The Rugby news. (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?, 1891-02-14

ldulU NC HOlS VI ihS, uc ID dIIcSlcu anu
sent home by etape. Iffgou are a
soldier in the army, and, hav1
ing served at "a distance, have
received your discharge and a good
character, you are frequently sent
home by etape.. It was thus, therefore,
that the 'ill-starred rustic was restoSed !
to, his lares and .penates as poor as a
church mouse, having been robbed of
the little ready money he possessed by
the scoundrels who Were hiscompanions,
On the road The Zelmsky Natshalnik,
ear ing of his ARRIVAL ordered him what,
Russians facetiously term meal OF.
birch Cruel" There was absolutely.
no motive, real or alleged, for thus add :,
ing, to the. hardships endured by, the.
poor wretch during his marching and.
imprisonment, unless, indeed, the
scriptural saying were appealed to that.
Nhbsoever hath to him shall be given. !.
He Swas advised by some sympathetic,
soul to appeal to a higher court, which
is composed of number of Zemsky.
Natshalniks under the presidency of the
Marshal Of fstNobility;eThe sentence.
however, was confirmed on the, ground
that it seemed desirable to the court to
allow Zemsky Natshalniks the right of
Furnishing PEASANTS for acts that are not
forbidden blythe law, If the punishment'
is calculated to do the person some good.
And thus, "sexclaims the Messenger of
Europe, "amiserable laborer, Temporal
rily out of work, can be arrested, sent
back to his village, where there is moth 4
ing for himto do, and after having been
subjected to. all the hardships and priI
vationss inseparable from a journey by
etape, condemned to an additional pun
ishmentg And what a punishment! y
~ Truly this can not be termed a
safeguarding of the law, but rather a
palpable mockery of Justice
The Zemsky Natshalnik of Uloma
(Governninent of SNijni-NovgoroO be-
ganshis administrative activity by for
bidding all peasants, irrespective of age
or sex, to appear in the streets or roads,
or tpilance or sing after eight o'clock
/ p.g ms he likewise strictly prohibited
tham from visiting each others dwell
ingss sfor the purpose Of carrying ON con-
versations and discussions, under pam
II Of I. imprisonment and the lash. The
Liberal organs are now asking, in as
il tonishment whether ii. can be true that
peasants are to be punished with i'm
prisonment' and the lash merely for
calling upon each other and having a
quietchat. But eyen'when a crime has
undoubtedly been committed and the
J community is interested in the discov'
/ cry of the criminal, / the Zemsky Nat
, shalniks use the lash as indiscriminate
l ly as when all are notoriously innocent
5 In "a, district of the Government, o.
, Tsh&rnigoff, for instance, q peasant
complained that his turkey cocks had {
5 disagreeable way Of disappearing from
his farmyard and from the village gen
. orally. He did not know exactly ~ht
3 was committing these depredations OF
his property, but he suspected athttl'
S boy of eleven, who might possibly
: be aided and abetted by rrela
e tions who were of an ~ ag'
: to know better. The Zemsky Natshal
: mix at once declared that igiwould saw
i. much time and trouble ifthe child wer
!. fogged till he made q clean breast O
? it; so he told the peasants to assemble
d and do their duty. These rude, halt
o civilized creatures, however, had NOR
: scruples about carrying out the sen
t tence than their betters, felt in pro
= nouncing it. ,Hesitating to flpg,a mer
n child and afraid to disobey the '"Tsar'
y ambassador" as the Zemsky Natshal
e niks liked to be called, they comprc
e missed the matter by hogging an eide
brother Of the child. In compariso
# with this sort of thing, fiogging peas
e ants in order to compel them to pa
o taxes seems natural, legal and wis
S procedure. AS an instance of how it
o done may quote the following orde
IS sent round to the peasants of tn
It EphremovslSy district of thee Govern
IS ment OF Toola, and published by tn
If interchangeable Vedomost1' a few day
IT ago: u hereby order the starosts (peal
Y, ant-elders) to call the peasants togethe
4, tomorrow, and make Known to thel
II that they have got to pay all taxes b
a Saturday next, and, when i verify tn
IF list, all who have not. paid will /
ID fogged in presence of the assembly"
lie Here and there. no Doubt traces, {
is the old spirit are still Iextants as we
j. shown few days ago in the Govern
D. nept of Smolensk, where the pea SAINT
ts having refused to appear at some NEE
4. ing, were summoned in a body TO tt
ld Volost Board, without being enligh
: ened as to the object for which the
T. were wanted. Reluctantly they obeye,
IL and when the whole. seventeen Of the
N were Safe in the room Of the hut fl
r watchman closed the door, turned ii
le key and put it in his pocket NOV
lie what might that mean2r aSkf
Sc one of the mystified rustics. It meal
OF a hot poultice for every mothers son
re ye- that's what it means, was the cal
re did reply; fifteen, piping hot forA eac
IS ofye, sbrothers.a sits nor lawful
is look the door, protested oner eTl