Aiken Recorder in Aiken, South Carolina

Anecdotes From a Turbulent Era on a Whisky Jug Tale

A fragmentary, humorous miscellany recounts tales from wartime and political life. The narrator references General Taylor and a famed whiskey jug with a hole, plus anecdotes involving Washington and Farragut. It also mentions a Lynchburg slave story and street anecdotes about court and church life in Chambersburg and New York.