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About The Georgia state gazette, or, Independent register. (Augusta, Ga.) 1786-1789 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1789)
• - ( P O E T R Y. -s*o***4 What is MAN? OSON of man! O creature of s day! Proud of vain wifdorn—wiffi falfe greatness gay ; Heir of thy lather’s vice—to whole bad (fore, Thy guilty days are spent in adding more, c lbou propagated folly / What in ihee Could heaven’s supreme, could perfect wi£ dom fee, To fix one glance at his regarding eye; Wny art tbou thus the favour it t of the Iky! While angels wonder at the mercy known, And scarce the wretch himfclf tie debt im menft will own ! ANECDOTE. \f TNE.. Franklin, is agent for the province 1 3 of Pennsylvania, being in England the tune that the Parliament palled the ilamp-acf for America, was frequently applied to by the mmifiry for his opinion refpeCting the operation of the faille, and allured them the people of America would never submit to it. The'afl was nevertheless pafied, and the event (liewed he had been right. After the Hews of the deft ruffian of the (tamped paper had arrived in England, the ministry again Cent for the Doftor, to consult with him, and con cluded with this proposition: that if the Americans Would engage to pay for the da mage done in the definition of the damped paper, ttci the Parliament would then repeal the aft. To this the Doffor answered, that it put him iii mind of a Frenchman, who having heated a poker red hot, ran into the*drect, and addreding an Englilhman, be met there, “ Hah, monsieur, vouler. vous give me de plaifir et de latisfatiioq, and lete rpni dis poker only odc foote up your baCK Vfide ? ”- K whatf *7* d,c Englilhman. u o m 'v to lete me runi dis poker gne foote up your i/ickfide.” “ D—u your foul,” re plies the En* ,i,hman Welle * dei >. only so far,” fays die Frenchman, pointing to about fix inches o\ poker.—“ No, no, * replies the Englilhttlau “ d n your foal; what do you mean ?*’-»>” Well, den,” fays the frenchman, “ will de juflice to paye me tor tie trouble and °f heat ing de poker ?”—“ No, d—u ifti' *• l do,” answered the Englilhman, and walker* °ff* BROUGHT to me feme time in March last, a Negro man nam ed Peter, fays he is of the Congo Country, speaks very bad Frglilh, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, and is very remarkable by having his country marks on each of his breast hones, and others down along his bellv below his fiave!, and has his left thumb crocked, which, as he lavs, was done by a gun burst ing in his hand when in his own country.. Any person or persons claiming the said 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. '1 ,v, •. . ~’l Mil .Ml THE Copartnership of Watts £s?. Cole being difloived, it is re quested that all thole who have any demands may make application, and thole indebted to said concern are desired to make payment to me. EDWARD WATTS. 1 March 12, 1,89. ’ GEORGIA. By His Honor GIr.ORGE WAL TON, Esquire, Captain Gene ral Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Jaid State . A Proclamation. WHEREAS a most flagiti ous burglary and robbery was committed, by feme person or persons unknown,on the even ing of Sunday the eight inflant, in the store or- (hop of Jeremiah Andrews, Jeweller, in the town of Augusta; by breaking open the laid store or shop and taking and carrying from thence ifce fol lowing articles, viz. Thirty-fix pair paste shoe .buckles, eight pair of them edged with gol *, ihcvareftrong made, and coarle cheapsj (even paste hat buckles * and (even girdle ditto, gold edged and (harp pointed at each end;' Fifteen pair gold edged knee buckles, large ftones,ftrong made; Five pakdo. (mall ftones,covered on top, with silver cheaps an* gold prongs to f *ften them; five pair do. small ftones,fiber che *ps and gold prongs, one pair having childrens cheaps in ; a lady’s g* Id watch chain, broken up ; twenty fix paste dock buckles; a heavy doubleloon and guinea, neither cut, and twelve dollars > fourteen pair paste knee buckles; three pair silver spurs, one of them jointed in the neck ; eight pair silver (hoe , buckles, three pair of them large pierced and plain, makers name J. A ten pair silver knee buckles; -eight silver stock do. twelve pair plated (hoe and knee do. and eight (lock do. of different patterns ; a oarcel of gilt and composition feajs, watch chains and keys, fiiveK sleeve buttons and claips engrave*! ; fait spoons, and breals for Ladies Jiair; fix pair of dock ings, two Ot them clouded (ilk, and the rest wCrftfed and thready marked J. A. thirty*two pair iron spurs, and many other articles not afeertained as appears by public notoriety, and the anjdavit of the said Andrews, filed in t&e office of the Secretary of the Exe cutive. To the end, therefore, that foch attrocity may be dilco vered, punithed, and made an ex ample Os, add reparation, if po(- fible, procured for the differing individual, 1 have thought fit, upon the application of the laid Andrews and by and with the advice of the honorable the Jsxe cutive Council, to issue this irrv Proclamation, offering a Reward of Fifty Pounds for apprehending i the perion or penons con erneu 00 the said burglary and robbery so that he, (he or they be con victed thereof: And it is coot-, manded to all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs and Constables, to be aiding and assisting in the pre mises. Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the jaid State, in the Council Chamber, at Augufia, tbit /event eentb day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thou, and, jeven hundred and eighty-nine ; and of our Sovereignly and Independence the thirteenth. GEORGE WALTON* By bis Honor's Command, JOHN MILTON, Secretary. GOD SAFE THE STATE, A p eward of Twenty Guineas will be given to any person or perl ns that will deliver unto Vlr. sim<tja Jatkljn, at Augoftaj to Mr. Mu/jael Ger?riciinfio\d-\mith at Savannah ; or unto Mr. T. B . j Bowen, Printer at Charleston, the k articles detcribed in thfe foregoing Proclam tionj or, Thirty Guineas Reward tor the ..nodsand thief or thieves On conviction, by the said gentlemen or the fublcnber, at Philadelphia. Jeremiah Andrews. Augufa, Feb. iC, 1789. Notice . HEREAS the Books that Mr. John » DaVifon, deceased, kept for. Crook /hanks Speers, and Croon/hanks & Co. wdre afligned over to me oh the ill of May 17 89* and alio received a full power of attoroty trom the above concerns to recover the debt*, due on the said Books, in payment of a debt due me by the said Company, and b*ing in formed that the deceased took specialties from >he different people who Hand indebted on the Books and as some of t]iem are withheld from me; I give this notice, that no person van be fafe in paying them to any other person ‘Mi n ir.yfelf, as their refpectk'e accompts, as yet, (Vand open on the Books. I now take the liberty to inform all persons who (land indebted on the Lid Books, that am about to place their accounts in the hands of an Attorney, to be recovered asthd law direds, as no further indulgence can be given j and ail those to whom the said deceas ed was indebted on account of the above con. cern, are desired to render in their accounts properly attested to me. SAMUEL WILLJSSON. March 9, 1789. Strayed or Stolen F om the iubicriber, one White Mare about 14 hands high, rather better, branded on her hind quarter with the letter T (he wa ks and trot:, sass, has a blemish on one of her eyes, and is about 7 years old. Also, a Dark So reiHojfe , much about the fame size, he has ho brand, is white on his note, has one hind whitt; and a small white spot on the fnuffle joint of the fame leg* alto, fevera| whit ' spots on his back. If strayed, 1 will give Etghf Del tars reward to any person returning .hem ; ifftolen. Ten Guineas for the ; orfes and thieves. JOHN TAT TON. iftright/borough, March % 1789. N. B. The mare was heavy with foal.
