The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-09-24 00:00:00, page 4

Into his coffin.
Codd night, my friends ! When this J aft-nap is over,
(I rest in hope) awaking from my slumber,
I shall arise, and wifli you a good morning,
In Life Eternal.
J T,
A Humorous TaM*
r J " WO Englilh nobleman, on (heir
& travels arriving at Paris, put
up at a house jn which a German Count
had died and laid a corpse. in the
middle of the night, one of the two
not. being able to Heep, and growing
weary, of his bed, arose in order to a.
muse himfeif in the kitchen., where
.he heard forhe people talking. He
had diverted himfeif there for some
time, when being willing to return
from whence he came, he again went
up flairs: but, instead of entering his
own chamber, went into-that of the
deceased Count, over whose face they
had only thfown a cloth. There is
not Co much ceremony used in France
in the management of their dead as
in England and Germany ; for they
are there fatisfitd with jewing their
a to the living. The English •
map, aftejrhaving put out his candle,
laid down boldly by the defund :
when, creeping as dole tn him as pos
sible, in order to warm himfeif, and
finding his bed-fellow colder chan he,
began to mutter—What the devil’s
the matter, my friend ?, said he, you
are as.cold as ice. Til lay a wa^er,
numb as you ae, you would have
been warm enough if voy had but
seen the? pretty girl ? thac is below
flairs. Come, come," you may take
my word fork, added he, andfpulk
ing him. by the arm-*-come, zounds,
fir, I’ll engage you shall have her for
a guinea. While he was holding this
fine converfarion with the dead, who
(detached .from the 'things of this
wer^dia not give himW the'trbu
ble of making a reply ; his ; chamber
door was opened, which niflde him
raifehis head from the pillow to fee
'who was coming in •, but judge what
, That age would blulh at.
farewell, a long farewell, to fin and fonow :
Now Death’s cold hand is reaching me a portion
Tp cure the maladies of human nature ;
Age is the last one.
J fin the nurse’s arms we ace not smothered,
Yet firft or last death will rock o er the cradle ;
As there the young—-here the old infant turnbles
Let uncreated love’s mysterious mantle.
Woven to cover naked human nature,
Hide what the child, the youth, or man has aCled
Proclaims thy goodness.
From thee this wondrous frame of mine proceeded,
By thee to feeble age it is protracted,
'I o thee it gravitates as to the centre
A mental touch of the Benefic Spirit
Moulded my texture of these deeds of mercy •
■With pieafure I have footh’d the fobbing bosom,
Sunk by oppression.
Indulgent Heav’n ! not greater was thy glory
Os pow’r and wisdom, tung at the creation
By morning Bars, than four score years’ experience
The tick I visited ; I felt the anguish
I could not heal ; butkindnefs was a cordial :
Th<ir earnest looks acknowledg’d iny companion ;
They blefs’d me dying,
These feet, unable now to bear the burden
Impos’d upon them by the law of nature,
How nimbly have they mov’d this active body,
When foriow call’d me*
Seat of the Muses.
H [weeping ?
USH, huth my friends, Why stand you round me
You Ihock my fortitude—too weak already ;
Save that dear infant, he may long be ufeful :
My day is over.
With pieafure and with pain I, in retrofpeft :
View my past life : I fee a thousand flings ;
Yet here and tl ere a man, that, when an orphan,
Fed at my table.
My door was ever open to the stranger;
My heart to the diftrefs’d ; my hand was ready
io reach a model to the poor and needy ;
ne EXIT of OLD AGE:
Reflections adapted to the Close oj a well
spent Life.
It but a morfcl.
Os its existence.
must be his furprize, when he saw a
fervanc lighting in a joiner, who car
ried a coffin on his (boulders ’ He
thought at firft that He had been in a
dream ; but looking about him, and
feeing the vifageofone who had not
spoken a word, a visage overspread
widh a mbrta,! paleness, he made/but
one jump from the bed into the mid
dle ot (he chamber. The joiner and
maid, immediately perluaded that it
was thecorpfe, who being unwilling
to be (hut up in the coffin, was now
playing its gambols, their legs were
unable to move with fwiftnels pro
portionable to their fear, and the
joiner, maid, coffin,candieftick rolled
one over another, from the top of
stairs down into the kitchen. Zouns
what are you all about ? cried the
landlord: Is the devil flying away
with the dead man ; Mercy on us !
cried the maid, quite chapfallen, it is
rather the dead man that would run
away with us, I’ll be hang’d, laid
the joiner, if that dead fellow <there
has any more occasion for a coffin
than I have; why- he has got into
the mddle of room, and has just
(truck up a hornpipe. He has ! cri
ed the landlord—taking a light,faith
we’ll soon (ee that
While all the family were tremb
ling and getting ready ro follow the
mailer of the boule, the Englilh no
bleman, who had again found his
chamber, had dipt into bed, quite
out of breath ; and his friend having
asked him where he had been, he
told him that he had just been ly
ing with a dead body. ’Sblood 1 a
dead body ! it had perhaps the plague,
cried he, jumping, in his turn, out of
bed, and running to the door to call
for a light—The landlord, the land
. lady, and servants who were puffing
through the galleiy, no sooner saw
him than they imagined (hut it was
the dead who appeared again, and
down they came much fafter than
they went up, head over heals from
top to bottom, with the candle
sticks rolling after them : at this
confulion join’d with their (hrieks and
clamours, the Lrgliffiman, terrified
at the hideous noift, soon made for
Lis room, and dipt into bed to his
companion, without the least fear of
catching the plague. In the mean
time an hone ft country priest, who
lodged in the inn, got up & appeared
armed with holy water, and a long
broom infteaci of a little bruffi ; he
made his afperfioos, and theconjura
tions prtfcribed by theßomiffi church
and conduced by the way of pro
cession, the terrified trembling people
into the chamber of the defunft,who,
thinking no harm lay quietly in bed.
The priest was inftaritly regarded as
a faint ; and they all cried up the mi
racle of the holy water, which bound
the corpse to its good behaviour,and
prevented its being refradory.
ENTERTAINMENT.
A charitable Bull.
AN Iriffi School ma ft er, from a
.conviction of the efficacy of
Sunday Schools, in correcting the mo.
rals of youth, and a ware that his neigh
bourhood stood in particular need of
them, lately proposed aSunday School
upon a new principle, in which, from
mere motives of patnbtifm, he was
willing to officiate gratukoufly twi ce
’ a.week, every Wednesday & Saturday !
AN ExcifcManlooking on a .boy,
•My pretty'lad fays he, What
do you/fiffi for ? I fiffi for fhe'Deyil,.
fays, the boy I want the right /,
bait to catch him with. What bait
is that, faith the other *: Indeed, Sir,
I fay^the boy, I have heard there is no
better bait in the wpdil than an Ex- r
afe Man for that purpofei / "
' //.
Exeter, September 5, 1793-
.^'T'HISdaY Loft, between Mr.
JL Joseph Wiggins’ and Mr. Jeremiad
Leavitt’s, in this town, A Purse, containing
Five Silver Dollars, and about One
Dollar in Change. Whoever has found said
Money, and will leave it with the | rintej
hereof, shall be handsomely rewarded by him.
ALL perlons indebted to thefub
fcriber. in this and the neighbouring
townsjor Newspapers, Adwertifementi,Elanks,
See. &c. &c. in <he years 1776, and 1777,
are requeued to call upon him, and difeharge
the fame, or he fliall ( hough dilagreeable)
put them in the hands ofWillpm Plumer,Efq.
attorney at law in Epping.
Those perlons who plundered
him of his Printin^Office. Books of Accounts,
Papers, Book-Shop, Sec. in 1777, are required
to make fatisfadlion, or they will be called
upon, before the Court of the United States,
as a Court, not of Law but of EQUITY.
1 ' ' FOWLES.
Who has for sale, at his fop in Exeter,
a /mail of ortment of
Englifli Goods,
which for quaii y he will fell as ;ow as other
shops in town—any thing that has been
said to the contrary notwithstanding.
Exeter, August 18, *793 •
" US SHE R’s
Englifli' Grammar,
rnd
Mr. THURSTON’S
Two Sermons, on the
Natural Man not receiving the 'things
of the Spirit of God, and his inca-- ^
pacify to know them, &c.
To be fold at H. Ran let’s Printing Office.
Ca(h Writingpaper
given its exchange for dean Ceccon & Linen
RAGS at H. RaW^et’b Priming.Office.
where there is plenty of water at all seasons
of the year. Thole who will favour him with
their cuftora, shall have their Thick Cloths
drefled in one month after they are uken io ;
and all Thin Cloths fccner, dulled in the
neatelt and best manner pc ffible, and all en
gagements fnall be punilually fulfilled.
Grey Cloths mall be dpne in a fortnight
from the time they are received.
5^ Cloths of every kind will be received at
the dwelling-boufe of said Swett, as he has
left the Mill where he formerly worked, and
every favour gratefully acknowledged.
Pittsfield, Sept. 2, 1793 •
*
JnFORMATION is hereby given io all
the Military Invalids of the United States,
that the sums to which they are intitled for
fix months of their annual penficn, from the
4 th day of March last, and which will become
due on the yth of September next, will be
paid on the said day by the Commiflioners of
the Loans within the States jefpedtively un
der the usual regulations.
By Command of the
President of the United States,
H. KNOX, Secretaryat IVar.
ONE was persuaded to venture
femething at the Lottery. Not
1, laid he, for none have luck at it but
rank Cuckolds. His wife standing
by, persuaded him by all means to
venture ; for, said (he, I am certain
you will have very good luck.
TNFORMS his Customers and the
A Public in general) That he has lately
erected a
Anecdote ^Counsellor Jeff er its
ONE time Jtffciks fitting as Judge
at the Assizes, and feting a man
wim a great long beard give his evi
dence awkwardly, told him, That if
his conscience was as large as hisbeard,
he might swear any thing. The man
being nettled, replied. If you mealure
consciences by beards, your lordlhip
has none at all.
3^^s^s^ MMS^ M^^S^^M^^
Thomas R- Swett
Fulling-Mill-—
War Department.
AUGUST I, 1/93.
Money Loft.
APPOINTED by the Hon. Sa
muel Tbnniv, Esq. Judge cf Pro
bate for the County of Rockingham, to re
ceive, and examine the claims of the several
Creditors to the eftare of ALEXANDER
GORDON, late of Salem. Carpenter, de
ceased, represented inlolvent, hereby give
notice, that six months are allowed for the
Creditors to bring in their claims, and prove
their debts, to the fubferibers—and that they
will attend the buf.nefs the favrth Wtdntfdap
of September, inifant, and of the four follow
ing months,from i to 6 o’Clock, p. m. at
the house of Benjamin Gordon, in said Salem.
CALEB MORSE,
JAMES GILMORE,
WARREN WHEELER.
Salem, zd September, 1793-
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L _ .
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. United States, , J
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PROPO SA L
Os Alexander Steele, Jun.
For Printing by Subscription,
the
LIFE of our blefjed SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST:
With Confideratiom Difccurfes
upon the Conceptions, ^ati^ity,
Circumcijion, Baptism, Temp^
tat ions. Preaching, Miracles,
PaJJion, Refur reElion, and bis
Ascension into Heaven.
Including several unaofwerable
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meanest capacity, in Defence
of the Divinity of our Holy
Redeemer, and of the Truth
of the Christian Religion.
Likewife —The Lives, AEts, and
Deaths of the Holy E>vangtHJls
and Apo/lles* as recorded by
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