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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL 3 THE GLEANER rPBLISIIED WEEKLY BT K. S. PA RK E R ffrthaa, JV. C, RaUi «J Subscription. J'estayt Paid : One Ycnf 4L50 81s Moiittis 75 Tnree Months .50 Kvery porson seudlng us a clnfc of ten ntwrribers with the cash, entitles himself to one copy free, for the length of time for which the club it made op. Papers sent to liffercnt offices. 2fo Departure from the C'anh System Rate* of adrrrtixiag Transient advertisements parable in ad vance ; yearly advcrtisemcU quarterly iu advance. !1 m. 3 m. jS m. I 0 m. j 12 m. I qnars i*3 00:f3 oo's4 00 $6 00 *lO 00 % 't ! 3 00! i 501 6 00 1 10 001 15 00 ; Transient advertisements fl per square • rhe first, and fifty cents for each subee • aent insertion. • ■ .miiafc.u ■» p «1-A'ip»'n my 1 ms PAPKK 18 OK FILB WITH Wlmßi4rertlito|CoßteMHc«Bb«iiii4> *■ - -- JOHN CHAMBER GRKKSBBOKO. N. C., PaAOTIOAL a2SL AK E K WATCH AND JEWELLER DEALER IK FIKE WATCHES, JEWVLRY, Sterling Silver, Mid Plated- Ware, VI» »r«€TACI.B», and everything else in iny line. W Special attention g\v«D to the ropait lug and liming of .Fiua Watches and Regulal*s- I offer you every posAble th*: whatever "yon may buy of ine shall Ue gc»u Ine and ,'uJ«t as represented, and you shall pay no more for it than a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Uoodt ordered shall be fur nished as lox as if purcha*«;d in person -at m.r : c jauter. 1 have inadi in the li.,uti£oiiiest laaauer, llair Chaia*. nair Jewelry. Diamond aud WrdiiinK ICia S «, nil kinds * of Viao Jewolrr, Clold aad Silver U'airk Casrn, etc., etc. Mv machinery and other appliances for | Biakin the differe.t parts of watches, is i perhaps the most extensive in the State, con sequently I can guarantee that any pait of a watob or fclock can be replaced with the ut most facility, fty 1 guarantee that nay work will com par* favorably in efficiency aud Hnuh with j anv in the Intnl. (JOHN CFIAMBERLAIN. Watch Maker aud Jeweler, Ure.usbnro, V , 1 HIMIM8IH: The Dead | ; I deal in American and Italian j Marble Monuments and Headstones £ would inform the public that I am pref ; pared to do work as . I | Cheap as any yard in the State, .j AND GUARANTEE PFRFECTI SATISFACTION. Parties living at a distance will save rooncv by seidinr u> me for PRICE LIST and DRAWINGS. To persons making up a elab of six or mmt, I oiler the Most liberal induce ments, and en application will forward designs, or visit them in pci&on. Any kind of marketable produce taken iu exchange for work. 8. C. ROBERTSON, UJMEXSbQXO, N. t. » ' Pootry. II tTl'CKll, [From tho Washing', .a City Suni*y Herald, J [The printiug of the folio-ring poem, written by Joseph W. llolden, of North Carolina, in 18G7, will bo considered most appropriate jutt at | this time, while tho dreadful fate of j the Huron is fresh in the public mind. I A copy ot it is furnished by Gen?ml jT. L. Cliitgham, who thinks it equal to any American poetry.— I | The Wind King from the North ratno down, I Nor stopped by river, mount, or town; i But, like a boisterous god at play, I Resist'ess bounding on his way, j lie shook the lake and tore the wood, ! Aud flapped his wings in merry mood, Nor furled them till ho spied afar I The white caps flash on llatteras bar, Where tierce Atlantic landward bowls O'er treacherous sands and hidden shoals. He paused, then wreathed his horn of cloud And blew defiance long and loud; "Come up] Come up, thou torrid god; That rul'st the Southern sea! Ho.' lightning-eyed and thunder-shod. Come wrestle here with me! | As tossest thou the tangled earns j I'll hurl thee e'er the boiling main! The angry heavens hung dark and still. I Like Arctie night on Ili cia's hill; : The mermaids sporting on tho waves. | Affrighted, fled to coral caves; j The billow checked its curling crest, j And, trembling, sank to sudden rest; ; All ocean stilled its heaving breast. | Reflected darkness, weird and dread, An inky ilain tIK waters spread - So motionless, since life was fled! ** > 1 ■ > t Amid this elemental lull, WTurti nature died, aud death lay dull, jls though itself were sleeping there— j Becalmed upon that dismal flood, j Ten fated vessels idly stood, ! An 1 not a timber creaked! ! I)im tilenco held each hollow hull, • Saie whei! some sailur. In thai night, I -v • i Oppressed with darkness and despair, | Some seaiuan, groping for the light, Rose up and shrieked! j They cried like children k>st aud lorn: j "Oh, Lord, dtliver while you tfiny! Sweet Jesus, drive this gloom away! Forever fled, oh, lov • ly day? I would that I were never bom!" for stoutest gouls were terror-thrilled. And warmcM hearts with horror chilled. "Come up! Come up, thou torrid god. Thou lightning-eyt« and thunder-shod. And wrestle here with me!" 'Twm heard and answered: *'LO! I coma From azurs Carribee To drive tht-e cowering to thy home, And melt its w lis of frozen foam." From every We aud mountain dell, om plains of pathless chapparell, j r rom tide-built bars, where sea birds dwell, j lie drew his lurid legion fourth— _4nd sprang to most the white-plumed North. Can mortal tongue in song convey i The fury of that fearful fray? i How ships were splintered at a blow— Sails shivered iuto shreds of snow— .tail seamen hurled to death below! Two gods co.umingliug, bolt and blast, Aud bellowed o'er the raging waste; Then sped, like harnessed steeds, afar. That drag a shattered battle car Atuid tho miinight den of War! F?!se Hatteras! when the cyclone came Your waves leapt up with hoarse acclaim And ran and wrecked yon argosy! For e'er uine sank! that lout huifc stauds I Embedded in thy yellow sands— An hundred hearts in death there stilled, j Ana yet its ribs, witn corjses filled, Are now caressed by thee! Smile on, smile on, thou watery hell, Aud toss those skulls upon thy shore; The sailor's widow kLows thee well; His children beg from door to door, And shiver while they strive to tell How thou hast robbed the wretchcd'poor! You liplcss sknll shall speak for me, This j.s Golgotha of the sea! Aud its keen hunger U the same In wiuter's frost or summer's flame! When life was young, adventure sweet, j I came with Walter Raleigh's fleet, But here my scattered bones bare lain And bleached for ages by the main! Though lonely once, strange folk have tome, Till peopled in my barren borne Enough are here. Oh, heed the cry. Ye white-winged strangers sailing by! The bark that lingeis on this wave Will find its smiling bnt a grave! Then, tartly mariner, turn and flee, A my raid wrecks are on thy lea! With swelling sail and sloping mast Accept kind Heaven's propituous blaat! Oh, ship, sail on! Oh, ship, sail fast, Till thou Golgotha's quicksand* past- Hath gained the open sea at last! An Oxf3rd (Ala.,) uian is so close fisted that he will Dot advertise in the papere, but ties his card to a pig's tail and turns the grunter loose. - As a rule, the less money you leave yont- children when you die, tiie more tlwy will hare ureiily year* after ward. GRAHAM, N. O, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12 1878 UOW TIIK DK.tO JIIC, MC IS HACK tedi.y ca.uk To Mm, [From the Philadelphia Times ] At 7 o'clock on Sunday morning crape hung at the door of the dwell ing 128 Mary Street. The neighbors who knew Ihe story of a long and ! painful illness said: -'Poor }lr. j Schrack has gone aHas!!"' Word was sent to the doctor that lie need at* i tend his patient no longer. Tho un- j dertakcr was visited. In old Swedes' i (Gloria Dei) y Church Mr. Schrack'e i death was announced and the Sunday school -cholars commented upon iho j death of the teacher they hail learned to love. At 11 o'clock, four hours later. Ihe crape was torn down from the dwell ing in Mary street. Tho erdor for the undertaker was countermanded. The doctor was told to hurry to his patient. The Sunday school scholars iu Old Swedes' Church were about passing a resolution of condolence ! with their teacher's orphaned boy, when tho pastor, tho Jiur. S. 11. Simes, was handed a pcice of paper bearing the single word, hastily writ ten; "Kevived." Tho neighborhood wna soon thick wilh rumors. Anions' those who had an inkling of the facts It was generally agreed that some thing not far short of a miracle hail | happened. Tho story is, indeed, a remarkable one. J. Harry Schrack, a well-to-do merchant, lost nearly all his fortune by endorsing the n Jtcs of others who were either who were themselves unfortunate. With his on'y son, his wife and two children having died, he has for sometime pi.'t icsided in the 11-it little house on Mary street, above Front. For | the last four months lie has been sr• rieusly ill with nervous spasms ot the heart. During the latter part of last week he himself gave np all hope ol living, and the attending physician, Dr. J. 11, Cantrcll, expected his pa* lient's death momentarily. Mr. Schrack died, apparently, at' tweuiy minutes of 7 o'dock on Sou day morning. lli# limbs became cold and rigid, his lips colored purple aud around his mouth was the blue mark generalty supposed to betoken death. A hand mirror was placed over his mouth, but its shinning sur face was not dimmed. 1 lis friends ne'ghbors who stood around pro* notincod him dead and greived tor j him. A few hours afterward the body was completely stripped, that it might be prepaied for the under* taker's hands. Before washing the corspe it was necessary fo rcmovo it Iroin the bed. A neighbor, Mr. Mr. Charles Shanklaiid, lifted the body, when, to nis urlarra, he bcarl a feeble groan. A hurried examiua* tiou developed the fact that the man was not dead. The body was wrap (ted iu blankou and bottles of hot water placed between them. Mr. Sh&iikltiTiU mtrried ior the doctor,and reluming quickly, acted under the iustructious he had received uutil the doctor arrived. In a short time Mr. i Schrack had regaiued consciousness and was sitting up in bed. More I than that, the mm who before was j lying at death's door, and who was terribly afflicted with disease, was almost sound aud well as ever he had been in his life. Mr. Schrack dreaded the idea of his case being made public, bat, if the particular* were to be related, he said he wonld prefer narrating them himsolf, so that the statement might be correct. A 2't'iwes representative yesterday found him tilling up iu bed, with a bright color in his cheois, and looking like anotliiug but a corpse, lie is a young man, proba bly 30 years of age, a good talker and intelligent, lie spoke in , a hoarse whisper, not the result of hia illness but caused by his catching a alight cold in consequence of the perapira* tion he was thrown into by tlie reme dies employed to revive him. lie spoke earnestly of bis experience, but was vivacious and smiling, aud at times joked about the expressions of the doctor when he found him alive, lie tells his story as follows: Last September I had a terrible at* tack of horn orrluge of the lungs, and since then 1 have not been able to do any thiug. except lor one period of three weeks. My health at limes was fair, but three weeks ago, I felt that I was going fast. My flesh left iny body. My entire appearance chang* ed. My appetite was gone. Every ' thing 1 swallowed was at once thrown ; oil iny stomach. Last Thursday a 1 week i found I would have to give up. I felt as (hough Iho power of | action in my limbs was lenv'.Hg me. 1 was learl'ul ol yoinjj (o bed, and s» ' I sat ill a chair for three days and three niyhls. 1 then made up my mind that I would liavc to die and 1 I ifkcd to l>o put to bed. Wednesday I niybt I was taken with something j like n chill and spasms at tho heart. After coming through that 1 seemed 1 to revive until last Saturday. Every , hour dun tig that day I experienced a | cUai*se. H'hilc ihe rit(ht hand would } he purple, the left would he white, j \» hen the left hand became dark the right became white again. The eutire left side of inv body was numb and almost useless. Ahaut 9 o'clock o» v Saturday night my eyesight began failing me. 1 lost my hearing, aud try speech became thick, my tongue being greatly swollen. I had fully made up my inind that 1 had to die. At about 4 o'clock on Sunday morn* ing the lips of my fingers became like lead. My sight was now cutircly gone. My stomach was terribly swollen, and was greatly itiflamcd. Ea-li succeeding cramp was more seveie and reached hiuhor up iuto the stomach. All tho passages of my throat &eoined to be closed. Shortly before 7 o'clock I asked lo be movc* to the foot of the bed. My head had scarcely touched tho pillow when I exclaimed: 'Throw mo over!' aud then —I found myself in another land. The visisn I looked upon was the tno«t beautiful that man ever saw. It would be imposssiblo for me to give a description that would «lo it justice. My first feeling was that of falling down a great height, and then I found myself iu a valley. I walked along until I came to a terrible, dark, black river, a' sight of which I shud dered and l'carcd. llcloto ine aud beyond the river was a black cloud. Others were walking orer tho river, and, although I dreaded it, soincthfug urged me on, and I felt that 1 had to [go with tho others. As I £ot nearer to the dark 6loud it bccauio bright ' and beautiful, and expanding it open* Icd aud disclosed Iho most beautiful sight. The first I saw was Jesus. I ' ; saw a great temple and a great throne. I I saw my little boy. who wasdrowned two years ago, and my other dead I child. I saw my i/ead wife; but 1 | could not touch thenr. I saw people whom lHhd almost forgotten. I saw j my old grav-haired grandfather, who died when 1 was but two years old, There were nuny whom 1 looked for, hut 1 did u«t sec them. "Then the vision began receding, and 1 never can describe the terrible disappointment I felt when I found myself again in bed. I felt, indeed, grieved. It was II o'clock when I regained Consciousness, and once I felt as though uiy life had been re newed. I was a new man, I had not then, nor have I now, an aclio or a pain. My eyes'ght, ray hearing and my cpocch hava fully returned, and I |#»f>l nnit' mm f»a I■ yi»r iiiij tny life." Dr. James H. Canfrell, tho all end ing physician, said that Mr. Schrack'e trouble was nervous spasms of the heart. I expected his death at any luorncn*. Ha was in such a condition since Suuday a week that I did not dare to uiake an examination of his lungs, as I knew he could not staud it. Mr. Schrack told me that during tho tour hours ot his unconsciousness he had but one foot on earth, and he was very sorry that 1 had brought him back." HI, KOIKSB4TS NOSI. The police Court has cow under advisement a case involving the rights otone citizen to break anothar's nose with a bnck. Lewis Kosekrans, the owner of an aquiline aosq of superb proportions,was standing contentedly in the doorway of hia atore on Third street, when a crowd of hoodlums came along. As the blackguard gang passed, one member jostled another, who, stagv gering, trod on Mr. Kosekrau'a most independent corn. Obeying the. im-. pulse which sprung from the sensitive callosity, Mr. Rosekrans extended hi* arm with great vigor. Tbe of fending hoodlum stretehed himself on fha sidewalk with corresponding alacrity. Fresentlv, however, he rose and Mr. Kosekrans iell. In the drug store on the corner, soon after, they informed Mr. Kosekrans that the cause of bis fall was a flying brick. The effect was {ntinfully visi~ ' ble on. liifi nobc. That magnificant bcuk had become a snub. 15/ erecf- j ing sov eral subitautial scaffolds round tho shattered organ, tho druggist ' succecdud in making it presentable, but nothing more. Tho impressive 1 beauty of the structure has forever 1 goup. What can be dono toward j wreaking vengeance on the icono* j clast. Mr. Uosekrans |ow implores ' Judgo Louderbitzk to do. Counselor j Spiller yesterday interviewed tho ; injured gentleman for the edification of liis Honor. "You said you were struck with a bricks" remarked tho Counselor. ' "Yah, 1 »«s." "How do you know you was?" "How I kuows my nose vss pro ken? Yell. I knows id. I dinks you knows it if dot powlJer hid yon." "Did you feel it?'' Mr. Kosekrans (derisively)—"Oh, no. 1 only schmeld id." Mr. Spiller (wilh dipnity) Ans wer my quesion, sir. Did you foel it?" "I fult id ven 1 dook id üb, and, PJ grayshits, id feld very bevy." "Did you feel it on your nose?" "I didn't hev time." "Did you seo it!" "I zeed id on de crownd." "Did you know it was coming!" "1 got no word about id." "Did you se» it coming?" "Oh, vy you ask such qnestions?" "Did you see it coming sir.?" "I didn't. Did you uiuk I'd a vailed for it, eli?" The Counselor then directed his inquiries to showing that the de fendant by reason of his position in the crowd could not have thrown tho v>.ndal brick without killing at least five of companions. No such fortu nate occurrence having been reported at the Morgue, the presumption of the defendant's innocenes of course should amount almost to convio* ; tion. "What, part of the crowd was the defendant in?" asked tbo C'oun. sclor. "Yah—he vat." "Where was he in the crowd— what part of it?" "Dreo nhndred und twenty-five D t rd sthrat.'' "How did the crowd come along, one by one or all iu a bunch. "Yah- -shust so." "Do you comprehend what I'm asking you, sir?" Was tho prisoner in the dock at the beginning, in the middle or tho end of the procession of hoodlums that came along?" I "lie vus." "Ha was what—at the begin* nine?" J "The pegiunin, yah—dot ia de middle of the growd—de end. iio vas." "Tho cross examination ended there. Tho case was continued.— San Franritco Mail. A CMMilrsi •■▼slid ■ Haw Draaatr Hare ■ Jloeliag. [From the San Antonio Herald ! It liapaened right hero iu San An* touio. One of tue parlies was a con sumptive from Connecticut and tbe other a commercial traveler from New Jersey. Tbey were stopping at the same hotel, in adjoining rooms. The drummer was out of money, but be had a spleudid pistol, lie said to himself; "1 wonder if that hungry looking Texan next door don't want to buy a pistol?" putting the weapon into his breast pocket he walked into his neighbor's room. The invalid from Connecticut had been reading about a uotod Texan desperado, ior whom there was a large reward offered, aud he fancied the deacriptiou fitted his uuknowu neigh bor. Consequently, when the New Jer* sey drummer entered tbe loom, «hut the door, and put hie hand in his breast pocket, the Nortlieru invalid began to shiver aud think of his past lile. •' WUat —do—you— wzut V asked tbe invalid. The drummer drew a large ivory bandied revolver (answering the de scriptiou of tbe one tlie celebrated desperadoes seed on strangers) aud said. "I want $25 for this pistol." Tlie trambling baud of the invalid could hardly find iu way into bis pocket. "It is a rood pistol—it never misses fire," vaid tho drummer, bringing it to a ball-cock. '•J J .Take yer—yer—money !"' gasped the invalid The drummer took tlio money, laid the pistol on tlie table and went out As pooii as tho door was shut tlio invalid irom Connecticut breathed » huge si«h of relief and said to himself: •' 1 am glad that Texas denjMrrn.li to«k my money. What a country this i*, wlion you are robbed in broad day light in a hotel. I'll leavo to-morrow lor the North." As soon as the drummer get iuto his room be remarked; "I'm in lock. I'm glad that tho old Texas ruffian took my pistol. I wonder who lie is goin-j to try it on, I'm goiHg to get out of hero In tho morning, now that I've got meney to pay mf hotel bill." And ik xt morning both wert oft on the auine train. ~ In about two weeks we wil' scan the northern pa lters for a story about how a noted Texas desperado robbed au invalid in a San Amonio hotel. TAI.KINA TllHOtnrt TIE HRITISU CHANXBL, On Saturday last some further ex periments were carried ont cu tho telegraphic eable connecting St. Mar garet's Bay, near Dover, and the vil lage of Saudgatie, on the French ccast. The Mayor ot Dover ana sev eral other goiitlemen connected with the towu drove over the bay and ass sciublcd in tho little telegraph hut erected on tho beach within a few yards of the shaft of the borings con* nectcd with the proposed channel tuiinsl—a gross and material way ot connecting the two eouutries. com pared with the delieato eomflHMaa tiou we were about to oatabtish. Mr. Bordeaux, Ibo SupecufTeudent of tlse Submarine To leg rap h Conip#\ ny at once established a comnmnica tiou with the opposite coast, and at. his request, conveyed by an ordinary pocket telegraph instrument, the tele phones were attached to the French end of the cable, and in a few minutes w« were couycrsing across twenty two utiles ot wire at the bottom or the sea. The portable instrument* mails in polished mahogany, and in ships like a champaign glass without a foot wore used. Hjr placing ono to the ear, and 'peaking into tho cup of the other, a continuous conversation was kept up-without difficulty. Al though the wires were being used on the ordinary business ot the station, and the cbckings of the Morse iestra ments being worked at Dover and Calias were going ell the time yet the voices could be plainly heard and (heir tones distinguished. The songs sung in tho little wild hut on the Fronch coast were repro duced, note for note aud word, piano and forte, like (be distant murmer of a shell—a small far off voice—iu thai in which we stood. "Star ot the ev-, ening" and »'Auld Lang Syne" came rolling across that rough aud stormy Chanuel, down which ships wcro staggering with shortened sails, and through that tumbling surf, without Ihe loss of a tone er a note. Whists ling was tried with equal sucoeis, and tlie tunes were equally distin guishable with the esngs. It was suggested that the popping of a corlj might bo made out, and our French friends were adced to listen ettentive ly to what would happen. Unfortu nately no bottles were at hand, but a reverend gontleman equal to the Ot* casion pat his finger iuto his cheek and.imitated tho drawing of a cork. '•You hare just drawn a cork," came a voice Irom the other side, with just a shade of melancholy in its tone, A hearty laugh was raited by this mis take. Alter thankining oar friends for their seugs and other efforts to amuse an audience eo tar ofl, Mr. Bordeax gave a abort lecture en the tion ot the instrument, aud the patty seperated much impressed with tbo success of the experiments and of tlie important part it is likely to play in the iotarft, At prese it it is utterly useless for military purposes, as the most perfect stillness is necessary not to drown the little voice.—London Tiicet. There is no man so friendless, but that he can find a triend sineere enough to tell him dUegreaablo truths, "My dear," said a wife to her baa. band, '*{ really think it ia tune we had a greenhouse." '* Wet!, my love, paint it any color you pleaee; red, white, or green will suit me," re sponded the husband. Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten— a little spring that ner quite driaa up in our journey through scorching years. knee an a little t in our years. N0,48
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