Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1854
A train of forty-two cars arrived at Cincinnati from Columbus, over the Columbus, and Xenia and Little Miami railways, on the 5th inst. having on board 3,764 hogs, weighing in all about one million two-hundred thousand pounds.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1854
A pigeon roost, ten miles long by five broad, in Franklin county, Indiana, it is said, is now swarming with pigeons. The roar of their wings on arriving and departing from the roost is tremendous, and the flocks during the flight darken the heavens. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1854
A friend of ours owns a noble, great Newfoundland dog, about which he tells a great many funny stories, among which is the following: We tell it as it was told to us, premising only that our friend is a man of fair character for veracity, and we believe it ourself. He spent several weeks […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, March 28, 1854
The only rhinoceros in the country, valued at $10,000, on exhibition at New York, ate hay Sunday night, and fell down dead on Monday morning.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 29, 1854
A Jamaica paper says that rats on board the West India packets are sadly destructive of Foreign mails. Some time since a will in England was required in Demerara. After immense trouble and expense the will was obtained and sent out. When the mail arrived at Demerara, however, the rats had eaten the will and […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 17, 1853
The N. O. Creasant of the 28th ult., has the following: Yesterday pursuant to public notice, came off at Gretna, opposite the Fourth District, the long heralded fight between the famous grizzly bear General Jackson [victor in fifty battles] and the Attakapas bull Santa Anna. The fame of the coming conflict had gone forth to […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, April 3, 1854
The Haynes Chief offers one thousand head of horses to any respectable white young man, well recommended, who will marry his daughter, a girl of about eighteen, settle down among them and teach them agriculture.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 22, 1853
At a recent bull-fight in Paris eleven horses were killed.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 2, 1853
The editor of the Home Journal who was among those invited to Niagara Falls on the late excursion of the Legislature of New York, among other incidents notices is the following: We had the luck to see a horse go over the Falls on Sunday afternoon. We say luck, because though we are sorry the […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1853
The French feed hens with bread soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking bread and eggs in wine in this country, often make the “old cocks lay in the gutter.” We don’t know how it would effect the hens.