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is reported as existing extensively among cattle of Charleston 
aud Lincoln, Ill. The eyesight is affected and total blindness 
results. 
Hereford Cattle were first brought into this country in 1815 
by Henry Clay. They were kept on his farm in Lexington, Ky. 
Pyaemia in Cattle. —In connection with the reported disease 
among cattle in Nova Scotia, it has been learned from official 
sources that for the past twenty years the disease reported pre¬ 
valent has been purely local in its effects. It is infectious with¬ 
out being contagious. The difficulty has been in the superficial 
burials, arid carcasses having been dragged instead of being carried 
have caused a spread of the disease. The best preventive is ab¬ 
solute cremation. The malady lasts about twenty-four hours, the 
symptoms being lameness in the hind quarters, and afterward a 
general swelling. The diagnosis of the disease has established 
beyond question that it is merely a case of blood poisoning. 
The Massachusetts Ploughman states that Dr. Thayer has 
been ordered to Nova Scotia, to investigate the reported disease 
existing among cattle in that region. It is generrdly belived to 
be a blood disease, and confined to a certain area in the county 
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of Pictouns. 
The New York City papers report a fatal disease as attack¬ 
ing horses in Brooklyn. It is, in all probability, nothing more 
than influenza. 
Large Colt. —Mr. Moreland, of Covington, Ky., has a four- 
year-old horse colt that measures 21 hands in height, and weighs 
1,900^ pounds. He is said to be well built and very active. 
A Horse Commits Suicide. —An old horse belonging to a Mr. 
Saunders at Fishkill Landing, came out of his owner’s barn a few 
days since, and stood for a few minutes looking out upon the water. 
He then went back, and in a few moments came out again, went 
deliberately to the water, waded into the cove that is inclosed by 
the Hudson Iiiver Railroad track, swam through the culvert under 
the railroad and out into the channel of the river. A man work 
ing on the New England Railroad pile-driver saw the manoeuvres 
