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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. _• W . - :T : . f 'fm' ,v ... .. . VOL. 1. THE GLEANER. PUBLISHED' WEEKLY BT 1 PABKEB & JOHNSON, Graham, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, Postage Paidi One Year - .$2 00 Biz Months S 100 -Clubs! ClnbsX! \ i Voir 8 copies to one P. 0.1 jeer.... .$lO 00 " 6 " " " ' * # month*. 660 - 10 " « " « Ijw 16 00 "10 « - « " 6 month* 800 " 30 Z t u " I w* 88 00 .. 20 " " " « « ■■nth . ... 00' No dtparhtrt fr*m the cask tystem. KaVeß or ADTKBTIIIIGt Transient advertisement* payable in advance; yearly advertisement* quarterly In advance. * 1 mo. X mo. 3 mo. • mo. 12 mo. 1 square »2 25 $3 80 $ 460 $ 720 »10 80 3 » 860 640 720 16 80 18 20 8 " 640 720 900 18 20 2280 I ; 4 - 830 900 10 80 18 00 2700 fi « 720 13 60 18 20 22 60 32 40 P column' 10 20 16 20 1800 27 00 46 00 « 18 60 18 00 2700 4600 7200 18 00 81 60 46 OJ 72 00 128 00 1 Transient advertisement* $1 per square for the int, * | and 60 cent* for each subsequent Insertion. Advertisement* not specified* ss to time, DUbUahed until ordei-ed out, and charged accordingly. All advertisements considered due from first Inser tion. One inch to constitute a sqdare. jjm i•■ . m ADVERTISEMENTS. Attorney & Counsellor at Law . » YANCEYVILLEI i\f. C, GRAHAM GRAHAM, Awociate Counsel, ' Gr. F, BA>:ON Attorney at Law, GRAHAM, N. C. gCOTT & DON NELL. GRAHAM, N. C., Buy and sell COTTON, CORN, FI.OVB, BACON EiAKO, AND ALL KINDS OF COVNTRV.PBODVCB, . feb. 16-2 m Q.EORGE V. LONG, M. D., P HYBILI AW and NIHCKIOS Graham, N. c., Tenders his professional services to the pub lic. Office and residence at the "Graham High Scnool buildings where be may be fotfiid, night or day, ready to attend all calls, unless professionally engaged, feb #-ly P. R. HARDEN, .iGraham, JV. C.% \ DEALER IN Dry-Goods Groceries, nABDWARK, D rugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuff Clothing; Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Robbers. Tabaeca, Clears, Setts, Teas, KEROSENE OIL, CROCKERY, Earthen ware, Glassware, Cqff'ees, Spice 'Grain, Floor, Farming Implements, feb 16-ly GREENSBORO PATRIOT BSTABLIRHBD 182 J! Published weekly in Greensboro, N. C. by Duffy fc Albright, at £3.10 per year In advance —postage included. It is Democratic-Conservative in politics and labors zealously for the material prosperity of the South generally and North Carolina particularly. lyNorth Carolinians abroad should not be without it. TBMHTOH: yy R. FORBIS & BROTHER, (nnder the 3cnbow Hall,) GREENSBORO, N. C„ keep coust&ntly on* hand a complete assort ment of FURNITURE. Repairing of every description, including Upholstering neatly done. Their stock consists of , CHAJIBKR SETS, an ging in price from *25.00, to $500.00 ; OBiee, Dlaia|.Reea, Parlar aad Beck- Chalra, Bsreasi, Vardrebcs, - ■■*lae«»nk« l Ssfcs,Crlbs. Cra dles aad Trasdlcßeds tmr Ibe »■ Utile fslhs, Waitresses aasl - SvriagßtStafertrrw •*■7 and style, Hat-racks and an* and everything In the furniture line. Their Mock is the lanrest and most complete ever offered in this portion of the State. They defy competition in qnalitv or price. aprSOJhn "PfOUSTON & OAUS^ . t * WJIOLELALE AND RBTAL BBOOBBS, 4l; QBE SNBJ3 OH 0, N. C., i n^. w JISSS 4114 *** daily receiving, a JajpestoekofGßOCEßrES. which they lriU f~ |° Country Merchants on better terms tf-aa they can buy elsewhere-which wljl * better Cent ' than eoUc,tcd > which shall have nrompt attention. apr47-Sm IIA'S OLBBBAV. A STORY OF DBJED I'OBUERY. BY CA*Lfelt£NT. The recent relations concerning deed forgeries, at a criminal trial in Chicago, have of an incident ihat occured a few /ears ago, in the vicinity jof St, Louis, which seems to hie worth relating. ~jr Clara and Jpary Mcrwin, sisters and , orphans, wete in the sitting-room of their pleasant home on 'the edge of a village near the Missouri. Their moth er iiad been dead for several years; their father had lately died, leaving them an ( estate as they supposed, of the valno of some forty thousand dollars. But they had learned quite recently that the property was encumbered to such an extent that they were likely to be depriv ed of it all. This discovery* ns may be v stipposed, filled them with sadness and : jluxiety, and they were seated iu silence, f unable to read, to converse, to work, to do anything, but brood over their great misfortune. While they were thus occupied with sombre thoughts, 9 buggy drove up in front of the house, and a man aliglited, and the buggy drove away. This man must have been a little on the shady side ot fifty, to judge from his t grey hairs, although his face was fresh and unwrinkled. He was dressechvith remarkable neatness, and his manner indicated briskness as well as precision. In one hand he carried a small valise, and iu the other an umbrella, and he stepped quickly to the door and rang the bell. In a few minutes he was ushered into the presence of the young ladies. "I'm obliged to introduce nnsclf," he said, smiling and bowing iu a court ly manner—"Abner Pierce. Here is my card—professional card. You will perceive that I am a lawyer in St. Louis, and presumably a respectable man. Don't be afraid; 1 am not here to hurt you, but to help you. 1 have the honor to call myself a friend of your family; that is to 6ay, although it is many years since I have seen any mem ber of said family. I always had the highest possible regard for your now sainted mother, and nothing could please me better than to be of soire ser vice to her children." "We are happy to meet you," mur mured Clara. "Thank you» I happened to hear— no matler how—that you were iu Iron ble, and have come up here in the be lief that I can assist; you. I hope you will feel that you can trust me. lam actually an honest man, although a law yer, and I mean well, although 1 may express myself clumsily." "I am free to admit," said Clara, "that wo need assistance and advice, and that wc have not known to whom to look for it." "Very well. It is a good thing, no doubt, that I have come. Now, sit down and tell mo all abont it." Clara Merwin, who was the elder of tho orphans, and the leader in every thing, told how she and her sister bad taken out lettcrsot administration upou their father's estate, when a man of whom they had never before heard put in an appearance, and presented a mort gage, with bond included, executed by tbe late Mr. Merwin, upon all his real estate, for the sum of forty thousand dollars. Not content with prohibiting them from attempting to sell anything, he had tied up their money in bank, leav ing them absolutely penniless. They had used their credit, but tradesmen were becoming impatient, and some had refused to supply them any further without pay. "That is a bad case," said Mr. Pierce, "You need money, that is the first thing to be attended to. You must let me act as your banker until I get you out of this scrape, and that won't be long, 1 hope. How much do you owe?" "More than one thousand dollars," answered Clara. The old gentleman counted oat two hundred dollars from a well filled pock et-book, and handed it to her. "For your mother's sake," be said, when she refused to receive it, and be forced it upon her in such a way that ahe could not help taking it.—He then accepted tbe young ladies invitation to nuke their house his home during bis stay, and went into dinner with them— "la there any place where '1 can smoke?" he asked, when they had re turned to the sitting-room. "Yon can smoke here," said the im pulsive Mary. "Pa always smoked here, and we are nsed to it." So he took a merschaum and some tobacco from his valise, and was soon puffing away with an air of great con tentment. "1 can think better when I smoke," QRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1875. lis saiil. "Did you have any lesral ad vice in tlio matter of that mortgage* Miss Mcrwin?" "Yes, sir," replied Clara. "Our law yer said that it was a plain case against ns, althou yh it was strange that we had never beard of the mortgage before. "Very strange. What is the name of the man who holds it?" " Alexander Campbell." "Hum. A good name, but a bad man, I am afraid. When and where can I see him?" ' "He will be hero this afternoon," an swered Clarft. "He proposes, if we will make him a deed of the real estate, to give np the bond and mortgage,lea v ing our money in bank and the rest of tjie personal property^*. "Very liberal. Introduce me to him when he comes, as an oil friend of ths family, and not as a lawyer." Mr. Alexander Campbell called in the course of the afternoon, and was made acquaiuted r with AbnerPierce, at whom he looked suspiciously; but hie eyes fell when he met the old gentle man's iute'ut and pierceing gaze. Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly at the deed that was ofi'crcd for the consideration of the ladies, being occupied in study ing the countenance of the man iu whose favor it was drawn. "I ca:i't decide upon it, just now," he %iid, at last. "As the friend of these young ladios—standing, as I may say, in loco parentis —l must make a tew inquiries concerning the value ot this property. Suppose you come up after supper, Mr. Campbell, and suppose you bring that mortgage with you. I have no doubt it is all correct, but I would like to see it." Mr. Campbell assented to this, and withdrew. Abner Pierce filled his pipe with nervous haste, but also with to bacco, and Mary brought him a light. "I know that you have some good news for ns," she 6aid. "I can see it in your face." "Not bud, my child. I hope and trust that it is very good. A good name, but a bad man, I said, and that is true. I think I sqt my way ©ot ef this difficulty, and the money 1 lent you is safe. But you inusu't interfere with me, young ladies, or be surprised at anything I may say or do, or object to it. You must trust me, and let me work in my own way." ~ ' After supper, when Abner Pierce had enjoyed snot her comfortable smoke, and had conversed with the girls con cerning their mother as he had tftiown her in her youth—a subject upon which he grew very eloquent—Alexander Campbell came iu, bringing the deed and "the mortgage, both of which he handed to Mr. Pierce for examination. "I have made inquiries concerning the property," said the old gentleman, "and am satisfied that it is not worth more than the amount of the mortgage, and it would ptobablv bring mncli less if sold at foreclosure. Your oiler is a liberal one; but I must first look at the mortgage. This appears to be correct," hfe continued, when he had examined the instrument. "It is properly ac knowledged aud the signature is un doubtedly that ot Philip Merwin. I suppose the young ladies will have to go to the county seat to execute the deed." The girls' countenance fell at this sudden surrender on the part of tlieir champion. "This reminds me, said tbe old lawyer picking up the mortgage again, of an occurence that fell under my observa toiu in Tennessee. Not that tbe two cases are alike, as the Teunesaee cas® was undoubtly a fraudulent aflair; but there was a similarity in the circum stances. Don't look so d&Wu-hearted, young ladies. 'What will be must be. and it is useless to cry about what can_ not be helped. As 1 was about to say, a man died in Tennessee, leaving a, widow and one daughter. The widow was about to administer upon his es tate, when a man who was unknown came forward, and presented a mort gage similar to this, Mid for exretly tbe same amount. It was examined by lawyers who werefamilar with the sig nature of the deceased, and pronounced correct. Although there was some- I tiling strati/je about the affair, they could find no flaw in tbe instrument. It was particularly puzzling to one of them, who thought that he bad transacted' all tbe law bndness of tbe deceased. He got ftold of the mort. gage and brought it to me when I was in Nashville. I happened to have In my possession a very powerful magni fying glass that had been presented to me—the most powerful single lens I have ever seen. With this 1 examined 1 the mortgage, and eoon discovered that 'forty' had been raised from 'four.' There was no mistake about it. 1 could easily see the marks of chemical erasure, and the diflcreuce. in pon and ink, be* tween the 'raised' and the rest of the in strument. How the rascal got Register's Office, I don't know; but the record there bad been altered in the same manner. He ran away, and it was not considered worth while to fol low Mia. JStrangu circumstances, wasn't it MfcSCampbell?" Mr, Campbell was fldgitinsr uneasily in his chair, audinade no reply. "Here is the glass," continued the 1 old gentleman, taking it from his pock, et, "ans you can see for your6elt how it magnifies. Now, as I look at this 'forty 1 ' —why, bless me! the same signs are visible that I saw in mr Tennessee mortgage! i think you will be obliged to drop this, Mi-. Campbell. My .Ton-., nesse man's name was Alexander Bell, and he has added a Camp to it since he came to Missouri. Campbell, his faco red as flame, reach ed out his hand for the document. "I believe 1 will keep this, Mr. Campbell, for fear of accidents.—What? do you think yon could take it by force? Here is something that shoots five times. Going, are you? Very well; I don't think yon n ill be molested, if yon will leave this part ot the country and never return to it r It is barely possible that the estate of Philip Merwin may really owo yon four tlious&ud dollars. If so, I advise you not to try to collect the debt, as such an attempt would land you in the Penitentiary. Good night, Mr. Campbell, and farewell." ''Wbsftiait? What does tlii* mean?" asked Clara, as Mr. Pierce, rubbing bis hands and Smiling, bustled around to fill his pipe. '•Are yon so dull, my child? Why the fellow is a swindler, and has been found out. I guessed as much when I first heard of the aflair, and was snre oi it when you told me his namo. You will soou be able to pay me my S2OO, and then we will straighten up matters. Thank you, Mary, you are very kind to give me a lights" f'Do you mean to punish him?" ask. c 3 Mary*- '•lt 4N>uld hardly pay. We coul4j>ut him in the " penitentiary, but you might loose four thousand dollars by the job. By trying lor forty thousand, be has lost the four that may have been justly his due. lie will be iar from here by morning. I have no doubt, a good riddance to him! Ah! this is com fortable. I know that I feel better* and I hope that you do." Tne girls were sure that a great weight had been lilted from their minds and hearts. Alexander Campbell, alias Bell, decamped, and Abner Pierce stayed a week with the orphans, dnring which time he arranged all their nfiairs satis factorily, and won their lasting grati tude and love. "How can we ever thank you for all you have for ujT' said Clara, when he waa about to leave. Abner I'iercc has visited the orphans frequently since the event above narra ted, and they have always had a cordi al welcome for "ma's old beau." A ROJIAIfTIC TBBOBBY. The fatal issue ot a duel between two persons well known in Italy bas for some days past engrossed all conversation in Home. The son of M. Mauclui, a form er minister, and the greatest lawyer iu the country, is a captain of Bcraagher iu garrison at Milan, where lie resided with his wife, who as Sigdora Cottoii mall, had obtained some success with her poems. Captain Mancini obtained proof ot her intimacy with one of hi a friends, M. Bcnati de Baylon, a young man of good family. A hostile meeting with pistols was the consequence, aud the latter was shot in the breast aud died a ftw days later at the age of 89* As to the wife the husband merely sei.* jher to her family. Subseqoently, at the ! funeral ot the decased, the attendance was remarked of a woman, dressed in black, and appearing greatly moved. After the grave bad been closed she pro ceeded to a stone ciom, before which she kuelt, and drawing from her pocket la bottle of sulphuric acid, swallowed its contents at a draught aud fell inanimate. It was the guilty woman's femme-de chambre, whose discloorea had led to the vonng man's death. Her remorse led her to attempt suicide, and her recov ery Lb*despaired of. Remarking that a nation of marksmen may be said to be a nation of invind bles, the Chicago Timet says: "In tbo absence ot a standing army we have more needol training the arms; and very first In value in the handling of arms is the equality of marksmanship. The mannal oT arms, the company and brigade evolutions are mere excellen cies wbkh can be speedily acquired sufficient exactness for all military pur poses. Already has a dub been formed in Chicago, ana it is quite within the range of the probable tiiat, which is now rifle practice will have become a nation al amusement WANTED A WIFB A Fsllsw la Illinois, wke bas Trav elled all Over fh« WsrM, Is la Need ef * llrlp.Meel — What If* Dessa't Waal, and What He Waats—Paaar l»e»- ter. The following letter, which is now going the rounds of the Western papers, is welt worth reading: Lkxingtox, 111., June 25. To the Editor of the Chicago Tri bune: I am a young man on the sweet side ef 30. •I am rich. , I suppose I a*n worth ap much as $300,000. I have cultivated ami harvested my wild oats. I have seen all I desire to see of the world. I have traveled all over the globe. I have stood awe slruok and dumb with astonishment by the Pyra mids. I have gazed upon the cold and «milele&B countenance of the Sphinx, which has stood for years the mate monument of departed glory. I have sailed through the streets of glorious Venice in a gondola, and been woed to love-dreaming slumber on the bos om of the Adriatic by the love-song of a gay gondolier. I have visited the Alhambra by moon light, and beheld with ecstacy beauteous Spanish maidens dancing to the music of castinot aud lute. Jerusalem I have wept over, and stood within the solemn halls of the 1 Mosque ot Oliiar. The Tomb of Ti has been drenched by my tears. I made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and have quen ched my thirst at the well of St. Dustan. I once blew my nose on the top of the Tower ol Pisa, and I had tlio good for tnno to ascend in a balloon from the sum init of Pompey's pillar. I have wondered through the ruins of Herculaneum, and eaten of bread baked seventeen thou sand years ago. I swam the Helles pont, and took roftige in the Parthenon during a violent thunder-storm. I have travelled over the Applan Way, and slobbered on the big toe of his Sublime Eminence Pope Pius IX. I have inspeoted soveral thousand mum mies, and made a journey to Uji)i. I have passed, incog, through Teheran and Samarcand, bathed in the black Sea, and danced a jiff on top ot the ' Kremlin. I wept three gallons of tears tit the grave of Helois and Abelard, and walked through the sewers of Paris • I visited the battle-field of Waterloo and picked up thirty-two bushels of bullets, which I now have in my cabinet of cu riosities. I have seen the largest ele phantin the world, which is in the Royal stables of the king of Slam. He is 180 feet high, and so broad across the back that forty coiumom elephants might stand on him, with space enough be tween to play a game of croquet. I have seeu all the natural curiosities in tlie world. 1 have visited the most stopenduous precipices, and aw Ail gulfs and chasms that are to be found on the globe. 1 was once'at the crater of Ve suvius when a lady fell tn; filled with horror I jumped alter bcr,"aud miracu lously caught ber when abe reached the depth of SOO feet, and we were drawn up with ropes. 1 was once on the top of the highest mountain iu the world. I got so high that my watch stopped, and it was iinposible for a human being to breathe a minute. I remained over an hoar at thai giddy height. I am perfectly surfeited with travel and sight, seeing—yes lam disgusted. As for the fashionable world, 1 am sick of that. I have beeu at all ot the fashionable resorts and haunts of pleas ure in the world. 1 have tasted ot the waters at Eros. Baden-Baden has seen my sweet counteuanoe. I have been among the elite, the upper ten, the bon ton. 1 have sat within the luxurious and wanton courts of royalty; and what a mess of Stinking humshity it all ia—faugh! I can't express my disgust. I have seen all the pflkty women—no tably, Princess of Wales and the ex- Empress Eugenia, and I am disgusted with pretty women. I am disgusted with travel, with society, wtth pretty women, and with hollow humanity— in short I am disgusted with everything and everybody I have ever seen, and now I want to settle down into a quiet, domestic hfe. To be brief, I want to marry. ——— Here is the sort of woman I don't want; I don't want a fool. I don't want one thai thinks she awfal pretty. Idon't want one that pretends she don't know the nature of the animal oalled a hog, and, when she seesone, imagines it is a lion or a tiger, and shrieks, "Ob, deah Jawgee; do shoo that bog off; -Pm.so afraid ot a hog,,' and faints away and has to be carried home on a shut ter. Hero i» the sort of woman 1 do want I want one that is ugly; I want one with a cultivated mind; one that sees life asitis, and has a contempt for smell ing-bottles; a bopetnl, tender, loving ' * ' . ; ' . NO. 27- soul that can eat with a knife gnd fork, and will not turn up her nose at porlc and beans. I want a woman that can visit a slaughtering establishment where they aro killing ten thousand hogs a day aud contemplate the scene with inter* " est and eothnsiasm. I want a woman who can eat seven peas at a sitting with out having hysterics. I should be pleased to open corres pondence with any ladies matrimoni ally inclined on the American continent (excepting residents of the city .of Brooklyn; no communications from that city will be noticed) ; but of course I shall expect that ladies answering this solicitation will at flrst say they are merely in tun. ; J . ' t • JISNttV VIXCKNT. .. ' i 1 OEM. PICKET , HOW UK DIED. The Landmark gives the fallowing particulars of his sickness and demise: About two weeks ago Major General George E. Pickett in Nonolk cn a tour of inspection to examine, as was his ' custom at stated periods, the local office of the Washington Life Insurance Com pany, and took lodgiHgs at the Atlantic Hotel. The Generll was accompanied by his fhmily, aud his compact, soldier like figure seemed as firm as when be rode at the head of his famous division. 1 ' Boon after his arrival he -teas attacked with what \yaa thought to be an'ordi- * nary bilious disorder, aud onr towns man, Dr. Shepard, was called in. For several days the ease presented a favor able nspect; but suddenly bad symp toms appearing, Dr. William Sel den * was consulted. Soon thereafter It was decided to remove Ibe General to the Hospital of St. Vincent do Paul in order that he might have the attention of or ganized nurses, and there his condition became such that Dr. Beal, his fiunily physician, was telegraphed fbr, and in response to this message hq arrived on lite evening of tlto %Bth. As the disorder progressed the diag nosis was that the General suffered from an apsoess am the liver, and it was from this that the gallant soldier finally died, after a stoat resi»tance to the ap proaches of the fell destroyer. When it became knowtf that he bad belu re moved to the Hospital the community became alarmed fbr the first time, aud the genoral anxiety was great aiid paiu ftd up to the last moment. The death ofso distinguished a man -at any time would have been a distressing extent, bnt unexpected and sudden as it was the State and community will bo inexpressibly shocked at its announce ment.—lie realised his danger at an early day, and met his fiato with a dig nity aud composure worthy of his life and character, THE CHABGK AT UKTTYSBCRG. The Norfolk Virginian says of' this celebrated charge: "But it was the ever-memorable dav of July 3d, 1868, that covered Pickett and Pickett's men with imperisable glo ry, and linked their name with the no. bljst and the Saddest history of Confed erate achicvment.—That day rose bright aud smiling on the buoyant hopes of a brave army till over all opposition aud fail of confidence in com ing victory. It witnessed an assault which, fbr desperate daring has rarely been equall* ed in the wars of nations, when fro in the hill which t|iey had occupied, down its decent and up toHjie enemy's front, fbll half a mile of open and exposed ground, amid the iron hail of two hun dred cannon belching shot and canister aud shrapnel, add the leaden rain pour ed out from the massed intantry that thickly liued the crest of Cemetery Ridge, Pickett, with Kemper and Gar , nett aud Armistead, lead his division a forlorn hope—forty-five hundred men— against the ooncentrated strength of-the Federal army. No grander sight ever fascinated the gaze of'mility men than that of those noble heroes charging in steady and unbroken line of battle, through smoke and fire and death, up that taial hill, to and over the breast works that lined it, over two lines ot guns, oyer two lines of iufantry. up to verge of victory. But alas! It might not be. Valor had doue its utmost ;It was not fated that they should win, then and there, another independence day. Unsupported, broken, disrupted, scat tered, the survivor* who reached the crest found themselves but the skeletou of the division that but a few minutes ? before bad so proudly inarched down the opposite descent: while aiouud them closed countless masses of hostile intantry, and them was concentrated the fire of a dozen batteries; aud then commenced the " retreat, from which emerged but one-fbnrtb of the com maud before the charge. That charge i has gone into history a testimony to the valor of Confederate «>ldier» that will never fide."
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