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. . ■' - - _ ; : - •• IX II | THE AIJAMANOB GLEANER. VOL. 7. ... " . # « I * C|>t jUamanrt PI/BUSHED WUKKLY AT &mfc«MS. n. c. Eldridge Sf Kernodle, PKOPHIETORD. Tiitxi: l»ne Year fj.so Sir Months ~.75 Throe Months . "eo Every pei-tron sending ns a el«l» of ten -sub scribers with thu cash, entitles himself to one copy free, for the Ichgli of time for which the r.t*b is made up. Papers sent to different offices No Departure from the Cath. Ajysfem POSTAGK PItEPAID AT TIIH3 Off ICE iBVKRTinna RAVEI: 1 in. I * In. 3 ih. % -ol X col 1 col. 1 week 100'*l!50t 200 S4OO *?sPtl2oo 2 " 13.) 200 J6O 700 11 001 MQO 3 " 175 350 BSO 800 13 80 18 00 I ino., 200 390 4SO 950 15 00 23 00 a " 3K 450 600 10 50 17 50 80 Oo 8 " «00 600 750 18 50 20 00 33 00 6 " 650 10 00 13 50 15 00 35 00 45 00 8 " 10 00 1540 1800 3000 48 00 8000 Yearly advertisements changed quarterly if 4 (mired. Local notices ten cents a line, first Insertion Mo local Inserted for less than flftv cento. - PROFESSIONAL CARDS. i ■ ■ - ' 'v-v i J SO. W. GRAHAM, JAS. A. GRAHAM, Hillsooro, N. O. Graham, N. C. GRAHAM St 0 BAH AM, ATTORNtrS ATI.AW, Practice in the State snd Federal Courts, C3*Speciil attention paid to collecting. J. D. KERNODLE, Attorney KBAIUII, N.C. Practices in the State and Federal Cour'.s- Wi!l faithfully and promptly attend to all busi a«ss intrusted to him £2. &. PABKEB, ATTORNEY, UKAHAMi I*. C. Will attend regularly the Superior Courts of Alauiance, as well. Person, Chatham and Ran dolph, and the Federal courts at Greensboro, business entrusted to hint shall liavei faithful attention, ®-t 80. ly. Dr. J. W. Griffith DENTIST €IRAII AM, N.C., la fully prepared to do any ami all- kinds of work pertaining to the profession. Special attention given to the treatment of diseases.of the MOUTH. CALLS ATTENDED in TOWN oa Cooxrar. Bp* ieo* W. Ijouss GENERAL PRACTITIONER 1 Medicine and Surgery URAIIAJI, !*« V. Fare and fresh drugs always cm bind. 9. 1. 80. ly. . T. B. Eldridge, Attorney at Law, GRAHAM, If. C. Practices In "the State and Federal Courts. All business fiftrusted to him shall receive prompt and carcfnl attention. ' ADVERTISEMENTS. Just Received. Genuine Farmers Friend Plows, all nuin cers. Piow Points, Land Sides, Mould Boards, Bolts and Clevises. ' _, SCOTT & DONNELL' T. E. JONES Livery Sf Feed Stables Graham, 11. €• Good horses and boggles for litre at reason® blc ritcw Horses fed at 35cU. per meal. 1L 15. 80. ly. Prices reduced Perfected Farmers Friend Plows made in Petersburg Va. One Horse No. 5 Price fix a Horse No. 7 " Two Howe No. 1% '• Fwo Horse No. 8 For sale at Graham (7 SCOTT A DONNELL GRAHAM, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881. I . fi , 4 -ae '■s Otl» (j.* I Remarks by Re?. Gabe Tucker. You may notch it on de palin' as a mighty resky plan To make your judgmenfby de do's dat kiyers up'a mau; I For I hardly needs to tell you how you often i come 'across I j A fifty-dollar saddle on a twenty-dollar hose. ■ An' wuking In de low grounds, you'd skiver as y'ou go. | Oat the finest* fbnek may hide the nreftnes' nubbin in a row ! I think a man has got a mighty slender chance for fleben Dat holds 00 to his piety but one day out of seben : Dat talks about de sinners with a heap o' sol emn chat, An' nebber draps a nickls in de missionary bat; Dat's foremost in de meetia' house for raisin all de chunes. '/ But lays aside his 'ligion with his Sunday pan. taloons! I never judge o' people dat I meets along de way By do places whar dey come from an' de houses whar dey stay; For d« Bantam chickens awful fon o' roostln' pretty high, An' de turkey-buzzard sails above de eagle in de sky; Dey ketches little mlnners in de middle ob de sea, And you finds de smallea' 'possum up de bigges' kind o' tree! for Prohibition. Correspondence of the GLBANEK. Few poople, perhaps, are wholly aware of the immense power of that influence they exert upon their (allow creatures either lor good or evil. Power, perhaps consider that they are responsible to God ior that influence. And yet, it seems that with so powerful a light or revelation and Christian experience, ov* ory person who has arrived at the years of maturity is loft without doubt as to what is his duty and entirely without an excuse lor committing error. The di vine law clearly teaches us that Wo are responsible to God, nofonlyTOr otn own conduct, but, to a certain extent, for the conduct or others. There are men. how. ever wfeo deny that tbey aro their'broth* ers' keepers to any extent. In 110 case, perhaps, is a man's influence more pow erful—alas! tor evil—hi* moral responsi bility more weighty than in the liquor traffic. ■ But the claw of men who oppose prohibition, it may bei willnot acknowl eJge the truth of tbis asiertiou. They don't want .to think, tbtt tliey will ever hare to stand beforo the judgment bar of Almighty Gcd and give an account of the influence they loud to sustain and perpetuate an evil that is annually car rying its victim* by thousands down to hell. It is an indlaputablr fact, an un quobtionablo truth. Tbey must think it. They -must know it. Aoti'prohib* itionists are not Justifiable in the course they have taken. Perhaps all of them would admit that intemperance is an evil and many acknowledge that the llquor truffic is not right, yet they are deter mined to vote against prohibition. For what reason? For no good, legitimate reason under the sun. It seems obvious that every man who supports the liquor trsffl: is prompted by Belflali motives to act thus, tfe either likes wb'skey or realizes some pecuniary profit from the rnanutaelnre aud sale ol it. How can 1 any christian man support the traffic in the droadinl poison wbee he knons that he is thereby perpetuating druiikenno c s and crime? Can ho do it wi'hout being a partaker o( other men's sins? The Bible says, 'Neither bo parlakor of other men's sins.' That wo may share largely in the responsibility of sios committed by .otb» ers, HO christian, in the light of. reason aud rcvelaMon ran deny. No one can drink without influencing others to drink, and if they drink so as to be ruined, ho whose example was the oc casion of their drinking must be held ac countable for the results of bis ioflueuce iu (his respect. The mau who tolerates an evil is certainly not duly mindful of the apostolio injunction 'that no man put a stumbling •blozk or an oscaaion to fall in bis brother's way,' nor does he imis tale an apostle's noble philanthropy avowed when he said, 'lf meat make my brother to offend, 1 will eat 00 flesh ' while the world staodeth, leat I make my brother to offend.' Our anti-prohib ition friends are very unreasonable in re fusing to carefully examine both sides ot this great moral question. Tbey have sufficient intelligence at their command to enable them (o see mid understand > this subject properly bat tbey close their eyes upon it and refuse to see any but 1 that which tbey consider to be their own individual Interest. Tbey can't produce a reasonable argu> I merit 00 their side and they won't listen Jto au argument on lb; other. Many oi Sg—i— __ them even refuse to listen to a\ public •peeeb on prohibition. They even dare to stay from the house of tied because the preacher says a Word or two about prohibition. Their mind is made up. They don't want to be convinced that tbey are wrong. They are determined to bear no argument against tbeir cause, and thereby not be oonvinced oi their error. I would remind this class of what the wise man aaid: 'There is a way which soemetb light onto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.' Men who support the liquor-traffic may think it seems right to them, but certaiuly they must acknowledge that tho results of it are the 'ways of death.' Man's moral re sp)iisibility iu this cAse is too great for him to shake it off. lie can't support this evil and escape with impunity. lie may put up many petty excuses bnt none will justify bis course. How often do we hear the cry of 'liberty! liberty!' 'Prohibition trill take away our rights.' Why, sirs, what an absurd idea! How | can it take away a thing you never post sessed? You never'had a right to env gage in the liquor-traffic, to support it, or even tolerato it in any way. Individ uals cannot confer a right they do not possess. Man surrenders in right on becoming a member of society, for be lias none to surrender. He never had a right to do any thing against its welfare. As a created, accountable being, all bis rights, from the uecessity of the case, are derived. Sooiety and its agent, govern* ment are divine institutions, essential ,to the perfection of the race. Hence, God who gives all rights, never confeired any right to destroy or injure tbem. Man has the power to sin, but no right; he has the power to mislead others by evil example, but no right; he has the power to debase his physical, intellectual, and moral faculties by intemperance, but no right. And, it seems, that while men have the powpr to vote against psoliibi don. tbey have uo right. 'Prohibition is forciug men to do right,' they say. So it is, and shame on the mau that has to be forced to his duty. Legal suasion has to be resorted to when nothing else will do. The great principle |[of legisla tion is to prohibit all that is agaiuat the general welfare. Civil is a distinctive feature of God's moral admint istratioo: and all its power, as well as right, is ultimately derived from llira. The only question to bo considered when ,it is proposed to prohibit by law the sale of iutoxicating drinks as a beverage, is whether such sale is an evil. On this poiut no argument is needed. That it is an evil no rational man will deny. N® mtu in sincerity can ask God's blessing on 'This traffic and call Him to witness that he follows it because he be lieves it promotes the health, wealth, happiness, and spiritual welfare and god liness of the community. Unless a man cau ask God's blessing upon the liquor* traffic he has no right to vote against prohibition. Christian men beware! Your example is powerful. Your chili dren are walking in your lootstops. If you are not willing to sacrifice some of your sons to the Moloch of inteuipor mice, then I beg you in the namo of Heaven, arise in tho dignity of your manhood and snpprers this evil. I con tend that no man lias a right to be neutral lu this case. There is no neutral ground. The crisis is before us and it must be met. It seems there are but two sides to this question, right and wrong. Then no man needs hesitate as to which he should choose. The case is so plain that 'the man though a fool,' need not err in bis decision. And every man is bound to take one side or the other. No compromise can be ' made. The Saviour said i 'He that is not with me Is aglnst tpe; and he that gatheretli not with me scattereth abroad.' This is a moral question* what will yon do? He member the moral responsibility that rests upon you. Remember if yon sup port the llqucf-traffic you uphold an evil for which sia you are responsible to God. 'Oh! all je helpers to sorrow and crime, Who create death in every clime, Know ye that the Lord though He may delay ( Ha* in reeerre for the last great day, The terrible woe of whose solemn weight, No mortal can know till the pearly gate Is closed and all With one accord, Acknowledge the jilttjce of tbeir reward.' PHIUUVTHBOFHIST. Melville, N. C. —• She was decorating her room with pictures, and she perched bis photo upou the topmost nail} then she sat down to admire her work, and remarked quietly' 'Now everythicg is lovely aud the gooee bangs birfb I' ——r - * The Irishman's Proverbial Aversion to Frogs. Patrick, to his recently arrived -cousin: 'Aud, Jemmy, d've moind the little things that rise up lu the watber an' holler chugg? Sure the divil himself wouldn't face two of thim.' Ctoltean's Vile Crime.'" T' AUTHENTIC HISTORY OV ITS CONCEPTION AND EXECUTION— BOW HI PLANNED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT AT CHURCH—DETAILED STATE MENT BT DISTRICT AT TORN XT CORKIIttL. United States District Attorney Cork* bill has authorised the publication of the following in order to correct certain false statements ' The interest fell by the public in the detrils of the iusassination and the many stories published justify me in stating that the following is a correot and ac curate statement concerning the points to which reference is made: The assassin Charles Gniteau, came to Washington City on Sunday evening, March 6tb, 1881, and stoppod at the Ebbit House, remaining only one day. He then se cured a room in another part of the city, aud has boardod and roomed at various I places, the full details of whieh I have. Ou Wednesday, May 18th, 1881, the as sassin determined to murder the Presl* dent. He bad neither money nor pistol at the time. About the last of Mty be went into O'Meara's store corner of 15th and F streets iu this city and examined some pistols, asking for the largest cali bre. lie was shown two, similar in cah brc, and only different in the price. Ou Weduesday, June Bth, be purchased the pistol which l»s used, for which he paid $lO, he having iu the meantime borrow ed 915 of a gentleman iu this city, on the plea that he wanted to pay his board bill. On the same evening about 7 o'clock he took the pistol and went to tho foot of 17th street and practiced fir ing at a board,firing three shots, lie then returned to his boarding place and wiped the pistol dry and wrapped it in his coat and waited his opportunity. On Sun day morning, June 12th, he was sitting iu Lafayette Park, and saw tho Presi dent leave for the Christian chfircb, on Vermont aveuue, aud he at once return ed to his room, obtaiued his pistol, put it in his hip pocket and followed the President to church; he outered tho church, but found he could not kill him there wit]y>nt danger of killing-some one else. He noticed that the President sat near a window; after churah lie. made an examination of the window and found he could reach it without any trouble, and that from this poiut he could shoot the President through the head withont killing any ono clsa. The following Wedpesday ho Went to. the churoli, examined the location and the window aud become satisfied he could accomplish his purpose, and he deter mined, therefore, to make the attempt at the church the following Sunday, lie learned from the papers that the PresL dent would leave for Long Uranch; be therefore determined to mset him at the de]>ot. He left bis boardiug place about 0 o'clock Satnrday morning, June 18, and went down to the river, at the fool of 17th street, and fired five shots to practice his aim and be certain his pistol was in good order. He tben went to the de pot, and was lu tbo ladies' waiting room of the depot,'with his pistol ready, wbeu the Presidential party ontored. He says Mrs. Garfield looked so weak aud frail that he had not the heart to shoot the President lu ber presence, and, as be knew be would baye another opportuni ty, be left the depot. He had previously engaged a carriage to take him to the jail. On Wednesday evening the President and bis son, and, 1 think, Uni'ed States Marshal Henry, went out tor a ride. The assassin took bis pistol and followed them and watched them for some time in hopes the carriage would stop, but no opportunity was given. On Friday eveniug, July Ist, he was sitting ou the seat lu tb« park oppo site the White House, when he saw the President come out alone. He followed him down the avenue to 15tli street, and then kept on the opposite side of tbo street up 15th, until the President enter ed the residence of Secretary Blaine. He waited at the corner of Mr. Morton's late resideuco 15th and H streets, tof some tLae, and tben, as he*was afraid be would attract attention, be went into ths alley iu the rear of Mr. Mortoa's resi dence, examined his pistol aud waited. Tbo President and Secretary Blaine came out together, and he followed tbeta over to tbe gate of the White Honse, but could get no opportunity to use his weapon- Ou tbe moruiug of Saturday, July 3, he breakfasted at tbe Itiggs House about 7 o'clock. He then walked up into tbe park and sat there lor an honr. He tben took a one-horse avenue car and rode to 6th street, got out and went into the depot and loitered around there, bad his shoes|blacked, engaged, a hackman tor $2 to take him to tbe jail, went into tbe water closet and took his pistol out ot his blp pocket and unwrap ped tbe paper from around It, which he bad put there for the purpose of prevent ing' the perspiration Irons the body dampening tbe powder, examined tbe pistol, carefully tried the trigger, and then returned aud took a seat in the . ladies' waitiug room, aud, as sooii as the [ President entered, advanced behind bim and fired two shots. These facts, 1 think, can be relied upon as acourate, and I give them to the public to contra dict certain false rumors in connection with this most atrocious of Atrocious crimes.' "The Best Thing for Pap." When John Gilbert was walked out to be tried for drunkeneßS a boy abou' fourteen years old rose up and walked forwarJ to tbo bar and said to tbe court: •He's my old pap.' , 'Well, prisonor, the charge against you , is drnukeness,' said bis Honor.« 'I deny it!' was tbe prompt response. I 'Now, see here, psp,' said tbe boy as ■ he faced around, 'there ain't iio use in , acting that way. You was drnnk, and you might as well own np. Lying ain't no good wheu forty men saw you staving ' blind.' 'Well, I guess I was drunk/ , 'I think you have boeu here several times bjslore,' observed Jbe court. •No, sir—no, sir—never hero before, and I'll leave it to Tommy.' 'OhI pap, what a liar!' sighed the boy. 'You have been here three times this spring.' 'Well, then, I have,' giowled the old man. 'I think I told you I should send you i up it you caine again,' 'No, sir, you didn't—l hope to die it yon did!' 1 'Now, psp, you know he did. He's bin powerful kind to you, aud you , shouldn't tell lies.' , 'Well, then, he told me so.' 'iguess I'd better send him up for sixty ! days,' observed his Honor to tbe boy. •Y*e-s, about sixty,' was tho reply. 'I won't be sent!' shouted the old , man. •Ob, yes you will. They're got the law ou you, pap, and they kin chuck you up as easy as eatln' crackers.' •Well, then, I'll go.' 'Yes, go right along. Mam and I will coiuc and see you purty often, and It'll do you good to git olear ot whiskey. Go •long, pap, and good-bye to ye.' '1 bate to, but I will. Good-bye, , Tommy.' The boy went out whistliug, and the father sat down in the corridor and mut > terod that Thomas was probably correct in having bim seut up, though lie should , miss the big eud of tbe berry season*— Free Pre#. A critic as is a critic: A recent visitor i to an art gallery said he preferred the i statues to the pictures, because 'rou kiu , go all round tbe statoos, but you can't i see ouly one side of the pisters.' ! Compassionate old lady (paying ber i fare)—' How Juled your horse looks, driver, is net the bit nucomtertablr \ large for bis month?' Hackman—'lt ) ain't the big bit in his mouth, mum;' it's > the small bit in his stomach.' I , Two workmen were beard disputing t about a new cemetery near which they , were standing. One of them, evidently disliking the fashion iu which it was , laid out, said, in disgustt 'l'd rather die than bo buried lu such a place.' 'Well,', said tbe other, 'l'll be burled anywhere | else if I'm spared.* Dr, L called upon a lady oci quaiutancc, tbe other day, and was met st tbe door by tbe iad>'s little girl. lie asked ber to tell ber mamma that Dr. L —* had called. The child went up | stairs and presoutly returned. 'Did you tell your mamma?' asked tbo doctor. •Yes.' 'Aud what did she say?' 'She said, *O, pshaw!'' Neither of tbem was over (en years | old. One of tbem lesned against tbe teuce, and the other rubbed bis back against a lamp-post, and tbey eyed each ' other for a long time. Then one ot ' tbem said ."My mother has got a new | seal skin sacque, aud your*s haiut.' 'I i don't caret,' replied the other, 'she frizzes ber hair and uses paint, aud that's just as tony,' I A poor momory is a very inconvenient ' thing. So a man found it who lately , called on a friend aud in tbe coarse of i the oo uter sat ion asked Lim bow his good > father wasi 'He is dead; did you not ' know It?' answered the friend. 'lu* , deed! I'am distressed to hear it,' said . the visitor. »I had no idea of it;* aud . be proceeded to express bis sympathy. ' A year afler he called again and forget* t fully askedj ' And how is your good i father?' The clever reply was, 'Still . dead,' i. - . | A little Oil City boy, whose father i gave bim a printing press the other day, ■ baa already discovered tbe daugers and ' pitfalls wbicb surround tbe path of a 1 printer. He set up and printed a little i gllt-edgod card with tbe warning phrase, . 'Paintl Look oath By some means I this card became fastened to bis sister's . hat, and hung just above ber left ear, r where he who ran could road, and when i she weßt down street there was a grin | extending clear from Pearl avenue to i Exchange; and tha'. night tbe bojr traded i off bis printing press tor a yellow dog i aud a popgun. NO. 21. J , A "Let Rivalry with fury fame and fret On North arollna's trade oar aim U ietl" s Scott * Co , gar In n*»maMBWB ■» _ _ ■ Wnm Tale! "•■WWmil, *.c. Factory Manufacturers of TBIKD* T*tJ*—Smoking Tobacco. nOBINAi BBAVTX MICIT, Almtact, CirallM, PMJO AMD TWIST. •'Greatness borrow# not from Noble Ancestry.'* Good Goods brorow not from hollow name!— May 9, 8 in. BABBIS * rums," JOBBERS It IMFOBTEBS OF O BE 818 O 80, N. C., Would be glad to furnish HBBCK&KTS EMuIeS Jllannfactttrcra (Huotatioiw. Special attention riven to the WHOLE SALE TRADE. All order* •hall here onr PERSONAL ATTENTION, Bud will be promptly executed, Jane 80, 'Bl—l7 lj .■ ■ ' i ■'■ r •i'ly Luomt oiiras;. ; Fashionable Barber * , AND HAIR DRESSER AT TUB Q BAH AM HOTEL. Special at tent 100 given to tattles sad ehll' dren'a hair, all Ml get a kottle of Welter's dandruff cure. It Is a sure reusedj sad will prevent hair felling oft Aug. **Bo tf. Scott &Donnell Graham N C Dealers i* BET. «•••«» BIMIRIII mabbwaell bats, ecsts » lenewi, mi*h. •TMi,aAi.T,Mei.Aa. •■a. vEoas, Hißi* "i . THE sin inrss * •f (he PMmil ImiliS. The Old Sellable; i ! Piedmont Warehouse VeBTBEatLBeI Leaf Tobacco, > Opposite Dtpott-r—Rt idtvilU, N. ..I Highest pricee and best accommodations guaranteed. A. J. ELLINGTON A CO., Propu A. J. Ellington, Cashier, -4. M. Andrew A ctloneer, Dick EUin^iou,Clerk, Weddrl Bat, Floor Manager. ■ \ jan 17 6m. THE J GLEANER : m wnm * , j Is prepaid to exec ate Job Printing IN— CHEAT VAMWn **» AND WITH—• . Heatvess And Despatch, mmmemmm. Give Us A TriaL
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