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S,WM PRINTED BY H. S. NOBLE, 8MXM, STOKES CO. NORTH-C AROLINA.JOIUf C.BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1829. NO. 14. ........ - - . ' '. . . . i . . . r i I Se 23rrfel2 K leaner U fXINTED AND rCIUSHED EVEEY TUESDAY M01NING. TERMS Oirx Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; O.ie Dollar and 5 Czsts, at tbe end of six months ; but if not paid within the year, the price will be Osrs Dollar and FlFTT ClSTS. ADVERTISE31ENT3 will be inserted at fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding week. All letters on business must be post paid, or they will not be attended to. LAND FOR SALE. WISH to sell tbe Plantation whereon I I called " Cucumber Road," leading from 8a- lem to Randolph C. House, on the waters of gouth Fork, about 4 miles south of Salem, in Stokes county. The tract of Land contains about 200 acres, of which a bout 80 acres, including an excellent meadow and a well se lected fruit orchard, are in a good state of cultivation ; the balance is woodland, and a great part low grounds, inferior to none in this section of country. The 31 ill Seat on this almost never failing stream, the South Fork, adds, and is of no small importance to its value. The improvements con sist of a dwelling-house, barn, stables, and other out-houses, mostly new and in good order. Those inclined to purchase, are invited to call and view the premises, and. learn further particulars. JONATHAN WILLIAMS. March. 13, 1829. 2m20n NOTICE. BY virtue of a deed of trust to me executed, by Absalom Bostick, for purposes therein mentioned, and duly re corded in Stokes county, I shall expose to public sale, on Wed nesday, the 8th of April next, at the dwelling-house of said Bostick, a Tract of Land lying in Stokes county, on Dan river, commonly known by the name of " Allen's delight," supposed to contain by estimation 245 acres. Also, one oth er Tract on Belew's creek, now in the possession of the said Bostick, containing by estimation 450 acres, including mills, &c. . Also, four Negroes. Tbe purchaser will be required t pav down for the purchase, or give bond with approved security negotiable and payable at the Cape-Fear Bank in Salem. Persons desirous to purchase lands in this section of coun try, will find it to their interest to attend the sale of the above mentioned property, as but few estates of such value are thrown into market. No doubt exists as to the title, but I hall convey as trustee only. Further particulars will be giv en on the day of sale. JNO. F. POINDEXTER, Trustee. Germanton. Uth March, 1829. 3itsl3 DUNCAN G. McRAE INFORMS his friends that he has removed to Wilmington, and will be happy to serve them as Commission Agent, in the sale, purchase or shipment of Produce and Merchan dize. Being advantageously situated for such business, hav ing the Agency of the Cape-Fear Steam Boat Navigation Comnanv. and some experience in the trade of Favetteville and the back country, he flatters himself he will be able to five satisfaction Wilmington, 10A. Feb. 1829. 6itl3 STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, STOKES COUNTY". Court of Pleas and Quarter Ststims....Jarch 2'crm, 1C29. Elisha Mcndenhall ) is. Attachment. Christopher Swaitn. y IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the de fendant in this case is not an inhabitant of this State, or lli at he so absconds' or conceals himself that the ordinary pro cess of law cannot be served on him : It is therefore ordered, that publication be made in the Weekly Gleaner, for six weeks, for Christopher Swaim to appear at our next. Court, on the second Monday of June, and plead or demur, other wise final judgment will be entered against him. MATTHEW R. MOORE, c. c. Br Co.nstanti.ne L. Basxeb, D. C. Germanton, 17 th March, 1320. I7t pr. adv. $1 75 For sale at this Office, THE Constitution of North-Carolina, the Constitution of tbe United States, and the Declaration of Independence ; all of which are comprised in a pamphlet form, and may be found very convenient for reference, to those having occasion to refer to the compacts of oar State and General government. Prke. 20 cents single ; $1 50 per dozen. Jwsaij 20, Ida). Multum in parvo. Eculapius invented the probe. By means of aether Water Can hf mndp to frrvT in cummor A iirriictne Caesar established landing houses. Basins were for-1 raerly used instead of mirrors. Bladders were us ed by the Romans to preserve their hair during the night. Chemical names of metals were first given to the heavenly bodies. There has been an instance of an elephant -that walked upon a rope. (See" Sue tonius.) Fuller's earth was used by the ancients for washing. The streets of Rome have no lights but those placed before the images of saints. Mahomet IV. was very fond of Ranuneculus. The Duke of Mattan is said to have had in his possession a pow der which would convert water instantaneously into ice, even in summer. The Greeks and Romans kept servants whose duty it was to announce cer tain periods of the day. Ancient watchmen earned bells. Watchmen among the Chinese are placed upon towers. At Petersburg they announce the hour by beating on a suspended plate of iron. Po ms, an Indian king, sent to Augustus a man with out arms, who with his feet could bend a bow and discharge an arrow. Printers originally endeavour ed to make the books they printed resemble manu scripts. Puppets were employed formerly to work miracles. Chinese puppets were put in motion by means of quick-silver. The Roman ladies dyed their hair with plants brought from Germany. Salt petre is used by the Italians for cooling wine. Thomas Schweicker wrote and made pens with his feet. Soap was invented by the Gauls, and used by the Roman ladies as pomatum. Boiled water is said on good authority to freeze sooner thau unboiled. Wildman taught bees to obey his orders. The Greek and Roman physicians prepared their own medi cines. Gustavus Brickson, king of Sweden, when he died, had no other physicians with him than his barber, master Jacob, an apothecary, master Lucas, and his conft s cor, magister Johannes. King Charles ; II. invited to England, Brower, a Fleming, to im prove the art of dying scarlet. Buck-wheat was not known to the ancients, and was brought from the north of Asia into Europe about the beginning of the sixteenth century : it sows itself in Siberia for four or five years, by the seed that drops. Butter was known to the Scythians; it was called by Hypocrates pike rion eaten by the Thracians at the ji wedding entertainment of Sphicrates ; used by the Louistanians instead of oil. Pliny ascribes its in vention to theGcrmans. Carthagenians had the first paved streets. 'Chimneys are not to be traced at Herculaneum. Dogs in Kamschatka have socks upon their feet, to preserve them from the snow. Fowls are said to thrive-near smoke. Honey was used by the ancients for preserving natural curiosi-1 ties. omoKe-iacKs are oi nirrn amiquuv. xiorses in Japan have their abodes made of straw. The transformation of insects was little known to the an cients. Justin emperor of the west. was so ignorant that he could not write without his secretary guid ing his hand. The kitchens of the ancients were insufferably smoky. The streets of London were not paved in the eleventh century. Quarantine was first established by the Venetians. The ancients wrote with reeds. Rolender sent the cochineal plant, with live insects on it, to Linaius at Upsal. The first mention of horse-shoes is in the works of the Emperor Leo. The first account of stirrups is to be found in a book written by the Emperor Mau ritius on the art of war. Emperors and Kings for merly held the stirrups when priests mounted their horses. The windows of the ancients had no glass. The use of quills is said to be as old as tbe fifth cen tury. Reeds continued long in use after quills be-1 ters could procure them. Jacob Eherni was be headed in the Dutchy of Wurtemburg for adulterat ing wme. Horsemanship. The , Moors frequently amuse themselves by riding with the utmost apparent vio lence against the wall, and a stranger would con ceive it impossible for them to avoid being dashed to pieces ; when just as the horse's head touche? the wall they stop him with the utmost accuracy. To strangers on horseback or on foot, it is also a common species of compliment to ride violently up to them, as if intending to trample them to pieces, and then stop their horses short and fire a musket in their faces. Upon these occasions they are very proud in discovering their dexterity in horsemanship, by making the animal rear up so as nearly to throw him on his back, putting him immediately after on a full speed for a few yards, then stopping him in stantaneously, and all this is accompanied by loud shouts and hollow cries. There is another favour ite amusement, which displays perhaps superior agil ity. A number of persons on horseback start at the same moment, accompanied with loud shouts, gal lop at full speed to an appointed spot, when they stand up straight in their stirrups put the reins, which are very long, in their mouths, level their pieces, and fire them off: throw their fire locks im mediately over their shoulders and stop their horses nearly at the same instant. This is also their man ner of engaging in action. - D bright and Dennie. Some few years since, aj Dr. Dwight was travelling in New Jersey, he chanc ed to stop at the Stage Hotel, in one of its populous towns for the night. At a late hour also arrived at the Inn Mr. Dennie, who had the misfortune to learn from the landlord, that his beds were all paired witb lodgers except one occupied by the celebrated Dr. Dwight. Show me to his apartment, exclaimed Dennie ; although I am a stranger to the Reverend Doctor, perhaps I can bargain with, him for a part of his lodgings. The landlord! accordingly waited on Mr. Dennie to the Doctor's room, and theTe left him to introduce himself. The Doctor, although in his night gown, cap and slippers,. and just ready to resign himself to the refreshing arms oSomnus, po litely requested the .strange intruder to be seated. The Doctor struck with the literary physiognomy of his companion, unbent his austere brow and com menced a literary conversation. The names or Washington, Franklin, Rittenhouse, and a host of distinguished literary clraracters, for some time gav a zest and interest to their conversation, until Dr. Dwight chanced to mention Dennie. " Dennie, tha editor of the Port Folio, (says the Doctor in rhapso dy) is the Addison of the United States ; the father of American belles Iettres. But, sir, continued he. is it not astonishing that a man of such genius, fan cy and feeling, should abandon himself to-the ine briating bowFand bacchanalian revels I " Sir, (said Dennie,) you are mistaken ; I have becn-intiroatelir acquainted with Dennie for severaf' years, and L never saw or knew him- to be intoxicated." M Shv (says the Doctor) you err. I have my information from a particular friend ; L am confident that I am right and you are wrong." Dennie now ingenious ly changed the conversation to the clergy, remark ing that Doctors Abercrombie and Mason were a mong our most eminent divines,Tieveithelcss he con sidered Dr. Dwight, President.of Yale College, th most learned theologian the first logician end tbe greatest poet America has produced. But, sir, (con tinued Dennie) there are traits in his character un deserving so great and wise a man, of the moot de testable description; he is the greatest bigot anif 1 gan to be employed : quills were so scarce at Venice j dogmatist of the age." " Sir, (said the Doctor) jotr in 1233, that it was with great diacuitj mea of let 3 are grossly misUkca; 1 un utim&teir icquiurt
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