Philadelphia, Aug. 5. We are happy in informing our readers, that in the memory of the oldest man among us a more plentiful year has not been known than the present. Neither mildew nor fly has affected the wheat; the grain is heavy, and full, and in large quantities. The other grains are likewise plentiful, …
Boston, July 31. The building of an Indiaman goes on with rapidity, and, it is said, will be launched about the 20th of October, and is pronounced by judges to be an excellent piece of workshmanship. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 09 October 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/21.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Danville, (Kentucky) to his friend in Baltimore “It is with great concern I communicate to you the following truly melancholy intelligence: –About three weeks ago, Mr. Richard Chenoweth, had six or eight men allowed him, by the officer of the garrison at the Falls, to guard his …
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Pittsburgh, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated Sept. 2. “The Indians have killed six soldiers at the mouth of Little Sandy Creek below the Great Kanawa, where the New Englanders were forming a settlement.” Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 23 November 1789, available at the Scissors …
“What mighty contests rise from trivial things;” That the present Revolution in France is a consequence of the Revolution in America, cannot admit of a doubt. The American Revolution originated in Adams, a very insignificant Bostonian. Not that this Adams had the least expectation of American independence, when he fomented the opposition to the stamp-act; …
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in America to his friend in Greenock . “No doubt, Sir, you have been expecting this some time a remittance in money for your goods; but as part of them is still on hand, I could not properly answer you in cash or bills ; however, if you …
The American Congress having declared it to be the interest of the United States to encourage agriculture, by the cultivation of large plantations, and to purchase their merchandize from Europe, have in consequence considerably lowered the duties on such merchandize. They have also resolved to sell four or five millions of acres of land, instead …
” Living out of the World” To the PRINTER. Sir, ABOUT two month ago I went to the country to pay a visit to a friend in a remote county; and though I am much of what may be called “a newspaper man,” I never thought of ordering my papers to be sent down to …
Account of a singular Sect called Shaking QuakERS in America. I N the United States of America there are some Jews, and various denomications of Christians, –as Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Dunkers, Moravians, Deists, Methodists, Newlights, Sandimanians, Universalists, and Shaking Quakers; all of whom are allowed to perform religious worship accoridng to …
This morning arrives a mail from Jamaica, which was brought over in his Majesty’s packet the Roebuck, after a passage of 54 days. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 18 December 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/43.