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VOL 4 THE GLEANER BL'iy-- 1. _ * " j '?? 9 J'UBLISIIKD WEEKLY B* E. S. PARKER jzz a—. Kate* 4J Subscription. I'ostayt Paitkt One Your tI.BO Blx Months 1.. ~75 Tnree Month* 50 Every person sending as a elub of ten sub scribers with the cash, entitles himself to one copv free, lor the length of time for which the club is made up. Papers sent to different offices JWo Departure from the Cash System . , , 5 Haei«fA4>«rli>iSf Transient advertisements pay side in advance: yearly advertisements cjimrterly in advaaee. «•-; ••; • ?48p* v ;*%jL *''>'--* •> - % - '' * v '• - "f, ■■ |1 n». |2 m. |8 m. | 8 tn. I 13 m. 1 qunre js3 00 «OO'M *»!*« «¥»,*lo 00 2 '! |S 00, i 501 « 00l 10 00. lli 00 Transient julycrtlscmentu Si per square ,er he first, and fifty centi for eaeh subte q (lent insertion. —-r -=== -- >9m % NEWAKKIVAL * AT P. R, Harden's, .• -• Ma f-i 'u I v' j* Who keeps ccnstnutly on hand a full line of DKT Gooi>«, «»OCJEKIEH and GBN BKAL MBKCBANUISB at ' Bottom Prices. The highest market pries paid for ail kinds of Country Produce For Stile 100 bushels seed oats. New crop Cuba Molasses. Bacon C. R. Sides at 10 cents. '• Garden and Flower Seeds at 5 cents a paper. Karly Rose and Early Peach Blow Potatoes Call and examine our s toe It before pur chasing. WP (special attention given to the sale of lilfMßla The Dead * , i , - / v i I deal in American and Italian . Marble Monuments and Hoadntonca ■ (would inform the public that I am pre-, pared to ao work as ' " i;. '* Cheap as any yard in the State, A#R> GUARANTEE PERFECT *V' ft ''** * 'TO **•'. i, '?i~4 SATISFACTION. Parties living St A distance will save money by settling to ui! for I'RlCtfi LIST «fnd UK A WINGS. To persons making up a club of six or mure, I offer the * * * > - 1 "Xs? *t\ e .* ;f" V; ; : . / Most liberal induce ments, and on application will forvraid designs, &e„ or visit tbeuiJn pel sou Any kind of marketable produce taken in exchange for woik. ! » V C. ROBERTSON, E. S. PARKER, GRAHAM N. C„ Attorney at Law, Practice in Alamance and adjoining counties, ud in the Fedaral courts T HP] ALAMANCE GLEANER. TUB NO-PENCE LIAW, CHAKLOfTK, N. C., March SOlll 1878.; .Tq the .Editor {ftfjti Kern: | lam «lad (hat you nre arousing oni v (armor* on the Stock law. for it is of greater impoiiaiice to North Carolina than awv measure (hat fc flgilatiiigthe public inimJ. Mecklenburg was the first to adopt (he stock law, ami I suppose many of year subscribers would like to Itcarof the struggle ami the triumph of the cas« in this coutMv. As the same arguments will be used against the lftw 1 write you a short history ol the opcra-> lion ot the law. About the year 1869 or 1870 mauy of the most intelligent farmers commenced to Agitate the questio.i. Converts wore rapidly made, and during the winter of 1872 ami 1873 an act was parsed,, which (o become a law had to be ratified by (lie 'pSOpft?, *''Yfi&.,>fcaine the (tig of war. ,K The opponents of the law were led by some of our very best citizens toe and (he canvass was conducted with great viifor. The great majority ol the. whites Sunt lit ern Townships wore in lavor of the law, while in the citx; of Charlotte and the Northern Towuships the opposition was the strongest. All the freeiiineu of both seel ions were opposed to the law. All £]io classes admitted that the saving in (ho expanse of fencing would be from 25 to 75 per cent, aud that tho mils now NU IKIIKI would last train 6to 10 years. The opposition contended as they theti stood were a necossaiy evi!; that if the law was adopted noonowtiuld ever be able to raise stock iu this noun* try ; that we would have to buy all our bacon- beet, mutton, &o , and that even bufteicwould be broOght hero and* sold to oui*farmers. The tricks of polilicityi w.cfe iiitrodue* E.L and the cry of '*TIMX jtbig! The King!" \VM I'aised. The King was (o buy al a nominal price all the stock of poor mon, aud all stouk of the |pposiUou that they were unable to kCt-p. The Freed me r. were very much excited. Th&y could onlj see in the law, evil fr>r thnin, their slock WtestcdlWlto them—or standing ill pens', starving aiid living; and tr> add to their misery a Reverend wag circulated a report among them that the snakes would over-run the land. "Put up the hogs and the woods wiil get full of them." "You know hogs eat snakes aud that is whnt keeps them down." •* "Put up the hogs aud iu a low years suntvs will be thicker than leayos." Those of a religi* ous turn ofmiud argued (hat Cod made grans to grow wild, expressly for st6ck. and it (lie stock was penned hew could Ihev get to it. to eat it, forgetting that God said, "Thou shalt not covot awg* thing (hat is thv neighbor's. The friends of the law urged that it was a relic of slavery, that tree labor c«uld not stand such an enormons tax, and gave estim-ites of the probable amount that would be saved &c., &c. The Northern men and foreigners,wheth er hero as farmers, miners or mechanics, joined with the tiicntisvf the stock law andnrged its adoption. They staled that the old s> stem was tho great barrier to immigration, &c., Ac. The day ol electinu c.nne and the stock law was voted d >wn by a larj;o luajwri* tr. The law provided (but if llie county refused to lalily it, the trustees of any township conld submit it to their town>> ship by giving thirty days notice. Tho" Trustees of the Southern townships im mediately pasted llie notices for au elec tion. The notices were po6tcd according to law, hut it ft said tLe people did not talk much about it. When the day of election came the law was adopted and mauy, many a freedwau v. ondcrcd how it was. "Tliev had killed it iu (he coun ty and got it in their towusiii{.." All went to work (o adapt themselves to tiie new order cf things, and before a year had passed all opposition had died out| and those who wero pposed to the j measure became its strongest advocates. The. opposition iu (lie other tswnsliips finding that the slock lan worked no ins jury, but was really a great benefit, com menced to agitate the question again; and snc by one the township* commenc ed to fal! into line, and iu January 1877 a public meeting was called to instruct our Representatives in Ihe Legislature te have passed a stock law for the entire ooiiii>y, and to appoint a committee te draft the law and its passage. All opposition having died out, U was not deemed necessary-te submit it to a v6fe"brthe and in order to show to the Legislature that it was not, a pes tit ion with 3,400 signatures attached to it was sent with the copy ot the bill that was desired to be passed. The petition was gotten up in a week, and many more names could bare been had if il had bei'ii considered necessary. . llie law was {Missed and weal into ef lccl April 10th. ana so veil are ou* en- ( .GRAHAM, N. C-, tire people pleased with it (hat Ido not know a single person who is now oppos ed to il. The people oft lit other cm tit lios ot this Slate are like (lie people el tide county, they want to see before they b«lkve. and if \\; liail o.nly«i ins: township, in eal;h e.mnty, to let the others seo "|iow il »cls," it would not be two >ears before the iuw would be gcu. erul. I Cotton planters arc benefited more than any other class of farmers. Cotton fieldft urc worked from January to Jan uary, and never make pasluro. The same laud beiug used year after year for col ton. the fence around it. under the old system, was so much labor wastod. To insuro the purity of blooded stock the stock .law is indispensable. Already much attention is being paid to blooded stock in this couuty. tVo can boast ot as flue Berkshircs as America can produce, an 1 one of our "otiterprising fai ti.*r» ceived a pair ofYorkshires last fall direct from England. We have thoroughbred South Downs aud Merinos, aud cattle that will compare with any oast of the Blue Grass region. Our tarinerns are in belter cwnditiou to-day liiun ihoy have been since the war. While the farmers of other are making rails, building and repairing fences, our far. mors are making compost; and it re. quires uo mathematician to calculate which will yield the greatest return. As well might the Khedive of Egypt allcniu( (o build Pyramids that will equal those that tell of labor uurecoinprnscd in the of tho Pharaohs, as for our poos pie to live like tho slave owntT* before the war. North Carolina must leave the old ruts of siave labor aud cultsr the road of free labor. .Mecklenburg, »l»ud of the position she has laketi! invites her sisters to c6me and see her in her new dress, »ce her improv ed agriculture, her improved stock, and her uonteuled ciiizens; and when fhey s«e ihoy wil] believe, and will go and Lo likewise. ' S. B. ALFJCANDKK. BICUES HAVE WISCS, [New York Cor. Hartford Ttmes.] Ten years ago Mrs Hol!iday,/tbe wife of Ben. liolliday, (he millioimre, and her two daughters, both blight and charm* ing girls just verging upon womanhood, were promiueut among society leaders iu Now Yoi'k. Ben. llolliibiv had made his millions in tho overland carrying tradojiofore the days «>f Pacific Rail luads, and his family had all the money it could (togsibly need O onj »y all the pleasures of taxhionable lite, lie pur chased a magnificent country seat in Westchester county, and his wife, who is reputed to bo a devout Roman Cathos lie, built a beautiful chapel upon it. at au expense ot 40.000. Mrs. Holliday aud her daughters traveled iu Europe, aud admirers oi the two handsome American heiresses were not lackiug among aristpcralio bachelors. At length —and without much delay, either—they found husbands among the nubility, so called, ene marrying a Count, aud tho other becoming the wife ot a Baron, Frenchmen both. But neither marriage proved fruitful ot liappiuess; iudoed, it soon became known ainoug their friends that the Countess Ponrtales aud (he Bart ouessde Bnissiere were inisinated. Soon the tide which had lifted the fami ly to distinction began to turn. Unlucky speculations swept away almost the whole of Mr. Holliday's fortune. Next, doaih teok away one ef his daughters, (lie Countess. Then his wife was taken in the same way. Sooil after a legal eout'est began between him and his re* maiuitig daughter oyer a will which his wife hud executed. A curious feature of the will was a proviso that if the sur viving daughter should become a widow she should not again marry a Freuch ! man, under the penalty of forfeiting all right lo any part of her mother's proper ty. About (ku days ago this daughter arrived here from Franco for the pu re pose ot resisting her father iu the will contest. Immediately alter her arrival she became dangerously ill, aud on Sunt day morning last she died among strans gers in the New York Hotel. Her lath* er is in California, and there is not one member «1 the family in New York. Ttie body of the Baroness, who was only twenty four years old, was tlien taken te the little chapel in and (here laid to rest. Only twe gentlemen aud au old and faithful Irish nurse, who had been iii lho famlly for twenty years, accompanied it to the grave. ** John Jiynes Fitzpatrick, for twenty years connected with the literary de« pai&'rent ot Mie New York Heraid, died on Sunday. He was a native of Cnvati county, Ireland, and in early life was a | physician, atjd WHS foreign editor ef the J JJtruLl under old Bennett, He waa 05 years of age, TUESDAY MAY 7 1878 JOIIHRiqiTH, A Pealwxly farmer had sold a Lvmi man n load of pin* wood, bat on his way liiither had lost« the piece of brown paper that contained the adtlreis. lie had seAfehcit for him at tIM pnistofflce. city hall and in a dozen bar-rooms but was unable to find him, and was on the point of returning borne when he saw an iiifelligeuitlookitig individual Handing on Hie corner or Rroad* ami* Atlantic strq ts to whom he said: *4 sold this load ot wood to a man here in Lrun and I can't think ot h'.s name if 1 should go to Halifax ' 'Common name, is il?' inquired the ■nan is though hp would like to help him cut of :he diffleulty. 'Yes, very common jlieard it a thousand (lines,' replied tlie farmer, knitting his svebrows.' "Breed?" suggested the man. Ttie farmer shook his houd. 'Jones?' 'No that's not tlio name. Let mo see —who was it that built the ark ?" asked the farmer, leaning on his whip handle. 'Eph. Horn.' ''That's not the nante. Let me see— who was it that discovered America?' 'Victoria C. Woodfcall.' ' so.'replied the farmer. 'lt's fnnny he continued.'tliat I can't think of his name. I know it just as well as I know , iuy own. WhAt is that fellows naino . that they call 'The Faihcr ot his coun try?' ' 'John Morrissey.' | 'Taint him. Who is that bh; follow in [ Congress what's beeu kicked oat of I the Gabiuet tor itealiug to much money ?' •Sitting Bull."' | 'That s not the man I'Tn look! ig for. Who was it that built tae tirst steam* I ship?' Charles Francis Adams.' ( 'Well,' said the man with the wood, 'I might as well give it up. iluch obliged l* yon for your kindness,' he added starling off. 'Wasut it George Francis Train?' asked the mail as it in deep meditation. 'No, replied the farmer, 'its some *f these fellows names, but tiiats not ex* aotlyiL* Who was it that saja we tolks all come from the ape?' •John Smith.' 'Thais the man I'm looking for,' said the farmer, tipping his hat on tho bacx of his head, andtuking a fresh chew cf tobacco., Where dees he live?' Tin lie,' said the man, and 'lie two . wont down the street together, whHe (lie horse with (he wood followed on i behind. Kinitt'i.B. . It is very caSy to ridicule anyone or auything, any belief or any theery—to sneor and Binile aud say smart things; but, after t.ll, ridicule proves nothing. Almost every discovery or invention has been tho subject of ridicule at some time. Nobody could laugh enough at the idea lhu( (he world was round, when that tact was first suggested. As for (ho steamboat, (here itro people living who remember when it was believed to be tf>e dreain of a madman. '* Theories that we do not understand prepositions which we cannot comprc houd are apt to set us to si.coring, snd odd garments uic au unfailing source of amusement to almost everyone. Certainly, it is always wise (o look like other people, us far as dress goes; bu! the ungainiug creature, in an autedi* luvian hat aud coat, may be your superior, monsieur, despite your latest modes and the lessons of your dancing. And you mademoiselle, who are so near perfection in matters of the toilette, may jiot be so near heaven as the old lady Wit h the yellow hand-basket, blue umbrella, and ~ red pocket-hankerchief. As for personal misfortunes, what can be said ot any one who finds thereasub ject of ridicule? A deformed figure, a hahing gait, a stammering speech—these should and do excite sympathy, net ridicule, in all noble bosoms. Ridicule is a weapon which, if aimed at contemptible actions and the meaner vices may sometimes dw good; but it ia a dangerous one, save in wise hands. Think twice before yon use it, and haply you may save yourself from mocking ene, the h»m of whose garment yon. are not worth to kiss. It is stated, as an instance ot the late Smith's huinorpuf and* practical way of reacyng results, that on one oe» cosion, wbeiM visitor had outstaid hi* welcome, and had become a pfeternatur natal nuisance, Mr. Siuith iu t(io morn . for a blessing to descend up ion "our visiting brother, who will this ' day depart from «is," And he depart | ed, 1 A ll A*Cif FOR Tftß ROYM/, There is nftt a profession thai is nol overcrowded—there is nwt a phrase of .muroliaiililc pursuit that is not overdone. Thpro is no chance.for (he cainiiig men in any ot Ihe industries ot life in the (on lis or ei:ies. Lawyers, doclnrs, niin isffcra and mechanics nre starving fo death, and thousands of lliem are com* pete lit in their callings. Bflt (here is ' a chance for the boys, after all. We need men; we ucud honest men. We need men who will fear God and bow to the prinoipleaof right. Wo nocd (hem at the heiufot rflairs. We need them in the office of President and in the Senate of Iho nation. They must be inoq who wil 1 not buy|iheir way info office or sell their volos fo keep 1 hem from the peni tentiary. This kind of men this nation must have if it coutiiiuoa a republic, and in this sphere, there is room enough for nil Ihe boya that are ft- Mcking. about the hearthstone or coasting on their rleds dawn tho snowy hillsides.—Boya. grow up to be men.- Western Rural. AM INTERESTING YOUNG MAS. — A physician veil kuowu hereabouts was re cently called to see a lady who- was re* ported to be suffering with a terrible pain. The physician hastened to the residence of the lady and tound her in bed. He felt her pulse, looked at her tongue aud commenced writing a pre* aeriptiou. She said to him: "Doctor, 1 don't think you understand ixy case." "Oh, yea I do," said he, "I understand it very weli." After a littlo whilo the lady remarkedjo* him again: "Doator, I don't think you know what's the matter with me; that ypu understand my condi« tion." The doctor replied: ~O h, yes I do, madam; 1 have a patient up town, a a young man just in your fix, Buffering with the yame disease." An hour after wards (lid lady gave birth t6 a ten-pound boy. How the'yoil&g man got along our informant did not e*y,'—Ban Juan Time*. • ■■ ■— A I'EI.sBBATE# CASK, [Now Haven Palladium.] They have bad a funny law suit- in Wert Stratford. A reaident owned a hen of feucy breed that strayed upon a neighbor's premises and laid a nest full of egga. Auother hen, belonging to the owner of the land,Jook possession of the nest and hatched the eggs. Then the two neighbors got into a wraugle about the chickens. They were sould by No. 2 to a third party, whereupon No. 1 got out a writ of replevin and the case was tried a fow days ago with able counsel and many witnesses. The Court decid* ed thai the hen that hatched the egga was the legal mother and dismissed the replevin suit. One day the sexton was standing on the church steps, wiping his molancholy features with a red bandanna. A hearse stood 11cor, aud ihreo or four carriages wero drawn up behind it. The notes of the organ floated out of the wiudow with solemn effect. A stranger came along, and said: 'Funeral?' . The old sexton gravely bowed his head. It was. 'Who is deadV * The old man wiped bis brow, aud gave the name of the deceased. What complaint?' asked the inquisi tive stranger. Solemnly placing his bandanna in his hat aud covering his bald hc%d, the old sexton made answer: • • ~ + •There is it© complaint. Everybody is entirely Ratified.' J Pkpok OF A FfKCTiox.—Tbcv were dis* j pitting as to who bad the richest father, and the smaller one finally flew that track and called cat; "Well, I've got the best big sister, any* luw 1" "I guess not." replied tho •tlier. "Yes, I have!" "I guess nol; I've got the bossest bi* sister in Detroit. She'll stay home any day to let me wear her shoes to the crcnsl" um„ .i.Uii roll] itn mar'n Hint !" mil in t "Well, I've got the best big sister, any luw 1" "I guess not." replied tho ether. "Yes, I have!" "I guess wot; I've got the bossest bi* sister iu Detroit. She'll stay home any day to let me wear her shoes to the crcnsl" "My sister will do mor'n that !" put io ' the little one. "She's take the strings out ot her eirset for me lo spin my tep with; and iff lose it shaUl -slay home, from a party amlTiever never give me a ward of sass! Is your sister any besser than thai?" Tho big l>eyhad to take a back seal.— •Detroit Fret Press. Rev. Henry Ward Beecber recently spread himself on the bins of poor old Tweed. NO,IO fSTatiittp, ' .'_i . I ■ MMI 111 V "What in home without a mother?" is what tlie girl xang when *l>e whb play* ih£ on the i>fau6 in tJpj parlor, and her" mother was in the cellar chopping wood. Four hundred and twenty choir*, in cluding 18,000 voices, will compete at the Puris Exposition. "ShadwelH" the birHipJac? of as Jrfferaon, is lo »je sold at auction", lint der a dead of trust, on thd 17th of Mar. Under carpet-b-g rule, the Boufh Carolina Legist* l urt bought two huns died and twelve clock* for the Stat* House during one soesiou. Sarah Bernhardt, (ho actress, hat six dogs,n parrot. three cats,a school of gold fish, an avitry o 1 birds and a skele- Oth --j- • John 8. Norton, oneo a popular actor and teacher of elocution, died iu a New York station house cell Sunday morns ing from the cflects of a debauch. • "Wear your old clothe* and work eTcry day is tlto way to keop balance ot trade inoui invor. A standing joke*-dotting up to offer your to a lady iu a car, and then having ner give it to her husband.— Commercial AdoertUer. Teacher with reading class: Boy(read* inp): as she sailed down the river —" Teacher: "Why are ships she?" Boy (precociously alive to the responsi bilities of his sex); "Because they n*H men to manage them. If Mrs Tiltou tells the truth, she is guilty; if she liee, she is innocent; it die is or is not iunooent, she liea or tells tha truth, or otherwise, as the case may be. —Boston Globe. ''Mr. Tupenthred isn't in, I see," said an old ahopper to the clerk in attend ance. "No'm, he's at home to-day." "I suppose ho's got nothing new?" "Yes'ra he has; he's got pnuemonia." "Yo* don't say so; what are yon getting a yard for monia, now?"— Motion Com* martial Bullatin. m The pathway of life is fitll of difficulties but Griggius says ho has abcut made up his mind that one of the hardest tblngrs in (lie world for a man to do is to admit to his wife that he has been iu the wrong. A (Jood Tim* Couiko ' When they get telephone* in the betels it will refresh the, weary traveler who is sent np to the fourth floar to sit dowu quietly and impart to the olerk down ia the office his private opinion of that functionary's conduct.— Some Sentinel. A Danbury man recently called to see a friend in an iusniio retreat. He stood a moment before a a fins le iking man he had seen before in the institution and enquired his name. 'Julins Cawar, sir.' said the lunatic, 'Why you were Alex* antler when I was here, before, were you not?' 'Ob, why yes, bat that was by a former wife,' said the crazy man, not at all disoonccrted. 'Madam, do you know that you possess one of the best voice* in tbe world?'said a saucy fellow to a woman, 'indeed do you think so?' alio roplied with a flush of pride at the compliment. 'I do most certainly,' continued the rascal; 'for if you hadn't it would have been worn out long ago.' Fot the first time in her life tnc woman bad net wordto say. On a certain (Sial once where a will was in dispute an old man of eighty was led into court trembling. 'Did you see your master sign the will?' 'Yes; and I rcraeirbcr he said, Tom, you will a!» ways recollect this, for I .will put a six pence under the wax.' There was the w»x aud there was the sixpence. (Sen sation in court.) But a troublesome lawyer held up the sixpence. Said he I "This will was made in 1752; this six pence was coined in 1758. A Nice Gb&datiox.— Not a very great many years ago ah old gentleman in Kentucky was met by a friend who said: v r • Well, Colonel, you dined with tbe Governor yestorday; who was there?' ' WoH, sir,' replied the Colouel, throw* mg back his head, digging his hands .deep iu his-troueers pocket* and spread, wide his legs, 'there was me, sir, and _ beside myself there were four other high-toned, elegant gentlemen; trow Kentucky, a gentleman from Virginia, two men from Ohio a follow from e,,r York and a sou ot a gun from Boston dr. Will yuu take a drink, sirJV. T t WW.
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