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THE YEAR.
JANUARY.
LO! My fair, the morning lazy,
Peeps abroad from yonder hiU;
Phoebus rises red and hazy,
Frost has Hop’d the village mill.
FEBRUARY.
AH round her looks fad and dreary;
East the flaky snow descends :
Yet the red breads chirr up cheery,
While the nittend lass attends.
MARCH.
Rife the winds, and rock the cottage,
Thaws the roof and wets the path;
Dorca cooks the savory pottage
Smoakcs the cake upon the hearth.
APRIL.
Sunfliine intermits with ardor,
bhadcs fly fwiftly o’er the fields;
Showers revive the drooping verture,
Sweets the funny upland yields.
M' A Y.
Pearly beams the eye of morning:
Child ! Forbear the deed unblefs’d !
Hawthorn eveiy hedge adorning,
Pluck the flower—but spare the nest i
JUNE.
'School-boys in the brooks disporting,
Spend ,the sultry hour of play ;
While the nymphs and Twain are courting,
1 Seated on the new-made hay.
JULY.
Maids with each a guardian lover,
While the vivid lightning flies 5
Haflenmg to the nearest cover,
t Clasp their hand before their eyes.
AUGUST.
See the reapers, gleaners, dining,
Seated on the shady grass;
O’er the gate the squire reclining,
Wanton eyes each ruddy lass.
SEPTEMBER.
Hark ! A found like distant thunder,
Murderer, may thy malice fail!
Torn from all thy love asunder,
Widow’d birds around us wail.
OCTOBER.
Now Pomona pours her treasure,
Leaves autumnal drew the ground,
Plenty crowns the market measure,
While the mill runs briskly round.
NOVEMBER.
Now the giddy rites of Comus,
Crown the hunter’s dear delight.
Ah! the year is flitting from us,
Bleak the d3y, and drear the night.
DECEMBER.
Bring more wood, and set the glafles,
join, my friends, our Christmas cheer :
Come, a catch!—and kiss the lasses
Chnflmas comes but once a year.
ANECDOTE.
WHEN Dr. Miebbeare was
adjurgtcl to Hard m the
pi. ory, t n »c<ou t t f h,s fix h lu
tei to the people of brglaid, to
wards thr clt fe cftxrcmint his ftn
tcnce it began to rain, ar d ts e Doc
tor being partitularly well crelied,
lone ot his friends feu up an Infh
chaiiman with an umbrella to hold
over him. Next day Paddy appe areti
at the Dt dor's lodgings, hoping
his honor was Very w< 11. and th t
he got no cold the day before.”
€t Pray, my friend,” fays the Do&or,
have you not been paid for your fer
vic. s yefterdav i” O yes, your ho
nour, I got a guinea.” ‘ m And don’t
you think that lufficient for a quarter
of an hour’s (landing ?” u Why to
be sure in regard to work , I can’t fay
but it is—but G —Z —ns, your ho
nour, conjider the dtfgrace .”
The Dodtor, so far from being
difp eased with the reply, gave him
a crown more, for which Paddy was
so thankful that he left him his ad*
dress if ever he (hould have occasion
for his services again,
HOUSE of ASSEMBLY,
Wtdnejday , the 4 tb of Feb. 1789.
WHEREAS pursuant to Resolutions of
the General AlTembly, pafled the 30th
and 31st days, of January 1788, a number of
citizens were nominated and did convene at
Augusta on the 4th day of November last,
for the purpose of reviling and amending the
Constitution of this Hate, and did then and
there proceed and agree to such alterations
and amendments thereof as they concluded
would be mod expedient; which revision of
the said conllitmion or plan of government of
- Hate was transmitted to the different
counties for the perusal and conlideration of
the citizens thereof, who were then recom
mended to choose three citizens of each coun
ty, to meet at Augusta on the fourth day of
January last, for the foie purpose of adopting
or rejefting the said proposed constitution or
plan of government.
That in pursuance thereof the freemen of
this state did on the firft Tuefday in Decem
ber last eletf three citizens of each county for
the purpose aforefaid, who did in consequence
thereof cenveue at Augusta on the fourth day
of January last, and after taking up the said
proposed constitution or plan of government,
and having the fame under their conlideration,
did neither adopt nor reject the fame, but
have agreed to such alterations and amend
ments thereto, as they conceived would be
conducive to the interest and fafery of the
state.
Refolded therefore , That it be earnestly re
commended to the freemen and voters of
each county, on the firlt Monday in April
next to convene at the usual place for hold
ing ele&ions, and choose three fit and difereet
persons for each county, to meet at Augusta
on the firft Monday in May next, to be veiled
with full power onlyjto take under their ferioua
consideration the aforefaid proposed constitu
tion or plan of government, together with
the provisos or proposed amendments there
to, and to fully ratify and adopt the said pro
posed constitution, with such parts of said
proposed amendments as they may think moll
proper; without any farther alteration or at
tempt of amendments thereto ; which ihall be
received and considered as the Constitution
and plan of government of the people of this
state.
Rejoined, That if approved of by the people
the said convention be authorifed to insert a
clause in the said constitution, “ That no mo
nies be drawn out of the Treasury or from
the public funds of this state, except by ap
propriations made by law.
Rejoiced, That his Honor the Governor in
Council have power and authority to draw
upon the treasury for the pay of the members
of the Convention, in like manner as the pay
of the members of the General Afiembly, as
well as the necessary charges attending the
fame.
Rejoined, That a majority of the conven
tion be authorifed to proceed to business.
Ordered, That the foregoing Refoiutions
be pubiilhed.
Extra ft from the Minutes ,
jAMES M. SIMMONS, C. G. A.
Writing Paper
I Far Sale at the frimiug-onice,
TITUS Hallinger informs me
that he has at present in his
pofleflion two Negroes, a man and
woman, v. ho appear to be each of
them about 30 years of age, and he
thinks are this country born, their
names are Prince and Sarah, they
came to him Tome days ago wanting
work, ancf finding they varied in the
relation they gave of themselves de
tained them; and as there is no goal
or work houle in this town whereby
Negroes might be secured to their
owners, by this public notice they
may get intelligence, and receive
them by-a proof of the property be
fore me
Dalziel Hunter , J. P.
Augufta y Feb . 6 , 1789.
N. B. T. H. will not be culpable in
case they should run away—they fay
they had a pass from a Mr. John
Richardson, in Charleston.
BROUGHT to mefome time in
March last, a Negro man nam
ed Peter, fays he is of the Co: go
country, speaks very bad tngliih,
about 30 years of age, 5 feet 6or 7
inches high, and is very remarkable
by having his country marks on tach
i f his bicaft bones, and others down
along his bellv below his navel, and
his his lert thumb crooked, which,
as he lays, was done by a gun burst
ing in his hand when in his own
country. Any perion or perlons
claiming the laid Negro, by proving
his or her property, and applying to
me in Burke county, may have him
on paying charges.
James Lewis , S. B. C. ,
May 15, 1788.
GEORGIA. “I By Lewis Gardner ,
(k* S.) I Esq RegifterofPro-
LEWIS GARDNER. | bats for the County
J of Richmond.
H E R E A S Daniel Wallicon has applied
to me for letters of administration on
the estate and effefts of Isaac Wood, late
of Richmond county, deceased: These are
therefore to cite and admonifti all and lin
gular the kindred and creditors of the said
deceased, to be and appear before me at my
Office, on the 9th day of March next, to
Ihew caul'e, if any they have, why letters of
administration Ihould not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, at my
Office, the 9th day of February*
in the year of our Lord T 789, and
in the 13th year of the Independence
of the United States of America.
G E O R G I A. ABy Lewis Gardner ,
(L. S.) ( Esq ResifterofPro-
LEWIS GARDNER, f hats for the County
) of Richmond.
HE REAS John Hartsfield and Anns
V V Bwwers have applied to me for letters
of administration on the estate and effefts of
George Hartsfield deceased : These are there
fore to cite and admonifti all and lingular the
kindied and creditors of the said deceased, to
be and appear before me at my Office, on the
12th day of March next, to Ihew cause, if
any they have, why lexers of administra
tion Ihould not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, at my
Office, the nth day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thoufaud
seven bundled and eighty*nine, and
in the 13th year of the Independcucf
of the United fetaiei of America,