Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-06-21
Fractions.,of News.

As the editor of Cincinnati paper was
playing with that pretty little plaything so much
used out West, revolver, it :. revolved:r' and
sent the bullet in very unpleasant proximity to
his head. slight depression ofthe muzzle ofthe
pistol, aud the editorial matter in that Office
would have been very materially loaded.
a western paper states that girl twelve
years of age, having two separate and distinct
noses, landed in Detroit on Saturday last. IN
company with her parents, from Scotland. ON
their way to the West. Telling peooIe 10 fo..
lew their nose is generally thought very
plain direction; in this instance, however, IL
would Pnt the poor girl 10 a terrible qusRdary.
She would have TO ask, Which!
The report reaches US from Bremen that
crowds OF industrious German vine- growers and
farmers are leaving that port. all headed for
Missouri. SOIae three hundred have already
reached st. Louis. They are regarded as the
very best immigrants that could enter State.
aud the branch of agriculture which they pur-
sue is deeply important one for the country.
This immigration is the fruit of many persever.
ing efforts on the part OF the Farmers and
Vince 'er's Society" of New York, who
last year dispatched an agent TO Germany, and
printed books and pamphlets upon Missouri.
The last pictorial indignity offered Mr..
Lincoln, says the New York Times, is perpe-
trated by the Milwaukee Sentinel, a pa per
which Is avowedly Que ofhis warmest support
ers. This journal heads it's editorial columns
with diabolically ugly picture, aad calls it
Abrahsm Lincoln. No better plan could be-
adopted for defeating that genlleman's election.
Though his private character were proven to
be that OF saint, few would be disposed to
vote for man who looked SO like the devil,
Mr.. Lincoln is by no means an eminently hand
some man but his eountenance is at least hui
man. 1t he looked like the pictsre the Senti-
mel gives, he could split rails by simply looking
at them. a friend suggests that in that event
he could serve better purpose by sitting on
one of his own fences near a cofnield, than by
going 10 Washington. There have been good
many bad portraits of Mr.. Lincoln published,
but this. on the whole, is decidedly the unkind-
est cut of all
Travellers upon sleeping cars will do we'll
to exercise some caution as TO any valuables
they may have in keeping. THIS style of trav-
cling offers peculiar facilities for thieving ope-
rations, aud presents strong temptation to those
in attendance. A lads travelling on the New
York Central Road a few days since, on rising
in the morning missed $ll0, which she had
placed in small bag under her pillow. The
male chambermaid" thought she could not
have. lost SO much as that,-and on examining
further she found $40 OF the missing money in
the bottom Of the bag. She lett the car to go
for the conductor Of the train, but was called
back by the " chsmbermsid." who had found
$50 more ION the floor" The lady was SO
glad to recover this that she did not pursue the
inquiry for the other $40. Travellers generally
will do well to profit by this example.
The Polynesian, published at Honolulu,
copies into lis columns an account of tragedy
not long since enacted in one our Southwest
ern Courts, and warns Its readers against lap
sing into similar barbarism. II discourses very
seriously upon the state of society which pre-.
walls 10 the United States, and reioices in the
Sct that murder is ofcomparaiively rare occur.
renee in Oahu. This voice from the Antpodes
should not be disregarded. Some years since
we sent cut missionaries 10 Christisnize the
Sandwich islanders: il they, in turn, find il
necessary 10 send emissaries TO civilize US, il
angurs very little for the progressive state Of
morals in this quarter of the globe. Ii is mol
, all unlikely that the next missionary we send
| 70 the Feejee islands will rebound. Another
century may see taitoed Evsngeisls admon
ishng us of he evil OF our ways. and urging III
} to repentance. When the time arrives VIZ
! hope vie may not have relspsed into harbarisz
go far as 10 eat them.