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On the 1st day of August, two of the one hundred had died, 

 and some twenty-five more were sick. From that time up to 

 the present, the entire herd have been taken sick; eighty-eight 

 head out of the one- hundred have died; twenty-two out of the 

 twenty -six have also died; total, one hundred and ten out of 

 one hundred and twenty-six. The remaining sixteen head have 

 all been sick, and are now very poor and stupid, but have the 

 appearance of getting well. 



As a fact, wherever native cattle have passed over ground 

 where this Texan herd have been, the native cattle have sickened 

 and died. It is also a fact that other Texan cattle have been 

 brought in to this county, have been herded with native cattle 

 for two months, and as yet no disease has made its appearance. 

 We have had over four thousand head of Texan cattle in this 

 county this summer. 



I have the honor to be, 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



James Park. 



Ferner fügt der Berichterstatter hinzu: 



Concerning the lot of cattle which Captain Park mentioned 

 as having been shipped from the West Lebanon railroad station 

 on the evening of August 4th^ the following note was received from 

 Assistant - Commissioner Dr. J. G. Orton, of Binghamton* N. Y., 

 soon after he assumed the duties of his office: 



On the 9th of August last, from a lot of five car loads of 

 cattle shipped from Buffalo, consigned to J. M. Thomas, and 

 yarded ofi" at Camprille for feed and rest, seven had died, it is 

 supposed, from the then prevalent cattle plague. 



Eleven others, exhibiting clearly developed symptoms of the 

 disease, were detrained and enclosed in a yard by themselves. 

 These all died in about three days. The survivors went through 

 to the Bergen cattle market in the usual course. The eleven 

 diseased cattle, I am informed, all manifested the usual symptoms 

 of the plague, namely, rapid pulse, loss of appetite, head tur- 

 ning or drooping to one side (torticollis), discharging mucus from 

 mouth and nose, urine bloody, and finally, inability to walk or 

 stand alone. As these cases occurred several days previous to 

 my appointment as assistant-commissioner, I had no opportunity 



