The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-03-14

ILLICIT rDisrlLAlH0.--Ths Philadelphi,
Press says: The imposition Of . tag oi
two dollars per gallon upon All spirit,
manufactured has induced hundreds o
persons in this city 10 embark IN the dis
dllery business, aud We are told Aha,
fortunes have been made BY some whs
have had the good luck 70 suaseie q
market, free Of tax. the produes OF thei,
establishments. without detection. Al
sorts Of dodgss are resorted to, 20 evade
the law. In some cases the suretiss re
quired before license 10 granted have
produced TO the revenue odlcers tide
deeds to properties which were forgerise
from drst to last, and sometimes these
we're accompanied by searches" and
policies OF insurance" manufactured
out of the whole cloth. ln nost IN.
stances the distillsr returas 10 the Gov.
ernment about one third Of the amount
produced. and snuggles OF the remein.
ing two-thirds. Mr. Stagg. the special
agent Of the Government. has been IN.
vestigating these matters for several
weeks past, and has nearly broken M
the business. or At all events has con-
PEELED the distillers to be 90 careful, that
finding it Improbable, many OF them
are surrendering at discretion.
In dissecting the corpse of . pauper
at the Twenty third street Medical Col.
iege recently.says the New York Tribune,
the students unexpectedly found evi.
deace that another human being had
been devoured by the inanitesimal worm
which the faculty style trichine spiralis.
The intestines. when subjected to micro
scopic examination, proved to be liter
ally alive with these minuts Destroy ers,
and they were found in abundance eve.
rywhere in the muscular tissue. Tho
body was that Of woman Of whom the
hospital authorities knew nothing, be-
yond the fact that she Was . pauper.
and died soon after her admission to-
Bellevue Hospital, and, - subject thst
had perished Of au unknown malady.
had been surrendered to the surgeons
'or dissection. Trichino in enormous
numbers having been discovered In tho
body, the surgeons strors 10 ascertain
something Of the history Of the woman's
;ase, hoping this to add to their stock
II informatiooe eeoncerning the origin Of
hese destructive worms, and Of. the
Of q sufferer afflicted by them;
nut their inquiries were fruitless, and all
hat 10 lsfs OF tl1ans issa caeeaAs which
- &RSSsss.1aintof fned sos tie dread
telegram WAS received On Tuesday u
Congress, announcing tho death 1t Edin-
burg, Saratoga county. New York. OF
Samuel Downing. the Last surviving sol
der who WAS actually under arms In the
Mr.. Downing's age was
stated at from 100 to LOG, but We are
not able to determine tho precise figure.
He enlisted in New Hampshire. near the
close of the war, and after poscs found
his way to New York, in which State he
lived for more than q century. There
have been q dozen or more OF ''last OF
he pensioners" but We presume that
The decease Of this we'll known citizen
closes the list, and that there is not now
! man living who actually bore arms in
bur great struggle for liberty. Sixty
seven years have gone by since Wash
IN gton died. and he Was almost the first
not slain in battle } 70 lead the long array
Of patriots whose glorious line 10 finish
ed By the departure Of Samuel Downing
IN. Y. Times
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