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Monthly Archives: January 2014

A Child Killed By A Rat.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 29, 1855

A most singular and fatal occurrence took place at the house of Mr. B. M. Morris on Eighth, between Main and Cary streets, about two weeks since. We learn from the Post that about six months ago, a negro woman, in the employment of Mr. Morris, heard her child cry in the next room to […]

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Bears.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 1, 1854

The Tensas [Ark.] Herald says, a man named Lunsicker and party, killed in that neighborhood eleven bears in the space of seven days. One or two of them were perfect monsters, as big as buffaloes.

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Ostriches.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 15, 1855

The Minnesota Pioneer says that two specimens of the American ostrich, male and female, were recently killed near Fort Desmoines, in the state of Iowa. They are described as four and a half feet long, and five feet in height, with bills six inches long, straight and very sharp.They resemble in most points the ostrich […]

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Do King-Birds eat Bees?

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1854

Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my […]

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Hydorphobia. [Rabies]

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1854

About nine weeks since, Mr. John T. Cookson, foreman in the foundry of Mr. Semple was attacked and bitten in several places by a dog, as he was returning to his home about nine o’clock in the evening. He felt no serious effects from these bites till last Sunday, night when he was unable to […]

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Cows.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, June 6, 1854

The train on the Canada road going east on Friday evening ran over a cow, and the locomotive, baggage car and first passenger car, were thrown down an embankment. Six persons were instantly killed, and four persons so much injured as to die the same night. Names not given. Other persons injured were taken to […]

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A Calf As A Calf.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, May 26, 1854

J. N. Brown, of Island Grove, has now a “calf as is a calf.” He is a full blood short horn Durham. On the 8th of April, when four months and 28 days old, he weighed 556 pounds. On the 6th of May he weighed 640 pounds. On the 15th of May, when just six […]

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