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Deacon Giles' Distillery

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Day
29
Month
May
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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-We weroirmeü tne otner day, thal our friend, James ! . Buffiim, of Lynn, has bought the old still I nuse in íáalem, which was inmortalizad by Í licever'ti Dreaui abont Deacon Giles, a ml Í ' reparing tu convert it into a manufactory of ; mie kind: but tliut, before the macliinery is ■ it up, he designs to have n real cold waler , üobnüoB, at which Clieover is to deliver a ! jeech. VVhat a diangesince 183C. whentbé ime man was hnprisoned thirty days for the rime of dreaming "odium upon the lavful nsiness" of the distiller. Now, the retailing ; f all inloxicatng drinks is prohhited by law i the whole c unty of Esíex, the Dencon is : unk into obscurity, the fires of the stil! ore j xtinouished, and the Atlorney General w.'io onducted the prosccution is driven from lus ffice by the voice of the people. - ator . The tenth anini.il report of the Mas3. j itnl has bpfin made by the Superiiitén lent. 'hnre has been no suicide in the Hospital the ! ast yeor, and only 12 deaths. In 10 years, i if J557 patients, 1319 have been discharged, i7G beins: cured, and 114 have died, Sec. The auses were, by imemperance 225. ill health 44, masturbatiun 126, domestic affliction and ehgion 80, disappointed ambitinn 23, abuse ' f snuif and tobáceo 8. The decreaseof cause y intemperance is very groat, and speaks well br tie cause. Tliere have been 16 printers it the Hospital. We learn from the Geneva Advertiscr, that he ilon. RrciiARi) D. Davis, of Poughkeepsie, vill deliver thë ííninial address before the EuTlossian and Alpha PJii í)elta Societies at the iext commencement of ihat institution in j August. James Watson VVii.i.iams, Epq., of Uiica, will deliver the address before Uië Alumni. - Cay, Toe. In is said the United States brig 'Truxton,' nnder Lieut. Coin. Upshnr, (üccording to the Norfolk Beacon,) is to be disputched to Constantinople for the purpose of bnnging home ie remains of the late Commodore Porler, lor nterment in lus native land. The government of England, Holland, Belfiumj Swcden, Denmark, Hanover, Switzerund, Naples, Portugal, Sardinia and Buenos Ayrcs, have forbidden their consuls and other nents in foreign countries to hold or hire slaves! It is notorious that Mr. Fox, Britisli minister at Washington, hire slaves; Mc Tavish, the consul at Bahimore, owns them and other functionaries do so likewiso.Lion Turners. - Daniel in the Hon's den was hatdly a circumstonce to the feats ofüon I tamers in these lutter days. Herr Driesback, ' one of the most extraordinnry men of the age, i in training and subduing savage animáis, harnesscs and drive? a wild lion before an ancient triumphal car with ease and eafety, as a part of the legular performances of Hhe shows" in New York. Qneer. - Mr. Aldrich, in lus last letter from Rome, tells ns that an old statue of Jupitcr, in Bronze, placed in S-. Peters church, as the representative of St. Peter, has had all itstoes worn offby the kisses of the faithful! j -Albany Pat. "Nothing but the election of Henry Clay can siistam slavery,'" says a Sonthern paper. Show that to the Whigs. The encouragenient for perseverance at the ballot box and elsewbere, ischeering indeed. Piease sboiv it to your eighbor?. - Liberty Standard. According to the report of the Bank Commissioners of Massachuselts, there werein the Boston banks on the Sist April, f5,100,000 specie. Their circulalion at Ihat timeamounted to $2,690,000. - Povghkeepsie Tel. A writer in the Vermont State Journal, the leading whig papei of that Staíe, has commeneed a series of articles, urging the State to take the stand assumed by Massa chusetts, as a sovereign State, complelely exempting the State from all connectiun with slavery. We cut t!ie following1 from the Albany Daily Patriot of the 15;h inst. Tuk Am. Tkmfkra.nce Uniox held i?s annual meeting in the Tabernacle on Friaay President Frelinghuvsen in the chair Ptiblications sold the past year to the amount of $7,507 17. Addresses were made by George S. Cathon, M. C. from Connecticut, Dr. Patto, Dr. Ji.nes, Mr. Hawkins nnd Dr. Beecher. The Texan society, in the first sctt'ement of the country, is thus described by the Picnyune: "First there was the arisiocracy. or 'the upper crost;' who. Irom the fact thnt tliey wore shoes and stockinss, were by comnion consent allowed to inke precedence in all matters of taste, elesrnnce, or fasiiion. Then ciine the secoml or midille class, an order thu wore s.boes. but were unable to go to the expense of stockings. The tliird or lower clnsí, 'svent baretbot,' and ra-ikledbeïow the first trientionsd grades ia cvery re speet." Tjir Tuamrs Tunnel was openrd on the ü5th of March. It has cost nearly three quarters of a milüon s-terlinsf. The first Uvo das 50,000 persons passed through, on the payment of ld. each. Agscravaitd OJfen.ce.- At New Orleans, on the I-lth inst. a' negress nained Agnes was condemned to receive five lashes for telling a white woman to leave the street and wash the paint from her face! Lnke Micbigtn has nbout a thousnnd niücs oí coast. The average depth of the lake is esiirnated by thrf tilenidi and scieniitin geologist of the .State of Michigan (Dr. Uoughion) to be ono tbousand leet. thöugh in eoiñe parts ot it, wiili a line of eigliteen Imndred feet ii iength. no soundings conld be found. lts elevaiion above the surtace of ibe Atlantic wns nlso c;mputüd by hiin. It does nol vnry much Trom five hundred an-1 seveniy feet above, nnd of course extends in its average dentli, siiuc four Imr.dred and j thiriy feet below tho surface of the oje.in. - : ch'iuge pvper. The New York Morning Chronkle offors a reward of #5000, to any nne who wiïl form a plan to conduct a paper that will piease every body. Ejrc'lcul !- Tlic Governor of Mississippi lus [ off 'red a reward of ouc ihonsaml dollars for ihe .ipprelionsion of tlioir runawny Trtasurer. Tha L'iiüsvilte Journa! ndvises tbc pólice oflicei-3 nnd tliief-catclicrs not to tiouiile thsmsehoa alviut it. as it is cert.iin tbc repu liating Staie would repuiliaie :ho profièred reward. The Mount Vernon estáte is nowin the possession and residenoe of Mrs. Juhn A. Washington, widow of a nephew of Gen. Gcorge Washington': so swiftly do iKo generations of men follow each other in tho óolomn march tothetOfftb!'

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