The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-06-28 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE,
S A T U R D A Y, JUNE 28, 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.
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.
Trayed from the neighbourhood of Lexington, a dark bay horse, about 6 years old, 14 hands and a half high, a small star in his forehead, a long switch tail, was seen on the hills, about 2 months ago, who ever gives notice of him, and brings him to Col. Paterson in Lexington, shall have Five Dollars reward. J. T. SLATER.
Trayed away from the neighbourhood of Col. Northville, about the first of April last, a bay, full blooded chesnut sorrel mare, about fourteen hands high, ten or eleven years old, with a blaze in her face, and some other 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 James Wilkinson and known by the name of the English mare. Whoever will deliver said mare to the subscriber, in Lexington, shall have Five DOLLARS reward. NICHOLAS LATON.
All persons indebted to the estate of James Robertson deceased, or to John Robertson deceased, as a administrator to the said James, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber; and those who may have any legal claims against the said estate, are desired to bring them in, as I am determined to close the estate account as soon as possible. CHRISTOPHER GREENUP. Am. de Louis Nov. Danville June 10, 1788. 424
THREE DOLLARS REWARD,
Trayed away from the subscriber, the fifth day of May last, a bay mare, three years old this spring, about fourteen hands and an inch high, trots well, has a small star in the middle of her forehead, and as well as I recollect, one hind foot white, hanging mane and long tail, branded on the near shoulder 3 and on the neck B3; Whoever secures the said mare and brings her to James Bell living on Cain run, about three miles from Lexington; or contrives word so that I may get her again shall receive the above reward. FRANCIS BELL. Fayette, June 17, 1788. 44.
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the river Fork of Licking, lying on the road from Limestone to the lower blue licks; being Mays settlement and preemption and includes Mays link, good bonds on persons in this district or on persons in the Eastern part of Virginia will be received in payment. If not, will warrant the title. HARRY INNES.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
Trayed from the subscriber in Jefferson county, about the first of April last, a bay horse, near fifteen hands high, with a hanging mane and switch tail, and a star in his forehead, branded on the near shoulder 15, the S scarcely perceptible. 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 he was trayed with steel pointed shoes, which may probably be left by the time the said horse was purchased by a certain Edward Matthews from some person in Faison 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. Southam's on Beargrass, or to Mr. Sebastian, whist at the general court in Danville. WILLIAM ROBERSON. June 4, 1788.
Trayed 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 so that I can get him again shall receive ample satisfaction. SAMUEL FLOURNOY. June 10 1788.
Trayed from the house of the subscriber, living on Elkhorn, about seven miles above Col. Robert Jonnons; a dark red or bay with white Cow, marked with a crop and two slits in the right ear. Trayed away on the 25th of December 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.
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 flatter themselves that nothing more than this information is necessary to induce every person in arrears, to comply with their request. J. & F. BRADFORD. Lexington, June 3 1788. N.B. The Printing business will be continued by the parties most obliged, and very humble servant, JOHN BRADFORD. Lexington, June 3 1788.
From the NEW HAMPSHIRE SPY. [A correspondent has favoured us with a memorandum of what are termed "the blue laws" of New Haven, extracted from the records of the General Court of Connecticut. As they are very expressive of the temper, which animated our forefathers, and prove that they, in more than the trifling of the present day, were above any free from fine fiction and error either in political or ecclesiastical affairs, as they contain a great deal of piety, and the best spirit of charity, and, when compared with acts of the present day, afford such a pleasing contrast, we readily publish them as a subject not unworthy the attention of our readers.]
LAWS made in the dominion of New Haven, at its first settlement.
 THE Governor and Magistrates convened in General assembly, a cethe supreme power under God of this independent dominion.  From the determination of the Assembly no appeal shall be made.  The governor is answerable to the voice of the people.  The Governor shall have a single vote in determining any question, except a casting vote when the Assembly shall be equally divided.  The Assembly of the people shall not be dismissed by the governor, but shall be in session.  Conspiracy against the dominion shall be punished with death.  Whoever says there is a power and jurisdiction above and over this dominion shall suffer death and loss of property.  Whoever attempts to change or overturn this dominion shall suffer death.  The judges that sit in cause controversies without a jury.  No one shall be a freeman, or give a vote, or else be converted and a member in full communion of one of the churches allowed in this dominion.  Each freeman shall swear by the blest God to keep true allegiance to this dominion, and that Jesus is the only king.  No Quaker or dissenter from the established worship of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for the election of Magistrates, or any officer.  No food nor lodging shall be offered to a Quaker, Anabaptist, or other heretic.  If any person who is a Quaker be found to be banished, and not returned to return, but on pain of death.  No person shall abide in the dominion; else shall be banished and suffer death on her return.  Priests may be seized by the waho or a warrant.  No person crosses a river but with a warrant of a minister.  No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting.  No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day.  No woman shall kiss her children on the Sabbath or fasting Day.  The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Saturday.  To pick an ear of corn growing in a neighbor's garden shall be deemed theft.  A person accused of trespass in the night shall be judged guilty, unless he clear himself by his oath.  When it appears that an accused has confederates, and he refuses to discover them, he may be racked.  None shall buy or sell lands without permission of the selectmen.  A drunkard shall have a master appointed by the Selectmen, who are to debar him from the liberty of buying and selling.  Whosoever publishes a lie to the prejudice of his neighbour shall be given the strokes, or be whipped ten stripes.  No minister shall keep a school.  Every rateable person, who refuses to pay his proportion to support the minister of the town or parish, shall be fined by the Court 21 and a half every quarter, until he or she pay the rate to the minister.  Me stealers shall suffer death.  * These laws were originally printed on blue paper, on which account they were called "blue laws." 

Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, fil- ver, or bone, above 25 per yard shall be pre- sent by the grand jurors, and the Seamen shall tax the offender at 300. estate
A debtor in prison, swearing he has no estate, shall be let out and sold to make satisfaction
Whoever sets a fire in the wool, and it burns a house, shall suffer death: And he is suspected of this crime shall be imprisoned without benefit of bail.
Whoever brings cards or dice into this domin- ion shall pay a fine of 5l.
No one shall read common prayer books, keep Christmas or set days, make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music, except the drum trumpet, and Jews-harp.
No gospel minister shall join people in marriage; the magistrates only shall join them in marriage, as they may do it with less scandal to Christ's church.
When parents refuse their children convenient marriages, the magistrate shall determine the point.
The Selectmen, on finding children ignorant, may take them away from their parents, and put them in- to better hands, at the expence of their parents.
Fornication shall be punished by compelling mar- riage, or as the court shall think proper.
Adultery shall be punished with death.
A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of 10l.
A woman that strikes her husband shall be punished as the Court directs.
A wife shall be deemed good evidence against her husband.
No man shall court a maid in person, or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents: 5l. pe- nalty for the first offence, 10l. for the second, and for the third, imprisonment during the pleasure of the Court.
Married persons must live together or be impris- oned.
Every male shall have his hair cut round accord- ing to a cap.
L O N D O N, March 4
THE position of the two armies of Russia & the Porte, was, when the last letters came away, as critical as could be; scarcely any thing but the River Nester separates them; the adjoining country is of course depopulated; one part of the inhabitants pass- ing into Poland, the other spreading through Mol- davia. The standing army of the Turks is now up- wards of 400,000; that of Russia 300,000. The Porte appears determined to refuse every proposi- tion for peace till the Czar is restored to them.
March 5. Since the Emperor's declaration of war against the Porte, the French court have, it is said, sent a notification to our government, in- forming them, that by a treaty subsisting between them and the Turks, they are under the necessi- ty of supplying the latter with six ships of the line.
It is said that a society is forming in France, to promote the abolition of the iniquitous slave trade.
Wednesday last a me Tenger, it is said, was expe- cted from Holland with a ratification of the treaty of alliance: but to the astonishment of administration, a difficulty was started on the part of the states at the very moment of going. The report is, that they insist on a guarantee on the part of Great Britain for some of their East India settlements, and have positively avowed their determination not to sign the treaty till these preliminaries are complied with.
March 6. The dispatches from Constantinople of the 25th of January, shew the serious intention with which the Porte has surveyed the declaration of the Emperor. The divan has been frequently as- sembled. Orders have been sent to the different provinces, for an increased contribution of troops; and that large parties should advance on the side of the Vidin and Belgrade. Still more pressing di- rections have been issued to the pacha of Bosnia, to advance on the side of the Save to oppose the Croats in that quarter.
By the last mail, we learn, that on the 24th ult. in the evening, all on a sudden, the superior mouth of Mount Vesuvius emitted an immense column of black smoke in the form of a pine tree, at the bran- ches of which were seen enflamed stone, which were thrown a great height, and sometimes they appeared like sheaves of fire, during which the noise in the earth, and the violent repeated shocks of earthquakes caused the greatest consternation a- mong the inhabitants of the environs.
On the 26th the volcano having opened a mouth at the foot of the superior mountain opposite Somma the lava flowed out in abundance into the valley, where it has already formed a lake of five one mile and an half in circumference.
P I T S B U R G H, June 7
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New Or- leans, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated March 25.
"The misery of this place I shall not under- take to describe; suffice it to tell you that New Orleans, which consisted of 1100 houses, was on Friday last, in the space of five hours, reduced to 200. The rapid progress of the fire was such, that but few merchandize, household furniture or cloathing have been saved."
L E X I N G T O N, June 26.
Extracts of a letter dated New York, May 20, to a Gentleman in this town.
"The Ohio company are going on with spirit, five hundred families will be settled at Mari- nugum before September; you are well acquainted with this purchase, which consists of one Million of acres."
Sergeant Cutler and others, under the firm of the Scioto Company, have purchased five million of acres joining the Scioto and Ohio rivers. Judge Symms has contracted for two millions between the Miami rivers, and is pushing his, but it is doubted whe- ther he will complete his contract. A contract has been made in this City, in which Deere and Am- strong are concerned, for three or four millions on the Illinois river; but the success of this project, will depend on a Kurosea aid. Capt. J. Cox G. Morgan and others, have proposed to purchase two Millions, adjacent to the Kaskaskies country, but Congress have refused this offer until the inhabi- tants are consigned; and it is said, that a future no- tice of land will be made out for the ready River. A large company in Massachusetts of which Mr. Gorham is the principal, have purchased five or six millions north of Pennylvania and formerly belong- ing to New York, but ceded to Massachusetts, and bounded by Pennylvania, New York, and Lake Erie and Ontario. Pennylvania as a State, is about to purchase the soil of a large triangular tract, border- ing on Lake Erie, her object is to secure an extensive margin of the lake. Connecticut is endeavouring to get the large tract of land ceded to her by Con- gress, between the 80th and 82nd degrees of latitude west of Pennylvania, bordering on Lake Erie, and 120 miles from East to West; You see how our peculiarities tend westward.
I understand Congress have not yet determined on your memorial, but cannot conceive that their decision, will be very interesting to you, you have faring from us, as to what, as to were in a way and have become too powerful to suffer any control, oppressive to your happiness.
As to a large majority of the Convention of this State, which meets after Virginia, are opposed to the new government, yet I do believe the example of Virginia, will influence our determination. we hourly expect the decision of S. Carolina, upon the whole I think the new government will be adopted.
VIRGINIA TO WIT:
By his Excellency EDMUND RANDOLPH, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS a Remonstrance to the General Assembly hath been delivered to the Exe- cutive by the President of the Honourable Court of Appeals, declaring, among other things "That the Constitution and the Act, intitled "an Act establishing District Courts," are in opposition and cannot exist together; that the former must control the latter; and that the said Court ought not to do any thing officially in the execution of an Act, which appears to be contrary to the spirit of the Constitu- tion;" and it hath been moreover alleged by the Court, that Clerks of the District Courts, ought not now to be appointed for reasons, con- tained in the said Remonstrance; which the said Court have requested to be laid before the Ge- neral Assembly at their next Session.
AND whereas an opportunity as early as pos- sible ought to be given to the Legislature, to re- vise the said Act, and examine the proceedings of the said Court, according to the standard of Con- stitutional right.
I have therefore thought fit by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of State, to call the General Assembly to meet at the Public Build- ings in the City of Richmond, on Monday the 23rd day of June next: And the several Senators and Delegates are hereby required then and there to meet, in order to consult concerning the pre- mises.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Commonwealth at Richmond, this fourteen day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Se- ven Hundred and Eighty Eight, and of the Commonwealth the Twelfth.
EDMUND RANDOLPH.
JUST OPENING
BY THOMAS JANUARY;
At his Store, in LEXINGTON, the corner of Main and Cross Streets, and directly opposite the Court- house.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS.
Among which are,
SECOND, broad and coarse cloths. Coating and corduroy. Shalloons, callimancos, moreens & poplin, Irish linen. Leather and wool hats. Knives and forks. Needles and pins. Copper sauce-pans, Wool and cotton cards. Pen and cuttler knives. Pewter. Fine and coarse-tooth combs. Sadlery ware. 2d. red. 12d. & 20d. nails. Axum, copper and brimstone. Tea, coffee, pepper and loaf sugar. Wine, Jamaica spirits. Assorted china and queens ware, with a variety of other articles too tedi- ous to enumerate, which he proposes to sell for cash.
HUGH McLEVAIN,
Is now opening at his Store in Lexington; one door above Messrs Alexander and James Parkers,
AN ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS
Among which are
Broad cloth coating and half thickets. Rose and striped blankets. Feather velvet and calimurs. Fulians, jeanets and corduroys. Marshall's quiding. Irish and table linen. Persians, mode and sewing silks. Twist and fine thread. Lawn linen cotton and shawl handkerchiefs. Long lawns, chinz and calicoes. Sackings, mens and womens gloves. Bread and narrow bindings. Buck and flowered ribbons. Wool hats and sewing needles. Latte and garters. Bals and iron wire. Sleeve buttons, coat and jacket ditto. Pen knives and knives and forks. Fils, rasps, darning and knitting needles. Hinges, plane irons and centre bits. Horse beams, plated and steel spurs. Weeding hoes, country made sickles. Shoe and knee buckles. Tumblers, decanters and vinegar cruets. Pewter basins and plates, Tea pots. Writing paper and blank books. Testaments, spelling books and primers. Watts's psalms and other books of divinity. Peruvian bark, camphre, bruish oil, Antimony. Tea, coffee, chocolate and loaf sugar, to- gether with a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate.
TWO DOLLAR,
REWARD,
Strayed away from Mr. Andrew Gatewood's plantation near Lexington, on tuesday the 24 inst. a red Sorrel mare, about 14 hands and an half high, shod all round, branded on the near buttock IP, hanging mane and switch tail, the person that delivers her to Genl. Wilkinson shall be paid two dollars by 45 JOHN PURVIAN.