Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-11-05
The Horse Disease in Baltimore.


This epidemic which has swept over most
of the Northern cities, is now raging in Bal
timore. The Gazette of Friday says:
The remarkable rapidity with which the
horse disease has spread throughout every sec
tion of the city has caused panic among the
owners of stock that has no parallel in the
history of Baltimore. It is now safe to saw
that three>fourths of all the horses in the city
are affected, and it is quite probable that those
that have yet escaped the malady, will be
| attacked to-day or tomorrow. The public
may look forward to serious Inconvenience by
the withdrawal of many of the cars of the
several city passenger iines-an event that
must soon occur, unless favorable change
| takes place. The most serious results attend
and upon the appearance of the disease in
| Baltimore, however, is the inconvenience it
it threatens to cause in the transportation of
merchandise. Not the least of the sufferers
are draymen and Others who earn their living
by this employment. On all such the disease
entails peculiar hardships, as their receipts of
money are necessarily withdrawn, while. at
the same time, they are compelled to incur
additional expense in providing proper treat
ment tor their stock. The disease is without
doubt public calamity, and is none the less
seriously felt, because of the impossibility of
guarding against its ravages
THE GERMAN1z1NG PRocEss.-Manv dis.
| tressing tales are told of the closing act of the
tragedy OF the late Franco German war In
Alsace and Lorraine some left their old homes.
taking no more than wheelbarrow load of
their household goods, while others carried
| only few clothes suspended from stick
Prince Bismarck has decided to transform the
| French Alsace and Lorraine into the German
| Elsass and LOthringen. Not only in name
but in fact, Prince Bismarck has taken every
precaution to make the transformation a sue
cesstul and permanent one. Some of the
methods used are described in the following
| paragraph from the letter of correspondent
of the New York Evening Post:
Contrary to the understanding of the word
'orlglnalre.' as admitted. the French say, even
by Count Arnim, the term has been made to
include all residents who have their domicile
in A sace- Lorraine, whether born there or not
Again, all who have chosen to be French are
prohibited from remaining in the provinces.
condition which served the double purpose of
getting rid of the most energetic elements of
the population. and therefore the most hostile
to the assimllatlng process. and making more
sharp the alternative presented to the inhabi-
tants, who were obliged to choose between
their patriotism and the necessities of exis-
tence. Lastly, by excluding, under any cons
d,t'ons. the right of minors to elect to be
French, the German Chancellor, as French
paper puts it. :confiscates in favor of GERMANY
the entire youth of Alsace and Lorraine"
OBsTINATE.-Thc railway ticket agents
have gone to the useless trouble of holding
species OF convention, principally for the pur.
pose OF discovering whether passengers may
LAY over and resume their journey at plea
sure. or whether, when they have once quilted
the cars, they have forfeited their tickets for
the remainder of the journey. 1t seems that
the ticket agents are very blind OF very obsti>
nate it they will persist in ignoring the plain
letter of the law, which has decided times out
OF number that a man who buys ticket. as it
were between Boston and New York, has the
undoubtcd right to stop at any place on the
road and to resume his journey at his leisure,
without buying another ticket. We cannot
conceive why ticket agents should wish it
otherwise. II man buys a ticket to New
DIRK and the company receives the money for
1T, we do not see why they should refuse to
carry him thither, or why they should wish to
force him to do it to suit their convenience
instead of his own. The legend Good for
this date only" has valne to the eyes of
any save railway officials, and the law has de-
clded that any action taken by conductors with
Il we" 10 ehioTcin9 the Implied contract Is IL
legal. The ticket agents have no voice in the
matter, and their discussing the subject oply
seems determination on their part to obsti-
nately resist the law, rather than to look for
the comfort convenience of that public
whose servants they are, and ct whose hands
they enjoy the benefits of the vast monopoles
which are made the means of depressing those
they are intended to serve Boston Globe
THE DEATH OF Mas GREELEY.-The
! telegraph announces the death of the wife of
the Hou. Horace Greeley, in New York city
yesterday morning. of consumption. Mrs.
Greeley was native of New York where she
became acquainted with Mr. Greeley while he
was the editor of the Neso Yorker and board
ing at the Graham House in that CITY, at
which place she first met him. She shortly
afterwards removed to Warrenton. North
Carolina to teach school. Her maiden name
was Mary Y. Cheney. Horace Greeley and
Miss Cheney were married in Emanuel
Church, Warrenton, N. c.. on the 5th of july.
1856 by the Rev. VIM Norwood, according
to the Episcopal form. Mrs. Greeley was a
woman of intellectual culture, and devoted
her time largely to the acquisition of knowl-
edge.-Boltfnaorc San Of Thursday
A HEAVY THANsFER-Bv reference to
the "Real Estate Transfer" it will be seen
that Hon. Henry G. Davis, United States
Senator from West Virginia, has disposed of
his coal lands in the Georges Creek region
Formerly the properly of the Maryland Coal
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