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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL 3 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT K S. PARKER Graham, IV. C, Hates o/ Subscription. Postaye Paid : One Year .. il «>0 Six Months ! I.'"; 75 Three Months !".!!;! !&) Every person sending ns a club of ten subscribers with the cash, entitles himself to one copy free, for the length of time for .vliich the club is made up. Papers sent to liferent offices. No Departure from the Cash System Bale* *t ad rental a* > . J- X'T ' Transient advertisements payable in ad vance; yearly advertisemeta quarterly in advance. 1 qua re j9200*3 00 *4 00$ 600 $lO 00 " | 3 00 4 50 600 10 00 15 00 Transient advertisements fl per Square I for he first, and fifty cents for eachsubscrib auent insertion. F- " T w -~- - • i Wa tionaJHote Raleigh A. ,BOARD ML PER DAY ij S Brown, Proprie tor. The table Is surpassed by no house in the Btate. If you Wish to be pleasantly and comfortable located, stop at the National, fronting the Capitol Bquare, The National Is located within fifty yards of the State House, it is the most convenient, attractive and pleasant headquarters for members of the Legislature in the city. Terms are low to suit the times, fare unsur passed, attention and accommodations the best. Saloon and iillluds nbaseraent. Two of the best Tables in he City, for the use of guests, free of charge. Dec. 12th. 1876. JF9HN OBJJfISBBIiADf GREENSBORO, N. C., Practical aKb b WATCH . AI,D JEWELLER DEALER IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, Sterling Silver, and Plated- Ware, FIKB SPECTACLBS, > and everything else in my line. W Special attention given to the repairing and timing of Fine Watches and Regulators. I offer yon every possible guarantee that whatever yon may buy of me shall be genu ine and 'art as represented, and yon shall pay no more for It than a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Good* ordered shall be fur nished as low as if in person at my Counter. I have made in the handsomest wander, Pair «hai>*. Hair Jewel r jr. Dlaaaaarf »" klai. #r*la«t Jewelry, a»4 Mlrsr Watch Caaea, at*,, ate. My machinery and other appliances lor Waking the different parts of Watches, is perhaps |he most extensive in the State, con sequently I can guarantee that any part of a wafch pr clock can be replaced with the at •*l*ffsiranteetb«t my work will com JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. Watch Maker and Jeweler, Greensboro. N , Dr, w. f, bason, Dentist, Would be pleased to attend the call* of all in Alamance and adjoining counties who appreciate the beat condition of their Own or CHILDHM'S TIIIH.- N. B. Communications through P. O. a Haw Biver, N. C., or otherwise will be at tended the first opportunity oTmi extracted without pain (if best) and A*T. VSHTUBBS on short notice, very model ate. a doctors stoby. lam a doctor. I live in London and in one of the most crowded lo calities. I had been in my present abode two years, and had never had a patient from the more aristocratic circles, when on« night, about halt past elev en, 1 was startled by a violent ring ing my bull, and having just got tp bed alter a bard day'a work, 1 can't •ay the summons was very agreea ble. However, I ran to my window at once, and thrusting my head out into the rain, cried, "Who is there?" A voice answered' "Only I, Doc tor. It's an urgent case. Please oome down to the door." 1 hurried on some clothes, and «ped down stairs and opened the door. There stood in lull light of . the hall lami, an elderly lady dressed in mourning. She put out the smallest of hands in fine black kid glove, and said pit* ecusly, "Are you the doctor?" "Yes," I said. "Then come with me," said she. "Don't delay. It's life or death. Come I" I hurried on my overcoat, caught up my umbrella and,' offering my arm to the old lady, walked down the street with her. "You mu«t be my guide, madam," I said. "I do not know Where you live." She instantly gave me a street and number'that surprised me still more. It was a tolerably aristocratic quarter of the town. "Who is ill, madam?" I inquired, "a grown person or a child?"' "A young lady—my daughter,' she said, v "Suddenly?' •Yes, suddenly,' she answered. 'Do you keep a brougham? We would have been able to go much faster ' 'I keep no conveyance.' I said. 'Perhaps you are poor?' she said eagerly. 'Cer taiuly not rich,'l said. 'Cure her and I'll make you rich,' she said, in assort of suppressed shriek. 'Cure her, and I'll give you anything you aek. 1 don't care for money. I'm rolling in gold. Cure her, and I'll shower it on you.' 'Yon are excited, madam,' I said. 'Pray be calm.' 'Calm!'she said—'calm! but you don't know a mothers heart?' We had reached the street she had indicated, and were at the door of oue of its houses. The old lady ass cended the steps, and opened the door with a latch key. A light burned in the hall; another one in one of the parlor*, tbe furniture of which was draped aud shrouded in white linen. 'Wait here, sir, if you please,' she said, as she led me into oue of these. 1 waited what I thought a most un reasonable time in that gloomy psrlor. I began to grow a little nervous,when a stout, short red-raced woman buss tied into the room. •I beg your pardon, sir,' she said in a singular tone, such as one who had committed a speech to memorv might use; 'but my missus—the lady who brought you here—is rerjr nervous, and needlessly alarmed. Bbe begs your acceptance of tbe customary fee, and there is no need of your service's. Thus speaking, she handed me a guinea, conrtesied, and opened the door for me. I bowed, exprewed my pleasure that the patient waa better, and departed^ It was a queer sort of adventure, but rather amusing, than otherwise, besides I had a good fee. I arose early next morning, and paid a couple of visits before break fast. Returning, to my astonishment, I found sitting in my consulting room the lady of the night before. She rose as I entered. "What must you think of me?" she said. ''But no matter. My daughter is very dear to me, and I have heard of your skill. She ia worse again. Can you call some time to-day, as early as possible, at my house?" "I will be there in an hour," I said. The lady took out her purse. "I am an old 'fashioned woman," she said. **l retain old fashioned habits. In my days the doctor re ceived hi* tee on the spot. It was in ordinary cases a guinea. Will yon receive it now?" I did not know what to say, bat GRAHAM, N- C., she lai d the money on the table and departed. I ate n.y breakfast, and having dresaed myself carefully, made my way to the old lady's house. I knocked The door was opened by the stout fe male who had dismissed me the night before. "The doctor," I said by the way of explanation. "Ah!" said she. • "Has missus call ed on you again?" •Yes," I answered. ."There is no need, I assure you, sir," she said. I can't really ask you in. There's no one ill here. Its a whim of missus'. lam a better judge of illness than she. No need, of a doctor. ' *" I left the bouse, of course, partly in dudgeon, and partly in amaze ment. ... Three weeks passed by, when, lo! the old lady came again. She walked into my consulting-room dressed as before, as greatly agitated, as carefully polite. "Sir," she said "again I trouble you. My poor daughter! Come at once." "Madam," I answered, "it is » doctor's duty, as it should be his pleasure, to obey such calls; but you are aware that I have been sent from your door twice without seeing the patient. Allow me to ask vou a question are you the mistress of the house ?" "Heaven knows I am," said the old lady. *"I have lived there for forty years. I own it. lam the on ly person under that roof who has a right to give an order." "And the person who S3nt me away?" "My old servant Margaret." "Did she do it at your order?" "No sir; it was apiece of presump tion. But Margaret means well; she loves us." ''Then, Madam, if I accompany you I shall see the patient!" | "Assuredly, sir." I put on my hat again, and we went out of the house together. We ex changed very few words as we walked the streets. At the door of the house the old lady paused. "Don't mind Margaret," she whis pered. "She means well." Then she ascended the steps. At the last one the door was opened to us by tbe woman I bad seen twice before. ''The doctor muat see my child, Margaret replied the old lady. Margaret stepped back. " TFalk in sir." was all she said. The old lady beckoned me to follow her. I did so. She went op stairs and opened the first door we came to. She closed it with a sigh. The next room into which she led me was al#o empty. So were all the others. lu effect we visited six apartment, only one of which seeme to be regularly occcapied as a sleeping chamber; and at last the old lady tamed to me with a stange glitter in her eyes. "Stolen she said, ''stolen, somebody/ has stolen my girl. Sir, do Ton know, X think it most be Satan I" Then • steady step crossed the sill, Margaret came in, and the old lady bursting into tears, suffered her to take her away. As I made my way down stairs, Margaret rejoined me, *'Yon understand it now," she re plied. 1 do, indeed/1 said. 'She bad a daughter oue,' said Margaret, 'and the pretty creature of sixteen—ran away with a bad man. She came home one day and begged lorgirewss. Her mother turned her from the door in ftiry. It was night; the rain and bail beat down upon the poor thing and the wind buffeted her. There is no knowing what happened to her that night; but next morning, she lay dead in the police station. Her mothers address was pinned to her baby's clothing, and they brought her home. From that day, sir, my mistress—who, In her remorse and delirium, called in twenty doctors to bring berdead daughter to liie—has always been doing what she has done to yon. I try to keep the secret generally but some find it out and others think odd things of us. I thought I would tot you know the TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS 1877 truth, If she coutrlves to call again to you. you can always promise to call, aud so be rid ot her. Poor soul I she has nobody in the world but me now. She's punished for her hardness, at any rate, and you'll excuse her conduct.' I bowed. I could say nothing. Mar garet opened the door for me and 1 walked oat into the fresh air. As I looked back upon the heuse, with all its elegance, it seemed to have a haunted air, as though the ghost o( the poor girl still hovered about. "God onlv knows how many fear ful secrets snch handsome houses may at times shut in t I said to myself, as I turned my back upon it gladly. I have never seen the poor old lady since that hour. Probably Margaret has kept too close a watch upou her. AN INDIGNATION MEBTINfI. (From New York Sun.) The moou was shiniug iuto the South windows of the White House when Mr. Uayes got up trom his bed in order to look at the clock. It was nearly three iu the morning, aud he had not yet slepl. The bed was com fortable enough, but what long drea ry hours since eleven! "God bless me," said Mr. Hayes passing his hand wearily over his forehead. 1 used to go to sleep like a top at Columbus. He sat down in a chair and tried to thiuk of his approaching journey through the Southern States, aud of the speeches to be made along the way. He would take Scburz along this time, but not Key. It would not be politic to take Key. Key's peculiar humor would not be appreciated iu Tennessee and in Virs ginia. Aud introducing Schurz to audiences iu the Southern States, he would speuk of him as a man who had fought on the wrong side at Get tysburg aud elsewliere, but who had seeu tbe error ot his ways, aud was now prepared to acknowledge his mis take in tbe presence ot his exsCon* federate brethren. ~"I will quote Scripture,"- thought Mr. Hayes, "when I introduce Schurz, I will say—" But his miud was not iu trim for continuous thinking. It wandered back to Evarts and the Green Moun talus, apd to Stougbton, aud to Judge Jerry Black, aud then to the unwel come memory oi tbe Electoral Com • mission. Aud the clock en the man tel, its rapid pendulum strokes ops pressively loud in tbe perfect stilluess of tbe night, seemed to say, and to keep saying, "EightHto-sev«en, Eights to-sev-en, Eigbtstosev-en, Eight-to sev-en, Eigh-to. sev-en." Try as be did, bis eais could make it say noth ing else. ' Mr. Hayes went to a window, drew the curtaiii, aud looked up at tbe broad face of the moon. For the first time iu his life *he noticed that the moon's face bore a weird likeness to the face of Gen. Butler. As be re marked this strange resemblance with amazement, the outer corners of tbe, eyes seemed to draw themselves •till further down, and the mouth lines to take on an expression of sar donic glee, as it tbe ffece said plainly, "Congress meets on the 15th of Octos ber, Mr. Hayes, and I shall be there" He was tnrning away disgusted from a spectacle that affbrdid him no satisfaction, when be was startled by a deep, ringing voice, apparently elose to bis ear, uttering with solemn em phasis this word ot reproach: "Fraud!" And again, almost before be could roeover his suspended breath: "Fraud 1" 1 ''Nonsense," thought Mr. Hayes, -my nerves are getting (be better of my senses. lam a-—" "Fraud!" said tbe voice for the third and last time. It was only tbe bell of a cbnrch eleck,striking tbe hour, but it it had been the voice ot doom pronouncing judgement, its effect upon Mr. Haye's ears could not have been more terrifying. He left tbe window and began to walk the floor, keeping time uneoneionsly with monotonous of tbe mantel clock, and drawing tbe palm of his band to and fro across his forehead a gesture that had become habitual with him ot late. In this restless mood Mr. Hayes passed out of the apartment consecra* teitoadeity who retused to bless bis pillow, and paoed tbe long oorrU dor for a time. The door of the Ex ecutive room, where be and bis prede cessors in tbe White House have bean accustomed to meet their counsellors, I was ajar- He pushed it open and en tered. It waa not the first time that he bad visited tl\eapartment at this hour. He unloekeß « cabinet, and his haud groped atjpat in tbe darkness until it had and a small vial. "It will bring me sleep," •aid Mr. Hayes to himself. "The dreams are bad enough, but not so bad as wakefulness.'' The drowsiness of the brown liquid came over him as he sat in the great easy cbair at tbe bead of the long ta ble. It was hardly sleep, lor he was conscious of the objects surrounding him, conscious of the moonlight, and conscious ot his own accute wretched* ness. While Mr. Hayes sat in the easy chair, waiting for the laudanum to close bis heavy eyelids, an astonishing thing happened. Tbe door of the Executive room swung en its binges, and a piocession ot dim figures, en. tered, marching gravely two by two. A dozen, fourteen, sixteen he counted and last of all came one alone, taller, graver, and more noble in form and carriage than any of the rest. Mr. Hayes started up from his chair to question bis dim visitors rather than to welcome ihem. But they paid no attention to him or to his movements and he shrunk back into a corner of the room unnoticed. Bome of the strange figures seated themselves around the table. Others stood up in groups, conversing in low, earnest tones. He who had entered last took the cbair which Mr. Hayes bad OCCUN pied. Just then the moon came out from behind a cloud, and by tbe better light Mr. Hayes saw that he was In the presence of tbe Preaidenta of the ! United States. "Blnce we were here," last said a courtly old gentleman with a big head and broad forehead aud stoat legs in knee breeches—"since we were here last there has been per* petrated in tne name of Government a crime so atrocious that lam unable to find words to express my indignas tion. Gentleman perhaps my tongue is sometime o'er hasty to condemn, but when my blood boils it were folly for me to attempt to restrain utterance," and the speaker brought down his heavy cane with a vehemence that shook the room and caused Mr. Hayes to shrink closer int^he-shadow that sheltered him. "R'ght, father, right!" exclaimed a rather pompons personage who stood a Utile apart irom the others. "Macte virtnte, O parens libertatis. Yon may well say that I There never yet was one of our line that could condone a crime or paliateatraud and 1 hope to heaven there never will be such to dishonor the name ol Adyas." "I came into this tinned the old gentleman, "In the year 1800. I was the first President ot the United States to occupy it. Nearly every four years since I have revisited the home of the Chief Magistrates, either in flesh or as I now come, and always w*tb generous confidence in the bonosty of purpose of its occnpant, howsoever I might question the wisdom of bis admlnls* trative measures. Nearly every four years, I say, for 1 must except the unfortunate period dnring wbieh I was on terms of non-inter* course with Jefierson here—the old qui rrel happily leng since reconciled, l» it not so, yoni Excellency ?" "Long siuoe forgotten John Adams," replied he who was ad dressed; bnt vex me not with 'your Excellencies.' 1 am plain Toin Jefferson, and I bold that in true democracy a man is no more than a man. though he be President,aud fine phrases and obsequious address can add nothing to the dignity ot the office. Let him borrow titles who lacks the sole title a President should claim—the title conferred by the honest vote of the several Common* wealths." "I am a rongh fellow," aakl another, I a stout gentleman with an awkwaid manner bnt a good-humored face and keen eyes, that snapped fire aa he spoke, "and not handy in turning sentences or speechifying: bnt d—n me it it isn't an outrage that a knave should find shelter nnder the root that has covered good soldiers and gentlemen foi nigh a century." "Aye, old Bough and Beady,'* said simple blue«yed James Monroe "a knave there is no denying it. Forgery, fraud, and the robbery of priceless rights, to get to this White Houso; this cannot be toi given, and must not be forgotten—that's the Monroe doctrine." "And the bands I bat fake Ibe prize are aa black as tbo bands that do the crimes," pnt in a venerable figure dressed in sable, with tbin gray hair carefully powdered; eb John Qnincy ?" "Qui facit per allium, tacit per «e," promptly suggested (he erudite President to whom Madisou bad appealed. "But what can be done about It?" inquired Buchanan, coming: forward to the table and poking his pears shaped head over the shoulder of James Polk and Andy Johnson. "It stems to me that we are in a position to remonstrate and not to coerce." "Do about it?" shouted an Irascible old gentleman jumping from his chair and running his bony Angers through aheadot bristling hair. "We cau cut off this false-hearted knaves ears. By the Eternal, it ought to be done and I'm the man to do it!" Mr. Hayes had never trembled as be trembled now before the honest indigo nation of this stern chieftain. For a moment he quite forgot his forehead in anxiety about his ears. He rushed for the door, bis two bands pressed close over the appendages which Andrew Jackson had threatened- No one stopped him; no one heeded him. The first Fraudulent PreaL dent of the United Btates passed at • cowards paoe trom out the pretence of his seventeen honestlvselected predecessors! In the faces of all he bad read contempt. In the faces of some be bad seen anger. In the trrave faces of Washington and Abraham Lincoln he saw no anger, but deep sorrow and profound ap prensioa for the future of the Government which one had establish ed aud the other saved. When Mr. Haves, haggard and still trembling, found hlmselr in the corridor, tbe sunlight was pouring in from tbe cast. This gave liim courage to look back into tbe room from which he bad fled, but the room was empty. W n Th.viai.rik, v [Correspondence of the JT. Y. Tribune.] COMBT A NTINOPLE, AUgUSt 20. There have been many rumors her« V** l tbe holy flag of tbe Prophe' would be brought out as a -rallying point for tbe whole nation, In view o' the aspect of affairs. In fact, it is said that the Sultan has so long *etisted tbe pressure of the people for this, that tbe venerable flag "has three timet undertaken to hitn typing forth of its own accord by a flight from tbe window. For ten days the Christians of this city have been in terror by reason of tnis rumor, as they believe that tbe appearance of the flag would he tbe signal for a gen> eral attack oil Christians. Three timet my servants have come to me with white fooes to say that such a day had been fixed for tbe massacre-tbe bread man said so—aud every time they put unshaken foith in new computation of dates, like tbe Adventists in matters of tbe end of tbe world. The Turks, also are in terror much of tbe time lest tbe Christians rise and massacre them. Thus many of the people of this city lead Uvea that are wretched from fear. Tbe flag which has caused such terror in the kitchens ef Constautinopte-rthe Sanjak-i*Sberif it is called is an Innocent piece of rotten and fkded silk, which used to be covered with sacred writings, and once was green in color. Tho only legible word remaining upon it is "Aieni'' (world), which appears in a secluded fold near the staff. The flag it never unfurled—nor, indeed, can be, from rottenness—a character istic which moralisti may nte aa*basis of a simple connected with the nation to whom tbe flag belongs. The flag it kept rolled on its staff and covered with a green satin oover, tbe whole packed aWiy in a gold or gilded boot. When the holy standard is to be brought out, it it carried in its green cover throusb tbe streets of Con-' ttantinopie, aud, after tbe city walls are passed, it is "in the field.*" It Is then stowed away in the gilded box once more, and this is carried with the army, much as the Jews used to take tbe Ark ot the Covenant to tbe en in battle. The danger of its display is, that the people, being called upon in a general way to make war, do to eacMfhitownttyle. The bribing out Of tb« great flag in this war would bean abrogation of tbe Geneva Con«, ventioo for tbe amelioration of suffer ing on tbe battle>field. * N0,28
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