Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-10-29

carriage horses in New York, and
if equine travel becomes stopped
this season the losses to business
will be very heavy. The disease
is demoninated catarrhal fever, and
commences with a cough. In about
thirty-six hours running from eyes
and nose is developed. The horse
becomes weak, the aflectation be-
ing thought similar to the Canadian
epidemic.
The epidemic among the horses
has caused intense alarm in this
city. The disease is spreading
rapidly. 1t is rumored tonight that
Bonner's Pocahontas has been at
tackled by the malady. About one
hundred and fifty cars and fifty
stage horses have been taken off.
1t is feared that here, as in Roeh-
ester, locomotion by stages and cars
will be suspended in a few days,
the manifestations of the eXistance
and spread of the disease to-day
being of a startling character. The
exact nature of the disease seems
to pazzle the veterinary surgeons.
Blood-letting and drenching has
been found failures, and many
horses have died from this treat
ment. Among the various rene
dies used are a solution of tar and
belladonna, acconite given homeo-
pathically, and Taylor's compound
food, the product of the Manhat-
tan Feed Mill Company. This last
mentioned is the only remedy which
has met with marked success as a
preventative and cure. Many cas-
es of the disease are reported in
Jersey City and Ioboken.
ROCHESTER. rr
The horse disease continues its
ravages, and there are not a score
of horses in the city and neighbor-
hood unaffected, although very few
fatal cases have been reported. All
branches of business are more or
less affected by the scarcity of
horses. The merchants are hireing
men and boys to transport goods.
The street cars are not running,
and the livery stables are closed
The disease prevails in the sur
rounding country as extensively as
in the city. 1t is stated that only |
in cases where bleeding has been
escorted to have horses died.
BOSTON.
The horse epidemic is seriously /
business and travel here.
SPRINGFIELD fgH..
Seventy cases Of horse disease
broke out in this city to-day. No
fatal cases have been reported thus
FAR.
SYRACUSE.
The horse disease has broken o It
n this city, and is spreading rapid
y. Fully four hundred horsee are
Affected, including the horses of
he fire department and street rail
ways. The horses of the milk |
are affected, also one |
iundred private horses, and a num-
Der have already died.
CHICAGO.
The horse disease now raging in
Western New York has made its
here. Fifty cases were
in The stables of the West
Side Car Company to-day.
Reports under date Of Oct. "a:
NEW YORK.
The increase in the number Of
cases of horses suffering from the
prevalent malady is calculated at
from thirty to forty per cent. of the
horses in the city, or from eight TO
ten thousand in all, in various sta
ges of the malady. Yesterday one
hundred infected horses were in
the streets, and thus far there
seems to be q determination by the
car companies and stage proprie-
tors to run their vehicles at all haz-
ards. About one hundred and fifty
cars in all have been taken off on
the different lines. The Broadway
Street Car Company last night had
one hundred horses sick, out of
about eleven hundred. The Third
avenue line has more than half its
number. Two thousand horses are
suffering thus throughout all the
lines. The disease is gaining. The
Brooklyn and Jersey City horses
have been similarly visited. A
number of stablemeu think that
the disease viii spread for few
days, then decline aud fall away en-
tirely. No cases were reported as
terminating fatally up to yesterday
afternoon.
Business, manufactures and in
dustry are partially paralyzed in
this city and Brooklyn in conse-
quence of the sudden deprival of
the use Ct large uninber of horses.
In Brooklyn it is said the horse
cars viii stop running tomorrow.
The disease has made most alarm
ing progress among the railroad
stage and livery stable horses. The
broadway and Twenty-third Strtei
Stage Company suspended to-day
OF three hundred horses on the
Nfath avenue road about one hal
are affected by the disorder
Ten fegTlIar cars have been tal1el
ssrna the SIXTH avenue line to-day