Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 29, 1851
The Medina Citizen is responsible for the following: “We understand that about 150 of the 2000 hogs belonging to the Oak Orchard Distillery, when it was burnt a few days since, got on a regular “bender,” and succeeded in acting almost as silly as do their biped neighbors when in a similar “fix.” They partook […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
The New York Journal of Commerce says that grass-hoppers have attacked the gardens in South Brooklyn in immense numbers. Boys are employed to destroy them at a cent a hundred. A couple boasted the other day of having killed twenty-five hundred in one yard.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
We noticed a day or two since that a lady at Debuque, having some difficulty with her husband, took her two children and started on a steamboat for Saint Louis. On her way down she was drowned. Her husband followed. On his arrival at St. Louis, he got drunk and was found next morning in […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 29, 1851
The New York Tribune relates an interesting anecdote of the sagacity of a dog saving the life of a child of Mr. Robinson, of Flatbush, Long Island. This gentleman has two dogs; a small spaniel and a large half-breed deer hound. The small dog was playing with Mr. R.’s child near a cistern, when the […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 31, 1852
At Oquawka, Illinois, at a single haul of a seine, five thousand pike, bass, perch and sun-fish were taken, last week, and this was but a very small part of the day’s work.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
They are killing rats at the rate of ten thousand a day in New York city, and selling them to Genin, to make of them sables, etc.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
The captain of the whale-ship Monongahela, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has addressed the New York Tribune a long and circumstantial account of the discovery and capture, in the Pacific ocean, of a huge marine monster, having the form of a serpent, with spout holes like a whale, and swimming paws. Its immense size rendered it […]
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1851
The Chicago Journal says: The Dixon stage was capsized in the Rock River, near Grand Detour, one day last week, and the horses were drowned. The driver, who could not swim, was -lucky man-kicked ashore by the struggling horse.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1851
A mad hog has been playing antics in the streets of Cleveland.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 14, 1851
The following incident is related by the Long Point, Advocate:-A few days since, as we were leaving our residence on our usual morning visit to the Advocate office, a sorrel horse belonging to us, galloped up and caught my arm, and made an attempt to pull us in the direction he wished to go. He […]