Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-22
From the Hartford Post.
AduIterated Liquors.

The New York World is evidently do
ing good and much needed work for
the citizens of the metropolis. Some
days ago we published a brief allusion
to its expose Of the frauds of retail grO-
Gerry dealers, and the manner in which
the housekeepers of New York were
cheated in their purchases of house
hold stores, as we'll in quantity as in
quality. The carefully prepared arti-
cles which appeared had their desired
effect in opening I he eyes Of the citizens
of the metropolis, exciting comment by
the press throughout the country, and
stirring up a lively and genuine sensa-
tion among the retail grocers, whose
gross frauds were thus announced and
turned up by the roots. Having thus
benefited mankind the World transfers
It's operations from the grocery store to
the bar-room, and attacks far more
Injurious class of deAleEs-the vendors
OF hq uors over the counter by the
glass. AS before, commissioner was
appointed, who made a tour through
the metropolis, and collected numerous
samples of liquors sold, which were
then su omitted to a careful analysis by
Prof. John w. Draper of the University
Medical College. The result is more
than startling -ir is appalling. Poison
Gus fusil-oil, tanuin in large quanti-
ties, burnt sugar, corn, oak bark these
are the articles that entered into the
composition of the liquors examined.
OF all the specimens of brandy which
were obtained there was but one which
did not contain thes4 substances in
greater or less degree, and the whisky
was in equally bad condition. All the
samples of sO-called pure liquor were
largely diluted, and there was not "A
single purchase made. which, on ana
lyzation, proved to be genuine. OF The
fuSll Oil, which was one of the chief in
gradients in these liquors, DR.. Taylor,
in his medical Jurisprudence, says, 81
have experienced its effects and found
il effects giddiDess, accompanied with
Il feeling Of sutfOeatiOn and sense OF
falling, and headache followed, which
lasted for half an hour. Two drachms
of the oil killed rabbit in two hours,
three drachms in an hour, half an ounce
in quarter of an hour, and one ounce
in four minutes.'' Bur the most start
ling part of the disclosure is in the fact
that these liquors were bought at first
class" drinking saloons, and not at the
corner saloons and low whisky shops.
The samples reported upon are of the
best liquors sOld at the best har-rOoms
In New York. The liquors obtained
were from the glIttering decanters from
which fashionable gentlemen are in the
daily habit of taking their toddies, un-
der the delusiOn that a pure article is
insured beyond peradventure by the
high price paid. This exposure sweeps
away the delusi0n, and fashionable
drinkers may we'll stand astonished
and hOrrifed-for of all the liquor OBJ
.sined not sample is pure-not one
but Is poisonous. Here, to moderate
drinkers, is a temperance lecture more
powerful than those of Cough. Here is !
an explanation of the diseases which !
prevail among the fashionable drinkers /
IF the day. These adulfera ted liquors /
ierange the system, create morbid |
md irresistible craving for stimulants, |
leat and craze the brain, and lead to |
drunkenness and death. No man can |
lriBkwith safety, for the liquor which |
ne sips is poison, and the fashionable /
thinker is the fashionable suicide.