The Louisiana Democrat

Horrors of Connecticut Brandy.--In the case of the State against Martin Kellogg, of Middletown, the evidence of the State chemist, Professor Silliman, of Yale College, will show what vile stuff is sold over most of the bars of the country. A bottle of liquor, purporting to be and sold for best brands, bought of the defendant, was taken to Professor Silliman to be analyzed; he found in it 583 grains of solid matter, ingredients foreign to pure liquor. Pure liquor rarely contains over fifty grains, and this is generally burnt sugar put in to color it. The foreign substances used for adulterating this liquor were alum, iron, sulphuric acid, essential oil of some kind (but not the same as is used in making pure liquors), burnt sugar and other organic matter with it, among which was tannic acid, Guinea pepper, a coloring extract of Sangua tea, lead and copper. After the Professor had analyzed it, he pronounced and labelled the concoction whisky. The so-called brandy was, therefore, nothing but whisky, fixed up with poisonous drugs to imitate the pure article of French brandy.--[Exchange.