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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. 2. THE GLEANER. VUOUaH&U WUBKLY BY y. PARKER (irnHnm. IV. C, Kale* oj Subacriplwn. I'ortaye Paid : One Vear 51.50 jjix \loi\th.s 7> Tixreo .">o Every person sending us a club often V(tacriUsrs with the cash, entitles tjunsclf to title ouuy free, for the luiUfth of (juie for tlic club-is made u,j. I'apcrs sent to • lilTcrcutotlices. 1 Yo Departure f rom the Caah St/K/cpt R*m of •a»er«t»i«ir Transient advertisement* parable In ad voice : .yearly advertisements "quarterly lllV «!!•« 1 ill "2 tn ;8 in. j «m. j 12 in. • quart; *3 00 $3 00j|t 00$ 600 fslO 0 " fin | 50! (! 00 10 00 15 0 Transient advertisement* fl per squa tor he and fifty cents for eacli|i)i)>s jucnt insertion. a- K A NOELL T a i I o r. Cutting and making done In] the latest fashion* and most desirable manlier. C7*He keeps constantly on hand Sample* Of latest atyte goods for gentlemens wear: and will order according to selection o. customers. — Also agent for the sale ol the Sintre sewing Machine. Shop in the old postolHc building. Graham N. f Prime enjoyment for a year. Lest than 4 Gents a Week. Makb Home Attractive bt IMtmoocc ins The Saturday Yen ning Post. * Which for If ore than 55 Year; * has been beet story, sketch and Family Paper. at {.« well known all the United fHste* It is publish«*d weekly, contains eight tart" pages. clearly printed on g-Kid paper, fill**: with the cholosat aUiries and sketches by the best writer*; •"»' sensa lonmi trash, but Mich as a neither is willing to bare h«r cbiUlfvo reed. The whole tone i f the paper is Mirt and elerating lr. also contains Historic! and Biograph ical articles; Scientific ; Agricultural aud Household Departments, Fashion Artlrl- V.eaWv. fresh and un**called; Hamorous Notes; Litersrv R views; News Notes; Boys' Slid Uiris" Columns; snd Strong anl Sp j-kling Kditorals, etc.. etc. Is j«s' such n paper as every body loves to read, end the price is only TWO DOLLARB A ¥ KAIt, Sample copy containing club rate#, etc., sent on receipt uf a 3-ccnt stamp. Address. $ 62 BESNETT & Fmpty mum* n*r*et. Pa. k B.—Be sure and affix the dumber 863 before BENNETT A FITCH, «p thM we may know through V&* paper the .übscrip tlon comes. Rational Hotel jßalefffh ft :i. v : BOABD '{KO.PEBDffi C S Brown, Proprie tor. Thetable lssarpasssd by no honseln the Stats. If yon wish to be ple*«antly »nd comfortable located, stop at the National, at the Bute House, it is the most cooveaient, attractive and pleasant heaiouartere for sulfuje times, fare unsur- attention and accommodations tna ' S ']L _ "* " 1 ' - iilm ui JHBiatds in basement. Two of the beat Tables ia ha Citj, for the use ot gueeta, free of charge. Dec. 12th, 1876. The Price of Dora's Gold! Br s. akni* fHOST. It you littlftlit} spirit of a man, you would go too!" Poor ,/ohn Bay nor had heard thi-* so often in the last two weeks that at last ho wu* roused to answer. "Soe Dora," he said, pulling his wiie vIQWM upon his knee, »n I holding her last, ".{q \>m\ u\ean that? Yon have said it about fi ty times since tuis expedition was talked about, uow tell we if you want me to go." . Dead silence on the part of Do* ra. * "I have heeu working hard for five years, to clear oft the mortgage upon the farm, that I might have a home tor you," continued John, earuently, and its mine uow, clear of debt. We aro not rich, but 1 am strong and not afraid of work, and you have been brought up a farmer's daughter, ami know the duties of a farmer's wite. Six months ago you were happy as a bird, my bride aud darling, but now" "iVow,"interrupted Z>ora. "I fee au opportunity for you to become rich iu a lew uiuiilfts, instead of tqiljng aud slaving lor life, as your father aud my mother toiled aud slaved to make a bare living by fanning. They tell us that gold can oe pjckfn| up ut the llhtck Hills it) pockettuls at a time." " Well?" "And we cou|d ijp Hub, We could leave this miserable typm and go to the city to live }i| a reat bouse, with >ervautt,, carnages, flue furniture. Oh, John!" Dora had slipped Horn her peivh upon her husband's kiide, and stood lieloi-e him. her little figure drawn erect*, her big blue pyee Qaslpng, her ekieeks •sriiiison with excitemeiit. *,Aud it wotdd make you happy?" asked Johu, wistfully. "Fes! Ot course it I Who woul i not be happy with plenty of uifliiey?" "There are two aidea to the ques tion," fluid Quietly. "The In dians have the right to keep us off* litis promising jp*kl country,aud they defend Its passes. It may be your bag ot gold wib be only Johu i?ay | nor's scalped head I"* •'Oil, it you are afraid to go, that ends it!" Doia said, quickly. It was a cruel speech, aud it slab* bed the honest, loving heart of John ftayiior to the cor*. He was no cow ard, but strong, brave man, with a liable nature, bnt he was fond of bis Home, ot the fkrui lie l.ad worked so faithfully to clear of debt, aud tlie wife he had loved Ibr five long years. Only si* iiud passed since his weridii-g day, when Dora seemed, entirely happy in his love, and iu the cosy neat lie bad taken an hone# pride iu winning for ber. The# tfots young men of the village ot Topbam became smitten with the gold fever, aud a dojuji; of them resolved to form an expedition to go to the Dora's brother, Tom Hafen, was t.tye prime mover in the sememe, snd coming every to lay his dreaug# *■*4 p/iw* Wore bit. 4*t*r> be h *i in spired Jtw with the feverish thirst for gold that was driving hjip trojji home to tl*e UtfU a/rf V*f ils of the expeditions. Like many women brought up to work hard, to own but little finery, to live upon plain fare, Dor* set a factitious value upen the delight* ot wealth, iiflie built gorgeous tlosft#udcd uppn the fow sy orka of fiction she bad read, auJ dreamed of an existence to which tliat ot a prin* cess in a fairy tale wouid have been dull and osaic. f And with her bead full of tliese airy visions, it provoked lier past all paiieuce that John was content (A follow hU plow, to eat greeus and bacons, and wear coarse clothing, as be tod done all Vu life. He would listen to all Tom'i glowing descrip tions qf ihe expedition with a grave, quiet face, sometimes speaking a word of caution or warning that fell upon deaf ears, lie would answer all h«r uhiti and taonte by a gentle: ' M4'm well content here, Dot A, jritb my life-long boms, aud fuy darling wifel" , . Bat at last be was roused not to auy hope such as spurred tbe otliers on, but to tbo lact tbat wished him to'go. GRAHAM, N- C.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 1877 "She thinks more u| Hie gold I ban of me!" ho (bought, rising heavily irom bis cli if, and speaking slow- wish it. Dora, 1 will gv!" he said, and even her ontbusi usm was held in check a moment by Ids pale face. "Oh, I duii't want to drive you." site said, |»et!is ily, "If you nre con tcnl to vegitate for life in this iium-i* able hole, I suppose I cnu put up witn it." "I will go!"' He spoke the three words with stern emphasis, and left the room. His heart soemcd breaking. F r five years lie had had but one d-eam for the tuture. Father aud mother lay iu (lie churchyard, bro;h» ers or sisters lie Itml none, and the eutirj love ol his heart was given to pretlr Dora Haven. He was buis ((coed with debts his father left for his sole legacy, his home was heavily mortgaged, and he would not ask Dorji ».o slipfe in the privatioii and toj| by which lie freed himself. And %V'|Cn at last he could ask her to come aip! brighten the home he liati made fof her, it had seemed to him his cup of happiness brimmed over. He passed from the room where he had announced his dcciesion- and wandered slowly all over the house, it was small, but every portion was lull of tender association to i iin. In one room his parents had died, in another' was the cottage fin niture he had sent all the way to "York" to get to please his brid». The parlor carpet aud substantial horseshair set h id come at the same time, filling liiui with pardonable pfp|§ i|t tl|o prepaid atioiis tor It's marr.age. These white curtains Dora bad made in her first week of Itunw lite as his wife, These autumn leaves they had gathered in their lovor strolls, aud Dora had made them into wie ith-t andyp}i|el|es to britij, with li«r. to aeloru the walls ot lier new home. He was but a simple faruufr, not yet twenty-five, with bjjt a meAger education, ijot given to dreams or casile-building. Thoroughly content to |iye as bis father and grandfather had lived be foie him, he co*)}d not comprehend the vision? filling Dora's imagina tion. He half ho|»ed yet that shh would urge liiin to give up his intention aud remaiu at home, and yet be knew that her content with the bumble hap piness lie could give her was gone. But Dora, though frightened tweus ty times a day at the success ot her taunts, would not speak the wonla be ho|>ed to bear. Very rapidly the preparations were made to depart, tor the others were nearly ready, aud the little nest egg at the bank was ail jroue before John ltayuor was fully equiped as a min« er. The first realization of what she was giving up for a dream, came to Dora when she stood upou the plat form of the rustio railway statiou, with Tom #po- ou j aide and John ou the other, the lull of exultv tion, with merry smile and bright •yes, the latter graye and stem, with lowering brow e.nd feet lips. "John!" the IJttle wife whispered, /.'if you do not yjsb to go" .'•lt, is too late for that!" he said I harshly, and then hearing the ap-. I preaching train, hi 4 face softened and be caught her iu his arms. "God keep you, little wile," he said hoarsly, "1 go for love of you! I may come bacfc pch and make you happy. No man will .work harder for gold than \ will uTbring it to you!" Through a mist of tears she saw him follow the others into the car, aud then joiueJ the groups rt weep ing womeu who bad come upon the same sorrowful errand as her uwn. Letters came but rarely. John's hard hands could guide a plow far more easily than they could welld a pen, aud when be wrote bis epistles were brief, though loving, As the expedition went further and further from the borders of dvizalation the communications became lets frequent. Bn r ftom the hour w£flf *tp train carried John out of sight, Dora's punishment began. The cosy home Ms lore had fitted ap tor her was a haunting reproach and the excitement of Tom's visits over, memory began to recall all John's love and the change iliat bad come upon him after he decided to join the gold seekers. It was no comtprt to eross the lots and go to her old home, for there Mr. and Mrs, Haven bewailed Tom's absence and gave Dora round for. encouraging him in his crazy expedition. "Like as not we'll never see neither " one ol thein again or know how they died," Mrs Haven would moan, rook ing hersell lo and fro, "A good son Tom was, till lie got the gola fev er/' "And a huband than John never lived." Mr, IlaVeu would suy, "and you g;\ve hi in no jieace or rest Viil you drove him off I" I\inl going to her desolate home .Dora could gather uo con.« tort iu the old dreams. Yani -ic her only servant, would bring her kiiiiting to Krow frantic by her sin» cere lan e nations tor the master. after night, kneeling lo pinv for .John's safe re turn, Dora felt the agony of self-reproach grow keener ami keener. For it |i;u) comu lt\ this very soon, that longing for wealth, the hope ot longing for wealth, the hope ot beiuy a great lady, all faded, away aud the Tiesol wifes only prayer was lor her husbands relurn. A whole year passed away, and the miners Jiad ii »t retuiiK-d. A wee snowdrop of a baby came Ip lie for one brief week upon I) ra's breast and then leave her. Occasionally t|ie|iifwspaper* I hat ca|||e irregularly to I tic village told of disaster au b. death in the gold regions, but never were the names of the party Irom Topham iu the list, aud Dora hoped* agaiii-t ho|m. Winter snows weiV lying o\er tlic tjirms, and flt'tcen months had dragged out their weary length s|||oe John Raynoi had left Ills home. A pale, witstcd shadow of Dora moved ' list ly about tlie farm-honse. aud Nannie muttered otteu. "She'll not be long after her husband and pj)ild" Grief and remorse werp doing a tatal work with prettv Dora, wljei) one eveneuiug aa dusk was seliiiiig into night-shadows, there came a startling knock at the door of the farm-house. Dora atartel to her feet but aank back, half fainting, into her chair saving, with white trembling )jp«: "Quick, Nannie, go qjpfdf { may be John." " t - Nannie was uot behind band uuu opened the door quickly. A tall brown-bearded man atootf upon the porch, who paaaed the old servant, and enteuered the room wfrere Dora, with white cheek*, aud atartled ej es looked at liiiu then beyond him. Beyond him into vacancy, "Tom! TWfl! Wljero—whore jy" She could uot frame the question, hut her brother caught her wasted figure in his arms, as site reeled across tfyu room to meet biiu. "I have cornr alone Dora!" ho said. "There are but three men left of all who went from fae#." The white lips moved noiselessly, only ibe greaf blue eyes were strained in mute question. ."We were returning," Tom /Sfjd, "and we had succeeded beyond our wildest hopes. We bad seut the gold on by a cireui/ous route with James Hill and Jerry pane, and a guard of friendly Indiana." lie paused, but the burning eyes never wavered. jPlvey got safe to nearest fort, aud forwarded the gold by careful stages to Chicago. But we were not so tortnuate. We were encamped oue uight, and John was writing toi yon by fire light. He looked up at | me to ask If it was wfrth while to write, when after so long a silence we were going home, and while he spokethe crack of t rifle told us the Indians were upon us. The first shot killed John. He fell upon the gras» beside me, jfaspfny, 'Dora—tell Dora—iarewptl. I forgive—atvf 1 have bis letter, stained with his ]ife blood. And 1 of all the party escaped. I will tell you latter q4 bow 1 nonaged, but" "The tetter!" D?rf whispered, "The tetter!" "I have it bare. And, Dora, Johns share of the gold will make yea a rich woman. Nowl must go baek to motberbut 1 will bring her baek at once " Dora did uot bere him. With brain she waa trying to real the letier that was Jobus dying lega cy. Sadly Tom kissed her, and option* ing to > a^ijte t lelt her to hasten homeward. Scant greeting he gave the loved one's there, to hasten his paieu's back to the farm, where his widowed sister was reading her let'er. Iu the deep arm chair, wheie Tom had gently her, she rested still clasping thebloo Mtuiucd letter in Iter hands. But her 4ye«iicv£r read the lines there her heart broke over | the fatal uew* that hr briber brought. She never touched the gold lor which she had widowed hcrseit. With her letter | rosstid to Jicr heart, she lay iu the arin»chair—dead. DIKD atIMK ENOKiII—A MNfIV. Everybody in Rt)|nigh and almost everybody in the State who lus read the R-deigh papers, kuowa something of a citixfii of this place aud who dreamed uiany yearn ago that if he ever pasaed north pf a c« tain point ti3»r hia isoi.se (which is in thd sou h-eastern j,ai.t of the city) and attempted to cotuo up street, he wotdd stirely die. Hia wife dreamed the same tiling 27 years ago, but disregard)*! the dreaii), passed the sf Hjt mid noon died. A night or two after her death her hushaud had the the same dream and such au im preaaion did it make u|>on him that after that time uo |>ersuaaton could induce him to come up atreet. He sold ajl of hj;« property lying near the oentre of the city, and stayed religiously at home. Laatauiuuier however, hia sou aud another party had a tight iu i the presence of the old man, ans he was atimuioued to aiipear in the Mayor'a Court as a witness. A policemen weut a after him and bre tight him up atreet Jioleim volm*. Everybody had heard the curious case, aud the appearance of the of the old man excited as much interest on the streets as that of a wild animal would have done. Aa soon aa he could do so, he returned home where be continued to remain, brooding over hia dream and over the fact that be had aiuned igainst what lie itad believed to be a revelation, until a davs ago wheu after having gradualy grown more and more feeble, he calmly. '•ihmirj'.' yielded up his spirit. He was 57 ycttra of age wh- u he died aud hia death am] the circum stances oi hia lite will afford a ##eet morsel for the superatitioua to mil under thoir tongues. —Raleigh A r ew». HE BET BECAUSE THE ODDS WEIiE G If EAT. A son of the Faderlaud went into j a saloon the other day and culled for a drink. 'flip propri tor übwived bow blooming he wan with the "ruay" already, and shook his l/e*d, m\iug: "You have had enough.# ''Enough of wh*d, I gueHJ'?*' »'\yijo i* J ning my machine, you are running ft i into the ground. "I bade yap ten doUar*d*t I am a liar," said be, slamming I)is hand down upon the bar. "There is no b*t there," said the proprietor, laughing. "Gife us a drink." "No, you are drunk now." "1 bade you not.-" bet jtfif fifty dollars Ufj one that ypu are dj-utjk," f*»d thp ..proprietor quite a puipber gathered around to se? the fas. "Good enough, I bfde 7V be, polling out fractional cyrrenjcy enough to make up a dollar. "Now who will yon leave it mid?" "HI leave to yourself. Are yja not aptnkt n "Tea, by jingoes, 1 am," said he mournfully, der dollar." A friend «fbi« happened to be in the evoWf, and apbmaauii ium in deciding against himaelf. "But it was the drudh." "Well, supposing it waa; what did you wank to be tool enough to bet tgtf then?" "I couldn't help it qdd» yvas so gread," he replied turning away more in sorrow than in anger. •••• - ' * - r r . ••• V. v Tobacco sales. ] el i 1 ic-i.iie u;L!is salts ' "iJ■ ! "*•«> ilMOMffl at the well known ' WW **. N '■ ! • Jtllack well's Dur « y Mm# ham Warehouse " !>'. f j , and those having tobacco to sell may rest thev irtfl AlliCaVs hud aiy house J. A lit?- * t'fj*: \ TSB®. tor Ml frad»s, l- " " * 4 ? • "4 #n ifcti •uWvia'h * • \ Bright Sinv J qreat demand ** -U •> favor me with their patronage- Remon be* you will And me , BLACK WELL'S ft IT UH 4 M WABEHfIggB. Ika U*dln» wMtoont" "* (W wlth many thank* Cor the patronage given me from Atemaoce and other tobacco *rpwU)g •octioe* of the BUte. I am your, triily %, 3. PARISH. T •I • A FLORENCE >- ' '■•■ «* - « ttiil EWeiisi 111 I IRi |J wbLL>, Sewing Machine ' fur *ale on monthly laatqQment* If deetred, and very cheap for ct»lt. Order* for anj kind of fcWinif Promptly filled at the lowe*t ou« P**>f*i oti Machine, takeii In exchange. Agent* wanied Viji jrj al»J prepared to do j, » Kerdftit Ureas MakiPS ?* >* **»tT FINMRK iltJ IflT * » ••»*: ,!-.,* *. h-WM«» *| and ail kM* "H of our patron.. lMnromrf Pattern* al ay 9 - lf ; C. —— 11 1 1 ■ 11 J" F'SSlllfWßll, ' ■' '■ K ' }o ; n ■ Upholstering } J ■■ .- :»;i; 9 .caUv done. Their »t-»U wo# ''• V, ?»3/ ..• Mm, P*rUr * M' !■« Ckaln. ■*>«**«. Wardrakn " lulmx Cra i&iai TrwK-M far Mm iS«»wii "fff* Hat-rack* andairy ary) everything In fnrnKore Mae. Their Mm* 4b the lancww. a» i maH complete e*er offered in thl. fortioc jof the State. They defy competition inqual 1 1 ty or price., ' W.JL'FORBI3 '4 BRO. , , t ( o,^-boro^C. . ifc-wi'. u—> ''' ■ wu4 SC UOBERTSOJ . „ 77 DKALF.It IK 'ran " ' ! lU M: *f 04 - * («!• V«/ iqffi r MO^ifMENTS, N. C. *' ' i NO, 47
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