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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER,
nuts. GI.GIVDBNN nct'4 Hdhbano,
t The lUjalcrioun Inwnnitjr of Jtculoisvy,
Yon remember Hawthorne's story of
' Wakefield,' a l|ia » who, from niero oddi
ty a ltd whim, after parting from his wife
to go oil a short journey, vanished into
the wilderness of London and never res
turned to her. although he lived so near
that he watched curiously her comings
and her goings year after \ ear. seeing
her change from a happy matrom into a
melancholy widow, and so go on into
cheerless age. Other things have hups
pencil quite as strange, perhaps stranger.
Let me tell you the true story of Mrs.
Glctidouuing's husband.
Agnes Holt met ilugh Glcndcnning
bcfoie she left school : they fell in love,
were engaged, and by the time she
eighteen she married linn. Ho was a
young fellow of twenty six. and his most
striking qualities seemed to be his good
looks and impetuosity of tcmpOrament.
In person lie was of average height; his
figure good, his face remarkably hand
some, his hair and eyes dark, Ids com
plexion pale. Agues was a qrifot, graces,
lul creature, with bltie, bashful oyes, a*d
the most charming smile in the world.
In speech she was curiously reserved,
and rarely expressed herself freely. One
of the discomfort! of the seascn of her
engagements was that Hugh constantly
pieesed her for an ample confession of
loye, wnicli she would never make in
words by more than a. quiet assent when
he demanded if she loved him. Sl>o
hoped and expected after marriage he
would bo lesa persistent and uioro ready
to take things forgrai.ted, while lie, on
his side, looked forward to wedlock
with a belief that, once a wife, Agues
would no longer torture him with her
evasions and denials, but tell him with
the same freedom and eloquence which,
ho u«cd binrsjsif the whole story of her
passiou.tbr him. The t.vo probably loved
each other equally, but their tempera
ments were too powerfully contrasted to
make iputual •understandings possible.
Agnes was slow, puritanical, and, how
ever faithful aud sir jug in feeling, ut
terly destitute of spontaniety, while
Hugh was quick, ardent, and given to
tho powerful expression of- whatever
feeling or mood came uppermost.
They had been married a inouth when
business arrangements compelled Hugh
to go to England*, and he insisted on tak>
dug bis wild She yielded, but bar incli
nations were against the joprnev; she
disliked Krieave hor family, and was,
besides, in great fear ot the sea. She
was melancholy and nervouy in parting
from her.friends, and tor tho first three
dftys gu the ocean spent the entire time
in tears. Hugh >could not understand
her lerYor of the water, and felt, beside-,
that she was using him ill iu feeling the
least reluctance at severing her connecs
liou with l|or old home. Ho tortured her
with questions: Did she love hiin? Did
aite trust him? If she loved him, it she
trusted him, how could she help being
to accompany him any where on the
wide earth? These demands, incessantly
repeated, insistently uiged and pressed,
wore upon the young wife-; she knew
they were actuated by a lovo which jeal
ousy demanded everything from her, but
: hey developed a sort of ooldness and
porverseuess in her niiud.
Online oovaaion, when Hugh asked it
she really loved hiin, she replied listless
ly : "How can you expect me to love you
when you wear m'u out like this? I shall
soon begin to bate you if you go on in
this wt»y."
These careless words produced tho
most profound impression upon Hugh's
mind, and were the .beginning of calam
ity. He brooded oyer them, incessanU
ly repeating tffiein to hfmselt. Ague/,
who was a mere child at and of a
nature not wide enough tijlly to absorb
the idea oi another's, realized nothing of
the suffering she had infiibted. Besides,
Hugh's conduct began to estrange her.
It became his wont to sit l>oking at her,
his large black eyes growing gradually
cavernous in their depths and unearthly
liu their brilliancy: At times he would
[ exclaim, 'You do not love me. You will
soon bate me.' At night lie never seem
ed to sleep, and, hanging the lantern so
that tho rays fell on her lace, blinding
and dizzying her, he would sit on the
edge of the berth staring into her lace
and muttering, 'She hates me!'
Tho voyage was a short one; in ten
days ihey were iu London, whore tboy
met friends, and tor the three month's
which followed both Hugh? and Agnes
had a comparatively happy time. Agti"s
upbraided her husband for his absurdi
ties, and he himself seemed to see his
conduct in the light of day, instead of the
lurid glare of an insane, jealous dread
Still, married lifo was a palpablo disap
pointment to Agues, who bogau to feel
that if she must bend her every faculty
to the task of pleasing a man whose brain
seemed iu a whirl of false and distorted
ideas concerning her and bis love for her
and her feelings fcr him, she should soon
loso all respect lor and belief iu her hus
band.
Towards the latter part of the time they
spent in Loudon Iter cousin. George
Dana, a young man ol twenlyst wo, whom
eho ha I known and loved like a brother
horn her infancy, happened to join in
their party. His coming was the 6ignal
for the roost violent outbreaks of jealcusy
ou Hugh Gieudenning's part. Jlis mind
seemed all astray, he was indifferent to
the fact thai he placed iiis wife in a cruei
and humiliating position; he persisted in
the chimera that an easy habit of intiinas
cy with her cousiu George was the "ex
pression ot a love which far surpassed her
afieeliou for himself. Again and again
he taunted and insulted her nutil she ims
plored her cousiu to teavo London.
George Dana, however, little guessing
Apnea's actual position with a muii who
was half insane, could not be induced (o
go. Ho was not through with liis sight
seeing ; he was interested in the races;iu
(Prom Lippencott's Magazine for April .)
GRAHAM, N C-, WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 1879
short) ho liked m Loud »n at this
tune of the year better than being any
where else in Europe, ami lie insisted on
remaining, and even telt a sort of boy
ish satisfaction in augmenting (ileiiilen
ning's jealousy to die utmost by constant
oilers of attention to the young wife.
liy llie Ist of July Hugh's business
was concluded, and lio took Agnes to
France and Switzerland lor a month, but
lho two were no longer on terms of atlee
lionate intimacy. Hugh was still jeal
ous, and regarded his wile's steady cold
ness as a sign of most chilling indifier
fenco. Agnes, on her side, felt that to
maintain aseinblance of buoyant happi
ness when she felt so dejected at the way
she had been outraged was to lessen her
dignity as a woman. The two sailed
(rotn Havre tor New York on the 14thol
August, 186-. On the seventh day out,
when they were half way across tfje
ocean, Huuh (ileiidenniiiir was suddenly
missed. There was no trace of him on
board tlift steamer, and it was roadilv
concluded that the rash and unhappy
youug man had thrown 'himself over
board.
It was naturally the crnelest possible
trial lor Agnes when she WHS forced to
belieye (hut her husband had committed
suicide. She knew, 100, that he had been
disheartened by her coldness. Again
and again she had repulsed liino when lie
had tried to have an explanation. Nat
urally, now that ho was gone, all the
generosity of her first love returned; she
forgot his faults, and remembered only
her own; and accused herself ot cruelty
and heartlessness, and sorrowed like the
tin despairing cf widows.
it seemed natural, under tlio circum
stances, that Agiics should not OlTl)
mourn, but mourn with peculiar hope
leesuess, for her young husband, who
had been taken troiu her otdv a lew
months after their wedding day. She
sorrOwdfea years, three years;
but by that time her family all began to
mako an eftort to persuade her that it was
wrong thus to continue oppressing not
herself but theru with this long past af
fliction. She was faithful and tenacious
of impressions, but at the end of tour
yeais she had resumed her ordinary dress
and begun once more to mingle in the
society of her mother's house. She was
more attractive than in her girlhood, and
her story was too well known ami created
a touching interest in ller voutli and
beauty. She had several admirers, but
not until George Dana returned did »!ie
allow any one to come near her as a lov»
or. George had, perhaps, always been
fond of her; he was, at any rate, now ar
dently in love with Iter, ltcmambcring as
Agnes did poor jealousy
of the young man in London, it was with
some mental disq jiclude and outward
fctrujfglo that alio allowed herself to yield
to the feeling* that, she could love again,
and love her cousin George.
However, his courtship was eoiarßuc
oe-sful that she promised to inarry him
when she had passed the fifth anniversary
ot her husbands death. That date, whicli
was to divide her old allegiance from her
new, was tho 2Gth of August, 186-. The
day passed quietly in the pleasant
country-house. George Dana was to
conio in the evening, and Agnes rose
when she heard the train whistling at
tho bend, and said she would walk across*
the fl'ld to meet her lover. Every one
siuiled and no one offered to accompany
her. The family, consisting of the father
anil mother of Ague*, lief three sisters,
and four of her married sisters children,
all sat on the piazza waiting for Agnes
and George to return to tea,
Suddenly Maty Holt exclaimed, "If
Hugh Glendenning were alive, I should
say that was he;" and she pointed to a
man who passed the house a£ a distance
ot some two rods, and who now at her
exciamation, lilted his hat aild bowed.
• The sight of this man created tho most
powerful sensation in the group, and Mr.
Holt sprang to his feet and went down
to tho gate; but ho had vanished. Tho
likeness to Hugh Glendenning had been
startling; not only his face, bat his
attitude and gesture and gait seemed to
have do dared that it was Hugh Glen
denning himself. In another moment
Goorge Dana came running up, calling
for help. He had, he said, while cfoss*
ing the fields to meet Agues, seen her in
conversation with a uiau who looked
like Hugh Glendening, and who strode
away, on his approach, and when he
himself reached her alio had swooned
away and was lying on the ground.
Th troubled which now overwhelmed
Agues and her lamily was one of those
cruel enigmatical trouble which take all
frcisliuess out of life. Agnes, when re
stored to consciousness, declared that
while she was grossing the fields her
husband had suddenly starter! out from
behind a tree, caught her by tho arm,
held her lightly clutched, and said to her
in a horrible tone, ''Do not dare to marry
that mau !" r and that she remembered no
more until she opened her eyes and saw
her mother bending over her. A nights
ful bruise on the tender flesh of her arm
corroborated her story. The family had
all seen a man who. it not Hugh Glen
denning, was his absolute likeness.
George Daua was the only one who
combatted tho truth ,of these. He de*
clared it to bo wholly impossible that
Glendenning should bo alivo; he himself
had-questioned tbe captain and officers
on board the steamer after the suicide
five years ago. £verythiiig pointed con
clusively to the belief that the unhappy
man had been drowned. The steamer
had been searched oyer and over. On
the fatal day of the disappearance they
had not even sighted a vessel or boat;
thus there could have beeu 110 rescue from
the sea. He was dead. George decided
with irresistible decision. When con
fronted with the tact that they had *lf
seen Hugh or his ghost, ho declared it
it to be a chance resemblance; that
Asjnea was dispirited and nervous, and
when thf man touched Iter, disordered
imagination supplied Hie words sUu Re
lieved him to have spofceM.
George, however, being broken-heart
ed at the failiue of his engagement, was
not lo be trusted a? a counsellor in such
a crisis. Tho marriage »vas given up.
AdvertUemci ts writ' put in the principal
papers for a vcar imploring Hugh Glen
denning, it alive, to communicuto with
his wife and tu;r.i.'y, but not a word was
hcird from him. Agnes nnturatlv
suffered the crudest form of suffering—
suspense and '.dread and helpless and
hopeless misery. Her past was em
bittered, present she bad none, and the
future was full of doublS arnijieri'iM's.
Gradually, as two years, then three
years, passed, every one save herself
ceased to believe in tho rcnlify of the
apparition which had startled them all
26th dav of August. And at times even
Aghes herself djubtod tho evidence of
her senses. How could it bo possible
I (hat Hugh was still alive when all those
past eight yerr-) ho had nevor disclosed
him&elt to the sight of auv of his friends?
"When ho might M>me and claim her be
fore all the world, what possible object
could he have for lurking iu shadow
only caring to overwhelm Tier when she
mado an effort nt renewed lies?
Gcorgo Dana nttlur*ll,v was not slow
to help her in these questions and donbts.
He tried,too, tu inspire her with courajre,
that instead of cowering helpless before
vague and nameless shadows in the dark
nesi, she should resolutely go on and
meet and grasp and defy them. By this
lime, too she was legally freed from her
husband, oven it he were according
to the laws of her State; more than
eight years had passed since his apparent
death. Annes was at last persuaded lo
end tho long suspense. She suffered not
only for herself but f»r. Uuol'gfc, whose
lit) was spoiling, and finally consented
ty marry him privately from her Sister's
house, iu New York. Their plans were
not discussed beyond the family circles;
it was decided that the two should quictlv
walk out to the city chu'ch, and then and
there bo married by a strange clergyman.
Thus everything unpleasant would bo
avoided, and before consequences wore
faced they would be actually met and
conquered.
The plan seemed destined lo bring the
happiest results. The morning ot the
wedding-dav dawned* Agues quietly
ate her breakfast, then went to her room
and put on her bonnet to go out and get
married. As she stood at the window
drawing ou her gloves a man stopped
suddenly on the pavement, lookod up and
gave a warning gesture, and theu
ascended the doorstep.
A moment later her sister entered the
room and found Iter sitting down by the
firo, huddling as if lo warm herself.
•Why. Agnes,' said she, 'I expected to
find you all ready to start. Hero is a
little package wliioh some ono has just
brought you. Unless it were a secret
about the woddiiig, 1 should suppose this
was a present.'
'There will bo no wedding,' said
Agues, in a hopeless tone. *1 have just
seen Hugh again.. It was he who brotlglit
that. Lot me see it.'
She opened the little parcel listlessly.
It contained a ring—a man's wedding
ring—the very one she had given Hugh
nine years before.
Agnes has never seen her husband
sinco. Whether he is alive she does not'
know; whether he died on tho 26th day
of August at sea she docs not know;
whether the chain of contradictory cir
cumstances wo havo narrated were
actual and based upon correct hypotheses
that he himself appeared twice before
her in the flesh she does not know.
George Dana,urged by her entreaties and
her prayers, finally renounced all hope
of overcoming her reluotance to even
think of hiin after her double warning
and married. Agues is a
saddened, changed aud iLclancboly
woman.
HOKRIBI.fC StTOUV IKON MEXICO
(Logansport Journal)
Last week, in Chihuahua, a woman
weul iii a shomaker's shop in front of
Uis dwelling and was measured for a
pair of slioes- The son of Crispin said
to the woman} "Yon have a very pretty
foot." S® o you tbink so?" said she.
lfe replied; "Yes; that is the prettiest
foot in Mexico," The woman was to
come back next day and leave one dollar
when the shoes were to be commenced-
The shoemaker's wife, hearing all, said
nothing. The next day the shoemaker
was out when the woioan with the pretty ,
foot called, according to the agreement, |
and the wife got her into the back room
and stabbed her to death. The wife
then out a steak out of the dead womans
leg and packed the body under the bed.
The shoemaker came home and ate his
dinner. Th J wife asked him how he li
ked the meat. He answered th4t it was
the best he had ever eaten. The wife
then told him he had eaten n part of the
prettiest leg in Mexico. He asked her
what she inent. She showed him the
body under the bed, and made a dash at
him with a knife, but he escaped and
ran to thV Palacio and' t01.4 the judge
what had happened. The judge sum
moned a guard of soldiers&nd went to the
house. He asked the wife if she had
committed the murder, and when bho an*
swerodyeaand attempt ml to justify ths
act he ordered her to be shot on the
spot by the soldiers, and his orders wert
promptly dbej ed.
■.tlNti ANd I H )RT ft 1 J? K Pit Hilt
Seamen nnd'soldiera, from a habit can
sleep wli u tlity Will, and wake when
they will, Capt. Barclay, when pen
forming his wonderful feat of walking
1,000 miies iu as many consecutive
bonis, obtained such mastery over hiul
st-ll that he tell aslaep the minute he lay
down. The faculty of remaining asleep
for a length of time ia possessed by some
individuals. Such was the case with
Qninu the celebrated player, who would
slumber for 24 hours successively; with
Elisabeth Orvin, who slept three fourths
of her life.' with Elisabtth Perkins,
who slept for a week or a fortnight at n
time; with Mary Lyell, who did the
same for successive weeks; and with
many others more or less remarkable.
A phenomenon of an opposite character
is somethner obsiryed, for there are in
dividuals who can eiist on 9 surprisigly
small portion of sleep. 'The celebrted
General Elliott was an instance of his
kind; he never slept jnore than four
hours out of twenty fonf. In all other
respects he was strikingly abstinent, his
food consisted wholly of bread, water and
vegetables . In a letter addressed to
Sir. John Sinclair by John Gordon, Esq,
ot Swine, mention is made of a person
named John Mackey, of Skorry, who
died ia Strathnaye in the yeaf 1797,
aged uinety one; he only slept on an aver
age of four hours in 24, and was a res
niarkably robust and healthy man. Fred
ric the Great of Prussia and Ihe illus*
trions surgeon John Hunter only slept
five hours during the same period
The celebrate French General, Pichegro,
informed Sir. Robert Blaine that during
a whole year's campaign lie had not al
lowed himself above one hours sleep in
the twenty four.
SEffitttll liOOANS RRCENT Wt-
CKOVOKKD A TTACH UPON LINII.
IiAV NUKUAV
Senator Logan, of Illinois, has been
accused by the editors and correspon
dents of some of the papers of nsing un«
grammatical language, and the editor of
the Cincinati Timet called upon the
editor of the Baltimore Gazette to my
whether or Rot the charge was true| and
tho Gazette editor responds as follows:
"Our genial fritlnilj. Col. Boyden, of
the Cincinati Timet, desires that we
should publickly state whetlier We heard
Senator John A. Logan in his rocent
speech commit any grammar
or do violence to the agreeable relations
which should exist between nouns and
verba. Being duly sworn, we proceed
to say that we were present in the Senate
sitting in the seat with Senator Davis,
of Illinois, when Mr. Logan delivered
his speech. WV heard him dis
tinctly make use of the following exprest
skins; 'lf I had ofknowed it," I, have
Biw the time,' etc., 'he done this without
reflection.' Mr. Logan also used *tbe
following sentence, whiolt we do' not
find recorded in his speech iu the JRec
ord-. 'I ain't been yet in a position to
hear such sentiments as tboso norated
through the settlemeut, but I have long
suspicioned in my own mind that thero
is men in this here body which would,
if they have the power, pluck the blue
empyrean fcom the agis of the American
eagle without stopping to reflect whero
the country was goiug lo or drifting at.'
We submit that' some portione of this
sentence will not bear eritisal analy
sis."
THE VBIJIT CDOP OF THE VlfltßD
IfATKI,
The value of lruit crops in the United
States is estimated by the government
statistician at $149,000,000 annually, or
abont half the value of the wheat crop.
The valuo of the annual crop of MichU
gan is put down at $4,000,000. California
has 60,000 acres of vineyards producing
10,000,000 gallons of wine annually, be
sides vinegar, raisins, brandy and fresh
grapes. The other States produce
6,000,000 gallons of wine annually. The
single port of Norfolk. Va., reported
$8,000,000 qnarts of strawberries last
year. Illinois, a prarie State whoso
fruit growing is of recent origin, now has
32,000 acres of orchard*. According to
recent official Jtatemeuts, the laud ap
pritded to this branch of Industry is
5,500,000 acres. Upon this there flourish
112,000,000 apple trees, 28,000.000 pear
trees, and 113,270,000 pea.:h trees, and
141,260,000 grape fines.
Littlo Laura was tired and sleepy on
New Year's night when she prepared
for bed, and forgot to say her 'Now 1
lay nn,' and iii apology to liei* mother
tor Ihe neglect said as site uiirired a Way
at her little stocking*: »f (ouidu'i go to
heaven to mamma ai.yhow in the
world, los lam too tired.'
A dent and dumb temperance man
would give all the work! it he could say
no when asked to drink.
NO, 17
G leaning *
There is one tiillig Which you can glvd
I lo other peojilo hii'l still keep i!, and that
is }our Wont. —N. }"- Tribune.
A disobedinnt little* girl being told bjr
Iter uiotliei-(hat it was necessary that)
sbe should oo vvlii|>|>ed, said:'' Well, ma, ,
then I suppose I must: hut won't you
give nic chloroform Inst I"
There are 9,000,000 pair of corset*
made io the United States annually *
whisk may be taken as some evidence of
how much squeezing a woman can
stand before they scream.
A man was hanged for horse-stealing
down in Southwestern Missouri, brat
week, andjust before ho swung vtf he
confessed that .for nearly two years
he had been addicted to wedrihg a live*
pad.—Jlttiokeye.
What more precious offering can bd
laid upon tliu altar of a man's heart than
first love of a pure, earnest and alfecti-.u*
ate girl, when an undivided interest iu
eight corner lota' and fourteen three*
story houßos.
Artificial ice, ia said toTbe superior to
nature's product, ia manufactured in the
South at a cost of only 70 cents |*-r ton.
It is turned out in blocks two and a
halt feet long by ten inches in thick •
neea.
Of the leading candidates for Preais
Hency, Grant is 67, Hayes i* 67, Sher
man 46, Conkling 61, and Blaine 48,
On the Democratic side, fh.il hiah lit 66
Til tin ia 66, Davia 64, Hetidricka,6o.
Bayard 61. Grant and Uayea were
born in the some year,lß22.
It ia well enongh to hang up a chromo
with 'God bleaa our home' on it; but it
wiM do no harir by helping ou the
matter by a little less fretting. A great
many people ask the do what
they won't lift their little fingera to do
themselves.
The Silver Springs, of Florida, cover
an acre of ground, are nearly 100 f***t
deep, and wind off a stream 60, to 100
feet wide, extending eight miles to tin'
Oclawalia river. Sixty boats can lie at
anchor in the spring, aud the water ia'htJ
clear that a fish or pebble can be aeen at
a depth of eight feet.
the fuheral of General Jaa. Shields
in Carrolton, Mo., last Wednesday, the
two awords presented to hi in by the
States Illinois and South Carolina, lor
gallantry in the Hexieafl war, were
crossed over the cofin. The gift of 111- *
inoia Coat $2,000, and that of South
Carolina SB,OOO, both are richly stud
ded with jewels. The immediate causa
of the death of General Shields was the
opening of the old wound iccieved
him at the battle of Cerio Go-do.
Children hare their own way of solv*
ving great mysteries, and who shall say
that science -knows better than they?
When it waa thundering little Mary sat
thinking, what to make of the awful
nclae she did not kuow. At last, howev
er, she bfij/tened up aud said. Mamma,
1 reckon Dodd is po finding un tlw floor
to make the people behave. Ot the
same kind of philosophy waa the reply of
tbo boy 1 Whofcafcd at the stars, and theu
guessed that that they were gimlet holes
hi the floor of heaven to let the glory
through.—JV". I\ Herald.
FAKKIONABI.It STHPATDr,
A rather flashily-dressed yonng lady
in company with her mother was coming
out ot a church in a city, and while waifc- :
iug down the massive stone steps the old
ladv slipped aud went headlong to the
sidewalk. The daughter, horror-ati liken
hid her face in a $25 haukcrchiet, ami
Instead of helping her mother np blurted
out,'Oh, mother, such an ideal liow
could ron fall lieUe? You are perfectly
aw lull I am sorry I came out with
you.
POLITinISSIS KIRDNASS,
At the table the converaation tell upon
the subject vf poltMnM*. ho-tcaa
told of a friend of hers, a lit.lie auiique in
her maimers, for'w hom a reception waa
given bv owe of the IfcWWi street arls
tocracy ot Hosioii. At dinner tlie guest
{►onred on* her tea in her saneer to eool
t—a method ot lefrigeratlon whiah wan
quite an fauit thirty'; years n*»». The
f;oesta looked attrprised, and soino Were
iiclined to smile at her almplieiiy and
ignorance ot high toned propriety, but
the lady of the house ponred some tea
Into her saneer and drank therefrom.
'I bis was considered a hint to all, and
the guest wua immediately placed at her
ease.
DreM I»llllwt Aftrr Tklrtr Year*,
Two yonng men, residents of Nor
ridgewock, Me., met one morning, and
one said: "Charles, I dreamed laat
that yon were a judge of the supreme
court oi Maine, that I was a minister,.
anQ that you calied on die to o|ien your
court with prayer." Just thirty yearn
after this the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Alton,
late president of the State College,
happened to st*?p in the Supreme court
room in Augusta. Judge Charles Duu*
fotth bnckaticd to him, and a*-ktd him
to open his court with prayt r, and behold
the dreuui was veribud