Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 31, 1833
It was related by one of the speakers of a late Temperance meeting, at a Baptist Church, Newark, that a favorite goat which had long been accustomed to follow its owner to a tippling house, where it usually lay on the stoop, waiting the master’s movement, was one night made as drunk as its master, […]
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Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, July 13, 1833
Being on a visit at the quarantine station at Edmonstone Island, I was informed, that a Rhinoceros has several times made his appearance close to the residence at Middeton Point, on Saugor Island; I was requested being a killer, to go over and try my luck. I did so, and made preparation for a regular […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1838
The Lions, Tigers and Leopards, which have afforded such fearful spectacles to our citizens in the docility and management obtained over them by Mr. Van Amburgh, depart today for London, on the ship President, to join their master. Thirty of the largest sheep are the doomed victims that are to accompany this marine menagerie for […]
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Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 13, 1832
Temple, in his recent travels in Peru, states that he shot a condor, and from notes taken on the spot, gives us the following dimensions of its size: When the wings are spread, they measure forty feet in extent, from point to point, the feathers are twenty feet in length, and the quill part eight […]
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1833
Some winters back, in a part of the vast forest that stretches along the Upper Norwegian frontier, were traveling two gentlemen-one a native the other an Englishman. They had gone on many weary miles through the waste of snow and forest, when climbing a steep ascent, some two hours’ from the place of their destination, […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, January 20, 1848
One of the elephants in Raymond & Waring’s extensive menagerie, exhibiting in Philadelphia, turned on his keeper on Wednesday, 22d. We find the following particulars in the Philadelphia papers! As his keeper, Wm. Kelly, was preparing him for the afternoon performance, in consequence of being struck, he seized Mr. K. with his trunk and raising […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A correspondent of the Chicago Journal is denouncing the armies of grasshoppers that are so abundant on the prairies this season. They differ from European, being horse-headed, and winged like the African locust, and are the worst kind of those plagues. They are said to have increased very much within the last three years, and […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 2, 1847
Mr. Giberson, on Monday last, while hunting in the Sangamo Bottom, killed a deer that weighted 215 pounds. It is the largest one that we have ever seen, and if any larger are raised in other counties, we should like to know it.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1845
The Ladies National Magazine, edited by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, contains, in the July number, a thrilling picture of a family-a mother and her children-being chased by wolves. The story told is as follows: A few years ago, toward the close of a winter’s day, a mother and her children were traveling in Canada behind […]
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1848
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer, writing from the Alleghany Mountains in Georgia, describes an old hunter whom he found in a log cabin, in the center of a small valley completely hemmed in on all sides by wild and abrupt Mountains and one of the most romantic and beautiful rocks imaginable. He has lived […]