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Rockingham 'Rocket. ' BYiH. C. WALL. ., Office: OV EVKBETTWALL & COMPANY'S 'fiUBSCBIPTIOJf BATB8: Onavear....L.4 v tf-W Six months, ...... Three months,. ... a 40 jgr All subscriptions accounts must be paid is advance. Advertising rates furnished on ap plication. I -. ;." :. ' . ' Written for the Rocket. AIX THINGS A JPENSTVE BEAUTY HAD, JOSEPH L. MAT. At eventide the low, red sun Blushed thro the murmuring pine, And'vapor in the humid air Bedew'd the lowly vine. . Along the. west vast, purpling cloud Paused in Its sudden flight; . . And in the east, no star appeared To gem the rayless night. 1 In loneliness- the long, gray hills Toward some brighter day, "f- Beyond the kissing of the sky, Stretch'd silently away. Within the vale: the limpid stream to the sea : Flow-'d gently Yet with its sad, melodious voice, Its music gave to me. All things a pensive beauty had: In sorrow pass'd the breeze ; The little birds that nestled near, Sang sadly in the trees. From out the far, far distant mead, And up the- homeward lane, . With solemn tread, the little flock Wound slowly home again. "What can this mean?" I softly said, "Far in this! lovely wild ? - Can those swet birds, th at distant flock, Thus miss my dying child?" All suddenly i Perch'd by And dolefully It voiced a whippoorwill the window-pane, , in shadow there, weird refrain. Ah! well I Dead lav knew its dismal notes : my darling girl ! , my tear-drops fell raven curl! I loudlv wept On each soft . Yes, she was nJissed : the crystal stream Had smooth'd its printed sand -And in her dreams the sorrowing breeze . Her sweet, : ich beauty fann'd. ' Yea. oftentimes the lonelv birds Had chirp'di at her command : - And all the fldck she loved so well, one petted with her hand. Xong, in lament, I deeply sobb'd, And-bade tbie morning come ; Two suns had set, two nights delay'd Within my cabin home OSSLOOK AT WASHIsGTOX. A. Story of the . Revolution. By Ned-Bcntlixe. - "Washington's Headquarters at New burgh, K Y., has been visited by 147,000 people in four years,' Daily Paper. On the last annivesary of Wash ington's birthday, I read the above .paragraph to a very old man one of the few left vho remember well those glorious day? when Washing ton, almost idolized, was truly re garded as the Father of His Coun- . try first in warjfirst in peace, and first, last, . andT forever in the hearts lof all true lovers of freedom and freedom's chosen land. v ',' ".Well, well 1" said the old man, in tL tremulous tonk "That's good 1 It shows he is no t forgotten. - But if they could, like rae, have only seen him ! Ah ! he was a sight. So no ble, so grand, yet with a kind look iniiis eyes for the lowliesta kind word on his lips for all who did Tight. .1 knew once, when one look at Washington sa ved a human life." "Tell me boul ; it, Uncle Jared do tell me about it" He did, and he re is the story : ' There wasn't a better soldier or a finer- looking young man in the Con tinental army 'tht. n Burnett Fuller. He waswith Mad. Anthony Wayne when he stormed Stony point, and it was he who "carried the colors ahead "of 'em ail. But he never got a commission in all the time, all through one fault never: went be yond the rank of sergeant till that fault, which jnpre than once nearly cost him his life was redeemed. " He loved strong drink; and when he was most needed to- battle for God and bis native land, he would be under its influence and fit 'for nothing.:. ' I'-.. ' That Burnett,' so brave, so hand some, and so ful l of talent, should find some one to love him, was no " more than.naturd. Rose Darling, the prettiest girl I almost ever saw, not only .loved him with all. his faults, but married; him to prove it, though her fqwn -ploeple' were much againt the match,! so much so that they told her if she married him she . must look to him: and not to them for countenance and support. And she did, counseling him so sweetly that for a long time he kept 8oW, and his capi ain had even ask ed the colonel to name him for pro J&etion whenever ithere came a va- H. C. WALL, Editor and Vol. IV. cancy. For a sergeant's pay was lit tle enough to keep a wife on, and every one felt an interest in sweet Rose, who was so gentle, so good, if any one was sick or wounded. One day there was a drill by bat tallions, and Burnett, as sergeant of the color guard, was out I trembled for him, for r loved him and his gentle wife, when I -saw that he could hardly stand straight and that his cheek wore a purple flush ; for our colonel was as strict as he was brave, and a braver man never rode a horse. Off duty, he could pardon a fault ; on duty, never. We went through several evolu tions, and I began to hope that Burnett would sober down by work and be safe. But all at once, when we were changing front, he stumbled and fell, and the regimental colors went down with him. When I saw the colonel ride for ward, his face pale and his lips set, while they lifted Burnett and his colors from the ground, I knew that it was all up with my friend. I heard the colonel, in his stern, quiet way, say": I . "Tear off the chevrons from that sot s arms, and take' him to the guardhouse. A court martial shall teach him and all that the colors of our regiment are sacred." ' i A lieutenant of his company step ped forward to obey the order to re move the chevrons, but the moment that he touched young Fuller's arm, the latter drew back and struck him to the earth. i "Oh, Heaven !" I groaned ; for this was mutiny, and its punishment was death, I In a second a half dozen men seized and overpowered the maniac. for he .was nothing else, and he was dragged away to the guardhouse. Burnett Fuller was tried that very week, and of course found guilty. Every man irk the regiment had seen his crime1 it was no use to say we had not. He was sentenced to be shot on the next day but one. Not even Mad Anthony Wayne, who loved him for his courage, could save him. . I I saw poor Rose after the sentence was passed, when she had been on her knees to our colonel, to General Wayne, to all who could -do any thing, to beg for her husband's life. Oh, how utterly wretched she looked I She said that there was no hope ; he must die, and she, too, would soon die Upon his grave, j Oh,' how she cursed the liquor which had brought this deep blight on her young life! She prayed Heaven to curse them that brewed, them that filled the cup, that he had drained ; and I felt as if God would hear her prayer, and send down His withering curse on those who had helped to destroy. TKe sun rose clear on the day when he was to die. We were all at work burnishing arms and clean ing belts, for all were to turn out to witness the terrible example. j At 10 o clock the doomed soldier was to die. I saw Rose at eight. White almost as new-fallen snow, she moved like a spirit toward the guardhouse, to take her last farewell of him whom she loved more than life. Every one wept as she passed along, for neither she nor Burne had an enemy in the ranks. An hour later we stood at arms, and regiment after regiment took its place in line. I never saw our colo nel look so sad. He, too, had been at the guardhouse, and witnessed the affecting interview, between Rose and her husband. j Just then I heard guns firing from a battery down on the river, two miles away. I did not know but the enetny had come up the river in one of their war-ships and had got past West Point. ' But the guns went off slowly, and regularly, and I knew it was a salute. - a The general in command rode up just then, and said to our colonel : i "Gansvoort, let's hurry up this matter;' the commander-in-chief is coming." ' X never will forget the look of the colonel as he replied ; . Proprietor. , Rockingham, Richmond -County, "General, I hold the sentence and the order for the execution tf Bur nett Fullerj late a sergeant in my regiment. . Both name the hour when he is to' die ten o'clock. At that hour the order shall be obeyed.',' - He drew out his old silver watch it was as big as some clocks are now adays and added: v ; "It is now half past nine." ; j y The general turned away,' evident ly angry. What was a poor private's life to him ? " Twenty minutes more, and the deajh-escort came upon the ground, with Burnett Fuller in the center of the square. Poor Rose had fainted in the guardhouse, and there they left her. I Qh, how bravely that young man came on to his death I He never was a coward. The escort drew where a coffin was placed by a recently dug grave. It lacked but ten minutes of the time, whenan officer, riding swiftly ahead of ten or fifteen more, and fol lowed by a company of light horse, rode upon the parade-ground. . In "an instant a shout' rose all along the line: i , "Washington ! Washington !" He raised his hat and smiled, but just then a shriek. rang through the air louder than all the shouts. It came from the lips of Rose, who had heard the name, and who now flew, rather, than ran, to where he reined in his horse. Her brown hair streamed in glossy curls over her white neck and shoulders and her eyes streamed with tears, as she knelt close to his stirrup, and pointing to her hus band, moaned out : "Pardon 1 pardon 1" And we all took up the cry, the colonel and all, and "Pardon, par don,'" broke from every lip. Washington got off his horse, lift ed poor Rose before us all, and after speaking one word to the colonel and getting his answer, he led the poor woman to where Burnett Ful ler stood. "Young man," said he, in a voice which reached us all, we were ; so still, 'Him to be worthy of such a wife, and to serve ra country that needs every brave man upon her soil." ' He was pardoned. Oh, what a shout rang over the hills where Newburgh now stands. Burnett cried like a child, and while he kissed the hand of Wash ington, he vowed never again to touch a drop of strong drink. , He kept that vow, and when York town surrendered, Colonel -Burnett Fuller' was present with his regi ment. Rose was at home, the happiest little wife alive, tending as bright a babe as mother ever nursed. Its name was George Washington Ful ler. . Died From Exposure. Charlotte Observer. ,1, Open air life, starvation and ex posure to the elements, is beginning to get in its work on the colored peo ple who ,. have congregated here, awaiting Shipment to Arkansas.-r The averagenumber daily in camp on the old field near the Trade street depot has been 200, for the past two months. The field has been trodden under foot until it is as barren as a circus ring looks the day after the cir cus has left, all the loose rails in the surrounding country have been gath ered and burned as, fuel, the coal cars have been raided for the same purpose, and the emigrants now in camp find that they are really j in the, midst of a famine of fire and food. They are but poorlysupplied with clothing, and are totally unpro tected from the rain, save at such times as the railroad company hap pens to have an empty box car han dy for them. A large majority of these emigrants are women and cnil drem and their sufferingsare many antr severe. One of. the emigrants, a colored woman named- Susan Johnston, from Lilesville, last week contracted a severe case , of pneu monia, which resulted in her death last Sunday .r . Her body was interred at the expense of the county." " Somebody sends which begins, "Are us a circular you troubled with fullness in the stomach 3" And his to an editor. Ye gods ! jEvans- JyUle' Argus. hV- ' ' vAnderbilts wealth. . What Could be Bought With the Money. Boston Globe. ' It is just as easy to say $200,000, 000 as it is to say $200,000, or 200,- 000 grains of sand, but to persons who haven't that amount of ready change by them and do not expect to fill the full quota in 1886, and perhaps not before 1888,, the bare name does not and cannot give the full significance to the term. For the sake of seeing how far it will go! we will take $200,000,000 in our vest pocket and go out on the street and see what we can do with it. Two hundred millions I ' Enough to buy 2,000,000 seal skin sacques, which would clothe every woman in New England. Enough to buy 4,000;000,000 loaves of bread, giving every man, woman and child in the United States 80 loaves, and every inhabitant of the earth four loaves each, making a pile of solid bread higher than the tallest mountain on earth. Enough to buy 40,000,000 barrels of flour at $5 each. If jthese barrels were placed end to end they would reach around the earth on the paral lel of Boston,' or they would fence in every State in the Union. Enough to ride 8,000,000,000 miles at the usual two and a half cents per mile railroad fare, or forty times from hereto the sun and back ; so far that if a man rode at the rate of sixty miles an hour it would take him 15,000 years to use up $200, 000,000 in railroad fares. . Enough to buy 80,000,000 pairs of boots or shoes at $2 50 a pair, which would keep every resident of the United States in shoes for a year. Enough to buy 1,000,000,000 lbs. of beefsteak at twenty cents a pound, more beefsteak than is on the face of the earth to-day. Enough to buy 4,000,000,000 yards of calico at five cents a yard, making 400,000,000 calico dresses of ten yards each, which would give every woman on the earth who is over 15 years of age a new dress. Enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States a $4 dinner at Parker's. Enough to support 120,000 work ingmen and their families forever; so much that it would take a labor er, working Sundays and all at $2 a day, 273,000 years to earn it, or more than 16,000 men could earn in a life time, " Enough to make nearly 6,000 tons of solid gold, more than 1,500 horses could haul through the streets of Boston. Enough to buyr800,000,000pounds of coffee, 400,000,000 pounds of tea, 4,000,000,000 pounds of sugar, 100, 000,000 barrels of apples, 36,000,000 tons of coal, 30,000,000 cords of wood, or 2,000,000,000 ten-cent cigars. Patents Granted. Patents granted to citizens of the Southern States on Dec. 22, 1885, as reported expressly for the Rocket by 0. A; Snow& Co. Patent lawyers, Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washing ton, d. o. r 1 J. A. Alexander, Monticello, Ar kansas, Hame fastener. W. S. Brown, Pine Hill, Kentucky Swing. E. Burkholder, Glendale, Ken tucky, Corn planter. -B. J. Curry, Huntaville, Alabama, Hay press. - W:T. Suit, Wilson, N. C, Leveler. H. Harding, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Automatic dam. ; : A. j H. Hebbard, Knoxville, Ten nessee, Target trap. . H, Higgins, Newport, Kentucky, Back stay for carriage tops. ' R. B. Holt, Guthrie, Kentucky, Circular saw mill. ,r : j. 1 B. Law, Darlington, South Carolina, Wagon body, D. C. . McClellan, Rhodes, N.C. Curing tobacco. K , J. B. Parker, Memphis, Alabama Seed planter , r , R. E. Simril, Newnan, Georgiar Cora planter. v N. Wilson, Hutte, Texas, Curtain holder. Subscribe for the Rocket. Mmkii TERMS: G., January 14, 1886. FIDELITY TO DUTY. Dr. Talmage Says If Has Much To Do frith the Duration of Ufe. New York World. As an introductory to his sermon yesterday morning Dr. Talmage an nounced "thatT beginning with next Sunday, he would preach a series of sermons on the "Marriage Ring." The series would include, he said, clandestine marriages, elopements, divorces, the women who marry and those who do not, boarding houses and hotel life, the influence of the sister over the brother, etc. The reverend gentlemen began his ser mon by a Teference- to the new year and the flight of time. All men and women are now discussing the short ness of life. "Fidelity to duty," he said, "has much to do with the duration of life. Religion has always been considered as connected with sickness with chlorine and carbolic acid. Relig ion cannot be mentioned without a sepulchral air, a sound of a chisel at work on the tombstone. It is com pared to a hearse carting the dead away, while in; reality it is a chariot rolling onto eternal glory. Religion is full of sanitary, curative and hy gienic properties. The time will come when it would cease to be as sociated with our demise, with mel ancholy and mourning. The fact is men and women die too soon, and it is high time religion and medical science joined hands in the interest of longevity. Adam lived to be over 900 years old, Methusaleh outstrip ped him, and even in the reign of Vespasian, a hundred men lived to the age of 135 vears. In the six teenth century Peter Carsin lived to be 185 years of age. "Of course, I do not mean to say that religion would take us back to antediluvian longevity, but it will lengthen life. Isaiah said a child should die at the age of 100 years, and why, therefore, should, not a man or woman live for 500 or 600 years? The Christian religion will prolong life, because a religious man will not indulge in dissipation and subject his body to those evils only the worldly and irreligous practice. Smokinsr the nervous svstpm intn fidgets, eating away the coating of the- stomaeh with logwooded and strychnined wine, wearing thin shoes on a cold day to make the foot look delicate, are things the practi cally ChVistian man or woman will not do. God made our body as the receptacle of an immortal soul and gave us brains for its government. Any infringement of, his laws will be visited by retribution. . . ; "I know a hundred good; old men, but I don't know a dozen old bad ones j'they die off early. Byron died at the age of 37, atMissrolonghi, his own Mazeppa, riding on his pass lona to death; Edgar Allan Poe passed away in Baltimore at '48, the raven on his chamber door, delirium tremens,' "only this and nothing more" "; Napoleon went the way in his prime, killed by his own snuff box. " $ "Many a man has died who, in order to save the feelings of his fam ily, the physician said was killed by congestion of the brain : but the blue flies and the snakes on his pil low told what it really was. Relig ion is sunshine and peace, and with those two 'health-giving, principles life is prolonged." s "Mother," said a1 little Rockland girl, looking up from her book, "what does transatlantic mean?" "Oh, across the Atlantic, of course. Don't bother me--you made me for get my count. .,- ."Does trans always mean across?" "I suppose it does. If you don't stop bothering me with your ques tiona. vonll ea to bedl : "Then does transparent mean a J, J o f- cross parent 2 . " Teri minutes later she was resting In her little couch. Rockland Con rier Gazette. - . "One fire burns , out another's burning," and most pains suffer more to be cured, but Salvation Oil is painless and certain. It costs on y 25c. ! $1.50 a Year in Advance. No. 2. - He Was Convinced. " A rural schoolmaster in Indiana' asked a pupil named William Scott, the other day, which was the long est river in the world, and William persisted in crediting that hondr to the Wabash. As a result, he went home with a tanned jacket. As an other result, a stranger appearedand knocked on the door. ; "Is this the skule teacher?" he. pleasantly inquired. ' "He arl" ; "Are you the critter as licked Bill Scott fur sticking up fur the Wa bash?" "The same, sir." ''Wall, Bill happens to be my son, and I've come fur to gin you the aw- fullest whalin' ever writ down in geography." "Can you wait until I am through with the class in spelling?" asked the teacher. "Oh ! I s'pose so, but under the circumstances I hope ye'll cut it as short as possible. Haven't got my corn husked, ye know." "Certainly. I never keep a gen tleman waiting when I can help it. Sit down on the wood-pile, Mr. Scott. Ill come put and pulverize you in just nine.'. At me end. ot tne appointed time the teacher reappeared and at once rushed upon the waiting Mr. Scott and blacked his eyes, broke his jaw and flattened his nose. By and bv Mr. Scott said he had all he wanted and added : "Which is the longest river in the world?" "The Amazon, sir." "Am-a-zon. Please write It down for me. You've licked it into me in fust-class style, and when I git home and git my paws onto my son Bill he'll come to believe that there ain't nuff water in the Wabash to wash his mother's feet with ! Am-a-zon. Good bye, critter!" N. Y. Star. . , Bad on the Dear Girls. 'That ring," said the jeweler, as the reporter picked up a seven-stone cluster diamond, "will cost you $12. If you return it within six months you will receive a rebate of $6." "What? Only $12 for a cluster diamond ring ?" exclaimed the as tonished scribe. "I said $12," was the calm reply. "Here," lifting out another tray "is trie mate to it price $180." "Enlighten me," pleaded there- porter. "I will; although it is odd that you haven't caught on . this little game. . The American is a hustler in all things. If he falls in love he goes wih- the same rush that would characterize a business transaction. He wants to be engaged and have the day 'Set, but in perhaps three cases out of ten his ardor cools be fore the fatal day arrives, and he "throws"- the match. He was mis taken in the girl, or in. the strength of his own feelings, and he breaks the match." "I see." V "He has given the girl an engage ment ring. He can scarcely nmster up cheek to ask for its return, and the chances are that he wouldn't get it if he did. This cluster dia mond ring at $12 fills a long felt want. The gold 1 plating will wear for six months, and the. paste dia monds will sparkle and glisten for about the same length of time. If, at the end of six months, he discov ers that his feelings have changed, he breaks off the match and is little or nothing out of pocket If time has only welded his- love the firmer, so to speak, he gets the spurious ring irom her to have their initials en graved' on the inside, and comes here and exchanges it for the Simon pure. See ? It is a little trick of our own, but the jewelers of Boston, Philadelphia, i and other , cities are catching on and'stealirj cur cus tomers. N. Y.' Sun. Hold: on to the truth, for it will serve you well and do. you good through eternity. Hold on to vir tue, it is bejfond price - to you at all times and places. Hold on to Dr. Bull's Couga Syrup, for there is noth ing like it to cure a cough or cold. Job Printing- i:. ' .- .,, . -. -v Havingrecently purphased a. first, class outfit, we are prepared to do all kinds of x PLAIN" AND FxUSTCY JOB PRIWtllMC "-i - ; IN THE BEST OF STYLE , And at Living Prices. Thi ee Important - Decisions. Btateaville Landmark. -- Three important cases were decid ed by the Supreme Court last week, as is learned from the Raleigh "News and Observer." The question of the constitutionality of the drumme's license tax was raised and argued in a case from .Buncombe, and the Su preme Court affirmed the judgment of the court below, thus affirming the constitutionality of the law im posing the tax. The case of Milfer, from' Mecklenburg,, which has al ilso thjc qeen decided, presents much' -t. same points. Writing to Messrs. Key & Co., of this place, State Treas urer Bain says of tis: decision: "The Supreme Court has not decid ed the law, as to drummer's licenses, Unconstitutional. The law is sus tained so far as it applies to resident s or non-resident salesmen who travel r and solicit orders. The case of Mil ler from Mecklenburg, involves oner point, viz; "liability, for the sale of one cargo of goods consigned toh,im and sold in the city of Charlotte, where he resides." Millerwas in dicted, as a drummer, for offering these goqds for sale on the streets of Charlotte. He won his case. The Supreme Court decided in a case from Sampson that the school tax in excess of the constistutional ratio is unconstitutional that is to say that the county commissioners cannot lay t poll tax which will ex ceed the tax on worm ot prop erty, -r In a Case from Gaston the Su-' preme Court has decided the"Dortch biU" unconstitutional. This bill pro--. vided that any township or corpora tion mignt levy taxes tor school purposeiind; apply fthe tax raised from each race to the education of . that race. This decision knocks up all graded school bills like that passed by the Legislature for States- n ville, which proposed that the tax raised from the whites should go. to he support of a white graded school, and that raised from colored people . should go to a colored graded school.. , The money raised by tax for school; purposes must be distributed uni formly, per capita, between the races,, according to this decision. ' The President, if reported arightr- has qualified his remarks about the newspapers considerably. He says that while he did not overstate the- offense of many journals in there gard spoken ot in his letter, he should? not be understood to refer to all , newspapers and all correspondents He recognizes as fully as anybody the' power and influence of honestly conducted newspapers and appre ciates their "Support and approval; "I don't take anything back," he is reported as saying, "I know what I said was not exaggerated. I want the newspapers that the letter fits, to apply it. The. only qualification I would make, if any. is needed, is that I do not include all hewspapets, for t all do not deserve it, nor caist any re flections titpon careful and conscien tious correspondents, who are known to be such by everybody.'. Still' the. utterance .was a very unfortunate one on thelPresident and we regret it very much for his sake. He has doubtless been justly provoked more than once by the exaggerations apd false colorings of irresponsible penny- a-liners, buthe should have restrain ed his ire or kept it at least out of public sight. lie will . hardly be permitted to forget his indiscretion. '-News and Observer. It is said that cabbags contains anr alkaloid that will cure delirium tre- ' mens. Now we know why' they ; rush so many : carloads of cabbage ' into Chicago just after a big pbliti-. cal convention. Exchange. . "The market repoits say that but-- ter U stronger" remarked Brown: to; Hemford, who is a produce dealer, , one morning at breakfast table.;: "Is . that so?", r. ' "Wellj'I' don't sec how it can ,be. much stronger,'' remarkcd Hemford,, . as he declined that which thcland- . lady passed," him and then wonder-' t ed why his room was wanted .at the ' end of the week Palmer ffoiima 'v v - j : I f 5. f 1 : I, i 'N i i .: Hi 1
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