Martinsburgh gazette — Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.], 1810-11-09 00:00:00, page 1

No. 25 of Vol. XII.
Marti nsburgh, Virginia,
PRINTED 6? PUBLISHED BY
JOHN ALBURTIS.
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time 23ecu**' per nrrrlr i Snha~r:h—■ aufi caaliime '
to receive a rocyucuvn c. one-iouiiii on thru- As
vertisement*.
THE subscriber received about three
weeks ago, all of which is now open
and ready for sale, a large and extensive
assortment of
Fall and Winter GOODS,
Li quors, Groceries, Queen’s,
Glass, Stone & Potters’ Ware,
which will be sold on the most reasonable
terms for cash or a short credit to punctual
customers.
JAMES FAULKNER.
Martinsburgh, Nov. 2, 1810.
Martinsburgh Wool Mill.
THE subscribers inform the public, that
thtir Fulling Mil! is now in oppera
tion, they having two stocks, plenty of wa
ter and a sufficient number of experienced
workmen to enable them to finish doth
with neatness and dispatch, as one stock
will be employed in tailing coarse cloths
and lioseys, they will be finished very soon .
after delivered at the Mill. The subscri
bers will receive raw cloths at Marmaduke,
U. Co’s afore Shepherd’*-Town, and John
Blackford’s,Swearingen's Ferry,and return
it a* soonas the nature of the business will
■MJaat-of.
A. & If. HlftBERD.
N. B. The business will also be carried
on at the old stand, one mile and a half
from Martinsburgh.
A. HIBHERD.
Martinsburgh, 11th mo. 2, 1810.
Public Sale.
Will be sold at Public Vendue, on Thurs
day the 22d instant, at the late residence
cf Richard Butt, deceased, on the road
Jrom Martin Hi Uni res’’ mill to the Sevan
pond, the following proper ly, viz.
HORSES, Cattle, Sitet-p and Hcgs,
. Wheat, Rye and Com. all sorts of
Farming Utensils, Household and Kitchen
Furniture, and a number of other articles
too tedious to mention. The sale to be
gin at 10 o’clock. The terms of sale will
be made known on the day of sale.
For IFire.
Will be hired on the day of sale, for one
year, one Negro Boy, fourteen years of
age, one Negro Woman and three children.
JOHN WILLIAMSON,
Nov. 2, 1810. $
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Public Sale.
TO be sold by Public Auction, in Mar
tiosburgh, on Friday the iGth lost,
for Cash, Feather Beds, Bedsteads, Quilts,
Covers, Sheets, Chairs, Walnut Cupboard,
Cherry Desk, Sideboard, Tables, Potts
Dutch Ovena, with a variety of Household
and Kitchen Furniture, one good Cow, by
virtue of Deed of I rust made to the sub
scribers by John Robinson, dated the 6th
August, 1808, to indemnify certain per
sona therein named as hit securities.
JAMES FAULKNER,
WILLIAM LONG.
Nov. 2, 1810.
For Sale.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed
to me on the 7th day of April, 1808,
bv Christopher Hill and Christiana his
wife, I will sell at Public Auction, upon the
premises, ou Saturday the 17th of Novem
ber next, the house in which the aaid
Christopher Hill now lives in the town of
Martmsburgh, at the intevaecuoa of Ger
anan street aud John atreet, together with
,'ine lot of ground upon which the said house
tods. The Sale will be for cash.
J. ELISHA BOXPt TiUitte.
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October 26,
MARTIN SBURGH
Public Sale.
ILL be sold by public auction, on
Friday the 16:h instant, at the sub
scribed farm on Tuscarora, about two
miles from Martiosburgh, a number of
young Horses, Fitteys and Colts, among
which are, a remarkably stout and hand
some horse, five years old, one of four
years—and several handsome mares from
three to five years old—Also will be sold
at the same time about 1,000 bushels corn.
In the heap. Sis months credit will be
given on bond with Approved security.-—
1 here will be several fat cattle for sale for
cash.
CATHERINE GAITHER, Ex'r.
JKov. 2, 1810.
Tvventy Doilars Reward.
RAN away from the farm of Beal Dim
mitt. Esq. of Hampshire County,
Virginia, on Monday morning the 29lh ult.
a bright mulatto man, who calls himself
George Spence, about 22 years of age ; he
took with him a new coarse linsey rounda
bout, Ik coarse tow linen overalls; he had no
shoes nor stockings. It is suspected he
has taken a young sorrel Horse, five years
old last spring ; bridle and saddle from the
subscriber’s farm. Any person apprehend
ing said mulatto and securing him in any
jail in this state, and secures the horse,
saddle and bridle and returns them to the
subscriber, or gives information so that I
get them again, shall receive the above re
ward. ,
THOMAS OARE.
Hampshire County, Nov. 2, 1810. $
PUBLIC SALE.
\ T 711 L be sold at public sale, on Sa
V V turday the 10th of November next,
at the subscriber’s residence or the Court
House, in Martinsburgh,
Seven-eight's Irish Linens,
white and brown, imported in the Jurana,
Capt. Sanders, from Londonderry-—the
Linens will be sold either by the piece,
half-piece, or by the yaid. Three months
credit will be given, by giving notes with
approved security’. The sale to commence
ca:ly, when due attendance will be given by'
WILLIAM MACKEY.
October 2G, 1810.
To be sold at Pivate Sale,
Y the subscriber, Lots No. 119 and
Jl3 133, with the improvements thereon,
in the town of Martinsburgh, lying nnd being
or. Martin street at the junction of German
street. Also, one hundred acres of LAND,
within two miles of the town of Martins*
burgh, with one Still and vessels belonging
thereto, there is a never-failing spring on
the premises, a stream of water running
constantly through it, well cloathed with
timber and some meadow bottom. I wish
to purchase about 15000 flour barrel and
tightbarrel staves. Iwillgive g9in cash for
every 1000 of double stuff, provided the
same is merchantable, and delivered at
my shop in Martinsburgh.
JOHN GALLAHER.
Sept. 23, 1810. _
BY virtu* of a Deed of Trust executed
to us by Jeremiah Evans and Mary
his wife, the undersigned will, on the 24th
day of November next, proceed to sell up
on the premises, at a credit of twelve, eigb-,
teen and twenty-four months, A TR AC’l
OF LAND, lying and being in the Coum* j
of Berkeley, near Hedges’ Chapel, con-:
taining 217 acres or thereabouts, being the
same tract of land upon which the said Je
remiah Evans formerly lived. There are
upon the premises a good Dwelling House,
an Orchard and a valuable Distillery.—
Bonds will be required for the purchase
money with good personal security for the
first payment. The title will be reserved
as a security for the subsequent payments,
or a conveyance will be executed and a
mortgage teceived, as may be preferred by
the put chaser.
PHILIP C. PENDLETON,
JOHN BAKER.
October 19, 1810. ____________
Notice.
A PETITION will be presented to the
General Assembly of this state at the** j
next session,Afor the purpose of k*r'orp<j.
rating the town of Martiusburj^h
October 5, 1810,
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FRIDAY, November 9, 1810.
toil main Inn Tavern,
Mart ins burgh.
CORNELIUS KELLY,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends
»nd the public, that he has removed
to the above commodious House, lately
occuped bv Jeremiah Evans, and formelv
by^ Edmund Graham, and has spared no
paintto render his accommodations gen
teel aad agreeable, which makes the Foun
tain bn eligible for the traveller under
even pursuit, and flatters the proprietor
with® prospect of the public’s patronage in
his »tw establishment, which it shall ever
hr iili ambition to merit.
October 26, 1810.
Jolm Wyeth,
Printer and Kock'ellers Harrisburgh,
I N d Oil MS the Booksellers, Singing Societies and
A others, that lit will shortly issue, from his Press,
nt'w "ol'k entitled ‘The Harrisburgh Repository
of SACRED MUSIC,’ which will contain (besides
all the tunes of merit in Smith and Laud's collection)
many additional tunes, selected from the most emi
nent and celebrated authors, and which have receiv
ed the approbation of the teachers of music in the Uni
ted States, together with copious and plain instruc
tions for acquiring 'he science of music. The notes
will be printed with the new characters. Booksel
lers and singmg societies will be fnrniahcd on \ cry
moderate terms. The retad price will be one dollar, i
Oct. lfilO.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed
to us, by Peter M’Keirnao, to secure
the pavment of S 503 G2 to Ignatius O’Fer*
rail, with intrrest thereon from the 15th
day of Feb. 1810, will be sold at PUBLIC
AUCTION, for ready money, at the Court*
House in Martinsburgh, on the first day of
November < ourt. next, to be held for the
County of Berkeley, (by one or both of the
undersigned Commissioners) a certain
Tract or parcel of LAND, situate lying
and being about two miles from the town
of Bath in Berkeley County, containing
400 acres.
JAMES STEPHENSON,
AND
JOEL WARD,
Co huzit*iotU#g.
Oct. 12, 1810.
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY.
mi 'ii■ iw ui i'iij!
B_ ■
subscriber respectfully informs
L the inhabitants of Martinsburgh and
its vicinity, that he haa lately returned to
this place, and is now carrying on the a
bove business, in the house lately occupied
by Rees Branson, in the Main street Mar
tinsburgh i—he will be thankful to his old
customers and the public for any orders in
hh line—Having supplied himself with a
stock cf good leather, and with excellent
workmen, he will be able to give full satis
faction to all who may please to employ him.
JACOB POISAL.
Martinsburgh, Oct. 12, 1810.
CASTINGS.
Boilers, pots, ovens and
SKILLETS, just received from
Mount Pleasant Iron woiks, aod a large
quantity of
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well assorted. Also,
Fen-plate SFOFESy
for sale on the lowest terms.
L. PRICE.
Martinshurgh, Oct. 5, 1810.
One Cent Reward,
WILL be given to any person who
takes up and returns Vo me, John
Sherrard, bound by his lather to me, to
learn the Fulling busin.<**, and ran away
about the 9th t>f September last, he is a>
bout 18 yr ar# 0f t,ge, has been bound to
two racers, and this is the third time he
ha* ran away.—All persons that wish to a
void trouble, are cautioned against har
boring or emplo\ ing him.
JON A; W1CKERSHAM.
| October 19, 1810.
gazette:
pected.
N o criterion appears to be known by which
the most proper point of maturity in the fruit
can be ascertained with accuracy ; but I have
good reason to believe that it improve* at
long as it continues to acquire a deeper
shade of yellow without decaying. Each
heap should be examined prior to its being
ground, and any decayed or green fruit care
fully taken away. Each kind should be
mixed with such only as becomes ripe pre
cisely at the same time t but it is from the
former practice that fine cider of different
flavours and degrees of strength are best ob
tained from the same orchard. The prac
tice however of mixing different varieties of
fruit, will often be found eligible j for it is
omeh more easy to find the retail* qmm
tity of richness, astrfffgeocy and flavour fa
three different varieties of fruit than m one j
and hence ciders composed of the juice of
mixed fruits, are generally found to succeed
with greater certainty, than those made
with any one kind. By mixtures also, the
cyder maker being able to give to each cask
agreater or less portion of acid or astriogen
ey, may best accommodate different palates
and constitutions.
In grinding, me trim should be reduced,
as nearly as possible, to an uniformoess, in
which the rinds and kernels arc scarce dis
coverable. 1 be advantages which the ci
ders rtesive ft otn the perfect execution of
this process, are well known ; but from
what source these advantages are derived
does not appear to be so well understood*
By the mechanical operation of the roller
wheel* or nuts, the various fluids which
1 occupy the different vessels and cells of the
fruit are mingled with the juices of the rind
and seeds, and with the macerated sub
stance of the vessels and cells themselves*
Io such a mixture it seema probable that
new tlectrick attractions will be exerted,
and compoun ds formed which did not ex
ist previous to the fruit being placed under
the roller j and hence the most correct an
alysis of the expressed juices which convey
but a very imperfect degree of knowledge
of the component parts of the different flu
ids, as they existed in their state of separa
tion within the fruit. I have extracted, by
the means of a small hand press, the juico
of a single apple without having previously
bruised it to pieces *• and I have always
found the juice thus obtained, to be pale
and thin, and extremely defective in rich
ness, though the apple possessed great
merit as a cider fruit. I hr/e then return
ed the expressed Juice to the pulp, which I
have re-pressed, after it has been exposed
during a few hours to the sir and light ; and
the juice has then become deeply tinged,
less fluid and very rich. In the former
state it apparently contained but a small
portion of sugar ; in the latter it certainly
contained a great quantity, much of which
l believe to have been generated subse
quently to the fruit having been subjected
to the action of the press ; though it may
be difficult to explain satisfactorily ihe
means by which it could have been produc
ed.—The component parts of sugar an*
well known; it consists of vital an (oxy
gen) inflamahte atr (hydrogen) and char
coaI (carbon) the two latter substances
FROM THE RURAL VISITER.
CIDER.
The merit of cider will depend on th«
proper mixture, or rather on the proper se
paration of the fiuas. Those whose rind
and pulp ate tinged with green or red with
out a mixture of yellow (lor that colour will
disappear in thr first stages of fermentation}
should be ■carefully kept apart, from such as
are yeltow, or \ellow intermixed with red.
The latter kinds, which should remain oa
the trees rill ripe enough to fall without be
ing shaken, x»e alone capable of making
flue C)d«r. Each kind should be collectad
vepetxely, and ke pt t»U »* became* Jtfcrfm
ly mellow. T he strength and flavour of the
luture liquor are increased by keeping the
fruit under cover before it is ground i but
unless it is exposed to a free current of air
and spread thin, it is apt to contract an un
pleasant smell, which will affect the cyder
produced from it. Much water Is absorbed
by fruit in rainy weather; but ths quantity
of liquor yielded by any given quantity of
fiuit becomes more mellow, even in very
wet weather: provided it be groond when
thoroughly dry : and 1 am not quite satis
fied that the apple does not receive benefit
from the sun and light subsequently to ita
being taken from the tree. I he advanta
ge* therefore of covering the fruit will pro
bably be much leas than may at first be ex
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