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A'OL. 2 THE GLEANER. PtTBJ.ISHKU WEEKLY fiv PARKER & JOHNSON Crnlinni, N. C, Half of Paid : One Year $1.50 1 Six Months .i......... . ..T."> Three Mouths 50 Every person sending as a chili of ten subscribers with the cash, entitles hini.-elI lo one copy free, for the length of time fo; which the club is made up." Papers tent to different oiliees., Xo Departure from the C'as.h System K.Hm of Adrrrlinjus, Transient advertisement* payable hi ad vance ; yearly advertisements "quarterly in advance " '1 m . 2 in. -8 in. | t> in. , 12 ui. 1 qua re « > 00 iS «:0 i-4 00 * tj 10 VI!) 0.1 2 i 3 00 4 50| C 00 10 00 : 15 06 . 1 ratislcnt advertisements $1 per square for t 1 !" first. #tml, fifty ejnls for each subse 1 qiicnt iaseiilon. Advcr.iscaieuts not specified as to time:; publislu-d until ord.rccl out, and charged ■ accordingly. .111 ad vert is nicnts consiflerrd due from tirr-t insertion. One ii.ch in couctltute a sqhfti £ for f..rger advertisements, than ttr.v squares, terms as reasonable ;.s* can be af- i forded, according to special contract, b'l-eil upon th; rales above spt.—i-)iy set forth. i ADVERTISEMENT. J P G L LLEY, i RETAILKU A>D JopEK OF j O I vy-Gooils, C I(ithii)g! soTio.m BURT'S HAKD-MADE | Boots & Gaiters I ■I AT!* AND CtPS, V.IMNER, TttlMlß.il HIT IC €>OOIIN. j AC'., Ac. ' I Fotilh Cor. EaycilevUle St., and Exchqnyt j Place RALEIGH. N. . IT WON'T PAY!! You knmv it won't pay to make your pur- j chases from old stock, ahead) picked ovei. Our Mr. Gaut has jnsfr returned from the No th, where lie personally selected and pur chased a large stock of Drr-tio«d4, (irdcfrif". Qnrru*-Ware, HolUn-lV h rr, Willow-Ware, Hnriltrnrr, together with a well assorted stock of netDY-niPK ti. oniix;, and the most eomplete line of ]stotio^sS ver offered to the people of this county. Hoots and Shoes of 'every variety, including the I>e.-t hand made. We make a specialty of Boots and , Sfufos, and we ask an examination of our j stock. Look and judge for yourself. We | defy competition inpriccs or quality. Wei will sell you the best calicoes, for 10 cents. | We can sfll vou a good suit clothes for $lO. j We wish, especially, to oil your attention j to the great decline in prices in the Northern | markets. We bought at these reduced prices | Oarcustomers si.all have all the advantage j of the good bargains we made. Highest 1 prices paid for alf kinds of produce. Come to j xee us ! J. Q, GANT, 4 CO, j Company Shops, Nov. 2nd, 1873, nov.3-tf | Drugs, Paints, —-1 ...i. ... ■ J GLASS k C. . *y- ->n«mntlT na hand a good asort- , pient of j_ i rKBKIH PKl'GIt AND tIIK.II CALH, different brands of white Lead, a large utocV /»f WIXDO W GLASS, ii'f' 'II ' "*lTf'iinpi "wins ■ i fi ' which we are now selling for lop money than they have ever been sold for m this sectiou. we will supply Yillage& country Merchants a better article than they buy North for the caiue money. Also we have a large stock of TRUSSES AND SUPPORTERS, together with a full and complete line of TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES. Come and see na,lnspect oar stock and saiifsy joam.lt of the truth of what we amy. The Se nior member of the Onn ha. returned practice can always he found at the UnLr Store When not professionally encased B. W. GLENS A BON In theßenbow House, Oroaosboi-o, N C L' ' THE ALAMANCE - GLEANER. Poetry, . uo.vr i.i t n: tiir'fakjT i Come boys. I have something to tell yon, | Come near t would whisper it low— ; \ ou are thinking of leaving the h m;estcad. ; Doy't be in a hurry to go. ! Th* city has many attractions! i j Hut think of the vices and sin*, , | When once in the vortex of fashion, 1 How slo.i tie course downward begins. Von ■ Jk of the mines of Aust 1 i, T e re wealth) In gold, without d übt, , bui. uii*. there is £old on the farm, b>\ s, : If yo.i'll shovel it out. | Tua merchants lite is a hazard, j The goods are first high and then low; Better risk the old farm a while longer, Don't be in hurry to go | The ffreat stiring word ha 9 Inducements, There is many a busy mart, But wealth is not made in a day boys, Z»on't be in a hurry to start 1 The bankers and brokers are wealthy, They take in theij Ihousan.is or so; Alt think of the frauds and deceptions, 1 Don't be in a hurry to go! Th« farm is the safest and surest. The orchards, are loaded to-day : \ You're free as the air of the mountains, | i And monarch of all von survey ; • Better stay on. the farm a while longer, Though profits should come rather slow; | Remember you've nothing to risk, boy# j | ion't be In a hurry to go! TIIK HUfK IVITKBBS. ; One cold, raw morning in Febrnnrv, | Byrd Du Peyster, a detective, received j j the iuteliisrenc of a fearful deed of' 1 crime "Which has been eoVuiiiitiect t during the silent hours of the night | !just departed. The account of the! j deed was read by a boarder while the I I detective quietly sipped hiscollee, and I the man remarked as he put the on the chair beside hi to. "There's another en fit 1 for the book ' of mysteries. lam willing to Iw one hundred dollars that the proverbial j acumen of our best-detectives w ill tail i to discover the perpetrator of the j crime on Caerry sheet. Gentleman," | and here the. speaker fixed his eyes on I Du Peyster, "gentlemen, just think u! j it! A villain outers the abode of a j poor sewing woman, whose only child j is a mute, live vears old. lie comes! to do a bloody deed, and his struggles j with the widow evidently frightens! the child, who runs hwav, and i.- found in the attic among* the rags, j The murdercommitted, the man takes | his departure. The widow's meagre I savings are untouched, her bureau j and stands untitled. Nothing has been taken save life. That man, wh >- } ever he is, laughs at the detectives,! and dares them to hunt him dow;. j and tell why he took the lite of a poor j stwiug woman. I declare, gentle men, that nuiKiCr in this case will uoi ' out." The man's words, directed Du j Pe;Bter, did not elicit a sentence in! reply. The detective continued to sip ' his coflce with an air that seemed to 1 say to the man, "You can't make me j ! deliver an opinion." j The other tJoarder, more communi-1 I cative than the inan-hunter, discussed | the case until a general conclusion! w\as reached, to wit; That the mur derer ot tlrs needle nvc man would for-! ' ever remain undiscovered. The first: 1 speaker lelt proud of the conclusion ! reached, and passed the cigars nround ' bejore the company lett the jtable. j "I would suggest tlnit we watch j i the developments in this case," he said j ■to the company at large. "It will j ; suffice to amuse our curiosity, a? well: las to stimulate research into the mys ! terious.'' } Hyrd i_>u I'eyster walked from t!ie j ! diuiug-roout to his little chamber on I the second floor, where he picked up | hat and cane and immediately left the I house. lie walked straight to the uiipre ! lentious frame _ building on Cherry ! street, wherein the murder of the j night before had been committed. He ! found a swarm of the denizens of that | quarter in frmt of the house, but two j policemen stationed at the door kept them trom rushing up stairs to the [scene of the rragctrr. Tne detective, after pushing his j way through the crowd, easily ob-i uined admittance, ami entered the death chamber, where ho found a surgeon, two police o plains, and a newspaper reporter,, The surgeon was examining the victims wound, which consisted of a knife thrust in the left breast. The keeu steel had pene trated the left ventricle of the heart, rendering death instantaneous But there were evidences of a struggle in the room. A chair which had sccm nigly b*en thrown backward was broken, and pieces of woman's work lay about the room. Mrs. Nolan, the victim, was a wo man about five-and-thirtjr years of age. Her husband had been dead near six years, and her mute son, ileury, was a pos humous child. She was a woman agnint whose fair name nothing had ever been alleged, and she plied the needle industriously night and day that l.er little family should not want f r the blessings that she, despite liei poverty, enjoyed. Her unfortunate sou was the love of! her life, and all of her motherly affec tion was centered upon him. A mute GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 187(1 Ironi his birth, Mrs. Nolan could no' expect to hear him speak her name, pud the neighbors said she longed "for the time when he iLightgo to the j proper school and learn lo writo, thai j they might converse together. 4 Byrd Dii Peyster, Hie detective ex amined the apartment without ob taining; any clew to the, murder, and j the evidence of he dcuizens ot the I neighborhood did not enlighten him 110 a salistuctorv degree. A man was , seen to enter Mrs. Nolan's house about leleven o'c'ock on the inglii of the" . * ' crime. The witness to this was a I man named John Starry, who did not | bear a very good imputation for verae j itv, and his word did not go far with j the detective. No one knew of any enemies that the widow possessed while tb circumstances of the crime clearly proved that booty was not the murderer's object. x For perhaps the first time in his de tective life, the little Huguenot was I completely at fault. He returned to j his room, and, with « cigar between ! iiis teeth, thl'OW himself Upon a couch, j There he conjectured, mil buiit llieo lies which he desi roved, till he lit a I second oigur, and watched the smoke j float ceilingward and vanish like his j idea s . j For one hour he did not rise, and he looked like a dozing man, for his eyes were half shut; but he was far troni j asleep. | AH at once lie sprang from the i couch. , | "It is my only hope P'he cried. '-It may take vears but I can do nothing I r i else. Something tells tne t .a: the • dumb boy knows his mother's shiver. jand he onist be till lie cjm ! write. I wil: do'lhis or, raibef.Vave it done. The great aim of my life now lis the discover* of the murderer of j Martha Nolan. The dumb shall speak, and it shaii not be my fault it'thedumb I boy's words do not hang him.'* Du Peyster left his room somewhat excited, and learned ....that Mrs. X - lan's s. hi was already the ward of the city. "I want that boy," the detective said to the commis ioncr of public charity. '•! am interested in his ease, and will furnish him with a teacher who has had I went y years experience teaching the deaf and dumb* Sir, that b >y has a mission to perform, and in inv hands only can he perform it." The commissioner listened with pa liencti to the detective, and the result of the interview was that Henry No* lan was placed under the care of a new guardian. • Having accomplished his object, Du Peyster placed the little mute in the care of a lady who had lately retired from the position of teacher iu a school jor the deal and dumb. This lady was the defective's liiend, and she prom ised to bestow great care upon the boy committed lo her charge. The boy was a bright little follow I for one so unfortunately situated, ami j took quite readily to his change of j life. The detective visited him quite • often and bought him many t >yg that j helped to iftpitud his mind. After all Henry Nolan might not be , able to throw any light upon his mother's murder; for he may have | been frightened from the room by the i tyurderer's first appearance. Du | l'cyster t ought of this, but dhl not j despair, and told his tutor to prose-1 ctue her ta*k with vigor. By and by it was .discovered that j the boy possessed a remarkable mem ory—that lie seemed to orget not ing ' —and the detective, when told this,; exclaimed: That boy is going to hang the man who killed his mother!'' At the end of a year llenrv Nolan had made some progress in the, to him, silent language, he had mastered the alphabet and was in the easy words. W'ithVhat impatience Du Peyster watched his progress, the reader may imagine, astiie detective's whole lile seemed centered upon the object . molltiniMcanwiiila lie had not abated his search for the murderer; but his hunt hail gone un rewarded, and without the luy'a ad vancement t.e fctetned as far from success as he was at the discovery of the crime. It was late in t'*c Fall that the mute's teacher told the detective that he was learning to write. l)u li ster's heart leaped into his bosom, and lie could not controi his excitement Naturally he was a calm man, but at certain times, since the murder OH Cherry street, be lia'l acted like art. other'person, and hi* -ui eriors had noticed a change in him. From the ciiiel'and every memlter of the force he had •crupulouslv k«|»t all informa tion concerning the wheieat>out* of lienrv Nolan. It his great unJertak* ing should tail, his associates should •lot laugh at him, sliinild it succeed be would laugh at them, for they had long since given over the hunt tor the murderer. That he-might talk with his chaise, the keen little Huguenot had .learned the mute's alphabet, and thus mate rially helped tne teacher in Henry's education. By and by the boy brought hiin specimens of his flr»t attempt at I writing, and Du Peyster brought a I magnificent little engine, with cars attached, to I he house. I One night he entered the house and [discovered that Miss Hurley nail I stepped out for a tew moments, leav ing the boy alone. Tno present just spoken of had stimulated the mute's j ambition, and he showed the detective some fair copies. Then, with his heart in his throat, Du Pevstor began to question him about that one terri ble night in his history. At the second question in which was spelled his.mother's name, the bo y started, and tho detective saw that he was recalling events connected with her. He seemed to be wakening from a dream, but was unable to put' his thoughts togethei, and Du Peyster said: "I must wait awhile. The boy knows something. It will pay me to wait!" And so another year ivllcd away, and Henry Nolau was eight rears' old. f Bui when the detective* again j thought of questioning the boy, a ! malarious disease interfered and 1e | saw'be mute hovering between life; and death. Eor weeks the boy suffered, and the ! detective saw that in the end death would gain the vhtory. Th«J attend-! ing phvMeian told him that uudical skill eouhl not save his proteye; audi lie felt his hopes otio by one flv away. " Iu a small room sat Byrd T>n Pev -1 sierand Netiie Hurley. On a bed at ilieir side lay tne pale eiMMciateil form of Henry Nolan. A straiige light sparkled iu his eyes, and In looked like "a person very Hear the gates of death. And they were not lar away ; for he knew that he would tic»r>to.Ki'e the dawn of another dC •At last Tiis eyes became fastened on the detpefive, who, seeing the 'strange stare, rose to his feet and looked down upon the stitlerer. This action seemed -to satisfy the inute, and the next moment he was spelling with his fingers: '•I will tell now," his lingers said, and iu a hasty voice the detec ire summoned Nettie to bis side. "It is coming, Nettie—coming at last!" lie exclaimed, and the psir watched the mute's skeleton fingers as they said: " A fall inan did ih I saw him be. fore I ran away. He had a red mark over his light eye, like A a scar. lie turned the light down before he struck mother, and knocked her from the chair. This U all I know." With the lust word falling from his fingers, the mute sank back exhaust el, and Du Peyster looked at the teacher, , "Poor hoy ! he's told enough!" he said, " IPhat he has said is sufficient to hang a certain man iu this city," " What do you mean. Byrd?" cried Nettie Hurley, grasping the detec tive's arm. Do you know anything about the man with the sear?" "Do I knew anything "about him, Nettie?indeed I do!" "What, Byrd?tell njel'' "Not now, girl. hp. T IH uttbud to Little Silence. See how woak he i*. Why, I do not think he i-t living!" Henry Nolan did not look like n dead child; but he suddenly routed himself, and hi-, lingers b%.ut to .pell again. "(iood by! lam going to hear and talk now he said. Then the head fell back again, and />u I'evster, who lowered hit brad, heard the last tbro.> of the inute'i* heart! It was not niuoo'cloc!; in the murning ol'thc next day when Liyrd Uu IVynter entered mie of the large pbaraiaciu* of the city. Approaching a he re marked that he wished to *ee Turoyl Smiley on private hi lineM. and was* shown to the elegant Imniihc.l count ing room. Tin; apartment was occupied by OIK- ■ ■nan who warTaroj-i buiiitrj, (ha iiwiwl t of the -veil-known firm,of S.uiley,! Uridgctuan Sc Co. "To whom am 1 indebted tor tl i* | visit "i" a*k:d the lord of the counting-; , room, turning from the Herald to sur-1 vey hi* visitor from head to foot.! , "To HyrU Ou I'eyester, a detective,'' : [.replied the culler, quietly dropping] unasked into a chair. Well. Mr. Du j I'eyster, what can I do lor you?"' the pfcaruiaceu list turning •lightly. "llayo my clerks sold poisdfiHgniq?" "1 hey have not, to my knowledge." was the detective's icply. Mr. Smi ley, I want to know why roti entered | Martha Nolan's hou«e otic nigh*, three ' yea in ago and basely took her life." 4 The next moment the paper fell from the druggist's hand*, and he was on bis feet looking more like a ghost than man. "Martha - v olai» did joa say ?" he gasped. "Yes, sir. You killed her!" 1 " Who told you?" "The only witness to the deed—her dumb boy. i wani u> k*ow whyyou did it?" For the space of a minute there was silence iu the counting-room. At the end of that lime (he druggist dropped lii to his chair and said. ' i 4 *She knew me iu Ohio —knew tmr ! t'l'imo committed there. I was afraid [of her—know that she would not take my money,.and so 1 did the deed that night, t write you my confession/ The druggest wheeled.his chair and opned his wt,iting-deslc. "1 k-new that it, would come to this,'* he murmured. "I had almost forgot ten her bov!" j Iljrrd Du Peyster saw him open the desl{, but did not watch him close All at once ;«m:thing foucli his ai m. He started,and saw the druggist's hand clutching *j?«l while his face tiad assumed a color a I mist iinte*-: scribablc. The detective sprang to hi feet and sounded alarm. A momisit later several white-face clerks entered tho counting-room. J and hastened to the head of the firm from whose nerveless hands the halt enipty vial of prussic acid had fallen. * The tragedy was finished, for TuroyT Smiley was dead! On his desk lay his brief but 'er liblo confession, which startled all who read it iu the evening papers. „ , Byrtl Du Peyster at once became re-ioguiznd as a great detective; but his career was brief. He is dead now, and, straflge to say, not one who was personally interested iu the late of Martha Nolan is Hying lo day. * The dpteetive, prwr to the mute's death-bed communication, hud Hot" suspected the suicide; b'li had recent ly encountered him, and noticed llie 1 scar over his v\ e. Du Peystoi's waiting, and Nettie Hurley's toiling, had" avenged a mother's death. THIS IS LEAP YEAR. —Married—On. Wednesday, at the tesidence ot Mr. WarmauClark, bv E. A. Williams' t'sq., Ml*. Itygy Glover to Tommy liar ret. Said l'eggy is of Ihe tender age of fitly. Growing weary of sin- ; glo blcs»edu6s*, she set out last! Sunday morning on a leap year rourt-> ing excursion. After visiting several j eligible single men, and lim ing to j take 1, .N0' ? lor an answer, she al last called at the hou>e of Sirs, lian'et I mother ot her intended victim, lie is nineteen yenrs olit, and has lived in; this wicKcd world long enough toj experience all the inconvenience and I •desolation of the boy whu is too big | for his mammy to spank, and yet he • has no one to sew oil his buttons, j She made her proposal with, true j bissextile boldness, aud he, overcome j with w.cdcsty and contusion, at first | blushed, sighed, and hung down his I head. But, alter tantalizing her for 1 some time with his coyness, he finally j sank upon her brca»t, and was en closed iu her loving arms. You may gUeis tiio rest .—h'paf-ta (Teiin) hi de, x. ' rURTTI.no. Otic frctter can destroy the peace of' a family, cau distuib the harmony of a • neighborhood, can uusetle the councils • of uilie*%ud hinder iu legislation ot I nations, lie wiio frets is never the onj: I who mends who heals, who repair evils; more, he Uiscouiages, enfeeble, and too often disables thoi* around him wlio, buc fur the gloom and du pressiou of his y>inpauy, would du ' | good work and k-ep up brave cheer.; ! The ellect upon u sensitive person ot' ' the mere neighborhood of a fretter |is indescribable. It is to the soul what a cold icy mist is to :he body I j —more chilling than the biterest storm aud wlieu the fretter is one who is | beloved, whose nearest relation to his ! Uiakc his fretting at the weather seen) ' almost like a personal repioach to u> ' then the misery of it becomes indeed I insupportable. Most men call fretting I a minor lault. a toibiu aud not a vice. I l'hcre is uo vice except drunketiiw** | which can so uleiry de»troy tbo peace ■ and hapiuesas of a home.— lndex and Appeal. ' Female suflragc is uot popular even j ; iu Wyoming—the ''citv of refuge" for | aspiring woiustfhood, A letter iu the ; j 'Jiuah ileraid say*: i Candor compel* me to say that the j woman of Wyoming *retu to l»vc the I ' ferocious male brute who trample on j their rigrtts mneh better than political : treedoiu, they lo not seekyftk-e: have j entirely abandoned the jury room and | seem to be growing yearly more in- i different about Toting. The trouble' , rectus to be that women a« » mats' are unwilling to take up the |N>liiical 1 | problem, believing, as I hey do, that; | their lather, brother*, husband*, ai.d , | sweethearts will manage it as well as if' I; they all went into, politics together.! .j It they wanted the franchise all over i i the conutry, I don't see how we could | refuse the dear creatures; but they . think more of pin-backs than poli- I tics. Why is a lawyer the roost ill-used ■ j man iu our sue ial system?" Because ; 1 though he may drive hiaownjsai'i ia;- | he must draw the conveyance of other j 1 people. I RItAIVSAID (I' TIIOO »> E lltn —- The editor of the Souther.) Cu'tira | tor iaa tienchant article under the I above caption has the following to j say: [ ''With the light of past j bsfure us, what crops shall wc plant? A part ol the answer is as plain as .the noonday suit: pruvMi*»n crops ol some kind".sufficient at least to run the farm. Everybody admits that. Iu this connection, we would urge again i the manuring ot all corn lands, not, likely to sillier from drought to a very high degree. Very much is lo be gained by pushing stieli lauds to a >leld of 75 to a 100 bushels per acre. I On dry uplands the benefits of liiglij manuring mar be lost" through i drought. Not so with valley lauds.! Seventv-fiva to one lr n.lred bushels cotton seed and three to four hundred pounds acid phosphate per acre, may be very safely and profitably applied. The cost will be from Slo lo s.'> per acre—the gain (with same hoing and plowing) CO to "ii bushels of corn. Will not those who doubt try the ex periment 011 one acre this year—or it. i their faith is verv weak, ou a hall or j quarter acre? We wa .t, friends, to I gel out of the old ruts—the draft is | t?o heavy and you are about lo stall, j There is nc wisdom, no common sense 'in pursuing the same course year after j year, when the end is nothing but fail j ure—utter failure. - A not her prt>pos iti-jn, - pal pablc to.j every one'» operations should be, brought sharply within the limits ofj his uieatis. Credit at all limes is hazallous —during periods of great financial disturbance it is almost in variably disas.rous. Creditors tneu become unusually clamorous, and property brings little when forced to sale. But what shou.d be done if one is already iii d.'bt, it may be asked Sell if need be everything over and above what is needed to run a one horse farm, and start from tit! bottom Show yourselves honest and you will not need homestead or other laWs to protect you. Creditors are exacting because they fear dishonesty. IP hen one firmly and cheerfully resolves to pursue a course like this, it is surpris ing how little fsrequired to run a farm and support a family till a crop is made. A cow"and. a garden will keep stuvafiou a long .lust think of the quantity of Irish potatoes that can be raised on a lilt# patch of ground—how early in the season they! arc available—and how nearly- this tuber can supply the place of bread.t Whilst urging this hen tie .treatment,! we hope few will need it. Wc are! sure, however, that very nearly all our farmers would be beiterecj by. more or less contraction of business,' selling enough to pay off old debt»j and then adhcreing firmly and inflex-' ibly lo the maxim, "pay as you go.*'j The (.ivits af Government. —Ex- 1 Gov. Juo. T. Hoffman delivered a k-c- i ture iu New York ou Mouiiay even- j ing, his subject being and | Order—-The Limits of ,G«'verniueut.'", While basing his general principal of , goiverument on tbo ones eluciilatetl by tinizot, Buliue7. and other eminent jurist*, he maintained that the princi ple# of preservation of liberty and order as forming tin* limits of tbo pow ers >f a n>>od general government is better understood in tin- United Slate* than they have beou in any other country. jS'omueb for being a hero: John] Filzpatrick, one ol the famous "Six, Hundred" who participated in that i "ra»h and fatal charge oil the battle'* bloody marge" it lt.ilakl.nva, ha* died ot starvation at Manchester Knglahd. lie had lor some unex.plui ii d reason rev ived no pcosiuii for year*; was i«» old to earn hu Jilting, a* be did lur a time by vlrctti riiijuit; rcfiucd to g/> to the woik-hou»e, and so litifved to death. The \ e;diet «f tin: c iroi»lr'» inrv is as: "Died of star vation, and (he ca»e a disgrace to the i SVarOfire." Bull backs have their drawlstcks, as a young woman of Den Moines, ioaa, fiuiid when she went to a Masonic eiitertsiriment last week. She looked at th>; tables with h'irriir, ejaculating to her escort. "Goodness gracious ! Are they going: to sit down? i didn't exp»;ct that —i I ain't fixed to sit down.' Ile fouud a place fir her alongside the mantel piece, w here she could take her sup per standing. I{« caiuchome wry late one night am! after funthlig with Lis luVli kej a good while, muttered to hiuiseif, h.N 1 lie' at length vponol the door, "i njiuhnruakc'jj noi*h,caush tholmran's ashleep." He liivtfclod himself of lii;- gariucntk with «>nio trouble and was congratulating Uiuiself on his success, as he was getting inio btd, when a caltu, clear, cold voice sent a chili down hia spinal column.* " Wliy, you ain't going to sleep in NO. 4. j Siio wouldn't, lie jilted : Mus« Bella ! Harper, of fc"»ii-h«vm, West-Virginia | was |f.iu attention by a young man j who finally said he would not have ! ifii'. Then Miss Belle armed herself* I vith her father's shot gnn, and step.- j I'ing out of her d or as her lover wait ' |)iuv«ing on the opposite side of th«» | 8 reet, r.i.sud the gun, and she say*, j t o : aim, played to tike Lord, anil | liii'd." The young niau fell, Sjls* I ilar.ier stepped back into the hou.sr tnd s«id to her fatl.er, " Pap, I've | shot him," and then sat down and i nt' a hearty dinner. Sue is out on ! iiail, and yie will aoou he out on | ci l uiehe*," J j What is the matter, sir?" said a I surgeon to his patient, '' \\\ri, [ lnive cate% some oysfers, ! aud I suppose they have disagreed with me." " llave you eaten anything else?" "Well, no—why yes, I did too; t hat is, I took fortriy tea a mince-p'e, four bottles of ale, and two glasses ot' 5111, and I' liave eaten the . oysters j since, and I really believe the oysters ! were not good for mY-." How Jo I look, Pomimy?" said a young New York dandy to his nesro. servant, as he finished dreeing. " El- -• egniit, »u)B."ft; youjwk boltl as alum.* Bold ax a lion, Pompov ! how do you know ! You »u ver wiw a lion," Oh! yen, massa, I NUETL one down at MIUWJV Jetik's.in hisstulilo." Down at .Teak's, ' % Pompey ? Why, you great foot, .leak* lias not got a liou-; that'* a jackass." 1 •' Can't help it, niasua; you look just, like him." THE L XWTKR'B TRAD*. —A day or two aao.when a young man entered a Detr >it lawyer'* oflier to study law ay* the Free Pre**, the practitioner »ai down beside hint and »ald: vjfulr. SEE I have IM» time TO tool away ami if you don't pan out well I won't keep yon thirty day*. l)o von want to make a good lawver?" . "Yen, sir." "Well, now listen. Be polite to old people, because they have ra*h Be good to the boy*, bernu>>e they are growing up to aeaf.li basin. Work in with reporter*-and get pud's. Go to uhtirvh lor the sake of example. Don't fool any time away on poetry ami dutt't even look-at ft girl until you villi l>tead a ca«e. It i'ott UUI tollow (lie instruction* you-vrtli fflcewi. It" .1011 canot, go and learn to be a doctor and kill your,be*t fiicnds." The Brooklyn Board of Education ha#crderod that any female teacher, fn Brooklyn w lift tunnies sliall tfiereb/ !0.-e hoi* place,- and there is said to b'' 'much in'tliytatiou" in cousequen:** It does suem a ftltlo- bard"that JT Wl>* man capable of supporting a man an J •even childrou should thn* be depriv ed ot so clear a right, But there never tvai and never will be any justice in thU vprrM: A c>ru:n"»ciul traveler in a Western i-ity liauded a- merchant, ujxm whom h" portrait of liis betroth "d/instcad oflHa business ckrcj, say- tliHt lie represented that establish inent. The merchant examined it carefully, remarked tliat it was aC.t establishment, and returned it to the blushing traveler with a hope that lie would aoon lie admitted in to partner* ship. - ~ ' Baltimore Gazette: "Mr. Blaiiw is not a great financier, and his vievs ; are not entitled to any more wei h op ' cjMMJerrtion tlixn those of a huml«d j other men'in Congress. The sjieceb ; lie made vesU't-ilay is not "•alcuhttcd to j increase his reputation either for abil i ity or common honesty." i ••It i-> belter to yield a little," say a some cheap philosopher. '* n»»n tai j quarrel a great deal." TTo sfioul.l have said, and weuld have said had HA ' lieeu a tine philosopher, iliat it is belter to yield a great deal than to . quarrel a little. The hiubaud ami j wiTe who liearthis constant l\ in nfigfi ; may be happy even without a ba j bv. Bismsrk is haldheadel, but you I don't cutcli any Gvrnjan tiewsjmp-r saving that iLafc Bi.-inaik is a high teiu|/«-i «d tfonMT r making any joke* , about Tlie bald headed man in that eoitStrv is lo -ked lup to. j N>w Vo K M: " Conk Hi g , may an well give it up. N " jbe President. T!:iiik of I Clinton, (V.homi, Ohy, and Caa*. j People don't «C* it, n "o^s Italeigh StAi'md : Four years mom uf yiyssian usurpation an ! delwuch «rry; and this county will not be worth saving " Springfield IltpMicw. u The fait ; ' is, too many cauaidates for the Pre&i- I deney about this year for harmonious ;t a jinets or i>eacfful Congresses." j A milkman accouhted for the wade Hess ot bis mi k by saying that tho ,cows got caug >t in ths ram.
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Feb. 29, 1876, edition 1
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