The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1789-07-25 00:00:00

K E N T U C K Y G A Z E T T E.
S A T U R D A Y, JULY 25, 1789.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his OFFICE at the corner of Main and Cross Streets, where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
AN EPHMERIS FOR AUGUST, 1789. Calculated for the Meridian of KENTUCKY.
D. H. M. Full Moon 5th, at 4 47 Aftern. Last Quarter 13th, at 5 35 Morn. New Moon 20th, at 5 53 Aftern. First Quarter 28th, at 1 30 Morn.
Table with 3 columns: Day, Moon Phase, Time. Includes entries for Full Moon, Last Quarter, New Moon, First Quarter, and various planetary positions like Venus sets 7 51.
FOR SALE, THE TRACT of LAND containing six hundred acres, whereon I live with the improvements; one hundred and thirty five acres cleared, and under good fence-- the situation, good water, and other peculiar advantages, render it nearly as valuable as any tract of the same quantity in this district.
Strayed away from the subscriber, living near Shannon's mill, about the middle of March, a dark bay mare, about fourteen hands and a half high, five years old last spring, branded on the near buttock thus Z, along tail, had on when she went away a small bell: Whoever will deliver the said mare to the subscriber, shall receive twenty shillings reward. GEORGE GRAY.
A company will meet at the Crab Orchard the third of September, in order to start the next morning for the Eastern settlement: it is hoped every person will go armed.
JUST ARRIVED, And now opened for sale, by PETER JANUARY & SON, At their new store, nearly opposite the old Court house, A large and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Particularly adapted to the season. Together with a compleat assortment of MEDICINE, Which they as usual, are determined to sell on reasonable terms.
CAME to my plantation, on South Elk-Horn, about 6 miles from Lexington on Friday the 17th instant, a very large yellowish complexioned NEGRO MAN, who said he was a freeman, and called himself Daniel Rife: He is about 30 years of age, had on coarse country made linen shirt and trowsers, a coat of mixed cloth of cotton and wool; he rode a bay horse, about 14 hands high, 9 years old, branded on the near shoulder and buttock P.P. some white hairs in his mane, and some white spots immediately below them: trots naturally. Had old saddle and blanket. The said negro was supposed to have been some linen in the neighbourhood, and learning he was to be apprehended, made his escape, and has left his horse, saddle and blanket: and as I have every reason to suppose the said negro to be a slave, and to have stolen the said horse, &c. I hereby request the owner to come prove his property, and take them away. WILLIAM STONE. July 24, 1789.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the GRAMMAR SCHOOL under the direction of the committee of the board of trustees for the Transylvania Seminary, is opened at the Public school-house adjacent to the Presbyterian meeting house, near Lexington; in the neighbourhood of which, boarding and accommodations for students, may perhaps, be had as good and cheap, as in any part of this district: and tuition at the moderate rate of three pounds per annum. By order of the committee. W. WARD, ch. com.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all those persons holding lots in the Town of Lexington, who have failed to comply with the Trustee's resolves, respecting improvements required to be made on the same; also the non payment of the forfeits that already have been imposed: that they attend the board of Trustees, on the first Saturday in August, in the afternoon, at Mr. Higbee's tavern in Lexington, to give their reasons, if any they have, why said lots may not be sold agreeable to the said resolves. By order of the board, ROBERT PARKER, CLK. June 10, 1789.
FOR SALE AT this place, a variety of well assorted goods, which will be given in exchange for the ensuing crop of tobacco; any person may have the goods now, by giving unexceptionable security to M. NAGLE. Holders, May 19, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near Bourbon Court-House, a dun mare, with an old bell on; white mane and tail, some saddle spots, no brand 10 years old, 14 hands high; Appraised to £ 10. Likewise 2 roan horses, the one 10 years old, has a star in his forehead, one hind foot white, some saddle spots, 14 hands high, a long mane and tail, no brand: Appraised to £ 10. The other 6 years old, 14 1/2 hands high, one hind foot white, not branded: Appraised to £ 12. The owner is hereby desired to come prove his property pay charges and take them away. WILLIAM PEYTON. Bourbon, July 10, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, a brown mare, about eight years old, thirteen hands and a half high, paces and trots, with a large star in her forehead, and snip on her nose, no perceivable brand. Appraised to nine pounds. Also a small black horse, branded on the near buttock thus U, in a piece, paces and trots, about fourteen years old, thirteen hands high. Appraised to three pounds: the owner is desired to come, prove their property, and take them away. STEPHEN BOYLE. July 13, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on Cane run, in Fayette County, a bay mare, about thirteen hands, and a half high, about nine years old, branded on the near buttock A, trots and paces; appraised to £ 8 - 10. Walter Stewart. July 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on Row's run, the following strays, to wit: a bay Horse, 6 years old, 4 feet 10 inches high, trots naturally, branded on the near shoulder (but not legible) has a 4s. bell marked T B, hung by a tug: Appraised to £ 20. A sorrel Mare, 5 years old, 4 feet 6 inches high, trots naturally, branded on the near shoulder but not legible: Appraised to £ 11. And a slea bittengray Mare, heavy with colt, 10 years old, 4 feet 8 inches high, trots naturally, branded on the near shoulder R: Appraised to £ 11. JAMES STEWART. Woodford county, May 12, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Mason County, near Washington, a black horse, about five years old, thirteen and a half hands high, has a few white hairs in his forehead, and is neither docked nor branded. Posted and appraised to ten pounds Current money. Peter Lee. June 18, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Mason County, about one and a half miles from Washington, a dark bay MARE, about thirteen hands three inches and a half high, about eight or nine years old, both hind feet white half up to the hams, a small blaze in her face and snip on the nose, four saddle spots on her back and has the fistula, no brand perceivable appraised to six pounds ten shillings. Allen Simpson. May 29, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Woodford county, two miles below Shannon's mill, a small black cow, about 3 years old, with a white face and belly, neither marked nor branded. Appraised to £ 2 - 5. SAMUEL GREGORY. 47-49.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
LONDON, March 6. It is said that in consequence of the preparations ordered in Bruxelles, for the reception of the French troops there, a deputation of some of the principal Magistracy of Brabant, has been sent to the King of Prussia, begging his protection against such violation of their constitution, and at the same time making overtures to him, of a very particular nature. Mr. Elliot is returned to Copenhagen.
The commotions in Brabant seem now drawing to a crisis; for no doubt can now remain of the Emperor's intentions. That he has sold the country to France appears evident; for no power can be so great a stranger to the intrigues of that court, as to allow it to garrison its fortified towns on the faith of having them restored.
March 7. His most Christian Majesty's letters have been issued for the convention of the States General at Versailles on the 27th of April next.
EXETER, September 27. In one of our former papers we gave our readers an account of a man's selling his wife, we have now an opportunity of giving them an account of an affair of a more humorous and singular nature, that of a woman's selling her husband. The noted Col. H---, an absentee from this state, now resident at Nova Scotia, contracted an intimacy with a handsome young widow of fortune; who, after frequent and mutual interviews, alienated from his wife that share of his heart to which she had an undoubted right.
His wife piqued and mortified at the neglect with which she found herself treated by his frequent nocturnal desertions, began to suspect all was not right, and gave a loose to those stratagems so natural to the sex, when excited by jealousy. By unremitting exertions she at last found out the object that had caused her so much uneasiness, and the retreat of her enamoured spouse. One evening while her husband was absent, in the paroxysm of her frenzy, she repaired to the house of her envied rival, furiously entered it and demanded of the young widow, where her husband was, a low liv'd worthless fellow. "He is not a worthless fellow," exclaimed the widow, "but seducingly lovely--a worthy clever man." Here a lengthy debate ensued, in which the irritated wife intimated that, unless he conducted better, she would dispose of him. "What will you sell him for," demanded the rival widow? "For a guinea per pound," replied the injured wife. "Tis a bargain," said the widow. "I agree to your demand." Accordingly the Colonel was produced, and after some conversation between the parties, he acquiesced in the traffic. The preliminaries being agreed upon, the Colonel, was accordingly thrown into the scales, and his weight was found to be two hundred and forty pounds. The widow not at all discouraged by the Colonel's bulk, immediately paid the money, in consequence of which we hear, a separation took place; the widow paying her two hundred and forty guineas, and the gallant Colonel in consideration of the past services of his wife, gave her three hundred pounds more, as a compensation for the injury she had received from her new rival, and the infidelity of her husband.
NEW-HAVEN, Feb 17. A description of a horn or bone lately found in the river Chamung or Tyoga, a western branch of the Susquehannah, about twelve miles from Tyoga Point. It is six feet nine inches long, twenty-one inches round, at the large end

and fifteen inches at the small end. In the large end is a cavity two and an half inches diameter, much like the hollow which is filled with the pitch of the horn of an ox: This is only six inches deep—every other part is, or appears to have been solid. The exterior part, where entire or not perished, is smooth; and in one spot of a dark colour. The interior parts are of a clear white and have the resemblance of well burnt, unslacked lime stone; but these can be seen only where it is perished, render and broken. From one end to the other it appears to have been nearly round; and on it there have been no prongs or branches. It is incurvated nearly into an arch of a large circle. By the present state of both ends much of it must have perished; probably two or three feet from each end. From a general view of it, there is reason to believe, that in its natural state, it was nearly a semicircle of ten or twelve feet. The undecayed parts particularly the outside, in burning, send forth a flench like a burning horn or bone. Of what animal this is the horn or bone, and what is become of this animal, are questions worthy of the curious and learned.
This curiosity is in the possession of the Honorable Timothy Edwards, Esq; of Stockbridge.
PHILADELPHIA, May 6.
The mate of the Kitty, Capt. Huston, arrived at Liverpool from Virginia, informs that on Saturday the 20th of Sept. 1788, being in lat. 30. 2. N a passenger on board, having his watch in his pocket, went into the head, and lost it overboard; on the Friday following, being in lat. 26. 40. N they caught three dolphins, the largest of which was 5 feet 4 inches long, and weighed 42 pounds; in the belly of which was found, to the astonishment of the whole ship's crew, the passenger's watch. The distance run, per log, was 490 miles.
LEXINGTON, July 25.
By a gentleman from Richmond, we are favoured with the following order of the Council of State, and act of Congress.
In COUNCIL, June 23, 1789.
THE Governor laid before the Board a letter from the President of the United States, inclosing a copy of an Act of Congress, intitled, "An Act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain Oaths." Whereupon it is advised, that 200 copies thereof be struck, and that two of them be transmitted to each of the Superior and County Courts within this State.
The Governor Orders accordingly.
Attest, A. BLAIR, C. C.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEGUN and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789.
An ACT to regulate the time and manner of administering certain OATHS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Oath or Affirmation required by the sixth article of the Constitution of the United States, shall be administered in the form following, to wit, "I A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States." The said Oath or Affirmation shall be administered within three days after the passing of this act, by any one member of the Senate, to the President of the Senate, and by him to all the members, and to the Secretary; and by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to all the members who have not taken a similar oath, by virtue of a particular resolution of the said House, and to the Clerk: And in case of the absence of any member from the service of either House, at the time prescribed for taking the said Oath or Affirmation, the same shall be administered to such member, when he shall appear to take his seat.
And be it further enacted, That at the first session of Congress, after every general election of Representatives, the said Oath or Affirmation aforesaid, shall be administered by any one member of the House of Representatives to the Speaker; and by him to all the members present, and to the Clerk, previous to
entering on any other business, and to the members who shall afterwards appear, previous to taking their seats. The President of the Senate for the time being, shall also administer the said Oath or Affirmation to each Senator who shall hereafter be elected, previous to his taking his seat: And in any future case of a President of the Senate, who shall not have taken the said Oath or Affirmation, the same shall be administered to him by any one of the members of the Senate.
And be it further enacted, That the members of the several state legislatures, at the next sessions of the said legislatures respectively, and all executive and judicial officers of the several states, who have been heretofore chosen or appointed, or who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of August next, and who shall then be in office, shall, within one month thereafter, take the same Oath or Affirmation, except where they shall have taken it before; which may be administered by any person authorised by the law of the state, in which such office shall be held, to administer oaths. And the members of the state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers of the several states, who shall be chosen or appointed after the said first day of August, shall, before they proceed to execute the duties of their respective offices, take the foregoing Oath or Affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons, who by the law of the state shall be authorised to administer the Oath of office; and the person or persons so administering the Oath hereby required to be taken, shall cause a record or certificate thereof to be made in the same manner, as by the law of the state, he or they, shall be directed to record or certify the Oath of office.
And be it further enacted, That all officers appointed, or hereafter to be appointed under the authority of the United States, shall before they act in their respective offices take the same Oath or Affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons who shall be authorized by law to administer to such office their respective oaths of office; and such officers shall incur the same penalties in case of failure, as shall be imposed by law in case of failure in taking their respective oaths of office.
And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the time being, shall, at the time of taking the Oath or Affirmation aforesaid, each take an Oath or Affirmation in the words following, to wit, "I. A. B. Secretary of the Senate, or Clerk of the House of Representatives (as the case may be) of the United States of America, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will truly and faithfully discharge the duties of my said office, to the best of my knowledge and abilities."
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAM, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, June 1, 1789.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
We certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the act of Congress, entitled "An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths," compared with the inrollment, signed by the President of the United States.
SAM. A. OTIS, Secretary of the Senate. JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Account of a wonderful Talent for Arithmetical calculations in an African Slave living in Virginia.
THERE is now living, about 4 miles from Alexandria, in the state of Virginia, a negro slave of 70 years old, of the name of THOMAS FULLER, the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Cox. This man possesses a talent for arithmetical calculations, the history of which, I conceive, merits a place in the records of the human mind. He is a native of Africa, and can neither read nor write. Two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania,
viz, William Hartshorne, and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable character, having heard, in travelling through the neighbourhood in which this slave lived, of his extraordinary powers in arithmetic, sent for him, and had their curiosity sufficiently gratified by the answers he gave to the following questions.
First. Upon being asked, how many seconds there are in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes 47,304,800.
Second. On being asked, how many seconds a man had lived, who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and an half, 2,210,500,800.
One of the gentlemen who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations, told him he was wrong, and that the sum was not so great as he had said—upon which the old man hastily replied, "Top Massa, you forget de leap year."—On adding the seconds of the leap years to the others, the amount of the whole in both of their sums agreed exactly.
Third. The following question was then proposed to him—Suppose a farmer has six sows, and each sow six female pigs, the first year, and they all increase in the same proportion, to the end of eight years, how many sows will the farmer then have?—In ten minutes he answered, 31,588,806. The difference of time between his answering this, and the two former questions, was occasioned by a trifling mistake he made from a misapprehension of the question.
In the presence of Thomas Wistar and Benjamin W. Morris, two respectable citizens of Philadelphia, he gave the amount of nine figures multiplied by nine.
He informed the first mentioned gentleman that he began his application to figures by counting ten, and that when he was able to count an hundred, he thought himself (to use his own words) "a very clever fellow."
His first attempt after this was to count the number of hairs in a cow's tail, which he found to be 2872.
He next amused himself with counting grain by grain, a bushel of wheat and a bushel of flax-seed.
From this he was led to calculate, with the most perfect accuracy, how many shingles a house of certain dimensions would require to cover it; and how many posts and rails were necessary to enclose, and how many grains of corn were necessary to sow a certain quantity of ground. From this application of his talents his mistress often derived considerable benefit.
At the time he gave this account of himself he said his memory began to fail him—He was grey headed, and exhibited several other marks of the weakness of old age—He had worked hard upon a farm during the whole of his life, but had never been intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors. He spoke with great respect of his Mistress, and mentioned in a particular manner his obligations to her for refusing to sell him, which she had been tempted to do by offers of large sums of money from several curious persons.
One of the gentlemen (Mr. Coates) having remarked in his presence, that it was a pity he had not an education equal to his genius; he said "No massa—it is best I got no learning, for many learned men be great fools."
Just opened, and for sale by BENJAMIN BEALL & Co. At their Store, in Danville, a large and general assortment of
DRY-goods, hard ware and groceries, with a quantity of nails of different sizes, also lampblack and fish oil, which they are determined to sell on as moderate terms as possible for cash. Ginsang, final settlement certificates, Furs, viz. Fox, Racoon, Otter, and Mink skins. 426
WHEREAS Mr. John Hawkins, who some time last year sold to Mr. John Houghton, a lot in the town of Lexington, and gave him his bond to exonerate him, from any damage he might sustain by the lot's being forfeited in the course of 12 months, from the date thereof; and who says, that he at the time entered into a special agreement with him, respecting his proceedings in building on the said lot. And whereas a transfer of the said lot, has since been made to me; and whereas, the said Mr. John Hawkins has at a subsequent period, when, as he says, there was every appearance of the said agreement's being complied with, given his bond to me, to the same purpose. And whereas also, the said Mr. John Hawkins, has kindly, and wisely forewarned the public, from taking an assignment of the said bond, as no step has been taken to satisfy Mr. Houghton's agreement, and the part that was begun, has been removed. Now, I do hereby forewarn the public against paying any attention to the said advertisement. And I do request them to read the certificate, and the condition of the bond, (which except the alteration of names and time is an exact copy of the one he gave Mr. John Houghton) which are subjoined.
JAMES HUGHES, Lexington, July 19, 1789.
The Condition of the Bond.
NOW the condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the above bound John Hawkins, sold unto a certain John Houghton, one certain lot, in the town of Lexington, being the unimproved lot, which he purchased of Matthew Walker, and which said lot, still remains unconveyed by deed by the Trustees of the said town for want of improvement. Which said lot, the said John Houghton, has sold to the before named James Hughes. That if the said John Hawkins support the title of the said lot in fee simple in the said James Hughes, for and during the term of eight months from the date hereof, from the claim of the said Trustees for want of such improvements as is by them required, to entitle the holders to deeds of conveyance, and forever afterwards support the title, free and clear from the claim or claims of all person or persons whatsoever, then the obligation to be void, or else remain in full force and virtue.
JOHN HAWKINS. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Thomas January.
I WAS on Sunday morning the 18th of July, requested by Mr. James Hughes, to walk down with him to Mr. Houghton's. When we saw Mr. Houghton, Mr. Hughes produced one of the last news papers, and read an advertisement to him, which was signed John Hawkins. He then asked him if he had ever made any other agreement with Mr. Hawkins, than that mentioned in the bond; he replied he had not, but, that after they had made the agreement. Mr. Hawkins told him he wished him to show a readiness to make the necessary improvements, to which he answered he would begin as soon as he conveniently could, and that he would have a house finished by the end of the year. He further said that he knew if he had not a house upon the lot, by the end of the year, it would then be at his own risk. Mr. Hughes asked him, if the lot was forfeited during the year, if he did not suppose Mr. Hawkins was to make it good to him? he said he did. Mr. Hughes also asked him, whether he had not before told him, he had never made any other agreement with Mr. Hawkins, and that he would tell him so, he owned he had, and said, that he had since called Mr. Hawkins to his door, and had told him so. Mr. Hughes also asked him to certify what he had then said, he replied he did not like to do it, because he did not wish to offend Mr. Hawkins, but he was ready to say it at any time.
WILLIAM MURRAY, Jun. Lexington, July 19, 1789.
A large company will meet at Limestone, the eighth of August, in order to start early the next morning up the Ohio.
A company will start from the Crab-Orchard early on the morning of the 14th of August next, for the old settlement.