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Show The Gipsies. A number of Gipsies Gip-sies reached this city on Sunday from Philadelphia, and took up their quarters quar-ters on the Philadelphia road, near First avenue, Canton. They number about forty persons, including men, women, and childrcu- They are ali very dark looking people, strongly resembling re-sembling Mexicans, but, according to their own account, they are nearly all nativc-tiorn J'jugiiiu, men aim huiucu. They have chosen their quarters iu a very fine position, it being nicely shadtd, in faot, a very romantic and secluded .spot. They arc possessed of sever wagons, all of a fino finish, and alsc two tents erected, some living in tht I tents, others in the wagons, and agaii others sleeping under ihe wagons. They chiefiy employ themselves in trading horses and mules, lor which they seem to havo a peculiar fitne.-s, and in repairing all kinds of tin work, dee., while tho women, some of tliem weird-looking crones and others dark-eyed, dark-eyed, hiindauino young girls, tell fortunes for-tunes to please romautic young people ' who are willing to allow themselves to be tooled out of their money by such nonsense. The Gipsies appear to be on their way South, where tticy intend to spend tho winter. Quite a large number of persons, ladies and gentlemen, gentle-men, visited the camp yesterday, and the ladies were especially anxious to have their fortunes told. Baltimore Sun. |