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TRUNKS, .j-c.
Ho. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
■ol-ly
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8. B. SPUAOINS.
TUCKER, snrni & co.,
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BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS.
250 Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
01-ljN
C W. THORN, J E ETCIiISON.
C. IV. THORN k CO.,
wholesale dealers in
HATS, CAPS. STRAW GOODS, AND
LADIES' TRIMMiiD HATS.
ISO 6 Main Streot, Richmond, Va.
D H.STEVENSON,
MOHT W. ROOEBS, L BLINGLUFF
STEVEXSOX. ROGERS & CO.,
wholesale
BOOTS AND SHOES,
524 W. Baltimore Street, (near Howard,)
Baltimore, Md.
WIt.LIAM DCVRin, WILMAM B. DKVRIKS,
CHBtSTUN DKVKIKK, 0 S., SOLOMON KIMMEI.I..
WILLIAM DKVIUKS & CO.,
Importers and Jobbers of
Ftrcign aud Domestic Dry Goods ami
Xotiuus,
ill West Raltimorc Street, (hetween Howard
and Liberty,) liALTI^OKE.
JOHN J. HAINKB, Ot VA. LEVI 11. SMALL, of W. VA.
HAINKS & SMALL,
27 S. Howard Street, Baltimore, Md.
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Wood and Willow Hare,
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B. F. KING
WITH
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Noa. 326 and 328 Baltimore street; N. E. cor
ner Howard.
BALTIMORE MO.
T V JOHNSON, It. M. SUTTON,
J. K R. CRABUE, Q.J JOUNSON
801-ljr.
BENJAMIN RUSSELL,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in
BootH and Shoes,
Nos 10 .j- If South Howard street,
(New Building,)
BALTIMORE, MD.
8. A. Wilmausom of N. 0. novl9 12m
JNO \V HOLLAND
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CAN'DIKS, iu every variety, ami
wholesale dealers in
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GARS, J-c.
339 and 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md.
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A L. KLLBTT, A JUDSON W ATKINS,
CLAY ÜBKWftY, STEPHEN II UUHHES
K. L. EI.LETT k CO.,
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Not. 10, 12 and U Twelfth street (between
Main and Oarv)
81-ly RICUMONI), VA.
■ah'l White, Jonn A. Jaiibok,
O. F. Pcnru.MAn
WHITE k BIISMIWAX,
wholesale dealers in
HATS, CAPS, PURS, STRAW GOODS AND
LADIES HATS.
No. 318. W. Raltimore street, Baltimore, lid
M. Q. PKNNIMAM,
JOHN R. UANIKL, JOH. A. CLAHKSON.
PENNIMAN & BROTHER,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
No. 10 N. Howard Street,
BALTIMORE,
ELHtBT, W'ITZ A r 6.,
mporters and Wholesale Dealers in
NOTIONS, HOSIERY; GLOVES; WHITE
AND "ANCY GOODS
No. 5 Hanover street; Baltimore, Md.
J. E. GILMER'S
CHEAP CASII STORE.
DIALIB 111
DRY GOODS, JOROCEPIES, ETO.
BOOTS and SHOES a Specialty.
Winston, N. C., March 29, —tf.
YKRBY A CO.,
Manufacturers of
SteaH Rtflned Candy,
and dealers in
ftortigu Fruits, Nuts Sardines, Canned Goods,
Cigars, Crackers, J-c.,
30 Light Street, Baltimore.
I. W. GBKENE, N.C.
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1878 w
SAVED BY ACCIDEKT.
A DETECTIVE'S STORY
"Langley, I've got a job for you ; one
that must bo attended to immediately.
Are you ready to travel
This was the salutation I received
from my chief one ufternoou, as I en
tered headquarters after a hard day's
work.
"At a moment's notice," I replied—
"or at least as soon us I can put on a
disguise, should that be neccpsaiy."
"Good !" said the chief, "for that is
about all the time I am able to give you.
I have jrst received information that Sam
Wolfe is in this town, and tluu.,ba is tp
leave to day by the C and E
R 11. I think wo have now an oppor
tunity of tracking him to his headquar
ters, and I want you to do the job."
"I should like nothing better."
"Very well; then start at once for the
railroad depot. I dou't know what train
be is going on ; but you cau wait until
you see him. You are sure you cannot
mistake him ?"
"I should know him in any disguise,"
I replied, as I left the room.
Sam Wolfe, or "Slippery Sam," as he
was generally called, was, at the time of
which I write, one of the most danger
ous counterfeiters in the country, and the
chief of a large gang. We had for a
long time been in search of his head
quarters, bat without success. We very
seldom had a chance t> "shadow" one of
the gang, and when we did tbey man
aged to put us off the track before we
had traced them to their lair. It would
be a "big thing" tor me if I unearthed
their den ; and I felt that the chief had
paid uie a high compliment in selecting
me, and me alone, to do the job. 1 has
tened to my lodgings, and quickly but
oarefully "made myself up" as a well-to
do farmer. "My reputatiou is at stuke !''
I muttered to myself, as I strode along
toward the depot, "and, by Jove, I'm
bound not to loss it!"
I thought it very probable that I
should have a long wait for my man, but
in this I was agreeably disappointed, for,
on arriving at the depot, almost the first
man I beheld was Slippery Sam. He
had just enteied. and was making his
way toward the ticket office. 1 followed
him, and saw that he bought a ticket
for Watkiu's Junction, a small village
about fifty miles out. I purchased a
ticket for the same place, and followed
Wolfe int'> the car, just as the train
started Throughout the journey 1 kept
him in sight. He glanced at me several
times, hut showed uo signs of recogni
tion, and I was confident that my dis
guise was perfect. Slippery Sam and 1
had met more than once in the course of
my professional career, so I bad been
more than.usually careful in uiy "make
up," and was certain that it was effective
Iu something less than two hours the
train reached Watkin's Junction, and
several passengers alighted, among them
Sam Wolle and myself. The counter
feiter started up the main road, and I
stepped up to the depot master and
asked :
"Can you tell me who that man is?"
pointing to Wolfe
"I dou't know bis name," was the re
ply, "hut his face is familiar enough
He stops up at Borke's place."
"And where and what is Rorke's
place ?" I asked.
"You are a stranger in these parts or
you wouldn't ask that," said the depot
master, "llorke's place is a little pub
lic house about a mile up the road, kept
by one JimKorke—though how he man
ages to keep it going I dou't know, for
everybody in these parts steer olear of
it—they know him too well."
"His reputation u not good, eh ?" I
asked.
"He's a d—d rascal," said the depot
master; "that's what he is "
Having ascertained the exact location
of tin publio house in question, I started
up the road, d termined to make sure
that I had really found the counterfeit
ers' headquarters. It was eight o'olook
and very dark when I paused in front of
a miserable looking hovel, over the door
of whioh was written the uame James
Rorke, From the inside I heard sounds
of revelry, and glancing into the ball
open window I saw four men standing
before a bar drinkiog. Sam Wolfe was
not among them, but I doubted not that
I had discovered th* headquarters ot his
gang. Now nothing remained to do but
to procure assistance and make a descent
on the place; and I was about turning
away with tho intention of doing this,
when I was seized from behind, thiown
to the ground and in a twinkling bound
hand and foot.
''Aba!" cried the voice of Sam Wolfe.
"You will follow me from the city, eh>
you cursed spy ! Fool! did you think
I didn't know you from tho first 7"
He lifted me in his arms and bore me
into the room.
"Here's the spy, boys," he cried;
"let's take him down stairs and deoide
what to do with him. An ordinary
death will not do for a d—d police spy ;
and I have an idea to suggest on this
jtaintJi-— r f
I was carried through a long, winding
hallway and down a flight of steps.
''Strike a light/' ordered Wolfe.
His command wag obeyed, and a mo
ment later I saw I was in the cellar of
the building aud in the counterfeiter's
den. Apparatus for the manufacture of :
spurious money surrounded uie on every
Side.
"Now, men," raid Wolfe, addressing
his four companions, "nothing remains
but to settle the mode of his death ; and
' I
as I suppos- none of you will object to
letting me have my own way in this mat
ter, I now deciH» that he shall be tied
to the railroad track and left to the mer
cies of the i xpress which passes in about
half an hour." «
My blood ran cold as these words fell
upon my ear, btft I remained silcot. The ;
men were warm in their expressions of
approval of their captain's fiendish plan
"Well, boys, I'm glad you like the
idea," said Wolfe ; "but let us waste no
more time. It is several minutes' walk
to the track ; so off with bim."
Two of tho men lifted me on their ;
shoulders, and bore me up the stairs,
out of the house, and along the lonely j
road, Sam Wolfe following. Presently
I hey paused.
"Here we are," said on" 1 of the men.
"Now, then, cap, nothing remains but to
tie him down " ;
"Gag him, first," directed Wolfe.
lie was obeyed, and then I was fas
tened securely to the track.
"Ha !" exclaimed Wolfe, "1 hear the
whistle of t.he train. It is less than two
mi'es off Now, cursed 6py, eay your
prayers, for your time is short 1 Boys,"
he added, turning to his coujf anions,
'•you msy return to the bouse. I will
wait and see that the job is effectually
done."
"All right, cap," and the men de
parted
I will not attempt to describe my feel
ings as the moments flew by, aud the
rumble of the express iraiu grew louder
and louder 1 had not the slightest hope ;
of escape from the terrible death that j
menaced me, and I endeavored to com
pose my feelings in some degree, and |
prepare for the inevitable. Nearer and I
nearer came the train, the shrill whistle j
sounded in my ears, the terrible rumble
grew louder and louder, till it sounded
like thunder.
"Ha—ha!" laughed Wolfe, in fiend
ish glee, "in half a minute more you'll
be safe in kingdom come !"
The noise of the train beoame deaf
ening and the headlight flashed along
the track. The engine was almost upon
me. I closed my eyes aud waited for
the end
Suddenly came a succession of short,
shrill whistles I knew that they meant
"down brakes." The speed of the train
began to slacken. A wild hope sprang
up in my breast. Slower and slower
came the train Would it stop in lime?
' II—1!" exclaimed Wolfe, "it will not
do to leave you here ! Curses on the .
luck !"
He began untying the knots which
bound me. Hut he had scarcely com
menced when the train paused within
six feet of the spot where I lay. It was
tpo late for Wolfe to remove me.
"You shall not have a ohanoe to give
me away !" hissed the villain, between
his teeth, as he drew a knife and raised
it in the air [reparatory to striking the
fatal blow. At that instant a man leaped
from the engine.
"Hal what is this?" be exclaimed,
rushing towards us
Witu an oath Wolfe dropped his
knife and fled. ■ But the stranger pur- j
sued and few minutes captured him
and led bim back. In the meantime I
had been released by some of the em
ployea of the road. In as few words as
possible I gave an account of my ad
ventures to the group of passengers
which assembled around me, a number
of whom at once volunteered to assist
me in making a descent upon the coun
terfeiters' den. I gladly accepted the
offer; and in less than fifteen minutes
the house and its contents were in my
possession. It was the most complete
and best eppointed place of the kind I
ever saw. We took five prisoners be
side \\ olfe, and succeeded in conveying
them all safely to the city early the next
morning. They were soon tried and
sentenced, and are now serving out their
terms at Sing Sing.
In closing I will slate that the train
on account of a slight. Ie
the engiue which it was necessary to re
puir before it could go further. Hud
this little fault been discovered one abort
minute later, I shou'd have been a dead
man So I was really saved by accident.
Eternal Punishment.
The doctrine of eternal punishment
has recently occupied the attention of
both press and pulpit to a considerable
dogreo. Necessarily much that is said
in regard to it is mere speculation. The
exact nature of the retribution that will,
in the future life, follow the sins in the
present, is not in the province of man to
know The simple fact that punishment
will follow sin, and that it will continue
into our future existence is positively af
firmed in Scripture, and confirmed with
startling emphasis by the snub gie.
found in the law of nature One of the
most comprehensive and gr.ndest gener
alizations of modern science is that ev
ery operation and change in nature
leave results that are indelible and con
tinue forever. If a ray of light falls
but for a moment upon an object there
are changes wrought that lust aB long as
lime If the effects of the operation of
forces in the natural world are indestrue
tiblc, how much more may we expect to
find the results of moral action eternal
in their continuance? Truo, the con
o*i>iion oi eternal suffering is an awful
one, and one from which the human
mind instinctively shrinks But the
consistency of God's universe requires
that violation of moral law must bring
its disastrous results us well as violation
of physical law. If a man leaps from
the house top and is crushed, we shrink
from a contemplation of his suffering,
but we do not once thiuk oi finding
fault with the Creator of the universe
for not setting aside the law of gravita
tion in order to save his suffering. His
pain is the necessary consequence of in
fringement of physical law, and so suf
fering is the unavoidable penalty for
transgression of moral law.
Science Drives Us to Religion.
If I were in danger of becoming skep
tical, I believe that a fresh and vivid
appreciation of the scientific revelations
concerning our globe would appal me
into faith. To think of this ball whirl
ing and spinning about the sun, and to
be an atheist 1 its covering less in com
parative thickness than a peach skin,
and its pulp a seething fire, aud to foel
that we ate at the mercy of the forces
that lash it like a top around the eclip
tic, and of the raving flames that heave
and beat for vent; not more than an
eighth of its surface inhabitable by mau ;
seas roaring around biui, tropic heats
suiting his brain, polar frosts threaten
ing his blood, inland airs laden with
lever, sea winds oharged with consump
tion ; hurricanes hovering in the sky,
earthquakes slumbering under our feet;
the conditions of life dependent on the
most delicate oscillations of savage pow
ers over which the wisest man is power
less as a worm, to thiuk of these and
not to have any confidence or belief in
a Power superior to these pitiless forces,
not to have an inspiring faith that the
land was made fur huruau habitations
and experience, and is sheltered by a
ceaseless love from the hunger of the
elements ! Why, I could as easily con
ceive of a person making his home un
concerned in an uncaged menagerie as
ot a man at rest in nature, seeing what
it is, and not feeling tbat it is embosomed
in God ! Go to nature, my brother; go
to the uuroofed universe ; go to the aw
ful pages of science, not to learn your
religion, but to learn your need of it, to
learn that yon are houseless without th
sense of God as over-arching you by his
power, pledging his oare to you, twisting
the furious forces of im-uensity into a
protecting tent for your spirit's home.—
T. S K!,ig.
The Senate On a Drunk.
A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF THE DISGRACE
FUL SCENE.
A uiore disgraceful scene than the
Senate displayed during the debute over
the silver bill Friday night has not been
seen for years An all night session is
ucver a very ctediuble affair. Sonaiois
grow careless ub the galleries empty.
Boots are drawn off. Men lie down at
full lengthen the settees in their stock
ing feet. Vests are unbuttoned. All
the attitudes of a railroad car ut 2 A M.
are assumed. Suioking goes on all over
*he floor. The doubtful jests of ibe
ijluak rooms C ist oat ttie V»kt>
Last night matters were worse. The
Senate was unmistakably drunk. A
mere small fraction was affected, but
they colored the scene just as a few
noisy boys make a scli. ol a disorderly
school. It is not pleasant to write these
things. It is worse to see them. It is
scandulous that tliey should happen.
The Senate sat, you must remember, fiom
noon yesterday till 5 this morning, 17
hours, a long strain on any one's patience.
Matters ran smoothly enough until be
tweeu 7 and 8. By that time a fair
p >rtion of the Senate had "dined.''
There was a spread in the seraeanl-al
arms' room—he is an officer uuder
charges, not wholly secure in his seat
There was another spread in in a com
mittee room, confined principally to some
thirty four brandy bottles and a dozen
tumblers Other bottles were accessible
in the cloak room Things were not
set out in quite as straightforward a wuy
as they used to be four years ago in the
committee room of the House devoted
to the Committee on Publio Buildings
and Grounds, where a whisky barrel
wus tipped on ond and provided with a
faucet and tin cup for al! comers, but
liquor flowed nearly as freely.
The effect showed slowly. From 8
to 10 it was noticeable that Senators
woro e«cl« nihov vritU
freedom and singular lack of coherence.
Around certain scats men were shouting
with laughter at the drunken babble of
Senators who wtre leaving the room at
intervals, measuring their drinks while
absent, a Senator explained to me, by
perpendicular instead of horizontal ' fin
gers." From 10 on there could be no
possible doubt about the CQtidition of af
faiis on the floor, and two or three Sen
ators' wives iu the private gallery, among
them the wife of an offending member,
were giggling behind their fans over the
'■fun." Steps grew more unsteady, faces
more flushed, interruptions more incohe
rent. A distinguished Senator from Cal
ifornia strolled back and forth with that
spongy and uncertain action of the knees
which plaintively suggests that one foot
or the other has beeu caught in a skein
of sewing silk. His arms went around
every man he met in tuauldin embraces,
and both sides of his desk were needed
when he rose to vote. There was anoth.
ei Senator, distinguised for his opposition
to the pending bill, who displayed great
anxiety "to strike out the second line of
the word 'government,'" (shrieks of
laughter;) finally, by help of diligent
whispering, a man prompting and sup
porting on each side, gave his amend
ment correctly, and dropp d back in
druuken stupor; the amendment was
voted down; be awoke, repeated his
amendment (wild and uncontrolable
merriment), repeated it the third time
(Senators aroucd him nearly crazed with
mirth), and at last persuaded in his be
fogged mind, he tottered froiu group to
group, denouncing the unfairness of a
vote on his amendment "while I was
down at dinner." He dined at 5. The
amendment was voted on after 10 Still
a third Senator, for thirty years the hon
ored leader of a great party in a great
State, pissed from his seat to the cloak
room, and the cloak-room to hisscat only
by wide apsrtsteps and supporting chairs
and when be reached his scat there fell
into a drunken sleep in one of the pauses
of a debate in wbioh he wus endeavoring
to join, did join when ho awoke—hav
ing slept with a man thundering at him
two feet from his d*>k—with incoherent
exclamations aud doubtful answers to «
simple, plain and easy question. There
were other Senators less noisy and far
ther gout —onti at full length on his
desk aud ohair—legislating on the silver
question, as Congress insists on legisla
ting on that and many other questions,
eyes shut and uiouih wide open.— Cor.
Utica Herald.
NUMBER 40
Silence.
To any the right thing in the right
place is generally easy to leave unsaid —
the wrong thing at the tempting moment
is the difficulty. Silence i# the elemetft
in which great things fashion themselves,
and the strongest feelings a:e generally
those that remain unspoken People
who know much speak little, and men
who most stir the lives of ethers, lead
the most silent and tranquil lives. They
fuel society to be oppressive, because it
is a hindrance to the exercise ot reflec
tion. Corntille, Descartes, Addison,
Virgil, Dryden, Goldsmith, and many
others, eminent in the walks of litera
ture e : id aoirr:ce, were silent and even,
stupid in company ; and, strange to say,
their silence was sometimes appreciated.
The Countess of Pembroke assured
Chaucer that his silence was more acree
able to her than his™ntiversation ; and
an observer of LaFontaine said of him
that it was easy to be either a man of
wit or a fool, but to be both, and that in
the same extrcmo degree, was admira
ble, and only to be found in him. The
saying of Taileyrand that language was
invented for the purpose of concealing
thought, savors of the wily diplomatist.
! It is no small accomplishment to talk
and yet not tell; but silence on a for
bidden topic is the safest course. This
judicious reticence is a valuable quality
in a professional man, and is, to a con
siderable extent, a result of the practice
wh ch demands tact, self commaud, and
patieut attention to, and comprehension
of a rambling narrative.
Terrible Tornado—Loss of Life.
STANFORD, KY , March 5—A tor
nado four hundred yards wide swept
through Casey county Saturday. The
family of Vincent Westray, near Roup
. Li ill, consisting of himself, wife and two
daughters, and a boy named Stone, a
nephew, and \Vm. Taylor, a neighbor,
; stopping at his house, were killed out
right. Mrs Westray's body was blown
four hundred yards and her clothing
entirely stripped off. The two daugh
ters were carried fifty yards, and were
found locked in each other's arms. The
father and nephew were fearfully man
ded, and all must have been killed by
the first force of the tempest. The
dwelling, stables and outhouses were
blown entirely away. The hearth and
foundation stones were blown from their
places. Iu the vicinity of Mt. Olive,
Mrs. Morgan, wife of John W. Morgan,
was killed. The dwelling and outhouses
of J. Floyd were completely swept away
and the timbers scattered in eyery di
rection. In the village of Mount Olive
several houses were swept away. IJOSS
fifty thousand dollars.
Loving Friends-
Never east aside your friends if by
any possibility you can retain them. We
are the weakest of spendthrifts if we let
one drop off through inatteotion, or let
one push away another, or if we hold
aloof from one through petty jealously
or heedless alight or roughness. Would
yon throw away a diamond because it
pricked you ? One good friend is not to
be weighed against the jewels of the
earth. If there is ooolness or unkindness
between us let us eome face to faoe and
have it nut. Qiick, before the 1OT«
grows cold ; life is too short to quarrel
in, or to carry black thoughts of frienda.
It is easy to lose a friend but m new one
will not come for oaWing nor make up
for the old one.
Few teachers.realise what an opportu
nity they have directly after the school
is over to reach the hearts of their pu
pils A bingle kind word, spoken just
as one is going out, when the soholar is
: off his guard, will ofien prove to be more
effective fhan all that has been taught
in the lesson. Each Sabbath, let some
scholar go away feeling a warm pressure
of the hand, and carrying with bim some
affectionate words of warning, of eihor
tution, of sympathy, or of oounsel.
A lady resident of Boyertown, P».,
the other night had a desperate figki
with a mad dug in ber bedroom, and
.finally, having hurled a $l2O set of false
teeth'at faiffi, was pleased to see hinadi»-
appear. She awakened to Sod that it
was all a horrid nightmare, but that the
room was wrecked and ber teeth shatter
ed beyond redemption.
Envy makes us see what will eerve to
accuse others, and not perceive whet may
justify.