The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-01-14
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

TENNESSEE was represented at the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition by twenty
one exhibitors.
THERE was one vote in the Tennes
see legislature against the resolutions
of respect and sorrow for the character
and tragic death of the late President
Garfield.
Mr.. JULIEN f. SCOTT, we'll known
citizen of Scott County, was drowned
last week while attempting to ford the
river Emory, in Morgan County.
Neither the rider, nor his horse, has
been found. Owing to the very
swollen state of the river they were
carried away when in midstream.
THERE are 4S,475,S40 natives, and
6,679,943 foreigners in the United
States.
The Supreme Court Of the Uuited
States is three years behind with its
business.
The American Christmas is purely
due to Charles Dickens. When he in
vented, or rather revived, Christmas,
the Americans took up the matter
, warmly. The celebration had long
been made out in the States to be the
festival of the winter solstice and a
purely pagan affair. Dickens infused
$ new life into it, and the Americans have
i taken Christmas at his estimate. Be
fore that they had only three festivals
e the 4th of July, New Year, and
e Thanksgiving. Christmas became the
e fourth, and is now very popular among
Americans, who delight in entertaining
d any Briton who may be among them
a Tile World
, The total number of business failures
~ - for the end of the year 1881, through
- y, out the United States, is stated to b'
; 5,3S2, involving liabilities Of slightly
over $S1, 100000. The failures for th'
- year previous were only 1892, will
" " liabilities of $65, 100000. The increas
% -, is, however, regarded as small in pre-
80 80 portion to the enormous growth in tn
n volume of trade, and especially in pro
- portion to the number of persons i
~ business in 1878, showing strongly
=. the advantage of the year just CLOSED
~ ~ the failures in 1878 being lO4, 900 an
" the liabilities $234,000,000. In tn
No year 1881 only one person in every IA
w engaged in business failed. The nun
IN ber of persons in 1880, proportion on
o,, in 15S, in 1879 one in every lO5, an
W. in 1878 one in every GA. The figure
FL of the year and facts presented al
interpreted as con6rmatory of I'll
o. impression that the trade Of the ccuntl
Wv Nv is prosperous and in safe condition.
lid Mr.. OSCAR WILDE, who recent
of arrived at New York, from Englan
ere thus describes his estheticism N
IN; philosophy, about which | have been
nd grossly ridiculed, is the appreciation
to the beautiful, and coarse indeed mu
the be the intelligence Of the man who W
7hy knowingly sneer at that which max
yes the world about us so glorious. ha
always loved nature in its wild ma
y it nificent beauty. When can meet h
i'm in the wilderness amidst towering eli
all and hanging cataracts, then | love h
the and become her slave. | have, since
by can remember, been impressed by t
nly intensity of nature, but alas for t
past few years | have been unable
,era crafty my longing. ] have been
lity London man and have been surround
ries by naught but smoke and fog. 1t
to in the midst of the city life that ii
ore. saw all the follics of the present socie
,sed and the grotesqucness of modern C
lent toms. | admire the middle ages
Ing- cause their social life was natural a
the embarrassed by petty rules. lapprc
lent of the medieval costumes because tt
king are graceful, because they are beal
leen full The surroundings of art, no
ould doubts, enhance ones existence
old make life worth living This t
gain about the sunfower and lily is nonsel
more especially us am represented us gaz
a in fondly over it. / love flowers, as ev
the human being should love them.
,rate enjoy their perfume and admire Il
goal, beauty"