Smyrna times., 1880-06-23

FRED. DOUGLASS IN SMYRNA.--Ion. Fred
erick Douglass, now Marshal of the Dis
| trct Of Columbia, has been engaged to de-
liver his celebrated lecture here this day
week at the Town Hall. His subject will
be, "Self Made Men" This lecture has
been delivered in many Of our large cities
! to immense audiences, and he has been in.
vited here at the expressed desire of
number Of citizens of all classes to hear
him. The East side of the Hall has been
reserved for white citizens.
New WHEAT IN MAEKET.-Col. II. c. |
! Douglass informs us that in an experience |
Of eighteen years in the grain trade, his !
earliest shipment from Clayton, of new !
wheat prior to this year, was tie third of
July. lie shipped the first of this years
crop yesterday; by rail.
We learn from him that the quality Of
the new wheat is excellent, and the yield
considerably above the general annual aver
age per acre. The acreage sown in wheat
last Fall was about twenty-five per cent.
greater than the average, and as farmers are
already engaged in threshng, and the
weather favorable, the wheat being very
dry, large shipments will be made in July.
Farmers have become convinced, of late
years, Of the fact that early sales, as II rule,
are the best. The crop of the United
States is greaer than ever before, and is now
largely secured. Philadelphia prices in
elevator for old wheat yesterday were June
, $l.2OI, July $l.1ll, August $l.07S. NcO
wheat is not received in the elevators until
the last half of July, and the market until
then, for the new crop is controlled by mil
lers. Our grain dealers are still shy about
fixing price and the wheat now being
! prepared we presume is shipped by the
: growers.
Y A MYSTERIOUS BEIL-Among tho stories
= that were the entertainment of tho fire
S side, especially of the past generation, none
werc Of more thrilling interest than local
:. incidents Of "haunted houses" Credulity
n in the supernatural was more commCn
J, then than now, and ghosts were given tho
+ credit of being the actors in all occult in
:, cidents A circumstance happened not
;. long since at the residence of one of our
= prominent business men, that in a more
# superstitous age could not have been ac-
counted for OH any other hypothesis. The
door bell, located in the rear of the house,
C would be rung, and on going to the front
e where it was connected by wire, to answer
n the call, no one would be found at the
l. door. 1t always happened at night, and at
~ first was thought to be the work of some
X mschievous young people, but the house
le for those who were playing mischievous
'e prank of pulling and running was not Il
20 convenient one, as it stood back some
eighteen feet from the pavement and was
0. approached through u gate. The night
70 ringing went on for some weeks, though
\ without causing any disturbance to the
70 family, until finally by accident the mystery
Il. was solved In going down the cellar one
m evening to look after the safety of quarter
Of of beef that had been delivered, he found
g q large rat suspended from the wire by its
7r fore feet which it was using "hand over
nf hand' to the sill and thence into It's hole
lie saw at once what had been the cause oil
80 the mysterious ringing. A piece of cured
~ meat had been hanging about four feet
~ from the rats place of ingress on the line
- of the wire and which it could only reach
:, by the "hand over hand" movement. The
% meat, which was found destroyed all to
~ -, SHE'LL was removed, and the bell ringn:
~ from that day ceased.
ld; The HARVEST now just closed has been
ed memorable one. First, through the oficO
lg. of our phosphate factories in giving a re
for liable and cheap plant food the acreage ha
no. been so enlarged that the present is tn
M largest harvest ever gathered in Deleware
m secondly, the interference of tho rain a
no. the beginning, and thirdly the insuiiicenc
Ora | Oh uelp. Inc lalJeF WAS InePlLaOlc, iron
-bo every farmer demanding extra help at tn
ith same time. The consequence was tina
of many labored at great disadvantage an,
plv detriment to their crops. In one field wa
Il a man on reaper with only one bow a
70 helper. OF course this was an eXtrCm
lizo case, but in a number of fields there wa
not a suilcency of binders and shockel
to follow the reaper. One man who CT
= his whole field down, making the gettin
ach of it down the objective point, was natural
as impatient and irritated to see his who
OIL crop thus scattered over the ground. ii
anu helper on the reaper, good old colore
tTe man, who believed that the old scripture
3oO worthless wero given for examples to folio,
ned reminded him of Job and the patience
der exercised under worse difficulties. Wit
ZEN language emphatic but not scriptural
by responded, " Don't talk to me of Job. i
W. never had forty acre field of wheat to CT
ms and it dead ripe and no one to help gather
+ ~ I'd be patient too if | could lay under
tree and watch my cattO like he did
bay Tho worst time was experience in Il
iple "Necks" where they make wheat grown
cler a speciality, putting in from GO to l20 acre
tn One of the White Hall Neck" farme
, so who had four or five large fields run ty
nd" sef-bindng reapers all day Sunday al
How still had thirty acres uncut to begin IL
dav week with. Some thirty years ago und
ncle similar circumstances, and before the da
hem Of reapers, farmer in the same region II
at gang of Graders all day Sunday, but
ch." ever after regretted having done it, T.
in crops are generally good, but the rap
pier change in the wheat caused by the rains
bite the beginning of harvest caused some Of
to stubble fall and considerable part
the latter was lost. With the exception
'eral the Necks the wheat was about all gather
2een last week and all by this time have iinishe
leral The experience of this harvest will max
y to large demand for self.binders another ye
.mer
and PERsoNAL-Mr. Curtis of Newark, at t
!, has conclusion of Rev. Mr.. Gordons Baccalt
ship. reate sermon, congratulated him on del
IN OF ering the best sermon he had ever heard
land the Oratory.
that Mrs j. II. Bewley has been spendi
sc to two or three weeks with Mrs. John
they Oliver at Yonkers on tho Hudson.
he is Two Of the graduates at the late Cont
quilt. ence Academy were from this town.
Bur- drew P. Smithers and Fletcher Coop
This is only part the first in the many a
Ill that 60 to make up the Play Of Life.
49, Miss Cora Tschudy was compliment
.o,,Io ',,o for her piano solo, Carmen" at the N
., die Glass anniversary. Miss Clara CahC
~ : ";,a =, for her essay and Ed. D. Cahoon for
- grafton in the same exercises were VI
,r;or spoken of by the critics
IE;nnt ,E1o Mrs. Lottie j. Hoffecker with two Iii
1S10 neces, daughters Of Rev. DR.. S. L. B3
hinoo win, late of China, arrived in Smyrna fir