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Rockingham .Rocket. H. C. WALL, Editor and Proprietor. Office: OVFR EVKRETT, WALL & COMPANY'S. 'V. f Job Printing. Having recently purchased a firs class outfit, we are prepared to do PLAIN A2fD FANCY- JOB PRINTING - v.- IN" THE ' BEST OF STYLE And at Living Prices . IT. C. WALL , Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: $1.50 a Year in Advance. Vol. Y. Rockingham, Richmond County K C--, .September 15, 1887. No. 37. subscription rates: One year, $1.50 Six months, ....................... .75 Three months,.. .... . ....... ; .40 jBgyAll subscriptions accounts must -be, paid in advance. " .. ; ... . ' : gy Advertising rates furnished on ap plication. .; , Mahone Suing Eiddleberger for 8500. A Woodstock, Va., dispatch of the 5th inst. says : "The first of two suits by William Mahone against Senator Riddleberger was tried in the Circuit Court here to-day. It was oh a bond for $500, dated July . 16, 1881. Ma ' hone's deposition stated the bond was for money loaned the Senator. Senator Eiddleberger was put on the .stand and said every statement inade by Mahone was untrue : that he had not met nor conversed with Mahone in 1881 ;.that this bond was not given for money loaned him by Mahone j I ' that he did owe Mahone 750, loan ed him 1876 when a Tilden elector, but Mahone was not suing on that. ; He had received money from Ma bone, but every cent of it had gone to pay campaign expenses.. He had not stolen a dollar of the fund and hoped that every man could say the same. Mahone had once asked wit ness to insure his life for Mahone's benefit. He replied that he would Tather insure it for some one else ; "fcnd that if Mahone had carried the "Legislature that elected John Dan iels to the United States Senate wit ness would never have been sued.: Two years subsequent to the date of the bond witness had been request ed to put $500 in the Richmond Whig, but had declined on account of extreme poverty. The case was given the jury late this evening, but they did not come to a verdict and were dismissed un til morning. ; It is reported that Sen ator Mahone will be here when the $1,000 case comes up, and a spicy time is expected. - John Sherman's library includes 40,000 indexed letters. Paradoxical as it may seem, ball dresses are costly, but don't come toigh, Minneapolis Tribune. - A rail road eating house is a place where trains stop long enough to al low a pious looking man, formerly a colonel, to collect $1 from each pass- enger. Texas outings. Having in our official capacity as members of the Plymouth, Pa., Hos pital Committee, been asked to test and prove the effectiveness of many different articles used as disinfect ants in sick rooms and as prevent ives of infectious fevers, report that Darby's Prophylactic Fluidbas been thoroughly tested during the recent Typhoid epidemic in this place. It proved most efficacious in staying the spread of the Fever. F. H. Armstrong, S. 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From the Echo. v They say that there is to be an ex altation of the married woman of 30. They say that the debutante has had her day. They say that the roman tic love of the youth for the maiden is to continue, of course, but thaHhe world is no longer ; to turn on that axis. , The, woman wha is to receive the attention in future is to be the one at the maturity of her charm3. Sweet sixteen is to give way to lus cious thirty. They tell us that France was brought through her veal period by such writers as George Sand and Balzac ; that German novels of late have found older heroines more pop ular and that a similar tendency is to be discovered in both English and American novels. The thought must occur to the minds of those who f re acquainted with the works of George Sand and Balzac that their novels are not the best of patterns by which to cut the jib of life. And if, by modern German literature, such wri ters a3 Paul Heyse are meant, then the same thing must again be said. Among American novels the "Story of Margaret Kent" and Arlo Bates "Pagans'1 are perhaps instances of making heroines of women whose youth has been spent. In the fashionable society of the day, the young married woman is certainly coming to play a larger part, and for this reason : Inherited wealth is becoming a not uncommon thing.1 Young women frequently marry fortunes. They marry for a position for an establishment. And then their pleasures begin. The sum mer is snent at .Newport, or some other watering place ; the winter Is passed in Florida or Europe; and the sprfng' and autumn are devoted to society in the city in which they live. "Marrying without love, and yet filled with the desire'of conquest mixed with a greater or less propo: tion of sentiment, these women car ry on their flirtations with 'men who are . not their husbands, getting in this way all the excitement without the worry of looking into the future. In nine cases out of ten there is nothing out of the way in these at tentions, and whenever anything se rious does result th e-money interests at stake are almost always sufficient to prevent any scandal. On a larger or smaller scale this is the course of. things in all our cities. It is the inevitable result of the in crease of "wealth. The idea of two young people falling in love in the old-fashioned way and going off to be happy and make their fortune is looked upon as decidedly rustic. Even when the wealth is on the girl's side, the chances are large that she will either "marry a good-for- nothing,, who will Milt - with other woman, or will allow ;her father to marry her to some "rising" young man who will be so engrossed in business that he has no time to cul tivate the graces of a home life. When he cets a spare evening he will want;. to spend it at a dancing club or a progressive euchre table. The truth is that the world is gro wing- blase. The woman of 30 is com ing into favor because her wide ex perience of life has enabled her to select the piquant things and to shun the commonplace ones. There are some compensations for the change ; but they appeal to a jaded appetite. - The Verdict Unanimous. W. D. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind., testifies: "I can recommend Elec tric Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold--has given relief in every case. One man took 6 bottles, and was cured- of rheumatism of 10 years' standing." . Abraham Hare, Druggist, Bell ville, Ohio, affirms : "The best selling medicine I have ever handled in my 20 years' expe rience, is Electric Bitters." Thou sands of others have added their tes timony, so that the verdict is unan imous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood; Only 50 cents a bottle at Dr. V. M. Fowlkes & Co's Drug Store.- -' - ' :-. f-.' . It is said that the Empress Jose phine had 38 bonnets in one month. No wonder the whole family failed in business.-Burlington Free Press. LOVEWITH RESERVATIONS. Oh, if the world were mine, Love, I'd give the world for thee ! Alas ! there ia no' sign, Love, Of tbaf contingency. Were I a king which isn't - To be .considered now A diadem had glistened Upon that lovely brow. Had fame with laurels crowned me She hasn't up to date '- ; f ; Nor time nor change had found'me To love and thee ingrate. If death threw.down his gage, Love, Though life is dear to nie, I'd die" e'en of old age, Love, To win a smile from thee. But being poor we part, dear, And love, sweet love; must die Thou wilt not break thy heart, dear, No more, I think, shall I. j James Jeffrey Roche. SHE WOULD HAVE HER WAV. "But I don't want to be rich 1" said VioFet Howard. "I'm quite as rich as I need to be already, . What do I gain by another $50,000?" -, Old Herodotus Howard stared at his saucy grand-daughter as if she had propounded a piece of rank her esy as indeed it-was in his system of every-day theology. "Violet, you are a fool," said he, harshly. "And it's lucky for you you have a grandfather who can look after your interests better than you seem to do yourself. Mr. Eric son will be here to-morrow after noon. And j'ou will please" with an ironical emphasis on the word "receive him as your future hus band !' ' - Violet opened wide her saucy brown eyes. : . "And what is to become of of Oli ver Benton ?" she as-ked, demurely. "Oliver Beton is nothing to me !" stormed her grandfather. And Mr. Howard trotted toff down the garden path to look at his buds of tulips and jonquils. Violet's, eyes followed her grand father with a mischievous sparkle in their hazel depths. . "Now I wonder J" she thought to herself, "if grandpa really thinks I am going to tie myself forlife'to that old fossil of a Caleb Encson 1 To carry his slippers, pour his tea, iisten to his lectures upon the "movement cure'' and "salt-water bathing," for nobody can guess how man years ! Not if I know m;self. I've got to be very , cautious, for I know grandpa owes him a deal of money, and poor grandpa has been very kind to me, even though he don't quite under stand how Oliver and I feel toward each other !" Violet sat down on the farm-house step, her cheek resting in one hand, and pondered deeply. Presently Violet rose up again and went into the house, only stopping to gather a cluster of cinnamon roses to pin in her golden-brown hair as she went. "Dorcas I." said she, putting her face into the kitchen, where - the staid maid-servant was chopping suet for an unctuous pudding. Dorcas looked up, even her hard countenance softening at the radiant apparition of youth and beauty in her homely kitchen world. "Well, Miss Vi'let!" "We shall commence to clean house to-morrow." "To clean house 1 Miss Vi'let, and company coming." Violet's, brows contracted. "Company 'ought to make no dif ference at a regular institution like this, Dorcas." ' "Very well, Miss Vi'let." ; And Violet wentsinging off to skim the milk for tea. , Mr. Ericson came in the next evening's stage, complacently look ing forward to country air, country rest, and country delicacies, after his L long and dusty journey. ' He was a portly, well-preserved old gentleman, with a bald head, a dyed mustache and a set of, expensive false teeth,' who considered.that, as money had bought pretty much everything else in the world for him, it might wind up matters by purchasing a pretty 18-year-old, wife in the personality of Violet Howard ! . , Mr. Howard had gone to the near est village that day on some legal business and only contrives to meet his expected visitor at the very gar den gate. "Delighted to see you, I'm; sure," said Mr. Howard, taking off his stoy-pipe hat and mopping his brow with a' spotless sUk handker chief. "Lovely spring weather we're having.- Yes, yes ; walk in; walk in. Dorcas, where's Miss Violet?" Dorcas,. who made herappearance with a visage as stony as that of the Gorgons and her head tied up in a towel, set down her pail and scrnb bing brush. "She's up-stairs, sir, polishin' the backwindys." "Polishing the back windows ! my grand-daughter!" "Yes, sir, We're cleaning house, sir," chuckled Dorcas. , "The deuce you are I" Mr. Howard's under jaw dropped. He turned to his guest. man's freaks," said he, . sourly. "But I certainly told Violet you were coming. "Don't, I Deg of you, let me inter fere with anyvof your household ar rangements," said Mr. Ericson, whose idea of house-cleaning consisted of leaving a dirty room in the morning, and coming back to new curtains, fresh chair covers and polished fur niture at night. You see our old bachelor had much yet to learn. Violet came tc the' tea-table, her pretty face disfigured by a close cap, a bib apron enveloping her figure in its voluminous and curious folds and a pre-occupied air. There was noth ing to eat but bread and butter, damaged pickles and cold pork. "Eh ! How's this ?" asked Mr Howard, surveying the board with a disgusted air. "Is this the best you have to set before usv VJqlct?". , "Grandpa!" said Violet, . with an injured air, "you know I have some Mnbition to be a good housekeeper find how can I clean house prop- rly arid yet spend my whole time in the kitchen? Besides, I for one, don't believe in indigestible dainties. If ever I keep house I shall live on plain Graham bread and simple cold water!". Mr. Ericson, who was rather fond or udrmless little siue-disnes ana salads, iellies and creams, winced visibly. Grandpa Howard stared at the saucy little girlin blank wonder 1 After tea Mr. Ericson sat down to a chat with Violet; but he had scarcely spoken a sentence before she rose. "Excuse me !" said she ; "but must go and see that the carpets are brought in from the grass-artd .the whitewash pails covered. Your room was "white-washed to-day, Mr. Eric son, and thoroughly scrubbed.- I saw to it, myself!" "Eh ? casned the elderly lover, thinking of his rheumatism and sci atica. "Possibly it may be a littl damp if if any other apartment was equally convenient " "The beadsteads are all down, and the carpets all up!" interrupted Vi olet. "You can either sleep there or in the barn, whichever you choose Mr. Encson looked rather discom fited. Evidently the., velvety kitten could scratch, if she chose! "And wasn't it just possible that Violet Howard might be a shrew ? He was no Petrochio to attempt taming this Katherine and Just then Mr. Howard came in, and the old gentleman's reverie was cut short. He went, yawning, to his bedroom, at nine o'clock. It was rather stupid to sit by the light of a kerosenelamp and listen to old Howard's platitudes. Violet came near him no more. "Phe-e-ew!" said Mr. . Ericson, looking hopelessly at the wet floors and reeking Avails of his room. "Sheets damp, I'll bet a cookey ! My good woman," to Dorcas, who was carrying his lamp', "how often does your young lady clean house?" "Four times a year, sir," said Dor cas, prom ptly, "and oftener . if she thinks the house needs it. She is a -dreadful smart housekeeper, is Miss Vi'let." . u; . I! ;';::-tr: "Four times a year !" echoed Mr. Ericson, in dism'ay. "Why a man's life would be scoured and scrubbed and steamed, away from him at this rate." " . ... - He woke up at the first dawn of the morning, stiff, sore, with ach'ing pains in every. joint. "Confound house cleaning,"" he thought, as he contrived to draw his broadcloth coat across the newly whitewashed walls, thereby causing it to assume a resemblance to mil- er's blouse. '"I've had enough of it." He came' dowrT to breakfast of weak coffee, pickles and cold pork again, with a bag ready packed. "You are not going to leave us, Ericson ?" cried his host. ' tlI I find important business will take , roe , awav this moi'ning." Un- blushingly Jied our venerable hero. "And look vou here, Howard a word in your ear I find, on mature reflection, that it would be very foolish for an old codger like myself to think of allying myself to your ahem charming grand-daughter. May and November,eh ? and all that sort of thing ! She'll be a great deal happier with some near fierownage. And," speaking very fast to antici pate the opposition he saw in Mr. Herodotus Howard's fae, "about that trifle of money between us, we'll cry quits. What does a few dollars signify between friends-? Take it as a wedding , present to Miss Violet, whenever she finds some one else to ake my place. Ha ! ha! ha!" And away went Mr. Ericson. Violet Howard did not waste a single tear over her recreant lover. She went merrily on with her spring cleaning. And when annual cere monial was over she married Oli ver Benton ! It was very singular how Violet Howard always contriv ed to have her own way. Plain Tariff Talk. ; . From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Senator Colquitt, in an address delivered before a Farmcrs Associa tion a short time since, made an earnest protest in behalf of the great agricultural community against the injury done to the masses by class legislation, and he was particular to point out the effect of the tariff in the prosperity of the farmer. "I do not understand," he said, "why the Government should treat the cotton spinner as a favored child of fortune and the .cotton-planter as an aban doned orphan." He further told his hearers that if they were permitted to sell in the dearest market and to buv iu the cheapest, the value of their crops would be enhanced 33 per cent. It is eucouraging to hear such words as these from a Senator of Georgia to the farmers of the South. There has been a systematic attempt to commit the people Of the South to the continuation of the wicked and abominable system of tariff tax ation. Managers of great corpora tions, speculators in mineral lands, organizers" of improvement compa nies, whose stock is paid for at ten cents on the dollar, to be sold at a premium to gullible fortune-hunters, have established their presses f in many localities of the South ; tbey have huifkpaper cities and declared large dividends, and now they ask the farmers to fall down and wor ship them, under the false pretense that they were ; providing a home market.5 :'r ; - :-: The farmer is interested in seeing cities grow and manufacturing-interests flourish only vhen these cities pay him what he can get elsewhere for his. products, and when these mills and. factories will sellhim sup plies at rates as low as they can be bought elsewhere. Biii' when these furnaces, - these mills, these factories and mines Jieed protection ; that is, when they .need a law which compels the, farmer to buy of them at 'their own prices, these institutions are not'a blessing ; they are a curse. . '. . -: : The farmer, with every .other citi zen, is concerned Jibout cheap iron. He buys it in one shape and anotlu r in large quantities. He uses it about the house, the barn, the field. V It is in his plow, in his wagpn, iri his gin. It is used when he plants, when He cultivates, when he picks and gins and bales his cotton. Iron js at the very base of their prosperity. Cheap iron is a boon inestimable. The first form of all his farming implements and most of "his. household utensils is "pig-iron." ' It costs 87.50 or $8 a ton to make pig-iron in England. It costs $9 to make it in the South it costs from $16 'to $20 to make it in Pennsyl vania. The makers of iron are pro tected by a duty on pig-iron of $6.72 per ton. In other word's, the tariff forbids the farmer to buy iron in England at $8 ; it fines him $6.72 for for every ton purchased abroad This "fine" the domestic producers add to their homeprice, and so either way it is a tax on the farmer. When the farmer buya iron in any shape he pays this tax to the iron maker. About 6,500,000 tons will be made in America this year, and the aggregate tax paid by consumers of this article amounts-, to $43,680,000. Here is a bonus paid by the peo- I pie to the makers of iron. - It is as jmuch a gift to a class and a tax on the masses as if Congress should next winter provide for the payment to the cotton-planter of $6.72 a bale for every bale of cotton raised. The farmer has no such i bonus, and he gets no such compensation. His cot- ton does not bring him any more because of the tax. The price of cotton is fixed in Liverpool, and there the tariff does not protect him It does not give him the home mar ket, for the American spinner gives the planter the Liverpool price less the cost of transportation. . When newspapers and politicians talk to farmers about the home mar ket, they are trying to get their votes under false pretenses. . To Itest the sincerity of these men, ask them if they would favor a bonus from the Government of $6.72 a bale for every bale of cotton raised. The farmers have just as much right to this as the furnace owners have to a lax of $6.72 on pig-iron. Judge Kelly, of.Pennsyl vania, is preaching protection to the South. Is it possible to get him to introduce in the House next winter a bill pro viding an export bounty of $6.72 a bale on cotton, and a similar bounty on wheat ? We think not. Caught Circulating. Yale University received over $300,- 000 in gifts and bequests last year. In the last 12 years the ignited States have received 4,600,000 immi grants. - Chicago, on the basis of the direc tory just issued, claims a population of 800,000.' President Cable, of the Rock Is land, says that Kansas corn is dam aged 50 per cent.; -r " In Germany the school history re lates to events down to 1812 only ; in thi5,country it goes down to 1886 There have been 173 cases of yel low fever at Key West thus far this season, 41 having resulted fatally. Texas has 180 counties, and is as large -as Kentucky, 'Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan combined. Two young electricians of Munich, named-Mestern and Heiidobler, have invented a sort of telephone which fixes the spoken word on a chemi cally prepared sheet of paper. While prohibition is gaining im portance as a live issue in one sec tion of the country through the warm contest in Texas, the failure of the experiment in Rhode Island is so complete that the Providence Journal pronounces it "a miserable farce" that does not result in "any perceptible diminution of drunken ness." . - ' ' - - . This, country can't go oh Wasting its timber and destroying the forests with . impunity. -The . Gardener's Monthly reports, Prof. "Rothrock as saying that, in spite of the common belief to the contrary, this is not a timbered continent only 16 per cent of the whole area remaining in timber. This is within li per cent of the condition when a nation be gins to experience a dearth . of tim ber, and climatic changes begin. N. Y. San v . r . More the AVorld.. . From the Magnolia (Miss.) Gazette. " ' ' "Stand ' where jrou are," says : Goethe, "and move the world. This is well said by the great German.. It is a nice sentiment. Indeed, it . meets or approval; or, as a politi cian would say, "It shall have my vote." But he who stands where he - is and tries to move the world -frill ' probably find it a verr hard;thing : move. This moving the. world is ft; v very serious sort of business..- . z '. k Archimedes only asked for a place . to fix his fulcrum, and he t would : move the world ; but the rtorid.went ; right on without, any help frem ,the . -mathematician of Syracuse. .In our youth, with the bright visions of -hope in all their golden colors before us, we imagined we were quite f up. to the work of moving the world. One proposes to do it in the law. He: will : master his profession he will. go the sources of hisijurisprudence' ' he will astonish the world by his learning, or he wilhmiove the world by his eloquence. Well, hei begins. N and chews the bitter cud jof expe rience. It results in findingthat the world . is hard to move. and. Uiat i many who were as intent as.he,.andf'J' who had long before made thp same resolution, had given up. in despair. The high ideal had to be, s'ubordl-v nated to tread-mill work. . : ;.v ' Now and then CQinesaman whose nature i 3 so royal, and whose aims are so high, and whose power of en-, durance is so grand, that he is able -to move the world of "living hearts ; which come under his influence, and men bless him for his work. ' But these are rare exceptions. . The true thing for us to do is to learn what we caD do best, and bend : our energies to that end and. nothing ' more. Thus, if we do'riot rnove the . world, we shall do some good in i I . and leave it with a consciousness , that it is no worse for our having lived. There may be many other sources of satisfaction, bit few great- - er than this of having.lived.if not a brilliant life, a useful one.; The . final test of all things is use." Even j that beauty which has no use, cati. f hardly be called beautilul. ; As if the meteorological phenomr, ena of the present season were jiot already sufficiently peculiar, the red sunsets which created so much dis cussion in 1883 have, returned r to, puzzle and annoy the scientific world. , What with the Star of Beth lehem, the total eclipse of the sun on the 19th of August and the inex plicable reappearance of red tints in the western sky, the astronomers of the earth have much to engage their attention for the present time. Let the public prepare for a large crop of scientific and pseudo-scientific es says on the above mentioned phe nomena. N. Y. World. Some of our most prominent citi zens have been cured of chronic rheumatism by that wonderful pain', bonisher, Salvation Oil. j Price 25 cents. ; ' - v : V - . - "VVrhy, Jones, what a ho(a)rse you have in your throat !". "Yes, I r.-iis-, ed it from a col(d)t in my head. I've too much live stock." "Well, like cures - like ; Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup will cure you. The Bull will quickly scare the ho(a)rse away." . Milk bread dries out faster , than water bread. . , Do not let stale flowers remain in ' a sick chambers - Scald peaches and the skin can be removed much easier.-than by, peel ing -without scalding. Wash your flatirons in soapsuds and dry jthoroughly, if theyat all trouble you by , droppfnblack- speeds Mr. Dayis' review of the life, of Calhoun in the North American Re view will attract wide attention. He-: endeavors to show that Calhoun was national in his views and purposes, that he was devoted to the Unions meaning thereby the Union formed by , the Constitution,, and tat his remedy for unconstitutional naeaE urea was to call "check" inside the Union" by nulljficatiori, thus" forcing a new convention of the States .to settle points' which were in dispute and which are not provided for ia the Constitution) '- ' . i i . -v 1 '- i -
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