Monday, December 17, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, January 25, 1823
The following description of a contest between the black snake, and another species, is extracted from the letters of an American farmer. One of my constant walks, when I am at leisure, says the gentleman, is in my lowlands, where I have the pleasure of seeing my cattle, horses and colts. Exuberant grass replenishes all […]
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 7, 1833
It is stated that the keeper of the tigers belonging to the extensive menagerie which was exhibited in this town a few months since, was torn to pieces and literally eaten up by them, a few days since, in a town near New Haven, Conn. He had been in the habit of entering their cage, […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 11, 1844
On the 8th inst. Herr Driesbach, a famous lion tamer, attached to a traveling menagerie, took out with him at Baltimore, a pet leopard under his arm. He, with others, slighted from their carriage and went to a coffee house. A boy, about twelve years of age, was pushed by his companions against the leopard, […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, September 11, 1845
The rapid and wasteful destruction of the buffalo in the Western wilderness has been often alluded to and lamented by traveler’s, and is spoken of a length by Captain Fremont. In the last eight or ten years the number of buffalo robes received by the several Fur Companies has been, annually, about 90,000. Thousands of […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 15, 1848
On Thursday of last week, during the heavy storm of wind and rain, while the extensive collection of wild beasts in the menagerie of Messrs. Raymond & Warring were in the Village of Norwalk, a feature was introduced in the exhibition not previously announced in the bills. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a violent […]
Friday, December 14, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, February 3, 1848
The tragical event at the menagerie, resulting in the death of poor Kelly, has made the elephant the chief lion of Philadelphia. A morning or two after the terrible occurrence, the daring Driesbach took him into the ring for the purpose of dressing his wounds, made by sundry thrusts of pikes, lances, and pitchforks, in […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
A boat belonging to Mr. Catt, brought on shore at Seaford, a few days ago, a fish of an extraordinary kind. Its fins resembled the arm and hands [with finger nails] of a human being, and it had two protuberances or sort of pockets on each breast, which were filled with small fish. When taken […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 6, 1849
The Minnesota Register, published at St. Paul’s, gives as account of the half-breeds about the Red River, who desire to settle in the limits of the United States: “Within the limits of the territories of the Hudson Bay Company, there resides a class of men, who, ground down by the tyranny of that huge monopoly, […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 16, 1848
It was one day during the present week, that two boys, sons of Seth Manes, of Bradford township, Pa., one perhaps fifteen and the other eight or ten years of age, discovered a very large bear carrying a sheep through one of the fields. The oldest boy ran to the house, got a gun, gave […]
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, May 30, 1849
The St. Francisville [La.] Chronicle says: For about a week past, some of our citizens have enjoyed themselves in shooting snakes, in the back water near our town. They seem to take refuge in the trees, where it is supposed, they resort to bask in the sun. They have succeeded in destroying upwards of one […]
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