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ing, and a diarrhoea. After considerable chasing we succeeded 
in catching one of them ; age, two years : pulse, 90 ; respiration, 
32; legs, horns and body warm; . administered one dram of 
sulphuric acid in water. Next day Mr. Gleason reported this 
one apparently improving and the other one warm ; but on the 
morning of the 26th both were found dead, together with a third 
one, which had not been previously noticed. No opportunity 
was given for examination. 
Martin & Gleason suffered a total loss of seven head out of a 
herd of 130 then in the pasture. 
Six of the number that died had been placed upon this field 
on the 8th day of September, and the seventh one had been in 
since early in J une. 
The field in which these cattle died is situated four miles 
north of Sterling, Whiteside County, State of Illinois, and on the 
west side of a public road running north and south ; the field 
contains 160 acres of part timber and part bottom land ; through 
it runs a good-sized stream of water named Elkhorn creek; into 
this field were placed about 100 head of Cherokee or Indian cat¬ 
tle, on or about the 5th day of June last, together with about 
50 head of native cattle; and the 23d day of July another lot of 
Cherokee and native cattle, numbering 50 head, were added ; 
both lots were purchased in Chicago, where they had just been 
received from St. Louis. Throughout the season, or from June 
1st to September 25th, about 500 head of cattle or upwards, in¬ 
cluding the two lots mentioned, had been pastured on this field, 
and from thence went by small lots to the butchers at the rate 
of 100 a month. On the 25th of September about 120 head, 
the number then remaining in the field, were sold and shipped 
to Chicago. 
On the 1st day of July a heavy freshet occurred, which swept 
away the fence intervening between the field of Martin & Glea¬ 
son’s on the west, and that of Mr. William Echtinach’s on the 
west; the fences along the road were also carried away, and the 
cattle of Martin & Gleason’s crossed the road into the pasture 
field of David Wolf, through it into John Stouffer’s, thence into 
Ben Bressler’s timber; in Mr. Wolf’s field some of the Cherokee 
