News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1872

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The Horse Disease.

The Disease Does Not Subside—Reports from Cincinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee and Elsewhere.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.—The epizootic is creating great inconvenience among business circles, more than at any previous time. Ox and man-power are freely used. In consequence of the disease, the Great Bethel Fair, that was to have commenced next week, has been postponed three weeks. The managers of the National Baptist Sunday-school Convention, which is to commence next week, are in great trouble in regard to transporting the 600 guests expected. A dummy engine commenced running on the Pendleton street line, successfully carrying passengers to Broadway and Third Street.

BUFFALO, Nov. 15.—A large number of horses which have been worked too hard since their recovery from the epidemic are suffering from a relapse, and numerous deaths from dropsy and an affection of the kidneys are reported.

POTTSVILLE, Pa., Nov. 15.—The horse disease is becoming general throughout the coal regions, and shipments by canal by way of the Schuylkill have been suspended. Mules are also affected by the disease. There being no shipments of coal by canal, it is feared that several collieries will have to suspend work to-morrow.

WHEELING, Va., Nov. 15.—The epizootic is spreading very rapidly in this city. One stable had 13 new cases to-day, and about all the stables in the city are now affected. The cars on the main lines of street railway here have not been running to-day. To accommodate travel to and from the railroad at Bridgeport, the company has managed to keep one car running on the island branch to-day, but it will undoubtedly be compelled to stop before morning. In several instances, horses have had to be taken from vehicles in the streets, being attacked with the disease.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 15.—The horse disease has stopped nearly all business, few horses or mules being unaffected. Everything is at a standstill that requires the use of horses and mules. Oxen are being introduced for freight transfer through the city. Owners of drays, carts, etc., ask enormous prices. Capt. Harris, Superintendent of the Louisville Transfer Company, to-night attached employees to omnibuses, and delivered passengers to the depot, and train passengers to the hotels.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 15.—The epizootic still prevails in this city, with little or no signs of abating, and reports from interior points show it to be spreading throughout the State. None of the omnibus or street car lines in this city have as yet resumed business, and it is almost impossible to find teams to transfer baggage from hotels to depots. A funeral procession passed through the streets yesterday, the hearse being drawn by oxen.

THE DISTEMPER AMONG THE DEER.—The St. Paul Press brings news of the appearance of the epizootic malady in a new quarter. It says:—

“A gentleman who has just returned from a deer hunt on the frontier brings news of an epidemic prevailing among these animals which threatens seriously to affect the supply of venison. He says that herds were frequently seen in which there would be dozens scarcely able to travel, and that large numbers of dead and dying deer were found in the woods. The disease seems to resemble in its symptoms the horse disease which is now creating so much trouble in the East.”