The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-12-25 00:00:00, page 1

The Odd Fellow.
YOUR odd fellow is one who will do nothing
like the rest of the world. There was, a few
yt4i, ago a remarkable illustration of this character
in one White, a man of small independant fortune
wio lived in the borough of Southwark; this man
acted wholly upon the principles of contradiftion:
On a Sunday he always wore the worst clothes,
and fed on the worst food he could get, because
other people both eat and wore the best ; on a
Monday, because it is a kind es holiday, he used
to employ himfelf in some fort of work from mor
■Log 'ill night; the rest of the week he kept holi
dreffoig himfelf just decent on a Tuefday,
be ten a Wednesday, better still on Thursday,
& so tn till by Saturday evening, when other
ple were busy and undressed, he was the idlest
best dressed man in the parith; he used to
i point of dining on a goose on Shrove
, Ticfday, and on pancakes on Michalemas day;
fre 'rd upon offers as long as 'he weather con
fr^'bb', lint left off teaing&,m a, soon as there
Was an & xa-the mouth ; he almost Ilarved himfelf
YEAR.
We take no note of time, but from its loft;
To give it then a tongue is wife tn nan.
Night Thoughts.
ANOTHER year is ended, and 1 have got
one year lef> to live, one year more to ac
count for at the oar of the Almighty, and
am one year nearer to an eternal world ; what do
these thoughts fugged to ne? furel, nothing iefs,
nothing more feafmaoly. and nothing of greater
importance, than the neceility, the ab/otee neces
sity, of numbering my days, that I ma, apply my heart
unto wt/don ; of earneliiy seeking to know the things
which belong unto m, peace, be/ore they are for ever
bidden from my eyes.
How few among the sons & daughters of mortality
are mindful of their latter end ! how few even of
thole who make a profeiGon of religion are truely
cotferned to improve their time in preparing for
their last great change! Well might the prophet
fay, Who bath believed our report, and to whom is
the arm of the Lord revealed ?—Meq live as if they
never were to die, and too many die, utterly
regardless of the life which is to come; such is
man's infatuation and Rapidity, that he will not
fee, though it is daily before his eyes, that he is on
the brink of eternity, and liable to drop into it
every moment. Many are called off the Rage of
life soddenly and unexpectedly every revolving
year ; some in the bloom of youh, others just as
they arrive to mature age. Melancholy accidents
frequently terminate the lives of some, while dread
diseases daily haden the deaths of others. Alas!
now many have fallen the part year! how many
began the year with as ianguine expectations of
ending it as myfelt, but ere the half it was pad
were lummoned into another world ! Aid where
fore am / lti.il spared ? whence fa it 7 am (till a
probationer upon earth? Why am [permitted to
ftc die elute of anther year, while many younger
than myfeif are numbered with the silent dead, and
gone to the house appointed for all living f Surely
these questions demand our most serious regard,
and should be the matter of our coußant medita
tion. .
Dr. Young, in his Night Thoughts very justly
•bferves, time wafted is exifteuce— ufed is life;
and then, as if considering the importance and
mcceflity of improving it aright, adds,
Buy no moment but in parebge of its worth.
And what its worth, a ; k itads-beds§ the, can till :
Yes, fellow-mortal, whoever thou art, whether
young or old, rich or poor, be assured time is pre
cious, and loon will be no more: death is at hand;
and eternity awaits thee : an awful eternity of bliss
or woe will ere long open on the whole human
race, which shall be the everlalting portion of thee,
of me, of all ; then let it be our. fondant Rudy and
perfuit, according to chib poet's admonition,
To make each year a critic on the pafl.
And live each year as though it was our last.
The Rural Christian.
December, 24. ,
REFLECTIONS ON THE CLOSE OF THE
Saturday, December 25, 17,7}
The New-Hampshire Gazetteer.
From the BOOK of ODDITIES.
Sentimental Repository.
From a London Magazine.
Hail, America, hail ! the glor, of lands !
To thee such high honors are given ! s [rays.
Thy stars still ffiall blaze, 'till the moon veil her
And the fun lose his path-way in Heaven.
on Christmas day, and eat like a glutton, when
there was a public proclamation for a fait ; when
if railed hard he went without his waiitcoa or
great coat, but would button himfelf up close and
warm in the hotel! day in summer ; he wrote with
a skewer cut into^he form of a pen, and faftened
his letters with pah; he constantly set on a low
table, and eat off a chair; he dept in his kitchen
breakfafted in his garret, dined in the cellar, and
eat his supper all the year rCuad in the palfage
leading to the street door; he married three wives
and lived with neither of them ; he wpuld fre
quently pay a waterman to taKe his boat, ana at
tend him on the banks of the Thames, but never
got into it; and once am% th n,; hired 3 coach,
but always rode with the coachmen ; he sometimes
called for a pot of purl at an a e-noufe, and always
drank it at the door; he Ihavcd himfelf with a
penknife, and combed his wig with a clothes brulh;
he sometimes went to church, and Raid the whole
service, but never fat down; when in company,
he never spoke a word, but when alone he was al
ways talking to himfelf ; when he was lick he lent
for the butcher, but often when in health he con
sulted the apothecary ; he paid his house-rent in
the middle of the quarter, and always before it
came due; when he died he owed no man a Mil
ling, and took fufficient care that no man should
ever owe him sixpence. [Conn.Cour.]
That Vine which from Egypt to Canaan! brought;
With an out-ftr^tch'd, omnipotent arm ;
In America's foil, from Britania's bleak life.
Shall flourifh—and brave ev'ry form,
iv.
In vain persecution her wheel shall prepare,
The tyrant his scourge lift on high, t , ,
The wheel shall be broke, the scourge & the yoke,
All shatter'd in piec<,fhali lie.
v.
A POOR man who had a termagant wife after
a long dispute, in which he was resolved to
have the last word, told her, that if she (poke one
more crocked word, he would beat out her brains;
why, then, rams horns,,,# rag#?, laid she, if I
die for it.
Ye pow'rs & dominions, bright guardians of realms
Whose fw^y Rurope't fans h^r rever'd ;
Eastern monarchs no more, your aid shall implore,
To the Weft all your cares be xransfer'd.
~111..
To accomplish my pleasure, a hero I'll raise,
Unrival'd in counsel and might ;
Like the prophet of old, wife, patient and bold,
Resistless as JoJhua in fight,
vi.
Then the bright golden age shall triumphant return,
Millenium's new paradife bloom ; [attend,
While from earth's distant end, their'high date to
All nations with transport shall come.
Seeithe plains of Columbia, with banners o'erfpread,
s Hark, the roar of the battle's begun,
Like a son of the ikies, when proud rebels arise,
He drives the dire hurricane oh.
„ VII.
Him terrors, nor tre#fon nor dangers (hall daunt,
, 'Till his country from bondage reflor'd ;
Independent and free all her greatness shall fee
Due alone to his conquering sword.
VIII.
When the thunder is o'er, and fair peace spreads
The Chief still refulgent shall beam, [her wing,
Presiding at helm, framing laws for the realm.
In Peace as in War still supreme.
IX.
IN the regions of bliss where the majesty reigris,
Ten thousand bright Seraphim thone.
Wing'd for flight, they all Rand, harps of gold in
each hand,
When a voice issued mild from the throne.
From the Gazette of the United States.
Published by H. Ranlet, in th Main Street, Exeter.
O D E,
ON THE FOURTH JULY, 1790.
ANECDOTE $.
AT the time Socrates was paying his addresses
to the celebrated Xantippe, of scolding me
mory, and who afterwards proved so troublesome
to him, the philosopher was asked by one of his
most intimate freinds,why a man of his good sense
would incumber" himfelf with a wife, since tfry
so frequently proved termagan s, and at best are
always an addition of care & solicitude ?—My mo
tive (answered Socrates) is different from those of
men in general. It is a motive of disinterested
benevolence. "Idoby no means marry in or
der 'o promote my own pleasure ; my defan is, if
possible, to awake a n%#,^of p<cfe^— —
A SAILOR on board a ihip off the weft end of
Hupaniola,having one night drank more new
gum than he could well carry,daggered overboard,
and \ovithltand ng all the means that could b<
uled to preserve him, went to the bottom, and
cilappearedh. About two hours afterwards the
people of a ihip belonging to a squadron,. coming
from Jamaica heard a voice, as it were, arising
out of the sea, and calling Ho ! the ship a hope
Upon which some of us ju&p,d into the boat that
lay along aside, and rowing towards the place,
from whence the voice (which b^ths time had
repeated the hail) seemed to proceed, we perceived
something floating upon the water. When we had
roved a little farther we difeerned it to be a man
riding upon a hen coop, who feeing us approoch,
pronounced with a hoarse voice, “ Damn your
bloods why did you not answer when I hail'd ?-=
Our mate, who was evei, inch a seaman, hearing
this salute, said, “By G— d, my lads this is none
of our countrymen — this is the devil—pull away
for the (hip !" —The fellows obeyed his command
without qaeßion, & we were already some fa boms
on our return, when 1 infilled upon th^ir taking
up the poor creature, and prevailed upon them to
go back.—When we had come near him a second
time and had lignified our intention of affixing
him, we received for anfwer —'' Avast, avaft—^
what ship brother ?"— Being fatisfied in this par
ticular, he cried ' Damn the ship, I was in hopes
that it had been mp own; where are you bound ?"
We gratified his curiefity in this 1 bo, upon which
he fuffered himfelf to be taken on board, and after
being comforted witha dram, told us he belonged
to the Fefuvto man of, war, upon a cruise off the
Island o Hilpaniola; that he had fallen overboard
about 24 hours ago and the ship being under
tail, they did not chufe to bring too, but tossed
a hen-coop overboard for his. convenience, upon
which he was i, good hopes to r ^.ch the Cape next
morning: Howfomever, he was as well content to
be a board us befaufe he did nor doub bu? we
should meet his fhp; and if he had gone 0 shore
at the Bay he might have been taken priioner uy
the French !
A N Trifhman who was desperately in lovq and
frequently denied his request, by tyis cruel
Charmer, resolved the next day to droty himfe f
supposing that the inconstant beauty would then
relent, and pity him. Accordingly he went to a
pond, where another of his coun rymen flood un
perceived. The desperate lover plunged into the
water, bur in spite of all his efforts, could not
drown himielf, on account of its shallowness. He
was therefore put to his wits again. Perceiving a
trde at a distance, and recollefting that his garters
were long and strong, he resolved to hang himfrlf,
which he did, in presence of his countrymen, who
still remained a tame fpe&ator. When he had
dangled for some time, the Irishman who was look,
ing on, began to make a noise and alarm the negh
bours ; He told them all he had seen him dp ; be
ing therefo e called to an account why he permit,
ted the poor man to destroy himielf, hedeclar
ed in his own defence that 'pon his troth, he tho't
the gentleman had a mind to bathe, and then, as he
was wet, went to hang for a little bit, in ordgr to
dr, bimfelf.,
A CERTAIN Mr. W— - a Surgeon of re
markaole eminence io Edingburg ofually
known Dy the name of Long Sandy, and remarka
ble for his eccentricity ot Character,and peculiarity
of expression, meeting with Lady Wallace com ng
out of the Church one day,bluntly accotted her w th
—Eh, my Lady, you grow as fat as a Whale ! Yes
Sandy (replied the immediately) and how would
you like to be 'Jonah?,
From the Columbian CentiNEL.
Or an English Sailor, (Related by Smollett.)
BAGATELLE.
[Vol. V.— Numb. 229