Smyrna times., 1878-09-18


The STEAMER "THos. CLYDE" made her
last trip down the bay on Sunday as an ex-
cursion boat, for the season. She has dis |
continued trips for week to make needed |
repairs, after which she will be put on the |
route to Salem. She has carried during the |
season $4,000 passengers and during the
time has never had difficulty or disorderly
crowd aboard This is in wonderful contrast
to excursions in former years, and is at
tributable, no doubt, to the fact that the
owners allowed no spiritious liquors sold.
The proprietors of the "Hygenia" house
bear testimony to the good conduct of the
visitors at that place.
Town TALK.-The bright cool mornings,
after a good nights rest put q new and
quick impulse for business, in comparison
to the languid weather of the preceding
weeks.".....Straw hats are falling into the
"sere and yellow leaf" Two hundred
persons shut up in close room for an
hour and half with scarcely three square
feet for the ventilation and the thermome-
ter above seventy, as was the case at Il
special religious service last Sunday morn
ing, is conducive to neither good health
nor exalted faith......The crickets are sing
ing requiem to departed summer......T The
golden rod crowns the autumn fields with
beauty. bursts of song from the NJ.
Z. Choir last Sunday denoted the infusion
of new blood which, it is hoped, will con-
tinue to stir up the melodies. The wan
derers have returned, the ones deblitated
by summer heat were out with recovered
energies, the preaching forceful and alto
gether it was a ''red letter" day.......T Tenant
farmers in this county are having difficulty
to rent farms for next year, because of the
many farms sold to immigrants, who are
coming in and pushing out the tenants....
The excursions are scarcely ended before
the fair and the horse race begins :-Wro
ten, Kent CO., Md, this week, Dover next
week and Middletown the week following
All the talk will be horse....... With all the
rainy weather of the past two weeks scarcely
enough water has fallen here to wet through
linen coat. In the states north, south
and west of us the rain fall last week wa.
fearful, equalling the food we had il
August when they were exempt. ..Swee
potatoes are abundant cheap and good ....
The farmers who were retarded by the
threatnng weather of last week are max
ing good time this week in gathering theil
, fodder. And this will be followed will
/ wheatseeding in quick succession. Thanks
giving will be the next holiday. "Thanks
, giving is good, but Thanksgiving is better.
. 49,. Leaves have their time to fall, anc
they have made a commencement. ..... Fash
/ ion writers predict a speedy return t.
! crinOline, as one extreme is sure to follow
| another.....The Autumnal equinox it
4 hoped, though ahead Of time, passed witt
the gale of last week.......The "trade do
G lar" though refused by many banks ant
e the express companies in the cities,
taken here whenever presented......f yO
see a knot of farmers talking together, te
chances to one if you came close enough
+ hear, it will be phosphate. The two topic
t are the brand and the price. The latte
:. they want to bring in sympathy with til
y price of wheat and they think by "poolin
n their issues" and buying i'll large quantitiC
t it can be done. The phosphate men sa
q some OF their commodities have gone til
other way and thus the scales will not pu
). down at the notch wanted. .Chicke
n thieving has been common from time in
:, memorial at night but it is something ne
q for a business like this in the day time
:, we hear has been the case in our town.....
l. Nothing serves more effectively to lighte
e the calamities Of life than steady emplo
ment. Ask the man who has nothing
l. do just after he has taken large yaw
~ and he will tell you sO.......The prettie
IT girl in Smyrna is not 4 coquettc, nor ca
o she be said to be Il brunette. 49,. The quiete
d thing now is palitics. AS for discussic
n you never hear one, and "high words" b
" tween opposing partisans belong to IL
N "dead" issues. Even candidates that use
to have a little prominence during heatC
;, contest, scarcely rise out Of obscurity. TT
y women are "tickled to death" with til
. % campaign.....Th merchants well what
y them ? this bracing weather has put notio
~ of business in their heads and their NOV
~ =. ments will be duly chronicled in our adve
% tising columns. Look out for them. III
10 10 advertising columns of a local paper a
q the surest index Of the business of tow
d. and our exchanges all around US show
p 40 this department unmistakable signs of ;
"o active mercantile business this Fall.