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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Army Intelligence. —The resignation of Veterinary Surgeon 
Martin Jordan has been accepted, to take effect Nov. 30, ’81.— 
Army mid Navy Journal. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia is again reported in Germantown and 
Delaware County, Penn. 
King Kalakua, when in this part of the country recently, 
bought several Kentucky thoroughbred Piorses and colts, which 
will be forwarded to Honolulu.— Prairie Farmer. 
A dairyman in Halifax had live children down with scarla¬ 
tina. He, however, continued to dispense milk to his customers. 
Of eighty-two families he thus supplied, forty-live were attacked 
with scarlet fever.— American Cultivator. 
Yesterday, October 20, a Jersey heifer, belonging to Col. 
Taggart’s herd, aged 13 months and 24 days , was delivered of a 
finely developed solid heifer calf. The mother was dropped 
August 20, 1880.— Public Press. 
Texas contains over 5,000,000 head of cattle, over 1,000,000 
of horses, and about 6,000,000 sheep. In cattle raising it stands 
first among the States of the Union, in horse raising second, and 
in sheep raising third, if not second.— Oul. and Country Gent. 
Augustus Storr, of Brooklyn, H. Y., has presented to the 
State of Connecticut a well-stocked farm, with suitable buildings, 
situated in the township of Mansfield, seven miles north of Wil- 
limantic, as a foundation for a State Agricultural School. The 
gift has been accepted by the State, an annual appropriation 
made for the support of the school, and a Board of Trustees ap¬ 
pointed.— Prairie Farmer. 
M. de Lacerda has made in Brazil some experiments, showing 
that permanganate of potash is an almost certain antidote for 
the bite of snakes. M. de Lacerda has not as yet tried its effi¬ 
ciency on himself, but in the case of thirty dogs on whom he 
experimented, only two died under exceptional circumstances. 
