The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-06-14 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E,
S A T U R D A Y, JUNE 14, 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office in Main Street where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and Printing in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
JUST OPENED
BY ALEXANDER & JAMES PARKER,
At their Store in Lexington, two doors below the Court-house.
A LARGE & GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GOODS
Which they will sell on the most reasonable terms for CASH only.
 CUPERFINE deep & light blue broad cloth  Second ditto assorted  Coarse ditto ditto  Coarse assorted  Clo & cloths  Penknights and Negro cottons  Plain and bed blankets  Jeans and fustians  Velvets assorted  Hempcord & corduroys  Print everlastings  Silk & cotton waistcoat patterns  Prints assorted  Ruffs & collars  Cotton Calicoes  Aprons and yard wide check  Marble paper and mangleen  Silk for gowns  Chintzes assorted  Cotton calicoes assorted  Linen ditto assorted  Shalloons & durants  Camblets & callimanco  Lawn green patterns  Silk & plain lawn  Mouselin and camblets  Mole and Persian  Silk and gauze handkerchiefs  Lawn, cotton and linen ditto  Gazes assorted  Pithams and taffeta  Tapes and blindings  Silk and thread lace  Cotton, woofed and thread bees  Mens & womens gloves  Silk & woofed ditto  Sewing silk and twist  Coarse and fine thread  Garters and stay laces  Puckam and camblet  Balze and flannels  Nicereens and draped fad dle cloths  Mens and womens beaver hats  Fur and wool ditto  Coat and waistcoat buttons assorted  Shoe & knee buckles  Tobacco & snuff boxes  Table and tea spoons  Knives and forks  Carving knives & forks  Butcher & pen knives  Taylors shears & scissors  Leather, paper & brass ink stands  Wool shears and snuffs  Brass & iron candlesticks  Razors and shears makers knives  Clothes and sweeping brushes  Crooked Combs  Coarse & fine ditto  Sugar tongs and nutmeg graters  Mens & womens shoes  Girth & bridle buckles  Girth & bridle buckles  Curb and snaffle bridle bits  Mens & womens stirrup irons  Staples and plates for saddles  Prong needles  Nob and padlocks  Chestnut board & draw cutlery  Stock and fiddle bugg ditto  Desk mounting  H.C.H. harps  Cabinet & chest hinges  Rolls assorted  Tea table knives  Knob & thumb knives  Screw augers assorted  Chisels and gouge ditto  Turners tools & wheelwright  Plows & plane bits  Wood screws & spikes  Saw assorted  Carpenters & drawing knives  Gamblers & looms harps  Sickles & scythes  Smoothing irons & frying pans  Glazed red headed nails  Cotton & wool cards  Slates and compasses  Gold irons  Writing paper  Paying cards  Watt's plates  English and Dutch refilaments  Spelling books and primers  Wafers & ink powder  Paste boards  Loaf & mucevdo sugar  Hyson, souchong and bohea tea  Coffee, pepper, allspice, ginger  Clayes, nutmegs, Mustard, madder, logwood, Indigo, capers, allum, Primrose & rosin  Chalk & castle soap  Powder, bar lead drop shot  Window glass  Looking glasses  Delft dishes assorted  Slop & shallow queens ware plates  Bowls & mugs assorted  Tea cups & saucers  Tea pots assorted  Coffee pots & cream jugs  Pepper casters, salt cellers & mustard pots  Tumblers assorted  Wine glasses  Quart & pint decanters  Tin cups, &c. &c. &c. 
All persons indebted to James Bray of Lexington on bonds, bills, notes or account are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, with whom Mr. Bray has deposited their respective bonds. I flatter myself that all those who are indebted as aforesaid will make use of every exertion in their power to discharge their particular sums, as no indulgence will be given.
4.42 May 26 ANDREW GATEWOOD
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Lineville to the lower bone licks; being always subject to the preemption right, and includes claims, good bonds on persons in this district or on persons in the Eastern part of Virginia will be received in payment, and I will warrant title.
4.42 HARRY INNES
A PERSON qualified to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic in its various branches, book-keeping, surveying and navigation, geography or the use of the globe, who is otherwise of a school in any part of the District, or in any part of the world, would be required in the future upon the return of property paid quarterly. A letter directed to A.B. at the printers will be duly attended to.
May 22 1788
THERE is at the subscribers, a bay horse about fourteen hands and an inch high, neither docked nor branded, a star in his forehead, three white feet: The owner may get him again by applying to the subscriber living near Mays Station, Fayette county.
JAMES MOORE.
Strayed from the subscriber living on elkhorn about the twentieth of October last, a bay horse about fourteen hands high, with a middle sized star in the forehead with a small wart on the root of one ear, trots and canters, he is about ten years old: whoever takes up the said horse and contrives him to me to that I get him again shall receive ample satisfaction.
June 19 1788.
SAMUEL FLOURNOY.
Strayed from the house of the subscriber, living on elkhorn, about seven miles above col. Robert Johnsons; a dark red or brown and white Cow, marked with a crop and two slits in the right ear. She strayed away on the 25th of December in 1787. Whoever takes up and contrives word where the said Cow is, or gives such intelligence that I get her again shall receive ample satisfaction.
June 10 1788
SAMUEL FLOURNOY.
FOR SALE
About one thousand acres of land within six miles of Lexington; and seven hundred and fifty near Bourbon court house, the titles are indisputable and, the quality equal to any in the District. Enquire of the printer.
ON Saturday the 28th of this Inst. June will be let at Danville to the lowest bidder, the building of a framed meeting house, which is to be fifty feet long and forty feet wide. The payment for building the said house, will be in stock and country produce, such as Cattle, Whiskey, Wheat, and Rye.
SAMUEL M'DOWELL GEORGE CALDWELL JOHN ROGERS trustees.
FOR SALE
AND MAY BE ENTERED ON NEXT FALL.
A LOT in the Town of Lexington on high street, with a good dwelling house, kitchen and paled garden, the situation is pleasant and the prospect equal to any in the town, convenient to an excellent spring, an indisputable title will be made the purchaser; for terms apply to the printer hereof, or to the subscriber at the town of Hopewell, Bourbon county.
May 29 1788
THOMAS WEST
Strayed away from the neighbourhood of Col. Marshalls, about the first of April last, a likely, full blooded chittim or marel mare, about fourteen hands high, ten or eleven years old, with a blaze in her face, and some of her feet white, but do not recollect which nor how many, has a long tail and hanging mane, I do not recollect whether she is branded or not, she was formerly the property of gen James Wilkinson, and known by the name of the English mare. Whoever will deliver said mare to the subscriber, living in Lexington, shall receive Two DOLLARS reward. if: NICHOLAS LAFON
Taken up, on little Benson Creek about the tenth of may, an old bay mare about fourteen hands high, paces and trots, some saddle spots, no brand perceivable; the owner may have her by applying to the subscriber living on Glens Creek and paying charges.
JACOB STUCKER.

From the MARYLAND JOURNAL. Extraordinary.
Inserted by request.
 C E N T I N E L L, No. XV. 
Friends, Countrymen and fellow Citizens.
Y OU have fought, you have bled, and you have conquered. -- You have established your independence, and you ought to be free. -- But, behold! a set of aristocrats, demagogues, conspirators, and tyrans, have arisen up, and say you shall be governed. Is this to be endured by free-men-- men, who have lain in the open air, exposed to cold and hunger, -- men who have worn out their health and constitutions in marches and counter marches from one end of the continent to the other; and after they have attained the noble prize, for which they have contended, are they to sit down tamely and be governed? Of what service is a man's liberty to him, unless he can do as he please? And what man can do as he pleases, who lives under a government? The very end of government is to bind men down to certain rules and duties; therefore 'tis only fit for slaves and vassals. -- Every freeman ought to govern himself, and then he will be governed most to his own mind.
Thus, my friends, you see all government is tyrannical and oppressive. In the next place it is insulting: It is as much as to tell us, we know not how to take care of ourselves, and therefore should submit to be directed by others, who are appointed as guardians over so many wards. Now of what use can our reason be to us, if after we have come (or ought to have come) to years of discretion, we are still to be led, guided, and bandied about by those who pretend to know better than we? And, who pray are these who are to be thus led, guided, and bandied about? why the people! Strange! that three millions of people should be led, guided, and bandied about by ninety or an hundred aristocratical, demagogical tyrannical conspirators! - Would it not be more according to order, propriety, and the nature of things, that the ninety or an hundred conspirators should be led, guided, and bandied about by the three millions of people?
In the third place, all government is expensive; for these ninety or an hundred conspirators will not govern us for nothing, they must be paid for it. Think on that, my countrymen, we must not only be governed, be insulted by being governed, but we must pay those demagogues for coming from all parts of the continent, to lay their heads together how to govern us most effectually. For this, we must pay them mileage, pay them wages, fill their purses, supply their tables to keep them in idleness to riot on the fat of the land, to plot, contrive and juggle us into good order and government. Now all this money might be saved to the public, by each man governing himself, and doing as he pleased, which by nature he has a right to do.
Oh my countrymen! my bowels yearn with affliction, when I think to what a pass we are likely to come. When I think, after all we have done and suffered for dear liberty, we must still be kept under, and governed. I had hoped, after our glorious struggle, this country would be an asylum for all those noble, untamed spirits, who were desirous of flying from all law, gospel, and government. But alas! after all I have said and written, after all the invention I have raged my brain for, and horrible descriptions I have laid before you, you are still unroused, and I have made no impression on any, except a few of those choice spirits at Carlisle. And how have these been treated by the conspirators and federalists? they have been called insurgents, rioters, Tories, and British deserters. true, many of them were deserters, and to their credit be it spoken,---they deserted from King and country, friends and relations, wives and children, to come here and be free. they expected we were to be a free people, and they have come among us to live at large, and do as they please. ---Think then how disappointed they must be, and how peculiarly hard their case is, either to stay here and be governed, or return and be hanged!
Rouse then, my friends, my countrymen, my fellow citizens! --- Rouse, ye Shayites, Dayites, and Shattuckites! --- Ye insurgents, rioters, and deserters! --- Ye tories, refugees, and anti-terralists. Rouse, and kick up a dust before it is too late! --- Be not such a parcel of stupid, dunder-headed, bland-headed, muddle-headed, puddle-headed, blockheads, --- Such a tribe of snivelling, drivelling, sneaking, slinking, moping, poking, mumping, pitiful, puny, pettifogging, poltroons, --- such a set of nincompoops, ninnyhammers, muthrooms, jackass-penguins, jackanapes, racka-ladies, goose-cap, tom-foodies, yahoes, white-eyes, p-d-b-ds. --- Rouse, and wake! up your eyes! Do not you see the aristocrats, monocats, demagogues, pelagognes, gogmagogs, brobdingnags, conspirators, and federal
hobgoblins, are preparing to govern you, to en- slave you, enthral you, and bemaul you, ---If you submit to them, they will rob you of your liber- ty--- they will tie you hand and foot---they will play hob with you, play the dickens with you and play the d---v---l with you -- they will put halters round your necks, and hold your noses to the grindstone -- they will purge you vom t you --- they will tread on your toes, break your shins, dock your tails, draw your teeth, tear your hair and scratch out your eyes---they will pull your noises lug your ears, punch you in the guts, and kick you in the breech -- ZOUNDS! will nothing rouse you!
Philadelphia, Feb., 15 1788. CENTINEL.
From the Boston GAZETTE.
I AM an honest tradesman, who never meant harm to any body, and my affairs went on smoothly while a bachelor; but of late I have met with some difficulties, of which I take the freedom to give you an account.
About the time I first addressed my present spouse, her father gave out in speeches, that if she married a man he liked he would give her 250l. on the day of marriage: 'Tis true, he never said so to me, but he always received me very kindly at his house, and openly countenanced my courtship. I formed several fine schemes what to do with this 250l. and in some measure, enjoyed my before-mentioned on that account; but unluckily it came to pass that when the old gentleman saw I was pretty well engaged, and that the match was too far gone to be easily broke off, he without any reason grew very angry, forbid me the house, and told his daughter that if she married me, he would not give her a farthing: However, as he foreknew we were not to be disappointed in that matter, but having staid a wedding took her home to my house, where we were not in quite so poor a condition as the couple described in the Scotch song, who had neither pot nor pan, but four bare legs together; for I had a horse tolerably furnished for an ordinary man, before, no thanks to dad, when I understood, was very much pleased with his politic arrangement; and I have since learned, that there are other old courting geese, so called beside him, who have this trick to marry their daughters and yet keep what they might well spare, till they can keep it no longer; but this is by way of digression, a word to the wife is as much. I just saw that with care and industry we might live tolerably easy, and in credit with our neighbours; but my wife had a strong inclination to be a gentlewoman; in consequence of this my old fashioned looking glass was one day broke, as she said, no mortal could tell which way; however, since we could not be without a glass in the room, my dear, say she, we may as well buy a large fashionable one, that Mr. such-one has to sell, it will cost but little more than a common glass, and will be much handsomer and more creditable; accordingly the glass was bought, and hung against the wall; but in a week's time I was made sensible little and little, that the table was by no means suitable for such a glass; and a more proper table being procured, my spouse, who was an excellent contriver, informed me where we might have very handsome chairs in our way; and thus by degrees, I found all my old furniture stowed up in the garret, and every thing below altered for the better. Had we staid here, we might have done well enough, but my wife being entertained with tea by the good women she visited, we could do no less than the like, when they visited us, and so we got a tea table with its appurtenances of china and silver; Then my wife unfortunately overworked herself in washing the house, so that we could do longer without a maid, besides that, it happened frequently, that when I came home at one, the dinner was but just put in the pot, for my dear thought really it had been but eleven; at other times when I came at the same hour, she wondered I would stay so long, for dinner was just ready, and had waited for me these two hours. These irregularities occasioned by mistaking the time convinced me that it was absolutely necessary to buy a clock, which my spouse observed was a great ornament to the room; and lastly, to my great grief, she was frequently troubled with some ailment or other, and nothing did her so much good as riding, and these hackney horses were such wretched ugly creatures, that I bought a very fine pacing mare, cost 100l. and hereabouts affairs have stood for some months I could see all along that this way of living was utterly inconsistent with my circumstances, but had not resolution enough to help it, till lately receiving a very severe dunn, which mentioned the next court. I began in earnest to project relief. Last August my dear went into the country to see a relation, and staid a fortnight because she could not bear the heat of the town; in the interim I have taken my turn to make alterations, I have turned away the maid and baggage, for what should we do with a maid, who have, except my boy
none but ourselves; I have sold my fine racing mare, and bought a good cow worth three fourths of the money; I have disposed of the tea table, and put a spinning-wheel in its place, which methinks looks very reaty: None empty canisters, I have filled with flour and with some of the money of the tea furniture I have bought a set of knitting needles, for to tell you the truth, which I would have gone farther I'd go to want, stockings. -- The fluted cloak I have transformed into an hour-glass, by which I gained a good round sum; and one of the pieces of the old lace was squeezed and framed, supplies the place of the great one, which I have covered it into a cover, where it may possibly remain some years. In shorts, the face of things are quite changed, and I am mightily pleased when I look at my hour-glass when in or out; it is to the room; I have paid my debts, and find money in my pocket. My darling by the opportunity of her friends in the country is yet absent. I received her home next Friday, and as my paper is to be printed at the house where she is, I hope the reading of this will procure her mind for the above-mentioned account. If she can conform to this new scheme of living, we shall be the hundredth couple who pass the time, and by the blessing of God may soon be in the virgin earthen houses. I have observed the great lack of souls, because I know her heart is set upon it. I will show her when she comes in to be taken suddenly ill with the head-ache, the stomach-ache, fainting fits, or whatever disorder she may think most proper, and she may retire to bed as soon as she pleases, but if I do not find her in perfect health both of body and mind the next morning, and after the breakfast or at least, with several other trifles, I have no occasion for to the veracity that every day, which is the irrevocable resolution of, S. her loving husband, and ever your humble servant,
ANTHONY J. PERUIT
The Partnership of John and Fielding Bradford, is this day dissolved by mutual consent; therefore all persons indebted to them, are requested to make immediate payment, that they may be enabled to close their accounts. They further themselves that nothing more than this information is necessary, to induce every person in course to comply with their request.
Lexington, June 3, 1883.
N.B. The Printing business will be continued by the public's most obliged, and very humble servant, JOHN BRADFORD.
Lewiston, June 3, 1881.
*** The following being a case that has often occurred, and never having found a geometrical solution of the same, submitting it to the view of the public in your paper, perhaps some induce our mathematician to discover the truth of it, and raise a theorem sufficient for all such cases.
PROBLEM
A settlement of 300 acres of land whose length is three times the breadth, is required to lay off a promenade of 1000 acres around the same whose lines shall be equidistant from, and parallel thereto for quantity.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD
Stoled from the neighborhood in Jefferson county, about the first of April last, a bay horse near fifteen hands high, with a bang of mane, and switch-tail, and a star in his forehead, branded on the near shoulder I S, the S scarcely perceivable. There is a remarkable hollow, which appears to be in the bone, commencing just under his left eye and extending towards his nose about six inches, in which a man may lay his thumb; he was shod before when he stoled with steel pointed shoes, which may probably be lost by this time; the said horse was purchased by a certain Edward Matthews from some person in Fayette county, where he will, very likely, endeavour to return. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver the said horse to me at Mr. Sebastian's in Reigart's, or to Mr. Sebastian, whilst at the general court in Dan-
June 4, 1788.
WILLIAM ROBERSON.
Stroyed from the neighbourhood of Lexington, a dark for colour about 6 years old, 14 hands and a half high, a small star in his forehead, a long switch tail paces, was seen on the office road about 2 month since; whoever gives notice, or brings said horse to col. Patterson Lexington, shall be amply rewarded for their trouble. J. T. SLATOP.