The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-02-16
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Is. 1872.
THE HORRORS OF DRUNKENNESS
"Ei Perkins, in New York, Com
merc;sl Advertiser, saws:

mercisl advertiser, says:
In the Blackwell Island Work
House is queer case OF dipsomania
John David is son OF kind, indul
gent, and wealthy father. John i:
about twenty-five years old. He
was formerly in the Fort Plain Bank
and before that in the Thirteenth
United States Infantry.
John David's weakness is his ina
bility to refrain from drinking. With
him it is mania. and though an ed
ucsted young fellow, with good blood
in him, still, the moment he leaves the
Islan6he commences drinking, and
continues to drink until he becomes
insensible. His father is rich man,
and several times he has heen to the
Work House. where John is engag.
ed as clerk, to reason with his son.
"Wha. didyou say 10 your father?'
asked John
"Why, told him he was right. ]
told him / was fool to drink, and
once or twice l have gone home with
him resolved to stop drinking and
tske place in society which / know
belongs to me. but l couldn't; o,
cannot!"
tits queer TO see sane, good look
ing young fellow talking that way,
but he was becoming diseased. In
temperance with him is mania
John knows it aud stays on the Is
land now OF his own accord. where
he is away from the temptation.
CURIOUS CASES.
One poor fallen women. came here
in 1857, and she has been here most
of the time since. AS soon as dis
charged she goes straight to the city,
commences to drink again, is. re- arrest
ed and sent back. So she spends
her lite in the Work House.
There is a wreck of once beauti-
ful woman here-a Mrs. Van Wart,
whose husband is rich, kind heart
ed mana millionaire. Still she re-
mans here. Hundreds of times has
her husband been to see her.
reasoned with her, made
her promise to be good and stop
drinking. Each time she makes
a new resolve, but each time she sees
the poisonous liquors and the old
appetite returns. She drinks, is
missed from the house, and her hus-
band finds her in some miserable
slum OF the city. Then he has to
have her sent back, where she lives.
in the family of the Superintendent,
Joseph Keen.
O, this demon drink
There is one cell cushioned with
stuffed leather all around the sides,
where they place men wild with de-
lirium tremens. After becoming
manageable they are taken to the
"Horror Ward,' where they are doe
toTed and nursed back to health and
strength. In this Ward were about
ten men, several of them intelligent
gen,eel looking men. One, John c.
Walters, of No. 81 East broadway,
is scientific physician and surgeon,
but drink made him a temporary
madman, and he was brougt here.
lie appeared to be perfectly sane,
but DIR. Phillips said he was "littIe
mixed"
"What have you been drinking,
DoctOr?' l asked.
'Oh. .whisky--whisky all the time,"
he replied.
"What did you do when you lad
the delirium The worst p
81 bit my tongue and chewed my
lips"
"What are you taking now?'
"Hydrate of chloral.
DIR. Phillips says many more ca.
ses OF delirium tremens die now than
used to. This, he says, is owing to
liquor nowadays being made with so
much poison in it. Men are made
irrecoverably insane.
"What is the best remedy / ask
ed, "for poisonous liquor p
swell, milk and eggs are antidotes,
and, if you must drink, why, mix
milk or eggs with your whisky, and
the poison will take effect upon the
egg or milk instead of upon your
stomach"
AFFECTING INCIDENT.
In the ''Horror Ward" was Paul
Horn, a handsome fellow, hut In a
dreadful state. He speaks five Ian
guages and was formerly book keep
er at Arnold's, on Wooster street
near Prince.
Paul had just came from the delir-
um cell, and was fastened in
straight jacket to keep him from
violence. BY him sat his patient
andl ovely wife. She had come over
from New York to nurse him. II
was the old story with her husband.
Paul was good and kh.6 when he
was sober, and size loved him, but
when he drank he became demon,
and frequently struck her. "But,"
said she, with smile of love, SIT was
not Paul that struck me, was it
Paul 2"
Then she put her arms around his
neck, and Paul, still in his straight
Jacket, held her in a close embrace
without speaking. Reason had re-
turned and his heart was breaking
Feeling was too strong tor utterance,
and the scene too sacred forstrauger