The Portland daily press., 1873-01-04
ELI Perkins, New York Calls.

The influence of the editorials of the city
press against the use of wine at New Years
entertainments to-day was perceptible every
where. The change was noticed and re-
marked upon by almost every one, and many
and earnest were the congratulations among
our best citizens to see the treacherous
wine-glass disappear. Wine has long been 4
the stumbling block OF youth, and the insid-
iOus snare of old age, and we may safely hope
now that it will soon disappear from the So
cial board.
When called on Mr.. Dodge, who has
been foremost as a reformer-foremost in
pushing this anti-wine movement-he was
still very solictous in regard to the sue
cess of the new reform He asked. with
deep earnestness how the anti-wine move
ment was succeeding; and he was deeply
gratifed when told him that a great deal
less wine was being drank-that many, in
stead Of wine were drinking unusually large
| quantities of brandy, and that several of our
first citizens had ma lie upward of, a hundred
calls, in every instance refusing wine, and
drinking in place of it the best article of
American whiSkey and gin. l told him that
.aany good mothers, beautiful Christian heads
of families, who for years had been accus-
toned to serve wine to their guests, had dis
carded the treacherous wine-glass and told
their daughters to fill The decanters with Mo
nongahela and Bourbon '
'Heaven be praisedp' exclaimed Mr..
| Dodge when he heard of the success of the
anti-w inc me cement. He was happy man
when he felt within him that the treaeher-
Gus beverage was to give way, and the in
fuence of the insidious wine-glass was to be
| forever bro Ken before the benign influence of
| old rye and Scotch and Bourbon whiskey.
The whole city seems IS be deeply in earn
| est about this reform. 1 called on sainted
mother in Israel in Forty-sixth street. She
said, as she gave me some quail aud dough-
| nuts and mince pie, that she would offer me
glass of sherry, but so many men-good
young men-had fallen into drunkards' graves,
!. just through ia ling their first glass of
wine. told her-t that | hated and feared
that first glass of wine as much as she did,
and that / often warned young men against it,
and that for myself i spurned, the ideal
guarded myself against it always
s.You are a good young man, Mr.. Perkins,
against this first glass, and you viii always
4 be SAFE" w 4es-es., Lii ,.4 .s,-e,.s.- I'll
/ told her would. Said /, 81 am some
times tempted to take this first glass Of wine
but always repel the idea; and no longer
ago than this morning. said I, s'when the
thought came to me to drink that first glass
! OF wine, / spurned it, and went over on Sixth
avenue and got good square drink Of Monon
gahela whiskey.'s1D tsai2 7dt 'e sa ilsW
~ PERIEY gives the following account of q
little romance in real life :saO IA fssW
| DIR. Ralph ". Aulick, son of Commodore
Aulic, died very suddenly at his. fathers resi-
dence in Washington, some months ago. The
family believed at the time at he was UNI
married. On the following morning young
lady employed in the Treasury Department
known as Miss o Lear, on hea ing the an
nouncement of his death read from a news
paper, tainted, and it was soon made known
that the deceased was her husband In Oc-
tober last the will of the deceased, made in
Philadelphia in May last, was filedin the Pro
bate Court, bywhich he left his property,
consisting of ten shares of Cincinnati Gas
Light Company stock, worth 10000 to his
| widow. The father of deceased filed a caveat
1 to the will, and the Juds ordered that issues
be made for t,ial at the Circuit Court. The
case was heard Thursday, and the Aulick
family withdrew their petitions to the pro-
bate of the will. The widow win receive the
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