VOLUME *XIY. Reporter and Post. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT DANBURY. N. C. PKPPKR k BOMS, Pub*, te Props RATKft 'KirT'O* » On» Year, paonblt tn advance *l™ Six Mouths KITES O* AIWKKHMIWU: On. Squ.r. (ten lln«» »r {•»> 1 tlm * *' 2J *.r.»cU n4l,Uw>»» CUmlrlfU far lungs! l i» or more >'»" >'» a*M " r «™" th &il ti'JS'c. «"1 >» e'.i»r««Kl 50 per cent .higher Inserted at Ton Dollar. » «• - OUTHUS- J_ ROBERT 1). QILMER, Attorney and Counsellor, MT. AIRY, N. C. Traetiees in the courts of Surry, Stokes, Yailkiu ami Alleghany. W. F. CARTER, jtTTQ&JfSY-lt T'h-l IT. MT. AlltY, SL'RItY CO., N. C Fractions wheievov hlaservices are wanted B L. HA YMORE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mt. Airy- N. C« Special attention given to the collection 011 claims. *—l'- 111 K F. KING, WITII JOHNSON, SUTTON# CO., DRY (JOODS, Kes. *1 aud South Sharp, Street, r. vr. JOHFSOW, R >'• SUTUOH J. B. ft. GRARBR, 0. 3. JOHNSON. F, DAT, ALBERT JONES. 12 ay & JOTXOSf manufacturers ot »ADHLEnY,!IAHNfcSS,COI.I.Atti.THVNR Ho. S3® W. Baltimore street, Baltimore. W. •W. A. Tnrlter, H. C.Smltlt, U.S. Sprntfgtw Tuckeri Smith & Co- M fa'. * * r 1 >'lers in MOOTS, XUOEX, HATS AND CAPS. No. 2W Bnlttnioru Street, Baltimore, M> 1. B. J■ J' It- E - JIKUT, WITH Henry Sonncborn 4" Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. M An'o'.r Bt,(b«twwuiOcrni»n .t l.ulnbanl Stu) BALTIiIOUJC MH ■. SONHEUORN, B. BLOXLINE C.WATKINS. " " * 9.U CUTTBRI-1., A S. WA l KINS. Watkiixs. Cottrell A Co.. lßipot tern ftml Jobber* of IIAHUWAK I^. 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, V'/l. AMntf for Kali bank. Standard Scale., an Aik«r Brand Bolting Cloth. meike* Putney, L - 11 B '"' r W. 11. UII.KS, WITH STEPHENPUTNE YS> CO. ft'holeiah' dealers in Boott, Shoes, and Trunks, 1219 Main Street, Beft. Ml-tlm. RICHMOND, VA. J. ft AUBOTT, Of N C., wit 6 Wild#, ELIHTI fc CBCMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dtaltrt ia BOOTS, SHOBS, TRUNKS. ftC. Prompt alttation paid to orders, and satis faction gauraateed. pm- nrpnim St*U Friitn Sooit m spetudly March, «. m aoaaar w. rowias. swiaa d. 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Now go to work, aud aid an enterprise devoted to your best interests. Head i the following NOTICES OP THE PRESS : The REPORTER AND POST is sound in po!iuy ai.U (H.litioi*, AII. I a iibo ral support. — Reidsville Weekly. The Dan bury REPORTER AND POST begins its thirteenth year. It is a good paper and deserves to live long and live well.— Daily Workman. The D»Nbury REPORTER AND POST cclcbiatcs its twelfth anniversary, and with pardonable pride refers to its suc cess, which it deserves.— ews and Ob server. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST is twelve years old. Dis a good paper and should be well patronized by tbe people of Stokes. It certainly deserves it.- Sahm Press. For twelve long years tbe Danbury REPORTER AND POST has been ROUGING it, and still manages to ride tbe waves of the journalistic sea. We hone that it will have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just passed its l'Jlli anniversary and under the efficient management of broth er Duggins cauuot tail to increase in popularity with the people of Stokes and adjoining counties.— Winston Sentinel. The editorials on political topics are timely and to the point, aud the general anike up of every page shows plainly the exercise of much care and pains taking. Loug may it live and flourish under the present management.—Moun tain Voice. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has entered the thirteenth year of tu ex istence, and we congratulate it upon the prosperity that is manifested through its columns. To us it is more than an ac quaintance, aud we regard it almost as a ktnsuiau.— Leaksville Gazelle. The Daubury REPORTER AND POST last week celebrated its twelfth anniver sary. It is a stroug and reliable paper editorially, it is a good local and gener al newspaper and in all respects a credit to its town and section. It ought to bo well patronized.— Stalesville Landmark. Tbe Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just entered its I3tbyear. Wo were one of the crow that launched the RE PORTER, and feel a d:ep interest in its welfare, and hope that she may drift on ward with a clear sky and a smooth sui faee for as many more years.— Caswell News. The Danbuiy REPORTER AND POST has celebrated its 12th anniversary. The paper is sound in policy and politics, and deservos tho hearty support of the people of Stokes. It is au excellent weekly and wo hope to see it flourish in tbe future as never before.— Winston Leader. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST oame out last week with a long editorial, entitled, "Our Twelth Anniversary" and reviews its past history in a very entertaining way. Go on Ilro, Pepper in your good work; you get up one of if not tbe bost country paper in North Carolina.— Kernersville -/Vines. That valued exchange, published in Danbury, N. C,, tbe REPORTER AND POST, has entered upon its 12th anni versary. Long may it live tu call the attention of the outside world to a coun ty which is as rich, we suppo«e, in min erals as any in the Stato of North Car olina, and to battle for correct pclitieal measures. -Danville Timet. "NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE NUC:JJb:SJ-i." DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2G, 1885. mi IXIIL VKXT HINN£K Fold up tbe rohes which Bun»m«»r baskiswtl, lay them away, tliey will not be missel . Crumble the furbelows, fleecy ami lii»ht; Crush down the gomamer floating and white: Fold tbem up softly sweet niaideu to-day, For the sunshine of summer has melted away The and llflies so fair and so frail, Have gonejfrom the garden and died iu the valej And pansles and gentian and sweet mignon ette, With the tears of October arc droping and wet; So, fair little maiden, the light tissues fold Kre the sun of November shines whitely and cold. Yet dream not Jo wearUiem again,'jas to day, When the weeds of the year crush the blos soms of May; For ah! the gay bodice may clasp in the breast A heart full of sorrow and weary unrest; And aombre-hued broad cloth the spirit may shroud, Wlnlr the form bears the "olors it flaunted unbowed. So folding thy vesture to lay out of sight; With swiM't-swelling noises, with heart Winding light, ■ Yet told in a prayer for the strength you may need— A prayer which he grants to the storm-bea ten reed For strength iu its weakuess—a stay ever more Until winters and summers on earth shall be o'er. Uncle Ulric'B Money. 'So he's dead at last!' said Mrs. Glover. 'Dead at Inst" said Mr. Glover. 'He always said he should live to be ninety,' sighed the old lady. 'And missed it by just six months,' observed her husbaud sagely. 'Poor old man !' said Mrs. Glover, instinctively,} shaking out Jof a new black bordered pocket-handker chief. 'We must all die,' originally remar ked Mr. Glover. Rut in this decent and seemly regret with whioh they, as tho last surviving relatives of old Ulrio Upshur, spoke of his death, there was no overwhelming sorrow. Why should there be ? A man who lives close on to tho edge of nisety, and dies leaving a snug little sum over aud beyond Lis funeral expen ses may surely bo said to have fulfilled his destiny. If he had 1 desired to be siucerely mourned, ho should have surrounded himself with family tics. Second cous ins can hardly be expected to weep floods of tears on the coffin of an eccen tric old personage, whom they have never seen more than a half a dozen times in their lives; tbe Glovers bought themselves proper mourning aud straigh tened their countenances into regulation gravity, when they alluded to the de ceased ; but tbo first thought was ouo of exultation at the wealth which had now desccndcd to them. 'A thousand dollars in good, hard cash,' said Mr. Glover. 'To be paid ovci at onoe,' sighed bis wife. The Glovers looked radiantly at each other. They had never had so much money in their possession at aay one time since they had got married, twenty good years ago. 'My dear,' said Mrs. Glover, 'if ever any man deserved it, yon do! You have always worked hard and paid your honest debts.' 'Martha don't say a word," remarked Mr. Glover, patting his wife's plump shoulder. 'No man ever had a better wife than you to save and economize, and make every penny go as far as two.' 'Of course tho money is yours,' said Mrs. Glover. •No, Maltha yours,' corrected her husband. •Hut Unole Ulrio was yonr rela tion.' 'The law my dear, regards husband and wife as ooe.' 'But, Silas, you have tie best right to it,' reasoned Mrs. Glover, tenderly eager. •Not a particle more than yourself, Martha.' Mr. Glover beamed upon his wife. Mrs. Glover looked affectionately »t ber husband. Surclj this golden shower of | wealth was bringing their courting days | back again. Mr. Glovor thought to h'msclf that | Martha was really prettier than over, j Mrs. Glover thought that ber husband ! never had been so noble and Jove-like. I It was all nonsense about money being I the root of all evil. One never could ' put any dependence on theso old prov erbs. 'Silas,' said Mrs. Glover. 'l'll tell you what we will do with tbe thousand dollars. We'll put a wing on the south eud of the house. £ »'A wing*' lepeauiii .WwwT. 'Mj dear, what a proposterout idea !' 'I don't see anything very preposter ous about it,' said Mrs. Glover, redden ing a littlo. 'We have always wanted moro room.' 'lf we're goiug to squander it in building—' began her husband, with some aoerbily. 'Squander i»,,' t indced !' exclaimed the indiguaut Martha. 'Pray be so good as cot to iuteirupt inc, my "dear, said her husband. 'lf, 1 say, it is_ to bo expeuded in buil ding—' iThat's more like it!' said Martha, with a toss of her head. 'lt had a great deal better,' pursued Mr. Glover, 'bo put into a substantial now barn. Ours has been unfit for uso ihese five years.' 'Wo don't need a barn.' impatiently interrupted Mrs. Glovor. 'As long as tho horses and cows ha ve a shelter over their beads, it is all that they isquirc. And our barnjs as as anybody else's barn:' I am perhaps the best judge of that, Mrs. Glover!' said her husband. 'l've been wanting a little more elDow room tor a long time,' observed Mrs. Glover. 'Our best room is perfectly disgraceful, with those big beams in the corners and little wooden inantlo with a cupboard over it 'Some people aro never satisfied with anything,' said Mr. Glover, drumming his finger ends on the table. 'There ain't another woman in the place that would put up with such a parlor " said Mrs. Glover, just ready to cry. •Well, you may as well make up your mindj'.o with it,' announced Mr. Glover. 'l'd like to know why V flashed his wife. 'Because it's the best you are likely to get.' 'lndcud !' said Mrs. Glover. ■That money is going to be spent — sensibly spent,' said Mr. Glover, nid ding his head to keep timo to bis sen tences, 'upon • new barn.' 'No, it isn't!' criod the lady. 'Why isn't it.'' said tho gentleman. 'Because I'm going to hfivc a south wing built out!' averred Mrs. Glo vor. 'No, you're not !' said Mr. Glover. • We'll see about that!' shrieked Mrs. Glover. «Wc will sec!' said Mr. Glover. 'Le gally, Mrs. Glover, you're no right to one cent of that money ofUnclo Ul ric's!' 'Fiddlesticks !* said Mrs. Glover. 'Wasn't Undo Upshur my rotation ?' 'And aron't you my wife !' 'To my sorrow, 1 am " said Mrs Glo ver, preparing to use her pooket hand kerchief. 'But that fact don't authorize yon in robbing me of what is rightfully my own.' _ t 'Woman,'sputtered Mr. Glover,'what do you mean ?' 'Exaotly what I say !' retorted his wife. '1 moan to be master of my own house!' said Mr. Glover, hastily. 'You can do as you please about that,' said Mrs. Glover,' but it's a house 1 shan't stay in if I'm to be treated like a mere cipher. I'll leave you, Silas Glover— yos, I'll leave you—and all tho neighborhood shall nog with your tyr anny and meanness !' •You're a vixon " said Glover. 'You are a brute !' said Mra. Glo vor. 'Will you hold your tongue T* said he. 'There isn't the power on earth that can silence me!' protested she. I leave you, Silas Glover !' 'The sooner tho better,' said Mr. Glo ver, 'if you are going to turn into such an outrageous shrew as this!' Bnt just as their voices raised to an unwonted pitch, were striving 'or prece dence, the sound of prodigious and long continued knocking at the front door, served, momentarily at least, to calm the tempest. The wordy combatants eyed each other comprehensively. 'Woman,' hissed Silas Glover, *you have disgraced me !' 'lf there's any disgrace in the mat ter,' retorted Martha, 'it don's lie at my door?' At that moment in walked Nebemiah Nixon, tho village attorney and eoun selor-at-law, a stout, short man, with a bald head and a little stumpy growth of white beard under his chin. 'Bless my soul said Mr. Nixon, 'what a nojse you're making, good peo ple !' Mr. Glover iuvited tho newcomer to take a chair. Jlrs. Glover began to poke the firo. Evidently the embers of their wrath yet smouldered, ready to blaze up again the moment the tempo rary pressure of conventionality should be removed. 'Well,' said the lawyer, 'l've brought you a piece of news.' •Eh V said Mr. Glover. 'Unpleasant news,' addod Mr. Nixon. 'Or at least I suppose you all regard it in that light. It seems—ahem ! —that that vagrant sou of old Mr. Upshur, who was reported to have died in Man itoba didn't die at all, but is alive aud flourishing, with a wife and two chil dren. hat!' cried Mr. and Mrs. Gloyer, in a duet of dismayed voices.' 'And,' added Mr. Nixon, in the iu different way of ouo to whom the subject docs not mutter personally iu the least, 'they aro comuiing ou at once to take possession of all thai tho old man left. Upon tho whole, I am not surprised. Tho Upshurs always wero peculiar. I am told that old Ulric aud his son hadn't spoken to each other for ten years. Aud when the report of his death was bruitedjabout, old Upshur didn't take the slightest pains to ascertain whether it was true or false.' Fortunately for the peace of the Glo ver family, did uotjstay long. But when tho big front door closed bo hitd him, Sil is and Martha looked at each other. 'Martha,' said the husband, who was the first to break the unpleasant silence, '1 am glad of it—glad from the vury bottom of my heart!' Mrs. Glover burst into tears. 'Ss am I, Silas!' sobbed she. 'Bo causo—because we were nearer quarrel ing with each other than we over have been in all our wedded life.' 'I din't cao ouo straw about the new barn,' magnanimously declared Mi Glover. 'And I don't need the south wing,' cried Martha. 'We aie very comforta blo just as we are.' '1 oan patob up the old roof, and put a fow boards on the cud,' said Mr. Glover. 'I was always a goud hand at carpeutering !' 'And what was good enough for your mother is good enough for mo,' suid Mrs. Glover. 'As long as we're both spared to each oth9r, I don't care if we live in a wood shed.' 'I was a villain to speak as I did to you!' cried the conscieuce-stnckcn Silas. 'lt was all my fault, Silas,' said Mrs. Glover. 'lt was I that piovoked you.' And tho middle aged conple kissed each other as tenderly as if their honey moon were yet shining in the skv, aud tbe first aud la't cloud that had ever darkened their horixon went down in mutual smiles.—Ruth Hansom. A CLEVER CRITIC HAS NOTI CED. That purses will bold nickels as well as gold. That all men are honest when well watched. That there is moro gratitude in dogs than there is in men. That poverty is tho worst banner that a man can put up. That a young wife and an old man is like a light in a sick room. That the most enduring love is that of a mother for ber children. That nearly every office seeker ie the right man in the right plaoe. That mock philantbrophy ii like giv giving a mermaid a pair of boots. That life is too short to give young men advioe as to whom tlioy should mar- O- That most men choose a wife as a child does a doll, no matter if tbe head is filled with sawdust. That diamonds, silks, fans, broad oloth, velvet, gold watches and ohains are often bought with other people'* money. HINTS FOR HOUSKKKKPEUS. Tomatoes are uioe with creanj aDd sugar. Sugar losses part of its strength by boiltng. Figs are good boiled Svo minutes and served hot. Wot and flour well tho mside'ot pud ding bags. Wrap fruit jars with paper to keep out the light. j Sugar should be browned in a dry pan j for sauce, Never wash raisins ; wipe then with a dry cloth. Keep preserves in a dry place ; seal with flour paste. Boil coffee iu a salt sack ; it is nicer than eggs to settle it. Put soda ii* sour fruit for pies and they will require less sugar. A little sulphato of potassa added to preserves prevents fermentation. After paring fruit, drop it in cold wa ter to prevent its changing oolor. When sauce boils from tbo side of tho pan tbe flour or corn starch is done. Glaie the bottom crust of fruit pies with white of an ogg and tbey will not be soggy.. Always put a little soda in milk that is to bo boiled, as an acid is formed by boiling. Seal the juice left from canning fruits in suiull bottles and keep for making fruit pudding sauces. Do not boil vinegar for pickles. Boil the vegetables in salt aud water, drain and pour the vinegar on. Por convenience in cleaning lamp chimneys, nothing is nicer than a small sponge attached to the end of a stick. E PLUIUBUS UNUiI. I The young man lingered near tbe managing editor's desk waiting for au appointment on the regular staff. 'Hut you drink, 1 said the man ager, wishing to !et the candidate down easy. 'Yes,' replied the young men, 'so did Alexander tbo Great.' 'You aie a dudo,' glancing at the youta's dandified dress. 'So was Disraeli.' 'And you are a liar.' 'So was Napoleon Bonaparte.' 'And you arc head and ears in debt." 'Like Alexander Dumas.' 'Ana you are a glutton.' •So was Peter tho Great.' 'And you swear occasionally?' 'So did George Washington.' 'Y'ou arc liable to get drunk ?' 'Like Daniel Webster.' 'You are not not a oollego man ?' 'Neither was Liucoln.' 'And then you write a wretchedly il legible hand ?' •Like Horace Greoloy.' 'You can't make a speech ?' 'Like Grant.' 'Well,' said the manager, plunging at a heap of manuscript, 'anyhow we don't want you; you won't do. Good morning.' The young man turned away exceed ingly sorrowful. 'lt's no sort of use,' he said, 'a fellow combines in his own brain and person tho traits of all the gieat men from Alexander to Grant, and can't even get a place on the Brooklyn Eagle. This world is grow ing too fast for gsnius.— Brooklyn Eagle. WHERE'S YOUR GIMLET 1 Little Johnny Yorger has caused a breach between Gus De Smith, an Aus tin society gentleman, and the Verger family, tius called to make a friendly visit after supper, he having previously informed Gol. Yergor of the intended honor. Tho whole family and Gus were in the parlor, when Johntiy riveted the attention of all present by asking Gus De Smith : •Have you brought your gimlet with you V 'Hush, Johnny,' said Mrs. Yorger. 'Go to bed, sir,' remarked Col. Yer gor. 'What do you mean, Johnny,' asked Gus. '1 don't mean nuffin ; except 1 heard pa say you wero ooming up this evening tn boro us all, and I just wanted to look at your gimlet. Thore ain't no harm in just looking at it.' Tho Provincial bank of Buenos Ayers has a oapital of $33,000,000 and de posits amounting $07,000,000. Theso figures arc not equaled by any Usited [ Statu bank. NO. 23. fIMtLL BITES. blot!\ is the key to poverty. The will is the soul of the work. A clear conscience is a good pillow. Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. Fools grow without being watered. Five fingers hold more than two forks. All the keys don't hang at one gir dle. No good lawyer ever to law himself. Nothing is 90 liberally given as ad vice. Company in distress 'makes trouble less. lie gains much who loses a vain hope. Drop the jest when it is most amus ing. lie who docs not look before, lags behind. The greatest cunning is to have none at all. One sword keeps 'another ■" in the sheath. lie laughs at scars who never felt • wound. Follow the river and you will reach the sea. Nobody so wise but has a little folly to spare. To change ana to better are two dif ferent things llest comes from unrest, and unrest from rost. lie is lucky whs forgets what cannot be mended. He has much to do who wonld plcaae everybody. Always something new, seldom some thing good. Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing. The end of wrath is the beginning of 1 repentance. Life is half spent before one knows what life is. You will not be loyed if you care for nono butyyourself. More are drowned in the bowl than in the sea. II e pays dear for honey who lieks it oft' thorns. Pride wont out on horseback, and re turned on foot. Look with a suspicion on tho flight of au enemy. They must be strong legs thai can support prosperous days. Greatnoss alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. If you have no arrows in your quiver, go not with archers. A hundred years of wrong do not make one hour of right. Everybody must wear out one pair of fool's sboes, if he wear no more. An ounce of discretion is better thao a pound of knowledge. No oue can uo nothing, and no one can do everything. We punish little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones. With patience andtimothe mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst. As fast as laws are devised, thoir evasion is contrived. Ho that picks up all sorts of wood, ►oon gets an aruiful. Tho stone is haid and the drop is small, but a hole is male by the con stant fall. Where there is no want of will, there will be no want of opportunity. The mother-in-law docs not remember that she was a daughter-in-law. Who is always prying into other men's affairs, loads a dangerous life. Gaming is tho child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. He that speaks do'h sow, but ho that holds bis peace doth reap. Friendships are ohoap when they eta be bought by doffing the hat. • A fool knows his own business bet ter than a wise man knowf that of others.