Warren County, NC - Warrenton (NC) Reporter excerpts, 16 Aug 1825 [Excerpts from the Warrenton (North-Carolina) Reporter, 16 Aug 1825] [transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 22 May 2001] Warrenton (North-Carolina) Reporter By M.W. Dunnavant Tuesday, 16th August, 1825 Vo. I-Number LXXXIX ***** To all whom it may Concern Having so far made arrangements as to enable me to leave this State by the 15th next month (September) I earnestly request those to whom I am indebted to present their claims without delay; and all who are indebted to me are hereby notified to discharge their respective debts beofre the date above specified. Thomas Johnson. Warrenton, 9th Aug. ***** Clerk's and Sheriff's Blanks. PAMPHLET AND JOB PRINTING Of every kind, done at this Office. ***** MISCELLANY From the New England Farmer RULES FOR SUMMER HEALTH These rules, though for summer, will with due allowance for latitude and season, suit almost any time and place. 1. Keep yourself cool; but this you may say is impossible in our hot weather. It is indeed difficult, still something is to be done- Take for instance, nothing healing and stimulating, merely for th sake of pleasing your palate, or stupifying your brain; not a drop, except your health requires it. This, at least, will save you some money, and prevent many evils beside. 2. Don't eat too much, which at least half your neighbors do. 3. Retire in due season,- that in due season, you may rise. 4. Throw your feather beds out of the window, or put them where you will not see them again till December. For feathers, take the following substitutes: first, because best, the inner husks of the corn, cutting off the end next to the cob & dividing the husk lengthwise into small slips by a hatchel, by the hand, or by a strong iron comb; second, hair; third, straw. The husks or straw, may be put loosely into a sack, or made into a matras; the latter mode is best. No young person should ever sleep on feathers, and then old ones will not wish to. 5. Adapt your clothing to the season: to much or too little are both equally bad. Leave the body wholly free from pressure or restraint. 6. Subject the passions to reason, and selfishness to justice. 7. Preserve the approbation of your own mind. 8. Wash your skin locally, more or less every day, and generally at least thrice a week. 9. Never waste the resources of a sound constitution and sound health.- If you should fall sick, after observing these rules, you will at least have the consolation of believing that you have not made yourself ill. When you can no longer do without medical advice, send for a physician who not only understands his duty, but is faithful in the discharge of it. Tell him at once all you feel and all you know about your case. Never treat him like a conjuror, nor oblige him to act like one.- Follow his advice implicitly; tell him every time he calls on you, what has happened in the interval; and then if he should not succeed in his first effort to relieve you, he will be likely to do it in the second. ***** DOMESTIC NAVAL COURT MARTIAL (Defence of Com. Porter, Continued) [long diatribe] ***** Washington, August 11 The U.S. ship Hornet, Capt. Kennedy, arrived off the city on Tuesday, from the West Indies, via Norfolk. We regret to hear that Capt. Kennedy is considerably disposed. The President of the U.S. with Gen. Lafayette, his Son and Secretary, attended by the Marshall of the District, returned to the seat of government on Wednesday evening, from their visit to Loudoun county. ***** WARRENTON: TUESDAY, AFTERNOON, 16th AUGUST The weather continues to be excessively warm and dry- more so, than at any previous period. It is now reduced to an almost certainty, in this section, that the Corn crops are irretrievalby destroyed- the stalk being almost entirely dry and blades burnt nearly to a cinder. Would it not be well for our neighboring planters, be bestow some extra attention on their Peas, Potatoes, and other substitutes for bread. ***** For the Reporter. ..to you and a 'Republican'....I fear I cannot; to call the attention of 'Slave-holders' to what is preparing for them. I shall not imitate A Republican by attributing folly or treason to him. I know nothing about him...I have nothing to do with what I profess to be- A Slave-Holder. My father and grand father were so before me. The father of his country was a slave holder.....The question is simply this:- Has the general government power to emancipate our slaves, or in any manner to interfere with or control the management of this kind of property, without the consent of N. Carolina? "A Republican" has avoided this question... A Slave Holder ***** ELECTION RETURNS. Franklin.-S. - C.A. Hill 226 Lark Battle 144 C. - W.S. Williams 493 James Houze 469 Philip Hawkins 373 Joel King 335 P. Foster 102 We learn, by report, that Mangrum is elected to Congress, from this district, by majority of 56, over Crudup. Bertie. S- John Nichols. C- James G. Mhoon, Wm. Rascue Congress- George Outlaw, sen'r. 516; Willis Alston 243; James Grant 250. ***** ||The U.S. Revenue, Cutter, Alert, capt. Cahoon, which was lately despatched to scour the coast of North Carolina in search of Pirates, returned to New York on the 2d instant. ||The Coroner held an inquest on the 3d inst over the body of an unknown man, found dead about 13 miles from Fayetteville, on the road to Cheraw. No marks of violence were discovered .... Verdict, Visitation of God. ...not another article of any kind [could be found on body]; not even a paper by which his name could be ascertained. ||One part of New Orleans is principally inhabited by the French- another by Americans. It is proposed to petition the legislature for the formation of two separate Municipalities... ||The Dey of Algiers has resorted to a singular mode of conquering the love of celibacy, by ordaining that every bachelor of more than 20 years of age shall receive, at least once a day, in public, a sound flogging. ***** RELIGIOUS NOTES The Rev'd. Mr. Crocker will preach at the following times and places in this county, viz: Tuesday the 23d inst. at the Mill Pond Meeting House. On the next day at Sherwood Sledge's. On Thursday the 25th at Tanner's Meeting House; and on the following day at Allen's Meeting House. ***** DIED At the seat of Governor Burton, in Halifax, a few days ago, Mrs. Jones, the relict of that patriot and revolutionary worthy Willie Jones, of North Carolina... ....At his residence in Franklin County on the 27th ult. in the 73d year of his age, John Rowan, a native of Ireland who emigrated to this country in 1770, joined the revolutionary army at its earliest period, as a private, and left it at the close of the war with a Major's commission..... ...On Wednesday the 10th inst. at his residence, Mr. Samuel Edwards, a highly respectable citizen of this county. ***** New Flour We have just received from Petersburg, and offer for sale, Fifteen Barrels best Family and Superfine Flour. Aug. 16 Wm. Anderson & Co. ***** Feast for the lovers of Merriment Robt. N. Verell & Wm. Potter (Assistants in the Reporter Office) Propose publishing a Saturday evening Folio, devoted principally to merry matters, ENTITLED CURE FOR CARES, To Consist entirely of Riddles, Conundrums, Enigmas, Queries, Charades, Rebuses, Anecdotes and Poetry- such as they venture to affirm will gratify the ingenius, amuse the lively and please the waggish; furnish food for the gossip, excitement for risibility & condolence for such as languish under the tender touch of love. In short, we are determined to make the Cure for Cares, a welcome visitor and jolly companion, for all who prefer mirth to misery.... ***** NOTICE Whereas my wife Nancy Sledge, has withdrawn herself from my protection, by leaving my house without my consent or permission; I hereby forbid any person from trusting her on my account, for any articles furnished for herself or any other person, being resolved to pay no debts of her contracting, so long as she continues to live separate from me. May 27 Amos P. Sledge. ***** An Apprentice From 11 to 13 years old, who is sprightly and of respectable connexions, will be taken to the Tailoring business. may 24 J.W. Radcliff. ***** Laws of the Pit. Rules and regulations, for the government of a Show for a Main of Cocks, and of the Pit- just published and for sale at THIS OFFICE. May 31. ***** Public Caution. LOST a few days since, a bond for the sum of $80 which I had paid off to James Alston and taken in, executed by me to Elizabeth Alston, on the 25th December, 1823, or 2d January, 1824, payable 12 months after date, and endorsed to Thomas Alston. It has no receipt on it, nor is ti otherwise cancelled. All persons are cautioned against trading for the same; and the person who may have found it will confer on me a favor by returning it. Solomon Stallings Aug. 9. ***** For Sale. At my plantation near the old Court House in Granville; about 100 barrels of good Corn which may be had on reasonable terms for cash by applicaton to John R. Eaton. Aug. 9, 1825. ***** Twenty Dollars Reward. Runaway from the subscriber, about the 1st of April last, a likely young Negro man named NICHOLAS, about 17 or 18 years old, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, well proportioned, of a dark complexion and pleasing countenance when spoken to. He is a boy I purchased of Mr. James Cocke, in the lower end of Mecklenburg, Va. and it is supposed that he it[sic] lurking about Warrenton, from his having relations in that place and was raised in the neighborhood. I will give the above reward to any person that will deliver said boy to me in the upper end of Mecklenburg county, Va.- or confine him in jail, so that I get him again. Richard Russell May 20. [end of record] ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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