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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

THE census of 1850 will chow the
population Of the United States to be
8 little more than so 000, 900.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

BETWEEN eight and nine million
dollars worth of foreign gold was
melted and recoined at Philadelphia
last month.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08
The Legislatures Engrossins
Clerk.

Mrs Mollie GriZzard. who has just
been elected engrossing clerk of the
house OF representatives, ct Nashville,
is a member of the United Order Of
the Golden Cross, having been for
some time past Keeper of Records of
Eureka Commandery at Huntingdon,
! her home.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

a COURT MARTIAL in the case OF
Cadet Whit 4ker has been ordered to
convene at West Point, Tuesday, Jan
usry 18Th.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

SARAH BERNHARDT is now in
Philadelphia. Pa. Thus far, in her
tour through this country, she has
realized $175,00O.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

THE Banks of England, France and
Germany lost S84 O92,s12 in gold with
in the last tHeLty vo weeks.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

THE forty-sixth congress re assem-
bled the 5 h inst. Ouly scant two
moi tbs OF It fiaal sitting remain.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

Four thousand nine hundred and
forty-six miles of railway have been
built in the United States during the
past year.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

ST, LOUIS recorded twenfy>elght
murders and fifty seven SUICIDES IN
1880.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

SECRETARY EvARTs is candidate
for the United States senate, to sue
ceed Senator Herman.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

THE fir,t lady t, practice law in
Kansas il NJ 3. L. B Kellogg. who was
admitted t. the bar last week.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08
FIRST EDITION.
n.3O p. M.
CARL scHURz is talked OF as m'h's'
ter to Berlin.

TIE British parliament convened
on the 9th inst.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

IN the last decade Virginia has fallen
from the tenth to the fourteenth place.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08
A REsOPENING.

This scandal brings the Conkling-
Sprague business to the mind, and
this affair will also be aired very soon,
as Sprague is said to be preparing to
enter the courts with his alleged
wrongs. He will, he says--or it is
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

The late Epes Sargent was the
author of "Life on the Ocean Wave"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.

Immediately after the reading of
the journal, the speaker, as in reg
ular order, proceeded to call the
committees for reports of private
nature, under which call few pen
sions and other private bills were re
ferred to the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, offered a
resolution calling on the secretary OF
state for all the information in the
state department, not heretofore com
municated, in reference to the Halls
fax fishery award of $5,500,000 paid
by this government to Great Britain
and especially that relating to the
alleged fctictious statistics and per-
jured tes. .-mony imposed on the
arbitrators and on which evidence
the award was made; also whethe,
the government has taken any steps
to secure verifcation of the recently
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-08

before offered to testify against Sena'
tor Kellogg, but on being given a
place in the custom house he testi-
fed in his favor. He was now re-
peating the plan. This was a fine
example of the character of members
of the Packard legislature. He
(HilD had never seen one of them he
would believe under oath.
HOETSE
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26

WITH this issue Mr.. G. H. Wilson's
very interesting contributions on the
" Geology of Tennessee come to
a conclusion. Those Of our readers
who have given his articles the
attention they deserved cannot fail
to have been impressed with the
wonderful mineral wealth of this
portion Of the country, and it seems
evident that sooner or later Tennes-
see must become the principal
coal and iron centre of the Southern
States. For years this great wealth
of mineral has lain perfectly useless
but when the Cincinnati Southern
Railway ploughed its way through
the State the "boom commenced.
When or where this "boom" is to
end it is impossible to discern, for
Mr.. John Scott intends to push the
coal and iron industries with all
that push and nervous energy for
which he is so we'll known. Stu
ated as Rugby is, almost in the
centre of the coal district, it must
BIS obvious to all how much the coal
boom must influence it's future, and
though things may look dark and
gloomy at present there is a certain
"silver lining in that future. Fresh
veins Of coal are continually being
discovered; and quite recently a
magnificent seam Of cannel-coal has
been found near Robbins. This
seam is the property of Mr.. B.
Riddell, Of Rugby, and if the whole
vein is equal to the sample he left
at our office, there can be no doubt
that its fortunate possessor has
"Struck OIL"
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26

WHILE the Press, on both sides of
the ocean, is filled with the " failure
and rumours of failure" of the Co.
lony it will be interesting to all here,
and the many friends Of the enter
prise on both continents, if we take
brief review of the past twelve
months.
When Mr.. Thomas Hughes opened
the Colony on October 9TH, 1880,
the present town site was nothing
more than forest waste with some
two or three log cabins, hastily erec-
ted by some of the earliest arrivals,
scattered here and there among the
trees.
For miles around the selected
town site stretched the rolling forest
mile upon mile seemingly interim
nable-only broken here and there
by the little homestead and snug
farm of some hardy mountaineer.
When Mr.. Hughes left the Colony
on the 10Th of October, a little band
of Englishmen and Americans re-
mained to form the nucleus of the
Rugby Of the New World, All those
who have at any time been connected
with the foundation Of a new settle
ment are well aware that it takes
some time, and long time too, to
build up a town, and it will be ad-
mitted by those who have experience
that in few colonies, if indeed in
any, has so much been done in the
short space Of a year as has been
accomplished at Rugby. A finely
graded road, seven miles in length,
connects the town with Sedgemoor
Railway Station; Central Avenue,
the principal street of the town, is
fairly we'll lined on either side with
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26
@Rf qaugbria1l.
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN.
Saturday, November 26th, 1881.

"THR RueBKIAS is published weekly at
the Publishing Offices, Central Avenue,
Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.
ITS AIMS.
lst.-To promote cordial feeling Of brother
hood not only between the two divisions
of the English speaking race, but also
between the different sections of this
country.
2nd.-l'o let all interested know. from time to
time, how Rugby is getting on; what
the Rugbeians are doing and thinking
about and what they can say as to the
prospects Of the settlement and neigh
bourhooJ.
3rd.-By discussion in broad spirit to face
any differences Of opinion that may
arise, affecting the welfare Of Rugby.
and by such discussion to arrive at any
rate at an amica6Ic agreement to
differ.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26


without having try to do it.
Whether they are the right class to
start new colony is still a moot
question, for it has not by any
means been conclusively proved
that they are not, but it would GER
tainly be desirable to introduce a
considerable admixture of the
"hardy handed son of toll for
with the very best intentions it
takes, "Will Wimble some time
to learn how to handle the pick
and shovel.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26
soappnppIrs.

As. | Goes dis mornen valkend,
Witch is shust mine REGULAR way,
sees mine leedle puoy Heinrich
Vas haffen game Of blay.
For dere in the Grass down-sitten,
Nit mine bestest bipe ms hand,
He was plowin de leedle soappupplcs,
Und he dinkt dat de fun vas Grand.
Den Goes shdraightafay to de shtudy
To redire insite myself,
Und poots Won foot on de fender
Und de oder Won out on de shelf;
Und writes dis leedls boem,
Witch dinks you will says quvite drue
Dat most Of our pleasures is puppies,
Like dose puppies de Heinrich plew.
For dis is de way nit puppies
Since de puppies ferst pegin,
Dat so more de purple is pigger
So more is de purple thin;
Und so less de purple is pigger
So more is dc purple shdrong;
Und dat's Wy de pig vons bursten
Vile de leedle vons shtop so long.
Ach. Give dis boet dose puppies
So shmall as pabe might plow;
Uni gift EN- his bipe und lager,
llnd his liebe frau also.
Nit desc shall he lif gondentet
On dis troublesome vorldt pelow,
Till himself-like purple endet-
He shall co-yere de puppies co.
II. S.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26

neat frame houses; while "shanties"
are to be found scattered all over
the town site.
There are two hotels, as well as
boarding houses, and in addition to
the Commissary, where anything and
everything may be purchased, we
can boast representative of nearly
every necessary trade. Then there
is the church, a good day school, a
resident physician, frst-rate drug
store, SO dear to the heart of your
true American, and we hope soon to
be able to add a resident clergy
man, though we do not for a moment
mean to insinuate that the presence
of the doctor and chemist render him
specially necessary. A number of
Englishmen have purchased farms in
the neighbourhoodof of Rugby and with
scarcely an exception are confident
of being able to make a good living.
1t is true that the growth Of the
colony was sadly checked by mis-
management, and there is no doubt
that if this had not been the case
Rugby would have been ere this a
complete and acknowledged success.
That the colony will yet succeed
is the firm belief of those most
interested here; and if the expected
changes are carried out and the
Board of Directors increased by
Americans Of good standing and
business capabilities, and with Mr..
Hastings Hughes once more amongst
us, there cannot be the slightest
doubt of the ultimate success of the
colony.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26
Notes on the Geology of East
Tennessee.
BY c. II. WILSON, GcologiSt to the Board
Of Aid.
(CONCLUSION,)

The coal outcrops on the mountain
side nearly 1000 feet above the
valley and kilns. 1t is brought
down by a long self-acting incline of
one in four and easier grades, with
a sharp and awkward curve near the
middle of the run, round which the
ropes are carried on inclined Aange
wheels. -Four cars (load about one
tony go in gang: the rope is steel,
lin. or lsin. diameter. The drum
is placed a short distance back from
the head of the incline, and is con-
trolled by powerful brake, worked
by a ships screw steering gear and
wheel-an arrangement with which
the brakesman, an old sailor, is
naturally quite at home. Signals
are transmitted by a telephone,
which works we'll.
The mine entry is a few hundred
yards back from the incline, and
was opened in three feet Of good
coal. But the seam has so far ex-
hibited an annoying irregularity.
There have been rooms working in
ten feet of coal, and straight work
is now being driven in six inches.
One of the side entries shows five
feet of coal in one wall and some
twelve inches of coal in the other.
Roof and floor are alike variable
and subject to heaves and "pitch.
OUTS" But as thick coal has been
proved on both sides and in frony
Of them, no doubt is entertained of
good areas lying near at hand.
A section Of the mountain in this
neighbourhood made by the able
manager Of the Company, shows a
three to five feet coal at a height Of
480 feet above the top of the noun
tain limestone, and two improved
seams at heights of about 325 feet
and IS feet respectively: One at
least of these should on the analogy
of the northern section be heavy
coal. There are seven seams in all,
the remaining four being thin, at
any rate at the outcrop.
The top Of the mountain rises a
little over 1900 feet above the valley
floor, and there is a lower bench,
sometimes half mile in width, at
100 feet which carries the main
seam, No. 5.
When the coal supply shall have
been satisfactorily adjusted there is
no doubt a great future before
South Pittsburg, if good plant and
abundant raw materials, directed
by skilful management, go for
anything. There is already an
eager demand for all the iron they
produce, and improvement rather
than deterioration Of the quality
will no doubt result from the
smoother working induced by the
lapse of time.
1t is to be hoped that more
English capital may be turned into
the same channel, and aid in
making East Tennessee what Nature
designed it for-one of the great
iron making centres Of the world.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26

WINTER seems to have come suddenly
upon us, and there was much shvering
and shaking on Thursday morning
last when the astonished citizens awoke
to the fact Of there being SNOW upon
tho ground. However it is only very
small quantity and the bright clear at
mosphere prevents one feeling any
Inconvenience from the cold.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26

The american Settler of November
9Th sums up leading article on
Rugby in the following mastery
manner -
We saw an article in q morning
paper in which it waa asserted that
English Colonies, such as Rugby, had
invariably failed; which would argue
that the writer held the cause to lay
deeper than the presence there Of the
"Will Wimbles." Yet this is an alb
surd view for any man who looks abroad
on the world and really shews that
the writer took the exceptions and con-
verted them into the general rule.
Had he said the reverse, that every
colony England formed had proved
successful, he would have been abso-
lutely true with the few exceptions
had he qualified the statement thus
Many of the founders had come to grief
and section of the early settlers had
failed. The founders because they had
imported Utopian ideas and exaggerated
anticipations into their work /; and the
settlers because, carried away by their
enthusiasm, had formed wrong estimates
Of what had to he done, and their power
Of doing it. But the colonies where
well placed, have almost invariably
worked out to success and so will
Rugby, though by slow and painful
degrees, because the site is not we'll
chosen. Had it been well chosen, after
the usual collapse which follows the
enthusiasm Of the founders, and the
discovery by the early settlers of their
unftness for the work, it would have
been transferred to other and better
qualified hands, and soon made rapid
progress. What are all Engllsh-speak-
ing countries abroad, but successful
settlements :
While we are not disposed to admit
that "the site of Rugby is not well
chosen" and think that if the writer
of the article in the Settler were to
meet us we could convince him that
he was mistaken on this one point,
it is impossible to help being struck
by the force and truth of the
remaining portion Of the article.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-26


there have been many inquiries and
considerable anxiety expressed as to
the manner in which "Will Wimble"
accepts his position in the new
settlement and the probabilities of
his ultimately attaining a position
Of affluence in the new world.
Theory and practice are desperately
different things and though on
paper it seemed the prettiest tale
of all we fear when it comes down
to the "hard pan" of practise that
poor Will Wimble " bitterly regrets
bygone days and quite declines to
accept the New Rugby as complete
solution Of the problem Of existence.
Perhaps the most satisfactory
answer to the very natural curiosity
of the outer world, will be to state
simply what the "Will Wimples :"
we have here are doing.
Walk up Central Avenue, turn to
the left, and enter a small shanty
situated, nowhere in particular, and
behold two thoroughly typical speci-
mems of the class. Notwithstanding
some slight singularities of garb
they bear the unmistakeable stamp
Of gentle birth and the elder, with
we'll bred composure, excuses his
somewhat quaint apparel by ex-
planning, that he is cooking dinner.
When not cooking dinner, which
takes up about three hours of the
day, he may usually be found, like
the "Villian Of the Vic" wander
ing about with a~Gemplete armoury
in the way Of rifles, shot guns, and
unlimited revolyers. His COM
panion, when not employed in cook
ing breakfast, usually spends his time
buried i'll the depths Of an exceed
ingly comfortable arm chair and
gazes, half sorrowfully, half pitifully,
at the heterogeneous collection of
deadly "we-pons" that are scattered
around the room. They are at
present giving all their spare time
and attention in attempting to dis
cover the smallest sum man can live
comfortably on in Rugby.
Then we have the calmly contem-
plative type, who take life perfectly
placidly, though our present speci-
men is scarcely seen at his best as
he is at present "On the string. In
contrast to the latter we have also a
splendid exponent Of your noisy
+" Wimble," but he also suffers
from the malady mentioned above.
Again, there is the avowedly dis
gusted young man, who looks upon
the whole thing as a complete
bore" and sighs longingly for the
"shady side Of Pail Mall looking
back with ever deepening regret to
the old manor house at home and
quite failing to see any outlook in
this terribly new country" What
is to be the future of these various
specimens of Wimbleism it is
difficult at present to decide, but it
is by no means certain that they will
not make hrst-rate colonistS. We
have Wimbles here who take to the
rough life like young ducks to the
water, and several have bought farms
in the neighbourhood of Rugby and
are pitching in with right
hearty goodwill that must eventually
bring them in a golden harvest.
Looking at the question broadly the
drones and the bees are pretty
equally divided, but it is more than
probable that the drones will very
soon be in the minority, for "Will
Vy:c,l,Ioo &c oopfleman and a
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-12
Flora and Fauna of the Desert.

Bunch grass, as gray rs the sand it
self, dwarf evergreens, nearly black III
color, and cactus, with few wild flow
ers, are almost the only botanical con-
tribution to the changing picture. No
trees grow on the desert. The cactus
family, the most eccentric OF plants,
makes this region its home. The first
to be seen coming from the East is of the
variety most familiar to Eastern hot
houses, shaped like mittens upon ex-
tended human hands, thumbless, and
bordered with sharp spines. A COM
moner variety in the desert is of a vine
like character. clinging somewhat closely
to the ground and putting forth branches
at angles rs eccentric as those of the let
ters of the Chinese alphabet. East of
Tucson this variety takes to itself a
trunk or stem as odd in appearance as
itself, black, leafess. branching much
like stag horn, and bearing its vine-
like burden upon each terminal point
The most singular variety of the cactus
grows near Tucson, where grove num-
bering several hundred individual plants
is seen upon barren, stony hillside.
1t shoots up round and straight like a
telegraph pole, the largest specimens
attaining nearly two feet in circumfer-
ence, by twelve to eighteen feet in
height, often without branches. but
generally putting forth two shoots like
the elbows and connecting links of n
stove pipe. 1t bears upon its upper end
a small tuft or flower. So great dis
proportion between stem and flower is
probably found in no other plant. The
trunk is covered with regular rows OF
warts and spines.
The Spanish bayonet occupies thou
sands of acres and has its share of &C.
centricities. When young its long
tough bayonets point in every direction
as if guarding some precious fruit with
in it's worthless stump. Later all but
those pointing upward and downward
fall off, leaving band in its middle,
giving it the appearance of a small bun
die of straw tied up and ready for the
harvest wagon. Individuals of the
variety send up shoot from the center
four or five feet, like a bamboo, bearing
at the top pleasing cluster of small
flowers. York Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-12
Fragrance of Flowers.

Leigh Hunt has the following genial
passage touching the perfume of flow
ers "Oh, world of mystery that every
where hangs about us and within us |!
Who can, even in imagination, penetrate
to the depths of the commonest of the
phenomena of our daily life? Take, for
instance, one of these pots of narcisse.
We have ourselves had plant of the
variety known as sotiet dor, in flower,
in sitting-room for six weeks, dtiring
the depth of winter, giving forth the
whole of that time without $50 far as we
know ceasing, even during sleep (for
we need hardly tell our readers that
plants do Sleep, the same full stream of
fragrance. Love itself does not seem to
preserve more absolutely its wealth,
while most literally dispensing it |!
That fragrance has a material basis,
though we cannot detect it by our finest
tests. What millions of millions of
millions of atoms must go to the forma.
ton of even single gust, as it were, of
this divine hower-breath Yet this
goes on through seconds, minutes, hours,
DAYS, weeks, and ceases only with the
health of the poor flower petals. Where,
then, in these petals, these thin, unsub-
stantial cream-hakes, may we look to
find stored up all these inexhaustible
supplies2 Where, indeed I? and ii they
are not stored up, but newly created as
given forth. is not that even more won
derful? Would that any one could
snow MS the nature and modes of opera
ton of such miraculous chemistry"