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OP TIIK PEOPI.It I POU THK PKOH.Kt
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tsiruscium: now
CAMACA S
Cus-i-
To the Weary, Feeble
AND
PLEASURE SEEKER.
«gaijasr&,;fcnfc.-'
Seeing the ncod }in this scetion of a
place whero tho weary, feeble and brok
en down may rcoruit their health and
rest; where they and their families may
spend the hot season pleasantly when it
is necessary to leave their homes or
ohango air, that the failing hoalth of
some loved ono may be restored, Wo
have laid out
A NEW TOWN
and aro now offering for sale lots io
probably the hoalthiest section in North
Carolina. Tho town is locatod on a
beautiful
Flat Mountain Ridge
2{ milces west from Danbury , aboutt
of a mile from tho celebrated Piedmont
springs; about tho samo distance to
I'epper'a Alum springs ; | of a luilo
from Smith's Chalybeate spring, and
two miles from C. K. Moore's Sulpnor
spring, while the looation present g
The Finest Views
of Moore's Knob, the Hanging Rock,
and other prominent peaks along the
Sauratown mountain. Tbo lots aro
well covered with large and small forest
trees, which will afford shado in summer
and form
I3en.utiful Groves.
The whole is
Surrounded by Springs
at the purest mountain water, entitling
it to the Indian name, "Cauiaoa," a
land of springs, whiob, together with
the pure mountain air, would bring col
cr to the faded cheek, and strength to
weary fraino, even if there was no real
mineral water within a hundred miles of
the place.
Tho undersigned propose also to.eroct
a saw-mill, planing machine, &a., that
they may build oottagoa or furnish lum
ber to those who wish to purchase lots
in this healthful locality, whero no ma
laria ever conies, and a case of typhoid
fovor was never known, exoept it was
contracted out of the neighborhood.
The j rice of lots this season, 50x100
foot, will bo s*2f> each. For fur'her
particulars addres,
N. M. & W. R. PUI'PER,
May 20, 'BS. Danbury, N. C
"NOTHING SUCCEEDH LIKE HUCCEHS."
DANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 2(1, 188 G.
M9VRL J. TII.DKX.
JOHN «. WHITTIER,
Ohkyhtoss, AllgllSt 4, IBM.
Onco moro, O all adjesting Death I
Till! nation's Pantheon opera wide;
Once more a common sorrow au.ith
A strong wise man lias died.
Fanlta'doubtleM had be. Had we not.
Our own, to question and napone.
The worth wo doubted or forgot.
tntU wo stood l*lri hi* hearse t
Ambitious, cautious, yet the men
To strike down fraud with resolute
hand;
A patriot, if a partisan,
110 loved his native land,
x
So let the mourning bells bo rung,
rho banner droop Its folds lu»!f way,
And let the public pon and tongue.
Their fitting tribute pay.
Then let us bow above his bier
i To set our feet on party llee,
I And wound no more a living ear
With words that death denies.
—Boston Transcript.
A Fascinating Ctrl.
BT P. W. ROU IN SON.
Author of "For Her Spite" "The Itoynar.cc
of a Hick "Street," Etc.
CHATTER I.
"YOUNO TODD."
I Not that Miss Daly was the only maid
in attendants behind tbo counter of the
big refreshment rocm at Battleton J unc
tion, but that she was a girl with a dif
ference—and a remarkable difforcucc—
from hor sn contemporaries employed
by Messrs. Javelins and Freshwater,
♦*") cmaient contractors, to attend to the
want! and wishes of a passing crowd
clamoring for soup, sausage, rolls, buns
aud bitter ale to too frightful accom
paniment of railway bells and whistles,
and stontortian command.} to "change
here for everywhere." That her person
al sppoarace was atrracttvo was her
good fortune or hor misfortune, and was
certainly not her fault, she would
scarocly bare been placed at Battleton
Junction had she been ole, ugly, or
"squat". Sho was a tall, good-looking
girl, with brown eyes aud brown bair,
and she attendee to her duties with a
grave self-posscjsion that was remarka
ble in (he Uattleton Junction girls, who
woie demonstratively fussy or coldly in
different, aooording to the class of cus
tomer who presented himself to their
merciful consideration.
It may be said at once that the
Jnnction girls—as they wero generally
termed in tho anoient town of Battleton
—did not think muoh of Miss Daly,
did not make groat frionda with Miss
Daly, did not take hor into their little
confidences, or ask her to join them m
their little strolls after the eating house
was olosod for the night, or when hours
"off duty" allowed uf country rambles
in variens direotions and uuder various
and sometimes striking circumstances.
Miss Daly was "stuck up," Miss Dart
said : bat then Miss Daly had declined
to see, the shops in Battleton with her
after one evening's oxportonoo, during
wbieh Miss Dart had giggled spastnadi
oally all the way up High stroet, and
looked after overy woll-dressod man un
der fifty between the station and the
Coin Markot, exchanging "good-oven
inge'' and "how-d'ye-do's" with a fair
ten per cent, ot tho numbor. Miss Daly
was "sly," Miss Bland thought; but
then Miss Bland was a plain-spoken
girl, who let tham—i. o , tho oustomors
—"Lavo it" if they botherod her too
much—or rather at times did not let
thmu have it, but looked over tholr
heads with a atouy glare, and allowed
them to sorcaiu for drink in vain. Miss
Daly was "spoons" on younj Todd, and
ought to bo ashamed of herself to lead
him on like that, Miss Racket remark
ed ; but then Miss Kaekot had bcoo
"spoons" on young Todd herself, had
launched horsolf at Todd, in faot had
nogleotcd good customers for Todd, and
been taken out onoc for a quiet driyo by
Todd in the happy halcyon days before
Miss Daly oame among them like a
blight.
Miss Daly hardly looded like a blight
behind the refreshment counter ; she
was always very pale aud preity in her
blauk dross aud gonernlly very staid,
unless something out of tho cotuiuoti
young Todd was out of the toinmon —
brightened her features vith a smile.
It may be a matter for speculation as
to the "spoon" on Miss Daly'* part,
but there need be no mistery as to the
foclings of young lodd. He made no
mystery of them himself, he was oven
proud of them, his leelings had been
engaged tome twenty times before and
in nineteen cases by tho fair llobes
whom Mossrs. Javelina and Freshwater
had set in authority at Battleton Junc
tion, bnt in no instanoc had young Todd
boen so deeply and terribly impressed
as in this particular affair, which was
now absorbing, consuming and softoning
him to an unparalleled degree; which
waa giving him a distaste for his family
and family surrounding; whioh was
exciting at last the eusoaity and auxio
ty of the family itaelf, that had boen a
alnmberoua, apathf-vV-Jo-M-yon-Jike
kind of a r'ainily for ycturs and yoars be
fore Miss Daly's time.
The Todd family were big folk in
Battleton, and not to be despised out
of Battleton, take them altogether.
There were not many of thorn, they con
sisted of Mrs. Todd, the reliot of Bar
tholomew Todd, who bad made much
money by wholesale gums and India
rubbers down a dirty slum in Mincing
lane, and half of whoso property was
settled for lifo on his widow, with rever
sion to an only son, the young Todd of
our simple narrativo; three Misses
Todd, all ouo pattern, cut orosswtso aud
with many angles, and with strong bias
es toward high churoh and high ohurch
earatos, and whose money was strictly
settled on themselves: and young Tadd,
whose money had settled itsolf stiietly
oa him, too, up to tho present period of
our story, for no ono save himself and
tho girl at tbo refreshment counter had
seen the color of it, envions people said.
Why he was called young Todd it was
hard to declare. When thcro was an
old Todd flying away to town by ox
press every morning, it might have been
appropriated but when old Todd had
flown away to a better world than
Mincing lane, young Todd became
somewhat of a niisonmcr, especially as
young Todd had reached eight and
twenty summers, cloar. Certainly ho
looked young. He was a very slim
man, without a hair or an expression
upon his face, aud be lyore turn-down
collars, a short blu. j i ffol and a polo
oap. There were three things whiob he
had loved before Miss Daly came to
Battleton—his pipe, his bull terrier pup
and himsolfj bnt she had changed all
this as with tho touoh of the wand of
an enchantress. Bhe had oalled the
bull terrier "that nasty dog," and it
bad been consigned to its kennel from
that hour , she had hated the sight of
men with short pipes in their mouths bo
fore dinner, be bad heard her say onoc,
and he bad taken to eigars and to smok
ing them after eight p. m. j and as for
himself, there were fits of despondency
npon him at times wben be thought ho |
should rather like to shoot himself than
otherwise. Still, the time had not
come yot, and young Todd lived at the
rofroshmont counter of Battloton Junc
tion, so long aH Miss Daly wonld servo
him. When the trains caiuo in—and
thoj Were always ooming in at interest
ing orutos of his oaroer —ho would retiro
to tbe baek and stand on the forms, so
that he might watch Miss Daly over tbe
heads of the travelers, and inako sure
that nobody had fallea in love with ber,
and waa intentionally lingering over
bis pork pie or sandwich; and when tho
trains went out ho resumed his place,
put oue olbow on tbe oountor,and talk
ed and gazed—generally gntcd, as his
powers of conversation wero limited,
and Miss Daly did not care for tho sub
jeot ou which ho was disposed to grow
eloquont—billiards and bull terriers.
So regular a lounger at tho oouuter
so good a ou.tomer, so well-known an
inhabitant of Battleton, was obliged to
be received with a fair amount of oour
tesy, and be was received in quito a
sisterly—possibly moro than sisterly—
manner by all but Miss Daly. Miss '
Daly said "good morning" and "good
evening," especially "good evening," ;
very graciously to him, but she did not >
imitate the style of tbe rest of thcyouug |
ladiea or put herself out in anyway for |
Mr. Todd. Conscious of the power blio
wielded over his susccptiblo broast, sho
did not hasten to meet his requirements
at the bar ; did not lean over tho oonn
ter and talk to him between tho sand
wich stands and the dishes of buns : did
not regard him languishingly while an
irate passenger was hammering avrny
with the millod edge of a shilling to at
traot hor attention ; did not whisper or
laugh or slap him in a kittenish impulse;
and botrayod not even a jealous symp
tom when he talked tn Mis* Part or
M'.ss 11-iokct or aryb >dy else.
"I can't iiiahii her out," lie solihiqiiii
| ed iu the quietude of Lis bedroom, three
month» after Miss Daly had been in
Battleton, and after she bad said, "No,
thank you," to half a dozen puirs of
Courvoisier's gloves, of whiuh he had
beggod her aeceptanoe ; "she ian't like
anybody else 1 over knew at tho J unc
tion. Polly Raokct would m»ke six of
her for fun, but she's an awfully niot
girl somehow. Sho isn't silly, either,
or she'd fancy ! was going to ask her to
marry. She's a sharp, clovor littlo wom
an, 'pon my soul, but I oau't make hor
out. And that's dcuood odd, too, see
ing what a lot of girls have been always
running after me."
It was not odd, but young Todd was
beyond tho discovery of tho solution W
tbo mystery; bis sctf-complaisanoo stood
in the way, and tho girU who ran aft«r
him were of tho ordinary olass of high
steppers, whoso mission in lifo was to
bo always running after somebody.
Even iu his own sphere, and where| the
exact amount of his income and bts ex
pectations wore known, young Todd was
sought and flattered by some of "the
sleek and shining creatures of the chase;
but young Todd never proposed, anil
had been always happier and mora at
his case at tho station buffet, or in the
strests when the shop girls wero going
homo. Happier, till Miss Daly appear
ed ; then it was all over with him and
his nonobalant airs aud grins and grim
aces. Ho strolled in and out no more
in bis old patronizing way ; bo oamc in
early, and stopped as a rule all day ; he
waa the slavo of the refreshment count
er, tho ghost of his former solf, the talk
of tho littlo town whore everybody talk
ed.
His mother condescended to a»k a
fow questions of him At last, and to tell
him what tho world is saying: ho laugh
ed at her questions as irrelevant, and
tho shocking expression he used as re
garded tho world needs no repetition in
these yirtuous pages. His sisters satir
ized him and his tastes, and ho -'gave it
them hot," as he afterward expre.'sod
himself to n friend, for meddling with
his affairs and whut didn't concern
them. Ho never intorfored between
them and their larks with the curates,
did he ? Let him alone, and he'd let
theiu alone; nobody need be atraid ho
was going to make a fool of himself, or
throw himself away; ho knew that ho
was about well onongh. Trust htm.
But nobody trusted him any more
for this declaration, and the home of the
Todds became shallow-land, in the
midst of which much suspicion and un
charity and conspiracy were brooding.
They affeotod to lot him, alone, and ho
let them alone according to bis usual
way—whioh was very muob alone in
deed—but tbey wrote long letters and
urgent letters to Unolo John, tbo main
stay of the family, trustee, rxocutor,
mun of the world, and man of war in
tho Indian service, and tbey bogged
vory earnestly for Uncle John to take
tho matter up, as tbo whole affair was
becoming vory serious indeed. They
had no influence OTor Edwin—young
Todd was Kdwin ; he was bis own mas
ter, and thoy wore desperately afraid of
what would oomo of it. They had been
afraid also to tot! Unolo John before;
they did not liko intruding upou his
studies, his new work on "Fortifica
tions aud Fireworks," his new ohargc
red hot and slashing, against tho secre
tary of rtato for war on tho irou-platcd
stocking quostion; they knew how hard
ho had beon npon his nephew and god
son in many matters; but as he was tho
only being whom Edwin rcgardod with
any degree of awe, thoy trusted he would
oomo to tho rescue and -'put n stop to
it," all before tho family was disgraced
for over aud over by a mssallianoo, or
by some dreadful scandal that was al
most as bad if not quito as lasting,
"I'll soon put an end to this non
sense," said Maj. Crawshaw, after read
ing his sister's letters. "I'll havo no
more of it. lie had put an end to a
great deal of nonsense i* his time, being
a hard-headed, sharp old soldier in his
way, and he was very sure of his power
in demolishing this soap bubble affair in
loss than four and twenty hours. Ho
knew the wot Id and whut it was made
of; lie understood men and women, pat
ticnlarly foolish uien and designing wo
men, whom ho had coino across in an
! experience ef five and forty years, to
i whom ho had taught wisdom and given
warning before this—ah ' inauy times
• before, for other people's sakes and
his owu. Let him march and away
against tho enemy at once.
TO BE CONTINTEt).
| A New llavcu firm maunfaotures
' over 100 kiuds of barometers and thcr
: mmnctcrs.
LEE AT FREDERICKSBURG.
In the August Century, Major J-
Horace Lacy gives somo of Lis reminis
ooooes ot General Lcc. From his ar
ticle we quote as follows . "Ascending
tho heights, I soon reached what was
called the hoadquartcrs butterry of
General Jjco. Afir across tho valley
and river in tho gray ligl t of early
morning oould be seen tbc white porches
of my home. Chatham, made historic by
Federal army correspondent#, as the
Laoy House. Tho porohes were filled
with officers and gayly dressed women,
and from half a scoro of .brass bands
rang out across the valley 'Yankee
Doodlo' and 'Hail Columbia!' The
commanding officer of rtie battorry ask
ed if I would permit hun to scatter the
unbidden guests at my home. At bis
request 1 asked Lee to authonso the
firu of the heavy ffuns, which would
have laid Chatham in the dust. With
a smile he refused, aud, asking mo to
walk with him, no withdrew a short
distance. Ho then motioned mo to Mt
by tho trunk of a large tree.
"Looking across at Chatham through
his Gold-glass ho said, Major, I never
permit tho unnecessary cffu'iion of blood.
War is terrible enough, and its best, to
a christian man ; 1 hope yet to ste yon
and your dear family happy in your old
homo. Do you know I lovo Chatham
hotter than any plaoe in the world ex
cept Arlington ! I courted and w»n
my dear wife under the shade of those
trees. By the way, not long since 1
was riding out with ray staff, and ob
serving how your grand old trocs had
boon cut down by those people, I saw
that a magnificent tulip poplar at the
head of the ravine, north of the house,
was still s'anding, auJ, with somewhat
of your rhetoric, I said to Venablo and
Taylor ; "Tbcro i» nothing in vegeta
tablo nature so grand as a tree. Grap
pling with its roots the granite founda
tions of tho ever-lasting hills, it roaclieii
its sturdy and gnarlod trunk on high,
spreads its branches to tho heavens,
casts its shadow on tlio sward, and tho
birds build their nesU aud sing amid
its uubrageous foliage. Beheld, tho
monaroh stripped of attendants and
guards awes the vandals by the simple
majesty uf his sublime isolation." Pock
eting my field-gloss, and riding on, I
heard mingled with laughter a request
fromjhe gentlemen that 1 would bring
glass to bear once moro on the monarch
of the forest. I looked, and even wbilo
I had been axe of the vandal
was laid to tho root and monarch had
fallen."
"Then, moved by emotion unusual to
his oalm and equable nature, he contin
ued, 'I had three hundred acres of
woodland at Ailington. Serving the
United States Government for many
years oa tbe frontier, I marked wi'h my
hand each tree that was to bo used for
timber or fuel. Thoy tell me all my
trees are gone—yours are all gone';
then rising from tbe log, with a fire and
passion rarely witnessed in him, and
with all tho majesty of his sublime
preaenco, he siiid : Major, they have
our trees; tbey shall never havo tho
Innd!
"Thrco years after tho oloso of tho
war 1 was a visitor at tho homo of Gen
eral Leo, then president of Washington
and Leo University. After dinner tho
General rctirod, and I was invited to
see Mrs. Lee in her chamber. Sho was
a great sufferer and confirmed invalid,
innapable of motion save in a roller-chair
which it was tho chief delight of him
who had so long direoted great armies
to tnovo from room Ui room, bending
over her with tho graco of a Sidney and
tho devotion of a youthful lovor. I
told Mrs. Loe tho story whioh 1 havo
so imperfcotly attempted to reproduoo.
Need I tell any woman who roads these
pages that tears streamed down that
patient, furrowed face or that a light
and joy from boyond tho stars beamed
through these tears, as sho knew that
the thoughts of her groat husband wan
dered far away from the clash of arms
to tho memories ot their youthful love
and courtship under the shado of ber
ancestral oaks, for Chatham was origi
nally the property of a near relative.
As I concluded the sentence, "They
shall never have the land,' bearing a
slight noise, I turned and saw tho
Geuoral, who had silently entered, m
dressing gown and slippers. The great
buck-shot drops slowly rolled down that
face, whoso oalm was never broken by
the earthquake shock of battle. Slowly
and silontly he retired, and I oould
but fuel tbe deepest oompanetion that
words of mine should havo sent nno'.her
pang through tbat great bcait."
NO. 8
CARD PLAYING GIRLS.
Thero aroso many ways in which girl*
can bo amusing, entertaining at'd ute
ful to them*elves and other* that it
aeenii a groat pity that any of then
should resort to oomnoo TITO of MM*
uion. That they do so in lb* (unn'm
ontertiiument* of private and elegant
homes, and at the stoat fnhiimsMi
summer rc.sortH, appear* to be beyood
question, and that the result* will ap
pear in unlooked-for demorilaiatiana in
tbo future of what t* called good met*»
ty may be set down aa among the orr
taiuticH of natural law Young ladie*
may not be ezptessly susoeptible ta
suoh prosy moral argument*, bat they
shoulti not forget that tlieyoang men who
gamble with them, and who appear to
enjoy the fun, loso their ro*peet fix
young ladios in the ozact measure that
tho latter coaso to bo governed by fine
womanly footings and standards of char
acter. Men may laugh at the shrewd-
DOSS of a girl in a game of card* for
stakes, but sho is not tho girl they tru«t,
or honor or that they care to marry.
That is an argument to the quick, and
may find its way home. The man who
marries a gambling girl i* already an*
inoipient suitor in a divorce oourt.—
tiroensboro Workman.
HOW TO WTBVMT TOBACCO
FROM MOULDING.
MCBSW. Watt Bros, k Womaok; of
Rcidsvillo, N. 0., have jaddroeeed tbo
following-to the tobacco gruwors of Vir
ginia and North Carolina:
Feeling an unusal interest in your wel
fare, now that tobac«o is low, and ap
preciating tho faot that you can neither
afford to let your tobacco damage nor
smoko it by drying it out with wood,
we would advise those of you who are
not ready to market your tobacoo to
clean out your barns and sprinkle ev
ery week or ten days on the floor about
two gallons of I imo. It will prevent
moisture from ruing; keeping the barn
drj and thus preventing tho moulding.
Wc know tho ezpuriment to be a suo
cese; it is very oheap, and wc are rerj
suro it is worth your attention.
TILDCN'S WILL. —The will of the
late lion. Sam'l J. Tilden was read at
Greystono on Monday evening by law
yer J as. 0. Carter, in presunoe of the
relatives aDd the throe ozecutors, Hon.
John Bigclow, Audrew 11. Green and
George W. Smith. The document was
a long ono and contained about 10,000
words. The whole estate is plaord in tbo
hands of the executors aa trustee*.
Eaoh heir is to roecive an equal share in
the line of his or her consanguinity—
that is, noioea and nephews equal
amounts and tho ohildien certain
amounts. None of his relative* ozoept
his sister, Mrs. IVlton, are given any
spcoefic bequest forever. To her he be
queaths tho residence No. 88 West 88th
streot, and the sum of SIOO,OOO to live
upou. Ilis estate is said to bo worth
$9,000,000.
An incident in New Yotk plotter
life may 4 *how what timee were ia 1800:
"My mother siad to her aearost neigh
bor a Mr*. Roe, living a mil* and
a half distant: I have got
a fleeoo now, for I . have jpat
carded tho colt and picked the wool out
of an old bed quilt and am making (took
logs.' Mrs. Roe replied: «8o havo I
got a floeoc, for 1 shaved onr dog, and
with wool from a bod blanket will soon
have a pair of stockings, too.' ▲ abort
timo after that tho whole neighborhood
footed it four miles to s«e two *boep, so
| groat and unusual was the light."
Wabiiinoton, August 10.—Gapt. R.
W. Anderson, ofSumpter 8. 0., who
is 06 years old and who is «""»[ a
pilgrimage to Boston on foot, applied,
at tbo polioe headquarters here today
for tracsporatioo on tho cars. Ho lay*
bo could walk, but his money has givrs
out. He had a little dog with bim.
A young man in the West shot him
self a yoar ago because a young woman
refused to marry him. The girl Mid b«
was a fool, but the boy reoovered Tho
other day the girl committed suicide
because'tho boy refuaed to marry her.
The woild changes, and so do boy• and
girls.
0«1. Denny showed the Asbeville.
Cit\zen Saturday twelve small bnt gen.
nine diamonds found gold
washings in MoDowell enmity. Ha al
so exhibited other valuable gems, all id
the rough.
A letter addressed "g'big" safely
reached Little Cbebeagno, for whisk it
was intended.