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— JH THE AIJAMANOE GLEANER. VOL, 4 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY E. S. PARKER UrshMi, nr. c, Ei* I ' "V ' - ' |. _i I.L Kate* oj Subscription. Postaye Paid: One Voar .t1.50 Mx Months 75 Three Months „...5Q Every person sending ns a club of ten sub scribers with the cash, entitles himself to one onfiy free, for the length of time for which the c'.ub Is made up. Papers sent to different offices »" ■ •' '*! -5 ' / n t Jfo Departure from the Cash System Rate* of Adrertiaiag Transient advertisements payable in advance: yearly advertisements quarterly iu advance. Im.2m. IS in. 6m. 1 13 m. t 1 quare «2 00 *3 00!«4 00 * « 00*10 00 3 '! 3 OOf 4 50[ 600 10 001 IS 00 Transient advertisements fl per square or he Qrst. and fifty cents for each subse quent ingurtiou. Iffsinw, ■ —»■-!»•.' » ■ • «' j New Millinery Store. Mrs. W. 8. Moore, bf Oreensboro, has opened a branch of her extensive busiuess, i In this town, at the I Hunter Old Stand under the mangeraen of Mrs. B. 8. Hunter, wherethe has just opened a complete as- BONNKTS, HATS, RIBBONS, FI.OWELtS, NATURAL, HAIR BRIADS AND CURLS, LADIES COLLARS, AND CUFFS, linen and lace CRAVATS, . TOILET JSETB, NOTIOJVB, and everythihg for lacies of the very latest styles, ana if yon do uot " And In store what you want leave yonr or der one day and call the next and get your S «rCompetttlon In styles and prices de fied. % MOORE A. THOMPSON Moore & Commission Merchants BAlißlfin, IV. C. f Special attention paid to the sale of CSTTOI*. coait, OIK A IN, HAV, ■ DTTBRi KNHM, fiVM ScC, CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, HIGHEST ' PRICES OBTAINED. Refer to «, CUisens National Bank, Raleigh, N- C. Kaltting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT A DONNELL'S. E.SaIPASKER, * GRAHAM N. C., Attorney at Law, Practice in Alamance and adjoining coons,ti and In the Fedaral courts GET MM BEST /\ i 'iffr 1 am now preps fed to make to order shoots, shoes and ' gaiters from the very mrjJm Uar 1 best stock and at the r i lowest prices— *299lßOOTS FROM $5,00 ■K W TO «10.00, BHOES FROM eauo, TO •4.00, GAITERS FROM *8,50 TO 87.00. A good lit is guaranteed. Mending promptly and cheaply done. ( «nave a few pairs of good gaiters of my own make on hand wWcb I will seil cheap. Graham, »• C. " W- HURRAY. May 7.1878, ly HOW IT CAMS ABOUT, BY KB EN li. REX FORD. Miss Susan, while standing in tliS midst ofjner flower garden, that summer morning;, was so absorbed with her ad mi in (ion for tho tea rose which hail blos somed for the first time after weeks of patient waiting, that she didn't see Squire Gresham until he gave a little cough. Then she looked up suddenly, almost startled, to see him leaning over the garden fence watching her. 'Good corning Susan,' ho said in that brisk, cheery Way of his. 'I hope I didn't frighteu you. You looked up as it yon had forgotten that thero was anything : else in the world than that posy of yours. 'Oh, I ain't a bit frightened, only I wasn't thinking ot anybody's being around, you know,'exclaimed Miss Su san ; ' won't you soino in i" * . 'I don't know bivt I will, forafewmiu u'es,' answered the 'Squire, unlatching t legate, and coming np tho path. 'What wonderful blossom is it yon have there now, Susau? I know it's a new one, by your looks. Whenever a new flower blossoms, you look as delighted as if you had discovered a gold miuo.' t's ray Marshal Neil rose,' answerod Miss Susan. kept it for a year, and this is the first blossom. Ain't it ty.' * r 'lt's rather pretty,' -'answered the 'Squire, who wasn't looking at the groat flower at all, but straight iuto tho un conscious Miss Susan's face. *1 always liked roses.' I think it qnite likely the 'Squire was in lugging in metapnor. and meant such roses as blossomed out. on Miss Susan's jgheek when she looked up aud canght him watching her. 'I s'pose you came down to see Mohlt able about that pasture lot,' said she,pre» tending to be busy, all at once>,pulU ing weeds in the flower beds. 'She con eluded to let you have it, I believe. T1 oro she is now, I'll go and speak to her, and tell her you want to see her. 'No, you needn't,' began the 'Squire, but Miss Snsan was goue. '£ declare, she's a real handsome con cern, if she is thirty five,' said the 'Squire to himself as he walked up tlie, path to the house. 'She don't show bet age as most old inuids do. She's real kind o' shy of mo: won't give we half a chance to talk to her. She didn't use to bo so when we were both a good deal younger than we are now.' When they were both a good deal ye-anger, people prophesied that Susau Hart would be Susan Gresham some day. Bat the prophesy had lailed to come trae. He had married, and she had remained slngio. Four years ago bis wife had died. Now be was remodelling his house, and fitting up Ills place nicely,and the neighbors began to whisper to each other, that (hey 'believed 'Squire Gres ham thought of getting married ag'n.' . 'Oi course he wou't havo Susan Hart,' Mrs. S(ieucer, the chief gossip of tbe neighbprhood, declared, 'lor sheVa reg ular old maid, aud he might havo had her once, if he'd Wanted her. I think he's an idea of giltin'Mehitable, Browne, because ber land jines his, and the two farms 'ud go together splendid.' Mebitable Browne wait Miss Basaa's sister with whom she Hyed, a widow, with a nice little property adjoining tbe 'Squire's. Aud Miss Snsan thought very much aa Mra. Spencer did about the 'aqairea in tentions, though she didn't say so to any body. .He came down often aud talked a good deal with Mehitable, and it waa quite natural for her to think that he waa thinking aomct biug of marriage. And he was. Tho 'Squire waa with Mrs. Browne for an imnr or two that morning, bat aaw no thing more of Mies Susan. The truth was, Miss Susan couldn't help fceling that she*was in the way, if what sho conjectured waa trae; aud then it made ber feel louesome, when she thought ot Mehitable'a getting married and leaving her without a home; she hadn't any one else to care for hor, and It is always a sad thing for a woman to feel that in a werld as large aa ours she hasn't a home of herown.and true bearta in it to love her. She got to thinking of it, she couldn't keep'down the tears. It did not matter so much now, tor she knew that her sister was glad to give ber a home; but it she married 'Squire Gresham everything would be changed Aud then —she never liked to confess this to herself eveu—down deep in her heart there waa that lingering tenders ness for the lover of her youth—tlie only inau she had ever cared anything for. 'l'm going to let tba'Bquir» have my, pasture lot,' said Mehitable, that day at dinner. 4 He's going to keep a real lot of *w»f 'fle'lj bf wauling a goo«l ca« GRAHAM, N. O, pable womau lo see .to things I *npi pose.' » 'I thought ho had a housekeeper,' said Miss Susan 'liehas,' answered Mehitablc. 'But he says she don't take hold like Mm. Gresham used to. She ain't interested, I s'pose. It needs some one who's got an interest in the matter aud tilings you know, to make everything go off first* into. Now, if he had a smart go ahead wife, he'd save dollars aud dollars worth of things that's wasted now.' > Then site changed the subject, but she thought of what had been snid all day and was thinking of it when slio started toyyalk down to the village post-office that evening. Her way led by- 'Squire Grcsham's. She stopped in Trout of the house and noticed the pleasant piazza that had lately been built the now blinds and the new picket fence which had taken the place of the board oue. •Mehitable will have a pleasant home if she marries 'Sqdtre Gresham,' she said, not dreaming that a soul was near enough to hear her. 'I J 1 onlv had a homo, I don't care how hnmblo,andsomo one to care for, I think I should bo coiim tented, but I'm so lonesoqgp!' aud then Miss Susan began to cry softlyl 'Susan,' said a voice from tho shadow by the great lilac, and the sound of it made hor start and turn pale, 'do you think you conld care enough for me u> marry me, Susan, I—l wish yo'd say so,' aud the 'Squirt, who had come out into the road, aud was standing by Miss Susan now, actually stammered like a bashful lover over bis declaration. 'I thought it was Mehitablc yon wanted,' said she, with a great thrill of gladness In her voice. . 'No, it is yon,' he answered, 'is It yes or no, Susan?' 'lf yoit thiim 1 can make yon happy it i 6 yes.' she answered softly, and the tears in her oyes now were very happy ones. And so hand in hand, they walkod on together, and talked of the lite to come, and the days so long gone br, when the/ were lovers. They were young again to night. Miss Susan felt in a vague way that her heart wonld never grow old any more. The loneliness bad all vanished. 'I have the pleasure of presenting to you my new housekeeper that is to be,' he said to Mrs. Browne, as they eutered the house, an hour or two later. 'Thank goodness!' ferventlyexclaimed thfet woman comprehending the situation at onec. 'I hoped yon'd see what a splendid housekeeper Snsan 'ud make, beforo yon make a choice of anybody else. She's plenty good enough, Squire Gresham, if I am praisiug up my own rela tions/ 'l'm qnitesuro yonr right there, ans wered the 'Squire, smiling into Miss Susan's happy face, every bit as fair aud bright, be thought aa tho face twenty years ago. 'Everybody nsed to say I'd marry Snsan Hart, and I declare if it ain't going to tnrn out Just as they prophesied, after all.' Aud it did. Or The 111 anWk* El«pe4 With • Oranrf ■MMr. - •• • ■*— lan an old man now; folks nsed to be more romantic wben I was young. They used to jfight dueU instead of go> ing to law, and they nsed to elope in stead of waiting and waiting until they got siek of waiting, or giving up and marrying to suit the old folks. It was'nt so curious about Miranda Bates eloping, but the times that came of it were funny. Tou see, Grandfather Bate would'nt h ve anything to say to Jeremiah Jones when be asked him whether he could have Miranda or not. And so she just packed up her bundle, and was to have a carriage at 12 o'clock to carry her off to the parson's. Well, she was all packed up and ready In a big cloak and hood and was creep ing down stairs softly, not to wake any-' one, when she saw some one in a cloak and bood creeping down before her. It was he* grandmother old Mrs. Bates going out to pick herbs. Soaie herbs, as folks knew in those days, would'nt do any good as medicine if tbey wer'nt picked at midnight. Ho that was her idea; but, of course Miranda was scared back, and hid- be hind the door, aud old Mrs. Bates went pottering for hef herb*, and up drove tl}e carrjap. She did'nt bear it; but TUESDAY fULY 23 1878 grandfather Bates did, and up went the window. "Who is there?" bellowed and Jeremiah Jones, scared to death, and taking old Mrs. Bates for Miranda, jum ped out, caught her by the waist, cram med her into the oarriage, and was driv-. en away lik -• wild.' Miranda saw it all; so did old Bates. Miranda shrieked; old Bates bellowed; down stairs he rushed, aud met Miranda coming up. " „ I "Who was that at .(lie gate!" he jell ed. "Oh, grandpa!" screamed Miranda "Jeremiah Jones has carried off grand* ma." Now, old Mrs. Buten had been very | pretty, and old Mr. Bates had been very jealous, and it all came back. He storm* ed and swore, and got his pistols, and wouldn't listen to a word Miranda said, and mounted his horse and rode after the carriage. Inside it was pitch dark, and old Mrs. Bates was as deaf as a post and thought robbers had carried her off. Jcreiniah kept her wrapped up in her cloak and called her his sweetest, and his duck and dove, and all the while she thought he was threatening to kill her, fend didn't care to speak, but only sobbed and cried; and when they got on the road a piece, clatter, clatter, clatter, came the hors&'a heels behind theni and— "Stop," yelled old Grandfather Bates. "Stop, 1 demand that lady !" Jeremiah looked ontof the window. "Never!" said he. "vVe'll see," cried old Rates and fired ab liim. The ball missed nitu. "Driver faster," said Jeremiah to the coach man. Then hef'pressed old Mrs. Bates to his heart. "Don't weep, Miranda," said he. "He shall not take yon from me. Oh, if i; were only daylight that I might soe your lace." "I hain't got any money with me," sobbed the old lady, but he did not hear her. On they drove, faster and faster, and after them drove the old man, faster and faster too. At last, on the high road, in a lonely place, with nobody neat, and the parson's house miles away, off came one of the carriage wheels, over went the carriage, all on one aide, and there was an end of the running away. Aa soon as he found there waa help for it, Jere miah jumped out of the carriage, ahnt the door on poor old Grandmother Bates, and stood oat in with a pistol in his hand, ready to meet old Bates. Up came the old gentleman, more furi ous tnan ever, and jumped flown from hia horse, and stood facing him with his pistol. •Villian,' cries bo, 4 I demand that la*> dy.' '3lr,' replied be, 'she it mine; I respect yon, bat I will uevor yield.' * 'Wait a moment. Does sho go with vou of her own free will? Don't dare to iiel' *Yes, sir of her own free will and replied Jeremiah. 'Do you think me « highwayman, to carry off a lady against her wiab?' And now they jwepo yelling so loudly tbat even deaf old Grandmother Bates, who had managed to get the window down, beard every word. Out came her bead over the door. The bood of her cloak had fallen off, aud un der it waa her cap. I don't know what the moon bad beou doing before, bnt now she shone bright and clear, and every* tbing was as plainly to be seen aa at noonday. Out came tho old lady'a head info the mooulight, 'That's a dreadful falaehood,' said she, 'I did not come with hi>» of my own will. He picked me up and carried me off while 1 waa picking herbs in tho garden tor tbe lotion for your rheumatism, Squire. I've been screaming all tbe way, and he-s boon kissing me, the wretch. To tfciuk tbat this should have happened to me at my age, when I've been so properly cons ducted all mV life.' •Lord have mercy on ns,' says Jeremi ah. 'ls that you. Madam Bates ?* lie flew to tbe carriage door aud open ed it. 'Squire/ said he, 'I am willin; to meet you whenever yon aro pleased". You have a right to challenge me. 1 have iu- Bulted this lady, but unintentionally— unintentionally, sir. I beg ten thon«nnd pardonß. 1 believed tbat I carried oflthe j graud-daughter, Miss Mirauda, who had prr nfilsCd (6 bo my wTfo. r And justtiiefi up rultied a little gig. driven by Pelcg. the hired man, with Miranda sitting in it. " 'Oh, thank Jicavcn,' alio criod, 'no one is killed. Oj, dear gVaudiua, oh, dear grandma, forgive "me. Jeremiah—Mr. Jones—l trnst vou have explained?' . 'Madam, I have,' said Jocoutiah, bow- Ing low. Now k seemed to iho yonrg folks that tho ond of all things bad come, bat it was jnst the happy turning poiut. The old gentleman liked a joke and here was a good one; aud tho old lady was mightily pfcased for bci.ig taken lor a girl of eighteen' 'Husband,' sho safd tacking her hand under Ids arm, 'we weioyoung oursolves once, aud yon know you would havo run off with me if yon could uot have bad me otherwise.' 'So I would, indeed,' said the old Squire. 'Yon were twice ns pretty as Miranda then, lu those days.' . * Weil, perhaps I was,' said the old la dy. 'But now, my dear, to please me, let Mr. Jones know that you no longer refuse your consent to his inarnago with Miranda.' And with that the old Squire offered his hand to Jeremiah, and thero was a wedding at the Hall before Christmas came. TUB PBiaiDSHTa, TboN. Y. Cor. of the Raleigh Observer says: The IT. Y. Wor\d of Sunday last devotod six columns todisorimination of. the graves of the seventeen men who had been Presidents of the United States aud have since died. It is a curious record showing as it does some of them destitute of a monument, and some eveu of the most common care. It seems that In most cases where tho dead statesman or family was wealthy, proper care lias been taken of his burial place, as Washington at Mount Vernon; tho tvo Adamses of Quincy; Madison at Montpelier; Jack son at the Hermitage; Van Buren at Kiiiderbook;Harrisoii_at North Bend; Polk at Nashville; Taylor first iu terred at Washington, then removed to bis homestead near Louisville, and afterward to .Louliviile. where the Stato proposes to erect a suitable monument); Filmore at Buffalo; Pierce at Concord; Buchanan at Lancaster, and Johnson at Greensville. On the con trary, Jefferson's grave at Monticello has little to distinguish it from that of the most common-place individual with the high brick wall aronnd the grave yard in ruins. But Congress appropriated $6,000 to erect a monument. Monroe was first interred in thi* city where be had married, and where be died, July 4th 18S1; bis remain* were removed to Richmond July 4th 1868, under escort of the oelebraten Seveutip'regimebt, of this city, under circumstances of ex. traordinarv courtesy by the sections North and South, no one supposing at the time tbat iu less than three years the most fnnoq* war of modertr times would break oat between these same sections, and that the Seventh regiment wonld march to invade tbe same South tbat had honored and been tested by ft, and been honored by if. The State ot Virginia erected k' monument over his remains. Tylers renf&inß lie Hollywood cemetery, Ridlihjond (wiin lu thirty Jeet of Monroe'4 without d to tell tbat they are fherd. Lincoln was interred, with great pomp and ceremony at Springfield, Illinois, aud has the most costly monument of them all. Among the interesting things brought fresh to mind by this curious ariiclo in the World, (which by the way must have cost a great deal ot labor afid money,) is the wonderfull though well known coincidence of tho death of the three of the ex- Presidents ctt (he adversaries of that Declaration ot Independence towards the establishment of Wbich they all had so important an iufiuftneo. John Adams and Jefferson died on the same 4th ofJulylß2fi, fiftieth anjversary ot tbe Declaratisn and Monroe on Yhe Ith of July 1831, the fifty-sixth anniversary Jiimo 28th 18S8. Tho WorlA saya that beside tho twenty foct hijih granite obelisk at tho grave of Madison rises a smaller shaft of whitomarble inscribed "In memory ot Dolly %»ayi.e, wife* ot James Madison, barn May 20tli 47#8; died July 8. 1819." Beneath it rastsoi-o of tho most beautiful and accomplfeh of fho Republican queens that Wave presided in the white liouso. Site died childless, bnt two*?her nephew's sms arc buried within the enclosure, which is carefully kept asevery other part of the estate, purchased by Mr. Carson in 1862. This Dolly Payne was a native of Guil> ford county, North Carolina, and was the widow Todd, when Mr. Madison married her the landlady with whom he boarded iu Philadelphia whilst a mom- Iter of Coiigress in that city. The World well described I'mr. She has bad iio superior iu the White House if elses wuu re. Only two of the nineteen Presilcnla are living—Grant aud Hayes. ■ = N0,20 gjltanittp. A man can profess more religion in fifty minutes than he van practice by working hard I >r fifty years. lien should not think too raaeh of themsel ves, and yet * man should be careful aot to forgertiiraself, Why does an Irishman call his sweetheart honey? because site is bee loved, oi coarse.— Jonv. The Bulls—John, —Sitting, Irish and Ola. In fact the enlin family—are getting beliger ent—New Yobk Com. Anvsanssa, Paisfal question by the Sultan; "In this Twrkey, or is merely portions of England, Russia, Austria, and other countries?"—BurV aix>> Exprcss "l Min i know," said an old lady, ae she | threw down her newspaper,'that thieves were so scarce they had to advertise (or 'eia, aad offer a rewajrd for their discovery- Senator Thurraaa thinks the redistrictlng of Ohio will give the Democrats fourteen of tho twenty Representative*in eoagress frorr that of twelve, the presont number. Give me fonr regiments and I will carry the next election for the Republican in Louisi ana, qudth the Jenks, aa she rambled around the Post Office building, at Wae.iiagton, oo Wednesday. Chicago clams a popotatfwof nearly HO.OOO and Bishop Cheney,in dlscuesing church fail ures to reach the xna«es, declared that only 50,000 were habitual worshippers ia sanctua ries. Restaurant Patron—"These sausages are hardly up to the mark?" Waiter—.. "They ain't eh? Well, dy'w expect ItaU lon greyhound and thoroughbred Scotch terrier for two bits?"— Virginia Chron icle. .. r--' If; "' A farm sixty miles long and ten wide in one tract, mostly feueed, is that of Miller fc Lux, cuttle monopolists of Cal* iforuia. They have 80,000 head of stock, own 70,000 iwres of choise lknd, and are rated as worth $15,000,000. There is a loud call upon Stanley Mat thews to tell what he meant when he hinted that he was shielding somebody besides himself by refusing to go before the Fraud Committee.— New York 2ri bune, Had. The annual consumption of wine [in Paris] average* eiglity million gallons, without considering liquors and other spirits, and estimating the population of the city at two millions, the wine per capita would amount to forty gallons.— Paris letter in Philadelphia Bulletin. Mrs. Jenks' husband will not go back to New Orleans, because he has no anx iety to be convicted of peijury, and Mrs. Jenks will Keep him in Washington, where perjurees have more liberty, and even expectations of getting into ttie publio service.— Philadelphia lHmee, bid. , A pious old Woman, brought np in the Cal vicialic faith of the Prsbyteriau Church, Was asked what she thought of aa Arminiao ser mon, preached by a Methodist. She showk her head vigorously. "I dont believe a Word on't, r said she 'at all events, I know tha lord chose me before ever he saw me; for he aaver would ha' chosen me afterward. —Ex, Brick Pomeroy advises evry greenback dub to have a drill master, and every member of these clubs to make himself as proficient as possible in the maual of arms. That's the way they do it. If a man dosen't want to take a greenback, jab hi.n with aby net. The most of us. however, will not be stubborn— Cousins Journal. At the death of Queen Mercedes, Queen Victoria telegraphed to King Al fonso as follows: "Dear Brother, my heart bleeds for you. wliat a misfortuno it has pleased God to send ydu. May He give you strength to boar this teriblo loss. Agrkkd to Disagree and Disagbisk ably Disagreed on That — Mr. aud Mrs. Tyler seperated in Ho|>e, Mich., agreeing that each should ba entirely free from interence by the other. Mrs. Tyler became a housekeeper for a bach* eler, and Tyier, instead of sticking to the compact, went to her ne>w home with a party of friends and tarred and feathered her. A few days later Tyler was kilted presumably at his w i.u'j in: ti jatiou. Patek.ial Aby ice. —A good story 'N related of an old and shrewd Scotchman in this te»n, and it is on actual faok. One of his,boys came to him recently and said. - "Father, I'm about to get married." The old man looked at him aid responded, '"John h*ve ye found a woman that.l suit ycV "Yes," said thu boy. Cau yo support her John?" "I think I can," returned the yotith courageously braeing up. "Is shea gude house keeper?" pursued the old man. "She is," said John proudly. Then ensued a long pause. Finally the sire said cautiously, "John baa she any mnwyf "She has" two thousand dollars," said John. Hoot, cried the old man, excitedly, "Grab ber, Gr*b htd
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