The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
Wine Drinkins--Cincinnan Reminiscen-

Vine Drinkings-CinciEnuu Hemlnlsceh-
ceS.
S. r. was distinguished clergyman end T
iastor of what is nov one the most fash +"
enable churches in the city. No man IN
he West was SO extensively learned; he {
vas noted as beings perfect encyclopedia
II acknowledge; Biblical chronology. sacred Il
md profane history, the prophecies OF the .
Old and New Testament were perfectly J.
equal. He drank wine, became intemper-
ala, was gutter drunkard, excommuni-
csted from The church, and expelled from
the society Of his interiors. Il is proper to
remark that after years OF inebrlation be be-
came atetotaller, was restored tohis church
connections, re-aImilted to the ministry,
and died in the.full triumph ofa Christians
faith.
l. T. was an extensive and popular
wholesale merchant, a man universally
respected, and had an envable reputation,
at home and abroad, for probity and integ-
rity, aceumulsteda fortune, drank wine,
and died drunkard. He left one son
with large fortune, and he is going rap
idly to drunkari's grave.
NJ. R. twenty years ago was one of the
most enterprising and promising young
merchants of this city. He married an ac-
compished lady, ii daughterof one of our
FIRST citizens. For several years he took
the lead in every public enterprise among
tie merchants; did more than any five men
to start the Young Mems Mercantile Libra
ry Association; and was emnently public
spirited. He was, however, a wine drink
er, became drunkard and yagrant, was
abandoned by wife and friends, and after
years Of destitution and wretchedness died
a pauper, and was buried in pauper's
grave.
I. F.-a companion and friend NJ. R.
"A wholesale merchant, similarly connect
ed by marriage, and with the exception Of
being fond ofa social glass of catawba dr
champaign, no man in the city had finer
prospects of brilliant career in his chosen
, pursuit. His own family, as well as that
of his wife, were eminontly respectable
: Within the last ten years he gave himsel
up to nlcmperance, his wife and children
sought protectonamong their relatives,a ,ant
8 be wandered off, and finally died alone o
delirium tremens in a New Jersey Jail.
D +. D. a lawyerofthe most brilliant talents
with attainments of the highest order, stand
, ing at the very head of his profession; ad
mired, respected, beloved and honored, b,
all who knew him--commenced with tn
wine--died poor, driveling sot, and hi
manly form was found in the gutter. par
S TALLY destroyed by rats, in the city of Ney
York, and was buried in Potter's field.
o w. lawyer, politician, and long
Judge of Court, died in The paupcr depart
|ment of the commercial Hospital. Iii
y whisky sotted carcass was put in rougI
box, hauled to the stranger grave with
e out n single attendant; not one OF his fash
ionable wine drinking friends shedding
II tear at his tomb.
l. S. graduate of old Harvard, stu(
s. led law in Massachusetts and entered upo
bis professional career with the brighte
IA prospects. He was employed shortly aftt
being admitted to the bur, to argue cas-
against Dane. the renowned author of Il
re ordinance of 1897, and profound juris
IN In this case s. induced Ills friends to pr,
dict glorious future. A number of yea
q ago he came to Cincinnati, and here |
10 died drunkard, unpilied and unlamente
An early friend and college companio
purchased aspot for his burial.
i. T. G, another lawyer, of Virginia patrol
age, with great early advantages, and prom
se, died in our Hospital poor wrotcht
on drunkard. A most estimable wife al
u children, years previous to his death bi
abandoned him to his fate.
W r. L, u son of an early pioneer, an Q,
OF ucated, accomplished gentleman, gre
popularity OF manners, and brilliant orato
ar frequently elevatedto to responsible ahd no
d. orable offices, died in the noon ofhis day
from excessive drinking. AT thirty yea
"A Of age he was regarded as the first man
~ ~ Ohio.
N. r. graduate of Ohio Universit
!, studied law, commenced his profession
~, life in this city, man of rare talents, ci
" led when but young man to high JUG
cial positions in the state, was prostrat
It's by the fell destroyer divorced from |
M wife, became mass of corruption, al
went down in tho meridian of his days
ne the dishonorod grave of the druhkard.
nd We could name five or six other Ia,
yors who had no superiors at our bar, W
N. within the past few years, have made te
he riblc shipwreck of themselves in the sar
way.
Many, very many, ofthe most enterpr
ser ing and promising merchants of twent
NJ live years ago, those who ranked as first
W. theirproCession, ARE fllingprematureg gray,
1t fills us with sadness to trace the liv
ON Of the well born, educated, and promisi
nm sons of Cincinnati, for period of thin
orn years, We envy not the head or the he'
off ofthat man who can look at the desolatio
md wrought by the wine and yet advocate t
pcrpctuation Of the custom of wine-b
bing.-Ci". Temperance Organ.