, 1872-10-25

the. same purpose. The disease yields
rapidly to the above treatment, but
ESs o be sna g99a onT Rqrfbng basss aS ss the
anxiety are those worked after being stricken.
Your Correspondents horses have it, and are
doing well under the above treatment: Working
q sick horse brings on lung fever:
tTetAe Atsociatsd Prcssl
NEw YonE, Oct. 24-Business, manufactures;
and industry are partially paralyzed in this city
and brooklyn, in consequence OF the sudden de-
prival Of tho use Of large numbers Of horaes. Ii
ming tomorrow. The damp. weather last night
and to-day has undoubtedly aggravated the cpl
demic, and three-fourths Of the horses Of
this city are afflicted. The disease has made
stage, and livery stables, and while these are
suffering at the rate Of 20 per cent, private
coach and truck horses, which are better cared
for and net so hard worked, only suffer at the
Il The q i Broadway rSa way and rwenty-third street
Stage Company suspended trips to-day,
ssi. sick. or 81 500 90 horses on ''9i tie Hinth @
Avenue Raiiroad, about ono-half are affected by
the dlsordsr No cars hago been 3 taken from m
soe soen Of ps the arc 12So horses esso on As ths
line are affected Ton regular cars we're taken
off from the Sixth avenue line to-day. Some 400
4ANOSke
sick in the Seventh avenue limo stables, some
badly. Three hundred and fifty Of the GOO be-
longing to the Fourth avenue road are i'll, as are
900 on the Third avenue line. The Second ave-
nue. road is less affected than the others, but
has considerable number Of animals laid up:
Broadway is seldom 80 quiet as to-day: About
one~ouarter the usual number Of teams
passed through the street, and al
most every horse was closely, wrapped,
service will be seriously affected It requires 200
horses daily, and unless the severity Of the cpl
demic can be mitigatcd, the supply cannot be
kept up.
The horse-disease made it's appearance on the
Stock Exchange to-day, and Wall street opera
tors are beginning to calculate what will bo the
effects OF the equine epidemic.
It it should continue few days longer, the
lack Of horses to move freight to aud from the
railrond depots would cause 3 terrible Interrupt
tion to all railroad business.
The American Merchants Union Express
Company has but 20 horses out Of 100 fit
for service. But few horses owned by the
Adams Express Company were lt to be har-
messed to-day, and seventy five belonging to the
United States Express Company arc affected.
Tho business OF the express companies is almost
prostrated, and great quantities Of freight lie
in the warehouses awaiting shipment.
Private firms and individuals are sui erlng So
verely from the illness Of their horses. In one
livery stable thirty out OF thirty-one horses are
laid up, and many livery stables are closing up.
The grocers, bakers, lnilkmen, and others are
with great difficulty serving their customers.
In Brooklyn the City Railroad was compelled
to stop many Of its cars, having six hundred out
Of two Thousand horses affected. Other lines
are suffering seriously, and also obliged to sus
pend some trips. Tie horses at the various
livery stables are affected. So many horses OF
the knickerbocker Ice Company are sick, that
that Company is compelled to lay up their carts.
! There were seventy-two horses Of the Washing
ton Ice Company sick this morning. AS in New
York, the grocers, bakers, ETC., are almost
unable to supply their customers. Not less
than 5000 horses arc known to hare the dis
temper in Brooklyn.
TIE disease ia spreading at Hunters Point
and Astoria The Flushing Railroad Company,
oil works, and many private citizens are having
animals suffering.
Over 200 animals arc i'll in the Jersey City
stables.
NEW YORK, Oct 24.-1t is estimated tonight
| that IT, 900 horses are under treatment in this
| city. Two street-car lines and one stage line
| haVe stopped running.
ROCHESTER.
| ROCHESTER. n. Y, Oct. 24.-The horse disease
has become severe. Last evening there we're no
horses in the streets. Storekeepers are deliver
ing goods by hand CARTS The erection Of build
ings is suspended. The animals attacked took
the disease from thirteen to thirty days before it
WAS discovered. Few fatal cases are reported.
This morning the disease appeared among the
canal horses. Great difficulty Is experienced IN
p1QGukLE GbAf65AA(to AoA @AAA1A1Ao'
BosroS, Oct. 24-The horse ma1adY has inva-
lided thousands OF horses in this city andneigh-
ing towns and cities. It appears to be spreading
over New England. The line Of omnibuse8 on
Washington street stopped running. The Me-
tropo1itan Horse Rrilrond Company has been
compelled to largely reduce their trips, and all
other business depending upon horses is affected
to greater or lesser degree:
Dispatches from Portland announce LEG dls-
temper in that city.
BUFFALO.
BurrA1o. Oct. 2I-The horse-disease has
passed it's crisis here, and is now abating. But
few horses have died, and those more from hard
usage than from the effects Of disease. The canal
horaes here have almost entirely escaped: No
boats have stopped, and none will be. Grain is
moving in large quantities as usual The treat
ment Of the diaeaee here has been successful.
NEwBURG. Mt
NEwDuRG, N. T., Oct. 24.-Tlle horse disease
has appeared here. Three deaths have occur
red.
PROVIDENCE.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. 24.-The horse cpl
| demic has appeared here.
AUGUSTA, ME. Oct. 24.-The Canadian horse
| disease has reached this city Many horses are
afflicted with it.