Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
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The attention of our readers, says the
Brooklyn Daily Union, is respectfully di-
reeted to the following business circular,
issued in the interest of the liquor
trade:
To the Pu6Hc.-Death & Co., whole
sale and retail dealers in spirits and malt
liquors, take this opportunity of inform
ing their friends that they continue the
trade of making drunkdr1s, 6GT1krupts,-
be0q6rs and Dlonidcs, on the most rea-
sonable terms, at the shortest notice.
The advertisers return their sincere
thanks to numerous customers, and 10
all the tippling part of the community,
for the extensive patronage, they hope
that the many proofs that are now 10 be
found of their success in the above line
of business will secure them the iDcreas-
ed support of all drunkards and little
drop drinkers, as well as forever silence
the advocates of total abstinence soele-
ties, those bitter enemies of their long
established and popular trade
Death & Co., beg leve to assure the
puoiic that the article in which they
deal is the best and most ptedsdllt
pnison in the world; and they VIII
warrant it certain death in every case
where the individual perseveres IN the
use of it.
Death & Co. bring themselves under
obligations to send more persons TO the
uoor-house the prison, the gallows ano
the graveyard than any other firm;
and they will also do it with thegreatest
possible dispatch to accomplish these
desirable ends it is only necessary for
the individual to take a glass OCCASION
ally till ne feels that quantity insult
cient to crafty the craving appitlte
which it will soon create; and when
this whisky, gin, brandy, ale or porter
appetite is formed, the person is then
prepared to brave temporal and eternal
misery for the sake of another glass
In short, Death & Co. will spare no
pains or expense to bring the wives ana
children of their customers to misery
temporal and eternal, and drive 10
,Ielirium and death rs many as the
publc good require. They are con-
stantly receiving new supplies OF the
poisonous liquid, which they Will sell
by the glass the bottle, the barrel or
the hOgshead.
For the accommodation of their nu-
merous customers, and for the dlspatch
of their increasing business, ID. q 90:
have appointed \ sufficient number or
active agents. who are statloneu at con-
yenient distances, in splendld palaces,
beer shops and public houses. These
palaces, beer shops and public houses
NAV be known by the squalor, filth,
obscenity or misery of the customers
who congregate around them, as well as
by the odors of the poisons continually
polluting the air around.
Salts factory references can be given 10
county iails, houses of correction, luna
tic asylHms, hospitals, workhouses, in
solvent debtors courts, the court OF
of the wives and families
Of those whom Death & Co. have had
the happiness to make drunkards-
n. B.-Death & Co. beg leave 10 eau
ton all tipplers and dram-drinkers from
giving any heed to their wives, ehbureh
or friends, or to any advocates OF total
abstinence societies, as these parties are
enemies to this soul and body destroying
business. Gentlemen, by calling on cur
agents, may see specimens of drunkardS,
and subjects for the ehdTGsst-ftoaSe, at
all hours by day and by night, Sundays
not excepted. DEATH go = f.