The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-10
LOCAL INTERFERENCE.
On Sunday at the same place, the Thermometer stood

TEE BUSINESS OF NoRf0LK.--People abroad can have
but very faint idea OF the real amount Of business done
In this city, and Of the Importance of our trade We
have some of the largest importing and forwarding
houses in the country The BUSINESS done here In
branch alone would astonish outside friends,
they to visit and with their eyes what we have
That branch is the liquor trade. At the head 9of
this trades Mr. George Sangser one Of our Oldest and
most entsrprisng merchants and the elererest gentle
man. witha, In Norfolk. He is a rough diamond but
don't want him polished by any manner OF means We
quite contentod with him as he Is and would not for
the world that lie should either be reduced In his fair
portions his circumstances or bis good nature The bus.
mess of Mr. Sangstsr is the most extensive In the
Try and in his house in thiu city alone amounts TO
forty thousand dollars week. Aud his branch establish
ments in Portsmouth, Petersburg, aud Richmond al
most equal in importance visit to- his store in this
city, No. % East side Market Square, will be sucsst 70
convince all that the people In this section Of the country
far from being Sons of Semperance strict followers
Of father Mathew. There shelves upon shelves Of
bother Of all kinds Of liquors. whskies brandies gins
wines, cordiais, bitters, aes, and porters while
extending back clear through tho building, barrels
are piled on barrels, and pipes on pipes Of the
same articles of every description and grade from
the inferior qualities to the highest proof and the
most ADVANCED age we nave selucm eeeu tuCu
of tho ardent and it is sufficient to tagger the under.
standing and make head swim merely to look at hs
display. But the thousands of bottles and barrels In the
store are merely there samples 1t is in his ware
houses and cellars that Mr. sangster keeps his immense
stores which supply the large country to the north and
west Of fast opening up to trade All parts Of
the country hereabouts supplied from this depot and
1t is needless to say that tho fame Of sangsters liquors
has gone abroad throughout the land and been carried
ar the waters he Is besides the agent for Rnss
Hubbe the Old sachem and other btters Arack Punch
the different prepared cocktails and supplies tho trade
with superior lager beer and ales At the head Of his
business he may defy competition and can AFFORD to give
better terms than smaller dealers Werepeat that 10th
ing goes 90 much to show the growing prosperity
Of Norfolk as the immense business that Is done
here In all branches Of tradeAand in his line Of
that trade sangstor is 5aeite prineeps HIS eni-
ploysse are all polite and obliging gentlemen Cap
tain Hpson is our beau ideal Of cashier and bookkeper
and obgng that he never asks anybody to pay they
don't want to while the head salesman, the ever ready
Captain j. ]. Martyne, well known to all Of our old
citizens Is never satisfied without giving bis customers
great deal more than their money is worth. The &C.
adjustment TO- indeed one Of the most complete Of the
kind In the South. Suppose we take something.