f , ...... ' i r X i3 Rockingham Rocket. Joba Printing. 1 H. C. WALL, Editok ahd Pbofbietor. . Having recently purchased" a firs J? class uuxtlltwt: are prepajretlto do nil kinds of Office: - v WALL orra evcbett, company's. tjBscKtrrrojr rates : $1.50 JOB set. fiix months, Three months, .75 Ud IN' THE I tJAU pnbscrjptjons accounts mast be a j I'-.. " i i i I H. C. YJLLt Editor and Proprietor 5 BEST OP STYLE , JlOCKIXGnAMJRlCnMOND Coitnty, N. C, JULY- 15, 1886. No.1: 28; jkj- Advertising- rates iumisnea on ap plication. , And at JUvibg Prices. . I. PRIPjflWC V T , ) if: m: TflE rEXLOW THAT LOST UIS OBI P. It's a long hard road V travel, . - . The one I'v journeyed on, , -: Over the, rough, sham gravel Frftfn. weary dflsk to dawn. J" V' Jbt now T am overtaken ; Booked" for jtn outbound trip, " ' Ail shattered and sorrow -shaken fellow that's lost his gripjf r ' , i U . 1 - 1 wm alwavs ooantwl ploc3iT --- "And tUddndent too, - " ' . i Till I became unlucky, I Then everything fell through ; ' i I never did any shirking ,.: m But somehow missed my tip, . ' And it kills a man for working . When he feels he's lost his grip. We're all of us men and brothers While there's an even race, I struggled like the others But couldn't make the pace ; . i And now in a stranger city,1 i ,v ly life, like a ainking ship, . t , Goes down, with none to pity ' X ; ".. The' fellow that lost his grip. And to-day I heard the clinking Of rain -drops on the. glass, Their patter through the chinking 1 Made some dull moments pass - i Mere quickly, for they brought me ! Relief in their -cooling drip, 1 .Some little patience taught me r A fellow that's lost his grip. t I've been a wandering rovpr, J - r A stone without the moss, If I could live it over ' Would life be such a loss ? . ( Would misfortunes still befall me , Till they had me on the hip ? And would the world then call me i ' Tho fellow that lost his grip ? 'TX, swift th time is flying, iWgnal is almost won ; I am dyinc. dviflK. dying.- v iiewept n, bemoaned b y none. I hear the surf on unknown strands. I feel mv moo riders slin. 'Christ I reach out thy saving hands, I'm a fellow that lost his grip. Ernest McGaffey, in Current. THE QPKN DRAW. "Now, promise we, Royal ! please promise l" ''-'-K' -'-"i V ' . Grace Arden Iookc up into her i Jrirr' fuca ; withi-tfi'f.f'ul ' ftvea arid I f- -JiOTer s . iace witn-tsistfui eyc y i heeki stained with faint crimson. Royal Mertam looked at her with 1 4 ine laugn 01 conscious superiurny. . "What honaerise, Grace ! ; As if there were any real danger T ( "There. is, always danger, Royal in your business, and ith with' 4hathabitf" - , ! "Hahit, Gracie ? Now you are go ing: a little too far. I don't drink anr more than other men. It is not a confirmed habit with me and nev- .rwill be,!' J-.cu. O C -Good-bye, Royal - - rr"Toti; W6n'llclsS'me l. ,you are .Vexcd?"r ! marry; Royal Meriam turned on his heel, " juid he strode away, muttering some thing f about 'narrow-minded . old ,fot)ls, who expected every : one Jq be cut after, their own pattern.'' J But. he had walked only little distance when the cloud cleared careless, eood-naturea smile once Aiore came back. ' j "Dear little Gracie 1" he said, to himselC: "Perhaps she's right, after all. I believe I am getting to be fonder of a stray glass than$ qught to be, - butrof course theres no danger. A man can always control himself. Still 111 co ' back to-morrow and 7 u ' '.v .jr v i irnu nr ninii vt w iihiip:i i.ii i.iiR iiim.iinTifi iinuiiv 11 u ' ; ;J driver. :rU Last night know mat papa wm never, m. me Thesignait And he had not seen patient, who :k to-morrow and ana mere loosing out ut w niu- w--w-----the little blue-eyed dows, all unconscious that they, were son was placed f here the wants me to prom- going on to Death ! have an opportunity to be make peace' with jNJt anct 11 sne wants me to prom lie, wnyrjl promise. ' The 'Shepherd's Arms" was an unpretending little village hostelry, snow-flakes clicking against the win through whose drawn, red curtains dow-panes, a wood fire crackling on tha evening lights shone cheerily. and Koval Meriam'e boon comnan- iona welcomed him unroriouslv- . r I , "YouVe coming to the end of your Tone, old fellow " said one. The superintendent is going to strike ev .. .1 C?rybody that drinks a social glass off . (IX ne list, oays n aim, ousinesi ' TiI-SsrarVt afford to run any risks." "I don't know what the world is coming to, for my part," said anoth I er, looking into the bowl of his short black pipe, "A man might as well be a slave and be done with it" "I've heard something of it before," aaid Meriam, carelessly. "I don't know but what it is a wise enough regulation, on the whole. But there is one thing certain : I'll drink the superintendent's health to-night if I never do again." A general laugh echoed this assei tion of Meriam ; and in the hour or tiro that followed, poor Grace Ar- den's piteous request, Grace ArdefTs ear-brimming blue eyes were entire ly forgotten. . . . "Drunk I ,4runk! Nerer- was more sober in 'rny-'life res, yes, I know it's Ume tolrt, and here I am as fresh as a cricket'.' f j : -Royal Meriam swung jUinselt to hia "place" oh the flittering,' fire throated locomotive with the careless ease and lightness of a mountaineer- "Go'ahead," he called out :'' The depot master looked curious ly at him. "You may not be drunk," said he otto voce, "but you have been drink ing my fine fellow, and you'll get re ported to headquarjers before the world is twenty-four hours older.1 So saying; he drew a little leather memorandum-hook out of his vest pochet, and wrote down the words, "Meriam, engineer Flying Dart,' up on it, with the slow mechanical ac curacy of one who considers in his own mind. V Meriam fully believed his own asi sertion that he was not drunk, He had been drinking a good deal, but then he knew that his brains could stand, more than the average of brains. He felt a sort of lightness a jocular content--as he sat there at his post. The lights along the road sparkled more prominent than usu al ; the stars seemed to shine with unwonted brightness, and once or twice he caught himself huskly an swering some one who had not spo ken; i . i ; , . , ' . ': All of a sudden he grew sleepy his brain seamed to become confus- "All right," said he "all right T'll VmrV tVim TT1 vintr Dart onrinaf bp engine on uie jroaa i w ay fte couldn'tgo wrong if sfie was to tfy.l Are wearewe far from the draV- brjjge The fireman suddenly started to J his feet, with a hoarse, gasping cry.Jand after remaining there atfew mo- "The signal! shouted he. The red light ! ?Stop her foyjuod s sake 1 Sound down brakes 1 We are on the bridge and the draw is open !. In less than a second the mists and drowiness, and fatal lethargy, seemed to clear away from the en gineer's brain, and he had fully com preherided the awful terror of their position the'express'traiiT rushing aij uizzy speca;waruwi jawiwiigjiurn communicaieu it io anomer, . ir L' L 1 . - U.. tk'i kl. aI. it .' ,. :y :'" ':-::n: i Mechanically he sounded the whistle, shrp, and .shrill two brief, unearthly shrieks and then sprang out into the darkness, through which the red light streamed like an eye of sullen firey ::':'- -'-? He had done .what he could to save the fated train, and he grasped appearance of the rat have any ef blindly - at the ' one chance in 'five J feet in hastening hb death were un- hundred for his own life. "He sprang, and striking against! tha Umo Wi all nnnMonness in the instant that the train skipped by him, its long array of lights gleam-1 imr and vanishing, and faces here! and there looking out of the win- J A bleak December day, with the I 4Vio ViaoWVi rrl Clmt Ardens lifht finr mihff and croin? like a little i 1 n ' O CJ A Si.rnf fihuritv Rov- I j j al MerianVB eyes vaguely took in I (Km th?nor iv-incamenp- his Dillows. D J J o o Wat h- mpmKrl Remembered ! Remembered, . that w n nntnast amomr men a murderer ! 4Gracen He gasped,"UlIme 1 ' How came I here? - How was I saved ?" t "They found you on the bridge, dear. Hush 1 You must not talk much. You are very weak and fee- ble. You were quite unconscious and terribly bruised." "Andthe train? Was it totallv wrecked ?" "It wasn't wrecked at all," said Grace, with brightened face. "For the draw was not opened." "Not open?" "No; it had been, but was just closed again, and the men had not yet taken down the open signal when the express rushed on without any warningivrhateTen Theysiopped it on th$ vjther side and missed you " Ncl&neAwas ifledlthW?fe he shudderjdfeeihfi asjf a mountain of horror was lifteoffrom his breast. "No one." ; . ' - i'Gace,,, he whispered lioarseIy, drawing her down to him. "I was drunk I If that train had been wrecked the blood of all the helpless passengers, men, women arid chil dren, would have been on my head. God be thanked that lie has not punished "ml" as I deserve HK tJ Royal Meriam, a prematurely old and crippled man, lived to atone for all .the faults and follies of his youth. He never re-entered the old profess ion he had not netve enough for that, he was want to say, even if they would have trusted him again ; but he worked hard; and? honestly for his bread, with Grace, his'wife, standing loyally by his side.." And never in all the long years that' fol lowed did a drop of ardent; spirits ever pass his lips. j "I have had my lesson," he said.- : .1 A Deatli AVatch. From Philadelphia New3. For some months past hot only .the nurses but many of the patients in one of the wards of the West Penn hospital have noticed a re markable coincidence, aniJ one which many of them' regarjj with more or less superstitious fear, : A large nrt, whose appearance at T?t icaused only a passing' notice, t a time was treated as fl ! e nave a com. r. W. T,-Rainwaters, lTt ViJ?J attenttojf: - ljgsyrS4 rUHfri this chabnthe nurses discovered that a short time previous to the 1 death of a patient the rat would ap- pear, quietly jun under the cot and I ments without any demonstrations 1 whatever, would run away and dis- I I appear. In every instance the per-1 son in that cot died within 36 hours after the occurrence. j The coincidence became the mat ter of much gossip among all the at tendants and while it Was ticing dis- cussed one day the story was over- j heard by'one of the patients, who in I 1 f H i t 1 x- 11 oecaine kuowu io an. Hans J akow, a German was in the last stage, of I consumption, saw the rat under his cot He became dreadfully excited, I and cried 'Doctor, oh, doctor, don't let me die." His pleadings were very distress- ing and all efforts to convince him that by no possible means could the 1 availing, and in less than 36 hours he died. lhis is only one of a number ot instances that have been referred to by those intonncd of the history of the mysterious j rat; This finally caused such consternation that poi- rat would boL tempted, i : . ii . " i. :j ed with remarkable intelligence dainties that rats are believed to be tremendously fond of, although oth- er rats with apparently less highly endowed minds fell victims to the seoucuve morseis. in ine mean- I - . T A v I.. . i a limc ine penouicai visits oiiue rav 1 nc,taj "1WV-" " I uiai wara, anu its appearance is now . T rded with such fear that its ap- Proaca quicwy ncnuueu among the patients and the greatest con sternation prevails until its . fatal choice is made. Mr. Baxter was about to take ins wife and children out for a sail. 'Come on,' he said, "there i a j spanking freeze and we musn't miss S . "I'apa, mterruptea Ms iiiuc son, j with his hands firmly folded behind him, "take the rest of the family and go. lin luai Kinu oi a urcew: uiow ing I don't want to be caught on a little boat with mama until ! havel learned to swim." I TUETABBJZLS, ri.i, BUI Arp Like the Old Vort State. From the Atlanta Constitution. i ; Pride of place and pride of people. I love to hear these tar-heels boast of what they have got and what they have had. Every town I visit lias something special soraethmg ihal the other towns have not got' '. I don't know how many 'claim to be the great tobacco centre of the State. Durham and Henderson and Oxford and Warrenton all claim the cham pion belt I don't know how many more that I have not visited. Ox ford claims to have a soil that pro duces the finest leaf -in the world, and I wasfs:hown a memorandum of a ten acre crop of last year that real ized a net profit of $3,125. It was not the quantity but the quality that made the money. One town claims that Nathaniel Macon lived. there, and they tell you many traditions of that very good man, that man who never made a speech in Congress, but it is said controlled legislation for twenty-five years controlled it by his splendid, well-balanced judg ment and the power of his will. They will tell you how he lived in a a storm-proof house that had sills sixteen inches square, and corner posts nearly as large, and plates and girders and braces and studding, all pinned and drawbound and he weather-boarded the inside just like he. did the outside, except he begun at the top of the room and boarded downwards, so as to have the lap show at the top of the plank instead of at the bottom; and this was done so as to have a fair chance to pour hot water into the cracks and kill tlio rhinrph ' v -, Ji -Andthw towtiwKZnotot or Mangumaor m. msom or Vatce; and I found the crood people of Iiou- isburs justly proud of Joe Davis.tthe lawyer and statesman whom every body loves and loves to honor. In some places they say, "we have got the finest schools and the best teach- ers in the State," and all declare they have got the prettiest women in the world, which I always endorse, for it seems to me that the last I see are the prettiest always. I thought for a while that I would never get recon ciled to these new convexities they I are wearing on their backs, but now 1 1 am conteni ana acquiesce in any i tiling xnai nas a woman in u. 1.1 4 ii i 1 I ; It is an admirable trait in any peo- pie to stand up for their own. It I begets contentment, and content- ment is a blessed thing in this life. I think that North Carolina is con- tented, and has good reason to be. 'I like North Carolina. It may be that my regard is something like that Aleck Stephens had for his dir ty, mangy little dog. He said he loved the dog because the dog loved him, and that is reason enough.- Bill Ramsey talks with gush and unction about his fine horse, and will tell you of his admirable quali ties, and will stroke his mane and hi3 face, and comb down his beauti ful hips with quite a fondling aflec tion ; but just as soon as he sells him and gets anotherhe last is the best That is evolution for you ; practical. speedy evolution, and it is right. I wish everybody felt that way about their property, their home, their J children, their neighbors, and their preacher. It is a happy disposi tion. I-V i saw a one-ieggea man noemg I , i t -r . corn yesieraay, ana i saia to my I w'uu'u"' f t . r t . -r , i i ieueratc poor ienowi ii ne naa fought on the other side he would be a rawing a gooa pension, neiougu for patriotism for true love of coun trv, and .geta' nothing, while thou sands of them-feller3 up North fough for money only and arc drawing pensions, aud we have to help pay them. "That man," said my friend, is drawing a pension a small one, bu it helps mm, uur state pensions her crippled and maimed soldiers and this county adds a small amount to it, so our soldiers are not forgot - 1 k ui iicjcv-wi j . Why does not old Georgia do that? I tell you, these Carolinians are game. They have got an orphan asvlum at Oxford that is an honor to her people. Over 200 clindren are there. , I saw them swinging and romping in a beautiful grove during their recess, and I thought what a good mother this State is to her chil dren. The asylum is not altogether supported jith e Stated, uTconfr butions come from many sources, and there is no lack of funds to sus tain it What a feeling of comfort it must be to a poor widow upon her last bed to know that her little children will be cared for when she is gone reared for, not by the uncer tain charity of strangers, but by . the State that loves her and will contin ue to love her children. I have been on Albemarle Sound and seen the fisheries and the long nets and the shad and big sturgeons that weighed from 150 to 200 pounds, and they sold for a dollar apiece; I have been in the good old town of Elizabeth City, on the eastern coast, and two years ago I was in Asho ville, on the western extreme the two only 500 miles apart. It is a long State, and has a pleasant varie ty of climate and soil and scenery and: products. It used to be dis membered by its mountains, but it is not now, I have seen the Gov ernor with his noble, classic face, and the Judges of the Supreme Court and many of the circuit courts, and I have seen the farmers in their homes and shared their generous welcome, and I can truly say I have never mingled with a better people. Ha Had It. Among the passengers on the St. l 4 r w ver-uressea, accom-j it"fw uriKuwooKin? nurse. girlan aseh,?le4 tyrannical boy ot about tnree years. : lhe ooy aroused tnc mai; of the passengers by his continued shrieks and kicks and screams, and lis viciousncss toward the patient nurse. He tore her bonnet, scratch ed her hands, and finally spat in her r ii . el . I race wnnoui a wora oi remonsirance rom the mother. . Whenever the nurse manifested any nrmness, the mother would chide her sharply, and say : "Let him have it, Mary? Let him alone." , . ., , Finally the mother composed her self for a nap, and about the time the boy had slapped the nurse for the fiftieth time, a wasp came sailing in ana new on tno winaow oi the nurse's seat. The boy at once tried to catch it ' The nurse caught his hand and said, coaxingly : 'tHarry musn't touch! Bug will bite Harry 1" Harry screamed savagely, and be gan to kick and pound the nurse. .The mother, without opening her eyes or lifting heir head, cried out sharply : "Why will you tease that child so, Mary ? Let him have what he wants at once. "But, ma'am, it's a" "Let him have it, I say." Thus encouraged, Harry clutched at the wasp, and caught it The yell that followed brought tears of joy to. the passengers. "Mary P she cried, "Let him have it" Mary turned in her seat and said, confusedly : "He's got it, ma'am l" Simple words are best, either in speaking or writing. Here is a case thatprovesit: , "You are fishing with persistence,' said , a gentleman to an urchin who had thrashed a stream without ap parent reward a whole afternoon. "Oh, no, sir; only jest angle worms," replied the youth, pleasant ly. y I mean you have a gooddeal of perseverance, exclaimed the other. 1No, them's suckers. Guess ye aint never lived in these parts, bev yef " ,. Physicians recommend Shriner's Indian Vermifuge in their practice as a superior article for destroying and expelling worms. Only 25 eta. a bottle.1 JL Dctectir Captoret m Coaatrflter. Ottawa, Ont; July 40ne of the? neatest and' most Successful pieces of detective work reported for years was performed on Friday - by 'Detective Daniel OXeary,; Inspector of the Do minion police. 1 . He : wen t " to Otter- ville arid, getting? information -there regarding ? counterfeUers rsuided. one of the gang to accompany him to Brighton on the representation that there were certain persons there who wished to engage in the busi ness.' Additional particulars were obtained from this man to the effect that the bogus money was made by John Rogers, who had left Otterville for another pirtdf the country. The detective traced Rogers to Otterville and visited him, being introduced to the alleged counterfeiter as Mr. John son. Rogers was given to under stand that Mr. Johnson wished to engage in the business of - making money. Rogers told the detective that he had the necessary plates for making $60 Quebec Bank bills, $20 United States bills, and $10 bills of the Merchants' Bank of Canada.- Rogers also said he had been accom panied by William Duncan, Thomas Brown and-Capt Clenderining to Rochester, where they had gone on a schooner, about a month ago, and procured paper, ink - and brushes with which to make the bogus bills; that they had cruised around the lake for some time and had passed between $900 and 61,000 in bogus bills. The paper procured in Roch ester, Rogers said, was equal to any bank-note! paper that , could be got. Ho also stated that he made the bogus bills by photographing origi nal; bills, and that be had jthe proh cess t doviv o fine' that i be could produce a bill which it was almost I impossible to detect. havinir wo-T0 at the business in'Austri--c 00,1,0 - . 1 J f a mm fh"n,iber8 on bills so that it would be difficult to detect the alteration. Brown and Duncan had the notes he had made. He in tended to go to Ottawa, get a photo graphers' gallery and start the same business there. Mr. J ohnson agreed with Rogers to go into partnership with him. The latter promised to supply the detective with bogus bills representing a large amount of mon ey. r "; -ft His pocket book' was secured. It was lound i to t contain counteneit twenty-dollar bills of the National Mohawk Valley Bank,of 3Iohawk N- Y Duncan iwas; arrested nd made a full confession..' lie had a set of plates for making fifty-dollar bills of the Lower Canada Bank, a set for Hwentjr-dollar United States bills three sets for twenty-dollar bills of the. Merchants' Bank, and a set of Dominion of Canada one-dollar bills. He said he had destroyed the plates about ten days previous. In a bed room occupied by the accused were found paints and brushes used in makincr the bogus notes, fin the house was found an agreement dated LachineL February, 18SG," and sign ed by a number of persons, pledging themselves by a solemn oath not to divulge the secrets of the counter feiting gang "under pain of death, Other arresto are ex pected. Wbt tli Train B? Wattid Oto. From tie Chicago Ilerald. If 1 1 . was worth aa much money as Boh Garrett,'1'1; 'said a Baltimore and Ohio train boy, do you know what I would do?" Run a railroad?" quoted the brakeman. '. "Xawp." .rs :-" ' '"Racehorses?" - "Nawp." : - "Travel in YurripV' "Kawp "Yacht?" , "Xawp." ttWhat then ?' f "I'd hire fifteen of the best base ball players in the United States, pay Wn $10,000 a vekr-apiece. take em - - . ' round the country by special train and knock the stnffinVout of all the chain nions in the business. That's what' I'd call doin' somthin for one's country, but none of our rich men seem to liave sny desire to have their names handed do wu to pos- TT- iiEiaj wn Wei After man came women. ' , v And she This been after him erer since. , She is a person free of extraction being roade orman's ribi ' ' dont know why Adam WanUd" to .fol away-his ribs in that way,' 6&t Tsuppose he" was not ' accounta ble for all he did. It costs more to keep a women a shot- thaii'it cloes three doss and But she pays you back with In terest by giving you a house full of children to keep yon uwake all night,' and smear molasses candy over your Sunday coat Besides, wo men is a very convenient article to have around the house. She Is bandy to swear at whenev er you cut yourself with a raror.and don feel like i' blaming yourself. Woman is a superior being in Massachusetts. j ; There are. about 70,000 moro of her sex than males in that State. 1 . , This accounts for the terrified, hunted-down expression of single men who have emigrated from the East :,x f ::: Woman was ' not created perfect. She has her faults such, as false hair, false complexion, and' so on. -,But she is a great deal better than her neighbor, and she knows it. Eve was a woman. She must have been a model wife, too, for itcost Adam nothing tokep -her in clothes. ( Still, I don't think'bhe w P" py . - ' , She" coulditf .w sewing circles AnA (. u' VTormatmn about every ' tSSfc! fadrejT wfanrinV berlfe , i ui viiirt. . - v? oonncl t0 cnur9n- Neither could she nang over the .. t m . .1 pack lence and talk neighbor. ' with her neat All; these blessed privileges were denied her. - ' A BipNtM Bojr. An exchange gives the. , following instance of a lad's politeness. Such thoughtfulness for others, by young people, is a most winning trait of character. '" An bid man entered a railroad car and was looking for a seat, when a boy ten or twelve years of age rose up and said, "Take my seat, sir.? i The offer was accepted and the in firm old man sat down. r Why did you give me your scat? he inquired of the boy. Because yoU are old, sir, and I am a boy!" was the reply. ' K hundred years ago Uierd would have been httle need to record as re markablo a similar incident Among things that are good or hopeful in a rising generation, there is one great change for the worse manifest to every body a declining reverence to ward age and toward God. j"Thou shalt rwo up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God ; I am the Lord." Aftemll the hi aster on the part of Congressmen about the Prcgnt'i 'a acuon m vcwing prirabe bills and Uie threats that they would be passed oyer his veto, it looks very much as though be would bo at tained in nearly every instance. What is of more, importance, too, the unflinching manner b which he has dared to say. no to these petty raids on the Treasury has served to call a halt in the passage of the great mass of these billsyet unacted upon. It is beginning to dawn on the minds of a good many Congressmen that to pass bills of tliu kind indefi nitely only 16 be vetoed is to give the President a chance to increase his own popularity amazingly at their expense. They would like to 1 get Jthe money for their pensior seeking constituents if they could do it without attracting too much at tention, but to have the public at tention directed to their prodigality and then not get their schemes through after all is a losing game that they will probably abandon as obn7as'pcble.niiU.- 'tinges, .. I SuUcrtle for THE Rocket, I

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