The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-08-20 00:00:00, page 3

muket balls, to that of hens eggs, It fell in ma
ny places so as to cover the ground two or three
inches deep, and some fay ancle deep. The next
day at 12 o'clock*, hail stones were to be picked up
in considerable plenty ; and even on Tuefday at
noon were found numbers of them unmelted. This
account is not deigned to be in the least exagge
rated, and may be relied on as fad.
“ in this event of Providence we are taught the
uncertainty of all earthly treasures and things. In
the morning fields presented the most promising
profped of plentiful, harvests —and at evening are
entirely ruined, and clothed in the most gloomy af
pe& !—The expeaations of the husbandman in f
few minutes entirely cut off. And when we reflea
in how many ways, by storms, blasts, &c. our
I earthly treasures may be destroyed, we are taught
the importance of laying up treasure in heaven
where no evil enters, that we may possess them,
when we are taken from the present uncertain world
by death."
MIDDLETOWN, (CON.) AUGUST 1 4.
Yeflerday arrived Brig Sally, Capt. Thomas
Rice, from Port-au-Pince 18 days. Off Cape Ni
- chola-Mole, Capt. Rice spoke a British Brig and
Cutter, full of men, fjppofed to 'be privateers :
They would not inform from whence jhey came or
where bound.
PORTLAND, AUGUST 2.
Biddeford; July 21, 1790.
"On the 26th of July inft&nt, as Nathaniel
Smith of the plantation of Littlefalls, in the coun
ty ofiYork, was mowing in his field, Capt. John
Poak, his father in law, stepped before the scythe
' with a hoe, to prevent hib mowing. The land
where Smith was mowing was a piece that he bo't
of Capt. Poak last winter ; and Capt. Poak claim
ed the crop, faying, he would redeem tt, There
wa+fome bargain about redemption, which being
up the firft day of June last, Smith claimed the
Cro p. —As Smith was mowing the grass, Poak kept
striking at the scythe with his hoe, and as they
both struck right handed, being face td face, the
scythe and the hoe, after two or three strokes; met
each other, which canted up the scythe, and the
point of it entered the left breast of Capt. Poak,
and he fell down and died immediately.—Two
persons were present by whom it appeared that
Smith had no design to hurt Capt. Poak, that he
never gave him an uncivil word, other than he
thuft have his grass, and that Capt. Poak's design
was to dull his scythe so that he fnould not mow.
The two witnesses went with Smith, who deli
vered himfelf up to Justice Chadbourn. A coro
ner was called, and the jurors of inquest were
unanimously of opinion that it was an accidental
death,,
How Shocking must have been the situation of
the distressed widow. Her hufoand a lifelefs corpse
—slain by her only son !
Has, we learn, passed the Senate—this bill
makes provision for the reduction of the public
debt, by proposing that 'One Million of Dollars,'
now in the Treasury of the United Stath, be ap
plied to purchasing the public debt in the market,
while the fame is under par---/the fame is to be
made openly, and with due regard tb the equal be
nefit of the several States- —=Aifo, That the Pre
sident of the United States be authorized to bor
row Two Millions of Dollars to be applied to the.
fame purpose : The business to be under the di
re&ion of the Prefdent of the Senate. The Chief fuf-'
lice, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Trea
sury, and the Attorney General, who, or any two of
whom, with the approbation of the President of
the U, States, are to cause the purchases to be
made. ,
In Funding the Old Continental money, the pfr
• sent Congress has done an aft of justice which will
command the admiration of the world, and the
gratitude of their constituents. " The old conti
nental money," fays Dr. Ramsay, in his elegant
and concise Hiftor, of the American Devolution, '\y
common consent, ceased to have currency. Like
an aged man expiring by the decays of nature,
without a sigh or groan, it fell asleep in the harids
of its last possessor." Its revivification is in cvi
face of the iuftice of the rulers of our nation,
which myriads of Slanders cannot invalidate.
Os the United States, we are informed by a gen
tleman from Providence, is expected to arrive at
Newport this day on a visit to the state of Rhodei
fland. An elegant packet was provided for him,
at Newyork,.in which we learn, he was to fail on
Monday last. Great Preparations are making at
Newport'and Providence to receive cur beloved
President./
THE SINKING FUND BILL
BOSTON, august 14.
THE PRESIDENT
Congress rose this day at noon, to meet at
Philadelphia, on the firft Monday of December
next. All the public business is completed—and
when it is viewed in the gross, it will be seen that
our Rulers have been far from idle.
I am told, that there are agents from Houses in
/Europe, here, who (land ready to loan immediately
the Two Millions of dollars, which the Sinking Fund
Bill impowers The President to borrow.— With
this sum near Four Millions of the debt will be
bought in—consequently Two Millions will be
There are persons here, who do not scruple to
bet any sum, that within a year the funded Con
tinental paper will be at par.
SALEM, AUGUST 17,
ExtraD of d tetter from a mercantile houje in Liston,
to a merchant in Salem, Jane 23.
*' The dispute between Qffl^Britaig and Spain
is not yet fettled : A little time will.lhew whe
ther we fhali have peace of war, as Mr. Fitzher
bert is now at the court of Madrid, negociating
that business."
Capt. Helme Arrived here bn Sundays in 56
days from Newry in Ireland—•war with Spain was
there the expe&ation of all.
Capt. Helme has favoured us with the following
memorandum of occurrences ; .
" June 19$ was informed by the master of the
sloop from Barnftable, that an English frigate had
run through, a Spaniffi fleet of men of war, and
was engaged by several of them, but got ofF with
the loss of 14. men killed —Hane 27, spoke the
fliip Betsy, of Cafco-bay, from I'Orient bound to
Liverpool, the master of which informed, that war
between England and Spain wai t the general ex
pectation.——July 12, spoke a tirig 1; days from
, Cadiz bound to Brifto'l ; the matter informed, That
when he left Cadiz hostilities were hourly expeded
to commence as the Spanish court had not given a
fatisfadory answer to the demands of England.—=
Maffachufetls, NATHANIEL AppletOß.
Rhode-Ijiand, Jabez Bowen.
Conneaicut, WILLIAM IMLAY.
New-York; John Cochran.
New-Jerfe,, James Ewing.
Pennsylvania, ThOmas Smith.
Delaware, James Tilton.
Maryland, Thomas Hartwood.
Virginia, JOHN Hopkins.
North Carolina, William Skinner#
South-Carolina, John Neufville.
Georgia, Richard Wylley.
William Irvine, John Taylor Gilman,
and John Kean, Commissioners for fettling the
accounts between the United States and individual
States. -.
In the late session of Congress upwards of FIFTY
Ads have passed that Hon. body.
The Council of this State has been convened
since Thursday last ; but we have not learnt, that
any measures have been taken refpeding the Ex
cise—The Funding Bill not having been received
by his Excellency from New-York, we are told,
retards tlieif business.
Patriorifm can accomplis wonders—T'e dona
tions of the city of Paris alone to the French na
tion amount to 4.0,600,000 livres.
The armaments of France, in conference dfthe
fracas between Spain and Eng^nd, are estimated
to cost 12,000,000 of livres.
- The President of the United States, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, has been
p eased to nominate and appoint the following offi
cers, ciz.
COMMISSIONERS OF EO ANS.
The Belgick Stites, doubtful of the success of
their revolt from the government of the Emperor,
have solicited the assistance of Great-Britain^
DR. FRANKLIN.,
AMONG the variety of eulogiums, defercedly
merited, and liberally paid, in both hemispheres,
to the character of the late Philosopher of Ameri
ca: The following,delivered in an Exercise at the
Commencement arthe Philadelphia College, a
few days since deserves republication :—
'Laft NEWTON rofe—and,born on eagle wings
Collected Knowledge from a thousand springs; +
Bound down the planets iri the blue expanse, -
And would have pierc'd all Nature at a glance ;
Had not the Goddess, in her dread decree,
Referv'd for FRANKLIN's hand, the golden key
That opes her inmost doors—O last and 6tf
Os Patriots and Philosophers contest,
Whose ever -waking com prehenfive mind
Labour'd alone to benefit mankind!
All hail, Columbia, to your favourite son!
All hail, these happy walls---your Founder own!'
New- Hampshire, Nathaniel GILM a&.
APPOINTMENTS — b y -authority.
FROM fEWYORK —AVGUST 12.
foty 14, 'poke ihe trig Berfy, of Portsmouth, E.
Hall, Matter, from Amsterdam, bound to Porif
mouth, out one month ; informed that great war
like preparations were making in Holland, and
that a general war was expeded."
DOVER, AUGUST 12.
Thursday last, departed this life, 'Mr. 'JOHN
PERKINS, of this town, in the 25th year of his
age—Mr. Perkins complained of his disorder's bh
ing inhis breast—he was unable to lie down, as it
occafidned a floppage to his breath, but was obli
ged inceffautly to fit half bent, re sting his breast
on a table, placed before him^—A short time be
fore his death, he desired he might be opened
after his decease, for the fatisfaaion of his friends^
and benefit of mankind—accordingly, the morn
ing following his death, Dodors Kittridge and'
Howe were sent for, who, after opening his breast
took therefrom a large excrescence, weighing
five pounds fix ounces, and in fubflance, fomewhac
resembling an oxes brisket—it adhered very strong.
ly to the breast and back bones, surrounding the
wind-pipe, lungs and heart, the last of which was
almost entirely covered, and was undoubtedly the
cause of his not being able to lie down. The
heart was in a very flacid state, weighing only
nine ounces—the lungs were finaller than in a na
tural Rate, weighing two pounds two ounces—the
liver weighed five pounds and an half—an un
common size ; though of natural colour, and ap
peared otherwise found.
NEWBURYPORT, AUGUST 11.
A few days ago, the only child of the Rev.
John Meriden in Conneaicut fell into a kettle
of scalding water, which soon terminated its ex.
iftence.
THE late Col. Ethan Allen had a high opinio
on of himfelf and of his fix brothers, and
said that there were , never seven such born of
any woman. You mistake, said a Scoch officer,
Mary Magdalene was delivered of seven exaßly like
In Virginia is h Lead-mine which, it is ex
peded will afford a full supply of lead for the U
nited States. About sixty men are now constantly
employed in working it, who prepare, fit for use,
upwards of a ton and a half per day, in quantity
equal to the best that is imported from Europe.
In about three months they expeft daily to 'turd
out double the quantity.'
Last Tuefday evening the Hon. JOHN LANG
DON and PAINE WINGATE, arrived at their
feats from Congress.
In England, His Grace the Duke of Manchester.
At Philadelphia, the amiable and accomplished LA
DY of His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Efg. Prefix
dent of Pennsylvania.
— Belcher, Miss Lois Lamb, aged 3g.
— Weft-Springfald, Mr. William Brewster El„
Printer, aged 2i.
— Springfield, Mr. Gideon Morgan, aged 38.
— Waltham, Deac. J. Sanderpn, aged 91.
— Charlton, Miss Susannah Ammindown, aged
14, daughter of Caleb Ammin 'own, Esq.
—— Medford, Mrs, Hepzibah Hall, consort e,
Benjamin Hall, Esq.
= Boson, Mr. Ichabod Jones, aged 7,.
' n Ifc'tToTe sr —‘—
Adams had for some time
paid his addresses to Miss B. and began to
entertain hopes of marrying her; but being ab
sent on a journey about three weeks, on his return
home, was informed that a Mr. Reed had paid her
feyeral visits Mr. Adams immediately waited on
Miss B. and humorously told her, that he under
flood that (he had been learning to read in his ab
sence, and wished to know what progress ihe had
made; file facecioufly replied (he had succeeded as
well as (he could wilh, for in three weeks she had
got as far as Adams' fall.
STATEOF NEWHAMPSHIRE ROCKINGHAM, SSd
WE the fubferibers beirig appointed,
by the Hon. Oliver Peabody, Esquire,
J'^^ °' Probate for said County, to receive and
examine the claims of the several creditors to the
Estate of JOB JUDKINS, yeom^p, late of Exeter,
in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, give
notice, That we will attend for that purpose at thd
house of hfr. Daniel Smith, in said Exeter, on the
last Tuefda, of this anti the five following months,
from a to 6 o'clock, P. M.
DANTEL SMITH,
DANIEL TILTONr
Enter. Aglft 12$, ftp.
EXETER, (Friday,) August 2q.
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