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Cattle, sheep and hogs

A freight train of the N. Y. and Erie railroad left Dunkirk the other day over three-hundred feet long and containing two-thousand seven-hundred and ninety-seven head of livestock, consisting of beeves, sheep and hogs, valued at $15,000. It was drawn by one locomotive.

Pigs

We noticed a drove of between eight-hundred or a thousand fine hogs going to Beardstown, to-day, for Mr. Tinsley, who we learn had bought several thousand to drive to this point.

Dogs

Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]

Pigs

Vermont Not Ahead Yet.—This pig story from Vermont is behind the times as given by W. H. Dow. James Low comes to the front and says, “there is nothing new under the sun.” In the summer of 1845 he moved from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Millburn, Illinois. Among his effects was a young pig. About June […]

Pigs

The Rockford Journal says: “It is estimated that at least 10,000 hogs have died with the cholera within a radius of fifteen miles about this city during the past season, and the disease is still prevalent. Some authorities on stock matters declare the plague to be measles instead of cholera.”

Horrible Action Reported.

Washburn Springs the Scene of Most Repulsive Incident. Woman Said To Have Killed Sick Porkers, and Then Served Them to Her Boarders Who Summarily Took Flight. There have been many startling tales given to the public as originating in the foreign settlement-Washburn Springs- but the one which is perhaps the most repulsive and really unbelievable […]

Cow and Pigs.

On the night of the 3rd, near Whitehall, New York, a freight train ran over a cow, throwing the engine and several cars off the track. The engineer was killed, and two cars, loaded with hogs, were thrown into the canal.

Hog Nuisance

Another sore evil existing in this city, is the permitting of Hogs to run at large on our streets, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants. These creatures, not being half fed by their owners, prowl about at all hazards, to pick up garbage often of the most loathsome kind, in order to satisfy […]

Dogs

This dog story is from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where a farmer’s dog has been detected in going to the hog-pen and biting one of the hogs till it gets up; when Archy lies down in the warm place and goes to sleep.

Pigs

There is now on exhibition at Calais, Maine, a hog which stands seven feet eight inches high, and girths six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hundred pounds. it is one year and six months old.