The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-01-22 00:00:00, page 4

To truth, and with a modest reference
To all that wilder, wit and knowledge
Acquir'd within the walls of colledge)
Oid mother time since she begun
On wheels and a*eltrees to run.
Ne'er in one previous year presents
Such mighty cart-loads of events ;
Or at an annual birth of fundrics
Has litter'd such a world of wonders,
The budget such, ffiould I unfold it,
My paper clearly would not hold it,
Nor need we o'er th' Atlantick roam/
For wond'roas doings, while at home
We've thousands which they cannot ri
equal,
As we (hall fhe# you in the fequeh
What tho', in Europe, in a day
Nations are born, and Kings obey^
The proud, the wealthy,arid the humble
Alike to levelifm tumble ;
And Nobles, Marquises and Tonforsj
Are all alike but simple Monfiears.
What tho' once more the British lion;
Attempts his mighty wrath to try ori ! &
And swears in vengeance that the Spani
ards
He'll corry,'like raw hides in ttfnyards,
What tho' theDons,with nice diffembiing;
May bluffer, yet with fear and trembling,
Declare, to Nooka Sound, they've fully
As good a right as Johny Bull.
What tho' the Turks, the Swedes and
Prussians,
Hungarians, Austrians and Ruffians,
Are fighting still for high perfermen'ts,
Rolling in blood their warlike garments,
What is't to us who at this distance
Nor fear their power,- of need assistance ?
Then let's leave other realms alone;
And fee what's doing in bur own,
Gongrefs, 'tis true, in various arts,
Right manfully have play'd their parts ;
And in the scale of empire raifd us,
So high, in truth it has amaz'd us :
Fram'd resolutions and refciridrid,
'Till all they'd done was fairly mended,
Made treaties with one tribe of Indians,
And to another threatned vengeance ,
Sent General Harmer in a fever,
To make a dam o'er Joseph's fiver ;
To tell the world one Indian Savage
Is worth two white men on an average ;
To throw away the lives of many,
And recommend Lieutenant Denny.
{After exercifag bis quit on federal Con
neflicut tranfaßions he concludes]
May this New Year of ninty-one,
Which o'er your heads begins to run.
Spent with your Sweet-hearts and your
wives,
Be far the hrippieft in yotir lives.
And when next year, I pay once more,
My annual visit at your door,
Then may your bosom glow with plea,
sure
Your faces shine with inward treasure .•
• Your cups be fill'd with milk and honey,
And purfet all run o'er with moneys
SEAT of the MUSES.
EXTRACT
From & Address of the Carrier of the
Connecticut Courant.
Hartford, Jan. 1, 1791..
PRAY Gentlemen, be kind and civil;
To a poor luckless, Printer'# Devil ;
He calls but once a year to trouble ye ;
O make this once, a day of Jubilee.
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Sir,Sir, I'm yours and ydurs too, Madam;
More thanks I'd give you if I had 'em ;
But such rare bounty is uncombed
From any man or any woman.
A single Eighteen pence, or e'en
A still more humble Piftereend
Would have drawn down as good a BOW
As what I humbly make you now,
Nay, my good Sirs, be not offended :
To fee the friendly hand extended
With Nine Pence only in its palm,
Would make my grateful heart grow
warm,
A Four Pence Halfpenny's but a tittle
I'd almost said it was too little;
But as humility becomes
The one Who alks for other's crumbs,
I'll net refufe a Copper even
If with a friendly heart 'tis given ;
Six make a Penny, and so 1
Can then at least, a Whistle buy.
Now then, since you so freely give,
Suppose you somewhat should receive ;
And trust me Sirs, (with all due defer
ence
Ml &.<feto^
A COMMON sailor, who lately re
turned from the Bast Indies, and,
unlike the generality of his brethren, had
saved a conliderable sum of moneyout of his
wages ; in order to avoid being impressed
took the resolution to remain a while on
shore. In this view, he leafed a fixteeri
foot lot on Berkely common, and ereded
thereon, a small wooden hovel, just large
enough to contain himfelf, and) his wife
Sue, and a^ery few articles ,of the Soft
common furniture. A parcel ofLis former
companions, to play him a waggish trick,
went one night last week with two long
pieces of timber, and funning them under
the hovel,raifed it,and carried it fairly off,
leaving it neata mile from its situation; the
sailor and his wife being all the time a
sleep; and knowing nothing of the mat
-1 ter. In the morning, the honest tar o
•pening the door, and feeing an entire
!change both of place and profpea, robbing
I his eyes, observed dryly to his rib, De
!q>il burn me. Sue, but ive have been dll
I night long dragging our anchors !
LONDON, OCT. 9.
ON the 27th ult. a capital cart-horse,
near fifteen years old ; the property
of Bezaleel Angier, Esq. one of the Jus
tices of Colchefter, died ; and on being
Opened, a stone, apparently of the pebble
kind, nearly spherical, of the diameter of
three inches and a half, and weighing
twenty seven ounces Avoirdupoife was
round wedged within the reEfon.
The Prince of Wales, bas in his Pofref
fion at this time, exactly fix hundred horses
of various defcripions, the keeping of
which, at the fair average price of 1 gui
nea per week, per horse, amounts to the
annual expenditure of 32, 7601.
A few days since, at Glasgow, a Chelfeh
penfionefr, being afraid that on examinati
on he ffiould be considered as able tor
duty, was advised by an old sailor to drink
a quantity of water mixed with tobacco
juice and vinegar, which would make him
both pale and sickly, and of course be
thought unfit for service : in four hours
time, after taking it; through exce flive
reaching# and vomiting; he expired in
great agony.
A most extraordinary bridge has been
built over the river Fofrle; 'at Londonder
ry, which is about 900 feet wide, and 40
feet deep at high water; this bridge joins
the city and country. This immense
pile was conftruded by Mr. Cox, an
American, who, with twenty of his coun
try men, and a few labourers, completed
this bridge, confining of 58 arches, all of
American oak, in five months—not a log
Os thi wood having been imported before
the firft of May last—N. B. The river
wls surveyed by the late Mr. Milne, last
summer, who declared that a bridge there
was impra&icable. The cost was about
ifooooi.
PHILADELPHIA, DtC. 22.
Report of the Commifiioners
appointed for the reduction
of the debt of the United
States.
ZHE Vice-President of the
United States, the Chief fuf-,
tiee of the United States, the
Secretary of State, the Secreta
ry of the Treasury; arid the At
torney - Genera! of the United
States, report to Congress, that
pursuant to the aft making pro
vision for the reduction of the
public debt, they, on the 26th
of Augufl, 1790, convened in
the city of Newyork, and enter
ed on the exercise of the trufi re
posed in them ; that conformably
to their resolution, approved by
the PreJident of the United States
on the 28th of the fame month,
they have commenced the pur
chase, through the agency of Sa
muel Meredith, which ori the
26th da) of November last, a^
Foreign Intelligence.
ANECDOTE.
America.
mounted to the sum of 278,687
dollars, 30 cents, regiflered debt
of the United States for which
there have been paid 150,239
dollars, 24 cents m specie, as
•will more particularly appear
by a return of the fame Samuel
Meredith, confirmed by an au
thenticated copy of his account
fettled at the Treasury of the U
nited States, and prayed to be
received as part of this report,
in which are fpecified the places
where, the times when, and the
persons of whom the said pur
chases have been made.
Signed, by order of the board,
JOHN ADAMS.
HARTFORD, JAN. 3.
Last Friday night, between
io and 11 o'clock, the barn of
Mr. William Hooker, in this
city, was set on fire by the care
lefaefs of his son, and totally con
sumed with a quantity of hay.—
By the aElive and persevering
exertions of the citizens, the barn
belonging to Dr. Butler, which
flood almost adjoining, was saved
from a similar fate. By the fall
of the timber of the barn, three
persons were wounded —two of
them badly,but no lives were lofl.
NEW-LONDON, DEC 4 ifr
Friday last, Mr. feffe Wil
liams of Groton, was found dead;
lying under a tree. It appeared
that be bad been looping a limb
from the tree, that the outer end
flruck the ground and canted the
but end against bis bead.
"the fame day, a man named
Ford,was killed at Poqud
tanuck, in much the fame man
ner. —
The wifdod: & policy of the law
sassed last fefon of Congress, ap
pointing Comthiflioners to Juper
intend the negotiation of a Loan
and to inzeft the unappropriated
monies in the Treajury in the
public debt, while fold in the
market under par, are now most
apparently made manifeft, in
that rapid appreciation, which
has done more for the public cre
ditors in a few months than they
anticipated for many years.
PRIDE is undoubtedly the
origin ofanger ; but pride,
like every other paffioh, if it
once breaks loose from reason,
counteracts its own purposes.
A passionate man, upon the re
view of his life, will have very
few gratifications to offer to
his pride,when he has consider
ed how his outrages were caus
ed; why they were borne, and
in what they are likely to end
in at last!.
ALBANY, DEC. 13.
übarfday Je nnight a negro
man and [pan of horses, belong
ing to Gen. Peter Ganfevoote, of
this city, were inflantly killed, in
the high rodd near bis farm at
Fort Miller, by the fall of a tree.
PRIDE.
A Quantity of Good FLAX
is wanted at the Duck
Manufactory in tLs Town, for
which CASH
Engl:ft and Weft India
GOODS
will be giv^
THOMAS Ob. °NE.
Exeter, December 2,179 c
ALL perlons having de
' mands against the efface of the Rev.
WOODERLDGE ODLIN, late of Ex
eter, deceased, are desired to exhibit
them—and those indebted to make im
medi^^e payment, to
ELIPHALET BALE, Adminift'r.
Exeter, Dec± 17.90. {^e bonis ncx.
A LL perlons having de
' 1 mands against the efface of ABI
GAIL ODLIN, late of Exeter, Widow,
deceased, are desired to exhibit them—
and those indebted, to make immedaite
payment, to
ELIPH'T HALE, Adm'tor.
Exeter, Dec. 1790.
IND ents
To be SOLD reasonably, by
SAMUEL TENNEY.
Exeter, \yb Dec.
W™ EREAT^A RAH~my
▼ V Wife, has behaved in a very unbe
coming manner,and threatened to injure,
and run me in deb', this is to forbid all
persons trusting heron my account, as I
am determined not to pay any debt she
may contrast after this day.
JOSEPH GORDON.
Exeter, December 24th, 1790.
SADDLER'S WORK.
if,Wanted by said Dean,
Shipping firs,
For which—CASH—
Englifo or Wefl-India GOODS
will be given.
Exeter, J^n. !/91.
Dumb fcijb.
TO BE SOLD BY
GILMAN and LAMSON,
at their STORE in Exeter,
A few Quintals of
Btf DumbFifh.
Kingftron. January if, <79<-
. FLAX.
CADDLER's WORK, of all
' kinds done at rhe Shop near Col.
Ladd's, and fold CHEAP for CASH
and COUNTRY PRODUCE, by
SHACKFORD S. BENNETT.
Exet-r. Dec. 2, 1290.
AStray Barrow PIG came
to the house of the fubferiber, some
time in November last, weighing about
100 wt. The owner may have him a
gain, proving property and paying char
ges. by applying to widow
* { DOROTHY KIMBALL.
Enter, Dec, 30.
White and Red Lead—Sfanifb
Brown —Bar-Iron, and Steel.—
All of Which will be Sold v ry lew for
CAS H.
Ward C. Dean,
A General Assortment of
Iron Ware.
Fuftick, Verdigreafe,
Logwood, Allum,
Redwood, Otter.
Camwood, Indigo,
Oil-Vitriol, Cream-Tartar,
Roman-Vitriol, Raisins,
Copperas, Malaga Wine,
Prefs-Fapers,
TO BE SOLD BY
ALSO