Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1854
The skillful acts of the nomad people of Lapland in throwing the lasso, avails them at times, in making captives of other animals beside their own deer. “On one occasion” so said a clergyman whom Mr. Loyd met in Norrland and who vouched for the truth of the story. “When a Lapp, in company with […]
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 7, 1854
A Vermont ox is now on exhibition at Cleveland, Ohio, which is six feet three inches high, twenty feet from tip to tip, girths ten feet, is in ordinary flesh and weighs four thousand pounds. It is said the proprietor is taking him to the prairies of Illinois, to obtain room for him to grow.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1854
We noticed an Elk in harness passing through our streets the other day; and yesterday we saw a sight still more strange and noteworthy-a yoke of buffaloes-working kindly and efficiently, with three yoke of oxen. On inquiry we learned that they were taken when calves, on the plains, and have been kept since in Keokuk […]
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, March 30, 1855
The Noblesville Patriot gives as amusing account of the destruction of $500 worth of liquors by the Temperance people. Some 70 barrels and kegs were consumed. The Dayton Ale would not burn of course, and the Patriot says: The next morning droves of hogs licked the foam of beer, drank the half frozen spirits and […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 17, 1855
The Banger Mercury of Dec. 30th, says, Albert Richards and P. A. Chase, were returning from Machias last Monday, when a large wolf crossed the road about two rods from them, in pursuit of a deer, which was about twenty feet ahead of the wolf. The wolf caught up to the deer about two rods […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 17, 1855
The Rockingham, [Va.] Register gives the following account of an old Virginia hunter, Frederick Keiser, of Pendleton County, has devoted much of his time to hunting the mountains of his native county. He is in his 88th year, and has killed during his life, one thousand deer, ten elk, three-hundred bears, thirty panthers and fifty-three […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 24, 1855
A young man had a severe fight with a grizzly bear in the neighborhood of San Andres, last week. Bruin attacked him and threw him down, so that he could not draw his pistol, but was able to draw his knife, which he used pretty freely on old bruin, and was shortly enabled to gain […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, January 27, 1854
A sword-fish ran his snout into the British ship, Lord Riverdale, on her voyage to Valparaiso, piercing a plank three inches and a half in thickness, and leaving seven inches of the sword on the inside. The ship was compelled to heave to, for repairs.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1854
A dog plunged into the Ohio, a few miles above Cairo, a short time since, after a deer, and caught it when about a hundred yards from the shore. The dog after getting on the deers back, and fastening to his ear, so interfered with its swimming, that a spectator on the bank took a […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, May 25, 1890
Incident of the Rabid Dog Epidemic in Fulton County. Canton, Ill., May 24. An exciting incident of the mad dog epidemic now alarming the people of Fulton County occurred near Breed’s station on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway, yesterday afternoon. John Byno was driving to his home at Breed’s. When within a few miles […]