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THE PEACH SEASON.
The peach trade has now fairly set in,
and New York is reveling in this most de-
| licious of fruits. The trade is an immense
one, recurring vast amount of capital and
the labor of thousands of men. The peach
train arrives every morning, in Jersey City,
and very lively time follows its coming.
The train consists of thirty-fye cars, each
car holds five hundred baskets, or 17,5OO
baskets in all, or to get it down to peaches,
three million and a half, all of which are
consumed that day. The cars are built
especially for the purpose, so that the del
icate fruit can come to market uninjured
and in good order. Just now the peaches
come from Maryland and Delaware-in a
week or two New Jersey will begin to send,
and a little later eastern Pennsylvania.
Fruit viii be very cheap this season and al
so very good.
POLITICAL.
The letters of Tilden and Hendricks fell
like wet blanket on the Democracy of the
city. The fact is, Tilden's long delay, his
evident attempt to compromise with Hen
bricks, his selling out to the inhationists
to keep them in line, has disgusted the SOL
id Democracy of the city, and they are
making the most severe fight against him.
Tilden is known to be pronounced hard
money man, and the Democracy expected
prompt decided repudiatiOn of the in
fiation heresy, so plain as to leave no queS-
ton as to his standing on that point. He
contributed money last fall to beat Allen in
Ohio, but his action now shows that it was
not in the interest of an honest currency
that he did it, but solely to get a danger
Gus competitor out of the way. He has
sold out TO the very men that he was op-
posing last fall. and consequently has de-
moralized his party. The Republicans are
standing shoulder to shoulder, and are
making a vigorous fight. Fenton and
Conklin, Dix and Morgan, all the lights of
the party, are working once more in unni-
son, and there can be no doubt as to the re-
suit. New York viii vote for Hayes by
an enormous majority.
THE HEALTH OF THE CITY.
1t seems as though we were never going
to get through with the hot season. This
week the Thermometer has gone up into the
nineties again, and the mortality among
children is again frightful. Over six hun
dred died last week, an average of almost
one hundred day, and the adults are suf-
fering almost in the same proportion. A
peculiar kind ofdysentary is raging through
the city, caused by the long continued heat,
though the water, which is unfit for use
half the time, has quite as much to do with
it. 1t is not cholera, nor is it like any
thing the city ever saw. The victim goes
through hot and cold stages, and in few
hours is a corpse. The doctors were puz-
zlel byit, though they now have it under
control. If taken in time they are saving
all who have not been in the habit Of using
ardent spirits to excess.
THE OPIUM HABIT
Is making fearful progress in the city. The
retail druggists say that they are sell
ing ten times as much of this drug as they
did five years ago, and that its use is not
confined to any one class, though women
form very large per cent. of their custo-
mers. The women of wealth and refinment
are more addicted to its use than those of
the lower classes. The favorite form Of
taking the drug is in laudanHm, for the
reason that in that form its use can be more
easily concealed. Women on the avenues
meet at each others houses to indulge in
the vice. and opium drunks are becoming
as common in the houses of the wealthyas
whisky drunks in the dens down town. A
great many commenced the use of the drug
for the effect it had upon their appearance.
At first dose of opium brightens the eyes,
brings color to the cheeks and qnickens the
wit while the effect lasts. Ladies in society
take dose before going to ball, and have
small doses in their pocket to take during
the evening. As matter of course it only
takes a few weeks for the habit to become
fixed, and once fixed it is never broken.
The victim uses more and more, until it
cannot be concealed. At this Stage they
do not care to conceal it, for they give
themselves up to it, soul and body, and
care for nothing else. A movement is be-
ing made to regulate the sale of opium,
by law, with view of checking the evil.
THE AMUSEMENT PEOPLE
Are having hard time. There are now in
New York over three hundred first class
actresses out of engagements, with no
earthly prospect of having anything to do
next season. The theaters in the interior
all lost money lasl season, and many Of
them will not open this fall. I mention
this to show the thousands of young men
and women who are crazy for the stage
that all is not gold that glitters. Anactor
or actress out of an engagement is the most
utterly helpless individual in the world.
There isn't anything that he or she can
turn to for livelihood, and when business
is dull in the profession it means starvation.
Only one theater in New York made
dollar last year, and those now opening
have cut salaries down to almost nothing,
or have made them depend entirely upon
the business done. The little theaters
have gone out by the hundred, and only
those that are rich enough to afford to loose
money viii make the season at all. The
hard times have told on the amusement
world the same as upon everything else.
THE COST OF HIGH LIFE.
The fashionable people are discussing
the price Of living in New York. The cut
ting down Of incomes consequent upon the
lowering of rent and the general shrinkage,
has brought to the surface some very curl