Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-25
TOM HUGHES COLONY.
The Manner OF Iiic IL til" puirt Pr
cincts of Rugby Fault t-F,nding
Natives.


writes a correspondent of the Clrriu.
natl Times StU. sud one of the "na-
tivcs' to me: Them buihcaded En-
glishmen over t Rugby treats Us folks
doNn here likes il we wcrcG't no ac-
count
| have been at Rugby long enough
to have "A fair knowledge Of men and
things here, and 'if these English do
place such light estimate upon their
| immediate ncignbOrs | cant SEQ how
they are to blame for it. But il any
! Misunderstanding should exist be-
tween English and American settlers
1t is much TO be regretted The En-
! gishman will keep on saying. the
! queen, God bless her, rs he MY have
u right to do. The American VIII i'm
agine his neighbor from over the water
does not adore the Fourth OF July
/ hard enough. That's about the sub
stance of their diflogence.
These natives around Rugby are a
queer and peculiar lot. In such
ncapthy, highland country YOU might
expect to find a hardy robust people
after several generations on tho soil.
On the contrary, they are a, sad and
| >ICkIy looking Il crowd, BOTH sexes
! considered, as this continent can afford.
/ II you meet group Of them, male and
: female, you are III urst puIZ ed ~ tell.
! from their odd and outiandI-h app.ar-
nncr. to VIII rn RAG. white. In,. or
! back they really belong. They own
4 few acl es, wuI oiug 1t II three months
Of tine wear. inst 10 Get tine uyrr.l
uurcs,arics vi nfc, and ,pcud the re-.
a.ndrr of tncIr u.mu in uuu,Iuv where.
rlmc ., too scarce to icmpl AN rurr-
.rIiv spuri -nan.
lhe pupuauun Of Rugby is about
$50 to- 4UD, and only all ,ut iaIf Of them
I are T. Nr..-h. The other, are -cH.p,,
from the Nor,u. and one Kru,uc,y
family. Iur natives, ,o flr. "a, ii can nr
prevented, are no. allowed to 'r9n,l"
ON the Ru by estate Two or three
coiorcd people arc located here amt
rrhr themselves useful in luuI.,
0Drh.
I.. town site Of Rgrby WAS laid ont
. HUd iun .ulI I,rmrnt. It Ourul hardly To.
I I. cl.."d 2, ru.ouy-wu, b.gup Ot,.
. b.r, leNU lu.uk. cuu~,u.ruu the.
..ur.t uU,l.c,r, they have mad AGAINST
Them. the ~r.I.ur, have done rrulrn-
uD.l we'll .u less inun five wears. Iun
p,ac, u., not advanced It, rapiiIy u,
lmiun ullr. done. ont il has NOT been.
the fault OF the many VINO are u.,rc.
uard at Nurh. 'luoy have had a p.,,,-
aul amt healthy c.Ilnato in their ,,or
/ aud urlc. il anything else. Tne fame
uf Ruub. ma, been curuuaI with th,l q,
it, irrrldrr, Mr. InDmas Hurur,. Rut
the L,ndun COMPANY who furnished ,hr
money TO bay these forty thousand
acres, have not, as hear. done what
would have given the place the foil
benefit Ol its infant rrnuwn. For one
thing, Il very high price put upon the
land, according to common report,
Nus driven away hundreds OF persons
who had actually come to settle here.
wish | could speak better word
for my OWE couutrymc who are resi-
not. For Instance, some Will come
here from New York or PENNSYLVANIA
or elsewhere, build a line house and
/ lay of an elaborate lawn around il, all
by hired labor. Then they make no
effort at any kind OF business, but shut
themselves up in their homes and
/ grumDle ut what they think the En-
giish don't do, and tell visitors how
much more an American company
would have done. Other Americans
here, OF the working class, seem to be
waiting for something to turn up In
this list would not include one blue
grass farmer who, II appears to me,
leads them all In industry and thrift;
nor the "commissary" (storckeeper), a
i've Boston Yankee. Also two or
three ONO people here are doing well,