North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XIV. Reporter and Post. PUBLIIHBD WEEKLY AT DANBURY. N. C. PKPPER 4 SONS, Pubs. Pro/is RAT KM or »l n*« RIPTiOX ; Ci»o Yoar, In advance, Six Month* «• BATE* Or ADTEBTIMIKUt 9 *j«ar» (t«* IIBM or low) tll me,. fl OJ r*r »%ch additional luHortion, •*> Contract* for longer ttmo or mora fpftco cau bo Mid« in proportion to tho above rate*. Tranatont advertiser* will l»o e*i»ecto 1 to riult according to thoao rates at the time lliuy will be charged 50 per cent, hlghor £rd2*w 11T bo lasorted at tea Dollars v *"** PROFESSIONAL CJRDS ROBERT IX GILMER, Attorney and Counsellor, MT. AIRY, N. 0. Practices In the courts of Surry, Stokes, Tadkla and Alleghany. W. F. CARTER, | jirro it. MT. AIKY, SL'ItHY CO., N. C i ftaetliwswheravei hisservicesare wanted i ' JUL. MA YMORE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mt. Airy. N. C •perlal attention given to the collection ol ctelau. I—l-1" B. F. KINO, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON $ CO.„ DRY GOODS, Hoi. 17 and !9 Santa Sharp, Str.et, r. w. jonPBoN, R m. si'Ttroft. J. U. R. URARBK, O. J. JOHNSON. t. BAY, AI.BKRT JONES, j Xsa.y & Joja,eG, manufacturers ot BABM.KRT.HARSKSS, COLLARS.TRUNR fl ». U« W. B«Ulm»r« .tr«t, liallimor*, IM. W. A.Tuckur, H. O.Smltil, 8.8. S|lTOggltM Tucker, Smith a Co*. Maoatacturhre S' wholr*ale Dculera in MOOTS, SHOES, HATS A.YD CAPS. )l». no Baltimore .Street, Ualtinoro, Mil. Jti. J. it A*. £■ BEST, WITH Henry Sonneborn V* Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. H AanoTer #»,( bat ween Gcfuan A Lombard i>UO HALTIU'JIIK ill). U. •OBIIBBORN, B. BI.IMI.INK a WATItXS W.S.ROBERTSON S: * COTTrV.I.!,, A.B.WATKINS. Watkins. Cottrell & Co.» Importers and .Jobber# ol HAHOWAIM], 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, I 'A. Anita for rtlrbank. atinJ*r.l Scales, an Xmkm Brand Baiting Cloth. MUtki* Putney, L. U lilair W. 11. MILES, WITH STEPHEN P UT-YE Y$ CO. Wholesale dealer «in Boots, Shoes, and Trunks, 1219 Main Street, M*9t 8-81-4Jm. RICHMOND, TA. i. B. ABBOTT, or N 0., with WHMie, ELLETT * CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dealers ia BOOTH, BHOBS, TRUNKS, 40. ' • ruipl attention paid to orders, and satis fee tie* taaraa teed. jm- riryMM «e« Frit* a Gotd* • iptetaUy Marek, «. m ■eaaar w. rowau. eoeia D. TATLO . B W. POWERB & CO., er WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealers In PAtMTB, OILS, DTKB, TARNIBHEB, Fronoh Bud Amerioan wivnow oiiAtis, PUTTY, ac. HKUKIMQ ANDOHKWINO OlOAltfi, TOBACCO A BPBCIALTY 1106 llßln St., Biohmond, V Aegaetfßlt J. L. C. BIRD" WITH W. D. KYLE & Co., IBPCRTKRB AND JOBBKBS OF HARDWARE, Cutlery. jHON, NAILS and CABRIAOK UOODH No. 9 (Jovernor Street, ( BICUMOKD.VA. F.vcr, tc. JhEEßßcaaßsiSi SUBSCRIBE FOR Your County Paper, -nTbe ReDorter and Post~i Uk> ' IIE PEOPLE I FOIt THE PEOPLE; OF THE PEOPLE I FOB THE PEOPLE! OF THE PEOPLE! FOH THE PEOPLE ! OF THE .PEOPLE I FOR THE PEOPLE I ONLY $1.50 A YEAR! SUBSCRIBE SOW It is your duty to aid your county paper. We propose publishing a good family paper, and solicit lroni our friends aud from tho Democratic party in Stokes and adjoining counties a li beral support. Make up clubs for us. Now go to work, and aid an enterprise devoted to your best interests. Kuad the followiug NOTICES OF TIIK TURKS : The REPORTER AND POST is sound in policy and polities, and deserves a libe ral support. — Retdsmilc Weekly. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST begins its thirteenth year. It is a good paper and deserves to live long aud live well.— Daily Workman. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST celebrates its twelfth anniversary, aud with pardonable pride refers to its suo ccss, which it deserves.— ,\ews and Ob server. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST is twelve yoara old. It is a good paper aud should be well patronized by the people of Stokes. It certainly deserves it.- Sal em Press. For twelve long years the Danbury REPORTER AND POST has been roughing it, and still manages to ride the waves of the journalistic sea. We hope that it wi'.l have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just passed its 12th anniversary and uuder tho efficient management of broth er Duggins cannot fail to increase in popularity with the people of Stokes and adjoining counties.— h inston Sentinel. The editorials on political topics arc timely and to the point, and the general aiukc up of every page shows plaiuly the exercise of uiuob care and pains taking. Loug may it live aud flourish under the prcsont management.—Moun tain Voice. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has entered the thirteenth year of its ex istence, and we congratulate it upon the prosperity that is manifested through it* columns. To ua it is more than an ac quaintance, and we regard it almost as a kinsmau. — Leaksvtlle (iazeitt. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST last week celebrated its twelfth anniver sary. It is a strong and reliablo paper Toftorially, it U a good looal and gener al newspaper and in all respects a credit to its town and section. It ought to be well patronized.— Stalesvil/e. Landmark. Tho Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just entered its 18th year. We were one of the orew that launched the RE PORTER, and feel a diep interest in its welfare, and hope that she may drift on ward with a olear sky and a smooth sul fa 00 for as many more yean.— Caswell News. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has celebrated its 12th anniversary. The paper is sound in policy and politics, and deserves tho hoarty support of tho people of Stokes. It is an excellent weekly and wo hope to soo it flourish in the futuro as never before.— Winston I Leader. Tho Danbury REPORTER AND POST came out last wcok with a long editorial, entitled, "Our Twclth Anniversary" and reviews its past history in a very j entertaining way. Uo ou Bro, Pepper : in your good work; you get up one of if | not the host country paper in North j Carolina.— Kernersville JVews. That valued exchange, published in Danbury, N. 0,, tha REPORTER AND j POST, has entered upon its 12:h anni versary. Long may it live to oall the attention of the outaide world to a eoun- , ty which ia as rich, we suppose, m mm- 1 erals as any in the State of North Car-I olina, aud to battle for correot pclitioal : measures. -Danville Times. "NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS." DANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. rill: UMCIHOOSI. Tlie work! fg fair, tlie world is bright, Ami joy ; italim its lioun; Life's sky Is filiated w illi rosy light During tlic honeymoon. Thoir IH':U"IS o'erflow with tenderness, They hill, and coo, mid spoon, And each new day daw us but to bless, During tlr honeymoon, i V'-fioud ibK- 'i*'. the -fliMrjf.) iiiigi--. For life is in its Jit no; The steak is tender, bisouit light, During the honeymoon. Each of tlie other never tires, Their fond hearts beat in tune j Ho splits tlie Wood and lights the tires During the honeymoon. Fair honeymoon, why should it wane, Why should it end so soon ? Why cannot wedded lid' remain One long, sweet honeymoon? A Famous Duel. One of the most interesting figures in th>s Virginia campaign is Capt. Page McCarty, the bachelor editor of the Richmond illustrated paper which is makiug such a sharp fight against Wise aud Mahono. Capt. McCarty is very well known in Washington. He has spent a number of winters here. He 13 uow iu the neighborhood of forty years of ago. He is a u.au of slightly above the medium in height and has a well rounded figure. 110 is vfry quiet and iuobtrusive. Ilis fresh-colored face and twiukling blue eyes have always a pleas ant expression. He has a very low voice, atid the precise gravity of a man to whom ul .borate politeness is a second nature. Ilis smooth-shaven, nqualino ieatured face is ornamented with a drooping yellow moustache. He is one of the loading political writers of Vir ginia. lie has a very keen sense of hu mor, and is one of tbo most charming Inf domniti "m. *1» is a VMvvtr in tho code, and has served as a second in a number of duels and as a principal in one of the historical duels of his time. He is tho revi rs» rf quarrehnme. He never could be au aggressor, but 10,000 devils could not make him budge one inch to avoid a quarrel. Ho lias been at the front in nearly every campaign in Virginia during the last ton years.— Nouo of the Mahono people have ;vcr dared to seek a quarrel with this quiet voiced, easy-going, cultivated geutlc man. His repuation acquired in the colebrated McCarty-Mordeeai duel has made hiui a shield against ambitious duelists. No one has challenged him from that fatal day. That duel was one of tho most dra matic duels known in tho history of tlie code. Mordcoai aud McCarty wero life-long frionds. They were represen tatives of two of the best families iu Virginia. They had fought together dariug tho civil war upon the Confede rate side. Both had reputations for tho most reckless aud unquestioned cour age. After the war they wero bright particular stars in tho very best society of Richmond. McCartv became en gaged one winter with one of the belles of the season. She was handsome, proud and very high spirited. For nma slight reason, not known, the two lovers quarreled. Tho engagement was broken. Hardly bad the news of this estrangement gotten out, when tbo gos sips were startled by the news of the engagement of the young lady to Mor decai. This was doubtless tho result of a fit of pique. A deadly coolness at once established between the two young men. This is tho prelude to the drama. One night, not long after [this, at a German given at ouc of the leading houses in Richmond, the evolutions of the figure danced brought McCarty and his former betrothed together. She, with a haughty turn of the head, left him, refusing silently and peremptorily to danco with him. This marked out uaturally made a disagreeable social sousalion. The next evening, at another house, there was also a German. Fate again brought tlie two—ouco lovers, now enemies— to tbis house. The same fate wove a figure which was once more to bring them face to face as part ners. Tbo leader of the German, an amiable young uiau, saw that the two j were coming together again. He pass ed near to the young lady in the danoe and whispored in her ear : "Pauoe with him this this time, I beg of you. Don't 1 make a scene." The youog lady com plied. Ike two lover enemies, without a word, ombraocd w. l h other coldly, and for the last timo, in the set 6pnrc, whero they for a moment waltzed to gether. Tho next morning there appeared in ono of tbo Richmond papers a brief poem. It described tbe blisd of a lover who holda bis dearly4»'lo»ed in his arms as they are whirled about to tbo pas siobkto measure of a tiring waltz Tbis poem was .signed iMeC." Tho young lady read poem, and thought that she read bctfllß its armorous and glowing lines a ouustio satire from her former lover, aud he bad seized up on the occasion o. I - daucing with biiu the night tutor* himself for her insul'iiif) refus/.. to danoe with him upon the previous bight. She told Mor decai of tbo fancied ioault. lie, spur red ou by tho indignatiou of his lady love, oalled upon MtCarty and reproa ched him in wild and violent language. A challenge was passed The seconds, who were geiitleuieu, cxatuiucd careful ly if to the affair before taking their men upon the flfeld They found that the poem in question bad been written for a long time, and had been actually in typo for moro tliMi a week previous to the affair of tlie German. As a matter of bourse tho eocouds dcclaircd that there was no cau9o for a duel, as McCarty wus wholly innoeoni of the most renute intent to insult Mordcoai or his lady love. Tho sec | conds drew up an agreement in which ! it was stipulated that Mordcoai should ! apologize to McCarty for his injustice, i i and that the diul should be declared J I off without any reflection upon tbo | honor of either tho combatants The | friendship between the two men had 1 now turned to such bitter hate through their niutuul love for the same woman that the reooticilation was of the cold est character. It v»as in effect the • covering over of tbe hottest of files : with a thin layer of ashes. Tho two ! proud young men stipulated in the ! agreement that henceforward they were j to bi* strangers and to show no sign of I recognition when t|..-y should meet. ! The two comrades WLD had with the lieuity affection of brothers faced death with tbe cheerful courage of brave uieu upon many a bloody 6eld, were now se parated, ucver to meet except as the fiercest of enemies. Here under ordinary circumstances shoald have been an end to the whole affair. Hut the undercurrent of Rich mond society was cruel. Tho odor of a tragedy had been in tbo air and no peaceful commonplace drama conld take its place without public dissatisfaction. Murderous minded gossips knowingly when they said the affai bad been ei easily compromised. It was ovidont that the two ineu were not anxious to fight. Cowards who had no idea of what was real courage spoko lightly of tho bravery of thess two veteran sol diors. One night McCarty was in tlie smoking room of the fashionable club of Richmond. A group of young men about hiui. Some of them indignantly commented upon tbo low gossip, the echo of the tigerish dissatisfaction of cruel minds over the fact that tbe blood of neither of these gallant men had been shed. Suddenly McCarty said, impa tiently, 'I am tired of tbis talk. 1 with to Uod the affair was back ia the hands of seconds again.' Again fatali ty interposed. As these words were uttered, iu a loud, impatient voice, Mor decai entered tho room. He was just in time to hear what was said. A mo ment soonfr or Isfcrf and he would not have encouutcred tbe danger of reopen ing the quarrel. Kvci7 one was dumb wliea Mordccai came. All turned to him. 110 walked quickly up to Mc- Carty and said: 'What was that you said ?' Iu a ton* of sharp irritation. McCarty in his reply adhered to the agreement made iu the settlement of tho first difficulty. He said : *1 don't know you sir.' 'I will have you to understand that I am a gentleman.' •Ob, you arc !' snoercd MoCarty. At this Mirlccai struck McCarty iu bis faoc. Friends instantly rushed up and soparatcd the two men. Now it was evideut that a duol to the death j could alone result. After blows wero | exchanged the possibility of a peaceful settlement was forovor at an end. The same fatally pursued thu victims of this duel to tbe end. Tho first sur geon asked to assist refused. It is al ways supposed that he gave tbe infor mation to the authorities, for tlie police came upon the ground just as tbo duel had ended fatally for Mordecai. When the first shots were exotiang.d neiihei was hit. This was very straugo, as both the p'incipals were dead shots aud could snuff a candlo at thirty paces. McUijrty wore a single button coat Mordecai's first bullet took off this button, as McCarty stood sidewiso to him. McCarty's ball passed wide of Mordecai. If the code had boeu obser ved hero the duel would not have had a faiul ending. It was now the duty of the seconds to retire their principals to examine them to sec if oithor was in jured and to ask whether the principles would not tcttie their differences beforo agaiu placing their lives iu jeopardy. Hut the principles took the affair in thoir own hands. One said : 'Are you Lit V •No' 'Are you !' 'No.' 'Then, 'Are yon ready ?* 'Yes.' Then, as if uctuatoj by one mind, the two men raised their pistols and filed agaiu. The two reports were so close together that they sounded as one. Mordecai fell on his face us fall uieu with death wounds. MoCarty reeled and fell over backward. Hoth men wcic hit in exactly the same spot upon the right side. The ball in Mor decai's case went right through his bow els, giving him a wound from which ho soor died. The ball entering MoCarty's body at the same place passed around, lie was six months in bod and tlieu re covered. If the police had not corno up over the bifl just as the two mun tired there would have been no evidenae against I McCarty. As it was, he had a hard time getting out of tho clutches cf the law after he rccoverod. It cost him all the foitutio he had ; but the fact of his having placed his own life absolutely iu the balance against Mordecai's, and that tho lattor had provoked tho quarrel, fi nally freed him. Tbe young lady is still living. She has never married.— T. C. Crawford in N. Y. World. TOBACCO—IS IT HURTFUL. Professor Huxley, a vcy eminent British man of science, in a recent debate on smoking took ground in favor of tobacco. He said he tried to use tobacco but it was a poison. This lasted for forty years. But recently he had tried it and was delighted, lie said : "There is no more harm in a pipe than there is in a cup of tea. You uiay poison yourself by drinking too much grccu tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my own purt I consider that tobacco in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the tem per." l'harc are hundreds of men who have lived to eighty or even ninety or more who used tobacco and drank strong cof lee all their lives. We kucw one old man in Halifax, Mr. Cullom, who died at 90 years aud used tobacco in great excess from his fourteenth yeai, as lie told us, with tbe exception of only tbreo weeks. There is no doubt that tobacco is very injurious to many constitutions. But thero are millions who use it with impunity. We knew of one pale-faced, dirt-oating looking Virginian from tbo Eastern Shore who was made ruddy aud healthy by chewing tobsuco and swal lowing the amber. Fact. WHAT AN ECU WILL DO. For burns aud scalds nothing is more soothing than the white of an egg, whioh may be poured over tho wound. It i» softer as a varnish for a burn than col lodiou, and beiug always at hand, can be applied. It is also more cooling than the sweot oil and cotton which was for merly supposed to he the surest appli cation to allay the smarting pain. It is tlie contact with the air which gives the oxtrcme discomfort experienced from the ordinary accidcut of this kind, »nd anything that excludes tbe air and pre vents infiamation is the thing to be at once applied. Tho egg is considurcd on# of the best of remedies for dysentery. Boaten up sligh ly, with or without sugar, and swallowed at a gulp, it tends by its emollient qualities, to lessen the m llaniatlon of thu stomach aud iutcstiucs, and by forming a transient coating on these organs, to enable nature to resume her healthful sway ovor a discasod body. Two, or at most three eggs per day would be all that is required in ordinary oases; and since egg is not merely med icine, but food as well, tbo lighter tie diet otherwise and the quieter tli» paiieut is kept the moro certain and rapid is tbo recovery. Til 10 NEW YORK MUGWUMPS It cannot be denied that the Inde pendent, or mugwump, vote of New York, was largely instrumental in the election of President Cleveland. But they eainc into our party without even an invitation, and as tho recent nomination of a Democratic ticket don't suit them, they have gone back to wal low iu the uiiro of Republicanism. Let them go. They uiado trouble in our political I household. They quarreled with or about every thing that did not suit thorn in our camp. They have expressed dissatisfaction and contempt with every effort made to please them. They seemed to suffci with a sort of chronic political indigestion. They brought into our ranks a bad case of the politically diseased liver, which tho best known patent medicine seemed powerless to alleviate. They could not assimilate nor affiliate with ns. The Pearson remedy was triod on them, but without avail. It is now an established fact that they camu to us from purely personal reasons, and not from any spirit of fra ternity, sympathy or community of priuoiples. Tbcy wished merely to serve spiteful and selfish ends, and to administer to Mr. Biuina a malignant spirit of re venge. They ore led by the New York Times and Evening Post. They are goue. They are supporting the regular Re publican ticket. They have driven, or will diivo, dis | satisfied democrats back into the folds |of the party, and make Gov. Hill's | election only tho more assured. They wanted to lead tho Pcmoorats, but the Democrats wouldn't bo led by them. They wanted the whole world. They disdained the theory that they wei . ueophitcs uuu contorts. They wanted to be generals, aud col onels, and majors, and captains. 'I heir demands wore cheeky. Tho Saratoga convention rebuked them, and laid them oui on the shelf. Let them go. Sclah. THE BET WAS OFF. A few days ago, after a couple of es teemed citizens, who are closo neigh bors, had avrauged to pass a few days with their families at a lake in Oak land county, ono of theui offered to wager a box of cigars that he would catch the largest fish. Tho wager was promptly taken, and next day one of the gentlemen put in an appearance at a fish stand on the market, and said to the dealer: 'Have you got a fresh pickoral weigh ing about fifteen pounds!' 'I have, sir!' 'Well, 1 want you to put him on ice and ship bim to me at—— Lako. 1 propose to catch him on a hook out there.' 'Very well sir. I think I'll ship the two together.' 'The two!" •Yes, sir. Mr [mentioning tho other esteemed citizen] was hero an hour ago, and bought one weighing twenty pounds It will take less ice to pack the two in the same box!' Tho fish wore paid for but tbe bet was declared off.— Detroit Free Press. FRO/iEN WONDKHS. '•When I was in Siberia,'' said Capt. Furskins, "it was so oold that your breath would frccto and drop off in lumps to the ground, lint we had lots of fun. Thero were plenty of jack-rabbits and other game but it was too sold to handle a gun. So ou a clear moonlight uight wo would act a couple of big lioad-ligbt lanterns on tho glistening snow way out on the steppes, and just wait for developments. The rabbits would bo attracted by tbo iutonsu light, which was reflected for a great distauou ovei tho snow crust, and would all ga ther ia a circle around tbo lamps in mute astonishment at the frco picnio they were having. By-and-by their oyes would begin to water from the intonsity of tho light and drops roll down, forming an icicle from the ground up, which finally froze solid to tho eye-bulls and *bcre we had 'em. Nest morning all you had to do was to tako 'ein by tbo tail and bronk 'oui off tin! icicles." NO. 19. .VIIAM. KITES. Church music is easy to a choir. The apparel oft proclaims the man ia debt. •Silence docs not always mark wis dom. A worthy old maid—one worth SGO,- 000 or uioro An occuliat always has an eye to the main ohanoc. Apprehension of wil is often worse than the evil itself. Mean fortunes and proud apirits act like fuol and fire. A false grounded hope ii but a wak ing man's dream. Virtue and a trade are tiio beat por tions for children. It is bettor to buy your rye by the loaf tlmu by the pint. Taking the cents of the meeting— pausing around the bat. 'Beware of imitations,' as the mon koy saiil to the dude. •l'ut yourself in bis place.' He ia an oflcusive partisan. Our acts make or mar us ; we are the children of our own deeds. The man who rises by his profession a builder of elevators. A cheerful face is nearly na good for an invalid as healthy weather. Brevity is not only the soul of wit, but the best substitute for wit. Ail other knowledge is hurtful to one who has not tlio science of honesty and good nature. Most of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by our standing in our own light. When a minor has been eaten by a gritsdy, the Western people speak of him as being admitted to the b'ar. •Good gracious,'said the hen, when she discovered the porcelain egg in her neat, «1 shall b« i breHsyer nnxC' When a man was knocked down and traiupeu by a sheep and asked how he felt, lie said : 'A little under the weth er.' An cxchaugc gives a recipe for 'a dangerous heart disorder,' but suppose a man hasn't a dangerous heart. What then 1 A man who can umpire a baseball game aud please both sides, has in him the main qualifications for a successful politician. A young lady whose frivolous moth er was jeulous of her said one day, "I always want to apologiao for having been born." 'The tomato is a very healthy fruit,' says au exchange. Dou't kuow about that. Wo see a good many tomatoes that look very sick. Cannibalism is still practiced by 1,- i2iio,ooo, people and its very evident that tho demand for missionaries will long exceed (he supply. An old proverb «aya • "All things come to him who can wait." If a mau tecs the writer, some of the things will come to him sooner. Sin takeu into the soul is like liquor poured iut j a vessel—so much of it as it fills it also seasons. The touoh and the unoture go together. lie who has a suspicion that his friends aie no bettor than hia enemies, will do well to consider bow it oauio about that he had enemies. "Is it true that a beo oan pull moro ir. proportion thau a horse \—Anxious.'' "Ob,yes! Iti m also true that a bee can push more than he can pull." "The Kngliah liturgy," said the loaruud Grotius, "comes so near to tho primitive pattern, that nouo of the Reformed churches can compare with lit » Feelings eonie and go like light troops following the viotory of tho present; but principles, like troops of tho line, are undisturbed and stand fast. It does us good to admire what ia good and bcautifnl; but it does lis in finitely more good to love it. VU grow like what wo admire ; but we beeouie oue with what wo love. The foundation of good labor in any sphere is a good tnan, and *ll that is Uuuc to give tiieaiiih, depth, aud (iill ncss to him will react in ultimate im j pruvcuicnl upon his work.