Connecticut western news., 1872-11-08
Horses of New York City.

York World.
 The horse disease is spreading like wildfre through the country. It is sweep ing through the city to-day. We are sure to endure general visitation from it the only question now is whether it will assume virulent type here.
 The impediment to business will be enormous if the horses of this city are even slightly affected by 1t, whereas if they are attacked as severely as those in Canada were, the direst confusion and disorder must result.
 Inquiry among the car-drivers who rendezvous at the lower end of the City Hall Park develops the fact that all the horse-railroads are beginning to suffer slightly from this malady. The answers made by drivers and starters were curious ly illustrative of the ideas entertained by such men in the beginning of an epidemic | "Have you got the horse disease on your line yeti" was asked of starter. He was at once all interest, and drew away into corner fer an exhaustive talk on the subject. His reply was: ''No. not that I've heard of. The first knew of it was to-day from a man from Buffalo. Why, itmust be like the influenza the horses had here some years ago."
 The Third avenue starter was asked the same question. He replied: "We've got lots of horses up there coughing; if that is horse-disease. Have you got any remedy for itq"
 ''No, Pm not horse doctor. Are any of your animals laid up with it, so that they cannot work 2''
 sWell, they seem little lazy, but we keep them at work yet"
 It was noticed that the disease has not become town.talk yet. Some drivers ig nored it until pressed. But, when finally pushed, acknowledged that there was some such malady around.
 A Seventh avenue driver was asked whether the disease had reached hi line."
 "Well, no," he replied, "not as know"
 "Haven't any of your horses got cough and running at the nose9'' y. "Oh, yes this team here are that way and some more horses that drive"
 "Don't it hinder them from working 2"
 "No; they're little slack, but W, keep them up to it. Now that you speal of it, there is livory stable keeper know who has twenty horses sick tha way"
 Does he work them2''
 No, not at all.
 Thus one after another acknowledged the beginning of the malady among thu stock. They know nothing of the 'horse disease" but their horses-in severa cases the ones before them-are suffering | Sfo rriu hv m ary surgeon of Rochester. His statemen is as follows:
 The symptoms. The first noticeabl, symptoms will be flow of tears from thu eyes, watery discharge from the nos' and 8 general languor. Next, @ cough which, becoming more frequent, will sool occur in paroxysms. In the commence ment the membranes of the nose will b, found pale or of a leaden color, and thos of the eyes presenting yellowish or red dish appearance. Many cases are usheret on with chill. All this is soon succeeded by 8 general feverish condition, manifeste' by heat of mouth, membranes of the eye and nose reddened, pulse frequent, thougl soft and easily compressed, respiration quickened and sometimes laborious. A this stage the bowels may be sluggish urinary organs inactive and the discharg from the nose often assuming yellowisl or greenish appearance. The diseas usually runs it's course within ten days and with proper treatment few if an cases ought to prove fatal. Those tha do so are usually complicated with othe diseases, as bronchitis or pneumonia. The public should not be deceived int thinking that because few horses hay been disabled as yet by the "infuenza the attack will. be light. The news las night from Buffalo, Rochester and Bosto1 which are only few days in advance c , New York in this respect. showed tha three or four days after the epidemic fall upon our towns, the stoppage of hors locomotion is as thorough as it is in Car { ada. It is easier to imagine than t predict what the effect of weeks invalid ation of the horses of the metropolis wi be. In a city of such magnificent di: 3 tances, and whose traffic clogs it's higl ways under the most favorable circun , stances, passengers and merchants will b in dispair if this evil arrives in full force. The only imagineable remedy for tn , city railroads in such case will be 3 allow locomotives to draw trains of tn l cars down town-if the fiat rails can stan ! the pressure-and then push them bac again. We may see that sight on othe streets besides Greenwich street within week. If there are no horses on th thoroughfares to be frightened by thes separations, the principal objection . them will te wanting.
 ! Now AND THEN.-To those who rt l member Califorhia as it was in 1S49 th commercial reports of the San Francisc