Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
On Monday the cars on the Camden and Amboy rail road were started for the first time with a locomotive engine. From Amboy to Bordentown the cars went over finely, and back as far as Heightstown. There an unlucky hog got under the traveller of the locomotive, and in endeavoring to run out between the […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
A boat belonging to Mr. Catt, brought on shore at Seaford, a few days ago, a fish of an extraordinary kind. Its fins resembled the arm and hands [with finger nails] of a human being, and it had two protuberances or sort of pockets on each breast, which were filled with small fish. When taken […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
It is said that a lady near Galena this season has found between 50 and 60 bee trees.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 6, 1849
The Minnesota Register, published at St. Paul’s, gives as account of the half-breeds about the Red River, who desire to settle in the limits of the United States: “Within the limits of the territories of the Hudson Bay Company, there resides a class of men, who, ground down by the tyranny of that huge monopoly, […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 16, 1848
A few days before the overthrow of Robespierre, a revolutionary tribunal had condemned to death am ancient magistrate who was a most estimable man. His faithful dog, a Water Spaniel, was with him when he was seized; but was not suffered to enter the prison. He took refuge with a neighbor of his master’s, and […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 16, 1848
It was one day during the present week, that two boys, sons of Seth Manes, of Bradford township, Pa., one perhaps fifteen and the other eight or ten years of age, discovered a very large bear carrying a sheep through one of the fields. The oldest boy ran to the house, got a gun, gave […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 23, 1848
A writer in a Cincinnati paper, describing a midnight visit to the animals of Raymond and Waring’s menagerie, in the winter quarters in that city with Driesbach, the famous keeper, says: “It was a sight worth walking ten miles. We found, contrary to assertions of natural historians, an elephant lying down. It has always been […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, May 30, 1849
The St. Francisville [La.] Chronicle says: For about a week past, some of our citizens have enjoyed themselves in shooting snakes, in the back water near our town. They seem to take refuge in the trees, where it is supposed, they resort to bask in the sun. They have succeeded in destroying upwards of one […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1848
Astley’s method was to give each horse his initiatory lesson alone, and when there was no noise or any thing to direct his attention from his instructor. If the horse was interrupted during the lesson, or his attention in any way withdrawn, he was dismissed for that. When perfect in certain lessons by himself, he […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849
In one of the stored on Commercial wharf a lion lately received from Africa is kept in a cage. Yesterday, a small Irish boy, with his chip basket, wandered into the store, and in some way placed his basket against the bars of the cage. The lion, nothing loth to make a slight luncheon, seized […]