The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12
THE CHEAP LIQUOR SCHEME.
SOME OF THE RECEIPTS THAT COT
J. W. RUSHING INTO TROUBLE.

They show How 10 Make Port Wine
at IA Cents and California Brandy
Mt ID Cents n GaIIon-A Pretty Mean
Grade OF Corn Liquor, But There
May BE MOrse-HOw the Circulars
and Fake Samples Were sold.
Looks Like the scheme Has Deen
Worked in Other Parts of the
Country.
There may be ways and ways of getting
rich. but no doubt one of the most in
genious that has been put upon the IN
wary in a long time is the list of re-
ceipts for making different sorts Of liquors
at a mere nominal cost.
This is the way of getting rich that got
]. w Rushing into trouble, and his al
legged manipulation Of these receipts for
making good liquor for almost nothing is
what is just now keepin& him behind the
bars. An account of how the scheme was
worked, and how the circulars along with
what purpOrted. to be samples of the liq-
uors made from the receipts were sold
TO the unwary and unsuspecting has al
ready been published in the Morning
News.
The peculiar fact. however, was that
the samples were those of good liquors
made in the ordinary old-fashioned way
and not at all according to the receipts.
1t was for selling these samples of LIQUOR
! along with the circulars that one of Uncle
Sans warrants was issued, charging
Rushing with selling liquor without a
United States license, otherwise he could
only have been held under the state charge
of cheating and swindling.
The circular upon which the receipts are
printed and the receipts themselves are
interesting. The circular is headed, THE
| Worlds Fair, 1884," Then follows this
remarkable and very alluring injunction:
NOW good people try me of the worlds
renown pattern of home industry. All
receipts guaranteed. Try me and make
| your money easy"
The first receipt is that for Holland gin,
| winch II states can be made at a cost of
| Jo12 cents per gallon. 1t is as follows:
HOLLAND GIN.
gallons IS per cent alcohol
| OF. German glycerine
gallons oil Holland Gin.
| gallon extract Juniper Gin
Shake well, add 30 gallons clear water
| Shake well in barrel. In and days
ready for use. Cost 3S1ac per gallon
| The next receipt is for the manufac-
/ ture of medford rum, but the ingredients
are the same with the exception that oil
| OF medford rum is named instead of oil
/ OF gin, and little more water is used
| which last ingredient, no doubt brings
up the cost to 80 cents a gallon as it is
| stated.
=. How is this for a mean grade of corn
| liquor.
CORN wHIsKEY.
! 3 OF. tincture Of alonet.
| 4 OF. powdered alonet
! IL gallons, 80 per cent. alcohol.
Shake well. Add 30 gallons clear water
! Shake well. Let stand one week Ready
for use. Cost per gallon, 3slkc.
| Ihats what the circular says ii can be
made Of. No doubt, however, much of
| oh y,
barroms as liquor. would scarce stand
| the test as well as this. If drinR like
| whisky could be made as cheap as this
and retailed at five cents drink there
! somebody.
But the browning absurdity of all is
| the directions for making port wine at
| the ridiculous price of IA cents a/gallon.
The VINEYARDS Of CALIFORNIA and France
the circular says 1t can be done.
PORT WINE.
gallons IS per cent alcohol.
| 5 gallons clear water.
| 2 o. German glycerine.
| gallons oil of port wine.
Shake well. Add 30 gallons clear water
Color to suit the eye with tincture
| alonet
! en- days ready for use. Cost, lac per gall
| lon.
A California brandy at 80 cents gallon
| is made by changing the OIL and the col
| oring matter named in the above receipt
! to best of California brandy and burnt
sugar For rye whisky, the oil of rye
whisky is named, and the coloring matter
is burnt sugar.
The address of a prominent chemical
firm on William street, New York, is
named as the parties from whom the nee
essary goods can be secured but those
who have been bit by the fraud have re-
ceived replies stating that some of the
oils named did not exist and that the
whole thing was a swindle. They say they
nave had numerous letters of the same
kind, making it appear that there have
been efforts to work the fraud in various
parts of the country The circulars with
samples of good liquors purporting to have
been made according to the receipts have
been sold as high as 800 and as low as IS
or $40, depending on the degree of guilt
billty of the victim, and the shrewdness
Of the swindler. But for cheap liquors,