The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-06-07 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE,
S A T U R D A Y, JUNE 7. 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 viz.
 SUPERFINE deep & light blue broadcloth.  Brown & light colour do.  Second ditto assorted.  Coarse ditto. ditto.  Coatings assorted.  Cloak cloths.  Fearnought and Negro cottons.  Indian and bed blankets.  Jeans and fustians.  Velveteens assorted.  Honeycomb & cordurets.  Black everlasting.  Silk & cotton waistcoat patterns.  Flannel shirts assorted.  Russia sheeting.  Cotton hollands.  Apron and yard wide checks.  Marquises quilting and nankeens.  Silk for gowns.  Chintzes assorted.  Cotton calicoes assorted.  Linnen ditto assorted.  Shalloons & durants.  Camblets & callimanco.  Lawn apron patterns.  Striped & plain lawns.  Mouselin and cambricks.  Mode and persians.  Silk and gauze handkerchiefs.  Lawn, cotton and linnen ditto.  Gauzes assorted.  Ribbands and tasle.  Tapes and bindings.  Silk and thread lace.  Cotton, worsted and thread hoes.  Mens & womens gloves.  Silk & worsted mitts.  Sewing silk and twit.  Coarse and fine thread.  Garters and stay laces.  Buckram and catgut.  Baize and flannels.  Moreens and striped saddle 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.  Taylor's shears & scissors.  Leather, paper & brass ink stands.  Wool shears and snuffers.  Brass & iron candlesticks.  Razors and shoe makers knives.  Cloathes and sweeping brushes.  Crooked Combs.  Coarse & fine ditto.  Sugar tongs and nutmeg graters.  Mens & womens shoes, Girth & bridle buckles.  Girth & trainingweb.  Curb and snaffle bridle bits.  Mens & womens stirrup irons.  Staples and plates for saddles.  Pins and needles.  Nob and pad locks.  Chest cupboard & drawer ditto.  Stock and saddle bagg ditto.  Desk mounting.  H & H.L. hinges.  Cupboard & chest hinges.  Bolts assorted.  Tea table ketches.  Knob & thumb latches.  Screw auges assorted.  Chisels and gouges dit.  Turners tools & wheel-irons.  Files & plane bits.  Wood screws & sprigs.  Saws assorted.  Curry combs & drawing knives.  Gimblets & Jews harps.  Sickles & scythes.  Smoothing irons & frying pans.  6d. 8d. 12d. brads 20d. nails.  Cotton & wool cards.  Slates and compasses.  Grid irons.  Writing paper.  Playing cards.  Watt's psalms.  English and Dutch testaments.  Spelling books and primers.  Wafers & ink powder.  Paste boards.  Loaf & mucovado sugar.  Hyson, fouchong and bohea tea.  Coffee, pepper, allspice, ginger.  Cloves, nutmegs.  Raisins, mustard.  Madder, logwood.  Indigo, coperas. alum.  Brimstone & rosin.  Chalk & castile soap.  Powder, bar lead drop shot.  Window glass.  Looking glasses.  Delf dishes assorted.  Soup & shallow queens ware plates.  Bowls & mugs assorted.  Tea cups & saucers.  Tea pots assorted.  Coffe pots & cream jugs.  Pepper casters, salt cellers & mustard pots.  Tumblers assorted.  Wine glasses.  Quantt & pint decacters.  Tin cups, &c. &c. &c. 
I WANT to purchase, not exceeding a thousand, nor less than three hundred acres of land within the county of Fayette, to be of the first quality, well watered and timbered, and conveniently situated: For payment I will give my bond and good security, that any person applying with my order to my Father William Morgan in Fauquier county Virginia, whom said land will be for, shall receive the cash for said land.
539 CHARLES MORGAN.
ALL persons indebted to James Bray of Lexington on bonds, bills, notes, or accounts 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
REDBIRD
A powerful high blooded horse, will stand this season at the subscribers house in Lexington, his price thirty shillings cash, or 200lb of merchantable tobacco, or 300lb of pork, to be delivered in Lexington, on or before the 20th. day of October next..
REDBIRD was got by Fearnought an imported horse, his dam was a Janus, called slow and sure, his grand dam was creeping Kate, so well known on the continent for her swiftness and high blood.
JOHN MCNAIR.
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Limestone to the lower blue licks; being Mays settlement and preemption and includes Mays lick, 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 the title, 11 b30 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 globes &c. Is desirous of a school in any part of the District, a small part cash would be required in the subscription the rest in property paid quarterly. A line directed to A,B, at the printers will be duly attended to. May 22 1788
THE board of trustees for the Transylvania Seminary at their last meeting, adjourned to the second monday in June to meet in Danville, to which the members are requested to pay attention. May 28 1788 4041. HARRY INNES. Ch.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that a number of Gentlemen propose meeting at the Craborchard on Sunday the fifteenth of June in perfect readiness to make an early start on Monday the sixteenth through the Wilderness.
Mr. Bradford,
IT may seem strange that among all the uses to which your press has been applied, no body should have thought of conveying some religious reflections to your readers in this way. I propose the following thoughts upon the death of a little child as they were delivered over his grave, hoping that your press will produce admonitions upon other practical subjects for those who are seriously disposed; and that religious pieces may happily be preserved from that appearance of ill nature which has disgraced our political productions. A PIETIST,
IT is the business of a minister of the christian religion not only to suggest comfortable thoughts to the afflicted; but also to point out the benefits which may be reaped from misfortunes. These are the objects of my short address to you upon this occasion. To be reconciled to such a dispensation of divine providence it is necessary that you, the friends of the deceased, should attend to the consequences of it with regard to him and your selves. It is true that our imaginations upon such occasions are mostly representing gloomy prospects; and we think of little else but the happiness which it may be supposed we have been deprived of. But it is far from being prudent to attend in any case to imaginations and suppositions; unless we suppose and conjecture in every view of the case; and then balance the account. For instance it may be reasonably supposed that the children of a well regulated family will prove blessings to their friends and to their country; and that after the course of a virtuous life their death and immortality will be crowned with honour: But yet these happy fruits are not always produced by the best education; and how have parents and friends been tortured by observing the disappointment of their hopes and wishes? How have the fair blossoms of youth withered at the approach of manhood, and left nothing but the thorns of an ignominious life and fatal death! On the other hand to what will all the happiness of this life amount when considered in connection with its burthensome anxieties and perils? And how much must he be a gainer who in the innocent moments of life is taken to the mansions of eternal peace! He cannot be laid to fall a prey to death, so much as to be relieved from the labour of living; and to

and the blestness of the next world upon easier terms than other mortals. Wherefore if to these considerations we add, that God's wisdom and goodness, who has committed the government of mankind to their best friend who has laid down his life as a proof of his tender concern for their happiness; if we consider, that such wisdom and goodness must always do what is best, we have no reason to be excessively afflicted; but are bound to acquiesce, let what will happen to ourselves or others.
But the instances of mortality are not more frequent than the serious consideration of our own latter end is necessary. A proper sense of this truth would effectually reconcile us to such dispensations both when we see strangers and friends taken away from the world. A good improvement of these dispensations is also necessary for the peace of our consciences, and the enjoyment of reviving hopes concerning the life to come, that God must appear to act a more friendly part in subjecting us to the necessity of the most difficult separations of friends from friend, and soul from body, that he would seem to act in leaving us without effectual admonitions, to weigh the consequences of living. Wherefore though it be incumbent upon us to sympathise with one another in the losses of this kind which we sustain; yet should we never forget that to mourn for the dead is one of the smallest offices we have to discharge, when deprived of the dearest friends; Have we received comfort from their presence, and shall we reap no advantage; shall we receive nothing but injury from their departure? No! even that gloomy hour may afford the greatest benefits to us who survive them. It is a debt intrested upon us all to resign our bodies to the dust, and our spirits to God who gave them. Happy shall we be if even the death of our friends shall teach us to do it with a becoming grace! if we can but imitate, in restoring to God what we have received from him, the cheerfulness which the world of men discover in discharging what they so falsely call their debts of honour! This is the lesson which we ought to study under such calamities! This is the lesson which the friends of whom we have been bereaved would inculcate upon us in the strongest terms, if the governor of the world should permit them to have any intercourse with us.
If the wicked could prove that they were excused from the general necessity of dying; or that after death they should be neither happy nor miserable; they might reasonably esteem the exhortations of religion as a heap of absurdity. But as no man can entertain the least expectation of such a freedom, or of being hereafter incapable of enjoyment or suffering; the charge of absurdity or even madness must still be at their doors who will not think of preparing for death. Let us therefore act the wisest and safest part by keeping our latter end in view, and governing the whole course of our life by this prospect. Let us not be alarmed at such a proposal. The thought of dying is only disagreeable when we do not fix our attention sufficiently upon it: and there are only three causes of that frightfulness which many seem to see in the prospect of their dissolution.
1st. They are too fond of this life. 2d. They are apprehensive of God's judgments. 3d. They are not impressed with a sufficient confidence in the doctrines of christianity which have brought life and immortality so evidently to light. Now in order to remove these causes of terror: I beseech you to think fre quently and soberly upon the shortness and uncertainty of life. Meditate upon the vanity of all earthly pleasures and the perils of death by which we are every day and hour surrounded. Think how many diseases prevail in the human body, how all the elements are fighting against us; and how many of our fellow men may frequently and with savage cruelty plot our destruction. The lightning from heaven, the unhealthiness of seasons, the insects of the earth and air; tempests from above and sickly vapours from beneath, together with the jarring interests and passions of nations around us are continually putting us upon the alarm; if we would but attend to their admonitions as we ought to do. Then consider how many disappointments and contentions we may meet with in our most flattering pursuits, our most pleasing employment, such considerations as these will soon lessen your opinion of earthly happiness, and make you heartily willing to exchange it for something better. But to be delivered from the fear of God's judgements in the life to come, is yet a more necessary preparative for death. To accomplish this we have to pray earnestly to the father of mercies for the remission of sins, and compassion upon our infirmities. We have only to imitate the life and observe the solemn injunctions of our Redeemer. We have only to observe the perfections of our heavenly father and testify a supreme
love towards him, by walking in the paths of so- briety, righteousness and piety. We have only to fly from the odious conversation, and despise the ridiculous customs of wicked men, to guard against the excesses into which the violence of unlawful affections might sometimes hurry us; and carefully to examine at the bar of conscience the principles upon which we intend to act, and the consequences which our several actions tend to produce. In a word, we have only to watch and pray that we enter not into temptation; and to run with pa- tience the race which the redeemer of men hath set before us, when he called us to Glory and vi- tue exhorting us to look to him as the author and finisher of our faith. If we do thus, he who for our sakes become acquainted with grief, will soon and faithfully deliver us from this trouble- some world. He will make the valley of faith plea- sing to the spirit of faith, and crown us with all the rewards of righteousness, and the joys of sal- vation! That we may not lose the comforts of of such a prospect, it will also be necessary to dwell frequently upon the evidence by which this e- verlasting hope is supported. Let us consider that if any thing related in the history of past ages be true; it must be true that Jesus Christ lived and died and rose again for our justification; But if Jesus hath risen then have we a more exalted happiness to aspire after than this life can afford. If Jesus be risen then all who sleep in Jesus shall also be raised at the last day in glory. If Jesus be risen then is he able to save to the uttermost all who shall come to God by him. If Jesus be risen the doubt of another life are utterly vain and dishonourable, and the doubts of being received into the favour of God by repentance and refor- mation of life, are if possible still more shameful. If Jesus be risen; and we are determined to walk as he walked in simplicity and Godly sincerity, we shall certainly be happy as we are now breath- ing. Let us not therefore be afraid of death, nor offended at the ravages which it seems to make upon us; for the blessed dawn of that day is re- gularly advancing when this mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruption shall put on in- corruption; when all who have not been deformed by sinful habits shall again enjoy the society of their upright friends, and shine as the sun in the kingdom of their heavenly father.
On the first Inst. at the house of capt Smith of this town, a tame Bear, that had been kept chained on account of his evil disposition, by some means happened to get loose, and get into a waste out house; a number of children followed him, amongst which was a girl about 11 or 12 years old, who ventured into the house, upon which the angry beast flew at her, caught hold of her and would have put an end to her life in a very short time, if she had not been rescued: the animal was instantly killed, previous to which he had torn and mangled one of her legs, that it was at first thought an amputation of the leg would be absolutely necessary, to prevent a mortification. It is hoped this will be a sufficient caution against the practice of taming such dangerous animals.
Yesterday morning a very melancholy accident hap- pened near this place. In attempting to kindle fire with a gun, supposed to be empty, a gun- ner of about 7 or 8 years old, who was asleep near the chimney, was killed by the ramrod, which, with a small charge of powder had been put in by some person unknown, a short time before. The rod enter- ing the left hip, passed up through the bowels and vitals, and appeared at the left breast .
Such accidents, which too frequently happen, is at all times the effect of inattention: It is therefore the duty of every person never to attempt to make fire with a gun, when it could, possibly do any damage in case the firearm have been privately loaded.
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.
Lexington, June 3, 1788.
N.B. The Printing business will be continued by the public's most obliged, and very humble Servant, JOHN BRADFORD.
Lexington, June 3 1788.
FLANK DEEDS
SUBPOENAS, REPLEVI & COMMON BONDS may be had at this OFFICE.
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 MCDOWELL GEORGE CALDWELL JOHN ROGERS, trustees.
WE are under the necessity once more of earnestly requesting all those who have not paid up their subscriptions for building the new addition to the prithbyterian meeting-house at Lexington, to pay up immediately, as the workmen are pushing us for their pay. Bacon, Hemp, Linnen, Wheat, and Corn will be received if brought in immediately, otherwise these obligations for money will be received by the workmen, if given at June court, or as soon as possible.
JOSEPH KYLE SAMUEL BLAIR
FOR SALE
A LOFT 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 1783 ————— THOMAS WEST
ANECDOLE of King JAMES I.
SOON after that Solomon of the age came to the throne of England, he took it in his head to go and hear causes in Westminster-hall to shew his learning and wisdom, of which he had no mean opinion. Accordingly, being seated on the bench, a cause came on, which the counsel, learned in the law set forth to such advantage on the part of the plaintiff, that the sagacity of the royal judge soon saw the justice of it so clearly, that he frequently cried out, "He ken the matter unco well! the gude mon is i' the reeght! He mun ha' it! he mun ha' it," And when the council had concluded, took it as a high affront, that the judges of the court should presume to remonstrate to him, that it was the rule audire alteram partem , to hear both parties before they gave judgment. Curiosity to know, what could be said in so clear a case rather than any respect to their rules, made him defer his decision; but the defendant's council had scarce begun to open their cause, when his sacred Majesty appeared greatly discomposed; and was so puzzled as they proceeded, that he had not patience to hear them out, but starting up in a passion, cried, I'le hear ne mere! ye are all knaves aleeke! Ye g' each other the lee, and neither's i' the reeght.