Show bright dright cid ian mert in essex county essex county mass lias has been noted not only for its legal lights like rufus choate caleb cushing judge story and others but also for its deputy deput y sheriffs some of whom have served many years of one of these men daniel potter many amusing stories have been told at ono one time he entered a newspaper office in salem and addressing the only scribe bocho bov who ho was in sight said 1 I thought I 1 would tell you eliat tomorrow I 1 shall go where I 1 never went before and can never go again 11 tho the scribe knowing his caller promptly gave it up and then I 1 mr ur potter said it is info my eightieth yearl some years ago these old deputies had a gath gathering tring at the borne bome of a certain one of their number in gloucester while they were roaming about the house the host called tho the attention of his guests to an old clock a great favorite of his lie he told his friends of his great attachment to this ancient timepiece and grow quite pathetic at certain points in hia rein remarks ar ks which he lie brought to a clohe by saying in a voice full of emotion gentlemen I 1 have wound up that clock every night for more than forty years a ho he had evidently made an in impression I 1 1 on ills ilia visitors when one old deputy who had been carefully examining tho the clock turned the tide of feeling evoked by the story by saying dryly well I 1 always did think you were something of an idiot an eight day clock I 1 youths companion |