Peninsula Enterprise, September 17, 1887

Epidemic among Horses.

Fields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - Horses

EDITOR ENTERPRISE. -- The enclosed communication taken from the Country Gentleman, may be of interest to your many readers as the same disease is prevalent at this time among horses in some parts of our county, and I believe almost always ending in death. As your readers will notice, the [illegible] given by Dr. Moore, an authority on diseases of horses, and well known veterinary surgeon, is entirely prophylactic, hence the importance of being informed.

"Enclosed I send an account of what now threatens to be a very serious matter -- an epidemic among horses in Southern Jersey resembling cerebro-spinal meningitis. From 500 to 700 horses have been attacked, and no after treatment is of any avail. Cannot Dr. Moore suggest some preventive, or a treatment that will place our stock in the best possible condition to withstand an attack? E. S. Berlin, N.J. [Remove manure and decomposing vegetable matter from the neighborhood of your barns; disinfect the manure vaults, sewers and stables. Give the horses an aloetic ball, good ventilation, regular exercise, and give a tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda and 15 drops of carbolic acid in drink twice a day. Once a day add half an ounce of powdered nitrate of potass to the drink, and night and morning mix in feed a large tablespoonful of granulated chlorate of potass. This may be continued for six days. But one dose of aloes need be given. The only success lies in prevention, and I have had thorough satisfaction in the employment of preventatives, in a number of similar outbreaks, by proper treatment of animals prior to attack, and by disinfection and sanitation."]

Yours Resp.,

FRANK FLETCHER.

Jenkins Bridge, Sept. 14, '87.

Clerk's Office.

Infrasturcture -- Public - Government : CountyArchitecture -- Other public buildings

EDITOR ENTERPRISE. -- The Board of Supervisors have doubtless acted very wisely in making provision for the early erection of a fire proof building for a clerk's office. Owing to the insecure and dilapidated condition of the old clerk's office we believe is the almost universal sentiment of the people, that such a building it is certainly needed for the safe keeping of the invaluable records of the county, and in the absence of bids from contractors, we have no doubt the Board adopted what they considered the best and most economical method for its erection. But if we are correctly informed as to the site selected by the Board for the location of the new building, i.e. at the south end of the old clerk's office -- then having heard many persons express themselves on the subject, not one has been favorable to the site selected. Owing to the very limited size of the lot of land owned by the county, and the destruction of the best shade trees in the square which must necessarily ensue by building on the site selected, the almost unanimous voice seems to be that the old clerk's office should be torn down and the new one built on the site of it. In deference to what the public desire, we hope the Board will think it proper to reconsider their action in the premises at the last meeting.

MANY CITIZENS.

Agricultural and Mechanical Fair.

Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fairs

MR. EDITOR. -- The citizens of our section have made a move towards the establishment of an Agricultural and Mechanical Fair at Cape Charles City. It is intended in no wise to interfere with the Peninsula Grange, or any individual enterprise, and I think it time our people were aroused to the great importance of such an undertaking.

Cape Charles pre eminently is the place for an exhibition of this sort -- not a local or county fair, for that tends only to the enjoyment of the people to its immediate neighborhood, whereas this is in the interest of our entire Peninsula and looks to the development of the great agricultural resources of tidewater Virginia, but one so thorough in its organization, so attractive in appearance, and so well suited to the times in every particular, that it will fascinate the lovers of fine and fast horses, of blooded stock, of agricultural and mechanical exhibits of every kind, and draw its people and patronage from every section of Eastern Virginia and the contiguous portions of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Cape Charles is of easy access to the large and important cities of Norfolk, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Washington and Baltimore, and by direct steamers to Gloucester and Matthews counties -- up the Peninsula by rail to Pocomoke, Dover, Wilmington and Philadelphia. The city is growing rapidly and will soon be a great manufacturing centre -- it has good hotel accommodations with commodious livery stables, and in the fall of the year its delightful climate surpasses anything of the sort on our continent, rivaling that of the Italian lakes.

The genial and liberal minded Mr. Walbridge, of Hollywood farm, assures us he enters heartily in the matter, and will give us his substantial support, that a beautiful site can be secured on the farm of Mr. Wm. L. Scott, which is under his entire management, and by the way, is under such a perfect state of cultivation and so beautiful in every particular, it is well worth a trip across the continent to see -- its location to be north of the city and in full view of the broad and majestic Chesapeake.

The courteous and efficient Mr. Dunne, Supt. of the N.Y., P. & N. R.R., has promised his hearty cooperation and will give us every facility in the power of the railroad.

To our own Peninsula it will be of untold advantage. It will give an impetus to agriculture, to the developing of our trotting and running horses, to the breeding of blooded stock; it will bring thousands of people to our Shore who never thought of us before, and show them our generous soil, our salubrious climate and the many advantages our section offers as a place of residence.

We call upon the people of our whole Peninsula to give this subject a serious thought, to come to our assistance in pushing an enterprise that if properly carried out will redound to our credit, and if liberally supported, in the beginning will return to us fourfold.

There will be a call meet of all those who may become interested in this matter, to be held at Cape Charles City as soon as further arrangements can be made, when we hope to have a free and full expression of opinion, and the enterprise put in such a shape that we may be able to open to the public next fall.

A. BROCKENBROUGH.

Eastville, Va., Sept. 12, '87.