Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, May 8, 1855
One hundred and fifty thousand fish, of the first quality of herring and shad, were taken on the 24th ult., at the fishery of Charles W. Mixon on the Albermarle sound. The number was so great that four hauls had to be made with small seines of 25,000 each before the large seine could be landed on the shore. We are pleased to learn that notwithstanding the backward season, the present indications are that it will be a successful one, and that all the fisheries are doing a good business, with the prospect of an unusually large quantity being packed. [Norfolk Beacon.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 29, 1855
A most singular and fatal occurrence took place at the house of Mr. B. M. Morris on Eighth, between Main and Cary streets, about two weeks since. We learn from the Post that about six months ago, a negro woman, in the employment of Mr. Morris, heard her child cry in the next room to her, and went in to see what occasioned it. She saw as she entered the room, a large rat running off from the child, who was lying on the floor; and approaching the infant, she found a bite upon the cheek which bled profusely. The mother thought nothing of the accident, and about two weeks since was again called into the room by the crying of her child. Upon getting in she saw a large rat leap from the bed, and taking up the infant, which was about seven months old, she found that it had been severely bitten on the mole of the head. No attention was paid to the matter, in consequence of the trifling character of the wound; and a few hours after the child died. Dr. Wilson, who had the case under consideration, gave it as his opinion that the death of his child was caused by the bite on the head. [Richmond Enquirer.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 1, 1854
The Tensas [Ark.] Herald says, a man named Lunsicker and party, killed in that neighborhood eleven bears in the space of seven days. One or two of them were perfect monsters, as big as buffaloes.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Monday, January 15, 1855
The Minnesota Pioneer says that two specimens of the American ostrich, male and female, were recently killed near Fort Desmoines, in the state of Iowa. They are described as four and a half feet long, and five feet in height, with bills six inches long, straight and very sharp.They resemble in most points the ostrich of Africa. One thousand dollars had been offered for them.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1854
Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my apple trees, fly down and catch my bees in their beak, hold them till dead, then swallow them. I shot, one a few days ago, dissected it and found a number of bees in its stomach, which I can prove by good witnesses.
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1854
About nine weeks since, Mr. John T. Cookson, foreman in the foundry of Mr. Semple was attacked and bitten in several places by a dog, as he was returning to his home about nine o’clock in the evening. He felt no serious effects from these bites till last Sunday, night when he was unable to sleep. He continued to work each day, though unable to sleep at night, until Thursday, when he told Mr. Semple that he felt quite unwell, and could not drink water. On Thursday, night he was at times in great pain in his head and side, but refused to let his wife call a doctor till yesterday morning. Physicians were then called, and he was bled; chloroformed, administered, etc; but his agony was indescribable, till half-past one in the afternoon, when he died. He was conscious all the time, but seemed to have the idea of biting in his mind as he repeatedly told them around him that he should not bite them, that he was not a bulldog. He would roll on the floor, walk the room, lay on the bed, go up and down stairs,lay down and roll in the yard, and make every change to obtain relief, but all in vain. The pain appeared to be in his head and side, with retching of the stomach and, useless efforts to vomit. Mr. Cookson was an Englishman, and had been, in this country nearly seven years. He was an industrious energetic man and leaves a wife and two or three small children. [Cincinnati Gazette.
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, June 6, 1854
The train on the Canada road going east on Friday evening ran over a cow, and the locomotive, baggage car and first passenger car, were thrown down an embankment. Six persons were instantly killed, and four persons so much injured as to die the same night. Names not given. Other persons injured were taken to London and Hamilton.
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, May 26, 1854
J. N. Brown, of Island Grove, has now a “calf as is a calf.” He is a full blood short horn Durham. On the 8th of April, when four months and 28 days old, he weighed 556 pounds. On the 6th of May he weighed 640 pounds. On the 15th of May, when just six months old, he weighed 668 pounds. He is still increasing in size rapidly. He has had the milk of only one cow. If anybody about in these parts has a calf that will beat this calf, bring him on!
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1854
A train of forty-two cars arrived at Cincinnati from Columbus, over the Columbus, and Xenia and Little Miami railways, on the 5th inst. having on board 3,764 hogs, weighing in all about one million two-hundred thousand pounds.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1854
A pigeon roost, ten miles long by five broad, in Franklin county, Indiana, it is said, is now swarming with pigeons. The roar of their wings on arriving and departing from the roost is tremendous, and the flocks during the flight darken the heavens. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with manure. Thousands are killed casually from breaking limbs of trees, and hundreds of hogs live upon them.