Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-31
Af.ExA GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

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for notices over four lines
Poisonous Authorizations of Wine with
COal.Oil Products.
The Brewers Guardian of the Sth says -
For many years the wius trade has been rich
10 impostioDs of various kinds, but at no time
have aduterations of wine been more numer.
GUS than at the present moment, or of form
SO pre- judicial to the public health. Formerly
the principal aduteration consisted in the ad
dition of water, alcohol and coloring materials
of vegetable origin, such as log wood, elder,
holyhocL and myrtle. But the progress of 10.
dustry, and especially the discovery OF coloring
matters extracted from the products of the dis
tillatou of coal, has furnished fraudulent wine
growers with methods of getting a fictitious
color which are as easy Of employment as they
are dangerous to the consumers OF the wines so
treated. ln the trade ready-prepared liquids
are found under the various names OF caramel.
''old vine color, new wine color, aud SO
on, all of which are more or less complex mix.
lures Of gelstioe, glucose, alcohol fucusine, and
other substances, n tho proportions suitable for
be distinguished by the eye from that Of the true
''juice of the grapes" One cubic centimetre
OF these syrups is sufficient to color quart Of
water intensely. My readers may form some
idea of the enormous quantities OF wine colored
by fucusine By the fact that certain houses in
the South consume 10000 to 1900 francs
worth of these liquids yearly, pound Of which
costs less than a shilling, and of which one Gu
bio centimetre sufices to color many litres Of
wine.
Iu consequence Of complaints induced by Sc.
we're illness resulting from the use of certain
wines sold at Nancy, NJ. Ritter, professor in
the Faculty Of Medicine, was Instructed by the
legal authorities to examine very large mum.
Der of samples of the wine The analyses made
10 his laboratory have shown the enormous
scale upon which adulteration by the addition
Of tuousine is purchased by wine merchants 10
the South 1t is probable, not to say certain,
that an inquiry of this kind etfectually carried
out in the great ceDtres of population, and es.
pecially in Paris, would establish the existence
there of the same adulteration.
Some wines contain enough fucusine to cause
serious illness 10 the persons using them In a
very few days. A proportion Of 1925 or O,O30
grammes of fueusne in q lltre Of wine has been
frequently met with.
thamberiain's 'Trne EnWardn ess."
When the Governor of State calls upon the
federal government for protection against in-
surrection, and the President of the United
States, in compliance with that appeal, hurres
federal troops to the points indicated, it is in
The highest degree salutsry to examine thor
0ughly the condition of affairs which gives mo-
tive to the action Every particle of testimony
that can throw ght upon the transaction should
ba weighed; for preccdents 10 such matters
should not be established except upon the full
est un lerstanding of the special need for such
extreme measures. Governor Chamberlain
defence Of his call for troops must be weighed
with ali statements attempting to show the
merely partisan nature of the cry tor troops,
even if the mass Of evidence on the other side
breaks it down utterly. The letter from Sena.
tor Randolph, Of New jersey, contains 10 mode.
rate compass a summary OF the situation IN
South Carolioa, which leaves Governor Cham
berain scarcely shred of the oumsily woven
fabric out of which he made the latest
bloody shirt. 1t at the same time sheds
quite new light upon the Governors ne
cessity for troops. 1t would seem that Cham
terlaiu seeks protection from the hon.
est members Of bis own party more than from
the terrible white democrats. The Governors
excuse-WaDt of money-for not calling the
Legislature togsther (from whom, if conven.
able, the appeal should have GOMEZ is admirably
disposed Of The members would in any case
have had to provide the expenses. The real
reason is, however, laid bare-namely, that the
malcontent republican members of the South
Carolina Legislature would have kicked 10 the
harness and refused to bring needless dis
credit on the State. By appealing directly to
the President Chamberlain avoided all this dis.
aster to his canvass If the appeal we're not
listened to he would be no worse of than before;
but if sustained by federal bsyonets be hoped
to drive the citizens Of the State literally into
opposing camps, 80 that any concert OF action
between the white and negro races to prevent
his own reelection would be impossible. The
evidence is direct that the respectable republl.
cans who proposed to scratch Chamberlain on
election day We were equally determined TO vote
lor Hayes. That would not suit Chamberlain
lie must have hot blooded canvass to make
fusion impossible 1t would be great stain
upon the intelligence of the Palmetto State it
turbulence like this, once unmasked, should
sueeeed.-N Y. Herald.
BRIDAL CosTuNEs.-We have learned to con-
;'der white a. essentially bridal costume. but
II has lot beon always So and even now the
Eokhsra bride wears rose colored vail on her
marriage day. and in the modern Greek islands
Inc bridal vail is of red silk-a custom which
As; descended. no doubt, from the II aamen," or
led bridal vail, of ancient Greece, the Romans
IN old days wearing yellow vails The Arne.
!'sn bride. on the most important dsy OF her
ie, appears in what closely resembles q sack
made OF rich silk, completely enveloping the
5;gure feet and head. The face is further hid.
Den by linen vail. over which falls another of
gold tinsel and a part of the ceremonial is for
Inc priests wife to dye tho pals of the bride
deep red with henna. Pm Turkey the bride ap.
pears in rich white satin brocade shot with sil-
yer and bsnizened with pearls a jew eed girdle
sfrand her waist, her face painted-a crimson
aifa m Ten the shape Of heart on her chin the rest
renced eyebrows.