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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL 4 THE GLEANER VUI'.MSHKD WEtKLT BT K S. PARKER Ankip, N. C. • ' #' Ratr* of /Subscription. I'odayr Paid : One Year «1;S0 Pl* Month# 75 , Three Months 50 Every person rending us ft clnb of ten iibscriimrs with tlie ciuth. entitles himself to one copy free, (or the length of time for ' A-tiieh the club is made up. Papers sent to liffercut olllcef, ■_■ ■ Jfo Departure from the Cash System . R:ile« ol ndrnrtlHiax Transient advertisement* payable in ad vance : yearly advertiacmet-s quarterly in , Advance |t m. ,2 m. jS m. j6 m. 12 m. 1 stinra !*2OO $3 00jl?4 00 *6 00 $lO 00 * | 8 00 4 501 6 00' 10 oo; 15 00 Transient advertisement* SI per sqnare for he flmt. and fifty cents fur each subsc aneut insertion. « -- ■ —rr: ~ jr, - "**&-'£-/ • \ THIS PAPJETC IS OH FII-H WITH Wlvtar* Advertising Contract* c*n b« nui» W—. * , r . a, . JOHN OHAJfBEEJiAIN GREENSBORO, V. C. t PRACTICAL /■y" A «c b K n*n " BlQjB "" JEWELLER VHALKK IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, i /Sterling Silver, ami Plated- Ware, IIMi lll'BeTA(!I«K», and everything else ii» my Una. tar Special attention glteo to the repait ing and timing of fine Watches, and Regulator?. I offer you every possible guarantee that whatever vou may buy of me shall Uc genu lne and ?u»t as represented, and you shall pay uo more for It than a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Uoodt ordered shall be fur nished as low as If in person at my c juuter. I havo made iu the handsomest manner, Mair Chnlnn, llnir Jewelry. tjlnowml wild King;, all k«.»U •f Jti»v«lrr. «old «*«•* - Mirer Wixcli i'atct, eUr,, etc. My machinery aud other appliances for making the different parts of Watches, I# perhaps the oftitt oxtensivdlu tho Statu, coa iomieutly I can guarantee that any part of a watch or clock can he replaced with the ut nrost facility, mr 1 guarantee that my work will com pare favorably in efficiency- and tfuibh wiiili CHAMBERLAIN, Watch Maker and Jeweler, Greensboro, N , SIMIMBIi The Dead I deal in American and Italian Karfele Monuments and Headstones inform the public that I am pre pared to do work a* Cheap as any yard in the State, '■wi AND GUAKANTEE FFRFECT* SATISFACTION. Parties living a't a distance will save money by HCLdinjr to roe for PRICE LIST a'ld DRAWINGS. To persons making up a club of six or m»re, I offer the Most liberal induce ments, *nd en application will forward designs, 4 tsJii 4*., or visit them in peisou. Any kind of marketable produce taken in exchange for work. S. C. JR O B E RT S O N, GRffiNSHORO, N. C. Poetry* .« I. ATTOK, Toil swings the axe, ttnd the forest* bow; The seeds break out in radiant bloom; Rich ha Tests smile behind the blow; And cities cluster round the loom. Where towering domes and tapering spires Adorn the vale aud crown the hill, Stout labor lights his beacon fires, Aud plumes with smoke the and mill The monarch oak, tho woodland's price, Whose truuk is seamed with lightning scars, Toil Hunchte on the restless tide, And there unfolds the dug of stars; Tbe with his lungs of llames, With rihfTof brass and Joints of s/eel, t With sobbing valve and whirling wheel. "l is Übor works tho nugie press, An'l turns the crank in hivps of toll; And bccKons angels down to bless Industrious hand.) on soa or soil. Her sun-browned toll with shinuiug spadu. Links lake to lake with silver tics, »hick.wlth palace* of trade, And temples towering to the ikies. 91V ACfNT I»BIVK«.Oi , r, We hndb'esp married not Quite two years, Jerome and 1; and I think we had conl rived lo bo about as happy as mirri'd couples generally are. Jerome wasn't i icli. bjil be had a good salary in his uncle's shipping office, and 1 had learned the lessuu of economy,, and contrived to get a nicely with one girl. To be SUIT, Aunt Penelope helped us; but after itll, Auut Penelope, tbonati she was a good soul, and meant well, was more in (lie way than otherwise. We had gone to.housekeeping on a fj second ll.jor in Camden. it was- a very nice place, although Aunt Pene lope declared Irom the first that a second floor wasn't genteel. 'lt's more genteel than running iu debt tot a whole house that you eau'l afford,' said Jerome; and »o I didn'i cure, although some of" my school IVieiids wiio h.id u.arricd rising \ onng lawyers And doctors, leftbtT visiting nn>. And you may be sure I didn't mi.f llieni niiicli atTor baby came,like a little blue eyed sunbeam, to fill iny heart and builds with those delieious cares that at*i so sweet to a mother's soul. Aunt Penelope was always think"- ing of plans. 'My friend, Mrs. Outcrbridge.owns ; the sweetest couulry place up theriv er,' said Aunt Penelope to me one 1 day in a confidential aud patroniziii'* tons. ' 'My friend, Mrs. Outerbridge, is going to Prance, and has requeued mo most politely to reside at Outer* . bridge cottage during her absence', 1 and look after things a little. And L When 1 mentioned ihht I waß devot - ed te my niece and her baby, the was kind enough to say tlmt it would | make no difieieneo if you came there, too—for five mouths, from the first «f May until the first of October. Aud what a splendid thing it would be for the baby to have, five mouths iu ihe country. My eves gljttcrcd nt the prospect. The first tooth hud already begun to gleam like a pearl iu its rosy gum, and I dreaded the hot sultry air of summer for little Iterlis's sake. 'Yes,' suid I, doubtfully, 'but Je rome?' •It's only twent>".five minutes by train,' said Auut Penelope, 'lie can come down every evening*' The more Auut Penelope and I dis cussed this subject, tho moro feasible and delightful it appeared to us. We eould rovoi in the country milk, vel vet mown lawns, and fresh butter. Baby's perambulator could graveled walks; Jerome couflPhear nightongalos sfng of a summer twit light, and watch the moon reflecting in the stream; and Aunt Penelope and I could be for the once fine ladies i "at the head of a great establishment, for ail the Outerbridgo servants were to remain on until the vctaru of their mistress. Veritably it seemed a de lightful ideal. v When Jerome came home I conld , hardly wait to give bim tho first cup of tea before I unfolded tne s»ory of Outerbridge Cottage on tae Hudson. Aunt Penelope, Bitting graciously by leeliug like tbe fairy, godmother who had done it all with one whisk of her enchanted wand. _...- 'Well?'quoth I, restlessly, when I had finished the recital. ♦Well,'said Jerome, who by this time had the baby on his lap aud was tickling his plump ribs. , 'Of course we'll go!' 'Of ciiurac we .won't,' said this iuv practible husband of mine. GRAHAM, N. C-, •Jerome!' ' 'Amy!' 'But why not?' u' V: j ! •lii the first place because 1 1'vo no idga ef your, turning housekeeper for any old Woman Who wauls to enjoy I herself in France, and foit.t off her household cares oil pouiobody -else. ; In thfe second place I like to make my i own arrangements, instead of having i them made for me.' At iliis Aunt Penclopo bridled a i little and tossed her lit'ad. I looked with eyes full of tears at m;' husband. 4 Jeroino,' cried I, 'now yon are un« reasonable. It would be such a fine thing for baby.' 'I don't see but that baby Is doing well enough,' retorted Jerome. '1 do not approve of your plans, Amy. Let Autil I'enelopo accept the posi iioii it sho pleases. lam able to fuis iffsh a home for mv own wife.' ' 'A home! Yes, ; cried I Indignantly, h. -r ".vklic& tj« 3 h yard as one eould bleach a tabic cloth in!' 'You liavo contrived lo exist iu it for two year 3,' said Jerome, with what seemed to me the most heart* less indifference. 1 began to cry. Aunt Penelope rose up with a greac rustling of black 6i!k and lilac satin cap I'ib*. bo us, * 'I shall certainly accept my iriond Mr*. Oi.torbndgo's kind offer,' said s'ie, with dignity. Of course, Amy, von Will do as you please. And I am going up stairs now lo puck up. Mrs. Outcrbridgo is anxious tor mo > to come in 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 Outerbridge Cottage. 1 looked imploringly at Jerome. 'May wo go. dear? I am so hearts 4t hungry for applo-blossoius, audgree ■ grass,and butter-cups!' pleaded I. 'Ofcourse,Til you wislrit.' •And will you come too?' But Jerome shook his head. 'My evenings for the prcscut. must bo spent in town,' said he. 'I have same extra work to de for Uncle Tlosepli, which won't bear postponing [fyoti go Amy, you must go alone .' Aunt Pen was lotfd iu l*»r lion of husbands in general, 4 and of mine iu particular, when 1 came up toherVooin. 'I could have told you how it would bo before you were married to him,' said Aunt Pen, shaking her head; but. ' 'You shall not talk so, Aunt Pen,' flashed I. 'I dare say Jcome is right; only—only »' And then I vindicated my cause right royally by bursting into a new flood of lears. Aunt Penelope went away the next day, and lonesome enough it seemed. It was a blowy April morning, with the dappled with clouds. Oh, how sick I was •f the flat pavements and brick walls and all the items that go to make up a city 1 Baby was more fretful than usual, and I easily persnaded myself that he was pining. •Oh Jerome!' cried I passionately, when at last my husband came koine with a tired look, and a roll of papers under his arm; 'have wo always got to live so?' 'Live how, my darling?' •Cooped up like rats in a trap, away from all the beautiful sights and sounds of the world! shut up iu . a mere, lodging house! Cau't wo live in a house that has at least a little flower border iu its rear?' 'I hope we can afford to somo time, my dear,' said Jerome gravely. ■ And then he drew out his iukstand, opened his roll of figures aud went to work. The April days beaaed on, all bright skies, soft winds, aud kaleidos scopic glimpses of sun showers: and I became almost heart-sick for the eountfy. Tf Jerome cared for no like ho - u scd to care,' I told myself, with feverish impatience, 'he would make an effort aiyhow to find a home wheie I could be happier than in- this human hive, where a few pot-plants in the window are all to remind me of the green world outside. Stung by these reflections, and still further incited by a letter from Aunt Peuolopo, full of discriptions of lambs, daises and little etreamleta I one day paoked up my valise. 'Hallo!' said Jerome when he came home, 'where are you going?' •To Atmt Penelope lor a. weaks visit I need it and so does Bertie.' • ■p' TUESDAY MARCH 12 1878 'And leavo me?' # I looked keenly at Jerome. He (no, was paler and tliiner |tliau his usual wont. Nights of work and days of ' counliug-hr/use toil wcro beginning ' to tdl on Itinr. •No,u •!' I ciled throwing toy arms . around him; Ijl won't leave you | dearest. Not if I never see the | country again.' I •That's tuy own brave Httlo girl I' } said Jerome, stroking back uiy hair . with a loving touch. 'Wait a week 1 deary, and I'll take you myself for 1 a little trip.' 1 So I waited. 1 The day-week came, to my infiuito I delight. I dressed baby in a lomr w hito frock with blue ribbon sash and shoulder knots, and put on my dainty little spring lial trimmed with primroses. Away we rolkd in a com ibrtablo open carriage Jerome. Bertie and I—until we came to (he prettiest bird's nest of a cottage in tlio world, jast a jOUt of town j where vine* garlanded-1 lie porch, aud a little lawn extended down to n crystal-dear brook. and daffodils made the borders gay, and a Hlaotree,. by the gate, was just bursting into bloom. '1 should like a home like this,' said I,gazing abstractedly out at itsexquis site spring bea«ny. •Should you?' said •Taremo laugh ing, as he drew up the herses in front of the gato. 'l'm glAd to hear thai, because it ts your home.' 'My—home!' 'Yes, little patient, homesick wife, I haven't forgotton your likings and longings all the time. Your home!' But—ls it paid lor?' - • 'Yes every shilling. tUncle Joseph has bellied me, aud that Might work was wo 11 paid. A good garden, Amy and a nice place to keop lewis! So you like it eh!' My face answered him. We moved out the following week, audi *pt our May day among the ffuWfrs and birds. And little Bertie .grows like a. weed in the sweet scents and greening grass, and Aunt I'eiie"- 1 lope has taken back all she said about Jerome, and litis all sorts of trouble With Iho Outorbridge servants; and Vain the happiest liltlo wifo ill all i. " CUBIC [From the I.oulnvllle Commercial.] Cheek! Why, that's no name for it. He was an itinerant vendor of lamp-burner#, this one, and he gen erally gained his end wherever lie was permitted to enter a house. Yesterday, while traveling about the • city, lis wandered into a housn in the southern.part of town, where sorrow evidently reigued. The lamp man, 1 finding the door open, walked right | iu, and there found a poor woman iu tears, with it friend or two trying to , console her for the loss of her hus band, who lay dead in the same room. you my new patent lamp-burner, ma'am?" said the vendef. "No, sir," replied the woman, be tween her sobs, "I don't wish any thing ot tli3 kind." "Please let me explain its beauties, ma'am,* said ho, "and I'm sure you'll take one. You seo 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 in 3 with my sorrow." "Oh! yes'm, and I sympathize deeply with you ma'am. Excuse me— I can't keep b».ck these tears. Oh! ma'am. If you only knew what a great consolation these patent lamp burners of mine are on such occasions as these you would not lie without one a single minute. Why, ma'am, put one of these in his hand. and it would light him through all the darkness he has to pass through with* i out any trouble; and when you come ! t? die, lie could hold the lamp for you when you go to ascend the gold en stairs." And that precious scoundrel kept en in that strain until ho had sold half-a-dozen to every female in the room. Cheek! Oh! no. j The happiness of your life depends upon' the qaality of your thoughts; ' therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain* no notion* unsuitable to virtue and. .reasonable to nature.* lIAHOBD fOR OVBLIfIO. 1 know but one says a uorrespondent, of a man having been hung for killing another in a dut;). In lft3o two. young follows jiving at Belleville, St. Clair County, HI., had a personal quarrel. It seemed to bp impossible to reconcile thorn, anil their friends determined to get ii|> some sham dual between them, hop ing that the ridiculous issue ot the atluir would bring thetn to their senses. ()ue of them, Alphonso Stowart challenged the other, Wil liam Dennett, to meet him with rifles. Dennett accepted the challenge, and the parties met near the 'village. It is said that Stowurt was inthe secret, and that Dennett was not, but believ ed it to.be a reality. In any event, after the gun* had been handed to the principals,and they turned to take their position Dennett who claimed that he suspected some 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, jremaiuine untouched. Stewart full to the giwnd mortally wounded, and expired shortly afterwards in great agony. Dennett was at once arrested and put upon trial, convicted of mur der in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. His friend* made the most strenuous efforts to have htm pardnwd, Failing in thin, they tried to have the sentence commuted. But the Governor remained firm against all entreaty. On the day ap pointed tor his execution Dennett was hanged in the presence of an enormous crowd. This was the first and last duel ever fought ift the State of Illinois. The hanging of Bennett put a stigma upon the practice, and it hosboen looked upon with abhor rence ever since. try,you want to be happy never ask a'mVor. Give as many as you can, MHJJI any are freely otlercd, it is not necessary to beo too proud to tuke them; but never ask for or stand waiting for any. Who ever asked a favor at the right tiiue? To bo refus ed is a wouful stab to one's pride, it is even worse to have a favor grouted hesitatingly.' We suppose that out of a hundred who petition for (he leant thing—if it-be even an hour of time ninety nine wish, with buruiiigcheeks and aching hearts, that they hud not dene so. Don't favors of your near* est friends. Do everything for your* self, until you drop, and then if any* me picks you up, let ii be because of his ti«J choico, not front any groan you utter. Bnt while you can staiul, be a Eat your own crust, rather than feast on another's dainty meals; drink cold water rather than feast on another's wine. The world is full of people asking fa\ors, and pcoplo tired of granting tkein. Love or tenderness should never be put aside, when Its inll hands are stretch ed towards uu; but so few love, so few are teudVr, that'a favor asked is apt to be a cruel millstone around 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 yon ask, it uuwillingljkgranted, come back to vou when you least expect or desire. Fuyor» conceded on solicitation are never repaid. They are more cosllv iu the end than au pverduo usurer's bill. In England a horseshsoe lias been adopted made of three thicknesses of cowhide compressed into a steel mold and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed to last longer, and weighs only one->foiuth as much as the common iron shoe; wilt never cause the hoof to slit, nor have the least injurious influence on the foot. It requires no calks; even on asphalt the hose never slips. The winter of 1829—30 surpassed the present one in mildness. Farmers plowed every month in the season, and no snow fell until Feb. 2. It was followed, however, by a cold, back* ward spring, with a snow storm iu May which killed the returning swallows. ''What's the difference," asked the teacher in arithmatic, 'betweon one yard arid two yards?" "A fence," said Torajpy Beales. Then Tommy sat on the ruler fourteen times. fc- Brigham Young's twenty-firo widows and forty-five children are dissatisfied with the distribution of the Prophet's property and tin-eaten to bring a lawsuit that will throw the dh>jnssion on hell into the shade. Sltaninp, the inun Who smokes live cent ciuiirs hum puts ton cents in the ecu iributh-n box di«il long ago. * Women nto not liattt politicians, ami they can puck a trunk boiler ihuii they codlil uCuiivwntior, Cupt. Dorton isbout to swim from Toledo to Lisbon, a distance of 700 utile*; thin he will try to cross the Straight of Uibraltu. The new salary list Made by the Mississippi Legislature gives the Governor $4,000 a VrtW, and tlm Secretary of State $2,000. The frea«on lite "oldest inhabitant 1 ' doesn't remember such a remarkable winter as the present, is now explains ed. He died last spring. —NorrUtown Herald. The man who has written anything for tlio editor and didn't "scratch it off in a hurry," will please call at this office and hear of something; to his advantage.— i)U City Derrick, Mrs. riiillips of Hopkins Ky. f Went otlt*to shoot her husband from whom sho find parted, and who Was throwing stones itt her house. By a mistaken aim she killed her brother. "pie Sherriff of Knoxville, Tenn., summons white juries and black juries, hut nevermixed juties, "tin colored peopl'J ofThe city Insist that) the law commands tho latter. Since the war, citizens of Georgia have jseut out of the State $1,252,000 tor the education of their children. This fuc* is used as argument in favor of the establishment of a college of the highest class within the State. Clara.Louis Kellogg said to a St. 1 Louis Globe reporter; "You may say, ' if you please, that there never will be ; any truth in any reported engagement , ot Miss Kellogg to marry anybody. I am iu love with myself, and I do not 1 think I shall ever get karried." . tree Prets: —"Kentucky beats . them all. She now furnishes a case where a* man eloped with a whole ' family except the old man, who had a lame back, and couldn't get to the depot in time." , "I want five cents' worth of . vtarcb," said a little girl to a grocer's > clerk. Tlieclerk asked; "What do t you want five cents' worth of starch ■ for?" "Why, for five cents, of course," she answered, and tho clerk : concluded to attend to his own busit [ ness. Half the fools in the United States j think they can beat the doctors at curing the sick; two thirds of them • are sure they can beat the minister 1 preaching the gosjwl, and all them ' know they can beat all creation running a newspaper, > Underhand Dba lisgs.—There are ' many people who pride themselves ( upon their morality and high sense [ of honor, who scout with horror the [ idea that they could condescend to i tell a lie, or commit a dishonorable i action, but who art yet skirmishing " all aloug the line of upright dealings, ' without coming fairly and squarely I np to it. * A man was taking aim at a hawk that was perched on a tree ne&r his ( chicken-coop, when bis li£tlo daughter ) exclaimed. "Don't take aim, pa; let . it go off by accident!" "Why so?" ! asked the father. "Causa every gun that goes off by always hits 1 somebody." Farts is to have an extensive un* 1 derground railway system, with four 1 principal lines, all meeting below the 1 garden of tho Paris Royal, where an 1 immense depot will be erected. Twenty »one 4 mill ions dollais are to be 8 furnished for the work by the general ' Government, the department of the 8 Seine, and the city of Paris. B u Think fou Yourself*. —Never be too opinionated tn accept good advice, hy whomsoever offered. Yet you ] must think for yourself. It in well to s listen to the expressed thoughts of , others, and it is an agreeable, pasiiuio 8 to give expression to your own , thoughts; but wheu alone weigh what i you have said. > A ftw days ago a lawyor of Hnn Antonio filed a petition iu the' Di strict Court, in which the plaintiff is an old Mexican woman. The Dis* ' trict Clerk, as is usual, wanted se curity for costs. Said the lawyer: "She is not required to give a cost bond. Sho is a pauper, and will mnkn an affidavit to that effect." " Why, 5 she usee to own real estate,"observed j. the clerk. "I know sho has got nothing now," retorted the lawyer* "Havo you collected your fire m advance?" ''You bet I iid." "lt'a s | all right, then.- lam satisfied she ia 1 a pauper, row," sighed the c.'erk. N0.2
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