Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 9, 1839
We see it publicly stated that Col. Taylor has had orders to import Blood Hounds from Cuba, to hunt down the Seminoles. We confess that such an arrangement jars upon the feelings; altho’ we are not prepared to say that direful necessity may not justify the employment of such savage allies. It was one of […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 27, 1841
Mr. Rice, of Ripley, Erie County, Pa., has an extensive establishment for keeping bees. Twenty years ago he had but one swarm, from which in twelve years he had 396 swarms. The Erie Gazette states, that they had then become so powerful, that they commenced depredations on the neighboring tribes, going out on predatory’ excursions […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1841
Mr. N. M. Ward, a gentleman connected with the mission at Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra, has published a well-attested account of a flying serpent, seen by the narrator. He saw the animal fly from a tree at the height of fifty or sixty feet, to another some forty fathom distant. It supports itself […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 25, 1841
During a series of meetings in New York city, one of the delegates from the Baltimore Temperance Society related the following:-[We copy from the American Temperance Union.]-Weekly Message. Mr. Pollard concluded the meeting. He said he was a kind of an old Butcher to bring up the rear. In his drinking days, he was the […]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 27, 1881
A young lady of Johnstown, N. Y., while bathing at Chautauqua Lake, had a bad experience. A snapping turtle caught her by the ear. Her screams brought friends to her assistance, or she would certainly have been drowned; but the turtle’s grip was like a bull-dog’s, and after his head had been cut off it […]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1837
It is a singular fact, that a flock of sheep in this neighborhood were struck blind on the night of the late brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis. They were bled next day, and thus had the use of their visual organs restored to them. If the circumstance is any thing more than a mere […]
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, April 22, 1837
An Eagle was lately shot on Bergen Hill, N. J. while flying over the sportsman’s head with a pig in his talons. Brought down by a wound in his wing, he fought two dogs for an hour, and drove them off, severely wounded. He was finally captured by having a sheet thrown over him. He […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1837
From Crocket’s Travels in Texas. [Davy Crocket] After toiling more than an hour to get my mustang on his feet again, I gave it up as a bad job, as little Van did when he attempted to raise himself to the moon by the waistband of his breeches. Night was fast closing in, and as […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Sunday, December 7, 1873
From the Boston Transcript. Along the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, between the Island Pond station and the French Village of Conticook, in Canada, a distance of 18 miles, the country is an almost unbroken forest, and wild animals are frequently seen beside the road staring in wonder at the passing train, while deer, […]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 15, 1904
Wild animals do not usually attack men without provocation unless driven to do so by hunger. It is probable, therefore, that the four mountain lions which besieged J. H. Camp for four days and nights in a cabin in the upper San Gabriel country, California, were starving. It was a terrifying experience, as the San […]