Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-07

Messrs. Woodbury. Bros, of East Cam
bridge, Mass, having thirty pop corn |
cases to deliver in this city, and their hor- |
ses all being sick, Mr.. Simpson, their |
foreman. harnessed up his COW and with |
their teamster delivered the goods.
Mr.. Charles B. Lord, shoe manufac-
turer in Lynn, Mass, had twenty-five
cases of shoes he was very anxious TO de
liver in Boston, and as horses were scarce,
his employees, about twenty-five in
number, volunteered to haul the
load into Boston over the turn
pike, in a wagon, which they did in
good shape, and were entertained with a
dinner by Mr.. Lord, after they had dis
posed of the goods.
A wag observes: 1.-THE stable keepers
are generally as anxious to make money
as most business men, but at present they
don't care TO add to their Golfers"
The New York papers advertise for fifty
farmers accustomed to drivIn oxen.
Mountains of freight lie on the wharves,
and the few cartmen who are risking their
animals are making from thirty to fifty
dollars day.
1t is sometimes well to look up the
meaning of words before using them.
One of our contemporaries INDUCED in
this astonishing combination: "The
Equine Epizootic Epidemic" Webster
defines equine" as pertaining to or re-
semblIng a horse" "epizootic" as, Per-
tanning to or affected by disease prevail
ent among animals" and epidemic" as,
a disease which, arising from wide
spread cause, etfecting numbers of people
the same time" Thus the heading trans
lated means something very different from
what its writer evidently supposed.
In view of the present horse epidemic
the New York Times warns owners gen.
orally to beware of the country "horse
doctors" who are as likely, in their ignor
ance, to do injury as goOu. There is in
this country $1,000, 600 or $4,000
worth OF horse property-enough certain
ly in these days of practical education to
have the subject of the diseases of horses
and their treatment properly taught, there
by saving thousands of dollars annually.
Is it not subject worthy the attention OF
agricultural colleges?
A public spirited boy has the following
to say on subject about which every.
body is at present talking: The horse is
a useful animal. He has four legs, but
they oughten to be no good when he's
got the epiZooZy. Some wicked men
drives him ennyhow, and makes HIM kofi
enuff to koff himself away. If | had q
klub and was big enuff would go about
and mock those wicked men in their head
This is too bad. Where will such mer
die when they go to? We can get along
without them, but horses is a useful ami
NAL and harder to get and to keep alive
- / wish these wicked mems had the cpl
zoozy instead OF the horses.
One of the incidents of the horse cpl
j demic is the curious series of revelations
of humanity toward dumb beasts on thu
part Of rough, rude men, whose humanity
: to their own kind is generally more thar
.problematical One of the New Yorl
Commercial reporters, Friday, visiting al
infected stable, and questioning son o
{ Anak as to the progress of the disease
was amazed to see the tears yelling up il
a man s eyes as he told the story of tn
sufferings of the brutes committed to hi
care. This stable man was redolant o
the odors of the place, rude, unkempi
and no one would have accused him o
Misunderstanding toward anybody o
S anything-but he loved a horse, an,
declared, with utter disregard of aspirates
that it was worse to see a 'orse suffe
than a 'uman-because 'orse, We SEE
can't help ITSELF