The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-28
LErTRR FROM MRMPHzg.
MEMPHIs, TENN, Jan. %, 1880.

To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
How would you like to have line
from the West end? Though we
are on the ragged edge" of two
other States, we are still a part of
Tennessee. Whether we are recog.
nized as Taxing District or the
city of Memphis, as Of old, we have
the biggest town in the State and
wonderful population. Memphis
never does things by halves. She
goes the whole figure. When she
gets sick, she gets sick ell over, when
she is we'll she is the liveliest place
on the map. Think Of city, which
was few months ago, in sackcloth,
and almost depopulated, now full of
people, all rushing, pushing, working
and moving things as if nothing had
happened to crush their energies!
The cotton crop is turning out to
be a large one. and in the country
that ships to Memphis, the planters
have been blessed with an unusual
reward for their labor. Not only
we're the crops abundant, but the
price has been good, and, as conse.
quence, money is plenty aud business
of all kinds on q boom. We are
having flush times again. In the
midst of our prosperity however, we
are not forgetful Of the past nor I'M
mindful for the future. We re at
work on the public sewers, with sew
eral hundred men digging trenches
and laying pipes. 1t looks like busiS
ness. Then the vaults are being
cleaned and all private premises put
in order. In short. we are neither
idle nor indifferent in the matter of
sanitation, as we are sometimes &C.
cused Of being. We recognize the
situation and are determined to do
the "clean thing" for once. Our
newspapers and correspondents have
represented things as being fully as
bad as they are, and some things
have been exaggerated, but that was
done TO arouse our own people to
sense of danger and ofduty. 1t was
not intended to make the impression
abroad, as it'bas done. in some quar-
tiers, that we are careless and neg
lectful of the means of preserving
life and health, and therefore not
deserving of sympathy when we are
afflicted. We are very hopeful for
the health Of the city next summer.
If we have no fever, we want to stay
at home. But if the plague should
raise his black wing again 10 cover
us in gloom and death, its fret shad-
ow will be the signal for a general
exodus. And if we have to fee
again, East Tennessee may prepare
to hang out the latch strings of her
hospitable homes. Thousands Of
our people remember, with gratitude,
the unaffected hospitality and genial
kindness with which they were re-
ceived and treated in their exile of
last year. 1t is generally remarked
that the refugees, who quartered in
East Tennessee, came home in bet
ter plight and showing more signs of
good keeping than those who went
to any other resort. There is only
one drawback, and that is Chatta.
nooga. The contumerly and official
insolence with which we were detain.
ed several hours and required to
change cars in the woods. on the out
skirts Of tue village, and then the
detention, or lie over of II hours, in
that uuinteresting place, as we come
home in the fall, are enough to make
one shudder when he thinks Of GO
ing that route. Our refugees of
last year, look upon Chattanooga as
a highe0ay nuisance by large ma
jority." If the managers of that line
don't want to lose a large amount of
the travel from New York and Wash
ingten. which they would otherwise
get. they must avoid that long de-
tention of IL hours at Chattanooga,
or any other place. OLD SLEDGE.