Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1860 — Take Warningin Time. [ARTICLE]

Take Warningin Time.

Dr. Hiram Cox, Inspector of Liquors at Cincinnati, has published many deeply interesting facts of his experience in testing liquor sold in that city. In several hundred inspections of lots of liquor of every variety, he found that 90 per cent, were impregnated with the most pernicious and poisonous ingredients. Nineteen young men, all sons of respectable citizens, were oughtright by only three months’ drinking of these poisoned liquors. Many older men, who were only moderate drinkers, died within the satns period, of delerium tremens, brought on, in one quarter of the time usual with confirmed drunkards, by drinking the same poison. Of four hundred insane patients, he found that two-thirds had lost their reason form tha same causo. Many of them were boys under age. One boy of seventeen waa made insane by the poi:oa from being drOnk.oniy once. Seeing two men drinking in a grog siiop and that the whisky was so strong that it really caused tears to flow from the eye* of one ol them, the Doctor obtained some of it aiid applied his tests. He found it to contain only 17 per cent, of alchohol when it should have had 40, and that the difference was supplied by sulphuric acid, red pepper, caustic, potassa and strychnine. A pint of this liquor contained enough poison to kill the strongest man. The man who had manufactured it had grown wealthy by producing it.