Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-11

experiment, upon the heads of the different
vessels. Just as it was dawp they left OF
work, and all vanished together.
In the morning the Deacon was puzzled
to know how the workmen got out of the dis
~ti!lery, which he found fast locked as he had
left il. lie was still more amazed to find
that they had done more work in one nlglt'
! than could have been accomplish in the
ordinary way, in three weeks. He pondered
! the thing not a little, and almost concluded
that it WIS the work of supernatural agents.
At any rate they did so much that he thought
he could afford to attend the meeting day as
it was the Sabbath. Accordingly ne went
to church, and heard his minister say that
God could pardon sin without an atone
! men!, that the words hell and devil were
mere figures of speech, and thatall men would
certainly be saved. He inwardly resolved
he would send the minister a cask OF wine,
! and rs it was communion Sabbath, he attend
ed meeting all day. ,
In the evening the men came again, and
again the Deacon locked them in to them
selves and they went to work. They finish
ed all his molasscs, and filled all his rum
barrels, and kegs, and hogsheads, with IL
ouor. and marked them as, on the preceding
night with invisible Inscriptions. Most OF
the titles run thus consumption sold here.
INQUIRE at Deacon Giles Distillery.' ''Con-
WILSON'S and Epilcpsies.- Inquire at Amos
Giles Distillery." "Insanity and Murder.
Inquire at Deacon Giles Distillery." "Drop-
sy and Rheumatism" Putrid Fevers and
Cholera in colapse.-Inquire at Amos Giles
Distillery." "Delirium emens.-lnqulre at
Amos Giles Distillery."
Many of the casks had on them lnscrlp-
tons like the following: "Distilled Death
and liquid Damnatiou." "Thc Elixir OF
He'll for the bodies of those whose souls are
going there" Some of the demons have
even taken sentences from the Scriptures,
and marked the hogsheads: "Who ha:h
woes ?-Iuquire at Deacon Giles Distlllery.
"Who hath rcdncss of eyes ?-lnqulre at
Deacon Giles Distillcry." Others had writ
ten sentences like the following: GA portion
of the lake of fire and brimstone.-lnqulre
at Deacon Giles DistiIlery,' All these in
scriptions burned, when visible, a still and
awful red-One of the most terrible IN Its
appearance was as follows: "Weeplng and
wailing and crashing of teeth.-lnquire at
Deacon Giles Distillery."
In the morning the workmen vanished as
before, just as it was dawn, but in the dusk
of the evening they came again, and told the
Deacon that it was against their principles
to take any wages for work done between
Saturday night and Monday morning, and
as they could not stay with him any longer,
he was welcome to what they had done. The
Deacon was very urgent to have them re-
main, and offered to hire them fora season at
any wages, but they would not. So he thank
ed them, and went away and he saw them no
more.
In the course of the week the most of the
casks we're sent into the country, and duly
hoisted on their stoups, in conspicuous stu
~ationsin the ~taverns, and groceries, and rum
shops. But no sooner had the first glass
been drawn from any one Of them, than tie
invisible inscription famed out on the head of
the cask head to every beholder. Con-
sumption sold here. Delirium tremens.-
Death aud He'll Fire" The drunkards
were terrified from the dram,shops, the bar
rooms were empticd of their customers; but
in their place a gaping crowd filled every
store that possessed a cask of the Deacons
devil distilled liquor, to wonder and be at
frightened at the spectacle; for no art could
efface the inscriptions. And even when the
liquor was drawn into new casks, the same
deadly letters broke out in blue and red flame
all over the surface.
The rum sellers, and grocers, and tavern
keepers we're full of fury. They loaded their
teams with the accursed liquor and drove it
back to the distiIlcry. All around and be-
fore the door of the Deacon's establishment
the returned casks we're piled oueupon anoth-
cr, and it seemed as if the inscription burn
ed brighter than ever. Consumption, Death
and He'll, mingled together in frightful con-
fusion 4; and in equal prominence, and on
every cask famed out the direction "ln-
quire at Deacon Giles Distillery." Que
would have thought the sight would have
been enough to tcrrify every drunkard from
his cup, and every trader from the dreadful
traffic in ardent spirits. Indeed it had some
effect for Il time, but was not lasting,
the demons knew it would not be, when they
played the trick, for they knew the Deacon
would continue to make rum, and that as
long as he continued to make it there would
be people to buy and drink it. And SO it
proved.
The Deacon had to turn a vast quantity of
liquor in the streets and burn up the hogs
heads; and his distillery has smelled of
birthstone ever since but he would not give
up the trade.
FORTUNE UP AND DowN.-The Boston
Ledger, of Thursday, publishes the follow
ing:
In 1887, a youth, then residing in
Maine, owned IA jack-knife, which he, being
of a somewhat trading and mouey-making
disposition, sold for a gallon of West India
rum. This he retailed, and with the pro-