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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1801
Page
3
August 10 report from Greenfield describes 1797 to 1799 dated dollars plated with fine fol der and oblique E I in DEI, masking salt water like varnish. Three suspects jailed as two must post 1000 dollars bail each and one 200 dollars for the Northampton supreme judicial court appearance.
The piece notes attempts to distill molasses from pumpkins during wartime shortages and praises pumpkins as animal feed while suggesting rum could be produced from them. It then shifts to a disjointed meditation on the nature of the fair sex, contrasting physical pleasure with virtue and compassion.
In Westfield during a Thursday afternoon storm three barns owned by Moses Decamp Daniel Hadfield and Widow Baker burned with hay and grain. The Decamp son in law and a worker were killed immediately while a companion boy was struck but not seriously hurt. An accompanying Fort Wilkinson dated excerpt notes health issues of a colonel and a commission to treat southern Indians.
Report from Tennessee on August 1 cites commissioners Davie and Wilkinson patrolling toward a meeting set for August 22. Bowles's vessel from Providence undercuts cargo, while British patrols seize a flour brig near Pensacola Bay. Spaniards fear conflict as Indians report distant cannon fire, and Georgia settlers push westward despite intercourse-law violations.
Official notice reports the President appointing Francis L. Taney, esq. as commercial agent for Oftend. The record states the appointment is issued by the President of the United States.
Dr Chisholm notes yellow fever outbreak in Grenada starting spring 1793 spread by Hankey crew from Africa. Vessels from Philadelphia and New London carried infection to St Pierre Martinique with patients arriving to Grenada in 1794. He records a remedy using calomel antimonial powder opium and warns against bloodletting. Angustura bark sometimes helps while Peruvian bark is often ineffective.
The プren ts listing shows portraits of Washington and Jefferson offered for sale at the printing office. June 7.
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