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THE CATTLE DISEASE. 
Prof. Jamf.s Law's report on the cattle dis¬ 
ease on the farm of James W. Wadsworth, near 
Avon, N. Y„ shows that the herd, consisting of 
277 cattle, was brought from Canada, and all 
did well until suddenly Ove died, and other 
cases or death followed at the rate of from 3 to 
8 a day. The symptoms ttre described in detail, 
as well as the condition of the bodies after 
death. The manager of the farm and two Ger¬ 
man workmen who opened several of the car¬ 
cases, suffered from malignant pustule. The 
Tret symptoms In all three were the eruptions 
ou the hand of small papulaj, which Increased 
to a vesicle, burst and dried up, while a new 
crop appeared around the polut of desiccation. 
The two olde* men, aged from 30 to 40, had con¬ 
siderable eryslpelatold fullltratlon of the hand 
and arm, with high lever, nausea,great languor 
and muscular pains. Tnoy ultimately did well, 
however. It wa- evident that the d* vclopment 
of these malignant symptoms was from Inocu¬ 
lation from the diseased cattle. 
The Professor then goes on to show that the 
cattle suffered from organic poison, having 
been brought in a wretched condition to the 
luxuriant grass bottoms of the Genesee Valley, 
under which was a subsoil of Impervious clay, 
and over which the river flowed In the spring. 
There was no artificial druinage, and the wa* er 
escaped by evaporation only. Tbe contrast In 
temperature between day and night also aggra¬ 
vated the disease. The report adds : 
The most universally acknowledged causes 
of the malady In animal* are:—Plethora, or a 
state of tlie blood highly charged wflh organi c 
elements; an impervlou&soll or subsoil; a very 
rich surface soil; iinmoatlona; a period of heat 
arid dryness calculated to foster decomposition 
of organic matters to a great depth in the 
ground, and a great, contrast between the day 
and night temperature, and In this ease all 
combined to produce one of too most malignant 
type* of Tlo disease. It. may be added that 
while this affection is communicable to all ani¬ 
mals by inoculation, it cm scarcely be said to 
spread in any other way, and it is therefore 
to I,, looked upon as i-srentlally an enzootic 
di'-ease. We rim'd g" to Simla places as the in¬ 
undated margins and deltas of large rivers, 
dried up lakes and lmirsbea of the rich and pes¬ 
tilential Rusaiau Steppes, to And any approxi¬ 
mation to the disastrous outbreaks iu man and 
bens*, which blacken the history of past ages. 
One hundred of Hie best steers were turned 
on u higher pasture with u gravelly subsoil, two 
died, and the rest made a prompt and perma¬ 
nent recovery. 
AN OUTRAGE PREVENTED. 
The City of Rochester Is a thriving and grow¬ 
ing mart, made so in large part by the rich 
farming region of Western New York,the Eden 
of America, In which it is situated, ft happens 
that tbe City Fathers are not always as mindful 
as they should be Of the origin of the city's 
prosperity, and in one of their periodical fits of 
nb&eut-miudedness, a few weeks ago, they 
adopted an ordinance forbidding any farmer or 
gardener to sell produce of his farm or garden 
iu the city limits without paying a license. 
This suicidal attempt to make non-residents 
pay a tux to the city for the privilege of selling 
their produce to its citizens was very properly 
vetoed by Mayor Clarkson, who truthfully re¬ 
marked that such a measure would be highly 
oppressive to the poor. The Mayor might also 
have added Lhat the ordinance could never 
have been enforced, and was clearly beyond the 
powers granted by the people of New York 
State in the city charter. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
TnE direct cuhle has been successfully laid. 
After fifteen months’ submersion, it was as per¬ 
fect as when manufactured. The fracture was 
found in seventy fathoms of wale:-, and looked 
as if caused by anchor or grapnel. 
Eight persons have been convicted at Abing¬ 
don, Va.. of illicit distilling. Mure than fifty 
additional arrests have also been made for illi¬ 
cit distilling In tbe Virginia mountain region. 
Tbe steamship Pacific, of the Goodall line, 
from Portland, Oregon, to San Francisco, 
foundered at sea, forty miles from Cape Flat¬ 
tery, on the 4th Inst., and 250 Uvea were lost. < 
But two passengers survived. l 
Mr. Jackson, residing in Illinois, recently p 
while getting out of bed, before day, stepped a 
upon the body of his daughter, who was sleep- I 
Ingon an improvised bed on the floor, crushing S 
in her chest aud killing her instantaneously, a 
She was fifteen y*earB old. The father weighs I 
over 200 pound*. 
The production of quicksilver In California a 
Is larger than heretofore. There is an unusual c 
demand from China, Japan and Panama, and t. 
large profits are probable, 
A number of German merchants of New York 1 
havo volunteered to raise $50,000 to defray tbe ‘ 
expeuses of the reception of the German Crown ® 
Prince. 
M. Henry Bergh has Issued an address to the I 
people of Brooklyn, urging the establishment f 
In that city of a branch Society for the Proven- i 
tlon of Cruelty to Animals. 
Tbe two leading Baptist papers In Bostcm, , 
the Era and the Watchman and Reflector, have ^ 
been consolidated, with Dr. Lorfmer in the c 
editorial coutrol. v 
A reunion of members of the Legislature of t 
Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1850 inclusive, took ^ 
place in the House of Representatives, Harris¬ 
burg, recently. 1 
The elegant Oceanic House, at Star Island, ^ 
one of the Isles of Shoals, was burned to the j 
ground on the 10th Inst,., together with most of , 
the cottages on the island. The hotel was in¬ 
sured for about $143,000. 
The Seneca Falls Works are going to send a 
steamer to the Centennial. It will be the 
grandest ever turned out from their shops. 
AH the latest improvements are to bo perfected 1 
and applied. The whole steamer will be nickel I 
plated and will present a gorgeous appearance. 1 
Tbe steamship City of Wuco, was burned on ( 
the 10th inst„ while entering Galveston harbor. 
No uews ha» been recoivcd of any Of the pas- t 
songers and crow. j 
The Rev. E. L. Hermance has given to the , 
Yale Library Uve out of t he six folio volumes of t 
tbe Vatican MS. c»r the Greek Scriptures, now 
being published at Rome under the editorship 
of Vexcellouo and Co/.za. 1 
The mammoth hotel at St. Louis will be s 
called the Grand Hotel. It w ill be situated at , 
the corner of Grand and Page avenues and , 
occupy 120,000 square feet, 24,000 more than the 
Palace Hotel iu San Francisco. There are to be } 
2,000 rooms, and the cost, exclusive of furni- ( 
turc, will be $1,950,000. ( 
Through the liberality of Mr. Wm.Il. Aator, , 
the Astor Library, New Y ork, has quite recently , 
come Into possession of a work of extraordi- - 
nary antiquity, which will prove of immense 
value to t he archmologist, historian and stu¬ 
dent of science. This remarkable book is a 
fao-slmtlo of an Egyptian medical treatise, , 
written in the lGtb century B. C. and conse¬ 
quently more than 3,400 years old. Though 
strictly a medical work, it reveals much relating 
t: ancient Egyptian domestic life, and is with¬ 
out doubt one of the most Important contribu¬ 
tions to the history of medical science ever dis¬ 
covered. 
Leonard Cox, the cashier of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company, N. Y., has con¬ 
fessed that he misappropriated its money to 
the exteut of $13,003, which had been lost In 
Wall Street speculations. 
Another survivor of Commodore Perry’s crew 
on Lake Erie appears iu tbe person of J. Norris 
of Buoue Co., Kentucky. He had a gold medal 
awarded him by Congress. 
The United States Grand Jury, at Chicago, 
has indicted about 60parsons for violation of 
the revenue laws relating to whisky. 
It Is estimated that 84,000 bottles of wine 
were drank during the season in the four lead- 
intahuielo at Saratoga. 
It Is found to be more profitable in California 
for grape growers to make their crop iuto rais¬ 
ins than to turn it iuto wine. 
The Dansville, N. Y., Advertiser announces 
the death In that village of Benedict Bagley on 
the4tii inst., aged 75 years. Mr. B. was a promi¬ 
nent and successful lawyer iu Greene and Liv¬ 
ingston Counties thirty or forty years ago. 
Jefferson Davis has accepted the Presidency 
of the American Department of the Mississippi 
Valley Society of London, tendered him by the 
parent organization. The object of the move¬ 
ment Is to direct attention to the development 
of commercial, agricultural and mineral resour- 
ces of the Valley of the Mississippi. Mr. Davis 
will devote his entire energy to the workin this 
country and Europe, and will take up his head¬ 
quarters ut New Orleans. 
There are 143,000 steel pens, and 160,000 sheets 
of note paper and nearly two barrels of ink 
used by Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y., yearly. 
Mr. D. M. Dewey of Rochester, N. Y., is said 
to be the fortunate owner of an original pict¬ 
ure by Rubens, which he bought at a low price 
a few years since without knowing its history 
aud real value, ft was formerly owned by Jo¬ 
seph Bonaparte of Bordentown, N. J. It Is 
now ou exhibition at the Academy of Art iu 
Rochester, and is soon to be sent to the Metro¬ 
politan Museum of Art iu New York. 
According to the Annual Report of the Com¬ 
missioner of Internal Revenue, 24 distillers, 37 
• rectifiers and more than 50 United states 
’ gaugers and store keepers, have been lmpll- 
- eated Id whisky frauds. 
. Prof. Jenuy has submitted a preliminary ro- 
, port regarding the mineral and agricultural re- 
, sources of the Black Hills, country. He Bays 
- that about oue-twentieth of tbe country may be 
described as arable lands, and that throughout 
the whole area of the hills there is a luxuriant 
growth of grasses, making it a region well 
adapted to stock raising. The portion of the 
Hills containing gold, covers an area of about 
800 square miles. Gold is not found in abund¬ 
ance but will doubtless pay a profit to day 
labor. 
Mr. Thomas Winans, tbe Baltimore million¬ 
aire, is to have built at his residence in that 
city what will be the largest organ in this coun¬ 
try. 
The one hundred and sixteenth birthday an¬ 
niversary of the renowned poet Schiller was 
celebrated by many German societies in this 
and the Fatherland, on tbe 10th inst. 
Mr. George Bancroft announces that he has 
in preparation a lilstory of the United States, 
from the close of the Revolutionary war to the 
present time, In four volumes. 
In the suit known as the “ Fious Fund" case 
of the Roman Catholic Church, represented by 
three Roman Catholic clergymen of Ban Fran¬ 
cisco, against Mexico, Sir Edward Thornton, the 
umpire in the United States and Mexican Claims 
Commission awarded the Church $907,400 in 
gold. 
There was a heavy shock of an earthquake at 
Kuoxvillo, Tenn., on the 12th inst., causing 
buildings to sway and a rumbling like an ex¬ 
plosion coming from the West and rolling grad¬ 
ually East. The shock lasted ten seconds. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Mu. William Blackmorr, the founder of the J 
Blackmore Museum at Saltsbury, England, is 
preparing a paper on the antecedents of e 
William Penn, which he will read In America a 
during tho Centennial year. 8 
President MacMahon, members of his Cabi- 1 
net, many Deputies, and other distinguished 
persons have subscribed to the fund, for the 
centennial statue in New York Harbor, and p 
several of the principal cities of France have p 
voted contribution*. 
Disastrous floods were reported on the 14th 
Inst, throughout England and in Ireland. The 1 
streams were also rising. Tho River Folks, J 
near Dublin, bad burst its banks and submerged * 
thousands of acres. 
The Spanish government has forwarded to ( 
their agents In New York orders to buy up and 
ship at once provisions and ammunition to the ( 
amount of $500,000. The money for this pur- f 
pose was contributed in Havana on the 20th 
ultimo, upon receipt of telegram* from Madrid t 
to tho effect that American intervention was * 
feared, and that all that could be done Lo deter 1 
It was advisable. 
Efforts are making among the small republics 
of Central A mnrlca to re-enact tho federal com- * 
pact dissolved In 1839. Tho live States parties 1 
to the proposed compact have an aggregate 1 
area of 336,970 square miles, aud population of 
2,045,000. 
French experiments indicate that iron rails 
of excellent quality show iu three years a wear 
of 0.393 Inches, while steel rails show in four 
years a Wear of only 0.157 inches, the table of 
rail preserving a perfectly regular form. 
M. Bertholdc, umpire of the American-Span- 
ish Claims Commission, has awarded to Joaquin 
G. De Argerica $748,180, for property seized and 
loss and deterioration of the same by the hands 
of the Spanish authorities in Cuba. 
It is stated that tne Russian Government is 
engaged in a fresh raid against socialist agita¬ 
tors. Arrests have been effocted In numerous 
places among others at Moscow, Tula, Odessa, 
Riazan and St. Petersburg. In one vlbage 
alone near Moscow, thirty workingmen have 
been seized by me Police. 
Colonel Gowan, of New York, who had raised 
tbe wrecks of the Russian fleet iu the harbor 
of Sebastopol, has been officially invited by the 
British Adralrality to put iu proposals for 
raising tho irou-clad Vanguard, sunk off Wick¬ 
low Head. 
It is rumored that recruits are being taken in 
Now York by secret agents In the servioe of the 
Spanish Government, from among the most 
indigent of our foreign population. Jtallaus, 
Irish and Poles and other European nationali¬ 
ties, at tbe rate of $100 gold and a promise of 
fifty acres at the close of the war In Cuba, for 
tbe term of one year from date of being muster¬ 
ed into tbe army thither. 
At Lima, Peru, some terrible fights have 
taken place at the polls between tbe adherents 
of Gen. Prado and those of Admiral Moutero. 
In the Parish of Bautaua a steady interchange 
of shots took place for thrse hours. The 
Montero party at last gave way. 
It is proposed to hold an Electrical Exhibition 
at Paris in 1877, In the Palnisde [’Industrie ; Us 
object beiBg to illustrate all the applications 
of electrlcty to the arts, to industry and to 
domestic purposes. This project has been 
received with general favor by both scientific 
and industrial classes, 
Recent letters from Explorer Stanley dated 
Ulagalla, Africa, have been received. He con¬ 
firms Speke’s view that Lake Yictoria-Nyance 
is one large body of water, and not u series of 
small lakes, as held by Livingstone. Stanley’s 
i observations on this matter will be discussed lu 
the Royal Geographical Society. It is conse- 
queully believed that Stanly will discover the 
• source of the Nile. 
News has been received of the British expe- 
s dltlou to punish the x>iratical natives on the 
3 Congo River for murdering English sailors. The 
entire squadron on the West Coast of Africa 
was engaged, and sent boatsup the river. Many 
villages were destroyed and a large number of 
natives killed. The British lost on? man killed 
and six wounded. 
The first regular and complete census of In¬ 
dia which has ever been taken was in 1871. 
British India, including the feudal tory states, 
was found to have an area of 1,450.744 square 
miles, or about one-tbtrdtboareaof theUnlted 
States, and its population was 238,830.!>58, or 
about six times as large as that of the United 
States. 
A recent storm on the Scotch coast involved 
greater loss of life and property than that 
caused by any storm within the recollection of 
persons living. Within a period of eight days 
the shores of the Forfar, Kincardine and 
Aberdeenshire coasts have been strewn with 
wrecks, and as the coast is generally formed of 
precipitous rocks 80 and 100 feet high, the loss 
of life has been appalling. Over a seahoard of 
not more than eighty miles the ascertained loss 
of lire in one week amounts to between fifty 
and sixty. 
It is rumored that asplit has occured between 
Austria, Russia and Germany regarding the 
Herzegovinian trouble. Austria threatens to 
occupy Herzegovina, and Russia threatens to 
take possession of the Danubian principalities. 
Should this happen, England will seize Egypt 
and the Isle of Crete. 
The Porte baa ordered the districts of Tre- 
bigne, Biletz and Pina to be detached from 
Herzegovina and organized as a separate de¬ 
partment, which will be placed under an Ar¬ 
menian Greek Governor. 
A mammoth telescope, said to be the largest 
ever made, is now in process of construction at 
a factory near Dublin, Ireland. It is building 
at the order of the Austro-Hungarian Govern¬ 
ment for tbe new observatory at Vienna, to be 
finished by the autumn of 1878. 
The factory of Messrs. Cook & Sons, whole¬ 
sale clothiers at Tamworth, Staffordshire, En¬ 
gland, has been burned, throwing six hundred 
operatives out of employment. 
The production of silk iu South America is 
rapidly improving both in quantity and quality. 
At a local exhibition recently held at Buenos 
Ayres, somo samples, both raw and manufac¬ 
tured, were shown, which compared favorab¬ 
ly, In the opinion of experts, with the host silks 
of Asia. 
The Viceroy of Egypt lias used $65,000, which 
had been raised to erect a monument for him¬ 
self, to found a public school at Alexandria. 
Eight hundred soldiers sailed for Cuba from 
Spain on the 10th Inst., and 5,000 more are pre¬ 
paring to embark. 
Tbe Court* of the Common Council of the 
City of London have taken action to suppress 
all publications which are calculated to bo 
prejudicial to youth as incentives to the com¬ 
mission of crime. 
The police In Havaua are reported as senreh- 
iug houses aud arresting persons presumed to 
be in connivance with Carlos Garcia's band or 
with tne Insurgents. Forty or fifty persons cf 
a'i classes iu Guanabaeoa and Regia, aud as 
many more in Sail Felipe and Bejucal, and 
several in Guinea and other places, have been 
seized Iu the middle of the night, bound and 
marched off to prison, among them some 
foreigners. 
A British expedition for the north-west coast 
of Africa is to leave England In November to 
find a harbor suitable for a commercial and 
missionary station. 
Tbe movement for tho establishment of an 
aquarium at Westminster is progressing rapidly. 
The Bite acquired extends over two and a half 
acres of land, purchased at a cost of $400,000, and 
the building contract accepted is $410,000. The 
works are. to be completed by Christmas. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Arlington, Morrow Co., Ohio, Nov. lO. —The 
heavy rains of June, July aud August, did 
much damage to crops, yet they woro large la 
quantity and of fair quality. Corn is a good 
average crop, but the frost came about two 
weeks too soon. We have about one-fourth 
soft corn. Fodder is more or less damaged. 
Oats were badly lodged ; but a fair crop and 
good quality. Tbe cold snap in April destroyed 
apples, peaches, pears, plums and quinces, etc., 
and, consequently, they are scarce and high 
priced. Apples selling at $6 per bbk, and 
peaches sold at $2 to $3 per bushel. New wheat 
is worth $1.10; rye, C5u.; corn, 46c.; oats, 40c.; 
clover seed, $6@7; butter, 22c.; eggs, 2<jc. The 
weather hasjbeeu quite changeable of late; ou 
the 29th of Oct. we bad thunder showers all 
day, and on tbe 30th snow squalls ; then a few 
days of very pleasant w eather again. On the 
Slat another very heavy thuuder shower, last¬ 
ing all day. since which it has been very pleas¬ 
ant. Potatoes are a large yield. 21. Jacoby, 
one of my nelgheors, raised 566 bushels on or.e 
acre, the largest yield known In this county. 
Tne hay crop has been very light; but the pas¬ 
tures nave been very good up to this date. 
Clover seed will he scarce, owing to the hard 
freezing last winter; clover sown last spring is 
a good catch. Stock is looking well, except 
horses having the epizootic, which is very prev¬ 
alent. -G. GoilPjr. 
Fulton Station, Fulton Co,, Ky., Nov, 5lh.— 
We are uow having Indian Summer. Our 
bountiful corn crop is being gathered and a 
large acreage of wheat Is being sown. Cotton 
is being picked and marketed in flue condition. 
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