The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

A ROYAL commisdon of inquiry into the origin of the
Cattle Disease is promised.
THE Times says the theory seems to be that this
typhus fever now prevailing among horned beasts is not
epidemio, but is most horribly oontagious.

A MerfiNG of the City of London committee on this
subject has been held on day at the Mansion
Flonee, and it was announced that one sanitarium is
about to be tried. The money for the compensation
fund comes slowly in.

THE veterinary committee of the Royal Agriculture
Society have issued an address to the farmers of the
country on the subject of the Cattle Plague. They con-
cur in the instructions put forth on the subject by the
Privy Council, and urge their universal adoption.

A SHIM' DIgICASE.-" Devoniensis," writing from
Torqnsy to the Times, refers to the letter of a previous
correspondent, who stated that his lambs were dying of
• disease which arose from the presence of threadlike
parasites, or filsria bronchi, in the trschea. "De-
voniensis" added that he also was losing his lambs from
the same malady. The first symptom was a troublesome
sough, upon which diarrhees generally supervened, fol-
lowed by loss of appetite, emaciation, prostration, and
finally death. A post mortem examination reveals
innumerable filaria in the trachea.

MISR BURDETT COUTTR Olt THR CATTLE DMUS!.
Misi Bnrdett Contta has written an account of the
ravages of the cattle disease in her herd of mulch cows.
She states that, having been brought face to face with
the disease, abs has come to the conclusion that it is the
Russian Murrain, and has been brought in by imported
cattle. Miss Coutts then enters with considerable
detail upon an examination of the subject in support of
her conclusion, and to prove that the Rinderpeet wood
amount for the various perplexing phenomena observed,
such as the breaking out of the disease in various parts
and under different conditions, the immunity of the
animals of one shed and the virulence with which it has
attacked those of an adjoining shed, and the severity
with which it has usually attacked Bnglish•bred cattle.
She says her conviction that we have the Rinderpest is
so decided that she ventures earnestly to press the
urgent necessity for a systematic attempt to discover an
effectual mode of treament ; and it is her opinion that
in such investigations Government should lead the way.
In conclusion, Miss Coutta remarks that in 1745, when
the murrain was amongst us, it was most severe daring
the spring months, and slumbered in winter; we must
not, therefore, reckon on its nearing with the year.

PARTS is to be supplied with water from the cele-
brated champagne country of the Arsne, the liquid being
conducted by an aqueduct 84 miles long, of which 74
miles are solid masonry.
MEE MAJESTY has gracefully placed at the di.posal of
Queen Emma, of Hawaii, the rooms in Claridse's Hotel,
Brook-strect, London, usually assigned by the British
Government to Royal yisitbrs.

DISGILACKFUL REVICLATIOICS. - The Rev. Samuel
Hayward, vicar of Salthouse and Wroxham, was charged
at Taverbam, Norfolk, on Saturday, with assaulting
Sarah Webster, a girl about twenty years of age. The
evidence showed that the defendant had seduced the
girl while she was servant in his bones, and that she had
borne a child, of which he was the father. As he
refused to pay a doctor's bill for her she went to his
to aak him for money, when he pushed her out,
ed her, and tore her clothes. The rev. defendant
was fined £lO, or in detach of payment three months'
imprisonment.

1 11:eked

• Some of the mrvit rapid malignant eases of Cholera with
which the writer ever met, occurred in a cottage which wa
clean and falrly ventilated, but the vessels from which he
discovered to be emptied into a badly constructed drain, from
which they found their way iato the household well.
These Closets or Commode* are made and sold by White
and Co., hi) Bedford-street, strand, W.C., from whom Pros-
pectuses can be bad on application. About two pounds nf
earth, sifted through a one-eight inch mesh, are required ter
esch ni• at the elope.