Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
THE LARGEST RETAIL sToCK OF DRY GOODS

The PICKLING ESTABLISHMENT
The picking establishment of Messrs.
j. b. Evans u Co., is assuming Verita-
BILE shape and proportions. Thecucum-
bers began to come in three weeks ago, |
with increasing quantities daily since, |
the number of baskets received yester-
day amounting to 230, making 30 bar
rels. The previous amount put i'll
process was 95 barrels. They received
last week their second invoice of salt
for use in the preparatiOn-150 bushels.
They include in their manufacture,
other products beside the cucumber
the gerllin, onion, beans, cauliilOwer
&c. The handling, asserting and pick
ling now requires the constant employ
ment of three men, and will require
the services of others as the season adj
vances, the time in preparing for mar
ket requires several months. They
have had planted by the farmers in the
vicinity % acres, the largest lot by any
one being two acres. John Isaacs has
furnished them already 125 baskets
picked from ten feet less than of an
acre, an average for August of 500
baskets per acre. This new industry
we are pleased to see starts out with
! CNOiS plOSpCCC vi ouCCCSS
AT CLAYTON. N.-There are busy daVs
at our shipping station, and have been
for the month past, more peaches being
put on the Delaware railroad at this
place than any other on its whole line.
In fact it may be termed railroad
centre, the Delaware & Chesapeake,
Kent County, Md and the Smyrna
! roads wit In hn fpI l.
line at this place. AS passengers from
all have to change cars, train time,
especially between ten and eleven
o'clock is an occasion of considerable
hustle. But the interest at Clayton
just now is in the fruit shipments.
This is especially 50 in the afternoon
from three to five o'clock. The ears
are being loaded throughout the day,
but the great rush is the last hour or 50
before the time for the moving of the
train, when the heavily ladened wagons
come in by the dozen with fruit for
Boston, New York and Philadelphia
to be placed in ears engaged by Col
ii. G. Douglass or WIL. Geo. Hill
Between twenty and thirty are loaded
every day. There are usually five and
six engines here at this time Of the day
with their trains. The first to pass i
the express train, which goes thunder
ing by and one train after another fol
lows until the last is gone. The weary
shippers and their employees welcome
the close of the day to rest up for the
duties of the next. The peach scasol
taxes the endurance of the railroad
officers no less than the shippers anC
the growers. Perhaps as remarkable
thing connected with the peach traffic
, at Clayton, where there is 50 mucl
, passing and shifting of cars and s.
many teams of horses and mules, is tha
! not an accident from scare or other
D wise has occurred.
: SATURDAY NIGHT.-We have ScVera
!. times before spoken of the peculiarit,
G of our Saturday nights, but the last wa
). more 50 if possible than its predcces
/ sors. The throng was immense, lik
r streets of a city on some great publ
s occasion. This excess was perhap
Y because the people were so busy in tn
r peach orchards and factories until tn
e daylight shut in on them. The cour
e ters Of the stores were lined with Gus
toners until midnight, and the female
as well as males paraded the street
c and thronged the business places. Th
IL women however began to thin OF
l. about ten o'clock, when a large mum
l. Der of the males were getting in tn
$ best frame of mind to stay. The Guar
e tity of whisky drank, judging from il
p, effects must have been enormous
'. whites and black, young men, laborin
Ie men from the country by the dozen
&c a filthy cOnglOmeratiOn, the negroC
n predOminating. There may be ella.
J. distinction in everything else but theI
,e is none over the bottle. Merchant
lg were annoyed with men who hadn
n. intelligence enough to know what the
ii wanted, to which was added disgustiI
" and in some cases disorderly condu
in the stores and on the streets. Mi
night closed the traffic over the coul
= ters and while the larger number h
Ill departed for their homes in some cas-,
IL in disorderly crowds, Il number in
- more bOisterOus condition paraded Il
streets, thirsting for more of tn
nc which had dethrOned their reason aI
IL put in their mouths the language
III devils. Onmost every line ofdepartu
Is from the centre of the town the peOp
" were disturbed by the noise of Il
We crowds. This however was trifing
IT, comparison to the decentralization up,
Il those being drawn into this Saturd
u' night maelStrOm of vice. But who
II, responsible; these degraded people,
oI our better class citizens who are liei
an abed taking comfort in their respect
ce bility?