THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
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THE GLEANER.
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ADVERTISEMENTS. '
J .A- EON G,
Attorney & Counsellor at Law
. YA.NCEYVILLE, N. C,
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Associate Counsel,
G. F, BASON,
Attorney at Law
GRAHAM, N..C. jg : '
QEORGE W. LONG, M. D.,
PHYiI LI AM and 81BGE01K
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rjinE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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Published weekly in Greensboro, N. C. by
Duffy & Albright, at ♦S.lOper year in advance
—posttee included.
It is Democratic-Conservative in politics and
labors zealously for the material prosperity
of the South generally and North Carolina
particularly.
CF°North Carolinians abroad should not
be without it.
JfilTfii!"
"yyr R- FORBIS & BROTHER,
(nnder the 3cnbow Hall,)
GREENSBORO, N. C„
keep coustantly on hand a complete assort
ment of FURNITURE. Repairing of every
description, Including
Upholstering
neatly done. Their stock consists of
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OMec, Diaii(«RMin, Parlor and It e
i«l Chain, Bareaas, WoHrokw
Kniaon Desks, HafM,Criki, Cra
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, little folks. Mattresses ana
Mprinu Beds oI every va
riety aad style,
Hat-raeka and auy and everything in the
furniture line. Their stock is the largest and
most complete ever offered In this portion of
the State. They defy competition in quality
or price. apr2o.3m
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OREENBBOBO, N. C.,
Have now in store, and are daily receiving, a
large stock of GROCERIES, which they will
sell to village and Country Merchants on better
terms than they can buy elsewhere —which will
enable them to sell at a better per cent, than
purchasing North.
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ies. Orders solicited, which shall have prompt
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. GRAHAM, X. C.,
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COTTON. CORN, VI.OVB, BACON
I.ABD, AND Ala I KINDS Of
CdtNTRV.PBODIICB,
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POETRY.
TUOUOII I.©ST TO NINNT TO
memory DCiii ,
[The oft-qnoted line, Though Lost
(o Sight to Memory Dear," originated
with Rathven Jenkyns, and was first
published in the Greenwich JUagazin e
for Marino 8, in 1701 or 1702. We give
t!ie whole poem.]
Sweet Heart good-bye! that flut'rinß sail
Is spread to waft me far from thee,
As soon before tbe farth'ring gale
My ship shall txmud upon the sea
Perchauee all des'late and forlorn, "
These oj'os shall miss thoe many a year ;
But unforgotten every chart#—
Tfiongli lost to sight, to memory dear.
Sweet heart good-bye ! one last.cmbrace !
Ob, cruel fate, two goals fco sever !
Yet in his hi art's most sacred place
Thou, thou alone, shall dwell forever ;
And still shall recollection trace
In Fancy's mirror, ever near,
Each smile, each tear, that form, that face—
Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
A KENTUCKY ' BRIDAL TODB.
There came on one day to a little in
land town in Kentucky a young rural
couple who had just been bound by the
" silken bendu," Their destination was
the depot, and the bridegroom was evi
dently quito impatient for fear the train
should arrive before ho could roach the
office. Buying one ticket, they stood
on the platform until tbo train had stop
ped. When tbey entered the car the
bridgroom found his bride a seat, kissed
her affectionately, bade her '"good bye,"
and going out seated himself on a box
and commenced whittling ftost vigor
ously. He watched the train out of
sight, regret depicted on his face, when
aby standcr thinking the whole pro
ceedings rather strange, resolved to in
terview him. Approachiug him care
lessly, and chewing a straw to keep up
his courage, he said:
" Been gcltin' married lately?"
" Yes," said he "me and Sallie got
spliced this mornin'.P
" Was that her you put on the train ?*>
" Yes," with a sigh.
" A likely lookin' gal," said our ques
tioner. " Anybody sick, that she had
to go away ?"
" No," but here he grew confidential.
" You see me and Sallie had heard tha*
everybody when they got married took
a bridal tour. So I told Sallie I hadn't
money enough for both of us to go, but
she shouldn't be knocked out of .hern.
• •
So I jis brought here down here, bought
her ticket and sent her ou a visit to
some of her folks, and thought'l might
get somo work havestin' till she got
back."
That afternoon found him busily at
work, and when in a day or two after
Sallie came back, he Welcomed her
cordially and affectionately, and hand
in hand they started down the dusty
road to their new home and duties.
mODKBN HAniHERS AND UVNS.
At Konpp's famous factory in Germany
an enormous steam hammer, which cost
half a million dollars, has lone been an
object of admiration; but it is to be sur
passed by a hammer costing a million,
and proportionally are enormous. In
England they have made, at prodigious
expense, a gnn -weighing abouteighty
ono tons—considerably over > hundred
and eighty thonsand pounds—and not
satisfied at that, they are making an
other ot the same size. It appears
from the London paper thai a hydraul
ic slide of mighty dimensions roust be
constructed to bear the weighty mass
of metal for directing it right or left, or
up or down, according as it maybe
necessary to train the gun; and then
there is, beside, the task of raising pro
jectile which weighs more than a thou
sand pounds, to the muzzle, and push
ing of it home with an unwieldy ram
mer some thirty feet in length. Ac
cording to its constructors, this gnn
will send shot through eighteen inches
of solid iron, giving the attack the su>
peridrity once more in the unending
and tremendous rivalry between heav
ier artillery and thicker plates. The
gun is to go on board the Inflexible,
now building at Portsmouth, and will
constitute the ship's cbeif armament.
It is to be mounted in an iron citadel in
the middle of the iron-clad, and will
be so fitted that it can be raised and
lowered at will. It i» odd to re-
fleet that twenty years ago ironclads
were unknown, and that the largest
sergun in the British nary was the 68.
pounder, which was sufficient lor
smashing in the wooden sides of the
men-of-war of that day.
In one part of FrancqAere is a socie
ty for the protection of Birds useful to
the farmer. It has reports of alt nests
found and-takes them under its protec
tion. Last year 214 nests were thus
protected, and the result was the fledg
ing of 901 birds.
GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1875.
lIVV. SATIS.
The ex-President of the Confederacy
bad been formally invited to deliver the
annual address before the Agricultural
Society ot Winnebago county, 111., and
had accepted. A portion of the " Grand
Army of the Republic" got up a protest,
and it would appear sont Mr. Davis a
copy. At all events Mr. Davis with,
drew his acceptance in the following
handsome manner:
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 19.
Henry p. KimbaU, Secretary cf the
Winnebago County Agricultural So
ciety, Jlockford. JUs.:
DkarSiu: —l yesterday sent you a
telegram announcing ray revocation of
my conditional acceptance of the invi
tation to address year association at
their animal meeting iu September
next. The long period which has elapsed
since the receipt of your first letter and
the considerate courtesy which has
fa£edvour correspondence make it
mycJlfcr to the board and to myself
that sufficient explanation should be
given of this change of purpose. Three
objects mainly induced me to accept the
invitation, first the hope that personal
intercourse might remove some of the
prejudices which had been generated
by partisan factions and nurtured by
individual and sectional hate. Anxious
as in former years to promote interests
of our great valley ol' the Mississippi,
aud believing by mutual confidence and
cointelligence much could be done for
their advancement, I only delayed my
acceptance of your invitation until it
became reasonably probable that it
could be met. The productive capacity
of the northwest needs for Its develop
ment cheaper and safer transportations
of the southwest and alio those foreign
countries in England especially. Earn
est attention lias been directed for sev
eral years past to more direct and eco
nomical trade with Mississippi • valley
in this connection there was desire to
confer with patrons of husbandry in
your rich aud prosperous section to dis
cuss with them questions involved in
securing better means oi transporting
your produce to the most favorable
markets, and providing agencies which
should insure larger returns to freemen
and by such conference, to learn the
views of one member of a family of the
Mississippi Valley, a family the chief in
terest of all members of which is agri
culture, bnt cultivators of such various
crops to make trade among themselves
extensive and lucrative; while it stamps
upon erch and all the same interests
and the same policy as to their foreign
trade. To render such conference effect
ual there must needs be a disposition to
atteud to subjects under consideration,
surely not a purpose to smother it by
the interposition of matters having no
just relation to it. v
Second—an effort was made to rec
ognize the conrtesy of ycur board, and
I was encouraged to believe that your
reception of me would be beneficial
rattier than injurious to yonr Associa
tion. This was the more supposable
because several other agricultural socie
ties of Illinois had in like manner invit"
ed me to address their annual meetings.
Yesterday I received a printed paper, it
being a protest of a number-ot your fel-
low country men against the action of
your board in tboir invitation to me to
make the aunual address at the county
meeting. Thereupon I Bent you a tele
gram withdrawing my acceptance of
invitation, under the conviction that It
would not bp agreeable to participate
in the meeting, and I hope that neither
your association nor tbe directors will
suiter harm by the delay in procuring
an orator, or by tbe correspondence
which has caused it.
The object was to gratify a wish long
entertained to see in its cultivated dress
thecountry known to me a trackless
wilderness, but that being merely a per.
sonal gratification, it may be indulged
at mj convenience or postponed indefi
nitely, I can well believe that tbe cause
which has changed my purpose was as
unforeseen by you as by me,and youmay
be assured that I feel no dissatisfaction
toward tbe directors or yourself, and
have suffered no personal embarrass,
ment from the event, as the invitation
was unexpected and only acceptable as
an expression of tbe general good will,
so my only regret is tha loss of opportu
nity to promote the public interest
which tbe welftre of your comunity is
identified. Again expressing the hope
that neither the directors or yourself
may suffer friary or annoyance, and
thanking you for tbe kindness and con
sideration you have manifested,
I am respectfully yours,
- JEFFERSON Dans.
The best leaves of our Ibrests for com
posting purposes are those oi hickory
aud black walnut.
WllflUßE A CLASICAL EDUCATION
WAS THBtWN AWAY.
Csasplalat »f m BlsaffetM Parmer
wha had Mat Hi* S*a* le Callrge—A
Law which Ihc Earaaer Thiaka Oaghl
I* ha Pawed. ,
[from the Providence Journal]
MISTER EDJIOR—I haint noedication,
and I thank God for it—Gov. Lippitl
said in bis Kollege speeo'i that cdica
tion paid better than mortgage bonds
at six per cent.
Gov. Lippitt, i ask you, have you got
snoh tilings as three highly edicated
sons on your hands what can't support
themselves, and all living on the old
man? You know you haint, and as 1
have, I guess I knows as much about
this edication matter as you d>. I cuss
the day when liturary ambishun broke
out in my fhmilv—l fit three sons to
kollege, aud if I had not .had one left to
stay on theffcrm and work with me, wo
should all on us be takiu a deep inter
est in the annual appreciations for the
poor of the town.
My /Silas studied law, and all the
writs he has yet seen, has been on his
self. lie has to swareont of jail three
timej a week, regular tripes he makes
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, like
the Rhode Island from Btonington.
He has got a pretty little Hoffis as
ever you see. with the legal works of
Smoilet Bjl-ons, and all them Jurists
ranged on shelves—the portraits of Ru
fus Choteand that gurl What dances so
good at the Theatur, bung up on the
wails. We fbrntohod him with all those
necessaries of the legal profession, and
aUbough ho smokes and drinks beer,
ahd does all a young lawyer ougt to do
M win coufideuce and public esteem, it
is all no go.
He belongs to ten secret societies, and
I tell him I wish to 6od he'd jine one so
secret that his creditors oould not find
him. r.
He buys all his tobacco in my name
for tear of its getting attached, and as
for bis beer, he drinks up five dollars'
worth at a time, and then swan right
out on it. He to getting low-spirited
now, and says that all the blackstone
he wants to know about to the black
stone river, with a big stone tied to his
heels, which made his mother cry, but
I told hinrhe was of age and I had no
oontrol over him.
PoorSHas, when he gradcrated at
koilege, hisorashun was on. "A class
ical edication inderspensible to success
in life."
Ills mother and I cried in tha Bap
tist church when we heard hitn deliver
it, we didn't know what for then, but
have sinee found ont. I (ell Silas (hat
the only chance I see ahead for liim U
to drink strong, then reform,and may
be the temperance folks will shove him
aloug to keep him moral and steady.
My t'other boy, Ezra, studied to be a
doctor. The first cos he bad was Haw
kius, that wasgored to bad by Olncv's
big ball. Hawkins had six good stiff
boras aboard of bis own before the bull
with him, which made it a bad
case. Ezra wanted to be snre, so he
gave him all the medicine He had on
band at once. Just as Hawkins was
dying he writ an affidavit that the treats
ment be received from the bull wis
generous and humane compared with
that of Ids doctor.—Haw kins' widow
sued for malpractice, and her lawyer
told the jury that M. D. stood for mur
derous doses, and that Ezra was drunk,
and that he was a doctor of many drams
but (few scruples. At this ioke the judge
and jury laughed like split, and they
give a big verdict against Ezra, and he
bad to run of! to Californy.
He draws small drafts on me often so
we know that be isattve, whish is more
comfort to his mother than to myself.
When Ezra graderated bis orashun was
on "Knollege a Perfection sginst tbe
Kalamitiesof lift."—His mother and I
cried bad then, and we havo since found
out why.
But tbe saddest case of ail was poor
little Calvin. At tbe time when unthink
ing youths are spent m laying stone
walls or hoeing corn, Calvin was seri
ously of tbe more important
work of saving souls. He entered Kol
lege and was finally settled over a large
parish at Hellburn Woods.
Foraftw years things went on smooth.
He not only-saved other souls, but he
•meekly accepted his portion of the trials
and discipline of life by getting married
and raising up a little fondly of souls of
ids own manufacture.
Then bia parish got tired of him And
told Um to quit, and turned him oft as
they do ministers, by passing a lot of
resolutions about the pain it gives to
sunder snch tender and hailied tios.
He wdbis whole family come home
to us. and after we got about need np
\viththein,l got Calvin's life insured
for all I could, and he sailed ten months
ago as commissioner to a lot ferocious
cannibals. I have prepared my mind to
see soon from the King of the tribe a let
ter something like this:
Mr DEAR Slß;— Your sonCalvu ar
rived in good condition. Whjle we re
gret to state that he disappointed us al
ready, in regard to the amount of gravy,
it gives me pleasure to add that he was
tender and small-boned.—Should an
other member of your estimable family
feel inclined to Christianize us, send him
along. We can stand it as long as you
can.
Poor Calvin'a orarhnn was on "Tbe
Sim! results of the missionary enter
prise."
My other son was not edicated, and
has stkyecl on the farm, and is the sup
port and comfort of our deollningyearc.
He is so ignorant that he thinka the
Now York Weekly is the ablest paper In
the World, and the prevailing impres
sion on hit mind is that William the
Conquerer took an active pait in burn
ing the Gaspee.
For all that, be can support himself,
and has money in the bank, which Is
moiwthan his edicated brothers can say.
My opinion is that a law ought to be
passed making the corporation of a Kol
lege liable lbr the debts of all their giad
erates. This would make them all plagy
careful not to edtoate any but them
what was fit for it, and others might be
spared what me and my poor wife has
suffered.
—as_
[From the Detroit Free Press.
"ABOUT ICK-CRK !■.•
He slipped into an toe-cream saloon
very softly, and when the girl asked him
what he wanted ho replied:
"Corn beef, Med potatoes, pickles
and mice pie."
"This is not a restaurant; this is an
ice-cream parlor," die said.
•'Then why did you ask me what I
wanted for? Why dldnt you bring on
yonr ice-cream?"
She went ftfter it, and as she returned
he continued:
"You see, my dear girl, yon must in
fer—) ou must reason. It isn't likely
that I would come Into an ice-cream par
lor to buy a grindstone, Js it? You did
not think I came in hero to ask* If yon
had any baled hay, did you?"
She looked at him in great surprise
and he went on:
"it I owned a hard ware store, and
you dame in, I would infer that you
came tor something in my line. 1
wouldn't step out and ask you if you
wanted to buy a mule, would I?"
She went away highly indignant. An
old lady was devouring a dish of cream
at the next table, and the stranger, af
ter watching ber for a moment, called
ont:
"My dear woman, have you found
kny hairs or buttons in your dish ?"
"Mercy! no!" she exclaimed, as
she wheeled around and dropped her
spoon.
"Well, I'm glad of it," he continued.
•'lf you find any just let me know."
She looked at him for half a minute,
picked up the spoon, laid It down again,
and then rose np and left tbe room.
She must have said something to the
proprietor, for be came ruaning in and
exclaimed: • : _
"Did you toll that women there were
hairs and buttons in my ice-cream?"
"No,jir."
".Tow didn't?"
"No, Ar, I did not: I merely reques
ted her, in case she found any such in
gredients, to inform me!"
"Well, sir, that was a mean trick."
"My dear sir," said the stranger,
smilling softly, "did you expect me to
ask the woman if she bad found a crow
bar or a sledge-hammer In ber cream t It
is impossible, sir, for such artiAss to be
hidden away in sash small dishes."
The propfetor went away growling,
and as the stranger quietly dipped away
at his crsam two yomsg ladies came in,
sat down near him and ordered cream
and cakes. He waited until they had
eaten a little, aad then be remarked:
"Beg parden, ladies, but do yon ob
serve anything peculiar in the taste of
this cream?'
Tbey tasted, smackdtt their Hps, aad
were not certain.
"Does it taste to you as if a ping of
tobacco had fallen iuto the freezer?" he
asked.
"Ah I kah!" they exclaimed drop
ping their spoons and trying to spit out
what they had eaten. Both rushed out,
and it wasn't long before tbe proprietor
rushed in.
"See here, what in blazes are yon
talking about?' he demanded. "What
NO. 30.
do yon mean by plug tobacco in tlio
freezer
frfend, I asked Ibe ladies
if this cream tasted of plug tobacco; I
didn't taste any such taste, and I don't
believe you used a bit of tobacco in it.
" Well yon don't want to talk that
way around here t" continued tbe pro
prietor.
"My ice-cream is pure, and the man
who says it isn't tells a bold lie!"
lie went away again, and a woman
with a long neck and a *ad tace sat
down and said to the that she would
take a small dish of lemon-ice.
It was brought, and she had taken
•boat two mouthfuis when the stran
ger iuquired;
"Excuse me, madam, but do you
know how this cream was made—have
yon an idea that they grated turnip and
chalk with the cream?"
She didn't reply. She slowly rose
np, wheeled around and made for the
door. The stranger followed alter, and
by great good luck his ooat-tails cleared
the door an instant too soon to be struck
by a five-pound box of figr, hurled with
great force by the indignant proprietor.
Ashe reached the curb-stone he halted,
looked at the door of tbe parlor and
soliloquised:
" There are times when people should
infer, and there are times when they
shouldn't. I suppose if 1 had askod that
woman If she thought they hashed up a
saw-mill in tbe cream she'd have felt a
circular «aw going down her throat."
■■■■AM MONUIUBNT.
Frosa4he New York Herald we clip
a description of a monument erected to
tbe memory of this German hero, lie
flourished during the first century,
while our Saviour was upon earth, and
made himself femous by his overthrow
of theßoman power in Germany:
"It was begun on the 9th Of July,
1888—thirty-seven year* ago—and com
pleted on tha 23rd ot Jane, 1875. The
oost of thflratire monument will be
about 90,000 tbalers. The dlmonslons
of the monument are a* follows: The
height of the gothlo structure on which
the figure of Herman stands is ninety
three feet; tbe figure Itself is ninetv feet
high, making the total height lOT feet.
It is therefore sixty feet higher (ban tbe
Mareas Aurelius column in Borne and
exceeds that of Trajsn by fifty-five feet.
The substructure is a round massive
tapering gothic, pile, supported by ten
stout pillars, and crowned, by a cupola
flattened at the top for the reception of
the figure, The height of this, aa before
stated, is ninety-three feel: the dome is
surrounded by a gallery four, foot wide,
upon which 900 people oan staSd, and
np to which sixty-nine steps lead aud
twenty-eight stops go still bigber to the
summit of tbe dome. In tbo nineties of
. this substructure appear various inter
esting and characteristic inscriptions
and memorials. In one is a relief of tne
Emperor William I. tbe model of which
was made for Von Bandel by the Em
peror himself. Crossing this gothic
structure is the figure, measuring with
the iron plate on which it rests ninety
feet. Arminius stands with his right
arm upraised, holding aloft an immense
sword, his leit rests upon the shield,
which is Inscribed with the simple
word, " Treufest" firm and true. It
oonsists of five copper plates, tad
weighs over a ten. The height of tho
body is fifty feet; from tho foot to tho
peak of the helmet, fifty-five and from
tbe iron basis on which the figure stands
to tbe point of the sword ninety feet.
Tl.e single portions of the monument
are ot copper, and number 200 pieces.
They were riveted together, and In part
beaten in tbe workshop by Von Handel
himself. The entire monument has a
weight of ten or eleven tons ot beaten
copper. :
WHV AM FABniKS POOR f
This is a question often asked and we
seldom host what may be properly
termed the true answer. It ia a singular
fact that formers as a class, are not
lazy. They cannot be said to be idlers,
for they work pretty constantly at
something, and work as bard as men
ought to work, make, one year after an
other, pretty fair crops and get pretty
fair pnees for their products; bat they
don't get rich, and some say they are
getting poorer and poorer every year.
Why is this so? The Carolinian says it is
because "it costs too much, too much
to keep oar crops. We grow poor not
so much because our incomes are so
small, as because out-goes are so
luge. There is no strict method in our
operations, and no close economy of
moans: the expenses of making a crop
has not been reduced to a minimum.
We fence in too large a field, and
travel over too many acres to prodnoe %
ton bales of cotton or ahundred bushels
of corn.—We pay out too much for fo
bor and fertilizers for tbe result pro
duced. Tho remedy must be sought In
sounder methods, labor saving impte
ments and bettor trained labor and lesa
of It."