News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
FLIES THAT ARE FEARED.
Residents of New Rochelle Troubled by tho
Spread of PleurO-Pneum onia-Valuable
Cattle Threatened.
From the N. Y Herald,

From the N. Y Herald.
There is not fly in New Rochelle at
the present time that is not the object
of grave suspicion, or, rather, of aver
sion and fear. The blue bottle and
horse varieties are particularly Stunned.
This feeling is not due to the fact that
the lies are very numerous in the vii
lage, nor that they are as great an an
noyance as they can possibly be, but
grows directly out of the pleuro pneu-
monla scare which now agitates the
residents of the place and especially
such OF them as own cattle. For flies,
according to the best authorities, are the
agents that spread the disease, their
sting sending the poisons in the sys
TENS of healthy cattle, and even giving
to man the terrible sore known as ma
llgnant carbuncle.
The disease, it is believed, originated
among the cattle which were owned by
the New York Infant Asylum in East
Chester, near Mo mt Vernon. On the
18th of May last the asylum authorities
determined to sell the cattle at auction.
Thirtytour heifers, cows and calve,
were offered, and twenty-eight were
sold to different buyers.
Among the purchasers was E. d.
Green, milkman, of New Rochelle.
He got three cows for about $105. He
took them home, and day or two later
sold them at an advance of $12 to Ste
phen H. Stouter, of the same village,
who is both a constable and milkman.
Stouter put them in a field which he
hired from George q. Sickles, the
father of General Daniel Sickles.
On July 10 Charles G. Banks, presi-
dent of the village, whose house is about
mile distant from the main street, was
crossing the fields on the way to his
office, when he saw one of the cows
lying down and apparently unable to
get up. Suspecting something wrong,
he crossed over and found that the re
cumbent animal was covered with flies.
Although they evidently we're annoying
her greatly, she could just move her
ears, but had not strength to brush them
away with her tail. The other cows also
seemed to be suffering. They seemed
to be troubled as person would be
with the whooping cough.
The next day Mr.. Banks found the
COW dead in the field with swarms of
flies on her carcass. On the previous
afternoon he had notified the State
Board of Health of what he had seen
and suspected On seeing the dead
cow he telegraphed to Mount Vernon,
where, it appears, there had been some
trouble of the same sort. DR.. Brush,
of that village, came to New Rochelle,
saw the cattle and declared that they
were in the worst stage of pleuro- pneu
monia. He said to President Banks
eff | were in your place l would order
them killed at once"
Mr.. Banks instructed W. L. Conklin,
chief of the police, 10 kill the animals
and bury them. His order was carried
out on Tuesday night. The news quick
ly spread through the village, and all
sorts of rumors were soon afoat. TWAS
said that the people of the asylum had
held the auction after discovering the
disease among their cattle, and that
some of the cattle had died there from
the disease. 1t was said that was a
pretty small piece of business to sell
such cattle, and even worse to feed the
children of the asylum with such milk.
The physician of the Board of Health
has been directed to examine all the
whether the disease has spread. AS the
cattle were evidently sick several weeks
before the trouble was suspected the
disease has had every opportunity to
develop. Many of the people of the
vii age have valuable cattle. The fact
that flies lighting upon cattle half a
mile away from the place where the
sick cows were kept may spread the dis
ease, is creating no little alarm
The village authorities are to hold a
meeting, and it is said that proceedings
will at once be brought against the asy-
lum, of which Mr.. Clark Bell is the
president. They claim that the action
of the asylum people can be punished
both in criminal and civil courts.
The matron, tall, stout woman, as
suTed the Herald reporter that she had
never heard of any sickness among the
cattle about the place. She said that
the only reason the auction was held
was because it had been decided to buy
all the milk used from a Mr.. Chester.
The cows of the farm had not given
enough milk to supply the children,
and some had to be bought daily. This
being the case, it was thought best to
get all the milk from milk dealer, and
not bother keeping the cattle any longer.
She said that there had not been any
illness among the children.
August Ebelt, the man who looks
after the asylum farm, said that there
had not been any sick cattle there. He
said that none of them had the pleuro-
pneumonia. They were good, healthy
cattle. Some six or seven left over from
the sale had not shown the slightest
sign of any disease. He said that he
would probably soon leave the asylum,
and that, therefore, his statement was
that of an unpreiud ice person.