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Boston, May 5, 1735. Last week at Captain Welle’s Farm a large Gelding of his grazing near to a Well of 22 Foot deep by the side of a fence, fell over backwards and dropped to the bottom. One of his servants soon after coming up to the farm came to the relief of a […]

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On Thursday as a cart was coming by Newington in Surry, England, the horses took fright and ran away, whereby one Mrs. Edgerton, whose father formerly kept the mother Red-cap at Camberwell, was thrown out, and fell under the wheel, which running over her head her brains were spilled out, and she died on the […]

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London, April 5, 1731. On Saturday last, a Farmer’s man in Aldersgate Street, stooping under a Horse’s Head, the Horse bit off one of his ears, but did not take out the Drum of it.

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Philadelphia, December 1, 1730. Last Sunday one John Long, a Servant to Mr. Jones of Kingses, attempting to lead a mare over a small bridge over Cobb’s Creek, the Mare’s Fore Feet slipping, then with a violent Spring endeavouring to recover herself, struck him in the stomach with her head, threw him off the bridge, […]

Cattle and Horses

They write from Lee in Kent, England that all the cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Smith of that town, has had the misfortune to be bit by a mad dog and have been drove down to the sea and into the water to prevent if possible, the ill effects of the bite.

Colt Killed in Peculiar manner.

Pushed into a sixty foot well by a frolicsome bull on the L. J. Lobdell place near Long Lake, tenanted by Robert Runyard, a colt was near rescue three times and finally was killed near the brink of the well by being choked to death by the rope about its neck. Two colts, including the […]

A Horse’s Sagacity.

A Correspondent of the Erie [Pa.] Dispatch writer. “Yesterday a horse, mounted by a young man, was seen to slip on the frosted street, stagger, and fall, throwing the rider to the ground. Before two seconds had elapsed the horse was up on his feet again, and the rider hanging by one foot, which was […]

Five Merrymakers Dead.

Run Down at a Crossing as They Were Returning from a Basketball Game. Spring Valley, N. Y., Feb.24.-A foam specked pair of horses that tore through the streets dragging between them a splintered wagonpole brought to the village the first news of a grade crossing accident in which eight members of its most prominent families […]

Dead Horse Kicks A Man.

Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 13.-John Francis, animal trainer for a circus was rendered unconscious by the kick of a dead horse here today. The horse had been killed to provide food for lions. The animal had been dead 10 minutes when the muscles of its leg relaxed, causing the hoof to strike Francis with great force […]

A Chance For Young Buck’s.

The Haynes Chief offers one thousand head of horses to any respectable white young man, well recommended, who will marry his daughter, a girl of about eighteen, settle down among them and teach them agriculture.