Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-19
Port Wine, Cat awba Wine, Etc.

During the cholera season in 1S40, my
wife being greatly debilitated, was adj
vised to obtain bottle of Port wine to re-
store her wasted energies-was advised to
purchase the article at house famed in
those days for keeping the best stock OF
good liquors in the city-purchaseda bottle
-One bottle being exhausted, which, OF
course, being too small a quantity to test its
efficacy, | returned to the source of sup
ply to replenish. | am sorry, says a green
salesman, that you will have to call to-mor-
row-our Port was made on yesterday and
is not yet sufficiently settled! Well, this
answer to my call tor Port settled several
things in my mind: 1st, to purchase no more
artificial wine if / knew it to be such; I'd,
That there were men who, for the gain of
some six hundred per cent. made by mixing
twenty cent whisky with odious coloring
matter, with cOloring drugs, were willing
to drive manufacture and traffic in busi-
ness that will send their customers and
neighbors to their graves. The value Of
wines has been recognized as useful in GER
tain cases since and doubtless before the
DAYS of our SAVIOR on earth. Old wine
and new wine were mentioned-but where
has artificial wine, beer, or spurious con-
coctons ever been mentioned or authorized
in "Holy Writ?' ......
Some time during the hot season wish
ed to obtain a small supply of Catawba,
knowing it to be well adapted to sustain
the nervous system under the depressing
influences of excessively warm weather.
was informed by very proper appearing
gentleman, that he kept the very best;
called for bottle one evening, sat in my
carriage while the bottle was being filled,
which occupied some t,oenty minutes, during
which time | had time to recall my eXperi-
ano nf " a
the Catawba in particular, the wine
press, the apple, the apple mill, the
cider-press, cider vinegar, old hard
cider-even the campaign of 1910, &c, &c.
Well, the wine was forthcoming, and
in one small glass of the aforesaid bot
tie, probably from its eXhiliarating effects,
was obliged to fall back upon my recolec-
tions of the Port wine of lS49 and the hard
cider of 1910. Whether this bottle of Ca
tawba proved beneficial as nervous ener-
gizer or not or whether flat old cider,
slightly favored with the peculiar aro-
ma of the "divine Catawba." is really to
supplant the genuine, unadulterated juice
of the vine, | wish to leave as an open
question; while for myself and family we
prefer to stick to our first love-the pure
Catawba. During the melting days of the
past season, we rejoiced in the use of, as we
believed, the best Catawba wine we had
ever drank--not only the best favored, but
also the best as a suStainer of nerve power
that had ever used or prescribed to the
enteebled or the sick. This wine, of which
the grower had large supply, was largely
in demand under the advice and prescrip-
tion of the medical faculty. Indeed, so
rapidly did it flow from its capacious reser-
yoirs that their perfect exhaustion was
dreaded as forthcoming calamity by all
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weak humanity to be deprived of this life
preserver and strength restorerl Hope
and help were found in barrels of less
.portentous size and of humber name;
and as help often, comes from humble
sources, so the weak flew to. the aid of
the depleted tanks which form the
.capacious inhowing of the contents of the
lesser to willing hoops and slaves of the
greater, all fears of subsequent exhaustion
were dissipated; and as it is possible that all
haters of Catawba-scented, old bitter cider
dislike the mixture as heartily as | do.-
Seasons may pass-the old and the new
wines may be quatfed to exhaustion, while
the reservoirs of the nstred will remain full,
unless put upon sale In the future for Bit
ter, bad vinegar. bgc EiDdduNlif,, gat,,it i55
IA Such netarious manufacture ndtraffic as
is here set, forth, is not only equalled but
surpassed by such as wage a, silentJwarfare
against health and life by the -aduIteration
and sale of medicines which more often be-
come the agents of death than any one sim
gle cause in existence. In this connection
may be mentioned such as through love
of gain sell articles of the, most. dan
Igerous kinds and in undue quantities
to persons of irresponsible character,
for criminal purposes, as, events fire.
-quentlyIs prove; thus placing them
selves in the same category with that class
who sell death by the adulterations Of the
authorized standard articles of materia med
ica. OF this class trust 1t may be long be-