Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-25
FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
NEWMARKET, JEFFERsoN COUNTY.

' ~ NEWMARKET, JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Correspondence of the Lodger.l
Lives there man With soul sodead,
" no 70 himself has. never said.
hast tennsssssseans have plenty. ofsheat and
I Soft IS, gentleman " from East
Tennessee informs the Memphis jour
nails that every town and village in
East Tennessee is crowded with
Memphis refugees that every house is
full that the fare is bad, and that
the Memphians will soon eat out that
section because the people have but
little. We are led to exclaim, BE
hold man gluttonous and a wine
bibber." From earliest recollection
we have understood that East Ten
nesseeans and Western Yirginians
were proverbial for good eating"
The, writer having travelled pretty
extensively'in this and the adjoining
counties can testify as to the, g good
eating, and furthermore, the hospital
ity of the people is unbounded. When
land where the informant was born,
where and how long hes has slived, in
whaksectiono Of East Tennessee he has
been, and how long he has enjoyed a
Rip Van Winkle repose we cannot
say The idea that few hundred
Memphians would or could soon eat
out this section is most ridiculous,
| indeed is not respectable nonsense.
! Does not the informant know the fact
that foffodraong years ofsthe npfor-
tu9ate struggle between the. two sec
tions Of the country, that during ali
that time East Tennessee subsisted
4 one or the other of the contending
armies Horse, foot and dragon
were fed, not by hundreds. but by
thousands, and noneof the population
starved to death, nor suffered for food
necessary to sustain life. This, too,
Twas done at a time when the able
bodied portion of the population were
| in one or the other army, or refugees
| from home, and the work for the pro
duction of crop had to be done
by the old men, the women and the
children, and without the stock
necessary for the production of a
crop, and consequently the crop was
a small one compared with the pre-
duet of the country now, when our
surplus of every description is being
: shipped to supply the demand in less
favored portions Of the country. The
towns and the villages are mo-
crowded, the houses are not all full
and no complaint as to the fare so fal
as the writer has heard. On the con
trary the refugees appear to be al
happy and contented as people coulC
be expected to be who had fled from
homes to avoid an impending seourge
To flee from the city of Memphig
with the sad recollections of 1875
fresh in the minds of your citizens, i
7 natural, and what any one able tt
leave the city would do under the cir
cumstances. We trust you will no
J be compelled to pass through the or
deal of last season again; but the dreaC
of such state Of affairs has causet
your people to come. into. eur division
; OF the State for safety Our 'peopl,
with laudable, characteristic hospi
tality have thrown open their doors t.
; receive and entertain the refugees a
the risk Of having the much dreaded
sceurge introduced into our section
and into our families. But we are
! not crowded houses not all full
Here is our little city Newmarket, OF
5 the line of the Fast Tennessee, Vir
9 ginia and Georgia railroad, twenty
! four miles East Of Knoxville, d quiet
unpretending little place, entertaining
a few refugees and expecting NOR
who have Signiied their intention t
come. The citizens in the vicinity 0
, the place have expressed willingness
to receive and entertain as far as the
could. To refugees We would say th
: report as given byu gfEtleman frop
= East Tennessee isnot true. We haY
the substantials of life in abundance
Not hog and hominy alone, but cal
:, afford some variety, and when GU
people wish to can get up as goo,
TSunday-go.to -meeapf yittels"q an!
. section. Come along; we have y
/ fears of beng eat,Sut.by q few Mem
: phians. "We will not fear tho a.
n host should, d,encamp against us. !"
a II. T. D.
II The prince imperial is sad to hav
been fine gymnast, good runner, 9,
admirable hOrseman, and accustome