Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — still More About That Cattle Disease. [ARTICLE]

still More About That Cattle Disease.

Sweeney, an Irishman and a Catholic, ran away behind hie ticket for superintendent of public instruction. With one exception, we have never known an Irishman to run behind on the Republican ticket. He always gets* the loyal support of the party. We know of do exception to the rule that an Irishman always runs behind on the Democratic ticket. The matter of most importance Attaching to the recent congressional successes of the- Republican party is that i.i the Fiftieth Congress it will liave a majority if twenty State delegations. It is to this Congress that the Presidential election u ill !>e re "erred ;[ there is a failure to elect by the electoral college, in that case the Republican candidate will tie elected by a majority of two St... esi

Freedom still lives, amt base usurpation is rebuke;!. T'4e in famous gerrymander, which undertook to rob one third o£ the people of the free exercises of their po litical rights, more than anything else carried the state end the legislature forth© Keppblieans. We 4ill have faith in the judgment, integrity and patriotism of a majority of the people of the great, free North. We believe that when questions that involve freedom and the decision of a moral question are fairly presented, a majo’uty -will always be found who -have mind enough to see the right and moral courage enough to net on their convictions; and we now file notice on the Republican? that it they re-district this state and don’t rdoiton a fair, square, equitable basis they will be buried from power the same ns have been tin perpetrators of the i ast grand" fraud. The election of a ft.-pub-lican legislature till ., t ;. v i ■ -; 1 - ply a vindication et ri, lit, •>d it will always h • i>. a v\ - .1? in power.

Last week Go;. . t r . independent ca senator in this-clLuic: -la. that he would crniecf u * election jwith his opponent f i: the that he had been do?, aadeu opTuf the election.— Re -L *id Dt :.or. in, tm. ; y_: One Patrick E<x!> , requested md procured one Dr. C. K. Lobv -rts, without the knowledge or consent of Dr. Patton, to file the notice, which he at once withdrew. Here'is the proof: Dr. C. K. Roberts, who made m affidavit to the effect that he .had reason to believe, and did believe, thfjt money was used in securing the election of certain republican candidates, has withdrawn the affidavit —-Keniland I>e;nocraf, Nov. 19 , 188 G. Bro. should use a soothing trod healing lotion. A. boniest so Quickly done for, creates a wcinder what it was begun l. • -OT». tjr- • ) Srcadn Thompson was lion es.fy'fi'bmiiated and lionestly elect'll by &18 majority over the Dem*octmb, Greenoackers, Prohibitionists and “bolters.” The majority % not very large but it ife'enough. *

A gain of four Republican members of Congress from Virginia has a dangerous look for the solid Stutli. The Virginia delegation will stand six Republicans and ] four Democrats in tiie Fiftieth i Congress. ....

Speaker Carlisle says: “Colonel | Morrison loses nothing*by his defeat. It makes him the leading figure in Democracy iu the country.” And yet Colonel Morrison would have been glad to be elected and furego the “leading-figure” business for a season.

Rleuro-pneumonia among cattle is a very fatal and very contagious disease, always spreading very rupidly and very insidiously, and never exterminated from a neighborhood after it has once gained a foothold except at the cost of much trouble and money. The best modern authorities hold that the disease never generates spontaneously but it is always the result of contagiou. The fact that such a destructive contagion was widely believed to have become widely prevalent in many counties of this state, and even including our own county, was a matter well calculated to attract general interest and to excite general apprehension, and we are glad to be able to state definitely that the general concurrence of Opinion among the highest medical authorities, makes i-t certain that there are not now, nor have there been lately any genuine, cases of pleuropneumonia among the cattle of this state. Among the eminent authorities who have made this conclusion are Dr. Salmon, of the Agricultural Department, of Washington, Dr. Searight, President",!' the State Board of Health and Dr. Pritchard, one of the leading veterinary surgeons o' Indianapolis. *' In regard to the disease which was’first mistaken for the pleuropn'Mimoma, it is probable that the above named gentleman understand its nature and true name clearly enough, but at the same time the daily papers have made Queer work in reporting tire doctors' opinions. The}” have spoken of it by the names of hooso, hush, horse, stranglys, stror.giys and strangles; also the vemiculor.s, bronchitis, verminous', bronchitis, dn’d “pernicious” bronchitis. Verminous Bronchitis is the. correct name. It has been frequently stated to be contagious and about as frequently to be non-couta-gious. It is caused by minute, liber like worms which develop in great numbers in the lungs and bronchial tubes of the animals affected. It is said to attack only calves and very young cattle. According to some theories the worms are caused by the 'feeding to calves the whev of cheese factories in which the eggs wlitcfr produce-the worms have been deposited by the parent insects. Tile disease, is reported to have made considerable lmvoc in Clinton county and in the vicinity of Boswell, in Benton county. It is probable, however, that reports of die ravages of the disease in these counties have been considerably exaggerated, it we may judge from the fact that the statement Inis he-'fi widely.pnbiished that 2,000 a* f entile had been sick with ; th- J-;.-•-a- ,* in Jasper county at ; mo h.’.ei* and that tl:>- .J:ame*s ’.h-r. numi’g; Cu ir animals out oi tiiv adatity'*'V',y the thousand.- The j.., <: . >aml.ui u for thisrepoit O.e;lyd. tha facr that.' VTv. Littlefie d, I .war Kerningftm,- ke.tr- kv^-sbv^;;.; •featTe from a »iisease whicii. iu th- ; general excitement which iViiov.yd j | the .ontlireak of the.supposed j ; pleuro-pnenmdiiia in Cliiiton and otoer counties was lmstily decided to be the same disease, a diagnosis which is improbable iu the last degree.