Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 11, 1868
Lately, dogs have been disappeared in Antwerp, Belgium, in a mysterious manner. The disappearances grew so numerous that special efforts were made to elucidate the mystery, and the result was the apprehension of two persons, who confessed that during one year they stole no fewer than two-hundred dogs, the skins of which sold to toy […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 31, 1850
A Most Extraordinary Leap-or rather, extraordinary leaps, were made on Friday evening last, by a sorrel mare, the property of Mr. Wm. Zimmerman. A lad about 12 years of age, a son of Mr. Edward Hughes, was riding the animal to water, when being bitten by a dog, she shied and ran. her first noble […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 28, 1850
The Cleveland Herald says the grasshoppers are doing much damage to the growing crops in Lake County; The apple orchards have been stripped of everything save the limbs and fruit.
, Sangamo Journal on Monday, December 23, 2024
A freight train of the N. Y. and Erie railroad left Dunkirk the other day over three-hundred feet long and containing two-thousand seven-hundred and ninety-seven head of livestock, consisting of beeves, sheep and hogs, valued at $15,000. It was drawn by one locomotive.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, October 28, 1850
An account has been published in the Boston papers of an attack made upon the baroque Parker Cook, July 22nd, by a large sperm whale. Capt. G. Smith, of the schooner Union, just arrived at Boston, has given further details of the singular affair. “The whale was a very large one, yielding one-hundred and three […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, September 17, 1850
Sam Patch Beat by a Cow.-A cow belonging to Mr. Davis, who lives near Portage Middle Falls, made her first leap a few days since. The place was the projecting rock on the West side of the river, a few rods below the falls, and just North of the “Devil’s Hole,” where it is over […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, November 5, 1850
There are 1,000 cattle slaughtered daily at the packing houses in Chicago. The color of the waters of the Chicago River is materially changed and corrupted by the offal thrown into the river.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 21, 1850
We noticed a drove of between eight-hundred or a thousand fine hogs going to Beardstown, to-day, for Mr. Tinsley, who we learn had bought several thousand to drive to this point.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Herr Driesbach.-The great “Lion Tamer,” Herr Driesbach, came to town a day or two since, looking as well, or better, than we remember ever to have seen him. He has been engaged in conducting or rather humanizing animals in the East, since here before, but hearing that Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Leopards and other wild beasts […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]