Wisconsin Conference Drops Delinquent Subscribers
The Wisconsin State Conference Committee recommend the Publishing Association to drop every delinquent subscriber to the Review, Instructor and Health Reformer in this Conference the first of Jan., 1873. The Conference refuses to pay any delinquency after that date on any of the above periodicals. I. Sanborn, P. S. Thurston, H. W. Decker, Conf. Com. On several estates in the neighborhood of Bath, in England, scores of deer, hares, and many pheasants, have recently been picked up, and it being thought at first they had been poisoned, Mr. Broad, veterinary surgeon, made several post mortem examinations of the hares. In each instance he found the liver of the animal full of worms. He concludes that this strange disease is the cause of death. Mr. Broad has likewise examined some of the pheasants which have been picked up dead, and he also attributes the death of the birds to the presence of parasites in their bodies. —Large numbers of chickens in this city (Detroit) have been attacked by a disease which renders them unfit to be eaten. It is said that a great many have died from its effects. —The Prussian Government publicly calls attention to the presence of trichina in hams imported via Bremen from the United States, warning purchasers to abstain from them, and threatening the sellers with criminal proceedings. The recent storms in England have flooded the midland counties, causing great damage to agriculture. —Chicago Journal.