Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 7, 1872
A private letter tells of buffalo running thick in the streets of Dodge City, Kansas, and being shot down by the inhabitants.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 5, 1879
M. Hugo de Koppenfels writes from Eloby, Gorisco Bay, a little colony, that he has been exploring the country during several weeks of pouring rain. He ascended the Muni, the Noya, the Balinji and the Tumbini to the first falls. In the Crystal Mountains he fell in with tribes absolutely unknown to the present, or […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 15, 1849
The following is an account of a wonderful sea fight, taken from a late Dublin paper: Capt. Rochefort, of the British and Irish Company’s crew vessel Rose, arrived yesterday morning from London, and reported having on his passage fallen in with a whale of huge dimensions one morning, at two o’clock, seven miles S. W. […]
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 27, 1849
In the vicinity of the barracks assigned to the European soldiers in India, there is usually a number of little solitary cells, where the disorderly members of the corps are confined for longer or shorter terms, by order of the commanding officer. In one of these at Madras, on a certain occasion, was locked up […]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 5, 1849
The Boston Traveler gives the following account of a singular death from fright in that city. The following cause of death was reported at the interment office: It appears that some days ago a boy, named Joseph Kennedy, six years of age while sitting in the kitchen at home, received a severe shock of fright […]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 20, 1849
Last fall some time, a large Prairie wolf, who had acquired sufficient notoriety in the neighborhood northwest from Paris [Illinois] and not very far from the town, by his bold and daring depredations upon the lambs, pigs, etc. of the neighbors, to cause a reward of five dollars to be offered for his scalp; one […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, September 19, 1849
A black snake, four feet and a half in length, was captured in an apothecary shop in Lowell, yesterday. He went to the city in a load of wood. Having made his way to the apothecary shop, liquor was put up on the floor, and the unfortunate visitor yielded, to temptation, got drunk, and was […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 21, 1849
The Cumberland [Md.] Alleganian states that on Wednesday last, an Irishman, who resides near Lonaconing, threw from his stomach a living snake five or six inches in length. For several years past he has been in bad health, and lately subsisted almost wholly upon milk. On Wednesday, at the earnest persuasion of several of his […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 19, 1849
We stated a few days since that a large Lynx had been killed in Weare, N. H., by a lad of sixteen years of age. A gentleman from that vicinity has given us the following particulars of the exciting event: On Saturday, Oct. 27th, a party of individuals in Weare started out on a squirrel […]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 7, 1881
Rumors recently got afloat at Donovan that the grave of Emanuel Siegel had been robbed, some time ago. The coffin was uncovered, and its only occupants were found to be sixteen huge bull-snakes, in a torpid condition.
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