NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
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LA PRESSE VETERINAIRE. 
This is a new monthly, independent, veterinary journal, pub¬ 
lished in Paris, under the direction and with the assistance of sev¬ 
eral veterinarians. Each number contains about forty pages of 
interesting articles, relating to pathology, jurisprudence, profes¬ 
sional subjects, and reports of societies. 
It is, we believe, the sixth veterinary journal published in 
France. We tender the Presse Veterinaire our sincere wishes 
for its success. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
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Anthrax in Louisiana. — The Planter's Journal , of New 
Orleans, speaks of the prevalence of a form of anthrax affecting 
horses and mules in the vicinity of Pointe-a-la-Hache. Swell¬ 
ings or tumors appear on different parts of the animals, which, 
if not early controlled, rapidly increase and cause death. The 
loss so far is about thirty-five head. 
A great number of horses at La Salle, Ill., are affected with a 
disease which, from newspaper reports, is presumably influenza. 
But few deaths are reported. 
The number of sheep in Nebraska has in six years increased 
from thirty thousand to nearly two hundred thousand. 
The “Siberian Plague ” has broken out in some parts of East¬ 
ern Russia, and is said to be attacking the human as well as the 
bovine species. 
The Medical and Surgical Reporter , of Aug. 6th, contains 
the following: 
Trichinosis in American Hams. —A strong opposition to the 
use of American hams is becoming manifest in Europe. At the 
meeting of the German Public Health Association, in Berlin, in 
June, the Director of the Royal Veterinary School, Prof. Roloff, 
gave a very unfavorable opinion against them, saying, that from 
