Last Friday a fat porker about to be slaughtered in Salem township, created more commotion that is often found in comic opera. Mr. and Mrs. F. McKnight were at Calvin Edmundson’s and the family attempted to kill a 350 pound hog. It was shot two or three times without avail, when the hog took it into its head to add the spice of variety to the occasion. It ran between the legs of an old gentleman named Edmundson and took him around the lot several times with his face to the rear. At the instant the hog started on his excursion with the old gentleman on its back he had a cocked revolver in his hand, which made it rather dangerous for any of his companions to come to his relief for fear that they would get shoot.
    After Mr. Edmunson had been dumped off, the hog made a dive for Squire McKnight, with the evident purpose of giving him the same sort of a ride, but missed it’s calculation and knocked the Squire down. For a time it was thought that Mr. McKnight was seriously injured. He was hauled home in an express wagon, and has since been confined to his bed. The sciatic nerve of one leg was injured in such a way as to cause it to be greatly swollen.
    The hog was finally killed, but the men could scarcely hang it up.-Pomeroy Tribune.
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