Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

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 fore and hind wheels, was instantly decapitated. The locomotive was thrown off the track. But the passengers remained undisturbed, except that one gentleman in the fright, turned a somerset out of the window. The most moving part of the scene, was the lament of the Irish woman over her poor piggy, whose head could in no way be placed on the body so as to be of the least use in the world.
Journal of Com.