The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-14
Drugrnd Wines,

AS Franco has kicked up row about
American hog meat, which extended
even to ringing bells through the villages
warning the citizens, it Is entirely fair to
warn the American people against the
drugged wines Of France. The P0riSi031,
u paper printed i'll English in Paris,
gives d branch of the history of this
manufacture of wines sold fraudulentlY
under the names of tho choicest brands
of French wines: The wine crop of 1879
was about 25, 100000 or 10000, 900 hec-
tOlitcrs below the average of the last ten
years. The annual consumption in
France is from 10000, 600 to as, 600, 900
hcctolitcrs. Every body expected n rise
In the price of wine, and somo conscien-
tiOuS dealers laid in q stock from abroad.
The rise III price, however, never came,
and the markets remained well supplied.
The reason was that the natural deficit
was compensated for by artificial means.
Vino was manufactured out of dry
grapes. All the raiSins to be found in
Eastcrn ports were bought up, and wine
manufactures spranG up all over the
country. Around Paris alone thCro are
seven stcam-pOwcr wine manufactures.
The cost Of q cask of raisin wine is about
50 francs, and it was sold at 100 francs,
thus giving q profit of 100 per cont. But
the competition has now become such
that the price of raisins has risen from
twelve francs to seventy-tiYe francs the
100 Kilograms. Tho consequence is that
that raisins have been abandoned, and
wine is now manufactured out Of glu-
cOse, a sugary matter obtained from the
potato, out Of the residue of molasscs,
out of rotten apples, dried prunes, dates,
figs and all kinds of refuse fruit, and
even out of bcet-roOt. These abOmina-
bic liquids are colorcd artiticially and
mixed more or less with Spanish wines
or white wine. The adultCrntiCn and
manufacture of wine has attained such
vast proportions that the principal deal
ers who had taken measures to supply
the market loyalty with harvest wine
from foreign countries have taken steps
to put stop to this gigantic fraud. The
imposture has reached such q pitch that
not OnC-third of the wine now drank III
Paris is real grape The revelations of
the manufacture of French brandy are
no less convincing of the wholesale char
acter of the frauds. French brandy of
this day is described as an inferior spirit
distilled from aUGar, potatoes, Indian
corn and whisky distilled from barley,
and this is the stuff imposed upon the
people of this country. 1t would be n
national blessing if there was an author
itative analysis made of the various So
called French wines and brandics fraud
ulcntly pushed off upon the American
people by the wine manufacturers of
France. The drugged and poisonous
! stuff is, in addition to being commercial
! fraud, also most deleterOus to health
an lifo and its importation should be
discontinued. No pure wines or bran
dies are now exported from France.
A GENTLEMAN and three ladies who
must have had great deal of spare
time have found by count that blonde
has about lao, 900 hairs on her scalp; a
brunette, 100000; and red-haired
belle only 88, 900. This last provision
of nature is undoubtedly to prevent in.
voluntary incendiarism.
INDIANS never drink to drown sorrow
When they can got anything to drink
they have no sorrow to drown. --BrOok
Ign Eagle.