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Monthly Archives: May 2021

Desolation

Friday, May 14, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 2, 1851

A San Francisco paper says that an immigrant, just arrived across the plains, gives the following description of a memorable journey of which many thousands of animals and so many persons of last years emigration perished. “If there is a section of country in Gods wide extended creation that can surpass that large scope of […]

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Cows

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1853

Another R. R. Accident,- The accommodation train for Alton on Tuesday night, ran upon a cow lying on the track, a few miles north of Collinsville. The locomotive and tender were thrown aside and several freight cars came smashing after. The passenger car remained upon the track. The fireman was instantly killed and the wood-passer […]

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Turkey

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, July 21, 1851

A Fatherly Turkey.- The Providence Post tells the following story. There is on the farm of Mr. Paris Mathewson, in Johnston, a male Turkey, who has the present season, set upon 21 eggs, and hatched 18 of them-having driven his better half from the nest, and taken it upon himself all the female care of […]

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Buffalo

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, July 21, 1851

The Indians who didn’t amuse our people with a Buffalo Hunt, projected a real one at Lexington, Kentucky, on the 7th inst. It turned out to be a failure. The Buffalo refused to fight and the mob, who were disappointed, made a fuss generally, on the failure of their sport, and killed the Buffalo, as […]

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Frogs

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 22, 1851

Frogs in Egypt. Mrs. Loudon, in her “Entertaining Naturalist,” a book for children and young persons, says, “Frogs are generated in such numbers in Egypt, in the fields and meadows, that did not the storks devour them, they would overrun everything.” Are these frogs the progeny of those which Moses caused to annoy pharaoh and […]

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