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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. ■; 1 • . VOL, 4 THE GLEANER PUB LIBHKD WEEKLY BTf E. S. PARKER tirakia, N. Ci "> - ■ • * •'•••• -tjt -vrV" —U.-;. •—y* : - Kate* of iSuhicrtption. Portaye Paid: One Year t1.55 ghc Months 70 Three Months J.. 50 Every person sending us a club of ton sub scribers With tbe cask, entitles himself to one c ! ji> Is made up. Pap 9 n sent to different offices jVo Departure from the Cash System Rates •fA4r«r*Uin« Transient advertisements payable in advance: yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. . ■ &&&:■•• ' 1 m. 2m. SUM em. I 12 m. 1 quare MOO *8 00 #7fo •6 00 *lO 00 8 '! ffflO iSO C 00 1 10 001 15 00 Transient artvertlsemenU 81 p r square or he firsts and fifty cents for each subsc , quent insertion. ' r am* MO 81 JEMTJt nm j A' ~ v ~ •'■■rr .. —J| New Millinery HH : ■ Mrs. W. 8. Moore, of Oreensboro, has opened a branch of her extensive business In this town, at the Hunter Old Stand; i under tho mangemen of Mrs. R. 8. Hfinter, where she has just opened a complete as- 1 uortuient of, i BONNETS, HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, NATURAL HAIR BRIADS AND CURLS, LADIES COLLARS, AND CUFFS, linen and lace CRAVATS, TOILET SETS, NOTiOJVS, and everytUihg for lacles «rf the very latest styles, and if you do not , 'flud in store what you want leave your or der one day and call thd* noxt and get your K erCompeUtlon in styles and prices de* ( fled. I T. MOORE A. A. THOMPSON , Moore & Thompson , Commission Merchants 1 i BAl,»l«n, N. C. , 4 i Special attention paid to the sale of ■ 1 €»TTON, V£«0B, 1 UMAttV. IIAV, BIITTBB, Bficm, I'OU I.N &C. ONBIQNMENTB SOLICITED, HIGHEST ( PRICES OBTAINED. \ Refer to ■ 1 X Citizens National Bank, Kalelgb, N. C. Knitting Cotton ft Zephyr Wool, at BCOTT A DONNELL'S. 1 GET ■ WMM mm i i ■#v _%■ f lam now prepared 1 to make to order boots, sß&es and gaiters from the very i best stock and at the j C? lowest prices— , BOOTS FROM *5,00 1 FOB HER HAKB. Only a minor and liis sweetheart! lie in his every-day fustian dot tics, she in her simple callicogown, with only a knot of ribon at hor throat—lie living all the bright, sunshiny day where the brightest rays never pierce, so deep is he in the bowels 01 the earth: she the daughter of a miner like himself, for whom with her owu bauds she prepared the noonday meal, or set his home iu order for his coming; bnt for all that, the story to which she had been listening was none the lees sweet, and Tom Wilcox felt his heart beat as it had never throbbed in face of any danger, w hen he looked down i,nto Ray Bernard's shy brown eyes which, "aided for one brief instant to his face, flashed forth for oue briet instant their cherished secret, then stooped and scaled it on herlips with Cupids seal. The moon laughed and the stars twink led . It was such an old, old story, but it was full of honest truth, even though the littlo brown cottage formed the back ground, and the low breezes whispering through the.trees were their own wit nesses. What if the) repeated the se cret ii) every clime? No o.io could un derstand their language save the trees, and they were ever silent. Bjjt sudden ly a cloud hid the pale moon from tbeii sight, and somehow it seornod reflected over the girls facets with suddou courage she clasped her bauds about hor lover's arm. '•Dont go down into tho mine t tomor row, Tom," she Baid. "I feel as if some thing wero going to happen." V Why ltttleone." he laughed "such fancies as these don't do for a miner's wife. Y)u forget (growing serious) 1 have a safeguard now which I never had before—the safeguard of your lov, ca rat her its most precious knowledge. Dou't worriy about it lassie, We've work at tho new hail tomorrow and it will be as much as my place is worth to ; "I never folt so bolore; but try as I will i cant shake off tho feeliug. "We will laugh it over togethor tomor row evening, when—and ho stooped and whispered something very low iu her ear—a something which brought the blood tiding once more to her very temt pies. I cant waito loiig you knew, ho said aloud. Your Father must be looking oulk for another boues-keepor* ltay, my darliiuf, lite has just begun for mo. God grco& I may make you as happy as you demral" And w|th his fond good-night kiss he left her. With folded arms, restiug on the wick et gate, she watched the tall stalwart form until it disappeared from sight* with as much pride iu its manly grace and strongih an it he were a king who had offered her bis kingdom aud she a princess worthy of a royal dower. Then the last echo of his footstep died away and, with a happy tremulous sigh; she turned to enter the house; but by her very side a dark figure started up. The girl utored a; fdut scream. Theil the moon emerged from her hiding place and disclosed the mau ( s face, strangely white it looked, thought Ray as she said.* *' Why, Jack! you startled me! where did you come from. "I,vo not been far away for the past bouf," was the surly reply.# "Eavesdropping, eh I" asserted Ray with sudden scorn. "I trust you were (WU-" "Not it the old adage be true as to lies toners bearing no goon of themselves You'# no time to make mention of my name, you aud your lover. What did he whisper iu yonr ear? Was It to name the day? Answer met grasping her ann in bis passion. "Arid by what right do you question me?" exclaimed the girl, wrenching her arm from his touch. "Tho right ol ioye! Have 1 .not loved you from yonr babyhood? Were not the first nuts, the first wild flower*, the first berries laid at your feet aa boyish troph ies ot success, your smile the highest re ward? It was for these—ibr this I have loved yon ail these years. "Jack, lam sorry" and Ray's voice grew soft, but it is through no fault ot mine' I thought yon loved me as a brother and gave you a sitters afiection in return. Yon will soon get over this disappointment. "Men don't get over wounds that strike to the heart. It is only women that can do that, since no steel, however sharp, can pierce their hearts. I dont want your pity, give it to the man you give your love. He may need it yet if he crosses my path. "Jack, bosh!" exclaimed the girl; you . "> . * • dlfj GRAHAM, N. dou't mean those words. liave t not seen you 6tep aside rather than trend upon a worm, to crush out a life dod-givon "Aye—but let the serpent rear its head across my way, and soe how quick* ly I wiligrind its venomous hoad be noathe my heel." "Yes Jack, but Tom Wilcox ft as never done you wroiis?." The mau laughed. "He has entered my houso and robbed me of the one thing my soul prized —ha s despoiled me of my)all 1 Do we not pun ish those who steal from us?" Not if (bey steal that which is their own. I know >on Ja«.k, better than you know yourself, and know the noble heart tlmt yon cover to-nigt with so falso a nmjk. liemembe r Jack—yon say you love me. I love Tom Wilcox. What ever yon do to Inm you do to mc. His if> the shriuo which holds my heart, ereu as his is he> e, striking her breast. Thon with a low good*>nighf, a swift touch ol her hand, the left him to his own gloomy thoughts. • * * * Six meu were busy at work—a little group apart from the others—on (he new ball iu the mine. It was a 6(range sound which suddenly made each nian throw down his tool and start with white laces to their feet— the sound of a cheery whistle echoing through the silent vaults like place. 'Hush, man! are yon mad/ said one, 'to whistle ia the mine? Don't you know it has never beeu known not to bring swiflppuiiiohmont ?' •Nonsense, boys,' laughed Tom, the offender in answer. 'That's aii old superstition fit for crooning hogs by fireside. An honost whisllo can do uo man harm. Listen I' And once again the cheery sound rang out this timo tho whistlers foot keeping time. 'AI», Jf vou were as happy as I am, you'd whistle too, since I've won the prctliost lass iu all the villago for my bride-' On one listener's faco - theso words bronght blackest frown; but he sternly kept his white lips together, and was mute—none noticing tho iuslant start, the half blenched hand; but none had time to answer, for, at though f»r off, came a dull, heavy sound they knew too well. One moment they looked with blanched faces upon each other, t hen followed a crash. The wall had horns med them in their living .tomb. Iu the darkness rose cries of vengeance and curses upon him who had brought tho curse home to them. 'Let as find him,' they cried groping in thedarkucss— I 'he who dared whistle the evil spirits to do their work!' 'But singular to say. he, the instrument of their vengeance-, was the one who had fallen helpless aud disabled, and lay half unconscios under a heap ot stones. Jack Howard was the first to find him Why, then did he denounce him? Once more his hand clenched, his face darkened, but a girls white, pleading* face seemed to rise up out of tbc dark ness. aud qnietiy he took his staud iu front of tho prostrate form. 'We will kill him!' shouted tho utyji. 'Perhaps thtin we can appease wrath ot the mine, aud they will show us same way out, or keep life iu our bodies till they dig foi us. Ah, here lie is,' start* ing forwafd as one stumbled over him for wltom they sought. 'Back, men! Would you do murder?' shouted a voice. 'Has not the old wall threatened danger for many a day, that you should suppose a man's whistle could cause it to come tumbling about our ears?' 'He put tho spirits to work!' said one 'lt's never failed yet.' We'll give him to them aa one of them. 'Not unless you give me, too!' said Jack bis face growing very white aud the words rushing from his lips as though he con Id not repress them. 'He can't defend himself. It's only a coward wha Will strike a helpless man.' The men paused/ with a flush of dttame while their bands sank quietly to their sides, and Jack Howard knew his dofence had proved good. So the long, wear/ hours dragged themselves along, each man busy with bis own thoughts; Bome thinking of the wife and balrus who waited their return; some the mother and sweetheart. Occiftionally would sound a dull, ■ rumbling noise, drawing nearer and nearer, and unless rescue soon roached them, ail kuew the wall surrounding them would soon give way. They kuew not.whether it were day or night, or, save by the pangs of huuger and thirst Already assailing them, how long they bad been cutombed, when hope roro onee more in their breasts, as, faint and distant, came s human voice With one accord they answers ed it and 1 grasping their tools witlnew earnestness, fell to work to f ' * TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1878 ■■. '* , ........ . , ' meet tboflo digging tbo'r slow way toward them. Ah, the ecstacy of the moment when the first ray of light penetrated their darkness! 'Wo dare dig no'more!' shouted a voice. 'One by one you must enter, crawling through this hole. There is room butkfor five on the shaft, llow mnnv of yon are there?' Silently they counted. Tbey were six. 'No need for lots,' asserted one. 'Wo will leave tho whistler. Ho is almost gone, anyway. They cau come back for him if there's time.' So they decided, and one by ono crawled through the narrow spneo. J/iek Howard came last. He cast one look upon the silent death likeplaco, and tho silent, death-like form, while Ray Bernard's words stood writieu iu letters ot fire in tlie blackness: " Whate'er you do to him you do to mo.' Then ho turned back, and raised the prostrate form, ana whispering in his ear: 'Toll her I kopt sacred tho shrine which held her heurt, and dM it for ber sake,' ho dragged biin as best he could to tho aperture. 'Lend a hand, boys I' be shouted. ••We'll send Tom up first. He has a sweetheart waitiug. I—l havo no one.' There was no timo to parley, and answering, 'Courage, Jack, we'll soon bo back for you?' they oboyed him. So Jack went back to bis doom. It WAS a glimpso of Eden to tho men —who thonght thomselves shut out from it forever—as once uiore thoy saw the green fields and the sunlight, while weeping women aud children clung, sobbing, to their kuees. But they suddenly grew weak and tender as a great crash smote on fheir ears, and they knew Jack Howard had expiated his sacrifice with his life. . Like a faint dream, tho words whis pered in his ear came to Tom as Ray nursed him back to health and strength, aud wondoringly he repeated thom to her. Thon, as though unvailing some sacred thing, with sobbing breatii she told him Why Jack Howard had done this tiling. ! How great, how true an act of heroism worlds, e'ou though no marble shaft nor sculptorod urn record it. BTBANGB FRIINDSUIP. —A WO MAN AND A BNAKB. [Morganton Blade.] Mr. A. O. Corpening of Linville was in our office last Wednesday aud vouches for tho truth of the following states rnent: On John's River, in the Globe settle ment lives a woman of the name of Mar garet Coffee, who has a daughter that for some time part has been insane- Some days ago the girl was nunblig in the woods alone and returned carrying over her shoulder and round her ueqfc a largo live and unhurt rattle snake, ; Coming up into the yard where her brother stood, she uncoiled the reptile from its embrace and throwing it upon the gtound, remarked, "Here's a damn ed anake. You can kill it if you want to." The snake made several attempts to regain its position, running to her as a child would run to its mother, but showing no signs of angt r. It was soon , killed. , A few days after the giri came home with another reptile fully as large,which was likewise affectionately ooiled about her neck. Both these snakes were un. hurt and had full possession of their fangs and venom. To those acquainted with these terrible denizens ot the moun tains, and who know how deadly and sore is their bite, this story is almost blood curdling. The bold hunter of the mountain steeps and valleys fears not the panther or the bear half so much as these reptiles which he finds coiled up at every step ready to sink their poisonous fangs into hts flesh, and when he kills one he skins it and stuffs ite akin to hang in bis pUa as a trophy which ranks in pride with the antlers of the mountain roe. Among tho little "outrages" iu the West was tho descont last week, near W cncheste, Ulinoiflc, of a party of tramps opou the eatables of a pic-nic party. They waited until the table was set, asd then sudtoiily made their appearanoo and appropriated the good things to themselves. They were strong enough to '•bulldoze" the meu among the pfo ulcers. An lowa editor, who was impelled to gibe up his seat to a lady in a street oar described it as being crowded out Jo make room for mere iutcrcstiug mat* ter. .A . v - r ' *v>;- f-M K nER TWO RIISOBNPS, A-queer story comes from tbe West, whence so many stoiies come. The wife of a merchant In San Francisco, find ing, some six mdnths ago, that the cli. mate of the Pacific coast did not agree with Imr. as her lungs were rather del icate, decided to visit Iter relatives lu Cliicag), to see if the change would«not benefit her. She went overland her husband remaining in California because he was unable to leave his business. For two months after her arrival sho wrote regularly and afieos tlonately. declin ing that her health was steadily improving, and that »ho hoped to rejoin him very soon. For the noxt throe months her letters steadily decreased, both in frequency and fprvor, being very rare and very cold toward tho close of that period. He complained ol tbe alteration in her feelings, which she J deniodiu words, and provodb/ behavior. In two or three weeks he sat. out for Chicago to ascertaiu the cause of her resolution, and reaching his dosiinatiou, i went to the hotel whore she was staying, went directly to her room, entered, found her talking ploasanUy to a man, who appeared to be qnito at homo, but whom he had neyer seen before. The husband nprafditig his wifo, when the stranger demanded: 'By what jight do you thus address this lady?' *By the right uf a husband,' was the ro»ponso 'That right is reserved lor mo sir; I am her husband." "You? for how long I pray ?"For three months.' 'And I for si£ years.' Doth spoke the truth. Tbe second marrige, as may be inferred, had been mado aftor an irregular divorce, the woman having discoverd that she liked the man present in Cbiaaso much better than sho liked tiie man absent in San Francisco. The two lieges talked I revolvers, death and graveyards for a while; bat after growing cool, resolved UQtto mako fools of themselves. The woniltlHtraukiy owned that she preferred No. 2, whereupon No. I expressed satifaction; sensibly loft her to her news found felicity; bought a ticket for homo; departod on the morning train, leaving a note for her saying that he would trouble her no further, aud do his utmost never to meet bet again. AMcitTrvoß troavff, 'lt is better,' wrote Thackeray, 'for you to pass au evening once or twice a week iu a lady's drawing room, even though the conversation is Blow, and you know the girl's song by heart, than iu a club or tavern, or a pit of a theatre, all amusements of youth to which virtuous women are not admitted, rely on it, are doletrious in their nature. All men who would avoid female society have dull perception, and are stupid, or have gross tastea, and revolt against what is pure. Your club swaggerers who are sucking the butt of billiard cdee-*H nlgbt call female society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a jockey, beauty has no charms for a blind mau; music does not please a poor beast who does not know one tune from another; but as a pure epicure is scarcely tired of waferssancers aud brown bread and butter, 1 protest I cau sit a whole night with a regulated, kiudly woman, and hoar ber talk about ber girl Fanny or her boy Frank, and likethe evenings entertain rnent. One of tbe benefits a man eau derive from a womans society is that lie is bound to bo respoctfu! to her. The habit is of great good to your moral man, depend upon it. Our oducajtiou makes ns the most eminently Iftlftsb meu iu the wirid.' A CONNECTICUT BLUB LAW.— Not fat-seeing what could be made out of Connecticut seed leaf by iheir descend ants, the austere founders of Connecti cut adopted the fohowing stringent reg- s ulatious for the use of tobaoco. "No person under twenty years of sge, nor any other who has not already accustomed himself to the use of it, shall take any tobacco until he has ob tained a certificate from under the hand of an approved physician that it is use ful for him, and until he lias also ob tained a license from the court. All others who have addicted themselves to the use of it are prohibited from taking it in any oompany, or at their hbors, or in traveling, unless ten miles at least from any company, and though not in oompany, not more than onoe a day, upon pain of a fine of a sixpence for every such offence." Irritable Schoolmaster—' : Now then, what's the next word? What comes after cheese?" Dull boy—'A mouse, sir," N0,24 TM WAVITALW4I( 18, (ilawkeye.) One day this summer we rode fifty miles in a i-uilway ear, seated behind four men who were playing with those awful playthings of the devils—card*. Ttay played euchre until they were tiiod of it. They played a little seven-up, Pedro, and occasionally a trifle of .We never heard a dispute. Theii bur*!*"" of merriment occasionally at some unex pected play repeatedly drew our eyes from pur bouk. They never quarrelled, and uever called names once. When we got out at our station we sat at our window and watched a party of young men and maid ana play croquet. In fif teen minutes we saw too jjgggSgjH cheat successfully. We heard the one player who did noc cheat accused of cheatiLg five time*. We heard four distinct bit ter quarrels. We heard a beautiful young girl tell two lien, and a meek yonng man three; and finally we saw the young girl throw her mallet against the fence so hard it frightened a horse. The other young girl pounded her mallet so hard that it knpeked the buds off an apply tree. They both tanged into the house at different doors and the two yonng men looked sheepish, and went off after, a drink. Now, why is this? Isn't croquet a good, moral game? A SVSTIH ATIC! MINERS GIFT, The San Francisco News Letter pri tits a story about a Comstock miner op 1 ol io w#: * After all, these Virginia City minors havo largo, generous hearts. The other orening one of them, who finishing op a week's spree in 'Frisco, stepped out ot tho palace after dinner, and ran against a haggard-looking, shabby genteel woman, who was weeping on a corner. 'What is the matter, inarm?' said the miuer, respectfully. Bho told him a sail story—poverty, sickuess, a ' large family of children nothing to do nothing to wear. 'ls that the best frock [ you're got?'said the rough fellow, gent ly. She said it was. He felt iu his pockot. It contained just" QUO twenty wide)) be bad intended to devote to wine that" evening. 'Stop here a moment marrn, and no dodaed around the corner into dry goods store. In a few minutes he returned, and pressing a small bund into the woman's hajid disappeared with the air of a mau who had done a kind act gracefully. The Biarving female oagetiy undid the package. .It contaiued a pair of embroidered silk stocking.' Among the Washington relics which lately came into the possession of tho government is a ledger in which the Father of his Country kept his personal accounts for a number of years. The book is reported as full of odd items Which an admiring country will be as tonished to hear'abOut at this late dav, although a century ago they may have been natural enough. It is recorded in the hand writing of the Father himself how much that illustrious man lost or won at cards, the sums he expended for play tickets tor himself and friends when be went to town, and Vhat it cost him for hair powder, silk stock tngs,and claret. There are indieations in soma parts of the unique accounts that the man who was first in the hearts of his country men novel missed a horse race if he could help it, and he seems to have been a common kind of human being enough to bet on the wrong horse more than was good for one side of his ledger. Perhaps, in the interest of this gentle - man's reputation, the government had tatter not dig up Bny more relics of the Father of this Country.—ltaleigh N~eim. A HODKIi IMAKRUOfi CKRIEII- A correspondent saints a copy of a marriage certificate tnat was found a lew years ago in the clerk'B office in Peoria couuty, of Illinois, which certifi cate was issued in tho primitive days of the sucker state. It seems that there was a loving couplo that lived in a neighborhood called Coperas precinct, Peoria conuty, who were anxious to get married, but they could not find a minister who had boon commiasianod to marry. They finally met with a justice whoset them a-going and gavo them the tqllowing certify 'To all the World Creating—Knbw vethat John Smith and Myers; are hereby certified to go together anW do as the old tolks does, anywhere infl Copperas Precinct, and when'my com mission COIQOB 1 am to marry 'era good and date 'em back to Liver accidents,'
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