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

ft ECONOMIST—N° # 9 #
NO company is to me more enter
taining or inftrudive, than that
of a sensible, judicious farmer. From
men of liberal and polite education I
often hear more refined & learned ob
servations : But the observations of the
farmer are drawn immediately from
nature, with which his business leads
him to coaverfe, and therefore are
better adapted to the real purposes of
life. I lately spent an evening with
my good friend Sopbron. He is one
of those methodical husbandmen who
always keep their affairs in order,
calculate loss and gain; and thrive in
their calling. Soon after L was seated,
he presented me with a mug of excel
lent small beer. It is a rule with me,
fays he, " to treat my friends with
the belt my house affords :Bat I never
make a bustle, when a friend comes
in, by fending one boy this way, and
another that, to get something for him
to drink ; nor do I trouble him with
forty excuses, because I cannot give
him something better; nor tell twenty
lies to make him believe I never was
taken so unprepared before. To tell
he truth, beer is now the principal
drink of my family ; and so I design
it shall be, until other liquors are
cheaper. I have long since reduced
my affairs to a system ; for a farmer
ought to have a system, as well as a
politician. At the dole of every year
I compute the proceeds of my farm,
Such th° scenes our life displays,
Swiftly fleet our rapid days :
The hour that rolls forever on
Tells us our years muff soon be gone.
Sudden, Death with mournful gloom,
Swept us downwards to the tomb;
Life and health and joy decay,
Nature finks and dies away.
But the foul in gayest bloom,
Disdains the bondage of the tomb;
Ascends above the clouds of even.
And raptur'd hails her native heaven.
Hark, hark, the joy-inspiring grove.
Echoes to the voice of love ;
Balmy gales the found prolong,
Wafting round the woodland song.
Youth and peace, and beauty there
Forever dance around the year ;
An endless joy invests the pole,
And streams of ceaseless pl-afure roll ;
Light and joy and grace divine,
With Bright and Jafting glory ffiine,
Jehovah's smiles, with heav'nly ray,
Diffufe a clear unbounded day.
Sorrow cast her sadness round,
Life and joy forfook the ground,
Death with wild imperious sway,
Bade th' expiring world decay.
Now cast around thy raptur'd eyes,
And fee the beauteous spring arise,
See,flow'rs invest the hills again,
And streams remurmur o'er the plain
Frota the Hampshire Chronicle.
Winter, late with dreary reign,
Rul'd the wide enjoyous plain ;
Gloomy storms with solemn roar
Shook the hoarse resounding shore.
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SEAT of the MUSES.
THE SEASONS MORALIZED.
By the Rev. Dr. Dwight.
BEHOLD the changes of the skies,
And fee the circling seasons rife,
Hence, let the mortal truth refin'd.
Improve the beauty of the mind.
and other resources ;4nd adjoft my
expenditures, so tharthey (hall come
fltort of the revenue. I firft sequester
a certain part cf my income for
necessaries : I then provide tor con
tingencies, as sickness in my family,
charity to the poor, and ,unforefeen
Ioffe?: After that i make a reasonable
allowance for conveniences, always
taking care, that mere conveniences,
or luxuries, do not, through custom
and habit, become necessaries : The
surplus I add to the capital, which is
thus gradually increasing. If the
necessary expenses of my family are
enexpe&edly multiplied, I nevertake
from the capital, or from the sum
appropriated to increase the capital ;
but I draw upon the bank designed
for conveniences ; for tbefe must al
ways yield to necessaries. If the
luxuries and ornaments of life are
enhanced in their price, I moderate
in the consumption of them. If they
are very dear, I wholly disuse them,
until the price falls. So that really
it is nothing in, or but of my pocket,
whether they are cheap or dear. Ever
since the Negro infurredion, Weftin
dia goods have been rifing,and I have
been retrenching in the use of them.
The present price is so great, that I
confider it, as a kind of prohibition.
Spirits I place among the articles of
medicine, to be used only in cases of
sickness. lam determined to pay
nothing toward defraying the expense
of this Negro war. If blacks& whites
will] fight, they may fettle the bill
between themselves. The misery
and deftrudion of the human race, I
lament as much as any man ; but I
please myfelf with the hope, that the
present infurredion will on the whole
be productive of human happiness, by
difeouraging the Have trade. I believe
the time is coming, when we shall
all be convinced, that a black and a
copper colour, as well as our own, are
entitled to the rights of humanity. I
mean not, however, to meddle with
politicks ; but steadily to pursue my
own system, which I have hitherto
found highly ufeful. A farmer,in his
sphere, may be a kind of independent
prince. But in order to that, he must
live a little below his income, and
diftinguilh between the necessaries,
and the luxuries of life."
I went home ruminating on So
phron's system. Icould not but approve
it : But felt some doubts whether it
were possible for me to introduce it.
Rum, I knew, would raise the princi
pal opposition. Against this 1 de
termined firft to try my strength. If I
could carry my point here, I had no
doubt of complete success, I examin
ed my bottles and found a pint and
a half of rum. This 1 set aside for
medicine —I ordered that there should
be a con&ant supply of good beer, for
which I immediately procured all
necessary materials. I then gave
notice,by proclamation, that no more
rum was to be used in the family
during its high price, except in cases
of sickness. There was a solemn
silence.
Three days passed quie.ly. On the
fourth morning, Joe Sling, one of my
hired men, was violently seized with
the gripes : Two others began to
wear a rueful countenance. I asked
Joe, if he could think of any thing
that would relieve him. He said, he
had been used to such turns, and ty
always found rum to be efficacious.
The case appeared to me serious. I
expected half my family would be ta
ken down before night. I called in
the physician. He soon got a good
knowledge of the case—He admini
ftercd a brifkemetick, which was fol
lowed with two or three draftick pills.
They had a wonderful effeft. They
wrought a radical cure in Joe, and, by
a kind of fympathetick influence,
cured all the rest. I have not heard
a word about the cholick for these fix
weeks ; and my rum remains undi
minished. 1 shall succeed.-
TH E fubferibers Commis
sioners to receive and ex
amine the claims against the es
tate ofHARVEY NICHOLS,
late of Exeter, deceased —give
notice, that they will attend that
business at the house of Benja
min Lamfon, Innholder, on the
lad Wednesday of this and the
five following months from it
to I o'clock on laid days.
SIMEON LADD
William Parker,jr.
• . Stephen Lamson,
ANECDOTE
Os Lord Hardwicke.
HIS Lordfllip at his firft set
ting off in life, was an
articled clerk to an attorney. It
happened one day that his mis
tress, in want of another servant,
sent for him from his office,and
desired him to go to the next
market and buy her some cab
bages. ''Madam, said Yorke,
I never bought a cabbage in my
life; Ifhall certainly mifpendyour
money." "No matter, replied
the lady, it is time you should
begin ; and I desire you would
go,as there is rio body else in
the way." Mr. Yorke knew
his mistress's temper too well to
refufe any longer ; but at the
fame time, hot willing to be
troubled on any like occasion,
he hit upon an expedient which
effectually answered the purpose.
Accordingly he received the
money from his mistress, went
our, and in about half
an hour returned which
his purchase.—The next day he
was to fettle some accounts of
disbursements with his master.
and among other usual articles,
the following item appeared —
"Item, for buying a cabbage, one
shilling and fxptnce." Such an
extraordinary charge nectffarily
induced an inquiry on :he mat
ter's fide ; but he was presently
fatisfied on being informed,that
on the preceding day his mis
tress called him fiom the office,
and ordered him to buy her a
cabbage ; but as he was willing
to do his best, and he had heard
that the best cabbages were fold
at such a market, (meaning a
market to which the coach fare
from his master's house amount
ed to the fame charge) he call
ed a coach, and driving thither,
made a molt excellent pruchafe.
The matter smiled—“ And
from that day to this (his Lord
fllip would frequently add? I
never bought another cabbage."
VArious kinds of Writing
V Paper, made at the Paper-Mill
in Andover, to be fold at this Office,
by the Ream or Quire., Alfo,—
Foolscap Printing, and a few Reams
of Casing. Exeter, 1792.
B, the printer hereof andfold at bis office.
A Narrative of the extraordi
nary fufferings of Mr. Robert
Forbes, his Wife and five Children :
During an unfortunate journey thro'
the wilderness, from Canada to Kene
beck River, in the year 1784 —in
which three of their children starved
to death.
Juf PubliJbed— price 6d.
Junices.
TILLY HOWE, refldent at
Poplin, in said county, gentle
man, humbly shews, That on the 20th
day of March, Anno Domini 1787,
he was lawfully married to MARCY
STICKNEY, now resident at Pem
broke, Spinster, that since their inter
marriage the said M ARCY hath vio
lated her marriage covenant in the
grofeft sense and hath committed the
crime of adultery Wherefore said
petitioner prays, that the bonds of
matrimony between him and the said
MARCY may be dissolved.—
The said MARCY being le
gally notified doth not appear, and the
said TILLY appears and proves the
fads set forth in said petiton—it is
therefore considered by the Court that
the prayer of said petition be granted
and that the faidTlLLYand MARCY
be, and hereby arc divorced from the
bond: of matrimony.
Attest :
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
lectmen.
N. B. The Proprietors Rights are
taxed at gs lid per right.
JACOB GILMAN, ),
JAMES MASON, ft^
JACOB GILMAN, J
Tamworth, April 23d, 1792.
The Hon. John Pickering, Eq.
Chief fuftice.
Hon.]?"* '"n""' Iq.
J Simeon Olcott, j 1
Agreeable to an Aft of the General
Court, passed the iStb of 'June 1789,
empowering the Selectmen cr Afrffors
to a flejs atax of one half Penny on each
acre of land within said town /or the
purpose of repairing highways,&c.-
NOTICE is hereby given,
that said assessment is made a
greeable to said account, and theNon
refidents and Proprietor s have the li
berty of working their tax at 3/ the
day—provided they do the fame with
in three months from the publifhment
hereof, under the direction of the Se-
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 es
tate—and all persons who have
any claims against said estate are
desired to exhibit the fame to
the said fubferibers.
BILE D. LYFORD, 7 ,
JOHN LYFORD,
Brintwood, May 19th, 1792.
WANTED immediately,
A Quantity of long Horie and
Cattles' HAIR, for which
Cash will be given, by
S. S BENNETT.
Exeter, Bth Msynypt.
STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ROCKINGHAM —ff.
At the faperior Court of fuelcotare held,
en at Porifmonib, <wttbin and /or the
County of Rockingham^ on thefou'tb
Tuefday of April in the year of o*r
Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety -two.
Just PubliJhed —price 6d.
B, the printer hereof, and to he fold at
this Office,
A Letter from an eminent Mi
nister of the Church of Scotland:
written to a Minister of his acquaint
ance at some distance, in th^ feme
Kingdom : giving an acccount of his
Conveilion and wonderful change ia
his Preaching, after he had been of
some years standing in the ministry.
ASH,or Writing- Paper,
' given for clean Linen,or Cotton,
and Lihen RAGS, at this Office.
TAMWORTH.
STATEof NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PRESENT,