The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-07-22 00:00:00, page 4

I'M often drawn to make a flop.
And gate upon a paare Jhop.
There bate 1 fan (as who that tarries
Has not the fame ~ a head that varies,
-And at in dfront viriu< expos'd;
• A different figure is difclos'd. . -
" This way thefol's hea^is estprefs'd,
Whose very count'nance is ajfl;
Such as were formerly at court.
Kept to make wijer people spor t.
Turn it another way, you'll have)
A face ridiculously grave, .>
Something betwixt the fool and knave. )
Again, but alter the pofaion,
1 on're. frighted with the" apparition :
A hideous threatening gorgon head
Appears, enough to fright the dead.
But place it in its proper light,
A lovely face accofls the fight ;
Cur eyes are charm'd wish every feature ;
s'e own the whole a beauteous creature.
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POETjCORNER.
Religion. A Simile.
THE wretchedness and misery of
an unprofeffional and idle life were per
haps, never better delineated than in the
following account, of a country neigh
bor of this illustrious historian, taken from
his dialogue " On the want of refped
to old age," inferred in hi# volume of
Trads.
“ When I visited this gentleman in the
morning I always found him in hie bed, &
when I came in the afternoon he was a
sleep, and to most men befideS myfclf was
denied, but was very willing to be called
when I came, and always received me
with chearfulnefs. Once walking with
him,l doubted he was melancholy, and by
{pending his time so much in his bed, and
Io much alone, that there was something
that troubled him, otherwise it could not
be, that upon a man whom God had
poured down so many blessings, as the
comfort of so excellent a wife, who had
brought him so many hopeful children,
and the possession of so ample an estate,
Should appear in the courfeof his life, and
in the spending of his time, to be so little
contented, as he appeared to be. To
Os bers thereat, and not a few,
Who place it in. she bugbear view !
Think it cerffts in flrangefverities ;
Fnfaflings, weepings, and auflerities.
False notions th'eir weak minds possess,
Offaith, and grace, and holtnejs :
And as the Lord's of purer eyes
Than to behold iniquities ;
They think, uniefs they're pure and spotless,
all their endeavors will be bootless.
And dreadful furies Io acernum,
In unconfuming fires will burn 'em.
&rae view it in another light,
left wicked, but as foolif quite :
And these are such as blindly place it
jn fufeerflitions that difgraceit ;
And think the efface of st lies
In ceremonious /celeries :
In points of faith and fpecul.it ton,
Which tend to nothing but vexation..
With these it is a heinous crime
To cough or ffeit in sermon-time ;
'Tie worse to whi/tle 'on a Sunday,
Than cheat their neighbors on a Monday,
To dine without firfl faying grace, is
Enough to loft in Heaven their places :
But goednefs, benfy, and virtue,
Are what they've not the leaf regard to.
But, 0 bow happy are th few,
Who place it in its proper view !
To tbefe it feints divinely bright,
No clouds obfeure its native light ;
Truth ft amps cenvision in the mind ^ 7
All doubts and fears are left behind,<
And peace and joy at ones an entrance find. J
Thus true religionfares. For when
B°; filly, or deigning mtn,
In falfe or fooiijh lights 'tie plac'd,
'fit made a bugbear, or ajefl.
Here by a fit of men 'sis thought
A scheme, by politicians wrought
To strengthen and enforce the law.
And keep the vulgar more in awe :
And these, to few fublimcr parts,
Cafl all religion from their hearts :
Brand all its vot'Ats as tlse tools
°f,rifts and politiciansfools.
AMUSING ANECDOTE.
From a late London Paper.
LORD clarendon:
which, with a countenance a little more
cred and cheerful, he answered, that he
thought himfelf the most happy man alive
in a wife, who was all the comfort he
could have in this world ; that he was at
so much case in his fortune, that he could
not with it greater. But, he said, he
would deal freely, with me, and tell me,
ifhe were melancholy ( which he fufped
ed himfelf of) what was the true cause of
it ; that he had somewhat he knew not
what to do with, his time he knew not how
to spend, which was the reason he loved
his bed to much, and slept at other times,
which; he found did already do him no
good in his health. I told him I had ob
served in his closet many books finely
bound, which I presumed he might find
good divertifementin riftdieg. . 'io which
he replied, that they were all French ro
mances, which he had read enough, and
never found himfelf the better,for want of
some kind of learning,which was necessary
to make those observations which might
arise even from these books ufeful ; and he
confeffed that he could not read any book
;for half an hour together without keeping.
All which, he said With a deep sigh,
was to be imputed to the ill-education he
had had, which made him spend that time
in which he ought to have laid up a flock
of knowledge, which would have made his
age deledable to him, in dancing and
fach other trifles, the (kill and perfection
wherein men grow weary of, as soon as
they are men, and yet, when it is too late
to cultivate their minds with nobler stud
es, which they are unapt then to enter up
on, because they fee what progress much
ounger men have made in those studies
Defre they begin, and fochufe rather to
flatter themfclves in their ignorance.
In the coerfeef the narration, it ap
pears, that the father of the unhappy man
had, from a foolilh notion that his son
might learn some vices at the English Uni
versities, sent him to one of the French
Academies, were as he remarked to Lord
Clarendon, " Trust me, neighbor," said
he, “ all that he learned in these Acade
mier, was riding, fencing, and dancing,
besides ferns wickednesses they do not
p-ofefs to teach, and yet are too enti
ty learnt, and with difficulty avoided,
such as I hope our tiniverfitie# are not
infeaed with. It is true, " added he,
" they have men there who teach arith
metic, which they call philosophy, and
the art of fortification, which they call
mathematics ;"— but what learning they
have there I mighteafily imagine, when
he assured me, that in three years which
he had (pent in the Academy, he never
,saw a Latin book, nor any mailers that
taught any there, who would not have tak
en it very ill, to have been fufpeaed to
understand Latin." O neighbor," said hr,
" I do promise you, that none of my chil
dren (hail have that breeding,left when they
come to my age,they know not better how to
spend their time than I do." Lord Claren
don adds,'' that this unhappy gentleman'^
melancholy daily increased with theagony
of his thoughts, till he contradiaed those
diseases which carried himeff at the age of
.thirty-fix years."
Respectfully informs hit euf.
tomers, and the public in general,
that he has set up the Deep Blue ard
SCARLET dyes.—All persons who will
favor him with their custom, may depend
on having their Cloth dressed with neat
ness and dispatch. Those persons who can
most conevuienti, leave their cloth at
Mr. Joseph Sweetfer's, (with directions
in writing) will have their cloth dressed
& returned to said Sweetfer's, if requeued.
Marlborough, June 17, 1794.
WE the fubferibers, being appointed
Commiffoners by the Hon. Jo%n
Hubbard Esq, Judge of Probate for the
County of Cheshire, to receive and exam
ine the claims to the Efate of William
Parker, late of Keene, deceased, reprefet
ted insolvent ; & 6 months being allowed
for that purpofe,we therefore hereby noli,
fy all concerned, that we (hall attend at
the hcufe of Dr. Thomas Edwards, in said
Keene, on that business between the hours
of two and fix, in the afternoon of the fol
lowing days, viz. the firft Tuesdays of
July, August and November ensuing.
WILLIAM TODD, )
JEREMIAH STILES, , Com'ffm
JOHN WARNER.J
Keene, June igth, 1794,
DEEP BLUE, AND SCARLETDfET.
Calvin c/tone,
TAKE NOTICE !
Printing-Office, Keene, July Zth, 1794. 1
PROPOSALS
for PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION,
DEVICE,
DZVISEDAGAINT THE RULERS OF THE
Darkness of this World;
or
MYSTERY upon MYSTERY,
ZN A CONTRAST OF CHARACTERS:
IN FOUR PARTS,
To which is added in a fifth
part, the native condition of
Human Nature explained : Al
-a KEY to the whole.
" Say we not well, thou art a Sa
maritan and haft a devili”
A PART of this work has been seen by
many, as it was published in numbers,
weekly in cur paper. It was condemned
by some as being unintelligible, but that
objection is new removed, as the KEY
will explain the whole.—Having procured
a copy of the whole from the Author,
which has been perused by a number of
gentlemen, and pronounced good, we
with bo!dnefs, therefore, offer these PRO
POSALS, prefilming that every one who
wiffies to fee bigotry, foperftition and idola*
try, with regard to religious matters done
away, will promote this work by a liberal
subscription.
f K fl pubUfoed, and for sale at this Office,
—TRAVELS to the Westward, or the
[ unknown parts of America, con
taming an account of the country to the
westward of the river Miffifippi, &c. &C.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by
HENRY BLAKE IS Co. the intended pub
lishers, and by several gentlemen with
whom Subscription papers are lodged.
CHESTERFIELD ACADEMY.
THE Public are hereby in
formed, that the school opens at
Chesterfield Academy, under the
tuition of Maj. Logan, on Thursday the
fourteenth day of August next. —The
price @f tuition by the week, as formerly.
J Cbair'n
Abraham Woon, > of
j Trusses.
Cbe&rfald July to, 1794.
THIS is to give notice that I tor
bid all perlons trulting my wife
Agnur, as I will not pay any debts of her
contracting from this date.
NATHAN WHITTEMORE.
Dublin, July t, 1794,
BROKE into the fubferiber's enclofarr
on or about the sth June, alight
coloured horse, 3 or 4 yeas old, (hod
before, has one white hind foot, a white
stripe in his face, grey mane and tail.—
Whoever owns said horse may have him
again by calling and paying charges.
THOMAS MORSE.
Stoddard, July oj, 1794
Just received by
JONATHAN R. H^LE,
and for sale at his Store in Chefterfield, as
cheap as ever,
a general afortment of
English & W.L
GOOD S,
HARDWARE & CROCKERY 8
Cbeflenfeld, June 30th, 1794.
'pfR^ER^P^TsSOLPfl^
._.- , -._.. . —I -rr^---**-* — - —
Jltn^lrtb'ry, § J%aye7~,
HAVE this day dissolved Partner
ship—they therefore request all persons in
debted to them to make immediate pay
ment to said Ki^sbury, who flill continues
in business at the fame fore in Svanxey.
Swanzey, June 19, 1794, _
I. It will be printed on good paper, and
will contain about 60 pages duodecimo.
11. The price to fubferibers will be ifq..
Ribbed in blue paper.
111. Those who fubferibe for fix, fhal! be
entitled to a seventh gratis.
CONDITIONS.
C.4SH P/ID FOR BUTTER.
FOR the 'encouragement cf making
good BUTTER, NINE-FENCE is
CASH will b.e paid per lb. to those per
sons who will bring it hard and ia good
order.
7%/? Received,
a FRESH SUPPLY or
GOODS,
which will be fold for CASH or BUT
TER, on at lew terms as ever was kr.owa
in this town, a few articles excepted.—
All perform whose Notes and Account#
have been some time due, arc recnefted
to make payment by the rah of Sept,
next —after which the old coat of patience
will be worn very threadbare indeed.-—
Willing as much as possible to avoid the
making ufo of law for the colhaion cf
many fma!l debts, from those who call
themselves pocr—any kind of PRODUCE
will be received in payment, and a gene
tout price allowed.
—ALSO FOR SALE—
A number of Lots cf Excellent
L AN D
LYING in the townflrip of Peacharf
(Vermont) which will be difpe
fedof on reafonablc terras. Any person
wilhing for a Farm, need look no further,
with reipea to the goodnef# of the foil,
having been several times over said land
myfelf, can with the greatest truth afirm„
Ithat I never saw better. The whole town
in general being likewise good, and hav
ing upwards cf 200 Families, and many
of them in very thriving circumftances,the
prefpef sis that it will soon become rich
and populous. The terms of payment
will be very easy, at HERDS-GRASS
SEED, will be received in payment, and
time allowed for rearing it on said land,
by the parchafer.
MOSES JOHNSON.
Keens, %/, ~ 1794.
Just Published, and for fall at tbit Office.
A DISSUASIVE from the Sin of
Drunkenness. Alfa, the Prodigal
Daughter.—Likewise for sale, Writing
and Wrapping Paper, by the Ream.
APPRENTICES WANTED.
Tl/ANTED immediately a lad a
bout 16 years of age, as an ap
prentice to the Tanning and Carrying busi
ness :—Alfo will be wanted next spring,
another 14 years old.—For further partic
ulars, enquire of WILLIAM LAMSON,
near the Meetinghouse, Keen*.
June 24th, 1794.
RAN away from the fabferiber, Mon
day night the 23d inff. JOSEPH
BURR, an Apprentice at the Printing bu
siness, about twenty years old, § feet 2 or
3 inches high, dark hair and dark com
plexion, he ufaally wears a fßfe tail, ge
neral, holds his head down, has a remark
able Car from a wound on the backside of
one his hands %—He had with him a mixt
colored homespun great coat — a blue coat
—butternut colored jacket—a pair of stri
ped fluff trowfers or overalls, nearly new
—two homemade white flirts-—calfskin
(hots, and new plated buckles—an old
round hat :—He had with him about ten
dollars in cash—he is very talkative and
conceited ;, —he wasa native of Redding ;
it is prefumed' he will endeavor to ger
employment at fame Printing.Office :—
He went away in company with John
Hutchins, a lad who has worked at the
Printing business. All persons are cau
tioned against harboring or ferreting bin: :
It is hoped the Printers throughout the Ig
nited States will exert thcmfelres to de
te& him, at least be careful to examine any
person applying to be hired by them.
Whoever will appreherd* the above ap-=
prentice,and' return him to the Subscriber,
(hall receive the above reward, and all
necessary charges paid, by
EDWARD GRAY.
Springfield {Maff) June 23, 2794.
WANTED immediately, a jour
neyman Wheelwright—one who
is a good workman, to such an era coeftant
employ and good wages will be given :—
Also, at an Apprentice to the above bu
siness, an naive,faithful lad,i§ or 16 year#
of egg —frorfurther particulars apply to
JAMES MORSE,who continues to Make
and Repair all kinds of Carriage Wheels
Keene, June 24., 1,9 P
TEN DOLLARS REWARD !
JOURNEYMAN & APPRENTICE.