Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 3, 1851
A Crocodile Story.-We had some talk the other day with one of the very few survivors of the Egyptian expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who has lived to obtain the Egyptian medal fifty years after it was earned. What a mockery to wait until there were not, perhaps ten alive in the country and then […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 13, 1851
The Sandwich Islanders regard dogs as great delicacies. A letter from Honolulu, in noticing the preparations for the celebration of the king’s birthday, says-“Some unfortunate dogs are being scalded and scraped by my own residence; on enquiry it appeared that they were destined for the palace.”
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 10, 1851
Mr. Pearson’s dog made his way overland from California, to his home in Burlington, Iowa, alone. His master came by steamer to New York.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1851
Wild Pigeons have been remarkably numerous in the region of Plattsburg (New York) this season. The roost of the birds is in a forest, some six miles long and two wide, each tree containing from twenty to eighty nests. Companies of pigeon-catchers went out from Vermont, and they, with others, have sent more than one-million […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, October 24, 1851
A dog feast. This evening, in the Cheyenne’s camp, for the first time, I witnessed the interesting process of killing and preparing a dog for a feast. The victim was a large cur, quite fat. Two squaws lassoed him, and hung him up till he was dead. They then put him on a fire, and […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, December 1, 1851
A few days ago a Newfoundland dog belonging to a gentleman of New Jersey, seized an infant which was sleeping upon the track of the Morris and Essex Railroad, on the approach of the locomotive, and carried it away of the danger.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 2, 1851
Solomon gave a feast in the courtyard of his temple, at which were consumed no less than 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. The feast acquired sixty acres of ground for kitchens, 17,000 cooks, and allowing one pound of meat for each guest, and eighteen inches for each seat, the table extended the whole length of […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, January 15, 1852
The Cleveland Herald says that a boy who was recently passing through the woods near Sandusky, met a couple of deer, whose horns were locked in love or war, so closely they could not dissever them, where upon he took a rope, fastened the antlers tight together by trying them, called assistance, and captured them.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 1, 1851
Another buffalo Hunt. A dispatch from Cincinnati of June 24, says-‘The Buffalo Hunt attended by Indians, yesterday; opposite this city’ was attended by 10,000 persons. The buffalo when attacked by Indians and pierced with arrows, showed no disposition to fight, and the crowd, seeing that they were humbugged, became excited, fired at the Indians, killed […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, July 21, 1851
The workmen on the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, near Beaver, recently found a petrified snake imbedded in solid limestone rock, some 60 feet below the earth’s surface. It’s size was enormous-sixteen feet in length, and in the middle at least four inches in diameter. It is said to be almost as perfect in form and […]