Smyrna times., 1882-06-28

WHEAT, Notwithstanding the hot dry
has taken its time ripening.
That in the field Of VIM. Surgen was
the only lot we believe cut last week,
and on Monday but a comparatively
few put in their reapers. Horace
Spruance had his reaper going at half
past five in the morning and during |
the day Garrett Foxwell, BENZ. Burris,
/. S. Lapham, G. d. Everett, Jas. c.
Robinson, VIM. p. Cummins and J. J.
Turner, +. Lower started their ma
chimes. Yesterday much larger num-
ber started and to-day the harvest is
general
THE young editor of the PeninsuLdr
Ne,ces and Advertiser is easily amused.
His favorite pastime is i'll looking
through the columns of his exchanges
for typographical errors or accidental
mistakes that are constantly liable to
occur, and when he finds one he is as
pleased as n child with a new penny
whistle. He blows with infinite de-
light, and in his conception of wit
thinks it very amoOsin." 1t is how
ever harmless, and since the young
must have employment according to
their perceptions or be OvertaXed, the
editor of the NelCs can well be indulged
in his favOrite amusement until his
faculties are hardened.
OUR lovers of the turf will have some
excitement on the 4th in the form of
horse race, at Poplar Green race course.
There will be two races, n colt and Il
free for all. In the former the follow
ing horses have already been entered
and more are yet to come :-Silvertail,
owned by Jas. Mcdowell, Smyrna; !;
Lizzie ButtOnwOod, Robert J. Moore,
Smyrna; st. Julien, David Spruance,
Clayton; Lizzie NJ, Joseph c. Cole,
| Smyrna. On the latter the entries are
Sleepy Dave, NJ. j. Green, Templeville,
Nd; Lightning Rod, Harry Ashcraft,
Smyrna; Marrow Bone, George Cole,
Smyrna; Sherman Morgan, Isaac Aus
tin, Fieldsboro'; John j., Harry Jefier-
son, Smyrna; Jumbo, Harry ID. Boyer,
Clayton. Racing to begin at P. NJ.
Open for entries until July Sd. The
premiums for this race will be, first-a
set of fine carriage harness I'd, Il fancy
lap robe; Sd, a handsome carriage
whip.
FORTUNE TELLING.-Two or three
weeks ago company ofgypsies encamp.
ed between this town and Clayton, and
spent the time III plying their art in
capturing the heads and precious dimes
of the unwary. One of the womeI
called at a certain house and proposed
to tell the fortunes of two young ladies
The eldest paid her 81 and the ole
woman proceeded to read her fortune
She hadn't gone far however in casting
her horoscope, before the young lady
was told that she had goods for a new
dress up stairs and she must go and ge
it, The command was Obeyed, anC
the fortune teller wrapped it up anC
laid it aside, The younger sister mus
also have her future revealed to her
The 81 was paid and the old woman
only required a look or two into tn
hidden things of the future to discove
that she too, had some new dress good
up stairs. She Obeyed the same com
mand to bring it to her, and the for
: tune teller departed with the dres
goods and 81, and the girls let her de
part, so the story goes, without sayin,
: word for fear she would PIT spell 0
them. If this story is true as it come
to us, it shows prevalent superstition
that is deplOrahle, and leaves no won
der that the gypsics find fortune tellin
I a money making business.
J; PERsoNAL.-The Rev. DIR. Henry
f Martin, rector of Trinity church Wi
l mingtOn, and Rev. w. B. Gordon {
r st. Peters Church, this town, exchange
: pulpits on Sunday. The sermons {
e Rev. Mr.. Martin here are highl
I spoken Of.
v Miss Hannah NanGasken is visitin
c Miss Annie Marshall of Milford.
!, Miss Edie II. Bell is of the graduatin
h class of the Darlington Seminary
e Westchester, Pa, the commencement
g exercises of which take place TO-DAY
She takes the post of honor-the vail
dictoTy addresS-her subject bein
If Great objects obtained"
|, Gilbert Taylor and Allan Cunning
d ham returned last week from Exete
:. n. H., where they have been attendin
d school the past year.
is Mrs. Rich. Fisher, of Philadelphia,
e visiting Mrs. VIM. II. Baggs.
It Miss Mary B. Cooper graduated In
y week at the school of Mrs. BOgardu
II in West Philadelphia, with the secon
ii honor Gf the institutiOn-the salutatol
l. address.
a. Aunty" Jones, our oldest inhabi
= ant, not many years from completing
n century, and who from sickness an
Is infirmity has been confined to Il
1T house for the past six months, was
Y her accustomed seat in the church
lie Sunday, and warmly greeted by h
friends.
Clinton GOrsuch, a boy of son
ut twelve years takes the place of Emme
ct Wilson who has returned to Dover,
is telegraph operator here until Harl
al l.. Collins, our permanent operator h
IN sufficiently recovered his health to 8
lg sumo the responsibilities Of the offiC
tn a SAD SUICIDE.--The Ecery Ereni
tx of Monday gave an account Of suici
1y in that city that caused much regret
up this town. The paper says:
of "This morning between the hours
ur and - o'clock, Miss Amanda Sew
ad living at No. 400 West Sixth sire,
es committed suicide by hanging hers
es to the bed post. Che and her sist,
it Mary live in the same house, the latt
,e, being dress maker. This morni
mt Mary left the house at 7 o'clock to
to a residence whore she was to
some dressmaking and told her sist
IN that she would return ut II O'cloC
ed Upon her return she went up stairs
ch the second-stOry middle room of t
lg, house and there found her sister haT
its ing TO the hed-pOst from clothes-lil
=" She Immediately cut the remains doy
irt and found them cold. brom this it
ng concluded that the woman must ha
no been dead some time before the bo
er- was discovered. The deceased "
ON about IL years old. A few We;
,er ago she was employed as teacher
to public school No. Is, but she had
to quit teaching on account of her heal
ell Shortly after she quit teaching S
~. became insane snd was taken to XII
nd bridn's Asylum whore she Remained
on few months. She then returned
em this city where she has since haeH liVi
Ter with her sister Lately she has shol
Ter evidences of insanity. her mental