The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806, April 17, 1790, Image 4
4 • • ' KXSSmxmWE poetry. Tbs Jewe/i and her Sen. gp Pittr Pindar , Esq. POOR Leri had a hichltfs foa, Who, rulhing to obtain the fortmoft feat, In Imitation of th* ambitious great, High from the gali’ry, tie the play begun, He fell all plump into the pit, Dead in a minute as a nit: In Ihott, he broke hia pretty Hebrew neck, Indeed and very dreadful w*e the wreck! The mother was diftraded, raving, wild— Shriek’d, tore her hair, embrac'd and kifs’d the child, Abided every heart with grief around; Boon aa the lhow*r of tears was fomewhttpaft, And moderately calm th’ byderic blart, And call about her eyes in thought profound: And being with a saving knowledge blefs’d, She thus the play-house manager addrefs’d « Sher, I’m de Moter of the poor chew lad, « Dar met mifsfartin here so bad—* m gher, touf* has de (hilling back, you «W«»w, «« Aa Moses has not sea da show." t t I G R A M. DO you said fanny, t’other day. In earned love me as you fay i Or, ate thole tender words applied Alike to fifty girls be fide ? Dear, cruel girl, cried I, forbear! For, by tbofe eye* —those lips—l fwear—* •-She flopp’d me, as the oath l took, And cried, you’ve sworn, now kilt the book. • O' SON MOT. THE Clerk of a Judicial Court, which lately fat not an hundred miles from the capital of a neighbouring date, being in* disposed, application was made to an Attor • MY* t 0 execute the duties of the office prs JPr —to which he agreed. It was then fug gelled by one of ita four Judges, that it would be nccelfary he (hould be sworn, he declined, declaring his readintfs to pledge his houor tor the faithful difeharge of hia duty. The judge very Ihrewdly remarked, tb it a knave was an honour. “ Very true, * (ieturned the Attorney) end there are just four in a pack.” Broke Goal, On the 15 th instant , Philip Alston, I»tt ot Moore connty, committed as acctf fary to tha murder of George GUfcock.— AH perfoaa arc required to be aiding and as. filling in apprehending, so that he be again committed to goal; aud any expence accru ing thereon shall be paid by the fubferiber. THOMAS WRIGHT, Sbtrif. Wilmington, (N.G.) Jan. 8, 1790. ■ i —— n ■ % Cattle for Sale. THE fubferiber has a flock of about two hundred and fifty head of gentle cattle, which he proposes felling about May firll, 00 reasonable terms for calh, tobacco or ne grue* 1 the fubferiber living about fix miles of Edgefield Court hvtufe, on the head of Horn's creek, South Carolina. JOHN AVAN, Msni ,4, l/fo. JUDGES CHAMBERS, March if, *79°* \ *TpHE haviug placed the re gulation of the public roads wi.hiu I the power and direction of the SuperiorCourt*, notice to all Coromiffioners is thus timely given, that the LAw Officers ra the Depart ment of the will be in ftruaed to call for ihe ftatc and condition of all public highways, bridges and ferries, with in this date, oh the tnfuihg Circuits of the ftimmer; and all refuials or negtclts will be attended to according to'faw. (Signed) H. OSBORNE, geo. Walton, / I Collector's Sales. — — On Saturday tbt lid day of May next, at Way nefborougb, at 10 tPClock in the fore toon, tbt SALE will commtnce of tbt following trad* of land i for Taxes die onfaid lands find the Revolution, on the terms preferibid in the refpe&ive Tex Ads, viz . ONE hundred acres of land on the north fide of Lambert** creek, adjoining lauds of James Hadden, bounded on the north east by Lambert’* Big Creek, fouth by laud of William Haddeu; and weft by land granted to Matthew Moore; the property of Audrew Hamilton. One hundred acres lying on Reedy Branch, adjoining lauds of Thomas Beaty, John Man on and John Bartholomew; the property of James Thornton. One hundred acres lying on Reedy Branch, | adjoining land of John Persons, and land granted to Thomas Beaty; the property of Elijah Brown. One hundred acres on Lambert’s Big Creek, adjoining' lauds granted Robert Gordon and Joseph Beaty; the property of the heirt of William Skelly, jun. deceased. One hundred acres, partly river swamp, lying between Bryer Creek and M Bean’s, be longing to the estate of William Worrcl. Two tracts of 809 seres each, oh the waters of Rockey Comfort; the property of An thony Stoaes. Eighteen hundred and fifty acres, lying on Ogechee above the mouth of Buckhead, tbe property of Elizabeth Simplon* or heirs. Two hundred acres lying on Ogechee, above tbe mouth of Buckhead, the property of Mat thew Bass, or heire. • The foregoing trails have been returned by different Receivers of taxable*, as the pro perty of non-residents. Five hundred acre* lying'on Ogechee, be ' tween Horse Creek and Buckhead, the proper ty of the Rev. Mr. London* by information ol Lemuel Lanier.* Two hundred acres lying on Rockey Creek, the property of James Garvey, by informa tion of Alexander Carter. THOMAS JONES, Colledor. Just Publiflied, And may be had at tbe - THE Constitution of the State of Georgia. Ratified the 6th of May, 1759. ALSO, The Federal Constitution. And a tew Copies of tbe LAWS Os the General Afiembly of the State of Georgia, palled last Session. *t* Blank Bonds, Blank Writs, Deeds of Convey ance, and New England Primers, I To be had at the Printing-Office. Ten Dollars Reward. I Run away From the Subscriber; on the night of the 27th instant, a negro man, formerly tbt property of Colonel Glafcock, named r J A c K > Atout twenty-five years of age, five feet, 1 nine or ten inches high, flout and well made, I squint eyed. He took with him a grey ( horse, abcut thirteen and a half hands high, I long tail, with his left eye put out; he also I took with him a saddle and bridle, a blanket and several suits of clothes, among which I was a blue broad cloth coat about half worn, I and a (hort drab coloured coat with a red cap. The above reward will be given upon delive | ry of said negro and horse to me, or in pro- I portion for either; DANIEL ELAM. I Richmond county, March 31, 1790. On Tburfday, tbe lid of April next, I At the House of Mr. James Ramsey, will be v let te the lowest bidder, The Building of a Bridge On the Little Kioka Ceeek. THOMAS GREER, *) LEVI MARSHALL, > Corners* JAMES M'NEIL, } 1 March <5, 1790. I 1 ! BY virtue of the powers in me vested 'bf the Executive Department, notice i* I hereby given to all Militia Officers, and o thers ailing under them, who have receive* public aims, Or other rijilwary stores, from the Magazine in Augusta, to ffKiurn the fame I o the said Magazine, without delay. ROBERT DlXO Keeper eftba Public Magazine in Angela* Jufi Publijbedi andto bt fold dt the Printing-Office in Augusta , THE South-Carolina and Georgia AL MAN AG, For the Year of our Lord 1790: Being the fetond after Leap Tear, and (till 4th of July) the fourteenth Tear of American Independence . ' containing I The Rifioand Setting of the Sun, the Moon* I . Full, Change and f&artcrs, theSun’sCourfn in the Ecliptic, remartable Days, Judge ment es Weather, Afpclts, Eclipses, dec* he. icc. « ’• ‘ l*y JOHN 1 OBLER, Esf^ I * ALSO; Duties on Goods, Ware* and Merchandize, imported into the United States, and on Tonnage—Mode of tranfaHing Business at the Cuftom-Hfoufe, and Fees of its Officer* | —Lift of the. Members of the Federal | Houses of Senate and Representatives, with their Officer*, and tbt Appointments .made by the President of tbe United States-* Times and Placet of holding Federal Courts, and thofc of Georgia and Boutfa-Carolina Salaries of the United Btate* Officers—Lid of Officers of the States of Geprgia an* Soutb-Caroliaa—Tide Table—valuable Re« •eipts, tie. To be Sold, For Cajh or Tobacco , A Female Field I Slave. I Itftiirt es ih« Printer*