The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1796-02-02 00:00:00, page 4

THE PARNASS^
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the MOURNING MOTHER.
T,ROM Uito&c wide toianc, wborjt
renel, mild N
7hic, of Mere, Loami upon th Heft ;
Look down attainted J pirit ofmy child,
Aha wire the anguifo ofa parent's breafl.
Yet rather tart from misery and woe,
Thou dearest tfitrir.g of connubial love :
'Nor leta moifor'jwrft&dnefybelow, '
>One moment dash th, ho,pinch above.
Ob. nature ! thou m, aching boforn arm,
With force of jaulto ,la, my trying,art ;
Thou poo wife magic band bas fix'd the charm,
fbat twijh a tbild foflrongly round the heart.
Dear, hf Eliza ! in th, infant years.
When fww.neji typing prattled o'er its toys.
One fmilt of thine would diffip^e ray fean,
And Jill m, bofem with a thoufandjy<.
Th, winning foftafe and thine artkfs truth,
The farting tears from misery have dole;
S3,,lied the barjed b^Jband nf ra, youth,
Thefirft and last pofrffa" ofmy foul.
Thou were that all which'fortune bad befio-wed,
7 ' endear this trarfient and unreal fl age ;'
To JmoalMiffs wear, and fatiguing read,
rtndcheer alike infirmity and age.
What /cents of fancied pleasure would I trace,
Th, little race of,rattlers to ^trad;
Axdfrafs thefart remainder of my days,
^ s'^kde hold's ,aren+, and a daughter's friends
r Delefae dreams ! return to glad my years,
0 Nje again in all,tier form Jofair !
DJeaion naw for bappihefs appears,
find griefarray'd byfolitude and care.
Pardonjafl heaven ! But where the heart is torn,
7he human drop of hitternefs willful ;
Nor can we lose the privilege to mourn,
• Till we have left the faculty" tafeel.
Rtiigtcn come! then filler ^ thefate,
kind quiril, lift tby falutar, rod:
Nor let this daring argument effigbs,
i Too boldly tax thejuftice tfmy God.
0 ! make me, then, all-feing pow'r, ref gn!d,
Th, awfulfat humbly to receive ;
And 0 ! forgive the weakness of a mind
kToich feels as mortals , and as fech mufl grieve.
Ardyou,„ dames ! yourJoft'rang tears cm,ley,
Zou who can paint she /arrows of the blow';
For who that never felt a mother's joy,
Cangorfs the depth and wideness of her Woe.
THE HUMORIST.
A YOUNG fellow riding down a
steep hill, and doubting the foot
of it w^ boggifh, called out to a
clown that was ditching, and ifcd
him if it was hard az the bottom. Ay,
answered the countryman, it ii hard
enough at the bottom, I warrant you:
But in half-dozen hept the horse
funk up to the faddie fife, which
made the young gallant whip, spur,
cutfe, and (wear. Why you whore
fen rascal, hid he to the ditcher, did
you not tell meit fa hard at the bot
tem? Ay, replied the other, bet you
are not half way to the bottom yet.
Ifothe SdLEMGaZETrE-s FACT.
A roundfaced fori of Fro'ick, who
Buck at nothing to obtain Fun, at
per chance one day he was perambu
lating a grave yard with a compan
ion, discovered a tomb that bad tb^t
day been opened to receive a new te
nant. He jogged his companion, and
exclaimed, 66 By the Lord I I have a
^ great inclination to descend intothe
Grim Monarch'# abode, this tomb
here, and pull an old gentleman's
sole, who once gave me a severe (cold
breaking his ^dows with a
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oittofb not thte relirkt A A
they are no fobje&i for sport. Curft
me (fays the wag) but I will ive it
a gentle twitch Atif _ •
, Bcu,rc iwiitn, out jor old acouaint-
Brace HTCCt fa On with vfmr fnnlm
~ties rpitirifd hie fommA
h j i• cow
ardly to isfoit the dead ! Down nre
uuiuu, #our aero, and fnatchino th.
Mantled prominence of a fcleton,
when thejfo fell from their Lockets,
with a reeling like fhriveiied parch
ment. Up bolts oor hero wkhjooks
terrifick as Sancho, after a lie of the
nightmare, Ifo eyes quivering in their
orbits, his Loitering tip: billing car,
" Death ! by the Lord !—De-De-
Death's come to life I" Stop, ye
boob, cried his friend, who was wait
ing to fee the refuit of the adventure,
flop ye booby, are ye afraid of old dry
bones ? "Damn meif I stop, cries
the (comparer—hr i? alive and gnafh
cd his teeth at me!” At length a.
grave floe arretted hit (hint, and
laid the dcroghry humorist at his length
—the (marring centufion returned
him hit reason, ard as hit friend ap
proached to give him the condolence
of a fabric laugh, he exclaimed, Old
Drybones has had hit revenge ; and
the fears of my (him will be Efficient
to prevent my troubling the repose of
the dead in future."' „
Mfal/any.
From the FARM er's WEE k LY Mi's e u m.
" Ifochar is a Jirong Afi,
WILLING to carry any burthens
through thick and thin ; the diflieft
roads, the most formidable obftruc
lions, the bill of difficulty, or the voi
le, of humiliation, are all the fame to
the firing afo of this world.
On my return from a visit to a bro
ther parton, 1 flopped at an inn for
refreshment, and an African hoftier
held my stirrup fora weary limb to
dismount. His hat warunder hit arm,
hit body bent to more than a curve,
and hit looks of cringing obsequious.
nest for a moment angered me, not at
him, for I saw thve in the furrows of
his cheek, but at the firft gold coast
navigators who thut dared to change
humanity into a Jirong ass. Not (laves
alone are thus meanly lubfervient, I
observed to myfelf. 1 know some in
that predicament who are free.
I (ometimes fee a little mercenary
attorney, coaching down at the bar,
taxing his bill of cost, and pointing
cut to the careless client, that he has
forgotten one fouling mere for /&, writ
—I hear him argue not with ingenu
ity, not with eloquence, for then I
would do him homage, but by rote;
creekiog feotences from the ftatote
book, and heli taring law from hit
puddled memory. I hear him (cold a
trembling culprit, a, a toothlefa old
woman (colds a wayward child—a
culprit for the firft time, whose only
offence is cutting a (wig from the
w^yfide tree. Gut this urchin aven
ger of public wrongs holds his dog's'
eared law in one hand, and rudely
pushes from him fweet mm, with the
other. His bray, his ftupufy, his
callousness, are all derived from the
house of Iffachar ; and when Ifee
him with hb green tty moiling for
the last dollar of the entangled client,
verity 1 fee its strong an afsas the pa
triarch did, ^hen he gazed at the most
floggith of his children.
On some of those days when Ido
not preach myfelf, I fit down inthe
body feat of the firft meeting house
that 1 find, Occasionally I am ifc
ftrofcd by an ingenious sermon, mo
delled by a morkman that needeth not to
be efoamed ; but when the clergyman
is corpulent, redfaced, and a heavy
leaner upon the cushion— when he
founds divinity through his nofe—
when he copies the huge pages of
Dr. Gill and Flavel, and reads them
without emphafi; though I cannot
discern long ears rising each fide of
his wig, I ^n confident that some
strong ajj h# mistaken the pulpit for
the ftabte^<^ r ffi 1
Should 1. in a morning's walk or
ride, Ac, for red at feme log house
or cottage in my way, and fee a (cur
vy looking fellow, (melling riroag of
nauseous drugs, poking frequently in
to old (addle bags for phials, aadfcel
, ing pulses ^hich keep time wi<h the
watch'; I should naturally thi; kof
Iffdchar. Sus Should I hear the words
white jwellitg. or right rose cancer, al
though 1 was a thousand league; from
the Cape-de Verds and Spain, Should
be positive that I heard something
bray. And that fomequack was near'
me in rhe shape of a ftiong sfs,
L A r preacher.
From the Village Messenger.
IT IE CHEAPEST IN THE END.
COMMONLY thing: which are
dearest io the beginning, are cheapest
in the end. Good articles always com
mand a good price. If I fee a man
buying ? thing, because it is cheap, I
conclude, he is either a very poor
man now or will be so quickly.'
Perhaps he wants a borfe. For a
decent price he may have a good,
substantial one, that will answer his
purpose -exceedingly well. But, fays
he, " (can't afford it." —At length
there comes a jockey, offers one very
cheap, and will wait two months for
pay. This he thinks will co for the
prefenr, to fled his wood, go co mill,
&c. and in the spring he vrill put him
off. He takes him home. He proves
lame, blind, aod werfe than nothing.
The owner spends the winter in doc
toring aod feeding him, and in the
spring he kicks the bucket.—" Ab!"
fays the man, " if I had given a hun
dred dollars for one, he would have
been ebeapefl in the end."
A parish wants a schoolmaster.—
They hear of one, who is every way
qualified for the bufioefs— but his
price is too large. There's old neigh
bour Broomstick will keep for half
that money. Him they engage and
fend into the school-house. He keeps
no orders— gives the school such vic
ious habits, as will cost a good teach
er much pains to corred —mauls two
or three boyi unmercifully, and is dis
missed. The parish confess the other
would have been cheapest in the end.
A midifter is wanted. But the reg
ularly fettled ministers ate desperately
wicked, because they preach for a liv
ing. In steps Mr. Screechowl, a tlam
ing field preacher. He asks no pay—
but voluntary contributions,- -his own
board and horse keeping. He tarries
three months, — converts and averts
three old maids,—makes ten old wo
men fiivcl, and old deacon Numhead
reel, — (educes his landlord's daughter
and difappeam—ls such a preacher
cheapen in the end?
Charles Chatterbox, Esq.
Caleb M. Sanborn's est ate.
WE the fobfcriberi, duly appointed
by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esquire,
Judge of the probate of wills for the
county of Strafford, ccmmiffionm to
receive and examine the claims of the
creditors to the estate of Caleb Mail
ten Sanborn, late of Sendborn ton, in
the said county, deceased, intestate—
Hereby give no. ce, that fix mWir^
further are allowed by the said Judge,
from the 6ih day of January, inff. for
the feUlement of Gid efface?— and that
we will attend to feid bufiotfi on the
fiilt Monday in February, and the
four following months, from 2 to 6
o'clock, P. Wat ik^elfog houk
of Moses Tomfon, innholder io laid
|sf o „^:%.\
^^^ JEREMIAH CALFE,
NlOSlEll'C^bf SO|(
Money make'-the Mure got
——~<^Q;;,fy'»e3
RICHARD frier, POST,
REMINDS tils old Customers, that his
fi ft profcfil far {applying them with
newfoapers war, , 0 bavt pay Qjarttrl^—Ht
yow infantsthofe in arrtar, that their ac
{Courts are all ready for feidement to the firft
day of Jzcucry 1796— He is obliged to make
immediate payment co the Printers—or else
' he can't obbih papers from ,hem —he must - ,
therefore flop riding, unless his Cuftomer^
will be so obliging, as by paying their fmdl
accounts up to the above date to enable him
[to serve them fliU looper, which he will cheer
fully go with as much penauaiity as he can#
—tip; he begs them to remember that Monty
mrin th m^go-rfy He cannot Supply those
With papers who negle& an immediate com
pliance with the above request—He apcerely
thanks those who have paid him, andfolicits
the custom and punctuality of all.
O' Said Dicy also informs the Customers
in Cas terbury, Northfield, Gilmanton, San
bornton and Meredith, that next week, or
No. 171, wii; complete three months Ante he
has carried papers for them—at whicn time
he requests one quarter's pay, to enable biro
to continue—none can be excufed—for it is
as impossible for Posts and Printers to pro
ceed without pay, as it is for graft to grow
at ibis cole. ft?.fon of the year.
Those who five off the ,road, are desired to
leave pay whereat eir papers are left. *
January, 26/1796.
"EDMUND HILLS, post,
THANKS all hi, cuipmers for their
edcouf-gement io taking hit papers—
FebruA.y 9 h will end three months
fir.ee be began ridin <—He now calls
on them co make ready! we will then
have their accounts prepared, which
he experts they will freely difebarge t
This will enable him to conknae, oth
erwise he must cease, as a pest.
Jan. 26, 1796.
STRAY MARE.
TAKEN up aftrey by the fubferiber,
a BLACK MARE —with a flar in her
forehead—-a natutal pacer—supposed
to be about 12 years old—The own
er is desired to prove property; pay
charges, and cake her away.
ISAAC RICHARDSON.
Pembroke, Jan, 6, 1796. 0
SNUFF a^_TOBACCO.
SAMUEL W. THOMPSON,
Respectfully informs the
pubic, that he has opened a
SNUFF and TOBACCO STORE, to
State ftreer, four doors below Da #
venport's tavern ; where he intends
manufacturing the best of SNUFF
and TOBACCO, by wholesale, which
he will fell cheap for cash.
Newburyport, Jan. 5, 1796. §
~r HIS it to warn all perfonsagainft
4 purehafig two notes of hand
signed by William Shannan, April,
'/95' fa fifty fix dollars and four
(hillings ; and the other for thirty
nine dollars, dated June 19, 1795;
payable to John Berry—which laid
Berry hi; received jn full, paid and
fatufied to him by the (aid Shannon,
and will not be paid over again by
me the signer—the notes being loft
or mislaid.
WILLIAM SHANNAN.
Jan. 1796. 9
b CA MAKERS, ft
'? Wanted immediately,
Two Journeymen Cabinet Ma-,
kers, who are good workmen, to whom good
waged will be given—apply to
CHOATE& MARTIN.,
Concord, Jan. 1, 1796., 7
IV etemfetQfommmto'ra_B_ BQqßiito^
wanted an Apprentice to ,;
I The JOINER'S BUSINESS; {
a lad from 13 to 15 years of age—apply to
the Printers, of to : /
^EBENEZER VIRGIN. J-
Concord)Jan. 1, 1796.7
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