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ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M‘DONNELL Gf HARRIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, i3oS.
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OF THE
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
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infertion, and fifty cents for each
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f^j 3 All letters diredled to the
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ting Gentlemen are autho
rized to receive Subscriptions for this
Taper :—
Clarksboro'— Poll-Mailer.
Jejferfon —Gen. B. Harris.
Watkinfville —E. 33. Jenkins, <;fq.
and M,!*. Edward Bond.
Lexington —Foil Mailer, h Capt.
Watkins.
Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields,
and William Lumpkins, Efq.
Walnut Grove —Mr. L a e Atkins.
Goofr-pond —Mr. H. T. Woody.
Greenesboro ’ —Cant. T. Dawfon.
Sparta —Dodier W. Terrell.
War rent on — P 1: ft- M a fie r.
Po welt on - Poll -Maft er.
Mil ledge ville- —Thomas Mounger
and James Bozeman, Efqrs.
Liber ton —Col. Wm. Ch.fiom.
Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. &
Dodt. Watkins.
Vienna —S. B. Shields, Efq.
Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc
Dotfior Bibb. -
Lincoln —■,Captain N. Allen, and
Capt. John Hughes.
Louijville ■ —Ale IT. Day tc Whee
ler.
Augufla — J. S. Walker, Efq. cz
Defter Smelt.
Waynesboro 3 -—Co\. John Davies.
Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur
ray.
Savannah —Mr. H. LT. Moun
ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner.
SPORT I N G.
THERE is now a Subfcripfion
v open for a Produce Sweep Stake In
Oglethorpe County, on the Bowl
ling Green Turf, free for any Cole
foaled in this State in eighteen hun
dred and eight, running the fall af
ter they are three years old, two
mile heats with a ketch of 80 lbs
on each j entrance two bales of clean
merchantable cotron, weighing three
hundred pounds each ; half forfeit.
The Subscription will be kept
open till the twenty-fifth of L)e
cember next, and no admittance af
ter that time.
Perfons wifhing to enter may do
fo by applying to this Office.
A Jockey Club Is about to be
efiablifiied on the fame ground, to
commence this fall and continue
five years.
Augufl 13, 1808.
CASH
Will be* given for clean Cotton
and Linen RAGS, at this office.
G‘E GRG I A EXPRESS.
MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
NOTICE.
Prop of As in writing will be recPced
until the frji of March next , for
BUIiryNG A JAIL
IN GREENS BOROUGH,
UPON THE FOLLOWING FLAN, VIZ.
TO be built of Boric, Lid in lime
mortar, 44 feet in lengrh and 22in
breadth—Two rooms b i >w for the
jailor and a guard when nec fTir
one 16 feet fquare, the other 14 in
length and 16 in breadth v . a
pafTuge between 4 Let wide—A’ ‘■
two rooms above c l the wm
thofe b, low, the large one f r a
debtors apartment, the filial! u< e.
for a criminals a'airmen’, wita a
fight of fie is and landing place in
the pafiage ‘ between.— he walls
furrounding the crim nals apart
ment to be three feet thi k— brie
furrounding die debtors apartm ,-.t
to be three feet thick a; die fees
and two feet thdek a: the ends.
The checks of the doors and
windows above to hr f • -.red by
iron bars on each fide the wall, ri
vetted together through • . wail—
The upper fi ors to have their
fl epers laid dole tog?-tier, a 1 in
the criminals rorrn the fleepe- ‘O
have iron bars let Into mem cr T
wife fix inches apart, wtli fecurcd
by bolts ar.d then covered wuh two
inch plank.—Both the debtors •vi
criminals room t be fi cured over
head by ftrong fhepers laid enure]*;
clofi and w. 11 fafiered down—The
grates to be of iron bars in h fipiarr,
and as many letts in a window as
vvill entirely break the lights.
The doors above to be fi cored
by iron bars fl apped ir.fi ie and
out fide and fecured by rivets going
through.
The materials to be all furnifhed
by the undertaker.
PEi er Early.
J AMES CUNNI NGH AM,
THOMAS W. GRIMES,
Commifftcners
P. S. The prop-’ lab. mi l be
dire died to Mr. Thomas W. G ones
In Greenefborci gh, Green County,
Georgia.
November 16, 1808.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the Firft Turfday in January
next , at the Court - lioufe in Jackfni
■ County j between the ufual hours ,
will be fold the following property,
to wit :
One traft cf land containing fe
ven thoufand three hundred acre r ,
bounded by Coliier, Cobbs and
others ; alfo another tract contain
ing feven thoufand one hundred and
fixty acres, bounded by Fifhbourn,
Evens, Cobbs, Williams & others,
granted to Bafii Jones and to fatesfy
two executions, one in favor of Ig.
nations Few, the other ia favor of
George Henning.
Conditions Cafh.
WM. POTTS, Sheriff.
December 1, iBo3.
ALMANACS
FOR THE TEAR EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED AND NINE ,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL BE SOL D,
At the court houfein Clark county , on
the frji Tufday in January next,
between the hours cf ten and throe ,
the fillozvieg property , viz.
One brown rr. c fix years old,
foutteen ha..’s ‘V n, levied on in
the p filfiion cd John Patton as the
propiTtv of J *h:i Greenwood, to
latiify execution in favor of
Tames H. Kick).
ALSO,
On hundred and feventy five
a:* ‘ cf land, Ivinm and being in the
• of Clark on the Oconee ri
’ ’ > no r Barnett and others, ori
granted to John Gorum,
cm “fi . g the plantation whereon
Cha-Ts Garner now lives, and levi
ed on as the prope: y of Edmund
Hen-Iky, ad rr, hi ft rate r, and Janet
Hendly, admi dftratrix, of John
Gorum, decealed, tofatisfy an exe
cution in favor of Thomas Carter.
Conditions O.ih.
JOHN WADDEL,
D. S.
November 28, 180S.
COLLECTOR’S SALE.
WILL BE SdLD,
At Lexington , in the county of Ogle
thorpe, on the fecond Saturday in
January next, between the ujual
lows: •
HP
L. WO thoufand pounds of mcr
i.!:.to Colt fied Cotton, levied on as
the property cf Wingfield Haamer,
to iau'fy find tiamner’s tax, and
the tax of Pleafant Walker, de
ccaled, for the year 1807, and
po’iued cut by Laid Hammer—tax
cue, id d* liars, 59 1 2 cents.
Conditions Cafh.
JACK LUMPKIN,
Colltftor.
December 6, i3oB.
LO S T
ON the road leading from A
thens ro the Seven-Iflands, between
Cape. Fidlers and Murder creek,
a red Morocco Pocket book.—~—
The lubfcriber’s Indentures are in
the book, together with feveral o
ther paj. ers—he hopes no perfon
will trade for any of the papers in it.
Should a -,y ptrfon find it, they will
be handfomclv rewarded by leaving
it with Mr. E. Bond in Watkini
ville, or the fubferibar In Athens.
NORRIS HENDON.
December 16.
NOTICE.
ON the feventh day of January
next will be fold to the higheft bid
der at the houfe of the lubferiber
in Jackfon county, all the perfonal
eftate of Vcluntine Hollenfworth,
deceafed, confifting of horfes, cattF,
hngs, a quantity of corn, plantation
tools, household furniture, icc. —
Terms will be made known on the
clay of i3ie.
WM. WAITS, Adrn’r.
Nov. 12, 1808.
BLANK DEEDS
For lale at this dace.
SADDLE & HARNESS MA
KE!^.
r v
rTpi
jj[ HE fubferibar refpeßfully in
forms thr public, that he intends
c rr Egon, the Saddling bufir.efs
it) ih ■ town of Athens, w here he has
f>r f.dt, L.adies’ and G ntlemeo’s
SaJdLs, Saddle-Bags, V di .vs, pla
ted and c m;ivon B idles, &c.
All kinds of Waggon-Gtars made
and told at his Ibop j he makes
C .ach and Chair Harnefs of ail
kinds, LJght-horfi menNCap', Ac.
Any kind of Needle work cam
be done in the fubfinbrr’s ianfily.
Thole who choofi to faver him
in either of the above brunches,
rmy depend on being gencroufty
dealt with. —Fork, Corn, Cottv n,
Fodder, and any other produce ufu
allv uled in a family, will be takea
in payment, but he would give pre
ference to C ’ th.
RICHARD WILSON.
December 15, i3oH.
F )R SAI E,
A ffood trail of land contaicir^
20 > 1 2 acre s. b. : ng in old VVilk n
fidn, \viu.in Haifa mile of the Lo. s[
Bluff, on the Oconee river, rum
ber 321. The term§ tnay be e
fullv k< own by apply); g n Obed
Baker in Clark county near Athens.
Dec. 8, 18- 3.
THE N TED IMPORT D HdRSS
SIR WALTER,
V ILL fiand th° enfuing fea
fon at my ftable in CL;ke county,
and will come recommended as at
foul getter by gentle iru n of the
firll: veracity. Terms will be made
known in due time—rhe belt, ac
commodations wll be kept Lr
marts that may be left with the
horfi.
CHARLES A* REDD,
NOTICE.
TV TINE months after date appli
cation will be made to the
Inferior Court of Jat kfon County,
for leave to fi ll three m;£ls of land,
viz :—tv/o trafls lying on the
North Fork of the Oconee, one cr
which contains 200 acres, the other
192, one 1 t lying in th' j 14th dif
tri<fl cf Baldwin No. 64 —to be
fold for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors rf Micl.ael Bord-rs, dec.
MARY BORDERS, Executrix .
JOHN BORDERS, Ex.,uter.
July 9, 1808.
N O T I C E.
jW INF. months afrer date applD
cation v/i!l be made to the honorable
Inferior Court of rhe county of
Ciark, for leave ro fell a tract of
land in laid county, on the waters
of Cedar cretk, containing five
hundred acres, m.'-ro or Lis, Let g
thr real that” William Pur year,
deceafid, and wnercon fubfcri
berw lives*—the lame fer
the oe f of the htlrs and ertotors
Gi fat’d deceafed.
CHARLES DOUGH ARTY*
4iCiii% f,
October 20, 1808.
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