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PROGRESS OE THE CATTLE DISEASE. 
Advices from Konigsburg give unfavorable accounts 
regarding the cattle-disease, which, during the past two years, 
has manifested itself in Poland and other parts of Russia, and 
which now threatens to spread to Germany. For a short 
time during last autumn there seemed to be some abate- 
ment in the distemper, but it has again become very virulent. 
It seizes the animals suddenly, and after severe trembling 
and purging, they die within four-and-twenty hours. One 
proprietor lately lost 300 head in a single night. It attacks 
cattle exclusively, and does not communicate itself to sheep 
or any other kind of stock. Every effort is used to prevent 
infection, and detachments of the military are charged to 
destroy and bury all that become affected. On the Prussian 
frontier a strict quarantine is enforced ; but it has already 
made its appearance in some villages, and the authorities have 
ordered that if even only one of a herd be attacked, the whole 
are to be slaughtered. The recent progress of the disease 
northward towards St. Petersburg, has been a chief cause 
lately in the advance of the tallow market. 
POISONING OE COWS BY LEAD. 
A farmer, who keeps a dairy near Glasgow, lately lost 
eight cows in the following manner : — Having bought a large 
wooden tub from a dealer in second-hand articles of that kind, 
it was filled with water, and when delivered at the farm- 
house appeared perfectly clean. Boiled food for the cows 
was, accordingly, put into it, and then distributed among 
eight of the cows; three of the eight very soon showed 
symptoms of sickness and distress, owing, as was supposed, 
to their having been the last supplied with the food which 
had been next to the bottom and sides of the tub ; and, after 
suffering great agony, roaring and writhing in a manner most 
distressing to witness, they died in the course of the next day, 
and the day following a farrier was got to open and examine 
the dead cows, and he found manifest symptoms of poison 
having been the cause of death. The other five were affected 
less virulently, but were evidently becoming worse from day 
to day in spite of every remedy which was prescribed, and 
were therefore killed to save them from more protracted 
suffering. The farmer thus lost eight cows, which, he says, 
