Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1859
The express train on the New Albany $ Salem road ran into a drove of Cattle near Reynold’s station, in Indiana, throwing the engine bottom up into the ditch, but not until it had made mince meat of 14 of the bovines. Fortunately no person was injured by the accident.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1873
The details of the great storm in Minnesota are heart sicking. The reports from different sections indicate terrible loss of life and property. In Winnebago City fully sixty teams had gathered from the surrounding country. Farmers with their wives were there, having left their little children at home, in many instances alone, little dreaming of […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, February 2, 1832
The weather and the depth of the snow for a few days past have been strong temptations to many of our citizens to enjoy the sport of running down prairie wolves. [coyotes] The sportsman mounts his horse, and with a good “hickory” club, pursues the animal into the prairies, where he generally overtakes, and despatches […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 2, 1832
The battering train going to the siege of Seringapatam had to cross the sandy bed of a river, that resembled other rivers of the Peninsula, which have during the dry season, but a small stream of water running through them, though their beds are mostly of a considerable breadth, very heavy for draught, and abounding […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 15, 1848
A few days since the family of Dr. Crofoot, the dentist, who resides on the corner of Crown and Temple st., missed a promising boy of the Doctor’s about four years old. After the unsuccessful search around the house, the child was finally found, drenched and in a state of insensibility on the edge of […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 15, 1844
An English paper speaking of the death of a raven 28 years old, says: This singular bird was bred in Grove Park, and could talk as plain as any man, so far as his knowledge extended. In point of imitation he could mimic anything he ever heard. Like many others of his tribe, he was […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, September 5, 1844
In a neighborhood of Hereford, England, recently a swarm of bees settled under the bonnet of a little girl, down the side of her face, and round her throat. Fortunately the child stood still, and the bees were hived without her receiving a single sting.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, September 5, 1844
A correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, writing from the borders of Lake Champlain, confirms a statement made by Dr, Morse in his well known geography, and which has by some been regarded as fabulous. He says: “A word on the instinct of the squirrels here. When they wish to move from one island to […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 8, 1848
The Cape Frontier Times gives the following account of a sporting expedition of eleven months duration, the here of which is Mr. Ruallyn Cumming, second son of Sir William Gordon Cumming Bart., of Altyre, who a few years ago, was the foremost sportsman in the north of Ireland: “In this expedition it is said he […]
Monday, December 17, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, January 25, 1823
The following description of a contest between the black snake, and another species, is extracted from the letters of an American farmer. One of my constant walks, when I am at leisure, says the gentleman, is in my lowlands, where I have the pleasure of seeing my cattle, horses and colts. Exuberant grass replenishes all […]