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 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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 29, 1904
Badger fights must cease. Lake County has become famous for this diversion with the side-splitting climax, but its all off now. During the Fireman’s Convention at Waukegan the guests enjoyed a badger fight arranged in their honor, and in some way it leaked out, members of the humane society getting wind of it. Saturday morning […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 3, 1857
Sea snakes, Among other visions, the Republic has a glimpse of its old favorite, the Silver Lake Snake, which has appeared in the River St. Lawrence, in a degree commensurate with the magnitude of his new quarters. It is said the he has shown 300 feet of its length, and that is sufficient to prevent […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
A little dog belonging to a gentleman, residing near StonyBrook, Long Island, was in the habit of following his master’s wood wagon to the landing some three miles distant. One day he was set upon and roughly handled by a large dog belonging to a resident in the next village. The next day, though lame, […]
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