New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-02
xHr WEEKLY RrPUBLIOAN.


Under the laws of Connecticut. q Sheriff
seized Q lot Of liquors, on suspicion Of
their being sdultersted, and for the pur-
pose of ascertaining their character, sent
samples to Professor SilHman for his ex-
animation. For the benefit of those who
are daily pouring Intoxicating liquors into
their stomachs for very "often inirmities,' =
and for the warning and curiosity Of
others, We give the result Of the Profess
soris careful analysis, promising that no
mans authority in such matters is superior
to his: jfi - roc
IDE OF LEAD AND OIL OF vITRoL POE
WINE.
find this sample to be spurious or
imitation of port wine. It is overlooking
with sugar and coloring matter, and made
deleterious and poisonous by the addition
or lead, alum, and sulphuric acid, besides
various coloring and astringent drugs.
The weight, owing to these fabrications.
Is made considerably over that of pure
water, viz, 1Ol4, water being 1000, not
withstanding its alcoholic strength.
This imitation of port wine contains
over twenty-on per cent Of absolute alco-
hol by weight, or over twenty-five per
cent by volume or measure. Over ten
per cent OF its weight is sugar or molasses.
It is decidedly acid to tests, owing to
the presence of sulphuric acid or oil of
vitriol, of which it contains about one
hundred grains to the gallon, partly COM
bined as alum, partly free.
It contains lead, in the form Of oxide Of
lead, in poisonous quantities; this lead
Ahnh 1v nd cun nf
sweetness and astringency, and has by its
decomposition furnished oxide OF lead.
Il is found in the clear filtered matter sus-
pended therein, and which the filtration
removes, but in both forms will find its
way into the stomach Of drinkers and do
its work.
1t is hard to find a viler or more per-
nicious falsifcatian of wine or liquor
than this sample. Even its coloring mat
ter is false; its acidity, stringency, alco-
no lie strength and saccharine and extract
i've matters are all false, and, so far as
they can be, deleterions or poisonous, or
both. ,r ..- IT, ...... ....
FUSIL OH. WHISKY.
This article was evidently compounded
in imitation of whisky. Besides alcohol
and water, / find it to contain lead, iron,
sulphuric acid, fusil oil, bitter stringent
principle, and sugar, besides some ex-
tractive matters. 1t contains forty per
cent of its weight of alchohol, equal to
nearly eighty three per cent Of proof
spirits. It contains lead in poisonous
quantity as oxide of lead. Every common
sized drschm Of it carries into the stomach
of the drinker enough of this subtle poison
to induce, when often repeated, all the
well.known symptoms of lead poisoning,
Fusil oil has been added in imitation of
corn whisky or ''old Bourbon Fusil oil
is deleterious substance.
r,a'sa TuRPENTINE GIN.
This liquor has Obviously been manu-
featured 10 imitation OF gin. Besides al
cohol and water, it contains lead, sui
phuric acid, oil of juniper, oil Of turpen-
tine, sugar, etc. The alcoholic strength,
- determined by distillation, gives thirty
eight per cent of absolute Alcohol BY
weight, equal to seventy-nine per cent Of
proof spirits, .or it is thirty-one per cent
below proof.
It contains oxide of lead in poisonous
quantity. Every ordinary dram of the
liquor holds lead enough in solution to
produce lead poisoning, if it is often re-
pested. .@-r,,r,..-..
Sulphuric acid, which is found in all
these liquors, is one of the substances
used in adulteration of liquors, for the
purpose of giviog false strength and a
singing sensation. II is present in the
second and third samples in large quantity
There can be no question that in any
quantity sulphuric acid must be consi-
dered deleterious substance.
Lead, which is present in all these SAM
pies, is one of the most subtle of all
metallic poisons. It accumulates by
small successive doses; gaining power by
each new addition. It is we'll known that
the frequently repeated introduction of
even very minute quantities of any of the
preparations of lead into the system may,
after a time, induce serious symptoms,
such as loss of appetite, great thirst, q
metallic taste in the mouth, parched
tongue and throat, dull and anxious
countenance, yellow, dry skin, more or
less severe abdominal gripings, and blue
line along the line of the gums.
These symptoms are frequently followed
by sharp pains in the extremities, muscu-
lar emaciation, and paralysis.
I have ventured to add these remarks
upon the symptoms of lead poisoning, be-
cause believe they are not so generally
known as they should be, and they appear
in this connection with the manufacture
and sale of poisonous liquors, to hold up a
mirror, rejecting the frightful image Of all
the horrors which the wretched victims of
such dram-drinking are sure to suffer.
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Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, took
place on Tuesday of last week. In the
senior or graduating class we're upwards of
thirty boys who 60 to Cambridge this week,
To be examined for admission to Harvard !.