Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-05
OLD-TIuE SMUGGLING.
A Romance and an Incentive TO IL
That are Now Entirely Gone.

lFron London Soc4efy.I
Instead of run by night in an open
boat, from the French coast TO the shores
of Hampshire, Sussex, Essex or Kent, we
have TO contsnt ourselves In these prosaic
times with petty attempts to cheat the rev
enue, for which women are more frequent
ly responsible than men. Such an incident
once happened at Belfast. where an Irish
woman named Mary MacMAhon, wss
brought to the police court, ehsrged with
keeping whlskey on premises which were
unlicensed. Sergeant Jones deposed that
he went into the defendants house and
found a woman named Grsyton, who was
seated before the FIRE. Upon searching her,
the sergeant came upon thirty-six bottles
of porter and two bottles of whiskey,
slowed away in her pe:tieOats- To the in
expressibie atnuseulenu Of the spectators
the sergeant produced the Peccsnt gar
ment In court. Each pstt.cOat was made
of coarse sacking and wss giri with innum
cradle pockets. all of them lined with soft
material so As to keep the bottles from
clinking and possibly breaking escb other.
UnhRppily for poor Mary MAcMAhon. the
petiicoat-. whiskey snd porter were con-
fscatsd by the relentless police magistrate
and the chief delinquent was cent to jail
for three months I entertain no doubt
that the hearty sympEthies of nine-tenths
of those pEsssnt in cDnTt went with Mary
MRcMahon TO limbo. There hAE, We fear,
never been time in Scotland or Ireland
when surrsptitious potheen and mountain
dew which never paid a bawtsc 20 the
state exchequer did not. like stolen kisses,
taste the sweeter became of their cland-s-
tine birth.
He however who E.suii fam fiud
amusing stor;sE sbont running the h2ock
sie and smugyl:ag coutFsbaEd of war
through sn rn-tny's tnns mas turn wiih
advantage TO many transatlantic N nsggZit's
which toem with articles revealing the I'LL
cit trade carried on during the American
civil war Ladies of the Belle Boyd sDd
Mrs. Gre, Hhow typ ssers caught trying 10
make their way doEn south with cOuutlsss
boxes OF copper caps sad packages Of qGi-
nine stitched into their c-tnoliEez. Capt.
Rcbsr;F, better known nader his real nAne,
Hobart Pasha, tells Es that he snugsled
gIeAt quantities Of Ccckie's pills into Sc
cessis hat thst the sOutheiueTs, differing
in tssts from tie lsmented Colonel Fred
Burnaby, would have none Of them
certain young lady who appeared TO be Ia
delicate health, took ship a. New York for
Havana, whence she hoped tn run the
bloe ksds into Mobile. OEeTpowersa by
seasickness during the voyage, she could
not prevent the s;swArdess from discover
ing that she was girt round about with
linen b.ndsges, among which many costly
drugs were slowed. Such is the complex
ion to which modern snugeling has ccne
at last. Our coast guards have no prevent
i've duties to perform, and their only rails
on d'etre ia tn watch that no foreign foe
makes descent upon our coasts. The
Dirk HattsrsickS of the past sss as dead
ss the pira,eI of the Captain Cleveland or
der AID In their stead petty larcency rev
snue casAtsr Ike Mary MacMsbon hsve
sprung Into existence