ARMY appointments. 
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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
HEAVY FINE FOR REMOVING A DISEASED COW. 
A startling case came under the notice of the county justices at 
Macclesfield, on Tuesday. John Shore, a well-to-do-farmer, of 
Poynton, was summoned, on the information of Mr. Superintendent 
Williamson, for removing a diseased cow from his premises on the 
29th of May last. 
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, but stated in exo- 
neration that the animal had not died from disease but from in- 
flammation. 
Mr. Williamson said he visited defendant’s premises on the 25th 
and 2/th of May, when defendant was warned respecting some of 
his cattle. On the 29th of May the cow was sold to some “ slink- 
butchers” from Stockport. This was proved by a witness named 
Thomas Wadsworth, who saw the men convey the carcase away in 
a cart on the night of Sunday, the 29th of May, and stated that the 
stench from the blood which had been emitted from the carcase was 
horrible on the following day. 
Mr. Alderman Carr said he attended, as a member of the Board 
of Guardians for two townships, to ascertain the opinion of the 
Bench as to the desirability of appointing an inspector to supervise 
such people as these, as this practice has been carried on to an 
alarming extent, and had been the cause of much suffering, sickness, 
and death throughout the country, and in the county of Cheshire 
more especially. 
The butchers who had bought the carcase had been fined £6 
each at Stockport. 
Mr. Gaskel , the chairman, said the Bench looked upon this as a 
most serious case. The defendant occupied a respectable position, 
and had still knowingly endangered the public health to an alarming 
extent ; he had also been previously warned, and there was no 
excuse whatever for his conduct. He would be visited with the full 
penalty of the law, viz., £20 and costs, or in default two months’ 
imprisonment. -^-North Derbyshire Reporter. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office, Pall Mall, June 7th. 
14th Hussars — Veterinary Surgeon Fitzhugh Marshall, from 
the late Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be veterinary surgeon, vice 
Dawson, transferred to Veterinary Department. 
