the carolina watchman 01 viii third series sahsbury n c october 11 1877 no 51 he yankee and pirate •■•„..,■ lived l.nttiy years ago on the shore ol mount desert a large is i ( l ,,•; i'u coast of miiio . aii obi fisher i man bj the nam of jedediafa spinuet | in il a schooner of some hundred ' mrdcil in which he together with ' mil ons was wont to go about i year to the grand bank for the .. ., .,,| catching codfish the old man ,■ tilings about which he loved to his schooner betsy jenkins ind j imi sons the four sons were all that their father presented them to i.e and no one ever doubted hi word when he said that their i like was not to be found for fifty miles j around the oldesl was twenty-two j while the youngest had reached his six j ccnf/i year and they answered to the names of seth andrew john and samuel ] i me morninga stranger called upon jed ediah to engage biui to take to havana .,,„!,■ iron machinery belonging to a steam j enirine for sugar plantations the terms j „-,.,,. goon agreed upon and the old man i bll ] his sons immediately set about put ting the machinery on board that ac i cooiplished they set sail for havana ! uith ii fair wind and for several days : proceeded on their journey without an i adventure of any kind one morning however a vessel was descried off the ! larboard quarter which with some hesi i tation the old man pronounced to be a pirate tin re was no much time allow | iltlicin for doubting for the vessel soon sainted them with uot a very agreeable whizzing of an eighteen pound shot under their stern that means for us to heave to re marked the old man then i guess we had better do it i badn'l we ."" said seth of course accordingly the betsy jenkins was hi ii into the wind and her main uoni hauled over the windward now boys said the old man as soon ■ ax tlie schooner came to a stand all we iiiii tl is to l.e as cool as possible and 1 trust io god there is no way that lean see uow imt perhaps if we are civil they will take mil stuff as they want and then let lis go at any rate then is do use cryiu-z about it for it can't be helped sow get your pistols and see that they 1 aro sorely loaded and have your knives j ready but be sure to hide them so that j the pirates shall see no signs of resis tancce in a few moments all the arms that the j schooner afforded with the exception of i one or two old muskets wen secured about the persons of our down easters and tbey quietly awaited the coming of the schooner one word more boys said the old imin just as the pirate came round under j her stern now watch every motion i i make and be ready to jump the moment 1 speak aa captain spinnet ceased speaking \ tlic pirate luffed up under the fisherman's lee-quarter and iu a moment more the litter's deck was graced by the presence of a dozen as savage-looking mortals as eyes ever looked upon are you captain of this vessel ?"" asked the leader of the boarders as he approach ed the old mail ye sir what is your cargo ?*' machinery for steam engines nothing else ?"" asked the pirate with a searching look at this moment captain spinnet's eye lit what looked like a sail off to the j southyd and east'rd but not a sign be | frayed the discovery and while a brilliant j ideashol through his mind he hesitating ! ly replied : well there is a little something else ha and what is it \ why sir p'raps i hadn't ought to tell s.iia captain spinnet counterfeiting the most extreme perturbation you see it was given to me as a sort of trust in it wouldn't be right for me to give it op vou cau take anything else you i please for 1 can't help myself "\ ou are an honest codger at anv rate baid the pirate hut if you would live ■ ten minutes longer just tell me what ! you've got on board and exactly the place where it lays j l'he sight ofa cocked pistol brought the ' old man to his senses and in a deprecat ing ton lie uttered : don'l kill me sir don't 1*11 tell you dl we've got forty thousand silver dol , lars nailed up iu boxes just for'ard o the cabin bulkhead but mr defoe didn't suspect thai anybody would have thought ol looking for it there perhaps 6o chuckled the pirate while llis eyes sparkled \\ ith delight and thru j truing to his own vessel he ordered all '"'* three of bis men to jump ou board \ *'"' yankee in a few minutes the pirates had taken j off tbe batches and in their haste to get ' at silver dollars they forgot all ' ! ;''. hm not bo with spinuet ue had lls wits ut work and no sooner had the the villians disappeared below the ay than he tinned to his boys •••. boys for your lives seth you clap y°«rkuifie across the fore-throai andpeak alyards and yon john cut the main k now an the moment you have ''""' ';' j«njp aboard the pirate andrew n you cast off the pirate's gt»p ' pling and thou you jump then we'll walk into them three chaps aboard the clipper nun for it no sooner were tbe last words out of the old man's mouth than bis sons did exact ly as they were directed the fore and main halyards were cut and the tiro grapplings cast off at tbe same instant and as the heavy gaffs came rattling down our heroes leaped on board tbe pirate the moment tbe clipper felt at liberty her head swung off and before the aston ished buccaneers could gain the deck of the fisherman their own vessel was nearly half a cable's length to the leeward sweep ing gracefully away before the wind while the three nien who had been left in charge were easily secured hallo there shouted captain spin net as the luckless pirates crowded around the lcegangway of tin ir prize when you got tbem ere silver dollars just let us know will you half a dozen pistol shots was all the answer the old man got but they did no barm ; and crowding on all sail he made for the vessel he had discovered which lay dead to the leeward of him and which he now made out to boa huge ship the clipper cut through the water like a dol phin and in a short space of time spiunet luffed up under the ships stern and ex plained all that had happened the ship proved to bean east indian man bound for charleston having thirty men onboard a portion of whom jumped on board the clipper and offered their services in help ing to take the pirates before dark captain spiunet was once more within hailing distance of his own vessel an.l raising a trumpet to his mouth he shouted — schooner ahoy will you quietly surrender yourselves prisoners if we come on board ?" come and try it !"' returned the pirate captain as be brandished his cutlass above his head in a very threatening man ner which seemed to indicate that he would fight till the last but this was bis last moment forseth was crouched below the bulwarks taking de liberate aim along the barrel of a heavy ride and the bloody villian was in the act of turning to bis men when the sharp crack of seth spinnet's weapon rang his death peal and the next moment the pirate captain fell back in the arms of his mate with a bullet through his heart now saiel the old man as he levelled the long pivot gun and seized a lighted liinte-h i'll give you just five minutes to decide in and if yon don't surrender i'll blow every one of you into the other world the death of their captain brought the pirates to their senses and they threw down their weapons in two days from that time captain spiunet delivered his cargo safely in havana gave the pirates into the hands of the civil authorities and delivered tho clipper up to the government in return for which he received a sum of money sufficient for independence for the remain der of his life as well as a very handsome medal from the governor the noble revenge the coffin was a plain one — a poor miserable pint coffin no flowers on it.s top do lining of rose-white satin for the pale brow no smooth ribbons about the coarse shroud the brown hair was laid decently lack but there was no crimped can with its neat tie beneath the chin the sufferer from cruel poverty smiled in her bleep i want to s«'c my mother sobbed a poor child as the city undertaker screwed down the top vou can't — get out ofthe way boy why don't somebody take the brat only let me see her one minute cried the hapless homeless orphan clutching the side of the charity box and as he gazed into thai rough face anguish tears streamed rapidly down the check on which no childish bloom ever lingered oh it was pitiful to hear him cry only once let me see my mother only once !" quickly and brutally the hard-hearted monster struck the boy away so he reeled with the blow for a moment the boy stoeid panting with grief and rage his blue eyes distended his lips sprang apart a fire glittering through his tears as he raised his puny arm and with a most ttu childish accent screamed when i'm a man i'll kill you for that !" there was a coffin and a heap of earth between the mother and tlie poor forsa ken child and a monument stronger than granite built in the boy's heart to the memory of a heartless deed » » » * * * the court-house was crowded to suf focatioo does any one appear as this man's counsel .'" asked the judge there was a silence when he finished until with his lips tightly pressed together a look of strange intelligence blended with haughty reserve upon his handsome features a young man stepped forward with a firm tread and kindliug eye to plead for tlie erring and tbe friendless he was a stranger but from his first sen tence there was a silence the splendor of his genius entranced and convinced tho man who could not lind a friend was acquitted may god bless you sir 1 cannot i want no thanks replied the stran ger with icy coldness 1 — i believe you are uuknowu to j me man ! i will refresh your memory j twenty years ago you struck a broken i hearted boy away from bis mother's poor coffin i was that poor miserable boy the man turned livid have you rescued me then to take my life f ' xo i have a sweeter revenge i have , saved the life ofa man whose brutal deed j has rankled in my breast for twenty years i go ! and remember the tears of a friend less child the man bowed his bead in shame and went out from the presence ofa mngna ; nimity as grand to him as inconiprehen | sil.l ami tbo noieiie young lawyer f«lt god's smile iu his soul sensation journalism from the printeis circular tiie l'apek died when tbe morning ledger was started says sain davis in the argonaut dan o'connell jessop and myself were em ployed on the local staff harry george was manager of the concern and had an idea that poetry original poetry was the main thing to catch the sunday readers in this we all concurred and somebody suggested that the poems should be illus trated i agreed to furnish the engrav ings and the next day called on alex bodlam whom i knew had the facilities and be loaned me about a bushel of old j wood-cuts which bad seen service in sac i raniento on some illustrated newspaper venture of his own years ago the draw i ings were l.y nahl and the engraving ! very good when the basket was brought in mr george sat down and began to ! paw over the blocks distributing them ! among the staff remarking as he handed o'connell a square foot of boxwood here ; dan is a woman watching for a ship at i sea dish up half a column of poetry on i it cntitle-il waiting dan took the i block and surveyed it carefully as he | observed : it strikes me this is meant for , a washerwoman and she's waiting to see if the little nigger on the wharf is going to make a raid on the clothes basket j in that case replied mr george we can saw off the nigger and the wharf that j will leave the sea and beach on the light ' and it's just the thing a handsaw was ■ brought into requisition and the block ! was sawed in two now dan start that right up the printers are waiting i for copy and sam tack a few verses on the nigger and then we'll have two i first-class cuts and two pieces of original ! poetry the next cut he picked up was a woman sitting on a rock watching some ! mules but by sawing off the mules and t gouging a club out of the woman's hand j with a chisel jessop was enabled to built i upon it a poem entitled deserted and ' calculated to bring tears to the eyes of '■ a mills-seminary girl by the time the sixth ; verse was reached sometimes mr george ■ would saw up a big engraving into three j pieces anel divide it between us in ad dition to our regular salaries we got 60 a column for these verses and the car pentering work at the head was sometimes counted into the measurement as a spe i cial tribute to meritorious endeavor whenevvr the saloon keeper next door ! saw the sunday issue pretty well filled ■ with original poetry he would contem plate a heavy run of costuin on pay-day : and view the score on tbe slate with more | cheerfulness than duobt one day a tem i perauce poem penned by jessop got ! mixed up with a picture intended to rep resent a widow weeping over her lover's i grave by dan and the poem o'connell wrote got under the picture that had been : carefully sawed and trimmed for jessop ' the change looked peculiar but no one ever noticed it on one occasion after an elaborate poem had been written by a combination effort of all three of us the cut was mislaid just as the paper was going to press an old vinegar bitters cut was put in however and then a bill for advertising was sent the agents of tho bitters he paid it cheerfully the paper died 4s wonderful as true a masonic lodge in indiana was presided over by a master who had an exaggerated notion of discipline one night be met his lodge in called meeting uot a member absent to instruct them in the work teaching them the use of the gavel he bad just called them up with three knocks when be leaned too far back fell through a window to the ground — four stories — and broke his neck picked up next morning be was buried decently but dot a mason came to the funeral more strange still not a mason appeared any more iu that village it was inexplicable forty wo ; men left widows 220 children left orphans eighty-four merchants left iu the lurch with unpaid bills twenty years after that somebody went up into the fourth story broke upon the door and behold the lodge a lodge of skeletons ! strange but true they had strictly obeyed the or ders of the w m and waiting for the knocks to scat them starved to death each was staueiing in an attitude of re respectful attention looking to ri;e cast and had no pitying citizens taken them down they would have beeu standing ; there still st joseph mo uerald printing office secrets a properly conducted printiug office is as much a secret as a masonic lodge the priutcrs are not under oath of secrecy but always feel themselves as truly in honor bound to keep office secrets as though triple oathed any employe in a printing office who willingly disregards this rule in relation to printing office se crets would not only be scorned by his brethren of the craft but would lose his position at once we make this state ment because it sometimes happens that a communication appears in a newspaper under an assumed signature which excites comment and various parries try to find out who is the author let all be saved tbe trouble of questioning the employee of tbe printing office tbey are know-noth ings on such points as thes on such matters tbey have eyes aud ears no mouth and if any fail to observe this rule . let them be put down as dishonorable members of the craft it is the same in job printing if anything i.s to be printed and kept secret let proper notice be given of the desire for secrecy aud you might as well question the sphynx as one of the priuters so that even the secret books for lodges are printed without fear keep straight ahead pay no attentian to slanders and gos sip mongers keep straight on in your course and let their back biting die the death of neglect what is the use of ly ing awake at night brooding over the re mark of some false friend that runs through your brain like lightning ? what i.s the use of getting into a worry and fret over gossip that has been set afloat to your disadvantage by some meddlesome busybody who has more time than char acter ? the things cannot possibly injure you unless indeed you take notice of them and in combating them give them stan ding and character if what is said about you is true set yourself right if it is false let it go for what it will letch if a bee sting you would you go to the hive to de stroy it ? would not a thousand come i upon you 1 it is wisdom to say little re ! specting the injuries you have received we are generally losers in the end if we i stop to refute all the backbiting and gos | siping we may hear by the way they are annoying it is true but not danger ous so long as we do not stop to expostu late aud scold our characters are form ed and sustained by ourselves by our own actions and purposes and not by others lot us always bear in mind that j calumniators may usually be trusted to time and the slow but steady justice of public opinion «■««■>. . words of wisdom just after the strike when solomon closed the discussion by telling the slug gard to go to the ant the sluggard re plied with a knowing wink that he had a much softer thing than that as how t inquired the proverbial monarch i will start a savings bank replied the man of inertia the monarch nodded slowly twice or thrice and went away to get shaved the next time he met the sluggard that deliberate individual was riding in a gold-mounted carriage with coachman and footman iu livery ami in reply to the monarch's nod he just pulled up to say that he was going over to eu rope for a little while till the flurry blew over aud solomon went back to bis sanctum and wrote better is an hand ful with quietness than a bank book as big as a bible with travial and vexation of spirit why asked plato of socrates as they languidly rose from the symposium ■ aud walked up the appian way why is i a lazy dog like a sheet of paper soc rates thoughtfully rubbed his ear and said seems to me i've heard that some | where well old anthropos guess it j ule respondit quickly socrates made [ seven futile attempts turning the pun on j the words tale write canis etc ! when plato became impatient and told j him because it's a slow pup yes i said soc i've heard it before but i ■ don't tumble to it uow some way how's ' a sheet of paper a slow pup ?" plato smil ' ed aud remarked you'd better swap off that punkiii head of yours a sheet of pa per is an ink-lined plane isn't it ?— aud an inclined plane is a slope up perhaps j you see !" then they walked slowly to the ' keller and socrates remarked in a pen sive tone zwei !" retributive justice — at about 12 o'clock last wednesday night mr john h haz j zleton living in the lower end of beau fort county was awakened by the agon izing screams of some one iu his corn field near by upon repairing to the spot j from whence the screams came he found a negro of notoriously bad character named noah lisbon writhing upon the j ground who confessed that while prowl ing about the field for the purpose of stealing corn he had stepped upon and j been bitten on the ankle by a snake ; he was much swollen aud seemed to be in ■ terrible pain upon search being made a large rattlesnake with eleven rattles was found aud killed only a few feet away • lisbon was removed to the premises of mr hazzleton where he died in great agony on thursday morning at 10 o'clock our informant states that the negro was swollen beyond recognition — newbernian ' presideut hayes will find he is mistak en if he supposes for oue moment that the next congress will agree to increase the army to 40,000 men we hope no south ern democrat will vote for its increase even to the amount of one corporal for we all rememlier what an important part an insignificant fellow of that rank play ed in south carolina not many mouths ago no no mr hayes no increase of the ty rants power if you please the southern democrats who vote for an increase may prepare to enter upou an inglorious and perpetual retirement raleigh news them's our sentiments and we be lieve they are of ninety-nine out of a hundred of southern meu we want no more hectoring meddling troops in the land views of secretary ecarts — secretary evarts said in conversation to-night in speaking of the action of the new york republican convention that he regretted that tbe party should be divided as iu 1871 ever since leaving tbe whig party he had belonged to the republican party and not to any of the cliques of that pari ty he was very sorry that the conven tion had not anpiled itself of the grand opportunity to place itself on the record in support of that policy which met the universal acquiescence of the people the omission of the republican convention left to the new york democratic conven tion the opportunity to indorse the policy of peace he refrained from any allusion to mr conkling except by indirection needlessly unhappy the new york times is unhappy over the action of its republican convention at rochester it declares that most of its mem hers returned to their homes with the melancholy consciousness that their great mr conkling leader had made a fool of himself and that in blindly allow ing him to take the lead their own folly was hardly less than his even the new york commercial advertiser which has be regarded as mr conkling's organ is disgusted with tbo exhibition which the senator made of himself it character izes his attack upon mr hayes civil ser vice policy as a vulgar war upon the national administration and says in the judgment of some of his best friends he made a great mistake which may lose him a return to the united states senate no one need be unhappy about tbe matter however for the people take no stock iu mr c inkling's proceed ings republicans or otherwise — wilming ton star we called attention recently to the larg mortuary record of the colored people as compared with tbe whites we poiuted to charlotte as an illustration the vital statistics of memphis ten show that in 1870 there were 652 deaths among the whites and 001 among the colored this rate when the population is considered indicates ja colored to 1 white in july and august the colored mortality was over live times greater than it was nmong the whites these instances un fortunately are exceptional neglect of the laws of health and the want of prop er food and attention in sickness are the chief causes no doubt of the excessive mortality — wilmington star tweed on the stand philadelphia times tweed is still making new york howl with his revelations and every time ho goes upon the stand he sits down on a tender spot on saturday that noble re publican reformer ex-police commission er disbecker got a centre shot in connec tion with apgar deputy secretary of the state of new york the former was one of those truly good men who came into place on the downfall of tweed but pre vious to the decline of the ring he was not above receiving fifty dollars a month from it for doing nothing mr apgar was on a small salary as a stump speaker the old man detailed at considerable length his mode of securing the support of the albany newspapers and repeated what was generally known iu 1870 that the members of the ring corrected the proofs of the articles which were to ap pear iu the republican organ the journal and they were printed as corrected the most important portion of the testimony of saturday was that which gave to tweed hall and sweeny the authorship of the telegram to which samuel j til den's name was attached that was sent to the country districts in 1863 asking that the probable results of the election in those districts be telegraphed to new york at tbe close of tbe polls and before the vote had been counted hostile or gans have never missed an opportunity to put the entire respousibi.ity of this upon mr tilden but be is thus happily clear ed ofa charge which few who knew any thing about him believed a perilous ride — a tramp concealed himself yesterday under the coach of the i mail train of the w &. w r r and j succeeded iu evading the vigilance of the i conductor for at least fifty miles the tramp staddled an iron bar between the axle and bottom of the car holding him self iu position by bracing against the air brake it is yet to be ascertained how be wedged himself iu between the axle and car aud why it is lie did uot fall off — wilmington ecvievc i briefs j the patent office fire incendiary washington oct 1 the committee of inquiry conducting the investigation as to tbe origin of the recent patent oflice fire will it is alleged report that it was \ the work of incendiaries the following is all the space given in a texas newspaper to a lynching dud ley hansford was hanged by a mob of forty men this nioruiug near bis home two miles from perry iu this county te.o much cattle hillsboro recorder the rev a w mangum now professor iu the universi ty of north carolina is among those spo ken of to succeed the iter mr duncan deceased late president of randolph ma i — _ o,n 0 _ while we admit tbe appro j priateness of such <.,..•■-■«■.. emem we can ill 1 spare mr mangum from his own distin guished sphere of duties mr blaine's baugor whig extends aid and comfort to conkling in this manner : ' it is enough now to know that the re publican convention of the empire state ; has emulated the stalwartne.-s of maine j and iowa aud refused to hoist the stars | and bars above the flag of the union to conciliate the gentlemanly white leag ues aud rifle clubs of the south specials to the philadelphia time j more conspirators against the government arraigned washington oct 1 to-day in the criminal court the case of julius wit owski aaron brummer james t elliott henry fetterberg james s oegley lew is pick and david c stewart for conspir acy to defraud the government by means ofa fraudlent claimed for 20,705 for tim ber alleged to have been furnished the government in october 1862 was called stewart and brummer plead guilty and a motion was filed to quash the indictment as to witowski the one of the parties present besides stewart and brummer which was overruled the case of wit owski was then proceeded with and the jury selected the ohio clerks told to go home washington oct 1 — an order was read in the executive departments to-day to all whom it concerned that all the ohio clerks in the departments could have ten days leave to go home to vote aud that pay for that time would not be deducted as uo secret was made of the reading of the document it can hardly be possible that it could be promulgated without the consent of the president its dictum is in flat contradiction of the position taken by secretary scliurz the election in connecticut . hartford oct 1 the hartford dem ' ocrats elected the entire ticket to-day by majorities ranging from 250 to 500 there are charges of extensive fraud in several wards by the new law minority repre sentation is secured in wards of select men and assesor the vote in the state on the two constitutional amendments was light but both arc probably carried the first prohibited extra compensation to public officers and the second prohibited town aid to railroads equinoctial — a letter from a gentleman in edenton n c to a friend in this city dated october 1st says : we had a terrible visitation in the equinoctial gale just passed every pub lic bridge and every water-mill in the counties of gates chowan perquiinons bertie tyrrell and washington are de stroyed the fisheries on the sound are greatly damaged the loss is immense raleigh news the president's views of the southern peo pie washington october 2 — the presi dent in the course of an interview with hon j e leonard republican member of congress from louisiana this morning remarked that from what he had seen during his late trip to the south he be lieved that the whites of that section were really anxious to accord to the colored people their full civil and political rights and that his trip had strengthened him in the conviction that his southern policy would redound greatly to the interest of the blacks and iu whose welfare he had always felt and should continue to feel the deepest interest the president also stated that be had lately received renew ed assurances from leading republicans of their support of his southern policy fears of a couj o etat in france ■ london oct 2 the paris correspon dent of the times telegraphs : it was ru mored last night that the duke de breglie j and m berthnnt had resigned from the french cabinet this report for the present at least is unfounded but the alarm which it created was very remark ] able the apprehension ofa forcible coup j d'etat by the government is so great here i that the resignation ofthe dukedebrelie j and certain of his colleagues who are known to be opposed to such measures i would be considered as a preface to a vio i lation of law though it is hard to tell iu j whose interest such a violation would be | i know from a perferetly trust worty source that the empress disapproves of the gov ernment's course since the 10th of may last the prince imperial is also said to have lately expressed a similar disap proval this item is significant romish priests forger america is not spain : chicago sept ia when the train on the illinois central railroad arrived last evening an otficer was at the depot to arrest father grognn who according to the story of the conductor and passen gers had without provocation thrown from the car windows dining the trip two bibles placed in tho racks by religions societies he explained to the police au thorities tln'.t lo did so on account of tin obscene sketches which he found on the fly-leaves ami was released without bail why didn't he tear out the fly-leave and throw them out the window f a tenacious constituency more of the railroad fraud london oct 3rd john bennett tw ice elected alderman and each time rejected by the court of am ........ .... ...-.:.- ... al eiiii tho duties of that position has again beou elected to that office a derby correspondent of leads mer cury says midland is the railway defraud ed frat.d has been systo m atically carried on for sonie time by some of its officers holding positions of responsibility in whom the utmost eonfidenee was placed the principal means by which the com pany has been defrauded has been by persons erecting private dwelling houses aud other buildings both for themselves and other people with material and men belonging to the company several of the delinquents are it is said in prison it is rumored that others will be arrested shortly the south of the iti che baltimore sun that the south is coming once more into position and in a spirit and temper which will giro her as much influence as she over possessed is becoming an agree able fact to all but sectional soured and discontented partisans she has learned by calamity and suffering such wisdom as prosperity does not teach and is never likely to lose by indiscretion and rashness the power and political eminence die is about to attain i'lie immense advanta ges she has gained l mr hayes policy will be turned to no trivial account the st louis republican remarks thai gov hampton recognized as the most popular man in the south and the most faithful and fearless representative of southern opinion should have made a speech be fore a northern illinois audience that evoked repeated and hearty outbursts of applause and that if spoken at augusta charleston or new orleans would have been equally applauded this itself is an illustration of that remarkable address and discernment which are briugiug the south again int prominence and influ ence in nationlal politics and tin he publican adds there is no help for it even if there ought to be tax collection bv machinery the state of virginia has adopted a ma chine to make barkeepers mul liquor sel lers honest and lo prevent their evading the revenue tax on liquor sold at retail tbe apparatus which now must by law decorate every virginian bar is simply a registering dial combined with mechanism which whenever the index is moved ahead sounds a bell the dial indicates up to a million drinks tampering with ii is pre vented l.y the peculiar cal which consists ofa miniature tongue of brass that perfo rates a bit of paper carefully fitted into the lock after tin tongue is in place the paper hears only a single perforation any attempt to violate tlie seal will result in defacing and tearing the paper and ihis will be sufficient to subject the saloon keeper to prosecution under the law two results have followed the introduc tion ofthe invention which might easily have been anticipated the first is that the liquor men have raised the price nf their beverages so as to cover the amount which they an now obliged to pay in taxes and the second is the production of devices to swindle he machine already one enterprising individual lias begun us ing a bell behind his counter having pre cisely tlie same souud of llu gong in tho machine lie went through all ihe mo tions of i iterating i'u latter and the false bell sounding mail it i em as if the drink had been properly registered a curiotts still seeing ill out paper n week or ten days ago something aboo very singular till in lincoln count friend is moved to tell us of on uea troutmau's depot on tin statesville mil road which is made altogether of wood even to the worm there is neither cop per brass nor iron about it nnd it is said that the brandy which is turned out from it is the besl thai has ever beeu made men will pay fifty cents more ou the gal lon for it and the children in thi u borhood cry for it we are told further that the ow uer of it rups i independently of the revenue officers dr ilott having said that the brandy made by it is not li able to seizure though found unstamped since the interna revenue laws only co er brandy made iu copper oi brass stills we guess though there is a mistake ai-.out this we hardly think the construc tion of the still of wood would warrant such a construction of the revenue law ; still it may be so any if so tho owner of this curious contrivance can make a foi tune before the law can be changed or competition arise charlotte observer