Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-28
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Horse Disease.

- The horse malsdy is abating to some
extent at the North, though in many sections
it has taken form which is considered more
dangerous than the original disease, and in
numbers of cases has proved fatal. This re-
lapse is due to the premature exposure Of
horses to cold and fatigue, and results
in the form of dropsy, which is tedious and
uncertain of cure. When these dropsical
symptoms appear, the practice at the North
has been to use a liniment of camphor, ammo
MIA and sweet oil, rubbing the parts affected,
giving gentle exercise to the animal in good
weather, and giving him light but digestible
food.
In Richmond, Petersburg, Raleigh, Will
mington, Augusta, Atlanta, and other South
ern cities, the disease is prevailing, and causes
the same inconvenience to business that has
been noted at other cities.
Valuable Recipes.
- General W. A. Walker, President Of
the Chester county Agricultural, Mechanical
and Pathological Association, has furnished
the Reporter with the following prescriptions,
which are said to be efectual for the cure Of
the respective diseases:
For THE EP1zooT1C OR HORSE DISEASE
2 OF. salt, OF. saltpetre, 2 OF. ginger, o..
saleratus, and OF. sugar. Mix and give it
to the horse in dry meal feed him on fodder
or hay, without corn. Keep him warm by
covering him and wrapping his legs with
blankets.
For D1sTEMPER IN DoGs.-Smoke the
animal twice day with tar, feathers and red
pepper. Keep him warm if the weather is
cold, and feed on light diet. Hold the food
up so that he can eat without having to bend
his neck down.
The Forthcoming Message.
The Washington papers inform their
readers that the President is busily engaged
on his forthcoming message to Congress, de-
voting two hours in the forenoon of each day
to the task. 1t is understood that he will re-
commend the passage of a bill by Congress
removing all the disabilities imposed by the
third section of the fourteenth amendment to
the Constitution. He will take the ground
that as the amendment does not exclude the
ballot, but only imposes disabilities to hold
Office upon certain persons, there is no good
of disfranchisement of that kind merely be-
cause they were, before the war, of stand
ing and character enough to be elected to Of
fees requiring them to take an oath to sup
port the Constitution. In his last message, he
suggested that if there were any persons dis
tinguished above all others for the part they
took in the war, they might be excluded,
but now he proposes to include everybody.
The excepted classes now are all Senators and
Representatives of the Thirty.sixth and Thir-
ty-seventh Congresses, officers of the judicial,
military and naval service of the United
States, heads of departments and foreign min
listers of the United States who participated
in the war.
AS foreshadowing the probable new policy
.of the President, and especially the relations
of the Government to the Southern States, a
recent Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald contains the following:
1t is reported that in recent interview
with General Sherman, the President stated
that he should devote his best efforts to reunite
the North and the South, and similar senti-
ments are said to have been uttered by him
in conversation with Judge Alexander
Rives, of Virginia, an original Union man
and friend of his administration. The Presi'
dents attention has been drawn to the sharp
features of the ku-klux legislation, and it was
stated the other day by member of the Cab