Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-11-15
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THE HORSE MEN-CLosED STABLEs-DEsERTED
STRENGTHENING PRRT1Es IN DESPERATION
Few DEATHs-THE MODE OF TREATMENT-No
MEDICINE BEST.
The horse disease has at last reache aand cap
tured Staunton. On Thursday evening of last
week, there were rumors that it was here and
our reporter was started on his rounds. The
livery stables presented hospital appearance,
with the boards over the feed troughs blacked
with tar, and the floors sprinkled with lime, but
there were only one or two sick horses in them
and it was not certain that they had epizootic,
the stable men n OF being fami liar with the symp'
toms of the new disease. On Friday evening,
however, the
HORSES BEGAN TO SHOW THE SIGN
of the epidemic and the stalls were we'll filled
with horses with running eyes and nostrils, and
by Saturday the livery stables were filled with it
At Burke's there were Is cases. at Thornburg's
80, and at O'Toole's 25. On Sunday morning
the news had gotten we'll circulated in town, and
as the bells were summoning the church goers
the horse owners and numbers who were mo-
horse owners, gathered around the livery stable
lots worrying the proprietors with question;
about how "smiths bay,' or Clones Sorrep
was. On Monday it was clear that
THE DISEASE WAS GENERAL
A walk up Beverly street that misty, drlzzline
morning, showed our reporter that every hors.
coming into town had the disease 1t was clea
that the country was as badly afflicted as th
city. On Wednesday morning not more than
dozen horses were seen on the streets. Their,
was no wood nor any produce brought into thu
city. What was brought in was brought by far
mers on their backs in bags from teams that had
been tied on the road, sometimes as far as mile
from the place. walk on the country roads
would show fences black with horses nd wagons,
tied and waiting for the owners to return from
town. This state of affairs made business dull
the country people not coming to sell or buy. Il
also affected
BUSINESS IN THE COURTS,
which was almost suspended. Witnesses could
not come, or wouldn't come for fear of the dis
ease being communicated to their horses. In fact,
every affair of life paled before the all avenging
Eplzootlc, and even the gentle breasts of lovely
women, pledged to wedding parties were torn
with apprehensons about there being hacks
enough to grace The occasions. A great impetus
was given to pedestrianism, and one gentleman
who called at our Office Wednesday, announced
that he walked II miles. More people are car
rylng bundles in Stanton to-day than ever
were before. The milk wagons have nearly dis
appeared and are replaced by colored citizens on
foot, bearing cans swung on poles, looking very
much like the sunday school pictures of the
spies grapes from Canaan. Some of these aerial
suspension milk wagons come as far as thu &c
miles to town.
SCARCITY OF FUEL AND FOOD
The county people have almost entirely stop
ped bringing wood some because their horses
are sick, and some because they are afraid to
bring their teams to town.
THE WOOD FAMINE
Mayor Trout, in view of the wood famine
which prevails in the town, has determined tc
apply to the railroad authorities to bring ir
some trains laden with wood Citizens who are
short of fuel will notify him of their wants to-
day.
THE STAGES
are still running, the only effect on the line SC
far being the discontinuance of the evening line
to Harrisonburg. The morning line is still on
THE FATAL CIRCLE.
The epizootic made circle of 25 miles around
Staunton, and within it nearly every horse anG
mule has the disease.
RAILROAD CoNTRACT oRs STALLED.
On the works of Messrs. Condor & Lara, al
Mt. Sidney, on the Valley Railroad there are DO
horses down.
The mortality, owing to the prompt attention
shown by owners to their horses, has been very
light. We have only heard Of the following
losses in the city:
l. Witt,
H. L. Powell,
7. Thornburg,
G. Fur,
GIVE NO MEDICINE.
An eminent physician of Richmond writes to
friend here, that nearly all the deaths which
have occo rred from epzootic were caused BY
giving medicine. and that in no case where med.
icine was avoided and where the animal was
given rest and kept warm was there death.
THE RULES OF TREATMENT AND THE REMEDIES FOE
THE DISEASE
In reading some 200 different remedies for
and regulations of the treatment of the disease
we find that the general and most successful
treatment is that which would be used for hui
man being with Inflammation of the lungs. In
this view of the case our advice is to rely very
much upon food and drink, and those mild al
kaline salts-and common salt is among them
which promote the elimination of waste and dis
eased matter by the glandular apparatus. Dc
not rely much on drugs. Beware how you starvt
your horses and deplete their strength Give
them enough to drink, bran water, mashes, ant
the like, and rely upon nature and the material:
that she employs. Dr.. G. Elliott, of St. Catha
rines Canada, gives the following as the mos
efficient mode of treating the disease:
He advises that the stable be well ventilated
the horses blanketed, and chloride of lime sprin.
killed. through the stable every morning The
nostrils should be sponged out two or three
times day if the mucous adhere thereto The
food should consist of bran, with, little oats
and a moderate quantity of hay. If the bowels
are costive half pint of raw linseed oil may be
given, but isprobable that the mash will cause
sufficient relaxation.
Prescription No. 2, (given below, should be
administered every morning and evening. II
the throat should be sore-which can be ascer.
tanned by pressure ofthe hand upon the larynz
about two tabespconsful ofprescription No. l,
(also given below, should be rubbed in So
long the disease is confined to the larynx there
is but very little danger, but should it descend
to the lungs, which will be indicated by the con.
tinued standing up Of the animal, cold extremi-