North Carolina Newspapers

SPHE ALAMANCE • GLEANER VOL, 4 R THE GLEANER PUBLISHED AVEEKLY BY E. S. PARKER (irnhnni! N. C, A'fltei oj Subscription. Postaye raid : o nc Year .••••r 70 . ax Months f L j) yjree Mouths Rvcrv person sending us ft club of 'ten sub • -Mriwith tuc casli, entitles himself to one fSr lhelenirhof thncfor which the •-club is made up. Papers sent to different offices >; V ' s Jfo departure from the Cash System Rales of Advertising Transient advertisements payable in advances yearly advertisements quarterly in advance. jl m. |2 111. |8 m. | 0 in. j 12 m. r~mlare W Oo'*3 00|*4 00 $ 6 00|.fl0 00 g 1 '! i 3 00! 4 501 6 00i 10 001 15 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square or he first, and fifty cents for each -subsc 'oentinsertiou. j*THM PAPER IS OW FIXE HliH . GRAHAM HIGH SCHOOL. Graham, N. C. REV. D A. LONG, A. M. RE>. W- W. STALEy, A. M. KEV. W. 8. LO.piG, A. M. MISS JINN IE ALBRIGHT. Opens August 26tli 1878, and closes the last Friday in May, 1879 Board $8 to ®lo' and Tuition $3 to $4.50 month. • .* „ * fib. j )\ liming ion Sun Under the above name * ""''f Democratic Nnwapnper « Uentjveight wide columns will be issued in about Wi'tniuglou, North Carolina, on or *l>or»i«y Morning October lfth ISrS. >e SUN will be published by the SON ASSOCIA «nn P'intinjj House of Messrs. Jack «M It will be printed in first-class t»m P a P er > w 'th new type, and will in li o 80mest dai, y journal ever published finer' 8 U/ 6 SUN will be edited by Mr. 1^ r ' 8, The City Editorship and lunri.^" 1 !! 88 na K em ent will be in (jompotent tifo .'•n. 8 Correspondent, and Representa- Pr hu" throughout the State. R out L a .,y JJ® P°per has ever started in the a n „ p 1 f rt ' r °r prosf>ecta than those of the enUriwi u ta L.^. 00 ort k Carolina paper has c Un s , 16 under more auspicious cir stances. The SUN has SUFFICIENT CAPITAL freely hff?,r, r ,? C ! S - eß ' and " wlll n - e its money ta 'l 16 peo ? lc of North Caroli -011 all fiihi..,.to » ttn IUQBt information Wsitwu h° Above all Ard m a NEWSPAPER, daily jJ,,.,. L J }P°rt» nt feature of the SUN'S ,lle World's i«i be intelligent eritieisms of industrial 1™ t ? or " C«roHna matters— 'iterararvLwmmcrc S'' educational, social and The Bd\ win be« C * >articalar attention. K °RTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER. SUBSCRIPTION. r «bse e ri^ I i > i I t !,O .T 0K i S ? N 1,6 'arnished to Joifom, tlle lollOwlhg reasonable and " Une n»onth £ Ce Z U F ?. r t ]l^ ee At these rato« tic " tw ® lv S 't 70° addraM in .i,;. ® ® ri * be mailed to any %. f tnu c Juntry, or left by carrier in the 0n ADVERTISING. !l' Q^?s1 n vi re Ai ten "P 68 ) one time, 00; two ttre « montu one month. $9 00; r months, SBS 60. Jro Portioii«telylowrau^ o6 and4llll6 mado at °ORKESPONDEN CE. te sSdr^ Orreßpondonoo solicited. 8 ' THE SDN, Wilmington N. C. febrough House RALEIGH, N.C. B|, *CK*IAI,L, Proprietor, feduced to suit the times. Bti-QUO-YAII. - LCorrrspoudence of Tlie Observer ] MESSRS. EDITORS: In looking over an old magazine, published sonic years since I find an interesting account of one of our North Carolina Indians, who was in nniiv respects a remarkable man. In the year 17G8 a German peddler, named George Gist, left the settlement cl Ebcnczeron the lower Savannah, and entered tnc Cherokee nation by the Njrlhcrn Mountains ol Georgia. At that time a large trade was i-ariied on by traders. Willi traders at that time it was customary to take an Indian wife. Although Gist could i.ot speak a word of CheroKee, and but broken English, lie I induced a Cherokee girl to become his wife. This woman belonged to a promK ncnt and influential family. Gist remain ed with the Cherokeca but a short litre, lie converted his merchandise into furs, and made but one or two trips. Willi him his marriage-had been merely cheap protection and board. He might have been denounced as a remarkable advent Hirer, but ho was the lather of one ot the most remarkable meu who ever appeared on the continent. Long betore the son was born ho gathered together hiscflect* and left for parts unknown, The woman he left behind was one of 110 common energy, who through life was true to him whom she believed to be her husband. The deserted mother name.) her babe "Se-qou-yah," in the poetical language of her race. I lis earl) boyhood was laid in the troublesome times of the Revolutionary war. As he grew older lie showed a different temper troin most Indian children. He lived alone with his mother and had 110 old man to teach him the use of the bow and arrow and indoctrinate him in the religion and mor als of his people. He would wander alone in the lorest, and early showed his mechanical genius by carving with his knite objects from nieces of wood. He employed his boyislijeisurc in building houses in the forest. ■1 Se-quo-vah first exercised his genius in making improved wooden milk pans and skimmers for his mother. Then he built her a milk house with all kinds of suitable conveniences on one of those gra..d springs that gurgle from the mountains of the old Cherokee nation. She contrived to get a petty stock ot goods and traded with her countrymen. She taught Sc-quo-ynh to be a good judge of furs, lte would go with the hunters on their expeditions and select the best lurs lor his mother before they returned, fie accompanied packhorse expeditions to Ohio and Tennessee where buflalo still lingered. . i'revious to the European conquest but little silver was found among the North American Indians. Afterward Spanish, French and English coins were among the commodities offered. The Indian used them both for money and ornament. Na tive rffticles were common. The silver was beaten into rings and broad orna ments lor the head., Handsome plates were made of it; necklaces, bells for the ankles and rings for the toes. Sc-quo-yah's mechanical genius led him into the highest branch ot art known to his people, and Ifc became their great silversmith. His articles excelled all others. He next conceived the idea of being a blacksmith,,visiting the shops of white men from time to time. He never asked to bo learned the trade, but used his eyes watering. He bought the necessary ma terial and went to work, llis first per formance was to make his own bellows and tools, which .vere well made. Sesquo-yab was now in comparatively easy circumstances. He had his cattle, store and farm, and was besides a black, smith and silversmith. In spite of nil (hat has been said about Indian stupidi ty and barbarity, his countrymen were proud ot him. He was in daugcr of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity. Ilis home, his store, or his shop became the resort ot his country meu; then they learn ed to drink together. After bo had grown to man's estate he learned to draw, his sketches acquiring considerable merit. Before be reached his thirty fifth year he became addicted to convivial habits and came near being wrecked. 3y an efiort which few red or white men can or* *o make, lie shook oft bis drinkidghabi'.a and bis old nerve and prosperity came back to him. It was during the first few years of this century that Ito got a half breed, Chas. Hicks and afterward prin cipal Chief of the nation, to write his English name. Hicks made a mistake and wrote his name "Ones*." Being a j tine workman he made a steel die, a fac simile of the name written by Hicks. With this he put.his "trade mark" 011 his illvcr ware, aud it is borne to this day ! GRAHAM, N. C-, 011 many of those ancient ffPls in (lie Cherokee nation. Between 1809 and 1831, which hitler was his lifty second year, (he great work of his liic was ao coinp'ishcd. The die which was cut bo> fore (he former .dale, probably turned hi* mind in Ihe proper direction. Schools and missions were being established; the power by wjjich the while man could talk 011 paper had been carefully noted and wondered at by many of the savages I and was far 100 important a matter to have been overlooked bv such a man ns Se quo-yah. The rude hieroglyphics or pictorographs ol the Indians wereessen -1 hilly different l'rom all written lan guage^ The general theory of the rod man was that the written speech of the white man •Was one of the mysterious gifts ot the Great Spirit, but Su quo-yah" boldly avowed that the red man could master it if lie would try. Sc-quo-yah became the owner of and old English spelling book and borrowed a great many words and syllables from it. He had no idea of their meaning or sounds in English, still | he completed an alphabet consisting of eighty live syllable without (lie print or aid of a white man. The first scholar he taught was his daughter, who like all others of the Chcrokees, who tried it, soon mastered it, A short time after his invention, written communication was opened up by means of it with that portion of (he Cherokee Nation west of the Arkansas. He was zealous in he work and travelled many hundred miles (o teach it to them; and they received .it readily. In 1823 the General Council of the Cherokee Nation voted a largo silver medal to George Gist, or So. auo-yal», as a mark of distinction for his discovery. On one jido were two pipes, the ancient symbol of Indian religion and law: 011 the other a man's head. The medal had the lo'lowing inscription : 'TUDSIcNTED TO GEOItGE GIST. BX THE General Council of the Cherokee Na* Hon, for his Ingenuity in- the in» vention of thejSherulcee A\phabet." ' John Ross acting as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, sent it west to Se-quo-yah. together with au elaborate address. In 1828 Gist went to Washington City as a dela«ate from the Western Chcro kees. lie was then in his fifty-ninth ycai'A At that time his portrait was takeii 1 . in which bo is represented with a tabto containing his alphabet. The missionaries were not slow lo employ it, and it was arranged with the Chcrokpe and English sounds- and definitions. | liev. 3. A. Worcester endeavored to get the outline of its grammar, and both he and Mr. Boudinot prepared vocabularies ot it, as did many others. Besides the Scriptures, a very considerable number of books were printed in it, and parts of several different nespapers existing from time to fitrie; also almanacs, songs and psalms. During the closing portion of his life, the home of Se-quo-yah was near Brein erd, a mission station in the new Na tion. In his mature years, although approach ing seventy, the nervous fire of the old mail was not dead. A new and deeper ambition seized him. He was not in the ht bii of asking advice or assistance in his projects. In his journey to the west as well as At Washington, lie had had an opportunity of examining d'flcrent languages, of which as far as lay in his power he availed himself. Books were to a great extent closed lo him, bnt as he began his career when a blacksmith he now fell back on his own resources. This brave Indian philosopher procured some articles for the Indian trade, and putting these and his cauip cquippage In an ox cart, took a Cherokee Indian boy as a driver aud started 011 a missionary tour to enlighten the wild lud : ans of the plains aud mountains, such a philological crusade as the world never saw. Several journeys were made. He finally starlod ou his longest aud journey. There was among tlw» Cherokees a tradition that apart of their nation was somewhere in Now Mexico. Se-quo-yah knew this and expected in some of his rambles to find them. He camped on the Rocky Mountains; be threaded the valleys of New Mexico; adobe villages Pueblos,and among the race neither Indian nor Spainard with swarthy face and unkempt hair. It was late in the year 184fe that the wanderer, Rick of a fever, worn and weary, halted his ox cart hear San Fernandino, in Northern Mcxicj. Fate had willed that his work should die with hiin. But little of his labor was saved, and tiiat not enough to his idea, lie sleeps not lar from the Bio Grande, the V . , [ TUESDAY greatest of his race. The Legislature of the Little Cherokee Nation every year as long as she lived inchiileil in its appropriations a pension ot three hundred dollars to his widow— tneonlv literary pension paid in the United Slates. E. (j. FI.OUHI.MJ, (New York Sun.) An attempt has recently been made to CHtnblish flogcing as a punisment for cerium offincas in Xlie Statu of Californ ia. England where flogging had be come almost extinct, it has been largely re- established, aud in some of our oldest States, where it was abolished many years ago,there is a good deal of talk about re turning to a custom which, in modern times, has generally been spoken of as "barbarous." Old States, like Delaware, which have never abandoned the use of the lash, say they find it wonderfully efficacious. There are many argument# which may be urged in favor of this mode of punish ment. It is summary; and that is one of the chijfest the efficacy of punishment. It is irrevocable. A tender-hearted Governor cannot take otr the stripes which have once been laid on. It is greatly dreaded both on account of the physical pain and its lasting pub lic disgrace attending upon lis infliction. Criminals who carc little for painless imprisonment blanche at the Fight of the whipping post or the cat-o' nine-tails. Take, ior example, the robbers of Stowart's grave. After drawing the de tectives nearly forty miles of carriage drive into a wild and woody recess of New Jersey, this interestiifjj colloquy, at a late hour of a daik night, occurred be tween two of them, in presence of their police attendants: liußKE—How long can they shut us up for ibis thing. heeland —They can give you a yeary and fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. f Vreelano (to CT*p l . Brynes, whom-he had led on this wild goose chiwe)—l don't know anything about Stewart's body. Now, suppose instead of a year's* im prisonment and a fine of two huudred and fifty dollars, thirty lashes on the bare back, at a public whipping post, had Btared Vreeland in the face, does anyone doubt his wits would have been quickened to find the missing body? HARD TIMES, A lecturer of the North accounts for the present hard times on the ground of the reaction of the flused times that prevailed immediately after the war. He graphically says; Every business was pressed to the snow line. Old lifo insurance associa tions had been successful; new ones sprang up on every habd. The agents filled every town. These agents were given a portion of th« premium. You could hardly go out of your house with* out being told of the uncertainty of life and certainty of death. You were shown pictures of life-insurance agents emptying vast bags of gold at the fefet ot a disconsolate widow. You saw in im agination your own fatherless children wiping away the tears of grief and smiN ing with joy. These agents insured everybody and everything. They would have insured a hospital or consumption in its last hemorrhage. Fire insurance was managed in pre cisely the same way. The agents re ceived a i>art of the premium, and they insured anything and everything, no matter what its danger might be. They would have insured powder in perdition or iceLurgs under the torrid zone with the same alacrity. And then there were t accident companies, and you could not go to the station to buy your ticket without being shown a picture of disa4« ter. You would see there four horses running away with a stage, and old la dies and children being thrown out; you would sep a steamer being blown up on the Mississippi, legs one way and arms the other, heads one side and hats the other; locomotives going through bridges, good Samaritans carrying off the wounded on qtretcliers. The merchants, too, were not satisfied j to do business in the old way. It was J too slow; they conld not wait for custo« | mers. They the country with DECEMBER 3 1878 drumniera, aid thesti d/ 11 miners con» vinced all the country merchants that they needed about twice as many gootis as they could possibly sell, and they took their notes 011 sixty and ninety •lays, and renewed them whenever de sired, provided the parties renewing the notes would take mora goods. And these country merchata pressed the goods upon their customers in the same manner. Everybody was selling, every* body was buying, and nearly all " was done upon a orcdit. No one bnleived the day of setfcleihent ever would or ever could come. Towns must continue to grow, and in the imagination of specula tors there ver'o hundreds of cities numbering their millions of inhabitants. Land, miles and miles from the city, was laid out in blocks and squareß and parks; land that will not be ocjuyied for residi-iics probably for hundreds of years to come, and these lots were sold, not by the acre, not by the square mile, but by so much per foot. They were sold on credit, with a partial payment down and the balance secured by a mortgage. These values, of courso, ex isted simply in the imagination; and a deed of trust upon a cloud or a mortgage upon a last year's fog would lmve been just as valuable. Everybody adver tised, and those who were not selling goods and real estate wore in the medi cine line, and evoiy rock our flag was covered with advice to the uu fortunate; and I have often thought that if some sincere Christian had made a pilgrimage to Sinai and climbed its vcnerablo crags, and in a moment of devotion dropped upon his knees and raised his eyes toward Heaven, the first thing that would hava met his aston ished gaze would in all probability have been: ( "St. 18G0 X Plantation Bitters." BUT. Many a woman who can not affoitl plenty of help wears herself out, when she need not do so, by adding unnecessa ry work. I like pretty t things; tucks, ruffles and embroidery are great addi tion* to garments, and so are pies, pud dings and preserves to the table; but if the day is iully occupied in making plain garment and preparing plain meals, the, hours that are needed for rest bliould not lw encroached upon by the useless trimmings of the dress, and often un wholesome extras of the repast. Work is good for every healty. person, but rest is good also; and we have minds as well as bodies. We may mako slaves of our selves, and that is no more right than to make slaves of others. To be clean and whole is a duty; to be wholesomely fed is also u duty; but I should like to preach j to some women I have known until they really felt that the body is more than raiment; that to keep strong eyes, and a straight back, and a tweet temper, is better for one who is a mother than to have her children clad in elaborate gar ments which it takes hours to iron and flute. Good material, perfect cleanliness, and plain homes or straight flat trim* ming of some kind will make any child* ren look well dressed; and in their season a dessert of fruit tastes bettor and does more good than all the pies and puddings that can be manufactured. Make your woik as easy as is consistent with utter cleanliness and tidiness, and save hours for walking with your children, for read ing, for talking with your husband, and eveu for sitting utterly idle in the twi light af a summer's day, or bfor the fire of winter's evening.— 'Mrs. Siddon. •'Rim GETS CM AI, I," ■ The New York correspondent of Ihe Philadelphia Times says:-1 notice Miss Clara Morris denies taking morphine. Far be it from ine to contradict a lady, but if she tells the truth she has been sadly lied about. Poor «irll She says when she was "leading ladyt" in Daly's theatre slie went home on feet shod with broken shoes, through snow and rain and that her manager refused her even $5 for new boots nnless sho would sign a Are years' 'tonttnet. This may or m*r not be true, but It tell* a storv" ncverthe* less. AII Is not gold that glitters. Not jan hour ago I met one of the brightest men on tht Metropolitan prea*. Twenty venrs ago he was the fancile pnnceps. Ton years ago he was the mauagiug editor of a great daily. To-night lie begged a drink from me, atid when I tendered him a dollar he thanked me with tears in life eves. Make no mistake nbontthis. ' ile's on a tear now, but in less than ten doys he'll b3 making his $l5O a week as easily as rolling off a log. lium gets us all. The bane of Nfew ¥ork life is whiskey. Tbev all dr|nk if. Actors, managers, critics, dry goods men and everybody else are slaveslo drink. . It is the curse of the age in which we live. A gpiwratioH of bright fellows -die out every five years. NO, 39 STAND AT THE HKAB. Young nrnn, ifv on are going to lie R farmer, he a good one. D»n't ph»y sec ond fiddle to any one. Be the chief mu sician yourself. This being the. second, tliird, fourth or fifth rate is not just th& thing. It is the first that always wins esteem and inspect. Study, observe, listen and gathei information pertaininc to your htioiiiess from every sonrcu iuid you cnil soon know- as much as any Cihf. l.ot no day pass wihout sonio increase of knowledge. Whatever you cn-t'vate, do it well. yon have, 1*• tjt be chflitfp. and study how to im prove to market ii so as to gee f fc'»e hi.di6st price. If yon have a garden let it be the fit'sc in the neighborhood. Be at the head of the class, not third or fonrtli or at the foot.— Rural World. AlJ.iamßß AND WHACK" Alligators mast have singular habits, judging from one recently killed one ui" j the river cf Florida. Having been dis ! sected there were found in his stomach ; two gar fish, each three Feet long, nix i flint stones worn smooth as glass, two cypress knees, four pino knots, two j fragments of brick*, sivctal yards o; cotton c?o(h, two volumes of public docitnient?, *nd a small hand raw. A whale lately on exhibition in Cincinnati, proved to have swallowed a broken beer bottom, the bottoms of two glass tumblers, nn old boot, a crow->driver, a discarded waistcoat and three or four jack knives. But these are presumed to have interfered so seriously with his digestion aa to cat ■ > his premature de mise. • • ADVERTISEMENTS. TO MY CUSTOMERS and THE PUBLIC. • A ■. , * , , . m ■»— I have jnst rclarned from the North where 1 selected and purchased what I to be the best Stock of Goods ever brought to tlifa market, constating In part of PfBC'K GOODS, liADIBN ORKM I'ABIRS C(.OAK»,fO«i'H UAHUITARR.M9DI.Ia, RDfi. «* IIABNRM, FI.OWB, IRON. RRADV-IHADR CI.OTIIIfVC, the bost stock of ZEIGLER3 BHOEB in town, a good Une erf BROGAN and PLOW SHOES Of ail kinds, and every'.artide to be found in a General Store. I bought these goods cheap, and will fell thein chimp. Ail kinds of ootirrtry i>rodtu\; tak en at the highest market price. tilth thanks for the patronage heretofore enjoyed, I' Bet; to my new Btock - J. W. HARDEN, Stolen/ S2O Reward i From my stables, in Alamance county,, near McOray • wore, on the night of the 2nd of Aov. 1878, one bay horse, small pony built, with mane roacbed, and not yet grown out, so as to fall over fully, white star in forehead, black and mane and tail black, seven years old paces under saddle. I will pay the above reward for kis recovery; and will pay liberally for any information lead ing to bis recovery. Address, L J. HUGHES. *i A* «. M MoCray's Store Nov. 4th 1878. Alamance co, N. C. Prices reduced Perfected Farmers Friend Plows made in , Petersburg Va. One Horse No. 5 Prlco W OO Two Horse No. 7 " 6 00 Two Horse No. "fa " A 50 Two HOTM No. 8 W 7 00 For sale at Graham by BCOTT & DOXNFJ.L. IMPORTANT TO'ISTJRVEYOHS ! At the meeting of the count? commissioner* i was ordered that a premium of twenty-the dol lars wUI be paid for the best map of the oouiuy of Alamance, showing the township lines, Post "fflcc* towns, principal streams, location of Mill*. Fouadariea, Rail roads ami Ba|a map to be finished and handed to th# ronuutauoocrs on or before the Ist ilondav of By Order of the Boa d - T.G. MeLKAN, Uk. Dr. Wl F. Bason, mmmwi Will a't.nd vails in Alaniaaee and adjoining counties. Address; Haw River, P. O N. C. B. E.