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THE ALAMANCE GEE A NER. tou 4 .... THE GLEANER PUBUSiXKD WEEKLY BY * * - » l»-. 15. 'S.''PA RK E R'"/ ' j l .... t* • „ - - -y Crohn..., IV, C, Vi >&■ t :. V o/ Siibtcrtphon. Posthye raid : One Year .........?"..T.?. .*V.f.".. .Vt.v.. .tl.r# Six Months 7& ,. .y ... „ J0 Kvory person sending us a club of ten sub scribers tfitli tin- cash. entitle* fcfcistOl.tu one copy fr«e. for Hie length W time f«v. which the club i# made up. I'ayert> (tent to different offices « - ■ No Dqwtitre from* the fab. System f " v ' . -'''j"* :. "i »*M., ix , I' ' K" **• 'l. . .■ ! • z ■ - ■' « . v*.' - ' »#*»• . | If «lr» of ltlv. t ti»iii K , * •>. « ~;f } * TrnnSlertt advert! soup onU payab(o In a3riince: *«• yoariy ut^vaiice. ; r •• • •'?. IjOLUm. 3 ui. | 6 UI . 12 1 quaro $2 (X)I?8 00 '*4 jo)> HOO til) 00 2 3 00. 4 50 6 001 10 00. I.V 00 ~.. ' .It I - - - / ' TVaiwwint s*l p«r Kijuarc f « or he flrst, and-llfty cei»ts. for each subsc ?\ t\ oueut insertion. . ... . ■".»» nrr ... , r f -4 I " / : *r! it - ARRIYAb AT J.'P-.E.jirden's, * %SO-Qo> 7 i WhqApeifc JULtJ. on I>X a fHH I ;1 line h I>/r (*&•, #iiu>QEiiu aud Gkw jytAL Mkbchandisk at * Bo'tjAm' Prices. . iffK /"The highest market price _pafd for afy // \ fclrrtls of Cuuutry Proiucc ' i 'aiHu too inmlyilii mud inf • J'Vew crop Cuba Molagscgj iCUjIj- Hacwi; C..J4. SMcp at Wcents' , arden and Flower Seeds at 5 cents ft paper. ia Wi Ij Tt"H"nnil Kiu4y—"in" l ! iiluw Pototw* Jail ond examine our stock before 4>ur i > ..I ~i.p. f* Sa/ W Special attention given to the solo of t { Flour. p . ' I 'liiiißla V Tlie Dead r \ I deal in American and Italian y H«rW© »oanmeats and Hcatlstones Iwotild Inform the publle that I im pre pared to do work aa Cheap as any yard in the State, y\ AND GUARANTEE PFRFEOT \ • SATISFACTION. ' ■ - A : ,-*V '' > -•"• • * • Particsllfing at a distance will save money by net ding to me for FHICE LIST u-hI DHAWINtJS. To persons making np a i club pf six or mure, I olfer the *' J *- f, rivX- s I* / Br'-' *■' Most liberal induce ments, . • and on application will forward designs, &c M or visit tliern In pei sou g ~ Any kind of marketable produce . taken in exchange for woik ? S. C. ROBER T S O N, OKKENSbORO, ijj. C. f - E. S. PARKER, I GRAHAM N. G\, ' Attorney at Law, Practice in Alamance and adjoining countiun I aud hi the Fcdaral courts. HOW JOK WKAKIt.MiD, In that great horse slioe bend of the Little licyur. Mountain, whiuli calch |»iii"U|ije ft iioon-ilay, vW jfadPa village.! Sixtj: strong and slur ry men wero digging into tho base ot the olack mountain in search ot sil- We were not in luck, and though encli mail iv'ai g loony diAl fvas no ex'cihe K>r inurdivri /We |va»| banded togetliertd sliWi-6 und'sliafc alik«> and it Toruine sniiled oil would -receive benefit*.- Olio niglit wlieu tbe dajrs toil of fifty, seven men yielded fan estimate »f only sii. tlie miners cursed and swire aml'Telt like, striking ertsli other. We were short of ptiovibious, new 1«k»U were needed, and tlie men lui'ned iu for tlie iiight' with a (lctcnninaiiuiirtQ strike tor some other IdcnfttyYtVW iKxt/AlnV'! l «tm4. should exhibit like barren results. * ~ At inidnighf th%re was a great outcry. It WUM not an Indian attack, as each min er antkipaled when he rushed out. but a horrible murder bad been committed, niifl by OHO ottlie iuels. A miner named Joseph Swift)', but liardiy known iu caiup by any other nam« than "Joe," occupied a tent iu company with an old inau > nau«cd Ai s noW. The two were angpvd terms, but wbi'e Arnold had iu gold, ac quired in olMh'S'Btyownlations, Swain hadn't a itoMarotttsßdc the common fntfttl. Tbe fcold was buried in the earth und(i' thJ'bedon wliwh the |wp, *U'4>t, and Svvaiu could not gef i»t it by night with'- lil« T>mi>Hiiioii. Had I'le secured it-during tbe day uud made oft, he would JiAVO been overhauled V«K) fir than hanging, ll oould ofl no more if he added murder, to the robbery, ami that nijfta, \f ben we all jelt sa^ bitter against luck] an/ wji*n .lilt so muoii like stfikfug caa/ArtieV, tree Swain mur dered the man who had done sr» miic|j tor Ho tfiig away with the •fold when halted, and though he made a tor libert vhe was lied hand *ml foot fiv^ijl | (utc.s iffter ; tlic Hfkmr *>» ». mtc je*. %eun * Arnold was tiead." stabbed iu three or four plipe.?, aiuf found in Joe's b«lt. '4.;h«jre was no show for tho murderer, lie could not even plead iin [»»«l>e or lieat ot p'U6ion. he was not the one to avoid cousequences. lie iirado a statement to the ellect that he hid deliberately murdered and robbed the good old man, and uddcii: 'Now. boyj>, there's no use of ft great fuss over ibis matter. Put a guard over ine, and the rest of you go back to your 'deep. You'll bang me,of course, jtnd when morning comes 1 shall hitvo a nq'tcttt. to nmke. 1 shan't try to get away, and I am going to play the baby w ben the last hour comes. Joe Svvaiu was known among ns as a game man. lie hail fought Mexioans. trailed Indians aud killeu three or toui white ruffians who had made themselves a terror to certain localities. Armed with his bowie knile he would have beou a match for any tour of us, aud it was jw ing to bi» presence more than Uiat of any one else that our village wus not trou* bled with the roughs and gamblers who attach themselves lik^'leeches to other camps. Murder was a crime that could not be palliated iu a mining cam p. Had it been anything else lite majority of the ftien would have been in favor of letting Joe Juinp tbe diggings aud go unpunished. Uut when they looked in on tho wbite> laced aud blood stained corpse of the good old man who had been like a father lo all of them, each heart hardened agaiiist tho murtferer, and each man said to tl|e other: •Joe Swain must hanj for this!' There was no need of a trial. When ; lie was brought out after breakfast, he saidf f*£' : "i •{ "Boys. I don't want any fuss over this thiug. I killed the old man, and it is vanr duty to swing me up to a limb. I, knew what I was up to, ami I knew I'd ' have to strelch a rope it' I couldn't get : away 1 don't deserve a kind word and I shan't look for any sympathy. The i request that I waiU to make is that, you won't hang sHnset. I know it is J ■bad to have ou& of these affairs hanging j around tho camp all day, but yci it won't j make no great difference to you as l>Mig j as you. are working for almost nothing. Now then all in favor of waiting till sunt set to hang me say aye!' • 'AycP ' -sboulcd every -mou . around, him. 'Tliose opposed will say no!' Not a voice was beard. 'The ayes have aud I am to be hung at sundown,* continued Joe. *1 want to wtite Iralt-adoKoti- letters sleep { for two o- three hours aud I hope you ; won't crowd iu ou me. Select jour -GRAHAM, N. C-, tree, gel your rope readv and when the time comes I'll be on hand.' If Joe had beeii a captive in the hands ot tho Indians ami w»* to bd" burned at the stake at sundown, every miner would have warned bis outfit that*; Joe would have died game. 11 this ca*c, where he was to meet a disgraceful doutli at the bands ot the men Who bad Worked Mid (ought beside him for ibonfhs, mist of the miners thought be would take tho IIOQHO . without tho qiilvet'Of »"mu»al*; but there were two or 'He h a brave mail, but when ho takes his lost look around lie will weaken.' "'Belot'e llib day was two ho 11173 old there was a strausfe wager between two otbttr uiwi. It was rrflle against rifle that Joe Swain would show a woman's heart before lie swung off. "The doomed man Was left to himself idl-day long. A strong vpard placed, about his tent, but no ouo entered it to 'interrupt the wcrk of bis last hours. The corpse of his victim was buried at the toot of the lone tree on which Joe was to swing, aud as tho six men men carried his body pust hear bis tent tbe murderer came out and stood wi|h, uncovered head to KIIOW respect for the'dead. He wrote five letters, drew tip a brief will, alo a tull meal about mid afternoon, and about half an hour before >undown ho was ready. Before starting tor the tree, he said : ■'Alter l ain you will lind my will. The letters iir(here are to be forwarded as tiban aivconveuieiil. This is a shabby oWI suit.of olyThes to bo hung in, but it's all I hh'd, nffd i could'i»v borrowing, llsive you got thotope and the barrel ready ?" " 'Yes, everything is aTI replied 11 voice. 'That's right,'said Joe. 'Now. then, form iu procession, give me a conspieious place, and we'll inarch aWng.' The man wasn't smiling. His fnce was pule, hiV eyes hWt aft anxious look*, and it was plain that he realized thegriin nessofhis last hour "tyi, eimh. Tho' procession w*d formed, and Joe marched away for the tree as steadily as a solder on parade. Jlis hands and feet were free and as be halted beside the old barrel with tbe lioose dangling above .lis head he said: 'Boys, lie my hands bshiiul my baek, and after you lift me up tie my feet to srether. If you make a bungle ot this \ ou'll get a bad uanio all through tho diggings.' . , t " 'When Joe stood on the barrel, the noose around his neck the ...en fell back a little, lie looked from niifi to Wall With 9(endy eye, looked up at the limb, and (ben looked over tbe beads of tire men out upon tho green prairie. The siuking suu had filled the grass with millions of sparkling jewels. A score of were trotting along about a mile away ; great birds sailing towards tbe Uockies witlj lazy.wiiiff; the flowers never seamed so thick and beautiful as then. ! For a moment we a!l looked souths ward, and there was something iu the vision (bat softened every heart. When we looked up at Joo again we hardly knew him. All the hard lines had melted out of bis nice, his eyes w ere full of fears, and there was a sob iu hi 3 throat, as lie turjftd aud wh6pcr rd: S 'Don't blame me, boys—:t is my last look mi earth! Now, do your duty!' Not a man moyed—uot a man could move. Taking a swift glance over tho prairie aud another up the mo.uufaiii side. Joo softly said;' God forgive me that I was not a better man—" Ho fell forward off the barrel, bis own executioner and 110; man dared look up until (be body hung lite less. i Joe bad weakened, and those who had bet on bis ''game" lost Yet, when we talked it over in low voices at, tho camp fire wo agreed that brave Joe's bravest act of a lifetime was siinwu when tke tenderness was allowed to oreop into bis heart and his eyes to fill with he proved to us thrt bo had a soul. Two double cousins married perhaps eighty years ago. They arc now dead. They lived in Harris county, Ga , and raised twelve children, whom lived (o be 60 years old and -upward. Alternately a deaf and dumb iufaut was -bom, making six of soundbody-aiul six nffiicled. " The six deaf and dumb ebils lost their sfght at 60 years. jf the unfortunates are, or were, boys (wo don't know, how many live or have died) aud ihrco girls. At Deshler,o., a girl ate If fly raw ejrgs in fitty minutes lor a wager of a caiico drets. TUESDAY MAY 14 1878 CliaOST OR WHAT. The Reniarknblr Kxprrirnee «f • C«ar> iijfcouM Wsiusb ill a Xcw Vark Italcl. In the first place, I do not believo in ghakts atall. and I ma not a nervous woman, afraid of my own shadow, a>id I do not give heed to supernatural tlrings. Tkcreloit) 1 eauuot explain what 1 am about to I cblte. It' any one who may read this can, 1 shall be glad to hear the explanation. Iu tiie latter part of April, 1872, before sailing for Europe, I made u stay of :i few davs at the Metro)>olUau Hotel York. I was assigned to room I -292, en the second floor, i had dinod and written A little in the evening. Finally I lett oil work and sat down by tlie.fii'ti, and as I sat there I noticed particularly dUp«>aiibAi of the furniture iu tho roipn and tlie room itself. As ibai .lnis tho direct bearing on my story f ti?fly tlesci ibrTr. • ' ~ The room was long aud narrow, and at cud nearest tho main had a curtained alcove for a bod. By making ; this nlcovo a narrow ball was formed, wMcli opened into the mam hall. There were twe doors to this little li-dl, ouo opening into the outside corridor aud the other into my room. There were two small transoms one over each door Directly facing tho door was a large Fieuch window, opening into tho street. A little iron railing passed in front of it outside. The fireplauo was by side of :hu window. Just back ot where I sat, ou the ,light side of tlio room us you, entered fbero were a large wurdrobo and a small drab reps lounge. On (lie left bide ot the room was a stationery washstand, aud uext that a bureau. The gna w,a& just over this' waSlistsiuL A few chairs aud u small innrblO'top table completed tbb furniture. At about 11. o'clock I went to bed, after haying carefully locked the two aud lowered the gas. I went to sleep immediately, after my usiidl habit and slept, Ido not know how Jong. I woko up with a start and a cold feeling of terror. I sal straight up in bed. My room was brilhantfy lighted and 1 saw that tbe manuscript, &c., had been .drawn over toltbe side ofthe lounge, while the easy chair in which I had been sitting had been plactd opposite . tbe lounge. Two men were seated thero'playing cards. I just sat and looked at them, not' knowing what to do er sny. They bad evidently mistaken tlie room, I thought aud yet, to save my life, I could not have spoken or moved. I noticed that tbe inau on the sofa was slender—aud apparently iu ddjuate health. He bad red hair and a read beard all over his lace. He was dressed iu gray clothes. I noticed that hi* left hand near the wrist, looked as if it bad beeu hurt. His face was marked with extreme seusibillity and he had small fcalures.- The other lmwi was, physically, bis op prsitc. He was large, of fine physique, very dark complexion, with very thick, short black hair, and a long drooping black moustache.. His eyebrovs were very heavy, and bad short thick hairs that stood straight out, making them look like two ureat black caterpillars. His cheeks and chin seemed to have beeu nowlv shaved, yet the beard showed through tho skiu With a faint bluish tinge. He had a little three cornered scar near the right corner of of his mouth. He was dressed in black, and wore an emer ald pin. Those who know me best kuow that fear is not one of my components - yet I must confess that I felt a sensation very like it. They were playing euchre, aud soou there arose a dispute. I heard no words, yet from their angry looks and gestures I saw that they were quarreling. Suddeuly the darker nfhn drew a long t knife aud plungqd it into the left breast of (he man on tbe sda. Ho quivered a little and then lay still. The other stood looking at him for a moment, then took the dead man's right band aud clasped it Around the handle of the knile, bt&cing the elbow against the table; then coolly gathcred*up tbe cards aud, putting them iu Ida pocket, took up a black liat and went out. I turned to look at tho dead man; he, too, had disappeared, and the room was dark.. 1 tried to,think I bad had the night mare, bid my head under the bedclothas, aud at la«t wont to sleep again. On rising mtke morning I found the marine tablMHjihg by ths four,go. Ufo armchair besiuMt, aud all my papers on the bureau.by the window. This made a great impression ou mo for a time, but a multiplicity of occupations during the day and visits fiotn some friends oblibci> atod nil remembrance of it. Yet when I wint to bed that nigh', it was only to be awakened by the same horror, to sec the same Trhgedy enacted, and to find the table misplaced in the morning as before. The third night I took the (able over i by tlie window , placed all the aificl.es , upon it that it would-hold,and lett the gas turned oil full; but it was tho' same. I was again the uuwilling witness of the tragic scene. Tho fourth night I begen to really ' dread the Vision, or whatever it Was,and called tbe chtmibermuid. Her first name, I romeuiber, was Katie. 1 acked tier, t* stay with me,that night, btrt she said it was not permitted. 11lieu told her 1 wanted her to pile all tho chairs she could make stand on the table and wash stand, so that they could not be removed vitliout some force. It was all tho same. The chairs were on (ho floor hi their places In the morning, table by ' 1 really felt frightened now, and sent word down to the office to Mr. Adami. lhe / de>k.. He came up. I asked him it any murder had ever been committed in the room. He declared uiuet unequivo* ' eidly that there had not. Ho said that tho only tragedy ot any kind, that over had happened in tins hotel was the 6tii% citlo ot u si«:k man who had come tbere from tbe South, ami killed himscll. as they supposed, iu a fit of despondency. Ho conld not remember bow the man looked. Tlie re were so many coming and going that he could not remember people. 1 tokl him bo must give me an other room, which he did that after noon. As Katie, the chambermaid, helped me (o change apartments, she iqpked Si if she understood something. I asked her if she had ever beard an ytfling regarding that room, and she told uie tbttt she never hod but once during the two years (hut she had been there.. There had been an invalid lady thevc with her the lady de clared she saw terilfte things, and could not bo persuaded to remain in the room at night, ahhough her husband had seen iiothiug whatever. As for me, there is not tncyiey enough in .New York to hire mo to sleep in that room again, I somehow feel as tfl was going to moot tbat visionary assassin in the flesh, though I cannot account for the iiupressioy any more (ban I can for the strange but strictly true story I have re lated .-aV. r. Sun. ■ COURTING' UNDRR bIPPCVI.TIIIS, [Bruswick, Mo., Times,] They were courting under difficulties. It was ia a room through which the members of the family were continually passing to and fro. "Dear Alice." ho Baid, "I cannot longer labor under this BUS —" [The old man appear*.] —"pension of/ banks ia due to the unwise policy—" [Old g#nt pusses on.} », "I «ras going to hay, my dear girl, thai I hope you will promise to be mine, and name an early clay for the bonds —" (Old woman happens in.) —should never be paid in gold alone;" [Exit old girl.] "No.ine the happy day when I may call you my own, for I cannot believe that you will think it pre—" [Old man slidos in again.] " —sumption cannot be so soon ac complished." [The intruders retires.] "I s«y, I can't believe you are en tirely indifferent to lue, but will soon grant me the of calling you wi—" (Old lady on deck.) " —fo given the financial question much study." (Old lady slides off.) "It you love me, just nod your head. You and, O, one sweet kiss to seal it—one sweet kiss—ob, hell!—" [Prospective father-in-law.] "according bo ommiuwnt divines is a myth, a superstition." [They wero again left alone.] The old folks conclude that Alice is safe enough in the-company of a young man who can talk nothing but finance and theology, aud so relax their vigi lance.' •- - The mother-in-law has been attacked in the New Jersey courts, where a man has had the courage to sue her for a thir teen hundred dollar boitrd bill. It was contracted during one of the short vuits to ste hj'.v Maria was getting along. NO.l 1 "Dying in poverty." says a modem moralist, ' Li nothing; it is living in JKJV eity that, comes so hard on a fellow." An lowa woman put starch into her hasbaiftl's beer, thinking it was and was. surprised because it didn't stiffen him. VVlwn the telephone comes into gen eral use tin TO will be considerable mow pleasure ami safety in telling a man ho 1 os, than is obtained under the present constrained and iuconvenieut system. In tUa window of a shop in an obscure part of London is this announcement: "Goods removed, messages taken, car pels beaten, and poetry composed on any Jones moodily remaiklfrtliat he always keeps his word. To which Smith sar castically replies: "Of course yon keep' your word, because no one else will tako it." » A German farmer disputed his tax bill, lie saiii: "I pays the State tax, the county tax,and the school tax; by, by turn! I pays no total tax. l's got no total, and uevtr had anv." Two little girls were comparing pro-' gvess in catechism study. "I have got to oi*iginal sin," said one. "How far have yon got?" "Oh, I have got beyond redemption," said the other. The Washington Chronicle sayi thn Old North State never sgnt to Wash ington a fairer maiden, possessed of more winning manners, than Miss Mary Merrimon, daughter of Senator Menfi« mon. ♦ A man in Illinois commit led suicide by drowning, lately, in six inches of water lie couldn't Imve done it alono, but his wife,* with that sell sacrificing devotion and helpfulness so cbarac-. tcristic of the sex, sat on his head. A rural editor has lost faith in tho luck of horse shoes. Ho nailed one over his door recently, and that morning there came by insil three duns and seven "stops," and a man called with a revolver to ask "who wroto that article?" ' A picture of human agony—A bash ful young man who climbs out of the upper berth Li a sleeping ear, at what ha supposes to be midnight, to get a drink of water, aud when he steps down in tho aisle is horrified to see that it Is abous NINE o'clock A. M. and everybody in the car is up and looking at him pleasantly. . At a wedding recently, when tK® clergyman asked the lady, "Wilt thou have this man to be tjhy wedded hus band?" sh« with a modesty which lent her beauty an additional grace, replied: "If you please." You can teach a boy that if ho plays , the three and and four domino on a thre«* leaving the six exposed to the other end, it counts ten, in about ten minutes; but it will take him all day at school to hyum that four units aud six units make ten units. "What's tho use of this sacrifice oflifo this bloody butchory of Turk and Rus sian?" said a Philadelphia Quaker to a Cincinnati hog merchant. "I don't know." replied the latter mournfully, "pork isn't riz aav, that I cau see." 'What is a veranda?' is now being dis• cussed by foreign architects. A veran da, gentlemen, is a p'ace where, with tho right kind of companion, you'll find tho moon shines brighter and tho hours fly swifter than in any ether spot on tho earth's surface. Try it once. An individual suffering from dyspepsia calls at a physician's house during bia consultation hour. Tho practitioner examine? him aud declares: "I see how it is; you aeed a great deal of exercise, but perhaps your business does not leave you time. What is your occupation?" "I have been a letter-carrier for twenty, five years." Thomas Dunn, of Pittsburg, was ar rested'for simply attempting to cut his wife's throat bccauso "ajio' wouldn't patch his pants." A man in this en tightened nineteenth century eanuot bo expected to go around with mi patched pants. But there may have been somu extenuating circumstances in the case ot the Pittsburg , woman. Her husband'* trousers may have bpf>n black, and she had 110 blue or red stuff in the hopsu wlthwfcfch to pfttyh \m.~ J\~cn islvuit
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