The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-18
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Tgs PEACH Csor--Naver in the history of
The sou,h have we had SO heavy peach crop
a. thi4 eascn has furnished US. The trees
are lie ally loaded, and the quality is OF the
hest We tear of immense orchards on james
river that have remained untouched. This
ia owing to the absence of wharves on the
river. ics precuded the possibility of ship
D ng sbem by stesmeFs-the only practicable
N ode of getting this fruit to msrket, owing 10
lis peri,hatle natu e.
TO ); We these valuable crops from des rucs
ton. we hear of various efforts being made TO
tcrn them into brandy. By our temperance
friends, This may be considered questionable
mapner Of disposing CT this valuable fruit;
but they nay console themselves with the re-
feciiop, thatis will ada largely to the 'inter-
nall revenue. Apple and peach brandy has
been Standing drink in this part Of the
cou4iry for many years, and We know Ut no
section that produces it in equal purity. The
abominable stuff, which claims for its pater-
nifty the apple or leach, and which We ct
foul New jersey, is worse than new.dip,'
and comprises within it's terrible grip, ell the
worst fe lures of R.-G.,of Taugle-Leg and
Blue Run combined. Not so wi tie bran>
dies manufactured ia Eastern Virginia and
good liquors ,aass in the case Of others, age
adds zest to the favor, and as in the case of
youth, tames some ofthe early fires which are
supposed to Turk in both. Amongst the dis.
eases which are said 10 have prevailed in
Virginia and North Carolina some years ago,
we e d frequent mention of one, which at one
period, seems to have assumed the type OF an
epidem C. We allude to the disease called
the !. N W. Iileems to have bsen peculiar
to the sections famed and to have eminatsd
Of lmbibing these beverages directly from the
sill W To the decline of The cd orchards Of
this section, this disease has nearly disap
feared, bntswe fear that the immense crop Of
fruit Ills year, together with the !" diouth'
uudsr which the South tas been laborilg fol
foursyears, may revive it, in its most terrible
TO. MS With shIeatenings Of the cholera
andsa retotf Of tie New, !" We may well eau
zion our people and admonish them of the
necessity "a moders ton aud p udence.
a "a sesse
THa n. AND p. Railroad BaiDGE. Ill is
mltter oF1s ii ~ congrstuation, that thu
magnf,e t iran bridge that spans the East
era brstcaa OF tns & iasbe h. hes wiihstoot
tie shock If war. ana IS still intact. Tbis il
oae of The most complete structures OF th,
kind in tise'ceun'ry; i,s certainly the m $
peri CT in arrangement and construction il
the South aapd having ieen eonstru I'D III de-
the immediate supervision Of oae oftha NOS
talsatedc iyil eaginssrss ID the Unised STATES
will stand for generations y monument t,
sAilradd lase There are three other ifol
3 bridges III he1Eorfolk and Petersburg tail
rosd, but Il neither OF then sompars with thin
one in inportance. True, hey wers of IN s
4 exoslleptdesign, and weresrnoss skilfulIy
strusted, but tHe5 were se,y much shorter, MAJ
spalnea streams Of less depth and breadlI
n one Of those bridges was destroyed when h
n southern forces evacuated this,city ;bn, sep
q have been taken TO restore it 10 lis 70, me
condition. shother-the one nearest "a Pc
trsbafg-wa ore or lesssi ju'ed by tn,
shot.anl sasll from Federal batteries. Blu
tfatsalso will soon be doing good service
again. Had this enc been. destroyed, man,
81 months would nee ssarJy have been consun ed
before the trains from Petersburg could hav,
come in to thssicity.