Saturday, December 23, 2017
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, January 5, 1856
An extraordinary bear was recently caught near the head of Pilot Creek Ditch, California, which was perfectly white except the feet, all four of which were black. He was very ferocious.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 7, 1853
On the night of the 3rd, near Whitehall, New York, a freight train ran over a cow, throwing the engine and several cars off the track. The engineer was killed, and two cars, loaded with hogs, were thrown into the canal.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
Col. James W. Barrett, of Springfield, killed a buck in Christian county, last week, that weighed 225 lbs. net, and had upon his horns twenty-one points.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 9, 1853
New Granoda papers inform us that the first fatal accident occurred upon the Panama railroad on the 1st October, when a train with six hundred passengers was thrown off a bridge, at Taberelia, into a ravine sixteen feet deep, by running over an ox. Four men were killed, and several severely injured.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
It is our privilege to know that we live in a Free country, but we apprehend, at the same time, that there are a few amongst us, who care not to understand what true freedom is, who hold law and order in such low estimation that, while they please themselves, are not at pains to ascertain whether their course of conduct injures not the feelings, or tramples on the rights of their fellow citizens. This lawless spirit, we are sorry to perceive, extends very widely among us at the present time, manifesting itself in the disturbance of the religious portion of the community, while engaged in their devotional exercises on the Lord’s day, cutting the harness of persons while so engaged, and setting the horses loose in the streets, and other wise exhibiting a temper of mind that would overthrow everything that is valuable in a well-ordered state of society.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
Another sore evil existing in this city, is the permitting of Hogs to run at large on our streets, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants. These creatures, not being half fed by their owners, prowl about at all hazards, to pick up garbage often of the most loathsome kind, in order to satisfy their hunger. In this work, this tribe have recently made the most desperate attack on the sidewalk at the north end of 5th street, abusing private property, and greatly annoying the citizens in that quarter of the city.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, March 31, 1853
A correspondent of the Dodge County Gazette, writing from Horicon, Wisconsin, gives the following account of the fish operations carried on at that place:
“It is now about seventy days since they first began to take fish at this place, and almost ever since, they have taken from one to eight and ten tons per day, of Pickerel, weighing from two to twenty three pounds each. There have been, some days, fifty or sixty persons spearing, loading, and drawing away. Above the village, and along the lake shore for a few miles, I am told there are from thirty to forty tents on the ice, where people are taking fish from holes cut in the ice, all the time- some taking as high as two tons per day. It is estimated that at least twice as much has been taken here as at the dam, which would swell the above amount to over four hundred tons of Pickerel taken at or near the vicinity of Horicon. The fish have sold at from $10 to $30 per ton, on the ground, and as high as $6 per cwt., taken away. And the half is not yet told. There have been taken also, from the same place, loads and loads of bull-heads. Our farmers for miles around have drawn tons of them home for their swine. For days in succession, ten, fifteen and even twenty tons of this kind of fish have been taken. I have seen the water, for rods around, literally black with these bull-heads, and a man in a boat, dipping up at least one bushel per minute. I have seen more than three-hundred spear men all busily employed, some taking up at least 500 pounds in an hour.
And during the seventy days already past, it is a low estimate to say that five tons a day have been taken-making three hundred and fifty tons of bull-heads-and yet the water is alive with them. But I will cease, for I fear my statement will be pronounced a “fish story” by some who have not been on the ground, and a regular lie by those who live at a distance. But I am quite sure that I have made too low an estimate than too high. I could hardly believe, before I saw it with my own eyes, that you could dip up these bull-heads by the basket full, as many as one can lift out of the water at a time, but it is so.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 16, 1852
The Cleveland Herald chronicles the following Cat story; A lady who resides on Bond street, kept in a closet in her bed room, a plate of crackers for her children, and upon several occasions had unlocked the door and given one of the crackers to her favorite cat. A few days since, while the lady was making her toilette, pussy came into the room, but her mistress being occupied, paid no attention to her mewings. Presently the cat went to a basket on the table and took from it a key, which she brought to her mistress and dropped before her. Taking the canine hint, the lady picked up the key, unlocked the closest and gave pussy the sought for cracker, after which she left the room, satisfied. The story is true; can any one give us the key to it as correctly as puss gave it to her mistress? Have cats souls to their bodies as well as to their feet?
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, December 16, 1853
This dog story is from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where a farmer’s dog has been detected in going to the hog-pen and biting one of the hogs till it gets up; when Archy lies down in the warm place and goes to sleep.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 13, 1852
Some passengers traveling on a railway in Ayr, Scotland, have had an unpleasant adventure. A bee-hive had been in a compartment; the bees got out, attacked the passengers, and stung them severely. at the first station the bees were left in sole possession of the carriage.