The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1854-07-21
Population in 1882, 90, 600
Members % Temperance Societies,
about 5000


Population in 1892, &c,
Members % Temperance Societies,
about 5000
81 was acquainted with two OF the per
sons who died, and who were recorded
+" strictly temperate" One Of them had
recovered from slight attack Of the dis
ease. but afterwards a,e immoderately o
cucumbcrs, was again attacked, and died il
few hours. The other had been similarly
attacked, recovered, The was clerk in the
old Delavan House,) ate from basket oil
pine apples left there by traveller, and died
soon after. The case Of one other of the
five was singular. The report was bitterly
assailed in the Evening Journal. by the in.
dividual who had lost his wife by the mala
DIV. He concluded she was classed with the
incorporate. while The fact was otherwise
DR.. Starts. the attending physician, IN
swercd the attack, by stating that this poor
woman probably lost her life by the unfeel.
ing neglect Of her Incorporate husband
who, ultho warned by his wife, in the morn.
ing, that she required medical aid, entirely
neglected her during the whole day, and
when returning home ut night from the grog
shop. he found it v too late.
Ihave not doubt OF tie safety OF an en-.
tire and immediate change from the immod
erate use of intoxicating drink, "pure OF
I" impure" believe at this time, when the
atmosphere appears charged with the chole.
ra, such change is oil vast Importance. -
Il is my belief that with total abstinence from
the use of Intoxicating ppisons as a beverage!
and with proper attention to cleanliness aud
food, the disease would soon die out, and
found INV aeief on facts. In 1882 when the
cholera broke out in Albany, was engaged
with E. Corning and John Il. Norton, in
erecting that large block Of buildings on
Green, Beaver and Norton streets. About
100 men were employed, they were oil about
abandoning their labor, when they were per
suaded to remain. They oil agreed to keep
at their work and abstain from strong drink.
A beverage of water, mOlasses, vinegar and
ginger, was furnished them FREQ, and Of oil
the 100 men engaged on the work. no, one
died. nor was the work intermitted day
One man no, under the control Of the build
ers. Those excellent mechanics, Fish ind
Howley) but employed by the man who fur
nished the brick, would not adopt the SIM
ple beverage offered him, but resorted to tho
rroc shops. He fell victim. AT the same
lime these buildings were erected, ] had
about fifty men EN- loyed in excavating clay
in the South part of the city. They were
called together and addressed on the same
subject, the same offer of simple beverage
above alluded to was made to them, they
complied with it; not laborer in my EN-
ploy, in that clay bank, died. But maxi
the contrast; on the other side Of that same
CLAW bank, were other laborers, thirty O
them. To keep of the cholera and imulatt
them to greater exert'on, the conductor fur
nished them, at regular intervals, strong
poisons. Ten OF the
thirty of these poor Irishmen fell victims
not TO the cholera alono, but to the whiskc!
jug. =, ~. =,
the hope that they may operate rs "a warn
ing. Let the laboring man, especially
avoid the rrog shop; for he may rely upo
liz, that the pestiicbee Is there, watching
to catch him. Let no one DO beguiled for
moment, by the idea that he Is safe, be
cause he thinks he gets pure liquor. II
can have no certainty Of getting il. while h
. may be sure, in nineIy.nine cases in the hun
dred, that he does not get it; and u b
does get it pure, he may be sure that b
gets Intoxicating poison, never useini, o.
ways injurious as beverage in health.
! &c. DELAvAS.
: BGliton Centre, Juty 18Th, 1854.