Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-01-28

subscribers. But Hawkins, however
soon got hold of real live copy, which
he exhibited to US the other evening
here in Pittsfeld.
The title of the work runs thus
''Ihe Manufacture of Liquors. Wines
and Cordials, without the aid of Dis.
tillation. Also, the Manufacture oI
Eflervescing Beverages, Syrups, Vim.
egar, and Bitters, prepared and ar.
ranged expressly for the trade by NJ
Pierre Lacour.'
This work is copyrighted, or il
would soon be published and spread
abroad, so that the community might
see for themselves what rich stuifs arc
palmed OFF upon them.
But as it is, Hawkins carries the
copy he possesses about with him, and
exhibits it wherever he lectures, so tha,
many have an opportunity of getting
information that should rouse them ur
against the whole liquor business, anc
lead them to engage in a war againsr
it of complete extermination.
The following contains the name:
of most of the articles used in thi.
book, which are copied from it:
"Citric acid, sulphuric acid, alco
hol, alum, ammonia, amborgris, aim
onds, alkanet root, bone black, rec
bcets, Brazil wood, beach wood, bal
sam of Perue, catechu. caustic potash
charcoal, cochineal, creosote, the vari
Gus others, escubac, haxsced, gamboge
gentian, indigo, iodine, logwood, mo.
lasses, nitrate of silver, oak bark, pep.
per, red sanders wood, saffron, snake
root, the oils of cloves, cedar, juniper
cinnamon, lavender, lemons, rosemary
mace, roses, and sassafras, turpcntinc
tincture of musk, quassia, nux vomica
and strychninc."
In this list will be noticed some oil
the most active, deadly poisons. 1t
Is by no means pretended that Of all
these articles are used in any one kind
of drink, but different articles in differ.
cnt drinks as may be necdful to the
counterfeit Strychnine, for instance,
is used largely in some kinds of dis
titled liquors, because with it the same
grain will produce three or four times
as much spirit as without. Hence the
profit to the distiller; but how horrible
to the consumer! Account is given in
some paper of distiIlery, where the
hogs fed on slops, died in great mum
bcrs, and the washings poured off into
the stream killed the fish to quite a
distance, by the strychnine used. OF
course that spirit killed also multi
tudes of those who drank it. Still the
manufacturer has not been hung, but
goes at large as gentleman.
But this is only a solitary case. The
country is cursed with thousands "of
the same Sort" who are flooding the
land with their poisons. Indeed,
should one of these gentlemen miscre-
ants put as much of his drugs into
some pump where family obtain
water for use, as he does into hogs
head of spirit, he would soon be furn-
ished with hemp collar or a lifelong
home in the State prison. And the
only reason that this whole fraternity
are not dealt with as their crimes de-
mand, lies in the fact, that they have
gone into their work so stealthily and
succeed in keeping the community so
completely benumbed and blinded to
their works. Had the country been
fully awake to this business and known
what was going on, the people would
ere this have arisen in n mass, and
hung up those perpetrators Of death,
or incarcerated them in some close
place, or thrown them pcll nell into
the Atlantic-Pinsfeld Er.