Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-06
PETERSBURG TO NORFOLK,

er and more progressive order OF things
maugurated. The straight line of rail
road from
PETERSBURG TO NORFOLK,
about eighty miles in length, is begin
ming to develOpe Industries not much
needed before the war. About sixty
miles of the road is a straight chute
With little or N grading, through a
piney country. Pines and peanuts are
IA principal production. There are twenty
five saw-mills in active operation, and
the quantities of the finest pine lumber
that comes from those millsin the course
Of a year is startling. 1t finds not only
a ready, but a ~vOracious market in the
East. Further back this way in the old
and long settled sections of Southwes-
tern Virginia the people are working
with desperate energy; a better tobacco
crop than ever before; a setter wheat
crop than ever before; and a better meat
crop than ever before reward the in
creased efforts Of the increasing intelli-
genee ofthe farmers. 1t is said that the
condition Of the people has been vastly
improved during the past five years.
Twice IS many passengers travel e
the railroads, and three times as much
freight. The prospect is decidedly fiat
tering. The crop of fruit this year down
in the eastern valleys af the Apallach-
ian chain Of mountains isimmense. At
every station along the road herds of ne
gro boys and girls gather round the cars
with baskets of fruit, ripe, large, luscious.
They offer adOzen Of splendid peaches
for a dime, and give thirteen to the dOZ-
en-. Apples the size of
ANDY JOHNsoN'S HEAD
are offered at a cent a piece by those
hucksters. Norfolk was one Of the prin-
pie sources of supply to the New York
market this year in the matter of early
fruits and vegetables. The peach crop
exceeded ali previous experience and an
expectation, so that baskets were sent
from that by the half million to feed the
~voracious man of Gotham. In other re-
spects Norfolk is stepping forward; her
coastwise tonnage is hopefully looking
up, and the hum Of renewed industry Is
heard Gin her borders" The great fea-
ture, however, of her new life, viii be
the establishment here of European
traffic in freights and passengers for the
The harbOr is the best, notably
the safest, largest and most easily ap-
preached Of any on the Atlantic coast,
and the necessities of the rapidly devel-
Oping Southern States demand that the
capacities Of that port be made TO ac-
cOmOdate the traffic which is carried on
with Europe. In the near future there
will be two OF three European steamers
landing there weekly. Perhaps fifty |
thousand immigrants from Europe viii
rest their hopeful feet upon her Shores,
and half a million bales of cotton will be |
sent backlin the "Argosies ofEnterprisen
10 Europe. Norfolk is the great natural
outlet for the teeming productions of the
Southwest. Already the route
is becoming a favOTite one-the route
over the
CHARLESTON AND EAST TENNESSEE
to the Malone system in Virginia
by which travellers are landed in Balti-
more in about sixty hours after starting.
the winter, Of course, all hands
will travel this way, and thus avoid the
snOwing-np experiences of Northern
roads. For freights the advantages Of
il are so obvious that the most stupid
overlook them.
Captain Jacques, who is a great and
progressive railroad man, is now de-
all his vast energies of mind to
picking up hours as he calls it-sav-
ng time. BY figuring up closely he ex-
1ects to abbreviate the time between
Memphis and Norfolk four hours more
n a week OF two, and shortly after that,
certain stretches of new iron will
e laid down here and there, and certain
ridges finished, and certain other
hings done, the time may be a~bbreviat-
a a few hours more. In this way the
dvantages of travel become more evil
.ent every month. The practical result I
fan this will be, that in a year or less
be people Of the Northwest win not
hink OF any other route than this, and
immigrants intending. to settle In the
,outhern States viii not think Of land
ng anywhere except at Norfolk.
l learn that complete arrangements
7ill shortly be made for sending fish, I
game from Norfolk clear TO Fort
'mith by such rapid express that one
eat live oysters ia the Indian nation (
: relish to a hunk of buffalo just cut
rom tne launches Of the animal an {
our before. In a few weeks from now, {
men b weather becomes colder. we J
ball live high in Memphis. NJ. {
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The Tennessee Radicals in convention ves-
'rday nominated A A. Freeman N Hav- ID.
'ood, Tor Governor. and Horace HarTfsop Il
latform sustains Grant.
The readers Of the APPEAL LOST nothi,c5r Z
NAT We omitted 70 publish of the Bianton Q
uncan Democracys proceeding in Tansa 2
lle, on Tuesday. II consisted altogether OF $