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Hog Attacks And Bites Boy.

Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 26.-Arthur White, 13 years old, living in Oshtemo township, lies near death as the result of being attacked by a hog. Physicians removed one arm and he has other injuries that may cause his death. The boy was passing through a field when attacked by the hog, and when help reached him […]

Fire In Omaha Stockyards.

Cudahy Packing Plant Suffers Damage to Amount of $200,000. South Omaha, Aug. 21.-Fire in the plant of the Cudahy Packing company in this city caused a loss of $200,000. From the Cudahy plant the fire spread to the Union stockyards plant and hog pens to the value of $50,000 were burned. Those pens were filled […]

Instinct Of A Pig.

The most remarkable case of intelligence and tractability in swine of which we have heard, is of a sow trained to hunt, an account of which is given in the following extract from Daniel’s Rural Sports: “Toomer [formerly one of the king’s keepers in the new forest, afterwards game keeper to Sir Henry Mildmay] broke […]

Horrid Death.

We are called upon to notice the death of one of the oldest and most respectable citizens in this section of our state, produced under circumstances the most painful and revolting. Mr. Wm. Sheroon, residing about four miles east of Dexeter, in Scott county, left his house on Monday noon, for the purpose of felling […]

The “Whole Hog.”

It is mentioned in a late Philadelphia U. S. Gazette, that one of the men employed to clear the streets of swine, had taken a noble porker, but while engaged in tying the legs of the prisoner, the bristly-back animal seized the victor by the nose, and nearly destroyed that prominent member.

Beseiged By Wild Hogs.

They tried to Uproot Tree in Which Hunter Had Taken Refuge. J. P. McGee, of this place, has just had an experience that has thickly flecked his auburn hair with grey. He is an ardent sportsman, and early Christmas morning hastened to that sportsman’s paradise, Cookson, on the Illinois. His luck was good, and by […]

Pigs.

Yesterday, by city ordinance, was the last day that hogs were allowed to roam our streets without a ring in their noses. We hope the city [Springfield, Illinois] marshal will see that the ordinance is enforced.

A Hog And A Steam Engine.

On Monday the cars on the Camden and Amboy rail road were started for the first time with a locomotive engine. From Amboy to Bordentown the cars went over finely, and back as far as Heightstown. There an unlucky hog got under the traveller of the locomotive, and in endeavoring to run out between the […]

A Careful “Auld Wife.”

During the height of the fire on Monday morning, a woman was sitting near a fence, out of danger, surrounded by a few articles of furniture, and two fat pigs. She appeared perfectly unconcerned in regard to the progress of the fire, and was absorbed in scratching the backs of her pigs with a hoop-pole. […]

Swinish Wit. [Pigs]

The Yankees can talk about hogs as cutely as whittle a pine shingle, and if some of the cutest could be placed in “the midst of a drove” in the “hog and hominy” regions of the West, the very Land-pikes would grunt approbation to the fine things said of the hog family. Thus reads an […]