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HJIE! 2LLAMANCE GLEANER; ■*: ■kgleaner BY g_ pARKER I Crah» n, > Ci I gubtcnpiion. roslaye Paid : I nn .ondlnsr fls ft club of ten sub ■lh the cafl.." entitles hifnself to one ■ for the of time for which the ■de up- l'aperfejjent to different offices, from the Cash System I BBIC» »f AJTcrti>iwg payable in advance: Keriisemenu quarterly in advance. I ,1 m. |3 m. Bm. «m.jl2 m. ■*"*I|30o!#80p00 $ o d&SypToo I I 3 00l 456 6 ,00 10 001 15'06 Hut advertisement $1 per square Kt, and fifty cen* B for eaell -subse- L PAPER IS OK ftW WITH He AivertUlug Coutiact* can bamaif lIIAHpH rfuvri isiii,"-. ' I Graiiam, N. C. ! I • 1 I- ••••,' y. DA, LONG, A.M. >.W- W.BTALEY, A. M. V. W.B. LOJNO. A. M. BSJINME ALBRIGHT. in Ma "IsS 111 im ud closes the last J|B to §lO and Tuition $8 to $4.50 ifißsp? i^T*(jr o "' L - tags, Checks A Yarns, at .;BtX)TT & ELL' 3 TlAlf -s® t • re 1j a tobacco ibarket in this county. leOulcj- & Smith t ' ' v ' *- tiuim.w . ' SHOPS are bpyin? TOBACCO, and Rror it iu cash or barter At the very bigta feh for wLlch ffl®■§s®Bß old . l^e |,ow l and is filled ii£ C -m, give t . hcn ) * liberal share o, te L n 'f y ; are i nst starting in business, wdeaC Sf#, 1 ®- Btrict attention and thon people to try then of course they can'judge for "Standing they make a specialty of buco and Maw-hide.* » T sS k t" dß of co J ,nlry VroUxxh.. *ciairv L ' i „ tnl i cr ,hat wli>Je tbey », rn CrTi bny Raw-lrides and lliey r l ? bUy all kinds of ' !flr .Drug Store. .Chemicals, Pa Uqnore, flue Cigars tontheutottf ß (w!??^ 0!Wlt,ltlU! ®a« h u> o,l' *•*» s sggte&Sst &: trough House to guifc the times. AOVEKTIMIkk I'OK A WIFE, From n Hrtchelors lY«te-Book, BY CARL CANTAB. 'Dobbs,' said my intimate friend, Fred Hopkins, as we sat together one summer eveuing in my cosy bachelor's apartment at (he house of my Aunt Penelope, with whom 1 board, 'Dobbn, if it is not an impertinent question, will you tell me age?' Certainly,' said I; T am twenty-seven, or shall be if I live to see October.' S 'Very well,' saicl he; 'and how doeß it happen that you have reached tucli a mature age and have not married? Did yoii never reflect how pleasant it would be to sit by your own fireside, with your wife opposite and perhaps two or three little ones crowding aroUnd you?' 'And did you never reflect,' I returned, 'on the pleasure of being kupt awake all ui ,ht, baby crying, wife scolding, coining down in the morning tired and sleepy to a comfoitless meal, prepared by an un skillful servant? But to answer you in serious earnest, I have thought ot marriage. There is but ono objec tion. "What is thai?" "I should never have the courage to pop the question, and if I did L don't, think I could find any one willing (o have nie." s "Pooh! my dear fellow, this is per fect folly. 'Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.' Depend upon it, tliero are buns dreds who would juuip at the chauca of becoming' Mrs. Dobbs." I shook my head incredulously. "As I shall make evident," pursued Fred, authoritively, "by referring to statistics. According to the last census, the number of females in Massachusetts wa& found to .outnumber the males by 68,000. From which we may infer that more than sixty thousand of the op posite sex are destined to single blessed ness." ' '**' " Well !'* said I. 'l I (% J I | ' £ i 'Don't you see, therefore, that this large auitber will bo old maids from necessity, not from choice, and would probably take up with the first offer? Consequently you have sixty thousand chances to marry. This was certainly a startling cons elusion. "But consider my bash fulness." "I havff thought of that," said lie, #md I would advise under such circum stances to advertise for a wife. That, you sec, would obviate all . difficulties. Shall I draw one tip fd^you?" Considering that such a proceeding would not necessarily bind me to mat* rimony, I consented, and Fred soon placed before me lor my approbation the following: "WIFE WANTEDI—A young gentle* man of quiet and unassuming and good moral character, is desirous of securing a partner for life. He is engaged in mercantile pursuits, which afford him a moderate income. Any one who may ■deem it worth their while, may hear further particulars by addressing A, 'B, C., box 55, Post Office." This document, being considered ou the whole sufficiently explicit, I carried it next morning to the office of a daily paper. "A friend ot mine," said I, not Caring to identify myself with the "Gentleman in Search of a Wife," wishes this advertisement, inserted in your paj»er. How many times will it be necessary to insert it?" "Three times," said the clerk, "will be amply sufficient. "That sort of advertisement,"-he added smiling Fig* i nificantly,' never foils to receive early attention," I had resolved not to open any letters until the end of the three days on which the advertisement was to appear. I sent to the office three times a dav, and never failed to receive a letter for A. B. 0. I* On the third evening, when Fred an J I sat down to examine the pile which had accumulated in my letter case, we Counted fotiy seven! ""Didn't I tell you, Dobbs,' said Fred "that there was , still a chance for you? And now let us plunge into the midst of things, for we have a night's work before us." It *«i molly collection—no less OKA H AM, C-, TUESDAY NOVEMBER'S 1878 various in outward appearance than in character of tl.e contents. Some weie inclosed in envelope*} others without. Some ot (ho former were on delicate, cream-laid paper, others were lit ten on a single half sheet of common lettei*-»aper and inclosed in a brown envelope. Some were sealed with a wafer, pressed by a thimble, others, — those of greater pretensions—were fas tened with sealing-wax, or with small motto-seal, with various devices and inscriptions. Of tlie.ne inscriptions I recollect a few as "Wholly thine," "Faithful till death," ''We are one," "torget me not.," etc. Then for devices, there was a pair of clasped hands a heart piercad with darts and others of the same character. Some of these letters wero irresistably ludricroiis. One I recollect was from a California widow, who had heard nothing ironi her husband for a year. 'As to wailingfot him any longer,' she don't intend to do it. Most likely lie's dead, but if it should so hap» pen, which heaven forbid! that he should return after my second marriage, I have 110 doubt 110 could be persuaded to yield his claims.' 'There's an afleciionatc wife for you,' Baid Fred! 'lf ho shold return, which heayen forbid !' Fuss that by. 'Mr. A. B. C., Dear Sir:— Happening take up the newspaper the other dirv, I saw your ad vertisement. Didn't think much of it at the lime. Alter a while I happened to think—rou must know 1 keep a boards ing hoiue—that if I was married my hus band could look after the marketing, and do the carving tor the gentlemen. Now, I Have to get ond of them to do it, by boarding him at half price. So, thinks 1 to myself, as this seems to bo a proper soi tof a gentleman, (judging from the advertisement, you know,) 1 guess I'll write and see what lie thinks about it. My boarding house is N). 5 Central Street, and I Hhoukl be happy to have you come and take dinner with us to-, morrow. The boarders need not know that you have come for anything particu lar, and then you can see how it suits you. Yours to command. Porxr STUBB9. 'P. S.—Dinner hour at one o'clock, please be punctual.' 'Mrs. Stubbs is a sensible woman,' said Fred, after reading the communica« tiou, 'and a thorough yankce, I'll be bound. She looks at the practical side of things, she does. Shall you take din ner at No. 5 Central Street. 'Not I. I never coultl carve decently, as my Aunt Penelope can tcstlfv. But what have we here?' I asked, taking up a perfumed note, written in a small hand which could be deciphered with difficul ty. I read as follows: •DEAK SIR:—Of lather, may I not ad dress you as beloved friend? Yes—yes, 1 will! Away with the cold conventional ities (hat would deny me the privilege! Yes. iny friend, tliero are some U arac tersthat we read at a glanco. Yours I read in the terms of your advertisement— so modest, so concise, so appropriate 'You must apply that to yourself,' in terrupted I, laughing, 'for you know, Fred, you drew up the advertisement. But too go 011.' 'My heart is drawn to yon—l blush not to confess it; I feel that wo were made for each other: I have long pined for a congenial spirit—an intimate of the other sex lor whom I might live, and to whom I might cling with fond affection. Trust ing to hear lroin you ere long, I remain, 'Yours in the closest friendship, GEOUGIANA DALE.' 'I Will lenvc MUs Dale to yon, Fred, as sbc lift* evidently fallen in love with your character, not mine. Hope she won't l>e disappointed.' 8e we went through the list. Wo do not intend t ofavor the leader with the contents of the forty-seven* One was from a milliner—two from ladies in re duccd circumstances—seven from wid ows with largo families—seventeen from prelessional old malds^—the remainder were not explicit ou this point. One thing 1 noticed in regard !o these letters. None of the ladies who were over twenty, made allusion to their age- From so many writers, I found it dif ficult to select the one who, so far as I could judge, would best suit me. At length, I decided though with hesitation to answer one from a lady who professed to be gifted with an amiable disposition aud domestic tastes, and who, moreover, owned a small house in the eity, with SISOO in railroad stock. I wrote veiling m\ name as she had done, appointing an interview with her at the South pari ot the Common the next day at leu o'c.ock. tibo was to car- i'y a white rose in her hand, and I a red one—thftt wo might thus bo able to dis tinguish each other. Let m?, before proceeding further, sketch for you my Aunt Penelope Bax ter, with whom 1 hoarded. She was now somewhere about fifty years ot age. She had never been very prepossessing in personal appearance. A sharp, wiry fig ure, nose long and thin, grey eyes, ami compressed mouth were my aunt's chars acteristics, physically. She was a good woman in the main, though somewhat disposed to scold. Aunt Penelopo was an old maid—from ciioieo, she said. She often declared she wouldn't marry for any moncyj 'Do ydu think,' said she, 'that I would t'ie myself to a husband and chiklen, when 1 can live indepen dent?' To return. About nine o'clock the next day, arrayed my lies!, I set out with palpitating heart for tho Common Mv rose I kept out of sight, li:i I ar rived at the placo designated, when seat ing myself 011 one of the benches, I await ed my unknown visitor. I did not have long to wair. My eye soon caught the figure of a lady advanc itig towards ine, with a white rose in her hand. She was thickly veiled, so that I conld not catch a glimpse of her face. She seemed to bo looking around her, doubtless for the Knight of tho Bed Rose. I concealed it until she was close at hand. Summoning all my oonrage, I rose, and with a rapid step, advancing toward the lady. •Knowe-t thou this token?'. I whispers ed, presenting tho rise. The lady who had been looking in the opposite direction, turned round at the sound ot my voice. I was quite unpre pared for what followod; Willi a shriek of surprise, she exclaimed: 'Good Heavens! It is Ilenrvl' • W hat Aunt 1 'enolopc!' said I, with a surprise equal to her |wh . 'Ca-i it be possible ?' 'Yes,"' said she, trying to recover hers self, 'as it waft so pleasant this morning, (it was very cloudy and the sun had not once made its appearance) 'I came out to visit your Aunt Mary. 'But,' said 1, who was determined to confuse Aunt Penelope as much as pos 6ible,'l thought Aunt Maiy lived in quite a different part of the city. 'I thought,' said my aunt, hesitatingly, •that I would take a little walk on tiie Common first..' 'I see,'said I, still In the' tormenting mood; 'that you have a white rose tor her. How kind of you! By good 1 nek 1 havo a red one. Please present this with the olhel'.' My aunt stammered some nnintclligle answer, took tho rose and departed—not to my Aunt Mary's, but homeward. 1 did not meet her ut the dinner table. She sent word that she was indisposed. 'What is the matter?' 1 asked. 'I don't know, said LSridget; 'she's acts ed uncommon queer this morning. About eight o'clock she sent me down town, to get a while rose. Said she was very par ticular about its being a white one. So I got it and she went out about nine. Stic was very much flustered like, and ran right up to her chamber; My Aunt Penelope did not soon recov-, er from the mortification ot that day. It bccamo painful to her to have one con tinually present who was acquainted with the circumstances. She sent for mo one morning, and told me that as her health was poor, and as it was inconve nient to spare a room, she regretted that I would be compelled to seek another boarding place. My Aunt Penelope died about a year since. I had firmly expected to be her heir But she never forgave ine tor my share iu (he eVeuts which I Lave described. Witness the following item in will: •Item.—For my nephew, Henry Dobbs, knowing his partiality for rosos, I direct that a sufficient sum be laid aside to purchase for him two rosebushes—one white, the other red.' It was thought a singular request, but I understood it. The house and §ISOO invested in railroad shares went to auotner member of thu family. Header, 1 nin Hi ill unmarried. The first trial was sufficient, and the remain* ing forty-six leticrs against the persun sions oi my friend Fred, were consigned to the graie. The red and white rose-bushes, my aunts bequest, still gra«:o a bachelor's apartment. Whenever 1 feel matrimonial ly inclined, which is uot often, as I ain over icrty. 1 look at ihem—consider —and decide in the negative. % troJiAN tviio HAW HAD FOBTY- I'OUH I'HIIJBHBM. [New York Times.] Some persons have given themselves considerable uneasiness lest from (be paucity of children born to American parents of late years, {be race should die out. Certaiuly, the skte of families, from whatever cause has been greatly reduced in Ibis country during the prefteut generation. Wheie (hero used to be eight, nine and ten children, there are not now more than two, three or iour at most, two being what may be called the regular number. There are many except ion*, however, to this rule. A f conspicuous exception is Mar. ,wile of \V., Austin, now a resident ot Washington, who Ims had 44 children, only 11 of them born alive. She had twiiisjihirlecn times and triplets six times. Her frister, Mrs. Carrie Kinney, .aged forty three, has bad twenty six !hilure.i, and her husband's sister has had forty one children making a Iota! of 111 for Jhl'cd. Tins seems almost incredible though the figures am vouched f »r. Mrs. Austin, a native of South Carolina and reared in Tennessee, is the daughter of John G. Ivliud a pnicts er. She was extremely loyal during the civil war, and rendered fexcellent service to the cause by nursing and administer-, ing to the sick and wounded in the arinv the of Cumberland, often goiijgon the field and taking wounded soldiers from the front where they had fallen. She is a regular physician, and fas practiced for twenty-five years, having been ono of the first women doctors in the country She studied medicine in New Orleitns under the well known Dr. Stone. She lost an eye while wjfi77hc~army in the yallev of Virginia, /received medals fjr her able and fearless manner in which /ho had discharged her duly, and was granted likewise a commission. She is lll'ty-foUf, of good proportions and appearancCj and, as may bo interred, of vigorous constitution, Her husband was also in the Union army and must have been a gallant soldier, tor ho bears tho marks of a score of serious wounds, which would have killed any man less tough. The Klind and Austin blood is so prolific that a few members of the families would be welcome immigrants to a tiew and thinly settled country. Where they wero progonity would be assured. Mrs. Aftstin, j'ldgiu# by Napoleon's standard as rcvcalod to Mine, de Steal is unquestionably the greatest woman in America. llO.r I.YNCIMNU IS AT TUB NOKTII, . . —% [Springfield liepublican.] It will n«.t do for tho North anv longer to bol l up its hands in horror over the disposition of the South lo indulge in lynch law. Itisonlva few days a"o that a negro guilty of an aggravated iTs* sault 011 a white girl narrowly escaned lynching at Atsoiiia.Cr.J about the same nine Stephen Wade, a bladk man of 60, out 111 Darke county, 0., was taken out of bed and shot down by a pdity of mask ed ulen tor stealing; a few weeks earlier a mob 111 Sandusky, 0.. look a negro murderer lroin tho officers and hung him to a lamp post; and now comes this latter mid lyost shocking case lroin .Poscv coQu# [y> ul,,c half a dozen negroes at Mount Vernon robbed mid outraged some White inmates of a disreputable house rhursday night. The officers arrowed jour ol the party (juicily tho next day# but a deputy sherifi who went after a tilth at night was shot dead bv the Jnis creant s father. Fritlav morning a mob gathered about tho jail and demanded the piißoucrs, but the officers would not surrender thein,and so Uiey iiad lo wait till evening, when they broke in with sledga hammers and crow-bars, slabbed the old inan, took out the other four and hung them upon the public square. Thoday was 0110 ol the wildest excitement thronghoiU. In the morning it Was lalseiy reported that the Governor wes sending uudilia tiom another town to order, and the mob gathered at tho depot to prcvcut their leaving the cars; in the evening s >me negroes came in to rescuo their brethren, and got into a fight, in which two wli.tes were killed, making a total of emit deaths on both ftides in the bloody a Hair. Kentucky and Ti-xas will have to own up beaten in brutallity and law lessness after such a record. SHOT FBOll A t 9liu fternidiae Mlaod* ia ■ Tforlnr nad 1. Thrown Thirt/.Fecl in lh« Air. [New York Sun.] Tho Aquarum is again opened, alter a brief buspeiision ot performances, Jvith new attractions. An excellent double trapeze act is done by Miss Geraldino and Mons. Leopold, alter wliicli is introduced the sensation of tho performance—the shooting of the ycunsj woman out cf IIKJ cannons inouth. Thus is given a literal exemplification ot what it is to be "fired out." The camion seems to bo made of wood, and Is mounted after tho manner of a mortar It stands in front ot tho stage, pointii>" at an angle of about thirty-five ar forty t.euveeu the upturned faces ot the spectators aud tho ratters over' bead, At the close of her trapeze acf, 'Miss G era Mine comes don 11 tho rope head foremost by twi.iing one leg around ft and with hei disengaged toe describing an Archimedean spiral, bbo is then assisted to tho raised mnzzlo of the can non, into the bore of which she slips L feet first, lying ou her hack, ller head aiKl ueck are just risible when me gun is charged. I'hcn she gives tho word, ihe report of the cannon is heard aud she flies towardß the spectators, going some twenty-live or thirty feet in a straght line before she drops to tho net spread to oatch tret*. When she again steps upon the stage and smiles her acknwledgmeiit Of the applause, tier bright garments are 'hot at all blackened by powdei—a tact which is doubtless due to the interior mechanism ot the cannon, 't his act aud the performance by the trained horses are nlirucl-ons at tlio Aquiuiu tor a season. NO, H5 Glcun i n a s Mr. 1 Inticlricks liiifl OIK the la?r cfrtii patgiFhr intHmm wlnch was so ful. Mr. Brancvoft, tlio historian. is A ,ipul teetotaler, Hinl firmly refused in hihgnafc pain and exhaustion after the recent run away accident, to taste the wine pre ■ scribed by the doctors. A woman wni offered SI,OOO if would remain silent lor two hour*. v\ tlie end of fifteen minutes she esfci I, "Isn't the time nearly up?" She —Exchange. . "What shall be done with onr childr n when tliey leave school':"' nsks a cot.,m- Why, give them their dinners and send them back;— Apnistov .1 Herald. "What is your son doing in the bnHlfl of li'e?" asks the L hilstian Helper. sVell, he appears to b« drawing Mti6m most of the time, just at present, thai.k' you' — Burlington Ilatckcye. It is proposed now to Blake a centen nial celebration of the inauguration o George WaOiinuton, which evert will occur on the 30th of April, 18S9. The suggestion suits us. lieorge was fairlv elected, anil behaved himself propeilj while in ortice. Such a thing as a fne lunch route was unknown to him.— Washington Post, A masked burglar entered a room where man and his wife lay aslei p. They both awoke, when the robber pointed a pistol at their heads und quiet ly backed out of the room, and got off with liia plunder. The startled n!nm> berets were terribly frightened, ''the man's hair turning white befoj-e morn ing." The woman was as much scared as her husband, but upon examining her hair, which hung over the back of a chair, it was found have not changed a particle. Something strange about this. —Norristown lleraid. It was formerly tile Ctfsfcom in Scotland to allot? a culprit at the gallows to sin? a psalm when a reprieve was expected- One of the chaplains fo the fauioms Marquis of Montrosp, being condemneo to death for attending bis master in some of his exploits, ami, being ordered at the gallows to name a psalm, he select ed the one hundred and nineteenth, the longest in the Bible. Jlis reprieve arrived when the psalm was about halt' sung. The selection was forfeit*** Any other would have caused him to I* hanged. A young man sends tin n long essay on "True Aim of Journalism." We haven't, read the article, but suppose the author, | like almost eueryone eh.c, prefers the. Smith & Wesson, navy si*", A'o. 44 call bet, to any other pistol. In this localS tv, especially is the aim of the journal* ist of the greatest importance, «nd the man whose hand shakes, and who can t hit aiS outraged community's third ve*' button threo times out ot live has no buiiuess trying to run a paper in Califut uif. —San Francisco Newt Letter. Pierre Soul", grandson of the famous Fr«neh refugee who left the lluliai Catholic priesthood,' became a fhephe'rn, fled from Paris for conspiring agam-t Louis XVIIL, sought safety in Louts' ana, served in the United States Senate, fought a duel with the French Ambats.i dor at Madrid whi:e United States Min ister there, opposed secession and alter wurds acted as a Confederate Agent in Europe, diod at New Orleans the othui day leaving the family name extinct. * A Fulton (N, Y.) nun laiJ his 6ng?t on the table in front of a buzz saw to feel the momentum of air. The saw was going so Itpjt that the teeth were not to be seen. His finger was taken off. While he was looking at it the foreman cauie up with the question, "How did you do it?" "Why, I put my finger 1 down so," answered he, placing his other forefinger, as he thought, well away from i the tte;h. To his horror, (he saw touk ; that one, too, cleau off at the second i joint. : | When Sliakesppar or any old play Is i performed at tlm Standard Theatre, i Loudon, all the auditors in stall and pit as well as in the upper portions of tho \ house supply the mat-Ives with books ot '■ the play and closely follow every line ' spoken on the stage. As the audience follows the actors in scene alter scene . the rustle of the turning leaves is heard all over the house. If any unfortunate actor makes a slip, the audience, in chorus, immediately informs biui of tho fact. There is nothing like making yonr self understood. Tlie other evening a Western gentleman was accosted by two practising communists, who intiroa«e«i that they would "trouble him for hi* watch." He at once explain* d that ho carried his watch in his hip |HX-ket J that it was a stem winder, fidl-barrtled, an-l that there would be "trouble all round" if he was obliged to pull it out, fho communists iYqussted him to pass on his way and to keep their share of thu watch till they asked for it again.—J3ot ton Herald, V ■ j %
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