Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-10-28


which the deacon said be could not give,
aud would not, to the best set of work
men that ever lived, much less to such
piratical looking scape jails as they. Fl
Dally, he said he would give oue.haIf
what they asked if they would take one.
third Of that in Bibles. When he men.
toned the word Bibles they all looked
toward the door aud made a step back
ward, and the deacon thought they trcm-
bled, but whether it was anger or de-
lirium trcmens or something else, he
could not tell. However, they winked
aud made signs to each other, ard then
one of them who appeared to be the
head man, agreed with the deacon that
if he would let them work by night, in
stead of day, they would stay with bIm
awhile aud work on his own terms. To
this he agreed, and they Immediately
went To work.
The deacon had fresh cargo of mo-
lasses to be worked up, and a great
many hogsheadS then III from his coun-
try customers TO be filled with liquor.
When he went home he locked up the
doors, leaving the distillery TO his new
workmen. As soon as he was gone, you
would have thdught that one of the
chambers of hell had been transported
to earth with all its inmates. The dis
tillery glowed with fire hotter thap ever
before, aud the figures of demons pass
ing to and fro, and leaping and yelling
III the midst Of their work made it look
like the entrance 10 the bottomless pit.
Some of them sat astride the ratters,
over the heads of the others, aud anus
ed themselves with blowing flames out
ot their mouths. The work OF distillng
seemed play 10 them, and they carried
1t on with supernatural rapidity. 1t was
hot enough to have boiled the molasses
Ia any part of the distillery, but they
did not seem to mind it at all. Some
lifted the hogsheads as easy as you
would raise tea-cup, and turned their
contents into the proper receptacles /;
s.me scummed the boiling liquids Some
with huge ladies dipped The smoking
fluid from the different watts, and, rising
1t high in the air, seemed TO take great
delight in wa chiLg the ii ey steam a.
they spouted it back again some draft
ed the distilled liquor into empty casks
| anu eOIHt but ulSs
all were boisterous and horribly protane
aud seemed TO engage in their work witt
such familiar and malignant satisfaction
that l concluded the business OF dlstill
ing was as natural as hell, aud must hav,
originated there.
gathered from their talk that they
were going to play trick upon the dea
con, that should cure him of offering
rum and Bibles To his wolkmen and
found out, from their conversation, wba
it was. They were going TO write Ger
tain inscriptions on all his rum casks
that should remain invisible until they
were sold by the deacon, but shoul,
flame Out III characters OF fire, AS sool
as they were broiiched by his retailers
or exposed for The USE of the drunkard
, When they had filled u few casks will
liquor, one of them took great coal q
rirc, and having quenched II III Il lnixtur
OF rum aud mola>ses, proceeded 10 write
apparently 10y way ot experiment, upo
the heads of The different vessels. Jus
rs it was dawn they left off work and a
vanished together.
In the morning the deacon was puzzle
|
, tie dis,illcry, which he found fast locke,
, us he had lett it. lie was still NOR
amazed To find that they had done NOR
work III one night than could have bee
accomplished IN the ordinary way i
,hree weeks. lie pondered the thin!
not little, and almost concluded that
+ was the work Of supernatural agents
AT any rate, they had done SO muc
that he could afford TO attend meeting
that day, y,as IL was theSabbath. According
ly be went to church aud heard his mn
lister say God could pardon SIN withou
an alouement that the words hell an
devil were mere figures of speech, an
that all men would certainly be saved
lie was much pleased, and lnwardly It
solved he would send his minister hal
, cdsk OF wine, and, as it vas commune
Sabbath, he attended meeting all day.
In the evening the men came agair
and again the deacon locked them in t
, themselves and they went to work. The
finished all his molasses, and filled a
/, his rum barrels, and kegs, and hogshead
with liquor, and marked them all, as o
, the preceding night, with invisible il
scrlpllons. Mosl VI Tue titles ran lnllS
Consumption sold here inquire at Des
i. con Giles distillery." ''Convulsions all
; eplepsies Inquire at Amos Giles dIi
lnlery." "lnsanity and murder inquI
at Deacon Giles disilllery." ''DropS
aud rheumatism, putIid fever and chuer
, IN collopase /; inquire at Amos Giles di
/, ullery." ''DelirIum tremens inquire q
> Amos Giles distillery."
: Many of the casks had on them in
1 scriptiOns like the following: 'Distille
death and liquid damnation. The elk
/. OF hell, for the bodies OF those who's
e souls are coming there" Some of tn
T. demons had even taken sentences froI
the scriptures and marked the hogsheao
\ thus "Who hath woes Inquire 1
:. Deacon Giles distillery." "Who hat
# redness Of eyes Inquire at Deaco
n Giles's distillery." Others had write
i sentences like the following: ga po
s tion from the lake of fire aud brimstoL
r Inquire al Amos Giles distillery." A
$ these inscriptions burned, when v'sibl
e "A still aud awful red" One OF tf
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