Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-10-15
Total,

ADVERTIsERs.--S. IL. Kahn calls attention
to his "model tailor store" of foreign and
domestic suitings, furnishing goods and
ready made clothing.
Misses Collins & Savin call attention to
their stock of merino under wear, zephyr
goods, &c.
John f. Phillips & Co., under the head
of "sound truths and solid facts" claim the
largest and cheapest stock of ready-made
clothing, hats, caps, &C., they have ever
offered in Smyrna.
Gould & Co., Philadelphia, twenty new
patterns of furniture.
Partridge G. Richardson, Philadelphia, at
the " Bee Hive" all kinds Of trimmings,
zephyr, &c.
John Wilkinson, Jr., calls attention in
business locals to Rosendale's Cement,
wall paper, &c.
| SMYRNA PREMIUMS AT THE MIDDLETowN
| FAIR.-The following is the list of pre-
miums obtained by exhibitors from this
section at the Middletown Fair:
Mrs. Presley Spruance received first for
fruit cake, second for pound cake, second
for sponge cake, first for green peach pie,
second for stewed apple pie, first for pump.
kin pie, first for cocoanut pie, second for
lemon custard, first for yellow peach pre-
serves, first for strawberries aud second for
apple sauce.
Mrs. Thos ]. Middleton, Jr., received
second for white apple jelly, first for canned
cherries, second for chow chow and first for
worked slippers.
Miss Kate F. Bell received second for
carriage afghan.
Mrs. Sue r. Colt received first for table
cover, crochet sacque and child's cap.
lies e.,
painting, water color painting and oil paint
ing.
TESTING PHOsPHATEs.-SamuelH utchin
son, Jr., at Brynzion Church, near Kenton
! one of the progressive farmers of tina
section has given phosphate considerable
attention in an experimental way. HI
commenced to use it on his wheat at thu
rate of $50 TBS. to the acre. The next yea
he increased it to 200, then $50, 300, 35(
and finally 400 which quantity he now use
: all the time. Mr.. Hutchinson has thu
! found by thorough testing that it pays hin
better to use phosphate freely than spar
: ingly, his crops usually ranging about 2
bushels to the acre.
= Alex. G. Cummins is experimenting OF
one of his farms with five or six differen
combinations of fertilizing material on hi
v wheat crop with a view to arriving at tn
v best results as to outlay and yield. Andre,
/ Sisco made preparation last Spring espt
g cially for corn which the farmer who trie
;, it says has nearly or quite doubled his croI
t Mr.. Sisco thinks corn needs a differen
q combination of material from that apple
q to wheat and his Maize. oleine" may prov
/, very popular fertilizer with corn raiser
D. BAND OF GYPsIEs.-A company of Gypsi,
10 numbering twenty or thirty, includin
10 women and children, and six or egt
4 wagons and carriages, are encamped ne;
1t the railway between this town and Clayton
d They have the usual habits of these nomaC
1T horse trading and fortune telling. The
ID is class of young people who consult Cju
in for fun they say) these old DANES as to the
H. future life-how they shall marry, &C..
and though they profess not to have "b
of confidence" in anything they say, the
~ is an unconscious impression made on II
n minds of most Of them that has more
n. less influence. There is substratu
10 of superstition in the minds of me
e people, and there is generally good de
IN in the minds of those who resort to su,
OF ignoramuses to have the future revealed
In them. They are all to marry rich, han
'r, some, &C., from "biddy" up to the nabol
'st daughter, and thus most any small neig
er borhood would exhaust for husbands {
ey rich men of a State. The fortune tell
ne knows what pleases and hence the hol
no scope she reads to them. 1t is busint
m pitted against dime novel sentimentalis
ay THE temperance meeting at the Hall "
as not so largely attended on Sunday la
81 The speaker, Rev. Mr.. Yingling, was pre-
~, IN near sick and did not put in an appearar
ne to the disappointment of many who want
ne to hear him, and for the want of otI
81 rostrum material his place was supplied
III a short address from the chairman Rev.
"I V. Smith. In the course of his address
icy alluded pointedly to the application
az additional places I'd sell liquor in this CO
u munity as advertised in the papers W
w ~ the names of the respectable" persons
W commencing such places. The reco
0ie mendation of theae persons, he said, '
to open place where the poor men wol
ey, spend their money for that which would
rec them no good, while depriving their wi
wn and children of the comforts If not
los necessities of life opening o place VIII
ely their. or their neighbor's sons would
the taught in the school of vice and pronga
a in fact that by granting their names
led. these petitions they were recommendin
he place that they knew would prepare 8
ody send men into drulaksrd's graves and III
UGH families into bitter misfortune and VIZ
orn- Unless such places, he said, could
cam shown to be blessing instead of q curs'
the a community, every man interested in
his welfare of the community should IN
two his influence against that which nad
ious one manifest purptse--to corrupt, oepi
'tion and destroy. He called upon the pee
farm to think and act as to the result In
these petitions are granted by the court