Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-11-05
DESERTED STREETS.
{ fleets of the Horse Disease.

! fleets Of the Horse Disease.
Attsn pied substitates for tho AnInnI--A
=. Glade to the Inconyrnieucc which
Mast Come.
The horse malady has now become universal
In eur midst and 10 many cases the disease has
reached the worst stages The streets ycstor.
day looked AZ quiet % they usually do on Sun.
day, owing to the absence Of teams from the
thoroughfares, there being fow animals In use,
and many Of those were AFFLICTED with the plague.
During the day loaded lumber wagon passed
up Louisiana avenue pulled by siN oOlOred men,
and about one o'clock one Of McCllntocks bag.
gage express wagons lef the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad depot loaded with the baggage
Of Katie Putnam's company, for the National
being sick and the only team 1t to work pair
Of mules, which was engaged elsewhere. Many
Of the bakers and milkmen in the city state that
their horses are suffering irom the malady, and
from service last evening, thus adding another
Inconvenience to tho many heretofore stated
which have originated from this pestilence.
The hack stands were all deserted, and there
were but few teams on the street for hire, aud
ia number Of cases the horses attached 10 the
hacks gave palpabls symptoms Of having con.
Al the Warrington and Georgetown and %
lumbla stables all the stock Is sick, and the ON
clals express doubts Of being able 10 place theif
cars on the lines Of their respective roads this
week, aud certainly not within the next three
dAyL
ADAMS Express Company also feels the effects
Of the epilootic, they having but few horses free
Of the sickness and only using those to trans
port the through freight, and greatly tear being
compelled to temporarily suspend business.
KnON's Express have but four working ami.
mails out OF thirty nine, and fear that to-day they
The Independent Ice Company have ten horses
sick, but managed yesterday to run two wagons
Their neighbOTs, the Great Falls Ice Company
have nearly all Of their horses, sixty In number,
under the weather, aud their business Is being
sadly inteTiered with.
Among most Of the livery stables the disease
seems TO have spent its strength, and tho horses
hrst attacked are now conyalescent
One death was reported yesterday from the
stable Of Il. Want on Eighth street, but the
balance OF tho horses appear to DO doing we'll.
EN. Mayor Emery'shve horses were taken sick
yesterday, and they are now under treatment
The work on tho public improvements bids
fair to be seriously retarded tor Rwhiic, as the
disease has got among the different contractors
horses, which will cause q suspension Of labor
on the streets as lar as grading ls concerned.
James walsh has twenty sick horses.
Andrew Gleason has quite a number, aud has
substituted pair VI mules to his buggy for his
horses wh,sh have contracted the sickness.
At the Prosidents stables all Of the animals
are sick. and two OF them Egypt and st. Louis
are severe cases, though not considered danger.
Gus.
At the Metropolitan railroad st,bles all the
y,nT,oms ThS pSesdsD az ~ Fas ,sS
TeTy d0ubinll II Tie COMPANY will he AHA 10 nm
cars at all this week.
all the sick horses owned by private parties, but
It IL safe to say that FULLY ninety per cent OF the
horses In the District have contracted the dis
many No were drawn THOUGH Ibe siree,s h.,
the company yesterday morning to Capitol Hit
so as to have down grade IN case Of q IRE In
| 10 the arc JenaTtmeni ara holding IbsnssiSas
In reaJiness 10 take 10 the roieS Shansver
called ont, Two Of the horses of M 2 camnany
\, ronII IL vail M stTIIs The hall on Nv Thy
1880 Strso, nanJIst ebnrch ~ ~ suo III,
ne oiber alarms as the dsnaT,Innnt 6sS ~, ~, y,
JnSsnJ an ynIunta,rs 10 RSndin H. 'I - k, ~ !"
Tt.a :, iiit,,S 10 nr,tfar "a s6,,,t y VtS ines
d,'as, cbanrs ~ bsar an atsrS, 49, - aiionSu
rms faT onIy four iatal Eases h"ys ~, ~
1o,Icd In cGnversatIon S,itb S1,na ~ ~ u 49, ~
- ,bsr e,nress tbs f,bs1 N, ~ ~ w, w ~
noSI he worst symptoms az tbs diy.,. III y
rescbsb ami from that Iims tho ss,i, ~ ~ ~
hesin ~ sbSts INV Wv P'''''on0o VIII
sLEOTHER orPy sraavsrv,
W,sarsa,1, "a ~ y a ,s-,
Mn Enron: Another remedy Hbicb MAJ h.
nroJuctiys of good Tesuits. IN S1isrtainsi Nv ~
veterinary surgeons OF mis- civ or eIsrWbcrs IN
Inc treatment ii the epIdemis now nTeyaIiipg
Il boneset fmOre COMMONLY knOvn ~ nn,,ais,'
Tium1 Upon the tberapeutlcal effects IN tbIs
medicine when admInISteTed to ihe bnmnn snh
isct m the treatment OF InauenIa DT siiiis
speaEs thus rayorahly; ~ S'''''
'FNThs ntiIitv oT t6e medIcIne In t,a,.,.. 4.
Thought To have been early TeSagnITsd Snd ,,s
nnnu1aE mama az bonesel Wa nerbans as - ~
by ia rsiieyinT the JIstTsssiHy tnains ~ ~
bSnss which dlsIIbguish ri, PdIsns.n w ~
an etIdemIe At PeteTshur,, NI,ginia ~ ,oie
Dt Pe.hIeS emnIoyed N rim ss,isT 80 ~ i','
snita The main IN the barL snd Ii,nhs - ~,
the Iassltuds on the general ,nnscniar s,,,,,,
snbsjSi as soon as INC Systsm vac TiSrod
10 Infnence II Induced bsaIiby nj ~ ~
charge of perspITation. Restoring ths nSfn,.i