St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-05-24
F. HILDRETH, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
Tge yntelligenter.
- Westward the course Of empire takes its way
A. II. r. HILDRETH. Editor.
St. Charles City, Iowa, May "a, 1860.
Cattle Disease in Massachusetts.

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The cattle disease still continues
undated in Massachusetts The dis
ease is called plcura pneumonia, and
is said to have been introduced by
some diseased cattle imported from
Holland. The infection spread until
great CONSERVATION prevailed in re-
gard to the use of beef, milk, butter,
&c, when the General Court (lcgisla.
ture) appointed a committee of invcs-
tigation and appropriated ten thou,
sand dollars for cradicating the dis.
case. The committee expended
considerable portion of this sum main
ly in buying and killing such cattle
as were found to be diseased. But
the appropriation proved insufficient,
aud now board of experienced sur.
geons has been organized, aud an eff.
fort is being made to raise guaranty
fund upon which the commissioners
can go forward and kill all the ami
mails they think necessary to circum
scribe and subduc the disease. 1t is
believed that IA fund of thirty thou
sand dollars will be sufficient, and no
doubt is felt that the General Court
will reimburse it, The cattle are to
be killed and buried, hides and all, in
pits eight or ten feet deep, and cover
cd with chloride of lime. All fodder
among which they have been, their
bedding, &c., is to be buried in the
same manner. Precautions are also
to be taken with the well cattle, by
giving them tea and muriatc Of soda.
The disease is pronounced cholera
fever, which in spring develops itself
as plcura pneumonia of the lungs, aud
i'll warm weather is cholera, the same
as in u human being.
Many readers will rccolcct the mur-
der of Hutchinson lIcrbcrton by Sin.
glcton Mercer, while on Il ferry boat
at Philadelphia, some eighteen years
since. llcrbcrton, a man of wealth
and social position, had scduccd Mcr-
GERS sister, a young lady of exceed
ing beauty, and the rcigning belle Of
Southwark. Failing to make rcpa-
ration, the brother took summary
vengeance by shooting the villain for
which he wrs tried and acquitted. Af,
ter that he led dissolutc life, and two
years since was shot in restaurant in
Philadelphia. Miss Sallic Mercer. the
sister, married Henry klapp, of Phil,
adclplia. from whom she was divorc.
ed and subsequently married to Dr. J.
B, McCaulcy at New York. Her death
by drowning is now recorded in the
New York papers. What a tale of
voc is here presented
The people are in a curious hobblc
in Troy, \. y. The city is full Of
cents, coppcrs and nickclS and they
are increasing SO fast that the super.
stitons people believe thcyposscss the
power of pro-crcation. Ladies who
buy for cash, when shopping, are com.
PEELED to take along boy to carry q
basketful of the circulating medium.
John lvcrson of Missouri was late
~ arrested and imprisoned for aggra.
waited polygamy he had thirteen
wives. The daughter of the jailor,
whose hospitality he enjoyed while
awaiting trial, believed him innocent,
pitied him, loved him, opened the pris-
on doors, fled with him, and became
his fourteenth wife.
The forests of the Nevcrsink valley,
\. y, are literally alive with pigeons.
They are there nesting, and occupy
an area of eighteen miles The trees