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Philadelphia, February *4, 17^
Various Equilibriums on the '
S LAC K W IR E,
Such as never were performed, on the Continent but by
the celebrat'd
MR. T E M VL E M A N,
(A native o' Virginia) late from Europe,
Wit' be exhibited on TUESDA Y and FRIDAY,
(the Ith and ts.k ic^a. r) at the New Play-Hourc
in Southwark.
HE balances, turns and firings pn the wire to ad*
miration.„
He beats the drum or the wire in full firing.
H?. plays with Several balls on the wire with great dex
terity.
K: b^pc^s a sword on the brim of a wine-glass,
walk's bad'.w^rd and forward, kneels down, and reco
vers with ^eatigi'ity.
& walks blindfold on the wire, falls down and fuel up.
He fits ic a chir on the wire, balances'! thaw,- with a
furrtifhed table before him, when ir. full firing.
He balances a plate on ths hilt cf a f^erd, with the
point of the sword or the edge of a milled dollar, and
the opp foe edge of the dollar on the brim of a wine
ghfy and mzkes all spin like a top,
A.lfo ^ great variety of other exhibitions with pipes,
hoops, bate, boards, &c. &c. &c, too tedious to men
tion.
, Mr. Templeman will balance three boys on hir
fe^ nd ha^ds, which he will form into a variety of de.
lightful p.fturcs.
T^e PG rfoimpnce will conclude with a cempfat horn
pipe. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock in the
evening, and to begin it Six.
Tickets may be had at the Coftt-Houfe^ the City
Tavern, the Indian Quern, at the sign of the Ship Han
cock in Fourtb-lwet, the Bird-in-Hand Tavern, and at
the pUce of performance.— -Box Forty Dollars—Pit
Thirty Dollars—Gallery Twenty Dollars.
Children from rive yc^iseld to twelve will be admit
ted for Fifteen Dollars.
Thehoufe will be well illuminated, and the company
entertained with good Music. It will also be well guard
ed inside and outride to prevent any disturbance.
Philadelphia, Feb. 12.
STOPPE D,
On suspicion of being ftolcn, and may be fcen at Alex
ander Carlyle'#, The; following Articles, viz. H
TWO silver tatie fpoune, marked - - GL.
Oue ditto and papfpoon, no mark, ^
Six filter tez spoons, mark'd - w - -I E#
Six fiver ditto, marked B E.
Four ditto, marked M d P.
Two ditto' milked H. .^
Two ditto, marked S S-
Tire ditto IR. One ditto M. Four ditto no mark,
One pair filvqr fugar-tengs, no mark.
Four silver Batches, maker's name and No. to be pro
duced by the elaimers.
One filv<r heart and piece chain, I. 6. W. M,
Silver mounting fcr a sword.
One pair stone flecve buttons.fet in silver.
On: crucifix dh ? c, set in silver,
Two filin' buttons deciphered D G.
Out silver double heart. One knee buckle. One ear ring.
One pair filter fr^ve buttons.
Thirteen jacket bettors, greed (lore f# :n bpfi,
A child's necklace: An ErWifh Filling and nine coppers.
Frifa pirns pea ten ribband.
Three remnants o' check. 6
Orc old pair fill: flockings, marked I B.
A wo;aah's ruffle fern gown,'filk.
Ten y # nds footed chintz, light ground.
Six yards ditty, dark ground.
T=o maccateni jacket patterns, spotted velvet.
Or©r<Mnant.dark chintz,
Two remnants black <veri?sng,
T,o pair ne?rbuckskin biether.
Two old handkerchiefs, one black and the other Spotted.
Th: abcre articles will be refared to the proper own
ers, on their proving property and paying charges, by
ALEX ANDER CARLYLE, H. C.
N. B. Said A, Carlyle has to let, a TAN-YARD,
with a compkat stock of 8 ARK for one year. Any
person inclining to rent tie facie may apply tc hire at
hij ho^fe : n Fifth fr,et, near Walnut ttecL
/ Philadelphia, February g.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN T U R N E R,
In Frc^tftreet, opposite Mr. Thomas Penrefc's Ship-
Yard,
ONE third part (or in (mailer fearer) of the snow
POLLY, now laying at Ton-Alley Wharf, well
fitted for sea ; together with the feme proportion of her
cargo, confiding of Tar and Staves. Likewise the Hull
and Spars of the brigantine RICHMOND, now lay
ing at the wharf formerly David Tfomion'c, with about
twenty ton: of Futlick, and four Carriage Guns, twa
poundas; the whole together, or separate, as may be
convenient.
Also to be fold, a Nigro Boy of about sixteen years
of age, g e °d tempered, very honest, and has been bred
to heufe-work.
On the twenty-sixth of January last, in Market-sheet,
near Seventh-street, Philadelphia,
^ LEATHER POCKET-BOOK, containing
a quantity of Continental currency, with force
fpicie. Whoever has 101 l the fame, hy describing the,
contents and paying charges may have it again by ap
plying to HUGH KNOX, in Lower Merion town
ship, Cheder county, near Charles Humphreys's mill.
PHIL ADEL PHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUN^ AF, m Mlrkefoftc^!,
Dover, Delaware Stale, F°b. 6, 1780.
Three Hundred Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY the zed ofNovember la&, a Negro
man named DANIEL, about five feet four
inches high, has a lively walk, a little bow-legged, coun
try born; bad on and teok with him a brown country
cloth coat, an old cotton velvet jacket, a green cloth
under ditto, a pair of black velvet breeches, and a pair
of bbek knit worked ditto, both old, end a round bar;
his other clotthe unknown. Whoever takes up and se
cures the said Negro so that his matter may have him
agrin ? shall receive the above reward, and if brought
home reasonable expences, paid by
FRENCH BATTELL.
Kent Ceunty, Delaware State, Feb. 7, VW
One Thousand Dollars Reward.
BROKE OPEN on Sunday evening the 23d of
January last, the dwelling-boule of the fubfenber,
in Little-Crerk Neck, and the fallowing article: were
taken out, to wit: One lead coloured broadcloth coat
and breeches, the coat with final! oval concave gilt but
tons, the breeches with fniail round convex ditto ; one
velvet waiffco^t nearly the fame colour, buttons covered
with velvet th# fame of the waistcoat ; one new Holland
rtlffiM (hirt, two plain ditto, two cambtick stocks, one
pair light coloured clouded vrorfted ftockirg% ore pair
white yarn ditto, one ptir fires and a pair silver fhete,
buckles, one round fine new hat, one bandano hand
kerchief, half a ride of foil and half a fide of coarse up
per leatb£ The theft was committed by a couple of
fellows who ran away From the fubferiher tie fame.even
ing; one cf them a low, well set black Negro fellow,
lately marked much with the fmall-pex, foppofed to be
about twenty or twenty-one years of age, who celled
bimfrif Draper, but is supposed to have changed his
nam^; the other a young Mulatto fellow about nineteen
years of age, five 'ect ten or eleven inches high, named
Joseph Armstrong, very artful and subtle, who be
iongni to the fribfaiber. Whoever apprehends and Se
cures the abc^e described fellows so that they may be
brought to justice and th? goods recovered, fhali receive
the above reward, or Four HuNurfb Dollars for
either of them, and in proportion for what articles m:y
be recovered, paid by
CHARLES HILLYARD, Junior.
Philadelphia, February %,
TO BE LE T,
And entered on the firft of March next,
ABOUT fourteen acres of good LAND, the most
part under blue graft and clover, situated in Tur
ner's Lane, in the Northern Liberties; on the said land
is a good orchard with a variety of fruit trees, a brick
house, a milk house, barn, ftablss, and many other
conveniencies finable fcr a tenant. This place is in a
very healthy pleafart Situation, and exceedingly conve
nient to attend the market with milk and garden truck,
being a little mere thin two miles from the city. Said
place may be had by the (hares, or a very small family
ma, have the house and part of a large garden on very
easy terms. Enquire of BUCKRIDGE SIMS,
in Water-dreet. 1
= ~PRINTED anTVo L D by
STYNER and CIS T,
In Secondfireet, four doors above Race street,
Philadelphia,
REGULATIONS
FOR THE
ORDER and DISCIPLINE
OF THE
TROOPS of THE UNITED STATES.
As cfabli^el by CONGRESS.
With COPPER-PLATEs.
January 16, 17S0.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
STOLEN out of the Fulling Mill of the fabferiber,
° in Downipg'i Town, between tire 13d and 25th inst.
two pieces of CLOTH ; one containing about twelve
yards, of a light drab colour, sheared once over and
part the second time ; the other eight and a half yards,
of a light afn colour, fulled ready for (hearing. Who
ever secures said cloth so that it may be restored to the
fuhferiber, and apprehends the thief so that he may te
brought to juftirc, mail receive the above reward, or
Fifty Dollars for the cloth alone, or in proportion
for either piece, paid by JESSE EVANS, Clothier.
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TO B E S.O L D,
A LIKELY, healthy NEGRO WENCH,
eighteen years of w, has had the final! pox and
measles. Enquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, February
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Q TOLRN from' the Qifarter-Mafter General's Wore,
O about the miffrilso: last week, a new pair of SHOES,
and a pair of hrgc silver BUCKLES, weight forty p:n
ny weight. Whoever will bring them te the fobferiber,
at the Quarter Melter-General's store in Frontiftreet,
between Chefnat and Market-streets, ihall have the
above regard and no queftiens aiked.
JOHN HENDERSON.
CA M Eto Abel James's plantation, in the
Northern-Liberties, near Frankford, a sorrel
HORSE about four^n hubs high, a sorrel MARE
about fourteen hxn^ high, and a bay MARE fifteen
hands high. The owner or owners arc desired to come,
prove their property, pay charge# and take them away.
February r:
f HE MARSHAL of the ADMIi
I RALT Y finds it absolutely necessary to ca'l in
this public manner, upon all perlons indebted for Prize
Goods puichafed at auction, to make immediate pay=
ment.
Not doubting the puna^lity of purchasers in dis
charging the amount cf th&r bills rs soon as delivered,
agreeable to the conditions made known at the times of
file, he has permitted gools to pass into the hands of
many, who he thought would not fu&r themfelvss to be
called upon more than once, or tvrice nt most, for the
money : Ht is lorry to M^d, by daily experience, that
th^ contrary is ihe fact, and that his applications are
now confitcred as impertinent; he therefore begs leave
to remind such, that from the long use cf large fume
they hive been enabled to acquire great gains, and
ought from a principle of gratitude immediately to com
ply with bis reqtteK, efpebiaUy when he kffures them,
that their negk& fubje^ts him to imputations not the
most ptefing,
By th? 20th dty of February instant he fhali be ena
bled to determine who esteem themselves under obligati
ons for the credit they have taken, by paying their ba-'
lances' in the mean time. Ha /ball take it for granted,
that those who Jo not, are determined to prefix by the
advantages which the delays of the law can give tlem,
and to prevent these being t^o great, he fhali, widiout
fail, put their account# the n xt day into the hands of an
Attorney, with direction# to proceed upon them with
out further notices
i)LAN K BOOKS ruled and plain,
) Fine Writing Paper,
Dilworth's and Pennsylvania SpAiing-Bocks in large or
small quantities,
New-England and Mailfon's Primers,
Seaman's Daily AfTrtbnt,
Large and Pocket Almanacks for 178 c,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,
PRINTER, in Market street, between Second and
Third-streets, oopofite Elbow-Lane, who buys
linen Rags.
Looker Dublin, January 3.
TO BE L E f,
And may be entered on the firft of April,
ATA R Min Lower Dublin townfaio, twelve miles
from Philadelphia, on the Bristol road. Enquire
of the fr.bfcrihec on said Farm ; who hi, for file, a
light Waggon, a very valuable Horse, and two good
Mares, all used so farmings
ts. SUSANNA MORRIS,
_ 1 ~ —ot —: .—^.
DEBER T E D,
From Captain Parke's company, in Colonel B, Flowers's
regiment of droller, and Artificers, Itationed in Phi
ladelphb,
JAME S WEEK, (deferred in the month of June
lift) fifteen years of age, well set, freffi complexion,
short buthv hair, and has been since seen in Chester with
a l^bt coloured coat faced with blue.
HENRY TURNER, (dUerted in July last) twen
ty-five years of age, fix feet h^h, dark hair tied behind,
by trade a fhoem+ker.
GEORGE SMITH, (deserted tke twenty- fifth
cf November kft) twenty-on; years of age, five feet
eight inches high, redifh hair tied behind, by trade a
Shoemaker. At he fame time defected WILLIAM
RIVELY, twenty years of age, five sett five inches
high, fyarthy complexion, dark thin Iwr, ^nd a little
pitted with the fmoll-pox, by trade a Shoemaker.
JOHN GWILLIM, went on furlough to Fredf
rfckfhurgh the fourth cf December last, but has not re
turned agreeable.to his furlough; he is twenty-nine
years of age, five fcerfive inches high, thin made, fair
' hair which cutis round ; blue uniforms faced with red:
by trade a Ihoemaker--
ELIN ALU R D, a Frenchman, (defeated the fe
venhenth of January) twenty-one years of age, talks
no English, five feet tivr inches high, well made, a smart
locking fyUw, with a good heD of hair tied and plat
ted, andlarge arch eye brows; had a short light colour
ed coat, white ffo kin^s, long quartered frees of waxed
neats-kither, defed in the irfide on the grain ; by trade
a fbeemaker, a d carried off ninety fce^&ktrs table,
the property of the Strtt,
Whoever takes »p any of laid deserters and ftcures
them, so that they m:y be returned to their rsg^ment
and cumpatih sh /li receive for each ^nd every of them
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward, and rea
sonable exp^ncas, pid by
& D O W, Lieutenant-
TO BE L E T,
And entered upon immediately,
a LARGB commodious POTHSUSE in the
city °t Ph-ladclonia. jh Kun is uncommonly
ktrge and the House ere&ed on a corner lot, one hun
dred fat deep on one ft reel and fifty feet in width on
another. For terms enquire of the Printer.
,ramtt#rframre^HßCTtwraMat nun _■„&&& QQw. c _± ^tvmw %r Hqq _^ -rffarceQmwraturtfr
Philadelphia, February 4.
CAME to the Stables at the Conneftog&
Wdg%itfL on Wadnefdey evening the ad inttant,
a Mack M ARE, about thirteen hands high, fuppofad
to be & cc; r hrce years old. And on Friday merging
about funlife, a d^rk bay HORSE came to the
above place ; it is fup,ofed he hat jnft hern roce hard,
as he was in a great Great 5 be in about fourteen and a
holf hands hiffi ana ftwpofd to b^ about eight or nine
years'eld. The owner or owners are desired to come,
prove their property, pay charges and take them r.%
JOHN JARVIS,