Smyrna times., 1885-10-07
For The SMWad Times.
Letter from CLAYTON.

Human instincts, it has been said,
are the same the world over. l can
not believe it. I ain firmly convinced
there are qualities in mind and heart
that will and do subordinate men who
are born with naturally fine blood in
stincts to an extent that holds them
far aloof from foul brutality under all
circumstances, while there are others,
however well educated, however well
surrounded, are coarse inwardly and
all effort they may make will not to
a discerning mind hide it outWardly.
Possessions, in a worldly sense, may
bring them in contact and may to an
extent admit them to a social circle
that would on personal worth cast
them out as gross sensualists. This
thought leads us to speak of an attrO-
ciOus assault made on the person of
Mrs. Orson Gardner, Saturday after
noon last by a beastly ruffian negro
named Charles Robinson, hailing from
the "sand pits " near Millington.
Mrs. Gardner lives in a retired locality
near CaspersOn's mill. Robinson wan
dering that way and finding her alone,
knocked her down, choked her into
submission, accomplished his purpose,
and fled. A posse was made up in the
evening, went in pursuit, but thus far
have failed in capturing the wretch.
The Kent County Jubilee Singers,
who have been very successful in the
past, are announced for a concert here
on the 18th, at the hall of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle.
You smile! You laugh You
rOarw is what the bills say for Johnny
PurVis, the clown, who strikes his tent
here this week for Il show business.
Was there something to be dis
closed from the visit of the Smyrna
band that night they know not Of?
private marriage for instance
That man over the railroad track is
a pusher and has promised to put out
light these dark nights-who next?
Gentlemen, don't do it because | ask it
or suggest. but really it is for the good
of your people and your own. besides
making the place look like business.
1t will help you all. Don't be jealous
or stingy about it.
No constable yet. If we had one
would that Charles Robinson have
escaped or the act have been commit
ted? ROughs seem TO feel they can do
as they please and so they can, only as
private citizens can without lawful
warrant take the law IN their own
hands and so far as possible prevent
overt acts. VIII no one move in this
matter until it may be brought to their
own home?
The pretty house of John A. Wright
is now in form to be well Judged. The
store combined will make it quite AN
addition TO the general improvement
of the neighborhood.
William Murphey's valuable mare
" Hetty lost an eye by contact with a
barbed wired wire fence several days
since. The eye was torn out by this
miserable invention. Where is the
economy?
superintendent ]. N. Mills has a
large quantity of brick sand, &c. on
his place, deposited some weeks since,
but no further advance has been made
towards that grand house, designed to
be the one Of all others.
The revival meetings at Ewell NJ. P.
Church have been a success in atten-
dance and we hope spiritually, though
III that sense it does not seem to have
extended to certain would-be young
men, who, from the pews near the
door, make a habit of scofIing and
mocking prayers and most that is said.
We shall, if it is not stopped, give
their names.
James Dugan has just taken pos
session of the house adjoining the
Bingham Hotel.
1t change be made in the post
mastership here John CaspersOn stands
the most likely chance of the appoint
ment, though most people are salts
fed with things as they are. but we
must expect little civil service re-
form here as elsewhere. LEAR.
Clayton, DeL., Oct. G. 1885.