The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-02-27 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, FEBRUARY 27, 1790.
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.
A NEW MAGAZINE.
ON the first day of February next will be, published, in the city of Philadelphia, a NEW MAGAZINE, to be continued monthly, under the direction of a society of literary gentlemen.
This work will contain a greater variety of essays, on interesting and entertaining subjects, than any other monthly publication.
To regulate American manners and taste, to improve the arts, and sciences, and to give a comprehensive view of the history, politics and commerce of the United States, will be the first objects of this Miscellany.
A suitable portion of it will be allotted to decent poetry and genuine humour. It will also contain a concise but faithful register of the proceedings of the federal government, together with the intelligence of the month, foreign and domestic. In fine, the most strenuous exertions will be made, to render this Magazine useful and pleasing to readers of every description - to the old and the young, of both sexes.
The advantages that are to be expected from the united efforts of a literary association, instituted for the sole purpose of supporting this work must be obvious to every one. - Such a plan, while it engages the first abilities, ensures a greater variety, and a uniform supply of valuable matter, than could be afforded by any individual, however elevated his genius, or great his endeavors.
CONDITIONS.
1. This work will be published, punctually, on the first day of every month.
2. Each number will contain at least eighty pages, printed on fine paper and new type.
3. The price, to subscribers, will be only two dollars and two thirds, per annum.
For her partculars, relative to this magazine, will be laid before the public in a few weeks.
Philadelphia, November, 16 1789.
The Printers of the newspapers, in this city and throughout the United States are requested to insert the above.
At a meeting of the Kentucky Society for the encouragement of manufactures at Danville December 5th 1789.
The managers reported to the meeting: - That the first payment of the subscription had been nearly paid in, and that they had remitted the amount to Philadelphia to procure spinning and carding machines and stocking looms.
That to enable the company to carry their design fully into execution, an addition ought to be made to the capital already subscribed of three hundred pounds; whereupon,
Resolved, that a new subscription be opened for thirty additional shares; and that all persons who shall pay in the amount of their subscriptions on or before the last day of March next shall be entitled to all the privileges of the first subscribers.
Resolved, that at all meetings of this society the members shall have a right to vote by proxy appointed under their hands.
Ordered that the foregoing resolutions be published in the Kentucky Gazette that all persons willing to encourage the manufacturers of their country may be informed of an opportunity of doing so.
Teste,
THOMAS TODD, Secretary.
JUST OPENED, AND TO BE SOLD, BY ANDREW HOLMES & CO.
A large and general assortment of MERCHANDISE, Suitable to the present and approaching season, which will be sold on the lowest terms for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Wanted immediately, a few Firkins of good BUTTER. Lexington, Jan. 12, 1790.
JUST ARRIVED
And now opening for sale by PETER JANUARY & SON,
At their Store in Lexington opposite the Printing Office, a large and complete assortment of GOODS adapted to the season, which they will sell on reasonable terms for Cash, Corn, Wheat, Rye, Butter, Pork, Salt, &c,
ALSO FOR SALE, TWO IN LOTS, ON MAIN STREET, IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON.
P. J. & S.
JUST PUBLISHED
THE KENTUCKY ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1790.
Printed on fine writing paper. And may be had at this Office by the Gross dozen or single.
I hereby forewarn all persons from taking an assignment on a note of hand passed from me to William Cromwell, dated December the 7th 1789. The note is I think for twelve pounds ten shillings and as I never received value therefor, am determined not pay it unless compelled by law. Nathan Young. January 25, 1790.
FOUND
BY the subscriber living in Lexington at the sign of the Buffalo, some time ago, a piece of cloth, together with some weavers reeds; the owner may get them by applying to the subscriber, proving property and paying charges. Peter Higbee. Lexington, Feb. 19, 1790.
All kinds of Blank Books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern: Also old books new bound, on reasonable terms, at this office.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
THE subscribers for the Encyclopedia Britanica are hereby informed, that the first volume is now ready, and will be delivered on payment of £3. in Philadelphia, agreeable to the terms of the subscription.
The subscriber will be in Danville the first of March next, on his way to Philadelphia, and will receive the subscription money due on the delivery of the first volume, from such of the subscribers as may choose to send it by him, or from such persons as they may lodge it with, to be delivered to him, and he will receive the books in Philadelphia, transport them out, and deliver them in Lexington, to the owners (they paying him the expense of carriage) he will take the same care of the money and books, as he does of his own property, but will not risk the loss of either by accident.
ALEXANDER PARKER.
Lexington, Feb. 12, 1790.
CHARLES WHITE.
COPPER SMITH. Late of NEW YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Copper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit) Stills, Brew and Die kettles &c. Also, calls all kind of brass work for mills, makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead. - I hope who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice. Lexington, Dec. 3, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on South Elk-Horn, a miles below Shannons mill on iron gray mare, 3 years old natural trotter, 14 hands and a half high, no brand perceivable nor natural mark; Appraised to £9. HUGH ALEXANDER. Feb. 15, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living about half a mile from the town of Lexington, a red STEER, about 18 months old, a crop off the right ear. Appraised to £1-1. JOHN MAXWELL. Feb. 11, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living near Lexington Fayette County, two Sheep the one black with a lamb, the other white, both cropped in the left ear and a slit in the Right; Appraised to £1-1. CASPER KARSNER. Feb. 11 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on Cane run, in Woodford county, a red brindled Heifer, about 2 years old last spring, marked with a crop in the left ear. Appraised to £1-10. ELIZABETH DAVIS. January 29, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Fayette county, a black Steer, with a white face, 3 years old, a crop in the left ear. Appraised to £2-15. ELI CLEVELAND.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living in Woodford County within two miles of the Clover bottom, a Sorrel MARE, neither docked nor Branded, about 4 feet 7 inches high, Appraised to £10. EDWARD CATHERS. April 28, 1789.
To all to whom it may concern, THE Trustees of the town of Lexington do hereby request &c direct all persons that have fences or encumbrances in the Streets adjoining the out lots, that they have them removed by the 1st day of April next, so as to leave the full space assigned to each Street clear of obstructions at which time they will give their personal attendance to see that the purport of this Advertisement is strictly complied with.
By order of the Board.
ROBT. PARKER, Ck.
Dec. 5 - 1789.
THE subscriber not having any application as yet, which has the appearance of his plan of settlement at the Maysville Shoals succeeding, has induced him to defer setting out, until the first of October next. 1. the mean time he intends to explore that country, and make some other arrangements, which will be necessary for the safety of the place; After which the same Terms will be held out as before.
B. Gaines.
Lexington, Jan. 26, 1790.
WILL give Cash for Timothy and Clover seed, and I wish to hire two good ditchers, to drain a pond, and improve a piece of natural meadow ground in the vicinity of Frankfort on Kentucky, to commence work in April.
J. Wilkinson.
Lexington Jan. 8, 1790.
JUST OPENED, And now for sale, by GOUDY AND WILLIAMS
At their Store in Lexington, opposite capt. Youngs Tavern, and near the new courthouse, a neat and general assortment of
GOODS
Well adapted to the season; which will be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash or Furr.
TRAYED from the subscriber, on Cooper's run, the 26th of January last, a likely sorrel horse 5 years old, 15 hands high, a large star in his forehead, branded thus 96 on the near side, bod all round. Also a bay mare, about 6 years old, bod before, big with foal. 13 hands 3 inches high, some saddle spots. Whoever delivers the said creatures to Mr. John Metcalf on Cooper's run, or gives intelligence to him, shall have two dollars reward.
JOHN STAMPS.
SAMUEL AYRES,
SILVER-SMITH AND
JEWELLER.
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the Public, that he has lately opened a shop in Lexington, on main street, nearly opposite Mr. Collin's Tavern; Ladies and Gentlemen, who honor him with their custom, may depend on having their commands complied with on the most reasonable terms, and on the shortest notice.
Lexington, Jan. 22, 1790.
A large company will meet at the Crab-orchard the 11th of March in order to start early the next morning through the Wilderness.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
L O N D O N, Oct. 20.
France saved by SHOE BUCKLES.
AMONG the many patriotic offerings that individuals are daily pouring into the public treasury, the following bright thought of some generous Petit-maitre, deserves to be recorded, as a singular means of supporting the sinking credit of a nation.
Messieurs, says he, addressing himself to a daily paper, I am continually hearing of the impending ruin of my country, for want of eighty millions. If every one do as much as I have done, this sum may be easily raised, and without much cost to any one. Voici mon secret. The immense buckles we wear in our shoes are easily changed for another fashion. I have a pair, that, when melted, must surely produce half a louis, as they cost me two. I carried them to my district, from thence they go to the mint; there are in Paris, I reckon at least 300 thousand persons, who may easily follow my example and 300 thousand buckles will, one with another, produce 300,000 livres, or nearly half M N ck-a's loan.
B E N G A L, January 7.
D E H L I.
The fate of Goloum Khadir Khan has been at length determined upon, and the mode of punishment prescribed; His eyes are at first to be scooped from their sockets, with a similar instrument to that with which he caused the unfortunate king's to be extracted; in this situation he is to remain for a certain time, in order that he himself may feel those agonising and unutterable sufferings which he had occasioned to another; he is then to be conducted to a place prepared for the occasion, and interred to the middle, in which posture he is to continue, to be shot at with poisoned arrows, until he expires. His offences, it must be admitted, have been monstrous; his punishment, however, we are sorry to say, though seemingly accommodated to his actions, is a species of refined retribution which too frequently mark the sanguinary principles which, unfortunately for mankind, still influence Eastern governments. It may be said, that it suits despotic states, where whatever inspires fear is the properest spring of government; but the voice of nature cries loudly against it.
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28
Extract from a discourse of the Rev Mr Robert Fleeming (son of Mr Robert Fleeming, author of the fulfilling of the Scriptures) delivered at London 1701.
"For I cannot but hope that some new manifestation of the chief supporters of Antichrist will then happen, and perhaps the French Monarchy may begin to be considerably humbled about that time (1707-7). That whereas the present French King takes the Sun for his Emblem and this for his Motto, Nec pluribus impar, he may
at length, or rather his successors, and the Monarchy itself (at least before the year 1794) be forced to acknowledge that (in respect to the neighbouring Potentates) he is even singulis impar."
L E X I N G T O N, February 27. From the Massachusetts Centinel. WHOM IT IS OUT OF CHARACTER TO COMPLAIN
A CHAPTER of Inconsistencies.
1. It is out of character for a merchant to complain that business is dead—that trade is done—that money is scarce, and that he cannot pay neither debts nor taxes, who keeps a chariot and stud, who gives an entertainment once a week, and a card party twice, who keeps half a dozen servants, when one is enough who indulges his family in every kind of idleness and dissipation, and whose wife and daughters surpass in the fancy and expense of their penmanship, all the belles of Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah, in the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and their curls & their round-tops, the moon, their chains & their bracelets and their muffs, their bonnets, and their head-bands, their tablets and their earrings, their rings and nose jewels, their changeable suits of apparel, and their mantles, and their wimples, and their crisping pins, their glasses, and their fine linen, their hoods and their veils.
2. It is out of character for a tradesman who once prided himself in the appellation of a speckled shirt man, to complain that he cannot, money being so scarce, pay his rent or his taxes, when he wears nothing but the finest web of the loom, ruffles, laken vest, and a whole train of extravagant accessories—working perhaps but two days in a week and receiving for that work double the wages he earns, and those his non earnings spending for diets, punch, loosing it at little loo, or indulging the depravity of his appetite, with roast turkey or a delicious desert.
3. It is out of character for the farmer to complain that he cannot pay his rates nor debts, nor any thing else, whose three daughters are at a town boarding school, under the discipline of a dancing master, when they should be at the spinning wheel, and while they should be dressed in decent homespun, as were their frugal grandmothers, now carry half their fathers crops on their backs.
4. It is out of character for the gentleman of the robe to complain when they receive eight times the fees which the laws of their country give them—and when the fit of bickering so univocally prevails.
5. It is out of character for the faculty to complain, when it is so fashionable to be indisposed and equally fashionable for them to charge for each attendance or each such ind position, what an honest labourer would be a whole month in accumulating.
6. It is out of character for the society of the frail sisterhood to complain, as they of all other professions, are most liberally encouraged.
SELAH.
On Tuesday the 16th instant the Indians killed a man and wounded another near Stockdel's Station, on Licking creek.
A N E C D O T E
"It is a very dark night," says Cato to one of his brethren of colour, as they were both staggering home from a frolic on a thanksgiving eve—staggering did I say—they were not drunk, nor were they sober, they were at that happy medium, when the bondsman feels himself as happy as the monarch.
"It is a very dark night, Cæsar, take care," says Cato. The caution was a good one—but, like many others was given too late—For Cæsar, striking his foot against the small remains of a post which time had long been hacking to pieces, measured his length upon the ground, before the friendly caution of Cato had met his ear. "I wonder," says Cæsar, rising and rubbing the mud, &c. from off his holiday suit, "why de dibil de sun no shine in dese dark nights. Cato, and not keep shi'ing in de day time, when dere's no need of him."
A Paradoxical WEDDING.
A Wedding there was, and a dance there must be, And who should stand first? thus all did agree Old grandmama, and grandma should lead the dance down; Two fathers, two mothers, should step the same ground; Two daughters stood up, and danced with their fires: (The room was so warm they wanted no fires) And also two sons, who danced with their mothers. Three sisters there were, and danced with three brothers. Two uncles vouchsaf'd with nieces to dance, With nephews, to jig it, it pleased two aunts; Three husbands would dance with none but their wives, (As bent to do, the rest of their lives, The grand daughter chose the jolly grandson. And bride, the would dance with bridegroom or none. A com-pany choice, their number to fix. I told them all o'er and found them but six: All honest and true, from incest quite free Their manners good;—pray how could that be?
Whereas the subscribers did on the fourteenth of August 1783 execute a bond unto Thomas Johnston for two hundred and ten pounds, in consideration for seven hundred acres of land, lying on the South fork of Licking: which sum we oblige ourselves to pay on receipt of the title for said land, property.
We hereby notify the possessor of said bond, that we have now received the title, and are ready to pay agreeable to contract, assuring the the holder thereof, that one or both of us will leave this in February next, and intends to settle in the Spanish dominions, and shall consider ourselves no longer bound by the bond than that time, MICHAEL HOGGE. NICHOLAS HARRISON. Jan. 26, 1790.
HAVE in my possession in this Town, a bright sorrel horse, 14 hands high, with a star in his forehead, some saddle spots, no brand, 12 or 13 years old, lame in both hind legs, formerly the property of James Wilkinson, supposed now to belong to a Mr Miles. The owner is desired to come prove property and take him away, as he is an expence to me. NICHOLAS WOOD Baker. Lexington Feb. 23 1790.
Strayed or stolen from the subscriber in Lexington, in November last, a sorrel horse, four years old last spring, about fourteen hands high, a small star in his forehead, trots, branded on the left shoulder G. Also a brown mare two years old last spring, about fifteen hands high, trots and paces, heavy mane and tail, the mane hanging on both sides, a small bell on, a coarse make; Whoever delivers said horses to me in Lexington, shall have eight dollars for the mare, and two for the horse. JOHN ALISON. Lexington, Feb. 13, 1790.
THREE DOLLARS REWARD,
STRAYED from near Shannon's mill, some time in August last, a small bay mare, 4 feet 5 or 6 inches high, very long by, trots and canters well, 6 years old, no brand as I recollect, neatly made, had on when she went away a large new bell, 3 notches cut in the side edge of the bell, and two in the end edge, and I believe 2 or three in the staple, a leather strap; the mare's tail had been lately scraped. Whoever delivers said mare or gives such information that I get her again, shall receive the above reward. HENRY BROCK. Feb. 25, 1790.
In pursuance of an act of assembly, the commissioners of the town of Louisville will sell, for ready money, on the fourth of May next, (being Jefferson court day) at the house of John Harrison, in said town,
THAT valuable square of ground in Louisville, number six, lying between the half acre lots and Water street, late occupied by John Sinclair, and recovered from him by suit at law, in the supreme court of the district—Also, on the same terms, sundry other lots in the aforesaid town, their situation and numbers will be made known at the time of sale. --- By order of the board. JOHN CLARK, Chairman. February 10, 1790
NOTICE
Is hereby given to all those that are indebted to the estate of Alexander Martin deceased, either by note or book account, to come and settle the same with the subscriber by the first of June next for they need not expect any farther indulgence—Also all those that have any demands, are desired to come and settle the same with, JAMES LOWREY, Alm. Feb. 24, 1790.
On Friday the 12th day of March next, at the plantation of John Witsledge deceased on Coopers run, Bourbon county, will be sold to the highest bidder at 12 Months credit with bond and approved security.
TWO feather beds and furniture, and a number of likely horses of as good blood as any in the district. THOMAS WHITLEDGE, Exr.
PEYTON SHORT & CO. Will open a large and general assortment of fresh
GOODS
In this place, on the first day of February next, which they will sell on the lowest terms for Cash or Tobacco, and will be ready to make advances to all persons who have or may consign their tobacco to Wilkinson and Short, agreeably to the Conditions they have published. Lexington, January 21. 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Fayette county, a bright bay Horse, 3 years old last spring, about 14 hands high, has a black spot on his off jaw Appraised to £7. 10 George Stephenson. January 11th, 1790.