Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 13, 1850
We take the following paragraph from the Mobile Tribune of the 3rd inst: Two men of our acquaintance of unpeachable veracity witnessed a scene the other day worth recording. They observed at the distance of some thirty feet from them a very strange and unaccountable conduct on the part of a bird-commonly called the “Cow […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 5, 1850
The Michigan Farmer gives the following: A lady farmer said the meadow moles had annoyed them greatly, and destroyed two fine pear trees. She tried an experiment for them with success. Their subterranean was uncovered, and two cow’s horns, with the large ends from each other, placed in it, so that the moles coming either […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1850
As the train from New York to Philadelphia, Monday morning, was leaving Jersey City, it ran over a cow. One of the passengers put his head out of the car to ascertain the cause of the difficulty, when he was instantly killed, by striking his head against a telegraph post.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1850
My uncle William, who had learnt the whole process from Thomas, and always faithfully observed it, used to call it, in its intermediate state, an old soldier. A sailor deposits, or if there is such a word, [and if there is not, there ought not to be,] re-posits it in his tobacco-box. I have heard […]
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850
Rev. Walter Colton, in his agreeable and christian-like diary of a voyage to California in a man-of-war, entitled “Deck and Port,” [in which by the way, much is mildly and convincingly said against the spirit ration and flogging in the navy,] relates the following capital rat story. I have always felt some regard for a […]
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, April 20, 1850
Col. Robert Allen, within a few days past, has had forty-three of his fine sheep killed by dogs. This is really lamentable. These were the finest sheep in the county. There are many useless and worthless dogs kept in this city, who live by pilfering and plunder. A proper regard for the interests of the […]
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1851
We mentioned some days since the importation into Baltimore of eleven Camels from the Canary Islands. From an article in the New York Herald we learn that they are the property of Messrs. Sands & Howes, the enterprising and well known circus proprietors of that city, who are about establishing an overland route to California. […]
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1852
The imperial academy of China has issued a text under the auspices of the emperor, cautioning the celestials against the wickedness of slaughtering oxen and dogs for food, as they possess immortal souls and are gifted with reason and intelligence.
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 26, 1852
The Detroit Tribune says that during the past winter, Messrs. Bowe & Co. of that city, have sent to the Eastern cities twelve thousand nine hundred forty-four Prairie Hens or Grouse and forty thousand four hundred and thirty-three Quails besides Partridges, wild Turkey in large numbers.