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.
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i he Order of Council, and Statement
of monies paid the late Delegates to Congress,
will appear in our next,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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