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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL 4 THE GLEANER FUnUSHKD WKBKI.Y BY K S. PARKER Grabnra, IV. C, Ratei a J Subscription. Post aye Pai'l: One Yeiy-- *1.50 Six Months 75 Tiiroo Month:* 5 a Every person sending us a club of ten nbseribere with the cash. entitles himself to one copy free, for the length of time for which the club is made up. Papers sent to lifferent offices. 7fn Departure from the C'ttnh System Rate* of ndvcrliai tiK Transient advertisements payable in ad vance : jearly advertisemcts quarterly In advance 1 in. |2 m. IS m. | 6 m. i 12 in. 1 quaro #2 00 $3 00, £4 00" f ft 00 $lO 00 3 «J S 00 4 501 6 00' 10 00 i 15 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for be first, and fifty each subsc ■juent insertion. j,. .... • } *HIS PAPER IS OK TILB WITH JOHN CHAMBERLAIN GREENSBORO 1 ; H. C., PRACTICAL A K E « WATCH A!N ° JEWELLER DBAI.KII IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, Hurling Silver, and Plated- Ware, VINE SI'BCTAC'IjI£III * and ererj thing el»e iu niy lino. Special attention given to therepaiitng and timing of Fine Watches ami Regulator?. I offer you every possible guarantee that Whatever you may buy of me shall lie genu ine and *U»t a* represented, and you shall pay uo more for it tliun a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Good* ordered shall be fur nished as low as if purchased in person at my cjunter. I have made in the handsomest manner, llnir C'fcnlm*. Hair Jewelry. Olnniend aud %Vcddin* nil kind* •rPin«Jcwclry, «old bhJ •Hirer Wn'ch C«»e», etc,, etc. My machinery and other appliances for making the different parts of Watches, is perhaps the most extensive in the State, con sequently I can guarantee that any part of a watch or clock can be replaced with the ut most facility, CsT 1 guarantee that ffiy work will com pare favorably in efficiency apd finish with any in the land. ■JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, Watch Maker and Jeweler, Greensboro, N , The Dead I deal in American and Italian Sarfele Monuments and Headstones l t would inform the public that I am pre pared to do work aa Cheap as any yard in the State, > ♦ AND GUAKANTEE SATISFACTION. Parties living at a distance will save money by Miding to me for PRICK LIST aid DRAWINGS. TO persons making up a rlub of si* or mure, i offer the # Most liberal induce ments, *nd on application will forward designs,- ? • fii *V> or visit them In peison. Any kind of marketable... produce J taken in exchange for work.^ 8. G. ROBERTSON, GRBRNSKORO, N. C. * Poetry. liAKIHI, Toil swings the axe, and the forests how; The seeds break out in radiant bloom; Rich ha vests siniL behind tho blow; And cities cluster round the loom. Where towering domes aud tapering spires Adorn the vale and crown the hill, Stout labor lights his beacon fires, Aud plumes with smoke the and mill The monarch oak, the woodland's pride, ' Whose trunk is "seamed with lightning scars, Toil launches on the restless tide, And there unfolds the flag of stars; The engine with his lungs of flames, With ribs of brass and joints of steel. With sobbing valve and whirling wljeel, "lis labor works the m»gic press, An 1 turns the crank in hives of toil, And beexons angels down to bless limustrious hands on soa or soil. Her sun-browned toil with shinning spadu. Links lake to lake ties, Stuck thick with palace* of trade, Aud temples towering to the i kies. ffiv A If.XT PKIVBI.OI'F, We had be-ni married not quite two years, Jerome and I; and I think we had contrived to be about as happy as married couples generally are. Jerome wasn't i ich. but he had a good Biliary in his unclo's shipping office, and I had learned the lesson of economy, and contrived to get a lung nicely wiih une girl. To be sure, Aunt Penelope helped us; but after all, Aunt Penelope,lliougli she waR a good soul, and incajiLuuUi, *"*«> «*»*> re inJ|iP w*y tban otfierwise. Wo had gone to housekeeping on a second floor in Camden. It was a very nice place, although Aunt Pene lope declared from (he liret that a *eeoi»d floor wasn't genteel. • 'lt's more genteel than running in debt for a whole houso that you cau'i afford,' said Jerome; and »o I didn't care, although some of my school friends who had married rising young I lawyers and doctors, left off visiting me. And you may be sure I didn't ini'f them much al'tor baby came,like [ a little bind eyed sunbeam, to fill my I heart aud hands with those delicious cares that »r* so sweet to a mother's soul. Auut Peuelope wis always think' iug of plans. 'My friend, Mrs. Oulerbridgc.owns the sweetest country place up the riv er,' said Aunt Penelope to me one day iu a confidential aud patronizing tone. 'My friend, Mrs. Outerbridge, is going to France, and lia3 requeued me most politely to reside at Oiuer britlge cottage during her abience, and look after things a little. And when 1 mentioned that I was devot ed te my niece and her baby, she was kind enough to say that it would make no diffetencc if you camo there, too—for live months, from the first ®t May until the first of October. And what a splendid thing it would be for the baby to have, five mouths iu the country. My eyes glittered at tho prospect. The first toolh had already begun to gleam like a pearl iu its rosy gum, and I dreaded tho hot sultry air of summer for little Bertio's sake. 'Yes,' suid I, doubtfully, 'but Je rome?' 'lt's only twentysflve minutes by train,' said Aunt Peuelope. 'He can come down evory evening.' The more Aunt Peuelope aud I dis cussed this subject, the more feasible and delightful it appeared to us. We could revel iu the country milk, vel vet mown lawns, and fresh butter. t * Baby's perambulator could roll over graveled walks; Jerome co£l hear nightongalesfeing of a summer twi light, and watch the moon reflecting in the stream; and Aunt Penelope and I could bo for the once flue ladies at the head of a great establishment, for ail the Outerbridgo servants were to remain on until the return of their mistress. Veritably it seemed a de lightful ideal. When Jerome caroe homo I conld hardly waif to give him the first cup of tea before I unfolded the story of Outerbridge Cottage 011 tae Hudson. Aunt Penelope, sitting graciously by teeliug like the fairy godmother who bad done it all with one whisk of her enchanted wand. 'Well?' quoth I, restlessly, when I had finished the recital. ♦Well,' said Jerome, who hy this time had ttao' baby on bis lap aud was tickling bis plump ribs. 'Of course we'll go!' v - 'Of course we won'f/ said Ibis im practible husband of mine. GRAHAM, N.C-, TUESDAY MARCH 12 1878 'Jerome!' 'Amy!' 'But why uot?' 'ln tlie first place because _ I'vo no idea of your turning housekeeper for any old woman who wants to enjoy hcrße!fiu France,' and foist olf her household cares oil somebody else. In the second place I like to make my own ajmngeiuents, instead of having them made for me.' At this Aunt Penelope bridled a liitlc and tossed her head. I looked with eyes full of tears at my husband. 'Jerome,' cried I, 'now you arc un reasonable. It wo aid be such a fine thing for baby.' 'I don't see but that baby Is doing well enough,' retorted Jerome. 'I do not approve of your plans, Amy. Let Aunt Penelope accept Ihc posi tion it she plouses. I am able to fur* nish a home for my own wife.' 'A home! Yes, : oriml I indignantly. 4 in a flat, without as much of a buck yard as one could bleach a tablecloth in!' 'You have contrived io exist in it for two years,' said Jerome, Willi what seemed to me the most heart less indifference. ] began to cry. Aunt Fenelopc rose up with a great rustling of black silk and lilac satin cap rib bo us, * , r 'I shall certainly accept my friend Mr*. Oi.terbrtdge's kind offer,' said s'ie, wiih Of cojim*, Amy, Us you please. And I am going up stairs now to pack up. Mrs. Outerbridge is anxious for me to come a* soon as possible. And. cf course. Amy, you will remember that I shall always be glad to receive you and your family as my guests, at Outerbiidge Cottage. 1 looked imploringly at Jerome. 'Mav we go, dear? J am so hearts hungry tor apple-blossoms, audgrco i grass, and butter-cups J' pleaded J. 'Ofcourse, if you wish it.' . 'And will youcoiric too?' But Jerome shook his«hcad. 'My evenings for the present, must be spent in town,' said he. 'I have some extra work to da for Uncle Joseph, which won't bear postponing If you go Amy, yon must go alone.' Aunt Pen was loud in her denuuei tion of husbands in general, and of mine in particular, when 1 came up to her room. 'I could have told yoti how it would bo before you were married to him,' said Aunt Pou, shaking her head; but. ' 'You shall not talk so, Aunt Pen,' flashed I. *1 da«-e say Jerome is right; only—only ' And then I vindicated my cause right royally by bursting into a new flood of tears. Aunt Penelope went away the next day, and lonesome enough it socincd. It was a blowy April morning, with the blue sky, dappled with clouds. Oh, bow sick I was ©f the flat pavements and brick wails and all the items that go to make up a city! Baby wa9 more fretful than usual, and I easily persuaded myself that he was pining. •Oh Jerome!'cried I passionately, when at last my husband came koine with a tired look, aud a rollot papers under hi« arm; 'have we always got to live so?' 'Live how, my darliifg?' •Cooped up like rats in a trap, away from all the beautiful sights and sounds of the world! shtit up In a mere lodging house! Can't we live in a houso that has at least a little flower border in its rear?' 'I hope we can afford to some time, my dear,' said Jerome gravely. And then hodrewont his inkstand, opened his roll of figures aud went to work. The April days beamed on, all bright skies, soft winds, and kaleidos scopic glimpses of 6UU showers: and I became almost heart-sick for the country. 'lf Jerome cared for n>o like hs u sod to carc,' I told myself, with feverish impatience, 'ho would make an effort a-iyhow to find a home whet el could be happier than in this human hive, where a few pot-plant* iu tho window are all to remind me of the grceu world outside. Btung by these reflections, and still further incited by a letter from Aunt Peuolopc, full of discriptions of lambs, daises and littlo streamlets 1 one day paoked up my valise. 'Hallo 1' said Jerome when be came home, 'wbero are you going?' •To Aunt Penelope for a weeks visit i I need it and so does Bertie.' 'And leave me?' I looked keenly at Jerome. He foo, was paler and tliiner {than his usual wont. Nights of work and days of counting-house toil were beginning to tell on hiin. »!' I cried throwing my arms around him; 'I won't leave you dcaresfc Not it' I never sec the country again.' 'That's my own bravo littlo girl!' said Jerome, stroking-back my hair with a loving touch. 'Wait a week tlearv. and I'll take you myself for a little jtrip.' So I waited. The day-week came, fo my infinite delight. I dressed baby in a long • w bite frock with blue ribbon sash and shoulder knots, ami put on my dainty little spring hat (rimmed with primroses. Away we rolled in a com Portable open carriage Jerome. Berlin j and I—until we came to the prettiest ) bird's n?st of a cottage in the world, ! just a little distance out of the town j where vines garlanded the poTch.aud ; a little lawn extended down to n ! crystal-nTear brook. Tulips and daffodils mado the border! gay, and a lilac-tree,'by the gate, was just bursting into bloom. 'I should liko a home like this,' said I,gazing abstractedly out at itsexquis site spring beauty. •Should you?' said -Tercmo laugh ing, as ho drew up the horses in front of the gate. 'l'm glad to hoar that, because it ts your iiOine.' 'My—home!' 'Yes, little patient, homesick wife, I haven't forgotton your likings and longing* all the time. Your home!' But—is it paid for?' 'Yes every shilling. Joseph has helped me, and that nfcht work was well paid. A good garden, Amy and a nice place to keep fowls! So you like it ehf My face answered him. Wo myyjgii outjhe following week, and kept our May Ofty"Tnnrmg rro flowers and birds. And little Bertie grows like a weed in the sweet scents and greening grass, and Aunt Pene lope has taken back all she said about Jerome, and has all sorts of trouble with the Outorbridgo servants; aud 1 am the happiest littlo wifo in all then orld. "DIIKKK." [From the Louisville Commercial.] Cheek! Why, that's no name for it. He was an itinerant vender of lamp-burners, this one, and he gen erally gained his end wherever he was permitted to enter a house. Yesterday, while traveling about the city, he wandered into a housft in the southern part of town, where sorrow evidently, reigncu. The lamp man, finding the door open, walked right in, and there found a poor woman in tears, with a friend or two trying to console her for the loss of her hus band, who lay dead in the same room. "Can I sell you my now patent lamp-burner, ma'am?" said the vender. , "No, sir," replied the woman, be tween her sobs, "I don't wish any thing ot tli9 kind." "Please let me explain its beauties, ma'ain," said ho, "and I'm sure you'll tnke ouo. You see this" " But I don't want it, sir," she sail. "I wish you would. Don't you see my poor dear husband lying here? Leave on with my sorrow." "Oh! yes'm, and I sympathize deeply with vou ma'am. Excuse me— I can't keep bnck these tears. Ohl ma'am. If you only knew what a great consolation these patent lamp burners of mine are on such occasions as these yon would not bo without one a single minute. Why, ma'am, put ono of these in his hand and it ! 1 would light him through all the darkness he has to pass throngh with* out any trouble; aud when you come to die, he eould hold the lamp for you when you go to ascend the gold en stairs." And that precious scoundrel kept on in that strain until he bad sold half-a-dozen to every female in the room. Cheek! Oh! no. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly and tak« care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable to nature. IIANRKD FOR DtIKIJ.KO, I know but one instance, says a correspondent, of a man having been hung for killing another in a duel. In 1830 two young fellows living at Belleville, St. Clair County, 111. had a personal quarrel. It seemed to be impossible to reconcile them, and their friends determined to get up some sbain duel between tliem, hop ing that tho ridiculous i«;sue ot the affair would bring them to their souses. Que of tliem, Alplionso Stewart challenged the other, Wil liam Bennett, to meet him with rifles. Bennett accepted tho challenge, and tho partio* met tlu? village. It is said that Stewart was in the secret, and that Bennett was not, but believ ed it to be a reality. In any event, after tho guns had been handed to the principals,and they turned to take their positions, Bennett who claimed that he suspected sqjge sort of trick ery,rolled a b.illet into his gun: The seconds, hardly able to keep their faces straight, concluded the arrangements, and at last gave the word. The rifles exploded almost simultaneously, Bennett of course, romaining untouched. Stewart fell to the £k>und mortally wounded, and oxpired shortly afterwards in- great agony. Bennett was at once arrested and put upon trial, convicted of mur der iu the first degree and sentenced to bo hacgeil. His friends made the most strenuous efforts to have him pa4bued, Failing in this, they tried to have the sentence commuted. But the Governor remained firm against all entreaty. On the day ap pointed tor his execution Bennett was hanged in the presence of an enormous crowd. This was the first ««iLL»*tjJuele ver fought in the State •f Illinois. The hanging Qf "Bunnell, put a stigma upon the practice, aud it has bwen looked upon with abhor rence ever since. JTavous.—*lf you want to bo happy liefer ask a/favor. Give as many as you can, aud if any are freely offered, it is uot necessary to bee too proud to take them; but never ask for or stand wailing for any. Whoever asked a favor ut tho right time? To be refus ed is a woitful stab to one's pride. It is evon worse to have a favor granted hesitatingly. We suppose that out of a hundred who petition for fho least thing—if It be even an hour of time— ninety ni:ie wish, with buriiiugcheeks and aching hearts, that they had uot dene so. Dou't favors of your near est friends. Do everything for your self, until you drop, and then if any r nc pick* you up, let i» lie because of his tiej choice, uot from any groan you utter. But while you can stand, be a soldier. Eat your own crust, rather than feast on another's dainty ineals; drink cold water rather than feast ou auotlicr's wine. The world is full ot peoplo asking favors, and people tired ot granting tl.cin. Love »r tenderness should never be put aside, when its full hands aro stretch ed towards y»u; but so few love, so few are tender, that a favor asked is apt to be a cruel millstone arouud your neck, even if you gain the thing you want by the asking. As you cast your bread on the water, and' it re turns, so will the favor you ask, if unwillingly granted, come back to vou when you least expecL or desire. Fiiyor» conceded on solicitation are never repaid. They arc more costly in the end than an overdue usurer's bill. In England a horseshsoe baa been adopted made of three thieknossos ot cowhide com [tressed into a steel mold and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed to last iouger,.and weighs only one-foucth as much as tho common iron shoe; will never cause the hoof to slit, nor have tho least injurious influence on the foot. It requires no calks; oven on asphalt the hose never slips. The winter of 1829—30 surpassed the present one in mildness. Farmers plowed every month in tho season, and no snow fell until Feb. 2. It was followed, however, by a cold, back ward spring, with a snow storm in May which killed tho returning swallows. "What's the difference," asked the toacher in arithmatic, 'between one yard and two yards?" "A fence," said Tommy Beales. Then Tommy sat on the ruler fourteen tiinoa. Brigtifcn Young's twenty-five widows and forty-five children are dissatisfied with the distribution of the Prophet's property and threaten to bring a lawsuit that, will throw the discussion on hell into the shade. Sltatiinp. Tito m:m who smokes five will ci«iws nni puts ten cents in the ccu tYibuticn box died long ago. Women are not born politician*, and they run puck a trunk belter than they could a convention. Gapt.. Borton isbout to. swim from Toledo to Lisbon, a distance of 700 mites; tin n lie will try to cross tho Straight of liibralta. The new salary list made by the Mississippi Legislature gives tlie Governor $4,0t0 a year, and itlie Secretary of State $2,000. The reason Hie "oldcit inhabitant 1 ' doesn't remember sucli a remarkable winter as the present, is now explain* cd. Ite died last spring.— JVonUtown Herald. The man who has written anything for the editor and didn't "scratch it off in a hurry," will please call at this office and hear of something to his advantage.— Oil City Derrick. Mm. Phillips of Hopkin* Ky., went out/to shoot her husband from whom she had parted, and who was throwiug stones at her house. By a mistaken aim she killed her brother. The Sherriff of Kuoxville, Tenn., summons white juries and black juries, but nevev mired juries. Tim colored peopb of the city insist that the law commands the latter. Since the war, citizens of Georgia have scut out of the State $1,252,000 (of the education of their children. This fact is used as an argumeut in favor of the establishment of a college of the highest class within tho State. Cllara Louis Kellogg said to a St. Louis Olobe reporter: "You may say, if yon please, that there n«ver will b« an)' truth in any reported engagement ot Miss Kellogg to inarry anybody. I am iu love with myself, and I do not think I shall ever get married." » «. i them all. She now ftruishes a cast* where a man eloped with a' whole fumily except the old man, who had a lame back, and couldn't get to the depot in time." "I want five cents' worth of starch," said a little girl to a grocer's clerk. The clerk asked: "What do you want five cents' worth of starch for?" "Why, for five cents, of oourse," she answered, and the clerk concluded to attend to his own busit ness. Half the fools in the TJnited States think they can beat the doctors at curing the sick; two thirds of them are sure they can beat the minister preaching the aud all them know they can beat all creation running a newspaper. UNDERHAND DEALINGS. —There aro many people wliO pride themselves upon their morality and high sense of honor, who scout with horror tho idea that they could condescend to tell a lie, or commit a dishonorable action, but who are yet skirmishing all along the line of upright dealings, without coming fairly and squarely up to it. , A man was taking aim at a hawk that wai perched on a tree neir bis cbickcn-coop, when his little daughter exclaimed. "Don't take aim, ps; l»t it go off by accident!" "Why so?" asked the father. "Cause ovary gun that goes off always hits somebody." Paris is to have aD extensive un derground railway system, with four principal lines, all meeting below tho garden of the Paris Royal, where' in immense depot will be erected. Tw(nty«one I millions dollaissre to be furnished for the work by the general Government, the department of the Seine, and the city of Paris. TIIINK FOB YOURSELF. —Never bo too opinionated to accept good advice, by whomsoever offered. Yet you must think for yourself. It is well t» listen to the expressed thoughts of others, and it is an agreeable pastimo to give expression to your own thoughts; but when alone weigh what you have said. A few days ago a lawyer of San Antonio filed a petition in the Dis trict Court, in which the plaintiff is an old Mexican woman. TIMI Dis trict CHerk, as is usual, wanted se curity for costs. Said tho lawyer: "She is not required to give a cost bond. She is a. pauper, and will maka an affidavit to» that effect." "Why, she usee to own real estate,"observed the clerk. "I know she has got nothing now," rrtonted the lawyer. "Have you collected your fee in advance?" "You bet I did." ««it?a N0,2
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