The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-02-24
Answers to Correspondent.

Ethelwald asks: "WiIl you ex-
plain how crooked whisky is made?
An answer to this question will be
of interest to all Of your readers?'
The answer is a long one and is
hard to understand by one not ac
quainted with the system. When
one applies for permit to distiIl
whisky, the government examines
and notes the condition of the dis
tillery its capacity, etc. The gov
ernment assigns them a storekeeper,
who welghes all grain used and
notes in a book the number of bar
rels distilled that go into the ware
house. A guager then puts on a
warehouse stamp and cancels it and
a warehouse keeper notes in a book
the number Of barrels, marks, pro
ducer's name, gauger's name and
contents of barrel, and puts on a
tax-paid stamp showing producers
and collecters's name, date, and then
cancels it. The liquor is then sold
to rectifier, and the producer notes
in a government book the capacity
of barrel, number of stamp, name
of liquor, date of sale and rectifer's
name, and the rectifier enters on q
government book all the foregoing
facts. Another guager guages the
liquor and reports, and the rectifier
"dumps" the liquor into the recti-
flying vat in presence of guager,
whose duty is to see that all marks
on the barrel are destroyed, and the
rectifier enters a description ofeach
barrel, which must agree with the
guager's report. The gaager then
puts on the barrel a stencil, show
ing its contents, rectifier's, ETC., and
it then passes out of the hands of the
government. The rectifer now
sells, but must keep in a book the
buyers name, and the buyer must
keep in a book the rectifer's name.
1t will be seen by the foregoing
that the liquor is measured and
guarded from the corn and mash
tubs to the wholesale dealer who
sells it to the retail man, and DO
fraud can be consummated without
the connivance of the government
officer. Where the dishonest dis
tiller gets in his work, is in having
the guager certify on the dump
that he has destroyed the stamps,
when he has not, and in having the
storekeeper allow him to run liquor
out without its going into the bond
ed warehouse. Stamps are also
raised, as, for instance, a stamp fol
a ten gallon package is allowed, and
is raised to eighty gallons, and
used.
'Alphonso is about to ask hi:
sweetheart to marry him and is de
sirous to know if the ring shoulC
be in readiness and presented OF
the spot, or should it be purchased
afterwardsY
The ring should not be in readi
ness, for he might have no use 70
it, and there will be his so cent
gone. 1t is owing entirely to wher
''the spot" is as to whether h
should present it there or not.
the girl should say yes, we do no
know that even then it would b
necessary to purchase a ring. Pei
haps he could swap for one or be
one or find one or steal one. ]
would be muchcheaper than launch
ing out 40 or so cents of hard earn
ed money.
The same correspondent ask: q
it advisable, as the times are at pres
sent, for a young man to MARI
if he gets only a small salaryY'
1t is altogether owing to VIII
he marries. Some of the create:
men of the age have become sue
Just by reason of being placed i
condition that rendered it necessar
for them to use extraordinary effor
and on the other hand, some of til
brightest young men have bee
brought to poverty and disgra'
Just for the reason that they nev,
had occasion to cultivate their ia
ents and energies. If Young ms
+, on small salary marries an extrav
( giant, fashsionable woman, it we
better for him that a steam engil
be tied about his neck and his boo
t thrown into the East Hill turnpik
y but if he marries an industrioJ
II amiable woman, who loves him f
: himself, and despises ostentati,
and foolish extravaganza, his smi
salary will be a wealth to him, al
! her love and help and counsel W
stir him to renewed energy a
make of him what he never cou
have been if he had welded a fas
. ionable.
: Honesty writes: 1T was stat
v in a lecture recently deliverd befC
= the Pulaski Lyceum that if a N
should get into friendly discussi
with his wife, in which he shot
accidently demolish her back-hs
dislocate three of her jaw tee
make an Ineision in her left ear W
|, a carving knife, and break the ia
lily spittoon over her head, that
b. would be doing nothing more IL
~ he had a right to do. And it v
b further stated in substance, that
man has a right to indulge in th,
IS little paroxysmal pleasures and 7
- ,,fofa his boueabnfd ncnor1 fzrr