The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-06-13 00:00:00, page 4

The ruddy fun had kill'd the dew
From off the verdant flowery grals ;
The warbling birds their songs renew,
In joyous mirth their hours they pass.
Twas then a lovely blooming maid,
The loveliest of the virgin train,
In robes of puref lwhite array'd,
Was rambling o'er the extended plain.
The various scenes before her spread
Attracted still her eager eye,
And soon she fy 'd along the mead
A fluttering, gaudy'buttterfly.
With beauteous wings of shining gold,
In conscious pride it flew around :
No infed lovelier to behold,-
No butterfly so gay was found.
From flower to flower, on every fide,
This painted beauty prcedly flow ;
Admiring infers vainlytry'd
To emulate her golden hue.
At length a young mifehievous boy
Her fliining form with rapture views,
Anxious to ga : n the glittering toy
With eager tteps he fwilt pursues.
Unconscious of the danger near,
By wayward fancy led astray,
Her actions indicate no fear,
And soon flic fills an easy prey.
With rude and impious hands, the boy
Piucks off her various colour'd wings,
And then, elate with lavage joy,
Her shapeless body from him flings.
The roving Stella flood mean time,
Attentive fcann'd the-a&ion o'er :
“ Is beauty then, cry'd she, a crime?
“ If so, I'll value it no more.
" Such is, alas ! the cruel fate,
" Os female beauty, virgin bloom :
" 1 hey do but serve to Simulate
“ Seducers vile to seal our doom.
“ That butterfly in humbler dress
" Safe from the boy's rude handshad been
66 Poor fool ! she plac'd her happiness—
" Her highest pride in being seen.
" Ah! what is beauty but a name ?
“ A painted plaything ? dear deceit ?
" A toy of.fickle, fleeting fame,
66 With visionary bliss replete ?
“ Since then the beauties of the face
“ Were ne'er for real bliss design'd,
" O let me cultivate each grace
" Each choicer beauty of the mind."
Twas on a charming Mummer's morn,
When nature's pencil had display'd
The faireft scenes o'er mead and lawn:
And faireft flowers the fields array'd.
A N SWER=°
NEW-HAMPSHIRE—In tranquil
ity and perfe& good humour, altering
and amending her Conftitution —Peace
and prosperity are her lot.
MASSACHUSETTS Doing
something of almost every thing.—Her
eastern branch labouring for a repara
tion from the original flock—electing
her officers, pursuing the fifheries, a.
griculture and manufactures with fpir
ic— projeding literary and ufeful plans
and improvements—and, as usual, her
metropolis " full of notions."
RHODE-ISLAND —Progreffingin
beneficial inftiturions —and daily be
coming more and more like unto her
sisters—She has lately rechofeh most of
her officers.
CONNECTICUT—ScribbIing in
the papers, about taxing Mechanicks
forming electioneering projects—
blacking St. Clair—the Heads of
Departments, &C. for sport —pursuing
useful Manufactures, and railing Silk-
Worms Mulberry Trees, Horses iand
Mules.
FWI
SEAT of the MUSES.
The BUTTERFLY.
; QUESTION
What are the Individual States about ?
FROM THE CENTINEL.
NEW-YORK—Quarrelling about
the choice oiGovernor — Clinton vj°
Jay — Her capital in mourning - -her
(peculators in prison or on the sing—
her citizens in agitation —commerce
at a fiand—confidence (baker. her
treasury is, however, rich, and by li
beral loans therefrom, she is enabled
greatly to improve' ler inland com
munications and ra<igation—and to
advocate the cause of Science, learning
and humanity, in the date— and her
resources are equal in time tb a reno
vation of her pristine importance,
wealth and refpedability.
NEW.JERSEY -Qiet as the
lambs that play on her fertile hills &
highly cultivated plains— Ihe feat 01
the National Manufactory preparing
—and its operations in move merit.
DELAWARE—As flic fhculd be—
purfuing her bell interfts without med
iing with the world of great ones.
PENNSYLVANIA. Advancing
with speed, to the pin nicle of wealth
and confequence — With open arms she
still receives into her bosom the emi
grants of all nations— without distinc
tions of religion or colour; and daily
increafirg in manufactures, arts, fei
e ces, and mechanical improvements
from their labour and ingenuity.
M ARYLAND —Happy in the im
provent of the products of her foil,en
joys the calm repose of increasing prcf
perity, and rising importance.
VlßGlNlA—Pollening immense
resources—a numerous population,and
a dignified pride — feels not a little
uneasy, that Ihe is net the arbitrefs of
the Union — Her jealousy of her North
ern neighbours arises from a mistaken
principle ; but were it not that she re
tains in her bolom many thousand
Haves, her apparent republicanifin
would not be disputed—She however,
possesses all the ingredients of confe
quence,refpe&ability and importance.
NORTH-CAROLlNA—lncreafng
in genuine Federalism, increases also
in consequent prosperity. May her
progress long continue.
SOUTH-CAROLINA—Enjoys the
best advantages Heaven bellows—and
were she rightly to improve them, she
need not yield the palm to any of her
filter states —and that the is learning
to improve them all can fee.
GEORGIA—Has been perplexed
with intestine jars—Her fufferings dur
ing the war were unparralleled,&occa
fioned a tartness in the conduct of her
citizens, which it is hoped the fachao
rine hours of prosperity will ameliorate.
OF THE UNION AT LARGE.
This truism has lately been declared
by an elegant writer, that " TIME
AND PROSPERITY TRAVEL
TOGETHER" as they refped her—
and let the scrutinizing eye pervade
any direction, and it will find a veri
fication of the affection !
Though her frontiers are harraffed by
a savage and vindictive fee, she yet
enjoys all the blessings which industry,
liberality and economy can insure—
Her staple is the surest in the Union ;
and from the regulations made con
cerning it, the id enabled to be to the
Wflndies, many ports of Eurc;c,and
her filler States, what the ancient Tri
nicria was to Rome.
LONDON, MARCH 2Q.
A German, by profeffion a
stone-polisher, who, for many
years had resided with much re
putation in ^neighbourhood of
Portlandxhapel,on Sunday fe'n
night, in the presence of his
wife,brother, and filler, prepar
ed to shave himfelf, and in an
instant cut his throat. Surgical
assistance was immediately pro
cured, and the wound was sew
ed up. He afterwards appeared
perfectly composed, and made
his will with great perspicuity
and decision, by which he as
Foreign Advices.
signed the whole of his proper
ty to his brother ; he then lent
for a person with whom he had
worked, and delivered him 150
guineas and other property, to
be appropriated to the oleos
his brother, leaving his wife
without even the necessaries of
life. Having effected this,with
the most determined ferocity,
he tore out the thread by which
the wound was closed, and im
mediately bled to death about
five hours and an half after he
firft made the wound ; he refut
ed to assign any reafcn for this
desperate ad, On the following
day an inquest was taken on his
body, and the virdidf returned
was—LUNACY.
William Marsha!, a tinker in
the parish of Croffmichael, is
now 118. He might pass for
a man of 60. Sir John Sid
clair, who law him lately, and
to whom we are indebted for
this account, fays, that his fa
culties are unimpaired, and that
he walks through the country
with case. A fine fellow for a
Tontine.
Weare informed that the fol
lowing accident happened inAr
lington, the day before yester
day :—A young son of a Mr.
Hawley, of that town, of about
three years of age, was found
de^d,hanging between theboards
of a fence. A pile of boards
which lay near the fence, hid the
child from the road. How long
the unfortunate infant had been
in the fence, when found, is un
certain; our informant under
flood the corps was cold, when
firft difeovered. What renders
the accident peculiarly affecting
is, that it was an only son.
The following melancholy
affair happened at Litchfield a
few days fince —Mr. D. Stod
dard being at work at his saw
mill with another man, in re
pairing the crank, the man,fup
pofing Mr. Stoddard to be out
of danger, hoisted the gate, but
unhappily the motion of the
wheel threw h ; m from a feat
fold on the crank, which caught
him by his legs, and before the
gate could be shut, drew him
in,and put an immediate period
to the exigence of a very wor
thy citizen.
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ALL persons indebted to the
estate of Bile Lyford, late
of Brintwood, in the county of
Rockingham, gentleman, de
ceafed,are requeued to fettle the
fame with the fubferibers imme
diately, Executor of the said ef
tate —and all persons who have
any claims against said estate are
desired to exhibit the fame to
the said fubferibers.
BILE D. LYFORD, ) £
JOHN LYFORD, j
Brintwood, May 19th, 1792.
BENNINGTON, APRIL Ig.
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The Hon. John Pickering, E'q.
At tie faperior Court of Judicature bold
er, as Rortfmonth, within and jor tie
Count, of Rockingham, on thefowr/b
Tuejday of Afrit in tie year of cur
Lord one thouJand Jeveri bundrta and
ninetj-tvso.
TILLY HOWE, resident at
A Poplin, in said county, gentle
man, humbly thews, That on the 2ori
day of March, Anno Demini 1787,
he was lawfully married to MARCI
STICKNEY, now ufident at Pem
broke, Spinder, that since their inter
marriage the said MARCY hath vio
lated her marriage covenant in the
grofe ft sense and hath committed the
crime of adultery Wherefore f^id
petitioner prays, that the bends ct
matrimony between him and the Lid
MARCY may be dissolved.—
The said MARCY being le
gally notified doh not appear, arid the
said TILLY appears and proves the
fads set forth in said periton—it is
therefore considered by the Court that
the prayer of said petition be granted
and that the said TILLYand MARCY
be, and hereby are divorced from the
bonds of matrimony.
Attest :
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Agreeable to an AEI of the Genera!
Court, paged the '.Sth of June 1789'
empowering the Selectmen or Afiefors
to aflefs 4 iax of one balp Penn, on each
acre of land within said town for the
purpose of repairing highways^c,=—
NTOriCE is hereby given,
that said assessment is made a
greeable to laid account, and theNon
refidents and Proprietors have the li
bertyof working their tax at 3/thc
day—provided they do the fame-with
in three months from the pubhlhmrnt
hereof, under the direction of the Sc
letlmen.
N. B. The Proprietors Rights art
taxed at 9/ 1 id per ^ight.
JACOB GILMAN, ] c
JAMES MASON,
JACOB GILMAN, J
Tarn-worth, April 23d, 1792.
VArious kinds of Writing
Paper, made at the P^per-Milt
in Andover, to be fold at this Office,
by the Ream or Quire.—-—^//d, —
Foolscap Printing, and a few Reams
of Casing. Exeter, 1792.
Hen IJ° HN Dudley, ) Ef ,,,
J Simeon Olcott, )
CASH, or Writing-Paper,
given for clean Linen,or Cotton
and Linen RAGS, at this Office.
STAIEof NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ROCKINGHAM—ff.
TAM WORTH.
Clief Joflicf.
PRESENT,
Jflices.