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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. 3 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY K S. PARKER Krahnni, IV. C. Unlet o] Subscription. J'ostaye Paid : One Year $1.50 Bix Months ....75 Turee Mouths. : '. 5() Every person Rending UB a club of ton Mibaeriben; with the cash, entitles himself to e one copy free, for the length of time for Arhieh the club is made up. J'apers sent lo liffereut offices. .'A r o Departure from the Cash System B»le» ol adrrrli»i«x Transient aavertisemenre payable in ad vince; yearly advertisemeU qerly tu j ♦ Jvaiue 1 in. 2m. 3 in. I 6 m. 12 in. | : quare ;*2 00*3 00 *4 00 * 600 >lO 00 " i 3 00( 4 50 6 00 1 10 00 15 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for he tlrst, and flfty cachsubscrib luent insertion. r=u THIS PAPER IS OX TQ.I WITH * j Prime enjoyment for a year. Lest than 4 Cents a Week. HOME ATTRACTIVS HI INTKODUC INO . • * iij-l"" The Satnrdvy l&ctu ning Post. w hich fur More than 55 Years h«8 the best story, sketch and Family H —t Paper* t • as w wrll known all over the United States. It is published weekly, contains eight large pages, clearly printed on good paper, tilled with the choicest Hl ories and sketches by the best writers; uob genca ioual trash, but such as a mother is, willing to have her children read. The whole toiie cf the paper is pure ami elevating- It also contains Historical mid Biograph ical articles ; frcieutiiic ; Agricultural aud Household Departments, Fashion Article weekly, fresh aud (ihexcelled; Humorous Notes ; Literary Keviews; Newa Notes ; Boys' and Girls Columns; and Strong and H'i'irkliiig Editorials etc.. etc. I- just such • paper as every body loves to read, and he orice is only TWO DOLLARS A YEAR Sample copy containing club rates, etc., sent on receipt ».f a 3-coni tamp. Address, No 862 BENNETT & FITCH, T'Jtf Haaasaa 'Street, Philadelphia, N.B.— Be sure and affix the number 862 before BENNETT & FITCH, so that we may know through what paper the subscrip tion comes. National Hotel Raleigh 'BOARD WO. PER DAY " ij S Brown, Proprie tor, The table iasurpassed by no bouse in the btate. If yon wish to be pleasantly and comfortable located, atop at the National, fronting toe Capitol Square, The National is located within flfty yards of the State House, it la themust convenient, attractive and pleasant headquarters for members of the Legislature in the city Terms are low to salt the times, fare unsur passed, attention and accommodations the Saloe* ud Billiard* wwsisesscat. T« oof !"' hrat Tables In h* City, for the use of guests, free of charge*, bee. 12th, 1876. Poetry, m *VHY SUUUfiD Til K 9PIBIT OP NVKi'AL BE PROVOf Oh! why should the spirit of mortal, be proud? Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast-flying | . cloud, v.: >.:• A flash ot tl.e lighting, a break of the wave, j He pasaelh from life to his rest iu the | j gravis | The leaves of the oak and the wiib.w sha 1 fade, j Be scattered aroun.l and together be Isid ; Ami the young and the old, and the low and the high Soail mpldcr to Uu#t and together shall j die. ! Tke infant and moiher attended and lovel; The mother that infant's affection who proved ; The husband that mother and infant who blessed, Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest The hand of the king that the sceptre hath b6rne; The brow of the priesi that the miter hath v orn; | The eye of the and the heart of the j 4 ]>£.«ve, | Are hidden and lost iu the depths ol the grave. The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to rap; The herdsman, who climbed with the goatc up the steep; The beggar, wh> wandered iu search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. . •So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed. That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we be hold, To repeat every tale I hat lias often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drink the same streams and view the i same son, And run the same course our fathers have run. 'Thethougdts we are thiuking our fathers would thilik; From the death we are shrinking our fath ers would shrink; To the life we are clinging they also would cling, , But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wiug. They loved, but the story we caunot un /old;' "Obey scorned, but the heart of the hau-'y is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slum ber wtll come; They joyed, but the tongue of thi ir glad ueaa is dumb. They died, ayr! they died, the things that are now, That walk on the Suif thit lids over their brow, And make in their dwellings a tratisieut abode, Meet the things that they met on ihuir pil grimage road. Yea! hope aud deupoudeucy, pleasure and pain, We mingle together in sunshine and rain; Aud the smile and the tear, the song and * the dirge. Still follow each otbtr, like surge upon surge. Tis the wiuk of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death. From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud, Oh why should the epfarit of mortal bs proud? WILLIAM KNOX Charlotte Observer: An instance of the great advantage and actual- profit of using in-proved stock in this coon try, was given yesterday. Col.Thom as, ol the Carolina Military -lustitute, has five of the best breed of Merino sheeep, and two of the common stock all ot which are kept and led togeth er. Tbey were all clipped yesterday, and the wool weighed and sold. The yield from tbe two of the common stock **as tour pounds, while that trom tbe five Merino sheep was thir tysone pounds, tbe largest yield truin any one being twelve pounds. Tbe Merino wool was sold in this market lor about fifty cents—nearly three times as much as the other brings. Ex'•Governor Joseph £. Browu ot Georgia has written a long letter, de claring that Senator Gordon was mainlv responsible for tbe seatiug of President Hayes, and condemning him severely Icr his course in regard to tbe Electoral Commission. *=■ GRAHAM, N- C., TUESDAY, MAY 22 1877' ' ivALEiuu, 20th, 18*7; , Slit:— Encouraged by tho results of j an experiment, made in Wako Coun ty last year with t lief Sugar IJeet. the ' Hoard of Agriculture were induced to buy a lot ot imported seeds for pur* * poses of experiment iu illtlcrent sec tions of our State. It is confidently ' believed, that should a fair test bt made the result would show, that here, as in France and Germany, it ' would be one of 'the most profitable industries ot our people. Keiirlv hall 1 the sugar consumed by tho civilized woihi is made from the beet and it is thought that the adaptability of our soil and climate to its successful cul ture, would at no distant day, place our Slate on the list as among the largest producers of this great com mercial commodity With tho view of introducing this important industry, you have been select' das a proper person to test it in your county. The following sug gestions we ask should {|>o observed, rigid\y. as tbey are founded oa the experience of 50 years in Europe, aud arc indispensable to success. SOlLS.—Newly cleared, heavy clay, wet or salt lands are unstated to the beei—any good wheat lands, light, rich aud loams; or ill other words, any 'place that would make a good garden spot would suit the beet. PREPARATION AND MANURE. — Plough or spade at least 15 inches deep, and pulverize tborouhly, put* ting on. broad cast, an/ commercial fertilizer, known to be good for veg etables, at the rate of 400 pounds per acre, or ashes at the l ute of 25 bush els per acre. Be sure not to use sfa«• ble or barn yard manure. The ob ject of deep cultivation is to cause the beet root to grow entirely below the surface, the part above being injuri ous to sugar making, aud if the root should grow above the surfuca it must be kept covered with earth. SEED-PLANTING.—Soak in water 21 hour *, and as soon as you sec signs of sprouting roll them in wood as lies or plaster, and plant r.ot more than one inch deep, and thick enough in the drill to leave the plants tVom 8 to 12 inches apart alter thinning. Have tne rows from 18 to 22 inches apart. Uemembcr that 1 arge beets are poor in sugar, aud it is tbe percentage o) sugar tee xcish to determine. CULTIVATION.—ShouId be deep and thorough, and should begin as early as practicable, keeping the ground loose and dear of weeds—thinning out or transplanting as may be re quired to accure a proper stand. MATURITY "OF BEET. —This will be ordinarily about five months after planting. The proper lime for gather ing may be ascertained by tho leaves, turning yellow or looking .flabby— or perhaps better still by cutting a root in slices with au iron kuite, aud if the surface cut does not change its color, or if any, but little, it is time to take them up. It, however, the surtace should turn first red. then brown, and finally quite dark it is too soon. In harvesting, particular care should bo taken not to cut or bruise them, and tbey would do bet ter, ii the weather be favorable, to lay thein iu piles oil the ground, and cover with the tops to protect them from the sun foi three or four days. PRESERVATION.—In our climate the usual methods adopted for kcepiug the ordinery beet or potatoes will answer. REPORT TO BE MADE. —You will keep correet notes of your process of the tfme you begin the preparation of the grouud—kind of soil and subsoil —kind and quantity of manure used ' > —mode of cultivation—estimate of the 1 number of bushels per acre. &c., : , Ac. It is exceedingly importautthat this report be correct. , PACKING TUB LOT FLR ANALYSIS.— ( : As soon as you gather thum, j [ you will select carefully not less than two bushels, taking particular , ' care to select such as have the roots , aud top* entire aud unbruitcd, and t that are of average size tce\l matured. . Do not wash tltem. but rid them ot , dirt as best as you can without breakt , ing the roo'.s, and pack them in a I good strong crate or box, so made as _ to admit passage ot air. Mark the ' box plainly, " Department of Agri culture," Raleigh, N. C , send it by Express. We will pay all charges. 1 In packing use greeu leave* or grass. » This lot is designed for analysis by i the Agricultural Chemist, and what f expense is incurred in packing and shipping will be paid by tbis Depart* • met it. I L. L. POLK. CommiwuiKi. (To the EJitor of be Southern Home) PA'l'ROMt OF.NORTII CAKOI.INA It is proposed to havo a' revival, in other words, a camp-mesting of gangers on tbe Pilot Mountain, to bi!»iu on tlni 24th day of August next. Iu this enterprise wo have the ap proval of tbo ll orthy Master, S. li. j Alexander, and other leading men in tho £>tatt'. A ,7Fe invoke a hearty co operation ! of the State oflieers, distrkt und , county deputies, \Vith every livo member in North Carolina to make j the proposition a grand success. To eiiliveu and add interest to oflr I gathering, we suggest that we have instrumental music on tlie violin, | guitar and organ, to suit the tasto of j tbe assembled brothers and sisters on | that August occassion. In order that I our meeting may bo eutertaining and \ profitable, uud that our fraternal i o.Torts to advanco the cause of edu* cation and build up the great interest of uiay be handed down to future generations, and those who are to follow after lis in tht same good work, we propose to invite Gen. D. H. Hill, and the Masters of the State Graages of South Carolina and ; Virginia, to lecture to us in the inter est of onr Order, and some distiua guished divines to preach and pray for our success. We futher propore that our Worthy Past Master, Dr. Columbus Mills, Col. L. L. Polk, Jasper Stowc R P Reiuhardt, f H Robinson, Rev. J H Thomwell, James Albright, G W Lawrence, C'oi. J R Winston, . Morris Howell, Rev. A Cttrrie, John Knox Hughes, Dr. Juo Berry, Dr. Win Mori-it, Munford McGehee, N B Whitfield, J A Davis. Dr. R ' W King, W H Cheek, and Rev. W Grant, be appointed and constituted a comtuitte w .of arrangements, to take such and further steps iu the premis ses, as they may deem best aud most wise aud prudent to tuake our meeting one of tbe grandest iu the history ot the grange iu North Carolina or else where. Let us move to tbe centre from all parts of the State, in camp stylr, carrying our provisions and iorage from jiorne sufficient for the trip, and thus save any outlay of actual cash. By this means each party might carry a sufficient number of camp stools to seat and cover the mouutain with live grangers of each sex. Let the district and county deputies at once confer with the patiotis in their respective jurisdictions aud re. port to me at Company Shops, the number who propose to joiu us. PatfJtis, Brother W Grant used the following words iu the State Grange ai Goldsboro, 4, Tlie grange is neither dead nor dying." Then come to the front that his words may be re echoed from tbe mountain heights of Western North Caroliua. D. A. MONTGOMERY, Deputy 7th Judicial District. Company Shops, N. C\, April I6th 1877. No ORGAN FOR "OLD Sl." —Why be didu't wane one is told by thj Atlauta Constitution: Some of the members were discus ' sing the question of getting au organ for the church. Old Si remark-, • ed:— "When yer passes 'round do hat! ' fer iat 'luuiement jess skip me!" "Whatfer we do dat?" "Kase I don't want cone ob dis iiea'n bellui- nusic in de church dat I'se pendin' ou far salfashun!" "Whar kia' of music do you want?" "I wants de same ole music dat de good Lawd wound up in de nigger's i so'), ai.' dat biles out in streeuis ob I j praise dat wakes de neighborhood j Tom solid slumbers!" | ''Jess plane singiu', eh?" "Plane singin', jer idgit; do you call dat plane singin' when da kaii gergasbuu jess flings back hits heads an' sings 'Send down de cbarryut" '; fum de de bottom of b'of lungs at i once?" , "I calls dat plane singiu' !** "Den yer all better stick tor plana I singiu', too, 'kase I'ui tinkin' dat de > only win' dat yer needs to look arter is de baru ob de angil Ganrill" They concluded to drop tbe orgau qutatiuu, ' i in i —iaaa VAt'inn DKATII, [Prom the Detroit Free Press.] Brother Gardner was yesterday whitewashing the back end of au old house o«» Catherine Street, when the staging gave way and he had a fall of abor.i fifteen feet. He was senseless when pick. d up, but a man poured about a gallon of water dowu his back and brought liiin to. Mr. Gard» ner thus explained matters to tho re p Ji'tei: "Waal, I was up dar, un' dar w*s do house, an' dar was de scatlold, an' j dar we all was. I was jess drawin' j dat brush aroun' to kill when I felt a ! gtinenesS. Seemed I was praucin' | urouu' on do air, wid no chance to | dig in my toes." ; * ! "Why didn't you fall at ouce, and j have the affair off your mind!" asked i a policeman. ! "Why didn't 1 fall? Why, sah, j I was falling all de time. I went down 'bout fifty feet head fust, an' den I struck on one foot and boaf ears. All dis time I was doin' some powerful thinkiu,' I was." "Did you think of oysters fried, with crumbs?" asked a reporter. "Doan' be talk in' dat way, boy. j I 'uiombered all my bad deeds while j I was gwine down, an' I called out dat I would live a better - life if de shock didn't kill me." In the group was a colored man whose face brighten* d at these words, and he soltly asjjed: "Brudder Gardner, doan' you 'member de $2 you borrowed of me?" "I do." "Den pay it—ban' it over. De shock didn't kill you, ani now begin on dat better life." "Brudder Jones" solemnly replied Gardner, "de shock didu't kill me dead, but befo' 1 pnys out any money Ize gwine to wait de result on my nervous system. I 'pears to be all right, but possuuily I may be fatelly injured in some of de corners aud not know it for a month. G'lang, Brudder Jones, an' doan' rob de cradle an' da grave!" 1 be Dalcknia'aSlia. A fat looking, bald headed lobsters colored German, In sliltt-tlcevo*, ap peared in the half-way of a Chicago bathing establishment, addre»*ing a loose-jointed individual, with a wet stringy hair. "Hold on aboud vonmiuued!"call ed out the described pa*ty. "You nond schlide oud uv dese blaco umlil you bay for dat bat!" "Pay for that bath?" exclaimed the other in apparent astonishment* "Who said anything about pay ing?" "I said Houiediugs about dot!" "You do?" "Ya ; I say you must bay for dot bat." "You snid it wonidii't cost noth ing," said the wet hkirud man. "Nodding?" echoed ;he bath-keep* or, "I dond say no such ding!" " What's that readiu' on your sigu then!" said the disputant. "Dot sigu reals: 'Turkish bats,suls fer bats, vab »r bats and sponge bats," rcp.icd the man with the lobster com plexion. "Wall," said the other, as be mov. Ed away, "that last's it. Beiu's 1 didu't have any money I took a sponge , bath!" j The Teuton fell on studying his sigu while his patron meandered to w«» ard tbe City Hall; but when at last be looked up, he soliloquised: "Dot sponge comes down." WBY OATH WAS HAM PBBSI. DINT. Senator Lamar U credited with a charitable •»uslrurtioa of some j Radical lascality. He says that be J feels a good deal of compassion for i the Radicals in couuection with their crime against popular suffrage in tbe* Presidential eiectiou. Their morale." j he says, has been so weakeued by ' years of publis misconduct that tbey ■ could not be expected to resist tbe doable temptation set before them. They might have withstood the temp* t tation of tbe Preside. .cy, but tbey 3 could uot withstand tlie temp tat iou r ol stealing it."— Observer. i Camphor is an excellent antidoti for tbe sting of an inseejt. | The Multiplication of lujaatriaa. 11l an article on the above subjret f in Scribner fvr April, Dr. Holland I writes: > We formerly imported our watclie*; now we make aa goo4 watches a* anybody, and make them bj'■ use of 1 machinery that nobody elre baa dreamed ot before. Tbe Italian lew i ing silk, which formerly stood at tbe • head ot the markets of the world, id . now superceded in quality and cheap ness oi production by the American article. There is realiv nothing that ] we have touched in earnest ath.it we have not succeeded in accomplishing, aiid we are beginning upon silk fa bric with tbe certainly of success. All ' this has been done within & few yesra and the time is uot far oil when we shall make ail our owu silks, —with Uhina and Japan at our Lack doors to raise our cocoons for us, and them, —and build ail our owu watch* es. >V hat baa been done and is doingiu these branches of production is quite practicable, aud in every way neces sary to be done, in other fields. We ' can make all our own potter}*, and decorate it, just as well as to depend upon other countries lor it. We can make all our own woolen cloths and carpets as well as tbev can be made iu France, Germauy and England. There is no good reason why the finer grades of leather, may not be product ed here as well as in France. Already Eugland is losing lier prestige in printing. Our modes are surpassing hers. It is uot two months siace au intelligent gentleman iu Londou ' iu • formed us that Scribner's Monthly is revolutionizing wood cat printings iu England. It is uot a year since tbe London printer seut here for a ream of the paper on which St. MckoUu it printed, liaviug found that his ters could not produce the results which be saw effected iu that periodi cal. It is not a mouth siuce a well known British publisher sent to bis agent here for tbe machine by which the paper of this magaziue is polished after pricing, when no such machine exists, and tbe only secret Is' iu the mode of manipulation!" > There is nothing that we ese which we caunot make. Gloves wo wake ahead} iu enormous quantities. Arti ficial flowers, brontea, every sort of ornament, are as easily produciolo here as anywhere. The flax industry has hardly been touched here—au in» dus try ou which Ireland aud Saxony almos: live at our expense. There is no good reason wlir we should in* port a yard of linen. We have lauu —au almost illimitable acreage of It— that wiil raise good flax, and plenty of men and women to fabricate it. We 9UII uot only make our own cor dage, but produce tbe raw material for it. • Out iuto these fields tbe capitalist must reach or fiud 110 profitable eu« ployment for his mo..ey. Into these fields laboc most go, or lio idle and descend iuto pauperism. It ia nut a matter of choice with us; it is a mat* ter of necessity. Of course it will take a good many \ears to accomplish the results we seek. There mast be cosily experiments; there must bs processes of education of bead aud hand; there must be time for capital to move itself; but tbe change most come, aud toward ttae fields the public atteution should be immediate* ly directed. A Western Judge recently kenteno ed a man to imprisonment for lite. Before removal from the court the prisoner exclaimed that the waa no gentleman. The indicant jurist promptly added two y«are to tbe seuteuce. Don- J. Raudolph Tucker ia to de« liver at quoe a course of lecture* on constitutional law before tlfe law class of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Ya. It is Paid that be 1 will express tally bis views ou the : electoral commission. Austria "has notified Rnaaia and r the Porte that the interruption of 11m free navigation ot the Danube, can ,i only be tempory. Navigation mast after tbe war b* restored to its foil r force iu accordance witb the treat* of . Paris. ______ _____ * By hia will Mr. Bown.au, wh jn - decease in Florida we recorded a y couple weeks *go, left his estate u amounting to some *2i»O,OUO or $300,000 to his relative*, most ot o whomwe bel%ve, rerndt. in this county.— Patriot. m IP ® NO, 12
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