, 1872-11-06
CHICAGO

lungs, typhoid pneumoria, and pleurisy. Thus,
it will be fully three weeks before the street
cars travel again with sufficient regularity to
accommodate 1ong-sufering and much tried
public. The South Iiyision car horses are in
much better plight, and will be upon the road
again some days earlier.
The Northwestern Railroad Company, in run
ming cars from the Wells street depot to West
ern avenue and return are al1oyiating the West
Divisions troubles very materially.
IN THE LIVERY STABLES,
generally, the disease still remains in its mild
est fotm. OF the thousands of horses in livery
and boarding stables, scarcely lalf-a-dozen are
dangerously sick, and their owners are COM
PEELED to admit that the severity Of their suffer-
ing is greatly owing to the failure Of the hands
to observe the symptoms in time to put them on
the sick List, and thus prevent their being
worked while enduring their present af1iction.
In nearly every instance this failure of detection
has produced pneumonia or Inflammation Of the
lungs The other horses in the stables appear
70 be really recovering more rapidly than their
owners expected. 4 variety Of treatments have
been in use, but each special method appears to
have been more or less successful.
Dr. RAUca ON THE SITUATION.
The Sanitary Superintendent thus alludes to
the horse disease, i'll his report to the Board OF
Health:
fed that did not have the horse disease here prior
to Oct 20. It first Eaace its appearance IN the West
Division thence spread to the South Division ana q
have broken out first On the most frequented
streets, and horses that we're driven to every
Kept in isoated plsees, or the farthezt re-
moved from tie main thoroughfarez. On List Tues
ii hS T.
suffering with the ulalady and were used argu-
ont to Tie effect that ths epizois had been here Tor
so1ae time, ere suffering With 1t. So far eight
t1ons, mainly, however, Of tie lungs. The effect Of
:ssra:ato he dse::ze in : number Of cases
generally spenki1g the afflicted animals are doing as
=eI could be expected. The number Of fatal cases
z:n undoubtedly daily increase until the disease has
ze while others convalescing Fewer horses have
died t* week in the city than during any similar
doubt to general disposition upon the part Of horse
owners take Il the they could Of their animal
and have no doubt this fact wi also exercise mark
b. tie disease. Arrangements have been
made by the Union Rendering Company
sca7eneer contractor is also trying to do the
How this will be accomplished cannot say. The
work .as continued until Saturday ngLt, and nun
Der Of sent out yesterday lMondAy] but it was
soon found that the horses i'll condition to do
the work: To-day ETuesday] there 9!s no tsa,as st
zxork Until yesterday had but little trouble In
carrying on the work incident to department..
MR. PAR,1ELEE
eaTs that his horses are in good condition !;
that they est their feed with relish and are 1--we
gyj He has one very sick animal Graded in a
felt. His teams are still hauling baggage, and
hehopes to resume active operations ne1t week.
1lr. Parmelee says that our horses will be weak
The winter through, and it will be necessary to
3,v1A
ttat they will ell be able to do as much labor as
they ought ever to do.
JOHN wENTwoRTHs ETocK
on the Summit farm is free from the disease.
He eays he has scattered all over his barns all
the various disinfectants known, and has turned
bis stock into isolated fields, hoping thereby to
aYoid the malady.
THE TURF WILL SUFFER
somewhat by tie epidemic. T. J. Wright very
za1uahie mare, Maggie, died yesterday morning.
edge regarding this dread disease, she is to be
lissected today and the result published Mr.
Bucks turf horses, at Dexter Park, are al
stricken down, and it is feared that one, at least
may delight no longer the jockeys OF the race
course.
THE FIFE HORSES.
The report from the Fire Department yester-
dag morning was not quite so encouraging as on
Monday Dr.. Hofolk reports that eight are now
n1,te seriously i'll. but lie trusts that iudlclOus
care and pleasant weather will return them to
perfect vigor and heath. Tie Chiefs horse ia
recovering, change for tie better having taken
place Monday night. .
HOW LADY TREATED HEB EoRsEs.
A lady Of this city, who is the happy owner of
q pair OF handsome bor6es, lay awake several
nights thinking what she would do it her darling
auadrupcds we're suddenly seized with the dis
ease She thought Of hay and beef tea OF an
eettled down On asafntida as being just the
thing the horses required. So the first thing IN
the morning, she directed the durkoy coach1nan
to harness himself up at once and proceed on :
trot to the nearest drug stcre Tor load OF
aaafetida He returned. The asafmtida, or
horseafntida, aas tied up in red han-
nel bags and hung n the managers. The darkey
WIS next engaged IN cleaning out the stalls
onti1 everything Was as sweet and az NICE as q
pretty girls boudoir. The asaf@tida worked to
s ehsym for day or two. until the weather
changed, and alarming indications OF Immediate
prostration began to present themselves II and
upon the horses. Their proud heads dropped
their brilliant and flashing eyes winEed and lost
accompanied BY consumptige cough told Il that
the dear ones were under the weather, LIE
TRIBUNE was hunted up, and homeopathic
recipe found. The medicine was purchased and
the mild decoctions, as pleasant ard as easy to
take as lemopede, we're given with unfalllng
punctuality every half hour. The result was that
yesterday morning decided improvement was ap-
parent, and the prospect Of speedy to
health, made glad the heart ct the fair owner
Common eenes tells. A stove taken from the
library was put up in the barn 80 the horses can
warm ther toes when they feel like it. Feather
beds and blankets will be next in order
BETTER HORSE DOCTORS NEEDED,
Commenting upon IN article in the New York
Times, to the effect that the whole subject OF
The diseases Of domestic animals has received
too little Of the attention OF scientific men, and
that more value a}lould be set upon the services
qf those men rho are really skilled in the treat