The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-12
Rum in Massachusetts,.

There 10 an immense trouble in Masachu-
sets. About rum And gin. And brandy.
And rosy Wine In fact, the Great and
General Court of that ilk, having by author
ity caused to be appointed sundry Agents,
resident of the town of Boston, for the dis
pensation, dispersion, dissemination and
diffusion Of pure unadultcratcd and honest
liquor. the same to flow through the virtuous
conduits Of Town Agencies, even as the
vast and voluminous fluid contents of hogs
heads of beer are mildly and safely cond lct.
ed through narrow taps; and it having been
understood that thus dispensed, dispersed,
disseminated and diffused, the said fluids
should be, like Caesars wife, if we may say
so, void Of suspicion--it necessarily causes
furious feeling in the minds, threats and
st0machs OF the moribund, feverish and
thirsty patrons of the said Town Agencies.
and q spasmodlc alarm among the Doctors
(of Medicine, if not of Divinity to find that
the fluids dispensed, dispersed, disseminated
and ditfused through the said Agencies are
not pure, unaduterated, unimpcachable,
mild, innocent salutary, tonic and medicinal,
but are upon the other hand, watered,
poisoned. doctored, impregnated, bedeviled,
and, IN fact, 1t we may coin word coculus
lndicussed. Here was, vulgarly, and not
bar-roomlcally speaking-a go" Imagine
a case A respectable person reposes upon
the bed of imminent death. A respectable
Nj. ID. declares that nothing can restore him
to his weeping wife and beloved children,
save glass Of the purest brandy and water.
a respectable person is at once sent to the
Town Agencies for the healing fluid. and
returns with something at which the imagi
nation revolts; which renders the presence
OF the undertaken soon after necessary, and
implies heirs executors and administrators.
1t such be the state of sanitary eprituous
supply in Massachusetts, We certainly think
that the General Court should take the
dreadful matter up.
We'll, it is the state of things. Awful
investigations are in progress before Leg
islative Committee The Honorable Chair
man of the Board of Selectmen Of the Town
Of Greenfield, in the County of Franklin,
deposes and says that the rum and gin re-
ceived from the State Agency were dirty
and bad" The Town Agent asseverates the
same of "cider, brandy, Bourbon whisky
and some kinds Of wine" Upon which,
the Newburyport Herald facetiously re-
marks
"The man that would be foolish enough
to send from Franklin County to Best N to
buy cider, would hardly know enough to find
the way to Boston"
Hatfield alas poor town has suffered.
"The liquors were so bad that they had to
send them back u Good heavens leaving
the sick infrm, decrepit, moribund of the
town Of Hatfeld-absolutely and ruthlessly
rumless! Then Asa d. Patten Of Boston
testified that the Commonwealth Liauors
knocked him" Then came Mr. Robert NJ.
Morse, an expert, with great experience in
the liquor business" to whom were present
ed the Bills from the State Agencies upon
which he began to reckon as follows
"He reckoned one bill of 500 gallons of gin
and testified that after deducting the com
missioners tariff, was more than three hun.
dred dollars beyond the market price of the |
articles. He exposed other instances of the |
same sort"
And now for fearful exposure of and |
dreadful drying up of a severely scientific |
man who either did discover |
the pain destroying properties of ether, and |
Is therefore celebrated, or did not and is |
therefore equally celebrated. In fact, DR.. |
Jackson. He gives certificates for eyery |
hing, from mild bed-bug poison to Wolfe's
Aromatic s. s. a brother chemist said of
him:
'There is not gallon Of Madeira, Malaga
" Port in this city but what is fictitious,
ind yet Durham is constantly supplying it
or the use of the SICK with jackson appro.
'al have not in my examinations of many
pecimens found one Of true wine-not one
hat ought to be sold; and yet this man is
bile to supply all grades, low price and high
,rice just as it is wanted"
Good heavcnsl people sick, people lame,
,eople weak, people feeling all-oycrish, PEG.
lie feeling as if they needed something,
,eople who If they cannot take something"
eel that they must bid farewell to earthly
y ties, and take their last fond taste of earth.
iahea to be had Nor Of Madeira--not
,ine which ever griped the interior of Chris
ans Not of Port, in its purity a famous
racer! Toll the bells I! prepare the collins
lie funeral sermons
We are glad to find that the Herald of |
OVERWHELMINGLY the organ OF Briga- .
Ter General Caleb Cushing takes as we t
,oaId have anticipated, religious view of q
is matter. 1t says:
1T is strange that well people will use
e iyile stuff ut the Sacrament Of the Lords
,pper What they use there comes moi. so
All the pure wine that Jesus used, as goats J
ilk does Mostof them cannot believe with
e Catholics, that theswafer, blessed by the
lest, becomes actually the flesh of Christ :
i this ia no greater miracle than would be Q
rning of the colored beverage into actual Il