MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- HIGHLANDS NOTES, MAR 1892 HIGHLANDS NOTES (Local Affairs) PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Mar. 30, 1892 - Vol. VII, No. 2 HIGHLANDS, MACON CO., NC It seems a disease is in progress in middle Georgia among horses. The Department of Agriculture of Ga., sent a veterinary sureon there to investigate, and in a letter dated at Macon - March 19th, Dr. Lyons pronounced it glanders. Dr. Lyons found on the plantation of Samuel Harrall, one horse dead, and the remaining work stock, two fine mules sick with it. The mules were killed and their bodies burned, to prevent the spread of the disease. Stringent measures are to be taken by the authorities to isolate all horses which have been exposed. It was found that the disease had been introduced by an itinerant trader from Texas, and that thirty of the Texas horses had been scattered over that section. Several horses have been purchased in our county from Texas within the past few months; and it is well for those who have these horses in their possession to watch them carefully, and in cases of supposed distemper, to have them examined by a Veterinary Surgeon, or if one is not to be had to call one of the regular doctors. It is dangerous to human beings as well as animals. A lady in a large city came out of a house to take a cab; as she passed the horse to get into the vehicle, the horse turned his head so that it touched her face; she laughingly remarked that the horse had kissed her. She was taken ill not long after and died, and the physicians pronounced her disease glanders. One of our farmers eight or ten miles from Highlands has two Texas horses, and both have the distemper. Some of the virus from one of the horses got on to the back of his hand and he now has deep and ugly sores on his hand. While there may be but little doubt in this case about its being distemper, it is well to exercise some precaution about these Texas horses. Concerning horses, I have seen but very few Texas and Montana horses that are so snug and trim built as our own horses. Our mountain stock make the finest horses for our locality that can be had; and to keep this stock, and breed from the blooded stallions that have from time to time been introduced, will keep up a stock peculiar to our section, and that have always found a ready sale. - Thomas G. Harbison, editor and publisher of the MOUNTAIN EAGLE, is making a marked success, quite to the credit of a young man who has had no previous experience in that line. - Miss Laura G. Kibbe has been engaged to teach the Shortoff School at an advanced salary. - Dr. Lamb, of Augusta, has made a contract with Phillips and Wright to build a dwelling on his land south of main street. It is to be a two story house of eight rooms. - Miss Olive M. White has returned from Atlanta, where she has been engaged in special studies to more fully fit herself for the vocation of a teacher. - Mr. Eben selleck proposes to visit New York some time this spring. - Capt. s.P Revenel and family are expected to return early, and make a long season in our beautiful Highlands. BX. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joanna Loops thefamilyorchard@earthlink.net ___________________________________________________________________