The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-07-27 00:00:00, page 4

SEAT of the MUSES,
The FAIR BUCKLE-THIEF.
[a TRUE STORY.]
A COUNTRY girl, from Flufh
ing's coast,
Os three miles round the pride and
boalt, _ j ,
To market came with larly fruit, ~
Apples that might the townsmen fuit>
With cabbage head and parsnip root.
With hat of ftr^w and homespun
^ own ' . a
(Her funday suit) she came to torn,
To fee, and walk the city through.
With leather firings in leather shoe,
But sighing much for buckles new.
Six hours, and more, fr patient
flood,
And traded off whate'er (he could $
But cash was farce, and times were
hard,
Her apples met with small regard—
,She did not get her due reward,
• Her cash receiv'd alas ! how small
With pensive heart the left the flail—
Look'd at her shoes and Curs'd the
firings,
Like mother Eve(as Milton sings)
Impatient for forbidden things.
Arriv'd, at length,before a fnop,
Some glitt'ring gewgaws made her
stop—
There buckles hung of various size,
The diamonds dazzled on her eyes,
And pray, why mayn't she seize the
prize ?
The fhopman absent from the door,
' She feiz'd the buckles from his ftorc,
And off (he walk'd an easy gate,
With ligbtfome step and look sedate,
Things purchas'd at so cheap a rate.
But Argus, with his hundred eyes,
Miffing his buckles in furprize,
The fair retreating nymph attack'd,
The buckles from the bag unpack'd,
And quickly made her own the fad.
" Now(cry'd a merchant)honeftfo
"Come, take a kiss and let her go."
. "Not I— (the surly fhopman said)
"To jail shall go this country jade—
" The debt to justice melt be paid."
"How can you have so hard a heart?
'"Come, let this country girl depart—
" Like Adam's wife, she went astray ;
"Her daughters all will have their
way ;
"Men must not fteal,but women may.'
Loft was this logic on his ears,
And vain were Blouzelinda's tears—
And go she must—and go she must !
But. if 'twas said the laws were just.
Their mercy she was loth to trust.
Conduced to a junior 'fquire
(Whom all the neighb'ring girls ad.
mire)
He alk'd her, "What she had tarfay
"Why justice Should not have its way
" On nymphs, by buckles led astray?
"Alack(fhe cry'd)l cannot utter
"A word—my foul's in such a flutter
"While you my Mittimus prepare
•'Pray let me take a moment's air ;
'Thefe summer heats require some
shade,
Ind nature, Sir,soft be obey'd"—
Dealing back as faries do,
'fquire too modest to pursue)
Without a fall,
She fcal'd the wall,
est bit worship reading law !
,• Modern Refinement.
A Lady from the.country,not many
days ago, brought to a board
ing-fchool,no great difance from a cer
tain city, for the purpose of tuition ;
when after the firft salutations were o
ver,the matron fixed her eyes on some
work'd piaure fubjeds in the parlour;
and pointing at one more attra&ive
than the rest, aft'd " what is that ?"
" 1 bat" (replied the tutorefs) " is
Charlotte at the tomb of Water." —
" Well. I vow," rejoin'd the lady,
" it is vastly beautiful—Betfey, my
dear, you shall work Charlotte in a tub
of water !"
id,Many infants fall a facrince to
the food given them. Bread, milk&
sugar, the three principal things. The
b,ead, we are given to understand has
a proportion of allum in it. The
milk I am well informed, is often
mixt with whiting and water. A per
son who lived with me lately as a ser
vant, informed me she lodged at a
house once when out of place, where
some milk carriers had the lower a
partments ; that she often heard a
churn going and wondered at it, is no
butter was made by them. One day
the key being left in the door, and
they out, she had coriofity to go in
when she found a churn, a parcel of
whiting, and a pot with some in it
which she gathered, that whiting and
water churned and boiled, was put in
to the milk ; and she afterwards took
notice,'the milk from the cows was
brought home, and soon afterwards
much more carried out, smoking hot.
And now as to the sugar the (hips go
ing out to our Weftindia Islands, carry
out hogsheads of lime for they fay the
sugar will not g-anulize without lime,
and it is well known oar sugar refiners
use lime in the refining of sugar. Now
with allum in the bread, the whiting
in the milk, and the lime in the su
gar, / Is it to be wondered that so
many disorders attend them in the fto.
roach and bowels ? I doubt not many
infants are yearly facrificed thereby.
It is a thing that calls aloud for pub
lick enquiry—until then l ean only
point out a method to be pursued by
all parents who regard their infants—
that every mother suckle her own chil -
dren, and when weaned, feed them
with Bower and water boiled, and a
little butter in it, and a small propor
tion of animal food, abstaining from
medicines of all forts, unless ordered
by a fkilful apothecary, and I am per
faaded the lives of many, very many
infants, will be preserved thereby. I
could with to fee this fubjed a nation
al inquiry. ~'J. J.
ill, The loose lives our young men
lead before marriages, and the unna
tural behaviour of many mothers,Who
are no sooner delivered of a tender in
fant, when they turn it out of doors
to nurse as they call it, where the poor,
child experiences all the misfortunes ,
of poverty, often starved, or overlaid
by a drunken woman & her hufband,'
and very often a poor child put in its
Head,Madame, the mother, being too
fine a lady to deny herfelf her visiting
cards, and publick amusement—g Is
such a mother worthy of the name of
a woman ? No—worse than a mon-
WHEN I read the annual bill of
mortality, I find on an aver
age'soo children, under two years
die, and 2000 between two and five
years of age,, within ,the bills ; a]fo
many belonging to parents within the
bills, put to nurse without the bills—
I cannot help thinking there muff be
some causes more than just common
mortality—for we do not find amongst
the other animals that the young die
so fall. I will therefore just give my।
sentiments thereon, for abler hands to
improve on..
From A London Paper.
To the PUBLICK,
MISCELL ANY.
WHEREAS John Shaw of
Pittsfield, has fraudulently ob
tained a Note of Hand from the sub
scriber of about twelve pounds eleven
fallings This is to forbid any per
son purchasing, the fame as I am de
termined not to pay it.
Joseph Came, Jr.
Pittsfield, Feb. 14, 1792.
; TO BE SOLD,
AT Public Vendue, on Monday
the 3d day of September next,
at the house of BaNjamin Butler
in Deerfield, at 3 o'clock, afternoon,
The Reversion of the Widow
Sarah Kendrick's Thirds, con
taining about eighteen acres of land,
with the buildings thereon, lying in
said Deerfield, being part of the eltate
of David Kendrick, deceased.
Conditions offals quill be known at
time and place.
Deerfield, July 3, 1792.
JUST PUBLISHED,
B, the printer hereof and fold at bis office,
CHRIST'S
WARNING to the CHURCHES,
TO BEWARE OF
FALSE PROPHETS,
WHO COME AS
WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING:
AND THE MARK, BY WHICH THEY
ARE KNOWN—ILLUSTRATED IN
TWO DISCOURSES.
BY JOSEPH LATHROP, D.D.
Pajior of a church in Weft Springfield.
THIRD EDITION, WITH AN
APPENDI X.
AND OTHER ENLARGEMENTS.
The importance of tbefubjea of which
the above difeourfes treat, the abilities
of the Author—and the rapid j ale of
two editions of them which have been
lately printed, mufl recommend them to
the perusal of chriftians in general.—
Audit is earnefly wi/bed that every fa
mily ma, have at leaf one of the books.
Exeter, July, 1792.
TH E Commissioners duly
appointed by the Hon. Oliver
Peabody, Esq. Judge of the Probate
of wills, &c, for the county of Rock
ingham, to receive and exam
ine the .claims of the creditors
to the estate of MARTHA CRAIG,
late of Londonderry, widow, de
leafed, represented insolvent, hereby
give notice, that we will attend said
business on the fourth Monday of this
and the four following months from
four to eight o'Clock, P. M. at the
house of Isaac Thom, Esq. in London
derry, in the county of Rockingham
aforefaid.
BLAN K S,
Os various kinds, print
ed on fuperfine Writing-Paper,
may be had at this Office as
cheap as can be purchased in
the Union,
Take Notice.
YX7HEREAS Trifaam Taylor
VV of Exeter, is bound to the sub
scriber, this is to caution all persons 2-
gainft harbouring, trusting, or trading
with him, as they will avoid the pen
alty of the law. DANIEL HOIT.
Stratbam, 'July 10, 1792.
N. B. Said Taylor brought home a
silver plated Spur which is supposed to
be a ffolen one—the owner may have
the fame by proving property and pay
ing charges.
JAMES MACGREGORE,
ISAAC THOM,
GEORGE REID.
Londonderry, July 2, 1792.
Vendue.
VArious kinds of Writing
V Paper, made at the Paper-Mill
in Andover, to be fold at this Office,
by the Ream or Quires — —Also, —
Foolscap Printing, and a few Reams
of Casing. Exeter, 17927
A Few. copies of the Rev'd Mr.
Thurston's SERMONS on
the DIVINE RIGHT of INFANT
BAPTISM,may be had at the Print
ing-Office in Exeter,
J° LY3 '' 7 ^^g
7'H E Commissioners duly
A appointed by the Hon.
Oliver Pedbod,, Esq. Judge of
the Probate of wills, &c. for the
county of Rockingham, to re
ceive and examine the claims
of the creditors to the estate of
Simon Pottle, late of Serge
ham, deceased, represented in
solvent, hereby give notice, that
we will attend laid business on
the firft Wednesday of Augult
and the five following months
from five to liven o'Clock,P.M,
at the house of William Pottle,
in Stratham, in the county of
Rockingham aforefaid.
Jonathan^ Wiggin,
Enos Hoag,
Joseph Merrill,
Stratham, July 16, 179 g.
ALL persons are hereb
cautioned against pur
chasing of Joseph and Sarah
Gordon, of Exeter, Cordwainer,
a Note for 7 welve Pounds, sign
ed by me to Sarah Gordon, wife
to said Joseph, as it was fraudu,
lently obtained, and 1 am deter
mined not to pay it.
IN consequence of a Circular
Letter from the late Officers
of the Massachusetts Line, those
Officers of the New-Hampshire
Line, who served in the Conti
nental Army any term of time
after the beginning of the year
i777> are requeued to attend at
Col. Giddinge's in Exeter, on
Thursday the 20th day Septem
ber next, at jo o'Clock, A. M.
to consult open a matter of
consequence to them and those
under their command.
CATECHiSMS/orCHILDREN,
and PRESERVATIVE from the
Bj the printer hereof and fold at this
Office —
— Watts' Plain and Easy
ALL perlons indebted to, or
who have demands againlt
the estate of Nathan Prefat, late
of Brintwood, deceased, are de
sired to fettle the fame with—
Jeremiah Prescot, Ex'r,
Britwood, July 17, 1792.
SINS and FOLLIES cf
Childhood and Youth;
TO WHICH IS ADDED THE SHORTER
Nottingham, July 17, 1792.
Daniel Smith.
Loudon, July iz, 1792.
CATECHISM OF THE °
Assembly of Divines
AT, WENSTMINSTER,
with Explanitory Not es.
JUST PUBLISHED,
Joseph Cilley.