Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-28
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ut.b, by the iadie. Of the seooud Presbyterian Church, Al the
eabeti House. All who wish to enjoy the most tempting sisnds'
prepared and dispensed by the fair hands Of the iadisz, and at
the sane time all IN praseworthy objeet.csn do 5 BY patron.
| ling the supper this evening.
rur 1rf1IySs gave their last performance at Dudley Hall
las, night. aud 10 nlght will anuse our ~neighbors up at Liberty
The Gultar .olos Of Monsieur Hernandez are alone worth the
priee Of admission. Ho far exceeds any one we ever heard N
tha, sweet instrument The performance last night was Tor
his benefit.
Tuf pgaRprD WOMAN, GiASTEss, &C, now on exhibition
A, Masonic Hall, are attracting crowds Of spectators day and
night
ytpnyt, g. TENNESSEE RsitRoAD-immeHse Rseepts-
The receiu,s on this road for freight. passengers and mail Nom
day amounted to sI7s. Thodown freight alone amounted to
upwards Of slloo
LANDS BErr.-we were shown, yesterday. by Nj. IAg
ron. Of this city, a Beet, grown in bis garden. which weighed
10 pounds and measured "a inches In circumference. We fore,
go the opportunity Of punning on the word bret.
p.seraous-Th practice of sounding gongs in front ofthe
hotels at meal hours The horses 10 a carriage filled with ladies'
were frightened by this means Tuesday evening and ran
several squares before they could be checked Fortunately
no damage was done.
A NEw BUSINESS FOR LYScHBuRo-7Ac Pork Packing
Trade-The business operations Of L%yuehbnrg must BIO In.
creased and varied before 1t will enjoy that full measure of
prosperity. which, from is natural advantages, it is destined to
do. There are many branches OF business which may be
Introduced among US. not now carried on here, and which
would essentially tend 10 promote private interest and awaken
new life and prosperity In u CITY. Wncn citizens shall
have become fully convinced Of this fact, and begin to act on
that conviction, then L~ynchburg win have commenced to work
out It's destiny of greatness, and with railroad speed viii GO
bounding along its track of prosperity.
One branch of business which, among many others, might be
advantageously prosecuted here, occurs to US now. and we Ia
vie attention to It, 1t is the Pork. Packing, or Provision Trade,
as 1t Is sometimes called. This Is, as our readers know, a bust.
ness which forms one of the chief interests of those immensely
fourishing cities, Cincinnati and Louisville and other West
ern towns. We know no reason why that business could not
be prosecuted here with proportionate success. We can com
mand any quantity of hogs. In the county of Lee, alone, W
are Informed there will be tpdos thousand hogs sent TO market
this year. We have cheaper and better salt; established skill
in curing bacon, cheaper labor, and are not half the distance
from the great markets of sale and consumption, tina, are the
places at which Pork Packing is now most successfully con.
Quoted.
In this connection II may be well to mention, that although
the State Of Ohio produces so many hogs, and the Queen city
has acquired the significant sobriquet Of the city of Pork and
Astronomy,' yet the Old Dominion numbers nearly as many
hogs as Ohio. In 1880 Ohio had 2os9, 246, and Virginia ll9g2, 1855
only l,070,90 less than Ohio; Kentucky & Tennessee 2e7, 14o;
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee 1929 $50. Suppose we
take three fourths as the nuinber annually slaughtered, say
5l2l, 973; and. again, suppose two thirds Of this quantity be re.
tanned for home consumption, it gives for export from these
states l 707,33i. We know that the great export of hogs from
these States is from North Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee
and South Western Virginia but We viii only claim from these
SECTIONS of the three States one hall Of the market crop, say
a5a,6d7, and we will conjecture that only 200o0lof this number
will be attracted to our city by the Railway facilities we have,
into the producing country; Chat the quantity will, In a few
years. greatly exceed this, we have no doubt this would give
us an ample sapply to conduct the business upon a stuff.
GENTLY extensive scale to attract the attention of the principal
consuming markets We are moi sufficiently informed to enter
into any details upon the subject indeed, we have no other
purpose than to suggest 1t to the business men of our city. for
them 10 work out tho practical results. The timid. and the an.
Ii progressive may, and doubtless will say about this idea rs
tney do about every thIng else. that it is useless tn try 10 divide
this great business with the West thai they have gotten, al.
ready, so great a start we can never succeeds competing with
them. To these Rip Van Wrinkle sl-epcrs we have only To
say, such fears and apprehcnsIons are daily telling upon the
uIp,ppritV of our city and ghOull he discarded "a unworthy uf