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UNBER TAKING.
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TVWill attend in penon with Hearse to
all Burial in town or country,
All kind of Cabinet Work made to or
dr. C. R. IHAttTIJ.
Ptb 10, 69. Successor to Martin & Covey,
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I.P.RAINES,
BAKER AND CONFECTIONER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Fancy Goods, Cigars, Toys, &c.
MAIN STREET,
lrs. Harrington's Old Stand,
1ANVILLE,V A.
Warch. 18G9.
Joy to the Afflicted!
Piles can now be Permanently
CURED,
BY applying in person or by letter to Dr. J
J. Thaxtox, MilUn, N. C. Give descrip
tUft of case,- with any constitutional disorder
agiampanylng the disease, by inclosing $5 and
Stents postage sta-np,atia you will insure
prompt attention.
Aay amount of Certircatea Of cure can be fur
fcished. Many cases have been cured of 25
tears standing. Relief ; generally had in 35
hours. I have cured infants three weeks old.
January 21, tf
New Warehouse.
L PricsV Lot, Danville, Va.
WE take pleasure in informing our friends
thai we have completed out New tYarehousc,
which for cbhvehiehee of situation, construction
ana its ne Skyitlglit cannot be excelled in
hi ftk t. We have ah excellent Wagn
V A I i, To?1 stock will Iti perfectly secure
V?I wi' ala "ood bouse for our Customers
utlep in wVhare ated with us, Mr
WM.T. LAW, so long ana vorle known td
the planters around Danville, as to ned no
ommendation. We take pleasure in return:"? f
oar thanks to our friends for the very liberal
support we have received, and hope by personal
attention to our business, to continue to merit
aai receive the patrinage ofourfriends and the
uU WM. P. GRA.VES,
THOS. R. McDEARMAN.
WM.T. LAW.
Danville January, 1869
MAT milaLSOX, J. D. PAYLOF, J. M. WINSTEAD
v Lateof
YaBeyvill, Thomasville Roxborough
N.C. NCI N. C.
HARRALSON, EAYLOR & CO-,
TOBACCO
Commission Merchants
X: 10 Hollingsworth's Block,
MACON, OA.
April 16, 1869. Cm
MILLNER'S WAREHOUSE.
DANVILLE VIRGINIA-
IB- in good repair Skylights side windows
an4 doors. On Main Street and in the
aoat business part of. town. We have good
tails and troughs, fire and water furnished grat
it to all persons visiting our house. Liberal
advances made on all tobacco in the Ware
vst. J. C MILLNER Auctioneer with an expe
ritnso of thirty years,
May 6, ly
NEW MS! 1W GOODS!
We art sow receiving a well selected stock
f Spring and Summer Goods, which we offer
far salt as cheap for cash as they can be bougbt
at any establishment South, consisting in part
of Staph and fancy dry Goods.
Notions, and white Goods,
HATS and CAPS BOOTS and SHOES.
Upper and sole Leather
Hardware and Croekery,
also Baoon. and Lard,
Sugar, Coffee, Molasses
aad everything usually found in a first class
rttail eaaatry store
M 29 9 tf HOLDER CHINES
SAILT! T
Batks of Marshels Salt, for sale in lots to
sute purchasers-
DAVID PATTERSON,
-Agent for Girst & Lisberger.
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THURSDAY SEPT 2,1 869
Fancy Ragr Ball at Skunk's Hollow
Local on the Hiohferluten Grand
Ball Description of Characters'
From the Staunton Virginian.
The severe drought the baked eaith
the powderd dust or the firey bearrief of
the goden monarch of day, did not in the
Ipast deter "Local" from vaulting upon
the sharp back of a ricketty old mare,
borrowed from a half starved farmer,
and starting off toward the flourishing
settlement of Skunk's Hollow, in answer
to the flattering invitation of the Com
mittee of artaDgcments of the Grand
Fancy Itag ball given by the jolley t pro.
prietorofthe tavern for a charitable
purpose 1. e. puttiDg money in his pocket-As
we approached the settlement the
balmy breezes laden with the perfume of
hog-pens and rotten carcases of starved
cattle, came creeping through the um.
brageous so far as the shadows of their
skeleton form were cast upon the crisped
and yellow grass. Kimble Joe, the Pa.
ganini of the neighborhood wa'S already
at work on his rustic cremona, and rag
ged little urcbins, black and white, dan
ced merrily on the piazza to the good old
tune of 'cooney in the hollow Our re
ception was in that good old fashioned
Virginia style so characteristic of olden
times but now almost out of use a
rough hake of the 'cornstealer' and an
invitation to take a 'sni filer of torch
light As the twinkling: stars of evening
beJ
o
gan to peep through the copper
colored
sky, the company commenced assembling
in the ample barn! the floor of which had
been swept as clean as a paunbroker!s
conscience., Girls fat and leah, tall and
short we're there from all parts of the
neighborhood, and looked as blooming as a
dish of tipori and sDaps. The men tvere
not exactly the cMvalry of the Old Do
minion but they represenied the hard
fisled fmhters of the good old State", A
elbow of Nimble Joe, as if worked on by
a current of ga'vanism began to move
rapidly over the pussy's entrals. and, as if
by magic, a rhythmatic and correspond
ing action was given to the nether limbs
of the vast assemblage, and the dance
commenced It was an oldfashioned
breakdown and caused the steam to rush
through the roof-openings with the sound
of a steam whistle. The dance was en
joyed by every body, and the rags
streamed out like pennons of Poverty
Among the charscters sustained we have
only time and space to name the follow,
ing
'An Irish washwoman,' Miss Patly
Scroggins, of Skunk's Hollow dress, a
tatttered turkish turban, sprinkled with
rusty spangles; white tarletan trimmed
with roses, white top boots and brass
spurs. Hair a la chivoux de fries. Com.
plexion florid.
Little Barefoot" Miss Sallie Mug's
gins, of Scrabbletown. The tin helmet of
Jean d'Arc; dre$s of pink satin with a
maroon underskirt red slippers stock
ings rattle-snake pumpkin chignon and
boxing gloves. Character well sustain
ed. 'Mag Merrilies' Widow Snodkins, of
Sawdust Mills. Blonde, rather inclining
to en ban point, Diess, an Indian
skull-cap. turkey -buzzard feathers- rtls.
ty breast-plate ermine profuse tattered
carrot. colored underskirts and piebald
stockings.
Lady Macbeth Miss Polly Snooks, of
'Sandy Bottom. This young larjy, six feet
in her Btockings, was the wonder and ad
miration of a host of admirers. Her hair
was dressed in the antique style of the
Elizabcthiaa era, as near heaven as pot-
Is always SteLl- 3 from the Many to the
, N. C, THURSDAY,
8ible. TaTleadsiirt colore de rose; bnf.
falo 1 kin body! thinplasters. Helmet,
shield and breastplate of Helen of Tioy
and cavalrv boot V :
Bohemian Gnrtr Min Casandra
Popkins, of PopkinEUlle SeaUkin skirt,
tri.colored body Hil4ve x "covered with
playing cardt: pink slpperp; hair in three
plaita sword l and .r : .
il'aneenif.inhtilra. .Jlollie' Snobs,
of Snakebole. This dnarmfng widow,
though fat and forty,; was, to all ap
pearance the youngest and fairest in the
assemblage. She has a fine farm well
stocked, and is a good haul for any
adveetnrer. Her dress was white muslin
-trimmed with tobacco leaves, mush
roons and snake grass. A blazing sun
ornamented her saffron colored locks,- and
she carried the first ripe Roasting ear of
the season under her arm- Long may
she wave!
We have to apologize to the many
sweet girls and stately matrons who we
are compelled to pass over for want of
space not inclination. Many of our
readers object to reading accounts of
such affairs. We will end with a notice
of some of the sterner sex.
AN APPARITION
We have been placed in possesion of
the details of a story which we should
treat as rhe workings of a disordered im
agination were it not clear-headed and
collected gentlemen assure us of their
truth. They are, substantially as fol.
lows
During the storm that preceeded the
eclipse" a flrebird about the size of a
full grown gray eagle, perched itself on
the jackstaff of the steamer Gen. Anders
son. lis shape was well and sharply de
fined) aud from its outlines there emana
ted constant luminous or phosphorescent
rays or jets. When this strange appara.
tion perched upon the jack-staff, and
and how it disappeared, are not known
to a single individual on the boat: We
were at first disposed to believe it an op
tacal illusion, but this idea was disipated
by the assurance that it maintained its
position during an interval of 15. o 20
minutes a sufficient length of time to
allow of a deliberate view and study of
all the details. The entire crew on
watch saw it, the more superstitious I por.
tion declaring it an ill omen. This j pors
tion, firmly believing that the fiery visi
1ST CAme to warn them of the burning of
the boat, came ashore at Cairo in a State
of almost pitiable trepidation, feeling that
they had made a narrow escape indeed.
What thw ignigenous object was we shall
not attempt to say. It is something new
in the history of island navigation'
Nearly every astonishing marine 'yarn'
we ever read was ernbelished with a des
cription of luminous balls of light that
setthed on the tips of the mainmast; bu t
well defined and undoubted firebirds on
the jack-staffs of the Mississippi steam
ers have been preserved for this age of
earthquakes, eclipses, me-teors, and un
natural wonders generaly
Cairo Bulletin
A young man in St. Mo., has commen
ced a suit agaiust a. young lady for ob
taing new goods under false pretences.
The articles in question were presents
made during an engagement now broken
off.
Two deaths in Cincinnati Saturday from
Heat.
Calvin Longston, a Kentucky 22 years
old, confesses eight murders.
A oity telegraph company is being or
ganized in New York. Messages are to
be delivered in any part of the city with
in fifteen minutes-
George Wilson, the supposed robber of
Prouchet diamonds in St. Louis recent
ly, has been discharged. His wife is still
under going examination.
Gov. Baker, of Indiana, is to appoint
delegates from Indiana to the St. Louis
convention for the roraoval of the cap
tal, which meets next October.
Tho new Memphis Theatre opens on
the 27ih of September with Arrah na
Pogue.
G. W. Ford, of Memphis, Tenn., has
purchased 3,900 acres of land in the town
of Islip, Long Island, with the intention
j, of erecimg a Tillage.
Few.
.SEPT.2, 18W-
Sawed Off
One day a gentleman called at the
store of Mr. Raiph Hard man with a vio
inbox under his arm He purchasedS a
neck-tie, for which he paid fifty cents,)
and then asked permission to leave, his
box while he did a few errands down
town Old Hardman a dealer in new
and second-hand clothing had no , ob
jection.
-w- w:
it is a vioim wnicn 1 prize very
highly. Jt was given me by.an old Ital
ion that died at my father's house. I beg
you will be careful of it, sir.
Mr. Hardman promised, and the ownei
of the pre6iotM violin departed.
Towards noun, while the old elothinc
dealer was very deeply engaged in the
work of selling a suit Of shoddy for bang
un Prussian Tncott, a stranger entered
the store a remarkably well dressed
man, with a distinguished look The
viollnbox was insight upon: tliO shelf,
and as no one was near to prevent, the
newicomer slipped around and opened
the box and took .out the instument d
very dark-hued and an ancient lookmgi
one
'Hall!' cried Hardman,' when he heard
Ayh
fn.
the sound of the viof
What foil
you touch dat, eh?'
The stranger explained that he was 2
proiessor that he was a leader of an or
chestra and "that he could never see .
violin without trying: it. And then he
drew the bote across the strings, playing a
passage of a fine old German waltz
'My soulr he cried, after he had run
l r f .1 ... a 1 1 M
ms nngers over the instrument awnne,
this is the best violin I -ever saw! There
is not a better in the city a a periect
genuine old Cremona! I will give you a
hundred dollars for it.
Hardman said it was not his,
'I will give vou a hundred and fifty-
two hundred
Mr. Hard man was forced to explain
how the violin came to be left in his
store.
I must have the violin it money will
buy it, When the owner returns you
will ask him to meet me here at 6 o'clock
If he cannot do that, tell him to call at
the office of the treasurer of the Acade
my of Music and inquire for the director
of the orchestra. Will you do it.:'
Hardman said he would.
But,' suggested the stranger, 'you need
not tell the man what I have said about
this violin, nor what I have offered, be
cause he may have no idea of what a trea
sure he possesses. You will be careful
and circumspect.'
, The stranger went away, and Ralph
Hardman reflected In the course of an
hour the owner of the violin returned and
asked for his box- But the shoddy man
had been captivated by the golden bait.
tVhat would the gentleman sell his vio.
Jin for
s
1 At first the gentleman would not listen
ito the proposition; but after a deal of talk
ne confef-sed tbat-he himself was not a
professor, and could not well afford to
keep such a valuable instrument.
I He would sell it for one hundred and
seventy.five dollars not a penny less.
Balph Haidman paid the money, and
became the legal possessor of the .violin,
ready to take anywhere from three hun
dred to five-hundred dollars from the di
rector of the orchestra, as he mights be
able
But the director did not come. At the
end of a week Hardman carried the vio
lin to a professional friend and asked him
what was its real value. His friend ex
amined it and Said: ' .
Two dollars and a hall' without the
box'
Ralph Hardman was strongly of the
opinion that the gentleman who left the
violm in his care was a swindler, and
that the director was a partner in the
business, and that, together, they had
made him their victim. That night
shoddy was marked up ten percent
The railroad between Windsor and
Annapolis, N. S., will be formally opened
by the Governor General to-day.
Hon. Frank Sherman, several times
Mayor of Chicago and owner of the -Sher.
man House of that city, is dangerously
ill. .
M. H. Sanford has matched his filly
Stamps against the celebrated Narragan
sett for $10,000, two miles at Baltimore,
September, 1870
Hon. A C Shortridge, Supenintendent
of the City Schools of Indianapolis, Ind.,
has resigned He has held the position
for five vears.
A large amount of wheat is being ship
ped from Boouville, tlo, to St. Louis,
S3 PEIt ANNUM.
VOPfeNOtrXXVIl
(
FIXAim LESLIE.
ttfc Sceltt nDltorxc, Wfcich Is Not
Granted. ' - r l
The famons case of Miv Frank Leslie,
the publisher, Sarah Ann'Jj?ligJus
fire department;
The cotton worm is makink havoc with
cotton fields in the Southern States.
A Targe number of buildings are being
erected in AmeHcus. Ga.
The crop of St: Landry Parish, for 18-
69, is estimated at $2,500,000.
The trotting trafck at the fair grounds,
near Richmand, is being regraded.
fron ore has been found in Varais Val
ley, Ga., with 95 por cent, of iron ore.
A fire is raging in the forrest near the
Flower of Hundred. Prince George coun.
ty,Va.
Northern capitalists are about starting
an extensive shoefaetory in .Helena, Ar
kansas. The . lankings along the Missouri river
are all crowded with wheat awaiting ship.
ment.
The colored voters of West Florida
are unanimous against annexation to Ala
bama. Fayetville, N- C , is raising money by
subscription to purchase a steam fire
engine.
Among the attractions at the Hot
Springs, Ark., are occasional bear fights
and gander pullingt.
The Rideau canal has been repaired
and navigation is resumed.
The National Educational Convention is
in session at Trenton , N. J.
A bale of the new crop of cotton, from
Alabama, Was received in Memphis yes
terday. The Hamill and Coulter boat-race, at
Pittsburg, is fixed for Thursday instead of
Friday
Work has been commenced on the In
diana end of the Grand Rapids and In-
i? .f i
uiana rauroaa.
The Pope has decided to hold a uni
versal exhibition of Christian art in Rome
next year.
A company has been incorporated in
San Francisco to work the iron mines of
California.
Betting in London yesterday on the
international boat race was five to two on
the Oxonians
Mr Forbes, of New Yoak, who has
been in Madrid tome time, in the intereis
of Cuba, has returned home.
The Democrats of Wyoming Territory
have nominated 8 F. Nuckoles, of Che-s
yenne; for Delegate to Congress.