, 1872-11-20
HORSES AND HENS.
No Further Trouble Anticipated
from the Epizootic.
The Report that the Hens and Tur-
keys Were Sick Coutradicted.

The damp snow Of yesterday oceasioned some
Alarm lest its influence would be to perpetuate,
IN more serious form, the epizootic, or increase
the number of pu,.pnrG cases. At noon, many
business firms and owners Of work-horses,
doubted whether it was good Judgment to allow
their conra1escing animals to be exposed to the
melting snow. and thought seriously Of again
converting their barns into nurse-stables. But
the result Of these deliberations generally Vas,
that it was better to run the risk OF their ami
mails suffering relapse, than to cause q cessa-
tion OF business by withdrawing them.
When TIE TRIBUNE reporter called at the
Office of Superintendent Grain, Of the South
Side car line, he found that gentleman in consul
tation with his assistant as to whether they
should keep their horses out or not. The re-
porter listened with close attention, not more
because it was matter Of pArsonal interest to
himself than because he knew the result OF the
consultation would be 3 matter Of interest to the
renders OF this paper. The pro and con. Of the
matter WAS considered, and the final decision
was that tho horses should be continued On the
track till they showed signs of injury. Mr. Grain
says he considers it duty to run the cars of his
line, and shall continue to do 80 till his horses
exhibit signs OF returning weakness.
The reports from Now York that the horse
disease had become fowl disease, has, natural
". excited some alarm in this community, lest
M many fat turkey, now being prepared for
OF By the epizootic. Indeed, it has been re-
ported that various fowls, both wild and tame,
have snuffed the noxious vapors, and have fallen
prey to that monster Of Neutrality-suspicious..
70 allay these alarms, q TRIBUNE reporter
yesterday, and, to his infinite pleasure.
found no chickens afflicted with the
eP1zootlo OF purpura. Every roost WAS
deserted and every feed-trough emptied. There
was not b4rd With running nose, nor single
feathered biped whose limbs were swollen. Ey-
cry bird Of flight was On the wing, and, at the
approach Of the reporter for an interview, the
air was darkened with full stretched wings.
Fowl dea1ers speak with decided emphasis
when denying the report that their stock is dis
eased, and ought not to be sold; and, indeed, in
one case, offered TO carve raw hen, to demon
strate to the reporter that her meat was free from
impurity. It's needless to say that the reporter
was quite willing, indeed anxious, to believe the
statement Of the fowl dealer, unsustained by the
dissection Of his hen.
Neither has the purpalra increased in the city
among the horses. Even DR.. Branson acknowl-
edged, yesterday, that his fears were in vain,
and that purpura was decreasing, and had not
been influenced BY his opinion. But he said
that yesterday would work disaster, he feared,
would have the same effect upon them as rain.
But DR.. RHuch says that drop8y does not result
from rain or shine, but is the simple reBult OF
oyerwork or poor constitution.
The North Side Railway arc still operating
their horses, and Say that the effect is to in
crease their appetites, and generally to improve
them.
The following is the report OF the number Of
dead horses received at the Union Rendering
Company for the week ending Nov. 1s: Nov.
u, 90; Nov. IS, SO; Nov. II, Il; Nov. Ii, %;
Nov. 16, 50; Nov. II, IL; Nov. 1s. 81
It must not be supposed that, because the re-
port received On the 18th exceeds that of the
18th, the mortality is on the increase. The ex-
cess is explained by the fact that the city could
not remove horses as they died, and On the 18th,
it increased the force engaged in removal.
The deliberations Of the West Side Company
still 80 on, and will continue till-the cars are
run out,