Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-10-07

rrs saxuIrAsrous APPEARANCE IN THIS CITY AND
nsApsno-Two LIVERY STABLES IN wilAhsefoS
tpqnlx1h NIL ~
~ Aeais1ab which has been prevailing
10 Antksn cielss has rcanhod Wilmington and
the livery stables of VIM. @. Martin and VIM II.
Colby are affected. Mr. Martin says he has
some nve or SIX horses which held by the
uisssss bait none OF them seriously. Only two
OF them undt for long drives. These, he
esys, were caught ont in the rain on Thursday
aUA i,wAseu to0e Of them was driven
yesterday by q gentleman from Boston he no
s:s sSSsaaa viii an pes sG" !" aIi a
On the retarn Of the hotae the Boston gphile-
man asld Il VAS anecte'i lust as Tho horses IN
that tdty hsl basn whIcl, were said to lave tile
spizootic, hut Nj. Martin is poritive that the
IN 49,, syp,ptAuls ARE not the those manifested
W k.s Ansrss two years ago when tllat useaso
prevailed in this city. ilis horses which are now
ttouhlSu with coughs were thea quito sick hnt
tLsi sickness now is OF a different character. He
does not think tile present difficulty more than
st cold, but " W loss o explain how 80 nnny Of
% y them took 1t AT the same time.
Mr.. Colbys horses are less affected than Mr..
Martins aud their coughing is slight All the
other stables in town are Tree from disease,
thus far. Several isolated cases are also TO
Nported from the rural districts about tho city.
The Reading Times, OF this morning, says the
''horse distemper' has reached that city. Twen-
fyfys horses in the atablns of Nlossrs Boyer,
iiysrynen Sonth Sixth stroei,.ll the Reading
Railroad Express horses Of tho City Pas
senger Railway Companies horses, and mum
avs" st ~ Other public and private stables naTc it
yho la. ha, charge OF Measra. Boyers stables
ror several months psst,say the disease is more
OF adistenper than like tho epizooty The ami
NAL is seized with coughing SPELL followed by
snervous twiiohing, which finally ends in gem
sisi prostraton.
THE DIsfAnE IN SALEM COUNTY N. THIRTY TWO
pKATHS IN THREx WEEKS IN ONE TOWNSHIP
1T Is NOT "gIISp STAGE sHA'-pfsGEIPrIoE AND
eTAPloMe.
An intelligent farmer writes TO the Salem
Standard describing the rayages of tho horse
disease In lower Alloway's Creek, Salem county
de says 1t began there on September g. when
black mare OF hs own showed signs of it. AZ
ter tha. tho many and in quick sue
cssslon, the d,seass often returning TO tho SAINT
stable and claiming more victims. Between til,
dste named and September 25ti, thirty two
deaths had occurred in the township.
This writer says the disease ID 90 Cerehro Spi-
nal Meningitis" and that it is 90 mi.called Blind
SsgSsr1." In most cases the first aymptomi
are Tagging. then refusing tho feed. then lean
ing against the partition manger, then lying
down aud dying IN from "a TO So honrs. The
feet and are when first taken, always cold
and IN several the feet show Indications OF
pneumonia also do the lungs,
The Sudden change of weather from hot to
cold aud OCCASIONAL sleeping on the damp, wet
earth have more 10 do with this disease than
grass; 80 for the spider webs thcy are scarcer
tnis year than common, (pfobably the horses
nave eaten all, aud yon may depend ON it they
nave nothing 10 do with this disease, the seeds
of which were laid in the horse probably amontl