Smyrna times., 1878-07-24

crop of peaches. The editor Of the Mid
dletown Transcript, Mr.. Way, who was one
of the Cape May eXcursiOnists last We'd
nesday, in speaking of the ride from
Smyrna to the bay, says: "The only
popularity about the railroad from Smyrna
to Bombay Hook is the fine crop of weeds
it is producing between the rails, which
prevents the raising of the dust by the
moving train. Viewed in this light, the
weeds of the Bombay Hook road are an
advantage not to be made light OF. .......
Some of our people are complaining that
the bakers loaves are down to the old size
though wheat is less than dollar bushel.
......It takes generally much longer than
six weeks to make n good man out of the
average specimen of humanity, but if the
Sunday reports of drinking and german
diZing and froliclling at our Bay-side resorts
be true, the six weeks season is long
enough to make bad men of some who
have Mt other times been Of good report.
1.-THE hot relaxing weather had its
effect on most congregations last Sunday,
but Rev. Mr.. Rawlins reports his congrega-
ton Mt Kenton larger on that day than
usual.
Little bits of lemon
Little chunks of ice,
Some water and some sugar.
Make a man feel nice.
Try it-but nothing stronger. Is
| n pretty good name-"grasshoppe chris
tians"--for those persons who arealways SO
! lively in times Of revival but are irregular
in putting in an appearance" at other
times. There is q pretty good swarm Oi
"grasshopper christians" ut this time that
need something to stir them up.......EX
cursions are just now all the 90 or, i'll lieu
Of this, Bay parties. They will rise at
o'clock in the morning and bestir them
| selves until ten at night and call it crest.
1.-THE owners of those holes in the pave
ments have thus far disregarded the admo
milton of the 'city fathers to repair them
| Tho decision now is, that if it is moi
| speedily done, it will be done for them, ano
! the baillf will not fail to collect the bill
1.-The clouds acted on Sunday as if they
| had spite against Smyrna. They came
with portent, but separated mile or two
before reaching us, giving al! around ;
| good shower of rain while Oh Monday Oul
streets were filled with clouds Of dust. Fo
some reason the blame is divided between
the sinners and "grasshopper christians,
| for our part, if twas not the mcrest acciden
it must be laid to the account Of th'
''clerll of weather.. ".......The tramps havt
made their annual incursOn in our State
though not in such large numbers as whel
they came as ''peach pluclls." They sool
find out the generous gates, and to sucl
persons, they are considerable taX......
Since Sunday every man land woman to Il
for that is congratulating his neighbOr oil
the change in the weather. For thre
weeks there had been 10 "let up, culmina
ting in the four days previous to, and in
cluding Sunday, Of intensely hot weathe
from % to 100 degrees, Fahrenheit as t
location Of thermometer. The shower 10
pretense here) brought with it coolin
breeze and much lower temperature an
herelaXeds systems have been much built ur
The thermometer yesterday morning stoo,
at G30-almOst down to the point when fir
| is desirable With all Of these long day
Of heat we have heard of no casualties re
sulting therefrOm. -. .Messrs VIM. NJ Bel
}. NJ. Foshell, }. c. Bailey and Prof Grove
left town yesterday morning at 3 o'clocl
for full days fishing of Donas Landing
arriving home late in the evening. The fis
were not as eager for the hook as desired
but they succeeded in angling some blu
fish, rock and trout. .Messrs. VIM. 4
FAIRIES Bro. have purchased span c
black horses that will be fine addition t
their equipment for funeral occasions.....
Done threshing?" is the current questio
now.......How about the year without
summer, as some predicted in june.
After harvest everybody was going to pa
everybody all they owed everybody.