The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-08-31 00:00:00, page 4

READY money, and the highest price, given for OLD
BRASS, COPPER and PEWTER, by Benjamin
Town, coppersmith and brass-sounder, at the corner of Front
and Market Greets, facing the coffee-hotrfe.
YIIE Proprietors of the TRACT of LAND on the Ohio,
1 called Indiana, are hereby notified that, agreeable to
their minutes, the meeting of the body is to be held in the
city of Philadelphia on the 20th day of September next, when
it is expended the proprietors will punctually attend, as mat
ters of great importance will then be laid before them.
Philad. Augud 8, 1776.
A SERVAN I' GIRL to be fold, that understands cook
& i n g, and all kind of house work, who has two years
to Serve. Inquire of the printer.
"O BE SOLD, at Mr. FRANCIS NELSON's oppbfite
A .the Bull's Head, Strawberry-alley, GUN STOCKS
well seasoned, by the large or small quantity.
WANTED, to go to North-Carolina, and to be em
ployed there, one or more pefons Billed in the art of
CASTING PIG IRON, CANNON, CANNON BALL,
POIS, and other articles. Such as are disposed to engage,
by applying to the printer of this paper, will hear of one
who will give them very great encouragement, and provide
them the means of conveyance to that state.
Any who have acted in an inferior class of the iron manu
factures, or as laborers, if they have any knowledge of the
process, a!fo persons Skilled in eroding or conducting a SLIT
-1 ING or ROLLING MILL, who are willing to go to North-
Carolina, will hear oßvery advantageous terms, by applying
as aforefaid.
' °° e SOLD, sundry Lots of Ground, with Brick
X I'enements thereon erected, situate in the Northern
Liberties of this city, near Poole's bridge. For farther par
ticulars inquire of the printer.
Philad. Aug. 27.
ON Monday the second of September, at ten o'clock in
the morning, on Plumftead's wharf, will begin the @e
of the cargo of the prize Ship FRIENDSHIP, confiding of
Rum, Mufeovado and clayed Sugars, condemned in the
Court of Admiralty.
MATTHEW CLARKSON, Marshal.
HEN POUNDS Reward.
RA N away from the fubferiber in the night of the 25th
instant, living in Charleftown township, Cheder county,
an Irish servant man named JOHN PEARSLY, about five
feet seven or eight inches high, a well set man, of a swarthy
complexion, rather an ill looking fellow, yellow teeth,
brown hair, large eyebrows, and chews a great deal of to
bacco. He had on, when he went away, a coarse brown or
gather white drab coat and jacket with white metal buttons,
a brown pair of breeches.with yellow metal buttons some
what to pieces, two pair of trousers, two cznabrug Shirts,'
the trousers much patched, one of the shirts patched on each
shoulder, and an old hat, but may have changed his clothes.
Whoever apprehends the said servant, and secures him so
that his master gets him again, Shall have the above reward
and reasonable charges if taken an hundred miles from home.
RICHARD SWANWICK.
434
THREEPENCE per pound given, by
WILLIAM TRICKET, Stationer, at his house in
Front-dreet, facing Blackhorfe-alley, and in Water-street,
in the lower part of said house, Philadelphia, for the belt
fort of CLEAN WHITE LINEN RAGS, and so in pro-'
portion for those of an inferior fort. The belt price given
for OLD SAILS and ROPES.
ROBERT AITKEN gives THREEPENCE per pound
for any quantity of clean LINEN RAGS.
*, Fine MACCUBA RAPPEE (price ten Shillings per
bottle) to be had at his Store.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed by BENJAMIN
TOWNE, in Front-street, near the London
Coffee-Houfe.
Jud published, and may be had in Market- street, two doors'
above Messrs. Hall and Sellers's printing-office,
Price Two Shillings,
The Fall of BRITISH TYRANNY,
Or American Liberty triumphant.
The firft Campaign.
TRAGI-COMEDY of Five Acts, containing
Twenty-fix feenes, amongst which are the following, viz.
A pleasing feene between Roger and Dick, two Shepherds
near Lexington.
Clarissa, &c. A very moving feene on the death of Doftor
Warren, &c. in a chamber near Boston, the morning after the
battle at Bunker's-hill.
A humorous feene between the Boatswain and a sailor on
board a man of war, near Norfolk in Virginia.
Two very laughable feenes between tte Boatswain, two
failcrs, and the cook, exhibiting specimens of Seafaring ora
tory, and peculiar eloquence of those sons of Neptune, touch
ing Tories, convids, and black regulars ; and between Lord
Kidnapper and the Boatswain.
A very black feene between Lord Kidnapper and Major
Cud go.
A religious feene between Lord Kidnapper, Chaplain, and
the Captain.
A feene the Lord Mayor, &c. going to St. James's with
the a ddrefs.
A droll feene, a council of war in Boston, between Ad-
miral Tombstone, Elbow-Room, Mr. Caper, Gen. Clinton,
and Earl Piercy.
A diverting feene between a Whig and a Tory.
A spirited feene between Gen. -Prefcot and Col. Allen.
A Locking feene, a dungeon, between Col. Alien and an
officer of the guard.
Two affecting feenes in Boston, after the flight of the Re
gulars from Lexington, between Lord Boston, messenger, and
officers of the guard.
_ A patriotic feene, in the camp at Cambridge, between the
Generals Washington, Lee and Putnam, &c. &c.
With a dedication, preface, address of the Goddess of Li
berty to the Congress, dramatis perforate, prologue, epilogue,
and a song in praise of King Tammany, the American Saint.
A truly dramatic performance interspersed with wit, hu
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fording abundant entertainment to readers of every dispo
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