I ' " . SB TFIE ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. 4 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY . , ... ■ v!; '£S ■ E. S. PARKER Ornkam, I*. ®t wv' pi >«"■! Hate* of Subscription. Postaye Paid: . i.1'...;..' fi.so One Year v . 75 oii Month" 50 Th«e Months,- ——^ „ 0 .„ si>ndintr 118 a club of ten sub- Evcry pef? 0 ": entitles himself to one Bcr 'S Vl forthelcneh of «mo for wbleh. the riTb £»«« «>• Fa^rb seut ,o dlfferen 8 T 'v '' ■ Jo Departure from the Cash System ~ i! .ji .Ut!l in i Kalr' of AilMrli«iaf pavable in advance: JrTv advertisements quarterly in advance. J 5 ,1 m. 12 m, ,Bhiv «ni. |l2 m. I qU " 3 00 4 50 6 00 10 001 15 00 Jj ' » Transient advertisements $1 per square for lie and tiny cents for each -subse qientluserliou. ,''"! ' ' "V I THIS PAPEB IS OK FILE WITH Whore Advertising Contract# can b« Z ' ' '■ GBAHAM HIGH . :i 1: . i r ' A SCHOOL. -xt Vu :J V- - • j.:j"•'», > ''t' ' . ut»: sr.' sjMwa.l • . i« * 'i GRAHAM, N. C. r ini «o f.mn. Kw m;s'. -J** REV. D.A. LONG, A. M. KKv. W- W. STALKY, A. KEV. VfiiS: LOfntr, A. MISS JUSWIE ALBKIUHTJ. Opens August 26th 187rf and closes the last Friday in May, 1879 Board 8 to 4)10 and Tuition #8 to $4.50 mouth. * * Knitting Cotton St Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT k DONJSELL'ti. • A ••- . 4 Wilmington Sun y"? -- # Under tbe above name * Daily Urmorrnlir JV^w»paper of twenty wide columns will be issued in Wilmiugtou, North Carolina, on or Th«rfd« y Klaraiai October Ifth 18TS. Tb« Su* be published by.the SON ASBOCIA nos,i from the Printing House of Messrs. Jack md 4 Bell. It will be printed in first-class I» this Kate. The SUM will be edited by Mr. ucero W. Harris. The City Editorship aod . , H3ln ® B ß Management will bo in competent Jril". * Correspondent and Bepresenta- r " Vel tflr ««S'o«t the State. Rmitk -.r P R P er ' las ever started In the 8™ »"h fairer prospects than those of the «ujT a, c n 'y 1,0 No,t h Carolina paper hss the field under mora., auspicious cir mMtancea. The Sin has SUFFICIENT CAPITAL wil * *«• & h»«noy a* *U\h» u. . ng t ! le of North Caroli °® all *nhu>}* } a mQ6 * reliable information Nnwlt iufL «£2? i lnter egt. Above all T2 „ r 1 " » NEWBPAPER. d % iiae? Ol ? wlt i! , »£ ,re of the SUN'S ihe WoHii'a j) i » ftirertigeDt criticisms of SwSL J oingß '. NorH Carolina matters wl™s mercl *'' education! 1, social and Tie Bc/wiU b e ,[ ve attention. - / ; K0 ® H NEWSPAPER. BJBS^stiON. the times. MNUB 0N A RHBMi'l'on, The following poem, though old, is worthy of frequent republication. As has been often stated, it was found near a skeleton in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, Lon don, and was sent for publication to the Morning Chronicle. Yet thou_h fifty guineas a-as offered for the discovery ot tte author, his namo has never trans pired; Behold this ruin! Twan a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full; This narrow cell was life's retreat, This space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled the spot! \\ hat dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope nor love, nor joy nor fear Have left one trace or record here. Beneath that mouldering canopy Oifcc stie'rie the.hright And busy eye, But lit are not at the dismal void; If social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fire it gleamed, 4 at through the dew of kindness hat eye shall be foreTcr bright. When stars aud suus are suuk in nighfc Within this hollow cavern hung fne ready, swift and tuueful tongue, If falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained; If bold in virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, That silent tongue .ball plead for thee When time unveils eternity. Say, did those fingers delve the mine? Or with its envied rubles shine? To hew the rock or wear tiie gem, Can li-tie now avail to them. But if tho page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mouner brought, The hands'a richer meed shall claim Thau all that wait on wealth or fame. J w -*> "• y -■ „ > . Avails it whether bare or shod Those feet the paths of duty trod? If from the halls of ease they fled To seek affliction's humble shed, If grandeure's guilty bribes they spurned Aud home to virtue's cot returned, Those feet with angel's ways shall vie, And ti'ead the palace of the sky. feT.OEORUeS'B CHUKCII- t> THE OLDEST-METHODIST STRUCTURE IN AMERICA. Times.] lit the oldest Methodist chnrch build-- iiis? In America the congregation of St. George's M. E. Church last night cele brated its one hundred and ninth auni versary. The unpretoulions.little struc ture standing back a lew feet from Fourth street, between Race and Vine streets, with everywhere arouud it the signs of busy business lite, has nothing about it to give token of its many years or the eventful history that surrounds it. If its plain ft out was ever scarred and seamed the plasterer and the painter VOW beep the tooth-prints of time well out of view, and, Cut fay its severe plain ness, St. George's church, looked upon from its outside, might well be taken tor a structme of*, co.npnritively modem growtli. But thejrt&cc has a history. Here every Methods ist church in the city. back in 4764 the building was erected by a. congregation of 'German llArmed. It was a big edifice Hi those dips. Its size and its grandeur were ire loft of tffo country arouud. six yriirs ihe German Reformed fljUlje- «et. wifcin its walls, but from things did not-prosper with lliem. and, finally*, falling head over hcelOiiy debt, those respousiblo among the tion were abated and thrown iiwte, pris on- The buikljng was "cried at tfNjijP -Pulg, ai|d among the bidders, was a hank wilted young fellow, who ran the priS up to seveft irftndrerf arid filly poundp and the church was bis. The jonng man's father, not wishing to publicly ex pose his son's iufinnlty, paid the money foe the church, and then looked about him to dispose of the white elephant with which he was cifiunbcred. At that lime Methodism iu America was a .very puny waif from across the seas. ®h ere wasone congregation, but- with out a preacher. in York, and it is said by some that there wa3 another somewhere in Maryland. A. LAY PBEACIIER IN. REOIMfcSTALS. In Philadelphia, Captain Webb, an of ficer iu the British army,'had assembled around him a little body of Methodists, and these met regularty in a sail-loft on Dock street. The gentleman who had the Germai Beformed chnrch ou his hands heard of this Httlo congregation and going to tbem offered to Bell thein the building on Fourth street for fifty pouuds less than it had coat him. Cap tain Webb advised an acceptance of the offer, and thus had the St. George church —the captain's martial spi'it suggested the name— itsjbcginning. The building then consisted of nothing but the lour walls that now stands, but Captain W»*bb GRAHAM, N. C-, n full regimentals, stood upon bare ground and preached Sunday ntier Sun* day. Later on in 1769 there came IVJIII England the first Methodist preacher sent to America. Rev. Joseph I'ilnioor, and to him was assigned tlm> position of pastor ot St. George's church. After him came as pastor the Rev. Mr. Hoard man, who also had been sent over from England, and his successor was Rev. Francis Aslibury, the first Methodist Bishop ot America. From this time, and in tact down to about the year 18.')0, St. George's church was almost the Ca thedral of (ho Methodist Church in Amer ica. In a little room in the building that, the iconoclast's hand has yet spared was held all the church conferences, and this furnished room enough tor all the preachers in the county of the church that to-day boasts of eleven thousand. In it there still stands the chair in which Bishop Ashbury sat, the desk at which ho wrote, the hard benches from which i the preachers rose, and around tho wall ; are the wooden pegs upon which their i broad brimmed hats rested." In Kovolu- ' tionary times the church had its troubles. When Washington was almost starving at Valley Forge, and General ilow.o was in Philadelphia, tho British Goneral ig nonng the origin and the titlo of tho church, took possession of it ami utilized it as a training school for his cavalrymen When peace was restored the congrcga lion set about placing the management of the church ou a sound financial basis, and with this end in view, adopted, as the church records will show, the some what questionable method of purchasing lottery tickets and trusting to luck, if not to Providence, for a happy hit. Wheth er or not this brought money in the church purse, is not known, but any- WHJ everything about it was conduct ed in an economic way, and so late as 1800 saud and not carpets covered its floors. ITS DISTINGUISHED IUSTORS. During its career ono hundred and twenty pastors, at various times, occu pied its pulpit, and many of-these were among the best kuown and most liant preachers in the annals of Ameris can Methodism. Four Bishops -Aehbu ry, Whatcoat, Roberts and Scott—bad it aft their charge. Of these all but Bishop Scott, who is now located in Delaware, are dead. Then there was that wonderful orator, Rev. George Cookman. who afterwards became tho chaplain of the United States Senate, tie started to return to England in tho steamship President, and the Prosideut and George Cookman, were never heard of more. He was tho father of the weli.known llev. Alfred Cookman, who died a few years ago. Charles Pitman, the remarkable revivalist, was at one time pastor of St. George's church. 110 increased its membership to 1,500. He was one of the most powerful orators of the Methodist church and of his day. It was during his pastorate that the church floor were raised and galleries were erected, and, by * the way, there was employed in these alterations a carter, who came one night to hear Pitman preach. Hi came again, and finally was enrolled as member. That cartar was William Corbett, who. to-day is the well* known pastor of one the most prominet churches in New York Rev. Robert Pattison, father of present City Controller Robert E. Pattison, was also pastor of St. George's church, and in fact, scores of the most prominent Methodist preachers had their first charge in the little building on Fourth Street. To-day the church has a mem bership of but three hundred. Business has grown up around it and driven away its people. Its congregation is wide-spread. Brought by early ties, sooie come from Camden and many from either end of the town. Its oldest member was admitted as far back as * / 1806, and, intact, it is a church of old members, who take a pride in it« old story and its old walls. Dean Stanley the celebrated English leader of the 'Broad Church' party and Dean of Westminster, now on a visit to tbla couutry, stands perfectly still when he preaches, making no gestures though be (peaks impressively. One Sunday after returning from church he asked bis wife why people looked so iin tontly at him during the service. She repli •d: 'How could they help it, dear, when one of your gloves was on the top of your head all tbe time?' It had dropped from his bat. He is a rather magnificont* looking person with a slightly built and stooping figure, neatly cut gray hair, and whiskers of the old English style, a face expressively full of pleasant intelligence and dignity, and a voice not powerful, but distiuct. TUESDAY DECEMBER 10 1878 ■I 18 WORD OF HOKOK. There was a young Corporal in the pHirison of Nantes in the year 1795. Ho tfas a spirited fellow, It-uely twenty, but, young though he was, he hud learned to drink to excess, ~ according to the too frequent custom of the day. Brave and excitable, wine was a bad, inaSter for him, and one day when in toxicated, he struck an officer who vas gi.ing hiiu an order. Death was the punishment for such an ofTeuse, and to death tho lad was condemn-, ed. The Colonel of his regiment, remem bering tlio intelligence and biavery of the young criminal, spared no pains to obtain a remission of the sentence.- at first with no success, but finaliv liamp. ered with a certain condition—that the prisioner should never again in his life be found intoxicated. The Colonel pro ceeded at once to tho military prison and summoned Cambronne. ''You are in trouble, Corporal he said." "True, Colonel; and I forfeit my lifu for my lolly," returned the young fel low. "It may be so," quoth the Colonel shortly. "May be," demanded Cambronne, "you are aware of the strictness of the martial law, Colonel. • I exptot no par don; I have only to die." "But suppose I bring you a pardon on condition?" Tho lad's eyes sparkled. "A condi tion? Let me hear it, Colonel! I would do much to save life and honor." ""i on must never again get drunk." "U, Colonel, that is impossible/" "Impossible, boy ! You will be shot tomorrow otherwise; think of that!" f'l do think of it. But never to let one drop of wine touch my lips! See you, Colonel: Cauibronue and the bottle love one anothet so well, that when once they get togethar it is all up with sobriety. No, uo! I dure not promise never to get drunk." "But, unhappy boy! conld you not promise never to touch wiue?" "Not a drop, Colonel?" "Not a drop." "Ah! that is a weighty matter, Colo» nel. Let me reflect. Never to touch wine all my life!" The soldier paused; thou looked up- . -- —— "But, Colonel, if I promise, what guarantee will you have that 1 shall keep my promise?" "Your word of honor," said the offi -4 ■ cer. "I know you, and you will not fail me." A light came into the young fellow's eyes. , "Then I promise," he said solmnly, '•I, Cambronne, swear never to take a drop of wine." The next day the Corporal Cam bronne resumed hia place in hia regi ment. Twenty-five years after he was Gener al Cambronne, a man of note, respested and beloved. During one day in Paris with his old Colonel, many brothers in arms being present, he was offered a glass of rare old wine by „hiß former commanding officer. Cafnbronno drew back. "My word of honor, Colonel; have you forgotten that?" he asked excitedly. "And Nantes—the prison—the pardon —ray TOW?" he continued, striking the table. "Never, sir, from that day to this has a drop of wine (Kissed my lips. I swore it, and I have kept my word; and shall keep it, God helping, to the end." Once more, not without reason, did the good old Colonel thank Qod that he had been able to preserve such a man for France.— Exchange. A IBIiL PVNVH It A BABBBB •HOI*, SPUING FIELD, 0., Nov. 24.—Donn Ba zv a colored barber, employed a bell punch in his shop to register shaves. At noon yesterday Long Wiley was left alouc in the shop. He fell asleep, and some practical jokers slipped iu. went to the punch and registered twenty-fire shaves. Last night, at the settlement of accounts, the money was short to Ihe amount of twenty five shaves. Suspicion fell upon Wiley, and a quart-el ensued. Ills fellow-workmen full upou him and beat him unmercifully, and he will die of his injuries. ■ DIfTUERIA iINDIVM TBSIIHIRKT B»me Reasonable Muggeslion*—The Bur roundiiiKn Thai CHUMP the Uiacnai, [From tho Springfield Republican ] Diptheria is a disease which springs from the growth of a real fungus on some of tho inucons surfaces of the system, more generally of the throat, may be spread by contact ot tin mucous surfaces of a diseased person with those of a healthy person, as in kissing and Is to a limited degree epidemic. From tho local parts nflccted It spreads to the wholo body affecting tho muscular and nervous systems, vitiating the lymph aud nutriont fluids. . Assoon as the bacterium or fungus appears in white patches on tho throat, It shonht no more bo neglected than a bleeding gash cr a broken arm, and thcro is almost as little need ot a fatal termina tion ot one incident as of the other. It has been found by actual experiment, both in an out of the human system, that thia bacterium is killed by several drugs the safest and most certain of which is chlorine water, diluted with the additiou of from two to four volume of water. Tbii wash is harmless, even when swallowed and is pretty certain to arrest the disease. The great cvcloptedia of Ziomcßsen ou the practice of medicine wives the highest place to the method of treatment. To keep tne patient housed with additional flannel clothing irmjeessary, and to keep the bowels opjMarc matters of nursing oltcu ncglectwj at^,-with care in these re> specU aud early application of the reins edlcs above suggested, "there is no need of the disease proceeding to a fatal termination, or even to tho debilitating illness and painlul cauterizations which go together in its hitler stages. As to tho origin of diptheria. tho weight of testiincny is that it belongs to the class of filth diseases, but further lhan its source is not clear. Families which would be scandalized af the suggestion (A untidinesH are attacked while others of filthy surroundings escape. This simply shows that our sense ot cleanliness needs cultivation, so that we may discriminate between what ii offensive to the system aud what offousive to our falsely educated tastes. Tho farmers wife to wt.om the closed and carefully dusted parlor or the preteruaturally scrubbed floor are the essentials of nenfness, may endure the proximity of a sour swamp or of fhe kitchen cesspool for years without taking oflexse. Mrs. Clara S. Foltz,' a widow, of San Jose, is the first woman admitted to the Bar of California, the Legislature of that State having at its last session passed H bill granting such right to the sex. She has pursued her studies under difliculties that would have discouraged most men, having no property to speak of and five nmall children to provide for. Most of the time she has done her own housework, and "has occasionally de livered lectures to eke out subsistence. The committee appointed to examine her consisting of the best lawyers in the town unanimously testified to her entire fitness for tbe profession. » A CALIFORNIA Doo.—A sad dog in San Francisco is called "Whiskey Straight." At two months bo developed a taste for beer, and now he is devoted to all aorta of liquor, from absinthe down to porter, waxes strong and fat thereon. After a sproe he appears morose and sullen till he has had a drink or two of whiskey, when he cheers up and friaka around in tbe liveliest manner. Additional potations, however, change his mood; he fcecome cross and aud quarrelsome and finally falls into a condition of drunken stupidity. POPULATION.—III his "Trie Law of Population" Doublctlay points out that i "Populations aio universally found thin in paHtoral countries, where the- food is chiefly animal; denser where it is mixed; still denser where vegetable but plento* ous*; densest of all where it is vegetable and scarce." The natural inference is that in the plethoric state productiveness is arrested, while in tho ileplethoiic it is reinvigorated. In iho poorest times Irish families subsisting on potatoes and meal averaged seven, against five ia England and three in France.. In rice eating countries the population is dense. A spelling mafeb in Poltonville, Mis*., ended iu a row. One contestant *;iil that p-l-o-u-g-h was alone correct, mid another a* exclusively mautafued p-l-o-w. The school master ruled that both were rghl, but, in the absence of a dictiona ry, die prevailing sentiment was that there could not possibly be two correct ways of kpelling one word. A book was thrown at iLu schoolmaster's bead, and a general fight ensued. A lady readied tho passenger depot in other Dayton, Ohio, the day, just as the train she intended to lake was leaving,and as she stood almost crying with vexation on tho platform a gentleman arrived'at the depot 011 a fnf! ran. witb his carpetsbag in bis band bis coat on bis arm, and iace streaming with perspiration. As he looked au the traiu now meviug fast awar, ho sat down 011 hi* carpet-bag wiped Lis face, and deliberately and emphatically said, ''Daru that traiu!" '1 be lady heard him, and smiling npon him witb a lady's sweetness, said," Thank you, sir." NO, 40 Gleaning s. Fourteen thousand persons are sups posed to have died of yellow fever, in the South, during (he Into visitation. 'J lie compositor who made it read. '-Iu the tnitfst ot life we arc in dejt," wasn't much out ol the way. At an election a candidate solicited a vote. "I would rattier vote tor the devit than you," was the reply. "But in easy your Iriend is not a candidate," said the solicitor, "might 1 then count on your assistance ?" About this time Prince Qjsmnrck stops around to Ids tailor's and remarks: "tin\, Schneider, jttat put a copper lining io deni goat and bants, vill you? I (links we have anodcr zociuli»t schuizentcsc pooty sudden maybe."— Boston Travel' 1 er. A copy of the Mcntz Bible printed by tiuttenburg in l-455~being the first book ever prh.ted WHS sold at auction in Paris hist J mic tor SIO,OOO. Ills printed on Vellum, but is not quite perfect, several portions having been restored in fua simile. "Pale face gim red man chaw?" said Johu Feyonk, and Indian, at a house in Arkansas. Johu did uot get hiH tobacco, which uiade him so.angry that he kilted the live inmates of the house. "Satan died here," reads a Pittsburg' (■igu; but ib was not until an astute Alle ghany Dutchman inquired when ho died there that the people undei stood that they could get .latin dyed. St. Peter's Church in liomo is a vast structuro of which tew people have any just conception. It covers an urea cf 8 acres of ground. It 9 cost was $50,000,% 000 in gold, and it requires $20,000 per year to keep it in repair. It was about 300 years in building. "In my airly days," remarked the old man, as lie shoveled coal into the school house bin. "they didn't use coal to keep us school young 'uns warm, I kin tell you." "What did they use?" asked a boy near by. A sad, far away look seemed to pass over the old mau's face as he quietly responded: "Birch my boy, birch." A young lady hesitating for a word In describing the charaster ol a rejected suitor, stud, ••lieis not a tyrant, not ex actly domineering, but—" '• Dogmatic," suggested her iricud. "No, he has nut diguity enough for that; I thinic that pupmatic would convey my meaning ad mirably. Ou the day of Miss Helen Aslor's wed* ding to Mr. James itoosevelt, In Mew York, she provided a feast fcr all the pa« tients in Bcllcvuo Hospital. The taro comprised 900 pounds ot chicken, ten barrels ot vegetables, twenty bushels of trait, and a great variety of cake aud con fectionery. TIT FOB TAT. —''Eugenia, Eugenia,will you still insist on wearing the hair of an other woman upon head?' "AN phouse, Alphonse, do you still insist ups on wearing the skin of another calf upou your feet?" SOMB BAD EGGS. —Mr. Eggers. of Cin cinnati, has sued for a divorce, after Mrs. Eggers has for twenty-live years been keeping drunk on three bottles of Khine wine a day, at $1.25 a bottle, and forc ing him to mend aud wash the family clothes. Speaking of dull times, a wicked Mo bile man says that a few weeks ago a Htranger arrived theje and bought a bale of cotton, a pleasant 'tumor was at once started that the cottou buyer hud arrived, but it only proved to be a Chi' cago man with the ear ache.— Com Bui. A quack doctor is traveling in Ohio, accompanied by a remarkably beautiful young woman. Iler complexion espe ci/tlly is perfect. lie tells the people, in (roe lectures, (hat this tair creature was once rathei ugly, but has been improved by the use of his elixir, which he otters for sale at $8 a bottle. Nobody buys any at the conclusion of the lecture, but on the following day, wnen his agent goes from house to house, the sale is large. A sell-binding and reaping machine was run away with by a lively team of horses in Oregon a lew days ago. Tho course lav through a field ot wheat con taining about 100 acres, and the machine kept together, binding every tuntile that came to it with ligutniug rapidity* When tho team was stopped the machine had cut and bound 150 bundles. HAPPY THOUGHT.— Brethren, before we sing the next verse of John Brown's body lies alhmouldly initio gravf," let us take a look into tho.grave and see that it is there. In those duvs of Ohio medi cal colleges a cemetery isn't nw safer than a savings bank, and it may bo that polit ical glee olubs, who have' been singing the song quqted above, have been chant ing u rhythmic lie for the p*sl filteeu years. Bur 'ington Ilawktye. A CUINKESK CITIZEN AT LAST.— For the first time in the history or the eit> of New York a native live Chinautau has been admitted to all the privileges of cit izenship provided by the constitution of the United States. The question of tho naturalization of Mongolians has beou a mooted one for many years, and the con stantly icreasing emigration of that myss. terious and thrifty j»aco has intensified the popular interest infiid aettletuent of this difficult problem. The question, al though previously pasted upon in CalU fornta, has never been tested in this city until day before yesterday, when Judge Lam-more, of the Court of Common Pleas, lormallv admitted to citizenship

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