Elsie, but she nevertheless, procured a bottle, and after a moment's thought wrote on a piece of paper. •In MID OCBA.N, on STEAMER NAM TIC, AUJ. 12.—An accident which happened to our propeller has delayed our voyago, and wo are nine days out from Liverpool. The Captain says we are just half way between that port and New York. Everybody is well. 'ELSIE ANNABKL, 'Care of John Gale, Esq., 'Walnut Hills, Cincinnati o.' She placed this simple tnossago in a bottle, aad corked and scaled it and tossed it overboard. The bottle was particularly long necked, bright green in color, aad her inexperienced band had smeared the whole top with red wax. She stood watohing it a long time, but finally it disappeared, and with a weary sigh sha turned and went be low. The Nantio ultimately reached New York, and Mr. John Gale hurried back to Cincinnatti, to attend to his pork. Rob Carrington anJThis cousin, Ar thur Stevens' bade the Misses Gale farewell, and seoretly promised to cor respond with them. The Gales had boen home nearly a month, when ono morning a hired hack came slowly up the long oarriatce road which wound through the rich pork paoker's extensive grouuds, and, whon it finally reached the house, the door opened, and A young man leaped lightly to the ground. He inquired of the servant who an swered his ring foi Miss Elsie Annabel, and the man showed him into tho back parlor. Elsie was considerably surprised when told that a gentleman wished to see ber below, but she went down aud timidly approached tho back parlor. She halted for a moment on the threshold, and the gentleman, who had been idly drumming on the window, turned. At the sight of his face ibe reeled, and would have fallen had he not sprang forward and caught her in his arms 'Elsie, my darling!' he said, holding her very tightly. 'Have jou no word of welcome for me V 'Oh, Guy!' sho murmered, as her eyes met his. 'Hnvo you really come back to me! I ha»c been so lonely with out you ! Fbigive tue fer my cruel ty!' 'lt is I who liavo conio to ask for giveneßi!' said Guy, leading her to a seat. 'After wo parted, two years ago, and I got over my stubbornness, I tried to find you, but you had disappeared, leaying no trace behind you. 1 was inoousolable, and reproached myself for my harshness, because il was all my fault. Finally, however, 1 grew moody and oynioal, but I oonld never bring myself to think of yaa with aught but love and tenderness. Six months after you disappeared my old uncle died, and left mo his heir. Since that time 1 have hunted for you, far and wide. Lastsummorl took a run along the coast in my yacbt, Rtoppiug at ovcry port. Two woeks ago wo were lying off Cape Breton, in a dead calm. Oni of the sailur, called my attontion to a bot tle that was drifting by us. I fished it up with a scoop not. It was scaled and all gathered around to see what it con tained. I broke the neck, and found this littlo note;' and be produced from an inner poeket the identical message she had written on board the Nantic, in mid-ocean. 'You :an imagine my joy at the strange discovery of your bidihg placo, and, a breeze springing up, I or dered tho yacht put about, and wo run into Halifax. I have come to you as fast as steam would carry me, to ask your forgiveness, and assure you that I have never ceased to love you." What answer she made him can but bo imagined. Anyway—when Papa Galo returned to dinner be heard tho whole story, and declared in his hearty way that bo'd give away the bride. Accordingly, as soon as a suitable trousseau could be prepared, tho two, so strangely united, were made one. The misses Gale officiated as brides maids, and Rob Carrington and his cousin were the groom's best men. l'apa Gale, true to his word, gave the bride awsy, and the jjreat pyramid of flowers which occupied tho centre of | the banquet table was crowned by tho 1 identical bottle that was responsible for ■ the happy evont. SAM JONEISMS. The following are somo of tho latest proverbs of the Rev. Sam Jone?, whose j reputation as a revivalist has rapidly spread over a continent: 1 would not lot my cook £0 to a ger man. Dancing ia nothing but bugging set to music. "I have doubts," say one. Well, you must quit your meanncsß and you will ! quit your doubting. If a man hasn't enough religion to pray in hu family be hasn't enough to save hi; soul with. It's not so much when and where a man joins the church. It's all right, just so he sticks up to it. lie honest and pay your debts. There are too many men in tho church board ing with their wives. Get in the right attitude and faith will come, liread is the gift of God, at the end of the plow handle. Have religion at home, train your children right, and no revival will bo needed. Religion ia catching. Tbero is not a man in Chattanooga who doesn't have family prayers that has got as mneh religion as a goat. Twelve years ago [ consecrated my self to God, and aince that time have 1 never had an invitation to a ball. I A man's hates and hi, likes detetm ine character ; a man's affinities deter- I mine what he is and who ho is. | There was never a sinner in this town, 1 however hoary headed, who would want i the churches dono away with. | Do you think a pale, woak looking | follow like mo ooulu preach four times a j day tho year round if I wasn't uplifted by the grace of God. ! In certain plaoes they toll yeu if you 1 want to got into society you must join our church. If you want to go to hell ijoin that ehuroh. That is the plain | English of it. | If I could take oiy ohoice getting in to heaven between ehuroh,Sunday school, | prayei meetings and a good mother, 1 ' would take the latter and be sure of the | better home above. God won't keop a young lady pious who has her waist encircled soven times ! a week by a spider-legged dude. Sow billiards, reap fools. Sow cards, reap gamblers. Sow whiskey, reap ; drubkards. Sow germans, reap spider leg'- The dude looks as if ho was melted and poured into his pants. There's many a fellow with a white wash brush trying to clean up a little j before he goes to God. CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CA SES. A farmer hired a man to help work the farm. One summer day, when la bor was very scarce, the two were mow ing in tho field, when several larks flew up. "Look at those big cranes,' sail the hired man. "Those are not cranes; they are enly larks," replied tho farmer, some what surprised. "If you don't say they are cranes, I'll knook off work right now," said the hired man. As the farmer could get nobody at that time to take the hired uiau's place, bo was obliged to yield to the whim of the menial. "Yes," said the farmer, "I soe now that they are crane, ; but they are not big cranes, they ate only half grown cranes." The hired man was satisfied with this concession. Some mouths afterward, the hired man still being in the employ ment of the farmer, the latter said at dinner ono day, as he poured out a glass of water : "Hare is some very fino beer." "That's no beer; that's only water." replied the hired man. "If you don't say it is beer you can tender your resignation, for I don't wan't auy offensive partisans about tin place." The hired man knew very well that he couldn't get auothcr situation at that time of the year, so he tasted the watei and cheerfully endorsed tho administra tion, saying: 'Of course it's beer, bnt it hasn't got much body to It." MULES ON THE FARM. Treat a niulo deceutly and he will be a decent animal. The best toam we ever drew a lino over was a span of mules; they had boen accorded kind treatment, and they were a» trusty and gentle as horses could be. They .'ould be driven anywhere, rid den by small children in safety; left standing anywhere in the field with as surance that when you returned you would find them whero you left them ; and we were never afraid they would make so forcible an exhibition of their good will by tickling our ribs with their heels. They were always ready for work and to drive them was a pleasure. For a work animal on the farm the mule is superior to the horse; he docs more work, and in proportion to his size will draw a heavier load or pull through a longer furrow. He is much less affec ted by the weather than is tho horse ; ho endures both heat and cold better, and is much more indifferent to expos ure. Ho is raiely sick, and is always on hand in a busy time. He cats less than a horse, does mora work, and of course is a good deal ohoaper.—Ex change. SCRATCHES IN A HORSE. Scratches or graase in a horse, is due to disordered blood, loaded with impur ities which should have been carried off through the kidneys or bowels. It usu ally accompanies urinary disorder, and is most prcvallent among horses wnich arc fod largely upon grain. Exposure of the legs to mud or wet, or melting snow, aggravates the of the skin, and assists in the inflammatory eruption. The treatment should De to give cooling medioines, as twelve to six teen ounces of Epsom salts, followod by mild diuretios, as one ounce doses of swoet spirits of nitre, llut a change of food will be helpful; give bran mash, with some out roots if possible. Wash the legs in warm water and soft soap, and then apply a solution of one dram of sulphate of zinc in a pint of water. Tbo niter should be continued for ten days to two woeks. Tho legs must be strictly protectei from contact with manure or mud. A negro in Jackson county, Ga.,near Nicholson, killed a two-year-old cow by butting it with his head. He was try ing to catch the eow, when the owner told the negro to look out or the cow would bu't him. Tho negro remarked that ho oonld play the same game, and that he could kill tho oow lay butting it. Tlie'owner of the oow toldjhiin that if h-> killed the oow with his head by butt -1 ing herjdown he would give tne cow to him. The negro bowed his nock and went for the eow, striking her in the forehead, and killed her. NO. 21. SMALL BITES. Plaster is excellent for clover at all times. The tendency to reversion io breeding is great. Oue rent paid is worth a docen in your baud. There are 050 but'.er and cream fac tories in lowa. England's milk product is 91,160,- 000,0U0 a year. Millers ray that shrunken grains make the best flour. A| l thre« or four years' rotation of crops is usually the best. Poultry as flesh costs more per pound than any other meat. So fast as ground is plowed for wheat it should be rolled. A Tennessee man says that there aro 300,000 dogs in that State. The distribution of seeds by Congress is a vexed )uesthn. It is much hotter to have one good lamb than two poor ones. Sprout* around the trunks of fruit troes should be cut away. A barrel of flour requires on an iv crage 4i bushels of wheat. The average wheat yield in England is 28 bushels to the acre. The corn crop of Georgia is estimat ed at forty million bushels. Au old bachelor is a traveler on life's railroad, who has failed to mako the proper connections. Wheat is becoming a favorite grain for sowing with grass seed. The manufacture of bogus butter has at tamed a high perfection. Some rams in Texas weigh over two hundred pounds without fleeces 1 logs make into flesh a larger propor tion of what they eat than any other animal. The numbor of immigrants arriving in the United States for the lost fiscal year is 387,821. The horse manure supply should be carefully saved and applied with as lit tle waste as possible. The number of cattle on the plains is estimated to be 49,417,782 of a value of $1,190,000,000. Until within a few years the prioe of timothy seed was twice or three times as much as it has lately been. The territory known as the ranch cat tle area constitutes 40 per cent, of the total area of the United States. Fiesh beef may be kept at a tem perature ot about 38 Fahrenheit, in a properly ventilatod space, for sixty days. The only good reason for summer fal lowing is that it enables the farmer to clean the land. But it is expensive. Deep ploughing is excellent but it is poor polioy to bury manure deeply, so as not to be available for the growing crop. The earlier rye can be sown after the ground is thoroughly fitted, the great er amount of fall feed it will pro duce. llotel keepers in Missouri are obliged to stamp dishes with the name elwiwtr gariue, if such stuff bo placed before tho guests. The Moiiawk valley in New York now has only 600 acros in broom corn ; it used to have seven oi eight thousand years ago. There arc fifty thousand boxes of checjo stored in New York city, and seventy ihourand in Montreal; hence tho cheese market is dull. Sawing horns from cattl« is exten sively practiced in Irelauu, about sixty thousand bead being thus treated every year. A cruel practice. A Western fruit grower claims to prevent pear blight by painting the truuks and limbs of bis trees every third year wiih linseed oil and red lead. The statement is olten made that a pound of poultry floah costs about the same as a pound of pork. Una cannot be true or it would sell as cheap if it , did. | "It's oo use to feel of me wrist., doi 'her," said Pat. v.!ien the t taking his pulse, "the pain ia no. there, sir; it's in my head entoire- I IjV"