Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-07-31

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~ 7hs Cincinnati papers Of last week con
sained lengthy accounts Of case Of poison
Inf In that city, BY which ono child died,
and II others were considered dangerously
IN. Even the Ehqairer spoke ofisas alter
rible affair. and headed its account Of 10
with large capitals, yet when tho fact. were
Known ID let down il indignation.
81 The facts are these; A drunken fellow
Who makes . little money by selling poison
ed iosengss, which hecAlls RAT Extormina
tors, gos drunken than usual on wednes-
day, and scattered his lozengss along the
streets, where they were picked up bysome
eighteen or twenty children, who ate them,
and we're made sick, one ofwhom died The
irrt impression was that some confsctioner
had made and distributed poisoned lozcnges
which had produced these results Under
this impression, the ezcitemcntin the city
was intense. IS IL il were anything strange
foe poisonous preparations b. BE- dispensed
shrough the city. Thspolice and The editors
know that there are hundreds of citizens
there, who mako living by dealing In poi
sons which are killing thousands Of their
citizens, yet Il produces no excitement =
Some Of the poisoned victims are carried TO
the grave every day, while others are Iinger-
ing in cellars and garrets-poor, abandoned,
degraded, poisoned creatures, Others are
staggering through tho streets, or are with
ing in paroxysms, or raving as mapiacs, yet
no one cares for them. No policeman is
sent 10 hunt out the perpstrators--they car.
~ on their murderous business in broad
Daylight, and no one molests them. fqs ta
i, win some one tell Us wherein ID would
have been worse for q confectioner TO have
made arsenic lozenges and 10 have distrib-
ated them TO the children, than II is for the
grocers to mix poisonous liquors and sell
them to the menf In our opinion the con
fectioner would be the better man, and en-
= gagged in the more honorable business. Hi
victims die without. being first disgracedand
ruined. The liquor~eller first steals tho
money, then the character, then the liie.--
BE stains the marble that tells where tho
victim lies. 'g =, ~, .f,.b 81 >.
~ When il was discovered that this exten
sive poisoning was caused ''oniy by drum
i. lard" the terrible indignation subsidized. :
~ Il was looked upon as q kind Of matter o
course--a legitimate accident OF the liquo
business So 1T Is. But why should q sys
tenn Of poisoning be tolerated which make
its victims 50 numerous and it's accidents s
common that they fail to excite concern ?
Here in Indianapolis, the, victims are see
every day, Keeling in the street and mon
than one per week is carried to the grav'
yard, yet we are told that il can not be pr
vented These men have o consultations
? right 70 carry on the poisoning business.
~ But II Q confectioner should mix arsenl
sith sugar and sell or give it tochildren, b
should be hanged. 1t is murder to sweete
arsenic and decoy children, but to swecte
<trychnine, and deal it out in gilded pa
aces, behind screened doors, TO men who al
snticed by their love Of liquor-this
perfectly constitutional and right,--so say
n Judge Perkins, tho man who hates siaugl
: ter houses and bswdy houses, but loves lii
q cor houses. sial y VA al-gu