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V f - , " " 2. . - .. " . - " 4i ' X C - "S " - - - J" ' ' -r. . - i J . "t ' . ' -" " ' " " "Vj . V THE ROCKET. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY J. BLUE, and W.E. HARRISON. . Editors and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION BATES' One Dollar and ft half a year in advance. k jQr Advertising rates farnuhed on ap ttcatioa.' -r . X2T THB EOCiaZS. ' the height of 1,900 feet the sides are so steep as to make the K escension 9.uhe difficult. When abcptliaUWffrj op the mountain, we tnet orciner Thos. who had received a telegram announcing our arrival in; pttle Rock. We spent several daysjyery pleasantly with brother Thos. his cottage. The view from NeBoVtOp is very good indeed. Sixty thousand ohm in Mi1tivniinn can be seen on Arkansas River' and adjoining jip lands at"a-8ingteview: sheets etc! on the ed and, U the house work Our bill for two nieals and ludgtoiwvw $3tfli Hsfme iik rtinosaand Ilk BteaKv liver; i am, " l If . . 'V .-. -5 potatoeVfruif, coffee, tea etc. J) cmg the afted3wtw( be boughtho and nf tf f.nw mdiv wpK iinff I manage ai 4"?""' r- f "-'f !"3j i t. OGpounds each, the eaa wf queswuii&ww( Bv way of-parentbesisfduramval ! and stay in Littfe" RoqlC brought up from the tablet of .mempry.a .leaLP personal history, Upmost trying m ':S Interesting Letter from Eocking ' ban's Eeprcsentativea lathe ; ParWwt ', Presuming a short account of on I not the darkest in my nbl altogetBe? trip to The Rocket" may be of inter; uneventful life of , over j th.ree jcoi;e et to, at least some of your readers and ten years; as its jppfe long. ill I will attempt, while waiUng ; for relate a part of it. In the fall pf. 1856 diner, five o'clock p. m. to give you I took my negroes from Korh Carp:, some of the points. Our little party Una and settled on January; 1st 1857 consisting of Mrs. J S.edbetter, J. in the canebreaks ..of. the.,Afkansa P. Leak, my daughters Pinky .and, ,River 15 miles below Little Rock, " Fanny and myself, left 1ur town fa the fall ofUonoHA Rtickingham; on the C C! railway at more negroes, on the trip down.the nine o'clock p. mM August 8th for Mississippi and up the , Arkansas Atlanta. We saw . but little, as River one was taken, sick and (lied a most the distance was passed in the' few days after landing at a.rzPr night The crops we saw before On my arrival at the farm 1 found, miebing Atlanta were fair for the the manager and most of .theinegroes soil and the season. We procured in feble health i from dijllsin a few ti kets to Memphis leaving Atlanta days pneumonia, broke , out .among ' late in the evening of the 9tb, we saw negroes. I advised the overseer to the cotton and corn crops of that 1 leave for a more .healthful, locality, part of Georgia on the road to Birm- which he did leaving me alone with ingham Aku, the cotton was gener- the negroes. Every one who tQqk the ally small but well set with blooms, disease died although I employed We parsed through Alabama in the best medical skill obtainable, jn the , night, and reaching Holly the city ot IittJe Rookv, I paid 11) .. Springs a little after sun rise on the for one visit, the doctors prescribing ' 10th The crops in that part of I and I administering day and night northern Mississippi over . which we I would wrap my cloakaropnd me, passed were poor indeed, and. the land visit them at all hours of night. country .badly worn. I saw in this I In about three weeks I lost at a low part of Mississippi more gullies than estimate $13,000 worth of neg,rpe 1 I ever savr, 1 think, in my whole four died within 24 hours. ; I copld life, WTe arrived in Memphis about not desert them however much & o'clock a. m. J. P. Leak and I re- feared to stay or desired to get away - paired immediately to the office of I held the fort and remained . until tie St. Louis and Iron Mountain improvement came. . , , railroad to procure "round trip"! After they, were set free I returned . tickets throu h Arrizona, Indian to the same farm which .had been .Territory, Kansas, Colorada, Utah, deserted when the .Federal army .'IdahoWyoming, Nebraska, Mis-J took LitUe Rock. They all returned . 0.uriArkansa8 again back to Mem- land we entered into a partnership phis. Here we had as we thought in raising cotton, they then had., to the misfortune of not being able to employ their own doctors, nurses etc find the Agent until the train for I no longer waited on them in their ir.c-i 1-- J o -; I i. ' 'r ;i' J t." ' ll''J ' I4iue xuick naa leiu do wo wereinours oi sickness, ine eame "j"1;. detained in Memphis until night, t pathy existed, but that almighty J. P. Leak returned to the Depot and Yankee dollar interest had ', been brought the girls to the Peabody torn away, that pocket 4 interest of Hotel and we concluded we would $1,000 in each negro was not there remain in theMBluff City" until next ltd rule my conduct, it is a powerfu morning, giving UB.'pleatjftioaeji : to procure tickets and see some of of this, the city although it would cost the On Tuesday morning Aue. 15th party fifteen dollars, three dollars per We left Mount Nebo passing through day each. Van Buren and Fort Smith Arka At last I found the Ticket Agent sas, through jhe . Indian Territory whose office was in a room in the saw but few Indians, we found cot- Peabody Hotel. I showed him the ton growing high up in the Territory route we wished to takehe said he through Kansas into Colorado to could give ns the ticketswe desired. Pueblo, Colorado on the Arkansas Then by a little financiering I sue five cents "per T? . 4 a iU& and as to many siPisare t- o PhiladelphVi8 v U J - for the;early ' ' It is ah4 Hf i easy to 'i howlWj r l . i TfW' rM umn ,:trai inchWitsnrfroWitser Tirth&y ?" forfi-rinpleMron inches long 9 inches wide, he paid that there are husbands and hue-t tWe have made a ew departure, - and thlniarpTanrTo? ilielr t bgty.-Ifsbe reaUy whWr-rr n, Wa We, uplift ipep-L yri seasinjooking,, the. f4r in ,1 once and P easily led u they in uieir own way i koil,nW nnnla atonm retR etc. saw tne I inuia uieyre xiayinu am n . i r.. i k. ai. t TV r mo r I or nnw . n n.r rrr 1 1 1 Q a v r..ii, k otonm nvor 1 fx) f mor&T.voa Dave. ib laeal with. lex nsft thro timi The tHe"r-1 nim imagine vou are wnhng to do as 1 nnA nt"M. I he eavs and all will be Dialif sailing. J prices it iwaii Valninv aBnnt 1 o'clock stnd The Iwifelwhtf says iTentiri we etaitea.pacfcvo iQis,nuiej, iv soor i" J""". began to ;bail, Oien.resulareavy 1 argue her own side, stands snow . . in our crass mountainswerf all cpvere, m4tea!':f n' ywnrrft6tff leasup -;iW ih "bomitifnl anow' Some men! tMUnattet whatliettytftrtw August '5W,e hayemet, no acquain- .womatt The colxnMlfadiths. lil tance since we left Mount. Nebo ex T maHs'tthMlBW WrKitP- 1 cept tw orreg J, baa metoprm ;t, SJrlw" WKneau wnwnwi er.yisita tolhe Hark in 878., , line.tyranisnrarihedoihierin We m.et,here. last Holt wbo jivei in Lontana tells the eui.' c: ir.ur- lift Vri'Aur- iiifl ;;,.inflafTr . rivi f.i7 sas -?ffCDits nlina 57 veara airo. He. ia a. eonain I Werl 0raon.;njlllMwlSLmen,OIJ , JTV "i--r'-s of GovemoxiHoltandV Wjlliara Bank nearinaa mm nurx n&MKLa ittjuei-- tf it: PNg5gSMrt"y -25;i A'fulf hna roff v . 4 BiyagreeT "JS9" Imh 1 ittf rrn c. . xr. .Ania u mA I dpfVririif will vork wonnpra i "- i 1 -t ' " -.;-J-' ; '' J l " ' ' J r J till. him at bis home infiMontanasavsl ini m WWmW m?$QMMteja r T5r a .?VHI' il. i :n l:-. u4.. .i i in oino- nri na (inn . niinmnsiviun i . -? iir . . i - - - - lanA t ianef moaV nnn '"Ttruth whenever submission is neceeil I -fja 9AAAA1 -J- TJ 1 J 1 tuti. I Iipb .foT tntrfsti nntsirlA nf IhA hnmp . . I l,SUUllves.1Me buys a great many 1W mtJm MWtaW&mtei ,catUnrjsona 10000 two?vear old steers. .... . 1 lack OF mahaeemeiir, m Wifhluch rJtiJtmV'W Ufajfasi ipDooloQkB -t control prjeeaan jvre. U lavue purchasers ta an exainination of our f " h if 1 - ; , ' -I X Sh j '4 94 W I .... . ... Zm " i . I if bfthe Yellow, Stone er Vnere it takes one grand fall ofJS6Q fet oer- nmdicular without meetins . anr-1 -RS810 thing in the fall, thence our route is k wjweesiwfiJigswf oai-.w. w st sucn a larra as .uieso speciar -i rM f, Lnot determined on. , Westward JJibJJS?' JfiJJC-it U34ilA JLe SfcSA Star oi empire, takes ; ila ..wajr! VVeatward the Christian Sahhalh 1 Wubtryv In gOl ftpT mnlb tag wmm took its wav Star of Bethlehem uatlcrJ ,tn? protected class.ethat Eng- I.Ca8hsfeayeiiif mztth f?first-ckB goods ..:.!.- uj tana wouiu De munsecr mio irreine- r w w,v .i.uwii 4cucu j . .-AJi. y,iiT.ici Msayfcjnoneyr A 1011 stoclfbiT far WmLvM. I how. . Boon thom I ium vuo u ku uuu nao reaping grain ing railroads the Sabbath , mowing hayiidJl AiiHy. etciin this far Wsta - JPZ"ltn r,tw,ff?w day '. , -What'waS thlreiuTt?-The7oielti1rM &p&WMj$- ,-. syrA -Ki ? vrt e fiui ririian"" waptexj. Jdignest price3 paid Yours.truly,. JOT Til 1 j . Ui4t 18 our pKaaaraMMnoaraottr.rea?.!- nesaw . . .M .... Wf ffFreerElaf eae -kUaedeeded to a degree "in. "aceoiapliBhing 4" JOur coiDPetitoraTR wa selLToo.Ch.ean. ".n -. .j-' r as we DUwrve.tttimbtiC is notexDress: rtrf 4BJfi Schools., State, Chrenicje, 1 : iiiA, a ra-;?:i VkA 4 very respecwunvY taa ;i t . LPhreshmsrvMaohinesp Lt9tfriii-$ii! Mid-- 14 River. We visited the immense Steel ceeaea in mamng o.uu, a. aouar 1 nant in meWo and our party saw saved is a. dollar made, you know, wonders. From Pueblo still ascend- ms was prewy gooa wora ror one mg the Arkarlsa Kiver passing day at an expense pf only three dol- farms and do?ens"of oiPmiUs, we law for myself but I concluded i I entered the" Rockiers thrbtrgh the would at least one time, be gener- Canyon of the Arkansas crossed the ous and divide the $95 equally divide through Marshall Pass at an among the whole "teaparty." After elevation of 10,800 feet above sea breakfast, having procured our tick- level, decending through the Black etg J. P. Leak and I took a stroll Canyon of the Gunnison, the grand about the city, leaving tha girls to eur sublimity and beauty of the look out for themselves and see the scenery is indescribable, we redched sights. We found James Dockery Salt Lake City, the quondam 4Mor Esq., in his office about noon, he mon Patadifce, Sunday evening took us down to see the great bridge August1 21st which spans the "father of rivers'' at the noted Mormon mis place ana connects tne state on blv Hall and the Tabernacle with its i sc Tennessee with the state of Arkan- wonderful adoustic nroiierlies. on- In 187Q the democrats' cameintbl?lt.r vv wt oiw wnuu v uoti vcivw 1 tACciicU lLiffv 8av. UV Dune fJlDCr in Wours of labor "Telr of tier in In . Answer to ."Inquirywe.gi the following facta on this subject; I creased; -Tapidjy j aHifaat)y eTheJ v In 1868 jjkxeg wee, paQtiw4ly, bo geMerJoirrwliieliiltwcisi public schools in Hbe StateT lFrb1mWitesecH9tii vomr 1868' tolSZQ .there were oiity diabur-T wietiiur)wc4hts ootthlry "itmd sld fubtecippa Lowest wniie.ine paiance . ; ; OKtpe senjopi 1 cpnieficy m reiusing 3Com par fund,overalundred thousand dot-1 the-Engtend of to day witblth&higb iars, was votea ny , tne jepuuiican l prpteciion iLngiana oi nny-n ve yearssh . -Monaay. we .tisiiea 1 ior .WWD!.VlJe9il VI QPW 1 .iLi2S2T ra:.i.!ri Temple ' Assenl-t tbereere.. praettcajlv. f, npur,liclrUu1e4$ fito wiutwelinUBE mW3ri wef?fcW?4 lnd coald Bcarcely gbout. Msre!ba L JpeSuilBr :firt 6fRibirdnd pUDllO BCnoplS taug&t tor White Cllll- I ? nw wree ooiues 01 DOian- aren, ana 101 laugnt lor coiorecf nrp ple4heMoundBuilders,immediately I Our party was b'ert lnweds;bUdre ,oHed 0n,,the puWicf : 1 : 1 1 . mi j - - 1 ' i ,3 m the bridie we visited a very large the world. Tuesday .we.; procured mound, built by tlie now exUct peo-1 tickets for the Yellow Stone JParkJ on the bluff overlooking the great the addition of two Hobsier ladies Mississippi River. At the bridge we travelling alone, one a widow and a found the girls. Mr. Dockery then Republican, the: other aldinaid took us all to the Telephone E; and a 1 Democratic farpMrrone faini change where we found some dozen 90 acres in Timothy grass, the others or two girls doing their duty. One tin small grain. She told me her traveled. The crops along this route only thirty miles spent the -night were only fair, nothing like I have whh fln bid Bahefoi ' who1 Hvefr in' seen mdays past on. the Arkansas fine two 8t6rv Ibtr ' house-B0i86; rtiet that the DublicVcbool fWtern.'nnrUr River bottnma. ' r - .! uu io.on : i j . ' .A '-'1. w- ,- -v - fi . j iiiHiii lixaii mxiiii ik iiriniiiiHiiii'ii irnm iiiiir We got to the Little Rock depot ( floor to rafters- with nicturesi elks tendenfcL tnen waiting lor Us, but m the deers headsbtars heads arrd sVms,: i.n.nii uiwewuiiu euwrtjj unu ii. moose beads, Iynx;headsf- eagles, was late in the evening before he eurlews. steel traps snow -shoes etc. learned we were in the city, he took etc. quite a museum. The bedroom us 10 bis name ana we spent the furniture in several rooms -cost $100 nignt wiui ms tamily. Leaving to gl25 per set, rooms carpeted, beds nixl morning for Mount Nebo some nice clean' and cbmfbrtableT HeKae W tones up u.eArtcansaa-tUver to no woaian on the ranch, bnlya rnan " U8 wun m Dfomr assistant about the house, stablesVtb. Thoms W. Steele. Mt. Nebo ,is Mr twiu 5. ;.K?.f t s ut rS."lLa-m 8?h Le e He'does the cooking wait- 44VW, xuang aorupty 40g w uble putting pinJw Si;, i CO MISSIONER'S SALE OF . school books. The average school term, was nine ?vee ic Mo JBabBafli ?rop$UiP$jr, Orlfct BoXfei) TOkfY'dolifssMfi?VJ ii?016' W,H on the 19.th(dayot In 18884ei4435i;publicLf fste'a sSViAAnBlCkiia, f'ilWti ioy. expose, to, pablic sale to the - ' ' ,r- ttiti.r;jJJ5. ,iKf .iiUJSuf tx. r..i-. a. ...... . t w.w.iJi viw.tfjf MmWKU1 buu ,ou j coraren cmiuren. 1 ne imp.' -oy owrmi iUMiiiejuratti; SnJF lS89dreW fieatily tiifib; tend, it school books show nrortmerif in P i W tp9J&MisPfeirff xzoi coioiea uie .ayerage SChooH m E1ainMktotye.j Wioiwa r of them explained 4he inodus oper-1 farms yielded hVr'an Income of 10 andi allf which ; was new and verv I net ctnt onr tiiftiP 'Mkefin? interesting. While in Mr. Dockerys ploys her tenarits-elcV herself. Both Rerm being l2i weeks per year. : : J it is ordered.thatithe vqiing laceaalj PBdnA t& veh. ..K k. n. . 1 ... . . . i I T tsni . . : i f . .J HP Cnvincrtnn Ml in Wnl Hit inronahm I uo ui Biiic; i ue Hue W IDC iana 18 Clear. wux Z are inieingent eaucaiea nice lanies, ia ioi mere were puwie r"", 'ft-' " 71 M derirftbrchaaewilr to uncle or his written to ben. Alfred We left the rail at Beaver Canyon I schools taught for white children, UhMlbe&iUfr "w.wy jwuv.cf jbbiuic, A3, vjruiu i m iaano ior a stage nue to ana r ana z,zwior coure;amx an enroll u? MamnKli in 1 8x17 Vo snnlo , nf iha I ,t. ill :T.l.-.'i -v: 'iil j ri.'I. . 'L. .l..tii'0l:"Amnk.-f; 1 EiVl.iif MOB 1aC' wkuU uu uouitu uj iw iur Lravtsucu uv ran o.iu miieR pincei auu uiu.oii coiorea-i iner average i Lstietiin :Th. nacirpt f 5v rrfor nt thA . !tw.JU..siMy.w,4t.., . ; school term beingflf we6ks -- 4Joard I . .ln48ratnjei9Csjd taxatMn,ril Sept. 6th, 1892. ! cents as the pnee of the staple at leaving home; ' We spent first night that tune. Next momma we left 1 on the hank riffiniiVfi1 RlW7hwW JOr Uttld KojPKf by the ilrOftfaiOUnI travelled fiflvVniTpa wlthriiit sWtirtl maklrntuSKmcrA whAnl trm .hnfc tai&uitei'imetl6iadeifetorAr .m. :an,iw 'A-nI 'a$ri4.s: SJLJi UfgamAtrpMu&S j I dunofid Count v JSLHj f L 5 $ 1 anv ttoan D legislation hMerprpe year to vearTTius iSclearlv f 'Rohaifi'to ... . -; --w- A.... -U-;- k" " TS T mt -, 1 &ai,hps L. Mcllir. plaintiffs, against 9: i : MEW YORK T A We -beg indulgence for a few days. e are receiving goods to such an extent that we havent had time to communicate to the puttie this week, but promise you some aolidifacts on low prices next week. a . . Managers. 5 pia liereuy eBiaiuueu aa tne. voir j IZFzXXi&s . - r t"ifi.rv.,',uV-i, or iritf tewMM 1tfMrrtne1aWfiriDorgf . ! JS&W- jfcS W-eT. it 8 I - M. . .... i&<frlhiV. A4 -at tow.tai'JJffceu tt,tQ-j sail. dAced by h. fccUhitth. fime., of democratic rule in tna State $177.-1 iM " V :a-J : Xtuur. ,.,. C. LEAK, Prop.. tf,y, were aisoursed tor t public wiuiamsoos wwBempjwjri.iiitaoni WHIT CVTrALEX D ER HAYS. rrw in l888,691,I88,20,4 andTii lgfe asI l- StewartevilleRo stated, about $800,000. . Do our neb" rui.!.4w ple want the' -public schools closed and the school fund tafren to pay Sept. 6flrt8fo&f 'i u.,vg,ai)s n,- " V. ' . w 1 ) ' j' T 1 'I sss I eil ofloer, prUp. from Hew JSnglajid. prevent it byyo tips,. the democratic I iALLr at Th itorjr ,fyffin-r lU. l.erwJMf? uitte to.do tbeir duty iB ticket: and in nb othet.wavl Uti.VJ kinds A "Job Pnntine.-, & Kortuoiuia a th? p,m0erttc 0Wn'ship-W. 'H' Me I ln lle coming canipalgri i' will" ddtiwlkat - 1 - ' '.' L'i.Jl ...... .....L. ........ "i. By order oi" the JBoardl ! Tii i 4diruotaai Uukt,sa I nt;suretht .- 1 1 - ',: it,--. 7 I lift Si it 4i
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