VOL. 4
THE GLEANER
, 1 i 11 I | i
PUBLISHED WEEIOLT BY
E. S. PARKER
Grnliam, N. C,
Jiatf; oj Subscription, roslaye Paid :
~ . 4.. 4 Jfeki ! » "
One Year tU»
Six Months J"
Three Months ....50
K very person sen fling us a club of ten sub
scribers with the c-ish, entitles himself to one
Mpy free, for the lensrh of time for which the
club is made up. Papers sent to different offices
'"-■-■■■ftis •••■: «'• •• i'*:-'
JVo Departure from the Cash System
■ *' r T~
, , Iln»c» of Advertising
Transient advertisements payable in advance:
yearly advertisements quarterly in advance.
|1 m. j2ia. |3 m. 6 in. |l2 in.
1. quare Is 3 00;$3 00|$4 00 * 6 00l$l0 00 '
a '! I 3 00! 4 501 600 to 001 15 00
Transient advertisements $1 per square
or he first, and fifty cents for eaeii -subse
-uent insertion.
.r : r
THIS PAPER IS OK FIXE WITH
■£* - ■, ; «• Y--
GRAHAM HIGH
SCHOOL.
GItAHAM, N. C.
REV. D A. LONG, A. AT.
REV.W W. BTALEY; A. M.
RKV. W. H. LOjnG. A. M.
MISS JINNfE ALBRIGHT.
Opens August 26th 1873, and closes the last
Friday \n May, 1879
Board ®8 to §lO apd Tuition S3 to $4.50
toionfh. , I"O F,, i
Knitting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT
& DONNELL'S.
TP timing ton Sun
Under the above name.
A. Unity Demacrnlit Nowapaper
of twenty-eight wide columns will bo issued in
the city of Wilmington, North Caroliua, on or
about
Tkorifar Itlorniit October ir»h IN7JN.
The SUX will be published by the SUN ASSOCIA
TION, from the Printing Hotrn of Messrs. Jack
son & Belt It will be prihted'Hn first-class
style, on gsod gaper, with new type, and will
be the hanalpihfeat daily journal ever published
in this SUN will be edited by 'Mr.
Cicero W. Harris, City -Editorship and
the Business will bo incompetent
IttiMa, inid a Correspondent and Representa
tive will travel throughout the State.
Probably no paper has ever started in the
South with fairer prospects than those of Iho
Sua. Certainly no North Carolina paper has
entered the field under more auspicious cir
cuit stances. The Suy has
SUFFICIENT CAPITAL
for all its purposes, and it will use its money
freely in furnishing the people of North Caroli
na with the latest and most reliable information
on all subjects,of current interest. Above all
things it will be a NEWSPAPER.
Ar.d y?t no important teature of the BUN'S
daily issues will be intelligent criticisms of
the World's doings. Nortl C arolina matters —
industrial, commercial,-education! 1, social and
literarary—will receive particular attention.
The BUN will be a
"NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER.
SUBSCRIPTION.
The WILMINGTON' STJN will be furnished to
subscribers at the followihg reasonable aud
uniform rates:
For oue week 15 Cents For three months fl 75
" "month 65 •' " sis " 350
" twelve ", 700
At these rates the SUN will be mailed to any
address in this country, or left by carrier in the
city.
ADVERTISING.
One square, (ten lines) one time, tl 00; two
times, $L 50: one week, $3 50; one month. $9 00;
three d loutl.s. #3O 00; six months, $35 00. • 1
Contracts for other space and time made at
proportionately low rales.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Interesting correspondence solicited.
Address, THE SUN,
* Wilmington N. C.
;. ■
Yarbrough House
* RALEIGH, N.C.
'*■-« B. W„ IMk.AVIMMki.Jfc, V»p>itl«,
; "•',si.* ' - ■' ' K m
Kates reduced to suit the
*i£.Q(IA-VAII.
{"Correspondence of The Observer ]
MESSRS. EDITORS: In looking over an
old magazine* published some years since
I find an interesting account of one of
onr Nortli Carolina Indians, who was in
linnv rcspcefs n remarkable man.
In Ihe year 1768 a German peddler,
named George Gist, left Iho settlement lit
Ebcnczcr on the lower Savannah, and
entered tlie Cherokee nation by thu
N jrlheru Mountains of Georgia. At
that time a large trade was ral lied on by
traders. With traders nt.lhat time it was
customary to take an Indian wife.
Although Gist could r.ot speak a word
of CheroKee, and but broken English, lie
induced a Cherokee girl to become hi*
wife.- This woman belonged to a promil
- and influentiul family.* Gist remain
ed with the Cherokee# but a short litre,
lie converted his merchandise into lurs,
and made but one or two trips. With
him hid marriage had been merely cheap
protection aud board. He might have
been denounced as a remarkable advens
lit ret', bat he was the lather of one of iho
most remarkable mcu who ever appeared
on the continent. Long beto're the son
was born he gathered together hiseilectß
and left for parts unknown,
The woman he left behind was one of
no common energy, who through life was
(rue to him wlioin she be lier
husband. The deserted mother named
her babe ''Se-qou-yah," in the poetical
language of her race. I lis earl j t>oyhood
was laid in the troublesome times of the
Revolutionary war. As he grew older
he showed a different temper froift most
Indian children. He lived alone with
liis mother aud had no old man to leach
him the use of the bow and arrow and
indoctrinate him in the religion aud mor
als of his people. lie would wnudev
alone iu the iorcst, and early showed his
mechanical genius by carving with liis
knife objects from pieces of wood. lie
ployed his boyish leisure iu building
houses in the forest.
Se-quo-yah first exercised his genius
in making improved wooden milk pans
and skimmers for his mother. Then he
bnilt her a milk house with all kinds of
suitable conveniences\>n one of those
gra..d springs that gurgle from the
of the old Cherokee nation.
She contrived to get a petty stock of
goods aud traded wilh her countrymen.
She taught Se-quo-yah to be a good
judge of furß. He would go with the
hunters 011 their expeditions and select
the best lurs for bis mother before they
returned. He accompanied paokhorse
expeditions to Ohio aud Tennessee where
buflalo still lingered.
i'revious to tho European conquest but
little silver was found among tho North
American Indians. Afterward Spanish,
French snd English coins were among
the commodities offered. The Indian used
them j)oth for money and ornament. Na>>
live articles were common. The silver
was beaten into rings aud broad orna
ment* tor the head. Handsome
plaleawere made of it; necklaces, belb
for tho aukles aud rings for tho toes.
Se-quo-yah's mechanical gonitis led
him into tho highest branch ot art known
to his people, and 110 became their great
silversmith. His articles excolled all
others.
lie next concofycd the idea of being a
blacksmith, yisiting the shops of while
men from limo to time. He never asked
to bo learned the trade, but used bis eyes
watching. He bought tho necessary ma*
tcrial and went to work. His first per
formance was to make his own bellows
and tools, which .vere well made.
ye«,qno-yab was now iu comparitively
easy Bn-ciimstnucel? Ho had his cattle,
store and farm, and was besiucs a black,
smith and silversmith. In spite of all
that has been suid about Indian stupidi*
ty and barbarity, his countrymen were
proud oi him. He was iu danger of
shipwreottng on that'fatal sunken reef
to American character, popularity. His
home, his store, or his shop ..became the
resortot his countrymen; then they learn
ed to drink toget her.
After lie had grown to man's estate be
learned to draw, his sketches acquiring
considerable merit.
Before he reached his thirty fifth year
he became addicted to convivial habits
and came neat- being wrecked. 3y an
eidi't which few red or white men cau or
do make, lie shook oft his drinkidgbabi'.s
and bis old nerve and prosperity came
back to bitn. It was during the first tew
years of this century that he got a half
breed, Chas. Hicks and afterward prin
cipal Chief of the nation, to write bis
English name. Hicks made a mistake
and wrote his uamo "Gnes?." Being a
fine workman he made a steel die, a fac
, (simile of ua.iuc wi'LU&u l>y iiieW.
With this he put his-"tradc mark" ou bis
sliver ware, and it is borne to this day
GRAHAM, jy. C-, TUESDAY DECEMBER 3 1878
>+. v tr , -til., J übf'ii. " :l'T • " J* *gj 1 V•. ' V
on many of those ancient pieces in (lie
Cherokee nation. Between 1809 and
18iJl, which latter was his lifiy Second
year, the great work of hi* lite was ac
complished. 4 The die which was cut be*
fore the former -date, probably turned
his mind in the proper direction. Schools
and missions wore being established ; tl;e
power by which tho while man could
talk on paper had been carefully noled
and wondered at V»y many of the savages
and was far too Important a matter to
have been overlooked by such a man ns
Se quo-yah. The rude hieroglyphics or
pictorograplis ol the Indians were essen
tially different frotn all written lun
gaafei.
The general theory of ll;e red man was
that the written speech of the white mail
was one of the mysterious gifts ot tho
Great Spirit, but So quo-yah boldly
avowed that the red man could master it
if he would try. Se-qno-yah became the
owner of and old English spelling book
aud borrowed a great many words aud
syllables from it. He had 110 idea of
thtf r meaning or sounds in English, still
lie completed an alphabet coiisfsting of
eighty five syllable without the print or
aid of a while man. The ili'3t scholar
he taught wag his daughter, who like all
others of (he Cherokees, who tried it,
soon mastered it, A short time after liis
inyention, written communication was
opened up by means of it with that portion
of the Cherokco Nation we-«t of tho
Arkansas. lie was zealous In 'he work
and travelled many hundred miles to
teach it to them; and 'they received it
readily,^
In 182i*tho General Council of the
Cherokee Nation voted a Jarsro silver
medal to George Gist, or So-auo-yah, as
a mark of distinction for his discovery.
Oil one Mde wero the ancient
symbol ot Indiau religion and law;
011 the other a man'i head. TIIO medal
had tho lo'lowing inscription:—
'•I'ftDSENTKD TO
GEORGE GIST.
BY THE
Geneva] Council of the Cherokee jVa*>
tion,for his ingenuity in the in
vention of the\Vnerokee A\phabtt.' 1 '
John Ross acting as principal chief of
Die Cherokee Nation, sent il west to
Se-quo-yoti, together with au elaborate
address.
In 1828 Gist wul to Washington City
as a dclaitate frorn the Western Chero
kees. He was llien In his fifty-niniTi
year. At that time his portrait was
taken, in which be is represented with a
(able containing his alphabet. The
missionaries were not slow to employ it,
and it was arranged wilh the Cherokee
and English sounds aud definitions.
Uov. S. A. Worcester endeavored to get
the outline of'its grammar, and both he
aud 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 uespapers existing from
time to time; also almanacs, songs aud
psalms.
During the closing portion of his lite,
the home of Se-qlio-yali was near Brcin
erd, a mission station iu the new Na
tion.
I In his mature years, although approach
ing seventy, the norvous fire of the old
t mail was not dead. A new and deeper
, ambition seized hiin. Ho was not in
| the bit of asking advice or assistance
( in his projects. Iu his journey to tho
west as well aa it Washington, he hdd
had ail opportiiuity of examining
, different languages, of which as far as
lay in his # power he availed liiiuself.
. Books were to a great extent closed to
him, bnt as he Degau his career wbeu a
1 blacksmith he now fell back oil his own
I resources. This brave Indian philosopher
procured some articles for the Indian
trade, and putting these and his camp
,1 equippage In an ox cart, took a Cherokee
J Indian boy as a driver aud started 011 a
missionary to>ir to enlighten the
wild lnd:ans of tho plains and
mountains, such a philological crusade
as the world never saw. Several
journeys were made. He finally startod
ou his longest and journey. There was
among the Cberokees a tradition that
apart of their nation was somewhere iu
New Mexico. So-quo-yah knew this
and expected in some of his rambles to
find them. He camped on the Rocky
Mountains; he threaded the valleys of
New Mexico; adobe villages Pueblos,and
among the race neither Indian nor
, Spainard with swarthy face and uukempt
hair.
It was late in the year 1849 that the
wanderer, sick of a fever, worn and
weary, hailed his *ox cart near San
' Fernandino, in Northern Mexico. Fate
' had willed that his work should die with
'"lifm. But lifffe of Ins labor was. saved,
1 • and that not enough to . his idea. He
': Biceps not far from the liio Grande, tho
greatest of his race. -
The Legislature of the Little Chcrtkeo
Nation every year as long i's*-she iived
included iu its appropriations a pension
ot three huntlml dollars to his widow—
hie only literary pension paid in the
United Slates. E. C.
fi.otitii.ia,
(New York Snn.)
An attempt has recently been made to
CRtabliKh fiogcing as a punixment for
certain ollVncriS in the State of Californ
ia. Iu England where flogging had be
come almost extinct, it' has
re-established, and in apme of our oldest
States, where it wfts abolished many years
ago,there is a good deal of talk about re»
1 turning to a custom which, in modern
times,-has generally-been tyoken of as
"barbarous."
Old Statea, like Delaware, which have
never abandoned the use of the lash, say
they finll it wonderfully efficacious.
There wo many arguments which may
be urged in favor of this mode of punish
ment. It is summary; and that is one ot
. the chhfest the efficacy of
punishment. ' **
It is irrevocable. A tender-hearted
Governor cannot take off the stripes
wlii'eh have once been laid on.
It is greatly dreaded both on aaconnt
of the physical pain and its lasting pub
lic disgrace attending upon tfs infliction.
Criminals who carc little for painless
imprisonment blanche at the eight of the
whipping | tost or the cat-o' nine-tails.
Take, tor example, the robbers, of
Stewart's grave. After drawing the de
tectives nearly forty miles ot carriage
drive into a wild and woody recess of-
New Jersey, this interesting col'oquy, at
a lata hour of a daik night; occurred be
tween two of them, in presence of their
police attendants:
JJUHKE— How long can they shut us
tip for this thing.
VREEtAND—They can give you a
year, and fino of two hundred and fifty
dollars. *» ■-■ -
V KEELAND (to o»p'. Brynes, whom he
had led on this wild goose chase)—/
don't Jtnow anything about' Stewart's
body.
Now, suppose instead of a year's" im
prisonment and a fine of two hundred
mid fifty dollars, thirty lashes on the
bare back, at a public whipping post,
had stared Vreeland in the face, does
anyone doulll his wits wonld haVe been
quickened to find the missing body?
LLARI) TIMES.
*
A lecturer of the North amounts for
the present hard times on the ground
of the reaction of the flused times that
prevailed immediately after the war. He
graphically say A: . ..
Every business was pressed to the
snow line. Old life insurance associa
tions had been successful; new ones
sprang up on every hand. The agents
filled every town. These agents were
given a portion of th« premium. You
could hardly go out of your houso . 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 feet ot
a disconsolate widow. You saw in im
agination your own fatherless children
wiping away the tears of grief and smil
ing with joy. These agents insured
everybody and everything. They would
have insured a hospital or consumption
in its last hemorrhage.
Fire iusurar.ee was managed in pre
cisely the same way. The . agents re
ceived a part of the premium, and they
insured anything and everything, no
matter what its danger might be. They
would have insured powder in perdition
or iceburgs under the torrid zone with
the same alacrity. And then there were
accident companies, and you could not
go to the station to buy yonr ticket
without being shown a picture of disaa*
ter. You would see there four horses
running away with a stage, and old la
dies and children being thrown out;
you would SOP a steamer being blown up
on the Mississippi, legs ODe way and
arms the other, heads one side and hats
the other; locomotives going through
bridges, good Samaritans carrying off,
the wounded on stretchers. j
The merchants, too, were not satisfied I
to do business in ffie otd way. Ic was '
too slow; they conld not wait for cuSto« |
mers. They the country with
dftrmniers, and these diummcrs con«
vitice'il all the country uierohauts that
tliey needed about twice as many goods
as tliey could possibly sell, and they
took their notes on Bixty mid ninety
days, and renewed them whenever de
wired, provided the parties renowing the
notes would take more goods. And
tliese country merchats pressed tito
goods upon tlieir customers in the same
manner. Everybody was selling, every*
body was buying, and ueaily all was
done upon a oredit. No one Udeived
the day of settlement "ever would of ever
could come. Towns roust continne to
: grow, and In the imagination of specula*
tors there were hunircds of cities
| numbering their millions of inhabitants.
Land, miles and miles from the city,
was laid out in blocks und squares and
parks; land that will not be ocsupied
for reaiduicw probably for hitndreds of
years to come, and these lots were sold,,
not by the acre, riot by the sqaare mile,
but by so much per foot. They were
sold on credit,"With a partial payment
down and the lialanco secured by a
I rnorlg.ige. These values, of .course, ex
isted simply in the imagination; and a
deed of trust upon a cloud er a mortgage j
upon a last year's fog would hare boon
just as valuable. Everybody adver
tised, and'thosa who were not selling
goods and real estarte were in &e medi
cine line, and evety rock beneath our
fortunate; and I have often thought
that if sofue sincere Christian had made
a pilgrimage to Sinai and climbed its
venerable crags, and in a m anient of 1
devotion dropped upon his knees and
raised his eyes toward Heaven, the first
thing that would have met his aston
ished gaze would in all probability have
been:
"St. 18G0 ftautat?on>itUrs.'»
. •»*'.' ' -
-Mr.il !,• s-
Many a woman who can not
plenty of help wears herself out,
she need not dd' so, by adding unnecessa
ry work. I like pretty things; tucks,
ruffles and embroidery are great addi
tions to garirients, and so are pies, pud
dings and preserves to the table; but if
the day is fully occupied in making plain
garment and preparing plain meals, the
hours that, ore needed for rest should
not be encroached upon by the useless
trimmings of the dresrf, kftf often un
wholesome extras of the, repast. Work
is good for eVery healty person, but rest
is good alsoj and we have minds as well
as bodies. We may make slaves of our*
selves, and that is no more right than to
make slaves of others. To be clean and
whole is a dnty; to be wholesomely fed
is also u duty; but I should like to preafch
to some women I have known until they
-really felt that the body ia more than
raiment; that to keep strong eyes, and t
straight back, and a sweet 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 oleanliness.
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 better and does
| more good than all the pies and puddings
[ that can be manufactured. Make your
' woik as easy as i« consistent *Hth utter
cleanliness and tidiness, and save hours
for walking with your children, for read
ing, for talking with your husband, and
even for sitting utterly idle in the twi
light af a summer's day, or btfor the fire
of winter's evening.— JUrt. Siddon.
I gjfgyiMiT
"BPJt ttKTS (WAI.L»
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times says: I notice Miss
Clara Morris denies taking morphine.
Far be it from me to contradict a ladv,
but if she fells the truth she has been
sadly lied about. Poor girl! She says
when she was ''leading ladyt" in Dale's
theatre she went home on feet shod with
$5 for new boots unless she would sign a i
less. All is not gold that glitters. Nol
an hour ago I met one of the brightest
men on the Metropolitan press. Twenty •
Tea yews ago lie was the managing
editor of a great daily. To-night he
S& ;!rr k . .tssrJ
with tears iu his eyes. Make no mistake
about this. He's on a tear now, but in
less than ten days he'll b3 making his
$l5O a week as easily as rolling off a log.
Ham gels us all. The bane of New
York lile is Whiskey. Tbev all drink it.
Actors, managers, critics, dry goods men
av\d cvciylwly else, use Ua.Yia'u> drink.
It 19 the curiae of the age in which we
live. A generation of bright fellows die
out every five years.
I■■ _ w
, NO, 39
* - mNBAt TtIB OB*».
Young man, .if. you arc going to be *
farmer, le u good one. Don't piny sec»
on f l G.ldle to any oin;. JV the chief tin l '
sician vourmlf. This being tliH second,
third, "fourth or fifth rat« is not jimfc the
thing. It is the first thai always win*
1 esteem and respect. Study, observe,
I listen and guthei information pertaining
> to your business from every Bonrce WW
,i you can soon know as much aa any one.
Xet no day pass without some increase
of knowledge. Whatever,^ ou cu:t' vwte,
5 do it well. Whatever fruit yon have,
I l'it it be choice, and study how to iiu
f .prove to mai koi is so as to get
, t'ie highest price, N If you have a garden
let it be the first in the neighborhood.
' Be at'the head of the class, not third or
' fourth or at the foot .—Jlural World.
ALbtaArOM AN9 WIIALKS
J Alligators must have singular habitr,
judging from one recently killed one of
' the river cf Florida* Having been dia
r seeled there were found in his stomach
t yo gar fish, each three feet long, six
flint stones worn smooth as glass, two
'! dvpreis knees, four pine knots, two
5 fragments of brieki, stveial yards of
' cotton cloth, two volumes o£ public
i document*, and a small hand »w. A
. whale lately on exhibition in Cincinnati,
proved to have swallowed a broken beer
1 bottom, the bottoms of two glass
3 tumblers, an old boot, a crowed river, a
i discarded waistcoat and three or four
*. jack-knives. But these are presumed to
have interfered so seriously with his
digestion a* to cam his premature de
mise. ■
ADVERTISEMENTS.
1 r 'f n -
TO MY CUSTOMERS
t and
i «!••«;> .
i THE PUBLIC.
' '
0
I liare Just returned from the North where I
selected and purchased what I claim to be the
bc "
1 »
Stock of Goods
» -f
3 ,'
f
j « y er brought to this market, consisting in part of
) riBCB «;«ODN, . liADIr.H mil CM
IIARDITARB. SiDDi.ES, BI7CU
8 !»,.« 4), IIARNKM, VI O«».
IRON. KKAOV-ITI.4DK
CLOTIUmu,
t the best stock of ZEIQLE&3 SHOES In tow,
1 a good line of BROGAN and PLOW SHOES
iftBHSMB®-
KJ . J/bk *vsfo 4j - —• J
y Store deTer, ' , * rt,Cl6t> e found ln *
a i bowht these rodds oheap, and wtU fell
them cheap. All kinds of conntry prodnr- tak- '
en at the highest market price. With thanks
a for the patronage heretofore enjoyed, I be' to
° of u,y ae ' Mock -
J ___ J- W. HARDEN,
Stolen/ 820 Reward
H
a "tables, in Alamanco county, near
0 ,ray 8 on the night of the 2nd of A'ov.
» 1878, one bay horse, small pony built, with
b ®aae roaehed, and not yet grown out, ko as to
fall over fully, white star in forehead, black
and mane and tail black, seven years oid
r paces under saddle.
8 the above reward for his recovery:
stsSr l^- for any iuformauou
1 Address,
A. J. HUGHES.
» xr ' WCUray 's Store
9 Nov. 4th 1878. Alamance 00, N. C.
Prices reduced
0 Perfected Farmers Friend Plows made in
a Petersburg Va.
. S ne S?™ No. 5 Price #4.00
' Two Horse No. 7 " gOO
, Two Horse No. 7% " 850
Tw» Horse No. -8 i|4 7.00
1 For sale at Graham by
|jg t •«* JMi I SCOTT & DONNEJ.i
! iupqpr ANT TO SURVEYORS!
i At the meeting of the county commissioners i *
was ordered that a premium of tweiity-tivt doi -
lars will be paid jfor the beet map of the t'onoiy
' township Un.w, Post „
Said map to be flushed and handed to the
commissioners on or before the Ist Monday oi.
BtyOrder of the Boa d
wm i*f:M; AIkmtMW'WKW" *
conn ties. Address; 3
It l -■ n