Newspaper Page Text
em 1M AKD EAST:, TENNESSEE; NEWS. VOL. IV.-NO. 27. RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN., THURSDAY, JULY 10 , 1884. WHOLE NO. 145. mm NORTH: Cincinnnti. Knoiville. SOUTH Chattanooga, ' , LcxingtoB. 5 V A 3 ; X, y.llish Bridge, i y ,- yfr Danville Junction. KUGBYi" " ASedgcmoor. W . i i w ? CJ I tfl 3 I y I'Oakdale. u . . . J - .:.. ; ustotice. During the months of July, August mid morning and evening trains ou Sundays. Fare for tlti Itountl Trip (Sundays only), ' ' 1 J - WSi: N. B. Horses and vehicles for hire, r . . . excursion parties. BOARD CHEAP FAR1M ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. , Titles Perftct," Warranted -and Defended. Comparative Cincinnati. Chattanooga RUGBT Health and All health rcekers, whether from. Northern or Tableland. The recent United States tcnaw Kooky Mountains, ent re y tree torn ma una r a"l temperas fa 72 dog. Fahr., always cool and refrcsuiujt. ...:i . .W Wm mx,n a mulatto clay cultivated and rwponJa readily and gcucrously to Crops and soil and 1 . . , " ",r.' wherever introduced. rnrn and barley all Brow well, though this w not claimed 8 a grain growing Lorn, wheat, ryo,oaw,iiu uai'V " h i , omsa. rirchard ffras. German . Tobacco m a Pix. .table icrop . 'Tnla and mut well. Ken- l ...;ni- t.iiv nmi n(i Clover nave nu u'" "'-" - . , , . LUViRJ Utuu Vegetables . , ......i- l Bwect abundantly. Cabbage . onionB, lne, Bweet Grow Irih pot; potatoes are uuexoeueo. oy an, Bu " bushels per acre Fruit and Grape Culture This recion is es Tho applo crop here pocially adapted to mut, ana P"y r"u TS'Il7fi fit .m,th. has never been known w nil' editions reoni8ite' 10 nio uiKumv , . Ti , ii.a u.-iiw made from thom are excouent m quamy ana in SSSS "rSSKS S tB and .taple prodof the Table pood demand. liioe w"l"f. a v olhl.r cronf( now cultivated. t .i i i 'l'hrt vitiAfl aro viiruruup, fi3 5 U doubtodlv yield lanror returns than Strawliornos, Diacauemu O.nve and near pro.. Theexcellentnatulrtumge.ainage.al freedom from KdoSS allthe winter, and turn your stock tm,n nard of Aid Estate, centrally situated on Laritt. farming, fruit rawing ana vmo (rru.uK u. It bkirts Ten Miles of Frontage on roe umramau douuiwu u UB nQri With Four Depots Located On It The lands ennmorauju ..8 BnrlrUals Kfr So. U- R. west of Glon Mary Station. About 3,000 acres of very de. toStW. So. R. R., is bore laid out in 100 acre farms. Nofarm is more tTn thr mUeT Kitier Sunbright or Glon Mary Depota; to the latter are jacent th Crooke than three miw irom .d with an out-put of twelve car l.ds per day. G on Mary has Coal Mines, employing w mc l" " "fa SlSSfl Jn I Hi 1 1 III. . DIllUI.'T.'.K ' " " . .... . . . s . . ..Him ilnltnml nrodnce or Umber and tan-bark k Ian xwnral fine trac a mile south of Glen Mary. Hoard lands on the Cm. Ho. J v inrj. RnnWU. These lands lie directly south of the tne w-WM. above and are close to the thnving wwn n o f -j o.n.1 nost-offioe. They arc well w; shipping and especially lumbering facilities. ..tiugDy. Founded in 10, ha. M. F. REDMAN, dayand Wepbomccommuu. teleph sutionwun P""- York esquely situated between tt Xnltv clean and qiy, ana inmui - weather. The, are motm ."fira,. Se'veral bored wells striKe mineral fenced pinions, anu "T'taentg Jthe site of Rngb, Roa.1 is laid out in tewn ? P 80 ' r Counues, as ui n j . the C. S5. K. T,?rnV"r"A 'nn ,nnt of the snrerior communica. and pHvnounced he n.v uiri " "Trl "V" i a's of the lUrd. Tliey are situated on the . turn, a. wrM.toW "tLTEn suit to Jamestown. Iivinton, Celin. dire an.t, in winwr, on.y . n.l ByrisfaB, J"" ? This map shows you how In reach Rughy, 'IVmi., tlic most Ulisrli tfil siiiiiit.iori on the Cimilicilitiiil .Mountains; The climate is purr, healthful and bracing, the scenery is picturesquely grand. : . - TkB Talari to," Is now oncn for Summer Guests, with clean well-furnished rooms, and excellent board at moderate prices. -Amusements of various kinds are pro vided, such as lawn tennis, croquet, swings, etc.; a shady grassy l.awn for children's playground; cool wide double Verandas and Hummocks for lounging, while the wild ro mantic river rambles are indeed charming. The Hughes Public Library of over fl,000 volumes, donated by the American ruunsn crs, is free to visitors. Patrons of the Tabard are made at feel "at home." No liquors are sold in Rugby. and rowdvisin is nnknown. Ladies and children can go to the river on berry or flower hunting unattended. ABNER L. ROSS, Jr., Lessee- fiS-New hacks and horses with careful drivi rs arc always in waiting at the Depot nn arrival of the tiains that leave Cincin nati or Chattanooga in the mornings, to J b W w Hotel. . - - ': " ' .. rnnvcv nassenireri ana baggage to me We have telephone connection now with the Depot and telegrapn connection who, the world. September the Hock will meet the - 1.00 BALDWIN, Proprietor. Special attention given to jncnw uu ' ! A I limp-' u-.iin. L m OX I THE OIF AID ESTATE; Elevation. 550 feet above sea level. " " 1110 " " " Climate. lTT S o " - " V" :vv , from olevation. and in winter 37 deg. Fahr. The nights are subw.il. It is light, friable, holds manure.is easily tho least fertilizer. Grasses- The natural paHturage and Irish potatoea all make a fine return. Tho a i" P ond onioD8 ieU 500 Tho w auunuaui. . to yide for the requiremen . ... i t...in nrintor snnlo and the orane. ovnr smH-kmir or roiunir. ioo"p""" ,r , i ... iumpv, ... . . auy other crops now ... aUd ttU 8m8U into the wood, most ot tne year. this plateau, consist of 35,000 acres of grasing, tract suitable to all purchasers, at low figures - iiwi nwT,.nmn. aau is bwiitto .uu - . . rt! 1 . ....1 n . . 1 1 miM Tnll pct-office, and is stopped at by all trains, four wt g tJlMm for either .uV SjArt,: hro fcntel.: Masonic with 200 inhabitant, two he r,-j out ictnr. River and White Oak Ciw.lt. -The itreeta are in taKine ercise even in the worst winter . . Vuses. standinir in weU Kei.t. neatlv which are hiffhly esteemed. Choice building lots "i"' " lvTrw;t of if. in Monran and Fentress , H i v p,KC Braded road, seven ' Vw. clav and 1'ieKett Counties. b it h, ithk-h thev can furnish settlers wHh re- RlibBY, MORGAN CU..TEKN. mi dew and rot. l ne oen wine PLATEAU GAZETTE. Established as THE JWQUEIAN in January, 1881. Terms ; One Year .$1.50 r. 2.00 Ditto, Foreign Subscription Payable in advance. Foreign subscribers can remit by registered letter or P.O. Order on Cincinnati, unio. Advertising Rates: One inch. One Insertion...... t LOO " Each subsequent insertion... .ou Quarter column. Three months 10.00 " Six months One year 25.00 Half column, Three months lo-OO " Six months , zd.w " One year 45.00 One column, Three months 25.00 .... j! ni " six monms , " One year 80.00 Reading notices, 10 cents per line. BOARDERS. Eight or ten boarders, young men prefer red, can find pleasant residence, with home comforts, by applying to MRS. M. J. RIDDELL, Central Ave., Rugby, Tern. Twin Oaks. mayl-3m. NEWBURY HOUSE, RUGBY, TENN. Prettily situated in the most central part of Rugby. MISS DYER PROPRIETRESS, The above Family Hotel is now open for the The above Family Hotel reception of Visitors and rioaracrs, ana every of visitors, while permanent boarders will find a comfortable and economical residence. " TERilS: Single Meal Bed - Joe. 95 OC. Board and Lodging. Per Week - $5.50 to $7.00 v -According to situation of room. WARTBURG HOUSE WARTBURG, TENN. Mrs. M. II. J. Roberts, Proprietress i . . . ., m, .., ,he ,ine of tho Cincinnati Southi rn Railway, thj( hoU9c offm ial inducemi!nt8 10 seekers f fc , h d leuw l . natrnnftfi .olicited. w... ... v fc. w. n . . . ... , WBTA regular nacK line win carry vraveiers to and from the depot, CENTRAL HOTEL, WARTBURG, TENN. PltOPBIETOR. This hotel ii pleasantly situated opposite the court nouse, in coincmru. uamuii iu. business or pleasure. Strangers and friends stayinft at the Central . Hotel will be well treated. The table is supplied with the best that the market affords, lerms reasonable. The newly completed villa on Alpine Road Larire airv rooms, double floors; cistern water in house: laree cistern. Complete drainage, Merv (onveuience. About three acres oi laud; adjoining lot if required. Address. W. FOWLER, RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN. . Hi , -2 2 7 C . a 55 0 ill 1 g3 mil A lis i n a a j iu' ' 2 s C ( ) S o; J K "Is I FOR SALE. A three-seated platform spring wagon, in good running order. Apply, W. BALDWIN, Rugby. jlylO-lm. THE WEATHER. REPORT OFTEMPEBA.TUBE FOU BUGBY.TES N. Date. Mux. Temp. Mln. Dry Bull). HVt Bulb Rainfall Inches Tomp. July 81 8G 86 87 78 74 79 01 60 Co 02 61 4fi 50 76 76 80 81 72 68 72 .71 73 70 77 61 61 66 .69 .53 Readings taken at II p.m., Railroad time AvoraRO Temp, for past week . 69.13 Rainfall (iwhes) . . . 1.32 C. Ondebdonk. NEWS AND NOTES. Looking over the past four years it is highly encouraging to note the great advances that have been made in and towards -the development of the Cumberland Plateau, particular ly in the counties of Morgan and Fentress. These two counties lead in the onward march, but all are stirring to partake of the new life that has so conspicuously appeared upon the highlands of East Ten nessee. The first great agent in peopling this section was the line "of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. With it appeared , stations that be came outlets for the small couuty towns, hitherto all but shut out from the world. Came also lumber and coal and iron interests, with their busy surroundings at the new stations. Came also new settlements, with houses,' hotels, roads, farms, churches and schools, where but a axe was heard iN autre had it all to lrerself . Count up the little townk new towns entirely along the line, from where it enters the plateau to where it leaves it, and then picture the loss to society and commerce were these small, but by no means unimportant, centres not in existence. We have' some eight or nine small stations, besides epresenting themselves, represent ing growing and valuable districts back from the rail, but feeling in every vein the quickening life of progress. Northerners and men and women from beyond Bea3 are here in many hundreds, a leaven that is doing marvels, and daily adding to our numbers and wealth, Taking Morgan and Fentress counties, we have no room tor a feeling of discouragement, but rather for one of quite enthusiasm. In Morgan we have the new settle ments of Rugby, Sunbright, Lane and Skene, with some others smaller, and all promising to be, highly important centers. In Fen tress there are Allardt, the Illinois settlement, and numerous scattered new comers. Four years since, the site of every place, named above .was. .a thick forest. To day the clearings bIiow hundreds of honies and hundreds of thousands of dollars of ' .valuable real estate. , v The Republican National Con- vention "nave oeen, and gone and done it" and their candidates are known and fairly in the field. This week the Democratic National Con vention are attempting to do its and will doubtless succeed, and before our next' issue their candidates wil also be before the world. . These are stirrinjc times, but thanks to the softening influence o modern politics and statesmanship the fate of a nation is not jeapod ized by a change in the rulers In this the constantly arriving hosts from monarchical - countries have presented to them a wonderfully suggestive picture, and encouraging to all nations. When Colonel . Killebrow was Minister of Agriculture for the State of Tennessee, he' prepared a careful and very reliable ' report of the soil and its"productions. Speak ing of the soil of the plateau upon which Rugby stands he thus truth fully and succintly says: "It is not claimed that the soil of Rugby, or the Cumberland plateau, is rich. On the contrary, it is generally poor, or at most only of medium quality It is a rare tiling in the United States to find rich soil, plenty of timber perfect healthfulness and desirableness of climate, cheap land, convenient markets, and easy access to means of transportation, all com bined. That Rugby possesses all these essentials to a happy home, except rich soil, no one, it is believed, will deny. It is equally ! true that the soil,, by proper culture and handling, can be improved and made to yield remunerative crops." The truth of the above remarks supported by 1 those around us who during the past four years have been preparing and cultivating the soil. When once cleared and brought under control, it is a kindly soil, well and quickly responding to practical and intelligent handling, To depend upon Nature alone for crops year after year will not pay, although that is the system still too much in practice around us. But with thorough turning up of the soil, and some manures, not only good but above the average of general farm crops may be raised. 'It is not, however, for the general run of crops that our soil is adapted so eminently as it is for , small ' fruits, and eraDes. aDnles. ' Dears, nlumsl grasses of all kinds. Attention paid to fruit specialties, with i location as near to the railroad as possible, will assuredly pay well. Tennessee will -be constantly at the ballot box this year. First will come the election of county and local officers, then the choice of Govenor and State representatives, and in November the grand choosing of a President and vice President of the United States... We shall be con siderably stirred up, but the days are altogether past when men can not bear with eaqh others differences of opinion. Among us the North erner argues, orates and votes, and the Southerner does the same. . They agree to differ. Let some of our Northern friends who are sceptical upon the point come down and do a little campaigning on the Plateau. When they once see our life and advantages they will more than probably stay among usi The cholera in the south of France is affirmed to be of the true Asiatic type. While numbers have died, and a panic prevails jn the afflicted cities, the mortality is not great. It will probably spread, and comforting it will be if the scourge is controlled all along as it has so far been managed. The plagues and pestilences that f ormeraly over ran countries are not likely to be repeated, but individuals and com munities all know that "eternal vigilance is the price . of liberty," and freedom, not only from political oppression but from disease. Grass! Grass!! Grass!!!: should ring in the ears of the cultivator on the plateau. While wild grasses are abundant everywhere, and will grow in spite of man, it is a hard job for tame grasses to find a field in which to show what they can do. Give tame grass room and some attention and not only will the "farmer be pleased and astonished at the re sult, but the value and worth of plateau farms will be increased fifty fold. ' OVES THE STATE. There is 552 convicts in the State penitentiary. The crops of Tennessee are re ported to be better than for years. The new jail building, a model of its kind, is approaching com pletion, at Nashville. Several hundred poor people from Nashville enjoyed a picnic at Kingston Springs last week. Chas. Billingsby, a colored brake man, while assisting in switching coal cars at Knoxville, fell under the wheels and was killed. Jim Sawyers, a colored man who had been discharged by Joe Hub bard, a railroad section boss in Knoxville, took a stone and struck Hubbard on the head, inflictinc very dangerous wounds. R. D. Fitzgerald of Trenton got his right arm ' caught in a band wheel of a threshing machine last Tuesday, The limb was broken in four pieces, and had to be amputa ted. Preparations are making on an extensive scale for the annual meet ing of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at Lake Minnetonka, Aug. 3. The Roane Iron Company ship ped during the past month from the furnaces at Rockwood over 3, 000 tons of iron. . Hon. Xen. Wheeler, of Chat tanooga was elected President of the State Bar Association at tho meeting on Lookout Mountain and Judge Ingersoll; jKaorville co ::3 v , ,A little son of W. C. Elrod, six years , old of Washington county, while playing in the meadow where his brother was mowing, got in tho way of the scythe, and was struck in the neck, severing the large art ery. He died in a few minutes. The celebration at Cleveland on the 4th was a success beyond the most sanguine anticipations. The crowd was estimated by many at ten thousand. - Mrs. Marther Sanders, aged 40 years, was struck by lightning and killed, in McMinn county, last week. She was standing in the doorway of an outbuilding at the time. The appropriation of $350,000 for the Muscle Shoals insures the . opening of tho Tennessee river with in the next eighteen months. The wind storm at Loudon, on Saturday, did considerable mischief. Among other damage it totally destroyed the river depot, a building 50x200 feet. At Knoxville1 the storm was also very severe. While the steamer Dickinson was laying at the Loudon wharf J. Mc- Elweo, the clerk was strucll over the eye with a piece of iron thrown by a negro deck hand. The negro was arrested at Kingston. McElwee's wounds are dangerous. Wm. Johnson killed a large black bear a few days since on Walden's Ridge; the carcass weighed four hundred poun ls, Bcar3 are more plentiful in this vicinity than for years. Tracks are seen with surpris ing frequency. The Cowan furnace made last month (thirty days) 2,401 tons of iron; being an average of 80 tons per ' day. The South Tittsburg furnace made 2,715 tons, or 90 tons per day. The company (tho Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company) . is working over two thousand men. lb takes twelve thousand car loads of iron ore and seven huudred and fifty cars of cokfi to run the furnaces one month,