The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-13
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From our ODn Correspondent

cOV nehu OF mluuunR And Roou lhlnoiS Oa'he
had been sent thi'her from Homer, in the State
Of that name, and upon the route had been
discovered to be diseased. More than dozen
of them were thereupon put off at the station
of Crestline, Obed, and before the train reached
Communipaw only halt the number originally
started with, were living. The butchers and
drovers meanwhile displayed refreshing degree
of indifference, and laughed to scorn the
doctors idea that the disease was q malig-
nant form of typhus fever. Four of
the deceasd cattle have been placed in quaran-
tine in a separate yard, in order that tho symp.
toms may be carefully watched, aud, should
they de- the work of dissection be performed.
Although medical officers at present carefully
abstain from any public announcement OF their
views, such observations as have hitherto been
made indicate that the disease is one of the
inteDsest forms of typhus fever, and not the
common murrain. Meanwhile, almost all of the
diseased cattle have been destroyed. The abat-
toirs yesterday were full of the sound of death
blows, and til sight Of reekng blood as the
heavy-spiked axe fell upon the heads of the
dumb victims. The sanitary inspectors have
been ferreting out the pureus of suspected meat
sellers in this city, and the police are likewise
busy in holding in surveillance this new oSjec
of inspection, and the heaviest penalties of the
law are threatened against any person who sells
any Io-tion of meat found to be di>eased.
Coal-tar has been plentifully poured upon al
yards and paths over which the diseased ami
mails have travelled, or are expected to travel,
and the floors and sides of the catte-cars have
been protusely strewed with carbolic acid. By
the application OF these dsinfectants, united to
the prompt action in other departments of the
sanitary officers, 1t is hoped that not only the
city of New York, but the entire continent will
be spared visitation incomparably worse than
that which a couple of years ago created such
CONSERVATION and loss throughout Europe.
The mention of this disease reminds me that
the Board OF Quarantine Commissioners has
Just decided to erect structure on West Bank,
New York Harbor, as a landing and boarding
station for the accommodation of such persons
as have been exposed to contagious and infec-
tious diseases. Proposals for building the hew
structure were received only on Tuesday at the
office of the Board and it will probably situated
ON line between West Bank and Fort Wads
worth. A year ago the Commissioners thought
seriously OF erecting such building on Barren
Island, but West Bank holding out superior
advantages, it has finally been decided to erect
one there. 1t will be completed during the
coming fall, and promises TO be just the thing
that is needed.
Yesterday the 22d Regiment N. G. s. N. Y.
departed tor Long Branch, where they intend
remaining for several days. Starting from the
Fourteenth Street Armory at halt-psst this
morning, they marched down Broadway amidst
a crowd which was only less enthusiastic than
that which witnessed the marching of the 7th
Regiment on the 4th of last July. Among the
features OF the Long Branch festival are the COM
petition prize firing, the presentation of prizes,
and the grand dance to be given ut the Stetson
House. The regiments tents are erected in a
plateau reserved for them on the sea-shore.
Meanwhile Tifany's windows, on Broadway. are
beset from morning till night by a curious
crowd, anxious to witness the really handsome
prizes on exhibition there. The regiment will
return next Monday.
On Tuesday afternoon Madame Tostee arrived
from Havre in the steamer Vile de Paris. 1t
seems but yesterday since the newspapers were
chIoncling her departure, and bewaiing the
necessity which separated the public even for
brief space from the renowned representative
OF the titled heroine of Gerosteln. A much
travelled gentleman, ard an excellent critic en-
amateur, who has seen the original Schneider,
assures me that that artistic, with all her
piquant airs and graces, is not one whit better
than the dashing Lucille who one year ago
so captvated New York. Madlle Tostee, by
the by Is looking we'll. The air of Paris, and
her brief reunion with her Partisan rivals in the
couliSses have not destroyed a vestige OF
that bloom, which, heightened at night
by touch or two of rouge, and
patch or two of court.plaster makes her 80
fresh.looking behind the footlights. The date
of her appearance has not yet been announced,
though it is whispered that during portion OF
the season Mr.. Bateman intends transporting
her TO st. Louis, and playing off Madlle Irma
upon the New York public as long rs possible
Although Bdrbe BIeue is now in its fourth week,
the attraction has not grown less. The state
ment in one of the papers here that it was to be
withdrawn after the present week, was entirely
erroneous. 1t will be continued indefinitely,
'every evening until further notice." meaning
in tn s, as in every other case just long as it
continues to pay.
/ believe / am safe in asserting that Adah
Isaacs Menken, who died in Paris on Tuesday,
may Justly be called one of the "isms" of New
York. 1t was here she made the first great
success which caused all the virtuous indgna.
tion surrounding our theatrical critics souls to
trickle out at the points of their pens. II seems
a trihingly small while ago when Mr.. James
Nixon first introduced her to the public here at
she Sixteenth Street Circus, before audience,
which far exceeded in numbers and frantic en-
thusiaSm any which have since crowded
similar place of entertainment. At the time of
her death she was no longer q very young
woman, bordering as she was on forty years OF
age. But she preserved her beauty, such it