Livestock Disease Ravages Turkey
TURKEY is at this time a deeply afflicted country. Besides the ravages of famine, a deadly disease is raging among the flocks and herds throughout the empire, from Bagdad to the Adriatic. In the province of Smyrna a kind of small-pox has broken out among the sheep, while there is a pulmonary disease among the cattle that is rapidly thinning the herds. On the plains of Troy, the skeletons of thousands and thousands of sheep cover the ground. Shepherds, stripped of their entire herds in many cases, have gone insane over the calamity. In the country about Adrianople fully thirty per cent of the horned cattle and horses have already died of disease. The entire pastoral regions of the empire seem smitten with the disorder which is said to greatly resemble the murrain spoken of in the Bible. —Christian at Work.