Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, June 1, 1826
    On Sunday afternoon, a monstrous catfish weighing 40 pounds, was caught on board the steam-boat Enterprize; when taken on deck, a bunch of tape worms some thousands in number came from his mouth-on opening his maw the following articles were found in his belly. The maw of a large fish full of provisions, the […]
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1826
    A correspondent of the Missouri Republican, speaking of a hail storm on the Dardenne, says, that there were killed in one small lake or pond, upwards of five hundred wild ducks, some of them having their necks cut entirely off. What rare sport for gentleman gunners, except indeed the trouble of bagging the game.
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, March 30, 1826
    A Dutch paper mentions the following singular occurrence as having recently happened at Bautam, in the East Indies, for the authenticity of which it says it can answer;-A man fishing on the banks of the river Tyeliman, heard something splash in the water, and perceived a Tiger at no great distance, swimming from the […]
Friday, September 2, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825
    The following description of an elephant fight is extracted from a Picturesque View along the Ganges, by Lieut. Col. de Forest. An exellent breakfast [says Col. F.] awaited our arrival, after which we passed on to a spacious verandah on the east side of the palace, which looked down into the area prepared for […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 2, 1826
    We read of 42 sheep being killed out of one flock, near Winchester, Va. by dogs in one night, which also wounded 10 or 12 more. Wherever sheep abound, dogs should not; and it is every way right that the owners of dogs should be made responsible for damages like this committed on the […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1825
    A Carman was driving along Beekman street a few days since, and suddenly his horse came to a dead stand-still without any apparent cause. He urged the animal to proceed, by blows as well as words, to no effect, and as he had always been kind and true before his obstinacy was inexplicable. The […]
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 5, 1820
    An affecting anecdote is related in the French papers;-A young man took a dog into a boat, rowed to the centre of the Seine, and threw the animal over, with the intent to drown him. The poor dog often tried to climb up the side of the boat, but his master as often pushed […]
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
Oregon is the scene of a panther-slaying episode, which, as related by the Butler Creek Enterprise, is enough to make Fiction blush over the audacity of Truth. Â A settler living near Scott’s Mills set out to haul some cedar timber, being accompanied by children, a little rat-terrier, a Newfoundland dog, and a large-bore ritle. Â After […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 2, 1921
Beats fights as Barnes Circus wagon tilts dangerously; one animal was shot Many women fainted The parade of the Al Barnes circus which was in Waukegan last week, was passing through North Lake street, a residential thoroughfare in Aurora, yesterday. Â In one compartment of a gilded cage sat Miss Mabel Stark with a Bengal tiger. […]