Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-08
Incidents Of the Horse Disease in New
York and Boston.
NEW YORK.
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From the New York Herald. Octob,

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way, from morning till night, din, hurry
scurry, and Babel tongues of all nations.
But now it has changed. The men seem
respondent, for horses are scarce, and the
epizoot has struck business blind and sew
cred its arteries. 1t is motionless, dumb,
paralyzed, and the shock which 1t has re-
ceived is greater than can be seen on the
surface.
Instead of the great jam at Fulton, and
Wall, and Cortlandt streets, which always
is to be seen at these points, there seems
to be an ominous quiet. The policemen
have not used their whistles to urge driv-
ers, for nearly week. The driver finds
space on all sides. He is not urged on
either side. He does not find pole
sticking in him from behind, nor load
of hay or brooms threatening to topple
over on his head, on his right, nor hogs
head of sugar ready to roll off a dray in
front and smash his horses leg to Jelly.
The writer, at Spring street, yesterday,
waited for fifteen minutes, by the clock
in Tifany's old building, and saw but
eighteen vehicles pass, five of which were
stages. Part of these eighteen were go
ing up, part of them were going
down Broadway. Usually a couple Of
hundred vehicles would pass at this given
point during the same time, and from the
nostrils of seventeen of these horses these
tlecks of foam depended, showing the
agOnies they were suffering.
Down town in the narrow streets Dor
dering on the rivers brink the scene is
most appalling. Walking from the South
ferry, which has almost deserted ap.
pearance, round South street by that ell
bow of the East River known as Coenties
Slip, and up as far as Pike street, the
change noticeable in the traffic was Won
derful to behold. There were not even
horses to load and unload cargoes
from the vessels to the dock, or from the
dock to the vessels.
The large piles of merchandise that are
usually to be seen on the sidewalks, and
which block them up and impede pedes-
trianism, were not visible to any one that
had eyes. The little narrow courts lead
ing Oft South street, which are usually
choked with trucks, were cle@r to all cor
ners, and the docks themselves were
blank and dismal. In conversation with
many downtown merchants our reporter
ascertained that business had come to a
perfect stand-still, and it was impossible
to get truckmen, as their horses were
either sick or dying, and those who had
good horses, for which they had paid
from $3.50 to $500 apiece, refused to i'm
peril their safety unless such large COM
pensation was given them per head as
would place the merchants profits on
gross amount to merely nominal figure.
One flour merchant told the reporter
that he had an order to send 5000 bar
rels of flour South, but that a truckman
demanded $15 load of thirty barrels;
and sugar man told him that one of his
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heads of sugar on truck, and that one
of the horses staggered and fell, and died
in the traces before he could be removed,
having broken his heart with overwork.
At the lower end of Wall street, where
there is usually very busy scene, and
where hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of merchandise, from an anchor to
thousand bales of cotton, are sold by
auction in a few moments, trade has
nearly closed altogether, and the busy
traders are nearly at their wits end as to
what they are to do. Oxen from the
country are already beginning to appear
on downtown streets, and several Of
these hardy and healthy animals were to
be seen, yesterday, yol1ed together, and
drawing great loads, laboring like giants
Thousands of draught oxen could find
employment at this moment if some
large stock-raiser would only send them
into the city and sell them, even at adj
vanced prices The epizoot makes all
mankind akin, it is evident
From the New York Sun, Oct, BOT
Numerous instances of the exOrbitant
demands of drivers are reported. A gen.
tleman offered q hackman $12 to take him
from the Cortlandt street ferry to the
Forty-second street depot. His baggage
was one trunk and small satchel. The
cOachman REFLECTED an instant and coolly
replied, "Guess | can do bettern that,
boss" Another instance is related of a
drayman who demanded and obtained
$42 for transporting one load of cotton
He was not more than an hour and half
on the whole job. A gentleman, yester-
day, paid $40 to be driven from the Pa
vonia ferry to Fulton ferry.
Many curious remedies have been sug-
gested, but decidedly the most unique
and emphatic experiment was tried in the
Third avenue stables Yesterday, if Gre
dence can be given the story as told there
to a Su7a reporter. The Company had a
horse which was in the last stages of the
disease and fully expected to die. The
animal was choking, and, believing that
he must die, this experiment was tried.
F'lrstsa dose OF pepper was placed up the
nostrils, followed by quantity of soda.
The expectation was that the fermenta-
ton and expansion of the soda would
either blow off the horses head, or clear
out the INSTRUCTED passages il the throat
and head. The horses head proved the
strongest, as he blew out the packed ac-
cummulation of mucous, and is rapidly
recovering.
The "dicker" between the farmers and
the New York men for oxen is sometimes
amusing. One man to-day "a New York
cry went out on the road to hire a yoke
he had heard of, when the following oc.
Cured:
New Yorker Say, boss, / want to hire
your oxen for three or four weeks to take
to New York to do our carting.
Farmer. What dye pay?
New Yorker. Six dollars day with
driver.
Farmers Boy. Shall I go with him,
pop?
Farmer. Well, now. that amt enough
for taAm ar critters. That ar off OK ken
pull house down. Say So a day, and
they're yourn.
New Yorker Well, old man, we won't
quarrel; get 'em ready. This the boy to
drive 'em?
Farmer. Well, don't know about that.
You know that York is hard place. I'll
have to step in and see the old woman
about that. All three enter the farmers
kitchen.
Farmer. Mother, / have hired out
Brindle Bob and Jim to this Yorker, and
he wants the boy to go with 'em and drive
'em.
farmers Boy. Oh, yes, mother, you
know can look after 'em better than
poppy. I'm spryer
Mother. Yes Johnny but who'll look