The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19


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THE, so CALLED HOG CHOLERi.
The present season has been very fatal
to many of the western hogs. a large
portion of many herds have been carried
off by what is known as hog cholera. The
disease is so virulent that, before any
course of treatment can be determined on,
it has run its course, and, in the majority
of cases, most of the herd is lost. Treat
ment is either of no avail whatever, or,
if the animal RECEIVERS, it is left in such
wretched condition, paralyzed, rheu-
matte and emaciated, that it is of less
value than the cost of restoration. 1t is
therefore necessary to consider how to
prevent the "hog cholera" rather than
lated to the so-called Texan fever, or
splenic apoplexy of cattle, and on exam
lining dead hog, the spleen is found
gorged with black blood, soft, and greatly
of carbuncular erysipelas, or the black
leg of cattle, the legs breaking out in
sores. 1t is a true case of blood poison
ing, that results in fever which may be
called typhoid, enteric, or intestinal, or
anthrax. as persons may choose. The
disease can be prevented, but can hardly
be cured. 1t is most common in low,
undrained, marshy places, or where the
hogs arc kept in filthy pens, and have to
drink water fouled with their own evac-
uations. From these it spreads to other
quarters where it would not originate.
Sanitary measures, good food, pure wa
ter, clean quarters, and the regular re-
moval of the droppings, and the aboli-
ton of the disgusting practice of per-
hitting hogs to follow cattle" and con-
sumo their excrement, would doubtless
entirely prevent it. The most economi-
cal thing in bookkeeping is humanity,
and such measures as would preserve the
health of the owners themselves, would
Immediately remove their stock from the
which now decimate Unconstitutional
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LANDSCAPES UNDER THE SEA.-Mr.
Green, the famous diver, told singular
stories of his adventures when making
search in the deep water of the ocean.
He thus sketches what he saw at the
Silver Bank, near Hayti: The banks of
coral on which my divings were made
are about forty miles in length. On this
bank of coral is presented to the diver
one of the most beautiful and sublime
scenes the eye ever beheld. The water
varies from ten to one hundred feet in
depth, and is so clear that the diver can
see from two to three hundred feet when
submerged, with but little obstruction to
the sight. The bottom of the ocean in
many places is as smooth as marble
floor in others it is studded with coral
columns, from ten to one hundred feet
in height, and from one to eight feet in
diameter. The tops of those more lofty
support a myriad of pyramidical pen
dants, each forming myriad more, Civ
ing reality to the imaginary abode of
some water nymph. In other places the
pendants form arch after arch, and, as
the diver stands ON the bottom of the
ocean, and gazes through the deep wind
ing avenues, he finds that they fill him
with as sacred an awe as if he were in
some old cathedral which had long been
buried beneath the oceans wave. Here
and there the coral extends even to the
surface of the water, as if the loftier
columns were towers belonging to those
stately temples that are now in ruins.
There are countless varieties of dimin-
utive trees, shrubs and plants, in every
crevice of the corals, where all are of
faint hue, owing to the pale light they
received, although of every shade, and
entirely different from plants that 1 am
familiar with, that vegetate upon dry
land. One in particular attracted my
it resembled sea-fan of i'm
mense size, of variegated colers and the
most brilliant hue.