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GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS. 
ists. Immediately outside the limits of the township are said to be 
fourteen horses, kept by one owner, and which are said to be all 
very similarly affected, and may possibly prove to be another 
center of contagion. Whether these animals have contracted the 
disease from contact with glandered horses in this township, or 
elsewhere in this county, I am not prepared to state; but during 
my brief sojourn at Sterling my attention was called to a horse> 
which I examined and found affected with glanders. 
I am in frequent receipt of letters and telegrams from various 
parts of the State, referring to the existence of glanders among 
horses; and the following two letters, just received, would seem 
to indicate the existence of a formidable scourge in that locality : 
viz :— 
, Du Quoin, III., April 18, 1883. 
N. H. Paaren, M. D., State Veterinarian: 
Sir : — There is a disease among horses in this county, cre¬ 
ating quite an alarm among the people. Some judges pronounce 
it glanders. 
Will you please come down and look after the matter ? Come 
to Du Quoin, and you will be taken out from there. Please let 
me know by return mail what you will do, and when you will 
come. Yours truly, 
A. J. Brown. 
Two others have been received from the same locality, and 
also a telegram. The following letter has just been received 
from the Governor’s office in Springfield, together with a com¬ 
munication from the private secretary of the Governor, saying 
that “ if you can do so, the Governor thinks you had better go at 
once to Perry County.” But what is the use of my going ? I 
have no authority whatever to do anything there, because our 
present laws have no reference to horses. If it be glanders, raging 
at that rate, it may not be long before the loss of more human 
lives will be reported. 
Du Quoin, III., April 18, 1883. 
Governor Hamilton, Springfield, III., 
Dear Sir: —There is now on Paradise Prairie, in this county, 
a disease among horses creating quite an alarm among the peo- 
