The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CATTLE DISEASE.—During the last week there was a fresh outbreak of a serious nature of pleuropneumonia on the farm of Mr. Carr, of Silloth, near Carlisle. On examining the cattle on the farm of Mr. Carr, Mr. Stevenson, the veterinary surgeon, who is stationed at Silloth by the Privy Council, pronounced two to be diseased and on the postmortem examination of these they were found to be in a very advanced stage of disease. One of these was unusually co, and Mr. Steve 'son, in his report, says that " this animal must have been diseased for some weeks, as the symptoms could not have been otherwise so fully devoloped." Those two were among a herd of 106 Irish cattle, which Mr. Carr has had on his laud for some time. They are generally fine animals, from three to four years old, in good condition, and many of them are quite fit for the market Pleuro-pneumonia is also on another farm of Mr Carr's, where several animals have been recently put down under the order of the local authority. Ninety-one head of cattle still remain on this farm in addition to the 106 on the ether. Pleuro-pneumonia has also broken out at Mr. Glaister's, of The Flatt, Abbey Holme, among a herd of 28 cattle, and also on Calvo Marshes, where there are 207 head of cattle, which were in contact with the animal which was put down as diseased by order of the local authoritv.—Foot-and-mouth disease is on one farm in the Carlisle district, and on one in the Brampton district, where 28 cattle are in this disease —Westmorland continues to he entirely free from these and other diseases among c  MURDEROUS ASS AULT UPON A WOMAN AT PENRITE —About ten o'clock on Sunday last a murderous assault was cunmittect upon a single woman, named Sarah Wright, residing in Albert-st-eet, Penrith. The house occupied by Miss Wright is situated within a few yards of the police-station. The unfortunate woman occupied a respectable position in life, and kept lodgers. Among the latter was a man named James Dalgleish, a Scotchman, who was first known in Penrith as a member of the County Cons'abutary, and subsequently as an assistant to a spirit merchant. For many months Past Dalgleish has not followed any regular occupation, and has been fond of liquor. From what we have been able to le trn Dalgleish, Sarah Wright, and a girl were the only persons who on Sunday night occupied two rooms on the lowest floor Miss Wright had retired to bed, and it is supposed that a quarrel had arisen between the two, which ended in Dalgleish bringing in a formidable-looking weapon known :a a "dyke-slasher," which was used by a brother-in-law of Miss Wright's, in his occupation of a gardner. The exact n 'turn of the quarrel has not yet been ascertained, but it is supposed that after setting position of the slasher, which was in an out-house. Dalgl-ish went into Miss Wright's bedroom, and struck her twice upon the head. 0 re rf the blows drove the blade of the slasher fully half an inch it to the brain of the helpless woman, and a second blow chipped off a piece of the sit& I, rendering her insensible. Dalgleish, after calling in Dr. Macgregor, was taken into custodw. He was brought before Dr. Wickha-n, end W. Harrison, Esq., on Monday, and remanded for a week.