Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, April 20, 1850
Col. Robert Allen, within a few days past, has had forty-three of his fine sheep killed by dogs. This is really lamentable. These were the finest sheep in the county. There are many useless and worthless dogs kept in this city, who live by pilfering and plunder. A proper regard for the interests of the […]
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1852
The imperial academy of China has issued a text under the auspices of the emperor, cautioning the celestials against the wickedness of slaughtering oxen and dogs for food, as they possess immortal souls and are gifted with reason and intelligence.
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 26, 1852
The Detroit Tribune says that during the past winter, Messrs. Bowe & Co. of that city, have sent to the Eastern cities twelve thousand nine hundred forty-four Prairie Hens or Grouse and forty thousand four hundred and thirty-three Quails besides Partridges, wild Turkey in large numbers.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 29, 1851
The Medina Citizen is responsible for the following: “We understand that about 150 of the 2000 hogs belonging to the Oak Orchard Distillery, when it was burnt a few days since, got on a regular “bender,” and succeeded in acting almost as silly as do their biped neighbors when in a similar “fix.” They partook […]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 31, 1852
At Oquawka, Illinois, at a single haul of a seine, five thousand pike, bass, perch and sun-fish were taken, last week, and this was but a very small part of the day’s work.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
They are killing rats at the rate of ten thousand a day in New York city, and selling them to Genin, to make of them sables, etc.
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1851
The Chicago Journal says: The Dixon stage was capsized in the Rock River, near Grand Detour, one day last week, and the horses were drowned. The driver, who could not swim, was -lucky man-kicked ashore by the struggling horse.
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
, Illinois State Journal on Friday, December 5, 2025
A day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Reed, of Dorset, Vt. was cutting wood, at some distance from his house, a very large bear stole up behind and ordered him to stop. He let fly his axe at Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin, in turn, let fly at him. Solomon then seized a […]
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 17, 1851
It is said that one of the bands of the Medwakantodwad Dakotahs in Minnesota, have delivered to their trader, fifteen hundred deer skins, which they have taken this season. If this is correct, the band must have killed at least two thousand deer during the fall and winter, for five hundred skins or more are […]
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the The Evanston Daily, Evanston, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1913
An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there […]