The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-08-19 00:00:00, page 4

" MB 11 GOING TO THU LPWARW.”
Miffs..Primm,
I HAVE heard this sea phrase applied
with so much propriety to the mismanage.
.meat of affairs, that L think it may be pro.
per to give a few hints to thole, to whom
the application can beeafily made. A per.
son (fays the fearaan, and so do I too) who
dm not pt, up his inhered annually, and
" Your brassy face has great!) been
admir'd ;
" New pray, Sol, enfwer me—l'm net
in fun,
" What is there in it to be so defred ?
" If I have eyes to fee,
" And, that I have, is clear to me,
" My tail possesses far more splendid gme,
" By far more beauty than your worship's
face."
Pleased with his triumphs from & cloud.
The Sun,; still hiding, called akudj
Well ! can ye merit to my fee allow ,
What's now your color F where's your
hundred-eyes ?
The mingled radiance of a thotffand dies?
Speak master Peacock, what'ijour col
or now F
•' What color,"- quoth the Hirdfo at much
alhamed.
At courtiers high by loss of office tam-
ed—
" To own the truth,.moth injured Phea,
bus, know,
" I'm not one atom better than arrow.
" I fee my folly—pity my poor train,
" And let thy goodness bid it shine again."
Erm ibs Farmer'/ Journal, printed at Dan
-bury.
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THE SUN AND THE PEACOCK.
A FABLE.
BY PETER PINDAR.
The challeng'd Sun in clouds withdrew
His flaming beams from every view ;
And o'er the world a depth of Darkness
spread.
The bats their churches left, to wing the
air,
The Sun looked down with fmHes upon
the fowl,
Supposing it, at ftfft, an owl ;
And thus with gravity reply'd : " Sir,
know,
6 ' That though unluckily royworjbip'sface.,
" Seems far beneath year tail in (plan
did grace,
" Still to myface that glittering tail
you owe."
" Agreed, with all my foul, the bird
reply'd,.
Tn all the fullblown insolence of pride ;
“ To credit such a tale I'm not the
noddy :
" Prove that the glorious plumage! dif
play>
" Owes all it,happy eoloursto thy ray,
D--n me ! I'll tear my feathers from
my body."
11, PEACOCK mounted on a bar#
one day,
Bleft with a quantum fefri* of pride,
All conjequence, amid the solar ray.
Spread, with a frut, hi# circling plu
mage wide.
" Poh, quoth the Peacock ft Maflar Sun,
Your bigbnefe loves a bit of fan"——
" I beg your pardon," answered Sol
again,
" And, if ycupleafe, I'll condescend to
show,
" How much to me you.evc.7 moment
owe
The cocks, and hens, and crows, be
gan to flare,
And sulky went all fcpperlefs to bed.
" The boafled beauties of your waving
train."
" Good morrow, (quoth the coxcomb)
Master Sun,
For not an almanack had oped his lips,
About so very wonderous an eclipse.
The Pteacock tooemong the rest
Os marvelling fowl and flaring beast,
Amazed to find hit hundred eyes put
out^
Indeed, all natures mow. appeared a,
black,
As if old Sol had popped into afack.
SIXTY years bence, mt a fagle\
man or woman that is new twenty years of
age fo«U be found ! ifbat a melancholy truth !
But a truth it is—afubbornfaa : And what
•jftli rcre melancholy, many, ver, man, of the
lively a&orj on the flage of life at the pre/hu
day, fall male their exit leg erg fix, years
1" have roll'd away."=Six, years! could
[we before of fix, years, what are they ?. A
tale that is told—Adrian —An empty found
that petfeth on the wings of the wind away,
and it forgotten. Hears Jho<th as, man
advancesb in age ^—Like the degrees in Lon
gitude, man's life derreafeth as we travel to
wards thefrozen pole until it dwindles to a'
point, and van:fath forever —Ji it pcffiblc
that lifeis of fofort duration ? Will fix\y„are
defray all she golden name,, over the doors,
in the cities and towns of this jburifhing conn,
try, and place new ones in their flead ? — Will
all the Blooming beauties, who now appear
more than mortal, fade and difoppear in sixty
years ?—Can it be thefate of the bucks and
beaus, who new flaunt with the fnef four
on their heads, in sixty years to be powdered
with daft and alhes ! — Alas it can, and
roof affuredl, will be s o " Sixty
years I" fays death, grinning a ghastly
finite "do you dam going to farvefat,
years? not I ! ibis ver, day, before the fun
reaches 'the margin of the weft, thousands of
belles andsbeaus bejidel numerous old men and
babes, /ball be facrfeed to feed, not refill, m ,
ever empty maw."
Could any otte, who bets died within afros
months sass, rift and come into this city fifty)
years hface,teat an adoration would be find !
Should be enquire for the men and women of
note at the ,rtfnt day, a jingle word Bigot
answer e ttefandof bis qurfto ; cohere are
Mr.—cM,.__%, fair. We. DHAAfi
difeherge# final! part of the principal ;
but forcers, on the firft of January, a new
obligation to togirea, with the interest
of the past year added to the principal ; he
cannot properly be saluted with a bap„ new
year: But, mutt clearly goes to the lee
•ward, paying compound intcref : When you
hear of a man beginning to mortgage his
property for half its value: Query, whe
ther he will not fall to the leeward. When
I hear of a collector paying rates for ano
ther man ; that man you may observe will
fall to the leeward: When I fee a farmer,
waiting for breakfaft until eight or nine
in the morning, before he is at his work ;
I mark that man for the leeward. When
I fee fences leaning almost to the ground,
by means ofwhich, the crop is very much
exposed, and a little time in eroding or
flaking it up, would, probably, save it,
and it is neglected ; the owner is, I mis.
trust, for the leeward: When 1 fee cows
and oxen, nightly, standing in the fireet,
when the, might be put into the yard ; i
conclude, he is not thorough, in his bu
siness, and gains very little to the wind
ward®—When I fee the garden neglected
—they are not acquainted with good liv
ing —When I fee the litter ofthe kitch
en feattered around the door, that family,
seldom tastes old pork through the year :
When I am travelling, and observe a pile
of clam or oyster fhelhjn the high road ; I
have observed this to be a sign of too much
Jeewa,. When L fee & man at work in the
field ; & he flopahis team & feats himfelf on
his care or plow,to fee me or even the Gov.
himfelf ride by ; I really think he is look
ing out for a IherifPs deputy or~*.
•When L fee ©healthy person, in the mid
dle of the day, or in fad, at any other
time, lounging about taverns or trades
men's /hops- be has no right to victuals,
.more than a thief has with stolen goods ;
and you may depend upon it, he is desti
tute of his heel, of coarse drives fwiftly to
:the leeward. When I fee the bottle fund
ing on a mechanic's window board ; I
have reason to think, he is charged, in
the merchant's book, Ditto —When I fee
.he date of a man's account neglefyd,
and it is filled up with ditto, and ditto
and dittoes; on that account, ths lawyer
may exped his FEE. When I fee the
young attorney frequently among the
FAIR ; I note, in my common place book,
his name, with (ab/que boc) When I fee
two phyticiars quarrel, about the %,r&
tion of a cathartic ; the patient will vety
soon, be carried to the Reward. Now,
when I fee the shepherd of our parish, dai
ly, teaing of it, with the noble few —1
look out, on the sabbath, far a foporifereut
doji, which greatly obdru& the carotidar
term —then we ofcourfe fall to the leew
ard.
• Oppefite to tie leeward.
F RAGMENTS.
OBSERVER.
' andfearal, earn It berratrnberedtbat they ever
LIVED.
WANTED by the igb ^T, text, a
Jtofran CURRIER,torn wb.
is a good oarAman, gates wages rod 3
numbs rafy wilt be given. Enquire of
WILLIAM LAMSON.
Mt U ^fi 794 e
juf published, and for sale at this Office,
THE TOY-SHOP, a Comedy. In
which Human Nature is pi&ured
in its true colours and the vice, and fol
lies of Mankind exposed.
Alfa An HISTORICAL CATE
CHISM, containing ingenious answers to
many notable qaeftions, of several wonder
ful matters, which ire recorded in Ancient
Hiftory.
Likrorifi,juft retted and for falc,
Two Le&ures on the Prophe
cies that remain to be fulfilled.
B, Elhanan Winc^fter.
Among the tombe,where Ifrequently wan.
der to learn wejdom, Ifind but few who have
farvived faty years ; where 1 bane found one
who bar weathered three-fare, 1 bane mour
ned ever ten who never few twentyfummerfune.
Melancholy consideration ! Human life,
what a babble ! at me, a fleeting Jhade Pe
•ven mobile I write, the clock telle me I. am
one hour nearer the grave, that while I am
poring ever the epitaphs of the,lent Dead,
lam baftening to Join them in the dark fop
of oblivion.
A Matron of Ephesus was so celebra
ted for chastity, that Die became the dis
course and admiration of all the country.—
When ffie buried her hufbsnd,fhe was not
contented with the usual expreflions of
grief in following him to the grave.but (he
followed hiscorpfe into the very vault, &
there continued lamenting whole days and
nights together, against the power of the
magistrates and the perfaafions of her
friends; all people lamenting the severity
the imposed upon herfelf, in being there
five days without any kind of sustenance,
or any company but her servant maid,..who
assisted her sorrow, and repaired thither as
occasion served, infamuch that the who'e
city thought her the nonpareil of her sex
'in conjugal affeaion. While this dolt ful
sane was anting, the governor of the pro
vince had commanded some notorious
thieves to be crucified near that dormitory,
and appointed a soldier to watch there day
and night, that their friends might not
take them down from the crofa and bury
them. The soldier perceived a light a
mong the tombs, defeending the vault, and
feeing a beautiful woman fitting by her
hufbaod's corpse, in a very mournful pof
ture, he fetched his sapper into the vault,
and used such words to abate her sorrow,
& give her comfort, as are commonly em
ployed on such mournful occasions; but
flic was rather exasperated, and tearing est
her hair,laid it on the bread of her dear hcf.
band. The fcldier continued to give con
lolation ; and her maid joining with him,
at length the soldier prevailed with her to
eat,then attempted her chaflity also,& fuc
ceeded according to his withes. The,
were together three nights successively. Ir
this time, the relations of one of the cruci
fied thieves feeing they were very negli
gently watched, the, took down thei<
relation, and buried him. The soldier in
the morning feeing one ofthe thieves was
stolen from the croft, grew desperate, up
on the thoughts of.being hanged up in his
place ; and therefore,, to punish his negli
gence, told the woman he would kill him
felf with his own firord, befeechiog her to
'et him, after death, find a place in that
vault by her hufoand. The woman com
imiferating her friend, and being as com
passionate as (he was chaste, and unwilling
after the had dried her eyes for her hus
band, to fall into a second mourning for a
friend who had brought her out of her firft
melancholy ;. the demurely told him,
" That foe had rather part with a dead
hufbnd, than occafon the death of a liv
ing friend ;” and immediately commanded
her hatband's body to be taken out of the
ce ffis, his nofeto be cut off to disfigure his
face from being known,& gave him to fop
ply the place of the thief that was ftclcr
lavvay. The soldier admired the woman's;
wit that had found out an expedient to save;
his life, went about his work immediately,
and having filled the empty place, left the
people to wonder by what mean, the thief
was got upon the cross again.
CHASTIT Y.
AN OLD STORY.
THE Public are hereby refpeafuf
ly informed, these Lenores which have
been patronized by a reffeaabic body of
the Clergy in London,where they were at
firfl delivered, and whefe name# are pre
fixed to the work ; must be Efficient t~
eftsblifh their veracity, and flamp their
value and importance.
They have been much fought for in
this country by these gentlemen who hava
had an opportunity of the prrufsl cf them ;
and we presume only »a # t to be read ^
meet with a rapid circulation and be uni
vcrfilly applauded.
The Author fay#—" I humbly con
ceive, the matters that you ffiailbe in
formed of, in the following course of Lec
tures, are all.of them tending to praaieal
improvement. I would not, on any can
fideraticn, lead you into vain fyece'acons,
or puzzle your minds with things of 03
confrqu;@ce; but I weald wilh to engage
mankind to attend to those ferfous and
very important matters :: for if Ged had
net. thought them of importance, he would
not have pronounced a blessing upon him
that readeth, and they that hear the words,
of this prophecy, and keep these things
which are written therein.''
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Gentlemen who have Subferiptien paperr,
to fend them to f. Trumbull in Norwich,,
as fcon as may be.—Those who wiffi to
be in poffefrion of so valuable a work, will
please to leave their names with the Prin
ters hereof.—Where they may. fee tte
Proposals arid view the contents at large.
The Lectures will be ready to deliver ta
fubferibers (in numbers) by the 30th of
Aaguft, and the firft volume will be cco<
pleated by the firft of O&ober next.
- ±7#ob, OT+
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refined SUGAR are charged with a duty,
after the 30th day of September next—
Therefore those persons within this Dif
cria, who are concerned ia the manufac
ture of either of those articles, are desired
to comport with the Law, to avoid the
forfeitures.
ALL persons within the County of
Cheshire in laid Dirtrifl, having
or keeping a Carriage or Carriages, are
hereby notified, that entries and payment
of the Duties on Carriages, will be re.
ceived agreeable to law, at the Office of
lafpe&ioa.
Now Publilhing at J. Trumbull'#
Printing-Office in Norwich.
A COURSE of LECTURES o n th PRO
PHECIES that remain to be jufEed.
ALL persons within the County of
Cheshire in said Dift/ia, who are retail
ers of either of the articles abovemention
ed, are hereby notified, that Eicen fes
will be granted agreeable to law, at the
Office of Infpeaion—and all persons ap
plying for license mu# produce the ap
probation of the Selectmen of the town
where they dwell for retailing, conforma
ble to the laws of New-Hampshire.
Attendance for the above purpofer.
will be given at the Office of Infpe&ion
in Charleftown, every day in the month
of September next, (Sundays excepted)
from g to iz o'clock, A. M. and from
3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
NOTICE is hereby given that iioenfea
will be granted at the Office of Infpeaion.
authorifing persons to fell at Auction a
greeable to Law, within the County, of
Chaihire, in said diftria.
Duty on Carriages for the con*
veyance of Perlons.
Duty on licenses for retailing
Wines, or foreign diflillcd
Spiritous Liquors.
DISTRICT of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Supervisor's Office, July aift, 1794.
^WCTcAes&r 4 Lectured.
By ELHANAN WINCHESTER.
By Order of the Supervifbr.
samuel. crosby, Auniiiiar, Cal.
letter of the Revenue for
ebe Conrod, „ Chefbire.
Licenses for Auctioneers.
Notice.