Smyrna times., 1885-07-22
For uc Smgrud Times.
Letter from CLAYTON.

July for torridity this year is evil
IDENTIFY success. The past week has
been insuilerably hot! hOtter!! hot
est! !! With every gray tint of cIoud
we hoped for cooling showers i'm vain
we looked at the dawn of dav and
nursed the faint hope that eyenino
would bring the wetting and we still
wait and hope that we shall be satisfied
by the time this goes to press.
The same carelessness continues to
exist in notifying passengers of the
change of cars here. 4 lady with five
children this morning on the down
train due here at 10 o'clock, whose des-
tlnation was farther down the road- 49,
salisbury | think-fOund herself at
Kenton, on the D. & c. road ere she
discovered that the last car in which
she was seated on the down train had
been connected with that of the other
road. The delay and two dollars ear.
rlage hire back here was. to say the
least, VeXatious.
Charles T.. Moore informs mo that
the strawberry crop was about one.
tenth of an usual yield; raspberries one
half; while blackberries promise hot
ter than all combined and are now
beng freely shipped at fair prices
Wilson'S Early" are the most reliable
and we would advise those putting ont
plants in the Fall to use that variety.
II. Shaw, at Casperson's mill. has
had an unusually busy season saving
some Of the finest timber produced in
the State.
The saw and grist mill at Black bird
now under the control of Joseph An,
derson, are with his residence very
prcttily situated on the east shore Gf
the pond, which seems. bv-the.wov -
mean term for such beautiful sheet Of
water. Joseph has just put in a now
uhlrty horsepower steam engine nt tbe
mill. Being constable for the bundroS
ne grows III authority and weight his
'Volrdupolse being something oyertwo
0''' '"o
we do not see that we have any,
thing to get around in that teInaray,
from the POstmaster-GeneraI W. Jid
not have to send to Washinoton ~ T ~
wen on the subject. Nonnv |
.olutes h0lhlng we have said. Bein1 |
.o!ues1e'l 10 llle new bond is clearly |
equivalent to a reappointment Said |
may be for only three
months, or longer; With that we bave
loLhlng to do; if only a week il wonId
make our argument good in point Of
a"} winch defines the present bond
3ood until new one is filed. Now ne
ne new bond does not have to bn
sent IN ." or placed until October. we
'hihK we have clearly got around the
telegram with Nonny included. If he
would give little more heed to oom-
non sense and less to shallow slon@
&c might, by degrees, pass muster hut
le was clearly never cut out for a
newspaper man.
Several days since n set of tae,b
vas picked up along the railroad bv -
,arty here, supposed to have been
lfopped from car window, and thai
emlnds me of u party who went to
leep on billiard table one EVENING
lst week at one of our hotels euns
'ose the close atmosphere or soaet6i5o
Use made him open his mouth on9
rOp his teeth on the floor. Tpo ~
Us rs friends came in for a game, picked
y the teeth and secreted them for =
'i'le' nue. Aiter being aroused and not {
nuihg his masticators he did some tail
uSsihg and thought anyone meam e'',
hough to steal the teeth ont of .
'4n mouth would take his liying
p. u. Ferguson has returned frop,
ISL To friends near Baltimore 4
Our friend Reynolds, we tbinL
oeps one OF the best regulated stores J {,