The Grafton (Va.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette tells the following story of Capt. Benham's justice, meted out to a would-be assassin, recently arrested in that village :--A fellow was arrested hero the other day for selling drugged liquor to the sol-diers.
Capt. Benham sat in judgment on his case, and pronounced a strictly military decision--“Make the scoundrel drink a pint of his own whiskey at once!”
And the unfortunate liquor-seller had to drink, greatly to his disgust and discomfort.
He will probably survive, but there is no probability that he will want to drug any more liquor for the troops.
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