Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-06-04
POISONED LIQUORS.

Every person who puts the tempting glass to
the lip now drinks poison as certainly as any Of
Of Lucretia BOrgia's yictimsl Start not, temper.
ate or Incorporate diuker but listen to facts.
The Toronto COl0nit, Of the 9Th, states that on
Thursday clerk by the name Of Morris, in the
employ Of Mr.. RightEquor manufacturer at Hamp-
ton left the store for the purpose Of manufacturing
a quantity Of brandy from tie raw spirits He
took with him preparation used for this purpose,
BY some called essence Of wine, and by others es-
ssnce of Brandy. While employed in preparing
doses Of death for Others be carelessly tasted of
the spirits of wine, (Prusic acid) and in few
minutes was a corpse. NJ Borgia ever prepared
a more deadly draught.
DR.. Hiram Cox, appointed under the law of
Ohio, Chemical Inspector of Liquors in Cincinna.
Ii, has published facts that should be engraved
around the rim of every drinking glass. Hestates
that during two years he has made e49 inspec-
tons of various kinds OF liquors, and has found
more than nine tenths Of them limitations, and
greater portion of them poisonous cOneOctions-
OF brandy he has not found one gallon of pure in
a hundred gallons, the imitation having corn
whiskey for basis, and various poisonous acids
for the condiments. OF wines not gallon in
thousand, purporting to be Sherry, Port Sweet
Malaga, is pure, but they are made Of water, sui
phuric acid, alum, Guinea pepper, horse radisb,
and many of them without single drop of aleo-
holic spirit. DR.. Cox warrants there are not ten
gallons of genuine Port wine in Cincinnati He
also states that in bis inspection of whskey be has
found only from II to 90 per cent. of alcoholic
spirits when it should have been As to so, and
some of it contains sulphuric acid enough in
quart to eat hole through a mans stomach.
Al the late session of the Legislature of Ohio
stringent law was passed to prevent the use of
strychnine and other poisons in the manufacture
and preparation of liquors. The sale of such
adulterated liquors is also prohibited under severe
penalties. So universal had the poisoning of Ii
quors by distillers and dealers become that public
safety demanded the law. The members from
the great disting sections of the State urged its
passage, and the vote in bo.h branches was nearly
unanimous. Liquor drinkers may thus read
DEATH in the bottom of every glass they drain.
The strychnine chOlerai among the slop fed hogs
at the whiskey distleries of the Ohio Valley fur
thsr demonstrates what pOisous humans imbbe
from the same worm. Since the general intro
duction of strychnine and other active poisons to
increase the yield of liquor from bushel of rye or
corn, the hogs have been swept off by thousands
At Ingraham's Distillery, near Cincinnati, from
the LIST of August to the 25th of October, 1885
hogs died of the strvchnine cholera. At one dis
tillery in Pittsburgh since the 18th of October, g.
SIC. Mr.. Pate of Rising Sun, Indiana, lost 500;
Mr.. Summer of COviugtoR, 500; Messrs. Gsff, of
Aurora Ia, 4,8l5. At the extensive New Rich
mond distilleries, lO,5S5 hogs have died since the
strychnne disease made its appearance, and in the
vicinity of Aurora 6 1000 have died. At the Dres.
den, Ohio, dstillerie the disease is prevalent; and
the strychnine cholera is raging at the great whis
key manufactures near Baltimore.
When brutes fed on the refuse of the poisoned
mash-tub thus perish, is it q marvel that delirium
and death are so common among temperate and
Incorporate drinkersG That few glasses destroy
health? That habitual use produces deleriGn
tremens? That excessive use kills ?-Geseland
Herald.