The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1872, Page 5

ENFLEWHENZA, ullino-Febro-Sincipetal-An- asarchal Bulbosity. Dreadful Effects of the Morbid Vis- itant to the Barnyards. PANATHLI-NOSOS-DEINOS-ORNIC-EPHALITIS is It a Flank Movement by the Thanksgiving Turkeys? GAENA-AGUS-BIAH -MORAGHA. terview with a Turkey Gobbler, a Puliet and a Red-Headed Rooster in Westchester. DASWELCHEDIEHUBNEERMORDERT. Wou Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice. E CROWING OF THE POULTRYMEN. Mhoice Chit-Chat Among Chary and Chicken-Hearted Purchasers. There was consternation dire in the various city lanrkets yesterday among the poultry dealers, To ‘ay that they were ‘‘wild” with indignation that ig newspapers should presume to 3 ublsh any- hing refating to the fowl disease, without first suiting their wishes, would be but conveying an -xceedingly faint idea of their feelings on the ubject, Of course it is a matter of no consequence whatever to the dear, good public, who must eat wr die in the attempt, whether or not what hey do get to eat is of a nature to throw their tomachic enginery out of gear, or of a quality that is certain to kill at sight, At least so think many the warketmen, big and little, rich and poor reign and native, whenever any disease breaks jut among the becves, their sheep, their calves, heir turkeys or their chickens. Under the cireum- uces the fecling among the poultry folks yester- jay may admit of palliation—by those who live on and consequently are never liable to fall vic_ ‘ims to trichinosed pork or unwholesome beef- teak and various other doubtful commodities that ye have all heard of once upon a time, each in its Nelightful turn, A HERALD reporter, caring more or the dear public than the profit of the poultry- gen, made A TOUR OF THE MARKETS esterday to see what could be seen on the stands p the way of good and bad poultry, and to hear what could be heard for and against the dangers I the discase among the dealers and their cus- omers. Two things were quite noticeable: the juiness of the business and the small stock of voultry on hand, 0 be In a majority of cases fresh and good in every varticnlar. Whether there was not an extra stock ot 80 fresh and good somewhere out of view at ome of the stalls is a question which might be uawered by a dapper young gentleman in the usiness, who stated to the reporter that “what yasn’t worth nothin’ was put ‘side, and then ddeq, with a knowing leer, “thar’ll be more nor ne pusson !o0-night what'll be glad to git ‘em.’ No oubt daylight was not beneficial to THE EXTRA STOCK, At one of the stands in Washington Market the porter met u well-dressed female, who looked as she knew herown business best, and was never a the habit of taking impudence from anybody ithout giving the giver a full return payment in is own coin. She was of the heavy double-decker rder, fully two hundred avoirdupois. Her voice id credit in sonorousness to its owner's general ake up. She had a large basket on her arm, ram full of vegetables, with just enough room at me end fora leg of mutton to keep its place with- t danger of being lost. She was a buyer in the narket, not a seller. “Vat are ye sellin’ yer checkens‘at?”’ she shouted a littic man behind the stand as she seized hold one With a grasp that would have certainly given he poor thing its final quictus had it not got it efore she put in an appearance hat’s eighteen cenis a pound,” replied the ealer suavely and rupbing his hands complacently 8 though the action made him look all the more ondeseending. ‘AD ‘os? the head ov it?’ exclaimed the wo- Nan; and as she uttered the words she looked at Fae headless neck, nicely tied up with a piece of little man, as though he i committed some awful ime and his ques- soner had discovered a damning ciue to the deed, ‘Why,’ he answered, bowing and scraping and ubbing bis hauds with greater energy tian ever, sometimes we CUT THE TREADS OFF, ‘you want one with » head on you can have one. ‘ou see— Yes, I eee,” broke forth the would-be buyer, etting red in the iace and deliberately setting h leavy basket down upon the chicken In dispute, D’ye take me fur a fule is it, aad it’s mesel? that's ved in the country afore lever saw the market. hat thing iz disaized,” What do you mean f? ‘Mean is it? The papers have told all abont it, nd ye foiks are cutting the heads off ov the bastes 9 that ye can decaive poor people; but yell not ecaive the likes ov me,” and grumbling and aming with rage, the old woman took up her asket and waddied out towards the ferry, leaving a¢ poor dealer ip a state of wonderment not easy »describe. The reporter, who had stood by en- ayitg the scene to lis heart’s content, remarked ) the dealer, “Smart woman, that.’ mart fool,” he snappishly replied. “She's runk or crazy.” The reporter passed on and said nothing, but, ke Paddy’s parrot, “did a power of thinkin’, srgely in favor of the big woman’s view of the age, particularly after he had seen THE MUCH-ABUSED CHICKEN ‘ut carefully ont of the way in the rear par! of the and among a lot of old boxes, The dealers in asbingtou Market, as has already been inti- sated, were furious about the articles in the apers about the disease among the fowls, One ould feel their wrath in the air as he passed by mong the stalls and heard them discussing the situation.’ Of course the reporter at once came » the conclusion that he had vetter travel tncog., 4 do other distinguished persons, such as kings 24 princes, when they want to know what other 2opie think about them or their realms. Besides, ey Say that prudence is the better part of valor, ad a word picked up here and another word there she nonchalantly passed along told him as plainly i language could tell that newspaper men were in 2 imminent risk of being invited to a Thauksgiv- € diner by any one of THE FOWL SELLERS, Ashe came up from the West street side of the arket through Fulton street, keeping ail the whilo the market, a large stall, ciean and attractive, ad with geese, turki ducks and chickens angling tn inviting profusion from the hooks, as expied about the middie of the block. An ei- rly man, who looked like a weil-to-do farmer, oon on the sidewaik leaning carelessly against ie stand, on which was a row oi chickens. A young ap, With rosy cheeks anda dainty air generally, as seated on abigh stool within the enclosure. fe had his back against the partition of the stati, id bis ‘ily White hands were tightly interlaced yout his knees, whick he had drawn up within a winches of his incipient mustache, ‘The Sara, an jooked as if he was at peace with all the work At the young one vas evidently in bad humor, It ay be that he had not had his breakfast or had sen bored by @ cranky customer. The reporter ade up his min’ \o stop then and there, and he dstop. He gazeu with all the keenness of a con- issour at the tempting row of CHICKENS ON THE STAND, ya then allowed his eyes to wander in hel {miration over @ big turkey that hung hea nwnward from a nail high up on one of tie posts the stall, The apparent fascination which that key exorcise. over the reporter attracted the tention of the older of the two men, and as the rmer's eyes met bis he nodded knowingly, as eh as to say, “Did you ever see the like?” ‘the porter was eqial to the occasion, He asked the i , that turkey, and got all its family histor: i ot am jould, ahd then. he talked culcken 1a various phases, iro ese iaying.apd ege hatch What was on the stands seemed | NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. wn to the death of the full grown he wie aay for the market,” ‘hts naturally brough' Dim easily into Be salvect, CS 28 chicken disease, er. and thav’s just what he was ei kak sake BI way,’ said he, b oceation, but with ‘an air of chicken innocence that disal all suspicion as to his true character, “What i the bs face te this chicken disease I hear 80 much talk about ‘The elderly man hastily shoved bis hat to the back of his head, crossed his arms over his manly, bosom, put his right feot a few inches in front of his Tet, ‘and, looking the reporter straight in the eye, uttered the monoasiiabie, His innocent interlocutor waited goles for some. thing more definite, but the elderly man bad ay parently made up his mind that the monosyllable covered the entire Pg juiry. However, the reporter after awhile, by repeating the question in a different way, was treated with a longer reply. It was again “Stuf,” but with the explanatory addendum of ‘‘and nonsense.” Here the word ‘non- sense” seemed to strike some hidden key in the rosy-eheeked young man’s breast, and, suddenty unelasping his hands, thereby letting ‘bis. knees take a sudden goodby to the mustache, near which they had all along been keeping loving companion- ship, he broke forth:— “Yes, sir; it’s all stuffand nonsense. The chick- ens have got no more disease than I have,” and at this he came to a dead stop, as if to let the reporter look down his throat to verify the assertion about his own sanitary condition, The reporter, how- ever, made no attempt to do anything of the kind, whereupon the youth continued, as his hands again took possession of his kuces and drew them toward the moustache, “The newspapers started this story to RUIN US FOLKS here.”” down The reporter made manifest by a holy look of horror his detestation of such athing as a news- paper seeking toruin anybody, which seemed to nye the young man courage to proceed, And he id proceed thus:—"They have done it before, and they'll have to go under, and they didn’t suceced, and they won’t this time neither, will they?” The queery Which wound up this obituary of the news- papers was addressed to the elderly man, who, aving relaxed from the striking attitude ne had assumed when PUTTING DOWN THE LAW abont stuff and nonsense, was ready to join in the conversation again, So he remarked senten- tiously, without committing hiinself, about the dreadiul purposes of the newspapers :— “As I said before, this talk about the chicken dis- ease is stuf? and nonsense. I’ve been in the poul- try business goin’ on forty year, and 1 never re- member to have seed nicer looking fowl in my life as is here in the market now. ‘hore {8 inspectors here who is experts, and they'll tell you the same thing, and tiey don’t get paid for it neither. Now iyemember some time ago there was great talk about ahog disease. Wuy, pshaw, it wasn’t nothin’ but the measiés, and that wasn’t much to make a tusé about, Hogs will hey measles, and they get over ’em alter; but Inever seed any measly hog meat in this market. Fact is, 7” THE MEN IN THE MARKET is as particlar about getting gqod meat as cus- tomers is not to get any? 2 ed And here wae young man broke in and took up the :d00 the older one had just put forth, “Yes,” said he, trying all the while to smile pleas: antly, "people here are as particular as can be.”? ‘Then the old man added, “Now this chicken disease is all talk. I’ve seen chickens have what's called the ‘pip,’ and many ov ’em die ov it; but it’s all bosh to say they've got this disease the horses’s got. Whoever wrote that in the HERALD about the heads of the hens gettin’ swelled up didn’t know much about chickens,’ and the old gentleman laughed aloud at the very thought of a hen’s head being swollen, The mention of the HERALD appeared to excite the young man to @ wonderful degree, and, losing hold of his knees and bringing. his right han down upon a fat chicken on the stand with an energetic slap that well nigh startled the reporter out of his wits, he exclaimed :— “CHICKENS WITH SWELLED HEADS! We'd ju-t like to see one of those HuRazp re- porters down here, we would. Iveckon tie t would make him have @ swelled head in less than no time,” This threat made the reporter feel more than usually comfortable, but, not feeling over anxivus for a scrimmage, he quietly suppressed his inciina- tion to throw off his incog., and tiereby be the blessed means of creating a lively time among the stalls, and remarked :— “So the ‘boys’? would ‘go for’ the HeraLp men, would they 7”? The young man threw back his head, savagely caught hoid of tis knees again in the old way and jerked ont through his clenched teeth, as if ne'd like to have one of the HeRratp reporters for a meal, “They wouldn’t stay long. if they'd come and we got hold of °em once. We'd make ‘em so sick that they’d leave this market alone for some time,” and the murderous emphasis the young Man put on the words “so sick” was enolgh to make a reporter's blood run coid, “Do you think the newspaper men want to ruin you people here ?”” asked tte reporter, “yes, I do. I know they do,” said the young man, growing more savage in appearance by dogress; “they waut to have this market pulled down, They've been at it for years, They've all every one of ‘em, got an interest in the Manhattan Market, up town, and they think taey can put us out of here, so we'll go up there, But they can’t, they can’t!”’ and just here the young man took a long breath and then wound up by exclaiming, “Tuey can’t; because THERE'S TOO MUCH MONRY HERE.” The reporter at this stage of the conversation changed the subject to the price of chickens, which he ascertained, with a savage growl from the young man, “wouldn’t go down a cen: on account of the disease talk.’ He then bid the stall keeper good- by and trudged along quietly through the market and in the poultry districts just as though there Was not a price on his head and Washington Market was not in New York, THE RAVAGES OF THF DISEASE It may be said, by way of conclusion, that during his travels in Fulton Market the reporter ran across a gentieman residing at Roselle, N.J., who intormcd him that, despite the denials of the poul- try dealers in the city, the disease was making sad ravages among the poultry in that vicinity and elsewhere that he had obtained reliabie informa- tion about, A neighbor of tus lost twenty-nine chickens on Saturday, and he had heard o! another who had a large hennery who had lost ten, and had nearly ali the rest of his stock sick, He also gave it 4s his opinion, irom personal observation, having lost all i told—chat the disease was caught by the chickens going into the mangers of the horses which had been sick of the epizooty. “You s¢ said he, “the food was saturated with the poisonous fluid that ran from the horses’ noses, and in eating it they got naturaily sick, They also get it by pick- ing in the dung heaps, where the soiled etraw of tie sick horses’ stables—which was more or less ia- fected—was thrown.” THE REMEDY. “What is a good remedy tor the disease 7? he was asked, Py “L don’t know what ought to be done for the sick fowls,’ he said, “butif those not already sick are kept in their coops and fed there they will escape.” COUNTRY FOWL INTERVIEWED. Pamping a Pallet on the Sitaation= Learned Diagnosis from a Cockadco- diedoo=The Lament of a Turkey Gob-= bler—Sauce from a Goose=The Lay of a Hen, Fisugi.u, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1872. The ‘“cock’s shrill clarion” made itself heard from dunghili and barnyard as I pushed out from Fishkill this morning to hunt up cases of orni- cephaizymosis in Putnam county. I anticipated amore dreadful slaughter of the innocents by the relentless zymosis than I found, I thought I de- tected in the clarion of the roosters a wild note of heartfelt. grief, and 1 wag prepared to witness a picture of fowl and frightful extermination, Texpccted to see the roadside and the farmyard exhibit at every turn the sad evidence of an all-de- vouring plague in the shape of countless chickens turkey gobblers, geese, ducks, drakes, &c., past or passing the last agonies of disgolwtion. Thanksgiv- ing Day and ali its de‘ightiul concomitants of chicken fricassce, stuffed goose and boned turkey in the first blush of anticipation lost all its charm and looked through the near vista of time a day of gloom and disappointment. We had been talking in Fishkill of the new plague, “the swell head dis- ease,’ as one man not inappropriately called it, “It’s a trick of the butchers,” remarked a purveyor of poultry, whose stock of wild aud tame game was somewhat considerable—“a trick of the butchers,” he repeated, “got up just in time to help their own business.’? SYMPATHIZING POULTRY MERCHANTS standing around nodded assent to this conclusion, but there was a plain-spoken, awkward man near by who said he ‘‘wouidn’t tetch fowl no how,” and when asked the nature of the reason or the preju- dice that drove him to that determination, he re- plied he had “seen chickens on Alick Thompson’s farm, at Johnsville, that had jist the same as the horse disease." The discussion ended in the reckless assertion of a resolution on the part of a majority of the com- pany that they would “jist as lief eat a swell head chicken as any other.’’ A few miles from Fishkill I looked over the fence of @ farm belonging to a German pamed Wehlig, and perceiving a large con- course of fowl holding a mecting in the corner of a former truck garden, I went around and intro- duced myself. The different mombers of the ex- tensive group might have been holding a consulta tion on the dismal prospects of the times, for they were very serious, and the contented ‘“cluck, cluck” of the usnally sel’-complac turkeys, ten in number, was hashed in dignified meditation, About two dozen very youthful chickens were huddied together at ou side, looking very miser- able. THE DUCK THIBR own chickens—seventeen all | | key, and herself would be in the one bi | ble, ‘was Jargely represented: hut} noticed they wad- | which je that the leading local German Dewapaper died in a most melancholy way in and out, as if life had no further charm for them, and death would bea per, yy release. Mr. Wehlig, the propriate of the ornithological collection, appeared to be little troubled about the symptoms, and when @ face- tious neighbor, who came up to have a look, ob- served that the whole thing about the disease was mere poppycock and chicanery, the happy man laughed, he thought he aw the glimmer of a joke. There were NO SWELLED HEADS in the collection, bat very many bet: pm) ones. Mr. Wehlig ventured a humorous solution of the case by saying he was accustomed to raise a very intelligent breed of fowl, and the specimens to the fore were all perfectly cognizant of the near ap- proach of Thanksgiving and their gizzards had gone down in consequence thereof, What appeared to him as the most satisfactory view of the matter was that whether an epizootic or any other ootic Visitation came upon them he could dispose of each fowl at about the usual price per head. passed several other places where chickens con- gregated in force, but they appeared to enjoy a sumicient share of health to make them palatable in Pot ple or fricassee, even at Delmonico’s, At Anderson's farm, near ‘towner’s, the COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO “MUSIC was of the liveliest kind, At times it had a tone of defiance, a8 if the preud.stepping-roosters—a battalion in number—were prepare: behalf of their doow butchers of the mammalian tribe that come their way in the days of Thanksgiving. The geese were ina high feather, No ihoughtof the dreadful day of Le ar ¢ 80 near at hand appeared to disturb them, or, if it did, they stuffed themselves in.antici- ation on a plentitul waste of corn and resolved to jie game. ‘Ihe chickens alone were despondent. Visions of Fulton street pot pie seemed to float on the wing beiore their timid and tender fancies, and how natural they should icel but chicken-hearted under the circumstances. INTERVIEW WITH AN INTELLIGENT PULLET, With the permission of her aged parent I took one o1 the most intelligent and amiuble of a tne brood of chickens aside jor an interview, and in- quired if she had heard of the terrible zymosis, and, ifso, whether the state of her teclings permitted her to speak calmiy 0! the situation’ Sie replied playfully that there were rumors in the air about | such a thing, but haying inherited a good, tough constitution irom her ancestors sie expected to weather the zymotic storm and be a comiort to her parents in their declining years, “I hope,” said she, with a sunguine and aspiring expression of tie leit wing, “to graduate next year mn eges and = «olay the foundation of a happy iamily and a happy future, J have no servile ambition, like some of my com- panions have, to eater to the wanion appetite of | city people and take @ place at the tables of the great. 1 prefer a rural lie and the quiet joys of maternity. My rerpocied father yonder, with the red cockade, Who won his spurs on many a hafd- fought dunguill, is better acquainted with the nature of the te gl of which rou speak, He has been studying the subject im the family roost every night, and knows it all according to cocker, and you may fee] cocksure he will tell you no cock gnd’a bull story,” x A TALK WITH COCE-A-DOODLE. 5 Approaching the head o1 the family, who had just ceased sounding his shrill clarion, 1 put the ques- tion :—“ilas your cock-a-doodle highness been pro- perly informed oj the irresistible march ayer hill and valicy of the awiul ornicephalzymosis 7” He answered in the aflrmative, and, at the same time, like tie Spanish warrior in the ballad, bowed his crested head and tamed his flery gizzard. He looked every inch cock of the walk, and the dignity of us bea: ing was only equatied by tie ponderosity of his language. He said ve had had advices trom some neighboring roosts in regard to the epi- demic, “A friend of mine, ‘said he, “made A DIAGNOSIS in the case of a chickling patient on an adjacent farm, and IF have arrived at the conclusion that this coinplaint is the same as was known to the ancients under the name of ornifluviatic con- chifera. By observing the change of color in the regio parotica, the ceroix and the regio opthalmica, and noticing a glandular swelling of the jugaium, the pectus and the gula, you may conclude that the symptoms have set in. A case may be deemed fatal when the desiccation of the cuticle extends to the interscapulum, the uropygium and the acro- tarsiam, ‘ar water, turpeutine and Holland gin apphed to the tectrices magores, the tectrices mimores, the flexura and the humeri, will prove an effectual obstruction to the spread of the com- piaint.? None of my family have #0 far been amMicted, thanks to the supervision 1 exercise over their vegetable diet. SOME QUACKS of my acquaintance recommended chickweed for the younger members of my tainily, but that isa plant, as you know, of the stellaria species, and in the materia medica is used only in the treatment ofconsumptives. J think you gentlemen of the press have much to answer ior in spreading alarm among the simple-minded and ignorant of my race and among the races attached to us by a common bond of sympathy, Lam of sternee stu than ray noble friend the turkey, who is so easily stuited With nonsense, lighter hours, the duck, Or that fresh and simple- minded DEVOTEE OF THE SPIT, the goose, The last poor fellow was already roasted with fear in the horrid expectation of your inta- mous holocaust on Thanksgiving, but this latest strain on his feelings has plucked his last hope arr made him show the white feather. I wilt intro- duce you to Ro regia friend of the Meleagis gallopavo from Turkey. There lios that paragon of the barnyard, the pride of the goose tribe and the denght of the ducks, quite o’erthrown, Speak to him kindly and say in your account it is nothing but a weak invention of the enemy that 1 lead a henpecked life.”” TURKEY GORBLER’S PLEA. Poor old turkey, was hardly able tospeak. He was obliged to differ from lis friend cock-a-doodle. ‘i am really sick,’? he exclaimed, with much emo- tion, “‘and the truth would be known to the world only for these heartless wretches and enemies of mine, the poulterers. My iriends, the butchers, know Lam sick, and they appeal to a humane pub- lic to save me from a worse fate then ornicephal- zymosis, It is the shame of having my neck stretched I protest against. Am I less in- | nocent of crime than the mamma indignity? If you have no taste for such hibition speak @ good word for me in seas afraid my friend cock- the pouiterers, He knows his head will come to the block nor bis tail toa millinery «t Farewell.” nevi AUC THE 8 OF THE GoosE. The goose had fi ttle to say, Her friend, the tur- atand that, as she festively expressed it, was certain to be sauce boat, and what was sauce for her would be sauce for her spouse, the gander, THE LAY OF THE The leading hen in the yard little attention to the mosis, 5 Was On an other lay, but she hoped it would turn ont an og regions jalschood, and henecto:th she would never put any faith in those wretches the poul- terers. Having thus interviewed the leading spirits of the tame fowl tribes I proceeded on my journey, and reached the conclusion that the ornicephal mosis is as yet in embryo and that there is no im- mediate danger of our dinner tables being de- prived of their customary. oked aments from the barnyard on Thanksgiving Day. WHAT THE POULTERERS SAY. Six purveyors in the poultry line write Heravp, and from their communication the following:—‘‘There is no wadsual s ne among poultry at present, and the best judves o! poultry very generally avree that poultry coming to market.it the present time is unusually healthy to the we give and good; but owing to the cold and wet weather | last Spring, many of the cariier chickens died, which venders the crop smatl in some localities, perhaps less than for some years past. We have been engaged in the poultry business for many years and have correspondents all over the country, who also deal in poultry, and who are constant shippers to this city of poultry, game, &c., and we know of no diseased poultry coming to this market.”? CHLOROFORMED TO DEATH. Seance Mrs. Wittman’s Case in Newark—Sin- gular Conduct of the Authoritics—State- ment of Dr. Ill. The exclusive publication in Sunday's HERALD of the facts in the Wittmzn chloroform case, and the efforts which have since been made by in- terested parties to smother further examination into it, has excited gencral discussion in Newark, particularly in German circles. Yesterday a HERALD representative called on Dr. Ili, the physician who administered the fatal anwsthetic, at his place, No, 134 Springfleld avenue, The Doctor is a man apparently between filty and sixty years of age, of mild, unassuming man- ners, and illy able to express himseif fully in Eng- lish, The object of the reportorial visit being stated, the Doctor seemed very much agitated, but freely conversed on the subject of Mrs, Wittman's death, He said he felt “very sad” over “the mis- fortune,"’ but considered himself in no way culpa- About one year ago, he said. the woman first disiocated her shoulder, and was removed to St. Michacl’s Hospital, where he attended her. At her own request he administered chloroform and set the disjointed parts, Two months ago the same thing happened Mrs. Wittman, and a second time the Doctor treated her as before, The third time last Saturday she had the pocket handkerchief Waiting for him, and he says insisted upon using the chioroform, He stated (that he only used the second degree. Nevertheless the woman died in a few hours, Dr. Ill at once visited the county physician, and informed him of the occur- rence, and asked that an inquest be held so that his skirts might be cleared of all blame, as he be- lieved he had only done his duty, and that the same result was liabie to happen to any other physician. The Doctor stated to tue reporter that he Was una- ware that Mrs. Wittman was in the habit of drink- had drank anything on Saturday oma neighbors state positively that she dran hg of beer on that morning. Since her death the Doctor had heard of her drinking hab Subsequently Dr. Dod the county physician, declared that TH waa a hi hy respectable physician, and that he- lid not believé he was capabie of doing anytaing wrong In such a case, Therefore he decided not to to fight in | d kindred against the | ¥ the obsequious companion of my | had given | has suppressed all mention of the matter, has | added fuel to rather than quenehed the fire of ex- | citement which it has kindled, Once again the | Oft-asked question is raised :—What is the use of & | county physician? It would not be sorprining if an effort is made in the next Legislature to have the office abolished, and a lai ; Coroners salaried officers, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. FaruerR Hyacintue’s Brussels journal will be entitled La République Beangelique, Tus VEreran Mr. William Howitt is again in the fleld. We are promised a translation from his pen of “The Religion of Rome Described by a Roman.” Very recently the publication of the original in Rome caused a great commotion in the ranks of the Italian priesthood, and its translation into English has been undertaken by Mr. Howitt with the author's express permission. Tie LONDON CORRESPONDENT of the Birmingham ews alludes toa new book containing remarks about the diet of literary men, and states that he ig acquainted with a well known writer who cleaves to oatmeal porridge when he is in working trim. In this respect he imitates Gerald Massey, who swears by oatmea! porridge as a brain-inspir- ing compound, ‘There 1s a deal of phosphorus in oatmeal,’ Mr. Massey says, “and phosphorus is brain. There is also a large amount of phosphorus in tsh, Consequently I never miss having a fish dinner at least once a week, and take a plate of good, thick, coarse, well-boiled Scotch oatmeal every morning in my life.” What a secret! Let one or two of our “comic” scribbicrs lose no time in testing its value, ‘Tae NuMBER OF BOOKSELLERS in France and her dependencies is returned at 5,674, that of printing oMices at 1,399 and that of lithographic establish- Tents at 1,624, About one-fifth of the frat class, one-eighth of the second and one-fourth of the third are at Paris, There are 2,303 periodicals, of which 843 are at Paris, THE Mtustrated Catholic Family Almanac for 1873, Just out from the press of the Catholic Publication Society, contains a dozen biographies, with por- traits, of Catholic bishops and saints, together with @ full list of the bishops of that church in the United States and a Catholic chronology ‘or 1871-2, THE Late CHARLES LEVER’s will has just been admitted to probate, He left property vained at only £4,000, which goes to his two daughters, A YounG Inisii CaNDeDatE for literary honeys is about to publish a first novel, having the siege of Londonderry for its central point of action, THE COUNTY CANVASS. wo ‘The county canvass wag continued yesterday, three additional districts being counted during the day. The interest in the official count seems un- abated, and late candidates and friends of candi- dates, as well as sharp-eyed federal oficials, throng the lobby and listen to the returns and consult with members of the Canvassing Board, as at first, ‘The interest evinced by the UNITED STATES OFFICIALS is incomprehensible to those who fail to under- stand the under-plot running through all the ope. rations of the Board, The electoral tickets cannot be effected in any case, nor can the vote for Goy- ernor, Congressmen, Assembly or county oi!lcers; and as there remains only the Aldermanic vote upon which any doubtdepends, the interest evinced by the federal oficials IS DUE SIMPLY to the great desire of the republican party to have | a Board of Aldermen in harmony with the incoming republican Mayor, THE DIRECT FIGHT is between Lysacht and Shiels, and how it will re- | sult cannot yet be « nined, Bat, in order to } further the interests o: or Louse people in the matter of the Aldermanic Roar@, Davenport and Biiss are on the floor daily ail day, B iss roam- ing round awong the tally men, and talking conti- dentially to Vance and Van« ick; Davenport whispering occastonaliy in the ears o! any lobby- men who may need sdvice, and keeping his cyes fixed on Dan Conover, in the cna ihe THE BIG PICTURE OF 1 D, strangely enough left hanging on the wall by some eccentric caprice of the relorm storm, frame shanty that was untouched in the midst of the Chicago fire, looks calmly out the western win- dows, unabashed at the presence o! so much muni- cipal virtue and unfrightened at the presence of such ferocious watch dogs of the ballot. THE NINTH, TENTH AND ELEVENTH DISTRICTS were canvassed yesterday, with the average amount of inaccuracies and errors and a sop improved rate of speed. Inthe Eleventh El district of the Tenth Assembly a discrep: thirty-five occurring in ©’Prien’s vote the riven him to make the tally correct. A disc: y | in the vote for iieutenant Governer showed Robinson 145 in one statement and i2z in the other, and tie Inspectors were sent for. IMPORTS IN PRENCH BOTTOMS, ~ Hi The President's Froeclamation Yo Be nforced from the 30ih of Uctober. ‘The following communication was received yos- terday by the Chamber of Commerce trom the ecretary Of State in regard to the time when the discriminating duty will be applied dh goods im- ported in French vess' ASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 1872. of the Chamber Of Coin- ve to ack on of the Sth Ins! 1 accordance with ado} ted by the Chamber | meeting Heid on the 7th \ the diseritnt | cent p ion of t merchandise imported and requesi Applied to eraion, tier irom that officer, e that (he most favorable eonstruc- tion which can he given to th law under Ww! it is § roods afloat ¢ 1, from the di oration in (l_ proclama- upon their er that provid emption of vesse! nd. their ing wo citizens Car BOCS, a ry’ that the by # and that sirictly | duty im question n atier the last mentione proclamation, to all gooris aunty | said in any port ot the United “The etary of the T sy that in \ y of the clfew above enume is not how the applieation contained im th to can be complied witli. am, sir rvant, 1 THE WHALEN MURDER IN WILLIANSBURG The Coroner's Inqucst—Verdict of the Jury—James @Kcicn Found Guilty of the Marder, but He Cannot Be Found, Coroner Whitehili and a jury held an inquest yesterday afternoon in the Williamsburg Dispen- sary over the remains of James Whalon, who was” stabbed through the heart, on Saturday night, in the grocery and liquor store of J. W. brewes, South Fifth and First strects, Tho testimony of several of the companions of Wi! n, WhO were present at the time of the tragedy, was taken, by which it appeared that he was murdered b he retused to ask them to drink. Aiter a brief de iberatton the jury rendered the foliowing verdict and were @ischarged :— THE VERDICT. “We, the jurors, find that Jar his death by a wound irom a poe hand of James O'Brien, at the sto liam Drewes, on t First streets, on Satu 1872, And the jury pressing in siron, gross license pe: 8 Wirai n came to in the ms bi ‘ted the willul young men in the community in their acts of lawlessucss, which have come to be of such frequent occurrence, demon- strating to our minds that vigilant and eflicient measures should at once be taken by tue officers ot the law to see that the laws with reference to this class of offenders be — vigilantiy enforced and the lives and property of our citizens be more efficiently protected. The jury would further recommend to the Board of Excise of the city of Brookiyn the adoption of such regulations as shail more effectually prevent the retail grecers and liquor dealers of the city from turnishing or vending to minors any intoxi- cating liquors Whereby in these indulgences of the habit their responsibility to the communily may ve jeopardized,” O'BRIEN AT LARGE. The young man against whom the verdict was found was a companion of his victim for a year or two, When he ascertained that he had slain his friond he immediately went under cover, and the police have so far failed to find him FATAL RAILROAD AQOIDANT. Coroner Schirmer was yesterday notified to hold an inquest on the body of Moses M, Guest, aman fifty-five years of age, who died from the etfects of injuries received on the 16th instant by being run over on the Hariem River bridge by a Fou Un ave. order an ingnest. This fact, wedded to another, nue train of cars, Deceased lived in Cottage street, Mott Haven. Westchester county, like tue | | from other than French | | tion, | | light hospital li | the THE HORSE DROPSY, w passed making ‘n° } The Car and Stage Horses Improving and Gaining Strength. oH ee Busy Times at the Rendering Company’s Dock. The Dropsy Generally Attributed to Overwork and Want of Nourishment. There is @ marked improvement noticeable during the past few days in the general condition of the horses, and although there are still a good Many cases of dropsy to be found in the large car and stage stables, and even in private ones, there is every reason to believe that New York city has seen the worst phase of the disease, and in the course of @ week or ten days the horses will be Probably all free from disease. THE DROPSY haa become much more prevalent than was at frat anticipated, and although it is not necessarily fatal many horses have died from it, Every car and stage stable in the city has had some of its horses taken sick with the dropay, and it appears that about thirty per cent of those so affected never recover and are carted oif-to the foot of Thirty-eighth street, North River, where they are boiled down by the RENDERING COMPANY. A HERALD representative paid a visit yesterday to the company’s dock and found business very lively. This company has a contract with the city to remove all dead bodies, offal, &c., and conse- quently, during the progress of the horse discase, they have had hard work to carry out such an un- looked-for increase of business, Their own teams dead, and they have been obliged to hire horses and carts to assist them, The dead bodies of the horses, aiter beiyg dumped on the dock, are FIRST SKINNED and their hoofs taken off, after which they are cut up and boiled down to fat, In the course of conversation with one of the oiicials in charge the HERALD representative discovered that Lucre is evidently some abatement in the discase, as there are not near 80 many dead bodies brought in now dally as there were eight or ten days ago. About that time they had sixty-tive horses brought in one day, ana yesterday and sunday only aver- aged about thirty per diem, wiiea is an incr ol fifty ae cent on the average number of horses brought in that die irom ordinary causes. During the past two or tnree days tne greater part of the dead uorses brought in have been the victims of dropsy. While tuc reporter was standing on tie dock @ horse was led up to be 4 SLADUHTERE! having been given up by the veterinary sureons as incurable, ‘The poor dumb brute was in a most pitiable condition, with its head and libs 4 ollen up to double their ordimary size and its nostrils expanded, turned back and literally choked with the horrible discharge, Anotier was shortiy i wards brought up, exhibiting similar re symptoms. ‘the proprietors of the diferent CAK AND STAGE to be in considerably better spirits yesterday, aud they all were of the opinion that they had secn the worst of the dropsy and that in a short Wane horses would be periectiy heaithy. From ali accounts the cropsy api be the result of overwork and want oF proper nourishment, ag those stavles where Lue liorses Zot rest and suitable Giet are nearly entirely ‘ree trom such symptoms. The e TWENTY-THIRD STREKT stage line took thei horses Of work at the first Sigu of the Cpiwooty and dicted them wilh a vey table compound food, which actea as a tout their general system, Kept them up in fesii condition, and they have had ouly tw dropsy in the stabie. ‘Ihe Fourth avenue s adopted the sume course 0 resuits, ‘The largest sutferers trom the dropsy ap- | pear to be the third avenue aud ‘tenth avenue horse car stables, which have lost bout locty stables appeared ne and have still aiarge number under treatment, BIXTH AVENUE LINS lost about twenty horses altogether, and about six or seven Of those died from-dropay. "The Broadway and Seventh avenue stables have about nine nurses: sick with dropsy, and the Kichth and Ninth ave appear to have escaped with a comparatively « ‘The Bleecker street jis about thirty horses sick with dropsy, atready lost seven from the same ¢ Piuth avenue and Madison avenue sta, lost about thirty horses between thei, eighteen of which died of dropsy. THE ROAD HO appear to be pulling through pretty well, although some that have been driven while only recoverme irom the epizooty have relapsed and ‘now exiibit all the symptoms of dropsy. ‘Those herses tint have received proper care ‘and nourishment ave aii recovering and gaining flesh rapidly. ML, BONNER'S horses are all doing well, ‘att, Whose stables ave on an adjoining ‘exhibited nd sof dropsy. At stables, on Forty-#eventh street, the ho’ looking tir and rapidly getting inte cond ihey have not had any symptoins of dropsy, and it appears to be the general case that where the horses have had rest and nourishment the has been no dropsy. NEW JERSEY FIREMEN. The firemen of West Hoboken another company to their number. Last eve Draiad Hose Company conveyed a new hose New York to their pative town, the have Mr. hey carriage from m home to the music of a and, The fire-fighters, robed in ne ring torchiights im their hands, preser hey marched towards the hil. oe AND GEATHS. MARRIAGES rtianiacibcacabbomatiain Married. veningr, Novi " dence of the the Kev, » Neilson MevVi Charen, Harlem, WiLLtAM ff, AL eldest daughter of Benjamin Be Tr, of Holy ‘tri OCK tO MiNHIE A., yea, Dicgs—WH Att. Paul's M piscopal Church, on Thursday, November 14, Wishop Suupson, assisted” by .Rev. Foss, D. D., KPWARD A, D1GGs to Cassig£ E., eldest dauziter ©. T. White, Bsq., ail of this city. OPppYKE-—WHERELEP.—At Chicago, on Tuesday evening, November 12, at the residence the bride’s parents, by tue Rev. Dr. Locke, 2S W. Orpykk, of New York, to Percy W aughter er, of Ch ee TH—BANKS.—In Brooklyn, ou Monday, Novem- ber 18, by th Jd. M. Buckley, Dr. Orsamus Surry, of New Orleans, to Lovisn, daughter of George Banks, of Pattison, New York. Died. ANDERSON.—On Monday, November 18, Mr. Joun ANDERSON, in the 95th year of his age. ‘The funeral will take place ou Wedn ing, at ten o'clock, from his iate resid East Eighty-second street. ARNOLD.—On Monday, ARNOLD, aged 83 years. The relatives and friends of the family, members of the Bedford street Methodist Episeoy chureh, are respectfully invited to attend the june- ral, from the residence of her son-in-law, A Crawtord, No. 76 Perry street, on Wednesday, November 20, at one 0’ Bb —On Sunda A. BECKER. . Funeral on Wednesday, November 20, at hier late a 46 East Fortieth street, at oue o'clock P.M. November Nancy 18, also the i ovember 17, Mrs. AMELIA uprias.—On Monday, November 18, Isf BEAUDRIAS, In the S¥th year of bis a: ‘The funeral wil! take piace froin the Church of St. VineAt de Pau, tis (Tuesday) morniny, at ten O'CLOCK, Brown,—On Monday, November 18, W. Tf. Brown, aged 72 years. The faneral will take place from the resirience of his daughter, 177 strect. lem, Maidstone (England) papers pi oWN.—On Sunday morning, Novemo aged 18, inily are respectfully invited to JEAN ie copy. ¥ 47, 1572, K THOMAS A. BRow Friends of the fi attend the funeral, froin the residence ui his uncle, Alexander Manson, 366)¢ West | Thirty-seventi street, this (Tuesday) afternoon, November 19, at two o'clock, ‘Auburn (N. Y.) papers please copy. CALKIN.—On Suturday, November 16, MELISSA CALKIN,Wife of Joseph Calkin, aged 39 years and 6 months, Funeral services from hier late residence, 197 Quincy street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Novem er 19, at two P.M. - Came.—On Monday, November om FREDERICK, infant sun of Anizi C. and An Camp. Notice of faneral in Wednesday's paper. JOCKEFAIR.—On Sunday evening, November 16, alter a long and paintul iliness, JANi B., \idew of Amzy Cockefair. The relatives and friends of the family sre re- Spectfully invited to attend the funeral services, from the residence of her son-in-law, Hdaward Hughes, 343 West Forty-third peel, on Wednes- aay. at one o'clock. rogklyn payers piease cory. have not been sutticient to do the carting of the | 8 LO | treatment, with similar | horaes from that dangerous sequel to ite divease | have ‘Vhey were met in Hoboken by their comrades, who | | accompanied t: Con.—On Monday, November 18, JANE Com, wife of late George 8. Coe, im the 53d year of her age, Relatives and friends are invited to attend the fmneral, from her late residence, No, 41 Commerce street, on Wednesday, 20th inst, at twelve o'clock M. Ci Na.—-At Morrisania, on Sanday, November #. pee EN CARLYLE, son of 3. H. and L. J. i ‘uneral from the residence of his parents, oD Tuesday, November ,CONTENCIN,—On Fridey, November 15, 1872, CATHERINE L, twin daughter of Louis and Elen Contencin, aged 2 years, 7 months and 15 days, Interred in Calvary. , COURTES,—ON Monday, November 18, CATHERINE CourTRs, aged 56 years und 8 months, Friends are respectiully invited to attend the fu- Neral, on Wednesday, November 20, at twe o'clock , M., from the Methodist Episcopal church, on Washington Street, Dear Kighth street, Hoboken, ‘Di: Lono.—Suddenty, Riwato C. De Loxa. Notice of funeral in to-morrow’s paper. Dusensury.—On Monday, November 18, ORLE ANNA M., beloved wile of Charles Dusenbury, in the er of her ag latives and nds are respectful: attend the funera!, from her 35 Macatee aoe Wednesilay, 2uth inst., atten East 118th street, on GALLAGHER.—On Sunday, November 17, R) Gauiscumn, Hato wite of Rodger pan in bysar of erage. Native or Str 0 Tyrone esta,” ag ‘ei Stratam, county he funeral wil! take place from her late resl- dence, 444 West Forty-fifth street, to-day russes), at hall-past nine A. thence to the Chureh of the Holy Cross, where a high inass of requiem will be offered up for the repose of her soul, Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral without further notice. Londonderry papers please copy. Hanris,—On Sunday morning, November 17, 1% SAMUEL W., aced 17 years, youngest son of John b, and Anno W, Harris, Friends are invited to attend the funeral at then, residence of his parents, 387 Sackett atveet, Brook- lyn, on Wednesday next, 20th instant, at two o'cloc .—On Monday, November 18, GEORGE 8 Honmus, in the 66th year of his age. nd friends are invited to attend ‘om the residence of his son-in-law, F. W. steinbrenner, 125 Kast 128th street, Harlem, on Wednesday, November 20, at e@leven o’clock . M. Portland (Me.) papers please copy. HoN?PER.—On Saturday, November 16, JAMES HUN+ TER, aged 42 years, ‘The relatives and friends of the family, also the members of Templar Lodge, No, nd A, M., and Metropolitan Chap: ,» Re A.M, are ly invited to 1¢ funeral, from his 343 West ‘Twenty-fourth street, on ber 19, at one o’viock P. M. s of ‘Templar Lodge, No. 203, F. and A.M, are hereoy summone mevt at thelr lodge yoom, 16! Kivhth avenne, on Tesday, November 19, ut twelve o'vlock, sharp, for the purpose of paying the last tribute of respect to our ate brother, James: Hunter. By order, R. R, WILLIAMS, Acting Master. James §, Srirr, Secreta K. —On Monday, A A KEEN. of Bernard ate Asmoy, Vorbes, ord, and daugh » Mulvey, jvontuberid House, county Lele trim, ire The re ves and friends of the family are re- neral, from the JK. Coates, 410 gpectfully invited to attend the i rdsidence of her son-in-law, John East ildth street, on Wednesday ber 20, at half-y ning o'clock A. M., to St. Pant’s church, Harlem, where a solemn requccm mass will be of fered for the repose of her soul, aud thence to Cal- vary Cemetery for Interment. nm Suuday, November 17, 1872, Mrs. in the 6sth year of her age. i +, Wednesday's paper. R.—On Sunday, November 17, in Colambns- ville, Mrenane MAL native of county Kilkenny, dreland, in the #ith of his @ Resquiescat in pace, The relatives and triends of the fainily are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, trom his hite residences, Columbusville, L. 1, this day (faes- day), at MICHAL Mary 0., Suntay, November 17, Wile of John iL, Micvales, aged 4% years, The iricnds and revatives of the fanily are in- vited to att vm hovlite residence, 142 Bloomiio! lohloken, N.J., on Tuesday, the 1th inat M. Washing ULLIG 1%, 1872, AN- J. Mut sur of his age; a € of the county Cavan, parish of Lavey. frien es are vespectiuily invited fend tie |, bovday (00 ), from his lateresidcnen, sy NIXbeentH st, ab one o'clock. MeDew or Suaday, Novenber 17, Matrin | Kol i, Cldest son Of Mary Mebermott, aged Nty-niath street, an 1 from 499 East cP. M. this day November 18, 1872, JANBY, 2 ¢ a Z a, in tue 49tu’ year of her age. Friendsof the funily are fully invited to attend the fimeral, irom ! nce, 630 | Hudson stroot, on ‘thursday, at one o'cluck P.M. OR. —suddenly, on Monday, November 18, 18' A. fk NK O Nhe {| Notice of fnoral hereatter. Prsrnit.—on Sunday, November 17, Manvita, wife of John Pieper, 1 the dota year of her age. Relative’ and friends, also members of Bureka der, SIGLIO, Ay REYNOLT | beloved wiie of by native of tie parisit of Ireland. Her i be taken trom her late reai- dence, Hwellth street, on Wednesday Ho past uine A. M. to ¢ Conception, Fourt solemn T mass of the repose of her soul, alter Wii! be taken to. Calvary ‘Ceme- it hul-pasl ons o'clock pre- veh of hieh ber rematu: 'y jor inves ine i, 7 RosrKr. —On Monday, wvember 18, ALBERT, son of Jolin P. aod Anka Roepke, aged 4 years, § montis { wid 10 days, | from parents’ residence, 91 Norfolk M, to- . fondsy, November 18, hiv ave, invited to attend auger, lyn, on im the ar 4 ure idence 0 y moraing, November 17, 1872, 118, WILLIAM J. SAUL, aged 20 da ni friends of (he family are respect. fully invited to attend the funeral, from bis late denec, Teath avenue and Ld stre day aierao: v, ab Lwo o% ¥ oO TH. chilly Invited Noveinber 20, at half te resi- dence, nd A, M. Nw JATION, OLD PuBLIC SeHooL NO, 14.—Members ave re fully requested to at- a the funeral of our fe nate and agso- clate, Henry S. Smith, hall-pust one o'vlos I. 2,029 Third avenue, near Lilth et ON N, PI ovember 20, at reside! q , President. WILLIAM MEAD, Seer Sparks,—In Danville, ber 16, WALI BR 4., on Saturday, Novem. SPAWKS, in the Bist year of his sand friends of the farntly are reapect- Invited to attend the faperal, at the Methodist spiscopal church, corner of Bedford and Mortou streets, ou Wednesday morning, at hal-past tem o'clock. SEIDE the beloved wile of vd 39 years, 2 months and 27 day The friends Of the fainily are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the City Hospital, Brooklyn, Tuesday, November 19, at two o'ciock At Port Richmond, Staten Island, ou y evening, November 16, 1872, MARGATE , Wife of Dr. Joun W. Sterling, in the 72d yeur of her age, Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the itneral services, at her late resider at twelve o'clock, on Wednesday, th Carriages will be in attendance on arrivi boat, irom foot of Dey street, New York, SUMNER. On Saturday, 16th inst, Plain, bear soscon, at the mansw husband, Mrs, Many Keance (formerly of tis city), widow of General William H. Sumner. of Massa- ehusett Her remains will be interred in the Forest Hilly Cemetery, near Boston. 1OkKL.—Ol Sunday, November ‘THorr, in the 65th year of her age, The friends of the fmiy are invited to attend her funeral, of her son-in-law, Be Lock wo first street, on Tues- at one o'clock. visi, on Monday, Noy ed 4 years, formerly of li, PANNEY relatives ond friends of the family are re- ully invited to attend the funeral, trom hig sidene, irkson street, Flatbush, on Thurs &w—O Sunday, November 1, Many. Wiesner, widow of Thon Wheeler, a native of the county Westincath, parish of Kilinean, Ireland. ‘The relatives x faily iny ited to . 300 Wel day), at one o'clo Wit Reith 118, Gace, wile | year of het age, Relatives and fully invited to residenee, 10 mmily ave respect+ end Lie funeral, trom her late Fiity-uth street, to-day (Tues Hrooklya, On Monday, Novembet of Wiliam Wheeler, in the 388i friends of tho family are respes ationd the funeral, from ber lat jtanover place