The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-09-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
PEACHEs-Po oLTICAL-HEALTH-TT OPT
I'M HABIT-ACToRs-Co OF HIGH LIv-
ING-YANDERBILT-
NEW YORK, August II, 1876.
THE PEACH SEASON.

THE PEACH SEASON.
The peach trade has now fairly set in,
and New York is reTeling in this most de-
licious of fruits. The trade is an immense
one. requiring a vast amount of capital
and the labor OF thousands of men. The
peach train arrives every morning, III Jer-
sey City, and very lively time follows its
coming. The train consists of thirty-five
ears. each car holds five hundred baskets.
or 17.500 baskets, or to get it down TO
peaches. three million and half.all of which
are consumed that day. The ears are built
especially for the purpose, so that the deli
cate fruit can come to market uninitred
and in good order. Just now the peaches
cone from Maryland and Delawafe--in
week or two New jersey wiz begin to send.
and n little later eastern Pennsylvania
| Fruit will be very cheap this season, and
also very good.
POLITICAL.
The letters of Tilden and Hendricks fell
| like wet blanket on the Democracy uf
the city. The fact is, TiIden's delay, his
evident attempt to compromise with Hen
drick's, his selling ont to the infiationists
to keep them in line, has disgusted the
solid Democracy of the city, and they are
! making the most severe fight against him.
| Tiltlen is known to be a pronounced hard
money man. and the better class of the
Democracy expected a prompt, decided re-
| pudiation OF the imitation heresy. so plain
/ aS IN Itl9y mo- nc fn
OH that question. He contributed money
| last fall to beat Allen in Ohio. but his ac
/ ton now shows that it was not in the in
! terest of an honest currency that he did it,
but solely to get dangerous competitor
/ out of the way. He has sold out to the
very men he WAS opposed to last tall, and
| consequently has demoralized his party.
| The Republicans are standing shoulder TO
shoulder, and are making a very vigorous
| fight. Fenton and Conkling, Dix and
| Morgan, all the lights of the party, are
working once more in unison, and there
can'be no doubt as to the result. New
York will vote for Hayes, by arr enormous
| majority
THE HEALTH OF THE CITY.
Tt 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 MOI tality among
| children Is again frightful. Over six hun
tlred died fast week, an average of almost
one hundred day, and the adults are suf-
| fering almost in the same proportion. A
| ,F H.
through the city. caused by the long con-
tinued heat, though, probably, the water,
which is unfit to use half the time, has
/ quite as much to do with it. It is not a
cholera, nor is it like anything the city
ever saw. Tie victim goes through Loi
and cold stages, and in a few hours is q
corpse. The doctors We're puzzled by it.
though they now have it under control. L
taken in time they are saving all who have
not been in the habit of using ardent spir
its to excess.
THE OPIUM HABIT
Is making fearful progress in the city. Til,
retail druggists say they are selling tel
times as much of this drug as they did fiy,
years ago, and that its use is not confinec
to any one class, though women form {
very large per cent. of their customers. I'll,
women Of wealth and refinement are NOR
addicted to its use than those OF the lowe
classes. The tavorite form of taking th
drug IS Ia landanum, for the reason thai il
that shape its use can be more easily con
eealeG Women on the avenues meet a
each others houses to indulge in the vice
and opium drunks are becoming as com
mon in the houses of the wealthy as ar
whisky tlrunks IN tile dens down town
4 great many commenced the use OF th
drug for the effect it had upon their ap
pearance. At first dose of opium bright
ems the eyes, brings color to the cheeks
and quickens the wit, while the effect last;
Ladies in society take dose before goin
to ball, or party, and have small doses i