Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 29, 1851
The Medina Citizen is responsible for the following:
“We understand that about 150 of the 2000 hogs belonging to the Oak Orchard Distillery, when it was burnt a few days since, got on a regular “bender,” and succeeded in acting almost as silly as do their biped neighbors when in a similar “fix.” They partook of the fire water as it came flowing into their styes, and as a consequence got gloriously befuddled. Three of the number died in the ditch. The fish in Oak Orchard creek were still more unfortunate. The fatal liquid mingled with their own pure element, and they drank and died by thousands. Oak Orchard creek was converted literally into a stream of death.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
The New York Journal of Commerce says that grass-hoppers have attacked the gardens in South Brooklyn in immense numbers. Boys are employed to destroy them at a cent a hundred. A couple boasted the other day of having killed twenty-five hundred in one yard.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 6, 1851
We noticed a day or two since that a lady at Debuque, having some difficulty with her husband, took her two children and started on a steamboat for Saint Louis. On her way down she was drowned. Her husband followed. On his arrival at St. Louis, he got drunk and was found next morning in a back yard, dead, and the flesh of his face eaten off by rats.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 29, 1851
The New York Tribune relates an interesting anecdote of the sagacity of a dog saving the life of a child of Mr. Robinson, of Flatbush, Long Island. This gentleman has two dogs; a small spaniel and a large half-breed deer hound. The small dog was playing with Mr. R.’s child near a cistern, when the child fell, head foremost, into the water; the agonized mother, who, from a window, witnessed the occurrence, how the spaniel ran to the kennel of the hound, who instantly ran to the spot, and, before the mother could reach the child, the noble animal had placed it in safety. Instinct might have induced the small dog to attempt a rescue, but evidently knowing his inability to do so, what prevented him from trying, and caused him, quick as thought, to fetch the stronger dog?
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 31, 1852
At Oquawka, Illinois, at a single haul of a seine, five thousand pike, bass, perch and sun-fish were taken, last week, and this was but a very small part of the day’s work.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
They are killing rats at the rate of ten thousand a day in New York city, and selling them to Genin, to make of them sables, etc.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 5, 1852
The captain of the whale-ship Monongahela, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has addressed the New York Tribune a long and circumstantial account of the discovery and capture, in the Pacific ocean, of a huge marine monster, having the form of a serpent, with spout holes like a whale, and swimming paws. Its immense size rendered it necessary to cut it up, but its head and bones have been preserved.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1851
The Chicago Journal says: The Dixon stage was capsized in the Rock River, near Grand Detour, one day last week, and the horses were drowned. The driver, who could not swim, was -lucky man-kicked ashore by the struggling horse.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1851
A mad hog has been playing antics in the streets of Cleveland.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 14, 1851
The following incident is related by the Long Point, Advocate:-A few days since, as we were leaving our residence on our usual morning visit to the Advocate office, a sorrel horse belonging to us, galloped up and caught my arm, and made an attempt to pull us in the direction he wished to go. He then left and went off at a quick gate towards a pasture on our farm, about a quarter of a mile distant from our residence. In a few moments he approached us again making an unusual noise, and seemed by his action to desire us to follow him. This we did, and when we reached the pasture, we observed the mate of the horse entangled in a bridge which had broken through with him. After we had extricated his companion from his dangerous position, the horse which had given notice of his mate’s danger, came up and rubbed his head against us showing signs of great satisfaction.