Smyrna times., 1885-07-22
Smyrna and Vicinity.
The sigh is, oh for some rain.

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THE sigh is, oh for some rain.
The Cape May Excursion next We'd
nesday.
WHAT are denomnated " dog davs -
commenced on Sunday.
THE waxing moon and cloudless
sky give us charming evenings.
ABEL S. RIGGS commenced BURNING
his second kiln of bricks to-day, 10000.
JOHN II. HoFFECKER made 4 large
shipment of canned peaches to CHICAGO
yesterday.
BETHEL \. NJ. CHlRCH will give
an excursion to Cape May, on Thurs
day. August 9th,
II there was ever any excuse for
Mother Hubbard dresses, (which there
is not, it would be now.
SOME of our farmers are HAVING to
Iced their cattle because of the burnt
condition of the pasture
MRE. b. V. WELDON has a Nipbt
blooming Cereus with twelve bHds
that will soon be in bloom.
DURING July the days grow ~ min
utes shorter, the mornings decreasing
a minutes and the afternoon Is min
utes.
QUITE Il number of Changers left
this section this morning for the Reboe
Doth excursion, the tickets good for
three days.
THROUGH the combined effects of
the drought and the heat on our mas
lures, the dairymen are experiencing
rough times.
HERE Is strong impression in and
outside OF clerical circles, that the oues-
ton of the Presiding Eldershin is far
from being settled.
The flies that prey upon stock are
said to be exceptionally abundant and
voracious. No relief is expected until |
we have dashing rain.
The excursion to Cape Nav this
morning was the largest of the season.
Inc train that passed here at nine /
O'Clock had seven packed cars.
JOHN B. STRADLEY and Allen w
Harting, of Wilmington, who have
been painting a number of signs in
town, will leave for Dover this after
noon.
OUR merchants would like TO he
busy buster than they are, but they
Gay nights this year as was the one of
last Saturday.
IHE street doors Of the Town Hall
nave been changed so as to swing ont
as well as ln-a precautiOn of safety in
d possible case of alarm. The Hall
uoors were constructed this way some
time ago.
JEFF. ID. SCOUT does not PROPOSE to
suffer an entire loss of the cranes ont
0y the hail as some nurservmen are
DONG by cutting them out. but rather
ne Will let them ripen and make them
into wine.
DIPHTHERIA is reduced to one or
I~O mia cases IN Leipsic, after "a loss
Of 10 children by death. The deaths
nave all been in the town, not a case.
It Is said having been carried from
there to the adjoining territory.
MIR. MOORE, the biscuit man. "caved
ID on sunday, because of the heavy
lemand and hot weather of the three
days, and he has not been
1ut OF the house since until to-dav
his sales rose above 100 dozen a dav.
SUNDAY was an exceedingly moor
,hurch-gOing day, the congregations nc
well as the Sunday school sessions. NOT
having much over One-quarter the
usual number in attendance at the
churches. The air was as hot no
Dlazes. 90
IT was rather warm morning on
Monday for horses to take a notion for
: irOllc, but the team of Lewis Il Price |
lid, running from the Landing to this
'OWn by which time they We're very
ready to be arrested, which was done |
by a man from either side catching
-hem by the reins.
The present heated term that set in
eight days ago is considered the sever
est we have had since Centennial wear.
Inc murcuFy rises every day between
10 and 100 Saturday was tbs most
enervating day and last night the hot
'esI llIgnJ lOr sleeping Of the lot. HUI |
nanity is having all it can seemingly
bear.
The farmers have been in the habit '
or several yearg past Of hurrying up {
he wheat threshing as fast as posi- {
DE in July, so rs to have it out Of the S
way for peach picking and the habit {
'nce formed is almost as faithfully OBJ {
eryed this year as usual, though most |
# them will have but few peaches to !
,ather.
A CLERK in one Of our stores shows I
imself to be dear lover of pets, if we t
aay judge by the number he has on i
and-2 dogs, q cats, chickens and t
is best girl The pair Of chickens are 4
he ones he sold not long since for s
pring chickens, but which were re- /
lrned to him from the fact that they S
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