New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-01
HORSE TALK.


hears from groups gathered at the corners
various notes upon the horse disease, the
| epizootio, the nostalgia, hippophalgia, Oh
! whatsoever name this fever may be called
Yaas,' said colored groom, "died wild
white charge runnin from him nose and in
side all white. Sick frea dayE-dead enough
now"
did you work him afser he began Co
snecse3" asked the reporter.
Yes, sir, we did. Madame she would go
50 the theatre and ordered him out Told
! her he wasn't well, COS he kept bl0win'
| his nose an ruObin it agin his fore leg. but
she would go. That was on g Wednesday.
| Fore it was ont he lay down At as boxed
Goldfish, an he's in the bone yard now"
This is the history of many cases, though
| they do not terminate fatally. But an
overyorked animal viii soon pass in his
checks when the epizootie begins. They
must he exercised, but not worked. 4 new
| remedy is the hydrate Of cAloral, though it
you'd take respectable sized fortune to
keep horse dosed up to the required point
Of sleepiness for ten days' time.
a couple just IN from the country stopped
at the junction Of Race and Magazine
| streets last evening for nearly an hour, and
| after this had lapsed found the ears were
not going to run. Then eRly did he hunt
for cab.
around the fifteen hundred liquor selling
places in this city the epsootio is discussed
with % great deal more interest tkan the
mayoralty and administrator excitement.
There is & good chance for one to find ous
how big thing is the horse IN the picture of
Ito in town, and how useful he is in the bust
Ress Of helping to enjoy our mundane atEaira
Along tho paved streets leading from cotton
grefsas to the shipping, and forming the
most direct route for the feet of trade
where but few days ago the laden vans
pourc& by in an pnbroken stream, and the
roar Of wheels Eau into d constant and monet
onous nofc, there is noy scarcely veLiole
ht4rd-n0 more than on8 hears it in those
streets dividing She cities Of the dead,
whose eternal silence j. onIy brcken
by the tramp OF funeral Things
no longer look olive. IG doesn't
improve Q business glan's eheerfnln ess
60 reflect that he must walk several
nil 8 10 his business, fha$ in case he be-
G8g8 10 the cotton family he must Fait-
u. II the shadow Of the Gpi8OOtic passes
away before he can move cotton to ship
board aud fill his bill and if he should
happen to he in the produce business, or
dry goods his is not u level head when be
thinks he can't deliver the goods he cells
rbtr9p bE ATyE ypiarS 10
il taken oft under the low Obsolete word
"drayage.' Families who are poor are re-
Quir1d to send their little misses to the
bakesh0p to stand on tiptOe at the counter
and push dime ticket for a loaf. of bread
for the bakers carts are thinning out. If they
are veil of they can send the head cook to
market aud he can get every thing at cone
fell swO0p." Colds become more frequent
from too much exposure. Milk men have
to carry round their cans or press ia all the
SIabIa UOys to snake them take the place of
6hG noble animal. What shall b8 said of
t4e aau who comes eye Monday, yelling
out "c-h-a-r coal" of ''the other felIer,r
who makcs his visits periodical and cries
out in melancholy note, Nobody ant
got no wood, (what if they haven't, what's
ReCuba To him, or he to HeeubAR) and
what shall be uttered about the butchers
cart, the vegetable wagon, the furniture
van, as veil as she dray, the R0at and the
timber Shcelsi Milk wagons, with 2Lair
shafte pointing disgracefullv up in the
air (where the wheels are twoi. and
pegligenuy pointing downward twhere
they are fOuI}, Htand idle, whiIo the "cpi-
zput' is going through the stuck, and tho
horse cough is tossed ont upon tho winters
aie. The same can De said of every other
business that has 3 wagon IL it, and there
arc hundreds such. There ia gQmpthiug
awful in the look Canal street disInailY
weurs, with i&s breadth of neutral ground
swept clear OF cara from the statue to the
river, and in the reflection tba& in another
span of daylight the street from SIZE river
to the New canal will be- az clean OF oars as
she E" Big Muddy" itself. And now
"6hanks' mare" v ho for some time has
only been bToHght out OF Sunday Vhcn the
family goes to church. or who has been
held III reserve for ID dog of = reporter to
trudgo hUmeyard at one O'clock in the
BlOrGing, has nOW come into general uBe,
sh0d with leather and pvuael!a both, and
IN all hlnds Of running gear, from ''th6 h0l-
low of the foot that makes hOle In The
ground" clear up to the hstle silver heels
that 60 tripping along The paUemenS with
its dainty pearl-tiPped fngera lying costly
IN a muH
That to the poor men who au3sia4 by theip
own and the labor of enc hnrsG-and there
are hundreds # such ''one-horse mep,"
there 10 no GOApE-@uGA = blow Is 4&l$ ReAF-
lily, Is tPae all over toWR.
0eatA OF the 0ne FSoYaa.
M a. p osEE&MaBA.
He'll pull no more vi hin the shsfta
FUr az ih+ children home
Gal ess more his masters llsE,3
Ror klc& NJ curry combs,
little child could Iced AIN,
SO gentle aud sD kind;
He has stlOde on his last journey
q ith hR drver up behlRA
And empty is the cupaoar@
His daily labor flrd;
ABi void the aching hs4r1S
His death has sOrcly chilled,
as save his master all he he'd
n4nsct', Wei Rd hea9;
He gave last si9h IN fiS o. Ina,
He gave his children bZeah
"@ps ye8 &no8 what have IsBs-
His tyeR were wet with tRar@-
"Bnur on 'em di. d O1i Of ms hOuEB
Theao long and weary yearA
''JmmS scarlet fever toob.
And smallpox ntte Dave
John died Of infant chOlerm
Poor Tom couldn't save,
az tell you nov, the hardest bIA
The saddest stroke to rne.
Ia horte Mig, OS lyIp' thePS-
HiS like I'll never see"
smother name for the epizoOtio lie Ire AOs- |
-a!gia, and some have been profound enough |
10 say that the fowls which eat OF the seOur |
ngs Of this disease Biil lay egge touohed |
with it, according to the following order of |