- Reporter and Post. rA P APIA FOR THE PEOPLE ml the Daitbwy X. Pout-vffict m» Mrc¥itd Ctu** Matter. THURSDAY, DEC, 15 18S7. vn rATXRriuZTX™ vsxxz THE PO SIBIL [TIBS OF STOKE-? | ■COUNTY, IIKR MINERALS, TIM-j HER, ETC. There is h«rdly a section tn the south •combining so many natural advantages j if»r manufacturing, especially for m.lll - iron of a high grade as the | scope of country just around Danb-iry [ "with more than fifty miucs of magnetic 1 iron ere in an area of less than live! miles square, eoal bnt ten uiilos awuy, lime on every side, manganese one and 5 miles from the iron, fire clsy one to j two milet, good stone for furnace hearth* near by while the hills and valleys arc ' covered with the finest oak, hickory, j beeeb, and other timbers for charcoal! and mechanical purposes and asbestos, j .graphite, flexible sandstone and many i other minerals posossing more or less j commercial value are found at uiauy ! ,places in the county ail convenient to' streams whioh furnish magnificent water ,powcr- Then considering the mild i beslthlulaess of the climate the grcund | ijf rarely covered with snow three days j logatber, and but few days in Summer i -does the uiercnry reach the nineties. Danbury is in the very midst of a score i or more mineral springs surrounded by grand stenery and tanned by puro mountain breei-s all combining to make ithia one of the healthiest sections in the lUnited Sutes Considering these and otheradvuntagei win will say that the possibilities of Stokes are not very great. For the farmer tho soil is pro ductive, there is hut comparatively little labd if properly cul'ivated before it is morn out but will produce good heavy -tobacco; the grapes aud marly all the grains do well here when properly cul tivated. DON'T 1)0 IT. Nearly cvciy larmer you talk with lliese days says he is going to spread bims«lf on a tobacco crop next yenr. For your good and llic good of the conn" try, we say don't do it. Remember that big crop of tobacco and having ev erything else to buy brought starva tion almost to the very doors f many of our people during the last three or four years,almost bankrupting the country. Don't forget a big crop ot tobacco meat's low prioes for the tobacco and higli prices /or bread, do not plant just what com you think will Jo you if the season is good, it may be dry or wot, and you will oot make half enough; plant plxnty of. «ern and other things (o do your family | and then make all the tobacco you can J work aud handle nicely; it will bring mere money than a large crop badly ( managed, and if you make all you need j at home when you sell your tobacco the , money will be your?. It is much better to get $;>00 for 1000 pounds of tobacco than SIOO foi 5000 pounds. Some "would be somebody" has baa wade the assertion that iron oro doea not exist iu quantities cast of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such talk is au absurd thcorv, nonsense. Iron has been mined in the section just North of Danbury for a number of b/onmcries and two furnaces for near ono hun f'.jd years and now a number of regular fiaaure veins, real solid ludgus or walls of good magnetic ore five to eight feet thick can be shown it a number of plaee* and old minors say that in the old works veins at more than one place fif teen feet thick only forty or lixty feet from tie aurfacc have been abandoned* eitaply because they eould get the ore required easier at some oilier place near; by. If we must have revenue »•> run 111 ■ government (mid nil know wo niusl) lei .« raise it by a fair impartial taritl which boara aliku and ecpully up "I "nr lit,*, milliuna of |>ei'pl>', ami lint by the Inle - nal Revenue system, aluu l, oppresses the few to suppoi t ihe many. A* ay with tbo Internal Revenue syslcm and give us a tariff for our excuses. ' JI.'PJE HOND AND UHGIMA. Old Virginia is having an abundance of good luok in 18S7. First, Mahone was sat .lown upon in the leccnt State election, thus wresting the State from the grasp of perhaps tho in"st vindic tiTe, selfish and detestable political trickster thut ever disgraced tho com monwealth, and now the Supreme Court of.the Uoiltid States ban made Judge lioud too flat aud thin for any use, as will be seen in the news fiom Washing ton winch wo print elsewhere. It is perhaps needless to say that if Mahone was dead as the result uf the lat« elec tion, ho is now decently buried ill the re versal of Judge Bond's decision. Wo congratulate the good old commonwealth ou this very important legal decision. Let them light their Bond-fires and re joico and thank God for their deliver ance.— Workman. FKIENDS IN NEED Although boys lire often rxther turd iu their trextiuent af each other, they certainly slick together when one of their party is m trouble. There are hun dreds of instances of this, but a uiost a musing one occurred while I>r. Vaughn was head luas'or of Harrow School in Knglaud. He was returning late one evening from a dinnei party, when he caught sight of one o( bis pupils who was taking a walk when he ovght to have boon in bed. The moment the boy saw Dr. Vaughn he ran for his life. Off started the mastor in hot pursuit, and he just succeeded in seiting his pupil by the coat-tail. After a good many struggles the boy neaped, but he left part of his ' coat-tail in ihe doctor's hands. The ; master made sure he would fiud ths cul ' prit the next morning by his. coat, but when he entered school every boy in the [sixth ferm had ooly one tail to his coat: [so tlio offeuder escaped punishment.— ; Selected. OF COURSE GIVE HOXOK TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. Those who eoine now and try to per suade the President that last Tuesday's New York victory was due simply to him aud has secured the State to him next yoar beyond any doubt, are not ! his true friends nor arc they honest ] honest Democrats. Why are they | ashamed to acknowledge tbat but fur the popularity of a Cieruian brewer (Cook elected Sec. of State) and the stupidity of the New York Republi cans in running afUr prohibition, the result last Tuesday (victory for the Democrats) would have buen exceeding ly doubtful ? /Khy not credit that vie- Tory to its true cause, to wit, the power of t lie old Democratic A Mi-sumptuary I'lnnk '—-Washington Sentinel. (/-i'| Deiu.) STATE NEWS. Durham Recorder. Ike (.indwell and Louis Silversioin couglit an owl on the Norwood coreer Wednesday that uieas j ured 33 inches from tip to tip. Marion \\ t Icatn I'rot. U. W. I liird that the Csttanha Land Agency has ! sold over three hundred lots at Nebo. ! According to mays exhibited to UN a j lurye town is laid off there. Nebo is a ! beautiful place and wo would be glad to I aae abooining town boom up there. Smitlitield Herald: There is a mar ried woman living in Ingram s township whose husband boasts of her splitting 200 fence rails per day as regular work, lie ai»o says that it is only a common thinf* fur her to dip §even barrcliof tur pentine per day and that proof, if nec essary, can he had of these facts. Winnton Daily: A lialeigh telegram says the health ofTbos. J. Jarvis is not good in brazil and that he is eipectcd homo next summer after the Democratic Slate Couveution has been held. No concealment is now ma le of the fact that he will contest with Gen. Ransom for the Senatorship next winter. Norfolk Virginian: At the * cldon fair, in referring to the commission ap pointed to settle the boundary liue be tween North Caroliia and Virginia, (iov. Lee said that owing to the fraternal re lations cxislsng between the two States, to draw a line besween thorn would be an almost fruitless task—in other words they ncedod no dividing line. That was good preaching. Recorder: A colored man 'fishing in the Kno river, near this place la*t Friday, caught a large turtle, and while trying to take the hook from its jnouth his right forefinger was caught by i the turtle. Tho negro triod every means of bcAting and pursuation, but the tur le wa! obdurate. No release could be | had. At length the negro cut tho bead which only increased tho turtle's fury md grip. He was told by a eompan on that the turtle would never let go ' until it thundered, so he quietly sat idown oc a stump on the bank of the riv er waiting for it to thunder. The last we heard of hiui he wa» nursing the turtle's hetd waiting for thuudcr. Raloigh Progressive Farmer- North Carolina will s'.aud close to the front ranks : sho is fourth in number in rail- ; road const ruction in ihc Southern States, for the year 1887. Ouu hundred and forty-sovon tuiles have been built during ' the year- Charlotte Chronicle: Mrs. Sydne; ■ Aarinstrong, who lives about (> miles j wett if the city, was the victim of a pain ful and startling oxperienco a few days ago, having been attacked by what the m-ighboiH call a mad cat. Mrs. Arm- 1 strong was going through a doorway in ; her house, when the rat flew at her and 1 fastened its teeth in of her legs. Mrs. J Armstrong tried to beat the animal off,! but could not suocced. Her screams attracted hot husband, who was at work ; a short distance fro-n tho house, and i when he arrived he seized tho cat a- | round the neck and tried to choke it off, but failed. He tliffn drew his knife and eut tho cat's throat before it could be! made to rclnase its savage hold. Mrs. j Armstrong's flesh was powerfully laocr-l ated. Miss Willurd, the sclebrated temper ance lecturer and organizer, is in favor of abolishing the Intcmnl llevevue. It, a reeeut speech before th W. C. T. I'., she said; «:l lmpe we skull distinctly de clare ourselves in favor of removing In ternal Uevetiuc lax from all intosieat ing liquors. It is a covenant with hell and a compact with damnation. To-day it stands as the strougost bulwork be tween the liquor traffic annihilation We want no monopolies in sin--least of nil that the National Government should be the largest stockholder, getting ninsty ccats on every gallon of whiskey, and ] ninety-three cents in riund numbers on ! every keg of beer. The amount of tax | is about equal to the annual surplus in [ the United States treasury. Let both be wiped out together. 1 hope this may | be one of our eompaign battle-erics j •Down with the tax that ties the nation' tight to the vampire that is aueking on l its blood.'" ISIIIEFS OF UKNEItAI. NKWS. WKKSILSIIAY, I>KC. "til. The President's annual message to 1 the Congress was laid before that body yesterday, and was presented in full in ' our thas uioruiug; it is devoted entirely to a discussion of the revenue j question, which he holds is the absorb- [ ing one of the day, and a sweeping re- ( duction m the tariff castouis is ably j argued. No business was done in either house j of Congress yesterday, other than the ! reception of the President'* message, j In a revenue raid in Alabama, George kiik, a notorious moonshiner, was killed I he was an escaped convict from the Georgia penitentiary. It is expected that M. Goblet will be | Crime Minister iu the French Cabi net. In the Chicago market yestsrday , there was a bullish feeling in wheat and i corn, while provisions were quiet and , corn, wniiu piousnme \|us«.«. »..« J steady. The Now York cotton market was! more or leu* depressed yesterday by Brails'rert's estimate of thu cotton crop, G,480,00(1 bales, which i» in excess of previous rumors. A white man charged with circula ting notes of a defunct bank was* ar rested in Danville, Va., yestciday. The wet-cotton fight in Savaunah, between tht underwriters and two Brit ish ships, has been adjusted on terms which thu first named parly desired to obtuin. The President yes'erday sent to the Senate the nomination of lion. L. Q. 0. Lamar, to be Associate Justioc of the Supreme Court, and also th» nom inations ot leveral Cabinet officers and assistants. Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin, has' been carried to Tullamore jsil to pre- j rent the daily levees which lie was hold-, ing ; n the Dublin jail. Two childrcr, aged eight and ten, wero burned to death in a Minnesota: village Monday nielli, and iho father! and mother narrowly escaped with their lives, by the burning of the family resi dence. In Georgia, yesterday, four meu were j killed outright and four othors seriously injured by the eollapse of a water tower, and by the explosion of a boiler three ! negroes were killed. The britisb steamship Kiiuberly is j ashore off' Capo llenry, and she will! probably soon break up; she was aban doned by her crew on Moaday. An escaped penitentiary convict from Georgia was recently married to a young laJy in Misiesippi; he was 'renegniied and arrested yesterday, and will be car ried back to prison. Measures have been adopted in Paris | to prevent an outbreak following the electiou of a new President. HE WAS GiT-H.Y &STMEM. A .\UryUM CaviuUl HocltoooU Without 1I« llent. I live in the midst of the milari.il dis tricts of Maryland, near the city of Washington, and am exposed to all the dangerous mlUtences of the impure ait and water of that region. Being naturally of a strong consti tution, I hail frequently boasted that no chills and fever or other malarious complaint would ever trouble me. This was my experience ami the con dition in which 1 found myself six months ago. 1 first noticed that I did «ot feel so sprightly and vigorous as was my wont to do. I felt tired and enervated.. Soon I noticed a distinct and distressing back ache would make its appearance in the afternoon, in creasing in severity if the exercise was more than usually violent. Then a stretchy feeling with profuse gaping made its appearance. Then my head, always clear as a bell, would feci heavy and I began to have headaches. The cokl stage was marked with chat tering of the teeth, severe rigors passed over tnc,%nd no amount of clothing could keep me warm. The chill was succeeded in turn by the fever, in which I seemed to be burning tip, the con gestion in my head produced a violent pain in the frontal portion and a heat ed sensation of the eyelids, with an in describable aching of the lower limbs. Nausea and vomiting occurred with severe retchings, and when the parox ysms passed oft" 1 was thoroughly pros trated by a weakness that was felt in every part of me. I drugged myself with quinine, and obtained some relief. But my respite was of brief duration. 1 was now so much reduced that I could hardly walk or stand upright. My disease soou culminated in a continued malarial fe ver which kept me closely confined for ibout a week. I became exceedingly impressed and melancholy, no much so hat I lojt interest in my work, and, ndood, scarcely caitxl what luppc«ed to n>e. l>uriii|[ all this time, it must 1* u» lerstood that I did not neglect medical treatment. AH the most powerful remedies were tried, such a* liquid ar senal* of )>otash, valerianic of iron, mercury, bromide of po'dsii'im, chlo ride of bismuth, chinoidiiM.*, -l.incbooi dia,.qmume and soverij other*. All this ! did under ilu ux of eiuioont physicians. It was while I wfca in this condition that I lit cUims tivult fot Kaskine, the new quinine, a* a specif* for malaria, were first brought to mv attention. 1 knewnothins-of its value to justif) my hafing any confidence in it, but as everything else had failed I deemed it my duty to try it, so I liegnn its use, and its prompt and radical ef fects were of civ nature of a revelation to me. Many people may think the statement scarcely credible, but it is a fact that after only a few H.jys' use of Kaskine all the leading symptoms in my case were decidedly abated or ceased altogether; and in a few weeks from the time I took the first do&e I was ctircd. This was about the first of January, and since then I have experienced no i recurrence of the malarial symptoms lin any form. A remedy of such ex ; | ceptional virtue for the cure of malaria ought to be commended and univer i sally made known. I have therefore urged it upon tie attention of my friends, several of whom have used it with like pood results in every case, and it is with Ihi greatest pleasure and sincerity that I commend Kaskine to sufferers from malaria everywhere. Respectfully votirs, J. D. Hird. B. A., I Chemist lto-y'm.! Agrw-u Mural f'o'.lngo I'. S.—Should any one wish to ad dress me as to the genuineness of the above letter, I will cheerfully respond. Other letters of a similar character from prominent individuals, which stamp Kaskine as a remedy of tin doubted merit, will be sent on appli cation Price si.oo, or six bottles, sS.oo. Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. The Kaskine Company, 54 Wnrren | St., New York, and 35 l'arringdon Road, London. _ .« NOTICE. ! Having o'jlainvd a decree from I lie Pro | bate of Stokes County to sell the land lieloiigiiu; to the estate *f .lames Hall, sen., 1 deceased, 10 raise asset* to pay debts, 1 will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, oil Fri •lay the lttth day of December 188", at the late resilience of the said James Hall, Sen. j 132 acres of land, subject to the widows dower, lying on the waters of Peters Creek, iu .Stokes County. TIIOS. MAHTIN, Administrator. 1ji«EII1 SjilO. : Hy rirt no of an order marie by N. O. fe tree, «I(>rk of the Superior Court of Stokes . county, I will an Administrator of Itrnzili | ou* Westmoreland, deceased, sell upon the I premiss* on the third day of .January, 1888, i ; a truck of land lying and be n* in the conn - ty of Stokes, adjoining the lauds of John i ' Davis, Keub'ii Boat and otiters, containing | one hundred acres more or loss, being the ; tmci of land wheraon t lie slid lira/.'lions ! Westmoreland lived at thetiiueof hisdoath, : being the homestead placa. S.iid laud to bo j sold to the highest bidder for cash. A. ii. JONES, 'Nov. 2Uth 1887. Arimr. WH A T WE WAITT. Good Locks tu ke# P thieves oul, ALLEN hm them. "Weather* Stri I>s to keep tb« cold ami mow out. AUen th,e*xv >Vl>' I)OA> H to Wok oul. S. E. ALLEN HAS THEM. i BTO J ICS ketp tbc cold out. ' ALLEN HAS Til KM on the 2d floor. LAMPS to ktcp the dark oat. ALLEN 3AS THEM at the Old Pfohl & Stockton Stand. I I»AITVT to keep the dsiup out Allen has the Best KM! j To keep Anything ELSE OUT. S. E. ALLEN Ha* li. In short £> o him j Cor all t lie Tinware, . Hollow ware, Wood-' j en ware, I I I | mmumj. and MSfiiS; you may want, at the Old Ptohl & StoeK i ton Stand, Corner of Main and 3d Streets, WIJfSTO#, ,Y. C. C. K. BENNETT. A WWSTCN MARBLE WORKS, BENNETT BEOS.. DEALEKH IN Marble and Granite Monuments, Headstones, Tablets, Mantels, &c., Opposite Brown's Warehouse, - - Alain St., WisitctKO. l)«»igus ami Estimates Furnished on Applicatior. ESTABLISHED 1871. ESTABLISHES^^ I J. W. SCOTT & CO. Wholesale Merchants >. C. ' Are now receiving (heir spring stock oi notions and dry goods. | And almost daily adding to their stock oi groceries Buyers are invited to call in person or send orders by mail. He hope to build up a large trade with the merchants of Stokes county and all along the line of theC. F. & V. V Railroad. * • - i i ..hi ii i i. Ip■ j Brown, i « Browner, Brownest. liter*, Higher, I lli^liesl. If you iroulJ got the very highest price tor yonr tob*e«o, make up year lam', i when preparing it for market, to take it tj Browns Warehouse I Winston, N C i * lien you will find the largest, best lighted Warehouse in Uwa, »»• »f th be 1 auctioneer* in this, or anf other State, and larger bi:T«ra by the «c»r«. Tkat ! not all, if yon would stay but a few hours, or over night, you will find e«aafart«bl» ro oms, plenty of wood, cook stoves npon which te prepare your food g*ed wat«f in abundance and every thing necessary to yonr comfort (if yon Wave a tl*ti conicienc#,) while the stalls for your stock are all that you coold with tor. « ' Bring us your tobacco : no will do all in our powor to make yeu »«»f»ruk • while here, and get what you want most—a big prico foryenr tnbaeeo ;• Very Truly BUOWN S: CARTER tfPFVE & WZLLI.HMS AT THE Star Warehouse, G-REENSBORO, N. C. Offer their services to the planters of Stokes and adjoining Bounties for the BALE OF LEAF TOBACCO. The STAIt WAR V. II > I'SK is well and favorably as be ing one of the BUST LIGHTED houses for the sale of Leaf Tobacro in tnis s rot ion of.Worth Carolina, and being located at the-principal Railroad center in the Tobacco Section of the Sluy so that not only the Greensboro buy nrs but buy erg from this Stale and Virginia can easily > and cheaply revch it. The Proprietors mth an experi ence of a number of ynars in the Warehouse business, claim th-tt they can get the highest market price for your Tobacco. Hoping to hare a full share, of your patronngs we are Truly Your f'riehds, U. A. AP U LK $ S. a. WILLIAMS. REM EMBER,Tiew* will be ftifniiheil free at every Station on th* C. F. k |Y. V. 11. R. from Stoko.dale to Marion, for parties to }tok tbeir tobacto it who wish to ibip it to Greensboro.