New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-16
LIQUOR-SELLING "TN OUR TOWN"
NEW DEVELOPMENTS.


and hOped that we were done with the matter, but
Lew developments coming up to be recorded.
Less than three months ago one of our acquant-
aDoes, q very respectable man, and q thrifty indus
trious laboier, died suddenly; and who knew All
the facts gave ia this simple but affecting account:
"Mr - had been moderate drinker of liquor,
"but was rarely seen affected by it. A few months
"ago he lost fayorite daughter and took it SO much
to heart that to drown his ceilings, he took to drink
ole has been drinking hard for some time, and this
"has laid the foundations of the disease which has
Chilled him." This is a straightforward, unvarnishei
narration offacts and proves that if such legislators
as The Hon. Mr. -, the gallaut champion of lager
beer and snsppng-turtes he lately brought in bill
for the bett,r protection If terrapnsF had only had
as much interest in the better protection of from
beipg poisoned with rum as they have in protecting
te1apns our worthy neighbor would have been saved
to lis family and society.
Another man-one of the best Northumberland
commanded high wages in immense manufactory,
where his skill in certain kinds Of mechanical labor
was Invaluable; but he lost bis wife, aud became a
hard drinker. He removed to another place, and got
a situation. Here be was sober most of the time al
though drinking some every day, but he occasionally
became very drunk One morning, as his employer
told us, without being sent and without any bust
ness there, this man yentured into place of danger,
needlessly, and was killed All say he not drunk,
and that he gave no evidence of having drank any
thing. but we guess that an investigation woul
slow that at least he had taken his morning Bit
teIs, and perhaps more At any rate it is hard to col
ceive how q man could 10 his right senses, have ven
tuned needIessly where he cid. We state the fact
as it IT, not positively, but profanity showing that
This excellent workman would have been killed
there if the qror traffic had been outlawed in our
town.
And here We must relate one little which
mace an impression on mind. One of our most
respected citizens had a little daughter who was
" sick unto DEATH" and after days of agonized hope
and fear death claimed its great m my
came together assist the stricken parents in bury
ing the dead out of their sight. Death in that little
coffin looked as pleasantly as death ever does. The
body of TIE child was prettily dressed, a. if on
summers Sabbath, she bad just returned from the
house of God, and weared had laid herself down
to a sv Get sleep The tiny hand clasped flower, and
the thick curls were arranged on her brow just as
Wien she was living. 1t a touching sight; and
as tie friends wept for the last time that dear
face some vel tuned voices in the most subdued
manner sang the hymn Farewell" as if TO bid the
ascended spirit Of the child a loving GOdspeed,'
ard TO breathe some comfort into the bleeding hearts
left behind At last the coffin closed, and some
young men carried ii on bier to the old graveyard;
but before we reached the place there were three
drunken men to be within few feet Of us with
quart-bo,tle Of rum partly draioed and engaged in
drinking from that bottle, which had evidently been
filed at some place in town where rum is sold le
gally 1t was hideous sight; the more so in
contrast with the touching duties in which we
were then engaged. The two sights-that sweet
child sleeping in death, and those three coarse,
bloated drunkards in the public street drinking rum
seemed Ike the bringing very close together
heaven and he'll. "0h for the day." we involun-
tarily exclaimed, "when righteous legislation will
annihilate these brutal scenes-shocking earth and
"beayen alike"
Not long ego man died, who, when sober was a
very industrious and thriving aborer. In spite Of
bis iniemperance he had laid up some property; but
his habiis grew worse. Occasionally he would have
"bord SPREE" and of course, be the worse for it.
At last lie had another such spree in the winter, and
suffered such exposure that il brought upon him fatal
disease His nerves were sll on fire. and in addition
TO this other diseases fastened on him which no
rnedeines could reach the physician .oiu Us, W.
cause tie tone and energy of the stomach had been
desiro, ed by rum. BY the way several experienced
physicians state this singular fact-that when our
nsdern hard drinkers are taken sick, they feel that
it is sluost hopeless to attempt cure because the
stomach has 10 recuperative forces left. They tell
us that it was not so few years ago. The old
drinkers OF pure apple whisky lived great while,
and when Sick medicine took hold Of them but
now in many cases, as our physician told US, you
might as well throw medicine into the boiler OF
locomotive ss into the stomach Of an old drunkerd,
and that il would have about es much effec; one
as the other Tie adueration of liquor Is the cause
this. And there is another thing which we have
noticed in our town." That our drunkards not more
than thirty forty years old look great deal worse
than old drunksrds in cur boyhood did at sixty and
seventy years. Those sppewbisky topers often lived
to be old, and while showing enough of mischief in
their red faces and eyes quite bright; but
row our drunkards have deadly pale look, and when
il liquor their eyes Of en- look CLASSY and expression
less. There is often idotc, vacant stare Ike that
of corpse whose ey es have been left Enclosed. Our
physicians attribute this change e the adul,eraton
must have an end Pit TO the traffic, because il is
more rapidly Low than formerly, destroying manhood
amopg Us.
But We were telling about the poor man who was
sick rom exposure brough, on by drunkenness.
Wen, be died of course; and it rum that caused
bis death. Sensible men thought, as they heard the
facts, how carefully our worthy legislators protect
little birds ard big birds, deer and rabbits, oysters
apd terapirs, so thst sportsneu shall not XII them