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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. , N I *J V V RI fV>. * ' 4 ' . ' A :;£' ■ ,* VOL. 1. THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY PARKER & JOHNSON, Graham, N. C> FATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Postage Paidi fa oo Six Months QQ Clubs! Clubs!X For 6 copies to one P. 0.1 year *lO 00 " g « ii « h 6 months 560 "10 " " !i "1 year 15 00 «• IQ « u « 6 months 800 «• 20 " " " "1 year 28 00 « 20 " " "6 months 15 00 No departure from the cash system. BATES OF ADVERTISING t Transient advertisements payable in advance; yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. 1 mo. 2 mo. 3 mo. 6 mo. 12 mo. . 1 square $2 25 $3 60 $4 50 $7 20 $lO 80 .2 " 360 540 720 15 80 16 20 -* « , 610 720 900 16 20 22 60 , 4 " 630 900 10 80 18 00 2700 6 . " 720 13 50 16 20 22 60 82 40 " V column 10 20 16 20 18 00 27 00 46 00 M " 13 50 18 00 27 00 45 00 72 00 . 1 " 18 00 31 50 45 0J 72 00 126 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for the first, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements not specified as to time, published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All advertisements considered due from first Inser tion. One inch to constitute a square. ADNERTISEMENTS. * Attorney & Counsellor at Law YKNCEYVILLE, N. C. GRAHAM & GRAHAM, Associate Counsel, G- F BASON, Attorney at Law, f GRAHAM N. C. gCOTT & DONNELL. GRAHAM, N. C., Buy and sell COTTON, CORN, FI.O(JR, BACON LAKD. AND AM. KINDKI OF O O UN T ft Y.PHO DUCK, feb. 16-2ni Q.EORGE W. LONG, M. D,, PHYSICIAN andiIHCEOS Graham, If. c., Tenders'his professional services to the pub lic. Office and residence at the " Graham Hitfh Scuool buildings where he may be found, nisht or day, ready to attend all calls, unless professionally engaged, feb 9-1 y "P. R. HARDEN, Graham, N". C.. DEALER IN Dry-Goods Groceries> HARD W ARK, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Sluff Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Rubbers. Tobncco, Cignra, Seeds, Teas, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, Earthen ware, Glassware, Coffee*, Spice* Grain, Flour, Farming Implements. feb 16-ly * JJOUSTON & CAUSEY, WHOLESALE A*D RKTAL GREENSBORO, 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. We give our attention exclusively to Grocer ies. Orders solicited, whfeh shall have prompt attention. apr27-3m PERSONS Having claims against the County of Ala mance are "requested to present them to the Register of Deeds before the first Monday In May, 1875. By order of the Board of Commissioners « . Q Q T - O- MCLEAN, Clerk, feb 9-Sm rpUOSIAS le CORBETT, (at the McCray Old Stand,) ALAMANCE COUNTY, N. C., General Dealers in DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, HATS * CAPS, BOOTS tc BHOBI, Hardware, Tirtware, Leather, DRUGS, MEDICINES, DYE-BTUFFS, Ready-Made Clothing, Ac., Ac., which they will sell u cheap as can be bought elsewhere. TESTIS CASH OR BARTER. POETBF. I LOVK. TOV 1.0 VIC. Old Joii tho villiage pedagogue, The grammar lesson called one day. Yonng Bess, a maid of sweet sixteen, Began the well-known words to say : 'First person, I love," first she said, Sly Tom, beside her whispered, 'Me ?' 'Second j ergon, yon love,' Bess went on, 'Aye, that I do,* said Tom, —'love thee !' 'Third person, he loves,' still said Bess. Tom whispers to ner, 'who is he ?' 'Oh, Tom,' said Bessy, pleading low, 'Do ho'd your tounge, and let me be.' 'No whispering,' called the master loud, And frowned upon the forward youth. AV 'First person, we love,' Bessy said. 'By Qeprgo,' said Tom, 'whv that's the truth!' The lesson o'er at last, poor Bess, . With cheeks all crimson, took her seat, While Tom, sly fellow, tried in vain The maiden's soft bine eyes to meet. Andi Wieu the recess hour had come, Toiti begged a walk with coaxing tone, And 'neath the trees Bess said again The lesson o'er— for him alone. 'I'ESTING THE ©I,D MAN'S I.OrG Mrs. Claik had been reading the Beeeher-Tillon scandal' until her faith in man had dwindled down to a very fine pojut; she had a poor opinion of them. She had noticed that her hitherto lov ing spouse had, for the last two weeks, been low-spirited and down-hearted. She thought that perhaps he, too, had been led from the paths of virtue by the deluding voice of some bewitching si ren, and that his love for her was grow ing cold. But hpw to find out if such was the case. Josephus did not show any signs of producing a statement, or of confessing his guilt to a mutual friend. Iler brow corrugated, and her hands clenched as she brooded over her imag inary wrongs, and she determined to put the fidellity of her husband to the test. But how to do it, that was the ques tion. 'Aha! I have it,' said she, triumph antly, 'l'll drown myself, thai is figura tively. * _. Clarke was a farmer in good circum stances and being several years young er than his wife, and good looking, it kept her in a state of perpetual worri mentand jealously. Mrs. Clarke pro ceeded to put her plan into execution. Just behind the house was a very deep well, that had not been used for some time, and it was covered over with boards to prevent the cattle from falling into it. She removed the covering from the well, and placing her bonnet and shawl upon its brink, she crawld in under a large gooseberry bush to await develop ments. The weather was cold and she was nearly frozen before she saw her hus band and hired man coming from the barn where they had been working. 'Mercy on us, Mr. Clarke! Your wife has thrown herself in the well!' he shouted frantically. Mrs. Clarke expected that her hus band would tear his hair and rush to the edge of the well, aud after calling her all the endearing names he could think of, descend into its watery depth, in eager search ot her cold, damp corpse. But Clarke did not do anything of the kind. He calmly took a fresh chew of tobacco, and then approaching the well, looked quietly into it. 'I guess the old girl has suicided,' said he, without any emotion worth speaking of. 'Jake you sling them boards back again: I wouldn't have that brindle heifer to get in there for fifty dollars, and after dinner we'll hoist the old woman oat.' 'Hadn't I better get some of the neigh bors here first? asked the frighffened man. "After dinner will do Jake. 'Business before pleasure' is my tnotto, and I'm awful hungry." Jake covered up the well, and tho men went into the house, leaving the old lady howling with rage. Til old girl him! I'll suicide him ! Takes more pains over that pesky heif er than he does with me. • I'll—*-I*l1 —' Words failed her; they were inade quate to express her feelings. After dinner Clarke sent the hired man after some of the neighbors, and while waiting his return be seated him self npon a log, in plain sight of his loving wife, and whistled Old Hundred all through without missing a stave. The neighbors arrived and were full of sympathy lor the bereaved husband; and Joßephoß bore his honors meekly. Various plans were canvassed for raising the body, bat, owing to the great depth'of the well, they could not decide upon the right one. GRAHAM, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1875. "I tell you the best way, friends," saiJ Clarke, pathetically." 'Shcisgoncs, and will never come back to this world of woe and trouble; so L thijk we bad better let the body remaiuiwhere it is, a:id fill lip the well. It will save a power of trouble and bother.'' 1 his proposition was agreed to by the neighbors as being feasible, and the work of tilling it up commenced. Jose phns throwing in all the large stones and blocks of wood that he could lay bis hands on. 'There,' said he, 'I guess that will do, after they bad thrown a couple of cart loads of miscellaneous rubbish into the well. -Jake can fill up the rest, odd spells and rainy days. We'll have the funeral sermon preached as soon as 1 get done hauling wood.' Near by the side of Josophu9 stood a Avoman of about thirty summers, or winters, and she had been regarding the solemn scene with a mixture of pleasure and sorrow, intermingled; and when the rest of the neighbors took their departure, she lingered behind to comfort thchaching heart of the bereav ed widower. 'lt is a great pity to be suddenly cut down in the prime of life-like the flow er at noontide,' said she, mournfully. 'Yes,' >aid he, shifting his quid from 011 c side of his mcutli to the other,' but Betty was getting along in years, and we must be resigned.' 'Just so Mr. Clarke: resignation is a cooling balm, as it were, to fill the void in the troubled breast, and I always thought that your wife was too old for such a smart active man as yon. * 'Did you, really ?' answered Clarke, with sudden interest. 'To be sure. I did; I always took a great interest in your welfare.' Clarke was lost in meditation for some time. 'Miss Perkins,' said he, suddenly, 'can you make good butter?' 'Now, Mr. Clarke, she answered, blushing, "you touch me on a tender point, for, it I say it myself, I won't turn my back to any woman in the country making good butter. 'Good cook?' 'Firstrate.' " - ' 'Understand housekeeping?' 'None better.' 'Then, I'll tell you what I have been thinking about" said he, picking up an other largo stone aud throwing it into the well. 'Suppose you aud I get mar ried!' 'Now, really, Mr. Clarke, you are so sudden and take me by surprise; but my heart bleeds for you in your bereave meut, and—and I consent» Take me— I am vours.' The fond couple embraced, taking a kiss to ratify the bargain. Mrs. Clarke, under the gooseberry bush, was boiling with rage, but she restrained herself for a few moments. 'I say said Clarke, after they had re gained their composure, 'won't Betty's clothes fit yon?' 'Of course they will, aud it will be a great saving.' 'And I will tako that new cloak of hers and make me an overcoat—a long one, like tbr city folks wear,' said Clarke. 'Oh! yes dear creature!' replied she. 'Sweet angel of my soul!' said he. Just then something lit upcu Clarke's back, and he did not know at first whether it was a wild cat, a streak of lightning, or the devil, but he found out directly. His eharmer cast one glance at the abparition, and scooted. Clarke has just got around again. He says it was th 3 worst case of inflamma tory sickness ho ever had. But he is the meekest husband to be found, and the well is filled up.—Wild Oats. " God defend the Right" is the motto Alabama Spencer had stamped into his writing paper just before hiring a few fellows to swear to lies about the ku klux, in order to give Attorney-General Williams a pretext for sending troops into the State for use in electing the aforesaid Spencer to the Senate. Spen cer is a very pions man. " That ai J patch of groun's mem'ri ble," said an Omaha man, to a grave old by itself outside the town. " reckin you'll know that, stranger, when you aee it ag'in. Tho ockypant of that was the fust man Horrus Greeley ever told to git West—likewise he was hung for stealin' a mewl." There is no grade of wool in stronger demand just now (ban that produced by crossing Merino ewes with Costwold rams. Testimony from wool dealers and breeders is abundant in this direc tion. KCiiooii FOB noes AND IIAB. BOWS. There arc now in the United States thirty-eignt agricultural colleges. Tliey arc doing much for the science of fann ing. May all prosperity attend them! We think, however, that men seldom get to be practical farmers through such institutions. The students there have so delicate a time that they will not feel much like gojng out into the teeth of the northeast wind to sow winter grain, or drag logs through the snow with the thermometer five degress below zero We think that the most successful far mers arc those who in boyhood rise rt early daybreak, milk the cows and drive them out to pasture, eat a chunk of salt pork, and get off to tho fields bo fore city people have eome to their last morning dream. Many of the best far mers in the best farming region of tho world newer heard of an agricultural college. The practical part of the science ot agriculture must be dug up by two brawny lunds out of the middle of a cornfield. Those make the successful farmers who come in the regular line of succession. Their father tilled tho soil, and their father and their great-grand father, who went from the plough to Lexington and back again Irona Lexing ton to the plough* Many a man puts down his gilt-edged book on phosphates and subsoiling, puts on takes a jack-knife, and goes out to trim his grape-vines, trimming tl.cm in the wrong place, and is under tho delusion that he is a farmer. That does very well if you have inherited or first made your fortune, , and have an income of twelve thousand dollars a year, and you can afford to loose *ix thousand of it annually in experimenting with cows and chicken and unheards ot rotation of crops. "But if we wanted our boy to come out an agricultural success we would put him when very young in the furrow and tell ban to go ahead till he comes to the hay-stack then turn round the liay-stack and go back to the fur row. By all means, through agricultural colleges, keep up the science of-farming; but let none suppose that you can keep your soft hands aiid uutanncd cheek fastidious tastes, and yet to be a suc cessful tiller of the soil. You .must learn to rough it—Christian at Work. FBENCII ECONO.HV. A French family can live well, on less than would be considered sufficient to save from starvation an American famil) of the same numbers. An intel ligent who had spent some years in France, said to tne last summer in speaking of the economical habits and skill in cookery of the French peo ple, (hat a French village ot a thousand inhabitants could be supported luxuri ously 011 the waste of one of our large hotels. The remark was not fur from the truth. If the art of cookery were understood and practiced in the United States as it is in France, if our people knew as well how to make most of their provisions as the French do, the cost of living, as far as food is regarded, in most of the States would bo reduced more than fifty per cent. Domestic economy, as a rule, is ueithcr practiced nor understood by Americans as it is in France. It may not be too much to say that the entire population of France could be supported 011 food which Is literally wasted in (ho United States. The number of people who live beyond their income is less, and the number of those whose incomes exceed their ex penditures ia»greater in France in pro portion to population, than in any other country. A new dictionary is badly needed for definitions aa well as spelling. Andq uatcd parents no longer understand what is said by their own smart lads. A juvenile conversation in Benton, Kentucky, ia thus reported to the Small Talker: Johnny—" I'm a marble-front, beautifully engraved clothes-pin." Bill —"l'm a gilt-edged musketo." Josh (who reads advertisements) " I'm a Hudson river "white-wire-clothes-line kind ot a chap." Aleck—"l'm a Beech cr-Tilton engagement ring." Archy (who is ugly)—" I'm a third-term dem ijohn." As a vehicle, containing a lady and gentleman, was proceeding along the road near Blacklaw*. in Scotland, the other day, a spark from the gentleman's pipe fell among straw on the bottom of the machine. It was soon in a blaze,, and the lady was severely burned about the legs, while her dress was destroyed ere tho fire Was subdued. The vehicle was charred, and with difficqjty tho horse, which became restive, was sav ed. TUB EBA OF GOOD FEELINUS. The Army and Navy Gazette lias a manly and generous article, inspired by the action of the " The Grand Army of the Republic," in extending to all sol diers who fought on either side in the late war an iuvitation to be present at its reunion in Chicago. Tho Gazette says: " This act is the burying of old hatreds, the fastening of new bonds (lie amending of old and broken ties, the full and hearty inauguration of a com mon country." The following extract expresses the sentiments ot the men 011 either bore tho brunt trf Hie war: " Brave men, after a good hard fight, respccteach other. They find that fight ing is a poor business after all, aud it is very difficult to get them at each other a second time. But. tlie cowards who sneaked to the rear: the critics who smile serenely at ease, like the lloman nobles above the circus full of dust and blood, these by taunting one sidoor the other, seek to brad fresh strife; and by persistent appeals to the baser passions that slumber in every man, to stifle the nobler sentiments of pity Olid generos ity. From henceforth for another gen eration, the true policy of Americans, North and South, is to leave all the dis agreeable things unsaid, and to dwell only on the better points of their ad versaries. There is enough nobility on both sides to render rtciprocy certain*. " Wc are now in the' midst of the ccntenuialsof a successful rebellion, aud that fact should mako us hesitate before wo lightly cast above abusive epithets, such as ' rebel' and ' traitor.' We are proud of our 'patriotism,' and the word abounds, especially in country newspa pers. Tho ' rebels' of 1775 are * trai tors.' However disagreeable the admis sion to our pride, facts will not be gain said, and it is better for us Americans, frankly to acknowledge this, than to 1 have it flung in our teeth by disinterest ed foreigners, pointing a sarcasm." The burglars of Wilmington arc be coming even more daring. One of them a few nights since entered the residence of Mr. 11. Marcus, on Second street and went into his daughter's room. Once hisidc, he put out the light, lowered the curtain-on the wixdow, and unlock ed tho door. When tho young lady awoke he had her by the hand, on which there was a beautiful amethyst ring, and which lie was probably try ing to remove. She boldly seized him by the collar of his coat, with both hands, aud called for her father. The man struggled to free himself, and final ly succeeded, just in time to free him self, aud to make good his escape from the second story of the piazza as tho father appeared upon the scene with a pisol in hand. The rascal was fired npon as he made tho leap for the ground. So wc learn from the Journal. Mr. Wilson, while waiting at the railway station for a train iu Little Rock, Ark., the other day, was startled by the following conundrum: "Boss is Mr. Grant gwine to run for Presi dent next time?" "Wei, I can't toll you, my_friend," w«s the reply; "he has not yet informed his friends and the country what his intentions are.'» " Well boss," returned the incorrigible darkey, "if he don't run, will you?" The Vice-President had't time to an swer, for the train summoned him away.— Boston Globe. Says the Roanoke News: "Before last Tarboro Court Hilliard Whitaker, one of the murderers of Mr Cohen, at Whitakers last Christmas, told one of the prisoners in jail that for a consider ation he (IKhitaker) would tell him (prisoner) where there was an amonnt of money deposited. The prisoner was discharged at last farm of court and one ■day last week betboaght himself of this money. So he went to a certain - place in the woods near Whitakers and sure enough did find over one hundred dol lars in greenbacks, which was very much defaced and contained stain of blood. The money wasjshown to ser ai parties at Rocky Mount, and though it is scarcely passible may be redeemed at the U. S. Treasury Department at Washington City." A Kansas City special of the 24th of May, says the grasshoppers came into the town and covered the sidewalks, yards, fences, Ac., and the citizens in stead of going to chnrcb, hare been de-1 straying them all day by bushels. In many places so many have been killed an almost unendurable stench** has been created, and sanitary measures will have to be taken to prevent disease. One man bad a trench dug 800 feet long into which he drives them and kills millions. Independence, six miles dis , tant, is worse ofi than Kansas City. NO. 18. *' • * A FIERD IN RVHAN FOKlfl—-HOR mm.TII KI>I:K or A I.ITTI.K OIBL IN tIHDKCH. BOSTON, May 23. A horrible murder was perpetrated in this city this even ing. Mabel. H. Young, aged live year*, who with her widowed mother, resided at 50 East Chester park, this afternoon in company with an aunt, attended the Sunday school anniversary exercises of Warren avenue Baptist church. On coming out of the church, at 3.30 o'clock the aunt remained in the. vesti bule about ten minutes conversing with some friends, and on starting homo missed tTc child, who a few minutes before-was at her. At first it was sup posed she had gone back into the church, but when she was not found, and persons outside declared she had not come out, the annt become alarmed, and search was commenced at once. About 4 o'clock some ladies at an open window across the street heard faint cries of child apparently, from the church tower. There also was great commotion among the doves that swarmed in and out of the bellry. Some young men who joined the search started at once to ascend the tower: They found the door up from the organ loft locked, but on gaining an cntranco were startled to seo fresh blood upon the steps leading up to the next landing. They also found a strip of board cov ered with, blood at one end, and heard low mournings from above. Ascending a long, steep flight of stairs, and raising a scuttle which re sisted tho strength of a strong man, they found the mangled body of the child lying near tho edge oi the Seattle as though it had been carried up the steps and thrown down there. From the top of her head, which was, broken ia, blood aud brains wore slow ly oozing, while the nose was crashed in, and'tacc terribly mangled. She waa carried to her residence and surgeons at once summoned, who pronounced the case hopeledfi, and her death a question of bnt a few hours at the ftrtherest. Tho». Piper, who has been sexton of the church for about a year t was soon after arrested, and is now confined at the chiefs office. He was engaged at work about the church, but his suspi cious manner and hi* denial that he had the keys, when the two keys fitting the doors to the tower were taken from his person points strongly to him as the party. He is a dark, heavy-set man, about twenty-six years old, and has once before been under suspicion of mnrder bat was discharged for want of sirfflciont evidence. Scarcely three quarters of an boar elapsed from the time the child came oat of the vestibule of the church until she was (baud in a dying condition. How she was enticed away and for what motive has not tran spired. NEW YORK UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULE.—'The amount of tax which the people of New York are called to pay this year is three million five hundred thousand dollars less thart last year. Last year the rate was ?| mills, realiz ing an aggregate of $15,227,000. This year the rate is bl mills, realizing an aggregate ot $12,814,000. It is possi ble that this sum may be further de creased. • Governor Tilden baa yet to scrutinize these appropriation bills, and under the new constitutional amend ments be can strike out any single item 1 that docs not meet his approval. It is therefore presumable that further reduc tious will be made. >"* A trial of skill between two contor tionists—William Gaylord and a Jap anese named Tomey—occurred in St. Louis. The wager waa SI,OOO, and the decision waa to be based upon " grace, skill and difficult work." Tomey stood on high and unstable of tubs and slow ly bdht backward until the top of his head touched the level of his feet, and rose again to an erect posture without losing his balance. Gaylord bent his body backward in a hoop until his feat were caught under his chin, and in that posture trotted around on hie hands. The stake was awarded to Gay lord. Mr. Schliemann, whose excavations on what is supposed to be the site of ancient Troy have been so graphically described by Mr. Bayard Taylor, has been granted leave to continue his in vestigations, and will proceed with his work almost immediately. ■ The statue of Bt. John the Baptist, - discovered a few months ago at Pisa, and recognized subsequently as a work of Michael Angelo, ia said now to have been executed by that artist in his 21st year, and to be'the same spoken ot by Varsari.
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