The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-04-11
TIFFNN TRIBUNE.
Serious Alarm Among Farmers in
New Jersey Fears that the q.
States is to be Visited by the
Cattle Plague.


PREM lhe New York hefal', hAgch H'nl
The farmers and owners Of cattle
In New Jersey have recently been Sc
riously alarmed at tho Simultaneous
appearance 10 various parts Of the
State Of a new disease among their
horses ana mules, The disease, has
in the few cases which have up to the
present time occurred, invariably
proved fatal, and although the symp-
toms are not In all instances identical,
they are sufficiently alike in thoir
general character to warrant an ap-
prehension that they are but tho be-
ginning Of an epidemic which may
possibly create as much loss among
the cattle of this section Of the couu-
try as the well.known rinder pest has
already caused In Europe. II was
admitted by all tha. the past year,
and more especially the extraordina-
~ winter which is now closing, has
been extremely unfavorablo to the
health of either man or beast, and
there is a reasonable basis for the fear
that the unusual physical conditions
under which we have been placed,
may have produced effects which, al
though they have hitherto remained
dormsnt, may shortly become only
too clearly apparent. For some time
complaints have been made in nearly
every county in the State Of New Jer-
sey to the effect that an unusual
amount Of sickness was prevailing
among horses, and in fact live stock
generally. Ono Of the most danger
Gus and fatal diseases which attacks
horses--lung fover--has lately been
extremely destructive, while nearly
every other malady with which they
arc at any time visited has excited
with more or less intensity A mum
Der Of deaths have, however, occur
red, in which tho precise nature
Of the disease is unknown, though,
many Of the symptoms arc similar to
these which in human beings charac-
torize typhoid fever. Ia the follow
ing cases this disease has exhibited
itself in an extremely yirulent form,
and detailed history Of them will
doubtless be ofconsidcrable interest.
About ten days ago MIR. G. w.
Stollc, OF PickawOy Township, Mid
dlesex county, remarked that one Of
his mules was sick. Veterinary as
sistaneo was st once procured; but
the remedies applied seemed to bo en-
,irely inefhcacious, and the mule died.
After the mule was attacked mare
and another mule, which were kept
in the same stable, wero seized with
similar symptoms, and in about the
samo timo as in tho first case also
died. Two days later another ami
NAL was taken sick, and within a
week no less than six animals were
dead.
Two or three cases, which in their
general features closely resemble the
above. occurred about tho samo time
at Mendham, Morris county. Two
horses, owned by Mr.. Carey, sicken.
cd simultaneously and died, and a
third, which had been kept in the same
stable, was shortly after attacked by
similar SYMPTOMS, aud also died, A
lay or so later, the horse Of a neigh
DOT was siezcd with disoase appar-
,ntly identical, aud after a sickness
If twenty-four hours expired. The
,ymtoms of disease in these instances,
ire described to be difficulty in
and loss of appetite, accom-
panied by great debility. There was
also a slight discharge from the nose.
Death onsned in from twopty-four to
fifty hours after the attack. The on
y difference between these eases and
hose of Mr.. Stelle's horse is that on
the lungs Of the animals
n the former case were found to be
terribly diseased, aud, just before
death, the breath was remarked to Le