Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-10
LOCAL BREvITIES.

AV0ou oui oPoo"i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Clear Fork and White Oak were on
a boom this week.
Butter forty cents a pound-why
won't dairy pay2
Mr.. Brereton accompanied Mr.. Ma
sou to Chattanooga this week.
Mr.. Lumley has rented Mrs. Harte's
house and will remain here the Winter.
Our Public Library is opened on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after
Moons.
A religious revival is going on at
Black Creek Church, between here and
New River.
Mr. Walton and c. H. Wilson spent
Il part Of this week at Wartburg. We
presume they went court-ing.
Montgomerie Boyle is having his
brother Henry's lot cleared off and
fenced-it will be fine building site.
The guests Of the Tabard are enjoy
ing game almost daily. MI. Travers's
SONS are enjoying the hunting season.
A Miss Gordon of Cincinnati is to
have charge Of our Public School this
Winter. Miss &. spent a month at the
Tabard last Spring.
An election was held in Rugby last
Saturday to decide whether a special
school tax should be levied or not,
resulted in the affirmative.
DR.. Jones practice has become 50
large he was compelled to purchase a
horse, rot for the Rugby trade how
ever, for no one is sick here.
Mr.. Daniel Lyon, of Glades, has or
dered through MIR. Ross one of the fin
est finished spring wagons ever brought
to this country-its daisy.
Spirited games Of lawn tennis are
frequently played at the "tennis court"
on which occasions the lady guests Of
the Tabard sometimes take a hand.
Mr.. Fowler, recently from New York,
has purchased Mr. Goss's residence and
lots and is clearing,up the ground and
preparing to build large and fine adj
dition to the house, preparing it for a
permanent house.
John Voiles made a trip with his
new buggy and mare from Rugby to
jamestown and back on Thursday, this
week. inside of seven .hoars-=ipclaaipy
over one hour stoppage at jamestown
and a short stop 1T Alardt-next.
Several men were indicted this week,
at Wartburg, for carrying concealed
weapons, and Judge D. X. Young i'm
posea the full sentence Of fines and i'm
prisonment against the offenders. Why
notl What need has man Of carrying
a deadly weapon in this quiet civilized
countryl
A railroad line is now being surveyed
by Mr.. A. l.. Crawford from Glen Mary
10 Alardt, under the supervision Of J..
w. Blanchard. All experienced engineer,
and his corps Of men. The line will
run about mile from Rugby, or posi-
bly, nearer, if the Board Of Aid will
contribute their share of the expenses
of construction.
Mr. Cyrus Clarke, of Allardt, passed
through Rugby on Wednesday, inform,
ing us that he was on his way to Glen
Mary to meet a body Of railroad engin
eering surveyors, appointed by Mr.. A.
l.. Crawford, Of Pennsylvania, to run
three or four experimental lines from
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad to
intercept the extensive coal fields in
Fentress County.
An Industrial College under the su.
i. pervision of Mathew Arnold of old
Rugby, England, is soon to be estab
lished in our Rugby-so says the Com
mercial-Gazette, but the enterprise has
taken No shape here. During Mr.
Hughes recent visit the subject was
talked of and urged by some of ou1
citizens-it is conceded that an Agri
cultural College with a sufficient en-
dowment for Tutors and incidental ex
, penses, after the proper buildings arr
erected, could become almost self-sus
tanning as to provisions and eatables o
| the students. We believe the "Boart
/. Of Aid" will contribute the lands. VIII,
will donate the buildingsl Would i