Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 5, 1849
The Boston Traveler gives the following account of a singular death from fright in that city. The following cause of death was reported at the interment office: It appears that some days ago a boy, named Joseph Kennedy, six years of age while sitting in the kitchen at home, received a severe shock of fright […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 22, 1849
During the height of the fire on Monday morning, a woman was sitting near a fence, out of danger, surrounded by a few articles of furniture, and two fat pigs. She appeared perfectly unconcerned in regard to the progress of the fire, and was absorbed in scratching the backs of her pigs with a hoop-pole. […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 20, 1849
Last fall some time, a large Prairie wolf, who had acquired sufficient notoriety in the neighborhood northwest from Paris [Illinois] and not very far from the town, by his bold and daring depredations upon the lambs, pigs, etc. of the neighbors, to cause a reward of five dollars to be offered for his scalp; one […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 19, 1849
A black snake, four feet and a half in length, was captured in an apothecary shop in Lowell, yesterday. He went to the city in a load of wood. Having made his way to the apothecary shop, liquor was put up on the floor, and the unfortunate visitor yielded, to temptation, got drunk, and was […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, October 24, 1849
Chews Tobacco Like a Man. A friend has just related to us a curious fact in natural history respecting a dog. In North Attleboro, Mass. there is kept, in a manufacturing establishment, a large mastiff, who takes as much comfort with a quid of tobacco, as does the most inveterate lover of the weed. So […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, November 27, 1849
The following fact occurred yesterday: A beautiful and high spirited horse would never allow a shoe to be put on his feet, or any person to handle his feet, without a resort to every species of power and means to control him. At one time he was nearly crippled by being put in the stocks; […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 21, 1849
The Cumberland [Md.] Alleganian states that on Wednesday last, an Irishman, who resides near Lonaconing, threw from his stomach a living snake five or six inches in length. For several years past he has been in bad health, and lately subsisted almost wholly upon milk. On Wednesday, at the earnest persuasion of several of his […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 5, 1849
Capt. Seabury, of the ship Minerva, which arrived at Lahaina on the 15th of August, reports hearing from the ship Alert, Green, in the first part of the season, who, being on the Tartary Coast, sent two boat’s crews in after wood. They not returning as expected, he sent a third boat, which was also […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 19, 1849
We stated a few days since that a large Lynx had been killed in Weare, N. H., by a lad of sixteen years of age. A gentleman from that vicinity has given us the following particulars of the exciting event: On Saturday, Oct. 27th, a party of individuals in Weare started out on a squirrel […]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 17, 1881
It is well known that geese and ganders become greatly attached to persons who habitually feed them and treat them kindly. But the attachment is seldom so great as that manifested toward an English miller who keeps a flock. The faithful creatures had repeatedly followed him a mile to the village on week days, when […]