Saturday, November 9, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 12, 1920
The balance of the city of Kenosha in the banks of the city has been increased by nearly $500 as the result of the sale of ten hogs from the city farm. These ten hogs were fed entirely on the garbage collected from homes in Kenosha. They were ten of the fattest hogs ever offered […]
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Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 11, 1850
The folly of playing all manner of strange pranks with lions and tigers has just been illustrated at Chatham, where a young woman, Ellen Bright, accustomed to enter one of the dens of Wombell’s traveling menagerie, and there exhibit to an audience, gaping with astonishment, her tricks with a lion and a tiger confined together, […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 30, 1850
Any body who has heard Rory O’Mory’s famous story of the fox, in Lover’s amusing play of that name, will confess that it is not quite equal to the following, which we get from the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, a Vermont paper: Last week in the town of Newbury, a fox hunter, with two hounds, got […]
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, March 21, 1850
A dreadful tragedy occurred at Wellesley, La., on the 23d ult. The collector of taxes was compelled to leave his wife and young family alone, over night, while absent on business. The lady knowing that there was considerable money in the house, sent for some of the family of a neighboring blacksmith to stay at […]
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 14, 1850
We are informed by Mr. George F. Hunt, the other day, that about two weeks since, one of his Negro men, while at work on what is known as his “Orchard Place,” was attacked by a large panther. The boy fortunately saw him in time to send off a number of women and children who […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, January 28, 1850
At the battle of Ourtal, of the French and Algerians, 3,000 camels and 15,000 sheep were captured.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850
A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 13, 1850
We take the following paragraph from the Mobile Tribune of the 3rd inst: Two men of our acquaintance of unpeachable veracity witnessed a scene the other day worth recording. They observed at the distance of some thirty feet from them a very strange and unaccountable conduct on the part of a bird-commonly called the “Cow […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 5, 1850
The Michigan Farmer gives the following: A lady farmer said the meadow moles had annoyed them greatly, and destroyed two fine pear trees. She tried an experiment for them with success. Their subterranean was uncovered, and two cow’s horns, with the large ends from each other, placed in it, so that the moles coming either […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1850
As the train from New York to Philadelphia, Monday morning, was leaving Jersey City, it ran over a cow. One of the passengers put his head out of the car to ascertain the cause of the difficulty, when he was instantly killed, by striking his head against a telegraph post.
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