The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-04-24 00:00:00, page 4

S A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF
RENOVATED SANITY.
A POOR labouring man in the
parish of Dilham, in Norfolk,
named Daniel Milcham, who had"
been deprived of his senses near 20
years, and for the last 12 years chain
ed to the floor in his chamber, was
on Friday fe'ennight found by his
mother Wretched out on the floor and
fappofed to be dead ; on the return
of her son, his brother, from work,
Ihe informed him thereof, who accor
dingly went to the chamber, but not
finding him cold, called him by his
name ; Daniel instantly got up, and
liked him what he wanted ; and from
that moment has had his perfed fen.
fes. He had not had any clothes on
for more than ten years. He has eve
ry day since walked in the fields at
tended by his mother, and betrays M)
symptoms of returning malady.
MR. PRINTER,
Please to give the fallowing lines, com
posed on the Death of Miss Phebe
Morrill, Daughter of the Rev.
Isaac Morrill of Wilmington, a
place in your Paper, and you mill ob
lige AFRIEND.
THUS 'tis with Rates—when dan
ger's nigh, -
Unite, ewe live—divide, me die" —
The North and South in concert join,
And public good's the grand design—
But when peace comes on downywing,
And poets halcyon ages ting ; —
Those States coop'd up in legislature,
(The example don't exist in nature)
Opposing interests abound,
And there the local charge goes round*
OTHOU grim Tyrant, rage and
reign,
'Till Heaven arrest thy Power ;
All sublunary hopes are vain
And death invades her Bower.
Phebus mounts high a Summer's day,
And ev'ry sense delight ;
The Rose expands beneath his ray,
Nor fears approaching Night:
Anon the noxious winds assail ;
<' Cold night extends its Ihade
Alas ! we fee their lirength mutt fail,
And glowing colours fade.—
Phbbe, the fair, a victim fell !
To God refign'd her breath !
We trult with Jesus (he will dwell,
Nor taste the second death.
land,
Was soon converted to an Island,
Thence from their holes and burrows
routed,
A motly tribe for fafety scouted—
The common danger leagu'd in peace,
Dogs, cats and rats,and fox and geese;
Who, while the flood around them
Were cats and rats, and dogs again ;
All found their fafety in their flight,
" And bid civilities good night,"
^circumßance occurred at Exeter a fart
time face, which foetus the Wonderful
effia °ff r 'gbt on the hod, and mind,
fright has been the cause of fame dis.
dafa, but ^ bw cured man, tore, and
FROM A LONDON PAPER, OCT. 16.
rose, ^'
Forgot they ever had been foes :
But when the ground was clear of
rain—
ONCE on a time, as authors tell'
The frelhets made a river fwell'
The river, as the story goes,
All the furroanding banks o'erflows ;
The only neighb'ring spot of high-
From the UNITED states g azette.
SEAT of the MUSES.
FABLE.
MORAL.
I WAS lately led to ruminate upon
Lotteries, and the fenfibiliiy of hav
ing one that would get husbands for
maidens and widows, and wives for
batchelors and widowers. This idea,
tho' hitherto unexplored, is not with
out data to predicate a plan upon.
Blood, beauty and wealth, are the
defiderati in matrimony : —By blood
is meant a fablimate quality which
that fluid acquires in all persons who
are elevated to dignified Italians, and
which descends to their lawful issue :
Its sublimation is accurately ascertain
ed by bloodrometers, and found to
rife from one to too degrees above
the ordinary standard. Beauty is ge
nerally agreed to be a proportion and
order in parts and in a whole ; but
the popular opinion of it in all coun
tries vary, according to the deviation
whi h takes place by the influence of
climates. Wealth is more known than
enjoyed ; this last, though placed the
lowest in the scale, hath an ascendan
cy over the others ; —hence the
qualities of the Fair are designated by
feme local term of a country which
conveys the idea of riches or of its
staple property.
MR. PRINTER,
LOTTERIES appear to me to be
all the rage ; and the old and the
young, rich and poor, free and bond,
are daily offering their devoirs at the
(hr,ne of fortune. As of all the schemes
that have been published, the male
part of the creation are the objefts to
be benefited. 1 think it but reasona
ble that one for the benefit of females
Ihould be eltablilhed. To promote
its establishment, be pleased to insert
the following from a late Newport
paper, and oblige yours,
in a M. S. which was in the Alex
andrian Library, it is written, that
one of he Princes of Barbary, upon
the marriage of his only daughter,
gave her as a dower an hundred afl'es ;
hence the qualities of the Ladies of
that country are designated to this
day by a proportionate number of
thife braying animals.—Jn the mild
climates of France and Spain, where
property is mostly in vineyards, the
highest recommendation is, a Lady of
Clutters.—ln London, (he is a Plumb.
— In the southern States of America,
a Lady of an hundred wooly heads ;
—and in the back countries, a Lady
of Skins,—-Since wealth then is the
great object with batchelors, I have
schemed a lottery, which, while it
places the accomplished as the highest
prizes, it holds out a luring attracti
on with those who are deficient.
ALL PRIZES —NO BLANKS.
LADIES under 25 years not to be
included in this Lottery, in order that
PLAN of a MATRIMONIAL
LOTTERY.
hat frequent!, been a most powerful
antidote against melancholy.
AN old gentlewoman who had been
bed-ridden foe many years, lay in a
front room of an upper Rory of her
house. Diredly opposite was a gen.
tieman much afflicted with the gout
in his hands and feet. As the latter
was fitting one morning in his par.
lour, he observed a pigeon fettle on
the eves of the old lady's house and
not being able to (hoot at it himfelf,
he called in his son for that purpose.
The lad levelled too low, and dis
charged the contents of his piece di.
redly into the apartment where the
poor bed. ridden old foul was lying,
ihe suddenly leaped up in a violent a
larm and has ever since been as active
and stirring as any one in the family.
Supposing her disease to have been
more of the nervous kind, than occa
sioned by the irremidable decay a.-
tendant upon extreme old age, phy.
hc^ans may readily account for this
sudden and extraordinary change.
MISCELLANY.
CHANCE.
before consummation, a transfer may
be made at the louery.otiice, by the
consent and in pfelence, of ail par,
ties concerne^m
That the original holder of a Tick
et, or a transferee, and the lady desig
nated by the priWdrawnagainft said
ticket,ihall be to all intents & purpos
es, Man and Wife, and (hall have and
enjoy the fame rights and previleges ;
any usage to the contrary notwith-
Handing. All which is humbly fub*
mined to the consideration of the sin
gle Ladies and gentlemen, by thei^
deed HYMEN.
MR. PRINTER,
Please to insert the following in your next
Gazetteers and you will extremely oh
lige An Old Customer
STOLEN, or dead, or ftray'd away,
From Merrill's land the other day
A cole black horse, of Modgers kind,
He's poor before and lean behind :
*B, a prize of 1000 chasms is meant
a Lady ptftfng good sense, beauty and
the graces, mho is amiable in her dis
pofiton, and indujirious and prudent tn
the mannag^nent of her afain —those
mho are partially or in whole deficient tn
any of theJe excellencies, are placed at a
proportionable lower rate.
—SCHEME.—
5 Prizes of 1000 Charms each,*
25 do. 999 do,
40 do. 998 do.
20 do. 500 do. with a dower of
[IOO dollars are 2000
5 do. 250 do. 400 do. 2COO
5 do. 100 do. 1200 do. 6000
10,000
100 Tickets disposable to batch
dors and widowers who are
from 25 to 30, and are of the
firft grade, at 100 dollars a
Ticket, are 10,000
If stolen, and the thief be caught,
He (hall be quick to justice brought :
If dead whoever brings the news
Shall have his hide,likewife his Shoes :
If ftray'd and founds and bro't to me.
I'll give that man a handsome fee:
That the batchelors and widowers
of the town where the ladies dwell,
have the right of preemption.
That to prevent any prevarication,
the Tickets shall be made out in the
purchasers name, and registered.
That in ten days after drawing,
the possessor of a Ticket fhail have
possession given him of the prize of his
bribe.
That each batchelor and widower
be intitled to a Ticket in the class
corresponding to their age and grade,
upon the payment of a ratio of the
aggregate lum that shall be allotted
for dowers.
SUPPOSITIOUS STATEMENT,
in illustration of the two last particles.
FIRST CLASS and FIRST GRADE,
consisting of 100 Ladies, from 25 to 30
they may erercife a freedom in their
choice—But upon this express provi
so that they (hall not be marriageable
by Gentlemen who are above 25.
That each Lady be numbered, her
qualities ascertained, and a dower an
nexed to those who are mortiy defici
ent in accomplishments.
That a Census be taken of the sin
gle Ladies who are from 25 to 50, and
classed as follows :—
Third Class 35 to 40
Fourth Class 40 to 50
That each Class be divid into grades
in the following order :—
ADVERTISEMENT.
That within the said ten days and
First Class from 25 to 30 years.
Second Clifs •30to 35
Ordinary-blooded in the thirdgrade.
High-blooded in the firlt grade.
Middle-blooded in the second grade.
Dilworth's much efteem'd
SPELLING-BOOKS, and the
Newengland PRIMER, may be had
at h. ranlet's office, Exeter.
ANY Officer or Private of the
late Continental Army, that is,
entitled to Bounty Lands, and wishes „
to dispose of the fame, may hear of a
purchaser by applying within seven
days to the Printer.
CASH & WRITING?A
per, Given for clean Linen, and
Cotton and Linen RAGS, at this office.
DLANKS, of various kinds
printed on good paper,jer sale at
this office, cheap for cajh.
STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
At Gen. Hill's the 20th, ditto.
At Mr. Slavers' in Portsmouth, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
next following the last mentioned 20th
of April—and
At Cap:, Thurston's in Exeter, ora
Monday and Tuefday the ^6th and
27th of said April.
(t3lt is expected that fair & regular
Accounts (and none but fach) will be
exhibited, and payment made of the
two quarterly inftalments, now due,
agreeable to law.
*#* The fu bferiber would most
chearfully calk upon each individual,
at his or her place of residence, had
not the Hon. Legislature pointed out
the above mode ;:—He therefore hopes
a punctual attendance will be given
to this notice, and thinks no person,
who neglects to attend, agreeable
thereto, can esteem themselves ill
treated if called upon in the ufaal
course of law.
Case given for Army Lands.
Exeter March 20, I7Q0;
—— +-
To be Sold, chea^for Cafo,
A few (warranted)
Men's Saddles.
Apply to the Printer hereof.
T'HE fubferiber having
A purchased the Excise, which
has or may become due, on Spiritu
ous Liquors, between the firft day of
October, 1789, and the firft day of
October, 1760, inclusive—•
Giles this Public Notice—•
That (agreeable to a Resolve of the
Legislature of laid State) he shall at
tend upon all persons, lyable by law
to pay Excise, in the following towns
an (aid county, at the Times and Pla
ces hereafter mentioned, viz.—
At Mr, Shute's Tavern in New
markett; on Monday the 19th day of
April, instant—and
JAMES MACGREGORE.
Londonderry, 12th April, 1790.
Notice 7$ hereby given,
CT'HAT the Commiilioners, ap-
A pointed to receive and examine
the claims against the estate of Jona
than Moulton, late of Hampton,
Esq. deceased, will meet on the last
Thursday and Frida, of this and the
two following months for that purpose
—And as the Commission will then
expire, and Creditors be excluded
from offering their claims, those who
have demands on said estate will govern
themselves accordingly. ^ Debtors
to said estate are called upon for pay
ment, as no further indulgence can'
be granted. Hampton,April 3^,1790.
WANTED a few tanned and
GREEN SHEEPSKINS.
Enquire at this office.
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
EXCISE.