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The Scoundrel.
From the Youth's Conpanion.
IDING horn eward late in th
morning, I overtook two men
on foot, who halted as I came up.
One of them spoke to me :
"I say, pord, how fur ahead is
Van Sickle's ?"
I did not like the man. His face
was hard ; the eyes furtive. The
shoes of the two men were worn.
their clothes dusty and travel stain
ed. It was not a pond sio-n that
o O
they were traveling on the open
praire unmounted.
"A mile," I answered? "you'll
sight it from the next rise."
The other man, a swarthy Mexi
can, did not look up or speak. I
rode and left them.
At the home ranch Mr. Keswick
was sitting on the verandah. He
was a New England gentleman who
was spending some time in the coun
try m search of a ranch location. I
sat down by him, and we fell to
talking.
The two footmen I had passed
presently came up to the ranch and
seated themselves on the edge oi the
veranda, saying nothing, but noting
everything about them. The man
who had addressed me on the trail
I mentally named "The Scoundrel."
I saw his eye give a sudden gleam
as Mr. Keswick took out his gold
watch to note the time.
At dinner the two tramps ate rav
enously and silently. Black Joe,
the cook, regarded them with obvious
disfavor. After dinner they asked for
employment on the ranch. Joe
knew the foreman was looking for
extra hands, but he said, shortl',
that no men were wanted. Later, he
privately remarked to me :
Dem triflin' fellers don want
work. Dey's lookin' fur to loaf roun',
'n spy, 'n steal. You see, sab, dey
hab no hoss, no beddin', no gun, no
nuffin'. Dey's boun1 to git 'em all
some wha', and dey'll git 'em wha'
dey kin. We ain't fur outfittin' no
such trash heah. We fill dey bellies
and we gib um mighty willin' good-
by."
Shortly after dinner Mr. Keswick
saddled his horse and rode away to
visit a ranch twenty miles distant.
The two men loitered about a lit
tie. and then sneaked away in the
direction Mr. Keswick had taken
Later in the afternoon I rode out
in search of a horse that had stray
ed. I did not find the animal, and
got further away than I had intend
ed. I suddenly became aware that
it was sundown and that I was
dozen miles from the home ranch
As I was about to turn back, a
riderless horse ran up on the ridge
beyond me, and stopped a moment
with head and tail in air. I saw
that it was Mr. Keswick's horse
The animal seemed frightened. It
looked about, a moment looked
back and then ran off at full speed
Thinking that some accident had
befallen the rider, I rode in the di
rection from which the horse had
come. I kept on until it was too
dark to search further, and then
halted. After all, he might only
have had an experience, not uncom
mon with unpracticed riders, and
been left afoot on the prairie by a
restless horse. If this was all, his
plight was uncomfortable, but not
serious. It meant nothing worse for
him than a night in the open air
and a few jokes from the ranchmen
at his expense
A night on the prairie, in fact
seemed likely to be my own portion
I was now at least fifteen miles from
home, off the trail, and the nigh
was dark. But I knew I could not
be more than five miles Jrom the
nora,t .ben station of .Van Sickle's"
ranch. To this 1 determined to go
I knew the general lay of the coun-
trv and an hours riding brought
me to the station. There was no
light in the frame shanty, and the
empty corrals showed me that the
shepherds had taken their flocks to
another range. As their absence
meant for me a night without sup
per or bed, I was at first minded to
make for the home ranch, although
ockmahmi
or.
Rockingham, Richmond County, N.
my horse was tired. The elements
decided the matter for me. A drop
of rain fell on my hand, and others
tapped on my hat brim. The sky
had become black, and, the rainy
season being at hand, I knew that it
had set in for a wet night.
There was nothing for me but to
stay where I was, I hurridly pick
eted my horse on the prairie, leav
ing him free to feed to the end of a
long rope; then took my saddle and
bridleto the house, the door of which
was unfastened.
Within, it was pitch dark. I struok
a match as I stepped inside. To my
pleasure, my eye fell on a half burned
candle. I lighted this and looked
about me.
The interior was bare and un
furnished, save for two bunks, one
above the other, and a wooden stool.
On the later I seated my self, and
'filled and lighted my pipe
I had sought shelter none too
soon, for the rain was now coming
down in sheets, with much thunder
and lightning. The door blew open, I
and I braced a board against it to
keep it shut.
By the time my pipe was finished
I was sleepy. I chose to make my
bed on the floor rather than in
either of the bunks. My saddle serv
ed for a pillow, and I lay down
with my saddle-blanket rolled about
me, I soon grew drowsy, and, with
the thunder crashing about me, fell
asleep.
I was aroused by a pushing at the
door, and started up fully awake in
an instant.
"Who's there?" I called.
The pushing ceased. I heard low
voices without. I walked to the door,
and, knocking aside the board that
held it, threw it open.
The storm had cleared, and I saw
a man standing near the doorway.
His hat was pulled down over his
eyes and partly bid his face ; but I
saw at once that it was the man
whom I had named "The Scoun
drel."
"Whose camp is this ?" he asked,
surlily.
"Van Sickle's," I answered.
He started, and an exclamation
broke from him :
Ain't we off that cussed place
yet?"
He stopped as if fearful of betray
ing himself and asked in a different
tone :
"Got anything to eat?"
"There is nothing in the camp."
"That's a likely story," he broke
out and again suddenly checked his
speech. "I reckon we'll come in out
o' the wet, anyway."
As he said "we" I saw the Mexi
can, who had so far kept out of
sight. Little as I liked their looks,
I could hardly refuse them shelter,
and stepped back, saying," You can
come in."
I lighted the candle and set it
up on a shelf. The men entered with
hesitation, looking suspiciously
about them. The Mexican crouched
against the wall and held his head
low, so that I saw little of his face,
but I could catch the flash of his
eyes as he glanced slantingly up un
der his black brows. The other seat
ed himself on the edge of the lower
bunk and looked sullenly about.
When they saw that I was alone
their manners changed.
They asked some questions about
the trails and location of ranches,
and the Scoundrel began to grow ug
ly and bantering. This temper on
his part carried an ominous signifi
cance. I felt plainly that the two
men were "sizing me up," and I
wished that I had my pistol.
We were not a happy company.
I thoroughly distrusted my ill-favored
companions; they evidently
had some disturbing thoughts of
their own. However, we all prepar
ed for sleep. The Scoundrel rolled
j into the lower bunk: the Mexican
cuneu up on me ui.
quiet and seemed, by their stillness
and their heavy breathing, to have
gone to sleep.
I lay with eyes half closed, wish
ing for the morning. I saw that the
candle would not last much longer,
and I had a strange dread of the,
dark. I grew restless, and finally
got up and went to the dor. The
men started and rustled at my move
ment, but nothing was said. I step
ped outside and across the grass to
my horse. He whinnied at my ap
proach and raised his head. I pat
ted him, and stood awbileith my
hand on his shoulder. The longer
I stood, the less I felt like going
back into the camp.
My antipathy to the men was so
strong that I determined to saddle
my horse immediately and ride to
the home ranch.
I turned back to the shanty. The
candle was not burning, a fact which
should have caused me to hesitate;
but entering, I groped my way over
to the corner where my saddle lay,
and stooped to pick it up.
A sensation of red light suddenly
filled my eyes, and I next found
myself on my face on the floor,
where 1 had fallen, struck down by
a heavy blow from behind. The two
tramps had flung themselves on me
and were tying my elbows behind
my back.
Caught wholly at a disadvantage
and half stunned, I could make no
effective resistance.
to be continued.
Fibrous Plants.
It is suggested in one of our best
weekly exchanges, the Asheville Ar
gonaut, that devotes unusual space
to North Carolina industries, that
ramie be cultivated by the farmers
of the State. It is said to be
fibrous plant of unusual value, and
is not difficult to cultivate. It is at
tracting much attention among sci
entific men, and in New England its
cultivation is being stimulated by a
stock company that offers advant
ages, of course from a business con
sideration. It is importing the fibre
largely and is anxious to create a
market. To that it wishes to in
duce Southern planters to experi
ment with ramie. The Argonaut
says :
"If true, as stated, that 1,500 lbs.
can be raised to the acre, with three
cuttings, and the fibre worth five
cents a pound, it is evident the crop
will be a most profitable one."
In Pittsburg, Charleston, New Or
leans and perhaps other places, ex
periments with this fibrous growth
are making.
It would be wise for North Caro
lina farmers to take this matter in
hand at an early day. The Alliance
might experiment. It might also
take other fibrous products in hand
such as are experimented with in
other sections. There a is fibre known
as "istle," a product of British Hon
duras, that is said to be of value. It
is described in a letter in the Balti
more Manufacturer's Record as be
ing of the pineapple family. It
yields a singularly strong fibe that is
used for cordage. We learn that a
"leading authority regards this fibre
as probably more valuable than
that of any other tropical plant."
There is in Yucatan a fibre known
as "sissil hemp." It is valuable and
believed to be adapted to the Gulf
States. We are all constantly in
sisting upon a diversifying of indus
tries. Here are three valuable and
important plants that may be culti
vated in the South, two of which we
may suppose are adapted to the cli
mate and soil of parts of North Caro
lina. The cultivation of them should
begin next year. Wilmington Mes
senger.
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C, October 10, 1889.
NOTES OF TRAVEL IN EUBOPE.
BY H. C. WALL.
After the hospitable greeting ex
tended by the people of Liverpool,
by which all American hearts had
warmed towards all that was Eng
lish, we had the keener relish for the
things expected on arrival at Lon
don. Our party of more than two
hundred Sunday-school workers, des
tined for the great World's Conven
tion where all countries were to
come together in a glorious cause,
felt a peculiar enjoyment in the fact
of our brotherhood relation. The
Northerner and Southerner were
close to each other in that relation,
and social amenities were easy and
pleasurable, each only regarding the
other as a. brother American and
bound together by mutual interests
which are appreciated at best when
so far from home. The colored
brethren, of whom there were six or
eight, enjoyed the situation wonder
fully well, riding in the same cars
and, in all respects, participating
equally with the writer in the com
forts, discomforts and privileges of
travel. This fact did not necessitate
an intimacy betwixt individuals be
yond that which each desired or ap
proved, greatly as your imagination
might magnify the circumstance.
The Southerner was not compelled
to be the vis-a-vis of the brother-in-black,
nor did the latter show the
least disposition to seek or to force
such a relation as between himself
and a Southern man. As between
the two I noticed that, under all cir
cumstances, they understood each
other and not a single time did I
observe that any of our Southern
delegates were forced into situations
that that their tastes or "raising"
need have taken decided offence at.
If I found myself at any time more
intimately associated, by stress of
circumstances, with aeolored brother
than I was accustomed to be at
home, a slight exercise of diplomacy
or otherwise would soon change
the status, he or I changing place
and conditions, he getting where he
could feel easier and more at home,
and doing the same myself. This
could be done much more easily, at
the same time pleasantly, than we
down South" might suppose. The
average .Northerner ot the party,
however, accepted the situation with
admirable adaption; not only did
he make "no difference" but on oc
casion would seek companship and
even "lock arms" for a promenade
with the colored brother between
them at all times it might be said
...ah. I..
mat an is serene ana the goose
hangs high." Indeed if the curious
Southerner, not accustomed to such
sights, sought to find out upon
which side the truculence or toady
ism rested, he was apt to conclude
the Yankee had it, and not the ne
gro. It is well to add that the av
erage Northerner referred to was of
the species grown in New England
for really the New Yorker and
Northwestern man are so nearly like
Southerners that you seem to forget
that they fall at all under the desig
nation of "Yankee." It is the New
England brother that should wear
the appellation distinctively ; it fits
him precisely in all of its signifi
cance. Far be it from me to write
as I have above in any spirit of ma
levolence ; such is not the case for,
barring the idiosy ncracies on the
negro question, especially in matters
of social taste, I found them to be
gentlemanly, courteous, and very
models of proper conduct. I found
among them some of the most desir
able traveling companions and was
glad to count them as personal
friends. I will add also that the re
lation betwixt the Southerners and
negro delegates as traveling com
panions were uninterruptedly pleas-
ant.
In railroad facilities, comforts of
travel, &c., this country is far ahead J
even of England. You get more
comfort, better accommodation and
more conveniences in a run from
Wilmington to Shelby, on the Caro
lina Central Railroad, than you can
possibly command on the great
thoroughfare from Liverpool to Lon-
$1.50 a Year in Advance.
No. 41.
don. They make the time over there,
no question about that ; the road
bed, track, &c, is solid as English
character, and their engines(without
cow-catchers) are powerful in weight
and structure ; but thecars in which
you ride, with the sardine fashion
in which they pack you in, are a
disgrace to the good Queen's realm.
You get in at the side of a car, or
carriage, as they eall it, and seven
persons besides yourself can occupy
the compartment that is shut off by
partition, fore and aft, from the bal-
ance of the train ; so that your
chance for "swapping lies" in social
converse is confined to the seven be
sides yourself. This would do, for
anybody's social wants might be
supplied by even so limited an
amount of tongue and companion
ship provided he could look forward
and back at any moment and see
how his fellow-travelers are getting
along, and occasionally stretch him
self by walking the length of the
train to see if he can find anyone
that "knows" him who perhaps got
on at a depot a few miles back; and
particularly, if he could find a
"cooler" close at hand with ice-water,
or water at all, or any other "conve
nience," whatever but not so, the
pasienger, when once cooped into
his narrow compartment and sat
down with his three companions
and four opposite, vis a-vis fashion,
and nowhere to place his feet but on
those of his opposite partner, he
must "grin and bear it" and be con
tent with seeing the country as he
goes along, and adjourn the question
of comfort and privilege to the end
of his journey, or at best have only
one or two minutes and who could
even nuni up a glass or water in
that time ? at a way station where
the next second may find him left,
and in a foreign land at that. Yes,
America can teach, not England
alone but all of Europe, manv
valuable lessons in railroad travel.
Our arrival in London was looked
for but, unfortunately, had not been
provided for. We were innocently
looking forward to a quiet entrance
upon our possession of suites of
rooms, and every accommodation
provided, at the Grand Midland Ho
tel, big enough to entertain several
delegations in outside appearance.
but were disappointed ; only a limit
ed number of our party although
arrangements had been previously
made for the whole party could se
cure rooms ; the hotel management,
in spite of all previous arrangements,
had suddenly yielded to the exe
gency of the Shah of Persia's visit
which had crowded the city wlrrrfsterns with cider. A proposition
people, and had filled all the avail
able looms besides. At least such
was the explanation made to the
great majority of our party who
were thus disappointed, yet some
were disposed to criticise sharply
the gentleman who had charge of ar
ranging before-hand for the whole
delegation, thinking he bad been re
miss in the discharge of his assumed
office. At all odds I found that I
must "join the great majority" in a
spell of disappointment, and here
we were, for the nonce, "foot-loose"
in the great city of London, not
knowing where to get our grub and
find our lodging. It would seem
somewhat paradoxical to say that
such a place as London could be so
crowded as to make it difficult to se
cure hotel or any other accommoda
tions, but I know this : I saw more
people there than I saw anywhere
else, especially along Rotten Row
when the Persian monarch with his
suite, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and his suite, were passing in
procession. And further, it required
diligent inquiry for several hours on
the part of many of our party, be
fore they found suitable and com
fortable lodgment. Four of us Caro
linians, Blair, Goodwin, Davis and
myself, at last got comfortably fixed
at the Holborn-Viaduct Hotel, in a
busy part of the city.
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Cheering News From the Farming
Regions of Southern Kansas.
Every one who comes to Kansas
City from Kansas these days has his
own particular stock of stories to
tell about the wonderful crops in
that State. Among the Sunflower
pilgrims who landed in the city on
Saturday was Charlej' Barrett, the
good looking and talkative traveling
passenger agent of the Missouri Pa
cific. He had spent four or five days
in Southern Kansas, and his mouth
was going at the rate of 500 revolu
tions per minute about crops, when
he was flagged by a Times man on
Main street.
"Wheat 1" he exclaimed, "you
never saw the likel The farmers
down in Southern Kansas had to
rent the public roads to get room
enough to stack the wheat. Wasn't
room enough in the fields to hold
the stacks. I saw one "
"How is the fruit crop?"
"Fruit 1 You never saw the like I
Apples as big as cannon balls grow
ing in clusters as big as haystacks.
I saw one apple that "
"Don't the trees break down ?"
"Trees 1 You never saw the like !
The farmers plant sorghum in the
orchards and the stalks grew up
like telegraph poles and supported
the Hints I saw one stalk of sorghum
that was two feet "
"How is the broom corn crop ?"
"Broom corn 1 You never saw
the like! There hasn't been a
cloudy day for a month. Can't
cloud up. The broom corn grew so
high that it kept the clouds swept
off the face of the sky as clean as a
new floor. They will have to cut
the corn down if it gets too dry.
Some of the broom corn stalks are
so high that "
"How is the corn crop?"
"Corn! You never saw the likel
Down in the Neoshe and Fall river
and Arkansas bottoms the corn is as
high as a house. They use step
ladders to gather roasting ears."
"Aren't step-ladders pretty ex
pensive?" "Expensive ! Well, I should say
so, but that isn't the worst of it. The
trouble is that the children climb up
into the corn stalks to hunt for
eagles' nests and sometimes fall out
and kill themselves. Fourteen fu
nerals in one county last week from
that cause. I attended all of them.
That is why I am so sad. And,
mind you, the corn is not more than
half grown. A man at Arkansas
City has invented a machine which
he calls "The Solar Corn Harvester
and Child Protector." It is inflated
with gas like a balloon and floats,
over the corn tops, and the occu
pants reach down and cut off the
ears of corn with a calvary sabre..
Every Kansas farmer has a calvarv-
sabre, and "
"Do they make much cider in
Kansas?"
"Cider ! You never saw the like !
Oceans of it ! Most of the farmers
in Crowley county have hlled their
was maae a rew aays since to the
water works eompany of Arkansas
City to supply the town with cider
through the mains, but the company
was compelled to decline because
they were afraid the cider would
rust the pumps. They were sorry,
but they said they would have to
continue to furnish water, although
it cost more. I saw one farmer who
"How is the potato crop?"
"Potatoes! You never saw the
like! A man in Sedwick county
dug a potato the other day that was
so big he used the cavity it grew in
for a cellar. I saw one potato that
"The people must be happy over
their big crops ?"
"Ha$py ! You neversaw the like !
I know men in the Arkansas Valley
who were too poor this time last
year to flag a bread wagon, and now
they have pies three times a day.
One fellow that "
But the reporter just at this point
had a pressing engagement else
where. Kansas City Times.
The "Charley Barrett" referred to
above is supposed to have been the
editor of the Chatham Record travel
ing in cog.
Cashier One Day, Thief the Next
Louisville, Ky., October 3. Geo.
Kuhn, who surrendered to the police
here on Sunday last, and acknowl
edged that he had stolen $600 from
his em ploy ess in New York, left for
that city yesterday in charge of an
officer. Kuhn, who is but 23 years
of age, was a clerk in a large packing
house in New York, and a few
months ago was promoted to the po
sition of cashier. Th e first day after
his promotion he took all the money
he could get his hands on and ran
away. He became penniless hero