THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME VI. THE REPORTER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT DANBURY, N. C. PEPPER 6 SOXS, PUBLISHEUS ANI> PROPRIETORS. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. Ob* Year, payable ia advance, $1 50 Bix Months, - - • 100 RATES OF ADVERTISING. On# Square (tea line* or less) 1 time, $1 00 For each additional in section, - 50 Goatracta for longer time or more apace can b* mad* in propor'ion to the above ratea. Transient adrertiaera will be expected to remit according to tbase ratea at tbe time the; (•ad their favors. Local Notice* will be charged SO par cent, higher than above rate*. Basiae** Card* will b* inserted at Ten Pol lar* per aanum. 0. r. DAT, ALBERT JONES DAY & JONES, Manufacturers ot SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS. #o. Ma, 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md oel-ly B. f. KINO, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON k CO., KRY GOODS. No*. 11 and 1» South Sharp Street., BALTIMORE MD. t. W JOHNSON, R. M. SUTTON 1. B. R CItA II BE, U. J . JOHNSON, aol-ly H U MARTINDALE, WITH WM. J. 0. DULANY & CO.. *tati«iers' aid Booksellers' Ware house. SCHOOL BOOK'S A SPECIALTY. Stationer; of all Iciods. Wrapping Paper, Twines, Bonnet Boarda, Paper Blinda. 231 W. BALTIMOKKST., BALTIMORE, MD- B. J. * R. K. BEST, WITH HENRY SONNEBORN & €O.. WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. iO Hanover Street, (between German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MD. 8. SONN EBON, B. SLIMLINE 47-lj C. W ATKINS. i | W. S. ROBERTSON O. L. COTTRELL. / \ A. 8. WATKINS. WAIKINB, COTTRELL k CO., Importers and Jobbers of HARD WA RE, 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. Agent* for Pairbanks's Standard Scales, aad Anker Brand Bolting Cloth. Aagust 16, 1880. J NO. W. HOLLAND, WITH T. A. BRYAN k CO., Maaafacturers ol FRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIES, in every variety, and wholesale dealers in BRUITS, NUTS, CANNED GOODS, CI GARS, £c. *9 and 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. 4W Orders from Mercbaut* solicited. WILLIAM ÜBVam, WILLIAM B. DIVHIKS, flHaiari A n DIVBIKS, ot *., SOLOMON KIMMKLL. WILLIAM DKVRIES & CO., Importers and Jobber* of Foreigi ail Domestic Dry tioods ill AfliMSi ill West Baltimore Street,(lietween Howard and Liberty,) BALTIMORE. J. W. MKNKfEK. WITH PKAURK BROTHERS 1 CO. Importer* and Jabber* of Dry Good*. MSN'S WKAIt A SPECIALTY. If os. t and 4 Hanover Street, Auguats , 'So—dm. BALTIMORE, sonar w. rowans. KOUAH O. TAVLO . K W POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers in PAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHES, French and 'American WINDOW OIiAMS, PUTTY, SIG. CIGARS, SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO A SPECIALTY. 130S Main St., Bicbmond, Va. August 26—6 m J. W. RANDOLPH k ENGLISH, MOOKSKLLRRB, bTATIONERS, AN MLANK-BOOK MANUFACTERERS. Ult Mala rtreet, Richmond. A Lar/* Stack oj LA W BOOKS atwayi OH 801-Sia KIN J. i. A ABBOTT, or N 0., with HIN6O, ELLETT k CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholasal* Dealer* in BOOTS, SIIOBS, TRUNKS, AC. Prompt attention paid to orders, and satif lacliaa gauranteed. Virgin* STALL Priitm Ottodt a tyeeialiy March, 6. ■. ESTABLISHED 1844. 8. T. DAVIB —with— T.J.MACRUDER&CO., Manufacturers and Dealers la BOOTB, SHOSS AND BROGANg, la. *1 Sharfrßtffwt, S All la ore Md. Auguetl4l »IV. DANBURY, N. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1881. ALONE WITH OOD. When disappointments hover round, And cherished prospects fail, When all I see looks d»rk to uie. My soul is in the vale ; Then let mestrav from all away, And be alone with God. " When those I Jove the very best Don't seem to understand When this poor dust, in humble trust, Peeks comfort at (Jod'a hand ; Than it is sweet, at Jesus' feet, To be alone with God. When petty triula swarm about, Ol which I would not speak, And woman's tears, like children's fears. Show me that I am weak ; Then it is blessed on Christ to mt, And be alone with God. When item, relentless rigid death, SundeA the dearest tie*, When I Vrr left of friends bereft, ' And my sad pravera arise ; Oh then let tn* to Jesus tlee, ' And b« alone with God. Luty B. Oregg. PUMPKIN PIES. Pinkie was balanced on the toes of her slippers, upon the top of * oiderbar rel, gathering hops, when Tom Carroll drove along with his wagon, piled up with red and yellow apples, and a uig lu6eiously-goldeu pumpkin in the cor oer,aud stopyed at tbe gate. Piukie immediately bopped off ber peroh.aodhid behind the barrel; but Torn, coining up the walk with the pumpkin, saw tbe edge of ber pink dress "Can't t'K»I me, Miss Pink Pendleton," said he ridling the goldidg sphere upon the porch "I can see through more tbiugs than a barrel. There's the first pumpkin of the season." Pirkie scrambled up shook out her skirt aud surveyed the pumpkin, half woLderingl}-, from under the brim of ber hat, turning her baok upon Tom who.howerer only went off down the path, whistling carelessly and drove off to town with his apples Tom aod Pinkie having indulged in a neat little tiff the week before, had siooe amused themselves by trying to freexe each other, very unsuccessfully, it would seem judging by the warmth of temper both oould exhibit on tbe smallest provocation. And tbta was the first tims Tom had called her sicca tbe last unpleasantness. "Did I ever !" said Pinkie, and glaoo ed over her shoulder to see if Tom was looking back, whieh of course he was whereat Pinkie turned scarlet and scrwl ed, though Tom was too far off to see that. "It he's tiying to make up,"Bie oominued. "what does he be such a stiok about it for ? Kipeol me logo two-third" of the way u''uourse; men always do But be began the row, and if he wants to make up let him say so out aod out See through more than a barrel! Just him—always insinuation things." And Pinkie, thus foolishly fanning her anger sat down on the step and kick ed her toes against a peek measure The born of conteniion which had served Tom and Pinkie with excuses for more than one tquabble was a gentle man Iroui the oily, who was spending the summer at the farm owned by Pink ie's brother-io law, a comfortable, old fashioned booicsiead, with clover-carpet orchards, cooled with dense shade, aud haunted by the gurgling murmur of a brook aud the slumberous hum ol bee* Perhaps the boarder found an added charm, though poeeibly a fleeting one, in Pinkie'*spirited brow eyes and pipu ant manner And Pinkie—why Pink ie would have been cepuettiah to a mul lein stalk and never thought seriously of the matter at all Why shouldn't she walk to church with Mr Hathertos and pin a red rose bud io hi* coat 7 Why then shouid Tom loom up like a cloud aod cast oold water oo ber innocent amusement ? To .be sure they dad been tbe same as en gaged—Tom and Pinkii—since tbe days tbey went butting together and quarrel ed over their grammar. But that wa* ao reason—so Piukie thought—why she should not look at any one else. To make matter* a little worse, Tom had a stylish young lady oousin viait iog his house whose eoiapaoy, Pinkie had told him he oo doubt found a very agreeable substitute foe hera, a supposed lact abe thoroughly resented, notwith standing the proverb says it is a poor role that will not work both ways. But here on tbe porob lay Tom's gilt and (probably) peace t ff«*i«|f, far l.av ing been unusually bitter at tbeir last lilt ao J perhaps—(bt scrowl had depart ;d from l'inkie's forhead ; her eyes were grow ng tender. Young Hafherton st'olled around tbe corner with liisatraw hat tilted graure fully on one side, and u handful of ear ly wild purple asters, which he present to Pinkie. "These." he said, 'are a much more fitting offering to beauty than is a pump kin !" lie pronounced the words scornfully ; he had witnessed Tom's visit, and now eyod his gilt with much disdain which unaccountably nettled Pinkie "They are prettier to look at," she anew-red, "but I d >n't suppose they would do quiiu as well to cook." The youug arm shrugged bis shoul ders and sauntered away indifferently ; his gallantry of lute w»a growing rath er careless and fitful. And Pinkie wis inconsistent enough ■o put the asters in her hair, and then pull them out and throw tbem under the step Afer which method of re lieving her feelings she picked up the pumpkin and cariied it into the kitchen and so made the discovery that there was a scrap of paper atached to the bit of stem which remained to the pump kin. And this was written on the pa per : "Coiue over to morrow Forgiveness and pumpkin pies can solace an injur ed spirit." "llow like Tom ! A small dimple touud its way to Pink ie's rosily-velvet cheen : and Piukie'a married sister, Flora, a plump, white and geuerally sweet tempered little w om au, came in and saw it. "Have you and Tom uiade up 1" she asked. "I haven't," adswered Pinkie. "Aie you going to 7" "Don't kuow," peiverse Pinkie re turned. '•You are a very foolish girl if you don't," said Flora, ' and I will say he is too good for you." Pinkie scratched her rosy ear with her bairpiu, aud smiled at the pump kin. "What do you think," she asked, "of a man supposing he could find balm for his wrongs in pumpkin pies ?" "I should say," answered Flora, "if the man was Tom, you had better make the pies, and mike' cm as good as pos sible." "Oh, you'rs so awfully practical," "aid Pinkie, darting off with Iter cheat nut. mane flying But all the same before next morn ing's sun bad mounted very high in tbe heavens, a trim little lady, neatly done up like a brown-paper parcel, in a very largo linen apron, betook herself to the kitchen and prowled about in the pantry, seeking the sugar, cinnamon, finger and all the various ingredients necessary in tbe manufacture of pump kin pies. A sound of the wheel* was heard in the lane, and Piukie tripped out to ihe porch, the nntmeg grater in her hand as an elegaut buggy rolled by driven by Tom Carroll, and Pinkie dropped the grater suddenly and her breath there wa* the stylish cousin beside him tbe plume in her hat fluttering, and a faint breath of rose drifting up to tie house. Pinkie went back to the kitchen and shoved the putrpkin in a coiner, and flung the nutmegs under the table aud the cinnamon after theui, pulled off her apron and went into the house. Mr. Ilatherton met her in the hall "Shan't we taken ride Miaa Pinkie ?" he asked wondering a little at the spark le in her eye* aod ho deep bloom in her cheek*. "AH right 1" said Piukie, and daahed unatairs for her habit. The shadowa were falling oastward from the tree* on the lawn when Pinkie again crossed it on ber way to the bouse after her ride her habit gathered up io her arms and a dluster of scarlet trump et-cells in her belt. Flora, who was on the step, bestowed as dark a frowo upon her a* her fair placid oouotenance wa* capable of get ting up. "You've lost bim now for good," waa her first remark. " Lost whom?" quoth Pinkie, start ing with wondering eyes at her sioter. "Tom, ot course 1 Didn't he stop in whea be oatue back aftor taking bit o >uiin down to catoh the train mid find you'd gone off with Mr. Hatherton ?" "Aid—she's gone bom*?" gasped Pinki«. feeling suddenly guilty "Ol cnurße she's none homo! Site was engaged to the minister anyway ; and you've made a nice uio->» of it all now !'l unced anay looking indignant Pin'iit followed her "ttm't you think he will ever conic back f" she asked, meekly. 'II >'!" said Flora "lie may oouie to-uiotrow ; but only to see John about the cijer-mill, uiiud you !" Piiikin had little appetite lor dinner; even flora's j*m puff-. had no c arui for her ; £nd her uiual archness h-d so com pletely disapi eared that Mr. Hatherton felt called on to become injured, and in jured, and indulged in a fit of sulk* Hut the moderate bit ol hope Flora bad held out concerning Tom's possible appearance next day comforted Piokie a liltU, aud inspired her with a secret resolution Lng after the dinner hour was pant, the n«at little figure, done up in the big brown cooking ap r on, again .stood be side the long, white kitchen table, where a row of bright, scalloped piepans were shining Spices perfumed the air, and a dcxen eggs were piled in a cake-pan The sun was fairly down when I'inkie set ber last fragrant, golden-couiplex | iooed pie in the window sill to cool and stood looking dojtu at it, absorbed in her own reflections. "The queen of hearts, she made some tarts," chanted a voioe behind her ; and, befare she knew it she was whirled around, apron and all in some one's arms aod kissed. * "They're not tarts," said Pinkie, when he recovered her breath. "But, oh, Tom how did you happen to come back 'I I was afraid you wouldn't speak to me any more." '•Oh,"gaid Tom, "perhaps I wouldn't have oome, if I had not seen some oue come out on tbe steps this morning to i see wha was going by, with her usual curiosity, and then bounce in like a lit tle eniaged yellow jacket. I suspected which way the wind blew, and I knew Flora would tell you the trut'u when I eauie back ; and wheu I saw the pics just now 1 knew it was all right." "And now you'll May to supper, of course ?" said Pinkie. "Ol course," said Tom. "It would never do to let ali those pies waste their swectues* on the doaert air." Experiments have been made in Michigan in cultivating wheat, and the results ate not only satisfactory but as tonishing. A committee was appointed to oversee the experiments and make the report. Sixty eight pounds of seed per acre ware sown in drills, sixteen inches apart, aud ninety pounds were drilled in the usual way That in the sixteen inch drills was cultivated with a horse whet hoe ouce in the spring ; the others course was not cultivated ut ter sowing. The report says the sixteen inch did uoi lodge ur crinkle. VVl>ll£ the tight inoh lot did so badly. The average yield was bixly uine and one hall per oent greater in the sixteen inch drill* than in the eight inch It is further reuiarked : It is as reasonable to believe that graiu crops should be benefitted by cultivation as that corn, potatoes, cabbages aud other crops should be Hoeing wheat in Europe i* not NO uncommon praotice, aud the farmers in this country have began it with sue cess. The Xewbern Commercial Aeira says that the Richmond and Danville people have determined to turn tho Western North Caroliua Railroad over to Mr W'. J. Beat and his B.xtou Syndicate with in the next ten days, if they will rwive it in view of (Jeorgia, Tennessee, Ken tuoky, and Virginia railroad combinat ions and complications, vthroh, it is re ported, have "oalied the turn" oo the Kichmoud and Danville Syndicate [Pittsburgh Commercial Gasett*.J The lit. Rev. BishopQiimour, Cleve land, Ohio; —Obas 8 Strieklanu, Kstj , i) Boylaton at tee I, Button, Mass ; —Cap. Pa«l Boyton, the Wprld Renowned ! Swimmer;-—Prof C. 0. Dupleasti, Man ager Chicago Gymnasium, Chicago, 111 ; —Wm H. VVareing, Era , Awn Gener al Superintendent, New Yor* Poet Ot floe—Hon Thoma* L Jajnee, Postmas ter, New York ; —-Siacey Hill. E'q , Ml Auburn Inoliued Plane Railroad, Cin cinoati, Ohio, are among the myriads who have experienced the benvtfeial ef- I foots of that most remarkable remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, and who have testified ' ip its (Qioaojf in unqualified .crins Saved by a Shadow. [J. Estfn Cooke, in Di" Philadelphia Weiklr Tiine:i J The snout was surrounded. Ho took in everything at » glance, Biid *etermin ed to cm hi* way through and risk 'he chances Hut the ladie* represented to him that this was certain death. T.ley eould conceal him. and 9 absented. The young lail.es noted promptly One ' ran to the wind >w and aiked who was there, while another closed the back donr—that iu front being already fas tened S was then hurried op the staircase, one of the ladies areowpsny* him to show hiui his hiding p ace All hid taken place in »'f w moments. i and the Federal troops yave sudden evi d J nce ol' tl.eir estimate of 8 They flred a volley through the Iront door, and the bullets whistled by the young ladies, Then the dnor was burst in and ihe tro"pets swarmed into the house S had been conducted t'i a gar ret bare of al! furniture, but some planks lay upon the sleepers ol the celling, and i by Iyin •£ down on these a man might conceal himself. S mounted quiet ly and stretched himself at full length, and the young lady retited and returned , to the lower floor. From his perch S thcu heard all that was said iu the hall bencat h. "Where is the guerilla?" exu'aimed the Federal officer commanding the de tachment. * ''What guerilla?" asked one ol the j ladies. "The rascal 3 ." ' He was here, but ho has gone" 4 That is jntrue," the officer said, "and lam nut to be trifled with. I shall search this house. lint first read the orders to the men," he added, turn iug to a sergeant. The sergeant obeyed and S ois tinctly overheard the reading of his d. ath warrant. The paper chrouieled his exploits, denounced him as a gueril la aud bushwhacker, and directed that he should not be taken alive ; the men wete expressly ordered to kill him, uot to take him p boner. 1 Ins was uit re assuiing to the sc >ut concealed undtr > the rafteri above. It was probable that ! he would be discovered in which case death would follow Toere was but one . thing to do, to sell his life d-atly. Af- | 'er ransacking every room on the first and second fl iors, the Federal troops as cended to the garret The ladies had attempted to divert their attention from it, but one of tliem asked : "What room is that up there?" "The garret," was the reply. "lie may be up there—show the way." "You sec the way," returned the young lady. "I do not wish to go up in the dust; it w mid soil uiy dress." "You go befire, then," said the troop- j cr to a negro girl who had been made to j carry about a lighted candle, fjr night | had eome now. Tlia tiirl laughed and j said : "There was nobody up there," j but at the order went up stairs to the garret, followed by the troopers. The decisive moment had come S heard the trauipy feet und cocked both bis pis'olfl. The light streamed into the garret, and lot.king over, the edge of his plank he saw the garret fill with troopers. .Ml seemed over and his discovery cer tain ; he was about to spring down and fire, whan the uieu growled: "Hell, there's nothing here," and went down the stairs again. The servant girl had saved him by a ruse. She had taken her stand directly beneath the broad plank upon which S was extended, 1 and the deep shadow had concealed hini To this ruse he doubtless owed his life. Ao hour afterwards tho Federal detach ment left the home in extreme ill-hunnr, and before m irning S was miles away from the dangerous locality where he i.ad overheard his sentence of death. 8 is now one of the leading clergy men in Virginia. [Yptilanti (Miili.j Commercial ] Our representative lately learned the following from Mr. Call .Nieguiund, Cor. i Congress and Washington 9w. ; My daughter suffered from llheumatism to sueh an extent that it ciipplcd her, ren dering her unable to walk at aU. We oynsulted many physicians and used all kinds of medicines, but in vain. At lust Si Jacobs O'l effected the bappitgl. 1 reeults It eured uiy duughtju.j- , i { l > • i. ... NUMBER. 21 Not on Speaking Terms 11l the Sin Fnnimco custom house tliero w ,s employed as night wstchman a ehar deter called Barney McGinn", was known us a goad humored, read v wilted fellow, l.ut having had the mis fortune to incur the enmity of his supr rinr officer, the latter sought eagerly »"h persistent malice to find grounds sufficient up HI which to recommend Barney's reinov il. Niuht after night he watched, pouncing down at unrxpect ed hours nuly to find Harney vigilant jat hia post. Not a word would pass be- I tween theui, the officer always retiring buttled and mortified At length bis persistency was rewaaded. liirney had ♦ been putting In Jus time at "poker," instead of strengthening himself by sleep lor his weary vigil Iroui midnight until morn, and the night being very chilly, he a rapped himself io bis over coat and tried to steal fiilul snatches of sleep hoping the uiubt would be too cold lor his relentless pursuer to contin ue his hunt. lie reasoued directly opposite from the officer, who guided by the music of Baruey'ssnoriug, with malignant j .y stood watching the sleeper in triumph a women , and then called : , "McGlout !" No answer, "McGlo&e!" he shouted, Biruey aw ike with a cold chill running down his b fit H t the j sonnd of h's enemy's voice but kept sileut, and simply stared at his interlo | cutor '"MeUlone!" be again shouted, | "l ve caught you asleep." Aarney, now thoroughly alive to his danger, exclaim ed : "\ou did uot, sorr." "Tuen why didi/l you answer sue when I called to you?" "Because, be jahers, I warn't on shpakin' turuis wid you,s>rr." liirney was accepted fortiuth, and his miracu lous piesence of mind savid him bis position. Who is Lucifer. '•Who is Lucifer ? ' said the teacher i to the infant class in Sunday School. • I know," spoke up a bright live year old i>irl in a very earnest tone. "Well, tell me, Katie," said the teach er. "Wy, Lucy's fer Bib Spriggs, who has such a lu>>ny little tuui-tacbe, an' wears iuch a short tout: hut papa duh't 1 likr him at all, an' sz he ain't got no sense, aii' uo money, an' he's fer zat ole Mr. Grip, an'—-• " "That will do Katie," broke in the I teacher; 'I see you are posted We will go on to another qiieatiou," and it ri quired the teacher five minutes to get 1 ihtnugh usina her handkerchief wiping her eyes, she "had such a bad cold, you know," lor Lucy was instructing another ( class near by L icy told her mother afmiward that she thought Katie too y >ung to go to school, the confinement was uot good fur her Wit ami ll'i's tlcm. It is snid that the girls in Swiicerland, Germany and Norway devote themselves , to the cultivatioii of their hair as reao j lutely as a farmer does his crops. Once ! a ye r the merchant, very often an old i woman, arrives in the village ami a I brisk trade is carritd on The Swiss 1 girls make the most, as nature has bes- I towed on theui «n nbund • tit crop of the blonde color, which is hardest of all to I obtain, and the climate is ivilently pro piti >us to its growth. The price obtain ed depends upon the length of the re dundant tre-ses. Ilair eight inches long is worth twenty five cents an ounce, while that th'riy six inches in length will bring the fortunate possessors §8 an ounce, and in cases of exceptional beauty and thickness even 935 an ounce may Le realized l'rcsijent Arthur will noon ta'ae pos session of the While House. For his own private apartments he has selected the rooui known as "Nellie Grant's room.'' He did not care to occupy that used by his predecessors, and kuuwn as the ' ['residents" room, bcoaase of it* paiuful associations. —The failure of the mast orop in the , Virginia mountains is loreiug the bears which are q'tite numerous, down into the settled districts iu search of I'mid Many aie being killed, atid the indica tions are good for a fine tteasun of bear hunting —Speaking til the (J. F & Y V, Railroad, the Chatham /u curd says: I'lesident Gray and the directors have done all in their p»wer to push forward this great woik ol interim! improvement 1 but ttiere seems no prospect uf their be ing üb!e to buy tlte iron and lay the track upon the road bed already graded. ' It is the intention (if pure haters to speee ily complete-the laying of tlie traok to Greensboro, and to open A line direct to Oinnali. ■•> The puoplo uj western Ohailiam have sn long beeu expecting : this road ttrat they aluio-t lust hope t . We bid thcOi ehiecr uq' for at last their, long j/ lt!ied 6>>jtis will bv renbaed.

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