The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-01-01
NOT INTENDED FOR PUBLICATIoN.1
RUGBY, TENNESSEE, Xmas, 1880.

RUGBY, TENNESSEE, Xmas 1880.
To Miss MARY EAST, Rugby, England.
MY Dear Mamie Here we are in Rugby, Ten
nessee really at the place we have talked of so much
for the last few months. will try and give you an
account of our journey and first impressions, as
promised but fear it will be but confused account,
my ideas are not at all clear yet. We only spent
few hours in New York, saw nothing of the town,
but hope to do so in returning We left by the even
ing tran taking the Pennsylvania route the cars on
which most comfortable. After leaving Philadel-
phia, where stoppage made for supper, the por
ter came, around to MAKE up the beds, and it was
most amusing to see the travellers disappearing one
after another behind their curtains. They manage
to heat the cars1ery wel in factSoo well for us, as
we found it almost too hot TO Sleep and were longing
to open the windows We bfkakfased at Pittsburg
It,n,.as rather gloomy morning, and the town was
enveloGed in, smoke. This must be nearly always
the case there should think there seemed to be
countless furnaces ssacke bnty, but also flames
poured from the chimney and gave weird aspect
to the place. The river, which is Of dirty yellow
color, also looked if it belonged to some Internal
region The country we passed through during the
day was not particularly interesting for the most
part undulating and pretty well covered with small
timber. There was good deal of water lying about
and as there was not much fencing visible, should
have thought we were passing through waste forest
land but for occasional farm houses that we saw and
evidences Of crops that had been gathered in but
hear it is considered fiery fine land The day seemed
long, but we managed to get through it very well by
the aid of novels, ana game o whist, which we
requested to play by some fellow travellers Who
or what they were we know not, but they were most
polite to us; as indeed all the Americans whom we
met on our journey were. We reached Cincinnati
late in the evening and went to the Grand Hotel; a
most comfortable resting place. We remained there
the next day and saw something of the town, which
seems fairly good, and in summer | should think
would look very pretty as it is very well situated 1t
is surrounded on most sides by hills; we went up one
in street car, which was taken up bodily in sort of
lift The river is very broad and crossed by fine
suspension Hridge. We left early the following morn
ing by the Southern Railway, which has not long been
opened. AS the journey would only occupy the dav.
we were not in sleeping car; consequently we had
good many more people with us, and they had more
the appearance of second and third class passengers
in England. They were country people, suppose,
for the train stopped at numbers Of small stations
and somebody was always getting out or coming in.
We passed through some rather decent scenery in
Kentucky deeprocky valleys and ravnes with streams
running through them; over some Of these the rail-
road is carried on marvellously high bridges. The
! line must have been rather hard one to make.