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THE BANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME VI. TIIE REPORTER. PUBLIRIfKD WEEKLY AT DAN N . C . PEPPER f- SONS, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear, payable in advance, ft SO Six Months, - • - ICO RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square (ten lines or less) 1 time, $1 00 For each additional inaertion, - 50 Contracts for longer time or more apace cau bt made in proportion to the above rates. Transient advertisers will be expected to remit according to these rales at the time they ,»»d their favors. Local Notices will be charged 50 per cent, higher than abovo ra'es. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Dol lars per annum. 0 I". DAY, AI.BTRT JONES DAY & JONES, Manufacturers ol BA.DDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, fc. Mo. S3C W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md aol-ljr B. F. KING, WITH JOHNSON, SU IT (A k C, )„ DRY GOODS. Not, 27 and 29 South Miarp Street., BAL TIMOHE ill). r. w JOIINSON, a. M BUTTON /. ■. a. cuAttuie, U J JOIINSON ael-l r U TI. MAKTLNT'ALK, WITH WM. J. U. DULANY & CO , KUlJouers' and Itonloellrrs' Ware house. SCHOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY. Stationery of all kinds. Wrapping Paper, j Twines, Uouuet Boards, Paper Blinds. 132 W. BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, MD B. J. k R. E. BEST, WITH Ui;.\RY SO\.\EBORN k CO., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. JO Hanover Street, (between German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, JUO ». IONNESON, B SLIMLINE 47-1J C. WATKINS t 1 \V. S ROBERTSON O. L. COTTRELL. | \ A. 8. W ATKINS. WVikINS, Oll it CM, k CO., issporters and Jobber* of HARD mi RE, 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. Agents for Fairbanks'! Standard Scales, aa4 Anker Brand Bolting Cloth. A u(us: 26, LTTSO. JNO. W. HOLLAND, WITH T. A. BRYAN A, (0., Mas wfacturcrs ol TRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIKS, iu every variety, and wholesale dealers in fRUITS, NUT.s, CANNED GOODS, CI GARS, £c. M aad 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. Orders from Merchants solicited. "*5; WILLIAM DSVatSS, WILL!AM K. DSVStIS, eaaisrun nsvaiss, ol s., SOI.OMON KIMMSLL. WILLIAM DKVUIKS k CO., importers and Jobbers of Ftreifi aud Uoarstic Dry Goods and AOiiOIISt >ll West Baltimore Street, (between Howard and Libe'ty,) BALTMOKE. J. W. MENfiFEE, WITH PEARRE BROTHERS & CO. Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods. MBK'S WEAR A SPECIALTY. Mas. S and 4 Hanover Street, Augusts , '80 —lira. BALTIMORE. aosaaT w. POWSRS. IDOAR O. TAYLO . R W. POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers in FAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHES, French and American WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY, SiC; CIGARS, SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO A SPECIALTY. 1306 Main St., Bichmond, Va. August 16— 8m J. W. RANDOLPH k ENGLISH, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, AN BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTKRERS. 1318 Mainrtreet, Richmond. A L*r t * Stock of LA W BOOKS tlitayi on ael-tiaa hand. J. R. ABBOTT, OP N C , with WIN6O, ELLEII * CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, StC. Prempt attention paid to orders, and satis faction gauranteed. yirfinia Stall Priton Goadt a tptcially Maroh, 6. m - ESTABLISHED 1844. S. T. DAVIS —with— T.J.MACRUDER&CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in BOOTB, SHOES AND BROUANS, No. SI Sharp Street, Baltimore Md. August 141 Btf». DAN BURY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGtSf 11. 1881. A LITTLE BY L. HOLLOW AY. A little—'tis a little word, But much may in it dwell; Then let the warning truth be heard, And learn the lesson well. The way of ruin thug begins ; Down, down, like easy stairs. If eonseieuce sutlers little sins, foou larger ones it bears. A little theft, a small deceit, Too often leads to more; 'Tis hard at first, but tempts the feet As through an open door. Just as the broadest rivers run From small and distant springs, The greatest crimes that men have dono H.ire grown from little things. The child who earlv disobeys, Stands now on slip])* ry ground; And who shall tell in future days, How loug he may be lound 1 ''New Town," Miss. After Dark BY REV O F. DKKMS, 1). D The difference between day and night is universally perceived and universally acknowledged, and (he varieties of its effect* still afford a large field for intel ligent observation. We Khali not go into this subject ex tensively. showing the reciprocal inflti j ence of the physical and psychical na tores of man and the modification of this influence by broad day light and j dark night. There is one point, howcv er, to which we wish to call special at. trillion, and that is the relation ol night to children in cities V\ e say in cities, because ordinarily in ihe country there is but one thing! lor a child to do at night—namely, stay j in the house Another reason is that j the writer, alas! koows very little of j child life in the country lie knows something of it in the city He was born in a city. Until lie was ten years of age he knew nothing of country life lie has spetrt more than half his life in cities in Europe ifnd America This has given him some experience and some opportunity f.>r WstJrvatior/ •• tie has watched also the growth of many chil dren in many families, and has taken piins to notice the effect oi different kinds of culture Almost invariably bays who have been allowed to roiui ftee at night have come to uioral shipwreck and social destruc lion. The exceptions have been where ' there was a wholesome temycriiment, a strong intellect, and peculiar social influ ences. Men and beys, women and girls, whatever may have been their culture, j feel that there >s something in the streets at night different from that which is iu the day—something that excites appre hension, or oreateS alarui, or gives li cense. Hoys that are demure by day will say things at night they would blush to utter in the daylight. The result of our observation is the clear couviction that it is absolutely necessary that pirents know exactly where their children are from sundown to sunriso. No boy ought to bo allowed to go alone off the pavement of his fath er's house after sundown. It ought not to be a hard restriction ; to a boy ■ thus (rawed from infancy it will not be. It is unnatural that a child should want to gooffto play in the dark with other children The desire never comes until the child has begun to be corrupt. Some times for quiet, parents will allow tqetr children to go 'round (he corner' to play with some other children. Sometimes this is allowed through mere careless ness We never knew it to fail to end disaetroutly Wo havo in our mind one or two itriking cases in which weak mothers have pleaded tor (his liberty for their children, and are now reaping (he bitter fruits. Childhood should be trained with tho gentleness of love and the firmness of sagaoious authority ; but whether these ire at the command of the parent or nat, there is one rule absolutely indispensu ble for the safety of the child and the honor of the family—namely, that while the ohild is small he shall never go off : the lot without bis parents, or some other 1 proper guardian ; and that when he grows older, until he becomes of age, bis parents ought to know where he is every moment of hi* time, Md ought to know that he is in bed before 11 o clock. Where this cannot be secured by the exercise of gentleness it must be obtain ed by authority. A refectory child may make the bous» not if he it kept iu it' bu better eadurc eight or ten year* of such heat than to have that child ruined and all the family suffor 1 hrough the re mainder of tils cureer We have spoken of hoys because we do not suppose that a;>y girls of decent families are allowed to be on the streets alter dark. Wo could enforce this lesson by statements of harrowing oses, if these were necessary. We do earn estly besceeli parents .who read this nr tiole to lay it to heart, to being to make quiet observations upon the condition of their children at night, to find where they are, and to prepare to answer lo 0 id, our heavenly Fathtr, for the pain staking care-which thay give to their children. How a Man Q jes to Bod. speaking of how a man goes to bed an exchange says: '•There's where a man has the advan tage. He can undress in a cold room, and have his bed warm before a woman has her hair pins out and her shoes un tied " That is how it looks in pint, and this is how it looks in reality :• I am going to bed my dear It is 10: .30" No lepiy. "Now, John, you know you are always lute in the morning. Do go to bed!"' Yes, in a ruiuuie," he replns, as he turns tlu paper wrong side out and begins a lengthy at tide headed "The Louisiana Muddle" Fifteen min utes later ibe calls from the bed-room : "John, come lo bed and not keep the gas burning here all night," and murmuring something about "the bill being big enough now," she creeps between the cold sheets, while John sits placidly on, his feet aeriis the piano-stool, and a eigar in his uiouth. By and-by he rises, yawns, stretches himself, throws the paper on the floor, proceeds to that vigorous exercise shaking the coal stove Just at this ttage, a not altogether pleasant voice inquires: "For pity's sake! ain't you ready for bed yet ?" "Yes, yas, I'm couiing ! Why don't you go to sleep aud lei & fellow alone ?" Then lie discovered that there is coal needed When that is supplied and rattled into the stove bo sits down to warm his feet Next he slowly begins to uudress, and as he stands scratching hitnsolf, and absolutely gazing on the last garment, dangling over the back of the chair, he remembers that (he clock is not wound yet. When this is attend ed to he wants a drink of water, and away ho promenades to the kitchen. Of course, when he returns, bis skin resembles that of a picked chicken, and once more he seats himself before the fire for the lust warm up. As die clock strikes twelve, he turus out the gas and with a fl p of the bed clothes and a few spasmodio shivers, he subsides—no, not yet; he forgot to see if the front door was locked, and another flop from the bed clothes brings forth the remark, ''Uocd gracious ! if that man ain't enough tJ (ry the patience of Job !' Setting hei teeth hard, she awaits the final flop, with the accompanying blasts of cold air, and then quietly inquires if he is settled for the oignt. to wiiieh he replies by muttering : If you ain't the provok iugest woman ! Stacks of oats if carelessly put togeth er are often destroyed by exposure, j Every farmer may know that the heads ! of'bundles —of every bundle—should bo 1 kept higher than the butts or straw end 1 Hut indifferent bauds often place the heads lower, or a least 011 a level, with the butts, th'js inviting mildew and de cay If oais are to be saved for seeds, it ! is best to wait uotil they fully ripen bc -1 foio cutting. If tho eiraw and leaves are to oe used for food, it is best to cut while the oats are in the dough state and while the leaves und Kleins are still green Oat straw so harvested is thought to be very much more nutritious than corn fodder, Bud nearly equal toTimothy. Many, indeed, cut and bouse oats the nine as hay, and believu it to be fully as valuable. A MIXED UP PAIR OK HABIES. —Two girl babies were born at nearly the same lime, in the time house, at Oakland, Tano. The mothers were sisters, closely resembling caoh other, nod during the exoitement of the oroasion the liille ones got mixed up before they were dressed, or in any way marked lor ident ißoalion. There is a puzzling uncertainty, for three month* have elapsed without developing any resemblance to the lather in either case ; aud if the children grow up, as they seem likely to, with the physical characteristics of their mothers, nobody j will ever know their exact parentage. I The present agreement is to decide the ' question by lot. The Datk Day of 1819. What was tho strangest occurrence that cvet happened in the history of this country was what his bjen always known u« the "Pneuomenon of 1819." On tho tlornpig of Sunday, November S, 1819, the sun ruse upon a cloudy sky, which assumed, as the light grew upon it, a strange greenish tint, varying in places to an inky blackness After a short tiuie the whole sky beeatne I err i- I bly dark, douse black clouds filling the atmospl etc, ao'l there followed a heavy shower of l'ain, which appeared to be i something of '.he tia'ore of soapsuds, i 'fchd was found to have deposited, alter j ' settling, a substance in all its qualities : resembling soot. Late iu the afternoon i the sky cleared to its natural aspect, and the next day was fine and frosty On the m ruing of Tuesday, the 10th, | heavy clouds agaiu civcred the sky, and : changed fioui a deep green to a pitchy black, and the sun, when ocnsbniliv seen thru ugh them, was sometimes of a dark brown or an unearthly yellow color, and again bright orange, and even blood red The clouds constantly deep ened in color and density, and later on : a heavy vapor seemed to descend to the earth, and the day became almost us da: k as night, the glootn increasing and di minishing most fitfully At noon lights had to be burned in the court house, 1 the banks and public offices of the city Everybody was more or less alarmed, and uiany were the conjectures as to tho oause of the remarkable occurrence. The more sensible thought that immense > woods or praiiies were on fire somewhere to the west ; others said that a great vol cano must have broken out in the prov ince ; still others asserted that our cooun tain was an extinct crater about to as ; suuie operations, and to make of the j city a second Pompeii; the superstiti ous quoted an old Indian phophesy— that one day the Island of Montreal was to be destroyed by an earthquake ; and i some even cried that the world was 1 about to come to an end. About the I middle it' the afternoon a great liud; wt clouds seemed to rush suddenly over the city, aud the darkness became that of night. A pause and hush for a moment | succeeded, und theu one of the most I glaring flashes of lightuing ever beheld 1 flamed over the country, aoconipan ed by a clap of thunder which seemed to shake I the city to its foundations. Another [ pause followed, and then came a light shower ol rain of tho snme soapy and sooty nature as that two days before j After (hat it appeared to grow brighter; j ! but an hour later it was as dark as ever. . Another rush of clouds came, and an I other vivid flash of lightning, wh oh was j seen to strike the spire of the old j ; French parish church and to play curi- . ous'y about the large cross at its summit befoto descending to the ground A - moment later came the climax ot the day. Every bell in the city suddenly rang out the alarm of fire, and the af frighted citizens rushed out from thoir houses into tho streets, and made their way in the gloom toward the church, i until Place d'Armes was crowded with ! people, their nerves all unstrung by tho awful events ot tho day, gazing at, but j scarcely dariog to approach, the giranue sight before them. The sky above and around was as black as ink ; but right in one spot, in mid air above them was this summit of the spire, with the lightning playing about it, shining like a sun. I)i --j rectly the great iiou cross, together with tho ball at its foot, fell to the j ! ground with » crash, and was shivered Ito pieces, liut the durkest hour comes just before the dawn. The glow above gradually subsided and died out, the people grew less fearful and returned to their home*, the real night came on, and when next morning dawned every, thing was bright aud clear, and the : world was as natural as before. The phenomenon wis notioed in a greater or j less degree from Quebec to Kingston, and far into the States, but Montreal teemed its oeuter. It has never yet been | explained. The 'Fruit lleoorder" says :' We have tride it repeatedly, and uover knew it to fail, in case of saving diseased fruit trees I —the cutting of the diseased part, an l ! slittiug the bark downward on one side ' of the limb and body lrom the affected I part. In fact, if tho diseased part is cut off, and the limb and body slit, it will stop the destruction of the tree, or at least it has always proved so in our practice." Plaiu Healthy Food- A lady teriling to (he "Household" makes the following sensible plea for healthy foid for children : From observation I know that the manner in which children are fed at ihe present time is one great of the enfeebled condition we find them in, and of their early decline. Who in our gianduiothcrs' time ever heard of child ren losing their teeth, boys and girls go ing to dentists to have their teeth fi led, ' or girls of fifteen with full set of false tectl ? I know of some such in this community und there is no cause for it j It U in the feeding of the children, i ; mostly, I believe, The fine white flour used at the pre- ! sent time would not sustain life, whereas wheat in its natural state would The best part of the wheat is taken out of such tl 1 ur, and it enters largely into the cooking of the time It looks very nice, such white bread, but it is little better 1 than sawdust. It is poor lood to build up bone and muscle on, to give nerve ' aud brain food - it is fattening Starch is fattening, bu; it needs something more than the starch contained in the j heuri of the grain of wheat. The en- ; tire wheat ground fine and made into bread is the best for all utcrs. The pastry to day, so largely used up on the tables of almost all classes, is a 1 detriment to our health, and no child should be led uvon or allowed to cat it. | It seems thai cooks are getting together 1 (ho most indigestible articles; sucb j messes and uames to them. Well, it is a progressive age, aud the cocking goes to prove sooiethiug wrong. If we could get back to the olden ways of cooking) we would be better lor it, the rye and Indian bread, ground wheat cakes, p'uiu ! baked or boilsd rica pudding, with sauce made of molai-ses, with a little boiled ! cider in it, bake Indian puddings, plain simple apple pie, but not too ofteu ; meats cooked well, not done up in spices and served in rich gravy. Health is far above evervthing else/ and to enjoy it you must ► i -ifter what your stomach will digest, ano tuat which will best buildup i#e Vjdfcj, Bnd not destroy one part to give tone to another. Advice to tho Girls. When a man chooses the profession of law he docs nut expect to be a musician and a journalist ulso ; be knows that if ; he would succeed he must devote him- j self to the one chosen calling When a j woman marries she realizes that in order to reach lofty hight* in wife and mother- | j hood she unist sacrifice lesser aims Shu ; must be willing to lay aside the d> light lul occupations which have made her : gitlbood pleasant; she must know that j from the hour her biby is laid iu the j j cradle, dressed with loving forethought, I [ to that darker hour when the mature man lies down in bis last sleep, tha' she 1 will give full weauitig to the words, "Constant care " That her mind once unfettered will be at liberty no more, 1 but is bound by ties stronger than lite j or death to those who have come to her from out of the groat unknown Wait ! a while, girls; think it all over before j \ you promise to become wives—to take | theso duties and burdens upon you 1 Sweet and satisfying as are tho obliga- I lions of wife and mother, they are not to , :be taken lightly A husband must not j be lookod upon as a sort of perpetual beau, and ohildren as extremely uncer tain and improbable adjuncts. Unless, ! like Wilhelm Meister, you. apprentice ship ended, you reach out ot yourself , : and ask for larger duties, for a wider field of labor you had better stay at j home with father and mother, dignifying the relation of daughter, filling the old- i established borne with a mild radiance which would seeui but a dim light in a new 011 c —A'. Post. FEUDING Iloas—An lowa farmer put up 20 one year old hogs, aud for the ti Ist 28 days ted theu) on dry shelled oorn, of which they ate 82 bushels and gained 837 lbs—over 10 lbs to the bu9hul of oorn He then fed (be same hogs 14 days ou dry corumeal during i which time they consumed 41 bushels > and gained 553 lbs., or 14i lbs. to the . bushel. The same hogs were then fed , 14 days on cornmeal and water mixed, consuming 55} bushels of corn and gained 731 lbs . or 131 lbs. to the bushel, lie then fed them 14 days on cornmeal cooked, and alter consuming 45 bushels of the cooked meal, they gained 791) lbs., or nearly 15 lbs. to the bushel of meal. —["Exchange," A good-looking old German, with long hair, sat down, or rather up, in the bar ber's ohair, and was asked whether he would have his uair shingled. He re plied : "Mien Kott, no 1 I vant some hair koot off. Vot voot you put zuna ahiukles on it peoause ?"—["Herald P. I." NUMBER 7. No'LETTER FOII BURCII—.\ man from Branch County, this State, being | in Custor City soon after a post-office was es'iblishcd there, went up to the shanty one day with intent to inquire for mail unttor. A wan from Missouri was just ahead of him, and inquired if there was any letter there for Zacariah llurch. "Be you the feller?" queried the Postmaster. • I am." "Named Z icariuh, are y 1 V "Yes, sir." "Too infernal long for this country. You'd better chop it in two." "1 axed if there was a letter here for Zachariah Burch," said tho Missoariaa, with a bad Icam in his eyes. "And I heard ye, and there ain't nothing of tho sott here." "Kinder seems to me there is." "Then I'm a liar?" The pair looked at each other for a minute, and theu Burch remarked : "Mebbe you are." Uncle Sam's official hopped out of his den and went for Zicariah Burch. It was a pretty even match for ten miuutes and then the Postmaster got bis favorite hold. Soou after that event Mr. lfurch observed : ' Stranger, I reckon it is no use pro longing this sorrowful affair." ' I reckon not, but ye inquired fjr a letter for Burch " "Yes " "And you give it to me purty strong that sicl' a letter had urriv." 'Yes, I did," replied Burch, as he felt of his left car to see what portion was loft for future fights, "but I've bin ; think in' powerful hard in the last tea inir.its, and 1 guess the ole woman baolc j in Missouri has put off writin' til) next Sunday ! Let's go out and take sunthiu' to bring tears to cur eyes " At the promenade concert the other night, was a young man whose eyes are affected in some manner that he cannot : weil distinguish objects at ojght, parti- I cularly if there are about. Seeing what he be a young i lady, vyjthout an esoori/standing near • oT ohildren, to«ier» and asked if she would accept of lit* j company for a promenade, and partake 'of souie ice-cream. She linked on to his arm without making any answer, aud they began promenading up and ; down the walks. Somehow the young : man couldn't start a conversation, and several rounds were made without either speaking. At last his partner in the promenade broke the silenco, saying : I "Look heah, boss, if you'se gwine lo treat to dat ice cream, I wish you would, 'cause, 'fore de Lord, I mus' burry back to dem chillun " If a bomb-shell bad exploded uider that young man's feet it couldn't have lifted him over the square fence more rapidly than he got over; and as he streaked it up tbe back street ! the colored nur»c went and took charge of the children under her caro, n.utter | ing to herself as she did so "dat if de young man didn't hub de specie to set up , to ica cream ehe did." AMUSING ANECDOTE. — Daniel Web ster had an anecdote of old Father Scarl, the minister of hi* boyhood, which is too good to be lost. It was customary : then to wear buck skin breeches in cool I weather. One Sunday morning in Au tumn, Father Searl brought his dowu from the garret, but the wasps hau takeu possession during the summer, and were having a nice tiuio of it in tbem. By dint of an effort, be got out the intru ders and dressed for meeting. But while reading (he Scriptures to the eon -1 gregation, he felt a dagger from one of tho smail waistcd fellows, and jumped around the pulpit, slapping his thighs But tbe more he slapped and danced the more they stung. The people thought him crazy, and were in a commotion what to do, but he explained the matter iby saying: "My brethren, don't be alarmed; the word of the Lord is in my mouth, but the Devil i» in my breechet!" Webster always told it with great glee ito the ministers. A gentleman in New York met a rather "unccrtaiu" acquaintanee the other day, when the latter said : "I'm a little short, and would like to you a conundrum in mental arithmetic." "Proceed !"• observod the gentlemm. "Well," said the 'short' man, "suppose i you bad ten dollars in your pooket, and I should ask you for five, how much would remain ?" "Ten dol'ars," wa* tbe prompt auswtr".