' I i. "j '. ' , .' , i ; '' , ' ifeif; Printing. jEfaving recently purchased a first class outfit, we are prepared to ; do all kinds of - . PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRIMTINC ".'"IN" THE j ' ' BEST OP STYLE - -f And at Living Priced. SUBSCRIPTION BATES; an moniua. ........,............. Three moQtlis,vti. ...... .40 AU subscriptions acwunts must be if. a WALL, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: $1.0. a Year in Advance. Advertising rates furnishedjon ap- "V"0LJ';'"VI. Rockingham Richmond County 1ST. C, February 9, 1888. No. 6. piiuauvu. I j OVFR BVRETT, WALL & COMPANY'S. ' iO v AY Y V - . a U ' ' " -'7 ( SJi . .70 1 . j . , . . . .- . ; ., . - ' i ; - i . . . " . . t I A . Written for The Rocket TO- . My heart was seeking a treasure, Some jewel to rear mine own; I thought thi8 prize I bad met with, But find the sweet dream hath flown. Like stream of sunlight, all glowing, Thy presence filled all With delight; Like mists of morning, thine absence Veils all, in soberest night. "And all the i music in nature y ; Seems turning to minor strains ; ' i No bursts of melody sounding, No gay and gladsome refrains. . O, bright the rainbow that trembletb 'Cross dark, purple clouds of the sky, Yet fleeting the grace of its beauty, And transient its loveliest dye. Thus God gives us glimpses of Heaven Along on Our pathway so 'dim, But the brightest effulgence of glory He keeps till we rest with Him. My joy. hath dissolved into sadness, As inelteth the rainbow to tears, But yet that vision so lovely Leaves opefor the cbming'years. For since ithis dawning of daylight Illumined -the gloom of my sky, : I think that perhaps some planet . Shines brightly, for me near by. 'Twas only a miscalculation To think that I'd found mine own ; How could I have known that other So dear, to thine heart had grown? "Yet had I have known more timely Thy hand no longer was free, I still could not have helped reaching For what was so tempting to see. . r O, surely the angels that watch us And bear to us gifts of love Take tidings of human sorrow To whisper in courts above. And surely they'll bring to me, waiting. ' .My aarang tnat is to De; To me she'll- come from the Father, For all things ordereth He. 'And this-1 know, when she cometh No stranger she'll seem to me, . For I nave seen her sweet shadow In all that is fairest to thee,. Written for The Rocket. My Jeans Pants. I needed pants, and, having a strong, hearty wife and a first-class j sewing machine, I could not see why I could not get cloth and have them made at home, thus saving the heavy per centum usually paid upon these necessary articles of apparel. Ac i cordmgly I selected ft stoat piece of jeans and took it home.1 My wife; did not Beem overioyed when she comprehended the situation. The contemptuous tone in which she ut tered the single word, "Jeans !" was very suggestive of an aggravated state of mind; and I immediately concentrated upon the columns of the-Rockingham Rocket, which I had brought from the office. A few days later I ventured, "When can you make my pants?" 'Not till you get lining, thread and; buttons.' "0, 1 forgot those." "Men always do." I: subsided. Another week passed. behind?" I meekly asked.' 1 tcrwl i it in r . -uq, yes; dui tney 11 never nt the jeans is too stiff."' She fixed them again. Being in vited, soon after, to a neighbor's to dine, I put on the pants once more. They seemed all right now, and our spirits rose to the occasion. We had a pleasant walk, and enjoyed meet ing our friends. After a half hour of pleasant chat I found that the Information Wanteds From the Wilmington Messenger. We print this morning an edito rial article from the Washington Na tional Republican. We have no de sire to create any undue alarm as to present political conditions in North Carolina. We simply conceive it to be our duty to let the people know what others think of us, and what the plans of the enemy may be.as bottoms oi my pants' legs were half outlined by their newspaper organs, way up to my Knees. I stood up, and divulged by their own snokes- shook them down, and went on talk- men. mg. ; .Presently wife caught my eye and winked towards my feet. The pants had worked up again in the same surprising manner, and I be lieve thy. would have kept on and Here is one assertion made by the Republican which we challenge it to support by the proofs. Our contem porary says that it has "positive as surances from many leading Demo- foot and dragoons" into the Repub- league Miller, in which he mixed lican party until he has a greater in- death, the moon, picturesque seen ducement than the past record of ery and a moral all up together, that party or its present achieve- However, if he can't talk he can ments. There is everything in the count his silence as very golden, party which pur Washington con- with $4,000,000 on the right side of temporary represents to make it his ledger. odious to. the people of North Caro lina. Tht internal revenue laws con stitute one objection to that party, but not the only one, and our Rep resentatives in Congress will, we be lieve, secure the abolition of this mnnnmtnt nf -T?imnKI!fn rulo nrtA tvtf t w Worth rwiin. strange packages, and when Mr. . t .,. , . . ,j Bowser came up in the evening he eipaiucu tuni vucjr ttcio ui ot "And don't they about me ?' say anything Mr. Md Mrs. Bowser. BY MRS. BOWSER. ' From the Detroit Free Press. The other afternoon an express man delivered at the house several turned wrong side out over the top crats in North Carolina"that thevi ol my head had 1 not been at the wffl unite cordially with the Repub pains of getting up and shaking them licans on the industrial issues be down every half hour during our tween the two parties." It then an stay. 1 he thing became annoying, nounces that "one of the most prom be, as in the past, to subject it to the worst government conceivable in State affairs, as well as, in Federal matters, to revive and strengthen the mjriad abuses which existed during the whole time it was in pow er up to Mr. Cleveland's election. and we rose to go. As soon as we were' out of sight "Wife" I exclaimed, "what on ill .1 MM HI .1 . Getting more and more in want of earin is tne mauer wnn inese-wretch nartta T nrnMirPrl t.h fnrcrotten art.i- d panU I I hey must be CUt too " I 1 i M , A bad cisar js like the small boy at school always trying to go out Of all the vice in the world res pec table vice is the worst. And how black it does look when it's found out. ""' If ydu want to get up a subscrip tion for a broken head, just ask a policeman what his clubbing rates are. "Is there any cure for snoring?" asksjin exchange. Vre believe there is but one sovereign cure namely, to keep awake. Erom a pretty woman's' album "A stupid fellow compliments a wo man on her pretty tteth, but a clev er one makes herlaugh." Of all dark traits that disfigure the human. race, that of wishing to be little or degrade the character of an other is the lowest.. ' Things are being changed. They don't come to the ulan who waits any" more. The man who hustles gets 'em. A fine lot of extra bright dried fruit just receirednt Wishart's. EOHOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE Wr&OC? a in M N 1 i ' -m mterty vtorrcat nUILTkCM PAMIU MfCNCIKC. Prict OHEDolUr 7 f I - - The Budoritr of the UU of h body arUa; from & diaekaed LSret. '' Sim'; mom Uver Regulator has been ihe means of restoring more people" to healUi maA' Happiness by givlnt them r a leKny , uer than auy other agency on earth. BEE THAT YOU GET THJS EVIlfB SSmpSBIETH bci Kano. BAKER REM. fBox KM BVBmUb PERSIAN BLOOM, Bet CeaplexlonBU. 8kla Out and BtemUh Endioator .known. mMm ior artai pacKtw. aootobb am Piead our new clubbing offers. "Now you . can make them," I said, "chucking my wife under the chin to see if she was in good humor. "How can I cut them without pat terns' ?" she asked. After some reflection I suggested that she might cut by some old ones. "Very well" said she, "but they'll not fit," But seeing that my wife's gowns fit a trifle better, to my eyes, than most other ladies of my acquaint- ance, l did not oouov ner aonuy 10 make a success of this job. I was gratified next day to see her splicing . . r Tl l away at tne jeans, ior x naa sei my heart on "those pants. Finishing them ofi late Saturday night, I did not try them on ; but, after being pressed, they looked .so nice and store-like that I complimented my wife until she blushed, and I must have sunk to mv slumbers with a smile of satisfaction wreathing ray countenance. JNext day there was preaching at the church near by, and I proceeded to don my new pants I was unusually jolly. Notwith standing it was the babbath. I sur prised the family by pirouetting about the room while pulling them on. Clasping my suspenders, I look ed down. "What's the matter!" exclaimed my wife, running for the camphor, expect I did change color as sud denly as I changed feeling. I could make no reply at first, but only con tinued to look down at the pants. My two legs looked like two large bells, so stiffly did the jeans stand out, my two feet answering tor ni- shaped clappers. The wind seemed o gather in the unusual rotundity at my ankles and dinuse itseii with chilliness all over my body. When tried to walk the two bells strug gled as to which could outdo the other, and made a sound as if some one was dragging a branch of holly across the floor. Finding voice at last I cried : "What made vou cut them so large at the bottom "I cut them exactly by those soft flannel ones," said my wife, -the . - . Ml . . i J' .l jans is so sun in at it win siana out and look larger. IU put out a piece to-morrow. I took them off and put on my old ones. Next day she ripped, cut and fixed them, and, being called off on business, I thought I would wear them. Quite sure that they were all right this time I drew them on: They looked very nice abou the ankles, and I proceeded to. pu oh my coat Taking a glance into the mirror as I finished my toilet I wna flismaved lo find the tails of j my coat protruding out as if rl had on the most unmitigated Langtry hustle. It did no eood to try to smooth down the accumulation o fullness,' for as soon as the pressure was 'removed it would spring out, like India-rubber, into high relief again. " What's the. matter now?" en quired my wife, seeing me trying to get out of them. .Couldn't you take out a piece "I cut them longer than the old system, I am ready to go with them, horse, foot and dragoons. If the ne- cessitips of the Government are such ones, she replied, "'tis the jeans : that all cannot so at once, then let it is so rough it works up. I can tobacco and fruit brandy be relieved Dut on a hem at thfi bot.tnm at once, and wnissey aiterwards. l So she puion a hem. When next am cuiU!nS MT"'"- T - j , cai enuurance, bo mat, n ueuessiiry, I ventured to wear them the weath- x can teke an active partin the cam-! er was severe and I look a cdld naign next fall with alovex off", and. so ( 0 r j i i far as I can see, we can hope for no r m t it two weeks. Wife said. "T'is those "eiP iroiu U1 V1"- These are the sentiments of North inent gentlemen of North Carolina" Carolina Democrats; and now, thatj has written it the following letter: we have spoken our minds so freely, If the leaders of the Republican give us the names of your prominent party pledge themselves unequivocally Democrats. to the repeal of the internal revenue pants ; , I told you that tilothrwas half cotton." So it was the jeansv ery iime; but as I recovered I con tinued to wear them-. One cold even ing in the winter I went to the barn to feed the stock, and, climbing up to the loft to get some fodder, my foot slipped and I would have fallen to the floor had not my pants caught by the waistband to a hay-fork which was sticking between the logs and hooked me so securely that I eou-ld not get loose. I let fall mv armful of fodder and worked and tugged to extricate myself. My feet were dangling and my body swaying about in the most uncomfortable manner. All I could do I could not free myself, nor was there any one in hearing whom I could call to my assistance. I wished the pants would tear, but the jeans was too stout for that. I wanted them to rip, but they were too well sewed ; neither could I induce a button to come off, or my suspenders to unclasp. It appeared to me I was hanging there fojr an hour. It was cold, and get ting' dark. What to do I did not know. At last I heard a step and welcome voice : "Hi ! Darhenow! Hi,yo!" It was Dan, a neighboring negro, and glad was I to see him. "H'yar ! h'yar! h'yar! How you git dar, boss?" I could not blame him for laugh ing ; 1 could almost nave joined mm now that there was a prospect of relief. 'Can't you help me to get down from here, Dan?" "I'll do dat, sure, boss. I 'spect you is tired o' bein' in dat fix." By piling some barrels for my feet to rest on, and then climbing up the side of the house, he managed to pull the fork from the firm hold it had in my clothes. The jeans jerk ed off, like skin from an old should er of -meat, and as I eased myself to the floor I - inwardly vowed I would forever discard those unlucky trou sers and bestow them upon Dan as a reward for his timely aid. I also vowed that the next venture I un dertook in home-made pants should not be in jeans, and I have kept my vows to the great satisfaction of my in-jean-ious wife. ' M. Now this reads as though it might Silent Senator. Senator Boweri, of Colorado, talks very infrequently. Some of the silent Sentors can't talk ; others won't talk. Senators Faulkner, Turpie and Bate will be mum for some time. Senator Gorman must be rated as one who talks less than the average. Senator Matthew S. Quay, of capes. "What for?" "For the house, of course." "But we don't need any fire es capes in our house, Mr. Bowser." "Don't we ? Well, we shall have them just the same. If you want to be burned I have no objection, but I propose to die some other way." "You never said there was any danger." "Because I did'nt want to make vou nervous. As a matter of fact I haven't felt safe any night for year." "And now the danger will be ob viated ?" "It will be reduced to the mini- mum, certainly. UiVen 11 we waxe up and find our bedroom on fire we shall be able to escape with only a scorch." After supper he carried the par- be genuine, so we shall not go so far Pennsylvania, does not talk yet, but cels upstairs. There were several bottles and a couple of wire racks, a hand fire extinguisher, and a rope aud pulley and other stuff. "Where would a fire be likely to start in the house? I asked Mr, . it is emected that he will as tr intimate that nnr finntemnnra- I r j . i j Senator Sabine did not sav d word ers tbrniifrh a false utatement. Tint the wavnf the average oannf the g&n but not his talent for PubIic - j - o -o i , Rennhlioan nart.v are dpenlv and I Pea ,no desperately dark at times. and the Henrv B- Pavne ol Ohio Paces Bowser as he was .fixing a hook in tricks which it performs are rich inl4 auu uuwu' UP a-QOWUine -"Mthe casicg of oot bwHroom window the deceitfulness of vanity. Ofcourse aie caml;r' ul ncver Aiv "Down stairs, probably." w Ho nnMmneaeh the statement, of sav ne can "Well, we have a front and back - - r i c . t f i i i I . . . the Republican in advance, but we . wcuaun uuiS stairS and here are three chamber -tuo pagea ui m xwruuru uoij once windows opening out on veranda in a very long time with quotations roofs Couldn't we escape by some irom his tongue or pen. of these ways ?" Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, j.f j. thought we could would makes but tew speeches. le made be fool enough to go and throw a feeling oration on Logan, and nKrnv An tVtis onnnrntlnl" Vtnan, J A challenge it tq prove that the "prom inent gentleman of North Carolina" who wrote the foregoing letter is a Democrat. Certainly the man who writes so frankly and unreservedly is not afraid to have his name given to the public,for one of the most-ad- sometimes talks on military affairs. griy demanded. mirable characteristics of the North Carolina Democrat is his manliness and his indisposition to work by "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain." So be candid in your dealings witli us. Give us the name of your Democratic correspondent or else refuse and thereby admit that he is no Democrat at all, but simply an invention; of the fertile editorial imagination the wish of the organ adroitly fact. I There are iseveral reasons why we do not believe that the correspond ent of the Republican is a Democrat Senator Stanford is a poor talker. though he once or twice a session reads irom a roil ot manuscript a set speech on some Pacific Coast question. Senator Hiscock will say little and keep in the background for Mr. Ev- "I I suppose you know best." "Mrs. Bowser, when I don't know best I will resign. While you have never given the subject of fire escapes one single thought, I have devoted long years of study to it. Take our wall eyed darling and go "Not a word, or,-if they" do, it is . to remark that you were in a dead aint and your feet never looked so . arge." " ' : - "And can you go down by that rope and harness?" 4 - "Can I ? Can you chop ' wood with an ax ? What is it for except to go down on ?" "I would almost as soon be bum ed up as to try it." I don't believe you would dart to go down on it. "Mrs. Bowser, what a wife believes and what husband Knows are two different things. Is it likely I would purchase this apparatus and put it up here if I didn't dare use it ? Shove up that window !" "But I wouldn't try it. You are rather clumsy, you, know ?" "Another insult ! Shove up that window !" I put up the sash and he seated himself in the harness, sat down on the sill and grasped the rope over his head, and with a look of disdain in his eyes he swung himself off. A wild howl rent the air, followed by the thud of something striking the earth, and I looked' out to see Mr. Bowser lying in a heap below the window. I ran down and out a3 soon as possible, and after seven or eight minutes he was able to limp into the house' with me. "Mr. Bowser, are you muqh hurt V I asked. He glared at me but did not reply . "I am sorry you tried it." Some more glare. "I told you I thought it was dan- gerous." ,- "Mrs. Bowser!" he huskily began as he lumped down ion the sofa, "this is the beginning of the end !" "What do you mean?" "I mean you have made thelast attempt on my life you'll ever have a chance to ! You hounded-me for weeks and weeks to get this fire-escape, and you meant my death by a falll" "Why, Mr. Bowser I" "Say no more ! I saw it in your eye as you pushed me off the-sillf To-morrow we separate 1" But when the morrow came he sneaked up. and removed the appa ratus and pitched it into the alley, and fire-escapes haven't been refer red to since. Trusts 31 ait be Abolished. . . a a . I arts, and when he does give voice to down gtairs, and when I want you I his sentiments he will not be very J will call. torcible. in aDout an hour he called. He Fhiletus bawyens the dumbest was in great good-nature. He had I ii. r li: .1 . i 1 I. . . . . . manufacturing the alleged Iuau U11 11,0 ue i "e HUS the hook hrmly in place, and hang- oeen in me oenaie six years ana ,nor to it was a rone and some sort in the benate six vears has not said a word in favor of against any measure. Senator Farwell, of Illinois, or ing to it was a rope of harness. "It isn't much of an ornament to is our bed room,'r I ventured to ob- From the Charlotte Chronicle Representative Isador Rayner, of Maryland, has introduced a bill in the House to prevent the formation of trusts, pools and combines. This is a practical step which will receive the endorsement of the people. Some radically remedial measure like this i nnnnlarlv reornrrlerl no nwcec!tv mrst 01 an a;na cniei 01 an is inexact serve.. Tf .nm.tKin. nf the kin i w An . . . .,...11 I Kill. . 1 :11 ..ll I a . . 1 1 I O uvuu that his democracy is limited aoso- mui mw, uutus m puu -wnat nas ornament got 10 ao with promptness it is obvious that, lutely to the repeal of the internal wires with quiet energy. He isn't a with- fire escapes? Isn't your life t f f ' t ;mnortanl de. mveniifl svstem Tn nn nther rpsneet I xJlaine man either. I worth innre In vnn than the Hnilv I . ...,. , ' j i . ,, , " . j I partments 01 industry ana corn- does he seem to be interested in the Senator Ingalls has been silent for pregence of a tea-store chromo ?" :ii ua auanr.uaA u I t 1 I .... I utvive uui vv awoui lcu u j iuco npjtrlv n VAnr nnri hi2 nnaitinn irt TU- I pnuipicB i tuC pa,tjr,auu uu. - xuccBVaFO uuW trusts that demolish every one who as he says J there seems to be no the chair will enforce him to con- -For what?" doe not fiUrrender to-them. The 1 f 1 ii. i 1 4intiA er W a 1 ouH f rv Tollr Tan r r 1 urn, l w TT I nope 01 repealing me miernai reven- mo escape oy, 01 course. xxe bm bag ft fair DroSDect 0f passase. a 9 1 j 1 T 1 nnH vne trtr e rf 11 aniTin rv v a hit 1 ii a a 11 1 J 1 I I t. .w ue laws, except mrougn me rtepuu- " TFi&ii i "" is tne suuauon: xi is nuaniguw Jt in ua h0 4,imnQt ;ni J . I f J I ... . I WW WV V4W4 V uutH.ll I hcan party therefore he is willing to 01 rneionc The cook, while rummaging about - ODinion of the House that a quit the Democratic party and go benaior oiocKDnage is notiiKeiy m search of her lost quid ot gum bill of this character should be -oass . 1 1 . " . .1 T I n .nm. to inn nan Unnn f m I I 1 J 1 1 ' 1 A J 1 J I " 1 over to our oiq ume enemy me ive-j icjuwuuii o awuawuai nas aroppeu ngineu maiuura uuuer It is verv clear to everv intelli- i ,. in r - i i -i i i. j k I . i e ... j 1 1 ini a I - - j puoucans, -norse, 1001 ana ara- t cuuvuuU uub mu.u6 me irom, ana one buii. an uamw l ftnd unbiased mind that these goons. xnese are not me semi- u mv naVs uccu smuumwuug iui trusts must be rooted out Conffresa . P It r A t - A " .1 k.1i. n m unW tvtll - I mi. " 1 1 P 1 1. !lL J J I - meoxsoi neoiiDenioBiprominBni """S"""' "Ullk ",m iney now urea. iorm wii.u nuuueu mnat do it if it is done The acoui- gentlemenpf North Carolina," if that Senator Palmer talks very seldom fury cutting off our escape from M f th countrv in the adon. ii if a! t a. 1 I ar-l a K an Iia lAza h lioo arrvxt hinrr aitha a l r " I genuenuam ft .uun ui inB.wni- ... fo of the Inter-State Commerce 1 . I 3 1 I - ' i ' I J tn. nn nnH mn tra it ata I Hall "lnl Oral AM W I nnr nn I n A TPTD Tl fl n. I monweaiwi ana nas. oeen a cuzen - j , f , J A ? , Law by Congress as a necessity, is a anaenume ivemocrai. ior me past - - w y... - concession on the 'part of the couu -el- 1. I vonn't Antairlp the Senate he mnlres I 'Tin w? Not much I . We start r iweniy wuc uw - . ; " 7 4. 7 77" try that the States are unable to mat me repeal oi me internal rev- lU w " 7 throttle And extirpate the- engines of enue is aear w tne nearis oi nine- u,u ""u""6 eiuUM w vww 6'"r onnreion anil frpa tn the matarni .i i l a l i t il U1.J Ii.aii ivVian )ia tL i.tnnni4o kniMnn all Kaan haoven I teums ox- me democracy oi mis au.cu BFa.o. " 7E" ""V"6 " MW . welfare of our country. It is plain State, while we know that the party reads from manuscript his voice is ou by the frost is an una in desiring, demanding with the crckle jurisdiction overacorpora andiaDormg ior me repeal m ques- uvuSiy vuC.WUw6ar.. v - - - - . , . f . tion, yet ire also know that opposi- hear him and no one else tries to. oi mu j authoritv 1 . . I A lrmcvm nf rV' 1 I nvAI. I wTlnv V f II 1 T I1I1I1I1N HIII1 1 1 ti: IHTH I.I1B.1. I w internal revenue is not obm""1 hsuuj, xwim . i j na. comes pretty near going on the we are lost, i calmly secure all tne tion to the tUa nnlv rvri no? ale of the nartw in! I thia State! otherwise the DemocYacv invalid list. His physical habitsare money, jewelry and valuable papers rvio nniia iimncrnr i.fim i w ' - i - i . . a and throat and from were misekbly, impoverished in its good, and with his black coatclosely and coolly maxe p .parauons xo iZtlnir issues anil its measures. Oh! no, j buttoned about him, .his iron-gray. cape. I calmly pull down the r 5crlet Carer and Dlpbtberia are Spread by contagion, by the transfer of living matter from the skin, the membranous lining of the mouth, nose 4hn intestine and- urinarv orcans " - - - - . . i , r ., tv .; . Disinfect promptly and thoroughly ure r j-ox me iemocrauc pany is with Darby s Prophylactic lluid, going to abolish the odious system the great germ destroyer. Prof. H. wrjich your party foisted upon us T.Lupton,ofthe VanderbiltU and has perpetuated with ty, Tenn-. says : As a d'sinfect- and tice8- SJSS But thl representative North Car- tion with which I am acquajpted." J olina Democrat will not "go horse, 68-J rope Why let the baby suffer and per haps die, when a bottle of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup would at once relieve it and effect a cure. Only 25 cents a bottle. hair pushed back from his forehead, and harness, seat you and the baDy nnri his chest thrown out. hm is fond therein, and the next moment you I ara lanrlerl Oil the cround. I follow Persons of sedentary habits, and in me rear ui w " " ; , cific for want of appetite, palpita- Senator Hearst has been bashful papers oi tne next -morning curuu- Uopj debility, . constipation, and; ever since he made that famous eu- icle my wondernil self possession m many, other ailmehtg. At all drugx Intrv in the Senate on liis dead col- 'the face of awlul danger.". . gisis. t rice cenra