The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-15
Drugged Wines.

includes many more remarkable cases.
Drugged Wines.
As France 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 Pdris{dn,
o paper printed in English in Paris,
gives branch Of the history of this
manufacture Of wines sold fraudulently
under the names of the choicest brands
Of French wines The wine crop Of 1879
was about 25, 600, 900 or 10000, 900 hec-
toliters below the average of the last ten
wears. The annual consumption in
France is from 40,000,000 to 45,000,000
hectoliters. Every body expected a rise
in the price Of wine, and some conscien-
tious dealers laid in q stock from abroad.
The rise in price, however, never came,
and the markets remained well supplied.
The reason was that the natural deficit
was compensated for by artificial means
/ Wine was manufactured out OF dry
/ grapes. All the raisins to be found in
| Eastern ports were bought up, and wine
manufactures sprang up all over the
! country. Around Paris alone there are
seven steam-power wine manufactures.
| The cost Of cask OF raisin wine is about
| so francs. and it was sold ut 100 francs,
thus giving profit Of 100 per cent But
the competition has now become such
that the price of raisins has risen from
twelve francs to seventy-tive francs the
100 Kilograms. The consequence Is that
that raisins have heen abandoned, and
wine is now manufactured out Of glu-
cose, d sugary matter obtained from the
potato, out Of the residue OF molasses,
out of rotten apples, dried prupes, dates,
figs and all kinds of refuse fruit, and
even out of beet-root. These abomina-
Bile LIQUIDS are colored artiflcially and
mixed more or less with Spanish wines
OF white wine. The adulteration 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 pitch that
not one-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
acUer OF tu6 lEduuS. IAoHSA bLohNJ -
this day is described as an inferior spirit
distilled from sugar, potatoes, Indian
corn and whisky distilled from barley,
and this is the stuff imposed upon the
! people of this country. 1t would be
| national blessing IL there was an author
itative analysis made Of the various so
called French wines and brandies fraud
: ulently pushed off upon the American
people by the wine manufacturers ol
France. The drugged and poisonous
stuff is, in addition 10 being commercial
fraud, also most deleterous 10 healti
an life, and its importation should b'
; discontinued. No pure wines or bran
dies are now exported from France.
A GENTLEMAN and three ladies whC
: must have had great deal Of spar,
time have found by count that blond
I has about lao, 900 hairs on her scalp;
' brunette, 100, 1000; and a red-haire,
: belle only 6S, 900. This last provision
= OF nature is undoubtedly 10 prevent In
o voluntary incendiarism.
a INDIANS never drink to drown sorrow
: When they can get anything 10 drin
Z they have no sorrow to drown. Brook
Ign Eagle.