It is widely known that a destructive epidemic has this spring appeared among the salmon of the rivers Eden, Esk, and Nith. The mortality among the fish has been so great as to cause considerable alarm among proprietors, salmon commissioners, taxmen, anglers, and the general public.

The newspapers inform us that within three days the watchers have taken out of the Esk as many as 350 dead salmon. All who have examined the fish carefully, agree in referring the disease to the presence of a fungoid growth.