The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-07-17
q. !. made in Oporto. and hence it mus. be


as is made in Oporto, and hence 1t must DO
sham.
Soon we reached another stage Of this
proceeding molasses was scarce and grains
were high, and they sold poisoned liquors
under the names of rum and whisky
Whisky, that western uen used to drink
like water, is now druggsd with strychnins
and Enthusiastically poisons 90 that therc
Is no class Of liquors now that can DO drank
with any more safety than the poisoned
bread of Hong Kong could be eaten. The
diseases they create are strewing the whole
earth with dead mems bones. The brain
and the nervous system cannot endure
them and madness aud death follow in
their track. Even the State Of Ohio has
been forced to pass law for the prevention
of this poisoning.
IL 10 bad enough TO drink beer and ale,
where, as in the Albany trial, it is proved
that the dirtiest water is used, aud is the
,e,t-water in which dead dogs and cats and
horses are thrown for its improvement
that has the washings Of slaughter houses,
and is kept stagnant till green slime cov-
er- its surface and il thickens 20 the bot
tom-b,er which only deadens the intellect
and bloats the flesh with corruption but
90 think Of the shorter way ~ death, by
arsenic, sulphuric acid, strychnine, tobacco,
with decoc,ions of cockroaches and bd
huge, is more awful still. When we have
read orpoisOned wells upon the invasion OF
countries by hostile armies, or Of poisoned
bread. il was hardly credible, even when
enemies were 10 be DESTROYED; but TO
think of retailing worse poisons, and one
friends purchasing to give It TO another
as Il friendly act, Is quite as difficult OF
belief
What the effect is, can be seen by the
"hog epidemic now raging in the west,
The Cincinnati Gazette says that at In
gr,ham's distillery, from the lst OF An-
gust to the 2Ith OF October, 1885 hogs
died. At the distilcry in Pittsburg since
the 18th of October. 1876. Mr.. Pate, Of
Rising Sun, lost 500, Mr. Slumer, OF Gov
ington, 500; Messrs Gait, Of Aurora,
I54G. At New Richmond, since the
strychnine disease made its appearance,
ls,435 have died; aud in the vicinity OF
Aurora 5000 have died; making an az
grcgatc, so far rs accounts have been Tt
cciycd, OF 10000 hogs, valued at $780,
600, and when fatted would have been
worth SG50,OO0.
so Tar has this been carried now, tina,
the consumers OF western pork are endan'
gcrel as we'll IL the drinkers OF western
whiskcv. From late number of the
New York Evening Post We clip the fol
lowing:
line hog cholera Is creating an cxcit'
mcnt. not only cut west, but in this anJ
the Eastern States. At Brighton, on
Monday last. the alarm was 80 great that
1000 hogs offered for sale met with no
buvcrS at any price. In GrccnbuSh We
understand that the sick hogs arriving
lrum Illinois and Ohio amount 10 one
hundred and fifty per day. \ large num-
hcr of them are slaughtered in the village
and sent To New York and Boston.
The reason OF this malady at the West
W. an, told, has at last been found in the
incorporate habits OF the swine. They
are very much addicted to the slopS al
tie whiskcy dcStillcr>, barrel Of which
/, said To- contain enough >trychninc IL
Kill thirty men. That, therefore, which
Is at Inst merely pleasant tipplc, finally
brings death, not only To the porcinc,
hut the human family. May both hog
and men take warning aud mend their
way~."
Thus we have not only death in thc
liquid, hut in the ,olid food. These hogs,
diseased hv thousands, are sent here for
sale sometimes alive, and sometimes
dead: sometimes in pork and again IN
larl. We can't expect that the Western
farmers will be- murc conscientious IN sell
ling their poisoned pJrk, than our East
cm liquor dealers are in selling the Nhl>'
kew that poisoned il. Thus, when West
crIi cattle, Il few years ago, died at what
WAS termed the Milk Sickness" they
were saltrd and sold 10 the South, AMI
the people vho used the meat sickcncd
too. At the present time the London
PHYSICIANS are discussing the probable CT
i,.t, upon the public health 10y the sale
ui meats from the continental countries
where the cattle murraiu i raging, anJ
ask ior It's inspection, or prohibiuon.-
People here Who care luI health or life
SHOULD refuse to have ANYTHING To- do with
Western pork or Western whi~kcy. -
Make soap grrr~c at the iir~t, AMI throw
the latter into the river; it Is all they
are iii for.