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f 3 ILIEAMIEnB, PRINTED BY H. S. NOBLE, SALEM, STOKES CO. NORTH-CAROLINA. IOIIN C.BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1829. NO. 19. fj re, IS FSINTED A3D PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MOENINC. TERMS Oxe Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; Ose Dollar and 25 Cents, at the end of six months but if not faid within the year, the price will be Ose Dollar and IFTT CtSTS. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding week. 1 2J1 letters on business must be post paid, or they will not be attended to. - VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, FOR SALE. ' nnilE Subscribers will sell,V i u w unout jail, at 3locksviue, on Fridav, the 15th dav of May next, on accommodating terms, the most valuable Plantation I in tiie county oi Kowan, lhe tract is situate d m the rorks t f the Yadkin, on Cedar creek, and contains between Four and Fice Hundred Acres. TV dwelling-house is new ami commodious,' with suitable out-holies, and a Htill-IIouu ; the plantation is in excellent v fair. The healthiness of the situation and superior fertility d( the sod, gives this plantation a fair preference, for all the j urposes of agriculture, over a'ny in the county. Also, will be soil ?t the same time, the Tr.cern House in Mocksville, accommodated with stables, a garden. &.c. being as eligible a situation for that business as any in the county ; and two other Houses and Lots in JHoekevillc. Persons wishing to purchase, may call upon the subscribers ;.t anv time before the day of bale. j . J. D. JONES, ' B. (I. JONES, March in. le-29. ISttt '- JNO. CLEMENT. LAND FOR SALE. WISH to sell the Plantation whereon I now reside, lying on the road generally called " Cucumber Road," leading from a- lcm to Randolph C. House, on the waters of South Turk, about 4 miles south ot Salem, in Mokes county. The tract of Land contains about 200 acres, of which a lout H) acres, including an excellent meadow end a w ell se ! ( ted fn:it orchard, are in a good stale of cultivation; the halrfnce i woodland, and a reat,part low grounds, inferior ... r...,. tlilj coft'iAn nf rnnntrv. The Mill Seat on this almost never failing stream; the South Fork, adds, and is of ni small "imnort.iiir.e to its value. The improvements con- vi-t of a dwelling-house, barn, stabh-3, and other out-houses, mostly new and in good order. 1 hose inclined to purchase, :iro invited to call and view the premises, and learn further ..articular.' JONATHAN WILLIAMS. March 13, 1829. 2m20n A Kerry Creditor. In Crofton Croker's Le gends of Killarney, we read the following story, il lustrative of the relation between the debtor and creditor: Murtogh Mac Mahon's mansion was named Cloonina, and though now it is, with its grass covered avenue, the very abstract of desolation and solitude, yet it once was the scene of unres trained hospitality and mirth. Mac Mahon had a good stud of horses, a noble pack of hounds, and an excellent wine cellar. His deer park was on a hill opposite to the house, and here the gentry of Clare frequently j came Attachment. STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, stokks corxTY. Qo-.irl of Pleas and Quarter Sessions March Term, 1C20. Elisha Mendenhall ) vs. ' Christopher Swaim. ) IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the de fendant in this case is not an inhabitant of this State, or that lm so absconds or conceals himself that the ordinary pro cess of law cannot be served on him : It is therefore ordered, that t.ublir:itinn be made in the Weeklv Gleaner, for six work., for Christopher Swaim to appear at our next Court, on the second Monday of June, and plead or demur, other wise liual judgment will be entered against him. w MATTHEW It. MOORE, c. c. It v Co?stantise L. Banner, D. C. Ccnnanlci, lth March, li29. 17t pr. adv. 1 75 " State of North-Carolina Stokes County. March Term, 1829. IT appearing to the Court, that a negro man who calls him self John linker, lias been confined in jail for 12 months, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that notice Las been gicn in the State Gazette according to law : It is therefore ordered by the Court, that tfie Sheriff of this Coun t make sale of the said runaway nejrro according to law. MATTHEW "It. MOOHE, c. c. By C. L. Ba.nnek, D. C. Pursuant to the above order of Court, I shall otlVr the above mentioned negro for sale, for ready money, to the highest bidder, at the Court-House door in Cienuanton, on the second Monday of June next. ' S. STONE, Sherif. Sheriff Ofice, March 9, 1329. UJi pr. adv. f 2 "5 The joys of Murtogh's halls to find, And chase with him the dark brown game That bound o'er Callon's hills of wind. An itinerant pedlar, either a Swiss or an Italian, by name, as it is traditionally pronounced, John O perrow, one morning went to the house of Cloonina, and displayed his wares, ribands, shawls, knives, and scissors. Murtogh Mac Mahon saw the display, and it found favor in his sight, for he bought, or at least declared himself the purchaser of the whole tocu in traue oi the wandering merchant, it was i Christmas time : and this stock was in less than half an hour distributed, without much difficulty, among the pretty girls in the neighborhood. But what was the amount named for the purchase money never transpired ; neither, indeed, is it now of any great consequence that it ever should. Murtogh j Mac Mahon, who was going out to hunt, desired the pedlar to wait until John White, Ins steward, 1! r should return from Kilrush, in the evening, w hen it should be paid. He then gave orders that Oper row should be well treated in the servants' hall, J mounted his horse, and rode off to his sport. It so happened, that John White did not return that day nor even the next ; and Operrow, who found himaelf j in excellent quarters, was, to use "the local phrase, 1 " by no manner of means" over anxious for his ar rival. Neither when John White did return was he at all pressing for the payment of his demand ; and as Murtogh Mac Mahon was " by no manner of means ' pressing on his side of the matter, (which is proved by his never having made the most remote allusion to the subject, from the day of his purchase ; to the. day of his death,) John Operrow remained unpaid, the inmate of the house of Cloonina upwards of fifty years.'' Unknown Roman City. At the distance of ten leagues south-east of Cutahia, one of the highest points of Asia Minor, is an ancient Roman city un visited by modern travellers, and of which, even the ancient Itineraries make no mention. Its principal edifices consist of a large theatre, a stadium, sever al groups of columns in good preservation, but no great height ; an Ionic temple of the most elegant architecture with columns (luted, and of a single block of marble thirty feet in height : these support .an entablature very much enriched and in exquisite taste. From an inscription in the pediment it ap pears that this temple was restored in the time of Adrian, and dedicated to Apollo. The site is wa tered by a small stream which passes over a Roman bridge, in excellent preservation, as is the vault, al so Roman, to which it leads. Laborde's Address. There is now living in Providence, (R. I.) a man aged about fifty-eight years, who was never out of the State of Rhode Island, never sick, or took me dicine ; never shaved by any but himself; never sued or was sued ; has been up before sunrise every day in the last forty years : and has not tasted any kind of inebriating liquor for thirty years. FROM THE NATIONAL IXTELLIGENCER. TIIE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE. A State Temperance Society has recently been formed in the State of New York at a meeting held at Albany. The Chancellor of the State (Wal worth) w as elected President of the Society, and, on signifying his acceptance of the office, made some remarks, which are worthy of being remem bered. He said " he had not drank a gill of ardent spirits of any kind for five and twenty years, and during a considerable part of that time, be had re sided in the cold climate of the North ; that he had inhaled the noxious vapors which arise from the sluggish streams of the Illinois, the Oakaw and the Wabash ; that he had frequently been subjected to great bodily fatigues, and exposed to the inclemen cy of the weather, but in none of these situations had he found it necessary to resort to the use of ar dent spirits, even as a medicine. That he had tra velled in that part of the Union where the use of ar dent spirits is carried to the greatest excess in a sickly season, where disease and death were found in nearly every house, and he was told it would be impossible to preserve his health tinless he drank ar dent spirits w ith his water, but that the contrary was Consolation. In Sir Malcolm's History of Per- the fact. He would not say that ardent spirit were ia, we read, amongst the traditions concerning the j never useful as a medicine, but he had no hesitation death of Alexander the Great, as follows : " He in expressing his belief that the use of them was w rote to his mother, saying he should shortly quit this never absolutely necessary, and he had no doubt it earth, and pass to the regions of the dead. He said was generally deleterious to health. He said he that the alms given on his death should be bestowed ( could also testify as to the demoralizing effects of on such as had never seen the miseries of this world, j ardent spirits ; that during the five years in which and had never lost those who were dear' to them. In conformity to his will, his mother sought, but in vain, for such persons; all had tasted the woes and griefs of life ; all had lost those w hom they loved he presided in the higher criminal courts, it had been his painful duty to consign many of the unfor- ! tunate victims of intemperance to the State Prison, and some to the gallows ; mat, trom tne lacis ai She found in this a consolation, as her son had in- (j closedin the course of judicial investigation, he had tended, for her great loss. She saw that her own was the common lot of humanity." A good stand for business. Monsieur being about to remove from his shoo, his landlord enquir ed the reason, statin?, at the same time, that it was considered a very good stand for business. The Frenchman replied, with a shrug of the shoulder, i " O yes, he's very good stand for de. business : me stand all day nobody come to make me move lor de business." been able, in at least three-fourths of all the cases of convictions before him to charge the commission of crime directly or indirectly to the use of ardent spir its : and he concluded by saying that lie considered it the duty of every friend of humanity to exert w hatever influence he possessed to stay this physic al and moral pestilence, which is spreading through the land, and filling the country with disease and crime." In a visit to the almshouse at Philadelphia I was tf assured that the great majority of the inmates were brought there as the consequence of drinking. Lting. A liar is subject to two miifulunes; neither to H In a visit to the Penitentiary I found that nearly believe, nor be believed. i all the cases oi assault and battery and mansuugn- i j I
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