The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-08
ance at the next term of the United States
Court at Raleigh,

Houston Telegram: 1t is curious fact
that a city of 25,0O0 inhabitants, with tax
! able assessment of S5,313, 900 at one per cent,
amounting to S53, ,130, can not collect sufi-
! cient money to cover expenses and prevent
the wholesale issuance Of taxpaying scrip,
which is now offering at any rice that can
| be obtained for it by the employees of the
| city, and which can not be sold in Houston
to-day for over thirty cents on the dollar.
Memphis Avalanche: AS an incident
of the present epidemic, showing the almast
complete depopulation of the city, the jew
| ish New Year, which was ushered in last
night and celebrated by divine worship at the
/ special permission for which was granted by
| Hon. John johnson, the congregation num-
bered only twentyssix. Under ordinary cir
cumstances the building would have been
crowded to excess.
Charlotte IN. Co. Observer: A curl
osity is presented by a citizen of Davidson
| College. He sends a box of grapes, which
are similar in appearance and taste to the
] ordinary winter grapes that grow abundantly
| in the woods throughout this section of North
| Carolina, but they differ very widely from
| them in that they are entirely without seed.
A grape without seed is surely novelty in
| these parts. They are growing on the planta-
| ton of Capt. A. J. Gray, near Mooresville,
and the vine has been known for eight years,
and never has there been found seed in any
of the fruit produced thereon.
| Savannah (Ga.) } News: The rice plant
| ers felt considerably relieved on Wednesday
when the time for the usual gale had passed
lby. The water threatened to be very high,
| aslit was the highest spring tide of the year,
! and the moon was in perigee, something not
! often occurring in this season. hence there
/ was general anxiety felt as to the result.
! With a blow from the northeast the water
would have swept over the banks of the rice
! fields and Occasioned great damage. Instead,
! however, of the dreaded wind, there were
/ only pleasant breeZes from the south and
southeast and the danger greatly diminished,
! hence the satisfaction of the rice planters.
Col. Brewer, Auditor of Alabama, said
in a recent declaration, in alluding to the
result of a general negro exodus: 'White
| labor would no longer come in competition
with the black labor; there would be no vast
! hordes of unskilled labOrers to butcher the
| lands and wreck the homestead, there would
be no squalor, and but little idleness; fewer
| crimos and more intelligence. White cottages
would begin to feck the landscape as the
] torrent of immigration came pouring in til
! lage would be more thorough and its impIe-
ments more perfect; schools and churches
would be sustained as the population thick
ened, and our children educated at home as
the standard of education was advanced and
the marshes were drained.
New Orleans Democrat: NJ DeLes-
seps, the celebrated French engineer, has by
letter informed the Chamber of Commerce of
this city that during his visit to this country,
which he intends making in a short time, he
intends to take in New Orleans, and he ex-
presses a desire to address the chamber while
in this city on the subject of the isthmus
canal The date of his arrival in New Orleans
is not fixed by him, and as the Chamber of
Commerce has no knowledge of his pro-
gramme, they can not name the probable
time, However, when he does come there
can be no doubt but that he will meet with
a reception beftting his reputation and his
standing among the great engineers of the
world