The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-17

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! Norfolk Is shaped like q boys head In
profile, with a fiatcap on it, the said head
having rather Dubious and numerous
nose. The cap part is the commercial
town, exposed to the weather OF the har-
Dor, and two salt covcs and swamps in
denting lardward make the head. More
than half the outline of the town is thus
water--perhaps two-thirds. Like every
other town, it has n main street, which
pierces across the cap through the brains
and senses of the place. The Main street
is crossed by Church street. on which
there is very old church, with a rev0-
lutionary cannon-ball in the brick wall,
and figures i'm il bearing the date of its
foundation, 1739," as big as :" s. F.
1850. "" The old church has a big
graveyard around 1t, full of Original
Norfolks, and is the only principal house
in the town which was not burnt down
in 1776, between the patriots and tories
shall we say matchless ard0rf Church
street, prolonged one way, goes out to
the ocean, eastward prolonged the other
way it goes, like the spinal marrow
through the boys cap, to Portsmouth,
across the river. II you take any other
street you are apt to come to water or
swamp A mile is the full deep water
frontage of the city itself, which is thus
not comparable to New York, but Ports
mouth, Gosport and other places cOnve-
nient, are as likely to make the expected
great city as Norfolk itself Everything
about Norfolk is in miniature except
water. The streets are narrow the mar
ket is short. never saw a place where
the soda-fountains look So big; they must
have put them in like q hank-vault, and
built the drugstores afterward; the pub
lie edifices are like blocks to learn clas-
steal architecture by. They are laying
horse railroad, the first ever known
here, down the two chief streets, and it
seems to fill them up from curb to curb.
The houses are, in many cases, large and
solid, and yet not comfortable looking.
A few fine blocks stand on Main street,
and yet the banks and business houses
rather disappoint the sanguine visitor,
and he can see that there are a great
everything is sold, from DIR. JOllop's
pills to Mr.. Trollope's novels. Il, Little
patches of swamp come up into town,
and suggest that there is poor drainage,
and both together suggest Yellow Jack.
Nothing runs in Norfolk, neither waste
water nor men, and the few old ,uDyar-
nished hacks, which stand for hire, seem
to have been painted for funerals, Mag
nolia trees and fis-trees, full Of green
fruit, and beautiful willow oaks, and
cherry-trees ready to be shaken, stand in
plain view; and there are many large
gardens in the heart Of the town. The
finest residence is that of Mr.. Merritt
Todd, who began to salt hams in this
town with such good judgment that he
was able to carry his brand to Cincinnati
and make it the tombstone of several
hundred thousand hogs, whereafter he
returned to Norfolk, and has a better
palace than the Prince of Monaco.
Steamship lines connect Norfolk resu-
larly with Richmond, Washington, Bal
timore, Yorktown, Annonessic. Cherry
stone, Suffolk, Elizabethtown, Newbern,
New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
The fare to New York, everything in
cluded, is ten dollars. But one railway
enters the city, that to Petersburg and
Richmond the road to Charleston start
ing from Portsmouth. The population
is probably 10000 Cor. Chicago 1ri-
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