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The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09

TIE letter, last week, ON "Our Pro-
posed Railway could not, from the
we'll known initials of the writer,
fail to attract much attention., but
we think there are very few, if
any, in Rugby who could endorse
"W. II. HIS" sentiments, although
the author is so we'll known as one
of the earliest and most closely
interested in Rugby.
In surveying a line from the
Cincinnati Southern, Mr.. Walton's
object is to show, what he believes
cam be shown, the feasibility Of the
route. The practical utility of a
railway connecting Rugby with the
C.S.R.R. he fully believes in, and
that it, above all other schemes,
would enhance the value of the
Boards lands, and generally lift
Rugby out of its present rather toe
slow growth. Being entrusted with
the development of the Boards
property, and the interests of Rugby
generally, we think it to be abou,
the first and most natural thing
with those objects in view, MIR
Walton would pursue.
We cannot see with "W. II. H.
that "the fact of railways Otter
plunging out into the wilds in thu
country, ,withoutany distinct terminus
in view, and taking population witt
them, is not at all to the purpose
even if our country is not ga leve
and open prairie with four or fv
feet of vegetable mould into whicI
the plough can be put at once,
because the line Mr.. Walton is run
ming goes through a tract with bu
very few engineering difficulties, an
presenting very easy grade; an
as to our soil, it is adapted to an
kind of farming, and small frui
culture particularly, which with tn
inducement of a railway, could nc
fail to attract the proper class c
people as settlers. The taking of
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09

The death grapple in Egypt has not
yet been reached, but the combatants
are drawing nearer to the edge OF
that precipice down which one must
shortly be hurled. The struggle of
the National party in Egypt, if there
be such party and it is struggling,
cannot by force of circumstances
succeed by the arbitrament of war :
it is too early by some generations
to succeed in that field. The dark
ness that has so long covered the
land, and the gross darkness that
still covers the people, must be
pierced by Christianity, education
self-reliance, and the infusion Of
Western ideas before the Egyptians
will arise as a nation among nations
and be strong enough to shake of
Western control.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09
In Chancery Court, at Huntsville, Tenn.
Samuel s. asD''''' 0. and A. Bill.
William Drury.

TN this cause it appearing from the allcea-
tons in complainants bill which is sworn to-,
that the respondent VIM. Drury is a nom
resident of the State Of tennessee, so that the
ordinary process OF law can not be served upon
him, on application Of the complainant, it
was ordcre by the Chancellor, that publication
he made for four consecutive weeks IN IhG
Rugbeiah, weekly newspaper publ he'd at
Rugby, in Morgan Co., lenl.. commanding
the said respondent. Wm Drury. to appear at
the Clerk and Masters office, in the town OF
Huntsville, on the first Monday in October,
1882. the same being october rules, and make
defense to complainant's said BILL or the same
will be taken for confessed as to him and
said cause proceeded with &c partc.
This the i4th day of august, 1882.
J. j. DUNCAN Clerk l. Master.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09
HOME NEWS.

The American Consul at Manila
died of cholera, Wednesday,
During the Star route trial at
Washington, Wednesday, a scene
between Ingersoll and Attorney
General Brewster made some sus-
ceptible folk cry.-The Cincinnati
Exposition was opened on the 9th,
and will be open till October 7th.--
DR.. Bliss is in Mexico. - Sir Henry
Halford and team of British rifle
men have arrived at New York, to
compete with a team of the American
National Guard at Creedmore.
One in every fifty-six persons in the
United States is a Sunday school
teacher. Orleans is said to
be free from yellow fever. The
President has left Newport for
Boston. The Lexington fair was
a great success.-Young Living
stone, the colored boy from Florida,
has been rejected by the examiners
at West Point. Mr.. E. Smith, of
the US. coast survey, has gone to
New Zealand to observe the transit
of Venus. The City Hall at Iowa
City has been destroyed by fire. An
incendiary's work it is supposed
Aboutl2o persons havebe beendrowned
by the Concho flood in Texas, anc
MANY thousands of live stock lost
Army of West Virginia vii
hold their reunion at Parkersburg
from September 10Th to the 18th
Two children were drowned ii
Indiana last Saturday, by falling
into tubs containing hot water,--
, Fourteen Baptist ministers left New
York, Saturday, for Glasgow, OF
their way to India,--The Com
missioners of Emigration are agalI
without money for current expenses
a condition very similar to tha
of large numbers of immigrant
,, arriving at Castle Garden.--Th
first of the new three per cent. bond
were issued from the Treasury o
|, Monday.--There was a Presidents
fox hunt at Newport, Tuesday, an
seeking to enter a particular ilel
the riders were threatened b
O farmers and farm hands arme
r with guns.-The yellow fever
S spreading at Brownsville, Texas
e The fall political furnace is alread
Y in full blast.-Dr. 'Dickey,
v Worcester, Mass, and DIR. Marshal
). of Lyme, NH, were drowned G
e Monday, in Fairlee Lake.-Thrc
n Americans, said to be dangerol
{. bank robbers, broke out of MOntre
Ie gaol, Tuesday.-The Tariff Con
d missioners are now at Chicago.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09

PRESIDENT ARTHUR is doing some
coasting in the u. S. steamer
Despatch. At the masthead floats
the new flag, used only when the
President is aboard, but it already
has seen little of the perils usually
allotted to national flags and ships
On Saturday last, plotting to escape
Scylla, the Despatch ran upon
Charybdis, and nearly came to grief
Just off Newport, RI, are some
ugly rocks in an ugly chaanel, ant
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09

there it was the flag and President
for the first time, really, were at sea
together. Arthur went ashore, but
with the righting of the ship the
journey was renewed.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09

population in it's wake is, in our
opinion, too, a purpose well and
sufficiently served by a railway, and
in the case of Rugby would be pretty
much all that is required to make a
boom with foundation. Leaving
out the idea of going west of Rugby,
and following the line drawn
out so clearly and ably by our
correspondent "W.," this week,
would not a rail to Rugby only,
induce many-large numbers even
of the right sort of people to investi-
gate the lands between us and
Sedgemoor, with the idea of cult
vation, and manufacturing, to say
nothing of visitors, invalids, and
residents?
"W. H. H." admits ga railroad
would be very desirable,' but handi-
caps it with the doubt of it's early
construction, and the question "Can
we not do very well without it,"
We can rub along without many
things, we admit; men can Just get
along with a very Strengthened
purse, and it is no sin to be in that
condition, but it is very inconvenient.
We can for years to come use the
road to Sedgemoor, but it would be
much more convenient, andcOnducive
to our success, to have railroad to
the same place. Stage coaches
answered very well until the steam
coach came along, and brought
civilization and prosperity at a rate
the old stage could never emulate. A
railway to Rugby is about the only
card of much worthleft nthe hands OF
the Board of Aid, and a trump card
, it would be in comparison with the
flood OF pamphlets, letters, bulletins
plans and maps that at one time
demonstrated the "objects of the
Board"
There is rather remarkabl,
instance of unexpected railway, ant
; railway route, success, at King
!. Mountain, in Kentucky, on the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway, which i
much to the point just now. Mr.
u Zimmerman, a highly enterprisin
e business man of Cincinnati, owns
J large tract of land near the abov
station, and last fall, for the purpos
g of conveniently hauling cross-ties t
S the rail he laid down, as he went 0
y into the forest, a narrow gauge rail
u way, and when the work was com
d pleted, found he had seven mile
Ie of road, but without any distint
u terminus" in the way of a town, {
s. a house even. Well, during the pas
le p year the fact of this railway, althoug
IL it "plunged out into the wilds,
" drew such attention, that at tt
III present time quite town hi
> sprung up at the terminus, the Ian
y is taken up and being farmed bot
~ sides of the rail, and numerol
g small settlements are populating
l. hitherto wilderness.
Now who would be so bold as
say that a narrow gauge rallwt
'll from Sedgemoor to Rugby wou
is not do all, and more, than M
US Zimmerman's railway has done,
Tn across-tie haulingexpedition throus
a forest to nowhere?
=
ch PRESIDENT ARTHUR is doing sor
, :" 200 stinn in the IL S steam
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-09-09
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FOREIGN NEWS.

10 lHuIucI llc Europeans Ill AleA-
andria is said to have been discovered
and Greek Consular Agent has
been arrested for completely in it.
There was a good deal of cannon
aiding at Ramleh on Monday. Sir
G. Wolseley has about $4,000 troops
on the main line of operation. The
British are about to cut the dykes
at Meks and food Lake Mareotis to
prevent an attack OH Alexandria.
The natives of Cairo are reported as
threateningthe Europeans in the city,
Continental military men criticise
considerably, and, it is said, unfavor-
ably, Wolseleys tactics. -Four thou
sand additional troops are to leave
England for Egypt. The Nile is
very high, and it is reported part
of the enemy's position is under
water. Persons arriving at this city
without visible support, are sent
back by steamers. The Anglo
Turkish Military Convention has
been informally signed. The enemy
are showing increased signs of bold
ness. Alden is to be strongly forti-
fed. The grand total of Arab
Pasha is said to be as follows :
Infantry, 44,600; cavalry, $4,000;
guns, 143: rocket tubes, IS;
Bedouins, 10000.
M. Etienne, the well known French
harvest authority, estimates through
out the work more than average
harvest. Spain is the only country
from which reports are unfavorable.
The strike among the police in
Ireland has pretty much terminated.
Great excitement and a good deal of
small rioting took place in Dublin
the early part of the week.--On
Monday the Czar had narrow
escape from accident, probably
death, by the falling of a bridge at
Ishora, just after he had passed
over. Nihilism the expected cause.
> --A.railway accident of unusually
!. large dimensions has occurred in
Germany, between Frieburg and
Colmar. 1t is reported 100 persons
= are killed and 800 wounded. The
train ran off the rails.--In duel
Il in Paris, between two editors, with
swords, one knight of the pen was
u !, was killed. is on his
u way back to Zululand.-A large
" Jewish banking firm at Odessa has
Il closed out in consequence OF the
- insecurity caused by Jewish persecu-
l. tion.-Mrs. Plimsoll is dead
Il The Emperor William has had
3 another all,--Ten persons have
been arrested, for the murder of the
" Joyce family.--The subscription
" for the Panama Canal Company, in
/ Paris, of 100000 bonds of 500
Il francs each, is considered a success
D. More Irish suspects have been
" released from jail.-Blair Athol
% the race horse, is dead.--Greece
IL has refused a compromise in the
10 boundary dispute, offered by Turkey
'ii 1t is rumored the Sultan Offered
q, Egypt to England two months ago
~ on the same conditions on which
Great Britain took Cyrrus.--Ih'
y Longfellow memorial for WeStmin-
'u ster Abbey has received the supper
Is of Professor Tyndall and Blackie
- Sir Noel Patton, President of th
ly ROYAL Academy of Scotland, Edwar'
OF Arnold and Others. s.-The Hillsdal
il, crew, who row against Thame
on Club crew shortly, are in excellen
ee condition.--The Herring Harvest
us off the English coast promises thi
,al year to be unusually abundant
NJ Cholera has made its appearance j
4 4.
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
Sparkling Too Long.

A young man was telling some of his ae-
quaintances how he had gone back on his
girl because she was sarcastic, and they
asked him what he meant, He said that he
was spending the evening with her and he
noticed that she seemed absent minded or
tired, or something. About two o'clock in
the morning he said she started up suddenly
in alarm, and exclaimed: "My what is
that?" He said that he didn't hear any
thing, and asked her what it sounded like,
and she said she thought it was the millkman
coming with the milk. He said that was
too sarcastic, and he would never go to see
her again. Well, probably he couldent suit
her any better. Some fellows overdo the
thing entirely when they go to see a girl,
and nothing will break them of the habit of
wearing out girl like some sarcastic re-
mark like that. Sometimes the father of
the girl will come to the head of the stair
and ask the girl if the morning paper has
come or if she will not tell the visitor to
tell the hired girl when he gets ready to go.
These things may look to young man to be
sarcastic, but his conduct warrents it. There
that wants to sit up all night with an ordi-
nary young man. She has got to have some
sleep or else she is not worth the powder to
blow her up. She can get all the informa-
ton that he has to impart in six or seven
hours, and every hour that he stays after
that is dead loss. Some young fellows
never know enough to go. They speak of
1Nn,., 81, n 80 i II
girl, to be polite says: "oh, don't hurry
way. 1t is early yet" and the galoot thinks
she means it, and he goes into camp for
few hours more, and all the time the girl is
on nettles. She wishes the house would
take fire, or that he would be geized with a
cramp. so he would get out. She knows she
will be the laughing stock CT the whole fam
lily, and wishes he was in Gehena, but he
stays as though he was sitting up with a
corpse. No girl wants to seem impolite, and
no one will yawn behind handkerchief or
hitch uneasily in her chair and pray for re-
lief, and when the slayer does finally go she
will skip up stairs three at time and give
sigh of relief. We understand that petit
tion has been sent to the police, signed by a
hundred girls, asking them to arrest any
young man found on their way home after
12 O'Clock at night, unless he can give an ac-
count of himself. A girl ought to have
cheek enough to tell young man, when he
has remained long enough, that it is time
for him to retire, and if he does not go, call
a aservant and have mattress spread on the
parlor floor, and go off and lieve the deliber-
ate yonng man to stay all night if he wants
TO, This is written at the request of num-
Der of girls who have beceme pale and hol-
low-eyed from being kept up until early
hours of the morning by smart Alacks, who
will know enough to go home after this.
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
Obliging a Preacher.
lay Y

Just back of Missionary Ridge. Chatta-
nooga, while following the highway to
reach Tunnel Hill, came across a little
church half hidden in the woods. The
building was primitive, and the old darkcy
who sat on log by the door was more so.
After had made inquiries about the
route and was ready to go on he said:
''Better git down, boss, an come in to
meetin'."
'Do you hold services this after-noonP"
eyes, sab. We am guine to open in bout
five minits, an 'spects de sermon will be a
powerful one."
1t didn't seem just right to be riding a.
round tina country on Sunday, and so I got
down and took a seat beside the old man.
After few minutes spent in general talk he
said ii was time to go in. I followed him
and found myself the sole audience. 1 next
that he was the preacher that was to deliver
the powerful sermon. He opened services
in regular form and with al. do solemnity.
and then announced his text and began
preaching, I stood it for fifty-five minutes,
and then as he had only reached 'fsecond G, -
1 waited until he closed his eyes and then
made slide for the door. 1t was no CO.
/ hadn't gone six feet before he stopped his
sermon and asked
''Stranger, must you be gwine?
''Yes, 1 feel that I must CO."
"An' you can't heah de rest?"
"No."
''Den I'll chop off right whar 1 is.''
''Oh, don't do that. You can 20 on with
your sermon just the same"
''Bet you see dar mua' be a colleckshun
tooken up arter de Sermon" he protested in
anxious tones. 'If you'll obleege me by
takin' seat I'll sing hymn and pass de
hat"
sat down, and when he had read and
sang hymn he passed the hat transferred
the quarter to his vest pocket and observed
as he went out:
81 didn't git down to de moas powerful
part OBJ de sermon. but if you happon long
dis way mex Sunday I'll glib you de oder
half. Dat quarter comes jist in time to en-
courage me to keep the good work bilin'."
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
Effects of Intermarriage

Some recent researches by DR.. Herman
show that their is no connection between the
number of marriages between blood-relations
and the number of instances of criticism: /:
Marriages between blood.relatiens appear
rather to diminish than to increase the ten
dency already present of producing Gre
tinism, On the other hand, idotism may be
and appears to be, produced by such mar
riages; g. g., Howe records seventeen cases
ofmarriages between bloud-relations pro-
ducing 90 children, ofwhom 45 were idiots,
12 scrofulus, 1 deaf, and 1 dwarfed.
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
the sorrow of his life.

the sorrow of his life.
Of the two children which were left him,
both were stricken down in their early
manhood. The youngest son who died in
his twenty-fourth year, was of great worth,
both morally and intellectually and to him
was the father especially inclined, as he
.fondly hoped his mantle would fall upon
his idolized boy.
The desolation of his heart is reflected
by the Poet when he said.
"'The bloom is vanished from my life,
For E, OF he stood beside me like my youth,
Whatever fortunes wait my future tolls,
The beautiful is vanished, and returns not. I"
When the eyes of his child were closed in
death the joy and the light and the life, too,
went out from the father-for his heart was
in the grave his boy.
Thus wteless and childless, the heart of
that noble man was overwhelmed by his do
nestle affiictions-and the full measure of
his days was not attained
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
How Girls Marry.

Nearly every girl gets married some time
or other. That is what she exists for. Half
of her early life is spent in fixing the points
ofthe wedding, and the young man in the
case is but secondary importance. After the
girl has decided that she will sometime be
married, and has poked fun at the wedding
of every other girl she ever knew, and has
Informed everybody just how she will have
matters arranged when her turn comes, she
is ready for the young man to appear. She
has variety of tastes, too, and there is no
accounting some of them. Now and then
she is apparently contented to go to church
and have a minister to tie the knot. But a
proceeding like that is too tame by half, and
frequently she goes up in balloons, or down
in caves, or ascends high mountains or gets
married by telegraph. Sometimes, however
she isn't allowed to get married in Just the
way she wants. Then she runs away.
And-and-and-and after few months
she is more anxious to run back to her home
than she was to run from it,
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
Sensational Journalism Discounted.

On Monday morning the Philadelphia
Press procured and printed a column of the
ravngs of Engineer Melvilrs insane wife.
1t was 'beat" as the newspaper men say,
but it was beat on decency and not on
news. Even if Mrs. Melville had not been
crazy the publication of what she said
would nave been an outrage on any hus-
band, and it was particularly an outrage on
the man whose professional skill and per-
sonal bravery have placed him high in the
esteem of tho American people Coming
home from the terrible seventies of the Ar
tic region he was subjected by this publica-
tion to an injury much more severe than
any that he escaped in the for north. 1t is
not strange that newspapers are regarded
with contempt when one ofthem deli berate-
ly invades private home and throws broad
cast before the community the disjonted e.
JaculatOns of a distracted woman The
Press has been doing great deal of this
gutter work lately-once in the case of a
mass of sorry gossip in this city-and it is
all amateur JOuinai ism. Some unframed
and ignorant fellow is holding place of
power in its Office which he is untitled to
fill. The Press is larger than it used to be,
but size is no test of a newspaper. The lar
ger it is the worse it is if its columns are to
be used merely as social sewers.-Mo,ning
Meas.
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
TWO CENTS.

A few years ago a member of the House
of Congress- stated upon the Democratic
side of the chamber, that everything that
was infamous in politics, and that
everything that was unmanly, gnoble,
contemplate, dishonest, unjust, unright-
eous, treacherous and dispicpble in life
might be attributed to Benjamin F. Butler,
without doing violence to the truth; and
this indictment was applauded by the DEM
ocratic party, Throughout the length and
breadth of the land and yet, in the face of
those accusations, that identical party has
uamed the man whom they formerly called
by the euphonious name of 'Spoon Thief
as thei standard bearer in the present Gu
bernatorial Campaign.
If Benjamin F. Butler was dishonest
then, he is dishonest now-if all of those
charges of venality that the Universal DEM
ocratic Press made against him were true, it
would have been necessary for the said
Benjamin F. Butler to have been clothed in
''sack-cloth and ashes" for ages before he
could have sought the companionship of
reputable men. But as he has not gwen any
signs of contrition for his-as alleged moral
jobliquities-as there has been no manifesto
tion of shaking up of his conscience we
must conclude that either the Democratic
Party malcously lied for purpose about
him or that it has voluntarily descended
to his Shiny level
The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
u he Two Glasses.

There sat two glasses, filed to the brim,
On rich mans table, rim to i'm;
One was ruddy and red as blood,
And one was as clear as the crystal flood.
Said the glass of wine to the paler brother
'Let us tell the tales of the past to each
other.
l can tell of boquet and revel and mirth,
And the proudest end giandest souls on
earth
Fell under my touch, as though struck by
blight,
Where l Mas king, for l ruled in might.
From the heads of kings, l have torn the
crown,
From the heights of fame have hurled men
down;
have blasted many an honored name;
| have taken virtue and given shame
hav tempted the youth with sip, taste,
That has made his fortune a. barren waste.
Far greater than a king am /,
Or than any army beneath the sky;
| have made the arm of the driver fall,
And sent the train from the iron rail-
have made the good ship go down at sea
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to
Inc
For they said, Behold, how great you be-
Fame, strength, wealth, genius, before you
fall,
For your might and power is over all.
Hol hol pale brother, laughed the wine,
''Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?''
M c1a
OF king dethroned or a murdered host,
But | can tell of heart, ouce sad,
By my chystal drops made light and glad
Of thirsts I've quenched, Of brows I've
laved,
OF hands | have cooled and souls | have
saved;
have leaped through the valley, dashed
down the mountain,
Flowed the river and played in the fountain,
Slept in The sunshine and dropped from the
sky,
And everywhere gladdened the landscape
and eye;
/ have eased the hot forehead of fever and
pain;
l have made the parched meadows grow fer
tile with grain;
can tell of the powerful wheel Of the mill
That turned out -four and turned at my
will;
l can tell of manhood debased by you
That lifted up and crowned anew.
l cheer help, l strengthen and aid;
gladden. the heart of man and maid;
| set the chain-wine captive free,
And all are better for knowing me.
These are the tales they told each other
The glass of wine and paler brother
As they sat together, filled to the brim,
On the rich mans table rim to rim.
Boston Pilot