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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. /|| M - ... . ■ 9 ' • •'* • '*"* ; ' ' - VOL, 4 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WKEKLY B* E. S. PARKER • - -r r- . vi( UraiiaM, N. C, JRalei of Subscription * Poslaye Paid : One Tear . .......?.81.55 Six Months 70 Three Months 50 Every person sending ns a club of ten sub scribers with the ca»h, entitles himself to one ropy free, for the lengh of time for which the club la made up. Papers sent to different offices JSTo Departure from the Cash System Rnl*a«fAdmti«la( • J==ai ■ . ' Transient advertisements payable in advance:. yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. 1 ifl. j2 m. Sm. f 6 hj. i 12 m. —■ .■ ■* ———! i —Uttlt 1 qtlare $2 00i«3 00 *4 00 $ « OTlflO P9 2 " 3 /Ofl! 450 6 00l 10 001 15 00 " '' J j[ V Transient adverU»pmen'jß, $1 per square or he first, ana fifty cents for each subse (jucnt insertion. /* r * j# 1 ?? . , >uUU GRAHAM HIGH" ,j, SCHOOL. iv I. Jtx VV it 'I, W& -if - . v , v,, • f ..ft ' Giuhas^ REV. D A. LONG, A. M. RKV. W W. STALEY, dr-M. ' KEY. W. $. LOaO. A.M. , »3^n^Au«t^ E 2«th B closes the last . Friday in May,.1879 .. Board *8 t" sl° and Tuition $3 to $4.50 mouth. . 0 Sheetings, Checks & ¥ams, at • SCOTT & DONNELL'3 AT LAST 1 There Is a tobacco market in this county. MeCaaley & Smith 0{ Coiip'ANT-Snops, are buying TOBACCO, and buying for it in cash or barter at the very liigh- Set prices. And also RAW-HIDES, for which they pay the highest prices. tAM- EM® is the Jim More old store house, and Is filled with a general stock, aueh as the people need, which tney will Bell as cheap as anybody. Thgy £ecp everything and buy every things and their purpose is to show the pedple that it if* their interest to: tfive them, a liberal share o, patronage." , They are just starting in business, aud they hope to succeed by strut attention and fair dealing. They ask the people to try them and then of course they can judge for themselves. Notwithstanding they make a specialty of Tobacco and Raw-hides yet they buy all kinds of country produc;.. .tiiey wish ty remember that' while they are specially auxjpuj! to &jiy. Raw-hides and Tobacco,- yet tlieyTKiJlre to buy all kinds of produce.. 3 r)MvV»tend by, fretpjentj frters to .kocD their stock always full, 1 and by turuiag ofer tfften can afford to male small profits. Oct, 15 1877. If. &■■■*■ ■ r;-A | rwfffig—• New Drug Store. t If you want pure resh Drugs, Chemicals, Pa ent Medicines, Medi ,)nal Lienors, flue Cigars - ctfewing-andsmoking Tobacco go with the cash 'to the Southeast of the Court Jlouse squhre to UK. LONG'S DKUG STORK. MJfcJ. Dr. Long'* office ii at the Drag Store W***? lle examine aud prescribe for tho»e requiringbis services. • •Aug. 13, 3m. Yarbrough. House RALEIGH, N. C. O, W. BLACKNAIiL, Prspriei.r, the times. ADYBBTIgIno FOB A IVIFB, From it Bachelors (Vote-Book, BY CAUL CANTAB. 'Dobbs,' said my intimate friend, J? red Hopkins, as we Fat together due summer evening in my cosy bacfttlor'a apartment at the house of my Aunt Penelope, with whom I board, 'Dobbs, if it is not an impertinent question, will you tell me your age?' Certainly,' said I; I am twenty-seven, or shall be if I live to see October.' 'Very wjell,'said he;'and how does it happen that you have reached mch a mature age and have not married? Did yon never reflect how pleasant it would i be to sit by your own tirenide, with your wife opposite end (terhaps two or three 'And did you never reflect,' I returned, 'on the pleasure .of being kept awake all ni ;ht; baby cryiug, wite scolding,coming down iu the morning tired and sleepy to a coiufoitless ineul, prepared by an un skillful servant? But to answer you in nerious earnest, I have thought, o! marriage. There is but one objec •% tion. "What \v "I should uever have the courage to pop the question, and if I did I don't think I could find any one willing to have me." "Pooh! my dear fellow, this is per fect folly. 'Faiut heart ne'er won fair ladv.' Depend upon it, there are bun* dreds who would jump at the chauce of becoming Mrs. Dobbs." I shook iny head incredulously, i "As I shall make evident," pursued Fred, authoritively, "by referring to statistics. According to the last census, the number of females in Massachusetts was iouud to outnumber the males, by 68,000. From which wo may infer that more than sixty tlioiisanTl "of the op posite sex are destined to single blessed ly i.; .• > uess. 't)on't tkerefoCe, that this large uunc.ber will, be old maids from necessity, not from choice, and would probably take up with the first offer? Consequently you have sixty thousand chances to marry. Thus was certainly a-startling cons elusion. "But consider my bashfulness." HI have thought of that," said he, and I tfould advise tinder such circiun* • ■ £* * ' k stances to ad vertibe for a wife. That, you ueej would obviate all difficulties. Shall J draw one up for you?" Considering that such a proceeding would not necessarily bind ine to mat rimony, I consented, aDd Fred soon placed before me for my approbation the following: * "WIFE WANTED! —A yoking 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 on the 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 "Gentlereau in Search of a Wife," wishes 1 this advertisement, inserted in your paper. How many times will it be necessary to insert it'?" . "Three timeg," said the clerk, "will be amply sufficient. "That sort of advertisement," he added mniling pig nificantly,' never fails to receive early attention." I had resolved not to open any letters until the end of the three days on which the advertisement wan to appear. I sent to the office three times a day, and never fkikd,to receiva. a letter for A-/R C. On the third evening, wlieu Fred and I sat down to examine the pile which had accumulated in my letter case, we counted forty seven! "Didn't I tell you, Dobbs,' said Frad "that there WHS still a chance for you? And now Jet us plunge into the midst of things, for wo have a night's work before us." It was a molly collection—no lew Git AH AM, N. C-, , —, —. various in outward appearance than in character of U.Q contents. Some were inclosed in envelopes, others without. Some of the 1 former were ou delicate, cream-laid paper, others were written on a single half sheet of common let tei -paper and biclosed iu a brown envelope. Soma were sealed eith a wafer, pressed by a thimble, others, — those of greater pretensions—were fas tened with sealing-wax, or with small with various devices and inscriptions. Of throe inscriptions I recollect a few as "Wholly" thine," "Faithful till death," "We are one," "Forget me not," etc- Then for devices, there was a pair of clasped hands a heart pierced with darts and others of the same character. Indricrous, One I recollect was from a California widow, who had heard nothing from her husband for a year. 'As to waiting for him any longer,' she wrote,'l don't Intend to do iu Most likely lie's dead; but If It should so hpp-. peiij which heaven forbid! that teshould return after my second marriage, I have no doubt ho couldjbe persuaded to yield his claims.' 'There's an aflectionaie wife for you,' said. Fred:'lf ho shold return, which beayeu forbid!' Pass tLat by. 'Mr. A. B. C., Dear Sir: —Happening to take up fhe newspaper the oilier day, I saw your ad vertisement. Didn't fhiuk much of it at the lime. Attcr a while I happened to think—you must know 1 keep a boards ing hou3c— that if i was man icd my hus band could look after the marketing, and do the carving lor llio gentlemen. Now, I have to get one of them to do it, by boardiug him at half price. So, thinks 1 to myself, as this seems to bo a proper soitof a gentleman, (judging from the advertisement, you know,) I guess Pll write and sec what ho thinks about it. My boarding house is N i. 5 Central Street, aud I should be happy to hate you come and take dinner wilh us to moirow. The boarders need not know that von have come for anything particu lar, and then you can see how it suits you. Yours to comuiaud. POLLY STUBBS. ♦P. S.—Dinner hour ut 0110 o'clock, please be punctual.' 'Mrs. Stubbs is a sensible woman,' said Fred, after reading the communica tion,'and a thorough yattkcc, d'll be bound. She looks at the practical side of things, she does. Shall yon-take din ner at No. £ Central Street. t 'Not I. I nevdF could carve decently, as my Aunt Penelope can testifv. But what have we here?' I asked, taking jup a perfumed note, written in a small liund which could bo deciphered with difflculi* ty. I read as follows: •DKARSIH: —Or rather, may I ribt ad dress yon as beloved frieud? Yes—yes, I will! Away with the cold conventional ities (hat would deny me the privilege! Yes. my frieud, there aro soino li arac* -ters that wo read at a glance. Yours I read in the terms of your advertisement—so modest, so concise, so appropriate.' 'You must apply that to yourself,' in tcrrupted I, laughing, *for yon know, Fred, you drew up the advertisement, iiutlet me go on.' 'My heart is drawn to you—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 for whom I might live, and to whom I might cling with fond affection. Trust ing to hear from you ere long, I remain, 'Yours la the closest friendship, GEOBQIANA DALE.' 'I will leave Miss Dale to yon, Frod, as she has evidently fallen in love with your character, not mine. Hope she won't be disappointed.' Se we went through the list. We do not intend to favor the leader with the contents of the forty-seven. One was from a milliner—two from ladies in ro ducod circumstances—seven from wid ows with large families— seventeen from preiessional old maids—the remainder were not explicit on this point. One thing I noticed in regard to these letters. None of the ladies who were over twenty, made allusion to their ag»- from so many writers, I' found It dHST flcnlt 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 Jo be gifted with an amiable disposition and domestic tastes, and who, moreover, owued a small house in the city, with SISOO iu railroad stock. I wrote veiling m> real name as she had done, appointing an interview with her at the South pnr of the Cummnn the next day o'o.ock. She was to car-. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 1878J ry a while rose in her hand, and I n red one--that wo might ihus bo able to dis tinguish each oi her. Let in?, before proceeding furl her. skotebfor you my Aunt Pcnolopo Bax ter, wilh whom 1 boarded. Sho was How somewhere about fitly years ot age. She nad never been very pivpossocsing in personal appearance. A sharp, wiry fig ure, no6o long and thin, grey eyes, and compressed mouth were my uuiit's chars . acteiislics, physically.. She was a good woman in Hie main, (hough somewhat disposed to scold. Aunt Penelope was an old maid—ironi choice, she said. She often declared she wouldn't marry for any (honey. 'Do you think,' said she, 'that 1 would tie myself to a husband and childeit, when I can liro indepen dent?' To return. About nluo o'clock (ho next in my betl y T «et out wilh palpitating heart for the Cominoiii My rose 1 kept out of sight, ti;l I ar rived at the place designated, wlien seat ing myself on one of the benches, I await ed iny unknown visitor. I did noi have long to wait. My .eye soon caught the figure of & lady advance ing towards mo, with a while rose in her haifU. She was thickly veiled, so that I could not catch a glimpse of her face. Site sceired to be looking around her, doubtless for the Knight of the lied llose. I eoucealcd it until she was I 'close at hand. ' Summoning all my courage, I rose, and with a rapid step, advancing toward the lady. *Kuowe?t thou this tokeu?' I whispers ed, presenting the rose. The lady who had* been looking in the opposite direction, turned round at the sound of my voice. I was quito unpre pared for what followed. With a shriek of surprise, sho exclaimed: 'Good Heavens ! It is Henry I' • W hat Aunt 1 'enOlopeT said I, with a surprise equal to her own. 't'a i it be possible?' • 'Yes,'said sho, trying lo recoter her* self, 'as it wa« so pleasuut Hi in joining, (it was very cloudy and tho sniumd not oiice mado its appearance) 'I eauie out to visit your Aunt Mary." 'But,' said 1, who was determined to confuse Aunt Penelope as much as pos sible, *1 thought Aunt Mniy Jiveif in quite a diderciit part of tho city. 'I thought,' said my aunt, hesitatingly, 'that I would take a little walk on tho ('ornmoii first.' 'I see,' B»id I, still in tho tormenting mood, 'that you Have a whito rono lor her: How kind of you! By good luck 1 have a red one. Please present this with the other.' My aunt stammered somo unintclligle answer, took the rose and departed— not to iny Annt Mary's, but homeward. ' 1 'did not meet her at tho diunor taldo. She sent wortl that she was indisposed. *Wlrot is th 3 mutter?' 1 asked. 'I don't know, said Bridget; 'site'sact-, eel uncommon queer this morning. About 'eight deblock sho sent me down town, to get a whito roso. Said she was very par ticular about its being a white one. So it atfd she went ont about nine. She was very much flustered like, and ran right up to her chaiiiber.' My Aunt Penelope did not soon recov er fwyß the mollification of that day. It becamo painful to her to liavo one con tinually present who was acquainted with the circumstances. She sent for me one niOYtfhig, and told mo that as - her health was poor, and as it was inconve nient to sparo a room, she regretted that I would be cbinpollelf to seek another boarding place.. Penelope died about a year since. I had firmly expected to bp her heir i But sho never forgave me tor mv Bhare in the events which I have described. Witness the following item 111 will: •Item.—For my nephew, Henry Dobbs, knowing his partiality for rosns, 1 direct that a sufficient sum bo laid aside to purchase for him two rosbbushefe—one white, the other red.' It was thought a-singular request, but I understood it. Tho house and 91600 invested in railroad shares went to auottier member of tho family. Header, lam still unmarried. The first trial was sufficient, and the remain ing forty-six letters against the persua sions ot ray friend Fred, were consigued to the grate. The red and white rose-bushes, my aunts bequest, still graco a bachelor's apartment. Whenever 1 icel matrimonial ly inclined, which is not often. as 1 am over lorty. 1 look at iheui—consider —aud decide in the negative. 1 WOMAN tVUw CI A3 HAD FOHTV- I'OC'K CUII.UHKN. [New York Times.] Some persons have given themselves oousideiaWe. uneaßiijpjia.lcsC. from the paucity ot children born to American parents ot late years, the race should die out. Certainly, the size of families, from whatever cause has been greatly reduced in this country during the present generation. Wheie there used to he eight, nine aud ten children, there arc not now more than two, three or four j at most, two being what may be ctlled the regular number. There are many exceptions, however, to this rule. A conspicuous exception is Mar.., wife of W., I Austin, now a resident ot Washington, who Ims had 44 children, only 11 of them born RUVO. Sho had twiuSfthirteeu times and triplets six times. Her tisler, Mrs. Carrie Kiuney, aged forty three, has hud twenty six children, and her husband's £istet- has had tony one children making' a total of 111 for Jhree. This seems almost incredible though the figures era vouched fir. Mrs. Austin, a iiatite of South Carolina and reared in Tennessee, is the daughter of John U. Klind a prict*. er. She was extremely loyal during the civil war, and rendered excellent service to the cause bj nursing and administer* ing to the sick and wounded In the armv tlio of Cumberland, often going on the field ami Inking wounded soldiers from tho front where thoy had fallen. She is a regular physician, ami has practiced lor twenty-five yejjrs, having been one of the first woineu doctors in tho country. Sho #Uu.ied medielnein New Orleans under the wf II known Dr. Stoue. Slie lost an eye while with the army in tho yalley or Virginia, received medals for her able and fearless manner in which alio llad discharged her duty, and was" granted likewise a regular commission. She is fll]y-lour, of good proport.ons and appearance, and, as inuv bo interred, of vigorous constitution, Licr husband was also in the Union army and must have been a gallant soldier, ror be bears the marks of a score of serious wounds, which would have killod any man less tough. The Klind and Austin blood is so prolific that a fow members of the families would bo welcome immigrants to a new and thinly settled country. Whoro they woro progenily would be assured. Mrs.* Austin, judging by Napoleon's standard as revealed to Mme. do Steal is unquestionably the greatest woman in America. "Of tiirncnnti ts »Bowiva AT THE WORTH, [Springfield Republican.] It will not do for the North any longer to hoi J tip its hands in horror over tho disposition of the South to indulge in lynch law. It is only a fow days ago that a negro guilty of an aggravated al, sault on a white girl narrowly escaped lynching at Alsonia.Cc.; about tho same time Stephen Wade, attack man of 60, out in Darke county, 0., was taken out of bed and shot down by a puty of mask ed men tonstcarfog; « few weeks earlier a mob in su*jusky, 0.. took a negro muiderer frjro Hie u/Uoers and hung him to a lamppoet'aud now comes this latter and most WKWking case from Posev couns ty, !»■(-_ tfomo halt a dozen negroes iU Mount Vemou-robbed and outraged some t '! C "fnf « disreputable house IhursdajMght. Tho officers arrested our of i tfle party quietly tho next day, but a deputy sherffi who went after a filth at night was shot dead by the mis creant s father. Friday morning a mob gathered about the jufl and demanded tho prisoners, but tho officers would not surrender them,and so they had lo wait till evening, when they broke in with sledge hammers and crow-bars, stabbed the old man, took out the other four and hung them upon the public square. Theduy was one of tho wildest excitement throughout. In the morning it was ialscly reported that the Governor wes sending inalilia trom another town to restore order, and the mob gathered at the depot to prevent their leaving the cars; in the evening r>me negroes came in to reseuo their brethren, and got Into a fight, in which two wh.tes were killed, making a total of eight deaths on both sides in tho bloody affair. Kentucky and Texas will have to own up beaten in brutalllty and law lessness after such a record. OIIOT PBO.Vt A CAN.now. illi» fltriMinc Bland. i. a mortar and la Tfcirlr.Peet i a the Air. [New York Bod.] lho Aquarium is again opened, after a briot suspension of perlormancos, villi now attractions. An excellent double trapeze act ia dono by Miss Geraldine and Moiis. Leopold, after which is introduced the sensation of the pertormance—the shooting of the ycung woman out cf the cannons mouth. Thuq is given a literal exemplification ot what it is to be "fired out." The caunon seem 9 to bo mirde of wood, and is mouuted after the manner of a mortar It stands in front of tho stage, pointing at au angle of about thirty-five or forty degree*, between tho upturned faces ot the spectators and tho rafters over head, At the close other trapeze ad, Miss Geraldine comes dou u tho rope head* foremost by twi ling one leg around it ami with bet disengaged toe describing an Archimedean spiral. She is then assisted to the raised muzzle of tho oan tioii, into the how of which sho -slips, leet first, lying on her back. ller bead and neck are just visible when tne gun is charged. Then she gives tho word, tho report of the cannon is heard and sho flies towards tho spectators, going some twenty-five or thirty feet in a straght line before she drops to tbo net spread to catch her. When she again steps upon the stage and smiles her acknwledgmeiit of the applause, ker bright garmeuts are not at all blackened by powder—a fact wUicli U douUtlua* do* to tbe interior nifchaiilsm of the cannon. This act and ,lbe performance by Hit* trained horses are attraction* at the Aqariuui for a season*. k . ' NOT 35 & leu n i rt fog **' mix, l ' I 1 - I 11 ...£=s-a Mr. Hendricks laid out Die la'e cimi imjga in Indiana which was so fc-uccer>»~ Mr. Bwncroft, the-historian, i" a teetotnTer, and firmly refun din 1»rv? *Y; at pain and exhaustion after the recent run. aw ay accident, to taste the nine pre scribed by the doctors. A woman W«H offered SI,OOO if aha would remain silent. for iwo hours. Ah the end of fifteen nriniU.es she asked, "Isn't the time nearly up?" Bhe lout. —Exchange. "What stall be done with our children when they leave school?" asks a Cotem-. jiornry. Why, give them their ditonert* and send them baefa.— Aon istoicn Herald. ■ v . (li , ''What is your aon foing Ifrthe battle" of life?" asks the Christian Jldpev. Well, he appears to be drawing i*tiou» vnost of the time; j ist at present, thuuk yow—Burlington Huwkeye. * It is proposed now to make a centen nial celebtfctiondtthe tnatiguiaiiop ot' George Washington, which «v«ut *ill occulr on the 30th vf Auril, ■ JBB9. , Tim suggestion suits us. |Mgg£ was faiylv elected, and behaved himself properly while in office. Such a thing as a fr« o lunch route' was unknown to him.—■ Washington JPoat. A m.isked burglar entered a room where (nan and his wife lay a»le«p. They both awoke, when the robbtr pointed a pis'ol at their heads and quiet ly backed out of the room, and got oIF with his plunder. The startled slum • berers were terribly frightened, ''the man's hair turning white before morn ing.'* Ill® woman was as much scared «* 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. —Norriatown Herald. , It was formerly tbo custom in Scotland to allow a culprit at the gallows to sing » a psalm when a reprieve was eX|*cted. One of the chaplain* to the famous Marquis of Montrose, being condemned to death for attending his master •in some of his exploits,, ami, being ordered at the guilows'tb name a psalm, he select ed the ope hundred and nineteenth,being the longest iii the Bible. His reprieve arrived when the psalm was about half sung. Tha selection was fortunv'e. Any other would have caused him to U> hanged. A yoftng man sends us a long pssay on "True Aim of Journalism." We haven't read the article, bat suppose the author, like almost eueryone elbe, prefers the Smith fe Wesson v y size, %44j»lt bei, to any other pistol. In tlua trails ty, espucially.is the aim of the jonruaU ist of the greatest importance, ami Wi> man whose hand shakes, and who cau't hit an outraged community's thitd vest button three times out of live has no business trying to run a paper in Califor nir. —San FranciscoN'tios Letter. Pierre Soule, grandson of the famous French refugee who left the Roman Catholic priesthooJ, became a shepherd, (led from Paris for conspiring agaiust Louis XVII I'., sought safety in I Louisi ana, served in the United States Seuate, fought a duel with the French Ambastm dor at Madrid while United States Min-. inter there, opposed secession and alter-, words acted as a Confederate Agent in Europe, died at New Orleans the other day leaving the family name extinct. A Fulton (N. Y.) man laiJ his finger on the table in front ot* a buzz saw k» feel the momentum of air. The saw was going so IMstr that the teeth were nut to bo seen. His finger was taken off. While he was looking at it the foreman came up with the question, "How did you do it?" "Why, I put my finger down so," answered he, placing his other forefinger, as he thought, well away from the tee:li. To ilia horror, the saw took that one, too, cleau off at the second joint. When Shakespear or any old play is performed at the Standard 'liieativ, London, all the auditors in stall and pit as well aa iu the up|wr {tortious of th» house Bup|>iy themselves with books of the play uud' closely follow every lino spoken on the As the audience follows the actors in scene after scene the rustle of the turning leaves is heard all over the hous£. If any unfortunate actor makes a slip, the audience, in chorus, immediately informs him of tho fact. There is nothing like making your* self understood. The other evening a Western gentleman was accosted by 'two practising communists, who intimaud that they would "trouble him for his watch." He at. onoe explaimd that he carried his watch iu his hip pocket; that | it was a stem winder, full-barreled, and % that there wonlu be "trouble all roun4" | if he WHS obliged to pull it out. Tho $ communists requested him to pass
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