The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-07-30


managed colony is not at all a gloomy
one and there is not true Rugbeian here
who would be alarmed to face the diff
Guilty if it arose.
1t is perfectly true, and it would be
absurd to blink the fact, that Mr.. John
Boyle's visit to the colony was not sue
cess. Totally unaccustomed to Americans
and American ways Of doing business he
did, whether rightly or wrongly, create
great feeling of discomfort in the town.
But it was not feeling of discomfort
against the place, but against John Boyle
as John Boyle.
Here let a mistake be corrected that
has gone abroad through the reckless
statements of the writer Of the Commercial
letter, who, without taking the least trou-
BILE to inquire or the commonest courtesy
Of ordinary life in verifying the statements
he made, dubbed Mr.. John Boyle Lon
don Attorney, and Agent Of the Marques
Of Butte. AS matter of fact the use of
the word attorney" showed the very
grossest ignorance on the part of the
writer of the article in question, for there
is no such thing as an attorney in Eng
land. Mr.. Boyle is in reality a member
of the noble house of Glasgow, barris-
ter, and member of the Inner Temple,
and was one of the Trustees appointed
by the Court Of Chancery to look after
the enormous estates of the Marques of
Butte during the latter's minority.
In Justice to Mr.. Boyle it must be
owned that while at Rugby he had very
arduous and ungrateful part to play. He
arrived here to find that money had been
squandered right and left in the most
-culpably negligent manner and was
obliged to check the extravagant expendi-
ture In doing so he necessarily annoyed
several people who were making a "good
thing" out of the former rash extrava-
gance, and they Immediately cried out
that the Board of Aid grudged spending
money on the settlement There were, as
is invariably the case, faults on both
sides, but it is worse than useless fighting
over what is past, and the sooner these
unpleasantnesses are forgotten the better
it will be for all concerned.
In the mean time Rugby has grown
and is growing; houses are going up
tradesmen are starting new businesses
and there is money to be made by those
who know what they are about.
People cannot come out to the Back.
J woods and reasonably expect to find al
the comforts of large city; but, th'
Hotel accommodation here is sufficient,
, good to meet the requirements of all bu
the hypercritical. 1t is true that there il
great need Of a far larger Hotel, but th'
| existing one is comfortably furnished ant
the present Manager spares neither tim
nor trouble to make his guests comforta
J BILE.
AS for blaming the Board for declining
to take up the "Wild Cat - tract Of lant
in Fentress County, anybody who know
| anything of the quality of the land there
! and the way it is honey-combed by con
, tested titles, would consider it simpl
madness on the part of the Company t.
J even entertain such proposition for
} moment. The Board have their own land
, and let them deal with those, and tn
> howl of adverse criticism, raised by dis
appointed Land Spectators, will soon b
silenced by the steadily advancing pros
5 perity of the Rugby Settlement.
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We publish below letter from prac
t tical American farmer that will be rea
= with interest by all who are anxious fo
n