Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 2, 1851
Solomon gave a feast in the courtyard of his temple, at which were consumed no less than 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. The feast acquired sixty acres of ground for kitchens, 17,000 cooks, and allowing one pound of meat for each guest, and eighteen inches for each seat, the table extended the whole length of […]
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 9, 1853
New Granoda papers inform us that the first fatal accident occurred upon the Panama railroad on the 1st October, when a train with six hundred passengers was thrown off a bridge, at Taberelia, into a ravine sixteen feet deep, by running over an ox. Four men were killed, and several severely injured.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 12, 1853
There is an ox in St. Louis which it said weighs, 3,500 pounds. It is 18 feet long; 12 feet girth, and 13 hands high-so says the Republican.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 20, 1853
The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while […]
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, August 6, 1733
Boston, We are informed by a person lately come from Mack Point, in the Eastern parts of the Province, that about a fortnight ago, a very strange Creature was found on the shore there, which the tide had left, about twice as large as an Ox, its head and fore parts resembled a Lion, with […]
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 2, 1735
March 8, 1735. We hear from Steining in Sussex, England, that one Legget, a Butcher of that town, killed an Ox the 24th last and found the fat about the Kidneys to weigh 226 pounds, and the lean of it but 2 pounds.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 28, 1729
Petersburg, Russia April 14, 1729. The fleet which is leaving, will consist of 47 Man of War of the line, of 24 Frigates, and a large number of Gallies on board of which Vessels 14,000 Seamen, are to embark. This formidable Fleet is to be victualled with 3500 Oxen and 600 Hogs.
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1732
New England, August 3, 1732. A very strange Creature has been lately seen among our people who have seen it and were afraid. It appeared about the size of a horse with very long tail; it met with a large Ox and ran to it and began to eat the Ox on the shoulder, which […]
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 7, 1854
A Vermont ox is now on exhibition at Cleveland, Ohio, which is six feet three inches high, twenty feet from tip to tip, girths ten feet, is in ordinary flesh and weighs four thousand pounds. It is said the proprietor is taking him to the prairies of Illinois, to obtain room for him to grow.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, November 27, 1855
A deplorable accident occurred at Florence, in Pike county, on last Sunday morning. A German emigrant, with a wife and six children, was crossing the river in the ferry boat, when the oxen attached to his wagon became unruly and jumped overboard, at the same time knocking the German overboard, whereby he drowned. His body […]