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FOR THE FKKE PRESS. TO A FLEA. You little, foolish, jumping thing; iTnw can you fly without a wing? jo doubt you'll dance us all a spring ur jig, witn gice; But when you come into the ring Beware of mc. Your greatest enemy am I, Then for your safety do not try To make me mad, least by and by I catch you napping; If on the sheets I should you spy, You'll get a slapping. No doubt you think you're privi- leg'd there, But you are not, I do declare, Then if I catch you in my snare I'll crack your side, And for one cent, I vow and swear, I'd sell your hide. Q. Bimi iiimiim ' i , i Ti ii SUPERSTITION. From the Portsmouth (N. II.) Jour nal, Oct. 2. On the trial of the indictment, the State vs. Scoby, at the late term of the Superior Court in this county, a witness (who by his accent appeared to be an I rishman) was examined respect ing the consideration for a cer tain promissory note which he had made to the defenhantwho is a physician. He said it was giv en "for curing him of his ail ments some time ago.', Upon being pressed to state the nature of those ailments, he admitted, though with great reluctance, that it was witchcraft. ...or what he believed to be so. He was about GO years old, on the death of his wife and the consequent breaking up of his family, he be came melancholy and uncom fortable. While in this situation, he was bewitched by two wo men a few years older than him self, one of whom....hc called (ahorse come near me nou&o m uu :nrr ohrl nass into the field directly under my window. I looked and saw him feeding. I took a halter in my hand and went ont to catch him. I went close up to him, put my arm round his neck, and was just drawing the halter, when faith, there ivas no horse!" 1 he'se feats cf witchcraft were a little more than human pa tience could endure. The wit ness applied for relief to Dr. Scoby, who, . he believed, had a medicine that was "crood a gainst , witches." The learned Doctor fully justified this confi dence, for he professed to be a- ble, not only to cure witchcralt, but to combat the higher pow ers which caused it. He accordingly- at an appointed hour, went with the witness into his apartment, carefully secured the doors and windows, and after kindling a large fire took from lim about a quart of blood, which was solemly burnt whether as a sacrifice to the De mons of witchcraft, or not, does not appear. It however effect ed its purpose. The witches no longer haunted the earth, ei ther as old women or horses, & the jrrateful witness who was now "cured of his ailments," gave the successful Doctor a note as he alleged, for nine dollars, which by some witchery, in the course ot two days became a note for ninety dollars, and ob liged the Knight of the Lancet, in the progress of time to an-, swer to an indictment for force-' ry: of which however he was on trial acquitted; there being no witness against him but the disenthralled subject of enchantment. Boston Police. A man, who said he was born in Scotland, went into the Police Office on while the Justices nart 01 the same house f wrro at dinner, and suited him- with him, and the other in the Jfdf in one of the constable's neighborhood. These fair la-1 boxes. He stated to the officer dies, or the likeness of them , a attendance that he wanted he was not certain which, though: to betaken care of; that he had her "a bouncing widov"....lived ' Saturday, in another part of the same house I were at dii he was rather inclined to believe them pure spirits played him many unlady-like pranks...Thcy were accustomed to enter his a rjartment after he had retired to rest, and flash upon him strange lights, and fix their eyes upon him with an unearthly gaze, and use strange signs and gesticula tions that were not of this world. ....At other times they would bring: with them the likeness of two other strange women.... pro bably the tenants of the neigh Louring grave yard.... and the whole party would sit down in iiis chimney corner and smoke ; their pipes for hours together, in a most ghost-like manner, lie used to adjure thenr by all that was sacred, to speak to him; but the grave has no voice, and their mysterious silence was more horrible, than even their unearthly visits. He was asked if he took care to secure the door aginst them. He said, no... he always left it on the latch, "for why should I fasten it against the like of them who can whisk through a crack or a kev-holc?" Upon being further questioned whether thev ever anneared in other than human shane he seemed to recoil from the recol lection, and declined answering the question. But upon h urgea 10 leu uie whole truth h paused for a moment to collect his powers, and after a sevorp mental struggle, which was ap- "cm iiuui iiu iiobuiuTP rvp and shudderinsc frame he con. fessed that they sometimes came in the shape of horses saul he, while every mucie m his face quivered at acquired such habits of drunk enness, that he was incapable of taking care of himself. The officer told him he must request some other person to make a him, and if could be substantia ted, he could be sent to the iousc of correction. There is evidence enough of the fact be- commaint against the charge ore your lace, said the man. When the court came in, a com plaint was made out and he was sent to the house of correction or one month. He died on Sunday evening. Advice to Young Ladies. If you have blue eyes you need not languish. If you have buck eyes, you need not leer. If you lave good teeth, do not laugh. f you have bad ones, do not augh less than the occasion will ustify. If you dance well, dance but seldom. If you dance 11, never dance at all. If you sing well make no previous ex cuses. If vou sing indiHerentIv, lesitate not a moment when ask ed; for few people are judges of singing, but every one is sensi ble ot a desire to please. Never touch a sore place in any one's character; for be assured, who ever you are, that you have a sore place in your own, and a voung women is a flower that may be blasted in a moment. It is always in your power to make a tnend by smiles what folly then to make enemies by trowns. When you have op portunity to praise,do it with all your heart. When you are for ced to blame, do it with reluc tance. If y0U WOuld preserve preserve esteem, be gentle. If you would obtain power, be condescending. If you would live happy, endeavour to pro mote the happiness of others. Force of Custom. In a cer tain town not more than 50 miles from Boston, as the cler gyman was holding forth in his usual drowsy manner, one of the deacons, probably influenced by the narcotic qualities of the discourse, fell into a doze. The preacher happening to use the words, 'What is the price of alt earthly pleasures'" Ihe good deacon, who kept a small store, thinking the inquiry re specting some kind of merchan dize, immediately answered, seven and six-pence a dozen. A dutiful son. A jockey in Connecticut wishing to make an advantageous display of a horse that he was desirous of selling to a by-stander,placed his boy upon the back ot the beast, & ordered him to "ride him around a short distance." The boy, though well instructed to his trade, un fortunately in this instance, knew not whether the horse was already his father's, or yet to be bargained (or; being anxious therefore to learn the will of his father, he stopped after riding a short distance, and enquired with a loud voice, 'Father, shall I ride this horse to buy cr to ell?" A light Man. Wanley in his "Wonders of the Great and Little World," gravely tells us, that Philetas of Coos, who was an excellent critic and a very good poet in the time of Alexan der the Great, had a body so lean and light, that he used to wear leaden shoes, and never walked out without a leaden weight a bout him lest he should be blown away by the wind. qUJIXTICO CJltfdL LOTTERY. fourth class::: isc heme: 1 prize of $5,p00 is 5,000 5 of 2,000 10,000 6 of 1,000 6,000 6 of 500 ,, 3,000 T of 310 2,040 13S of 50 6,900 G'JO of 10 6,900 6,072 of ' 5 30,360 o 00 2 50 1 25 0 62 2S 00 14 00 7 00 6,924 Prizes, 7 ir,550 .$rof200 10,626 Blanks, 5 Tickets. 1 Whole Tickets, Half tin. Quarter do. -Eighth do. Package of 9 whole tickets, do. of 9 half do. do. of 9 quarter do. (J The former Classes hav ing met with greater encour agement from the Public than ivas anticipated, the Manager has determined to offer the a bovc Scheme, formed on pure malhcmaticalprinciples,which when fully examined and ivell considered, will be found real ly worthy the attention and patronage of adventurers. The drawing will positively take place o,i THURSDAY, the next, 1 1 A Jin or and be completed in OXE T)dY. Orders, enclosing the cash or prize tickets in any of the northern Lotteries, for tickets or shares, will meet with prompt attention and. the. earliest notice given of their fate if addressed to WHITE'S Virginia Lottery Office, Petersburg. Va. One Hundred Dollars REWARD. RUNAWAY, or was stolen from the Subscriber, on the night of the 8th instant, a bright mulatto woman (slave) and her child, a girl of about four years old. This wo man ran away from the Subscriber, executor of John Hunt, deceased, in the summer of 1803, and passed as a free woman, by the name of PATSEY YOUNG, until about the first of June last, when she was apprehended as a runaway. On he sixth of the same month I ob tained possession of her in the town of Halifax, since which time she and her child ELIZA have, in compliance with an order of the county court of Franklin, been sold, when the Subscriber became the purchaser. She spent the greater part of the time she was runaway (say about sixteen years) in the neighborhood of, and in the town of Halifax, one or two summers at Rocklanding, where I am informed she cooked for the hands employed to work on the canal; she also spent some of her time in Ply mouth, her occupation while there not known. At the above named places she has many acquaintances and friends. She is a tall, spare woman, thin face and lips, long sharp nose, her fore teeth in a state of decay. She is an excellent seam stress, can make gentlemen's and ladies' dresses, is a good cook and weaver, and I am informed is a good cake baker and brewer, &c. by which occupations she princi pally gained her living. Some time during last summer she married a free man of color, named Achrael Johnson, who had been living in and about Plymouth, and followed boating on the Roanoke. Since his marriage he leased a farm of Mr. James Cotton, of Scotland Neck, (Halifax county) where he was liv ing, together with this woman, when she was taken up as a runa way slave in June last. I have but little doubt that Jhnson has con trived to seduce or steal her and child out of my possession, and will attempt to get them out of the state and pass as free persons. Should this be the case, 1 will give Sixtu Five Dollars for his detection and conviction before the proper tribu nal in any part of this state. I will give for the apprehension of the woman and child, on their delivery to me, or so secured in jail or other wise that I get them, Thirty Five Dollars. Or, I will give Twenty Five Dollars for the woman alone, and Ten Dollars for the child alone. The proper name of the woman is Piety, but she will no doubt change it as she did before. I forewarn all owners of boats, captains and owners of vessels from taking on board or carrying away this wo man and her child Eilza, under the penalty of the law. N.1T. HUNT. August 16, 1824. 23-tf CO-PMTXERSmi'. PpHE Subscribers having A menccd business under fi," of ANDERSON Jc 7, next door to thoiin,,,. , V.0V opposite the store of 'ni "ZCVV dav Irf Cn C i assortment of o-eral Dry Goods.Grocerie jv which they will SCH iow ff , country produce, or on a, W dit to punctual customers. re Geo Anderson Robert Loudon Halifax, Sept. 15, 1824. y,.z LIST OF .LET fE IIS Remaining in the Post- Office in Ha lifax, the 1st day of Oct. which, if not taken out by the 1st of Jan uary lS25,w be sent to the Gc ntral Past- Office as dead letters. Alstar Alary II I larris Maria Adams Geo. W Hawkes John S Anderson Tho's ,'IIeaton O C6c Co Branch Jesse Bailey Valentine Bishop IVm. Butler John 2 Bryan Joseph Blick Robert Brent Peter Bailey Zebidee Bishop Jones Burrowe Stephen Hurt Henry 11 Brown Elizabeth Bvnum Jesse A 3 Clack S S Collins C S Collins Anna Clopton Miss Corlew Sarah Collins John Connelly Tho's Campbell John K Purlin John Clanton Francis Collins Elizabeth Daniel's Tav.PAl Drew Wm. 4 Dawson Tem'ncc Dildo James Daniel J J Daniel Willis Earley Daniel Evans Francis Freeman EB1 Fenner DC Green Archibald Gee Capt. j Heaton Barber Hill Jas N Jones Cad 2 Johnston Willis Ivev David Joyner Andrew Kennon Richard Kerr Marv G Lewis Elizabeth jLong JVm S Magee Jno Moses Lydia Mabry Green G Mint on Randolnh Mathews Gilfr'd Pettway M H 3 Pritchett Jeptha raterson Miss An Powell Daniel Pike JVm Perkins Benjamin Phillips Jones Read Martin Rowls Randolph Keaa r,unis Smith Thomas M Scott Eli Turner James Thrower Sarah Tucker Georee Vinson Robert Willis Lewis Wyche M Whitaker Mary Wade Grandison Yellowly Charltn Varboro Marti la Yarboro ffash'n T diti barr qual and half be be FISH & OU4 HIE Subscribers have i-- ion to their former stor'- r " lity; also a fresh suvlv &u'r Cut HV.HHIV, p 0t K"c ttles CASTOR OILl S : sold low for Cash. J. fyJ. Jr. Shnvioi. Halifax, Jane 10, 1824. HAiiDy. an liNtx removed hie . Halifax, offer ' k 10 the people and hopes to m4 a part of their patrona-c: Ho ,' taken the house formed oc " , ?i by Dr. Marrast, next door b C the 1- armcrsHotcI,andcppos:te"t'v" Bank. He promises fidclitv.r;-".'. titudc and moderation, in ti';?," tice ct the profession. Hc hand and intends keeping, a general Assortment of Medicines, Which he will sell at rcdircd p-;-ccs for Cash, or on a short credr Among them are the following- " Nitric acid Muriatic do Sulphuric do Tartaric do Citric do Vitriolic xthcr Alcohol Antimonial wine Ergot Tincture ircrj Nutgalls Ginger Jlacc Balsam tola copaiva pe.ru Sugar lead Muriate ammo'a Atlum Tartar emetic Antimony Angustura Arrow root Lunar caustic Calomel Jalap Rhubarb Assafortiela Aloes Borax Camphor Flour sulphur Cantharides Cream tartar Elatcrium Cascarilla Castor oil Blue vitriol Cochineal Colombo Colocynth Soda Soda powders uum am menu arabic myrrh - gamboge scammony ' kino Digitalis Black hellebore Jondon mustard Mezcrian Litharge Opodeldoc Sweet oil Spirits nilrc lavender British oil Barks Sulphate quinine Croton oil Swaim's panacea Valerian Verdigris Prussiate iron Pink root Argcntum Laudanum Quassia Rochelle powd'rs Red precipitate salts Guiac Epscm salts Senega Glauber do Balrey Carb. potass Fowlers solutica zinc Squills Pearl ash Sarspariila Calci'd magnesia Stoughton'sbius Carbonic do Tapioca Senna Sulphate zinc Manna Hiera picra Carbon, ammonia Sal martis ferri Spirits hartshon Castile soap Sulph.potaes Cardamom seed Sago Cinnamon Oil wormseed Dovcrs' nowders aniseed Nutmegs Benzoin Cloves Gentian Colchicum Liquorice Ipecac: Elix. vitriol paregoric up mm cloves cinnamon juniper peppenrxt Essence lemon bergamct nen'rtnto Mercurial oint Sponge, &c. Orrmsre neel Burgundy pitch, 1 unnenc iw Spts: Turpentine Val stratus Castor opt Volatile alkal: Cir.uta Orris root Colombo powder Madder root Chamomile flo'rs Prepared chaU Carraway seed Copperas Turlington's bals. Oxvd bismuth Gum tragacanth Canella alb: Salt Petrc Colocne water Gum guiacum Arsenic Red Saunders Corrosive subii- Spermaceti Prussic acid Tincture musk Oil amber September IT. -wuiy rise earl v. It vou would Aug. 26.. 1824. JAMES SIMMONS, P. M.
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