THE REPORTER AND POST.
VOLUME XII.
Reporter and Post.
t'CBLHtIEI) WEEKLY - AT
DANBtTOY. N. C.
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Attorney and Counsellor,
MT. ALKY, N. C.
Practices iu tbe courts of Surry, Stokes,
Yadkin aud Alleghany.
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THY LOTK.
It bri«litcn!i all thociuel eloom
That cleam round me like a tomb,
And fills my heart with summer bloom.
It makes me quite forget the pain
That grief has wrought within my brain,
Ajd brings a flash of Joy again.
It makes the darkest night to Be
More clear thaa erer day can be,
For 1b my dreams I am with thee.
The Btolen Note.
Except that he indulged too freely in
the quo of the intoxicating cup, John
Wallace was an honest, high-minded
and extraordinary man. His one great
fault hung like a dark shadow oyer his
many virtues. He meant well, and
when ha was sober did well.
He was a hattor by trade, and by in
dustry and thrift he had secured money
enough to buy the house in which he
t lived. Ho had purchased it several
years before for three thousand dollars,
paying one thousand down and securing
the balance by mortgage to the seller.
The mortgage was almost due at the
time circumstances made me acquainted
with the affairs of the family. But
Wallace was ready for the day ; h« bad
saved up the monuy ; there seemed no
i possibility of an aocident. I was well
acquainted with Wallace having done a
little collecting and bad drawn up legal
documents for him. One day bis daugh
ter Annie came to my office in great
distress declaring that her father was
ruined, and that they should be turned
out of the house in which they lived.
"I'eihaps not, Miss Wallace' said 1
trying to console her, and give the affair
whatever it was, a bright aipect.
"What has happened t*
"My father," she replied, "had the
money to pay the mortgage on tbo bouse
in which we live, but it is all gone now.'
"Has he lost it V
"I don't know. I suppose so. Last
week be drew two thousand from the
bank and lent it to Mr. lirice for ten
days.'
"Who is Mr. lirice t*
He ia a broker. My father got ac
quainted with him through George
Chandler, who boards with us, and who*
is Mr. Briee'a clerk.'
"Does Mr. Brioo refuse to pay ?'
"He says he has paid it.'
"Well, what is the trouble, then >'
"Father says ho has not paid it.'
"Indeed ! But the note will prove
that he has not paid it. Of oourso,
you have the note 1'
"No. Mr. Bricc has it. Father it
positive he never roceivcd the money.
The mortgage he says must bo paid to
morrow.'
" Very singular ' Was your father - "
I hesitated to use the uupleasant word
which must have grated harshly on the
ear of the devoted girl.
"Mr. Bricc says father was not quite
right when he paid bim, but not very
bad.'
"I will see yoar father.'
"He ia ooming up here in a few mo
ments, 1 thought I would see you first
and tell you the facta before be came.'
"I do not see how Brice eould have
obtained the note unless he paid the
BMnay. Where did your father keep
it!'
"He gave it to mo, and I put it in
the secretary."
"Who was ia the room when you put
in the secretary ?'
"Mr. Briee, George Chandler, my
father and myself.'
The conversation waa here interrupt
ed by tba entrance of Wallace. He
looked pale and haggarJ, as rnuoh from
the effects of anxiety as from the de
bauch from which he was recovering.
"ghe has told you about it, I sup
pose >" said he in a very low tone.
"She has.'
1 pitied him, poor fellow, for two
thousand dollars was a large sum for
bim to aoeumuiate in his little business.
The loss of it would mako the future
look like a desert to him. It would be
u misfortune which one must undergo to
k]preeiate.
"What passed between you on that
day 1*
"Well, I merely stepped into his of
fice—it was only the day before yester
day—'o tell him not to forget to have
th- money rori ly for mo by to-morrow
liiytot'ii i£ci into his back ufficc, and u.
1 urn. there he said he would get tue
money ready next day. lie then left
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1883.
me and went into the front offioe, where
1 heard him send Qaorge out to the bank
to draw a check for two thousaud dol
lars, so I supposed bo was going to pay
me then."
"What does the dark say about it >"
■ "lie says that Mr. Briee remarked
wben he sent him, that he was going to
pay me the money.'
"Just so.'
"And when Gcorgo carno in he went
into the front office again and took the
money. Then he came to me again and
did Bot offer to pay roe the money.'
"Bad you the note with you'"
"No; now 1 remember he said he
■apposed I had not tbe sot* with tae or
he would pay it. I told him to oome in
the next day and I would have it
ready—that was yesterday. When I
came to look for the note it could not
'be found. Antiie and I have hunted
tbe bouso all over.'
"You told Brioo so *'
"I did. He laughed and showed me
his note, with bis signature crossed over
with ink and a hole punched through
it.'
"It is plain, Mr. Wallace, that he
paid you tho monoy, as alleged, or has
obtained fraudulent possession of the
note, and intends to cheat you out of
thn amount.'
"He has never paid me," he replied
firmly.
"Than he has fraudulently obtained
possession of tho note. What sort of
person is tbat Chandler who boards with
you.'
"A fine young man. Bless you, bo
would not do anything of that kind.'
"I am sure ho would not," repeated
Annie, oarnestly.
"How elso could be obtain the note
but through him l What time does he
come home at night 1'
"Always at tea time. He never goes
out in tbe evening.'
"But, father, ho did not come home
till ten o'elock the night before you went
to Bricc's. Ho had to stay in the office
to post books or something of the kind-'
"How did he get in ?'
"Ho has a night key.'
"1 must see Chandler," said I.
"No harm in seeing him,'' said Mr.
Wallace. "I will go for him.'
In a few moments be returned with
the young man, Chandler, who, in the
conversation 1 bad with him, manifested
a lively interest in the solution of the
mystery, and professed himself to be
ready to do anything to forward my
views.
"Whoa did you return to the house
on Thursday night V
"i bout twelve.'
"Twelve," said Anaio. "It was not
more than tea when 1 heard yoa."
"The dock struck twelve as I turned
the oorner of the street," replied Cbaad
ler positively.
"I certainly heard some one in the
front room at ten," Mid Anaio, looking
with astonishment at those around her.
"We are getting at something nor,"
said I.
"How did yon get in V
The young man smilad, as he glaneed
at Annie and said :
"On arriving at the door, I found
that I had lost my night>key. At that
moment a watchman happened nlong
and I told him my situation. He knew
me, and taking a ladder from an unfin
ished honse opposite plaeed it against
one of the seoond story windows, and I
entered in tbat way.' *
"Good. Now, who waa it that was
heard in the parlor unless it was Brioo
or one of his accomplices 1 He must
have taken the key from your pocket,
Chandler, and stolon the note from the
secretwy. At any rate I will charge
bim with tba crime, let what may hap
pen. Perhaps be will confess wh«n
hard pushed.'
Acting upon this thought I wrote a
lawyers letter—"demand against yon,"
etc.—which was immediately tent to
Mr. Brice. Cautioning the parties not
to speak of the affair, 1 dismissed them.
Brice came.
"Well, sir, what havo yon t« say
against me !" he asked stiffly.
"A claim on tbe part of John Wal
laoe for $2,000," 1 replied, poking over
my papers and appearing perfectly in
different.
"Paid it," be said, short as piecrust.
"Have you?" said I, looking him
sharply in the yc.
The rascal quailed. I saw bo
was a villain.
"Nevertheless, if within an hour you
do not pay mo $2,000 and SIOO for the
tioublo »nd anxiety you havo cauied
uiv client, a*, the cr,.i of the ilex' r™ •
will be lodged iu jail to at'Kwer a eritin- !
nal charge.'
"What do you mean, air •'
"I mean what I Bay. Pay or take
tbe consequences."
It was a bold charge, and if be had
looked liko an honest mau 1 should not
have dared to make it.
"I have paid the money, I tell you,"
said he, '1 have the note in my posses
sion."
"Where did you get it ?"
"1 got it when I paid tbe—"
"When you felonionsly entered tho
honse of John Wallace on Thursday
night at 10 o'oloak and took the said note
from the secretary."
"You have no proof," lie said grasping
a chair for support- *
"That is my lookout. I havo no time
to waate. Will yon pay or go to jail 1"
He saw that the evidence I had was
too strong for denial, and he drew his
check on the spot for twenty-one hun
dred dollars, and after begging me not
ta mention the affair, he snoaked off.
I cashed tbe cheok and hasteoed to
Wallace's houso. Tbe reader may judge
with what satisfaction ha received it and
how rejoiced was Annie and her lover.
Wallace insisted that I should take tbo
SIOO for my trouble; but I was mag
nanimous enough to keep only S2O.
Wallace signed tbe pledge, and was ev
er aftor a temperate man. He died a
few years ago, leaving a handsome pro
perty to Chandler and his wife, tbo mar
riage between him and Annio having
taken place shortly after the above nar
rated circumstances occurred-
Commerce or Wilmington.
With a feeling of State prido whioh
is contracted to no part nor section, wc
havo watched with interest tbe develop
ments of harbor improvement which
aro to mako a North Carolina port a
harbor accessible to such class ot ves
sels as will throw our State into the
great current of diroct foreign com
merce, instead of being a more feeder
to other 6tatcs to whom nature has been
more generous in the one particular of
seaports. In every thing else she lias
been lavish to a degree that fills to li
beral extent every column of statistical
tables. Of late years tho appropria
tions of the General Government hardly
wrung from Congress by peisisient ap
peals of our representative, have been
applied to tho restoration of the depth
of water over the bar and in the river,
to what it was a century ago. It was
in the great tempest of 1769 that the
channel through New Inlet was made,
and ever since the work of obstruction
increased, until WilmiDgton was neces
sarily avoided by vessels of largo ton
nage, and foreign trade became restrict
ed almost exclusivoly to a limited West
India traffic.
The first work of restoration was the
closing of the New Inlot. That is
done, after years of laborious battle
with the waves and a beach as firm as
the original one, now stretches as a wall
aorost a channel whioh, aix years ago,
was the one through which tho large
fleet of coasters for New York and other
Northern ports, went in and out, to aad
from soa. The dosing of this oourse
deepened the water on the main bar ;
and with some aid from dredgoa on tho
bar and in the obannol in the river, ves
sels carrying from 17 to 19 feet water
now go in and out, and come up direotly
to the wharves at Wilmington. Tbe re
sult baa been to attract yearly increas
ing floets of foreign shipping coming in
to load direct from Europe with cotton,
naval stores, &o. The foreign exports
of the former staple have increased
within the past aix years from nothing
to 05,000 bales, and as tbe acaessibility
of th« harbor becomes better known, a
larger class of vessels seek it; and as
the facilities for shipment become bet
ter known, to will the receipt* at tho
port iuoreaae. The latest evidence of
this tendency of larger vesaels to ob
tain their cargoes at Wilmington, is of
fered by the presence now at that port
of :wo large English steamers to load
with cotton for Liverpool. One is the
Wood side of 1771 tons ; the other tho
Lykus, 1776 tons, both iron vessels,
drawing each when loaded about 17
feet. Tbe significance of this fact will
be appreciated if it be remembered that
ten years ago the arrival of a vessel of
60Q tons was noted as a gicat event.
We hope yet to sec what geographers
statesmen, statisticians, have all denied
us ; a North Carolina sea port, entering
upon genorocs and profitable rivalry for
foreign commerce with our neighbors to
the South aud North of us ; a consum
mation not by any means a remote pos
sibility iu viow of tho many far reaeh
i: t* "f connecting with tlie in
torior possessed by Wilmiugtou.—Asht
ville CUixtn.
Firm.
Senatot Henry Wilson was a sclf-oon
trolled as well as a self-made man. He
left his New Hampshire home early in
life, aod changed his name in ordor to
get out from under the baneful shadow
of intemperance. He began on the low
est round of the social ladder, and clim
bed up rung by rung, until ho became a
political power in the nation.
The first step bo took ia the ascent
placed him on the pledge never to drink
intoxicating liquors. Tbo seoond step
made biin an induatrious laborer, the
third a dilligent reader.
He was sent to Washington to carry a
petition against tbe admission of Texas
into the Union. John Quincy Adams
asked him to a dinner party, whoro he
met with some of tbo great men of tbo
nation. Ho was asked to drink wino.
Tbe temptation to lay aside bis temper
ance principle for a moment, in order
not to seem singular, was a strong one.
But he resisted it and declined the glass
of wine. Mr. Adams commended him
for bis adherence to his convictions.
After Mr. Wilson was eleotcd to the
United States Senate, be gave his friends
a dinner at a noted Boston hotel. The
table was set with not a wine gla«s on
it.
"Where arc tbe wine-glasses asked
several, loud'enough to remind their
host that some of his guests did not like
sitting dowu to a wincless dinnor.
Gentlemen," said Mr. Wilson, rising
with a great deal of feeling, "you know
my friendship for you and uiy obligations
to you great us they are, they arc not
great enough to mako mo forget "the
rook whence I was hewn and the pit
from wliiob I was dug." Some of you
know how tbo curse of intemperance
ovcr-sbadowed my youth. That I might
escape, I fled from my early rurround
ings and changed my uauio. For what
I am, I am indobted, undor God, to my
temperance vow and my adherence to it.
"Call for what you want to cat, and if
this hotel can provide it, it shall bo forth
coming. But wiuos and liquors cannot
come on to this tablo with my cousent,
because I will not spread in tho paths of
another the snare from which I bavo es
caped."
Three rousing cheers showed the brave
Senator that men admired the man who
had tho courage of his convictions.—
Youth's Companion.
UvellneM In Woman.
Loveliness in women, though it may
vary in its oharaoter aud manifestation
in different periods life, ia not the pro
perty of youth only. There is a great
aud undeniablo charm in tho fresh beau
ty of eighteen, to which perhaps inex
perionoe and early romance lend an ad
ditional fascination. A. pretty girl of
that ago, who has be«n untouched by
oare, and who knows of the world through
imagination only is a very delightul
objoot; and many men are anxious to
take oaptive her affection*.
Between eighteon and twenty-two, the
changes of a girl, so far as the charm of
her person go, are not likely to bo great
but in that time, by intercourse with so
ciety and by natural development, sbe
may grow more companionable, for men
of maturity, find her carriage and self
oontrol better and greater. Theae are
important years in a young woman's life,
tbe years during which in our climate_a
majority of her aex are married.
And yet, from twenty-two to tweaty
fivc or tweoty-aix, a maiden may and
generally does still further advance in
attractiveness and adds te bor store of
eharms. Sbe is still youog, but she baa
outlived many youthful fancies, and feels
soui4 of the dignity of womanhood. No
better ages than those in woman's life
and never is she lovlier.
But why stop at twenty-six? Whit
fairer women are to be found than those
between tweuty-six and thirty, and even
older.
The Drunkard'* Will.
I leave society a ruined character,
wrooked example, and a memory that
will soon rot.
I leave my parents during the rest of
their life, as muoh sorrow as humanity
in a deolining state can sustain.
1 leave my brothers and sisters as
much mortification and injury as I could
bring on tbem.
I leave to my wife a broken heart, a
life of wretchedness and shame, to weep
over my premature death.
1 give and hequcalh to oach of my
children, poveity, ignoranoe, and low
character, and the remembrance that
their father was a monster.
A YANKEE'S NOTIONS
Of onr MountHlns, our Moun
taineers, and onr Moitu
tulu Ulrla.
Prom the chapter by a Jirvt Englander
t» Half's "Iron and Coal of North
Carolina."
Hiding through these mountain coun
ties one comes frequently upon a little
log building called in the vernacular "a
merchant mill." These little mills
grind tho wheat and eorn of tlie neigh
borhood, and eften are of no small ca
pacity that twentyfive bushels is consid
ered a good day's work. They are al
ways picturesque, but never more so
thaa when tended by the miller's daugh
ter, usually a bright eyed, fair faced
uiaiden, who looks shyly up from be
neath her nun bonnet for a glanco at the
passing stranger, and then lures to the
hopper again and attends to business.
Another frequent sight in these moun
tains is that of a strapping bare-footed
uierry boy, whistling as he tramps along
the road with his sack thrown over his
shoulder, a half bushel of corn in oach
end "to keep the balance true." How
many "matches aro made in heaven,"
thtso mills being tho portals thereto,
who can tell l But besides these small
branches with their frequent falls, there
are many large creeks and rivers that
can be made to do duty in the same way,
and wben railroads shall be finished,
mines opened, furnaces built and facto
ries erected, tho roaring cataracts,
whose eternal thunders fill the forest
with thoir grand diaparons, will be tam
ed to man's use, and help to swell that
vast sublime orchestra of trip-hammers
aud anvils, of saws, looms, and clatter
ing machinery, that together make the
music of modern civilisation, and of
seienco applied to the practical arts.
The mountaineers of North Carolina
are a sturdy raco sprung from no ordi
nary stock. Among them, as iu all
communities, are some lazy and shift
less people, whose only care is to fill
their bcllios with the least possible out
lay of labor and to build a new cabin
close to the timber as soon as fire wood
has to be hauled any distance. Then
tliero are the "dog and gun men" that
keep beyond the confines of that ad
vancing population that drives the
gamo from its fastnesses, and spoils
tboir bunting. Mixed with theae, bat
not ot •hem, aro a few outlaws from
the oircle of States around them, who
may be wanted for some outrage, and,
therefore, take up a residence iu a well
chosen spot from which in a day tbey
can retreat to Tennessee, Georgia, or
South Carolina, as prudence may at the
time direct. As the mountain climate
aud soil was not suited to large planta
tions, very few negroes ever lived there,
and the gregarious habits of that race,
as well as the comparatively cool win
ters, have kept them from settling there
in any considerable numbers siuoe tbey
beoame free. The mountaineer* who
oonstitate the majority of the popula
tion are a tall, handsome, athletic race,
shrewd to a degree, fend of a joke, hos
pitable, proud, eager to have their ooun
try appreciated by strangers, and long
ing for the day when railroads and in
creased population shall give them more
privileges, and a greater lost to their
quiot lives. They especially long for
northern men to settle among them and
to (tart tbe various trades of which
they beve heard muoh, but know little.
Tbev are honest, religious after their
fashion, can generally read and write,
but have very little book learning, or
that knowledge nf the great outside
world obtained from newspapers and
periodicals. When a mountaineer lives
on a road distant from taverni, be often
arranges his domestic affairs so as to en
tertain strangers, and it is no nnusal
thing for several beds to be set up in
one room, the man and his wife occupy
ing the first, the ohildren cuddled into
the seoond, and the stranger in the
third, bat everything is managed with a
homely delioacy that makes one unao
oustomed to this style of living tee I
quite at easo.
No mockery in this world sounds to
me so hol'ow as that of being told to
cultivate happiness. What does such
advice mean? Happiness is not a pota
to, to be planted in mold and tillod. Hap
piness is a glory shining far down upon
us out of Heaven. Slio is divine dew
which tbe soul, on certain of its summer
mornings, feels gently droppiug upon it
from the amaranth bloom and fruitage
of Paradise.
It is stated tbat nearly 400 persons
were killed by wind in this country last
year, and yet thousands of men aro will
ing to risk their lives by getting elected
to Congress,
NO. 20.
RNtLL MITES.
Th« lowest ebb in thy turn of tbe
tide.
One cannot always be a bero, but one
can always be a man.
It U very bard to ask for wbat ought
to be given us unasked.
It is not necesaary to bo a great think
er to think greatly.
Nothing helps tbc memory so much
as order and classification.
Many a book has no misprint, but
the book itself is a misprint.
Tbe pessimist believes what he feels,
the optimist what be hopes.
Of what worth is your praise, if I do
not see that you can blame.
Many delight more in giving presents
than in pacing their debts.
There is always hope in a man that
aotually and earnestly works.
Tbe untruthful man makes a poor
companion and a worse friend.
He that waute money, means and con
tent is without three good things.
Genius at first it little more than a
great capacity for receiving discipline.
No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground of
truth.
Tbe way to gain a good reputation is
to endeavor to be wbat you desire to ap
pear.
There is no greater delight than to
be conscious of sincerity on self-exami
nation
Good is never more effectually per
formed than when it is produced by slow
degrees.
A girl should be taught to deapise two
things thoroughly—idleness and tw
lessnuss.
Never despair of fin ling a lady in a
cabin or too ooniideut of finding one in
a mansion.
The hate which we all bear with the
mest Christian patience is the hate jf
those who envy us
Harsh words have frequently nliona
ted a child's feelings and crushed out all
love of home.
How people deceive themselves when
they think those around tbeui do not
know their real characters.
Whatever disgrace we have merited,
it is almost always in our power to re
establish our reputation.
A good work is an easy obligation, but
not to speak ill requires only our silenco
which costs us nothing.
Friendship is the only thing in the
world coneerning the usefulness of which
all mankind are agreed.
Tbc greatest events of an age are its
best thoughts. It is the nature of
thoughts to find its way into action.
Tbe conqueror is regarded with awe,
the wise man commands our ert cm; but
it is tbe benevolent man who wins our
affection.
If you have built castles in the air,
your work neod not be lojt. Tbat is
where they should be; but put foundation
under them.
Truth takes the stamp of the soul it
enters. It is vigorous and rough iu arid
•oils, but tempers and softens itself in
loving natures.
One of tbe illusions is that the present
hour is not the critical decisive hour.
Write it on Your heart that every day is
the best day in the year.
In conversation, humor is more than
wit, easiness moro than knowledge; few
desire to learn or to think tbey need it;
all desire to be pleased, or, if not, easy.
Tbere is always room for a man of
foroe, and he makes room for many. 80-
oiety is a troop of thinkers, and the best
heads among them take tho best places.
Habit is almost as strong as prinoiplc,
and sometimes, when we are besot by a
multiplicity of cares, may act in its
stead. He careful, then, that your hab
its are of the very best.
Kvery one in this world has bia or ber
share of troubles and trials. Let us,
then, try as much as we are able not to
increase the burden of any by as much
as the weight of a straw.
There are oertain manners which,
1 learned in good sooioty, are of the force
tbat, if a person have them, he or she
most bo considered everywhere wel
come, though without beauty, wealth or
! genius.