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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. OCVSpo. j "—" —" ■ ; —*■ VOL. 4 ( THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY "* I'' 1 '' " E. S. PARKER Ornhnni, N. C, . Hate« of Subscription. Poslaye Paid : [ i One Tear 1 Bix Months ......... J- Three Months ou Every person sending ns a club of ten sul>- aeribers with th'* caA, entitles himself to one fopv free, for-the leiurli of time for which the club is made up. Vapors sent to different offices/ No Departure from the Cash System RRIN of Advertising Transient advertisements payable In advance: yearly advertisements quarterly in ad\%nce. |1 m. j2 m. |8 in. | 6 in. i 12 m.-1 -i ! { —— *■( 1 quare |s2 00;«i3 00 «4 00 4 6 00;®10 00 2 •' 't I 3 00i 4 501 0 00 1 10 001 15 00 Transient advertisements 91 per square for he first, an'd fifty cents for each -subse quent insertion. ~ - - ' - - L' THIS PAPER IS OK FIUE WITH 6EAHAIHIGH SCHOOL. pTJiq .. .. ,v'„ ' - a ' f . GRAHAM, N. C. REV. DAYLONG, A.M. RE> . W- W. SjTALEY, A. M. KEV. ,W.S. LOJNG. A. M. OpbDß August 26th 1878, and closes the last Friday ip May, 1879 Board $8 to $lO and Tuition f 3 to ®4.50 month. Knitting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT & DONNELLY. IP ilming ton Sun Under U»e above name A Daily Democratic Newitpapcr of twenty-eight wide columns will be issued in the city of Wilmiugton, North Carolina, on or about ■ Thunday morn in It October 17 th 1878. The SON will be published by the .SON ASSOCIA TION, from the Prislißjif H..u?s ef Msssrs. Jack son fc Bell. It will be printed in first-class style, On good paper, with new type, and will be the handsomest daily journal ever published in this State.. The Btm will be edited by Mr. Cicero W. Harris. The City Editorship and the Business Management vyill be in competent hands, and' a Correspondent and Representa tive will travel throughout the StattT. ' Probably no paper has ever started in the South with fairer prospects than those of the Son. Certainly no North Carolina paper has entered the field under n.ore auspicious cir cumstances. The SUN 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 NEWBPAPER. And yet no important feature of the SUN'S dally issues will be Intelligent criticisms of the World's doings. Nortt C irolina matters industrial, commercial, education! 1, social and literarary—will receive particular attention. The SUN will be a NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER. SUBSCRIPTION. The WILMINGTON SUN will be furnished to subscribers at the followlhg reasonable and uniform rates: _ .. „ For one week 15 Cents I For three months *175 »•• month 65 " " el*, 350 I " twelve " 700 At these rates the SUN will be mailed to any address in this country, or loft by ca'ner in the city. ADVERTISING. One square, (ten lines) one time, f 1 00;; two times, $1 50; one week, 83 50; one month. «9 00; three months. S2O 00; six months, t35 00. Contracts for other space and time made at proportionately low rates. CORRESPONDENCE. Interesting correspondence solicited. Address, THE BUN, Wilmington N. C. Yarbrough House RALEIGH, N.C. R, W, BLACKNAIiL, Proprietor, Rates reduced to suit the times. Vocti'j'. ■•IJTTI.K The cottage was a tliatclied one, the outside old aud meart, ,Yet ererything within that cot was wondrous neat and clean: The night was dark aud stormy, the wind was howling wil^f, A patient mother watched beside the death-bed of her child— A little wcrnout^reat ure—his once bright eyes grown dim: It was the colliers wife and child— thsy called him 'Little Jim.' And ah! to see the briny tears fast hurrying down her cheek, As she offered up a prayer in thought—she was afraid to speak. Lest she might 'waken one she loved far better than her life, For she had all a mother's heart, had that poor collier's wife, With hands uplifted, see! she kneels beside the I snfftircr'n bed, And prays that tie will spare her boy and take herself instead. She gets an answer from the child—soft fall these word from him* "Mother, the dngels do so smile and beckon 'Little Jim,' I have no pain, deal toother now, but oh! I am so dry Just moisten poor Jim's lips again, tnd mother don't you cry." - With gentle, trembling haste shs held a teacup —• • tohtoiljig:— • —*- —"— -• He smiled to thank her as he took three little tiny sips— ' Tell father when he comes home from work, I said good night to liim; And mother, now I'll go to »I«ep." Alas poor Little Jiin. She saw that he was dying—that the child she loved so dear llad uttered the last words that she might over hope to hear; The cottage door is opened, the colliers step is heard— - The father and the mother meet, but neither sjieak a word— He felt that all was over—he knew his child was dead; He took the candle In his hand and walked toward the bed; His quivering lips gave token of the grief he'd fain conceal— And see! his wife has joined—the strickened couple kneel; With hearts bowed down with sadness, they humbly ask of Him, In heaven once more to meet again their own poor 'Little Jim.' THE mDOfiBR* STORV. A cold winter's night, several years since, found a stage load oi passengers gathered together around a warm fire of a tavern bar-room in a New England village. Shortly after we arrived, a ped dler drove up and ordered (hat his horse' should be stabled foV the night. After we bad eaten supper, we repair ed to the bar-room, where the conversa tion freely. Several anecdotes had been related, aud finally the peddler was asked to give us a story, as men of his profession were generally fall of ad ventures and anecdotes. Ho was a short thickset man' somewhere aoout 40 years of age, aud gave evidence of gt;eat physi cal strength. He gave his name as Lem> uel Vinney, and said his home iwas in Dover, New Hampshire. "Well, gentlemen," he commenced, knocking the ashes trom his pipe, and putting it in his pocket, "suppose I tell you about tho last thing ot auy conse quence that happened to me? You see I am now right from the West, and on my way homo for winter quarters. It was during the early part of last spring, one pleasant evening, that I pulled up at the door of a small village tavern in Han cock county, Indlaiia. I said it wa« pleas ant —I meant warm. I went iu and call ed for sapper and had my horse taken care of. After I had eaten I sat down iu the bar room. It began to rain about 8 o'clock, and it wa» very dark out doors. Now I wanted to bs in Jackson the next morning, for I expected a load of goods there for me which I intended to dispose of on my way home. "The moon would rise abool midnight and I knew if it did not rain 1 could get along tbrongh the mud vei y well after that. So I asked the landlord if he would see that my horse was fed about mids night, as I wished to bo off about 2. He exprossed some surprise at this, and ask ed me why I did not slop for breakfast. I told him that I had sold my last load ont. and that a new lot of goods was waiting for me at Jackson, aud I wanted to be there before tho express agent left iu the morning. "There were a number of persons sit ting round while I told this, bat I took little notice ot them; only one arrested my attention. I had seen that week no tices tor the detection of a notorious rob ber. The bills gave a description of bis person* and the man before me answered very well to it. He was a tall, well-form ed man, rather slight in frame, and had the appearand of a gentleman, save that his taee bore those hard cruel mark* GRAHAM, N. O, which an observing man cannot mistake for anything but the index ot a viUianous disposition. "When I went to my chamber I asked the landlord who that man was, describ ing the individual. lie bad come that afternoon and Intended to leave the next day. The host asked me why I wished to know, and 1 simply told hi.n that the man's countenance was familiar, and 1 j merely wished to know if I ever was ac quanted with him. "I wax resolved not to let the land lord in the secret, but to give intor.na tion to the sheriff, and perhaps lie might reach the inn before the villian loft, for I had no doubts with regard to his identi ty. "I had an alarm watch, nml having set it to give tho alarm at 1 o'c!ock, I went to sleep. I was aroused at the proper time, and immediately arose and dressed myself. When I roacliod tlioynnl I found the clouds all passed away, and the moon was shining brightly. Tho hostler was easily aroused, ami by 2 o'clock I was on the road. The mud was deep, and my horse, could not travel Very fast. How ever, on we went, and in the course of half au'hour I was clear of the village. At a short distance ahead lav a large tract of forest, mostly of gfcat pine. Tho road lay-dUeetlv.through the wood, and, as near as I can remember, the dis'auce was twelve miles. Yet the moon was in tho East and the road ran nearly West, so I thought I should get light enough. "I had entered the wood aud gone about half a mile when my wagon wheels fettled with a jump and a jerk info a deep hole. I uttered an exclamation of aston ishment, but that was not all. I heard an toiler exclamation from some Bource. What could it be? I looked qriietlj' around but could see nothing, yet I knew tho pound that I heard was very close to me. As the hind wheefs came up I felt some thing besides the jerk from the liolo. I heard something tumble from one side to tho other of iaggragon, and I could also feel the jar odflMoned by the movement. It was simply a mas in my cart! I knew this on the instant. Of course I felt puz zled. At first I imagined mat somcbady had taken this method of obtaining a ride. My next idea was that somebody had got in to sleep there; but this passed away as soon-as it came, for uo man would have broken my cart for that pur pose. And that thought, geirjlemen, opened my eyes. Whoover was there had broken in. My next thought was of the suspicious individual I had seen at that tavern. He heard me say that my load was all sold ont, and of courso he supposed I had money with me. . In this he WrtS right, for I had oyer two tjious and dollars, 1 thought he meant to leave the cart when he supposed I bad reached a safe place, aud then creep over and shoot me or knock me (town. All this passed through my mind by the time 1 had got a rod from tho hole. ■'ln a few moments mv horse was knee deep in the mud, aud I knew 1 could slip off without noise. So I drew my pistol, aud having twined the reius abont tho wlnpstock, carefully slipped down in the mud, aud as the cart passed on I went behind and examined the hasp. The door of the cart lets down and is fastened by a hasp, which slips over the staple and is then secured by a padlock. Tho padlock was gone, and the hasp was scs cured in its own place by a bit of pine,so thataslight force from within could it. My wheel wrench stood in a er pocket on the side of tho cart, and I quickly took it cut and slipped it into the staple, the iron handle just slid* ing down. "Now I had him. My cart was almost new, made of a stont frame ot white oak, and made on purpose for hard use. I did not believe any ordinary mortal could break oat. 1 got on to my cart as noiselessly as I got off, and tten urged my horso on, still keeping my pistol handy. I knew I should come to a hard road, and so I allow ed my horse to pick his own war through the mud. "About ten minntes after this I heard a motion in the cart, followed by a grind ing noise, as though some heavy force was being applied io the door. I said nothing, but the idea struck me that the villain might judgft where I sat, and shoot up throughlßhe top of the cart at me; so J sat down on the foot board. "Ofcouise I knew my unexpected passenger was a villain, for he must have been awake ever since I started, aud nothing in tho world but absolute vi!- liany wonld have caused him to remain quiet so long, aud then start up in this particular place. Tlie thumping aud pushing grew louder, aud pretty soou I beard a human voice. "Let me out of this," he yelled pretty load. •I lifted my head to make him think i was in my usual place, and then asked him what he was doing there. 'Let me oiu and I will telll you,' he replied. » ; 'Tell me what you are there for.' 'I got here to sleep on tho rags,' he answered. 'How did you get in V I asked. 'Let me oat or I'll shoot you tbrongh the head.' 'Jyst at that moment my horse's feet TUESDAY DECEMBER 17 1878 struck tho hard road, and I knew that the rest of tho route to Jackson wonld bo good going, the distance of twelve miles. I slipped back on tho foot-board [and took the whip. In fifteen minutes W3 cleared wood aud awav we went at a I con jump. The chap inside kept yelling to get out. ' * 'Fiualh he stopped, and in a *w moments ciinie the report of a pistol— one—two—three— tour, one right after tho other. I heard the balls whiz over my head. If 1 had been on my seat, one ot those birilsif not two would have j got me. 1 popped up my head again, and gave a yell and then I said: 'O God save mo!—['in a dead man!' •Then I made a shuffling as thou »li I was falling off*, and finally settled down on tho foot-board agan. I now urgel up the old inure by giviug her an occasional poko with my whip stock, and _shn ppp.lnd tuatnr than nvpr. 'The man called out to mo twice moro pretty soon after this, and as he got no reply he mado .somo tremendous efforts io break the door open, aud us this faijet him he mado several attempts ou the- top. But JL had no fear of his doing anything there, for the top of the cart is framed with dovetails, and each sleeper bolted to the posts with iron bolts. Ih«dmado~rt SJ I could carrf loads there. By and by, after all else failed, the scamp commenced to holler 'whoa' to tlie horse, and kept it up until be became bourse. All this time I kept perfectly quiet, holding the reins firmly, and kept poking the boast with the stock. We were not an hour going that dozen tniles—not a bit of it. I hadn't mucti fear—perhaps I might tell the truth, and say I had uone, for I had a good pistol, and, more than that, my passenger was safe; yet I was glad when I came to (he old fioHi'-barrel factory that stauds at the end of Jackson and in ten minutes moro hauled up iu front of the tavern where I found a couplo of men iu the barn engaged iu cleaning down some stage horses, 'Well, old fellow,' said I as I got .downwind went to the back of tho wag« on, 'you have had a good rido haven't you ?' 'Who are you?' he cried. a;id he swore a* he asked the question. - 'I am the man you tried to shoot,' was the reply. 'Where am I? Let me out.' 'Look here; we've come to a safe stopping place, and, mind you, my piss tol is ready for you tho moment you show yourself. Now lie quiet. 'By this time the two hostlers had come to seo what was tho matter, and I explained the case. After this I got one of them to ran and rout the sheriff, and tell him what I believed I'd got for him him. Tho first streaks of daylight were just coming up, and in half au. hour It would bo broad daylight. I told tho affair in u few words and thou made for He told tho chap inside Who he was, and if he made the least resistance he'd be a dead man. I then slipped the wrench out and as I let the door down the fellow made a spring. I caught him by the anklo and he came, down on his face, and the moment I suw the chap 1 recognized him. He was inarched to the lock up, and I told the sheriff that I should remain in town all day. 'After breakfast the sheriff came down to the tavern and told me (hat I had caught the very bird, and if I would remaiue until) the next morning I should have my two hundred dollars which had been offered. 'I found my goods all safe, paid the express agent for bringing them from Indianapolis, and then went to work to stow tbem away iu my cart. The bullet holes were found in tha top of the vehicle just as I expected. They were in a line about five inches apart, ahd had. I been where I osully sit two ot them must have hit me somewhere about the small of the back aud passed upward, tor they were sent with heavy charges of powder, and his pistols were heavy ones. 'On the next morning the sheriff called upon me and paid me two huu* dred dollars in gold, for lie had made himself sure that he had got the right villain. 'I afterward fonnd a letter in the post office at Portsmouth for me, from the sheriff of Uancock county, inform* ing me that the fellow who had tried to kill and rob me was iu piison for life.' "A Blessing" is tbe name of a ram seller on Sixth avenue, New York. Mrs.- Lockwood, the lady lawyer of Washington, called by other lawyers Judge Lockwood, has a practice worth $5,000 a year. There is many a man strong enough to hold a boll by the horns, and yet not strong enough to hold his own tongue. . > THECONVEDEKATBIARCHIVE _ ' Washington Letter to Baltimore Bun. The Secretary of War will ask of Con gress an appropriation for the publica tion of the Confederate archives aud rec ords. The Secretary of War iu July last appointed as the *ditur and cooipiler ot these records Gen. Marcus Wright of Tennessee. Tlio Secretary considered that it would be best to appoint a Con* federate officer tor this work, not only because exception could nojt be takeu to the work us bi-iug in au unfriendly or partial hand, but because many docu ments and other memoranda would be furnished which would not be otherwise available. General *Vright, since en tering ou his duties, has perlormed a great deal of labor. He has already com pleted, so far as may be, a connected his tory ot the ortici-tl Confederate operations for the first year oi the war. He has bad placed at nis disposal all the papers ot* the Southern Historical Society, also the order and the telegraph books oT most of the leading Confederate chief tains. Mr. Jefferson Davis has also submitted for the u&e of General Wright such official papers in Inn possession as belonged to the ex&ative office of the Confederate States. General Wright has written to Mr. fudah P. Benjamin at London, asking hiui to furnish any doc uments which ho may have us tbe Con fateririe Secretary of State. Ir Is tie sigßed to make this publication of tbe Confederate records as complete as those of the United States operations,. if the material can be obtained, and it is thought thero wjll be no in this. An exceeding valuable coutri« bution to history wflf thus be obtained, j In connection with this subject it will be of public interest to Btate that the loss of the son of the son ot Mr. Davis by yellow fever, and the iUness of both Mr. and Mrs. Davis, havf caused some delay in the preparation of the personal memoirs ot the President of the South ern Confederacy. It is thought the work will be put to press some time in the spring. So great is tbe public interest taken in these forthcoming memoirs that arrangements are in progress to print a London edition simultaneously with the New York editiou, and it is probable that a French edition will also be print ed. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are now at their home, at lieauvoii, Mississippi. BISMABK AS A CHRISTIAN, On his religious belief he draws asido the veil by most men jealously g.iard* ed: 1 I cannot conceive how a man can live without a belief in a revelation, in a God who ordors all things for the best, in a Supreme Judge from whom there is no appeal, and in a future life. If I were not a Christian I should not re main at my post for a single hour. If I did not rely on God Almighty, I should not put my trust in princes. I have enough to live on, and am sufficiently genteel and distinguished without the Chancellor's office. Why should I go on working indefatigably, incurring trouble and annoyance, unless convinced that God bus ordained me to fulfli these duties? If 1 were not persuaded that this German nation of ours, in the de vinety appointed ordet of things, is destined to be something great and good, I should throw up the diplomatic pro* f fession this very moment. Orders and j titles have to me no attraction. Tbe firmness I have shown in combat ing all manner of absudities for ten years past is solely derived trom faith. Take away my faith and you destoy my pa triotism. But for my strict and literal belief in the truths of Christianity, but for my acceptance of the miraculous ground-work of religion, you would not have lived to see the sort of Chancellor I am. Find me a successor as firm a believer as myself and I will resign at once. But I live in a generation of pagans, I have no desire to make prose lytes, but am constrained to confess my faith. It there is among us any self denial aud devotion to king and country it is a remnant of religious belief uncon sciously clinging to our people from the days of their sires. For my own part, I prefer a ratal life to any other. Rob me of the faith that unites me to God, and I retarn to Varziu to devote myself industriously to the production of rye and oa's. The.cold, chilling.winds of December sigh over the fresh graves oi more than forty Greenback newspapers.— Wash. Pott. Ypsilanti, Mich., is one of the few of the immortal American towns (hat can't poke fun at the Afghanistan war names. —Derrick. NO, 41 A Q ;EER RELIC.— M.ij. W. H. Jlng. ley > Jio ved us ye*Us 1 lay a very interest ing relic belonging to tho Wo r th family. Iti* h photograph of a leaf t«ken from ~n old family Bible. Jn a queer old 17th dentnry hum! writing tho name Tho. Worth, Then tins evidence of owner ship comes. "Tho. Worth is the owner of this books in the 1G81.'" Nativity of Tho. Worth, Anno Domini, 1649. Left Englamtye 21st day of ye 2nd month, IGB2, landed in Pennsylvania in ye ba gining of ye Gth month of ye Bamo veor. - John Worth was born the 9fch day of the Gih month in tho year 1686. Thomas was born 4th day ®f ye Ist month in ye year 1688. Sarah Worth was born on ye 28th day of ye 7th month, 1691. Tho. Worth, is my name, - •• V And with my pen I wrote tho sarao, This is a queer old document and is worth preserving. Tha names John Worth and Ihomas Worth we bave amongst ns now and hare had for nearly two centuries. Tbat we' may always Lave them is a wish that the State will respond to. The luime and -honor of tka Worths are a credit to our State.—The Observer. FEDERAL ANb STATE VOLilSldlf, [Special to the New York Herald 4th.] •- W ASHING TO*, Dec. B.—A singular case of collision between Federal and State authorities in likely to be reported to the present Congress, being now under investigation uv the Governor of Vn«, glnia, in order that the facts may be presented to tbe President, Some tlino ago two negroes were indicted and tried in Patrick county, Va., lor a serious crime. One was sentenced to ingUtffiryoM in State prison, the other tor a" shorter pericd. They appealed to tho Federal Circuit Court, wtth Uus pigktluU ot, upu trial before the State Cottle thoy asked for a mixed jury, compos*! partly' of colored and partly of white men, 'Ami that this had been refased, and on the ground that the jury had b«ott?r«gnlarlv drawn, and Hie Jaw recognized nj difference ol nice. Judge liives, ot the United States Circuit Codrt, entertained their appeal and set the u both free and tliey are now at large. When all those •acts in the caio are colleciod by the Attorney General of Virginia, the Governor will present the case to the President, fn order to have the question determined properly whether It is in the power of a Federal Judge thus to inter rupt the course of justice, and convic.ed criiniuiiials at liberty upon his own motion, and tho case may be broght be fore Congress tor its action. " 7 """■— a •' ; *-• A REMINISCENCE.—A triend relates to us the following rather remarkable inci dent in the hfo of the lata Hon. B. F. Moore: During tho winter ol 1876-77 Mr. Jas. H. White, of Gaston county, the venera ble old Irish gentleman who f«r ss many years represented his county lij the tftato Senate, visited Raleigh and accidentally met Mr. Moore as he entered the Yarbo rougb House to call on an acquaintance. The two had long been friends. and fheir salutatious were cordial aud sincere. This over, Mr. Wtiito turned to a gon-. tleman near by and said: ''This is my friend, Mr. Moore; he was always a Whig aud I was a Demo crat, but tor all that we have been the best ot friends." > "Yes," said Mr. Moore, "and Mr. White, the longer! livo the more I am convinced that you were right and 1 was wrong." Another warm grasp of tho hands ens 6ued, and deep emotion was seen in evory lineament of their honest and aged flees They never met again, though Mr. White still survives, the perfect type of a fervid, frauk and genial Irishman, as he is.— 27usOb$erver. Everybody is willing to say his prayers when he is in a tight fix and sees no other way out. The Lord is the last resort of some people and their religion iff after the fashion of thn sailor, who prayed and said, "O Lord, Ivhaven't asked anything of you for fifteen years, and if vou'll get me ashore I won't ask anything for fifteen years more." The littlo shoeblack also had a system of theology after which a great many take pattern. He told an inquiring mission ary that he always said his prayers at night, because he was asleep and didn't know what might happen; but nevdr in the morning, because any bright boy can take care of himself in the -day time. / n actor was once announced for a benefit at the Queen's Dublin. Some evenings previous he essayed Richard 111., and after repeating the lines, "Richard is himself again," be de liberate! advanced to tho footlights and added, "and allow trie to remark, that any man who would strike a wouuMSl, except in tbe way of .kindness* is un worthy the name of an Iriajyjiln. My benefits takes place evening, when I will bo happy nee j||u all."
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