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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL, 4 THE GLEANER ri/ULISHKU WEEKLY BY E. S. PARKER tirabnui, IV. C, Rate* of Subscription. Fostaye Paiil: One Year 41.55 Six Months ...70 Three Months .50 Evory person sending us ft club of ten sub scribers with the cash, entitles himself to 1 one «>opv free, for tli»lcnrh of timo for which the a b 'is made up. Pap „ rt. scut to different offices jVo Departure from the Cash System, Rales «r Advertising Transient advertisements payable in advance: yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. 1 m. 2m. 3m. 6m.j12 m. 1 quare $2 00 *3 00 $4 00 * 6 00|$10 00 8 '• 3 00 4 50 0 00 10 00! 15 00 Transient advertisements 91 per square or he first, and fifty cents for eacli subsc- Quent Insertion. SEW A'RRIVAfc AT P. R. Harden's, V"~ ft •Gsso-osp£). ' . . + 'f. Who keeps constantly on hand a fu 1 line of Dav GOODS, GROCERIES aud GEN eral Merchandise at Bottom Prices. Aliens Prints at 7W cents. A full line of Muslins and Jackonets. New crop Cuba Molasses. Bacon C. R. Sides at 8 cents per side. Garden and Flower Seeds at 5 cents a paper. Call and examine our stock before pur chasing. W Special attention given to the sale of Flour The highest market price paid for all kinds of Country Produce fiSAHAH HIDH SCHOOL. GRAHAM, N. C. REV. D.A. LONG, A. M. REv . W- W. ST ALE Y, A. M. REV. W. 8. LOMG, A. M. MISS JIN» IE ALBRIGHT. r Opens August 26th 1878, and closes the last Friday in May, 18TO Board 98 to *lO and Tuition 98 to 94.50 month. Knitting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT & DONNELL S. Scott & Donuell 1* ' l GrahamNC- Dealers in GOODS. GROCERIES HARDWARE, HAT*, .ROOTS Sr. SHOES, NOTIONS, IRON, STEHIi, SAI.T, nOIiAH ■ES, DRVGS, MEDI CI N E S, DYE STUFF 4kC AC. ONNESI-S hCCkB & Y,nlß ' at SCOTT & All kinds of Country Produce taken in *nklsP for Good *' mt BCOTT & DUN- Plow Points, Mould Boards, Land Sides fr Plow Bolts, atSCOTf & DONNELL' se&B&ssa** 3Poet»y. ON A Kit)ll JIAn-H TABLE 'I [Boston Transcript.] There eat two glasses filled to the brim On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and red as blood, And one was cleft" - as the crystal flood. Said the glass of wine to the paler brother, '-J.ct us tell the tales of the past to each ether; I can tell of banquet and revel and mirth, And the proudest and grandest souls on earth Fell under my touch as though struck by blight, Where I was king, lor I ruled in might, —.p~ . From the heads of kln£s I havo torn the crown, From the height of fame I have hurled men down; I have blasted many an honored name, I have takea-virtue and given shame; I hwre tempted the .fouth wit'ra sip, a taste, That has made his future a barren waste. Far greater than any kin? am I, Or than any army bcueath the sky. _ I have made the arm of tha diivcr fail, And sent the train from the iron rail; I have made good ships go down at sea, And the shrieks of the lo*t were sweet to me; For tliey said, 'Behold, how great jou be! Fame, strength, wealth, genius before yon fall, And your might and power are over ail.' Ho! ho! pale brother," laughed the wine, "Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?" Said the water glass, "I cannot bogat Of a king dethroned or a murdered host But I can tell-Of a heart once sad By my crystal drops made light and glad. Of thirsts I've quenched and brews I've laved; Of hands I have cooled and souls I have saved' 1 have leaped through the valley, dashed down the mountain, I flowed in the river and played in the fountain, Slept in the sunshine and dropt from the sky, Aud evory where gladdened the landscape and eye. I have eas d the hot forehead of fever and pain> I have made the parched meadows grow fertile grain; I can tell of j£c powerful wheel of the mill, That g: oand out the flour a-id turned at my will. I can tell of manhood debased by you, That 1 have lifted and crowned anew. I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid: I gladden the heart of man and maid; I set the wiue chain ed captive free, And a'l are better for knowing me." These are the tales they told ea£h other, The glass of wine aud the paler orother, As they sat together filled to the brim, On the rich man's table rim to rim. THAT TAI.SOT Ulßf.. '?* Bertie Tafbot sat upon the great flat stone that formed the doorstep to the side entrance of the Newton farmhouse, pick ing currants, and Frank Desmond lay upon 1 he grass watching hot*. 'Bertie,' lie said, presently, 'do you know that your lips are a great deal red der and prettier than those currants?' The girl colored furiously and corns grossed her hps forcibly, but uiade no answer. Then ho laughed. " Why don't you answer me, Bertie?' The girl flashed him a look from her angry eyes, and asked, iu a low angry tone— ' What do you expect me to say?' 'You might, at least, thank me for my compliment—any lady would ilo that!' •But I am not a lady,' cried Bertie, bittcrlv aud passionately, 'and you don't meau those things when you say them to me—you know you don't.' 'But I do,' persisted Frank, admiring the flush in Bertie's fanned cheek and the angry light in her gray eyes. "But I do,' he repeated, again, more earnestly, lazi ly getting ofl the grass and seating liiins self upon the stone beside her. 'Bertie,' he continued, when he was whore he could talk to her iu whispers, 'why do you always laugh or get angry when I tell you that you aro pretty, and that I liko you?' 'Because,' said Bertie, fiercely,'no one else telle me I am pretty or that they like me, and I know you are making fuu of mo?' 'lam not making tnn of you, Bertie, Frank whispeied, with au intonation that made Bertie's heart beat so hotly and tu» mnltuously she almost feared her com panion could hear it. 'I do think vou aro pretty, and what is moro, I lovoyou, and in token of it lam going to take a kiss—a lover's first kiss. Don't make a noiso, please, or you will awaken some of tbe ladies from their afternoon siesta. There, that was the first kiss,' he said, when he had withdrawn his arm from libout her waist and his lips from their long, clinging touch to her trembling ones, 'but it shall not be the last by a great many darling.' Bye-and-bye gay voices commenced (o sound upon the trout porch, and some one came bustlist into the darkened din* iug room behind thein, aud Mr. Des* mond joined the young ladies, after wins niitg Bertie's promise to meet him by midnight and moonlight under the wal nut tree in tbe field adjoining the farm yard . 'Bertie, hav'nt you finished those cur rants vet 7 cried Mrs. Mewton, sharply, coining lo the dining room door. 'Yes. ma'am,' answered (he girl, gath- GRAHAM, N. O, ering together her pan* aiid fruit, and taking her way towards the kitchen; and for the remainder of that day Bertie was supremely happy. Ah, how soon 60tne blissful illusions tire doomed to be shattered. Late that night when all her work was finished, and nearly every one about the farm had retire#, Bertie crept to her lit tle attic roonj, over the back kitchen, and knelt down by her opon, vine screen win dow, her arms folded upon the sill, to wait until she should hear the clock be low strike twelve. As she knelt there, along the lane that ran close by that side of Ihc house. Frank D -sinotid and Miss Stonor wcro wulkiug, the lady holding her thin draperies from contact with the dew with fuir hands sparkling with jewels, o:0 groitt finishing diamond tolling u story that Bertie, hud she been loss innocent of the world's ways, might have read. 'I wish vou to understand, Frank Des mond,' Miss Stonor was saying, 'that I will not tolerate any flirtation on y our part with that Talbot girl.' •How can you talk so preposterously, Grace? As it' I would flirt with a servant girl.' 'Well, as it happens, Mr. Desmond, I saw you sitting on the doorstep beside her this atternoon, and I nri-t confess it looked suspiciously like flirtation.' 'I was only amusing myself with the little ignoramous,' laughed Frank, 'i hopo you are not getting jealous, Grace, and imagining that lam about to fall in love with that 'Jealous of you?' echoed Miss Sfouor, with a contempt that made Frank's blood lingle, but which he dared not resent since Jie had wood the lady for her mon ey. 'No, Indeed I But very young and pretty girls aro pccasionally made the victims of young men's flirtations for anything but laudable reasons, and,since we aro engaged, I want it distinctly un derstood that 1 will not tolerate nuy at tentions from you to a pretty servantgirl that may result iu scandal.' •My dear Grace, pray let us drop this subject. I assure you I have no designs, either good or evil, uponßertij. Ttiegirl is of no more importanco to me than any of the farm hands about here. The next da)', as Frank idled in the shady front porch, reading aloud a poem to the ladies, a stranger drove up to the gate. •What splendid horses!' said Miss Stonoir'. as the gentleman fastened his fiery black team. 'Surely I liavo seen them bofore,' re* marked Frauk v ineditatively; then, as the visitor opeued the gate, 'Well, upon my soul, it's Uharlie Thorn 1' and he sprang up to greet the comer. •Oh, Mr. Desmond, how aro you? I did not expect to meet any one here that I knew. " This is the farm, is ilnot, kept by Mrs. Amelia Newton 1' •It is, and we are on a visit,' answered Frauk, introducing Mr. Thome to the ladies. 'Perhaps you can tell me. remarked Charlie, when the introductions were ovei, 'whether a girls lives here by the name of Alberta Talbot?' The ladies glanced at each other signif icantly, aud Frank answered— ' There was BHch a girl here—a house maid—but it was discovered this morn ing that she lmd run away.' •Bun away!'said Mr. Thorne, quicks ly. 'Whv, and where his she gone?' 'Noono knows why; and as she was only a child whom Mrs. Newton took lroin an orphan asylum to bring up, she says she shall not take any trouble to find her. She surmises that the girl has gone to London.' 'I am sorry, very sorry,' said Mr. Thorn, thoughtlully, his handsome face wearing a vexed look. 'That girl is an heiress, and I am her guardian. I had just tracked her here, and now to have lost her again is piovoking. As I drove up from town 1 cannot possibly think of starting back to-day. 4 1 wonder 'if Mrs. Newton could accommodate me over night ?' It was soon ascertained that Mrs. New ton could accommodate him as long as he chose to stay; but the next morning that gentleman, accompanied by Frank Des mond, set out on his return. So late was it, on the second day of their drive, when the gentlemen reached the city, that little could be done that night towards scachiug for the run away heirsss. aud he invited Desmoid to spend the evening with him at ,some place of amusement. After dining tliey sauntered into the Strand. In no Lurry to be present at the opening ot the play, the gentleman walk ed slowly, talking gayly of society news, but scarcely noticing the people they passed. But near Wellington street, whero there was a slight break in the crowd, the lonely figure of a gii 1 sfand TUESDAY -OCTOBER 1 1878, in? irresolutely, with a pale weary lace, ! before a closed-shop window, Desmond's attention. With a quick exclamation of triumph and surprise he sprang forward anil caught tho giiTs build. 'Bertie, Bertie, darling,' lie exclaimed, softly, but eagerly, Mvliy di l you run awav from me?' The girl's only answer was a slight scream, and a look ot terror as slue put up her disengaged hand lo shield her face from his gaze. 'Bertie,'he went on rapidly for Mr, Thoruo was noarkig, them, 'yi>n ought be ghul to sec me, I havo brought yon such good fortune! This gentleman came to Newton Farm, to find you tho morning alter you ran away, lie had traced you from tho orphan asylum where you were placed as a child, be causo you aie his ward and heiress.' 'And my cousin,' added Charlie Thorn, who had come up in timo to hoar the last words.' The poor girl stared wondoringly at the Btiaugci>too terrified and 100 sur prised to utter a word; but Charlie explained briefly and kindly. •Your mother, was my own cousin, displeased her fat he" by her marriage, and he disowned her. Just before hi* death he repente.l, and searching for her discovered that v alio and her husband had died suddenly, but hi d left a child who had been Bent to the orphan asylum. He was then taken ill. but bctore he died, he arranged that if you were living you should be tho heiress to two-thirds of liio fortune and I should be your guardian. And now tell us why you ran awayay and what you have been doing.' 'I cannot tell you why I ran away,' said she, 'but I have walked the, streets two days trying to got a pla»* y and last night 1 walked Ihe street or slept oil doorsteps, and I did not know what 1 should do to-night.' 'You aro all right now,' said Charlie, gently. 'I have an aunt living near here where I will tako you. Under these circumstances, Mr,' Desmond, you will excuse ine if 1 tail to keep my engages uient with you.' 'Of course,' answered Frank, politely. 'Good ev'ening Miss Bertie,' and he raised his hat gallantly lo tho pale forlorn girl who trembled under tho arm of the wealthy and stylish Thorn. Bertie gave him a strange glance, and turned away without speaking. *»♦' • * * Five years from tho night she stood a trembling outcast, Bertie Talbot moved —a stately, haudsoinc aud eleiraiilly dressed woman—through tho gorgeous ball room of the moßt fashionable hotel at Scarborough. •You hove seen the new stnr, of course oays Gns Tallboys to Frank Desmond, who stands chatting with his long-ago sweet-heart Miss Stonor. 'What new star?' asks the lady. 'A Miss Talbot, Charlie Thorn's ward, whom lie has just brought from abroad, where they say she has made the great* est sensation. There they como now. Isn't she splendid?' lii a moment more the handsome man for whose sake Miss Stoner cast ofl hel lo ver, but whose regard she had failed to win, aud the beautiful Miss Talbot, iu her exquisito Paisian toilet havo come close to the group, and Bertio recog nizes her old acquaintance. Still she waits to be intrduced by Charlie, and acknowledges tho presentation as in* differently as if she had never met or seen this mau an woman before. * 'Miss Talbot,' Frauk says, presently, 'you dance? May 1 have the honor of this waltz?' 'I am alieady engaged for it.' 'Then what is tho euliest one I may have.' 'There is none that yon may have,' re plies Bertie, cbolly, 'Not because my card is quite full, but because, five years ago, I heard Miss Stonor forbid you to pay any attention 'that Taibot girl!' Aud I could not think of allowing you to displease licr!' aud Mis*. Talbot moves smilingly away, leaving Grace furious and Frank cresfallen. 'I am afraid she heard more than that otic sentence,' says Frauk, laughing dns easily,-and doesn't intend to show us much frtVor.' 'She will soon see that Mr. Tliorn will not countenance her impertinences,' re torts Grace, angrily resolving to make one more deperato effort to win Charlie's heait. But she began to change her mind when day after day passed, and Miss Talbr>t and her guardian quietly ignored the exißten of any such person as Graco Stoner. But Frauk .Desmond woud no! be thus iguored without an attempt to win Berties handsome faco and fortune^ When' he put fate lo tho tcst&icrtie turned upon him scornfully. •Fray do not think. Mr. Desmond, that I can be deceived as easily as five years ago! Then, for reasons which, perhaps, your conscience knows bust, you made an innocent, ignorant girl believe that you Idved her. But sho was not iu learning your falseness, and sho hates and despises you as utterly to-day ns Bhc did that night when she ran away from vour contaminating presence. Aud from this hour both Mr. Thorn, my afHunccd husband, and myself, must beg leave to bo excused from further association with those persons who years ago fixed their estimation of 'that Tal bot girl,' and need not seek to change it because fortune has smiled upon her!' * And six months later, when the cards wore out for Charlio Thorn's stylWi wedding, Frank Desmond and Grace Stoiioi' found that Berlio Talbot had spoken truly aad they had been dropped completely from the aiietocratic circle of acquaintances who wore to be granted the t'uturp entree of tho splendid mansion that Charlio Tljoru had selected for his bride's home. . BUSINESS AND YELLOW FEVER. The Hotel Keepers a I Ihe City Gainers— The M holranle Merchants Lomii. The yellow foyer iu the Southwc&l has seriously affected business in this city, there being apparently only one class likely to he gainers, aud thoy are the ho tel proprietors. Thousands of Southern ers are staying in the various hotels. and first class boarding houses; but the hotel registers do not indicate tho fact. Few persons arriving from a fever district register correctly, and hundreds of men coming direct from • New Orleans put down as from North Curolina, and many from Boston. Tlioy tear dint they . will he refused aeemn modal ion if tliey write the truth; aud the hotel managers care fully avoid having New Orleans orMcm* phis appear on Ihe books, fwaring that guests might be frightened away. A Sun reporter visited seveial of tho leading hotels yesterday and inquired ot the clerks whether they had many guests from the South. The St. Nichols Imi| a great many Southerners, but'Mione from ihe a fleeted district.' 'Most of our peo ple,' sifid the chief clerk, 'cams North before the fever spread, and have been staying at the watering places. Now thoy are afraid logo home, and will no douht remain iu the city until the frott comes ' Ihe proprietors of Ihe Southern Hotel told lliesame storr. They had a very huge number of guests waiting tor the plague to subside, but they were all in the Ninth before tho fever broko out. In tlw Metropolitan, Fifth Avenue, Windsor, and Glenhain Hotels substan tially tho same thing was said. Au cms ployee ot tho New York Transfer Coins pany said theie was, about two weeks ajo, a rush of travelers fioin the South, aud that the company had carried an immense amount of baggage to tho va rious hotels which had been checked at Southern cities. 'But,' said lie, 'yotv can't find a man from Now Orleans in anv hotel. Why, people aro so scared of vellow fever that they will learo a house at once it they think there is a mau near them from New Orleans. So none of the hotels have any guests from there.' Tho disturbance of business South is feh severely by merchants hero, and the sales will fall several millions below tho average. Not a case of goods has been shipped to Now Orloaus or Momphis within six weeks. Goods purchased prior to the breaking out of the fever lemaiu here. Many ot the dealers ordering have diod. It is understood that this week tho shipment of goods will be permitted to Memphis. Many buyers are here from the South, waiting; but they say that all bu«ine-8 in New Orleans is dead lor the timo b ing, and that the requirements of the tall trade will be very limited. Among others suffering iu business fi om the effects of fever are life insur i nee companies. Vhose Joinjf an cx t naive Southern business are tho New York, Equitable, Globe, and Kidcko!'- b cker. Tho Mutual has comparatively few risks there. That company did pro pose to push the Southern business, but as the risk is great, decided to add one per cent, to the regular premium. This aroused iudiguation, aud the Mutual failed to secure much Dudnoss in Louis iana. The extent of the looses of the New York aud Equitable cannot be as certained, but the eutiro claim against Now York companies is very large, the lever having carried off many persous well to do. and who had made proviso ions lor their families in tnat way.— Sun. WIIK WOM EN CAN'T VOTE. It is no wonder women cani't vote. It's no wonder men tear to trust the ballot in tho hands ot people who cannot manage their own affairs. No person should bo allowed to vote who cannot dress with* out the assistance of a paper of pins. Now, if a man'* tailor should scud his suit home in tho fearfully incomplete and unfinished state iu which a new dress roaches its wearer, how quickly it would bo sent back, tied np iu a bundle of 'cuss words.' But a woman receives her no* dress from the dress makei's gladly, Joys fully, con tent odly, and fills her inouth as full of pins as it will hold before she puts it oil, knowing she will need every ono of thern aud more before the dress is on. Oh woman, wnman, if von only kuew how your husband hates ihe man that makes ylm.—Huwkeyc. NO, 30 Ole aning s, * At a Tifcus' (ru jt biieflvK r« ci-ntljr thiny peroons wtie'LupliEfd ly torch light. Amon? the convicts at the Auburn {N Yr) Prison aro forty-lwn laW\eiS; twenty seven ciergytnan, mid thirteen physicians* The Queen of tinly Is described ns pretty •anil elegant looking, having liu'it linil'* blue eyes, fair skin, mid a studu that is the essence of sweetness, The song of the Tinker! 'I Itneart Thee Every Hour.' The first nolo ot the song is dough.— Sun Manciscn Pod. A innn in Western lowa who is a can* ftkl.iie for three fflees Ikis invented a method of shaking hands by postal-card. Jluu-kcye. Boyle liochn once said ift fhe Irish Parliament, 'Mr. hpcat-er would give the half of (he the whole of jt—to preserve the remain" der.' The Newbdrne 2f\it»hclt fraly says, |We venture to say that there is no place in the United .States, according to tx>pu« laflon, that has done as much lor the yellow fever aufierers as Raklglt. Women in the North, many of them, are paid but fifty cents, fur making a dozen fine shirts. And yet some phi« loßophers are wondering why there is a revolutionary smell in the tinted gale, Augusta Chronicle, Dem. Six weeks of drunkenness and gamin ling resulted in the lastiug disgrace of George C. Snyder of Lexington, Ky., for he spent $2,000 intrusted to him as treasurer of the Knights of Pythias. He has fled. A Boston lawyer has a letter written in 1814 by a New York Him, saying that l hey nail placed in th% hands of Daniel Webster a bill for collection, and asking that the financial standing of Webster be inquired into, its they could not obtfllu any botllemcut from him. A good circus clown gets from SIOO to $l5O a week, and the best bareback* rider gets S7OO a week. This is enough to empty the theological seminaries whose graduates expect to work for souls and as much of SBOO a year as they can collect.— Burlington jlawkeye. A man who stands a great grief anil conceal it, and hug it to his bosom, and go smiling around the world, can't con ceal his eicolion when a fly lights on his nose when a barber is scraping bin" throat. That is what makes it so diffi cult to get correct statistics of those who really lull from grace.— Keokuk Constitu tion. One of the newest wrlnMes of fashion, not yet much seen, Is the wearing ot bangles or bracelets by very swell young men. The Duke of iuiinburgh stalled the thing. But we advise our youth to \omit ihe bracelets as unnecessary, and to so conduct themselves that they will never be forced to wear a pair furnished by the States. A Georgian returned to his home after an absence of two weeks. His eight' ycnr-old son loudly Welcomed hhn. 'ls everybody we'l, Willie?' the father asked 'The wettest kind.' the boy " replied. 'And nothing has happened?' ♦Nothing at all. I've beeu good, Jennie's all' right and I never saw ma behave aa well us she has this time.' Spnrgeon sometimes adroitly Insin uates a rebuke which is for that reason more telling, I a speech lately made he denied tuat ho had ever said (hat •three fourths of the Christians In the world lived in such a tv ay as to dishonor their Redeemer; but,' said he, 'it 1 bad said as much, I would not take it back.' A correspondent of a North Carolina paper suys that 'a distinguished member of Congress from Massachusetts, Speaker of the iioase, once hod his • wite's si»ter ai tho same hotel with themselves as nurse to their children. She had to eut with the other servants.' 'There would be more,* doons in this town,'said a native as tho train moved north through Montgomery, -it" it wasn't for one thing.' 'And what is that?' asked the tonrist. 'Ain't any more houses,' replied the native, and the tourist opened his uote-boek and remaiu ed absorbed in thought.— Hawkeyt. He was an entire stranger to tho girlt present, and tho boys were mean and would not introduce him. He finally plucked up courage, and, stepping up to a young lady, requested the pleasure of her company /or the next dance. Sho looked at him in surprise, ami informed hiin Ihat she had nol tho pleasure of hie young man, 'yen dou't take any more chance than I do.' Beware of the bov or girl, man or wos man, who "don't care. " Do not choose them for associates. If thev care not for 'heir own character they Witt not caro about yon or yours. It self respect is wanting there is very tittle besides that >ou can desire. Seek tho society ot those who value their owu character. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson lives in, a pretty country house near Mobile surroundeJ by books, pictures end flowers. She is described as the most charming talker hi the South and aa the possessor of a broad open bro w straight btow hair earnest eyes and ev
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