Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-20
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| + A GLASS OF BRANDY.-9Can't hurt
anybody Why know a person, yon-
derh he is now, on high change, speei-
men of manly beauty, portly six-fOoter.
He has the bearing of a princes;
he is one of our merchant princes. His
face wears the hue of health, and now
at the age of fifty odd : he has the quick
elastic slept OF our y0ang men of ftwen
ty-fiye, and none more full of wit and
mir tn than he, and / know he, never
dimes without brandy and water, and
never goes to bed without a terrapin or
oyster supper, with plenty of cham
paig ne; and more than that, he was
never known to be drunk. So here is
living exc mplar and disproof of the
temperance twaddle about the danger
Gus nature of an occasional gloss, and
destructive effect of a temperate use of
good liquors."a - ss',f ~
Now it SO happened that this speci-
men safe brandy drinking was rela-
tion of ours. He died in year or two
after that with chronic diarrhea, a
common end of those who are never
drunk, or never out sofliquor. He. left
his widow a1splended mansion up
town, and clear five Thousand year,
besides large fortune to each of his
children; for he had simpson every sea,
and credit at ever counter, but which
he never had occasion to use. For
months before he died-ahe was year
in dying-4he could eat nothing with
out distress, and.at death the whole al
imentary canal was mass of diseases
in the midst of his millions he died of
inanition. That is rot the half, read
er. He had been q steady drinker, a
daily drinker, for tWenty-eight years.
He left a legacy to his children which
we did not mention. Scrofula had
been eating up one daughter for fifteen
years; another is in the 5Inad-houSe,
the third and fourth were of unearthly
beauty, there was q kind of grandeur
in that beauty, but they yblighted, and
paled and faded, into heaven we trust,
in their sweet teens; another is totter-
ing on the verge of the grave, and only
one of them is left with all the senses,
and each of them is weak as water
Why, we came from the dissecting
room and made note of it, it was SO
horrible aIam 81 sN 77tisE 3sii la1I1
A gentleman of thirty-fve was sit
ting on chair, with no specially criti-
cal symptom present, still he was
known to be q 'sd1ssipated young man."
as the saying goes. He rose, ran fifty
feet, fell down died. The doctors see
beauty in death-the chance of cut
ting up fellow and looking about for
sights The whole covering of the
brain was thickened, its cavities were
filled with fluid that did not belong
to them, enough to- kill half a dozen
men with opoplexy; a great portion of
one lung was in state of gangrene,
and nearly all the other was hardened
and useless; blood and yellow matter
plastered the inner covering of the
lungs, while angry red patchesi of de-
structive Inflammation canal. Why,
there was enough of death in that one
mans body to have killed forty men.
The doctor who talks about gluzzling
liquor every day being "healthy," is
perfect disgrace to the medical name,
and ought TO be turned out to break
rock for the turnpike for the term or
his natural lite at a Shilling aday, and
find himself. .-Hall' Journal of Health.