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independence—lt was then m'oVed tTiat pro ceedings be reduced to order; whereupon a moderator and other necellary officers were chosen to .conduct the business of the day, which was done with' harmony and civil mirth. After an elegant dinner the follow ing toatts were drank, and solemnized by a difeharge of fire arms, viz. 1. The Federal Cbnftitution. 2. The new Constitution of the State of -Georgia. 3. The President of the United States. 4. The Vice-President of the United States. Our great ally, Lewis the 16th. 6. May the 4th of July, ever be held in •commemoration. 7. The virtuous Representatives of the State of Georgia in Cougrefs. 8. May the citizeus of the United States be governed by virtue. - 9. The Irith Volunteers, and other Euro pean friends to freedom. 10. May a salutary Treaty immediately take place with the neighbouring Indians. - 11. Encouragement to the American Ma nufactories. . ,* ,V ' ' * i he Order of Council, and Statement of monies paid the late Delegates to Congress, will appear in our next, t < . ' ' • * * * • * A * * 1 AUTHENTICATED ETYMOLOGIES. - WHEN the seamen on board the lhip of Chrirtopher Columbus* -after a series of fati gues, came in fight of St. Salvador, they burst out into .exuberant mirth and jollity. “The lads are in A MERRY KEY,” cried the Commodore. AMERICA is now the name of half the globe. The famous HANNIBAL took his name from that of his mother, one HANNAH BELL, a poor Scotch garter-knitter at Car thage. t ; Diotiijius Hallicarnejfeus derives the word MEDITERRANIAN from this event: Two girl 6 in Syracuse used every evening to pour the tea and other flops from an upper window into tbe Areet; whenever, therefore, the neighbours heard the fafti of their apartments thove up, they would cry, “ MAID OR TWO, RAIN. ON !”,,The learned very well know how soon a word is combined, and becomes general. •= • Antiquarians fay, that an old negroe at Cape Cod, whenever his matter required any thing of him, would exclaim, u MASSA CHUSE IT.” Thence in time the name of MAS3ACHUSETT. The girls of Palmyra, when romping with the fellows, often cried out, THE BOYS TEAR US.” This gave rife to the word BOISTEROUS. The frequent exertions of a young woman of the name of gave birth to the words POLLY TP Y; flnee generally fpelt PALTRY. : . The city of Albany was originally fettled by Scotch people. When strangers, on their arrival, aiked how the new comers did ? the nnfwer uniformly was, “ ALL BONNY.” The spelling we find a little altered, but not the found. ~ When Julius Caesar’s army lay encamped at Ticondeioga near two thousand years ago, the deserters were commonly tied upon a battery ram and flogged : when any culprit was brought out, the commanding centurion would exclaim, u TIE QN THER.OGUEI” The name we fee has worn we11,.- The glare of a tmffaloe’s eyes through the wool of his forehead, gave occasion to ..the ancients to denominate three ancient ladies, FURR EYES. Bin we have foftened down the epithet to FUPvIES. , r A fat landlady, who, about tire time of the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, lived between New Orleans and the Chicafaw c<iffs, was scarcely ever unfurnilbed with pigeon l'ea-pye; and thence got the name of MRS* SEA PYE. Thy enormous river MISSISIP PI owes its name to this fat landlady. In the reign of Dennot O’Mullogh in the kingdom of Connaught, about the beginning of the second century, a noisy fellow of the name of PAT. RIOT made himfelf very confpicuous* The word PATRIOT has come down to uspcrfecl and unimpaired. When Nebuchadnezzar took the tour of Alia, coming to the esflern part of it, he was out dey uSV id by ;h*ecook, M if his im- Majetfy could'relifh a ciiice of pork r”. With a brow frowning as dark as Erebus, and a voice of thunder, the monarch cried CHINE? HA! The applied cook fled, and the exclamation became the name of the firft kingdom upon the face of the earth. The term HURRICANE is Tuppofed to take its rife from one MARRY KANE, a turbulent Iriflunaii who lived a; Antigua. In deed the very name ANTIGUA in ow well knowi* to be derivfed from an avaricious old female planter who once lived on the iflabd, and was always called by the sailors, AUNT EAGER. ' v . When the French fettled mi the river St. Lawrence, they were Cinted by the intendant, Motif. Picard, to a can of spruce beer a day. That people thought the mcafure very scant and every moment articulated *« CAN A DAYit would be ungenerous reader to desire a * more rational derivation of the word CANADA. - A jolly W est-Indian, whenever the neigh bouring girls came to bis plantation, infilled on -iheir lipping his choicest syrups, and re iterated the term MY. LASSES ; thence the name of that l'yrup. Few words have abber rated from their primaries less than this. A tippling hufleydf Grand Cairo, in the reign of Ptolomy Philadelphia, was fowver frequenting public houses, and lipping gin and brandy without paying A Jingle farthing ; and by this prudent management obtained the name of POLLY TICK The elder Sca liger* -Duns Scotus, and Erasmus, all declare that,, ihe well known word POLITIC, or PO LITICS, is derived from this artful trollop. « *- * . * / At a Meeting of the Board of Trit/iees of the Richmond Aca demy, / uly 15,. 1789. RESOLVED, that the fencing in, or en clbfing the Academy Lot No 8, will be let to the lowest undertaker, on Tuefday, the ziftiuft. on the preiuifes, at ten o’clpck in the forenoon, the fame to be done with good poll oak, or lightwood polls, at lead ten inches square, thiee feet below and fix above ground, eight feet apart ; and mer chantable inch plank, well and fuSflanrially nailed on with half crown nails, to lap on the edges, and to be draped at the ends, the fame to be well pinned and wedged : A neat gate to be made of planed pales, the pods to be of lightwood or pod oak, at lead twelve inches square, and the gate to be hung with good and fufficient hinges, gnd to fallen with a latch and catch; the fame to be done and completed in a. good and Vorkminlike man ner, within two months from the day of the contract. At the fame time will be let, the finding the materials and tompleti-ig the f ollow ing repairs at tbs Academy : One room to be ceiled, and a deficiency thetein to be lined a door and fourteen win dow lhuters to be hung with good hinges, those for the windows to be railed joints : 216 panes of crown glass 8 by 10* and giaz ing.—To be included in the Line letting, a palisade fence of' 4.1-2 feet high ; across the lot, the pods to be of good heart of pine or lightwood* fix by four inches, to be eight feet apart, and the rails to be three by four • inches, the pales to be three bv one inchi drelTed and itfoulded. in the uftial manner, witji a neat gage, to be. bung with fufficient . hinges —the gate pods to be ten inches square. At the fame time ‘•will Le lei. Thei’ finking a Well, five feet wide in the clear, to be bricked with merchantable wel!- bncks, the fame to be infperled prior to their being put iuto the well, with good and pro per kerbs, with two iron bound buckets, to be fixed on a l'ubfiantial frame, the buckets to aCi by claiuß, and the whole by a wind lace. . Extras from tbs Proceedings of the Board, JAMES M. SIMMONS, Clerk. *%* Blank Bonds, Blank Writs, Deeds of Convey ance, and New England Primers, For Sale «t the Jhifltiug-Oflite. . t To be Exchanged, A Ne£roe, of any ag; or deicrlp tion, ior Cattle, linquire of the Printer. i THE Copartnership that some time ago was intended to have taken place be tween John Wilson and Hugh Harper, under the fiim of Witfon taf Harter , lias been a few days ago entirely laid alTde, by consent of the parties, of which all those ill any way con cerned are now to take notice.' ' JOHN WILSON. Augufla t July 17, 1789. 1 ■" ■- 11 ————— NOTICE is given, that I have purchased of I. B. V. Heddeghem, part of the' Lot No. 23, situate in Broad-street, in the town of Augulla, agreeable to his Bill of Salt, a true copy cf which is herewith inserted for the information cf the public, and is aa fol* - lows: “ Received. May io : , f;88, from Mr. tl Edward M‘Farhn, the sum of One Hun died Pounds, it being in part payment of “ Lot-No.- 23. intlic town of Augusta, which “ I bougfit of Major Forfyth, and which I ** promile to give to the said Mr. M‘Farlirt' «* good aud fufiicient titles to the fame—as “ witness my hand this day. * * • • I. B. V. HEDDEGHEM.’* WitneflecV by J). Hunter In purluance thereof, I hereby give notice,’ to advise and caution all persons not to buy, purebafe, or receive titles for the above men tioned Lot, as I am the lawful proprietor of the lame. EDWARD M'FARLIN. Augufia , July 17, 1789. GEORGIA, jßy Lewis Gardner M (L. 8.) . i ( Esq RegiflerofPro- LEWIS GARDNER., r bats for the County • - : of Richmond. W HEREAS Anney Coleman has applied to me for letters of adminirtration bn the efiate of Caleb Coleman, deceased, These * aie therefore to cite and admonilh all and Angular the kindred and creditors of the said deccafcd, to be and appear before me at mj# • Office,' on the 18111 day of August next, to shew cawfe, if any they have, why letters of adrniniftratiou rtiould nor be granted., . Giveii under my hand and seal, at ms (Office, the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand * seven hundred and eighty-nine, and ‘ in (he 14th year of, the Independence of tbe United States of America.' A hit of defaulters in Capt. John Freeman’s company, Wilkes county, viz. JOHN Partin, 350 acres second quality, oak and hickory land, Wilkes county, and one slave; Dennis, 200 acres - second quality, oak and hickory land, Wilkes county; John Taylor; 200 acres third quali ry, oak and hickory land in Wilkes county ; Daniel Ford, "Jonathan j. Hayes, Hughes 'j ho nip son, Eenchal Philips, Jayies Martin, Levi Wimpy, Joel Yarborough, Richard Eubank, Joseph Taylor, and Joel Aikin. JOHN FREEMAN, Rec* June 16 , 1759. ’ ■ "" l 1 1 > A lift of defaulters in Capt. P».obert Sa.-iJgcV company, -Richmond county. • JACOB Miller^Edward Boyd, Nicod.emna Boyd, Joseph Huntington, John Wood, Zephaniah Mott, Randolph Robertson, Wil liam Nicholson, Ricketfon Lipfey, Isaac Ra for, William Gold, Abfalom Rhodes, John Black, Mr- Hull, Mr Mulliti, Mr. Inlow’. and Il’aac Uudcrwbod, the latter supposed to have given in dfcVviieie. JOHN FOSTER, Rec. A Lift of Defaulters in Captain Evans's di flritt, Burke county. STEPHEN Swaiu, Zachariah Buthey, jo feph Batron, James Cartian, Jo'eph Biai.tly, Jame» Brantly, Abner Marrell, Tho- . mas Sumcliii, J<*fcph Clupliu, David Bov,l, ’ (tamifttaiford. J* PTANS, Roe. I